EASY VICTORIES

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 22

EASY VICTORIES

INDIANS lXi; AUSTRALIA

The Indian hockey team, which will! arrive In Wellington oh Monday by the Maunganui, played t^ree games in Australia recentlyi> These'game's were not on ..the .official*, itinerary but were presumably to give the players a chance to loosehtup their Umbs after a long sea journey. The "first game was played at Adelaide the; day jQiei-ieam arrived against aiSouth-Australian eleven, and resulted in a very easy win for the i visitors by> 10 ; goals to 1. This game' apparently) piir. the ;oh their! feet, andVvin -the,second game, that against Victoria, they won handsomely by 15 goals.'f6?4.? This;scores sounds more like/ a score but is actually a srhall;total cpmpafea.with some that this fampusiteato has registered When it is'remeiiiber|ea:that;the 1932 New Zealand teani' whi^ was ;unde-

feated in Australia could only draw, with Victoria.it makes.one. wonder just how the hOme teams will shape against the Indians. On Monday last the tourists easily accounted for Sydney Metropolitan, always considered a formidable side, by 11 goals to 4.

The cable message from Melbourne said that the Indians played hockey of a: standard never before, seen -in Victoria.; They were never extended, arid their dazzling stickwork,. uncanny' anticipation, and machine-like teamwork amazed the spectators. Such; encomiuriis, added to the prestige which the Indians have gained in Olympic abd other international competitions, are already creating a great deal of public interest; in New Zealand, and the announcement; that Athletic Park has been, secured .for- the match on June .I;giy.es.-proof that the setting for 'a; unique, occasion >yill be > entirely appropriate. ..The.-facilities for..a,crowd are; much : better at the -Park ithan at the, Basin Reserve, yet'i ; 'the latter ground held 18,000,-. when Wellington met the Indian Army- team there on June, 3, 1926. ,'. - ~,■rV..'.;,'. : . ; ' FRIENDLY- GESTURES.; ; ': Both the Wellington, Rugby: Union and the,, Wellington, Football; Associa.tipri.,have acted in a :Sp6rting'irianfaer ip deciding;not to put bii .any Jnatches likely to", prpve. counter-atti;actioris' to the hockey'fixture, 'and, the'management committee of *" .the. 'Wellington Hockey Association., .'appreciates thefriendly gestures* made: , So far as the organisation for the match'is concerneQ every feffort is being m~a.de to secure its-supcess,'.and.;i%-4s; ; Anticipated that if ■.thel.'vy.eaflier;; conditions are -at all' feyoyribl* therein be a 'great gatiiertng at, the Park.l.Gareful attention,will ,be.given, to ,the playing; surface,':so | both- teams, w v ill have 4he. ppporjtunity ipf; giving. of -their best. :'". •: '