New-York tribune., 1908-01-08
VICTORY FOR ST. NICKS
YIN FAST HOCKEY GAME.
Nee York Athetic Club FiUe Beaten
IN Opening Contest.

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After forty minutes Of hard fought. exciting
struggle the champion St Nicholas Skating Club
seven defeated the New York Athletic Club by q
score ot TO in the opening game OF the Amateur
Hockey League at St Nicholas Rink last night
The result in doubt right up the last minute.
when the whistle blew with the puck IN the pos
session Of the Winged Foot men, The latter played
q clean and brilliant game OF hockey and with
even break Of luck would have They made
uphill fight for after the first ten minutes OF play
the stood TO against them. but for the last
five minutes Of the first half and during the greater
part OF the second period they putplayed the cham
pions and put up more finished article OF hockey.
Had Dalton shown little more alertness two
occasions nothing could have prevented score, as
he right in on Hayward but missed easy
chances.
The play for SO early in the season was excellent
and judging from last nights showing. lovers of
the game will be treated TO some excellent hockey
this season. In spite OF the disagreeable weather
the rink fairly well filled During the second
period. when the New York Athletic Club team Wa
withing one point Of tying the score two occa-
sions the excitement intense The only incident
TO the contest came toward the end Of the
game. when Coolican received two nasty cuts and
had TO retire.
The ST.. Nicholas men played good. steady game,
but they were not quite SO their opponents,
and their shooting. for which they are so justly
famed. was not up to the mark In K Gordon,
souther and Wilder they have the three best shots
Sne ie6gue CneS was lhe Only new III
champions lineup, and he has taken Marcus's
place left wing. He is not so fast man as
Marcus. but is much heavier. Carruthers showed
up best for St Nicholas last night
Castleuan was easily the star OF the contest and
put I'D g beautiful game Several times he went
through the entire St Nicholas team. only find
when he passed the puck near the net that he was
clone Mills. the new goalkeeper for the New York
Athletic Club. proved himself find" He never
took his eye of the puck end made many beautiful
stops
K Gordon made all the goals for ST. Nicholas.
He scored the first one minutes after the game
opened attempt Of Coolcan's TO pass in front
OF his own nets Il a bad fault which the New
York men showed throughout the evening. He
made the next tally thirty-fve seconds later, in
good combination with Souther, and he followed
this in four minutes with another goal. when he
and Souther rushed down the ice together and Cor
don worked right in on the net and easily got by
Mills
The Winged Foot from this point on began to
improve and had the champions on the de-
fensive- After several good attempts goal, Cas-.
tlenan finally able 10 land the puck in the
cage, getting il from Broadfoot and lodging
or three OF his opponents. II was great work, and
loudly cheered. He came close TO score
couple Of seconds later, and only beautiful stop
Of Hayward's robbed him OF a goal.
The first penalty Of the game inflicted here.
Chew being ruled of for minute for tripping
CooHcan. and Brophy followed him soon after for
roughly checking Carruthers- Just second before
the whistle blew for the first half Dalton missed
z sure goal when within foot of the
net but became excited and shot wild. The half
ended 3 10 J. with the New York Athletic Club
forcing the play for the last five minutes
During the interTnission little Miss Kathleen Pope
gave an exhibition Of fancy skating. She was very
graceful and went through many difficult figures,
which were greatly appreciated by the audience
Il took the New York Athletic Club only minute
and 2 seconds 10 within a point Of tying the
Score in the second period Coocan made the goal
OF q pass from Castlenan, who had taken the
rubber down the ice. Chew followed this with
nice try az goal pass from Wilder. but Mis-
took good care OF the shot, and Broadfoot re-
turned and passed to Dalton, who was alone In
front OF the net. but missed the puck entirely.
CooIican badly hurt al this point by coming
in contact with D. Gordon. the latter's stick acci-
oentaIIy striking him the head and cutting
cash on the right side and also over the eye He
had TO retire from the game and Dr. Sutherland
a former Queens College man. took his place
On the resumption Of play Castleman made
hard. accurate shot on goal. which was beautifully
stopped by Hayward Chew returned and MADE
Mills a. the other end, perform just as clever
trick in order 70 prevent score X Gordon then
followed with another goal for his team. knocking
the puck in from a scrinmage. This put the
Winged Foot men behind again, but couple
OF minutes later they drew up when Dalton scored
on q pass from Castlenan. who in combination
with Broad dfoot had carried the puck down the ice
The contest became faster. with the New Workers
vafuTv endeavorinE to the score, and after
three shots in succession on the goal the whistle
blew Just before the close D Gordon and Brophy
were ruled of for tripping. The lineup follows: