After a very ragged but enthusiastic game, the United Hockey Club Trojans just managed to defeat the Khalsa by 1-0 yesterday in a friendly hockey encounter at the Race Course. Very little team work was displayed by either side; individualism was the order of the day. During the first half. with a weak half line which failed to give the forwards the right kind of support, the United could not make much headway against the stout defence of the Khalsa team. In the second half, however, strengthened by Chuperoff in the pivotal position, the Trojans fared better and, as a result of one of this young centr halfs effort, a goal was netted P. Bojesen.
One of the surprising features of the game was the failure of such forwards as Bojesen, Karanjia and Reuben to combine effectively Their passes were continually being intercepted. They were unfortunate too; on several occasions when on the point of scoring they had their sticks knocked out of iheir hands. The weakness of the forward line lay in the wings "Until Chuperof came into the picture, the United half-line with only Viccajee playing well was ineffective, both in defence and in attack. Reuben had to go back repeatedly to help the home forces.
Pate and Singer proved reliable as backs, and they broke up several incursions made by Smart and Sandhu, who appeared to be the spearheads of the Khalsa attacks.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.