Record Crowd on Hand to See Season Open Chicago, Nov. 4.
The Chicago Black Hawks, who won the Stanley Cup last year in one of the most sensational last minute spurts in history, made a brilliant debut tonight in the opening game of the National Ice Hockey League when they trounced the New York Americans, 6-1.
An audience of 15,842 persons, the largest crowd to attend a season opening in history, saw the Black Hawks reveal speed and skill.
Before the game, Gabby Hartnett, player-manager of the Chicago Cubs, winners of the National League baseball pennant, presented Bill Stewart, leader of the Black Hawks, with the riley Cup, symbolic trophy of "Id hockey supremacy More than 10,000 spectators, includ-Lieutenant-Governor of saw the Boston Bruins beat fs at Toronto, The Bruins clinched the game by scoring two goals in rapid succession in the final period.
The ice hockey league this year will consist of only, one division of eight teams instead of two divisions of four teams each.
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Various theories as to the reason for the hoisting of the former [Chinese republican standard on Friday have been advanced, one being that it was to celebrate a of the "Reformed Govern-Nanking. A statement was issued unofficially saying that the display of the five-colour flag did signify a material change in the stems administration here.
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