HOCKEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 597, 27 August 1909, Page 6

HOCKEY.

THE HAWKE'S BAY TOURNAMENT. -'■• (By..Telegraph-Special .Correspondent.) • Hastings, August 26 :The sixth day's-play in connection with the hockev tournament took place to-day at ■ Corn- . ' wall Park, Hastings. -Tho players Were again favoured 'with ideal summer iveatti'er. anii there Kwas; dl,safisfa6toTy'''atteridanp , e'.'; : '\The.-ifpllbwing are the results.— ' Hawke's Bay A . beat' Hawke's . Bay ■ B by S goals to 1. Missesrß;-Harrison (2) and E. 'Wellwood-scored for the- A' team,' and Miss :;i:Cogswell :for : 'the;'B';tffin6-':i;K:^ 9;; 'f ? : } -^' ! " ; ; : i -The-Auckland-'Horowhenua match', resulted - in l a ;win : for ■ the - formeri by .'Bvgoals.ito. nil. . -Misses.,Dones. (2) '.and .Kenny scored.",! i. ..: Taranaki bsat Wellington by 6 goals to nil. The match Wairarapa 8., v. - Wanganui re- ■ suited in a draw. Neither team had won a .match, yet.'/. \:,'r jitf'., v.The-'' Nelson-WairaTapa A match resulted .■ in the'fewer team proving victors by : -2' goals to one The following are .th'e-fixtnres fqr to-morrow \ at tho -Recreation '• Ground, v. ' Horowhenna,* Taranaki v; Wanganui, Hawku's 1 Bay vB v. -Anciland; Wellington v.i Wairarapa A v. -Wairarapa B.> Each'team has 'to play three moro - matchcs.-'. A win counts two points and a draw one point. The following shops, the' positions of, the variws :teamsT.lor-'the championship:—..-. ;i's ■ r^i.^," S ,-P6int^. < Hawke's: Bay .A -12 . Auckland 10 , Nelson . .*« *10 i - Taranaki .....; —.8 'Hawke's Bay B 7 / -"vVairarapa A 5 v/.-.r; • Wellington' .......j.........' '1 ilorowhenua' ...1............;...... :2 ; .- "Wnnganui 1 ; . Wairarapa B-....;..,..;........;......i.ii...... 1 , MEETING OF DELEGATES ■ A meeting of delegates from the teams competing: in the ladies' hockey tournament was held ' this: "morning nt. -Hastings, "y: Mis Basil Jones,- chairman-of the-,Hawke's- Bay. Hockey • Association',/was ,'i'n .tha..- T chMr.. : - ' The!yvariQiis ' teams were represented as;follow:—Nelson', Sir. ■ Floyd; Horowhenua, Miss" Stuckey; Auckland, ' ' Miss Clark: Wairarapa, Miss■ Humphries; Wei-; -linHon, MisS/Kelling; Hawke's Bay,. Messrs. ,i E; J. W. Hallett and-F. -Melhuish. Mr. E. F. ' Shirloy represented the New - Zealand Ladies' Association. .Various matters ;connected-With tournament, were.discussed. The; following recommondations. were mado 'to the New' Zealand liadies' 1 Hockey, Association ;-'-In'futuire..tournaments;: r all i: competing tennis must wear' recognised uniforms, such to bo ■ ■ Tegi6tercd'. with - the . New: : Zealand - - Ladies' Hockey Association, .any player appearing on the field in other dress than the uniform ot hoi 1 association" shall be -liable -to ■be suspended from play; that the uniform, length of skirt-bo at :least eight inches from:, the ground; that. ' next ' year's * tournameht' fe. held; -at ?. Nelson; that the New Zealand. Ladies'* Hockey. Associa-, tion be requested to notify the association that-in, future tournaments associations must, is. far ;. as' possible,' arrange for board for their teams, in | order to lessen the inconvenience jof \billeting. I v : Suggestions- were also made. that at-, future ' tournaments one day. be set 'aside-for a six-a-eide ladies' tourney. . Tho question of appointment of referees for tournamont games was also discussed. A suggestion is to bo mado that in future tournaments each competing ' team bo requested to bring, a qualified referee i •and that the games be■ controlled by theso re- I presentativo • referees. :