Hockey has made very fair progress since it was introduced into this country your five years ago by an old Oxonian, Mr. B. P. Denny. It has not yet reached the dignity of a gate-money institution, but there are about twenty clubs, some belonging to the Amateur Association and others classed as professionals because they play for money prizes. The championship'has just been won by the Hockey Club after a sharp fight with a club rejoining in the high sounding title of " As-Sociation. Internationale—Athlétique. What they lacked in combination the players made up in energy. The pace was terrific and the excitement continuous it being occasionally stimulated by caustic criticisms of the referee by the president of one of the competing Clubs, a gentleman who fills the responsible post of gat~ keeper at the Senate. The club with the long name Was eventually beaten by three goals to two, chiefly owing to their xoalkeoper's forgetfulness of the fact that Tegs were given him to protect his charge. He generally preferred to try a huge drive with his stick, and the result was unsatisfactory,
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