The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-06
IRISH AMERICANS WIN
FIRST HOCKEY GAME
Hockey Club Seven Beaten in
League Opening by Score
Of 5 to =.
BOTH SIDES PLAY ROUGHLY

The Irish American Athletic Club
hockey team opened the Amateur Hockey
League season last night with a victory
over the Hockey Club seven nv score OF
to 2 at the st. Nicholas Ice Skating
Rink
During the opening period the match
went along smoothly enough. Although
tripping. cross checking and everything
else was very much In evidence. the
players were more or less secretlve about
u and did not let the officials In on IL,
with the result that no one was penalized.
In the second pe,iod. however. the Hockey
Club skaters thought that they were being
left too far behind In the general mlxup
and went after the Celts hip and thigh.
This aroused the well known hghtng
spirit of the Hibernians who probably
did not like the red stripes on their op-
pouonts Jerseys anyhow. and they made
the night free for all that made ;hc
Kilkenny cats look like Damon and
Pythias. There was hardly minute
throughout the whole Of this period when
some of the players did not get an lnvi-
cation 10 be seated In the grand stand
Not one OF the men In the fray had his
eyes gouged gu; or his limbs broken, but
shis was due only 70 bad aim. The
Irish seemed 10 take more readily to the
fight from the referees point of view
and had total of fifteen minutes NJ
penalties TO ten for the Hockey Club.
Who the greatest individual Ournd,l al
roughness was In hard to say, but Loucks,
the Hiharuiau loft laaa crafty
than the others and was caught twice,
with three minute suspensions attached
each time
McGrath stayed scoring for the winners
shortly after the opening OF the game
on a goal from scrimmagc. aud made the
only other point in the half after IL min
utes 90 seconds Of play on a pass from
Cree. the Irish Indian. In the intervals
between these two goals and after the
last both Of the teams tried to see which
was the most Inaccurate on passing and
shooting. and the honors were about even.
In the second half, in order to make
1t real Irish affair. MacCarthy Gagged
one all ny himself After that, when so
many of the players were leaving tho
game in such rapid succession that
numbers began to count, each Of the teams
got two tallies. The Irish element had
for the most part withdrawn and the scor-
Ing of the Celts was due to Klemmer. an
lriShman by adoption. SmlrA ana Mac
Donald made the counts for the Hockey
Club. The Crescent Athletic Club and
the ST. Nlcks will play the second game
of the league series Tomorrow night. Tho
lineup:
A A c. Position. Hockey Club.
Kclly............ Goal ............, Lewis
Clany. ........... Point ........,. ..N white
MacCarthy..... Coverpoint $1,000. Britton
Klemmer. Power ....... Mackenzie
Crce............. Centre ........... Patton
Ioucks ......... Left wing. = Macdonald
McGrath. Right wing ......... Smith
Score-Irish American Athletic Club, &;
Hockey Club. ?. CIoals-First period-Mc-
Grath. Irish American. 7:3o; McGrath, Irish
American, 1870. Second period--Mac-
earthly. Irish American. 2:2I; Smith, Hockey
Club. 1888; Klemmer. Irish American.
is;5i; Macdonald, Hockey Club. ls:lS:
Klemmer, Irish American, 1881 Penal
ues-First period-None. Second period
Irish American, Klemmer goo; Clary.
1900. McGrath. 2;oO: Clany, 400, Loucks,
400; Loucks, $500. Hockey Club white.
100: Mackenzie. 1900; Smith, 2;00: Patton.
700; Britton, $500. Referee-Wiliam
DOLBY. Crescent A. G, Assistant referee
Artie Liffton, Crescent A. G. Goal UNI
pires-Roger Hardy, 81. Nicholas A. G,
and l.. Crovst. Crescent A. G. Timers
r. l.. Won Bernuth. Columbia. and +.
Thompson, st. Nicholas A. c. Penalty
timers-william Roche, Wanderers and II.
Gsron. Hockey Club. Time OF hslves-2o
minutes