The Archive · 1940

At Charity Hockey

Sweden Beat Fin!

Stockholm, Feb, 11

With all receipts going into. the coffers of ihe Finnish Red Cross, Sweden and Finland played an ice hockey match here today before a huge crowd of spectators among whom were King Gustaf V, Crown Prine Gustaf Adolph and' Prince Charles. The crown prince acted ax patron on the occasion of this charity Hame, admission prices for which Were specially raised 'Sweden finally won, two goals to one, after a thrilling' match. The crowd cheered more for the Finnish players than for the victors, however.

At the end, all spectators rose. as tone man and sang the famous psalm, "The Lord is an Invincible Fortress," which "King Gustaf Adolph of old made his anthem during the Thirly Years War—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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