HOCKEY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18192, 13 September 1933, Page 12

HOCKEY

TO-MORROW’S TRAVELLERS HASTINGS AND WAIROA GAMES Three teams from. Gisborne will be playing away from the town to-morrow, two in Wairoa and one in Hastings. _ The team journeying to Hastings is a Poverty Bay representative side. Its personnel is substantially different from that which went to Auckland, but there should not he any real reduction in the strength of the two sides. Seven of those at Auckland are in the team for Hastings, including two reserves, while the other positions have been filled by those whose credentials, in the opinion of many, are equally as high as some included in the shield team. However, without endeavoring to make comparisons, it can be said that the side for to-morrow is a good one. Tho forwards should he particularly strong, while the halves and backs should be sound enough to meet the opposition of a very strong team. One alteration has been made from the original selection. K. Brown, who was selected for the forwards, cannot make the trip, and T. Turbitt has taken his place. The team now is: Goal, T. Ward; fullbacks, R. Scholium and T. Hueson; halves, W. Brown, B. Moore and 1. Douglas; forwards, Moeau, Hale, 11. Swan, T. Turbitt and Jones.

The players will leave at about 5 a.m. to-morrow, hoping to reach Hastings about noon. They will journey back to Gisborne to-morrow night. The games at Wairoa will be among both ladies and men. A junior Y.M.C.A. men’s team will bo travelling from Gisborne, and the Kia Toa ladies are to meet the Wairoa Old Girls’ side.

The following will represent Y.M.C.A. juniors against Wairoa juniors at Wairoa to-morrow: J. Coker. Davy, Slade, Stacey, Miller, Carroll, Campbell. Wade, llookham, Haves, and Tlanlen. The team is the first junior side to travel from Gisborne, and although a young team, has shown great promise of clean and bright jockey. All except three members of the team are in their first season of the sport. The team will be under the management of Air C. Davy, and will leave Gisborne to-inorow morning.