a __ THE DAILY BRITISH Kl! A BY PEACH KINGS PUT KINGSTON then McVicar got in another brainy OUT OF CHANCE FOR 0.H.A. HONORS BY |= Grimey oui ime DEFEATING THEM SATURDAY NIGHT 83 in the sixth Grimsby counter from a scramble in front of Rogers and fif- teen seconds later Reynolds drifted iriwind Pace Set By Grimsby Too Much For Kingston Team =-d.ocals Disorganied and Unable to T Play-- Rogers the Hero of Locals--Grimsby Hig WHIG FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Well, we went further than we thought we were going when we started out. The boys made a wonderful showing and there is no kick to be found with them, even if we would like to have won the championship. Cedar Shingles are in big demand yet. We are keeping our The players were glad the season had ended for them when the final stocks up ready for any emergency call. Bong rang at Grimsby on Saturday night. They have had plenty of hockey ¥ C this winter but next year hope to go even further and cop the honors. Let 3 have yours now, . supply all the : 2 best grades of Red and White Cedar, It would have been nice for Kingston to meet the Soo in Toronto on Tyesday night and clash wilh Johnny Woodruff, "Flat" Walsh and the other boys, but we can't always have our own way, Too bad to disappoint cidentally pushed it into his own net in trying to clear. Hargraft, who carried the puck up and was busy slashing around the net, got credit for the gcore. From this time on, the play was all Grimsby's. Only Rogers' continued good work held them out for thirteen minutes when in 2 shot after a lone rush had car- ried him well up the ice. Kingston's third and last goal was a freak and came three minutes after the start of the final canto, when McVicar ac- Highes Siass Hockey of Season ang Checked Limestone City Boys Closely-- Pace Fast All the Way--Kingston Put up Plucky Fight and Were by No Means Disgraced in Their Defeat. Whip hand throughout = (Special to the Whig.) Hamilton, March 2.--Outclassed everything except courage, tho ston intermediates, champions Eastern Ontario, and heroes of hard fought battles through O.H.A. season, and play-downs, forced to bow in recognition of riority in the final for the On- championship at Grimsby on night. The Grimsby Peach one of the speediest inter- teams of years, held the a sizzling before a record crowd of fans and many visitors, and final score of 8 to 3 was justified with the margin of play held them. Grimsby's two-goal lead om the first game of the series was needed, but the total count of 11 3 4 on the round indicates quite ly the relative power of the The new intermediate cham- sent everything they possessed the fray from the opening bell, ing ome crashing attack after ther into Kingston territory, do-| mined to pile up a decisive mar- before the visitors could pro- set themselves and adapt their to the smaller ice surface. The | rushes carried a string that brganized the Kingston play to a extent during thie opening min- les, and that the series was not de- ively won in the first period was iitirely due to the great gameness ind ability of "Chippy" Rogers, the one City met guardian, who up marvellously under a wick- | assortment of hot drives hurled! Bim from every angle and with power behind them. The King- plans were unable to cope with champions' lines of assault, were varied and {invariably The easterners' defence in bewilderment and the skated themselves into sub- jon, trying in vain to stem the' ks before they sifted through 'thelr direct menace on the King- citadel. No hint of tefth-play forthcoming from the losers. It impossible 'for them to adjust " | to changed conditions, but it is to the credit of every man ! ng the large "K.," that they their best in a lost cause. + Kingston Were In It. : 'While the visitors were occupied #n enormous extent with the of stopping the Peach or at least holding them to 'even share of the play, they were entirely without a sting as their ree goals show. Whenever an ty to break away came, the front line set sail just as sly as their opponents, but it almost a case of them battering and again into a stonewall. Grimsby defence rose to: the fons like real champions and Were never better. They turned as- ults aside handily as befitted their and superior ability, but that, the visitors were in close enough to send scares into the ins, and at times were halted only 'Some sensational saves by Fisher, 6 Grimsby goal. Kingston's of cohesion, in every depart- : was the biggest factor in their { t. At the outset they falled 8 attempted combinations on the Font line because of the remark- agility of the Grimsby forwards, -- former's themselves and while they threaten- ed zlmost every time they started, they invariably wound up in the cor- ners or with a long shot from out- side the defence tnat was impregn- able. Roy Reynolds couldn't find himself all night, and his slow heavy rushes were swallowed up almost before they started. Pitted against the great speed of the entire Grims- by team it can easily be seen that the homesters had little trouble in outskating the Limestone City squad, while their. experience ahd stickhandling ability enabled them to work right through the Kingston defence with comparative ease. One figure stood out supreme under the bewildering hail of pucks through] the sixty minutes. "Chippy" Rogers, the Kingston twine-tender, not only handled himself like a high class goal-keeper, he worked like a Tro- jan to keep his team in the hunt, and the fans marvelled as they saw their favorites beaten out of shot after shot that bounced from every part of "Chippy's" body and off into the corners. He was beaten ten times during the game, two shots be- ing offsides which were called back, but the number of counters that beat him, was a very small percentage of those flicked at him from near and far. . The looseness of the defence in front of him, and the inability of his forwards to match speed with the Peach Kings added to his labors. He let his team down with a' grace- ful defeat against a better team, where another sentinel would un- doubtedly have been compelled to cover up under a stinging route, Smith and Star. Bill Hargraft, the doughty little right winger. and Joe. Smith were the only men in front of the goal to show smart hockey against the lightning attack of Grimsby. The backchecking® interfered greatly with Grimsby's flashy front line play and his smart work around the nets on the offensive threaten- ed on more than one occasion. Smith failed to hold the fastest man on the ice, Horne, but his savage attacks in the face of considerable bodily pun- ishment were very noteworthy. Lawlor rendered yeoman service, as did Watts and Johnson, but they were utterly unable to find them- selves at-any time. For the winners Jerry Carson and McVicar were out- standing, in ali departments. The former was ever-threatening with his powerful rushes and McVicar un- corked some surprising plays that led to scores. Both were impassable on the defence, and not omce did they allow a Kingston attack to go through in its entirety. Horne at right wing, was the fastest man on the. ice and was a regular hornet, running wild and laying pass after pass fo centre ice from where it was | picked up, and hurled at Rogers. Clark and Reld, too, toiled effective- ly but they were shaded by the other members of the team. * The A 4 The second 0 Scorn: Grimiby's best, They were held .almost even in the first by the furious defensive play of the visitors but they manag- ed score two in this frame. The first came before the first minute of Carson rapped in Horne's rebound for his second counter of the night, and two minutes later Clarke got his on a pass from Reid in a scramble. Were Not Disgraced. Weak passing lost Kingston many chances to score, but it is doubtful it they would have been successful in any event against the outstanding wotk of the fruit belters. They gave the best they could under the cir- cumstances, and while beaten were pot disgraced, by any means. They were given a rousing reception after the game, and in the torch light parade and celebration by the enthusiastic towners after the battle, the cheers for Kingston were every bit as lound as those for the lads who raced to the highest intermedi- ate honors of the province in the sixty minutes of furious battling. Final score, Grimsby 8, Kingston 3. Penalties--McVicar (3), Rey- nolds, Burnside (2), Reid (2), Law- lor. The line-ups: Kingston. Grimsby. Goal. Rogers Fisher Defence. Reynolds Rooney McVicar Carson Centre. Watts Reid Wings. Smith . Hargraft Clarke Horne Subs. Lawlor Burnside Johnson Haysoe Referee--Harold Farlow, of To- ronto. FINAL PLAYDOWNS ON THE CARD THIS WEEK Grimsby And 800 Open Up The Big Series On Tuesday Night. Toronto, March 2.--The Arena this week will be the scene of the greatest hockey programme that has been witnessed for a long 'time with both the Junior O.H.A. finals and the play-off between the senior O.H.A. champions and the Northern champions down for decision. Soo Again Cup Favorites. The Macnamara brigade enter the Ontario finals as Allan Cup favorites for the second year in succession and any team to which they are forced to succumb will need to be a stellar organization. Makes Fifth Northern Visit. Since the northern champions first came south to play the O.H.A. cham- pions five years ago, they have been returned winners on two occasions and have lost out on three, so that this season they are presented with a royal opportunity to tie the count. This is the third sucpessive trip for. the Greyhounds who were beaten out by the Granites after a terrific strug- gle two years ago, but reversed the verdict last year when they trimmed Hamilton after great battles, The Soo were the challengers in 1921 when they were beaten by Varsity. d Greyhounds the Best. By many critles the Greyhounds are comsidered to, be the best hoe- key machine in the country whether amateur or pro. en comparisons are made among r teams, the two Olympic teams dre usually taken as a basis and from this stand the Soo have established a real re- putation, as they f the - pion Granites to the it fo vin te all seplor S.P.A. final a year Meet { "Flat." The scores were anxiously awaited by the Kingston fans on Saturday night and the Whig phones were kept on the jump all the time. That last period report took the gimp out of the fans, Coach Gelley has done something which other coaches have failed to do around this part of the country for a while, and that is, make a finalist team out of Kingston. Perhaps few, outside the players and those closely connected with the team, fully realize what his work with the bogs has meant, b ut take it from us, we know, he has done wonderfully well and the players are the first to say so. To-night the Kingston Irishmen and Point Anne meet in the final of Quinte championship and from present indications there is going to be a big crowd on hand to see the boys go. The locals have a three-goal lead on the visitors but the latter claim that on the big ice they will be able to slip it over the local squad. That of course, re- mains to be seen. Walters of Napanee will handle the game here to-night. game for the Bay Verona declared on Friday night at the Arena that they would not re- turn to the Arena to play another game with the Sunbury team. They claimed that the agreement with Verona was that home-and-home games were to be played if there was ice. Verona has ice and insist that Sunbury go there to play but the latter state that the team does not have to 80 to Verona. They claim no ice at Sunbury. The matter is being straightened out. The teams played to ten minutes overtime on Friday night, when Sunbury won 4-2. night. Going at the top of the form that has characterized their play all season the intermediate champs will present the northerners with a real obstacle and'it will take all the elusivenegs of the Phillips, Wood- ruff, Lessard line and the strategy of the Walsh, Brown, Donnelly de- fence to subdue them. The local de- but of young Burke on the Grey- hound substitute will also be await ed witlnjinterest. May Furnish Surprise. So far the northern champions have always succeeded in vanquish- ing the intermediate title holders but in recent years the O.H.A. win- ners with such teams as Stratford and Niagara Falls have forced the northerns to show all they have. Some day the N.O.H.A. champs may get the idea that all they have to do is to appear on the ice, when they will receive the rudest jolt that has ever come to any team. Falls Detonated Bomb. In a session that has been featur- ed by surprises it was left to Niagara Falls to detonate the largest explo- siev when they sent Peterboro's champions hopes sky high, and none who saw the Fraser clan perform but was convinced that if the two teams met the northern champions will have foemen worthy of their mettle, a ------ WILL CONSIDER THE CHANGING OF RULES Canadian Rugby Football Un- lon Discussed Improvements at Saturday's Session. The Canadian Rugby Union, the governing body in Canadian rugby, held a session in Toronto on Satur- day for the purpose of discussing the various problems which annually Crop up over the governing of the Canadian rugby champions and to talk over propositions to change the rules of the game. The rules of competition are mot subject to change at these meetings though proposed amendments are discussed and passed on to the rules commis- sion. The C.R.U. more particularly deals with the problems of the gov- | ernment of the game. On Saturday the officers and dele- gates discussed the old proposal to pool the receipts of the Eastern sen- for playoffs and split the profits after NINN fall, The proposal of the O.R.F.U. dele- gates to open up the play and pave the way for more scoring by com- Pelling the flying wing of the de- fending side to take up a position twenty-five yards back of the line of scrimmage was discussed, and sb was a proposél from the same body that to eliminate injuries and squab- bles over onside kicks that only the kicker and the two outside wings be allowed to go up and take the ball onside. Board of governors appointed for 1925 is as follows: J. Stuart Rayside, Montreal. C. E. Chown, Winnipeg. John F. Savage, Montreal. O.R.F.U. and intercollegiate gov- ernors are to be named later. Those present at Saturday's meet- ing were: Past presidents, Hugh Gall, Toronto; Percy Roberts, Mont- real; William Foulds, Toronto; Rob- ert Isbister, Hamilton ;- president, C. EH. Chown, Winnipeg: first vice-pre- |chy, sident, John DeGruchy, Toronto; second vice-president, Dave McCann, Ottawa; secretary-treasurer, R. W.|tives: Dr. Kinsella, Toronto; 'B, BH Hewitson, Toronto. The word all good rideis think of when they think of Bicycles. THEY ARE HERE 1925 models are here and you can yours out now. - DON'T WAIT but come in and pay $2.00 cash and $2.00 per week and you will have a wheel paid for and never miss the money: you can let the other fellow hang on the strap in the street car, Come in to-day. pick Treadgold Sporting Goods Co [{ 88 Princess St., Kingston. "Phone 529 Toronto; Rind Queen's. g Rules commigsion: Dixon, Hamilton. so y each packad 3 AT] n> NNN . IERIE Interprovincial 'union represen ry