Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-11
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Waterbury Triumphed Over the Hartford Crowd--All of the
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There was game that would make you ''loony" unless you had perfect control of your senses It was a rip shorter, with all the trimmings. It was fast and it was furious and the best team won, and we say this with out any swelling of the cranium, or without taking away any credit from Hartford. Crazy were the majority of the fans in that last period and some of them ducked down out of sight in the overtime session, fearing to watch the result. Managers Me Mahon and Halliwell went inside and held prayer meeting, while our boys were fighting in that overtime period and they prayed so loudly and so fervently that their call was ans wered. The wild cheers of the cohorts surrounding the arena brought them back to terra firma and they said more than their prayers. My word, but that was fast game. Hartford can thank her lucky star that she was not beaten by bigger margin. Twice were we handicapped, first when Lox- son had to leave the floor because of a broken skate, and again when Fla hey was injured. Murray had to come on, on both occasions. This is not intended for knock for Murray, either, for there must always be a sixth man and we know of no sub- stitute that has anything on the lad that holds down that position on the Waterbury team.
 Friends he has by the score, and proud they were of him last night when he placed nice one behind Sutherland on his first trip out. Bob Hart was furious and at times in fighting mood. On one of those Oc- casions he ran up against Kid Cusick, who has grown from kid dimensions to those of an athlete. Down the floor came Hart with the ball and Cusick saw him first. Out from his cage he went to meet him and what clash was there. Down went Hart and both shoulders and hip touched the floor First fall for the kid," yelled a fan, while Hart loked appeal ing at the referee. Nothing doing' said the auburn Mike Doherty and Hart got into the game sad at heart, while Cusick smiled one of his wicked one through the angles of his mask. Long John Wiley was there too, and the only thing that Long John seemed able to accomplish was to reach out that long arm of his and, aided by his hockey, trip up some of the opposing players. Fahey went down in one period and he was hardly able to arise. The muscles in one of his legs became rigid and he was literally tied to the post. His retirement was enforced and then is when Hartford did things to us. We paid them back in gold coin when Fahey came on again, and we made Bobby Hart look like thirty-center after the gold coins had been collected.
 The first period was beauty. Lin coin began to show the fans how pret tily he could take the ball from the spot and bound it down the floor. It was pretty and well executed, but failed of final execution, for Fahey, Holderness and Cusick were his stumbling blocks and when they got wise to his little game they tied him up in a knot. Hartford was a little bit surprised that Waterbury should show such aggressiveness aud Bobby Hart became incensed on several oc- casions because he was not allowed to take the ball down the floor. Up the rink and down the rink went both teams and when the bell rang for the finish of that first period not one lit- tie red one had gone behind either Gu sick or Sutherland. Out to win was Waterbury, however. and in fifty-five seconds of play ill the second period Daily whacked one behind the Hart ford guardian while the fans cheered loud and long. Then Loxson went down in mix-up and his skate went to the bad. Murray took his place, and the lad went into the game with a vim. In less than four minutes he caught a nice one near the cage and slammed it behind Sutherland for our second goal. while the fans cheered Murray to the echo. At this point Fahey was dropped to the floor by Long John Wiley and was forced to retire. It left us unprotected in a measure. and HartfOrd took advan- tage of it. In forty seconds Hart had driven one behind Cusick and in less than six minutes more he sent in an- other one. tying the score Twenty five seconds later he passed in one more and the fans looked sad. In one minute and a half more Coggeshall saw an opening and smashed in an- other and Hartford had us f 2. Thus ended that period. Fahey came on in the last period and everybody 1 smiled q welcome. The battle royal ! began in earnest then. Tn 2:15 Lox- son caught one just right and sent the l fans heavenward by dropping it bp- l hind Sutherland Fight it was then and fight we were willing to give. With but two minutes to spare DaIy 1 sent the fans into insane retreats br passing one in that tied the score. l Then came the overtime. What a bOmbariment that Sutherland chap 1 got, They came from all directions. l Hart and Lincoln were all in and in I fact. so were about all our team. The I pace was fast and Daly and Loxson | caught them on the wing and hanged 1 them against Sutherland without 4 mercy. In 1s50 everybody arose as Daly slammed in the winning goal 4 and the best game that has been seen in the rink for many days was over The lineup and summary: