Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-03 | Page 10 | The Insider Says

" "My game," Ihe hockey player sAh!. "la really not so rough, sir; I wear o wool cap on my head. But really that's a bluff sir. "Tls not the cap tu;:' makes the crime So safe and harmless, no. .sir. POT when some player lakes good aim I'd surely feel the blow, sir. if i r ad not. beneath ray cap What every man should own, sir. I Who would withstand it henrty rap A heap coat of hone, sir." A new IcS hockey league was recently recent-ly organized In Pittsburg; It. 1 called the TJnlled states Amateur Hockey : i league. I ' ne of the first things the league Idld was to iiisue a lot of amateur cards j to hockey players In various cities. 'Apparently o bum h Of stam who have .played for money in the past may be-'come be-'come aimon-pure amateurs by promts-ling promts-ling not to do it any nior. I William S. Haddock is president of the new league. n his first day Oh 'the job he was handed an Investigation Investiga-tion to wrestle with. Pittsburg and Ontario teams had a game and it was I very roii3:h. j The hockey players acted In an u.n-Igeemly u.n-Igeemly manner. They scuffled around the lee and swing their slicks In u menacing manner and hoy; and then a i human Crock i'ut In the way .-ind was J nicked. , President Haddock Is going lo in-i Vestlgate this affair to find out if it. Was really an afir.iy. If thl.i particular ; hockey game v lough he wants to' know about i. r.;-ht awa: He might ae himself trouble by taking our word tor It thstf game B rough and We weren't there to see It. ' I ' If hockey Isn't rought It Isn't hoekjey. Hockey is a rougli and rugged game, born in the north country, where men' arc husky and skulls are thick ' I ii is played on ice by men wearing skates. They skate around as fast us they CSJl, wielding a w ooden club and j trPig to knock a rubber puck Into a goal. If I hey don't fall down while skat-' lin? and break their legs, someone i stlt !;" out hi leg and trips Vm CSUIB-ing CSUIB-ing them to fall nnd break their noses. And ajwaya there art i rv r-.i sticks Whistling through the air. dipping off ears and denting eraniums. Hockey Is a brisk and lively game and no referee oh earth can make it 'anything else I EJven President Haddock will find il Impossible to make rung pong nuf of! it. Especially if the league continues to distribute amateur card-, with a free' 1