HOOPSTERS TAKE THIRD STRAIGHT; CRIMSON PUCKSTERS THRASH M.I.T.

In a contest whose result was in doubt for exactly fourteen seconds, the Crimson hockey team trampled a game but undermanned M. I. T. sextet 13 to 4 at the Boston Skating Club last night.

After Caleb Loring opened the evening's festivities with a goal at 0:14 in the very first Crimson rush, the Chasemen let fly a shower of rubber at Engineer goalie Al Tashjian, and when the boys started to scrape the ice at the end of the first canto, the score was 7 to 0.

Paine Scores Two

Captain Johnny Paine racked up two tallies in the course of the first twenty minutes, and George Harding, who netted the puck three times before the game was over, Earl Acker, Al Everts, and Bill Harding each fooled Tashjian once.

After the first period flurry, the Chasemen settled down to a less hectic pace. The Techmen, deployed on their own blue line what amounted to a 5-1 defense, disregarded offense entirely, and merely awaited each Cantab surge with a prayer and a hockey stick.

Two More Goals

In the second stanza, the Crimson added two more goals to the rising total, Loring and Everts contributing the tallies. The Cantabs' passing game, somewhat shoddy in the Tufts battle, was improved, but numerous scoring opportunities in front of the cage were missed on bad shots from close up, and the Crimson pucksters were caught hanging in the crease several times.

The Engineers didn't open up their offense until midway in the final period, with the score 11 to 0 and the first Chase line, reclining in the locker room. Led by Captain Fred Kaneb, as a good a player as the rink saw all evening, the Techmen racked up four consecutive tallies on quick-opening plays, and goalie Gus Summers had no chance against the onslaught.

Mechem All Alone

Dick Mechem, a brilliant skater all night long, contributed the outstanding offensive play of the game early in the period with an unassisted goal, after waltzing through the entire Tech defense. The last M. I. T. tally came with Engineer Bill Verrochi in the penalty box jailed with the game's only misdemeanor, and the Crimson roared back on the short-handed Engineers with two more goals in the final thirty seconds. Jim Apthrop, a member of the third string line which saw considerable action in the final stanza, netted one goal and George Harding wound up a three-goal evening with the final marker just 16 seconds before the last whistle.