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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 18, No. 5. April 30, 1954

Athletics . . . — Vic Gains Half a Point

Athletics . . .

Vic Gains Half a Point

The Athletics were held at Rugby Park on Easter Saturday and on the following Monday. Once: again, as far as Victoria is concerned, the sequence of events was the same. In short, we came last. However, our women athletes gained Vic half a point, which saved our face to a certain extent.

Final scores for the athletics championship were: Otago University 14. Canterbury University 6. Auckland University 4, and last but not least Victoria University All throughout the contests we had the odd smattering of pacesetters, but of course there were not enough. The most outstanding member of the Victoria team was G. R. Stevens, who won the 3 mile race in the record time of 14mins 48sec. He put up a game performance in the mile championship, leading the field for a fair distance. But inter P. H. Barnett of Canterbury College forged ahead to win. with May of Canterbury second, and Dawber of Otago third. Barnett's time was 4min 19sec also a record.

J. Hawkes, who was competing for Victoria turned up with a crop of performances which went a great distance to giving Victoria a very close fourth in the actual athletic shield competition. But the efforts of one or two individuals were useless, as far as making any impression on our final tournament results was concerned Hawkes. was second in the 120 yards hurdles, third in the long jump, third in the shot put, and second in the pole vault. Unfortunately we believe this is the final year for which we will have the services of this great all-rounder.

Other pacesetters for Victoria were: R Kerridge, second in 440 yards hurdles; I. Hyslop, third in the high jump, and third in the hop, step and jump: D McKenzie, second in the discus throw, and Dick Kirby, third in the mile walk.