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C. L. A. EXECUTIVE LAST NIGHT GAVE LAMBE OF THE TORONTO LACROSSE TEAM LEAVE TO PLAY WITH THE MINTO CUP COVETORS.

The Athletics had an excellent practice last evening, every man on the team being out except Elliott, Lowe and Kalls who were out of town and unable to return in time for the turn out. The men will have another couple of hours’ work this afternoon and every possible moment will be spent in preparing for Wednesday’s contest with Brantford. The Telephone town team is coming down with a big crowd of supporters and the record crowd of the season may be looked for. Secretary Frank of the Brantfords has written to Secretary Timmons stating that arrangements have been made for a big excursion on Wednesday and the Brantfords are coming fully determined to win the match and put the Athletics out of the running for the 1903 championship. Those who do not see Wednesday’s contest will miss the greatest lacrosse struggle ever played on the Athletics’ grounds.

The C. L. A. judiciary met in Toronto last night and granted permission to Hugh Lambe, late of the Torontos, to play with Brantford. The red-shirted aggregation is determined to win the championship again this year and will spare no expense in their endeavours to accomplish that end. It is up to the Athletics now to strengthened the weal spots. It looks as though the C. L. A. is controlled by a certain clique, when a player can obtain a certificate after playing with another team, although the constitution says a player cannot play with more than one team in a season. What will President Lennox say when the Athletics ask for certificates for two Eastern cracks?

Brown Jackson of Seaforth will referee the match between the Athletics and Brantford here on Wednesday.

The Brantford Expositor says: “Now that Lambe has been signed by the Brantfords, it’s dollars to doughnuts that the St. Kitts people will swear that the whole C. L. A. judiciary is crooked.” On which the only comment that can be made is that a guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Again, before one of the largest crowds which ever attended a game of any description in St. Catharines, the C. L. A. champion team from Brantford received their second C. L. A. defeat this year, and again it was from the St. Catharines Athletics. Wednesday being civic holiday, St. Catharines citizens turned out in large numbers, while the visitors from various points added to the crowd. A special train from Brantford brought about 400 supporters of the Minto Cup chasers, who, while they saw a great game, had little chance to do much of a share of the rooting and they generally resorted to coaching from the fence, thinking no doubt that they were helping their players.

The red shirted telephones stepped into the game at the start and set the pace, taking the first goal. The Athletics stretched themselves until they reached the Brantford pace and played them down and beat them in the first quarter. In the second Brantford freshened and tied the score, where it remained at half time. The locals exhibited great endurance and played with the greatest effect in the last two quarters, adding two goals to their first two, making four, while Brantford was held down to their first two, thus having the score doubled upon them, making safe a few wagers which were made with apparent recklessness.

The last quarter saw the greatest exhibition of rag which appeared really cruel to the more charitable saints, but the spectators were delighted, and as the much-touted visitors were made ridiculous by their light and dark-blued largely home-grown St. Catharines opponents, 3,000 voices roared with laughter. This was a heartbreaker. In the vernacular, Brantford “quit.” The defence fielders stood still, others sat down. For over five minutes the rag play was continued until Parke led an attack on the Brantford goal. It was an individual attack, but it almost scored. Then Brantford got possession of the ball for the first time in several minutes. Hamburg got it into his stick, when to the intense surprise of all on the grounds and the oddest display of desperation that was ever seen on the local grounds, he shut his eyes and threw the ball with full force over the fence, while the Brantford followers looked upon the field with chagrin. It was a fair and square defeat. The Minto cuppers were beaten to the finish, from a dozen of lightning world-beating players at the start and unto a bunch of novices at the end.

Upon the arrival of the visitors the teams lined up as follows, with the below named officials:

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	Murphy
Allan	Outside Home	Hendry
Parke	Inside Home	Henry
A. C. Kingstone	Field Captain	Crowley

Timekeepers—E. Graves, for the referee, H. O’Loughlin, St. Catharines, W. Crawford, Brantford.

Cornett got the face-off his way, but it was sent back. Down again St. Kitts’ way, and Hamburg stole a pass from Kalls and ran up the field, Reub got in his was of the ball and scooped it out. But Brantford was determined. One of those fast rushes which winds up with a diagonal run, catch and shot by Bert Henry close to the goal was worked successfully. It was pretty and was an earned goal, but this was the only one deserved. It was scored just two minutes after the start of the match.

If a bomb had been exploded in the light and dark-blue ranks a bigger show of life could not have been made. They stretched out after Brantford’s score, got the ball at the face-off and made a couple of hard rushes, which when continued must be productive of good result. Lepard shot, Hesse blocked, and then back it went and Dade gave Chaplin one to stop. Parke gathered himself together and bothered the whole Brantford defence. Lowe got a pass and scored St. Kitts’ first in 1 ½ minutes and the enthusiasm of the crowd knew no bounds.

The Brantford home was ready for scoring purposes all the time, and Elliott, Richardson and the Williams Bros. Were kept busy and Chaplin had an occasional one to stop. Dade was on the firing line continually and had several shots. A few went of Elliott, Chaplin or Frank Williams. Then came the most beautiful piece of team play of the day. The St. Kitts defence broke up a Brantford attack. Little Kalls, who was down on the defence end, was given the ball. He raced to Taylor, passed to Lowe, he to Allan, then to Lepard and Kalls, who had by this time got close to the goal, received from Lepard and whisked the ball in past Hesse. Time 5 ½ minutes. It was lacrosse up to date and drew forth a tremendous burst of applause.

Hendry took a chance in going by Elliott, and the St. Kitts cover point was given a rest for hitting Tack, who was very aggressive in this match. The score at the end of the first quarter was 2 to 1 in favour of St. Kitts.

The second quarter was a hard one. The fast pace of the first quarter told on both teams. The Athletics were plainly not in their best condition and the home field lagged at times, although working every bit of energy they possessed. Neeley was seized with a cramp in his knee and retired for a short spell, Kalls going off with him. Brantford pressed hard. Dade shot one ball that was stopped by Chaplin’s foot. Reub Williams got another from Dade and Lepard made a beautiful piece of play on the fly. Parke rounded the goal and threw over to Lowe, who gave Hesse one to stop.

Brantford got the only goal in the second quarter, Dade scoring while Chaplin was out of the nets. With Chaplin in goal the nets were hard to find, but when empty Brantford found no great difficulty in crowding the small ball between the goal posts. This was the last goal that went to Brantford. Score at half time 2 to 2.

The third quarter opened with a scrimmage about centre. Lowe shot and hit Hesse in the chest. The ball bounced out, Kalls got it, was tripped by Hamburg in front of the goal and Hesse jumped on him, but the plucky little junior retained the ball, and put it in while lying under Hesse’s feet. This took just ½ minute.

Lepard rushing in on the goal was set upon by three of the Brantford defence, and was injured on the head in the scrimmage and went off for a time, Neeley going with him. Both returned later. There was no more scoring in this quarter, though the rooters were given plenty of time to work. Hendry went off for slashing Richardson, and Lowe got a rest later for a minor offence. Kalls and Neeley got into little mix-up and both went to the fence.

At the opening of the fourth quarter the Athletics got their fourth goal. Parke shot, Hesse batted out, then Lowe got it and sent it back. This time it went in. Time 1 ½ minutes.

The balance of this quarter was where the rag play came in and where Hamburg threw the ball away. The Athletics completely outplayed their imported opponents, who looked like winners at the start.