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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, October 1902
Hockey
Hockey
"There must be here some smart young fellows
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Willing to serve their College, and to take a shinning.
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If any, speak—I pause for a reply."
Cur apricum Oderit campum, patiens pulveris atque solis?Horace.
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The Hockey Club was worried several times during the season by men who were picked to play and who backed out at the last moment without excuse. One man in the junior team did this twice, and on a third occasion missed the train. The consequence was that the team_ on each occasion played short-handed. The selection committees should see that such a thing does not happen twice, and select men who have some slight sense of the responsibility imposed by an engagement, some little consideration for the rest of the team men who, to some small extent, can be depended on.
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An accident threw rather a glaring case under the editorial eye. Riding home from Miramar through a back street, the aforesaid eye was arrested by a gun. Behind the gun was a sweater and behind the sweater was a youth, and, moreover, a defaulter. "Why weren't you playing to-day ?" was the, question asked. "I rang up to say I couldn't come," he said. The answer to Horace's question was plainly in this case—cuniculi!
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Hockey is now over, and the results of the season before us The decision to enter for the Senior Championship has been more than justified. Throughout the season the first team was able to give each team it played a good game, and in the second round, during which the eleven continuously improved, it made even its best opponents look to their laurels. Under the circumstances, therefore, the series of losses sustained is by no means discreditable. As was expected, the junior team did not meet with much success. It suffered on more than one occasion at the hands of members who stayed away without excuse, though the bulk of the team turned out regularly and cheerfully to the sacrifice.
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The following is a synopsis of Championship results :
Senior Team.—Matches played, 8: won 2, lost 5, drawn 1. Goals for, 15; against, 26.
Junior Team.—Matches played, 10: won 1, lost 8, drawn 1. Goals for, 12; against, 58.
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The following are the detailed results of the matches continued from last number:—
Senior Team.
Championship Matches.—Second Round.
V. C. v. Karori.—Lost 5-1. G. Bogle scored the goal for College.
V. C. v. Vivian.—Won 6-0. Beere scored four times and A. Bogle twice.
V. C. V. United.—Lost 3-0. College showed greatly improved combination.
V. C. v. Wellington.—Lost 4-3. The fastest game of the season, even throughout. Stewart shot two goals and G. Bogle one.
Junior Championship.—Second Round.
V. C. V. Wellington.—Lost 8-1. Stewart scored the College goal. Played on a wet day with only 8 men.
V. C. V. United.—Lost 10-0.
V. C. V. Karori.—Won 3-2. Perry, Scholefield and de la Mare scored.
V. C. v. Vivian.—Lost 3-1. Batham scored. College played two men short.
V. C. v. Waiwetu.—Lost 6-0. Best team won. College altogether lacked combination.
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When the Championship matches were finished, two practice games were played by the senior team against Wellington Club. In the first Wellington won by four to two, and in the second College won by six to three. In the former Beere and G. Bogle and in the latter A. Bogle (four), Beere and G. Bogle scored for College.
The following members of the College teams were picked for practice for the Representative teams:
Senior.—R. St. J. Beere, A. H. Bogle, H. H. Ostler and D. Matheson.
Junior.—I. M. Batham, J. Bee, and B. Smith.
Of these Messrs. Matheson, Batham and Smith secured the representative cap.
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