HOCKEY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 13 August 1920, Page 2

HOCKEY

The following team will represent the N'elson juniors a,gainst Waimai on Saturday at 2 p.m. sharp : —Clung, Kerr, Merrick, Biggar, Best,' Oldershaw, Stone, Deo, Amos, Patton, and’ Boyes.

AUCKLAND V. WANGANUI

The following extracts from the Auckland Star sporting edition will bo of interest to local players. V. Bradley, formerly of .Nelson, played for Wanganui. The only alteration in the Auckland team from that which, played Kelson was that Jarman replaced ,Hloman at full-back ; but the team chosen to meet Manawatu is the same in the back division as that which played Nelson, while in the forwards Rankin replaces I). .Alexander. The Manawatu match will be played on Saturday, Extracts.—Wanganui wore s c generally outplayed that from within, a few minute© of tho opening bully tire result was practically written. . . The match as a whole was neither fast nor of the quality that might bo expected in a. rep. match. Tho Aucklanders did not give that nice attuned account of themselves that could have been wished. Auckland scored within five minutes of the start. The scorers were Grice (2), Mac ken, D. and A. Alexander, and Rohertshaw. Tho visitors, though hopelessly outclassed, continued their task pluckily, but the odds woro nearly always against them in their rare "attacking passages. They were near the Auckland goal lino when time sounded. Messrs Kent .Auckland) and Manning (Wellington) refereed.

The Auckland Weekly news referred to the Nelson match us one of the finest exhibitions ever seen in Auckland, and admittedly Auckland were at tlie top of their form, so the comments on the Wanganui match take a little of the sting cut of Nelson’s defeat. The Nelson ladies’ hockey reps, leave Nelson this afternoon for Blenheim, where they meet Marlborough to-mor-row afternoon. The team also plays a match against Picton on Monday morning. The following is the Nelson team :—Misses Barnett, Pollard, McLachlan, Aydon, McGrath, Hume, Karsten, n! Boyce, Oldershaw, Lothaby, and Aire Winter. Mr, Kidson accompanies the team as manager.