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From The Daily Standard

Saturday August 13, 1898

ST.CATHARINES -- Athletics 9, Orangeville 3. That is the tune, which the little German band did not play in the corner of the lacrosse grounds, but it was rendered very melodiously, along with a series of realistic moving pictures by the boys in light and dark blue on Friday.

The Orangeville team brought one of the largest lacrosse excursions to “root” for them that has ever visited the city on a like occasion, and were determined to win at all hazards. To make certain that the players would remain in the good condition that the trainer had worked them, they were sent over by train, and upon arriving in the city were sent to bed for a rest.

When the teams lined up on the field the visitors in green showed up to good advantage.

The following were the positions: Athletics
goal Baumann
point F. Williams
cover Lobb
defence Norris, Hagan, Pringle
centre Jos. Cameron
attack G. Downey, McIlwain, Elliott
outside Gourlay
inside C. Downey
field captain Jno. Cameron

Dufferins
goal Foncar
point Minary
cover J. Dowling
defence Kearns, Carridge, J.A. Irvine
centre Telford
attack Carmichael, Snell, Hay
outside W. Irvine
inside J. Henry
field captain Dr. Henry

Umpires – W. Yielding, St. Catharines, W. Clark, Orangeville

Referee – J.D. Bailey, Toronto

When the ball was faced it passed along on Athletic sticks until the Dufferins’ defence was reached when it was lost, Minary throwing it up the field, when it was promptly returned. Gouray shot and the first goal was won in 2 minutes.

This caused the Orangeville crowd to grow restless and their howls to their men to “wake up” were pitiful to hear.

The next goal was the beginning of one of the most exciting, nerve-killing exhibitions of lacrosse, which makes a man forget all about business troubles and success and causes him to take off his hat and yell; or hold his breath in suspense. In this game there were some hot shots on the visitors goal in 2 ˝ minutes. Then the visitors began to sing louder. They offered all kinds and specimens of “Willie Green” and a number of the boys snapped it up in a hurry.

The next goal went to Orangeville in five minutes and a perfect bedlam broke loose in the ranks. The money bluffers went their rounds and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Then it was the home boys settled down to business. Trainer Nagle was kept busy priming up the boys and they put on a winning gait and scored six successive goals in 1, 12 ˝, 11 ˝, 22, 4 and ˝ minutes respectively. The visiting rooters were as silent as the night and the little German band was stretched out on the ground. The score now stood 9 to 2 in favour of the Athletics. To bring up this score entailed as immense amount of hard playing.

Frank Williams was without doubt the brilliant star of the home team and during the run of goals he made frequent sallies from his position in point and passed to G. Downey, McIlwain or Gourlay, who did the scoring.

The visitors were playing a swift game, however, and succeeded in scoring the next in 5 ˝ minutes.

The Athletics took just two more goals in 3 and 4 minutes and the match was over, the score having jumped from 2 to 1 for the Dufferins to 9 to 3 for the Athletics.

The visitors took their defeat well and left the field without a complaint.

The playing was never too rough at any stage of the game, no one being ruled off, although Lobb received a bad crack on the leg. Gourlay was struck accidentally in the face by the ball, but not seriously hurt. The visiting team, to an observer, did some rather hard checking for strange grounds, and some were surprised that they were handled so easily by the home team.

Standing of the Clubs.
Orangeville 3 – 1
Seaforth 4 – 2
Athletics 3 – 3
Tecumseh Elms 2 – 3
Georgetown 2 – 5

Notes:
The Athletics were photographed just before the ball was faced.
Seaforth defeated Georgetown at the latter place by 5 goals to 3.
Hagan received a nasty clip in the neck during Friday’s game.