INTER-UNIVERSITY HOCKEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 14

INTER-UNIVERSITY HOCKEY

The above tournament, held on the Remuera hockey grounds at Auckland last week, resulted in the Auckland A team winning the Seddon Stick. This team, which played excellent hockey in all their games, well deserved their 6-0 victory against Otago in the final game. The Victoria team started oft well the first day against the Auckland B team, winning 4-1. In the next game against Otago they could do nothing right and both teams .gave a sorry exhibition on a wet and greasy ground, the result being 1-0 in Otago's favour. The game against Massey College was a repetition of this, except that the game was won 4-2. There were far' too many breaches of the rules by the Victoria team, sticks and, obstruction .being common faults. The backs did not feed the forwards, aimless clearing hits being numerous. The Canterbury College team played very ■ well, losing its game against Auckland A by two goals scored in the last few minutes of a bright and open The representative match N.Z.U. v. an Auckland representative team was an excellent finale to an interesting tournament. The N.Z.U. team, which won 3-2, combined well, almost as though "they had been playing together for years, and in the writer's opinion was the best N.Z.U. team to play against a representative side for the last five years. Auckland was short of two or three of their best men and seemed to lack any initiative. Both teams were picked by Eric Watts, who is Auckland's new selector, and the game served as a trial for some of the nominees for the New Zealand side to tour Australia.

Two of Victoria's team, W. Johnston and A. Cole, were successful in gaining their N.Z.U. bluei.