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The Wyndham forwards had swept down the rink, successfully eluding
Wolcott’s defense, and now Captain Cooper slid the puck gently to the
left as the enemy point checked desperately, and from the audience, for
the moment forgetting chilled feet and numbed fingers, the shout came
exultantly, imploringly:
“Shoot! Shoot!”
Ogden took the pass, but a Wolcott wing slashed wildly at his stick and
the defending cover point dashed back to the beleaguered goal and the
chance was gone. Ogden did shoot, but the puck struck the end of the
net and a Wolcott skater hooked it to him and, pursued by Ogden, swept
behind the goal. A fracas in the further corner followed and then a
brown-legged player was off down the rink and Wyndham hastened to cover.
It was the last period and only a few minutes remained. The score was
still a tie at 6 to 6. The visiting team had started the game in
whirlwind fashion, scoring twice before the Blue had found its pace.
Then Wyndham had tallied on a lift from near the center of the rink by
Raiford, and that lucky shot had nerved the home team to faster play.
Wolcott had scored a third tally from a furious mix-up in front of goal
when the rubber had slid from some one’s skate and edged past a corner
of the net. At 3 to 1 the game had stayed until, close to the end of
the period, Wyndham, using a five-man attack, had overwhelmed the
adversary and netted a clean shot from directly in front of the goal.
Captain Cooper, Wyndham’s right wing, had put that in.
After the intermission Wolcott had again forced the fighting, and
Craigie, goal keeper for the home team, had been fairly battered with
the puck until at last it got by him for Wolcott’s fourth score. Coach
Hilliard had substituted Cowden for Jensen at cover point then, and
subsequently the enemy had experienced more difficulty in reaching
shooting distance. Cowden had proved himself more alert than his
predecessor on attack, as well, and Wyndham’s next tally was a result
of his “get away” followed by a quick backward pass to Raiford and a
sizzling shot from a hard angle. Wyndham had again scored less than
a minute later when Captain Cooper had taken the puck into enemy
territory, skating along the boards, and, after bowling over the outer
defense, passed to Raiford in front of point and then, when the center
slid it back to him, slipped it craftily past the goal keeper’s feet
with a mere flick of his stick.
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