HOCKEY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13240, 11 August 1906, Page 2

HOCKEY.

The Taranaki "rep." team returned from their Southern tour on Friday night after a very enjoyable. trip of eleven days, during which three matches were played as follows :r— Manawatu, drawn, 2 goals each ; Wellington, lost, 5 goals to nil ; Wianganui, ..drawn, 1 goal each. Toting into account the many, disadvantages that a touring-, team has to contend with, andf that the < team was representative of the northern part of the district only, ' and also being minus some of the more prominent players, including Armstrong, Berhasn, Day, M^drett and others, who could not get away, the fact of the team sustaining! only one defeat must fee considered very satisfactory, iand"T/hat by a team the major portion of whom have been playing together in inter-club competition for the past five or six

years. The tour and the knowledge derived therefrom will, doubtless, prove beneficial to the players 'themselves and also to the game in Ttv-iiaki. The 1 Taranakl-Aucldand mlatchj which is to be played on t'ae local Eaoecourse Ground on Saturday next, will be the last of the season's "rep." matches. Particulars of the match appear in our advertising columns.