. Official rules for ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating and curling. SPALDING S ATHLETIC LIDKARV. I9 ice palace, Sauchieliall street, Edinburgh, (lie first practices v\ereheld, and so proficient did the canny Scotchmen ])econie that a gamewith the team of the Palais de Glace in Paris was arranged. A seriesof six matches was played in one week with the French team, and thecrowds that witnessed the games fairly raised the roof with theirclamorous applause. The Figaro, the leading newspaper inFrance, described hockey as a game that promised to excel all Athersports in Paris in point of pop
. Official rules for ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating and curling. SPALDING S ATHLETIC LIDKARV. I9 ice palace, Sauchieliall street, Edinburgh, (lie first practices v\ereheld, and so proficient did the canny Scotchmen ])econie that a gamewith the team of the Palais de Glace in Paris was arranged. A seriesof six matches was played in one week with the French team, and thecrowds that witnessed the games fairly raised the roof with theirclamorous applause. The Figaro, the leading newspaper inFrance, described hockey as a game that promised to excel all Athersports in Paris in point of popularity and scientific possibilities. 20 SPALDING S ATHLETIC SPALDING S ATHLETIC LIBRARY, HOCKEY AS A GAME Every game, any game, aids considerably in developing a playersmind, and for hockey, a follow^er of the game may claim all the goodeffects in mental training that any other branch of sport provides,and more. The very adhering to the rules, the spirit of fair playthat characterizes a manly game, the overcoming of all fears and alldifficulties, the modest victory, the frank acknowledgement of defeat,all tend to build up. to educate, the mental faculties, just as the longpractice, the swift race, and the hard check help to develop the phy-sical man. At a dinner once tendered to a champion team, a prominent banker,in speaking of the effects of sport in general and hockey in particular,said that a good, clean sportsman was an acquisition to any com-mercial house, and his statement is correct. A fast game like hockey, when the scoring of a goal, the winningof a match often depends upon the immediate execution of an ideathat a player has scarcely
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