HOCKEY TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 64, 9 December 1936, Page 7

HOCKEY TOURNEY

Australian Women’s Team

Returns After playing 19 matches, of which it won 16 and defeated Ireland, Scotland and Wales at the international tourney at Philadelphia, the All-Australian women's hockey team is returning to Sydney by the Makura, which passed through Wellington yesterday. In an interview the manager, Mrs. F. J. Davy, said England went through the tournament undefeated. The standard of hoc-key in England was very high. Australia, however, had a good match with England. At. half-time the score was 3all. but England won by 6 goals to 3. The team played matches in other parts of America and was extended overwhelming hospitality. Mrs. Davy said that the next international women’s tournament would be in England in three years' time. Australia had applied for the following tourney in 1942. It was possible that an all-British team would visit Australia next year, and if it did it was keen to come on to New Zealand. A Canadian team has been invited to Australia in 1935. The team visited Washington, the Radio City, New York, where the members were the guests of Mrs. Richard Crookes, the Ford Motor Company's works nt Detroit. and the Grand Canyon. One election scene recalled by Mrs. Davy waw a parade of three-quarters of a million people in Chicago in support of President Roosevelt.