Struan 1962 - Adm.monash.edu.au

T ABLE TENNISThis year th e table tennis teamhad much greater success in th eInter-C oll ege Competition than lastyear. Thanks must go to Anna deBandt for all her wo rk as captain o fth is team . It was es pe cially pl easingto see F ranksto n so successfulbecau se th e members of thi s spo rtare generally apathe tic.Although thi s year we ga ine d anew table, and enthusiasm wasso ugh t fo r in the form of a ladder ,the m emb ers re mained lethargic.T he greates t amount of ac tivityseemed to be in th e se tting up ofthe ta bles and that was don e in adisinterested fas hio n.Th e stall. incl uding our lecturerin-charge,Mr. ElIix, see med inthei r wisdom to ta ke advan tage ofo ur fac ilitie s.N ext year, perhaps, we'll h aveso me active table-tennisers.Bu t one spe cta cular hi t by Perr yr alli ed the side and for the rest ofthe gam e held the Tech scorelesswhile we scored 15 runs.Of th e nin e m atches play ed , wewo n five, lost three and drew o ne .To fin aliz e the season we playedano ther Coll ege te am. A lthough thega me wa s in doubt till the lastinnings, McEwan sla mmed homethe win ning run, thus sa ving th eCollege -from a humiliating defeat.The side was Bob McDonald(Capt.), Greg Penn y, Roger W eston, R od Gear , Andrew Perry, IanPick ering, Du gald McE wan , PeterMutton , Neil M orrison, Bob Vi ergever,and Bill Dust ing.- Bob McDonald.CRICKETT he C ric ke t te am has had m anydeserving successes thi s year, winning fou r out of five mat ch es tod ate. Individual outsta nd ing perforrnances have been: Bob McDon ­ald's 86 ag ai nst Burwood and 33against Melbourne; Neil R obertson's35 ag ains t M elbourne; andT on y Newman's 36 against M elbourne.Individual bowling perfor m an ceshav e been Mr. Colbourne's 5 fo r 17again st Burwood ; Bob Stein 's 5 for20 aga ins t F ranks ton; and BobM cDonald's 4 for 32 against M el­BASEBALLBaseb all in its first season atCollege pr oved quite successful andth e team enjoyed many frui tfulafternoons of com pe titive sport.In the initial stages of th e form a­tion of the team, man y difficultiesap pea re d, but th ese were soon overcome . Half th e side had neverplayed before and after many ard u­o us practices the Co llege fielded asid e against a junior but highly bourne.experienced Erankston ..cchnical__..-T he team 's field in h a ~ been ........_School side . sp lendid throughout th e season,This match set th e pattern of especially in the Burwood match ,play of our side for th e rest of the wh en eve ry player shone. T heseaso n. We sta rted poorly, and team's field ing perfo rm an ce wouldafter two inn ings were losin g 8- 1. rarely be equalled in Shield cricket.Page Sixty.Two STRUAN. 1962