INVICTUS

29th : the Voice of the 29th Battalion, Volume 1, Issue 10, 4 August 1943, Page 6

INVICTUS

| A double triumph for the hockey last Saturday, when two- old rivals fell to tho A and B t earns 1 Neither game was easy - but who wants it that way? Tho A game resulted in a win 4 - G? but up to half time 't h o snt -re was only 1 « 0 after oven play. Tho superior half play of tho Battalion side, where Rough, Burton and Fa ire provide a combination with excellent stick work, was tho decid- . ing factor. Goals wore scored by Rough (2), Cox and khan.

. . Tho surprise of tho day, however? was tho defeat by tho B team of tho strongest of tho other unit sides. Vigorous forward ploy -put them 3 goals up at' an early stage. .Thon? just before.half time the tide began to, turn? "nd ton minutes before tho end of the game the scores stood oven. Last desperate efforts wore made ' by both sides' - and tho only other goal wont to tho 29th. The scorers wore Crawford and Grieves, each with two goals,

ONE who watched tho game with-keen interest was tho centre .'forward Simon i who received a back in- ' jury. Ho refused to admit himself done, how- - ever, and stood in a strategic point waiting for tho boll to come I withing ran ch. ........

Almost in tho classification of a Strength Through Joy \pastim oJd oc k t ennis is played fervently by a number’of tho officers to compensate for tho restrictions on climbing Ils t But wo do think that when the Padre ploys Hr. Hammond there, should at least be a referee >■ in tho ring