History of the A's

Young Torontos Stonewall The A's

ATHLETICS DEFEATED

TORONTO WON 8 TO 3

The Daily Standard

Monday June 14, 1915

The pitting of the Athletics against the Young Torontos in the game at the lacrosse grounds Saturday afternoon was something in the nature of sending raw recruits against seasoned veterans. Not that the homebrews didn’t plug in and give the Toronto dozen a tremendous run for their money, but it was too much of a handicap.

The Young Torontos won by a score of 8 to 3, but the game was by no means one-sided. Quite as often as the ball menaced the Athletics citadel did it threaten the Toronto net and the main reason for the Athletics’ defeat was perhaps bad shooting, or rather the inability to know when to shoot. Numerous time brilliant rushes would be made by the former only to come to naught, as after getting the ball within shooting distance, rather than take a chance, they would pass and the ball would be lost. The Toronto defence was like a stonewall and there was no getting through it and the Athletics erred in not taking longer chances with shots on goal.

The Torontos bored in on the goal all the time, getting through the Athletics’ defence and their goals all came out of scrimmages in front of goal.

Ernie Doyle refereed the game and penalized many players. At times there were half a dozen on the sidelines, most of the offences being hitting opponents. Players on both sides were laid out and the game was delayed while they were attended to. None of the injuries were very serious and the men soon resumed play again.

During the two inside quarters, the second and third, the Athletics had the better of the argument scoring two goals to their opponents one, but it wasn’t necessary for the visitors to extend themselves, seeing they had plugged in four in the first quarter to the locals’ one, due to Carl being off for ten minutes in the first quarter.

In the last quarter the Torontos took revenge for the advantage gained in the two middle quarters by making three more goals and declining to allow the Athletics to score at all.

The Torontos are a fast aggregation, bigger and better trained than the Athletics, owing to the fact that a number of their players had played a number of games on the Toronto University Tour and the latter did well to hold them down as they did.

The attendance was large enough to encourage the promoters of lacrosse in this city.

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