HOCKEY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 April 1939, Page 2

HOCKEY

• o — CLUBS AT EDGECUMBE AND * WHAKATANE FORMATION OF ASSOCIATION At a meeting convened by Mr E. Rogers and Mr G. TurnbuJl and held in Edgecumbe this month it was decided to form a hockey club in Edgecumbe to be known as the Rangitaiki Hockey Club. It has al_ ready over a score of members find it will probably be able to field two teams. Through the courtesy of Mr O. V. Marx the club will have a fine field in the grounds used by the Edgecumbe Cricket Club. On Sunday last a friendly game against an eleven from Whakatane, where it is also hoped to form a club, played at Edgecumbe resulted in a win for the visitors by three goals to two. The Whakatane team were organised and led by the ex. New Zealand representative Mr C. R. Free. Next Sunday the Rangitaiki club will journey to Rotorua to meet two teams there. Tt is hoped that a Hockey Associa, tion will soon be formed in the district with a view to running a Sunday competition thus reviving a fine winter game that wag once very popular in the Whakatane County. Officers of the newljvformed Ran. gitaiki Hockey Club are: President, Mr E. Rogers. Secretary; Mr C. Sainty. Committee, Mr J. Caldwell, Mr L. Dawson, Mr G. Turnbull, Mr A. Dale. Selectors, Mr E. Rogers, Mr <*• Turnbull. }