UNIVERSITY SPORT

Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 11

UNIVERSITY SPORT

THE EASTEE TOURNAMENT.

Once more-the Easter Tournament, at which the New Zealand University championships ■in athletics, boxing, tennis, and debating, are decided, falls to Wellington. The sports will be held at the Athletic Park on. Easter Monday, tennis at the - Wellington • Club's courts on the .Saturday and Tuesday, the debate in the Town Hall .on; Easter Monday night, andl, the boxing, at the. Town Hall on Easter Saturday—prer liminary rounds in the afternoon at 2.30, and the finals in tlie evening at 8. The high standard'of University ..sport in all branches will make the tournament an event--to be remembered.. ■•■ Athletes.from all four colleges have for some years played a.prominent part in Australian and New Zealand championships. Each centre will be strongly-represented this year. Victoria College, with such men as Tracy, Leadbetter, Griffin,. Davies, Priestly, and others, will be very hard to defeat in the fiat events, but with such opponents as Morgan (Otago), Henry (Auckland), Low and Kidgen (Canterbury), the V.C. men will have strong opposition in all distances'up to the quarter. In the hurdles' and field events the other Colleges willbe veiy strongly represented. Low, the young Canterbury College athlete, who performed so brilliantly at the recent -New Zealand championships in hurdles, shot and broad jump, will be a conipetator, and the, straggles between him and Kalaughar, of Auckland, in the hurdles and broad jump will be one of the features of "the meeting.-University, tennis has always, been on a high plane, and this year's competitions will be well up to the vstandard. af nrevidus years,. The boxing will provide Cariy twenty bouts, of which willingness and cleverness-should be the main fea! s Ura?N '^c box plan for the boxing is at N. Perry's, Manners street ' ?