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December 17, 1947
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Colville, Hextail, Warwick, Watson, Juzda Remaining Veterans Of Old Six
(New York Post) NEW YORK— It was, of course, December 7, 1941—the day that Jap bombs fell upon Pearl Harbor and war came to America for the second time in 23 years. There were 15,895 fans sitting on the edge of their seats that night as the title-bound Rangers held off a late Boston Bruin charge to win a 5-4 thriller. I wonder how many of those 15.895 now lie buried somewhere along the bloody trails that led to Berlin and Tokyo…North Africa…Sicily…Normandy…Aachen…Guam…Guadalcanal…Leyte…Iwo Jima. They couldn’t know, of course, of the rough road that lay ahead…the years of slogging bitter warfare…the toll of death and misery…the changes that were to be wrought. They hadn’t yet heard the memorable words of the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was not until the next day that…
Pals Forever
LEAMINGTON, ONT. — Five boys of the Leamington Junior Athletic Club from 10 to 15 years-of-age, were the special guests of Ted Kennedy and Howie Meeker of the Toronto Maple Leafs when the Leafs played the Detroit Red Wings in the Olympia last Wednesday. Last year the rour boys were presented with trophies by Kennedy, who then promised them that he would take them to a Toronto-Detroit game. Before the game started, Ted and Meeker both took the boys on a trip around the Olympia.…
Bun Cook Is Good Road Club Coach; Success Started With Reds In 1940
CLEVELAND— Teams coached by Fred “Bun” Cook, former star with the New York Rangers, have been good road clubs down the home stretch. As an example, his team of 1939-40 were going practically nowhere at mid-season because they couldn’t win away from home. The club was faced with a jaunt through the west that would either make or break them. But Louis A. R. Pieri, owner of the Reds, had a different idea. He chartered a plane with the idea or reducing travel fatigue. But the Reds took a momentary nose-dive when they lost to both Cleveland and Indianapolis. The Reds soon found their legs in Pittsburgh when they tied the Hornets and that deadlock was the turning point of the season. The next night in Syracuse the Reds whipped the Stars and…
Quackenbush Is One Of Cleanest Rearguard Men
MONTREAL— For many years now it’s been the habit of hockey experts to define just how good—or bad—a defenceman is by finding out how many minutes he has spent in the penalty box. Many of the best spent more time in the said box than they did anywhere else and so were judged to be the roughest, toughest and dirtiest—as well as having the distinction of being the best in the league. Among the greats who spent more than a little time in the cooler were Eddie Shore, Red Horner, King Clancy and the late Babe Siebert, not to mention many more. There is one defenceman, however, who rips apart all these elements and it looks like he will continue to do so for many more seasons. He is blond-haired Bill Quackenbush of the…
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