Boston Arena to Be Opened For Weekend College Hockey

Walter Brown's ice hockey palace, the Boston Arena, which he was reported last winter to have closed to any further college hockey because of the huge deficit, will be open this season for Crimson hockey. The schedule will be curtailed, however. Brown loses in the vicinity of $50,000 annually on the venture, mostly because of the high cost of the maintenance of ice, and the small income from college A.A.'s and hockey crowds.

So, the big teams of the metropolitan area (Harvard, B.U., B.C., and Northeastern) will be given ice for games on weekends when the Avena can count on large enough crowds to make a profit. There will be no ice at all in the Arena on Mondays and Tuesdays, and college practice sessions will be curtailed the other days of the week. As a result the Crimson will probably go back to early morning practices at the Skating Club at least twice a week.