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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1933

The Year's Sport in Review

page 71

The Year's Sport in Review

Despite the decrease in the numerical strength of the Students of the College, the Sporting Clubs have not this year shown any lapse in the general standard of their performances.

In football, the first fifteen have shown good form during the past season, as their results indicate, whilst the hockey team, after a bad beginning, have latterly had more success, and for a young side have done well. The Basketball Shield for the Tournament is in Victoria's hands, and the girls have since been defeated but rarely in competition games.

Athletics at Victoria College are at present not so strong as previously and F. H. Stephenson's further successes in the Tournament were very welcome; whilst the harriers, although they have only been in existence as a College Club for two years, have their results at the Provincial Meeting and the Shaw Baton to prove their progress.

In the Summer sports V.U.C.'s cricketers have definitely shown the strength of their club by coming second in the club championship of the Wellington Cricket Association, and by winning a lower grade championship, and tennis players can point to the first women's team, who are second division champions of Wellington.

At swimming the club has shown new signs of life, and the College riflemen are considering the re-organisation of the club in order to pave the way for more successful operations.

This would seem to prove that Victoria University College, despite the croakings of Jeremiads, is still maintaining the high standard set in the past. The main danger to be guarded against is in the number of new clubs which have sprung up in the past few years. In granting affiliation to clubs, the Students' Association should move carefully, making sure that it does not admit so many that the general standard of all clubs is lowered and none can prosper.

—J.A.C.