HOCKEY TEAM SLOWED UP BY WARM WEATHER

The University hockey team had a long workout in passing and shooting in practice at the Arena yesterday afternoon. There was no scrimmage, but Coach Winsor worked the squad hard for an hour in stick-handling and team-work. There has been a slump in these departments of the game since the contest with Princeton last Saturday, and the weakness in shooting has been especially noticeable in the practice scrimmages during the first part of the week. Time and again the forwards have lost chances to score by not getting their shots off with any degree of speed or accuracy. This fault, however, as well as a slight let-up in speed and all-around playing, has been due in large measure to the warm weather, which has not only made the ice soft and sticky, but has taken much life out of the air in the Arena: Cold, snappy weather would undoubtedly help a great deal in bringing the team to the high form it reached in the Princeton series for the game with the McGill University tomorrow night.

McGill's victory last year by the score of 1 to 0 was chiefly due to the wonderful goal-tending of Mann, who turned aside 42 shots without an error. McGill has an experienced seven again this year, but the war, as well as the graduation of several players, has depleted the hockey ranks to a considerable extent.