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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, June 1909

[Review of the activities of the women's hockey club]

"They meet, they dart away, they wheel askance To right, to left."

Beattie.

Women playing hockey

Again this season the Ladies' Hockey Club bids fair to be the most successful of College Institutions : a membership of forty enthusiasts, who are also for the most part skilled players of the game, and the Club can reasonably expect to repeat their last year's successes. But their path is no easy one, as one team has already made plain to them. The Club is to be congratulated on having among its members players who are both capable and enthusiastic, so that the painful task of persuading reluctant "stats" to take the field, is done way with, and the combination of the team, to which so much success is due, is more fully ensured. It is only a matter for regret that the standard of Ladies' Hockey is not higher in Wellington; the easy victory of the College First eleven in their first match this year, and their decisive defeat bu the Craven team last year, seems to emphasise this fact. Regular visits from teams such as the Cravens, if there are others equal to them, would be an invaluable stimulus to hockey, and would no doubt have its educative advantages for players and onlookers.

We rejoice to see that the Hockey Association intends to enforce the regulation which orders that skirts should be at least six inches off the ground. The Spike would like to suggest, since the spirit of reform is abroad, that they should reach no further than the knees — at least, for forwards; and where reform is even more urgently needed, from a spectator's point of view—that is to say, in the matter of hair-dressing—dare we page 41 mention pig-tails ? Think of the comfort, ye greens, and remember the feelings of those on the bank !