Hockey Notes.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 101, 7 June 1902, Page 19

Hockey Notes.

By Bully.

-vituuLn's lesults wort' —Wellington ami \ ictoiia ( oiloge chew , no stole Kaion 10 Niwaii i United hada b\e Junnii Waiwetu <>, Kaion ml \\cllin&ton i) Vi\ian nil United 4, \ ictoi 1.1 ( ollege ml • » • Satuida\\ matches concluded the hist, huhkl in both -iade&, and the Kaloii team conies out on top in the so,n101 dn lsion and United 2nd m the )imlor tlie lespeetno points bei"g — senioi Kaiou 7 Wellington ") tinted >, Victona C oil ego 3, A ivians 0. Jumoi United 10 Wellington () V»an\etu h Kaion -1 Victona College 1, A mmi 1 Wellington and Waiwctu ha\e vet to pi u ott then match in the jjuioi dn is"1011 ♦ • 'lhe lesiilt ot the Wolhngton-Yictona match came as a gieat surpi,se, foi , att<M Wellington's peitormance the pievious Satin da\ it was thought the\ uou'd win easily The game was fast, and mtcM feting throughout It w a.s taii!\ ('.en in the first spell Velhngton losing mam chances bv ovei-cagei-ness The second spell saw Wellington attackinp piactioalh the whole time, hut through the defence of Fole\ , in aoal combined with the \ei \ erratic shooting of the forw aid- the\ v.oie unable to score The College backs played \erv haul «uul the e'efence was vorv sound Fole\ Boole, and Ostlei weic the nick of them, while m the foi wards who lacked stinor Beeie and Do La Meio wote the most notable The Wellington backs played their umi.^l safe game and fed the forwaids well who did not take the chances offeied them In fact none of the foiw aid^ phuecl a good game • ♦ • Kaion had a veiy soft contest wit.li Yman Their forwards had a day out ii' the sroimg hue, Davies (3), Williams i' 2) Put ram Vi) Mackenzie (2), ,m(\ Adam*, doing the needful The game doc not call for any snecir.l mention heina, too one-sided The Vnidii backs -eemed to lo^e the dt h nee tactics the>\ had cultn ated and weie (ante unable to contend with the faf-t lushes of the Karon foi wauls Waiwetu ga\i- Kaion a dec isn c beatmo and aie ir.ipiounK fast Pungle placed a fine game foi the uinneis, and was well backed up h\ Matthews and Ro\ nokK Wilf-on and Cathie wei c the pick of the Karons The Kaion foi w aid dnisionaie without doubt the strongest combination in the senioi contest a.nd, pioMcled then backs are up to standaid in the ensuing round this team will, in mv opinion cany off the honouis Tlie Wellington team are sadh in want ot a scoiin°: forward. This> was most marked in Saturday's- match, the eftect of the backs' good play being nullified bv the failure of the forwards to take ad\«intaae of their opportunities * * • There amII be an interval of two Sarnida\s hefoio the cup games ate resumed The United, Wellington, and Karon are taking ach a itage of this lespite to send then senioi teams torn ing The United go to Palmers-ton, Haw era Wanganui and New Plymouth Wellington to CTiHstf hurcli and Karon to Nelson Tlie Wellington team ha\o a vei\ liaid nut to ciack in the Kaia])oi team whom the\ meet on Saturday next. Tlie otliei clubs however should ha\ c easy winning campaiens. The Wellington touring team will be without tlie sen ices of King (centie-foi-waid) Reid (half) and Atkinson (fullback) and thph places will be filled by Pilkington, Aherne, and Passau. This will make a fair combination but the back clhision will hardly be a.s strong a.s it might be the halves especial I \ being w eak M^i W Y. Peaison, honorary secietai\ ot the local Association has leceiv(>d a lettei from the Canterbury Association stating that the latter wished its 1 epresentative team, which visits Wellinoton latei in the season to travel fuithei Xoith in order to meet the affiliated Associations of the Manawatu and Xapiea districts, and a&king if the local bod\ would be able to offer any financial assistance to that end T do not know whr't our Association's views upon the mattei aie but T am of opinion that this scheme though a laudable one, and one hkeh to further the interests of the game is too premature The gcaane is too young he>r vet to rely on anything substantial in the way of gate mone\ and in view of the likely mcieased outlay for grounds in the neai futuie the local Association would be wise not to commit itself to any expenditure of this kind At the same timo evervbpdv hopes Canterbury will be able to earn out its programme