New-York tribune., 1907-01-23
HOCKEY CLUB DEFEATED
ROUGH WORK MARS GAME.
Men York Athletic Club SeUen Win
in First Half.

" fast interesting. though not brilliant game
~ hockey last night. the seven OF the New York
athletic Club defeated the Hockey Club OF New
work at the ST. Nicholas Rink by 7 goals 70 2. u
,,os a championship game OF the Amateur Hockey
League series. and the result breaks the tie bs-
.Ueea the two sevens for the tail-end position in
the race.
The game last night was more interesting than
the score indicates The last half hard fought,
and the losers played out 10 the end. In this re-
spect they reversed their usual FORM as IN other
sf-uggles they have made their fight In the be-
Ginning OF the game ana then gone 10 pieces toward
the end.
The Mercury Foot team had its strongest lineup
OF the season. and in the first half played pretty
hockey. but the fast pace told on the men toward
tie end The changes that have strengthened the
team the placing OF Brophy, former Mon
tresl man. at point in place OF Williams. and the
putting OF Coolican at centre. where he played
capable game He and Castleman did most OF the
work Strange at goal made some wonderful stops
For the Hockey Club Tisne appeared at point in
place OF Russell, and the latter went on the Hns
IN Cloran's position.
In the second half. when the game became fast
there much rough work. which finally ended
IN q fight between Harmon and White The latter
struck Harmon with his stick IN the face. and
Harmon retaliated with his hsts but they were
separated without any damage being done. White
was ruled on for i've minutes and Harmon for two
There were many other infrsotions OF the rules
and several men at different times watched the
game from the benches
The game had been started a couple OF minutes
only when Brophy. the new cover point for the
Mercury Foot men. made his presence felt by
scoring the nrst goal II was done a pretty
run the length Of the rink. and he made the tally
unaided. His team mates followed this up with
hot attack ths Hockey Club goal which finally
brought about another goal. Dalton scoring unas-
sisted from shot from the right Russell then
tried hard 70 tally for the Hockey Club but MS
good shot was well stopped. On pretty pass
from Bryan he again tried, with better result
Brophy was here put of for cEoss-checking Har-
mon. but In spite OF his absence the Athletic Club
men kept up a hard attack on their opponents
goal Dalton. on q good shot from the right, tailed
the third goal for the Winged Foot team Cooican
soon followed with the fourth He made II from
scrimmage and when the net was unguardeo
as Ellison had rushed out to check him Cooheah
made the fifth point. which was decidedly lucky
as he shot the rubber out from behind the goal.
and It struck Ellison's skate AMI bounded into the
net The half ended with the score 20 o. Inc
Hockey Club played a loose game in this half
Dillabough was ruled out Of the game for two
minutes shortly after the second period opened and
soon afterward Harmon and White went 70 the
getting warm and the players were checking
hard and losing thsir heads frequently. Brophy
and the latter had TO retire from the game, with a
bad cut. Cloran took his place The Hockey Club
men We're putting up better game. and the
struggle even.
After ten minutes Of play Dalton scored the first
goal Of the half pass from Coolican. and Bryan
scon followed with the Hockey Clubs first score.
which brought about by pretty work. Harmon
and he raced down the rink together. passing from
one TO the other until Bryan got near enough TO
score. Castleman followed with a pretty run and
first one goal and then the other was attacked
until Castlemsn finally scored on a long shot from
followed with a goal for the Hockey Club. The
lineup follows: