The Wyndham forwards had swept down the rink, successfully eluding Wolcott’s defense, and now Captain Cooper slid the puck gently to the left as the enemy point checked desperately, and from the audience, for the moment forgetting chilled feet and numbed fingers, the shout came exultantly, imploringly: Ogden took the pass, but a Wolcott wing slashed wildly at his stick and the defending cover point dashed back to the beleaguered goal and the chance was gone. Ogden did shoot, but the puck struck the end of the net and a Wolcott skater hooked it to him and, pursued by Ogden, swept behind the goal. A fracas in the further corner followed and then a brown-legged player was off down the rink and…
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