. Official rules for ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating and curling. forever—and even one little slip, one miss, one fumble, is oftentimesthe loss of a match. So fascinating is the game to a man who rivets his attention on theplay, that even the most thunderous applause, if he hears it at all,sounds like the far-off echo of a rippling brook, because he is engagedheart and soul in his work. The convincing, the clinching proof of the fascination of the gameis this, that even the gentler sex, not satisfied with enjoying it fromthe standpoint of spectators, have graciously added their own t
. Official rules for ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating and curling. forever—and even one little slip, one miss, one fumble, is oftentimesthe loss of a match. So fascinating is the game to a man who rivets his attention on theplay, that even the most thunderous applause, if he hears it at all,sounds like the far-off echo of a rippling brook, because he is engagedheart and soul in his work. The convincing, the clinching proof of the fascination of the gameis this, that even the gentler sex, not satisfied with enjoying it fromthe standpoint of spectators, have graciously added their own to themany charms that it already boasts, by bravely lining up to meet, ingentle combat, their tender adversaries. It is surprising how many ladie:j teams exist in Canada, andalthough we do not read of fast, exciting games between these grace-ful votaries of the sport, it is a slow, small town that can glory in notone such. Thus, hockey players may flatter themselves that theirgame is honored in a way that no other of the kijid may claim. 28 SPALDING S ATHLETIC SPALDING S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 29 EQUIPMENTS FOR HOCKEY For many reasons the quality and species of the skate is a mostimportant consideration to a hockey player. Imagine a man in a championship match wearing a pair of sheepsshank bones, fastened to his feet with hide cords, as the Scandinavi-ans, Hollanders and the English used before the year 1650. The evolution of the first contrivance for locomotion on ice hasbrought to us, after years of improvements and new inventions, thedesiderata for general, speed, figure-skating and hockey. We have the long, thin, flat skates, after the Norwegian pattern,for speed work; the Peck & Snyder, for fancy skating, and the regu-lar Peck & Snyder Expert hockey skate, for our game. As hockeydeveloped into a scientific game from the crude shinny, skill andexperience have turned the art of hockey-skate-making into a for some time past each succeeding year has seen the
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