New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Farah Brothers, Sherman,
Gladstone, Stratton, Kendall
and Schiebler Clever Septet

Followers of metropolitan hockey
have complained for years that tho
snort was slowly but surely dying of
dry rot. The same men kept playing
each winter, growing slower and slow
er as the seasons passed, and no new
blood ever crept into the game. The
Amateur Hockey League knew what
was to blame, but until last winter the
remedy could not be applied. The
whole fault lay in the management of
skating Kinks. For years the only
hockey players considered worth while
we're the professional tourists
from Canada.
The building Of the Brooklyn lee Pal
ace last winter changed the whole
hockey situation. Its management knew
nothing of the game, and, listening to
the older members of the Amateur
Hockey League, it consented to allow
the Brooklyn schoolboys to play
championship series. 1t was rather stiff
going at first. Hockey was practically
unknown in the Brooklyn schools. but
thS IVY MSLS NAiliuS cLOuSu 10 learn.
They went at the game with will. re-
gardless of the fact that their practice
peTods and games were played at the
most inconvenlent hours.
Public Slow to Awake
Al first the Brooklyn schoolbov pub
lie did not take kindly to the sport The
men who owned the Brooklyn Ice Pal
ace said nothing, simply waiting to see
If the Amateur Hockey League had the
right dope" on both the hockey and
the schoolboy situation. To-day the
Brooklyn Ice Palace realizes that
hockey is the coming sport among the
schoolboys and that. within another
winter, the game will rank with foot
ball in general popularity.
1t is astonishing how fast the Brook
lyn schoolboys have picked up the pas
time. No school has showed to better
advantage in the p. S. A. L. champion
ship race than Poly Prep. In olden
days Poly Prep always had good teams.
Unless indications are wrong, the
sport in future is going to be popular
at Poly Prep. Captain Byrne Farah.
captain of this years seven, hit the
nail on the head when he said yester-
day:
"we are going to have some great
hockey players at school within the
next few years There is fairly good
sized pond on the new property Of our
school and that pond is going to be
the making of good hockey players.
Already We have four "kid" teams at
work. Those boys are going to grow,
and inside Of few years Poly Prep
should be able to hold it's own with
any school in the country not except
ing st. Paul's School, of Concord,
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The admission of Poly Prep to the
p. S. A. l.. championship series has
caused some comment in the scholastic
sporting world. Poly Prep is private
school. Notwithstanding that fact,
every other school in the league was
anxious to have it as competitor.
1t must be remembered when hockey
was started last year the series was
not in public schools only. The organ
zation was called the Long Island
lnterscholastic Hockey League, and in
addition to the public schools St.
Johns Prep, another private school,
also competed for the championship |
This year the p. $. A. /. took over the
league and invited Poly Prep to COM
pete for the title and the medals Of
1ered by the Amateur Hockey League.
Excellent Chance to Win
Judging by the work of the teams to
date, Poly Prep has an excellent
chance OF winning either the first or
The second set of prizes. The stars of
The team are the two Farah brothers.
The lads come from the Cobalt section
of Canada, and naturally had some
hockey experience before they started
TO play for Poly Prep.
Captain Byrne Farah is stationed at
rover. He is cool, quiet, clever player,
who skates we'll, is an excellent shot
and plays snappy hockey He easily is
the star of the Poly team, and, next to
Hall, the sensational Erasmus player,
the best lad in the league.
Frank Farah, his brother, also plays
cool hockey. He has been holding down
right wing and looks like the best bov
at that position in the league On the
line there are also Sherman and Glad