ELECTRIC LIGHT HOCKEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 9

ELECTRIC LIGHT HOCKEY

ENDS IN DRAWN GAME SOMERVILLE V. ST. LUKE’S What was probably the first eleetriligTit hockey match in the Dominion was played last evening at Blandford Park between the Somerville and St. Luke’s hockey teams. The teams are the joint holders of the Davis Cup awarded for the club championship. After a stern battle both teams left the field with one goal. The game was a typical encounter between the historic rivals, the novel conditions adding a touch of almost the weird. The game, which was put on as cur-tain-raiser to the Soccer football, made a decided hit with the spectators, who were able to follow the tactics because the rules are similar to those of Association. The speed with which the little ball was tossed about was something new to most of the gallery. The strange light was somewhat disconcerting to players, particularly when the ball travelled high during heavy clearing drives by the full-backs. First blood came to St. Luke’s when Grace, who picked up a long shot by B. Williams, centred for Wotherspoon to trap and net easily. For the rest of the spell the match was very closely fought. Eric and Clive Watts were always aggressive and were unlucky in not goaling before the interval. At half-time: St. Luke’s 1 Somerville 0 Immediately on resuming Somerville set to in a determined effort to wipe out the deficit. Clive Watts was right on the ball, but found difficulty in passing Clarke and Williams. St. Luke’s could not be long held up and hot movements gave Somerville’s goalie some anxious moments. Good work was being done by the halves of both sides, both on defence and in the direction of feeding the van. Somerville was unlucky in not goaling from corners, but persistent efforts were fruitful when Eric Watts registered, putting his side level again. Although powerful raids were executed by both sets of forwards, no further score resulted, the game endSt. Luke’s Somerville 1