OUR FAILURE AT HOCKEY.
. I (By SINBAD.) i New Zealand's place in sport supreme appears a tritle perilous, for there is with us now a team which soon may put it over us. We pride ourselves that we excel at every sport we patronise; our Rugby fame the world can tell, and Rose o'er British cinders Hies. _ But now has come a team of Sikhs (if that's how you pronounce the name), to show us that with hockey sticks we know just nothing of the game. Though would-be wits may "beaver" yell, and gaily ask: "How are the Woods?" Their scores to date quit.- plainly tell that they at hockey are "the goods." Taihape or Waipukurau, Opotiki or Egmont Hill in chorus murmur. "It's acow," as down they <■'" by twelve to nil. For it would seem these hockey, boys to seek diversion for tbeir souls, or peace from boredom that annoys, go out and shoot a few more goals. Such massacres I think a sin. and as v remedy I'd say: It would be fair tn match them in a Rugby contest with Hawke's Bay.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 7 June 1926, Page 6
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185OUR FAILURE AT HOCKEY. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 7 June 1926, Page 6
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