New-York tribune., 1907-01-09
4 CRESCENT VICT0hY
HOCKEY CLUB IN DEFEAT.
Last YeGr's Champions Win First
GGme of Season.

By goals to ,, the champion seven of the Cres-
cent Athletic Club defeated the Hockey Club of
New York last night at the st. Nicholas Rink in
the opening game of the Amateur Hockey League.
In spite OF the one-sidedness of the score, it
a hard fought struggle and the champions mad 70
work their hardest TO win The Brooklyn aggrega-
ton had bad in the first half, when the
score stood goals TO l against them.
The Crescents good uphill fighters, however,
and they started in the second half with grim de-
termination, and finally rolled up score OF five
goals, and at the same time kept their Opponents
from tallying.
While more viciousness has been shown in hockey
games here, there was altogether too mucn rougn-
players, which caused many long delays We're en-
urey TOO frequent Shirren twice nurt Rus
sell on one occasion deliberately strhing nm
when his back was turned, for which offence the
Hockey Club captain should have been penallzed.
ORourke was a-so knocked our Tor a tew minutes
Hns9 e hs sad to Of M the I ocev Re eb %
hurt nd in the re early part OF the game ,,od j., rho
west end of the rink. and entertained the house
by by singing and cheering They had several @ new new
The Hockey Club also had cheering crowd which
Hornfeck and Linton faced off. and the puck
changed hands an Son once or Twice when good @ snot
than o'FIynn remarked TO Mckenzie, Look out
Then shot by Harmon went bounding by him
e Whee Re wln Duck e t sa foF s
Linton. in preIty team work, carried the puck into
and good opportunity unit to score was lost hot
W no trent ST he o NeT % he her ee
and @ carried the puck well into Crescent territory;
aside.
The fight waxed warm and Remund was finally
p ments later made one Of his brilliant dashes down
ond goal for the Hockey Cub on shot from the
When the rubber again put in play Lifhtcn
had had great change to score & in 4 scrimmage M but
a few seconds later, and then Harmon returned
ana made an accurate try for goal, only to nave
make one Of the most difficult stops Of the even
% Ing when me & Wall s1 carried n the rubber int into Hockey
swift when right in front Of the net, but the stop
Of the Aoeksy cIa6 hur and play 5fopaed
for for two, two minutes whieh was thankful rest for
on goal. Lhiton scored the first goal for the Cres
% M o oag G ahd se S ened
with the speedy forward still having a minute TO
In the absence OF Of Linton sh,rrer faced off with
the pn st the Carried b 9f m 16 ha
got back. when he Immediately made himself felt
Kennedy was then then ruled ruled of FOR knocking T Hornfeck
into the Iense and while ne was absent @ the Gres
Bryan and HOrnfeck each tried to score for the
failed. and then shirreff put his team in the lead
work WITH f Ion Lon fooWed tRs Wth
swift rush the length Of the ice and when checked
made a difficult shot, which Ellison took good
He met with better success a minute later. when
ont from point and pased to Linton %ho EASILY
scored Linton scored again few seconds later
out here rsan and the delayed
minutes. The champions added another goal to
their credit, when Wall, from the centre OF rink
lifted the puck Ellisons shoulder and into
the net. The lineup and summary follow:
Crescent A. c. 80. Position. Hockey Club %.
O,F1ynn- ..--...... ..'-'.. russell
Liffton. tlOrnfech
H.
o Rourke. r. ReiInund
Kennedy. y...............L Bryan
Goals-By Linton 81. O'Rourke. Sheriff. Wall.
s and EnckeY l,lIh