HOCKEY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 7

HOCKEY.

■;.. The fiveTa.sMo. tournament/under; the auspices : 6f-the 'Wednesday ■ Association;' was held yesterday : afteniopn .at Karbri.-' The: games'. were .played "iii two'/ spells, of 's.pven'. minutes each.;'■■ In spme.' pf ,the games ;Mie play. was v ver'y good. ' ■'■. Petone B v.' Karori,. A.—Petono set Karori a hard task, -: and, at.. the call of 'time,; up ' peore , htid. been. recorded. -The tsamsj. consequently, ha4.to p|ay another. spell v 'At' tlip 'oiid of twelve,, minutes Dyer scored for Karori. ' ' : : ' \ : Karori !B.:v.' Hup Mai.rrln the first, spell the , play was .very even, bu'tiAtlrin, for;Karori,. managed to find, tho ne£ jusj before.the call of:tjme. . ''"'•::'■■: '■■ Pakoha, after a' very hard fight, : de? feated Petone A by t goals sto nil, while beat the;B team by 3 to: 2. , ;The.'third round.'saw'V'great .game 'between. Jlui Mj»i A and Palreha, and, after a. hard fight,". PaKeha. by.V 2 t'dals'to.'nll,. r-' : ■ . /; - :: .' : / . lUron .A.;.had'-an easy .win over the ,D. team;by : p,to 1.. . , V- ■ : : ; The final game between Pakeha ; .and Karori. A. was worth going fv long way to see. The i defence: ol both sides was very : sound; . In the ."first.,spell .Karori: had rather tho best pf the game, but the fine hitting 6* M'JEldbwney and Thompson Saved'Pakeha .time after time. The two Spiors (C. and -F,),. with Gayford, were playing well, and hitting hard; but could not find ; the net. ■■ At. the end of .. the second: spell the result'.was nil,/ on. the teams ■' ohanging ends fpr, , tho third spell Pakelia-forced" the. garnet and had the Karori hard pressed, but the fine defence of Gayford, who was playing splendid hockey, saved his side time after time,, The spell lnsted twenty-eight minutes before a fine bit: of play/between Smith, 0. llaase, and Graoie enabled the latter to score, and thus win the game for Pakeha: In this .game the two-releree system was tried, .and-was found to work: very well. Messrs.- Cusack" anil /_ Carver : were . the referees.' Tho following are the results :— First ;r.bHnd; Karori, A (Dyer); 1; Petone,B; nil. ■"■'■.■ :" Second round: Hui Mai A teatu (Hoy 2, .'Owima 4), 3; Hui Uai B (Kuch 2), t Pakeha. (Haase 1, Gracio 1), 2; Petone A, -f1i1... .;. -■ . '.'/ . '■-. .' ;.•' ■;:.': ; ' ; Third round:. Karori A.teani' (P. Spiers l.'pyef 1), 2; Karori (Dunkley 1), 1. Pakeha (Haase 2), 2; Hui Mai A, nil. Final: Pakeha (Graeie 1), I; Karori, nil. (By Tplegrapii.— Special Correspondent.) ■■ / '■ . Ralmerston, August 3i; ' On '. the showgrounds' this . Afternoon, the final match for .the Manawatu hockey '.championship was piayed.jbetween the Post Office team and Old Boys, tho former winning the matoh . and the . Dawick Shield by 3 goals to 1. ; . - ■ . " ';'.;■• LADIES' TOURNAMENT. (By i'cleKriieU.—trcaa Association., Nelson, August 81. • The New Zealand Ladies' Hockey Championship Tourilambnt commenced to-day in.glorious weather. Abuut l! 00 visiting players arid eleven teams are tak' ing.parti;and.there was a very large attendance of spectator?.. fivo matches were played daring the liny, • Auckland met Wellington, scorilig . a win by two goals to nil after a well-con-tested game. The Bcordrs . were .Misses Dainos and Steele. ■ The ■ Wellington defenoe was very sound. . . ■•: The . match Wairarapa v. Wanganui ended iu a draw, each side scoring one gdnl.. Miss Cottier scored for Wairarapa, i and Miss Perrett for Wanganui. '-■-■'. Greymouth v. 'I'aranaki was also a drawn game, neither side scoring. Like the preceding match, the gamo was very • willing throughout. The match of the day Was; provided by the. meeting of Hawko's Bay and Otago. The gamo resulted in ' a victory ' for HawkeY Bay, the illlainpions, by two goals tb nil. Tho chalnpion team showed splendid form, but in tlie first-spell were unable to make an impression on their opponents, tho stpcll ending with no score. Play was vory fast in .the second spell, and several likely scores on both sides nere prevented by magnificent work. Eventually Miss Brady got one into .the net' for Hawke's Bay. Otago then pressed for somo time, but, after good work by the-Huwko's Bay forwards. Miss Niven, found the net, and, shortly afterwards, also shot ' Hawke's Bay's third EoaL .- ■",

Nelson defeated Westport by three goals to nil. The scorers were Misses Emms and Fowler (2). Owing to the' intervention of the New Zealand Association, the rules of . tho tournament havo been altered so. that every-team.piays every othor team.