HOCKEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 16, 4 September 1911, Page 6

HOCKEY.

LADIES’ TO ORNAMENT. (Per Press Association.) , Wellington, September 3. Tlio ladies’ hockey tournament commenced on‘Saturday at Day’s Bay. Seven matches were' played, the play generally being even and of a high standard. - The Hawke’s Bay v. Canterbury A match. -was a, revelation for ladies’ hockey, and attracted special interest. The play was superior to many of the men’s shield games recently played. Both teams played sterling hockey, and the 'ground being level as a billiard table made the pace very fast. The final score, Hawke’s Bay, 1; Canterbury A, nil. ' Nelson beat Auckland by 2 goals to 1. It was a good match, and Auckland was expected' to win, but the Nelson defence was too sound to be broken .down easily. Several times Auckland attacked with such perti--nacity * that it ‘ Was only by a most supreme .effort that' Nelson managed to keep them ont. Wellington defeated Canterbury B by 2 goals to nil. The game was not np to expectations, and was dull and uninteresting all through. The only prominent feature about the game was the play of Wellington’s full backs, Cameron and Tinriey, and the best playCr on the Canterbury side was Williams, the right full-back. Towards, the end, of the game she created some amusement by falling on the ball and across the goal mouth to stop ■file' ball,' SucTfbr ’tlii& W pfeiialty should have been given against Canterbury. Mr G. Carver refereed. r

Wanganui defeated Wairarapa by 2 goals to 1. It' was a fairly fast ..game, ;u\d, an excellent display of hockey,' ' Mr G. Keall was referee. Taranaki beat Marlborough by 5 points to 1. The game was not altogether uninteresting. Mr C. Campbell carried the whistle. Southland beat' Wellington by 8 goals to nil in a very one-sided game, the Southland combination being far superior tor that of Wellington. Mr H. Manning refereed. , Maimwatu A and West Coast played a draw, neither side scoring.