THIS HOCKEY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 14

THIS HOCKEY

INDIANS IMPRESS AUSTRALIA

DIFFERENT GAME FROM USUAL. The Indian hockey team made an indelible impression in Sydney on their way to New Zealand, states the “Sydney Referee.” Throughout the Dominion on all sorts of grounds, some rough, some smooth, and in all weathers, they preserved an unbeaten career, .attracting crowds up to close on twenty thousand (third test against New Zealand). Back to Sydney they entertained another enthusiastic crowd while beating New South Wales, their gentle jugglery of the hall making spectators to whom the game is practically new, wonder at their dexterity. Hockey is a very old game dating back to the second century, A.D., though its name differed in different countries. In Ireland it was hurley, in Scotland shinty, in Wales bandy, and in France, hoquet. There is evidence of the antiquity of hockey in an altar pot in the Copenhagen National Museum made about 1330, on which are shown two players with real hockey sticks engaged in a “bully,” just as one might see it these days. The Hockey Association in England was formed in 1886, so it is quite a modern game as it is understood these days, despite its ancient lineage. As the Indians play hockey it is a different game from that usually seen in this country.