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Excerpt from Ice Hockey and Ice Polo Guide Hockey! Fast, furious, brilliant, it is a most popular winter sport. Verily, it is the game of games. Offspring of Our Lady of the Snows, hockey is, among her many, varied games, the most fascin ating, the most exciting, the most scientific. Played in every city, town, village and hamlet In Canada, it has aroused more public interest, more enthusiasm than any athletic pas time that the votaries of sport have yet enjoyed, and as the succeed ing years glide by it grows in popular favor. But Canada no longer has a monopoly Of the Sport. The United States have the fever, and ice hockey is now a recognized winter Sport where a few years ago it was unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.