HOCKEY STICK BARRED
REGARDED AS DANGEROUS STRIP OF INLAID STEEL A strip of steel, an inch wide and almost a quarter of an inch thick, was discovered to have been inlaid into the stick of one of the Mount Eden players taking part in the match against Somerviile in the Auckland Hockey Association's Devonport Shield contest on Saturday afternoon. One of the referees, Mr. E. J. Hewitt, took advantage of a rule seldom utilised and inspected several of the players' sticks before the game began, paying particular attention to those which had binding around the head. In the case of the illegal stick, the heads of two or three screws were outlined through the binding. The steel, which extended the full length of the curved *head, had been cleverly inset into the wood. Iho use of the stick was, of course, debarred, but no further action could be taken under the rules. The matter will be reported to a meeting of the Auckland Association executive. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21279, 5 September 1932, Page 10
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