Weather Craps out

So much for the politics of sport, Saturday was the first day of full competition for all sports and the weather was terrible. Cricket was cancelled for the day, it was freezing and windy at both the athletics and tennis, and both yachting and rowing had to be abandoned for the day.

However all was not lost and indoor sports continued and most sports made up for lack of competition on that day by holding Sports Dinners that night. Some others were more adventurous and, spurred on by the swimming and waterpolo competitors who supplied the buses, entered into a pub crawl of notorious success. Victoria bared its all in one bar and generally held its own with the other campuses.

Sunday saw more competition and the drinking horn in the afternoon. In what was probably one of the best displays of drinking seen at tournament for a long time, Otago lost the full effect of the horn by not allowing spectators to purchase alcohol, a fact that made the horn very dull and technical and not in keeping in the best spirits of these events in the past.

However the drinking was exceptional with the best times of the day being an incredible 2.8 seconds for a jug and under 0.3 seconds for an 8oz glass. Victoria, for the first time in years, did not dominate the horn although Luigi made a good technicolour representation of Wellington drinking prowess.

That night saw yet more Sports Dinners and another hop, which from many reports was not up to standard. As per usual at tournament Sports Dinners varied greatly in both price and quality. At $18.00 per head the Rowing dinner was highly priced but the quality of both the meal and the entertaining evening was exceptional (or so it seemed).