Back at work transcribing

I am back to transcribing old newspaper articles for my hockey research and just had to share the report of a PCHL game between the Seattle Eskimos and the Portland Buckaroos on January 25, 1929. This sound like quite a game — it sounds like a Philadelphia game during the bully days. To give this a local flavour:  “Moose” Johnson played for  Victoria  from 1918-1922. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1952.

“Page 9:  Seattle is in second place with Pacific Coast Hockey League race today after its fourth straight victory, chalked up over Portland in Seattle last night. The score was Seattle three, Portland one. It was the most disgraceful exhibition to call the game of hockey that any city has ever seen. 28 penalties, nine of the majors and fines of $105 were handed out to the players of the two teams. All the fines were against the Portland club  and all but two of the major penalties. “Moose” Johnson,The Portland veteran, was the centre of most of the action. He was fined $20 and drew five penalties, one a major, and another for the balance of the game when there was better than three minutes left to go. Everything that could that could happen in a hockey game was staged for a packed house that hardly knew what it was all about, so fast and furious did the penalties come. The crowd was plainly disgusted with the whole exhibition. At one time there were only five men on the ice aside from the goalies, two Portlanders and three Seattle men. One of the Seattle goals was scored with goalie Timmons off the ice following his disputing of the first Eskimo goal. This dispute cost him $25 in addition to a two-minute penalty. What little hockey was played was played was a continual ovation for Timmins and Levine, the two goal tenders. Portland finally broke through on Levine in the first period but could not dent his net again. He stopped them from every angle, touch and soft ones alike. Brown’s work on the forward line and the splendid defensive work of McGoldrick, Borland and Daly stood out.”