New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-28

For years New York was considered the
centre OF the American hockey world, as
il was the first city in the Union TO take
up the great Canadian winter game. The
building of Kinks in other towns has done
much toward increasing interest in the
game in other sections, and at the pres
ent time the fastest amateur hockey In
the United States is played in Boston.
The American Amateur Hockey League
the parent body of American hockey
reached low water mark during the
winter Of l9l2-13. The withdrawal OF the
New York Athletic Club and the Wan
derers Hockey Club from competition
left only three active organizations in
the league. To draw up schedule it
was necessary TO take another team into
the league, and the Irish-American Ath-
letic Club was admitted
Bringing the Winged Fist athletes INTO
the association did not help matters 20
any great extent, as the players OF the
Jrish-American Athletic club proved T.
be men who had formerly represented the
Wanderers Hockey Club. A schedule was
drawn up, and for the first time In the
history OF the sport a triple round robin
was played for the championship. The
winner was the Hockey C1uD Of New
York, an organization that bad been
strengthened through the advent OF sew
eral former players OF the New York
Athletic Club.
The intercollegiate year also ended In
an unsatisfactory manner. Harvard
st.xl L..
Crimson players were followed by Yale in
1912. The question OF playing freshmen
on hockey teams caused Columbia 10
withdraw. leaving the league IN such
position that there has been no attempt
to arrange a schedule for the coming
year. Princeton won the championship
Of the league However. Harvard was
awarded the popular championship.
Accepting hockey as a major sport has
done a great deal toward helping the
game at the Cambridge university. Yale
players are also DESTROYS Of making the
sport more important and awarding
"Y" 10 members OF winning teams In all
proba ability this will be done, as there is
now being built In New Haven An arti-
fetal skating rink, which will enable the
Blue seven 70 get as much practice as
Harvard. Tom Howard, who has charge
OF the ELI team, believes that a cham
pionship seven will be developed at New
Haven as soon as the Eli players get an
opportunity for real practice.
Last winter the Canadian professionals
started to play six men on team, In
order to save salaries. The innovation
has created all sorts OF trouble both In
Canada and the United States. Across
the border only the professionals and the
Montreal City League have taken to the
change. The Ontario Hockey Association,
the greatest governing body in the world,
refuses to consider the idea. Almost two
hundred teams play in the Ontario 1850
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Metropolitan hockey enthusiasts saw
six-msn teams at work last winter when
the Canadian professionals played at the
st. Nicholas Rink. 1t found several advo-
Gates, who at once began to agitate sig
man teams for the Amateur Hockey
League At the annual meeting Of the
league In November the question was
brought up. and it almost split the or
ganization.
Rather than to end the game on metro
politan ice, a compromise was reached,
and the championship series. which starts
on January 3, will be played under unique
conditions. The first half OF the double
championship round robin will be played
under the existing rules. The second half
will be played with six men on each team,
providing satisfactory rules can be drawn
UP covering the changes