New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-07
HOCKEY CLUB TEAM
VICTOR AFTER A
FRACAS ON ICE
Mix Things Up with Irish A. {
Players All Through the
Second Period.
OFFICIALS DO THEIR BEST
Kelly. Dufresne and McGrath
Greatly Strengthen Their
Side by Clever Work.

S1ue Dy CleVeT WOTk.
The Hockey club OF New York. holder
Of the amateur championship. knocked
home the first peg in the present cham
pionship series by defeating the Irish
American Athletic Club by Score OF
. goals To ! I'm the ST. Nicholas Skating
Rink last night
The first period Of play ended AT ! 20 Il"
in favor OF the champions. In the second
period the Irishmen tied. the score. and
the period ended al one goal all. The
tie was broken after 3 minutes 4 sec
onds OF play.
The second period was the toughest
seen in New York for many year. J. ).
Kennedy. Crescent Athletic club. and
Ralph Reinmund. Of the same organiza-
ton. were the officials Early In the
period they lost all control over the game,
and the players realizing what had hap
4 pered settled down TO artistically Stay
one another. TO make matters worse,
the officials i'm their attempts 10 keep the
play clean made all kinds OF astonishing
rulings. Players We're wrongly sent 10
the timers and ofisides We're overlooked.
The game soon became such a joke that
the spectators spent most Of their time in
hooting al the officials
I Several fist fights marked the progress
of the play Fortunately, these were
quickly stopped. However. they kept the
bad blood at fever heat. In favor OF the
officials it must be said that they we're
honest i'm their work. Their rulings were
impartial and they tried TO do the best
they could. Unfortunately, neither has
had much experience in refereeing and
the contest was one that needed thor
! oughly competent men.
Hockey Club PLAYED the better game and
should have won handily. The checking
OF the Irishmen was heavy. however. and
they time and again broke up the combi-
nation work Of the champions. The
Winged Fist team had several excellent
shots that kept Lewis busy throughout
the greater part OF the evening. The
Hockey Club goal, however. put up
pretty game and was the principal
strength Of the defence OF the winning
team.
The champions were represented by
practically the same lineup that won the
title last sea son. The only changes were
on the wings. Reggie Young held down
the right end OF the line and put up
pretty game Tom Howard jr., a son Of
the great hockey coach. was at the o,hsr
wing il was his first game in senior
company. and although he was the weak
est PLAYER on the Hockey Club line,
, young Howard showed that he has in
herited q great deal of hockey from his
father. With more experience the young
ster is going TO make name for himself.
\. 6. Mackenzie played clever game
for the champion. During the second
period. he was cross-checkeG from the
rear and hurt his shoulder From then
his game was slow However, he came
| back in the extra period and scored the
winning goal. 1t was an exceptionally
pretty point, made on pass from Castle
man.
The Irish team has been strengthened
greatly since last year. Kelly, a former
Hockey Club player was in goal, ana
although no one expected much from
him lie put up pretty game. Ernie
Dufresne, who formerly played with the
| Crescent Athletic Club, was at coVerpoint.
| While he still has his shot Dufresne is
not playing as well as he did in former
wears. McGrath. who was renstated this
| fall. was the real strength of the Winged
| Foot team. lie managed to put up
clever game throughout. Brown. another
new plaver. held down the right side OF
| the line.
Prior to the match the Amateur Hook
ey League had a meeting. Nothing OF
! importance happened. The Wanderer case
was taken up, but as it was 80 late IT
was decided 10 postpone action until this
! Afternoon.