HOCKEY

Southland Times, Issue 17547, 10 January 1914, Page 7

HOCKEY

THE K.2. HOCKEY TOUR. , (From niir Own Correspondent.) LO.VO'tX, Xov. 211. Tin* pro|ins«l Xmv Zealand tour is still very imicl i in the air. nml there appears to be only just a glimmer nf hope ilnit a I rip nmy ultimately be arra used. Mr .1. A. Liovell, liie hon. secretary of the I lot-key Association, has now issuer! a letter to a number of first-class Knglisn players detailing Hie lenialive arrangements in the event of the tour being a rr;i nft&l. Fifteen players will lie repaired in make up the touring party, and etieh will be askeil to pay flOtl for the- sloamsitip expenses. The boarding and hotel expenditure has to he puaranleed by the Xcw Zealand 11.A., at least, that is the suggestion xntt forward to the ■ X.Z. Association, who have dually to i agree upon this point before anything . dclinito can he decided. It lias been stated here that at some of the more, important Xeiv Zealand games crowds of S.OOO to 10,000 specla- . tors are fairly common, but 1 lane;.' that if the Knglish Association based its calculations as to the financial outcome of the tour on such figures, it would find itself considerably out in it's reckoning. Next month a special committee will sit to learn the decision of the Xc-w Zealand 11.A., and also consider the response to Lite letter which litis been despatched ; by Mr liovell to likely players. The ] most difficult problem will be to find 15 ; first-class 'English players who are pro- I pared to contribute £IOO each towards : the expenses of the trip. It is a large i amount for an individual to find in addi- | lion to the considerable sum a man ] would expend without being hi any ; way extravagant in the course at ..ucii | a tour. j