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The Athletics will leave for Chicago on Friday Sept. 12^th to play the Calumet Lacrosse Club of that city a game on the following day – Saturday.

For the benefit of those who wish to take in this excursion, The Standard publishes the following facts:

Leave St. Catharines on Friday Sept. 12^th at about 6 o’clock, making connections with the Michigan Central at Welland at 8:55 p.m. Arrive at Chicago, Saturday, Sept. 13^th at 8:25 a.m. Leave Chicago at 12:15 a.m. on Monday Sept. 14^th, arrive at Welland at 1 p.m. Monday, return fare $12.00 from Welland.

Sleepers; $3 for a lower and $2.60 for an upper. Kindly leave names at Tim and Mac’s.

Word was received this morning that Mr. Rittenhouse, the millionaire Chicago lumberman, will give both teams a dinner on Saturday night at the Chicago Canadian Club.

The Athletics will hold a meeting tonight at 8 o’clock at the Grand Central Hotel, when business of importance regarding the trip will be discussed.

Fifteen of the Athletic Lacrosse Club will leave on Friday night for Chicago where they will be the guests of the Calumet club till Sunday night. On Saturday they will play a game and in the evening there will be a banquet through the bounty of Mr. Rittenhouse. The Calumet club is going to great expense to keep alive the game of lacrosse in Chicago, paying for the transportation of the Athletics there and back, and the advertising of the game. It figures on an outlay of not less than a thousand dollars. It is sending out letters, enclosing tickets, to all loyal Canadians in the city and a return envelope addressed to Roy Yielding, treasurer, as the future of lacrosse in Chicago depends on the success of the games at the White Sox ball park.

The pilgrims will leave by the N. St. C. & T. for Welland, there to catch the 8:55 train for Chicago, arriving there Saturday morning. They will leave Chicago on Sunday night at midnight and arrive home at noon on Monday. The party will consist of President J. F. Timmons, F. Dixon, J. Pople, J. Gayder, H. Carl, P. Haffey, H. Marriott, C. Richards, Art McGlashan, P. McGlashan, Ivan McSloy, Art Gayder, George Collins, R. Milne, and James Sullivan.

The management of the Athletic Lacrosse Club made arrangements last night for a special car over the N. St. C. & T. Ry. for Welland, where the club makes connection with the Michigan Central Railway for Chicago. The special car for Welland will leave Tim & Mac’s at 7 o’clock this evening. Arrangements were made for a special Michigan Central sleeper from Welland to Chicago.

The club has decided to take along sixteen players, taking 2 juniors along in case of extra players being needed.

Ed Harris has also decided to go, which will make the team a strong one, and they will be able to give a great exhibition of the Canadian National game.

The following is the complete list of club members going. The boys will be accompanied by about ten supporters, which will make about twenty-six in the party.

Pres. J. T. Timmons; Secy. Treas. Ivan McSloy; J. Gayder, H. Carl, Ed Harris, P. Haffey, F. Gayder, F. Dixon, C. Richards, Geo. Collins, Art McGlashan, Pay McGlashan, J. Pople, Art Gayder, Bob Milne and J. Sullivan.

Canada's national sport will make it re-entry into the list of local games at Comiskey park this afternoon when the Calumets of Chicago meet the Athletics of St. Catharines, Canada, in the first of a series of two games. The second contest will be staged tomorrow afternoon. Both games will start at 3 o'clock.

For three weeks the local men have been training for their clash with the leading amateur team of the dominion, and are in good shape to stand the hot pace which the visitors are sure to set. All the local men are veteran stick wielders, and three weeks of practice has helped improve their team work.

Great things are expected of William Fitzgerald, who will play first home for the Calumets. For several seasons he has ranked as the greatest man in his position in the world and no player in the history of the game has been able to command as big a salary.

The visiting players with one exception are natives of St. Catharines who have come through the junior and intermediate ranks into the senior division. This fact alone has enabled them to learn thoroughly the methods of Coach Frank McIlwain, who has the reputation of having developed more star players than any other coach in Canada.

With the field in its present fine conditions the match today should be one of the fastest ever staged in this city. The spectators will see the game as played by champions. The visitors will be entertained at a banquet tonight by the Canadian club in the Great Northern hotel.

CALUMETS		ST. CATHARINES
Barrett	GOAL	Dixon
Harris	POINT	E. Carl
Curtice	COVER POINT	E. Harris
Gaiseford	FIRST DEFENSE	McSloy
A. Woods	SECOND DEFENSE	Marriott
M. Donnelley	THIRD DEFENSE	Haffey
W. Neeley	CENTER	Richards
Graham	THIRD HOME	Ripley
West	SECOND HOME	Collins
Fitzgerald	FIRST HOME	T. Fitzgerald
Wright	OUTSIDE HOME	H. McGlashan
Tilden	INSIDE HOME	A. McGlashan

Referee - Herbert King. Umpires - Timmons, Campbell

Note: St. Catharines-born Billy Fitzgerald didn't make the trip to play for the Calumets as announced

President Timmons of the Athletic Lacrosse Club, who accompanied the players who went to Chicago as guests of the Calumet Club of that city and to play an exhibition game there, says all the boys were delighted with the trip. They were met by a reception committee, one of which was Roy Yielding, treasurer, and another Secretary Donnelly of the Calumets, driven in taxis to their headquarters, and after breakfast on Saturday morning did a little sight-seeing. They left at two o’clock in the afternoon for the White Sox ball park, where they were greeted by a magnificent crowd. The grandstand cost $40,000 and will seat 30,000 people. The grounds on which the game was played are very roomy. The game was satisfactory in every respect, resulting in a win for the Athletics by thirteen to eleven. After the game the Canadian players were entertained by being taken about the city and to Riverside Park. On Sunday, they did more sight-seeing and some of them left for home at midnight, others staying over for further enjoyment. All were greatly pleased with their reception and entertainment by the Calumet Club and the Canadians in Chicago.

HOW THE ST. CATHARINES ATHLETICS TRIMMED THE CHICAGO CALUMETS AT CHICAGO ON SATURDAY LAST

The Chicago Sunday Tribune has this to say about the match on Saturday between the Chicago Calumets and the Athletics:

Giving a dazzling display of the national sport of Canada, the Athletics of St. Catharines defeated the Calumet lacrosse team of Chicago 13 to 11 at Comiskey Park yesterday.

The contest was remarkable for the number of goals scored and also for its cleanness. Not a man was ruled off and there was not an injury sufficient to cause a delay of even a few seconds. Under these pleasurable conditions, the big crowd present enjoyed a fine afternoon of sports.

Although the score was close all the way through, the visitors who hold the amateur championship of Canada were the better players and showed flashes of combination play which the less practical locals could not equal. Although the men from across the border were a trifle travel worn, the biggest factor in keeping the score close was the rule permitting the substitution of a player at any time.

There was little time wasted in midfield play and as soon as one team had repelled an attack, the scene of greater activity generally was removed to the other end. Both teams checked well and cleanly. Several times the St. Catharines men brought off combination plays involving the whole of the attack, but the defence men on the local side stuck to their guns and broke up many of these plays.

Play started at 3:15, the Athletics setting a good pace, but their attacks were well met. Seven minutes elapsed before McSloy opened the scoring with a fast overhand shot that found the net. Three minutes later the Canucks again swarmed around the local goal and once more McSloy found an opening and caged the ball with a straight express. West and Sullivan got close to the home goal but Gayder made a clever stop of the latter’s close range shot.

Two minutes later when Barrett was a little out of his position, Richards dropped a lob shot into the net making the score 3 to 0 in favor of the visitors. An attack by the Calumets gave Sullivan an opening and he broke the ice for the locals with a quick shot from close range. West had a great opening just after but bounced the ball over the net. Sullivan, West and Wright then engineered a play which enabled the last named to count. Close on time Richards got a pass from behind the local goal and scored. This left the score 4 to 2 in favor of the Canadians at the end of the first period.

Irvin and Knapp replaced Curtice and M. Donnelley in the second period. Barrett moved to home position and Harris went into goal. Barrett got a long pass from Neeley and shot it across the goal mouth, Milne scoring. An attack by West and Barrett led to a scrimmage around the goal and Barrett counted, tying up the score, 4 goals each.

Collins put the Canadians in the lead a minute later, scoring a soft goal, but the local men soon were back again and once more Barrett caged the sphere. Heitz again put the Calumets in the lead, but a little later Harris made a poor stop and Gayder scored.

Just before the whistle blew, Sullivan notched another goal and at half time the Calumets were leading 7 to 6. Amos, Wright and Tilden went in for the locals, replacing Irvine, Barrett and Graham.

After three minutes of play Collins tied up the score and a minute later McSloy sent in a deadly shot from long range that found the net. West then shot one of the best goals of the match, but three minutes later McSloy again put his side in front. Goals by West and Sullivan and one by Gayder left the score at 10 all at the end of the third quarter.

Both sides worked hard in the final period, Richards notched a goal for the visitors, but Knapp and Milne caught the defence napping. The former sent a long pass to Milne, who shovelled it into the net. Two goals by McGlashan ended the scoring. St. Catharines 13, Calumets 11.

St. Catharines		Calumets
Gayder	goal	Barrett
E. Harris	point	B. Harris
Carl	cover point	C. Donnelley
A. Gayder	1st defence	Curtice
Haffey	2nd defence	M. Donnelley
C. Gayder	3rd defence	Gaiseford
Richards	centre	Neeley
McSloy	3rd home	West
Pople	2nd home	Graham
Collins	1st home	Wright
H. McGlashan	outside home	Sullivan
A. McGlashan	inside home	Milne

HOW THE ATHLETICS “PUT ONE OVER” THE BIG CROWD OF CHICAGO PEOPLE AND LET “SLEEPY” HARRIS SCORE A GOAL

Talk about putting one over on a crowd, the members of the Athletic Lacrosse team, who returned yesterday from a joy trip to Chicago, tell the funniest one.

The Athletics, as all know, went to the Windy City to play an exhibition game of lacrosse with the Calumets, a lacrosse team of that town. The Calumets are willing to learn, but of course, are not much up on the Canadian national game just yet. The Athletics won as they pleased in a game which was something of a burlesque.

One of the Calumets is Bill Harris, an old-time Athletic player of this city, who many years ago laid down his stick for good, it was thought, by virtue of age and fat. Harris will be remembered by old-time lacrosse fans as “Sleepy” Harris, but that name belied him for when he was in his prime he was anything but that.

“Sleepy” was indeed to don a Calumet uniform Saturday and the former Saint, now living in Chicago, who engineered the game, put him at the important position of point.

Well, the game went on and Harris was the star, for reasons most obvious to one who understands lacrosse. Between quarters, the Athletics arranged a great coup in which Harris was to be the hero. Harris fell into the plot with glee. So, when play was resumed and both teams had got a little warmed up, the coup was pulled off. Harris was allowed to have the ball and holding it in his stick, he started a triumphal rush down the field. The Athletics stood and watched him go, not a man trying to stop him for the simple reason that the whole thing was pre-arranged. When the big fellow got near enough to the goal to shoot, he sent the rubber thorough with his old-time accuracy. Gayder in goal, stood aside and smilingly bowed as the ball whizzed through.

But did the crowd of four or five thousand Chicagoians catch on? They broke loose when they saw the big Canadian start down the line. Before he got half way every man and woman in the White Sox grandstand was on his or her own feet shouting and waving something, and when Harris made the goal, the uproar was something tremendous.