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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, June 1904

[Review of the third inter-university tournament]

AAnother Tournament is over. Two years ago the first great experiment was made in Christchurch, and the efforts of Canterbury College were last year nobly emulated by Auckland. This year the university foregathered at Dunedin and the result was no less successful. If the sky did not display its midsummer glory over the Carisbrooke ground as it did over the Auckland Domain, the track was not bad enough to spoil the races. The competition was as keen, the racing was as good, as in the previous years, and the same good feeling pervaded the gathering. This was not decreased by the efforts of its rivals to pluck a leaf from the laurels of the redoubtable Canterbury team. At Tennis, Debating, and Athletics, however, the champion. College was able to withstand all attacks and crown her past successes with a triple victory. We heartily congratulate Canterbury College on its great achievement.

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And where did Victoria College come in ? Modesty prevents us saying much on this point, besides which it appears that our candid friends and relatives have already fully discussed the situation. We would only remark that if we did win but a single championship we gave strong, if unrecorded, fight in more than one hard battle. We feel it no disgrace to fall before a Moyes, a Rice, or a Buck, and are content for the present to snatch a point here and there, if perchance we can, to keep the flag flying till we can rear a new race of champions of our own.