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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 4. 1967.

More tourney results

More tourney results

Rowing

Victoria's rowing eight at Easter Tournament was one of the best to take to the water for many years from Tournament's host club. It won the main race on the Tournament programme.

Because the rowing season, coincides with the University summer vacation and because of the high cost of equipment, the Victoria club only comes together as a body tor Varsity tournaments and regattas. It is affiliated to the Star Boating Club and during the year its members row for this and other clubs throughout the country.

For this reason the club's, members, some of whom are equal to the best in the country, are not often associated with Victoria when their achievements in the sport are publicised. A look at the individual merits of this year's, successful eights crew will serve as an indication of the strength of the sport in the University.

Dick Joyce and John Gibbons head the list. John has rowed for New Zealand in the eights at the Olympics at Tokyo and the world championships in Yugoslavia. Study commitments mean that he is not available for the squad in training for the trip to Canada later this year.

The Victoria eight still has some association with the squad through Dick Joyce who is preparing for Canada. With Peter Weir, also in the Victoria eight, he was in the crew of the Hutt Valley redcoal fours at this year's national championships. Peter has rowed for Victoria for the past four years.

From the Wanganui Collegiate Old Boys Club come Rod Trott and Richard Gilbert, both members of the victorious junior eights crew at the national championships.

The Hutt Valley club supplied another two of the crew, Peter Macauley and Barry Brown. Peter and Barry rowed for the Hutt Valley's junior eights crew at the nationals.

From John Gibbons's parent club, the Star Boating Club, comes John Pope, who rows for their junior fours. This was the third year John has rowed tor Victoria eight at Tournament.

As well as the eights, Victoria entered two crews in the College fours and a crew in the novice fours at tournament.

Shooting

Victoria Won the tournament shooting at Trentham. A fine team effort paved the way for an eighteen point victory over Canterbury in second place with Otago third. five points further back.

Three Victoria shooters tied for individual honours. They were Graham Wakefield, Jim MeKinley, and Roger Girdlestiene. All three went into the NZU team.

Weather conditions for the shooting were initially the worst for at least four years. Rain and winds on the Saturday morning made shooting difficult. The Vic team capitalised on their advantages of the home range and experience.

Generally, the fine performance of the team was regarded as a fitting tribute to the patient coaching of Graham Wakefield.

On Monday the NZU team went down to an experienced Wellington Invitation Team by forty-four points.