New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
GAME FOR ST. NlCKS
YIN BY ONE GOAL.
Crescent Seuen Makes Hard
but Losing Fight.
STANDING IN THE AMATEUR
HOCKEY LEAGUE.

In a fast and exciting game Of hockey
the ST. Nicholas S<atins-CIub defeated the
Crescent Athletic Club by goals 70 3
last night at ST Nicholas Rink. and broke
the tie for third place in the Amateur
Hockey League race. The teams were even
ly matched, and put up good, clean game
of hockey. The losers forced the play. but
this was offset by the strong defensive work
OF the winners who hugged their goal and
kept the Brooklyn players at a safe dis
tance most Of the time. IT was anybodys
game until the final whistle blew.
A feature OF the contest was the reap
pearanCe OF the old favorite. Bill Dobhie,
VINO IN the game for about two min
utes. taking Blake's place. who was cut
under the eye by the flying puck. AS the
old star appeared on the ice I'm street clothes
he was cheered to the echo He responded
by facing and drawing the puck, getting in
a pretty shot on the nets. When he came
on Kennedy moved up on the line and Scar
borough went back to point, but, try as hard
as they could. the Crescent men were IN
able to tie the score.
The Crescents had far more shots on goal
than their opponents, but they left their
own net too open, and Thomas was often
left alone I.ifiton and Kennedy played too
far I'd the ice and could not always get
back 20 stop the opposing forward THIS
coupled with Feitner's good goal keeping
lost them the game. Richards. Leske ana
Gordon helped out cleverly- The winners
were without the services Of Souther. Put
nam. Larned and Chew. but, despite this.
made a great fight, the substitutes play
ing agsressively-
I.ifitun at times showed mis- old time
speed and brilIiancy, and his rushes UP the
ice were features. He brought about Two
of the goals. Kennedy also made many
dazzling rushes up the Ice. Three goals
were scored by st. Nicholas In the first
half to none for the Crescents. but the lat
ter came back hard in the second period.
and within six minutes tied the score.
which remained even until shortly before
the end when Gordon scored the winning
goal for St Nicholas.
The game started in n spirited manner.
with the Crescent5 setting the pace. but
they could not pass the opposing defence
Gordon PLAYED second coverpoint, and
the St Nicholas goal was always closed
tight The men of the latter team Kept
making hard long shots, which were not
effective against Thomas. who easily turned
them aside and they soon changed their
tactics. After seven minutes of fast play,
with little to choose between the sevens.
Winter scored the first goal from scrim-
mage The Brooklyn men fought pluckily
to tie, and shot after shot was slammed
at Feitner, but to no avail
Then the tide turned Gordon caught all
the Crescent men, with the exception OF
Kennedy up the ice. and went right In on
goal His shot was stopped by Thomas.
but Cornell following up caught the rubber
on the rebound and poked 1t In for the
second goal. a minute later Gordon scored
from a scrinn1age near the nets. For the
remainder of the half the leaders we're on
the defensive.
1t was all Crescent in the first part Of
the second period. and finally the team
was rewarded by d. goal as Liffiton rushed
down and passed TO Scarborough. Two
minutes later Brown Tailed on a neat shot
from the right and repeated few seconds
afterward on another good shot from the
right The Crescent rooters cheered them
selves hoarse, but the men had shot their
bolt and for the remainder of the game
the play was even. and Gordon scored the
winning goal from a scrimmage with only
q little over five minutes to go
! F'raser-CampbelI was ruled off twice. and
Thomas was sent 10 the timers for kneeling
in the goal.
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