PRINCETON DESERVES VICTORY

By winning from the University seven in New York Saturday, 4 to 2, the Princeton hockey team evened up the series and made necessary a rubber game which will be played in New York next Saturday. The play in contrast to the last contest with Yale was remarkably fast and clean. At the end of the first half the score was two all, Harvard playing a wonderful defensive game against the fast Princeton attack as well as being exceedingly aggressive. In the second half however the forwards tired and the substitutes sent in lessened this aggressiveness and forced a defensive game in which the opponents aided by the brilliant rushes and passes of Baker, Kuhn, and Kilner proved superior, the two goals they secured then, giving them the victory. It was Baker who when Harvard led 2 to 1 in the first half, zig-zagged down the rink and tied the score, and it was Baker who forced the play in the second half, and although he did not make a goal he was the offensive and defensive star that made Princeton the winner. Winant's work also is worthy of mention for when a Crimson forward did threaten the goal he easily turned the shots aside.

Harvard not only lost the game but suffered much more, for Captain Willetts had a rib fractured in a collsion with Baker and Phillips, although he started the game and played two minutes, was unable to continue with his injured hand. Smart and Hopkins who played through the game in the forward line were the best of the forwards, the former scoring the two goals for Harvard. Claflin and Willetts as usual kept up their good defensive work so characteristic of their play this year.

There has probably never been a Harvard team so good and so poor. At times, such as in the first Princeton game, when the acme of hockey was attained, the team seemed unbeatable. Then came a great big slump in the character of play in the McGill and first Yale games. The second Yale game was nothing but fast, aggressive shinny, and finally Saturday, the standard of play was better, but not good enough to defeat the star Princeton seven. The loss of Phillips no doubt had much to do with this defeat, and the injury to Willetts may prove a great handicap; but if the team can pull itself together and recover from its various bruises, injuries and reverses, it seems as though we were on the up road again, with an equal chance in the final game of the series next Saturday.

The summary: HARVARD.  PRINCETON. Clark, Curtis, l.w.  r.w., Kilner Phillips, Wanamaker, Adams, l.c.  r.c., Baker Hopkins, r.c.  l.c., Kuhn Smart, r.w.  l.w., MacColl, G. Peacock Claflin, c.p.  c.p., Emmons Willetts, Doty, p.  p., Peacock Carnochan, g.  g., Winants

Score--Princeton 4, Harvard 2. Goals--Smart, 2, Kuhn 2, Kilner, Baker. Penalties, Kuhn, Peacock, MacColl. Referee--Louthrell. Assistant Referee--Swensen. Time--2 twentyminute periods.

Score--Princeton 4, Harvard 2. Goals--Smart, 2, Kuhn 2, Kilner, Baker. Penalties, Kuhn, Peacock, MacColl. Referee--Louthrell. Assistant Referee--Swensen. Time--2 twentyminute periods.