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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 14

SENIOR A

KARORI TEAMS 2 ALL

Exciting hockey wad witnessed in the game between the twt> Karori teams, the result, two goals each, being due to excellent defence on the part of the B team and especially brilliant piny by C. Moore, the B's goalkeeper. The B team commenced well, scoring within the first ten minutes. Thereafter the • scores seesawed, the A team twice equalising until the whistle -went with a draw the result. Ai? it happened the championship was not affected, since Huia were defeated by Wesley. There were bouts of iiei-ce stiefc work, but the B team on the whole were rather fortunate in keeping the issue to a draw in view of the fact that they had but few .opportunities' presented and two of them bore fruit, whereas the A team peppered the B goal with but the same, result.

Karori B opened first, Phvpo.rs netting within the first ten minutes. The A teaiu thereafter confined, play almost wholly within the B team's -{territory. Moore, the-B's goalkeeper, was the target during several hot encounters.' He saved miraculously on several occasions. There was one particularly purple patch when he repelled with his pads, body, and his stick about four shots within..6,.few seconds during a melee in the circle. Half-way through the first spell P. Adams received a gash under his eye, but he resumed in a few minutes.

]?ive minutes after the second spell commenced, Edwards equalised the 6cores with a lightning stroke following .a freehit just over the circle. The A team kept the B team on the defence for a considerable interval. Then JM. Browne, centre-forward, took the ball: down the left wing and into the circle, where he goaled in the tcp of the net, giving the B team the lead. A minute later, Moore saved from Spiers. The score became equal again when Spiers shot a liot one from a penalty corner. Messrs. H. J. Smith and W. A. Scott were the umpires.