MOUNT EDEN DESERVES WIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 999, 16 June 1930, Page 7

MOUNT EDEN DESERVES WIN

Bijr hockey was hoped from the I mooting ol‘ .Mount Eden and Xortii ! Shore on Saturday, but the resulting I display was most disappointing and a throw-back to some of the ragged-j play which characterised last season’s hockey. In winning- by I— o, Mount { E»len certainly deserved the extra two ! points the team has secured. Shore was \ outplayed, or rather, out-bustled, particularly in the second session, when ! the brown jerseys forced hotly. r>ull ■ play marked the entire first .-pell, , which was singularly devoid of inci- 1 Went. A feature, however, was the vigilance of the referees, Messrs. Williams and H. Watts. The former was j especially interested in obstructions ' and body-work generally, while Mr. 1 Watts got down on undercutting, and ! succeeded in correcting Anderson end i Mainland, the Eden specialists in this I irregularity. They were not the only i offenders in senior hockey, but had j carried it farther than most others, j hence their being singled out. For the ! re.sr of t he match they played blame- , le.isly, in the opinion of this column. It Niys a good deal for the pair that they accepted ♦he correction in a sports- \ jninlike way, knowing that they had 1 *en dangerous stickmen. On the side- j une favourable comment was voiced tnat the referees are tightening things j IJ \ , n a match which impressed one i ,V th general lack of standard and • d-e majority of whose players on the VL n } ust be branded mediocre, it is j <umoult to sort out any shining lights, i •Aime there were, however, who merit i jjentiwi. First. there is Rankin. Shore hv'nlul' who e^ec ted a number of really H-utr Fletcher, inside tor Eden, was conspicuously dan®K,oUS ’ ant i made the most of a vulner- ;‘ e P at; ch in the Shore defence. It s? re fban 60 per cent, of Eden’s Ins movements originated. Well-tiwi-t’ left, was very fast and bcirii *i. Ut well marked. Hedges ap|.,‘red the most reliable of the halves, Phn, at centre, being wasted. fP r Shore, the forwards were all "JhJS 6 place and rarely looked like f° ala ' Haggett was solid and "burdened at centre-half. Bob nexr - him Was not as of yore, bali r e . e ? ied the mainstay of the fullwiriirt. ' lvl ?. ion * hit hard, but often SlSSdiscretion. It was a match tlvu i*' Ul serve a useful purpose, in a ii v t f. lo;vs that the referees are ofiyo fiy me besetting faults of present-