HAZENA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 139, 15 June 1938, Page 22

HAZENA.

LONDON'S NEW GAME.! CZECHOSLOVAKIA IMPORT. REQUIRES SIX UMPIRES. LOXDOX, May 21. As a change from cricket and tennis this summer Londoners can watch I Hazena. This is an olcl game, though new to England. and it comes from Czechoslovakia, where it is the national export. Hazena (pronounced Harzenar) is a cross between liethall. hockey and Association football. The rules say a Hazena team must consist of seven players —three forwards, two halfbacks. one back and a goalkeeper. The field is rectangular, .">0 yards long and 35 yards wide. Like football, there are two goals; but tliey are smaller than the football ones. The ball is a leather football. The rules say a size live Association football will do. Such a ball is 27 to 28 inches in circumference and between 14 and 1"> ounces in weight. The game lasts 25 minutes each way. The object is to score goals with the ball —but the ball may be touched with the hands only. A player may not liohl the bail for more than three seconds while standing still. No player may push, kick or handle an opponent in anv way. neither may lie or she knock the ball out of an opponent's hand* nor remove it forcibly. Hough play is penalised. There are two umpires for this game; they can be ( helped bv two goal and two sideline umpires—making a total of six. London girls are being coached in Hazena by Miss (lladvs Kiwera, an instructress of a Czechoslovakia!! gymnastic society with a branch in Eng- • land. Teams meet every week in • Kegent's I'ark and it is hoped that a 1. Ijondon team will take part in the Hazena international in June.