LADIES' HOCKEY TOURNEY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2560, 7 September 1915, Page 3

LADIES' HOCKEY TOURNEY

SECOND ROUND. Walrarapa ...... 6 Canterbury 2 Hawke's Bay ... 1 Wanganui ....... Perfect weather again favoured the New Zealand Ladies' Hockey Championship play, of which was held oil- the Basin Reserve - yesterday afternoon. As the Poverty Bay team did not arrivo from the north nntil last night, • their game with Wellington had to bo postponed. It will take place on- Monday next. The two other games plaj;ed were Wairarapa-Canterbury, ill which the former had an easy victory, and Wanganui-Hawke's Bay, in which Hawke's Bay won by 7 goals to 1. Details of the games are as follow:— WAIRAPAPA—CANTERBURY. . W<urarapa- gave an excellent display against Canterbury, and with superior combination -rnd more active and intelligent play easily vanquished the southern team. The score at the call of time was: Wairarapa, 6; Canterbury, 2. Miss Humphries, who played a fine game, . scored' four of the six points', while Misses Knowles and Orr netted the remainder.' Misses' Martin i and Pearce scored for the losers. Messrs. J. 0. Cusack and Loader were the referees.' . , ' ■ . HAWKE'S UAY—WANGANUI. , v Wanganui.made ,some kind'of show-ing'against-Hawke's Bay in the first spell, but their efforts relaxed in the. second half,of the game, Hawke's Bay winning eventually by 7' goals to. 1. Misses Dobbyn. (5), IL-Roake, and M. Clarke scored for the winners, arid' Miss Gibbon for the' losers'. Misses Roake and Dobbjm played excellently for Hawke's' Bay, while the two backs were very safe. ■ ' ' Mr. p. .Carver was tho referee. TO-DAY'S GAMES. ,-, , , The -three games set down for today promise to be most interesting. Canterbury meets Hawke's Bay, -Well-, ington Manawatu-, and Poverty Bay l tho redoubtable Wairarapa. eleven.