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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 32, No. 19. August 6, 1969

Cross-country

Cross-country

High standards and intense competition promise to prevail.

The primary reason for this is that some six harriers will be selected for a New Zealand Universities team to tour Australia for 10 days.

The line-up of prospective members of this learn is extremely impressive.

Otago has: Keith Darling, the NZU 3.000 metre steeplechase champion; Bruce Beath, the NZU 6-mile titleholder, and Alistair Hassell who was second to John Le Grice (Auckland) in both the 3 miles and I mile at Easter Tournament.

Massey has Evan Robertson, who has won the NZU Championship for the past two years and is also a N.Z. cross-country representative, finishing 13th in the world championship in March of this year.

Also running for Massey is Steve Kent who was in the NZU team last year and who has represented Wellington at the national cross-country championships.

Auckland has John Le Grice, the national 3-mile champion who also finished 5th in the Skellerup Steeples recently, and 1968 NZU team.

Canterbury is largely an unknown force, but the chances of any of its members and Victoria's making the NZU team can be considered fairly remote.

While the Vic team has no outstanding individuals this season in the club like George Seconi, it has more depth in its runners than in previous tournaments and should perform well in the teams races.

Chances of retaining the Shackleford Cup for the top North Island university, which Vic wrested from Massey last year, should be fairly good.

The Vic team, with the exception of Ian Stockwell who has competed at the three previous tournaments, is a completely new team.

Eric Cairns and Peter Simpson are two members who have performed well at the provincial level, finishing 4th and 7th respectively in the Wellington Centre champs, and who were also included in the Wellington junior team for the national cross country champs on August 9.

Victoria's team is: Tony Burge, Eric Cairns, Martin Fisher, John Horsley, Ian Hunt, Peter Simpson, Ian Stockwell, Peter Williams.