Rough

At Boston, Mass., the Boston Bruins, professional hockey team, met the Ottawa Senators, professional hockey team, in the opening game of a series to determine which team should possess the Stanley Cup, emblematic of world's championship. Sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick as elusive puck. The game was marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Overtime failed to develop more than a scoreless tie.

Two nights later the same teams met in Boston. Sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. The game was marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Ottawa triumphed, 3 to 1.

Two nights later the same teams met in Ottawa. Sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. The game was marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Overtime developed merely a 1 to 1 tie.

In the final game two nights later the same teams met in Ottawa and sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck, the game again being marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. Ottawa gave Boston a severe trouncing, 6-2; cinched the Stanley Cup.

Two days later a solemn conclave was held in Montreal, at which cognizance was taken of the aggressiveness, roughness on both sides which had marked the games. Billy Coutu, Boston player, was expelled from the league; fined $100. Hooley Smith, Ottawa, was suspended for a month; fined $100. Fines of $50 each were meted out to George Boucher, Ottawa captain, Lionel Hitchman, Jimmy Herberts, both of Boston. Other players, it was announced, were to be subject of further investigation.