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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 12. 1967.

Squash

Squash

Victoria came second to Otago in squash. Individual honours went to Victoria's Richard Hawkes and Teresa Lawes, who respectively won the Men's and Women's championships.

In the final, Hawkes beat Canterbury's J. Henderson. Henderson has beenthe NZU titleholder for the past two years.

Hawkes won the first set 9-6 and then lost the next two 9-3, 9-7. In the fourth set Henderson raced to 8-5 and played match ball.

With an immaculate volley inches from the tin, Hawkes! took the serve. He survived the match point and went on to win 10-9, 9-2.

Teresa Lawes won the final of the women's by beating Otago's Carol Johnston 3-1. This match never really flowed, it was fitness and determination that won the day. Carol Johnston had beaten Teresa in the teams event held earlier in the week.

Loss of John Parsons two days before tournament was a disturbing blow to the team The injured Parsons's placewas taken by F. Wilson, a former co-holder of the world Squash endurance record.

Despite the pre-tournament setback, the team performed well to finish runners-up to Otago. The matches against Lincoln, Canterbury and Auckland were won by all players. Against Otago, the Otago Nos. 2 and 3 proved too strong.

Massey provided the closest match of the tournament Hawkes beat the Massey No. 1, G. McDonald, and Wilson lost to the strong C. Irving The vital match between Anderson and J. Maher and peared to be all over after the third set when Maher led 9-0 5-9, 9-1. However, with up setting tactics, Anderson won the next two sets 9-7, 9-6.

The women's team had easy victories prior to meeting Otago's stiff oppositiong Against Otago, Miss Lawer lost in the fifth set to Miss C. Johnston after an unfortunate umpiring incident, and Miss Christie lost 10-9 in the fifth set against Miss R Johnston.