The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-07
CANADIAN HOCKEY TEAMS
Crack Players Who Will Meet
at the Rink.
EVERY MAN IS AN EXPERT
Rules of the Game Which Has Lately
Grown Into Favor Here-Its In
creasinR Popularity Promises to
Make 1t the Leading Winter Sport
How 1t Is Played.
Especial TO The Timcs.l

Montreal, March 6.-When the Montreal
and Shamrock hockey teams visit Wash
ngton, the eyes of the Washngtonians will
be opened. Judging from the manner in
which the United States college teams
PLAYED the game here last season, Wash
ngton has never seen hockey at its best
aud when they do they Will find it quite
IS exciting and scientific as any game they
have ever witnessed.
1t must be remen hered in the first place,
that Canadian boys are born, so 10 speak,
with hockey stick in their mouth. The
first playthings they gel are hockey and
IL lacrosse stick and as every minute that
can be spared from school and les
sons is devoted 10 lacrosse in summer,
SO every spare minute in winter is sacri-
feed TO hockey, and if ice ponds are too far
away the snow on the street is utilized
for the purpose, when The police are not
around.
AS both games, unless regulated b. very
strict Officials, are in the very nature of
things apt TO be- very roJgh, and productive
OF accidents. the boys become hardened
and Injured 10 injuries. Though in the
TWO teams that viii visit Washington there
are few players who have not had nose
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they are JUST as eager and anxious to run
these chances again as ever they were.
RULES OF THE GAME.
The great difference between the two
games is ma turally the barring OF 'offside.''
ThrartiClcreferringtot this in the Canadian
rules IS section =. which says: when the
player hits the puck. anyone OF the same
side WHO, at such moment OF lifting, is
nearer the opponents goal lire, is cut Of
play. and may not touch the puck himself or
in any way whatever prevent anotherp player
from doing 50 until the puck has been
played y player must always be on his
side or the puck
This provision, Of course, makes the
game much more scientific than if the
players could hit the puck every where and
from every side. There are great many
/ other differences, however. For the
Canadian game seven men a side are re-
CURED. Three OF these play defence, the
| other four play as forwards. ana attack
their opponents goal. The three defence
men are known as goaikeeper, point, and
cover point. one forward pla VS. center and
remains in the middle OF the ice.
Two men are known as right and left
man is called rover. ard he! ps any OF the
| other men who may need assistance. After
the men have taken up their position. the
! puck, q flat, circular piece OF vUicaniZed
| rubber. an inch in thickness aud three inches
| in diameter, is placed upon the ice, half
way between the two goals. The two
center men place their sticks beside IT
ana the referee blows his whistle.
AFTER PLAY BEGINS.
| The puck is brought along the ice with
the flat blade of the stick. The players
who are all vefy speedy skaters, can
! dodge in and out OF a crowd in a sur
| prising manner. When Il player can skate
10 farther without losing the puck, it
| is passed or thrown over to another player
| and the same tactics are repeated. Com
| bination play in hockey is carried on in
the same manner as in Rugby football.
The puck can be passed only to man
behind the player. If Payer in front
! is struck bye or strikes The puck, which
has been thrown 10y player on the same
side. it is called offSide'' and the puck is
brought back To where il was first thrown
from and faced.
The defense men are always heavy men
| ana FAST skaters, and must he men able
TO lift We'll. That is, when the puck is
| stopped by them to raise it over the hea dS
OF The pla yerS to the other end OF the ice
| This is Cone by an upward scoop of the
| stick. II is quite possible in that way &c
send the pack for a distance of geo feet.
The goals used in Canadian hockey are
| four feet high and six feet apart. 1t is
permitted to stop the puck with any par
| of tho boiV Int 4 must not lie struck or
thrown. Tripping and charging from be-
hind are strictly forbidden.
PLAYED IN HALVES.
The game is played in two halves o
thirty minutes each with wait OF tel
minutes ana change of goals. Following
are the records, positions, etc, of til,
Montreal and Shamrock Hockey Teams:
Shamrock. Posn. age. VT