New-York tribune., 1912-01-23
"H0BEY" BAKER A WONDER
His Remarkable Speed Counts in
Keeping Princeton at Top
of the Heap.
Standing in College
Hockey League.

Princeton strengthened It's hold on first
place In the Intercollegiate Hockey
League by defeating Columbia in cham
pionship game by goals to 2 Al the st.
Nicholas Rink last night. From the open
ing face-oh until the final hell there was
never a doubt as to the outcome. for Co
lumbia was both outskated and outplayed.
without "Hobey' Baker, however, 1t is
a question whether Princeton would have
had much of an advantage over the Blue
and White seven. Always fast, Baker
seemed possessed of greater speed than
ever last night, and the way he snaked his
way through the opposing team made the
spectators gasp. ON several occasions
Baker carried the puck the entire length
OF the rink without being checked.
Generally crowded, II seemed as though
the capacity Of the rink was unusually
taxed last night Women were nearly as
numerous as men, the first named ap-
plauding with a will Rival colors waved
defantly. while college yeIls made the
walls resound as the speedy skaters darted
hther and thither. The fact that both
sides entered the fray with clean record
III lif lUNfINblitB SfiitS lfuN HtSN ~
the game.
Princeton began In whirlwlnd fashion,
quickly working the puck close to the OPP
posing net so that Mckinney shot the first
goal from a scrmmege in thlrty-seven sec
onds. Before the half had been i'm progress
five minutes Harris was substituted for
Shiland at right wing for Columbia, and
later on Bangs took Harriss place. Several
times during the first fifteen minutes the
speedy Baker made sensational dashes, but
wildness I'm shooting the puck caused him
TO miss number OF tries.
Lovejoy. the Columbia centre. also did
good work, and just when It looked as II he
had fine chance to tie the score his effort
vas blocked by Kalbfeisch. Twice IN this
first half penalties were imposed on Whit
lock His second offence was tripping
Baker. for which he received a three-min
ute rest.
After sixteen minutes and eighteen sec
onds. Emmons. Princetons cover point.
scored the second goal for Old Nassau. The
tally came in a peculiar way, Emmons
making long shot that SKINNED past two
Columbia men. Trimble, who stood few
ieet in front of tho net, then tried to block
the puck. but he only DETECTED It so that
the rubber took an unexpected bound and
passed Millhank, the goalkeeper. That
ended the scoring In the first half.
rhus far Columbia had been noticcably
slow in starting, and this failing appeared
even more glaring in the second period
Possibly IL was Prlnceton's greater speed
that made Columbia look slower by COM
parisoR Play had not been in progress
long ere Baker worked the puck down TO
COlumbla's end and he would have scored
had Mibank not made a fine stop, at the
same time supplementing this by coming
out and clearing several feet in front OF the
cage.
The struggle became more interesting FOR
a time. as Bates counted for Columbia un-
assisted after six and a half minutes.
Thereafter the fray became one-sided,
Princeton scoring goal al the rate OF one
about every two minutes. Baker was
brilliant scoring thrice In rapid succession.
When he got the puck in the vicinity of
his own goal he would start down the ice
81 East that the opposing players could not
get TO him. and he generally managed to
eyade the point.
Sometimes Baker would get the puck. cir
Gle round behind his own net and then dart
and dodge through the whole Columbia
team. The last point scored was by Bates
who made Columbias other goal less than
two minutes before time was up.
Tho iIpa-ur, fplIaus.