Once Again, time for all conscientious sports editors to make their predictions. This is considerably easier to do for Winter Tournaments than Easter.

At least that seems to have been the pattern in the past. The story has been to predict success for Vic in August and attempt to disguise her wooden spoon destiny at Easter. But what of this year?

In Wellington this Easter, Victorian sportsmen surprised all. Progress reports snowed Victoria to be consistently near to the front—if not in front. However, she was headed off on the final count by the "grand old master" of Easter Tournaments. Otago again took the honours.

Now once again Victoria finds itself chasing Otago. This time it's because Otago holds the venue—but we hope not the upper hand.

Now for the predictions. The least that can be hoped is for wins in four of the sports: Badminton. Fencing. Squash and Association Football.

That leaves nine unknown quantities. Would it be rash, or just plain hopeful, to commit Golf, Harriers, Table Tennis, Smallbore Rifles and Men's Hockey to first or second placings.

With the introduction of a new grading system, the Judo team travel south as the prophets' nightmare. Hesitation is also felt in going beyond fourth placing for the Indoor Basketball teams.

I must join coach Bogle in wishing the Women's Hockey to make a good job of ridding themselves of that wooden spoon.

So there we have it. An overall tournament win for Victoria? Well, if not quite that perhaps a return to the glory of earlier tournament home comings with an im-provement on last year's fourth at Auckland.

The following are the tournament prospects as seen by the clubs themselves.