THE DAY BEFORE Business was suspended for the day in Blackwater.

That is, men went through their accustomed movements, but their thoughts were far apart from the matters that were supposed to occupy their minds during the working hours of the day.

In the offices, in the stores, in the shops, on the streets, in the schools, in the homes the one, sole topic of conversation, the one mental obsession was The Great Game.

Would the Maitland Mill Hockey Team pull it off?
Blackwater was not a unit in desiring victory for the Maitland Mill team, for the reason that the team's present position of proud eminence in the hockey world of Eastern Ontario had been won by a series of smashing victories over local and neighbouring rival teams.

They had first disposed of that snappy seven of lightning lightweights, the local High School team, the champions in their own League.