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SENIOR LACROSSE
LEAGUE OPENED HERE YESTERDAY TORONTO
ST.
SIMONS
DEFEAT
ST.
CATHARINES
BY
SCORE
OF
5
TO
3 ACQUIRED
MARGIN
IN
LAST
QUARTER TWO
THOUSAND
FANS
SEE
GREAT
GAME -
WAS
EVEN
FOR
THREE
QUARTERS The St. Catharines
Standard Friday May 25, 1928 Senior lacrosse came back to
St. Catharines with a bang yesterday, when, after a four-year lapse, St.
Simons of Toronto and the Athletics renewed hostilities. The only fly in
the ointment was that St. Kitts lost the decision by a 5 – 3 score. But
local fans need not be discouraged by this reverse. It was one of the best
games played here in a great many years. To use the words of one fan:
“St. Catharines will play worse games than that and win ‘em.” St. Simons, with nearly the
same team that St. Catharines’ Juniors beat back in 1921, played a
wonderful game. They are a rangy, fast and rugged outfit, and have been
playing together for a long time. But even with that advantage, they were
not much, if any, better than St. Kitts. The game was very even for the
first three quarters and going into the final session the score stood 2
– 2. Ty Silk, alone, missed two tries that were both labeled
“goals.” Once he went through the defence and had only the goaltender
to beat when he slipped and fell, losing the ball. Another time he was
inside and ready to take a pass. He got it, but it bound right on the
ground at his feet. With any luck, these two and the one that Stewart
missed when he hit the goalie’s pads with only the goaltender to beat,
night easily have been counters and given St. Kitts the game. Upwards of two thousand people
saw the game and proved that senior lacrosse will still draw in this city. The St. Catharines defence was
one of the shining points of the game. With Gow in goal and “Farmer”
Brown, Purdy, Doucette, Silk and Burnside in front of him, the opposing
home did not exactly have any bed of roses. The home was a little
over-cautious, especially in the first quarter. But they brightened up as
the game went on and threw many a single-handed rush past his man; any one
of which might well have resulted in a goal. The fielding of Bennett,
Wagstaffe, Pennie and Silk was of the best. Before this season is very far
advanced some of the other senior teams will know they have had a busy
afternoon. For the first ten minutes of
the game, both teams set a fast pace but were unable to score. Davis
finally broke through to take a pass inside the defence and register the
first counter. Lounsbury broke through a couple of times but could not
quite make the grade. “Red” Miller (sp) had a nice chance but his pass
to Stewart was a trifle high. Davis started things in the
second quarter which he went down right at the face-off to score the
visitors second goal. The ball was deflected off a defence stick and it
went past Gow. St. Kitts then settled down and Pennie nearly scored when
he took a pass on the gallop. It went wide by inches. Silk went past his
man and had only the goalie to beat when he slipped and fell full length
on the ground. It was certainly a tough break. St. Kitts, however, kept
right on pressing and their persistency was rewarded. Lounsbury gave
Pennie a pretty pass right in front of the goal and Bill made no mistake,
making the score 2 – 1. After a minute afterwards, the ball was scooped
into the St. Simons net from a scrimmage in front of Sutherland. Bennett
got the credit for the goal, although it was hard to tell whose stick did
the necessary. The half ended with the score 2 all. There were several exciting
moments in the third period, but the defence tightened up and there was no
scoring. The play was mostly at the St. Kitts end of the field, although
Stewart missed what looked like a sure goal when, on a pass from Miller,
he hit Sutherland in the stomach. Virtue repeated Davis’ trick
at the beginning of the fourth quarter when he scored at the face-off to
put the visitors one goal up. Silk missed a chance to even matters up when
he hit the outside of the net. He just missed the opening by a hair’s
breadth. Stewart made it 3 when he took a pass from Lounsbury well inside
the defence. Rowan put Toronto in the lead
once more with a long shot that slipped past Gow. Shortly afterwards, Silk
went down when he was hit by a hard St. Simons shot. McGregor picked up
the ball while Silk was still on the ground and tossed it into the net.
St. Kitts protested but the goal was allowed. It was the final score of
the game which ended 5 – 3 for the visitors. St. Simons
– Sutherland, goal; Bullen, point; Thom, cover; Leighton, Nettleship,
Hutchinson, defence; Rowan, center; McKinnon, Davis, Robertson, home;
McGregor, inside; Carroll, outside; Virtue, Bleaker, Sanderson, subs. St.
Catharines – Gow, goal; Brown, point; Purdy, cover; Doucette,
Silk, Burnside, defence; Wagstaffe, centre; Pennie, Bennett, Lounsbury,
home; Miller, outside; Stewart, inside; Peart, Bye, Green, subs. Officials
– Barnett and Bennett of Toronto. |