'VARSITY HOCKEY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 121, 24 May 1941, Page 15

'VARSITY HOCKEY

COLDHAM TOP SCORE

GOALS IN EVERY CONTEST

The annual hockey tournament of the New Zealand Universities terminated yesterday afternoon at Remuera in a double victory for Auckland, both the men's and women's A team, emerging with an unbeaten record.

Otago again filled the position of runner-up in the men's division; while Massey College, last years champion at Wellington finished at the bottom of the table along with Auckland's second cloven.

The Auckland B team had rather a ♦lT°io J n XPe - nenCe \, It be S an b >" beating the 1940 wmner (Massey), and up to five minutes from the call of time in its third game, against Canterbury, onlythree goals altogether had been re~isered against the side. Eventually, two !^ re n 10tS Wer ?, not , tod b >' a** Southerners. Otago spoilt the Aucklanders' fine showing by a six-goal victory on Friday morning. Then strengthened by R L i\ugent, a fine right winger (who'had been an umpire in every preceding round!), the B team was all squa£ (onl Wkl?nf e 2 vt the ? nt With the Auckland A XL m the final round. And here comes a hard luck story. It took the most brilliant goal of the tourney to equalise the halftime score—G Jones shooting it from the left wing" And, after the A's had taken the lead at at ■ a ,S oa, T- hlt „ hy th « Poverty Bay Maori, W. K . Smiler from a penalty w, , J 3r < «*S Mt C. S. Belshaw was disallowed by Umpire P. Carrington for a technical breach of the rules, bmalcr himself was ignorant. The official adopted the unorthodox, but help. fid, course of giving a practical demonstiation with the stick before restarting the game. But for this "near muss" the score would have been "2-all," and the whole subsequent course of the match may have been altered. If the B's had ZVi a A W T° U i d have bocn bracketed with Auckland A as joint holder of the Seddon Stick-emblematic of supremacy in national university hockey. Results and scorers in the fifth round on Friday aftcrnnon wereAuckland A 4 (G. Jones 2. R. CnldJw'ir ■o S *F l * h y' boat Auckland B 2 (\V K. Smiler, B. Ritchie). Victoria 2 (S. Braithwaite. T H £eott) drew with Canterbury 2 (W D Clone, both goals). Otogo 12 (A. Alldred 5, B. O. Ryburn i' } \, ■ Alexander, D. L. Matheson), ford) y g ° * (J< K ' Ruthcr - Messrs F Carrington and N. Giles controlled the first-named two games (one being a curtain-raiser), while the umpires for Otago's runaway were Messrs. K. Lawry and A. McLean. Mr Harrington, who umpired in three matches yesterday, including one solo in the morning, awarded no less than six penalty bullies-two in every game The final positions of the'men's teams were:—

The outstanding individuals were:— R. Coldham (Auckland centre), who scored in every game, with an aggregate of 11 goals. B. O. Ryburn and A. Alldred (Otago centre and inside-left, the latter being skipper), whose tally of nine goals apiece represented performances in four 2 ? r five Barnes- Ryburn failed to } VI? net only gainst Auckland A and Alldred in the Canterbury engagement. W. H. Cooper (Auckland inside right) rang on eight goals for two matches— against Victoria and Massey. H. B. Lawry, Massey College centre and captain, and D. B. Sloane (Canterbury s inside left) each registered half a dozen successful shots, while Victoria Colleges bully, T. H. Scott, was next highest scorer in the tourney with five goals.

P. W. D. t. F. A. Pts. Auckland A .. 5 5 - - 30 a I0 Canterbury ... s 1 a a 13 i« i Victoria ...... s 1 1 2 8 20 A Auckland B .. S 1 - 4 3 15 2 Massey 5 - 3 3 12 31 2