LIGHT PRACTICE MARKS BEGINNING OF TRAINING FOR TIGER HOCKEY GAME

The University hockey men had a light practice yesterday afternoon at the Arena, Coach Winsor taking complete charge in the absence of Coach Claflin. The Crimson squad was alone on the rink and consequently the usual scrimmage did not take place. Instead Coach Winsor put his players through a hard drill in the fundamentals of shooting, passing and dribbling with the puck.

Since the Crimson men could use the entire length of the rink, the two forward lines were able to get up unusual speed in going down on the defense. The first string attacking combination was the same as in the Dalhousie game Saturday, while the second-string was composed of Hill and Angier at left wing, Phillips at center, and Larocque at right wing. Cabot who still has a bad back, and Crosby and Lamont, who had college engagements, were absent from the work-out.

The immediate objective this week is the Princeton game at the Philadelphia Ice Palace Saturday evening. The Tiger players will give the Crimson the stiffest resistance it has met this season with the exception of that shown by the Toronto sextet; and they will be especially determined to defeat the University in order to partially stone for Yale's surprising 4-3 victory over them Saturday.

During the next few days Coaches Claflin and Winsor will devote their time to a general polishing of the Crimson play. Good team-work was in a large measure responsible for the victory over Dalhousie but poor team-work at times prevented the University from piling up a far larger score. On numerous occasions two Crimson men bore down on the Canadian secondary defense alone, one of them hanging off to one side where he could receive a pass and have a clear shot at the goal. But often the pass never came. The skater with the puck tried unsuccessfully to break through by himself, thus spoiling a play with excellent scoring possibilities. It is to obviate such tactical blunders that the Crimson coaching staff will particularly bend its efforts this week.