Not so however their friends and following, who resented defeat of their men at the hands of a working class team.
Of course it was Jack Maitland who was responsible for their humiliation.

It was he who had organised his fellow workmen, put them through a blood and iron discipline, filled them with his own spirit of irresistible furious abandon in attack which carried them to victory.
It was an old game with Jack Maitland.

When a High School boy he had developed that spirit of dominating and indomitable leadership that had made his team the glory of the town.

Later by sound and steady grinding at the game he had developed a style and plan of team play which had produced a town team in the winter immediately preceding the war that had won championship honors.

Now with his Mill team he was simply repeating his former achievements.
It had astonished his friends to learn that Captain Jack was playing hockey again.