HOCKEY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 144, 3 June 1911, Page 7

HOCKEY.

The special holiday attraction for Monday next is the Hawke’s Bay Hockey Association’s tournament at Cornwall Park. This annual event is becoming more popular every year. Very large entries have been received for the various competitions and provided good weather, the tournament should be a great success. In the ladies’ competitions the old rivals Huia and Clive are again represented by strong teams, and the contest for the championship is expected to be verv keen.

TOURNAMENT TEAMS. Kia Ora (ladies). —Misses Smith, Lansdowne, Burdin, Moore, Schaeffer, Tong, Thompson (2), Wilson, Horton, McLusky. Oriental Seniors. —Ross, Cassin, Read, McGoldrick, Turner, Sherwood, Smith, Fail, Matthews, O’Keefe, Hallagan. Oriental Juniors. — Spencer, Roach. Crawford, O’Keefe, O’Neill (2), West (2), Percy, Ryan, Fitzgerald, Dew, Stack. Athletic Team.—Noble, Hooper, Carlston, Russell, Bullick, Fail, Rees, McCarthy, Johnston, Cassin, Nepi. St. Matthew’s B.—Harper, Campbell (2), Land (3), Rivers, Heir, Roach, Atchison, Masters, and Heald.

St. Matthew’s Juniors.—Harper, Collinge, Watson, Foster, Carroll, Tickner, Monteith, Crawford, Jones, Clarke, Murley. Emergencies : Roach, Laurie and McKay. Hastings B.—Loach, Wethey, Parkinson, Sellgren, Wright, Bainbridge, Wall, Mahoney, Tong, McCorkindale, Poppelwell. Emergency : Campbell. NOTES BY “THE SPY.”

Last Saturday’s matches provided the spectators with some good hockey. The Hastings-Bible Class match was the pick of the games on Cornwall Park, but the Napier forwards were not as good as their opponents, who played well. It was a pleasure to see the leather travel from the right half to Hallett, on the left wing, thence down the field and into the centre. Taylor, the other wing, was also responsible for some good work. Bisson, the Bible Class full-back, played his usual sound game. He was practically the only man who played up to the usual standard.

The Heretaunga-Civil Service game was inclined to be patchy. None of the Old Boy forwards played at all well. When the ball was centred the forwards were there, but not one of them would attempt to put in a real good shot at goal. They would do well to watch some of the older players, such as Hallett or Shattky. when they get the ball in the centre. There is no dribbling or waiting until a man gets out of the way.

The nets are in front and without any hesitation they have a shot. The Old Boys had the better of the game right through, but they could only manage to score four goals. At 'half-time the score stood in their favour by 3to 1. When the second spell opened the Civs, made some good rushes, and within ten minutes had put on three goals. Jones, the Old Boys’ centre-half, played a very good game. Thayer played a really good game for the Civil Service team.

Mercantile again had a victory, this time being over Napier. So far this year they are. the only unbeaten Saturday- teain. They will find that the second round will be harder than the first.

It was a surprise to see the Huias go under to Napier. This Napier team is a strong eombination, and so far they have not lost a game. There was some very heavy scoring in the Men’s Senior B Grade on Saturday. The top score was 14 to nil, while there were several 6 to nil. In my opinion where a team has a lead of three or four goals they should not try to score so much. It is disheartening to the losers, though it might be nice to be able to say, “Oh, we beat by 14 to nil.” The fact that such heavy scoring takes place points out that there is something wrong in the classification of the teams. The team which scored the 14 goals applied at the beginning of the season to be allowed to enter for the A grade competition, lut were refused.

The Athletics had a popular win on Wednesday over the Orientals. So far the former have only sufferone defeat, and are now lying second in the competition. This is encouraging, as they are only a Jew team. They piayed a good game for the first half of the spell an 1 then seemed to get tired. Their trouble lays in their back division, which is not very strong. The halves are sound, Bullick, the centrfe, being an excellent player. He played a really fine game on Wednesday, frequently beating two or three of his opponents. On the defence he is, perhaps, as good a centre half as there is in the competitions. Johnston, bully, also played a good game. He is very good both as a bully and when in the circle. His goal on Saturday was well scored. Cassin was responsible for two real goods goals. For the Orientals. McGoldrick and Read were the pick of the backs, the latter playing a sound defensive game. Matthews and Halligan were the most noticeable in the forwards. The Albions’ win over the Zingari was expected, and the game was not what it should have been. The Zingari team is not up to previous form.

A meeting of the Executive was held on Wednesday to consider a letter which the Athletic Club forwarded regarding their being reported by the Registrar for playing an unregistered man. After some evidence was given the Executive decided that it was of opinion that the player had been registered, but that the slip with his name on had been lost by the Registrar. A meeting of delegates of Hastings clubs was held on Wednesday 1 to form a committee to work up a large dance to provide funds. There is every prospect of this dance being a big success. It remains for the players to make it such.