HOCKEY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 24, 6 September 1928, Page 5

HOCKEY

TARANAKI TEAM ON TOUR. defeat by manawatu. PALMERSTON N., Last Night. In the second match of their tour the Taranaki women’s hockey team were defeated hy Manawatu to-day hy four goals to two. DRAW WITH HAWKE’S BAY. The fli’st game of the tour urns played at Napier on Saturday last, against Hawke’s Bay, the game endInfi in a draw-2 all. Misses Newlove and Watkins scored for Taranaki. , . „ Writing on Saturday the hockey scribe of the Napier Daily Telegraph had something to say ahou the home team as follows. By the press I see that a Hawke s Bay team has been selected to play against the Taranaki team to-dy. A Hawke’s Bay team, ye gods. If ever reflection was cast upon the p ay ers in other sub-associations previously PH bet this one eclipses it. A Hawke’s Bay representative team chosen from three of the local teams is not only an absurdity hut an injustice. An injustice for this reason H the girls who are playing to-day are beaten H casts a reflection on all the provincial players and the players themselves know full well that «« “7 " 0t q aU provincial representatives. team itself is a weak - one , nmnV of the players playlns out 0 P° Truly the ways of se ' ect are difficult to- follow at times and the harden of their eccentricities « carried hy the team. We all wish our local girls the best of luck an ,he visitors a right royal emoynhle time while in Napier.