HOCKEY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 965, 3 September 1908, Page 12

HOCKEY.

The following will represent Auckland against Wellington on Saturday:— Goal: N. Howell (Auckland B). Full backs: F. S. Shiriffs (captain,. United), H. B. Speight (University). Half-backs; J. R. C. Badham (StGeorge), D. K. Porter (United), V. C. Kavanagh (Auckland A). Forwards: H. O. Welham (United), R. W. Barry (United), F. R. Mason (Auckland A), H. W. Mather (Auckland A), W. Brooke-Smith (Auckland A). Emergencies: Forwards, N. R. Jacobsen (University), L. Aiderton (University); half-back, E. V. Spear (Auckland A); full back, E. G. Whitley (Auckland A). ♦••• * • a The interprovincial match between Auckland and Wanganui will take place at Remuera on Saturday week. ♦ * * * Y.M.C.A. have won the First Junior Championship, the same club also carrying off the Second Junior Championship. * * * * Thames defeated Paeroa on Saturday by 6 goals to 1. * • * « By defeating Ladies’ College on Saturday, Moana have won the Ladies’ Championship. Their record for the season is 36 goals for and 2 against. Ladies’ College have also shown good form this season, having hit 21 goals and had four scored against them.' The big tournament for ladies commence in Wellington on Friday. It is expected that there will be at least 130 visitors, the members of nine teams. Only those clubs whose entry has been authorised by the association controlling hockey in the district are allowed to take part. The senior clubs sending teams are the Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, Nelson, Christchurch, and Otago, and the junior are the Otaki, Wairarapa, Napier, and Wanganui Clubs. On September 7 there is to be a conference of delegates from all the ladies’ hockey associations in N.Z., when it is hoped that a New Zealand ladies* hockey association will be formed,' which can mane uniform rules for all clubs represented, and settle various minor points on which there is now a difference of opinion.

NEXT SATURDAY’S BIG MATCH.

Great preparations are being made for the interprovincial match next Saturday between Auckland and Wellington when it may be expected that the latter will make most determined efforts to wrest away the shield from the Blue and Whites. The match is to be played at Victoria Park, and if the weather proves fine, should attract a very large attendance. Auckland will be represented by the team which has done so well in the past, and may be depended upon to make every effort to hold the shield. The Wellington players, who are due in Auckland to-morrow morning from New Plymouth, are a fine and fast lot and their supporters expect them to win. The team will be as follows: Goal: Sanders. Fullbacks: C. Hickson, T. Brewer. Halfbacks: Exley, Reid, Christie. Forwards: Smythe, Dixon, Thompson, Elliot, Willis.