Show 4 S J JY E ackey Players Piaye s Open a Whirling g Season East and West t 5 The Champions Why Canadians Lead In the Game t p J Jt J t CD GE E hockey hockY s Is 15 off on a whirlwind II season So rapid Is 15 advance a t 11 mado In the United States during tho Mho last three years by h this great came game that thal it is seen to be outstripping f all other otho winter sports in popularity Pittsburg PIU hurs was at one period con ld cred preeminent as r center of ice hockey activity but hut must musti j i share shuro tills this position with lt other cities The rh puck pushers of o Cleveland Bu Buffalo Buffalo falo alo New Kew York Philadelphia t lyn Chicago Boston St Sl Louis St StPaul Paul Cincinnati and Detroit fire are increasing in increasing f creasing In numbers activity and skill They rhe will twill not yield ld to Pittsburg today todo tho the position held by hy that hockey In the past without a struggle le leho 3 The Tho ho class claSH of or play pIa In n tho the United I States Is gradually gra approaching that thal I if f r the Canadian experts who Ito have de dc the game frame J ame to a point of ot ad ady adI I l I y science Just why wh the Ameri Amerl Americana cans cana have hae remained persistently In to lo the Canadian hocke ilM Is probably found in the rampant pro professionalism pro professionalism of or the tho Dominion players The Tho latter arc Invariably paid com comfortable comfortable sums when their ability bo be becomes comes pronounced The attendance at al atthe althe atthe the games ames in Canada Cana a Is always aha s large especially when important teams teRms compete com compete pete pet Many of tho the teams learns take in as ns much money mone as minor league 1 11 baseball teams do in the Stales Slates Therefore tho the players player certain of or a steady stealy stead income if they excel HIO aro prompted to make hockey playing plains a t business And An these paid men are aro found C und on many man teams which which pose lose as amateur organizations and alII which play exhibition games Inthis In Inthis this country as amateurs Conso Conse Consequently Clu it Il Is 18 unfair to compare tho the relative playing ol ot American and Canadian Ca Canadian nadian teams because our teams are arc Invariably made mado up of or simon pure amateurs For Fo instance there Is not a single paid player pla cl on an American college collese team nor In any nn team of or the Amateur Hockey league lea ue made mado up of oC New York and an Brooklyn teams This league pots up time tho strongest stron amateur amal ur game gamo in this country ranking far ahead of oC the Ih 11 league made up tip of Yale Harvard Princeton Columbia and Dartmouth Almost Almo t a Million See Sec Hockey Games Gamo Ice Ico hockey hocke has called out more moie play players players ers on to tho Ico ice this year ear than ever before There arc all told about regularly organized organised clubs In the United Slates and the players total over oer Almost a II million people witness the games these teams play pla The greatest hockey e team In the world worl Is tho the Wanderers organization I i f i d i F 4 r rS S f Li I J r rat at aty i y r a r n iP 1 v fi Rf r I a i A 1 7 Sv 1 Dobby 2 Stebbins 3 4 Wall 6 6 captain 7 Liffiton 8 Lang CRESCENT A C HOCKEY TEAM BROOKLYN CHAMPIONS AMATEUR LEAGUE I of or Montreal This team tam holds the I Stanley cup emblematic of the worlds orl s championship It recently defeated dl the theE Edmonton E monton team of oC the province of or Al Alberta Alberta berta herla and thus thUM retained possession pos of oC the coveted trophy troph won by I the same tamo team last year car and the tho year ear before The Wanderers are aro not amateurs judged by b American and anti probably Canadian Ca Cn Canadian nadian standards Their team ork represents the apotheosis of oC tho the puck chasers defensive and offensive art arl Their Individual stars sta s are arc men man of or thrilling speed and masterful muscularity muscularity larity They will bo be seen In Pittsburg New York and Detroit during tho the winter winterTime Time The American Amateur Hockey Hocky league Is offering Cering of even chances for Cor several teams In the championship race lace of oC this season Tho Time Crescent Athletic club of oC Brooklyn n thin tha St Nicholas Hockey Hocko club of Now New York and tho rho Now York Athletic club all nil havo have a look In hi on their present form Corm But hockey hocke form is an as uncertain as hoi horse si racing form You can never noer tell who lio will be c tho winner until some bomo ono one wins Harvard a Strong College Team In the thc Intercollegiate league Har ards chances are aro Iho tho best est Just now rho Tho look bolt vastly bettor better on the tho Ice Ico than Yalo Yale or Princeton However Harvard was a favorite with Princeton last year ear and Yale Yalo won Yale Yak has hOM had the services of or the ablest coach in this thin country countr Tom rom Howard who w ho has haH captained leading teams In Canada and tho the United States He It was who put Yale Yalo in the Iho championship niche last year ear and hits his training train In has brought several New Haven players up to what whal closely Canadian college coll e standard Jack D McDonald captain of or the Canada team of last year ear has hOM seen Harvard Harvar at work and nd claims that lint tho the crimsons could play J ln any amateur team Learn in Canada Can da and lither either win or como very ver close to It but hut McDonald denned defined what he heim im means by b the term Canadian ama tour lour l Perhaps Its just is mt well that he has ha not done so bo Others have tried to lo define What hat a it Canadian ama amateur tour leur Is I and miserably failed Though riot not in Mho Iho league Cornell University of oC Penn I Wont Vest Point i Military academy Brown Drown university and a score of oC other equally prominent in 11 tho east ost have organized organised stron strong teams and arranged for lor f r interesting matches I In thc Mlle Middle West WestIn In Tn the tho middle west w sl activity Is equally II apparent and a n series serl s of or matches be bc tween eastern a tern and western colleges is isnow Isnow isnow now in course of an argument Whit What many of or the folks Interested in hockey desire is a series to deter determine determine r mine tho the national champions in two distinct Holds tho college colloso and the tho club Certain It Jt Is hockey will never never at al attain attain tain tho the height and importance it do serves until such Rueh a series of tests is consummated Versus Johnson Again Joe Jeannette tho limo Now York negro heavyweight ht who has just sailed for or France contemplates a match malch with whit Jack Johnson In the tilt early carl part parl of ot February Jeannette J is II hound bound for Paris where ho lie has several matches carded which bid hid fair fall to lo bo ho productive I of or much French rench 1 gold go t The negro glove wielder after ho he has exhausted tho the pugilistic possibilities of or tho UIO city of boulevards boulevard will leave Ici o for London TAndon where ho hopes to lo bo ue matched up with the conqueror of oC Burns for a n bout hout at al atthe alth atthe the th National Sporting Spoiling club chub t These m men n have havo met before seven seyen times limos in fin tho the squared circle Four con contests contests tests terminated in iii six round draws the tho went ten sessions to an even oven break breal while Jeannette was awarded a decision In the tho sixth sh 81 th In two rounds on ona onn ona a n foul Johnson defeated the lie prospective tive tho champion In a fifteen round con contest contest test Mardi Gras as Auto Races R A five mile international champion championship ship race open to all curs curs but bul to ers of amateur standing only onh has bc W added to tho the list of or events on thO schedule arranged by b tho New Orleans I 1 Automobile club for lor Its Mardi Gras motor car air moot moet of or February next A A I IsHver silver cup will bo be 1 0 tho the prize at stake i iBEN BEN TAVIS A VIS f NELSON TO REST UNTIL SPRING I 1 am tired reading r about this man tt i t t tand and that man wanting to tight light me mo J said Battling Nelson tho featherweight I champion recently It also tires mo ma to toI I hear from boxing club managers who want to get mo me Into tho the ring riu right away awny There is nothing planned at ot present resent and there thero will not be until March At that time Ill be bo ready to give heed heet to some sonic of or the young men who want a chance to gain my m title 41 I t j jJ 1 J i kt f fr r 1 L r ra I 4 st r l 1 1 Qi c t tt tt i r a r t f t s l t 9 l fri rp v Y y lIr 1 i Thayer 2 Bab 3 Wylie 4 L Stanley Stanleyj 5 Bigelow 6 Williams 7 H Stanley St captain 8 Driscoll 9 i Howard YALE HOCKEY TEAM rEAM CHAMPIONS INTERCOLLEGIATE LEAGUE 1 |