Daily inter mountain. [volume], February 04, 1899, Page 11, Image 11

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HDCREÏ IS A WINTER SPORT
IT ORIGINATED IN CANADA, BUT HAS BECOME POPULAR IN AMERI
CAN CITIES—A GAME FOR THE ICE.
Hockey is in season once more. Its
votaries have grown to such large
numbers that it is plain the game has
taken its place permanently among the
standard American winter sports. Its
popularity 1« due in a large measure to
the fact that it combines all the ex
citing elements and features of such
games as football, lacrosse and polo with
the picturesque effect the players make
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by being on skates. Hockey means con- '
stant action from start to finish and the
play is always open, so that even the un
initiated spectotor can keep track of it at
all times. i
To play it requires not only much
skill with the hockey stick, but a thor
ough mastery of the art of skating as
well. The hockey player must be able
to accomplish all kinds of quick move
ments, sudden stops and body balancing
on skates as effectively as if he were
playing tennis on the turf. Thus it is
that falls are few among the crack
hockey players, and it is seldom that
a serious accident happens in a hockey
match.
TEAM WORK ESSENTIAL. |
Hockey teams consist of seven play- ;
ers each, their functions being similar
to those of football or lacrosse players. '
There are forwards for offensive work, 1
cover players for defensive play and
backing up and a goal keeper to guard
that Important station. The play is es
sentially team work, although individual
achievements frequently help along to
ward victory and success. The clubs that
win often are those that do the best team
work.
The game is played on the ice, the
bone of contention being a hard rubber
puck, shaped like a two-pound weight, 1
three inches in diameter and one inch
thick. This is propelled with hockey
sticks of the shape familiar to all who
played "shinney" in their boyhood.
Hockey players become so proficient in
the use of the stick that they can push
the puck along gently, snap it in any
direction or lift it the length of the rink
by different wrist motions, according to
the demands of the moment. The object
of the play is to get the puck through the
opponents' goal.
OLD-FASHIONED SHINNEY. J
In many respects hockey is the most
attractive of all the games that have
been developed from the old-fashioned
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"shinney." The Canadians produced it
first, and it was taken up in short order
all over that colony. While spasmodic
attempts have been made at different
times to introduce hockey in American
cities as much as fifteen years ago. it
was not until the winter of 1894-5 that
any consistent effort was made to show
Americans what real hockey was like.
At that time the champion team from
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FACING OFF.
Kingston, Ont., made a tour of Boston,
Pittsburg and other American cities, giv
ing exhibitions that aroused public in
terest and resulted in the establishment
of hockey teams in those cities.
New York had no ice skating rink at
the time, and could not, therefore, ac
commodate the Canadians. But it was
in New York that the first regular
hockey club was organized. About a
score of young Canadian-born residents
established the Hockey club of New York
in December, 1895, setting an example
which has been followed in nearly all the
larger eastern cities of the United States.
The Shamrock and Montreal Athletic as
sociation teams visited New York that
winter, and helped the game along by
giving clever exhibtions.
RAPID DEVELOPMENT.
About the only American dub the
Hockey club of New York could find
that winter to compete with was the
Baltimore Hockey club. The following
winter the big athletic clubs and the col
leges took the game up with such success
that it is now a part of the regular sport
ing curriculum of those institutions. The
New York Athletic club gathered in the
best seven players of the Hockey club,
not an unusual proceeding for the Mer
cury Foot ; the Knickerbockers developed
a team from among its own skaters, and
other teams were organized by clubs In
New York, Brooklyn, Montclair, Philadel
phia, Boston and Pittsburg. Several
of these banded themselves together
and founded the Amateur Hockey
league of America, which is destined to
become one of the most important of
national sporting bodies.
The Hockey league conducts a cham-
pionship tournament each winter, the
winner of which is open to challenge from
any representative team in the country
no$ associated with the league. The
championship games are contested with
all the yim, daring and determination
that mark the -big college football games.
The spectacular nature of the field and
its surroundings make the matches ideal
entertainment for the average American.
The game is played in two halves, each
lasting- 20 minutes, with an interval of
10 minutes between the halves. A referee
and two goal umpires are the only olli-
cials.
- .BUSY LITT! E PUCK.
The puck is faced by one player of j
either sale in the center of the field, be- |
tween two goals, when the game begins.
At the signal of the referee the puck is !
pushed either one way or the other and j
the scramble is on. All over the ice the
little puck slides with confusing rapidity,
with from four to twelve players fighting
for a crack at it. Sometimes, when the
player has a clear field, with good inter
ference, he will dribble the puck a dis
tance of fifty feet or more, one of the
prettiest feats of the game. To dribble
is to push the puck along by a steady
pressure of the flange of the hockey stick,
ocacsionally jerking it this side and that,
to avoid the stick of an opposing player.
Another effective play is to lift the
puck clear of the ice and send it spinning
through the air, often the entire length
of the rink. Tt requires a special knack
to do that successfully, and only a few
of the players can accomplish the trick
properly.
Agility and quickness are required of
all the players at all times. The con
test is one continuous series of quick
plays, which keep the boys on the jump
for the chances as well as for their bodily
protection. Rough play is not permitted,
but there are times when body checking
becomes more than a polite request to
ease up. In body checking one player
gives bis opponent the shoulder in order
to retard his progress. When the men
arc skating fast in opposite directions the
body check is apt to be more forceful than
good manners should justify.
GOALKEEPER'S PRIVILEGES.
Thc> goalkeeper is one of the most
important players of the team. It is his
function to guard the goal and keep the
puck from passing between the two flag
topped goal posts. He alone may use his
harids in stopping the puck, according to
Canadian rules. American rules do not
cover that point, and other phi y ers fre
quently avail themselves of the opportu
nity to block with their hands. The goal
keeper has other minor privileges, made
necessary by the demands of his position.
The trams entered in the race of the
Amateur Hockey league this year are
those of the Hockey club of New York,
New York Athletic club, Montclair
Athletic club, Brooklyn Skating club
and St. Nicholas Skating club. The
Hockey club, pioneers of the sport in the
United States, have developed another
; good t am. captained by Samuel M. Phil
lips, with E. J. O'Donnell as goalkeeper.
HAIR RISES ON END.
An eminent medical man, whose trea
tises on human hair have attracted much
notice, among many other striking
stew tia-nts as to woman's chief beauty,
remarked that "bristling" when used in
speaking of the human hair, is not a fig
ure. The hair is subject to and influ
enced by almost every passion of the hu
man mind, and emotional hair, of which
he lias treated especially, he claims is
quite commmi. Hair looks, feels and falls
differently when a person is in sorrow, joy
surprise or dejection. After a day or two
of deep mental study or violent bodily
exerciS'-. a most visible difference may be
detected by a practical observer. The
day is fated to come, he maintains, when
this coloring in the hair will be a valua
ble aid in identification.
WORN-OUT ARMY' UNIFORMS.
Kngland gets $150,000 a year from the
worn-out uniforms of its army*
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Society
Women
and.in fact,nearly all
women who undergo
a neTvous stTAin. are
compelled to regret
fully watch the grow
ing pallor of their
cheeks, the coming
wrinkles and thinness
that become more
''distressing every day.
Every woman
knows that ill-health
is a fatal enemy to
beauty and that good
health gives to the
plainest face an en
during attractiveness.
Pure blood and strong
nerves — these are the
secret of health and
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beauty.
Dt. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People build up and purify the blood and
strengthen the neTves. To the young gcrl they are invalu
able, to the mother they arc a necessity*, to the woman
approaching fifty they are the best remedy that science
has devised for this crisis of her life
Mrs. Jacob Weaver, of nushnett, 111., is fifty-six years old. Stie says.
"I suffered for five or six years with the trouble that conus to women at
this time oflife. I was much weakened, was unable, much of the time, to
do my own work, and suffered beyond my power to de* cribe. I was down
hearted and melancholy. Nothing scented to do me any good. Then I
made up mv mind to try Itr. Williams I'ink Pills for Pale People.
1 bought the first box in March, iff)?, and was benefited from the start.
A box and a half cured me completely, and I am now rugged and strong.'*
—Bushnell (/."/.) Record.
The genuine package always bears the full name At
all druggists or sent postpaid on receipt of pm« 50^
per box by the Ot Williams Medicine Co , 'bihcneciady. N V.
A WOMAN OF THE COURTS.
HER GRACE OF AUXY HAS FIGURED IN MORE LAWSUIT'S THAN ANT
OTHER TITLED MATRON.
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st fifteen years where
time for anything save
Though wealthy and
of her own little social set, her
interests have constantly been involved
in such a manner that nothing but the
law could free them.
Mme. la Duchesse is the wife of the
Duke of \uxy, from whom, however, she
is at present seeking to be absolutely
freed, and the owner of some very valua
ble real estate. She comes of a famous
family, her father having been F. G. La
mar. who was president of the Bank of
the Republic, and she was also a cousin
of the late L. Q. C. Lamar, United States
supreme court justice.
When quite young Mme. la Duchesse
met Robert W. Soutier, son of banker
,J âmes T. Sender of New York. It was
the oft-repeated story of love at first
sight, and after a short courtship they
[ were married. Mr. Sont ter died in 187?,
leaving his widow half his estate and the
remainder to his four children. Shortly
after her husband's death his business
; became entangled and Mrs. Souttee
! fought it through the courts and won.
Tn 1\73, just nine years after Mr. Sout
■ tor's death, she married his Grace of
Auxy, a Belgian Duke. Their married life
j was not all that was desired, however,
so in February of 1S1I7 they separateed,
and the Duchess was granted the custody,
of their nine-year-old daughter Genevieve
! Félicité Rose Marie Ange, Comtesse of
; Auxy. From then until now her G race
! lias seen nothing but trouble.
The Duchess of Auxy is an extromeely
beautiful woman, with wondrous eyes,
thick, glossy hair and delicate and digni
fied, though it is said that at times ser
manner is imperious, even trying. Hep
yearly income is said to be about $50,000*
The Duke is well built, with good feat
ures, full of life and passionately fond, it
is claimed, of the pleasures of the tabla
THE HOSPITALS AT DAWSON.
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This picture shows the principal street in Dawson. The largest hospital is sit
uated upon this street. There are five other hospitals in Dawson, and the situation'
is so desperate that mounted police have devoted $30,000 in cash from their own
treasury for the assistance of the sick. Commissioner Ogilvie has sent to \\ ash
ington fur money and aid. He requires $0,000 per month for the treatment of thaï