INTER-COLLEGE TOURNEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 11

INTER-COLLEGE TOURNEY

TEACHERS CONTEST FIRST EVENTS TODAY AUCKLAND AND WELLINGTON Seventy students, representative of the Wellington Training College in sport, athletics and debating, arrived yesterday for the annual tournament with the Auckland Training College which will occupy three days. Yesterday afternoon the visitors assembled at the Training College, Epsom, and, following afternoon tea, were taken on a sight-seeing drive round the city and suburbs. The tournament programme features tennis, football, basketball, athletics, swimming, boxing, hockey and debating. Tbe winner in each sporting contest obtains two points for the tournament trophy, the Millies Memorial Bowl, which is at present held by Auckland which was successful in the contests held at Wellington last year. The Waghorn Vase is for competition in the debating and it is at present held by Wellington. The tournament was commenced this morning with tennis matches on the courts near the Training College, while this afternoon was occupied by the athletic events on the Domain. This evening the boxing contests will be staged at the Drill Hall, when the weights to be decided will be heavy, middle, welter, light and feather. Following the boxing the inter-college debate will be held in the University College Hall. The subject is “That the Introduction oL' Modern Machinery Has Been Beneficial to Mankind.” The debating teams will be of three speakers each, Wellington taking the affirmative and Auckland the negative.

Tomorrow’s programme consists of hockey matches, men’s and women’s, at the Remuera grounds in the morning. In the afternoon a basketball match will be held at the University College, to b© followed by a football match in the Domain, the evening to be taken up with the tournament ball in the University College Hall. Wednesday will see the concluding events of the tournament. During the morning swimming events will be held in the Tepid Baths and in the afternoon a meeting of the combined executive committees will be held, the visitors leaving for Wellington that evening.