A HOCKEY FINAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XV, Issue 4089, 15 November 1911, Page 6

A HOCKEY FINAL.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In reply to your Hamua correspondent’s letter re Hamua-Eketa-huna ladies’ hockey final, in justice to the other members of the team> the supposition that if Miss Walden had not played the Eketahuna team would have put up a huge win, is absolute rot. Your correspondent would have us believe that Hamua were a one-girl team, but to prove this is incorrect I will quote two matches, played against the same team on the same ground. The first Miss Walden played in, the second (although the opposing team had greatly improved) they played in Miss Walden’s place one who hail scarcely had a hockey stick in her hand before, and yet the game ended with the same score as the previous match against them. Flattery of one player at the expense of the others to my mind is most unfair and unjust, and not iri the best interests of the game. Your correspondent witnessed two or three of the matches only; anyhow if he saw them all, what does he know about hockey, if this is a sample of his knowledge? The team’s position in the contest was due to the excellent work of all the players and not to one individual only. Re “broken wheel and broken heart,” such a lop-sided report is enough to break down a traetion-en-gine, let alone break the players hearts.—l am, etc., FAIR BRAISE. Hamua, November 13.