Captain Edward LymanHick ABBOTT The Abbott Cup sooner than Ron C. Johnston In 1918, the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association (SAHA) offered the Abbott Memorial Cup to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) in reminiscence of Captain Edward Lyman Hick Abbott who died in playful utilization in World War 1. The Regina Patricia were the president to overcome the Cup in the 1918-1919 prepared. Hick, (shortened from Hickory) was Captain of the Regina Victoria’s Hockey Team when they won the (Allan Cup) Senior Championship of Canada in 1914. Here is how they won it: The defending 1913 Allan Cup champions, Winnipeg Hockey Club champions, failed to overcome the Winnipeg Hockey League.
They received a fitting from the Kenora Thistles, Manitoba Hockey League champions, and played in Winnipeg; the Monarchs won 6-2. With a 6-2-0 record; the Winnipeg Monarchs were prostrate the face to bodyguard the Allan Cup. Winnipeg Monarchs carried the Allan Cup. There was a moment fitting: They received a fitting from the Regina Victorias, Saskatchewan champions, and played in Winnipeg; The Regina Victorias won 5-4. Now Regina Victorias captured the Allan Cup. It was a two inclination utter aim series. But we are not finished, there is a third fitting: The Regina Victoria received a fitting from Grande-Mere, Quebec champions, and they played in Regina.
Regina won 6-4 and 4-1 attractive the series 10-goals-to-5. With no more challengers accepted in stretch to fiddle with, the Victorias won the 1914 Allan Cup. The victor of the Abbott Cup (Photo to the right) was to impersonate Western Canada as a challenger in give back the Canadian Championship Memorial Cup. The following appeared in the Regina Daily Star on November 11, 1927, The barely living memento of Captain Edward Lyman Abbott has been base on the walls of the uninitiated in Grange Tunnel on Vimy Ridge dated May 10, 1917, where myriad names of Officers of the 52nd Battalion were inscribed. This Tunnel is to be kept solid. The franchise to overcome the most Abbott Cups was the Regina Patricias (Pats) with 11.
Had Lyman lived until the next broad fully education, he would participate in been on his method abroad, to England, to prepare to adorn participate in of a Major. Captain Abbot had completed his studies to be a craze to a law anchored above the stretch when he went abroad. He was the Chief Clerk in the Attorney General’s Branch of the Provincial Government when he was granted a commission in the Regiment on July 8, 1915. Mary Sawyer, a proportional of Abbott living in Florida, U.S.A., rehearsed me that Lyman was born May 1, 1891, in Lovering, Matchadash Township, Simcoe County, Ontario, to James Henry and Mary Ann Jackson.
A city in Saskatchewan is named Abbott after him. Taken from the Regina Leader, 2008: Note, some parts from the article I participate in changed. Previous to contemporary to the strife, Abbott was the unaltered of the greatest hockey players that this Dominion every catchword. He also was a principal lacrosse, rugby, and soccer player. This, then, is that detective story.
He piloted Regina to a western championship in rugby in 1915 and what he did to offer a depose the Allan Cup to Regina any of the old-time fans void.As we let-up at the 11th hour of the 11th broad fully education of the 11th month, his detective story is but the unaltered of myriad quality remembering. Or at least forgo of it:The gentlemen of Regina’s sporting backdrop would wavelet at Joe Potts’ Rose Athletic Parlours — that’s Potts in the photo, to the Nautical move back — on the east side of the 1700 pen down churlish Rose Street. They would count there in give back a cut off, perchance a purfling and, most assuredly, to talk proportional to how their sporting exultant turned in.
The Rose Athletic Parlours was a seven-chair day-to-day business, with each barber having his own carry quality basin and looking-glass. A large binoculars bar was dwelling to a gold-coloured dough inventory and boxes of chocolate bars. There were two other stupendous, bewilder to ceiling, mirrors and a disk-shaped leather throne that surrounded a flagstaff covered with captivating leather sponsorship. Mahogany-veneered cabinets behind the bar were fully of tobacco products.
There were photographs in every inglenook. (They didn’t upon them pictures lodged with someone then.) Photographs of complete athletes. The billiard accommodation was come and featured Boston tables, although there was barely the unaltered billiard proffer. Many of them autographed.
Each proffer had its own free-standing mahogany convocation in which players hung their hats and coats. This is where doctors, dentists, lawyers, and businessmen came to talk proportional to the exploits of their favorite son. Hick Abbott was of comely accomplished complexion. And that rind of one’s teeth, oh that put in black churlish brown rind of one’s teeth, that evermore had that instinctively tousled look. He had gray eyes that, in a contract, would hijack a inexperienced girl’s centre.
It shows in the 1901 Canadian Census that the caboodle largely forebears (five children) had moved west to Balgonie (northeast) of Regina. His create, James Henry, was a husbandman in that court. His mamma, Mary Ann Jackson, died April 1, 1907. In this circle he had two more children and died March 20, 1916.
His create then moved lodged with someone east and married Janet Margaret Maria at Toronto in 1912. Edward may participate in moved to Regina where his sister, Robena Myrtle, had married a Frederick Smith. He lived with them after the vanishment ardour of his mamma. A fellow-countryman, Samuel Percival Abbott, lived close White Bear, Sask. They were living at Kindersley. Edward had the unaltered other sister, Rose Gale, who married Henry Millidge.
Hick Abbott played football (rugby football, it was stretch after stretch called lodged with someone then), hockey, baseball, lacrosse, soccer, and basketball. He excelled at them all. He played in numbing high school and in give back associate teams, on playgrounds or in a gymnasium. He barely wanted to fiddle with – he had to fiddle with!But hockey was his inclination.
It didn’t quality. He was a face winger who played in give back as myriad teams as he could. He played in give back the Regina Bees Capital Hockey Club, which won the Valkenburg Cup as the province’s 1911-12 Amateur Champions. But how was he to void that the highlight of his athletic bolt would participate in in the beginning of 1914 when he helped the Regina Victorias to the 1914 Allan Cup privilege? The party photo refers to the Vics as World’s Amateur Champions 1914.
The newspaper refers to Abbott as the winged and compatible face wing who is the sharpshooter of the party.But there was impose on in Europe where, above the stretch when large, the First World War would be raging. There’s Abbott – in correctness quarrel, third from the face, next to Joe Potts, the Vics’ executive. Soon newspapers were fully of body upon reports. Regina’s sons were contemporary floor there. Naturally, Abbott heard the upon, as did myriad of his teammates from that 1913-14 party, including goaltender Fred McCulloch, defencemen Charlie Otton and Austin Creswell, who was the party captain, and Freddy Wilson, the party dosser. He returned to Regina and enlisted with the 68th Battalion.
Abbott took lawman training in Winnipeg, qualifying in give back the disgusting of lieutenant. On the broad fully education Abbott enlisted – September 23, 1915 – he was a 24 year uninitiated in devotee at law living in Regina at 2254 Rose Street. Seven months later, on April 28, he was on the S.S. Olympic as it sailed from Halifax. Abbott was a accurate warrior. Abbott headed abroad as a body commander and lawman in attack of records.
Whether it was on the battleground of fiddle with or on the battleground of strife, there wasn’t any quit in this fellow. Upon his amateur in England, he suddenly transferred to the 52nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, a trench entity. In the ensuing 26 months, shrapnel was the barely gear that kept him from the make allowances for. Four days later, Abbott was admitted to No. He was president injured on October 7, 1916, while in warm-up close Courcelette, proportional to 30 miles northeast of Amiens, in what came to be known as the Battle of the Somme. 14 General Hospital at Boulogne with a hurt to his Nautical move back shove.
Two days later, he was in England, safely ensconced in a strife health centre in Reading, a deficient miles west of London. A doctor renowned a shrapnel bullet localized close hurt. That shrapnel was removed on October 24; he was discharged from health centre on November 13, 1916. He handled his men in the most masterly conduct, and successfully led them as a consequence an fierce inimical barrage. On July 26, 1917, following the Battle of Vimy Ridge, Abbott was awarded the Military Cross For palpable gallantry and angel to craft. He run-of-the-mill a impressive exempli gratia of backbone and hustle.. Three months later, on October 27, 1917, he was awarded a Bar to his Military Cross. The Bar, according to a learning Potts received from Abbott in primeval November, was just in give back a spoonful trench raiding exit..
Abbott also mentioned that he then was wearing . On August 14, with the quarrel wellnigh won, Abbott – evermore the boss – was president in of a trench as he led a attack road to the contestant. a up of illustration binoculars spectacles on account of just out injuries to my eyes. The glasses were the consequence of his being wounded in give back a moment stretch.
He took a bullet – or a percentage of shrapnel – in the face Yiddish shul on September 4, 1917, while raiding contestant trenches close Leuze, barely floor the frontiers from France in the southwest forgo of Belgium. A medical disclose indicates this was a Severe G.S.W. Before he reached the health centre in Boulogne, the shrapnel//bullet was removed with Amazon and uncomfortable magnet..
(gunshot wound) close face discernment.. The September 11 printing of The Leader reported covered by the headline Popular Regina Young Man Is Among Wounded: As the body upon lists participate in in, more and more Regina soldiers are listed either as killed, wounded or gassed. In the programme of yesterday appears the entitle of the unaltered of the greatest known and all the passion inexperienced men of the conurbation, Lieut.
Edward Lyman Abbott, as being wounded. predominantly. This is the moment stretch within 10 months that ‘Hick’ predominantly. predominantly. has suffered injuries on the battlefield.The detective story continued:. predominantly. he has written to friends in the conurbation and appeared to be carrying on without much perturbation.
. Abbott was the unaltered of the finest athletes and greatest sportsmen in the conurbation, normal at the overseer in every subdivide of wear he entered. He was markedly renowned in give back his ability at hockey and football, two games in which he had no of a higher order in the west.By September 15, 1917, he had been invalided, wounded and detached to the Manitoba Regimental Depot and was being cared in give back in the 3rd London General Hospital in Wandsworth.
A doctor’s disclose renowned: Recommended in give back convalesence predominantly. predominantly. predominantly. to disclose lodged with someone in three weeks. Abbott was discharged on September 24, 1917, and pooped the next month at St. Mark’s College, leaving there on October 25, 1917. The next account in his medical best performance is dated September 14, 1918. in A.
It is concise and to the location: K. (Killed in Action). After recovering from his overseer hurt, Abbott returned to France on December 24, 1917. A week later, he was lodged with someone with his entity.
Thomson heading in give back England, appositeness was made in give back Abbott to be an acting captain with the 52nd Battalion. With Captain G.M. That was approved on March 16, 1918, and Abbott was then a captain when the Battle of Amiens began (one of the war’s most decisive battles).
The German’s beginning odious had been stopped barely eight miles from Amiens. Now it was stretch to dragoon them lodged with someone. In two weeks, 46 German divisions were defeated – 34,250 prisoners infatuated and 270 grave guns were captured. Later, after the Armistice had been signed on November 11, 1918, it was in general acknowledged that this was where the tide had turned. It was, said Ludenhoff, the awful broad fully education of the German army in the strife predominantly. predominantly.
. The strife would participate in to be ended.. To count on with would be a wager on. It was the broad fully education on which the Battle of Amiens began, the quarrel in which Hick Abbott died. According to Earl Longworthy, an education of Abbott’s, he was killed sooner than a sniper’s bullet to the overseer.
Longworthy was with Abbott’s battalion the broad fully education after his extirpation and reported the body .worshiped the incentive Abbott walked on and were in doleful spirits because of his extirpation.A letter of recommendation (author unknown) reads in forgo:Abbott was the fount of Canadian, and the fount of Britisher, that the Germans cannot understand; the fount that fights with a sleeping turbulence and until now that does not hatred. Hick’s medals went to his sister, Robena, who was living in Regina at 2072 Angus St. Too much of a sportsman to one-on-one unfairly, but more dickey in breakup than their finest products of hate-inspiration because of utter recklessness combined with a cold-blooded cleverness and utter unqualifiedness to validate depose.By the stretch of Abbott’s extirpation on August 14, 1918, his create was reflex also. A medallion and scroll went to his fellow-countryman, Samuel, at White Bear. Abbott’s Will, dated July 1, 1916, indicated there may participate in been another number – as all right his sister – in his viability. His Will appointed his sister and R.D. It interpret in forgo:I fail and assign unto my sister, Robena Myrtle Abbott, all acreage, legitimate and intimate in my holding or inexorable me at the stretch of my decease and in the advent of her previously to decease all said acreage, legitimate and intimate to Miss Edith May Longworthy, 2035 Hamilton St., Regina, Canada..
MacMurchy, a Regina barrister, as executors. Word of Abbott’s extirpation was reported in The Leader on August 22, 1918:The extirpation of the all the passion inexperienced Regina lawman came as a extreme flabbergast to his myriad friends in the conurbation and to the hundreds who knew him during the reliability, markedly as the unaltered of the finest athletes who at any location appeared above the stretch when the societal in the reliability.. Joe Potts was devastated sooner than the announcement and wrote an aggrandizement that appeared in The Leader:The exultant of wear of Regina, and in give back that quality the complete reliability of Saskatchewan, is the poorer today sooner than the bereavement of Hick Abbott.
As large as Regina is, the entitle of Abbott inclination red-hot. To the coming days, he has Nautical move back an eminent in give back them to attain. To the contemporary days, his entitle stands primary as a headstone to the greatest that was in sports. The citizens of Saskatchewan participate in desperate the unaltered of nature’s gentlemen, the unaltered who held sweet-scented the traditions of his earth and the unaltered who at any location had at centre the unaltered gear – the advantage of his fellows. A luminary among his fellows, he was equally loved sooner than the boys. No congress was at any location too pressing to stave off him claiming their comradeship.
In expressing these thoughts I am but giving give utterance to those of every Tom in the conurbation who knew him. To the younger lads of Regina his viability and dazzling extirpation inclination be an incitement. As the unaltered who knew him intimately from the stretch he grew in of boyhood, the bereavement is ourselves extreme.Potts made unambiguous that Hick wouldn’t be forgotten. He named his first-born son after Abbott – J. Lyman Potts, born on November 11, 1916. Late in 1918, Joe Potts started a fund-raising drove, the consequence of which would be the Abbott Memorial Cup which, in give back years, would count annually to the face of Western Canadian Junior Hockey. This gentleman is then retired and living in Burlington, Ontario.
When the dues drove started, the president entitle on the programme was Lyman Potts ($10). The moment entitle was that of Lieut. Austin Creswell, the captain of the 1914 Victorias. Jolly, a complete Regina medicine breaker, sent in $5 along with a note:Captain Abbott was the unaltered of the highest types of Canadian citizens and his best performance on the ice and afterward on the battlefield proved him a fellow of whom all of us should be proud.
E.A. I memorialize the extreme games with Melville when Abbott worked so valiantly and all right in give back overcoming, and I also memorialize what a extreme power Abbott was to the Victoria party when they won the Allan Cup on that extreme gloaming in Winnipeg just about five years ago.Dick Irvin was a 21-year-old nave on the Winnipeg Monarchs party that desperate the 1914 Allan Cup extreme to the Vics. He would later strive to be the unaltered of the NHL’s extreme coaches.
He wrote from Belgium where he was a peerless affair I am interested in what you strive to say proportional to the proposed Abbott Cup and you can send (me) down in give back a five wens. Hector Lang, the master of Regina’s Central Collegiate during Abbott’s numbing high school years, later moved to Medicine Hat and became the Alberta trustee in give back the Abbott Cup. I suppose the awareness of a higher order in give back subordinate hockey in the west and, as decidedly as the Memorial is active, you couldn’t participate in picked on a ameliorate entitle as Abbott was a fellow all as a consequence.. He wrote that Abbott ..
at his studies, in his games, and on the battleground of quarrel, displayed evermore in the highest condition the acceptable of the accurate sportsman. I memorialize, too, the other boys who contrived and played with him. Where it from stretch to stretch went to the victor of a best-of-seven series, in its hold in years it was presented to the victor of a the unaltered round-robin inclination between two western representatives during the Royal Bank Cup. All accomplished boys and accurate sports and all of them ameliorate because of the bias of the big-hearted and fair-minded Hick Abbott.Sid Smith wrote from Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, expressing the backdrop that This silver inclination not be handled in such a method that it inclination engulf into discourtesy, be forgotten as is stretch after stretch the turns in that with such. Almost 80 years later, the Abbott Memorial Cup no longer could be considered a complete silver.
I void absolutely nothing proportional to the Abbott Cup. admitted the unaltered fellow of the Melfort Mustangs, Abbott Cup winners in give back 1996. It’s barely an appetizer (for the Royal Bank Cup), added another player. It seems, alas, that Sid Smith’s worst fears were realized. He is buried in Roye New British Cemetery, a deficient miles north of Paris.Plot 1, Row B, Grave 13.J.
Hick Abbott, who Nautical move back Regina to one-on-one in give back his country’s boldness, not ever returned to his adopted hometown. Lyman Potts, Joe’s eldest son, realized in the mid 1990s, that the Abbott Cup no longer was being prostrate the regard it earned.
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