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 Canada, attended the first game played in this city, in the Pole Nord artificial skating rink. London, boasted of the second club in Europe, and in less than one season, more than five teams chased the rubber disc in that city.

Scotland was the next country to enjoy the game. In the artificial ice palace, Sauchiehall street, the first practices were held, and so proficient did the canny Scotchmen become, that a game with the team of the Palais de Glace in Paris, was arranged. A series of six matches was played in one week, with the French seven, and the crowds that witnessed the game fairly raised the roof with their clamorous applause. The Figaro, the leading newspaper in France, described hockey as a game that promised to excel all other sports in Paris, in point of popularity and "scientific possibilities."