Gazette, Monday, Dec. 6 – 1894
Hockey
American Hockeyists Coming
Arrangements are in progress for the visit of an American
Hockey team to Canada during the first week in the new year. It is proposed
to play matches at Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston and Toronto. Though it
may not be generally known Hockey has been played considerly in some
of the New England colleges, and at Brown university, Providence, R.I.,
the game has flourished for a long time. One of the most expert players
is Mr. Malcolm G. Chase, the intercollegiate tennis champion, now of
Yale.
Mr. Chase proposes to bring over a team composed of R.
D. Wrean, of Harvard university, champion tennis player of the United
States and the best quaterback in America; Fred. H. Hovey, of Boston,
the well-known tennis player; Clarence Hobart, of New York, who holds
several tennis championships; A.E. Foote of Yale, another crack tennis
man and manager of the Yale football team, and four players from Brown
University. This would make a strong team of good skaters. In New England
the game is slightly different from our own as they play with a rubber
ball instead of a puck. and a great feature of the game is to elude
an opponent by hopping the ball on the ice. The American rules allow
a certain amount of interference. It is proposed to play two games in
Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, the first being in the American style
and the second under Canadian rules.
There is no doubt that the visit of such well known sportsmen,
all of them good fellows, would create quite an interest and further
not only in a sporting but also in a social way.
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