HOCKEY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1930, Page 5

HOCKEY

HOKITIKA TEAM MATCHES. V v ’' *T . .'i,v # 'H&JTM’i \ The following are press comments on recent games played by the Hokitika Ladies Hockey Club team now participating h> the Dominion , tournament at Invercargill. " West Coastfgaiheii 5 a popular victory on Monday, near the end of .their match with Eastern Southland B. The teams played good sporting hockey, and the spectators had plenty of interesting play to watch. Eastern were the first to break the ' ice, Miss' K. Allan netting, and they led by one goal to nil at half time. Early in the second half Miss 0. Stapleton snotched a goal for the Coast, and in the last, five minutes Miss Hall’s shot, gave her side victory. In Tuesday’s match Rotorua, after leading by 2goals to nil for the greater part of the game had to be content, with a draw, for West Coast finished strongly, and came close to running out winners. It almost looked as if the Rotorua team decided to rest on their laurels, for until West Coast’s rally in the. Mast quarterof, an hour victorjd'tV Rotorua, seemed -assured A game, however, is never lost till it is won, and vice versa, as Rotorua found. Goals were scored for Rotorua by Misses Gray and Rogers, and for West Coast by Misses Stapleton and Sumner. Miss E. Mitchell played an outstanding game afccfull-back for Rotorua, iPOPE SHIELD. A At Victoria Park yesterday after--noon, before a large attendance of the public, the Marlborough ladies’ hockey representatives defeated the ; WestCoast team by one goal tq nil .in a challenge match for the Pope Shield, held by the Coast. The ground was in a slippery state, which' condition-mar-red what would have 'otherwise been a good open exhibition of hockey. Combination was lacking, but some good individual play, was evident on both sides. Marlborough, in the first half, had the better of 'the play, hut in the second half West Coast- had the upper hand. The visitors, however, seldom incurred penalties, whilst the Coast players were offenders on at least thirty occasions. The sureness of the visitors’ backs in defensive play was also a big factor, checking their opponents, whose backs, in most cases,, struck only feebly.