The University hockey team will take the ice at the New Boston Garden at 8.15 o'clock tonight against the stellar Toronto outfit which handed the Crimson puck chasers a 3 to 2 setback in New York on New Year's Eve.
With the possible exception that S. L. Batchelder '31 may be in the defense line when the opening whistle blows, by virtue of his spectacular playing on Monday night, Harvard is expected to start the above combination. The Crimson outfit is eager to avenge the defeat earlier in the week but it will have to play superlative hockey in order to stop the brilliant attack of the Canadian forward line. In Monday night's game the Toronto defense proved to be a formidable bulwark against the Crimson offense despite the versatile showing of most of the forward linemen.
The Crimson combination has shown in the past two games that it can present a concerted attack on occasions. If the team can play throughout the game as it did toward the close of the two previous ones, Toronto will have no chance to let up during the contest as it did in the previous game.
In addition to the defeat at the hands of Toronto. Harvard gained one victory during the vacation when it turned defeat into victory in an overtime period by downing McGill University for the first time since the war in a 3 to 2 win.
The McGill game was featured by the strong comeback of the Crimson puck chasers when, in the last ten minutes of the third period, they stormed the Canadian goal keeper with two sizzling shots which tied the game. In the overtime period John Tudor '29 took a rebound from one of F. R. G. Giddens '30 numerous tries at the Canadian goal and slipped it past Kline who had replaced Powers star cageman for the McGill combination.
The game had progressed only nine minutes when McTeer, McGill wingman, in an unassisted dash down the ice put a fast shot past O. P. Jackson '29, Crimson goalie.
Toronto swept the ice with its brilliant forward line and stalwart defense and it was due largely to the brilliant playing of S. M. Batchelder '31 that the Crimson was able to chalk up any score against the whirling Canadian combination.
G. C. Holbrook '30 was the main cog in the forward line in the New Year's Eve fray and his clever pass-work was a repeated threat on the Canadian goal. Batchelder showed up better than ever before at defense and fed the forwards continually after breaking up the strong Toronto attacks.
The McGill summary:
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