INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22119, 27 May 1935, Page 14

INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM

VICTORY OVER WANGANUI EIGHTEEN GOALS TO NIL [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WANGANUI, Sunday The touring Indian hockey team, displaying wonderful understanding of positional play, defeated Wanganui yesterday by 18 goals to nil. ' The visitors played brilliant hockey before an attendance in the vicinity of 3500. The weather conditions were ideal and, although the side fielded by the tourists was by no means their strongest, it gave an exhibition of fast, spectacular hockey in which wizardry of stick-work was used. Whenever the ball was played there was always a man ready to accept it. '

Particularly brilliant feats of backhitting were accomplished and they appeared so easy that the home team was made to look almost ridicidous. As a matter of fact the Wanganui side played above expectations, particularly in the first half, and it offered the visitors the sternest opposition they have so far encountered on their New Zealand tour. Connett, the home goalkeeper, played brilliantly, and saved at least a dozen goals in the first spell, holding the score at half time to 4—o in favour of the Indians.

In the second session the combination between Dhyan Chand, Wells, Fernandez and Rup Singh asserted itself to a more marked degree, Chand in particular showing up in brilliant efforts which gave the home defence no chance. Chand scored 10 goals, Wells four, Rup Singh three, and Davidson one. Wanganui attacked on a number of occasions and it was within the side's power to score, but lack of finish within the circle was markedly evident.