New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
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Keen Struggle Promised Among Five Clubs for
Amateur League Championship.

With the prestige of having won VIC
tory over the champion college team of Can
ada, the st. Nicholas Skating Clubs seven
VIII open the regular American Amateur
Hockey League championship season on
Tuesday night at the St. Nicholas Ring
with team composed of the best players
in the Hockey Club OF New York as oppo-
nents. The hockey season has already had
an informal opening In the shape of several
exhibition games between senior varsity
teams and Canadian amateurs. and the
crowds which have turned out to see those
contests indicate increasing interest in
this greatest of all winter sports. An
equality in playing strength of the five
teams engaged precludes the likelihood of
one strong organization running away with
the cup, as the New York Athletic Club did
a. year ago. Changes will be effected in the
lineup Of all the teams. and the acquisition
of experienced players from Canada, the
graduated varsity experts. will materially
strengthen the weaker organiza tons and in
troduce element OF uncertainty
All the teams in the league have been
practising steadily since Thanksgiving Day.
The fact that they are in condition to play
lively games was shown when the ST Nicks
beat the Canuck collegians so decisiyely, as
we'll as in the way other teams OF the league
successfully defeated the Princeton, Yale
and Harvard sevens in practice matches.
The New York Athletic Club will again
have the services of Captain Castleman,
who made his temperance last week in the
match with the Toronto varsity players
and distinguished himself by scoring the
only goal for his side. The most prominent
absentee from the lineup this season will
be Jimmy Shirref. and that the lack of
his services will be distinct loss goes
without saying Shirreff has declared his in
tentiou of remaining out of the game this
season, but influences are at work to in
duce him to rejoin the Crescent Athletic
Club. Shirreff's place on the New York
team viii be taken by ". II. Clark, a for
mer Toronto University player, with a
reputation as a defence man. He will re-
place Broadfoot at point, the latter going
to cover point. Rankin. another Canadian
university man. who graduated last year.
is a candidate for a place on the team, and
Riemund, one of the crack players OF the
Hockey Club last season. will this year
wear the Mercury Foot on the forward line.
Coolican and Dennishaw on the wings with
Mills in the cage. will complete forni-
dahle an aggregation of hockeyists as New
York has ever seen.
The ST. Nick team has a squad of thirty
men recruited from the Harvard, Yale and
Princeton varsity teams to draw from.
but the old standbys, Kay Gordon, Chris
Souther, Larned, Putnam, Chew and Rich
ards. have been playing so well that there
is little likelihood of~ any change being
made, with the exception of Pell, who
played last season on the team which won
the intercollegiate championship for Har-
ward. Feitner and Buster Hayward will
alternate in the cage. Feitner in the first
half of the recent game with Queens Col
lege. stopped twenty-five shots at goal
which came at him with the speed of bull
lets fired from a rifle. His ability in turn