New-York tribune., 1908-03-09
FINAL HOCKEY GAMES.
T1cO More IN 4mateur Series TINS
Week at st. Nicholas Rink.

Only two more games remain TO be played III the
Amateur Hockey League SERIES and both take
place this week at the St. Nicholas Skating Rink
On Tuesday night the coming champions. the Cres-
cents, will meet the St. Nicholas Hockey Club men.
the present holders of the title.
While the game will have bearing on senior
honors as the Crescents have already cnchcd the
championship. it will nevertheless be an interest
n:, and exciting contest, and both sevens will
work their hardest to win the Brooklyn men being
anxious go through the series without a defeat
and the St. Nicholas men just desirous of break
n, that brilliant record and showing their ability
down the successful team, thoug' they
cannot win first place. The Half Moon representa-
lives providing they present their strongest line
m. should have less difficulty i'll winning than on
last Thursday, when they defeated the New York
Athletic Club. There is possibility, however, that
the Brooklynites will not have all their best men
out. Nearly every seat in the house has already
teen sold for the game.
The last contest of the series will take place
Thursday, when the New York Athletic Club and
the Hockey club of New York will cross sticks.
The Winged Foot should easily win in this con-
test.
What should prove one OF the best games of the
season is down for Saturday night. when the
strong Toronto University team, the champion col
lego seven Of Canada, meets the Crescent Ath-
letic Club representatives, at the St Nicholas Rink.
These two teams played IN Canada last year, and
the varsity boys won 15 g. against the crippled
Brooklyn septet, but with the Crescents playing
in the form they have shown this season the Cana
dt;ns will have such easy victory. Some of the
hest hockey of the year will undoubtedly be in
evidence Saturday night.
Much regret expressed in hockey circles
over the failure TO get the Wanderers and Vic
torias, of Montreal, down here to play last Satur-
day. Hockey enthusiasts were anxious to see the
wonderful Wanderer aggregation, holders of the
Stanley Cup. emblematc OF the championship of
the world in action. But the seven had sucn
ha ottawa
Montreal week ago Saturday. and another one
Wednesday last against the ShamrOcks. that
they evidently considered II too much to journey
New York Saturday Play another game.
The contest against the Ottawas Saturday
marked by of the widest scenes in
the history of hockey across the border. While
the game did not begin until o'clock, the doors
were thrown open early as 8, and by they
had he closed in the faces OF hockey mad
Canadians. and the holders of reserved seats who
came later had the greatest of difficulty iii get
ting in Doors and windows were broken, hats
smashed and clothes torn in the fight to gain
admission. One woman, in fact. had her skirt
completely ripped off Thirty policemen and
about eighty ushers hand look after
the crowd, but it was soon found necessary TO
send for reinforcements, and fifteen more police
arrived the scene, but then the
mob could not be held in check. Some venture
some spirits climbed the roof and broke win
dows in their endeavor to get in. About
thousand persons saw the game. Over $500 dam
age WAS done the rink, and after the game
fur pieces muffs. less than fifty r'ibbers and
number of hats found about the inciosure.
Tickets for the match sold high $40.
The game itself justified the wild scramble for
admission It was one of the most exciting ever
in Canada. and by the Wanderers,
4 goals 10 >. only after the hardest kind of
fight. the result being in doubt up to within
thirty-siX seconds of the finish. when the winners
scored their fourth goal
IN the first half the Ottawss had the better of
the game. but could only cage the puck once,
while their opponents branked. But in the
and tied the score in four minutes Then the
Senators forged ahead again in the two minutes,
only TO he ovcrtaken ny the champions two min
utes later. \ few minutes afterward the win
HerS made another goal. and from that
within the last few seconds of play, when the
Wanderers Tailed again. the game nip and
tuck. with wonderfully fast hockey shown.
1t rough game. and during the sixty
minutes of play-the halves in Canada of
thirty minutes each-the penalties for ottawa
amounted To thirty-eight minutes and for the
Wanderers to twenty-seven minutes, Phillips
the clever left wing for ottawa, off alto
gether for fourteen mnutes-in the first half
for three minutes twice in the second half for
three minutes each and again for five minutes.