HOCKEY.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14917, 16 March 1914, Page 9

HOCKEY.

# EXGLISH LADIES' TEAM FOR XEW ZEALAND. (most ot - n own comiespondext.) LONDON, February 6. The All-England Women's Ilockey Aas> cieticn hope to raise a team to tour Xcv/ Zealand during July of this year, but an official states that so far no details havo been decided upon. A hockey . writer says the real reason why thc men s tour was abandoned wa.s because it was impossible to make it financially successful. Be eays:—"Tho Hockey Association were told that gates in New Zealand would easily reach ten thousand. The Aftociation were told that an ordinary match attracted as many us four and five thousand spectators. On further enquiry this proved to be a moss exaggerated estimate. It wa«, therefore, obvious that euch a tour would havo been a financial failure, and that the guaranton wov.ld have ha<l to find much money. Many players did not feel that they could find estra money if this tour failed, nor did they wish to find themselves forced to tako thc money of the guarantors. The question of 'pates' applies to the women'? tour as well. Have they made further enquiries since the Hockey Association abandoned their tour? They" ought to do so."