VARSITY SPORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1939, Page 3

VARSITY SPORTS

TOURNAMENT AT DUNEDIN. SHIELD WON BY OTAGO. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. April 11. The New Zealand Universities' tournament was brought to a close today with the completion of the lawn tennis and the shooting match. Though both these shields went to Victoria by narrow margins, Otago maintained a comfortable’ lead for the tournament shield and finished with 35:' points to Victoria's 23 points. Tournament gatherings concluded with a ball in the Town Hall tonight, and the northern teams will return home by the firstexpress tomorrow morning. Lawn tennis finals, played at the University courts, produced many interesting matches, with the fate ofjhe shield in doubt right up to the last match. Some of the interest was robbed from the competition by the defaulting of the mixed doubles final by W. J. Smith and Miss M. Kerr (Otago), and the men's singles final by Smith, who was suffering from an injured ankle. The shooting shield went to Victoria College by a margin of only one point. A feature of the competition was the performance of F. B. Boaden (Auckland College), in breaking the record for the highest score with 130 points. Otago University gained a notable victory in the contest for the Drinking Horn, the event attracting a lot of attention in the City. Following are the final points for the tournament shield: Otago University, 35 a - points; Victoria College, 23 points; Auckland College, 9 points; Canterbury College, B.} points.

A DPJNKING CONTEST. VICTORY OF DUBIOUS VALUE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. One of the unofficial events of the inter-university tournament —for male students only—was held this afternoon, and is understood to have created extraordinary enthusiasm among partisans of the respective colleges. The laurels of victory, regarded by some as of dubious value in this instance, were again Avon by Otago. At an appointed rendezvous 24 male students today took part in a drinking contest, the winners of which received what was styled the “drinking horn.” Actually it was the polished horn of an animal mounted on a wooden shield. This striking, if somewhat incongruouslooking prize, was won by six Otago students who drank six reputed pints of beer in the surprisingly rapid time of 20 2-ssec. Second place went to Victoria University College, Auckland being third, and Canterbury securing the wooden spoon. The contest was efficiently organised and well controlled. Two timekeepers, equipped with stop-watches, and a starter saw that the rules of the competition, the first of its kind to be conducted. were strictly observed. In the first heat Otago ryas matched against Canterbury’s six, but the northerners were two receptacles behind when the last Otago man put down his “empty. - ’ The official time was 22sec. Victoria won the second heat from Auckland by one drinking vessel in 25sec. In the second round Auckland beat Canterbury and Otago beat Victoria. Before each heat supporters of the four universities encouraged their teams by giving spirited hakas.