Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-01-29

Moving swiftly toward the rari-
fed heights of a possible interna-
tional amateur hockey champion
ship, the Washington Eagles today
had before them the prospect of
championship series against the
Eastern Canadian champions in
playoff early in April. 1t all hinges
on their success in the current
Eastern Amateur League puck
chase, where today they remain at
the top. leading their nearest rivals,
the pesky Baltimore Orioles, by four
full games.
League officials will attend
meeting February in Buffalo to
null over a possible playoff between
the Eastern Amateur League champs
and the Eastern Canadian winners,
the victors to be the amateur title
holders of the East In the United
States and Canada. Currently the
Eagles loom as the United States
representative. unless they go into
a tailspin. Without a loss in II
straight games. with only tie
against them, in all that time. they
are looking to anything but a
tumble
Tie Own Goal Record.
They tied their own season high
goal mark as they took the husky
Atlantic City Sea Gulls apart last
night and scattered the pieces all
over Riverside Stadium A crowd
of 1886 paid customers saw Old Fox
Len Burrage, playing like a wild
man on both offense and defense
score the first two goals; diminudve
Paul Courteau, who has been some
thing less than a ball of fire this
season, suddenly grab the scoring
bit in his teeth and ring up three
counters. and the Eagles, individu-
ally and as a team, skate and score
rings around the Gulls, who held
them to a tie in Atlantic City last
Saturday In all the Eagles scored
eight goals while holding the oppo-
sition to T. But the last three goals
scored by the Gulls came after the
local entry literally had put the game
on ice, and the boys were playing
only for their averages. When the
buzZer rang closing the second period
Washington led, 81. After that 1t
was Just a question of the size Of
the score.
Washington's winning streak has
been spread around with extrava-
CANT regard for the heft and skill of
their opponents. They've taken
them all in stride as they came along
and today they loom as money in
the bank to win the Eastern League
title.
An old hockey axiom has it that
the team scoring the first goal has
the edge. The Eagles did it twice
last night. with Burrage. a demon
with a stick, twice firing the red
light within two minutes, after a
fast start and flock of penalties
had forecast what loomed as a fist
swinging, high scoring game.
The high scoring prediction
worked out, but the fist swinging
didn't materialize. The boys drew
eight penalties in all, with five Of
them being melted out to overzeal-
GUS Gulls. Dracula Harry Dick, the
Atlantic City bad man. drew only
one, but his playmate-Stewart
Cheetham-filled in nobly where
Dick left off.
Dick Gets in His Digs.
Cheetham spent four minutes Of
the first period in the penalty box
for roughing and high sticking, but
Dick got in his dirty ticks Just the
same, spilling Eagle Wing Ross
Rossignol with a wicked body check
The officials diagnosed it as charg-
ing, banished him for two minutes
and Rossignol went down to the
dressing room for a session with a
heating lamp
In al! it was a lot of fun and
nobody was hurt. Not seriously, that
Is. Atlantic City self-esteem took
bump, and the Eagles got another
boost, but that is getting to be old