SPORTS AND PASTIMES

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 167, 17 July 1920, Page 2

SPORTS AND PASTIMES

HOCKEY.

REPRESENTATIVE MATCH.

NELSON v t MARLBOROUGH

No doubt the fact that men's hockey has been almost extinct, and no competitions have been held so far this season locally, were factors'which militated against a successful issue for the Marlborough. team, which played at Nelson on Wednesday aft©r_ noon on the Botanical Reserve. The Marlborough. team, offered but little danger to a >w<ell trained. Nelson-pack which took the field, and is to pJiay Auckland for the Shield to-day, but they put up a. good fight against tlhoseodtts. This match occasioned much interest in Nelson. Harman, Amos, and TVhib-.yoil in the Nelson forward lino were a useful trio, scoring between them the eight goals made by Nelson. Messrs Edwards and Hogg refereed. >