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Winning of Hockey ChampionshipPuts Lethbridge on Sport Map; Let’sto it That They Get SupportVets Due to Play in Winnipeg on March 10th—Some Exhibi tion Games Here Next Week if Ice is Available—Whothe Champions Are—Joy Reigned in Vets CampHere When Final Result was Made KnownLast Night.Hail, Lethbridge Veterans!Simon-pure Amateur Champions of Alberta!Lethbridge on the hockey map with the winners of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association!iiMV know a lot of thing.*; wo would like to .‘'•ay oil this joyous occasion, hut ii might mar the pleasantness of the hip event, so we won’t, say them. We will only hint at them by stating that about fifty per cent, of the fans who called the Herald for the results betrayed unwarranted surprise when they learned that the Lethbridge team won by five two. “How can anythinggood in sport come out of Lethbridge” was what their tone implied. Needless to say these fans never t\iw the locals perform during the league season here.Having golt;. tha* off our chest in a nice pleasant unnii 'r we will proceed in a more pleasing vein.Edmonton Outclassedweek, and there should he monster crowds out. That's one way to help get the funds to send the boys east. And even if they don’t’ want to go it’s a mighty good way to get some funds for the L.A.A.A, rink debt. If the weatherman will only be good here’s a chance to wipe off the debt in a week. kThe other day when Tlarrv Scott wired us for something about the Io?th-h rid go boys we s*»ut along the following. which has already appeared in the Albertan but wiii bear repeatinghere ;Who They Aref“They had it over the Edmonton team like a tent said ilarrv Scott, sporting editor of fie- Calgary n-ing Albertan, to Ci • H**raid aKer the game. ’Tanking condition, and playing on the big .be for the first time this winter, naturally the Lethbridge boys wen* handicapped. They should have scored about, six in tlie first period. The Edmonton boys were outclassed. 1 would like to take that team and practice them for about six weeks where they could get real ice all the rime and 1 wouldn’t be afraid to put them up against thebest team in the Big Four. Every one of the boys is a hockey player and knows the game. All they lack is condition and a chance to perfect their combination } look for Lethbridge to erect a nice big rink (he next summer and be in with the big fellows next winter.That's from one of the best sport writers in Canada. Incidentally it’s from an old professional hockey player who has played svi h tin* best of them. Harry Scott broke into the professional hockey game in Brandon along w.th The Into Joe llall and a lot morn whose names tiro written in the hockey hall of fame. And he wasn’t spooling us when he handed out that praise for the Lethbridge* boys.Great Boost For SportThe winning of the championship is the great**.-1 boost amateur sport has got in Lethbridge since the ending of the war and incidentally though the L.A.A.A. could not, on account of lack of funds and lack of support at the hockey games and of tin* rinkgenerally, do all the officials would have liked to do to help the boys along, the association feels mighty proud that its efforts to provide win: ter sport have ended so successfully. There has been a lot of criticism of the L.A.A.A. over the rink and some because the hockey boys were given more than their share of the nights when ice was ami lab \\ But the heart of the fans was not behind tin* boys or they would have aimed out in larger numbers, and got in their skating after the hockey game-. And then* would have been a band provided for tin* skaters every night if they had turned out a couple of hundred si mug and provided the lands.However that's past and gone, and what'*- a It He thing like a debt on the rink anyway a compared with the* po.-scs'-iim of 'he provincial champion-sliip. Let's just forget past blunders and go io it to make Lethbridge a winter spot; town Hockey and skating fans -Imuld look at it this way — that the bo jt way to get a covered rink is to put up with a few discomforts in pa'runu'.ing what wo have. If we pa’ roni.'o if hard enough a big covered rink will lt;lt;»mo as a matter of course.It’s Up to LethbridgeAnd now if- up to the citizens of Lethbridge to show then* appreciation of wiint. ii)'* Le’hbridge Vlt; ;lt;**,ms hockey team ha • hue*, Some of The bovs are coining iu• 11n* this looming mid others will not be smmg until •Sunday. But they am »tu• • to play the .Manitoba * harnplons in Winnipegon March 10th. This is the .second round of the Allan cup el im in a Mon. and will deride the champion-hip of the west. If the boys want to make'Flu* Loth bridge* Veterans, champions- of the Crows Nest, league are aveterans organization backed by the (l.W.V.A club. They went through their city league without a loss and then represented Lethbridge in tie* district league with the addition of two men, one from the .Mounties and one from the Taylors, they copped every game in the Crow league. Medicine Hat was defeated by them twice, and once tied the score when Lethbridge played with a. crippled lineup.Sutherland, goalie, is a product of the British Columbia Mountain league. and an active service man. He is the class of the south as a net guardian.Marion, war veteran, at point, is anold Prince Albert player. Not fast,but a heady player and hard to getby.Boucher, at cover, is a Mountie and learned the game at Ottawa. Is the best stick-handier in the league and fast in the ge.away, only 18.Ted Turcot in, centre veteran, learned the game in Quebec, a goal-gettor.Billy Henderson, born in Lethbridge war veteran, learned the game in U. C. C., and was a member of the famous 82ml but alion team at Calgary. Plays right wing.Cyclone” Ueber, a D C M., man left wing. Team-mate of Tirn Dunn before the war in best hockey team Lethbridge ever had, the year before Taber Chefs were famous. Played with Chef» several times. Also had early season tryout at Vancouver when Lloyd Cook jo ned the “Millionaires.'’ Captains the team.Fred Henderson, spare defense man, brother of Billy, a local kid and a comer, also a veteran,McGillis. spare, running mate of Rober. Very fast and dangerous as relief man.Only eight men will make the trip, as in spite of h.gh claqs hockey, the weather has been against them, and the fans have not accorded the support the team deserved.Needless to say there was much joy in the il.W.V.A. camp last night wioui the Herald flashed the returns. Hundreds of ’phone calls wore answered by the Herald which provided the results by periods.!
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Lethbridge Daily Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Sat, Feb 28, 1920
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