Stevens, the son of a former New Zealand harrier champ, and who only regards the three-mile as a good training for harrier events, captured the of nearly half a lap on Stevens, who was lying second. He in turn had left imagination of all who witnessed this event. Hummer soon opened up a lead the remainder of the field behind by a similar distance. Plummer, a tall, strongly built man, woe" Goliath compared to the much sailer Stevens. The spectacle of Stevens doggedly pursuing Plummer quickly roused the interest Of the Crowd. But the hone which many must have experienced was not to be. Plummer won convincingly. But the hero of the race was certainly Stevens.

Tournament Report . . . .

Once again Otago University has won the Easier Tournament Shield With 44½ points, Canterbury gaining 22½pts., Auckland 23. and Victoria again won the Wooden Spoon with 17 points. The competition was generally of the usual high standard and several records were broken or equalled. On the social side proceedings were highly convivial and everybody had a good time. The organisation was not quite as good as it has been for previous Tournaments in Dunedin and in some respects left a lot to be desired. As far as Victoria's team is, concerned it performed much as expected in some Sports a little more luck would have won us valuable points while in others we reached an all-time low it is first a reflection on those poor types who "can't be bothered" going to Tournament or "haven't got the time or the cash" even with a generous Exec. travelling subsidy of £2/12/-per head, which meant the cost for men was £4/6/- and for women £3 16/-. Our team's performance is a poor reflection, too on those types who play for outside clubs rather than Show loyally to their University for those are the guys who criticise and minimise the other guys who went to Tournament. Anyhow this is what happened:

Athletics

On paper the team was weak and can be congratulated on doing better than expected. U. A. James, with a first in the 100 and third in the 220 and B. W. Battell with a second in the 100 and first in the 220 ran the Australians close, and G. Hurdle, of Mossey, won the 440 by inches in a glorious finish. G. Stevens had the grandstand on its feet with his game running in the three miles behind Plummer of Australia. Graham must haw been the smallest competitor on the ground but ran with remarkable liveliness and determination. R. A. Moffat ran well for third in both 880 and one [unclear: plle] and G. Blathwayt came second in the shot putt. The Australians won the athletic lest by an overwhelming margin and the only time an Australian was beaten was in the 220 hurdles where B. Cameron, of C.A.C. won well, earning a N.Z.U. Blue for his effort. The pole vault record was raised to lift. 1½in. by Ken North. President of O.U. in the final result the points for the Athletic Shield were: Otago 23. Canterbury 19, Victoria 11 and Auckland 8.

Women's Athletics

This was an almost clean sweep for Otago. Miss M. Campbell, of Massey ran determinedly for us, being beaten in the 220yds. by inches and also ran third in the 100yds. Apart from this our competitors achieved no worthwhile results. There must be many good women athletes at V.U.C. hiding their lights under a [unclear: hell]

Basketball

Our team sadly lacked a good coach, match practice and a settled combination. For these failings the Club Committee is directly responsible. A Root! coach is surely available and the money for her expenses could well be borne by the Exec. V.U.C. have not won a single game during the past three Tournaments, being beaten lust year by A.U.C. 11-3 O.U. 27-7 and C.U.C. 15-8 (although I am told the game against C.U.C. could have been won by better shooting Ysobel Corkill and Val. Yates played well and with Elaine Foote are to be congratulated on making the North Island team.

Boxing

We thought we had a good team but won only the light-heavyweight division with Bruce Curran in the lightweight, heavy middleweight and heavyweight divisions our contestants were quickly disposed of but C. McMahon fought well against N.Z.U. Blue J. Wakefield (C.U.C.) in the featherweights and J. Hutchison. M. Mayman and H. Mosaed (Massey) all fought well without success, Jim Hutchison in particular being unfortunate to lose his tight against Caughey (A.U.C.) on a close decision. Otago with four wins, won the Shield from C.U.C. with three wins.

Cricket

Victoria had a good win against Auckland on Kelburn Park largely due to the batting of Malcolm McCaw (78 and 55) and Trev. Turner (51) and the bowling of Jim Thomson. Bill Perkins and Rendle Brime. The scores were: V.U.C. 162 and 204: A.U.C. 173 and 115. Against Otago however, the batting completely collapsed for 53 and 99. Malcolm McCaw made 19 and 17 his second innings completed in 2hr. 10min., while Doug Lang batted well for 22 and Jim Thomson, after three previous blobs, made 15 in less minutes, thus earning 15 beers and three whiskies, winch I understand have yet to be delivered. Jim was also successful in taking six wickets for 50 runs in Otago's first innings of 148 and must be considered unlucky to have missed selection for the N.Z.U. team. Our congratulations to Bill Perkins, Malcolm McCaw and Doug. Lang (12th man), who made the N.Z.U. team.

Shooting

Here we won the Haslam Shield by the substantial margin of 40 points with 1038 points to Otago's 998. Brian Perry, with the excellent score of 199/225. deserved his N.Z.U. Blue and also was easily top scorer by 14 points. All the rest of the team shot well, as is indicated by their score in this sport more N.Z.U. Blues could have been awarded.

Rowing

On Thursday morning the illegitimate rowers gathered at the sheds to find a whaleboat. O.U.'s Rowing Controller had tried to get one one a ship but they were all on the rocks until high tide at 7 a.m. on the morning of the race. Anyway he told us to take the Haka Party's boat off the Harbour Board davits, about three miles away. This we did but found it was only a six-oared boat, which was hardly playing the game. So we handed the boat back to six stupetied members of the Haka Party and walked back around the waterfront. About this time our guide, philosopher and friend (Dunedin urchin) pointed out a Sea Scouts boat half-full of water but nevertheless an eight-oared boat. We were very disappointed when the legitimate rowers (by now almost dead from laughing) amended the Constitution to allow us to row a four and a double sculls without rowing an eight in the meantime I should mention that I had drawn the best boats for the sculls and the four out of the hat in the absence of our Rowing Club captain in due course the legftimate V.U.C. rowers came second in the fours and sculls, which were sterling performances and perhaps even inspired(?).

The Drinking Horn

Swimming

The water polo team did quite well to come third defeating Auckland 6-5 and being unlucky to be defeated by Otago 8-4. Canterbury (the winners) bent our team 10-5 in the Individual events our team did not do well and apart from Wins by Des. Dowse in the 100 and 220yds. breaststroke and 100yds. butterfly, we gained no points. The standard was high and Des is to be congratulated on breaking the 220yds. breaststroke record and gaining a N.Z.U. Blue.

Plummer the most brilliant member of the visiting Australian athletics, winning the mile from Parcell, (C.U.C.) the N. Z. titleholder. (Well run the rest of the block next week).

Tennis

V.U.C. was decidedly unlucky in tennis, winning only the combined doubles with Don Robinson and Judy O'Brien 6-3. 7-5. Alan Robinson and tarry O'Neill played brilliant tennis throughout and were first pipped in the third set 11-9 by Nicholson and Class of O.U. in the final of the men's doubles in the final of the women's singles. Judy O'Brien was narrowly defeated by Racwyn Dickson of A.U.C 7-5." 7-5 Alan Robinson was beaten by Die men's singles winner M. Ellis (of A.U.C.) 6 1, 9 7 in hi? first game, and would have won the second set 7-5 had not an incorrect call been given. Don Robinson lost a bard throe-set match in the men's singles to Nicholson of O.U. whom he beat last year, going down 6-4, 3-6. 3-6. The women's doubles combinations both lost their first games and were not up to the standard of the rest of the team. Incidentally, the Tennis Club would be well advised to commence its play-offs for the team considerably earlier than it did this year as a certain amount of unnecessary bad feeling was caused by the decisions of the Committee, in particular all Clubs should realise that challenges may be played up to the last moment before leaving tor Tournament, that challenges need not be written, that the instructions of Tournament delegates should be observed and that any person must be given the opportunity to challenge all or any of the members of a team. After all the best players should go to Tournament.

The salient facts which emerged from the various competitions were to my mind that our shooting team is strong, the tennis and cricket teams were unlucky, the boxing team, which had the strongest membership for years, came up against an unusually high standard, the Rowing Club needs more members, the basketball clubs also needs more members and, in addition, a coach, in athletics we need more field events men (who may be available next year in John Hawkes, Gwen Hyslop, Dave Leech and Guntur Elepans) in swimming the Tournament standard is very high and we've just got to have better swimmers to have any chance of winning. When all these defects have been overcome we may just head Otago off at Canterbury next year.

All in all a very good time was had by all and you should make it your ambition to represent Vic. at Tournament.

—you'll enjoy it!