HOCKEY SEASON OPENS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2880, 7 May 1925, Page 3

HOCKEY SEASON OPENS.

SEVEN-A-SIDE AT PALMERSTON NORTH.

The official opening of the hockey season took place yesterday afternoon at the Recreation Grounds, when the Manawatn Hockey Association held its annual sevon-a-side tournament. The competition attracted a large number of entries, there being eleven teams contesting for the Goss Cup. The teams were: Ohakea, Hinekoa (Feilding), Rongotea, Carnarvon. Olaki, Foxton (2), Vest End Old Girls’, Technical Old Girls’, High School Old Girls’ (2). The standard of play was very high, mainly owing to the fact that the ladies had been undergoing practice and training for the past few weeks in anticipation of the tournament. In practically half of the games the winners gained by means of hits behind, as when time was called there was no score on either side. The Rongotea teams were very unfortunate in that they lost both their games by hits behind. THE FINAL. After playing four rounds and a semi-final, the two teams left were Hinekoa and 11.5.0. G. (A), and the game between these two was one of the best seen in Manawatu for many seasons. It was only when extra play was in progress that the only score in the match was registered by Miss M. Waters for lI.S. O.U. PRELIMINARY ROUNDS. The preliminary rounds resulted as follow: —

First Round. —11.5.0. G. (A) derated Ohakea, 1 —0; Technical ).G. defeated Rongotea, 1 —0; linekoa defeated West; End 0.G., L —(l; Carnarvon defeated Otaki, I—o.

Second Round. —11.5.0. G. (A) lefented Rongotea, 1- —0; Techni•al O.G. defeated W.E.0.G., 1—0; Hinekoa defeated Otaki, 1 —0; Ohaicca defeated 11.5.0. G. (B) 3—o; Poxton (A) defeated Foxton (B), ii—o.

Third Round. —Carnarvon defeiled Technical 0.G., 1 —0; Hinekoa It-tea ted Ohakea, J —o; 11.5.0. G. (A) defeated 11.5.0. G. (B), 2—o. Fourth Round. —11.5.0. G. (A) defeated Foxton (B), 4 —o; Carnarvon defeated Foxton (AJ. I—o.1 —0. Semi-final. Hinekoa defeated Carnarvon, 2 —o. I* RESI DENT’S CONG R ATULATIONS.

At the close of the tournament, the president of the Association (Mr F. Cousins) congratulated the winning team on its success, and sympathised with the losers, for it was the third time that the Hinekoa had gained second place. He eommenlcd on the high standard of play, and remarked that the final was a splendid game. He apolo;eil for the absence of the trophy, but the cup had not. yet been returned by the last year’s winners (Ohakea). He extended a welcome to all the visiting teams to any future competition that the Association held throughout the season, and stated that the parent body would do all it could to send teams to any contests that the visitors might be bolding.