HOCKEY TEST
NEW ZEALAND WINS. AUSTRAL!AN TEAM BEATEN. VICTORY BY ONE TO NIL. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, August 15. New Zealand defeated Australia in ! the only hockey test of the New ! Zealand team’s tour yesterday by one goal to nil, before 4000 spectators, i The ground was sodden but the weaj thcr One. | The Australian team was a very poor | sido compared with the leading interi State teams and New Zealand was j easily the better team. Only One play | by the Australian backs prevented a j greater score. | Clark, the New Zealand fullback, | was the outstanding player on the ! Held. He hit the ball with tremendous ! power, twice sending it the full length j of the field In the air in an amazing ! exhibition. The New Zealand half- : backs. Robertson and Watson, were : splendid on attaok, and were of great | assistance to Dey, who scored the only ; goal. Duffield and Roughton were I always dangerous in the forwards.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 13
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161HOCKEY TEST Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 13
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