CHAMPION HOCKEY

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 7 September 1929, Page 3

CHAMPION HOCKEY

SOUTHLAND WINS DEFEATS CANTERBURY RUAHINE’S HOLDEN TROPHY 4Per Press Association) Gisborne, Sept. 0. Southland won (he New Zealand ladies’ jockey •ehnm.pioriJslijip easily from Canterbury, isoundly frouncing last year's champions by six goals io one, after a most disappointing .game. The weather was line and, there wa« another very large attendance. For the first ten minutes the Can ter bury girls played like champions, but after Southland scored ifs see ond goal the opposing team went to pieces a,ml could do nothing rightThe linlves were (he weak line ;n llie team, but the Canterbury lull backs were also'off their game, being badly busfled by the opposing forwards. Miss iVlillicbamp played a great game and made numerous set Ad (breaks ,bni sfl'e Hacked support.

Southland soon, after (be s(art never looked like a beaten (earn, and ran all oiler its opponents, having (he better of (lie game all through. Of (he backs, Misses Burt and Clarke hardly missed a bail all day, (heir defence being impenetrable-. T!|* Forwards ’ gave a brilliant exhibition and never let np i>H the finish.

For Southland Misses Hi slop (3), Clark, Mclntyre and Herner scored goals, all eventnatiug from concerted forward rushes (hat paralysed the defence. Miss Burrow scored Canterbury's only goal. Ruahine. in a hard and fast game beat Wellington for the Holden trophy by three goals fo one. Tbs trophy is’ awarded for third place in the tournament. The game was, by no means an easy thing,- representatives of the capital giving a good account of themselves. Play wa.s fairly even throughout until t'h- la.so few minutes, when Ruahine put on two goals in quick succession and onejust before the final whistle. The Wellington scorer was Miss Maters and Ruahilie’s goals were registered In- Missc« !). McKinnon (2) and F. Randle (1).