Hockey

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 5, 19 June 1942, Page 3

Hockey

REGIMENT V. A.S.C. On Wednesday the Regiment was scheduled to play the A.S.C. at home, but by starting time only 4 Battery had arrived at the playing field. It was 5 and 6 Batteries loss as the game pro ved the most enjoyable played this season. A scratch team was hastily.picked .as follows: Goal, 'Aukram; full-backs, Chisholm, Miller; halves, Jessop (sometime), Purvis, Gilbert; forwards, Tilson, Paul, Searle, Della,. Braddock.' The team included a few novices who wielded their sticks, if not with skill, at least with vigour. The most notable perhaps being the ‘‘Aunt Sally” who protected only by the hairs on his legs manfully got in the way of quite a few good ones. Gunner Chisholm came to light with of his uncanny defensive games ™and was a dammed nuisance to the A.S.C. forwards. When called up to the circle for a penalty bully, he clouted the ball cleanly between the sticks for our one and only goal. Gnr. Searle was a trier all the way, but the halves played too far back to enable our forwards to be the scoring force they could have been. Sergeant Jessop played a rather unorthodox game with methods more in keeping with “All-in > wrestling, but at any rate it can be said that he was a worry to his opponents and to his teammates. Sergeant Jessop *! and Gunner Purvis staged many a thrilling fight for the ball which would have been more interesting still if they both had not been playing for the same side. Driver Kelly scored 2 goals for the A.S.C., the last one resulting from a cleverly angled “push” shot. The final score: A.S.C. 2, Regiment, or I should say 4th Battery 1.