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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 11. 31 May 1972

Swords

Swords

Members of the Swords club have been flat out on one thing or another (mostly another) since the season opened in March. The Wellington Invitation Tournament was held early in March and despite the fact that some ex-Commonwealth Games reps were there, club members performed very well, the most notable success being Bruce Congaiton's win in the epee.

A bottle drive to raise funds was doomed from the start as our plum area - Kelburn had already been commandeered by the local primary school, and it rained down in buckets. However many thanks to those who did turn up - we managed to raise a little money towards running expenses. The biblical party was better attended however and there were some really weird outfits including one gentleman in a holey sheet who informed us he was the 'Holy Ghost' -very original.!!.

The effects of Tony Ellis's excellent coaching have already shown through at the Wellington Handicap Tournament held at Bulls recently. The final of the women's event was entirely composed of girls from Vic. Club. Our honourable captain, Viv McLean was the eventual winner, with Sue Norris second, Jennifer Stacy third, and Annamaria Apathy, Stephanie and Sue Grant-Taylor taking the other placings. The men's event was a little tougher but Chris Fagan came a very creditable 2nd and Bruce Congalton was 6th. All in all a very good tournament - especially from the social angle although some people didn't look too well on Sunday morning. Also pleasing at this tournament were the performances of our beginners and junior fencers. Lis Pedersen, John Oliver and Nicholas Twohill all turned in first-rate performances We expect to see them taking the junior provincial titles later in the year. The next event on the calandar is the North Island champs in Waitara over Queen's birthday weekend, which is only one or two weeks away so everybody get training!!

Everybody will no doubt be sad to hear that Dave Butler will shortly be taking off for greener pastures overseas. He has done fantastic work for the club and the sport in general and we will be sorry to lose him especially at the parties.

Hope the second term's work won't prevent you from keeping up the fencing and if you can't make it on Wednesday's, come along on Saturday mornings at 11.00 a.m.

Sue Norris.