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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1916

Hockey

page 72

Hockey

hockey

The Hockey Club, in common with all clubs of a similar character, has felt keenly the effects of the war. Most of our old players are gone, and the new rule of the Wellington Hockey Association has narrowed down greatly the number of player still remaining available for the competition games. All players in competition teams must be under the age of twenty on May 1st. other players must content themselves with practice games which are being arranged to enable hockey enthusiasts on the waiting or rejected lists to keep in form.

Our club has decided to enter a team for the competition, play for which commences on June 10th. We look to new student or support to enable the club to uphold the reputation which has been earned by the Victoria University College Club in past years.

Members have commenced practicing, having turned out at Karori Park on several Saturday. After a practice on Saturday 13th afternoon tea was partaken of (not dispensed) with the members of the Ladies' Club. A very enjoyable and instructive half hour was spent. We sincerely trust that the jug was returned to the owner and not taken to the Friends' Hostel.

On Saturday 20th May a friendly game was played against a team from Trentham. After a short struggle V. U. C. proved Victorious—4 goals to nil. The Free Lance reporter, we are informed, was present but being a smart fellow, he, like Brer Rabbit, "lay low and said nothing."

Members of the club unable to play in the Junior Competition will always be sure of a gme against one of the Trentham teams,

The club has decided to ask the Students' Association to grant blazers to the life members of the club.

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The executive of the Students' Association has addressed a circular to the several College Clubs, urging them to "carry on" during the period of the war. Sport of the kind provided by and hockey club is not only pleasurable but necessary. Past members of the club, many of whom are now with the fighting forces of the Empire, have built up a worthy record of achievements. It is the duty of present collegians to hold together institutions of this type on which much of the corporate life of our College rests, and the committee trusts that those students of whom there are still a numbers, not yet playing any game in the desire to benefit themselves and to maintain the reputation of the college, will turn out with stick and shin pads and don the green for the Hockey Club.