HOCKEY TEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 10

HOCKEY TEST.

INDIA V. NEW ZEALAND

Visitors Unbeaten After 25 Games — 290 Goals to 20.

There is a large attendance at Eden Park, and tlie conditions are ideal for the 'final liockey Test between the AllIndia team and New Zealand. The

visitors were still an unbeaten combination when they stepped out this afteiiioon to meet tlie Dominion eleven.. The latter had hopes of breaking the Indians long li»c of twenty-five successes (290 goals to 20) on the present tour, as it was here in 1!>20 that New Zealand beat the Indian Army team 4 —3 in the second Test and drew (one all) in the third. In the opening Test at Christchurch a month ago. India won 4—2, after New Zealand had led 2—o at the interval. A week later the visitors had a narrower margin still, 3—2. The score at halftime on that occasion was India 1, New Zealand 0. To-day's elevens:— INDIA. Ooalkeeper. —T. J. Blake. Backs. —Mohammed Hussain, P. Das. Half-backs. —M. J. Oopalan, M. X. Masud. Harbail Singh. Forwards. —Shahabuddin. F. C. Wells, Dliyan ( hand (captain, Roop Singh, P. P. Fernandez. NEW ZEALAND. Goalkeeper. —C. M. Moore (Wellington). 1 Backs. —T. A. Ewan (Waikato), C. A. Rogers (Canterbury). Half-backs.—W. J. Bowden (Canterbury), E. (i. McLeod (Wellington), captain. L. E. Spiers (Waikato). Forwards. —M. Bowden (Canterbury), M. J. Bav (Auckland), E. S. Watts (Auckland), T. T. Turbitt (Poverty Bay), F. de M. Wellborne (Auckland).