Word: skating
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There is skating, good skating, on the Charles. Yet it is curiously true that comparatively few of us know anything about it. It is perhaps lamentable that a walk of five or ten minutes should deter us from using the river, but it does. The condition obtains except with greater intensity, as in the case of our tennis courts. If some afternoon during the tennis season you will walk to the courts on Jarvis field, and then to those on Soldiers Field, and compare the numbers using each, you will appreciate the inhibitive force of distance. I am confident that...
...right and left wings, respectively, showed marked ability in their persistent co-operation with their centres, while Percy several times lifted high fast drives from the middle of the rink, and on one of these occasions, caged the puck on a pretty shot, the rubber bounding off Abbot's skate...
Thacher's work has improved lately, and W. Morgan held up the other end of the line in good shape, although his light weight sometimes counted against him. The forwards, however, still show a tendency to lag. All of them are also apt to skate out of position and run into each other, getting their passes off slowly, and in the case of the wings, playing the boards too much...
...Abbott made a good stop, and finally Percy tallied the first goal on a long, low shot from beyond the outer defence. Doty made two or three good rushes up the rink, scoring on one of these when his shot bounded off Abbott's guards and hitting his skate slid behind the posts...
Most of the squad took a run yesterday afternoon, while the rest were sent in to the Arena to skate. The number will probably be cut before the end of the week...