The next day the four-man back idea worked better, Crumbie having by then a better knowledge of his duties on defense and refusing to be drawn out of position. Beech sought to meet the first team’s new tactics by adapting the Canadian scheme of playing three forwards abreast and the fourth behind. Beech selected the part of rover, but it can’t be said that he made a shining success of it. In any event, the first regained its old superiority over the scrub seven and won easily. And, with a few exceptions, every following day witnessed a similar result until, near the middle of the season, one Toby Tucker willed otherwise. Greenburg High School followed Carrel’s and met overwhelming defeat at the hands of the Blue. But Greenburg was inexperienced and her players were poor skaters and the result had been expected. The only incident meriting mention was a fine goal by Arnold Deering in the second period. Arnold had stolen the puck from a Greenburg player in front of his own goal, had evaded the forwards, passed to Crowell near the middle of the ice and had then received the puck back again when the Greenburg cover point had challenged. The pass, however, had gone behind him and he had had to turn and take it as it caromed off the boards. He was not then in position to shoot and so, after breaking past a member of the enemy team, he skated in, seeking a chance to pass back to Crowell. Crowell shouted and Arnold slid the puck along the ice, but at that moment a Greenburg youth charged into Crowell and the puck dribbled by. Fanning should have rescued it, but Fanning was far over at the other side and skating hard, and the Greenburg cover point was the lucky one. But the cover point hesitated just an instant too long and Arnold, doubling back, swept past him, stole the disc from under his nose, dodged two opponents and bore down on the Greenburg point. Crowell, who had sprawled on the ice, tried to get into position for the pass, but was too late, and Arnold, sensing it, dodged the point, keeping the puck away from the latter’s swinging stick by a veritable miracle, circled the net at the rear and then, as he headed back close to the goal, slipped the puck deftly between the post and the goal-tend’s skate. As he did so two of the enemy crashed into him, the net careened, the goal-tend sat down on the ice and in an instant the air was full of kicking legs and thrashing sticks. But the puck had gone in before the upset and the goal umpire’s hand had already been raised when he was forced to flee from the careening net. Greenburg protested somewhat perfunctorily and the audience cheered. And Arnold was hauled out of the melee with a two-inch gash over his left eye that put him out of the contest and gave him a desperate, piratical look for several days.