New-York tribune., 1909-01-30
NEW YORK SEVEN WINS
gCORF FAST NE4R END.
Hockey Champions of Last Year
Meet Dismal Defeat.

,r,-oever the New York Athletic Club and the
-~.soeut Athletic Club cross sticks in hockey
me sn interesting and exciting struggle Is eI-
,.s5 ard last nights contest at ST. Nicholas
pink between these sevens proved no excep-
80, 10 the rule as last years champions were
s.dIv beaten by a score of l. While the score
,ss one-sided. the New Workers had TO work hard
,o accomplish the task. and were held down until
rsu into the second period.
The first half ended with the score at to o in
,sror Of the ultimate victors, and early in the
scond half the latter added another tally. The
Cresoents crept up when Kennedy scored unas-
.asted but while holding the game at to for
.be next five minutes, they soon lost their hold
,nd went 70 pieces, and for the last eight minutes
:. nlsy the New Yorkers scored almost at Will
The Brookynites have generally had the better
:, the argument In this particular branch Of
,,o-t but this year they have been badly weak
.,Ad rv the retirement of their old Shirref
She rover OF last years champion team is now
,4-n tie New York Athletic Club. In spite OF
these handicaps the losers put up hard. stubborn
ssb+ and were by means disgraced Several
-e-sors made the remark last night that Shrreff's
heart vas with the Crescents, but, be that as 1t
nav, he played as hard he knew how for his
team. was in every play and put UP magnificent
game.
Mucr interest was added TO tho contest by the
,ect that II was the first time Liflton and SniTreh
had ever played against each other, as for the
las. three years they had played together in the
centre of the ice for the Crescents, and were in
,fn-ibIe They were watched closely last night
and they respected each othcr's ability. Both
rlsyed star games for their sevens, and but Tor
Iihtou's work the score would have been much
larger he seemed TO inspire his team mates with
confidence, and worked hard throughout the
struggle
About the middle Of the second half he went
I'D to centre, and Hardy and Blake alternsted at
rov.rpoint- Castlernan played q magnificent game
for the New York Athletic Club.
- - hast elf
fhe mace was fast ard exciting at all stages The
biggest crowd that has seen an Amateur Hockey
League game This season turned out. and the spec
tstors chesre6 themselves hoarse-
The Winged Foot took the aggressive ar the
rart but were blocked IN their efforts to score by
Linton. Kennedy and Scarborough. For over
eleven minutes the puck kept going back and forth
with neither team able to score The New York
lthletic Club seven seemed overconhdent-- and
played rather nstless gare- Peabody and Cooh-
can were doing little on the wings. and the WORK
devoved upon Castlenan and Shirreff. AS both were
watched closely, they were unable to until
IL minutes and 81 seconds had passed when Castle
man tailed by neat individual work As he went
IN On the goal he saw opening and skated back,
rhea wheeled and went for the goal again, taking
bis line with him through the Crescent defence ana
getting by Scarborough for the first goal Shortly af-
terward Shirreff scored but the whistle blew as
Hayward caught O'Rourke In the act OF tripping
and put him Off 1t was & lucky offence Tor
O'Rourke, for It saved his from another goal
being scored against II. Shortly before the half
ended Blake had great chance 10 score when Lifl-
ton went down and passed to him. but he missed. and
then Peabody and shirref carried the rubber back,
and only great stop the part Of Scarborough
prevented goal
Cssrlenan drew the puck at the beginning of
tbs second period and passed TO Shirreh. who
scored, but # was ofside and not allowed Then
Coo!can and Hardy each spent two minutes with
the timers for fouls. In little three minutes
Csstlernan made & lift from near centre and Lif1-
ten partly stopped the puck with his hand but 1t
went by him and into the cage before Scarborough
saw = making the score to Q. Three minutes
afterward Kennedy. unassisted, after dodglng Two
Q, three men, scored from near centre and the
hopes OF the Crescent rooters rose, but they were
short-lTed three minutes later Castlen1an tai
lied On 4 pass from Peabody Then Castlernan re-
heated when he went through the whole opposing
defence.
The fifth goal went 10 Peabody after Coohcans
shot had been stopped, but Scarborough gave the
former chance to get in on him before clearing
and goal was easy. Casteman got the next one
when the while Crescent team. with the exception
Of Kennedy and Scarborough, were up the Ice
Lifton then went centre and tried hard to orace
the Iine but while he and his teammates mace
several hard shots on goal the New York AthI9uc
Club defence was too strong for them
In the mean time Shirref Hardy, Kennedy ana
Hhts had each been put off for two minutes Tor
tripping Shortly before the half ended CastleTnan
scored On q pass out from behind the net
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