Men's Hockey

Last Saturday (14th June) saw all the 'Varsity teams at Karori. In their fifth match, the Seniors carried on an unbeaten record. Unbeaten, yes, but unfortunately, un-beating too—for Saturday's draw with Technical made the fourth draw for the season. The team defeated Wesley in their third match, but the best form so far was seen in the match against Hutt, which was drawn, 2—2 (on Saturday 7th). In this game flashes of last season's tournament dash came out, and the forwards played really good hockey, with play swinging from side to side. With anything like luck that game should have been won. Last Saturday, too, the honours should have gone to 'Varsity, had we had an ace more luck.

Both Bryan Bary and Dave Beresford have played in goal behind the Seniors. Dave could not travel to Auckland, but Bryan did a great job of work in his place. The last two Saturdays Dave has been back and is revealing old form. Kiddle has found a niche for himself at left fullback. He is playing a sound game. Eric Brebner (right fullback), an old Otago University 1st XI man, John Till (centre half), and B. Hands can be relied upon. The forward line, with Evan Raine (played also for Otago University last year) as a newcomer, has settled down to a better combination than last year. George Shaw is still with us and playing as well as ever. Harry Scott is not scoring the goals he scored last year. Perhaps this is due to the fact that there is less individual work and neater combination in the forwards than last year. Stan Braithewaite has shown good form, though he has been playing in a variety of positions. Ted Breach, who came to us from Training Coll., has had his chance on the right wing, and is showing up well with good positional play.

A little more dash and the draws would have been wins. Norman Jacobsen (one time New Zealand captain) was at the Thursday night practice last week. He is certain to spark up the boys, as he has done in the past. He certainly has good material to work with, for the lower [unclear: grade] teams have been in the run. The Juniors, with an unbeaten record (four games), met Technical (also unbeaten) on Saturday 7th.

The Senior B team, with Arch Ives at the helm, started off well with a draw against Karori, and another with Petone. They were narrowly defeated by Technical, and then met Training College. Training College proved a little too good for them, but they have the makings of something good.

The Third Grade team possesses some new players, but what they lack in skill they make up for in keenness. The team turns out in full force at practices. They have battled well, and though their first four games [unclear: produced] only a draw, the losses were narrow, and they accounted for Karori properly on the 7th. Last Saturday they met Ron-gotai College firsts, which is also coached by Mr. Jacobsen. They certainly showed they were in good hands (and often too), for they were too good. But keep going, Thirds—you're doing well.