Brt 03 loss 2

St. Catharines will take the final whirl with Brantford Monday next. This time it will be on the Brantford grounds. The game on July 18th has not been forgotten when St. Kitts gave the Minto Cuppers a race for their lives on their own grounds, and then practically presented the champions with the game at the finish. An excursion will be run again; the same cheap rate has been secured and a crowd will no doubt accompany the team and be on hand to root. The train will leave the Geneva street depot at 12:45 o'clock and the Western depot at 1:15 p.m., return leaving Brantford at 7:15 o'clock.

SURPRISING BRUTAL EXHIBITION IN THE TELEPHONE CITY – ST. KITTS PLAYER ASSAULTED WHILE STANDING AGAINST THE GRAND STAND FENCE – REFEREE NOT TO BLAME

The Daily Standard

St. Catharines and Brantford finished their last championship C. L. A. game with each other for the season on Monday in the Telephone City, the home team winning on a score of 6 goals to 3, following the score of 4 goals to 2 against them here last Wednesday. The match was decidedly discreditable to Brantford. Their importations were beaten here in two clean games; on Monday St. Catharines started in to play for the ball and the players were continually running into a stick, which invariably collided with a vital spot.

Finally, Kalls had to leave the game with a cut lip, Lepard had his leg injured and had to retire, and Parke and Allan carried enough marks on their bodies to deserve to lay off.

But the dirtiest piece of work was that by “Tack” Hendry, the husky ex-Shamrock renegade, the memory of whose disgraceful conduct should stink in the nostrils of every Brantford spectator who saw the game.

Ruled off the match with Elliott, out of control of the referee, Hendry deliberately punched Elliott, the St. Catharines cover point, flattening his nose temporarily on his face; blood flowed down the assaulted player’s face, while the ex-Montrealer broke away from those who held him and flourished about as though he were aching for another victim.

Policemen were on the field and St. Catharines people called for Hendry’s immediate arrest, but their request was not heeded; and after Elliott had been attended he returned to the field. Hendry also took his place as if nothing had happened.

All through the match dirty little tricks were resorted to which the referee could not see, and he tried to do his duty. He did it well, and had it not been that Brown Jackson had charge of the game it is doubtful how much worse matters would have been.

Two St. Catharines home players were put out of the game for the whole match with injuries; an attempt was made to bury another and a thorough disregard for the heads of the others was shown. At one time Taylor, apparently crazed when checking Charlie Lowe at the edge of the field, knocked Charlie off his feet and into a bunch of spectators.

With all these black marks against Brantford, it is hard to find what that club is doing to improve the game. Always the first to squeal of imagined roughness, they allow the players on the team that draws their largest crowds to be cut, beaten and assaulted; then they try to introduce corruption among the players; first trying to pull a member from the club. Brantford has shown no regard for the best interests of the game at any time, and if the conduct on the field shown on Monday is upheld then the Telephone City should be excluded from the association.

Let Brantford frown on such criminal brutality as that exhibited by Hendry. He committed as assault on a British subject in front of hundreds or witnesses. It was no part of the match, but will remain a stain on the game and on Brantford until it is wiped out in the courts.

St. Catharines sent a record excursion with the Athletics, there being 10 carloads of people, making a contingent of 800 people, all of whom attended the match and swelled Brantford’s finances. They were disappointed. Not at the score, particularly, but the manner in which the team was beaten. The Athletics were plainly not in their best condition, and it should not have been necessary to resort to such tactics to win.

In St. Catharines, Hendry was as mute as a lamb and was glad to keep away from the heavy part of the play, but the yellowness of the breed is displayed when before his own crowd, he blossoms out into an uncontrollable cyclone: blustery, windy and murderous. He has made himself liable to punishment. Will the respectable people put down their feet upon such tactics or will they pat him on the back, as did some silly youths Monday? Toleration in such cases will bring destruction to the game as sure as fate.

The excursion was late in arriving at Brantford and it was not until 4:25 when the ball was faced.

St. Kitts		Brantford
Chaplin	Goal	Hesse
F. Williams	Point	Dowling
Elliott	Cover Point	Grimes
Richardson	1st Defence	Hamburg
R. Williams	2nd Defence	Finlayson
Cameron	3rd Defence	Neeley
Cornett	Centre	Taylor
Kalls	3rd Home	Doyle
Lepard	2nd Home	Dade
Lowe	1st Home	Hendry
Allan	Outside Home	Henry
Parke	Inside Home	Murphy
A. C. Kingstone	Field Captain	Crowley

Timekeepers – J. McNeill, St. Mary’s for the referee; H. O’Loughlin, St. Catharines; W. Crawford, Brantford.

The Brantford home had been changed somewhat and it worked very well, Murphy being dangerous at inside home and hard to watch. The face-off went to Brantford, Allan was given a two-minute rest for putting a stick about Hamburg’s neck. Brantford scored their first on a shot by Murphy on a pass from Dade, who was fed by Taylor. It was fast, quick work, Cornett gave a good exhibition of individual work with Taylor and got the ball. Hendry showed his bad blood first by hitting Elliott. Referee’s Jackson’s eye was on him and off he went. Neeley later was penalized for fouling Cornett. Chaplin had a few stops and Kalls made a clever steal from Taylor and threw to Lowe. Allan made a strong effort, but Dowling stole his pass. Lowe and Lepard later figured in a neat attack, but they were crushed down by the Brantford defence. After 11 minutes Murphy scored Brantford’s second on a pass from Hendry. Score at the end of first quarter, Brantford 2, St. Kitts 0. Before the end of the quarter Neeley’s stick came down on little Kall’s face, frightfully gashing his lip. The little fellow, after being attended by a doctor, had to leave the match. Neeley went off with him.

Brantford rushed things in the second quarter, and Chaplin had an early stop. Parke got in a circle and Lowe had a try which Hesse stopped. The St. Kitts field seemed to play loose, allowing Brantford to play in close on our nets. The red-shirted home men were well kept. Elliott got a rest and was followed by Bert Henry. Lepard made a close shot and Taylor walked off the field for hitting Parke. The play got stiffer and harder and Reub Williams was given a two-minute rest. Elliott and Hendry were put off together. Lepard and Lowe made a hard struggle and were knocked about. Then after 12 minutes Bert Henry scored Brantford’s third. The play grew harder. At this juncture Hendry made a brutal display of himself at Elliott’s expense. A St. Catharines lady fainted and was carried away. Then Lepard was set upon and checked heavily. His knee was injured and he was carried off the field not to return. The team was also without Kalls, who was first crippled. Grimes went off with Lepard to even the numbers.

Then “Bones” Allan was knocked out. He came up gamily and continued to play. There was room to suppose this was not intentional; and it went. Dowling had his leg twisted and he was carried to the fence, where he remained the balance of the match. Grimes taking his place on the field again. Taylor got another rest for dirty work. When he returned Bert Henry put in another counter after 8 minutes of play. Score at half time, Brantford 4, St. Kitts 0.

With two men off the St. Kitts home had a hard task. Lowe, Allan and Parke were only three and they had five always against. There was a space between the two fields on both sides. Allan went off to pay a two-minute penalty, and Brantford took advantage to rush matters. Chaplin stopped a couple of hot ones, one hitting him near the neck. The visiting defence was drawn out nicely and Hendry dropped one in at short range. Time 6 minutes.

Then something happened. Lowe and Allan danced around the Brantford defence and in 1 ½ minutes the nets bulged. Lowe had scored.

The next was even more surprising to Brantford, Cornett got the ball at the face-off, threw to Lowe who gave it to Allan. “Bones” galloped to the flags, passed Hamburg and Finlayson, and scored after the greatest piece of individual play seen in the game.

The St. Kitts defence then helped the home for a time and Hesse was kept busy for a while, Lowe entertaining him well, while Parke, who had Finlayson watching him, was always making a move. He also was badly used up in the match. Before the third quarter ended Brantford increased its score on a shot by Hendry. Chaplin had several more, stopping all, his back doing service as well as his legs. Lowe, Allan, Parke were working their lives out when the whistle blew. Score, Brantford 6, St. Kitts 2.

In the last quarter St. Catharines scored the only goal. This was made on a shot by Lowe, just half a minute after the face-off.

Brantford tried some hot attacks, but the defence was always able to hold them off. Murphy had been moved out in the field. Hesse, who had been waiting for a chance at Lowe, went at him and got a two-minute rest. Cameron gave Doyle a jolt with his stick, and also went off. The last part of the quarter was marked by close, hard playing. Brantford tried to rag for a long time, but it did not last long. Just before the finish Joe Cameron narrowly missed scoring a goal. But there was no scoring on either side for 19 ½ minutes before the end of the match. Final score, 6 to 3.

Richardson was the player from the St. Kitts team who played the best game from start to finish. The rest all played great at times, but the condition was not of the best. Then the home was disorganized through the loss of Lepard and Kalls, and there was no telling when another man would be laid out.

With all these unpleasant things which the locals were up against they scored one more goal in Brantford than the Telephone’s scored in St. Catharines. Out of the four matches Brantford has played with St. Catharines this season Brantford has scored 14 goals and St. Catharines 13. A play-off at the island is what St. Catharines wishes to see. The Brantfords will have a chance to show how strong they are on neutral grounds. They will be as little less inclined to carve their men there. There will be no assaults, knock-downs and drag-outs there if Brantford will consent to play there on August 15^th.

In the C.L.A. standing Brantford has won 8 games and lost 2. St. Catharines has won 6 and lost 4.