Old Peterite Hockey

RESULTS. Captain V. A. Cazalet (O.E.) lost to N. W. D. Yardley, 3-9, 9-4, 1-9, 3-9. A. G. Hazlerigg (O.E.) beat R. G. Bullen, 9-0, 9-5, 9-4. R. C. Greville (O.E.) beat S. G. S. Pawle, 9-1, 9-5, 5-9, 9-4. C. W. C. Packe (O.E.) lost to J. D. Burrows, 1-9, 8-10„ 9-10. R. G. de Quetteville (O.E.) beat N. R. Dobree, 9-5, 9-4, 9-0.

elo 'Detente tockey.

For the second year the Old Peterites played in the Easter hockey festival at Scarborough. The team manager and organiser was again D. Norwood. The headquarters were at the " Queen's. Hotel," and a most enjoyable week-end was spent, with matches on Good Friday, Saturday, and Easter Monday. Last year's record was improved on and two matches were won and one drawn.. On the Saturday and Monday nights there were dances in the hotel, and on the Sunday night an amusing impromptu concert. O.P.s and parents who came to support the team deserve thanks for their interest.

OLD PETERITES, 3; SOUTHERN DISTRICT, 1.

This was the first match of the festival and was played on Good Friday morning on the cricket ground, which was hard and dry. Consequently a very fast and open game resulted. The O.P. forwards went off with considerable dash from the start with Yardley and Warin prominent in the attack. Some two minutes from the start Warin pushed the ball out to the right wing where Stead took it down and centred at the twenty-five ; Warin, gathering the ball well, beat the two backs and got in a well-placed_ shot. Southern District retaliated and pressed hard, and soon had an equalising goal. Just before half-time, Yardley, taking the ball from the half-way line, went through on his own and beat the goalkeeper as he came out to push it through his legs, for the O.P.s' second goal. In the second half the pace of the game began to tell, and the hockey, though still of a fairly high standard, became slower. The Southern District team were defending hard and kept in their own half by the valiant work of Ogley, who. played a sterling game at centre-half. Finally Stead scored the O.P.s' third goal with a good shot from an attempted clear by the opposing left-back. Team :—K. G. Chilman ; N. W. Smithson, E. A. Harrop ; B. H. W. Jackson, R. Ogley, J. M. Atkinson ; J. W. Stead, R. M. Cooper, R. P. Warin, N. W. D. Yardley, D. Norwood.

OLD PETERITES, 5; WHARFEDALE, 2.

In this the second match the O.P. team reached the peak of its form. It is no exaggeration to say that everyone played extremely well against a team which had several county players, past and present. Hockey of a high standard was played throughout, and the O.P.s were successful chiefly because they swung the ball about well and were much quicker on to it than their (opponents.

As in the previous match a goal was scored very early, but sthis time it was practically straight from the bully-off. Warin, ,winning the bully, passed the ball to Cooper who, making a few yards, put it back to Warin again ; he passed to Yardley who beat .a half and a back and then pushed it to Warin, who scored with .2 hard shot. It was a good goal and somewhat rattled our .opponents. From then on the O.P. team scored goals at fairly iregular intervals, but it always needed hard work to do so against such experienced opponents. Perhaps the O.P. half-back line was s-esponsible as much as anyone for the convincing victory, and Jackson, Ogley, and Atkinson did some magnificent work and marking.

At half-time the score was 3-2 in our favour. Shortly afterwards Yardley shot another good goal to complete his " hat -trick " for the match, and finally, after constant pressure by the ,O.P.s, Cooper took the ball from a centre from the left wing, and, going between the two backs, flicked the fifth goal. Chilman -played a most useful game in goal and made several good saves, and indeed, his clearances with his stick were sufficiently formidable to clear many opponents away as well ! Team :—K. G. Chilman ; N. W. Smithson, W. Elliott ; B. H. W. Jackson, R. Ogley, J. M. Atkinson ; J. W. Stead, R. M. Cooper, R. P. Warin, N. W. D. Yardley, F. Smith.

OLD PETERITES, 4; CESTRIANS, 4.

This was a disappointing game from our point of view. We "ought to have won, but things did not go so well as in the previous two matches. Possibly this was partly due to the early start 410-15 a.m. !) and partly to a different ground, which was a good flat one, but much slower than the cricket ground where the other two games were played.

Once again Yardley kept up our previous initiative and scored 'first, but the Cestrians soon equalised. Nevertheless, it did not :appear that it would be very difficult to win the third match and ;many raids were carried out on the Cestrian goal. At half-time, thanks to Warin and Yardley, we were leading by three goals to 'one, but our opponents made a remarkable recovery ; their right -wing was very strong and two equalising goals came from there although Chilman made some splendid saves. This put the