New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03
WOMEN DEFY
DANGER WHEN IT
MEANS HOCKEY
Girl Teams Show Up Well
Under Tutelage of
Tom Howard
Nv FRED HAWTHORNE

To has often been SalC OF women Una
they would brave any physical danger
50 long a. no danger 70 their personal
beauty was involved. But what shall
we say now. when women have taken
ID the game OF hockey in earnest and
are in training every week at the -.
Nicholas Rink for future league games :,
Hockey has long been recognized as
one OF the most dangerous Of the siren
uous sports. and only the hardest OF
mon care 10 take the risks involved.
There is always the danger Of having
your cheek laid open 10y slash from
hockey stick or your teeth removed
by swift flying puck or shins barked,
not TO mention the thousand and one
different kinds OF falls that are Away
imminent when sheet OF slippery ice
IS your only support.
But Tom Howard, one OF the most
prominent hockey players and coaches
this country has produced, was con-
fident there we're enough women IN
this city anxious TO play hockey 70
make up a team. He conhded as much
20 his wife. herself an expert skater,
and Mrs Howard said she would guar
antee 10 find, not one team OF women
hockey players. but two, and she did.
Score Try for Teams
Inside Of a week there were At least
score Of girls practising on the 81.
Nicholas Rink ice, trying 70 make the
teams. Howard coached them, showed
them how 10 dribble the puck. how 20
use their sticks 10 the best advantage
and how 10 employ the deadly check.
Mrs. Howard. because Of her experience
and all-round ability on skates, was
elected captain Of one Of the teams,
christened the Manhattan Reds, and a
second team was formed, with the NOM
de-ice st. Nicholas Blues.
Two or three times week for the
last month the girls have been prac-
Using. until now they are about ready
20 tackle any feminine hockey team IN
the United States or Canada. As
matter of fact arrangements have been
practically completed whereby the Reds
and the Blues will play exhibition
games this winter with the champion
girl teams Of Canada, these contests
TO be staged at the local rink.
While the girls were INDUCING m
fierce scrimmage on the ice one day
ldeI Ntth 1AUN a. u bttffNNi4 t++f
ing instructions, talked TO us about
his charges and OF the possibilities OF
women hockey players.
"They don't know the meaning OF
fear" he said "and will dash into the
hottest scrimmage without ii moments
hesitation. The danger OF being cut
by stick or tripped for a hard fall
does not prevent them from going at
the game hard. Just look at them now,
and you'll see what | mean
We enjoyed a discreet look at that
moment Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Louise
Boldt were engaged in fierce struggle
for the puck near the Blues goal. Miss
Olga Rothgiesser. Miss Marjorie Sar-
gent. Miss NJ. b. Sabin and Miss Cecile
Krellenstein and one or two Others
whose names we arc not certain Of,
and hence dare not mention. were
lighting just as fercely on another
part OF the ice
Both Women Take Tumble
Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Boldt both
fell down with great force, but they
Kent on struggling for possession of
the disk, while Howard yelled: shoot
II. shoot it! Guard that cage You
forwards. break up that defence, all
together nowl'
We don't know who eventually had
tho better Of the miX-up. or whether
Mrs. Boldt succeeded IN preventing
Mrs. Howard from scoring or not. there
were so many young women Siding
about. crashing into the sldeboardS,
slashing with their sticks and raising
all kinds Of rumpus
Mrs Howard is one OF the most
skilled Of the girl hockey players, but
that is not so surprising when you re-
member that her husband and her son,
Tom, jr., are both adopts al the game.
II seems 10 be bred IN the family, but
we wondered how the slender Mrs.
Boldt had developed the terrific swing
with which she welded her hockey
stick when shooting for a goal. Then
VIC remembered.
Mrs. Boldt is one Of the best Of the
women golfers st Van Cortlandt Park
in the summer, and she can drive n
ball straight and far. At the fatal
pond on the eleventh hole one day we
ieed up and drove ball dismally into
the middle Of the HsO. Just behind
was Mrs Boldt, whom We didn't know.
She sent her ball sailing far over the
lake and on 70 the green, and she only
used an iron.
We decided we had had enough golf
for that day and quit right there. II
was not until some weeks later that we
learned who the far driver was, and
now we know why il is that Mrs Boldt
is a good hockey player.
Miss Mueller a Star
Miss Elsie Mueller is another of the
stars OF the ice and will probably be
elected captain Of the ST. Nicholas
Blues. Not only can she ke.p her feet
we'll in scrimmage, but she can dribble
the puck away from half dozen oppo-
nents and is deadly goal shooter.
a glance al the accompanying pict-
ures will serve 10 show that the women
hockey players are not confined 10 any
particular costume. Some prefer the
regulation boomers, while others play
i'm skirts Of the abbreviated variety, but
none OF them seeks the protection Of
the many pads that the men players
use.
Although the girls play hard and take
many chances Of injury in their efforts
20 score goals, they forget all their
ice sQuabes as soon as the game is
over and gather IN the women's tea
room TO discuss the contest in the most
chummy manner.
The men who sweep of the ice after
the games between the Manhattan Reds
and the ST. Nicholas Blues have started
making a collection OF hairpins, and
report that 20 date they rave discov-
cred twenty-seven difer-nt varieties,
with few assorted powder pufs