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LACROSSE NOTES

The Daily Standard 

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1910

The Athletics had a good work out at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and although they have a lead of seven goals over the Toronto team they are taken no chances and will try to beat the Torontos on their own grounds on Saturday. Brown, the speedy defence man of the Athletics will not be able to play on Saturday owing to injuries received in the game last Saturday; his place likely be taken by Overholt, who is in good condition, having been working out right along with the senior team. 

A big crowd is sure to follow the Athletics to Toronto on Saturday. Tickets are now on sale at Tim & Mac’s, and as the special train does not leave until 12:30, arriving in Toronto in time for the big game, quite a number have asked for tickets. 

Young Torontos can hardly hope to pull down St. Kitts’ lead of seven goals at the Beach on Saturday. And as most of St. Kitts will be over to see the game, it will be worth while to watch their countenances changing while the pets are being whaled. 

The ruling of the Mann Cup trustees that reinstated professionals can not figure in Mann Cup games as amateurs looks good from here. The C.L.A. holds a white-washing bee every spring, and all that is necessary to get a coat of the white-stuff is for somebody to yell out his name in the annual convention. 

The trustees would also appear to be justified in their decision that championships won by using reinstated professionals do not entitle them to play for the Mann Cup. So if St. Kitts want a share of the amateur silverware they had better drop a couple of men and get busy with Young Torontos and Young Tecumsehs. And ‘tis said the latter would have to make a couple of changes to qualify for the purely amateur competition. 

After all, the west seems the natural location for the world’s lacrosse championship. The game is strong enough there for Vancouver to send an amateur team east to fight for the Mann Cup – an undertaking that must entail a large expenditure of money, for the gates won’t be too awfully rich. An amateur trophy would stay a long time in the west before Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa or Cornwall would send teams to try to bring it east.

LACROSSE NOTES 

The Daily Standard 

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1910

To-morrows big game in Toronto will decide the location of the Globe Shield for another year. 

The Athletics had their last practice yesterday afternoon and are now in shape for to-morrows big struggle at Scarboro Beach. The boys realize that they will have to play lacrosse and although they have a lead of seven goals, they won’t take any chances, and nothing will satisfy them but a clean victory, as all the eyes of the sporting lacrosse world is on the final game and a win will crown the Athletics successful finish in a blaze of glory. 

The Athletics certainly had an eventful season full of bad luck and surprises. They started out by being defeated in New York by the Crescents and have lost two championship contests in a row. Things looked awful blue for the boys, but a determined effort by the players and management brought a big reversal of form and they won five straight victories, defeating Tecumsehs four times and the Torontos once, and all the good wishes that can be given a team will go with them in their final contest to-morrow. 

The Lacrosse Club excursion to-morrow will be the means of a lot of supporters taking in the trip, and tickets are only $2, good to return on Monday. Train leaves Geneva Street depot at 12:30 pm. 

The Globe Shield 

The important question in local lacrosse circles just at the present is “Where will the Globe Shield rest this winter?” Of course the majority of the fans expect it to stay over in St. Kitts for another season, but there are a few, notably the Young Torontos who have hopes of seeing the trophy come here after Saturday’s game – Globe.

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