THE HOCKEY TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2200, 13 July 1914, Page 3

THE HOCKEY TOURNEY

END OF FIRST ROUND , UNITED IN THE LEAD. United ......... 7 Karori .......... 2 Metropolitan ... -5 M.Y.M.I 2 University ...... 4 Insurance ...... 0 Wellington, a bye. The first round of the senior chamt pionship was concluded at Karori Parle oil Saturday afternoon. .Weather conditions were most dismal, and from three o'clock onwards the rain poured almost incessantly. The grounds t wore bad enough when the'games commenced, but after an hour and a half of scrambling and sliding over its uncertain surface . they resembled respectaible hockey grounds no longer. United in their game with Karori easily . maintained their lead in the senior contcst.- The position of the teams as at the .end of the first round is as follows: —

UNITED—KARORI, | , ]&rori made a bravo'opening display | 111 their game with United, so much eo that the redoubtable' . championship : leaders had- to strain every nerve to keep their tenacious attackers at bay.. J-hey were not successful, for 'midst great-excitement and to the enthusiasm or a colleqtion of drenched onlookers on the ime; Earori scored the first goal. Loader scoring. Ere half-time had arrived,. however, United had recovered, and evened the score. Andrews secured awLpassed to Richards, who put the mushing touch. \ The suburbanites gave promise' of repcatiug, their excollent performance at the opening of . the second spell, but that raded away. United came on with a" rush, and literally won in a canter. No fewer than live goals were added in quiok succession by* theiu.. Emeiiy,: iliompson, Lyons, and Boyd (2) were the scorers. In the midst of tins rush tor goals Heaphy (Karori) managed to snatch a score , for' his side. The game ended: United, 7 ; Karori, 2. V : Mr. J. W. Gendall was the referee! U NIV ERSI rY—INS U R A N 0 E. ■ The 'contest' between - University and Insurance was at the most an uninteresting scramble in which the better' team predominated throughout. . The winners, University, hardly played up to their previous season's form, -yet in. spite of this they found Insurance easy victims and defeated them decisively by 5 goals to nil. The feature of the game was' the fine defenco put up by Hunter, _playing in-goal for Insurance. Time and agaiii he saved real hot shots. His charge ware subjected to a severe bombardment in the first half of .tho. game, yat only two balls escaped him. The first of these was scored by 3astick from a scramble in front of the goal, .-while thosame player scored the second with a real hot shot. . . - The second spell saw tho game drag on uninterestingly. Insurance put up-a plucky fight. . Nevertheless the 'Varsity; men added two more points to their total. Con- Strack 'was responsible for these. •• ... Mr. R. Marshall was refereeMETROPOLITAN—M. Y.M.I. Metropolitan jeopardised their chances > of holding the. second position on the championship ladder by taking to the field one man_ short in their game with M.Y.M.I. As it was, "Mets" were luoky in' winning the game." Mi Y.M.I, played very well indeed, and.deserved to.scoro oh a number' of occasions.' Sheerah scored for- "Mots'! no fewer than four times, and Cavill once. Jones scored M.Y.M-.l.'s two,goals. , Mr. C. P. M'Kenzie was' referee. JUNIOR MATCHES. Junior. - United A: (3) beat. College B (o).' Kilbirnie A (5) . had a win over Insuiance (IV United B lost to Wellington by' 6 goals to 1. , Third Class. • United (6) beat Wellington 5 (1). Aston (4) and Freeman (2) scored for the.winners. : ? Wellington A (9) v. Pirates (3). • School Match. College (14) beat Terrace REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS. : The 'senior and junior men's teams to play against the' Wednesday A and B representatives respectively at Karori Park on Wednesday next have been selected' as ' follow-—Senior.—Goal, Dwyer (United); full-backs, /Jaeobsen, (United) and M'Eldowney (United); halves,-Surgenor (Ins>uranoe), M'Gregor (Metropolitan), Thompson (United); forwards, Robbie (Insurance), Boyd (United), Gj' Strack (University), Con. Strack (University), Loader (Karori). Junior.—-Goal, Morice (University) • right full-back, Miller (United); left full-back, Dawson (Hutt Valley;; right half, Rivers (United) j centre, Fauvel (Wellington); left, Spooner (Insurance); outside right, Schulenberg (Insurance;; inside right, Jones (University); bully, A. E. Webley'(St. Augustine's);.inside left, M'Lcod (United); outside left, E.. G. Webley. Reserves: Full-back, Barker. (Wellington); halves, M'Caw (University), Gaw , (Wellington) / forwards, Foster (St. Augustine's), and Taylor (Hutt Valley). • . '■■■■' - f , LADIES' GAMES. RAMBLERS-UNIVERSITY. .; The ladies were fortunate on Satur-' day in that the rain held off till their games, were over ,and they had grounds to play on that were carpets compared to tho state of the men s fields after being hacked and slid over later in the afternoon. -.- Tho finest ladies' game this season was the match between-Ramblers and University. The game was most evenly and keenly , and resulted in a draw—one all. Miss Lang scored a very fine goal for Ramblers in the first spell, while Miss Blacker equalised for Univer- j sity in the second spell. . Mr. C. P. M'Kenzie was Teferee. ' | SYRENS-GIRLS' COLLEGE. Syrens took to the field two short in their game against- Girls' College: Naturally the game suffered, as did Syrens, who left tine field with an eight-torone defeat registered against them. Miss L. Williams (6) and Miss H. Laurenson (2) (scored for- Girls' College. Miss M. M'Donnell scored for the losers. Mr. Loader was referee. JUNIOR GAMES. Girls' College (3) Ibeat Ramblers (0). Technical Collego played a drawn game—one goal each —with 'Varsity. REPRESENTATIVE TEAM. Tho following is tho representative ladies' eleven which .'has .been selected by Mr. B. Manning to play Horowhenua at 2 p.m. on Wednesday next at Karori Park: —Goal, Miss 0. Roadley (Ramblers) : l'ull-backs, right, Miss, D. Williamson (Girls' College), left, Miss. I.

Uren (St. Augustine's); halves, 31. Ncwmann (University), N. Brown (Syrens),'. L. Morgan- (Girls' College); forwards, from right to left, Misses-M. M'Donnell (Syrens), J. Dobbyn (University), M. Carrick (University), K. Pickering (Ramblers), N. Lang (Ramblers) Emergencies : Forward, Miss' H. Lawrence (Girls' College);' back, Miss M'Auliffe (University). INTERSTATE TOURNAMENT. ~ By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rcc. July 12, 5.5 p.m.) , Sydney, • July Tt. Tho Inter-State Hockoy Tournament commenced on Saturday, • when South Australia defeated Victoria by .7 to nil. (The recently-arrived English ladies' team, though not competing in the tournament, met and defeated New South Wales, 11 to 3. The visitors.displayed fine combination and skill.

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