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...Russdorff, the local Burgomaster made an avowed bid for election popularity by blazoning abroad that he had caused the town's open air swimming pool to be filled with water which would shortly freeze, to the delight of skater-voters...
...water froze. The skaters assembled. The Burgomaster "rang the town bell" and turned a valve emptying the pool "so that no one can possibly be drowned." The ice, of course, sagged and buckled into fragments as the supporting water flowed out. Disappointed skater-voters were reported in late despatches to be warming to their work of devising a suitable epithet with which to blast their once popular Burgomaster...
When his citizens petitioned to skate on the village swimming pool, he could not be so careless of political fortunes as to refuse them. Yet his father heart worried lest they drown. Heavily be pondered and then, with sudden decision, uttered an official "Ja". It may be that no skater ventured until the next day. At any rate, not until that time were the Mayor's fears substantiated. While then, instead of a splash, came a queer thud for the Mayor had drained the pond...
...fast skating and dangerous offensive combination. Hudson, the chief scoring threat, is fast and unusually clever in stick work. He has the advantage of several seasons of collegiate experience behind him and is rated as a cool and consistent as well as a brilliant performer. Kirkpatrick, is a finished skater and ranks with Hudson as a stick handler, although not quite as fast or as dangerous a shot...
...right wing, while Pepper has earned the assignment in the cage for tonight's game. In the first Harvard Princeton game, Pepper took Colebrook's place in the net for the final period, and succeeded in turning aside every puck which came from the stick of a Harvard skater. Like Jenkins and Cumings, Pepper prepared at St. Mark's School...