New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
Harvard and Princeton SevenS
Fav0rites for Hockey Title
Crimson Has Veteran Com
bination That Is Devel-
oping Slowly but
Surely.

OuICly.
Honors In intercollegiate hockey for 1914
seem 20 he between Harvard and Prince
ton. which fought through TO the final
games last winter before the Crimson
clinched the title. II appears that they
are destined 10 do the same this year
before either one can lay claim 10 the
championship. The Tigers, because OF the
remarkable playing Of "Hobey Baker
demonstrated against Cornell last week
that they have seven much to be
feared. while the slow and steady progress
that has marked the development of tho
Harvard team BODIES III for it's opponents
in later games.
With the tangle ensuing tho dissolution
OF the intercollegiate Hockey League last
winter. the selection of a champion this
season will IN large measure be hit or
miss affair Columbia. which broke away
from the league first. has practically no
games on its schedule. and the same is
true Of Cornell. although the Ithacans
have already played a game apiece with
Princeton and Yale. Dartmouth, another
member OF the old league, has few games
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league. Yale. Harvard and Princeton.
therefore stand alone, or almost alone
in the collegiate hockey world so far as
the race for honors goes.
OF the trio Yale seems TO be the weak
est Harvard got off TO a poor start, and
is handicapped further by the lack OF A
goal keeper Of ability commensurate with
that of Gardner. who starred at the net
for the Crimson last year. The few games
that the big three have already played in
dictate pretty well their relative merits.
With lines OF comparison drawn through
Cornell and the Syracuse Arena team,
Princeton seems to stand out on top, with
Harvard slightly better than Yale. Yale
defeated Cornell a fortnight ago in hot
game by a score OF 3 10 @ while the Tigers
overwhelmed the Ithacans last Saturday
and buried them under score Of 10 l.
Yale. however. was beaten by the SYRIA
cuse team by score of ! 10 q just a few
days after the Crimson had beaten the
same team by a score not much larger.
Whether the Individual ability Of "Ho-
hey" Baker can offset the team work of
the Crimson is the question, the solution
OF which will solve the puzzle. Harvard
has lost only one man-Sortwell-from its
line of year ago. and Sortwell's place
apparently is being well taken care of by
Wanamaker Wiletts, the point, is a
sturdy defence man and is the rock on
which the Crimson hopes TO wreck Baker.
Harvard began the season with a team
that was rough and showed lack OF prac-
tice All that is being remedied. however,
and in addition fine fighting spirit has
been instilled into the seven.
Hockey at Yale will probably suffer for
year or two from the cloud under which
II was thrown by the transaction which
lured Tom Howard away from Columbia
Howard however, has gone right TO work
in the development Of a team, and has
whipped together seven that bids fair
TO show increasing strength as the season
wakes. Schiller, the Yale goal, is the
mainstay Of the team and is probably the
best defensive man on the ice. He forces
the line TO fight all the time, too, with a
fierce and wild encouragement, and his
value has increased in every game. Gore,
the point. Is a veteran, wise in all the
tricks of the game, while Captain Heron,
Mcdonald. Sweeney and Ordway fill out
a powerful though crude line.
HOBBY Baker is Princeton's whole
team when 1t comes to scoring. but he is
ably backed up in offence by Kilner and
Kuhn. The latter, were the team without
Baker. would probably take rank as one
Of the greatest players in collegiate cir
cles. He IS fast and aggressive and a
sure shot. Kilner, too, is a dependable
shot and a clever skater. Princeton
passes wonderfully well and has whirl-
| wind line.
Cornell Is, indeed, looking ahead in
| football and is even dreaming OF the day
when It will be meeting Harvard on an
| equal footing for the championship, II
| The Cornell Daily Sun" can be taken as
sane prophet In commenting on the
| 1914 football schedule this is what THE
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