New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-10
MYSTERY SHROUDS
RULES FOR OMAN
HOCKEY TEAMS
Special Committee Will Report
Tonight as to How New Game
Is To Be Played.
RADICAL CHANGES LIKELY
Tom Howard Calls II Nonsense to
Expect Faster Play from
BObtailed Team.

Many surprising Developments are eX-
pected at the meeting of the executive
committee OF the Amateur Hockey
League tonight. The special committee
on ruies. made up Of James O'Brien,
Irish American Athletic club, and Rich
ard Condor. Wanderers Hockey club. is
to report and from what could be gath
cred i'm hockey circles yesterday it has
only a faint idea Of how the 'siX-man'
game is going to be played.
All kinds of rumors are in thc air. II
is said that there will be three periods
of fifteen minutes each, with ten minutes
rest between each period. Also slbsti-
tutes are going TO be allowed. one mem
her of the committee has gone so far rs
to suggest even more radical changes
To keep six men always on each team
he advocates the substitution of player
when a man Is ruled out Of the game.
The question of allowing substitutes IS
a new one and never before has cropped
up i'm metropolitan hockey circles. II Al
WAYS has been contended that hockey is
a game of endurance and that the men
who begin a game should BE- forced TO
complete the contest except for injury.
II Is Sdl0 lldl bllf ~ INC az p hiii'''Ns'
used for six-man hockey was that it WAS
impossible TO get enough players 10 20
around. Il was contcnded that both the
Hockey club and the ST Nicholas
favored the seven-man rule because. they
had superabundance of players. II this
is true. the allowing of substitutes would
wonderfully help these clubs. providing
they were interested In the changing ci
the rules.
The three teams that are left in the
race for the Amateur Hockey League
title are practising with sin men ON the
ice. The work is neither faster nor slower
than il was when seven players were on
a side Nor does II appear 20 be blt
more strenuous.
Tom Howard. coach Of Yale and Of the
Hockey club stats that 1t is all non
sense 10 think that slN-man hockey IS
going 20 be either faster or more strenu-
Gus than the old game. II takes just a.
much stamina to play on the forward I'm"
with thrcs-sther players as u does with
the rover left of team. II the players
are good. the game is going TO toe fast.
n they are poor the contest Is going To
be slow and tirosomc.
n the special committee on rules can
not make "a satisfactory report tonight II
is quite possible that the question may h'
tabled untl another winter.
The Hockey club Of New York VIII
leave on Friday to play two games IN
syracuse. The champions also have been
asked To play games In Detroit. Cleveland
and Uoughton. Mich.
n no amlcable arrangement can be
made tonight the first thing That the
committee will have TO do rs 10 elect new
officers and a new governing committee.
The withdrawal 81 the Hockey 'lub ana
-. Nicholas from the championship series
prrycnts their delegates from serving, ana
the retirement of sterling Martin. Of the
Crescent Athletic club. leaves the VICE
presidency opcn. 30 matter what hap
mems. the meeting promises to be the most
,mnortant in the history Of hockey for
years.