New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-01
FIGHT AT HOCKEY
FISTS USED FREELY.
Wanderers BoU to Toronto
.Seuen IN Rough Game.

Fast rough hockey, which ended IN a
| free-for-all fight, marked the contest al
the St Nicholas Rink last night between
the seven from Toronto University, of can
ada. and the Wanderers Hockey Club, or
New York. in which the visitors won by
score of goals to Q The local players
started the rough house work which end
ed in the fight The visitors played good
clean hockey in the first half. but came
back at their opponents in the second
period and played them to a standstili at
their own game, and before they got
through had the Wanderers sprawling all
over the ice.
The strain of this kind of work soon be-
gan to tell on the tempers of the players
and with seven minutes left to play Firth
and Sprague Cleghorn kept slashing at each
other, going down the right side of the rink
until the Toronto man turned and struck
at Cleghorn They then dropped their
sticks and went at each other with their
fists. Smeaton jumped in and the others
followed, until they were all In a heap on
the ice.
The referee and some spectators who nao
jumped on the ice finally succeeded in dis
entanglins the mass Firth and Cleghorn
were banished from the game and Smea-
of the players then wanted to quit put
plav was finally resumed. Before the game
ended the crowd almost to man, switched
to the visitors and their every move was
cheered while the Wanderers were loudly
Missed.
The game in itself was of the most
exciting seen at the rink in many a day,
and was pretty to watch. especially the
neat team work of the visitors and the
individual work of McSloy. who is Won
derfully heady player, Evans and Firth
In fact, the whole team played clever
hockey. especially in the first half. but the
poor ice tired them in the second period.
The checking was hard and close, the
Canadians being lust as strenuous in this
respect as their opponents Both goal
keepers made many difficult shots, but the
defence work of the local players was
superior. If the Wanderers had remained
on the ice instead of being with the timers
so frequently the game would have been
much closer, for they held the VISITORS
cleverly, and in the early part of the sec
ond period kept them on the defensive, out
playing them for several minutes.
The first half ended in a tie at to l, and
the Wanderers went ahead early in the
final period but in a minute Toronto caught
them, and Tor the next ten minutes II was
nip and tuck The game became rougher
and faster all the time, with both sevens
striving to gain the one-goal advantage
and break the tie. Just at the end, how
ever the Wanderers weakened and the WIS.,
itors shot four pretty goals in the last ten
or twelve minutes. which spelled victory.
The referees had a hard game to handle,
but did their work ably and tried to keep
the struggle clean, but it was not to be.
There was dispute before the game
started as to playing time, the visitors
wanting to split the difference between the
thirty-minIte halves they play and the
twenty minutes called for here. 1t was
finally arranged to make the first half
twenty minutes and the second one twenty
five minutes.
The penalties were numerous, Odie Cleg-
horn being the first man to suffer for
slashing at McSloy, Smeaton soon follow
ing him for a similar offence. Then Bulger
and Evans got into a hot argument and
were sent to the bench.
In the second half Evans and S. Cleg-
horn slashed at each other and went to the
bench for three minutes, while Ode, Cleg
horn and GalIie were also penalized.
The lineup follows