SUNDAY HOCKEY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 552, 6 July 1909, Page 6

SUNDAY HOCKEY.

. A PROTEST FEOM MIBAMAE. ' Miramar. is the ! carnival '■ ground of winter sport in Wellington. True, there 'are. winter sports, at other .centres of the community, but nowhere is' there such an aggregation of sports of all v kinds as is to be; found: in the playing. fields of Miramar on' Saturday: afternoon.' Hockey, Bugby, and ."Soccer, represented by teams innumerable, enliven, the " hollow in the "peninsula/' and " the noise of the captains and, tho shouting," fills tho air. That is all very well. Tho residents do' not complain' 'of the week-end ; carnival,, so long as the shades of evening bring it to. a definite end; but when the carnival is carried further by sundry enthusiasts over the following day, the aforesaid residents are apt to frown. They, in fact, have frowned.' ; Yesterday, the Management Committee •' of the Wellington Hockey Association received a complaint from a resident of Miramar. ; An old sport-himself, : the .writer took exception to Sunday hockey, and asked that the committee •might apply a cold douche to the enthusiasm. of the Sabbath-breakers. A• pause followed .the reading .of. the letter. "Have we any jurisdiction in the matter?" asked a member of the'committee. ' "Only; so far as official games are concerned," replied the chairman. "What grounds 'were they playing oaf" asked another. . ■ .'■'...' The matter then dropped, the chairman remarking that the enthusiastic hockey players would probably exhaust their surplus energy I before, very. long. . '