New-York tribune., 1908-02-03
IN THE HOCKEY LEAGUES.
Crescent athletic Club and Hdruard
Screens Look Like Winners.

Two games scheduled to take place this
week in both the Amateur and the intercollegiate
Hockey leagues. On Tuesday the Hockey CLUB or
New York faces the New York Athletic Club seven
and on Thursday the Crescent Athletic Club and
the ST Nicholas Hockey Club sticks, while
In the intercollegiate league Princeton and Yale
meet on Saturday at st. Nicholas Rink. and on
the same evening Harvard and Dartmouth play at
Cambridge.
The most important games are the St Nicholas
Crescent and the Yale Princeton contests The
two first named teams tied for senior honors
in the Anna teur Hockey League, and both sevens
realize that the winner OF this game will In all
likelihood win the championship The strong
pressure brought bear upon Wall. Dolby and
Shieber has resulted In all three getting back
in the game. and their presence on the Crescent
seven has placed In the front rank what looked
like a secord division team early in the season,
with an excellent chance to win back the honors
lost last year Playing in the form the men
showed last Friday. when they defeated the New
York Athletic Club they have the best chance in
the league at present Their team work on this
occasion came to the fore. and in the second half
1t completely dazzled their opponents. who
unable stop their rushes. The champion st.
Nicholas has shown such form IN any of
its games and the chances Of the seven winning
on Thursday with Donald Gordon, the clever
coverpoint. missing from the lineup. look
tremely slim. Gordon who has been playing
excellent game all season, is out for the rest
of the winter, owing to a severe cold he con-
tracted last week. which has developed into pneu
monia. His absence will be much regretted by the
supporters of both teams, as the Crescents were
anxious to face the team that took the
championship from them last year. winning
both games by the margin of goal, the last
meeting, in fact, running into extra period be
fore the result determined.
The game put up by the Crescents in the second
half Friday night the best they have shown
in two years, mainly owing TO the fact that their
efforts confined more to team work than to
individual plays. Their opponents. the New
York Athletic Club. forced them TO the limit
throughout the game. and, while the latter were
defeat ted and have two games registered against
them In the lost column. IL does not follow that
they are entirely OF the race. for should they
win ali their remaining games and the Crescents
and ST. Nicholas team lose to each other well
would be result. This is not impossible the
New Workers are playing well and getting stronger
with each game. Then, the Hockey Club is liable
to turn the tables any one Of the other teams
in the round of the Series If the latter club
did not have to depend Bryan to do all the
shooting IL would have more victories than defeats
to credit. On Tuesday. when its representatives
meet the New York Athletic Club. there promises
to be a hot fight for third position. they
tied
A good line Yale's chances for the champion
ship may be had on Saturday night. when she faces
Princeton. Should the latter team win, which
would not be surprising, the Ellis would be
ticalIy out Of 1t. On the other hand, IL the New
Haven men triumph their stock will take big
jump, for Harvard had hard fight to capture the
game from the New Jersey a few weeks
Tom Howard Yale's coach. may succeed in whip
ping his charges into championship form. but judg-
ing their work TO date they are hardly in the
same class with the Cambridge men,
The standing of the clubs in the Amateur Hockey
League follows: