HOCKEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 276, 18 May 1912, Page 7

HOCKEY.

INGLE WOOD 5 v. WAITAIIA 1. At Waitara on Thursday, Inglewood defeated the local team by 5 goals to 1. NOTES. Owing to the New Plymouth Club going out of the competition, the fixburee will have to be ire-drawn. Tin amended programme will probably be drawn up next week. It is likely that instead of running two divisions, Northern and Southern, only one division will be maintained. This is made possible, as a glance through the railway timetable shows that the whole of the clubs in the proposed combined districts could go to Waitara on match days, and return home the same evening. With New' Plymouth, however, it would be impossible to arrange this. Last week, Stratford advised the association that local players were forming a club to take part in the competiton, but latest advice points to the fact that they will' not be able to muster sufficient to get a team together. Stratford players have, I therefore, thrown in their lot with the I Eltham contingent. ! During last season it was thought j that the New Plymouth Saturday Club j would affiliate, but it has not done so yet. For its own sake, and in the interests of Tnranaki hockey generally, it is hoped that the club will shortly take this necessary step. The lectures given last season by Mr. F. 11. Burbush (president of the Auckland Hockey Referees' Association) wore evidently appreciated; (writes a northern scribe), and the Auckland Association has been asked by players if these will be continued this season. The Referees' Association is quite willing to arrange for the lectures to be repeated, but another scheme has been propounded which it is expected will have a wider influence. At the last meeting of the Referees' Association the matter was discussed and the association agreed to send representatives of the association direct to the clubs, on application being made. This means that should a club desire enlightenment on the rules of the game the Auckland Referees' Association will j permit two members to address them on the rules and their interpretation, and to answer questions. The association thus hopes to cover a wider field than by the central lectures. The association's policy, however, seems rather like Mahomet going to the mountain. To get at an understandable basis- of interpretation of the rules, a full meeting of the Referees' Association will be held to go into the matter. The rulings here (Auckland) are lax in some cases, and it is noticed that the referees are not of one mind in the manner in which they interpret the rules. This causes confusion, especially in the. minds of the junior players, who arc pulled up on occasions for doing something which other referees have previously passed. A discussion among the referees should help to obviate such inconsistencies. The following will represent Egmont Club in their match against St. Mary's, on the Racecourse ground to-day (Saturday), commencing at 2.30 p.m. sharp: Armstrong, Brown, Charters, Johnston, Lepine, Osborne, Maunder, Pott, Sole (2), and Sheppard. St. Mary's will be represented by the following:—Harding, Hudson, Jury, Pipe, Froude, Robson, Simpson, WagstafT, Cutfield, Hancock, and WeJler.