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They had sort of bailed out the rink with brooms and snow shovels and
buckets, and when the second half began you could see the ice in most
places. Lamar was in Norwin’s place and Norwin was playing in front
of the goal. For two or three minutes Munson kept the puck and tried
four or five shots before our fellows got it away from her. None of
the shots went very near our net, though. After that MacLean got away
and pushed the puck up the rink, with the other forwards lined across
the ice and Lamar a few feet behind. MacLean tried to pass to Madden,
but a Munson fellow hooked the disk away. Then Lamar bumped hard into
the Munson player and they both sat down and slid, and Brill got the
puck back and every one yelled “_Shoot!_ _Shoot!_” But Brill passed
back to Madden and Madden took the disk in closer, and about that time
every one gathered around and sticks pushed and whacked and I couldn’t
see the puck at all. The Munson goal man was dodging back and forth,
kicking his feet and whanging away with his stick, and his eyes were
fairly bulging out of his head. And then, somehow, the puck got hit
back up the rink and no one saw it for an instant except Lamar, who had
got to his feet again. Lamar dug the points of his skates and raced up
to it and, before any of the Munson fellows could reach him, had got
the blade of his stick under that puck and made a quick motion with his
wrists and there was a streak of water through the air and the umpire
behind the goal shouted and threw his hand up!
Well, Pug and I yelled like mad, and so did every one else; every
one, of course, except the fifty or sixty Munson fellows who had come
along with their team. That made the score 6 to 5. Munson got the puck
from the center, but couldn’t keep it, and after a minute Madden slid
it across to Brill and Brill started in with it. Then, when a Munson
fellow threatened him, pushed it behind him, and that was Lamar’s
chance. He was almost in the middle of the rink, but he was alone,
and before any one could interfere he had picked that disk out of the
slush and sent it, knee high toward the goal. Half a dozen fellows
looked to be in the way and some of them tried hard to stop it, but
it got by them all and landed in the corner of the net, while the goal
man, who had tried to stop it, too, picked himself up and patted the
water from the seat of his shorts.
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