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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 10. 1965.

Tournament Preview — Sports Editor Makes A Rash Promise

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Tournament Preview

Sports Editor Makes A Rash Promise

Unfortunatey Tournament skiing cannot be held in Wellington, as the Mountain will be in the South Island during the holidays.

Unfortunatey Tournament skiing cannot be held in Wellington, as the Mountain will be in the South Island during the holidays.

Well, it's Tournament time again. It is customary for the Salient Sports Editor to make an informed guess about the possible outcome as regards the Victoria sports types; so—I hereby swear, vow and promise to eat my sports page if Victoria doesn't get within ten points of the University that wins the Tournament Shield.

A welcome is extended to all visiting students, players, spectators and entertainers. Hope you all enjoy yourselves and remember that it is decidedly churlish to defeat your hosts. A special welcome to Waikato, participating in Winter Tournament for the first time ever.

Golf

This year Victoria will not be fielding its strongest possible team for Tournament. Star amateur Peter Rankin indicated that he would be unavailable owing to pressure of work, and with Paraparaumu Duncan Cup player Max Altmann also out of action, team selector Roger Lawrence may have been a little bit hopeful in one or two cases. The team is Rodney Barltrop, Gavin Doyle, John Ingle and Duncan Simpson.

It is certainly not lacking in experience; both Ingle and Simpson played in the NZD team last year, and Barltrop has represented Manawatu-Wanganui in interprovincial matches. Victoria can expect at least second place in the Tournament.

The Winter Tournament golf is being held this year at the Miramar Golf Club, a fairly flat course of 6200 yards. The course should be in excellent condition as it is being extensively groomed for the 1965 New Zealand Amateur Champs in October. The Victoria team is secretly hoping, however, that a howling gale will spring up—this makes the course virtually impossible to play without adequate local knowledge, of which our team has plenty.

Squash

High-Standard squash is expected at winter Tournament. Canterbury, who have won the teams event every year to date have a strong team. It is led by M. Garrett, J. Henderson, a 1964 NZU Rep, again leads the Otago team.

It is hoped that this year will be Victoria's best ever. On paper it has a very strong team, with B. Christie, J. Haines and J. Anderson. However, little is known about the strength of the teams from Auckland, Massey and Lincoln.

Late Sports See page 10

This is the first year that women's squash has been included in the Tournament programme. Teams have been entered from Auckland, Canterbury, Otago and Victoria.

The women's squash will be run along the same lines as the men's. There will be a teams event and an individual championship. The venue for the games is John Reid's squash centre, on August 16, 17 and 18.

Judo

The Victoria Judo team will be chosen from the following:

Warwick White—yellow belt, the only member of the 1964 team, which came second equal at Auckland Tournament. In the deciding match Warwick defeated the reigning green belt champion of Auckland, who was the only member of the NZD team to force a draw with the Auckland black belt team.

Richard Dench—orange belt, and club captain.

Pat Keane—yellow belt.

Peter Hannah—green belt.

Lindsay Vaughan—white belt.

Bruce Furze, graded only this year, has shown great promise and may cause surprises next year. Alan West bury, yellow belt, has been a gain for the club. Peter Cleghorn is another very active member.

The club may have to call upon the services of other members who have not been able to attend regularly.

Last year, Vic's team had two greens and one blue, but this year the team will have only one green belt member.

Reports from other clubs suggest very strong opposition. Canterbury still has the very strong Davis and skilled Painter. Murray Mathieson from Otago is now a brown belt, and Larsen from Massey, who sensationally defeated the NZU champion in one bout is still on the scene.

Morama Sterling, a black belt, has been taking part in hard and regular workouts with the team, which should consequently be very fit.

Rifles

Tournament is coming closer, but the smallbore rifle club is prepared. The team has been picked: It consists of B. Ward, M. Burch, R. Edwards, D. Pox, P. Lew. Ward and Burch have had previous tournament experience. Ward in 1963 and '64, Burch in '64.

The others have no Tournament experience but have been undergoing a course of competition shooting, and should stand up well under Tournament pressure. They have solemnly vowed to do their best for Vic and have promised to take up knitting if they shoot lower than 96.

What are their chances? The answer depends on whether the outlook of the questioner is optimistic or pessimistic. Whoever wins will have had a hard day's night in acquiring the ICI shield.

Women's Hockey

Two players—Kay Stewart and Esmee Neal—were picked for an unofficial Wellington team to play the Wellington reps. Esmee Neal also has a Massey Blue for hockey.

The NZU hockey team will be in Australia during Tournament, but it is hoped that the standard at Tournament will not be lowered. A second NZU team will be picked at Tournament to play a Wellington rep. team. Victoria has a very good chance of doing well this year and improving on last year's position.

The Vic women's hockey teams have been strengthened by a number of keen freshers.

In the regular Saturday competitions the first grade team is 5th and the third grade team is well up in its grade. This is despite the setbacks that it received through a shortage of players.

The Winter Tournament team is much stronger than it was last year. Unfortunately, three members from the regular first grade team are not available, but there are at least four capable players who have been practising with the Tournament team.

Earlier this year Massey was invited to play the Vic tournament team. The final score was 1-all.

Soccer

Association Football is being held on the Basin Reserve and on Kelburn Park. For out-of-towners—the Basin Reserve can be found on the Handbook map by first finding Courtenay Place and then heading along Kent/Cambridge Terrace to that square block at the end—that's the Basin. Kelburn Park is marked on the map—it's that large expanse of green, complete with fountain, opposite the University.

The Victoria team is fairly strong this year. Only two members of the first team are unavailable for Tournament, so a good combination should eventuate. Auckland is favourite to retain its title—but Tournament soccer is always close, with numerous upsets, so the result can be said to be wide open.