Hockey Notes.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 98, 17 May 1902, Page 19

Hockey Notes.

By Bully.

LaKt Satui day's matches lesulted as follows — Senior K-iiou Wc'hngton 0 United .*>, Viotona College 2 Jun101 Wellington 8 Vivian 0 United 3 Waiwetu 0 Kaion 10. Victoiia College In scoring two goals 1 against United seniors, oat Satuida^ the Victoiia College brought the total of goals scoied against the ledoubtable red and whites for tie two matches tins season "ast the totaJ number of goals scored against them during the whole of last season The figuies are —The whole of last season thiee goals two Tames thus season, four goals (Kaion 2 and Vict<ma College 2). For the College team the Bo\le biotluis and Beere form the nucleus of a good forward combination, a'ld in the back division Richmond is the bright parti culaa* star. His efforts weie a,b!\ seconded on Saturday bv the right wing-half, whose name I do not know. The play of the United forv.aids w a.s more like their old form than on the previous Satuiclay. Their first score was the lesult of a, splendid piece of combined work between Snvthe. Ruddock, Cook, and Hjorring. The actual shot was one of those that Hiornng seems to revel in, from the outside of the circle and at a most difficult angle The winning team weie without the services of Gene and Wevbourne at half, and Ashbolt was playing in goal owing to a mishap to his ankle. A familiar figure, in the person of Arthur Laurenson. ex-interpiovincial representative, who is making a brief stay in town, was to have been seen guarding the United juniors' citadel at Waiwetu last Saturday His stick and pads seemed to have lost none of theix cunning, and he rendered veonmn's service to his side. The Wellington seniors «how ed a sad lack of training in the second spell of their "go" with Karon. The dash and pace of the suburban forw ard.s set the town men a proposition too stiff to be coped with successfully vi their present condition The first spell was more even, the one goal, scored bv Davis, being lucky though clevei, simply "becos 'c 'appened to be there." It is a prominent trait m this plaver'character when a score seems eminent and one that could be cultivated with advantage bv many of our city forw ard«

A pleasing teatuie was that tliouerh the pla\ «<i6 liaid and at tunes \ei \ toicetuf the game w as fought out in excellent <.pnit haul knocks being given and takem \\ ltli much impartuht\ and good feeling On the road back to town the rival dra.TS passed and the team 1 - cheeied each othei heaitih Tw o e\-Canterbur> centi e-foi wai ds met m this match Adams (Kaion) and King (.Wellington) The foimer 2"ot the best of the deal not onl\ m the actual bulhing" but m the «ay he kept his place, and fed his foiwaids Tlu« latU-i department his MS-a-vi'-pi a< hcalh neglected Pie^ton m the Wellington aoal had am thing but a sineciue in this office but pla\ed right up to bus be^t form and shared with Campbell, the Karon eentie-half, the honour of being the best back on tlie siound Reynolds the Waiwetu skippei peifoimed a ver\ sportsmanlike action on Saturday United jumoi had made a, at goal at a critical part of the game and the leferee, OTMiie; to the el'oom, and alsto to the absence of a pioper goal net as unable to decide whether the ball went undei or o\ er the bai and so na« about to give 'no goal " when Reynolds came forwaid and declaied tht the shot had gone under tlie bar Consequent^ the «core was given against his team The United Club will feel the lo^s of Gore who through pi essure of business, has been forced to retire into pnvate life. This is his tliiid season m the senior team of lus club as a left-wing haJf, and m that povsition he repiesented the piovince against CanteibiiM laLst \ear