Tennis.

The tennis finals on Tuesday decided the fate of the Tournament Shield. V.U.C. put up a close fight for the Shield and the Tennis Cup. However, Miss L. Roberton, A.U.C., beat Miss M. Line, V.U.C., A. H. Barnett, C.U.C., beat R. Ferkins. V.U.C., in the respective singles, and the steadiness of B. A. Barrer and Miss G. Rankin, C.U.C., in the combined doubles completed V.U.C.'s rout by winning this final from Ferkins and Miss V. Dyer. However, Misses M. Line and C. Longmore won the Women's Doubles from Misses L. Roberton and R. Taylor, A.U.C. The glamour of victory was somewhat marred by an unfortunate accident to Miss Taylor on Easter Saturday which prevented her from giving of her best. By this win Mary Line won her double N.Z.U. Blue—for Basketball and Tennis a rare occurrence for a V.U.C. girl. We congratulate her on being, if not the first, certainly the first V.U.C. girl for very many years to win her N.Z.U. Blue in two sports at one Tournament. Miss page 8 G. Rankin did splendidly to win, with Barrer, the doubles titles and her N.Z.U. Blue. Who would realise that she had only a brief period before performed doughty deeds at Basketball and Swimming?

The fact that the fate of the Tennis Cup was decided by the Women's Doubles Final, the last event in the Tournament, kept excitement at fever pitch to the last minute. However, the win of V.U.C. lets us share the Tennis Cup with C.U.C., which College also carried the Tournament Shield away in triumph. Our Tennis Club can feel justly proud of its representatives, particularly the girls who have brought back the Cup—no matter that it is not the whole cup—which we have not seen for the last 25 years, except! when it was being presented to other Col-leges. We had it for three years in the Good Old Days, 1901, 1906, and 1907. May we keep it even longer now!