HOCKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 September 1913, Page 4

HOCKEY.

THE LADIES' TOURNAMEfff. WOxN BY WAJJtARAPA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Last Night. The final in the ladies' hockey tournament resulted as follows: Wairarapa : 4 Canterbury i [The win of the Wairarapa girls will be .very popular. They had only two points scored against them, throughout the tournament—one by Wellington and the other by Canterbury, The Wairarapa team, at the .Nelson tournament last year, drew with Hawke's Bay.j

the match described. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Last Night. The ladies' annual hockey tourney was concluded to-day in fine weather, and with a big attendance. The fi- v nal between Canterbury and Wairarapa produced fine hotkey, and rous.ed the.spectators to enthusiasm. Canterbury were the firs* to attack, bat were repulsed. The play that followed prepared the crowd for what was to be expected in regard to hookey exhibition, Misa S. Kruse drib-' bled the ball from her own half, and • then transferred to Miss M. Peace, who beat the goal-keeper, and eoored. , :Oantertmry 1, Wairarapa 0. Tbia .reverse, did not crepter-' dispondency in tjie„ Wadrafrapa playefca, a»d by ' >v dasbyiplay they f attabked ? 'fetiy. ; ?'aiid ; " ; ' : '-;':' .shoj» <?refr£ ;«r'7vmreSed the gdal,; 1 At-'test-stfeqeSs at-rf 1 ' torfsJ .th&r efrforfe. •" * •*' v carried the bftll ' : drawing 'the gdal-keeper shot a good - goal,- amid Loud cheers. Wairarapa 1, Cfanterbuiy : 1.. miniate later ' iKis&rNeilsbn;>repeated' -her ■■ : .y fine run, and ranspa 2;. Canterbury 1.: Canterbury . newtookahandi,.buttHeywerequick-- % driven back, and! Wairarapa soon isending in shots to the goal- ; keeper. Then Miss Nelson was*: Sgain conspicuous, and passed to Misg Gter,. who sent it on to Miss Hum--1 phries, who goaled. Wairarapa 8,. ■; , Canterbury 1. There- w?is no farther r soore at half-time. The second' spell 1 was very, wawnly oohtested. l At the otitset play travelled <up and down.; very fast.. Each' team on mementos occasions got within shooting range, and many shots sent iir were turho-l off. ' Half way tbrdugfr thfo spell - the ball was passed" out to Miss , Neilson, who centred Beautifully; Bf£» Hewson accepted" the' centre, and | feilding the ball 1 splendidly, seot is a ' Bot shot, giving the keeper of the neb :no chance to save. Wairarapa 4, Canterbury 1. The- saut/herDera" pressed hard.thrdughout tHeremsmder of the gami&i but found the Wai- ; rasrapa backs too good'. Thegame ended in favour, of Wairarapa By four goafcto ohe, . The Izard Cup waa : presented to Wairarapa, and che> . _ Bunners-up Shield 1 to 1 (SanterbuTyi. . IBOMPSON-PAYNE CUR A.t Langdowne yesterday Excelsior : ; and' St.' Matthew's played" fbr.. the j ! Thompson-Payne Cup-, at present held "" by the P, and T. team. "Hie- Mime wasrathetr uneven,, owing'tb St.. Mat- • thew's being short of eeveraf payers, and' Excelsior iad aai win. TB» final swies were Exceifeior 6j"St; Mat- ; ibhewls, nil; , . Mr j. Rue acted as" referee: 1 Excelsior now play off'for the-Cup • with Pi andT., and an 1 exciting*match should' result. • ■ ~