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From THE TORONTO GLOBE

Monday July 20, 1891

St.Catharines, July 17 -— Never did the Athletics grounds present a prettier picture of the popularity of lacrosse that they did today when the Athletics and Cornwall teams appeared. The open grand stand and the covered and temporary stands were filled with ladies, while the available standing room was occupied by gentlemen from all quarters of Western Ontario, who had come prepared to witness a closely-contested game, but the result rather staggered the friends of the Athletics, who had to lower their colors to the sum of four straight games, in ten, one, twelve and seven minutes respectively. The Athletics were outplayed, but took their defeat as good sportsmen should. Nearly 3,000 spectators were on the grounds, and lustily cheered the many brilliant displays of scientific lacrosse. Mr. J.D. Bailey of Toronto refereed the game, Messrs Jas. Vance, Ingersoll, and W. Park of Toronto being umpires. The teams were:-

Athletics.
Goal: A.T. Riddle
Point: F. Williams
Cover Point: R. Williams
Defence: W. Yielding, C. Lobb, A. Fairfield
Centre: J. Downey
Attack: A. Fralick, G. Downey, A. Chaplin

Cornwalls.
Goal: N. Carpenter
Point: T. Crites
Cover Point: M. Murphy
Defence: H. Adams, W. Hughes, J. Adams
Centre: H. Riviere
Attack: W. Turner, H. Daraher, A. Black

The Cornwall friends are in high tonight and say that if the Montrealers will win the N.A. championship the world’s championship can be played for by Cornwall and Montreal this fall.

LACROSSE
ATHLETICS 5, TORONTOS 1

From THE TORONTO GLOBE

Monday August 10, 1891

The Athletics of St.Catharines crossed the lake on Saturday morning accompanied by about 300 of their townsmen who take an interest in lacrosse, and met the Torontos on the Rosedale grounds in the afternoon. After their game of three weeks ago at St. Catharines with the factory town of Cornwall in which the Athletics were beaten by four games to nothing, there was very little enthusiasm left in the team. They hardly expected to win from Toronto, but after they got on the field and had handled their sticks for a few minutes they appeared to have struck their old gait and a gleam of confidence in themselves appeared. The Athletics had the best of the play from the start and walked all around their opponents. The ball was faced at 3:47, with probably 1,000 in attendance. A little betting was done around the clubhouse at odds ranging from ten to seven to even money in favour of Toronto. The fact that the Athletics never won a game from Toronto on the home grounds tended to discourage very heavy betting, although a few fives and tens were placed. This lack of confidence on the part of the St. Catharines team was surprising, considering the very weak team they had to face. It would have been natural enough had Jack Drynan and Scholfield been on the field, but they were not. The Toronto team of Saturday was not up to the mark, or St. Catharines could never have beaten them 5 games to 1. One of the Athletics said that their victory of Saturday over Toronto would help lacrosse more in St. Catharines than anything else possibly could. They had beaten the team in blue for once, and even if it was only a paper team it would do the game good. Fralick and Fairfield were not on the visiting team, and their places were filled by others who did good work. For the Athletics, the Williams brothers on defence and Chaplin, Nottman and Geo. Downey on home played a hard, swift game throughput, as also did young Doherty and Riddell in goal. Martin, the two Carmichaels, Woodland, Cheyne and Gale played their usual first-rate game, but the home field was by no means strong enough to cope with the heavy defence men of the Athletics.