HOCKEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 17 August 1914, Page 2

HOCKEY.

ENGLISH. LADIES DEFEAr AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, List night. The All England ladies' 3K:el;ey team mei and defeated Auckland representatives at Kemuera yesterday by nine goals to nil. The linglis'h players gave tt finished exhibition of thp game in all its departments. The. stickwork was excellent, and imtmy. times the players were enthusiastically applauded -otheir control of the hall. Hacks and forwards kept their positions in a remarkable manner, and their attack was an object-lesson to local players of either sex. Forwards swept up field en these occasions in ii straight line, backed up by the half-back line. The forwards, by pretty in-and-out passing, l.Mially 'beat the local backs, but when they were tackled with the ball the half-back line was in such an advantageous position tiliat the ball was immediately wonS tack to 'the forwards and the attack resumed. Tile shooting Wi's always clean, crisp, and well directed and but for some heroic saves by the local goalkeeper the score would, have been much larger. The Auckland lea/m attacked 'Occasionally, hut usually as a result of individual effort In tli - ; first spell goals were score! by Misses Earnes, Leacroft (3), and GasI'.ell, and in the second spell by Misses Earnes, Ga.skell (2) and Elw.eL'