DAVIS CUP HOCKEY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 169, 19 July 1943, Page 5

DAVIS CUP HOCKEY

'VARSITY WINS 211E CHAMPIONSHIP

University has won the season hockey championship f or trie on in succession. Its i Saturday over Wesley United ( the issue well beyond doubt. c i a y At Papatoetoe the highligh the five was the appearance of three turned on Auckland players who have while furlough from the Middle E.ast, Frank Wellbourne <Auckland ted Zealand representative) was an _ spectator. its mat ch Mount Eden had all bett Old Boys team with a greatly depleted Gramma occasion (5—3). and Owai B ?X crs f g.eoal draw. At when it took Somerville to a -i S "wooden Walter Park, Air Force handed unfor . spoon" to A.S.C. (4 —J). TnlS the arnl y tunately, marked the withdrawal team owing to transfers. , , vas Overseas Players in Action.—with the downfall of Wesley United in winn i n g team University. Every member of the Winn: kept gcod position during P la . y 'f ra sted with the had a telling eSect. but contrasted shQWn by lack of cohesion and undcrstan g re atly retho Wesley side. The loscrs to be expected organised team, and it was only. conditions that the returned men would nnd Midd j e East, vastly different from those in the the C. Lofley, the custodian who Egypt New Zealand team against the 1 goal-mouth made some clever saves, but a s o{ underhampered his movements, ana ® . prevented standing with the defence freq (jack) him from sighting the ball. • . although Torbett, the ex-United for a couple of not having played 4 'over there lthough he gave seasons, turned out for a run. nf +he support glimpses of. his old form he had not >- enable his from the halves or inside men efforts to be sustained. clubs Final Tallies.—The positions ot tl ,f le „hampionship after Saturday's last series in t ne are:— P A. PtsP. W. L. D- fg 13 17 University 9 8 - \ 45 18 14 Somerville .... 10 of }f ?a 20 13 Training Col. . 9 6 2 1 25 13 Grammar O. B. 10 5 3 i fB 12 Wesley United .10 6 4 - 2 7 11 Owai Rovers ..9 5 3 i 33 8 Mount Eden -.10 4 5 1 on 31 7 St. Luke's .... 10 3 6 1 Tg 35 4 Papakura 10 2 8 - iq 51 4 Air Force 9 2 7 ' i? 51 2 A.S.C. 10 - 8 2 "