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The Athletics regained their position at the top of Group “B” of the senior O.A.L.A. Saturday, when they beat the Hamilton Tigers in twenty minutes’ overtime by a score of 5 to 4.

Contrary to all the dope, the Athletics proved to be better “mudders” than the Tigers, although, heretofore, they have depended a great deal on the speed of their attack to get goals. The Tigers have a lot more weight than the locals and many people predicted that they would tire out the smaller St. Kitts team in the heavy going, the entire game was played in a rain storm that seemed more like a cloud burst at times.

Every man on the St. Catharines team put all they knew into the game, the writer never saw a team work harder to win than did the Athletics on Saturday. In spite of the rain many spectacular plays were pulled off and the crowd was on its toes every minute. At only one period of the game did more than one goal separate the two teams, and that was in the last quarter when the Tigers had the locals on the short end of a 4 to 2 score. But they did not hold their lead for long, Cornelius and Miller each scoring one to tie it up 4 – 4.

Percy Oille made his first appearance in an Athletics uniform this season, and he put up a great game. He scored the first goal of the game on a beautiful bit of individual play. He started through the Tiger defence, early in the second period, to take a pass. The pass came but Oille did not have time to recover to make the shot and went right past the net. He turned around on the slippery footing however, and skidded around the net giving Rohmer no opportunity to save. The goal was a great reminder of the old days of Fitzgerald and Kalls, and was a beautiful piece of work.

Shortly after this, Cornelius received the ball on the outside of the defence, passed two men and notched St. Catharines’ second goal.

The overtime periods, perhaps, proved the most exciting part of the game. The score was 4 – 4 at the end of the eighty minutes of play, and referee Hamburg ordered five minutes each way to break the tie.

Both teams started out strong to get the winning goal and took all sorts of chances. Both Rohmer and Jimmie Williamson, rival goalies were called upon to keep the rubber out of their respective nets, and they both did good work. Williamson made a couple of wonderful stops in the overtime when Hamilton men shot the ball at him like a bullet from fairly close in. But Jimmie was at the top of his game and kept everything out.

Neither team was able to score during the first ten minutes of the overtime, and the teams turned around and started another ten to break the tie. The Tigers had the end of the field where there was most grass for the first five, but they could not make it mean a thing. At the end of the first five minutes, the teams changed ends and St. Kitts had the advantage.

With only a minute to go, Wagstaffe did the trick. He got the ball well outside the defence and started a lone rush. He made a shot waist high at the goal and although Rohmer got his stick on the ball, it was too late, the rubber was in the net and the game was won. It was a great finish to a hair raising and exciting game.

Red Miller was right on his toes all the time and many a loose ball was recovered by this player. Switzer, Cornelius and Bye were also “there.”

The field showed a vast improvement over their last game against the Toronto St. Simon’s. Oille and Bennett did plenty of work around the centre of the field. The defence showed that they are a real stone wall and in good shape. McGlashan, Purdy and company were up and down the field several times and in the last quarter, everybody went up after that winning goal, leaving only one man on the defence.

The first period was late in starting, the Tigers being behind time. The latter were short Brown, Dextras and Farr, but they arrived soon after the start.

Hamilton started in a strong way and the St. Kitts defence was called upon to stop several rushes. The local defence showed their mettle this quarter when they upset several rushes that seemed bent on scoring at any cost.

Finally with ten minutes of the period gone, Cooper took a shot from outside the defence that slipped under Williamson for the only goal of the opening session which ended 1 to 0 for the Tigers.

The Athletics forced the play in the second, but for a while Rohmer kept his goal clear. Kitchen had his head cut, but he resumed playing. Tigers began to attack and carried the ball to St. Kitts goals a couple of times unsuccessfully.

Oille got a pass when he was going in but went past the goal. He then pulled off his nice play, recovering and running around the other side to score and even the count 1 – 1.

Shortly afterwards, Cornelius put St. Catharines out in front when he beat two men and slipped the ball under Rohmer. The second period ended St. Catharines 2, Hamilton 1.

After about ten minutes of play, Williamson was called upon to make a difficult stop. He stopped the shot, but the ball went out to Kitchen who slapped it right back evening up the score 2 – 2, after sixteen minutes of play.

Brown got a break when the St. Kitts man who was checking him slipped and fell, leaving only Williamson for him to beat. Brown took no chances with the shot and went right up close to score giving Jimmie no chance to stop. A melee ended the quarter, Gannon and Bye getting 10 and 5 minutes respectively.

Miller and McGlashan were each given five minutes on the penalty bench and Brown again scored for Hamilton with a long one, making the score 4 to 2 for Hamilton.

The Athletics came right back however, and Cornelius got one for St. Kitts on a nice play.

At the face off Cooper was given the bench for cutting Oille on the face. Kitchen soon after, was given five minutes for a cross check.

The Athletics went after another goal and practically the whole team went down to score. Red Miller did the scoring that evened up the count. He had the ball behind the Hamilton net, but slipped and fell flat on his back. He crawled on all fours, with the ball still in his stick, to the front of the net and slipped the ball past Rohmer.

After this Williamson kept the score tied by stopping hot Hamilton shots that few goalies get. Then came the overtime with St. Catharines scoring after about nineteen minutes of scoreless play.

Hamilton	Position	Athletics
Rohmer	Goal	Williamson
Laing	Point	McGlashan
Stuart	Cover	Purdy
Day	Defence	Herr
Sergeant	Defence	England
Gannon	Defence	A. Gayder
Kitchen	Centre	Oille
Burnside	Home	Wagstaffe
Goudie	Home	Lounsbury
Cooper	Home	Cornelius
Brown	Outside	Switzer
Dextras	Inside	Miller
Thomas	Sub	Bennett
McBride	Sub	Haynes
	Sub	Bye