The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-18
TIE TILL THE LAST PERIOD
New Haven Takes All tine Rushes, Mccarthy Capturing Six and
 Ole Four.
National Leugue standing.
(By Official scorer.l

7 every opportunity in the last period or New Britain's battle royal with Bones fast polo team at the Quinnipiac rink last evening, and scored three goals, giving the Woodchoppers easily the victory and giving them better grip on premier honors in the National league. The score was tied, ? to 2, up to the third period, but New Britain's brace gave them a to victory.
 The crowd at the rink last evening was the largest of the, season, the New Haven fans turning out in a body to see the league leaders strive to keep Hartford from displacing them from the top of the ladder and also to see New Haven continue her last string of straight home game victories. There was no disappointment shown among the fans however, as for two periods they saw one of the fastest, if not the fastest, games at the local rink this sea- son. New Haven held her own against Jeans husky five until the final stage of the battle, when Jean and SchiffeH playing brilliant games, caged total of three goals.
 The game was not rough, although fast, and vaudeville performances, in which Saunders and Schiffer were the leading comedians, were frequent and amusing. In their acting the two men were rivals Saunders was backed by the large house, and Schiller by him self alone. Referee Tommy Leahy did not butt into the troubles of these two players, but let them have it out between themselves. A fair opinion of the result would be a draw, al- though the universal opinion of the local fans was that our stonewall half back was far ahead in points,
 Jean managed to get in his usual foul His offense of last evening was in trying to subdue Saunders in his en- deavors to block the mighty center of the New Britain five. Jean has the exalted opinion that no one should endeavor to stop him from caging the ball at will, but there is spirit among the local bowlers to defeat Jean in his purpose. The New Britain man is very unpopular here and received a series of hoots from the side lines :. after his-rather rough treatment of Hsaffders.
 A unique feature-of the evening was that New Haven captured all the ruslres, ten in number. Mccarthy dur ing the first two periods captured six and Ole, who succeeded him later, the second period, captured four. This isfthe first time New Haven has been able to accomplish this feat.
 Warner of New Britain caged the first goal of the evening after six min utes of play. Bone caught a pretty pass from Mccarthy four minutes and ten seconds later, and scooped the bail past Mitchell, the ball going through the cage two feet in the air. George was roundH applauded for this pretty feat
 Warner gave New Britain the lead in the second period. With the score tied, each team having made one goal, he drove the ball past Mullen and into the cage. Mullen was continually drawn out from his cage during the evening and this was one of the times when luck failed and poor Judgment caused bad results. The third period was also marked by Mullen's poor judgment
 Farrell tied the score in the second period fifty second after Warmers goal by driving the ball from the center of the rink within the New Britain cage In the third period, with the score again tied, splendid fight was evil dent. Such was the case for the first two minutes, but after that New Brit ain ruled and New Haven obeyed. Schiller caged the first goal of this period, inserting it in the netting be- fore Mullen realized that there was danger. Jean performed a similar trick after nearly eight minutes of play and the local fans perceived that New Haven was doomed to defeat, Schiller finished the defeat by adding another point to New Britain's score ten seconds before the game was over. The line up:
 Mccarthy, Ole ........,. .Shltfer
 First rush.
 f Bone ~s........ werner
 Second rush.
 Farrell .sa.......,.,,..ss. Jean
 Center. Saunders .ss...., .,,....s4s.s..s Toner
 Halfback.
 ' Mullen ..ss.Sss.., .s.,.sss~s~e MlIcuelI
 Goal.
 First Period.
 Won by Gagged by Time New Britain. Warner .s...,. 500 New Haven. Bone ........s 4:l0 Second Period.
 New Britain. .... Warner ....... 2;05 New Haven Farrell ....... .50
 Third Period.
 New Britain. Shiffer ........ 2:06 New Britain Jean ........', TAB New Britain .Shiffer ...,,.. 4:45 ' Score. New Britain 5, New Haven 2; rushes Mccarthy 6. Ole 4; stops, Null len 2s, Mitchell 27; fouls, Jean; referee. Leahy; timer. Sullivan.