HOCKEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 44, 14 August 1911, Page 8

HOCKEY.

I . .*.—— AUCKLAND DRAWS WITH WELLINGTON. \ By Telegraph—Press Association. i' Wellington, Last Night. The representative hockey match for the shield between Auckland and Wellington took place on Saturday at Day's 1 Bay. The weather was sunny, but tempered by a southerly breeze, and close on 3000 spectators were present. The ground was in first-class condition, and the game was brilliant throughout, and ended in a draw, both side* scoring one goal. According to the eoditions governing the Shield matches, an extra half hour has to be played' in the ease ol . a draw, and this was done, but no change in the scores resulted, and Wellington, who were defending the shield, consequently retains it. The game was played in a friendly s- r .jit all through, and there were no injuries. Wellington won the itosa and defended the southern goal with the sun in their faces. From the initial bully their vanguard broke away with a. splendid rush and reached the circle, but missed their chance, Hallam returning the ball up field. Auckland's forwards brought the ball down the field, whore it reached J Reynolds, who shot in past Dwycr, but J the goal was disallowed on account of , Reynolds being obviously off-side. The ! ball travelled rapidly from 25 to 2a, the clever defensive tactics of both sides making a fine spectacle. G. Strack on one occasion made a pretty run into the circle. Hallam came out to meet him and baulked his shot. Wellington soon after had an excellent opportunity for scoring from a penalty corner," but Auckland were out like lightning, and after some splendid passing between the Wellington forwards and brilliant play by Auckland in defending, the ball was removed up field. At half-time no score had resulted. With Auckland attacking, the visitors had the advantage in the opening stages of the second spell, but after a while the game went back to their 25. Some clever and unselfish play followed. Hallam stopped a hard shot by Wellington forwards. Then Con Strack passed out to Andrews, who took the ball and transferred to G. Strack. The latter passed to Davies., who sent the ball to Loader, and the later scored the first goal. Auckland again atacked, and Wclham made an excellent run and managed to push the ball into the net, but the goal was disallowed as he was offside. Ten minutes to the call of time, WeJham, by a brilliant effort, scored Auckland's goal. From then on some very fine play was witnessed, and excitement was keen among the spectators, but both teams were verv evenlv matched and no further score* resulted.

TATARAIMAKA (8) v. EGMONT (3). The game between the above teams, played on the Racecourse on Saturday, was not a particularly good exhibition of the stick game, the play for the greater .part of the match being slow and uninteresting. Egmont were without the services of three of their regular players, which tended to disorganise their back division, and the play of the team was disappointing. After the bullyofl the game was adjourned for five minutes as a mark of respect to the late Mr• Tisch. On resuming Egmont immediately had a goal to their credit within a minute of the start. Tataraimaka then asserted, themselves and made the scores even, and had the best of the spell, which ended, Tataraimaka 5. Egmont 3. Egmont wre frequently within striking distance during the second half, but lacked the ability to find the net, although they had several casv chances, lataramiaka made good use of their onportumtios, and added three more goals before the whistle sounded. The country team looked winners all through, and their victory wag well deserved, turner (2) and TTcdgeland were responsible for Tataraimatoa's score, while Pott and Seldon scored for Egmont. Mr. Ryder was referee.