New-York tribune., 1918-02-19
Wanderers Win
Rough Battle
From the Navy
Fifteen Minutes Overtime
Needed to Decide Excit-
ing Hockey Game
STANDING OF CLUBS
W. L.P.C.l w. L.P.C.
Pittsburgh. q o 1000 lCharlest'wn e 1893
Wanderers. 3 .4ooB'n Arenas 4 .33a

In one of the fiercest, most bitterly
contested and hard fought hockey
games ever seen in this city the Wan
derers hockey seven, of New York, last
/ night defeated the septct of the
Charlestown Naval Reserves. Boston,
IN the National lntercity League cham
pionship race at st. Nicholas Rink by
a score of goals to 2.
1t required more than fifteen min
utes of overtime play to settle the
question of supremacy for the night,
and even then the crowd that had
watched the free efor-all, standup
knock down affair was not entirely
satisfied that the better team had won.
For the victory, settled in a sudden
period after two extra sessions of five
minutes each had been fought in vain,
was decided moro or less in a fiuky
| way. During scrimmage IN front of
the navy boys net Roach, the alert
centre of the New York seven. chopped
the puck between the legs of La Croix
No hockey game seen in recent years
IN this city and few ever played in
|'Canada in the good old days ever
crowded so much action and so many
thrills into one evenings entertain
ment. When the boys warmed to
their work they left nothing undone
in any possible line of action. Before
the second half had rolled into ancient
history the two sides gave an excellent
imitation of the battle of the Marine.
Young Tom Howard, a son of the
Tom famous locally as coach and
chip of the old block. took on at
catchweights and at moments no.
tice a lusty adversary in Mckinnon,
of the Wanderers. The bout at fisti-
cuffs occurred just after the visitors
had succeeded in squaring the match
and after the cohorts of both sides
had been sent to the bench for illegal
play with such rapdity as to mystify
the timers.
These young bucks emerged from a
particularly vicious scrimmage, bran
dishing fists at each other. The bran
dishing led to few friendly passes.
Then Tom Howard, the younger,
knocked down McKinnon with we'll
placed hook to the jaw. The latter
bounced up, all his Celt blood a-boilng
and, turning back the pages of his
culture to the rules of his ancestors,
made a shellaleh out of his stick and
set out for revenge. Tom Howard, the
elder, leaped out of his box and joined
in the battle in behalf of his clan and
progeny. A younger son followed in
the wake of the father. There prom
Used to be much blood spilling and
death dealing, but the cooler heads of
both sides, aided by the rink police and
scores OF bystanders, who crowded onto
the ice, finally succeeded in splitting
apart the Howard and McKinnon fac
tions. 1t took some ten minutes, how
ever, to reestablsh order.
This was but one incident of hun
dred almost as stirring. The game was
rough, needless to say, but the officials
were alert and penalized offenders
without prejudice: The game never
might have gone into overtime but for
half, took advantage of the absence
at one time through penalties of Du-
fresne, Roach and Crovat to press
home its first goal. Up to that Stage
the lack of team work on the part of
the visitors had been somewhat de-
plorablc. 1t improved once the local
goal was penetrated
Roach, centre of the Wanderers,
while about as rough as the rest of
the cast, proved the individual hero by
netting two of the four goals scored.
The lineup:
Wanderers Position charlcs,own.
Ra9sziSy R"tF,saS; .::r. p Tom lsTsrd 1s,,5,l
Smith. t;eron
t.ra. Hoarn ,,;.''... Hutchinson
sLSSI' McKinnon. w ~ s,,,;1',aa Done
Refcr@-J McGrath. International Skating Union
assistant referee. Harry Denesha Boston Goal
umpres-Toln Lynch, St Nicholas S. c.: l. Rcimcr,
Riverside S C.
Goals urst half-Roach (scrimmagc). o:o5
Dufrcsnc tfrom Smiths rcbound). l5:2j; Shaugh- !
messy Cfrom lIntchlnsons rebound, 1910 Sen-
ond half-Sktlton taonc). 1903. Two evtra
periods Of five minutes cach-No score Sudden
death perlodTItoach from scrimnage). $50.
Penalties-1Ioward (for slashng), 9 unlItrs.
Crova. Nor tripping. minutccs Roach lfor
trppng}. minutes Dufrcsno Nor roughlng)
minutes Second pcriol-Crovat (trippjnc,
minutes McKinnn Urlprng). 2 minutes; How,
ard (hookins) . minutes: Downcy "Trip
ping. minutes: Mccarthy (slashing) . min
utes: Do"ncy illegal che.kingl. minutes:
Shaugllncssy irippng,. minutes: Mccarthy ttrlr-
ping, minutes; Mclinnon tnghting) 5 min
utcs: Howard thglting, ) minutes Second extra
per1od--Iloward tslashng). 3 minutes: Dufrcsno
targuing) minutes; Hutchinson (trppingl >
minutes. TmeTwo halves OF 20 minutes each
two extra periods q s minutes each: ono sudtlcu