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February 18, 1948

The Hockey News February 18, 1948

The fans&rsquo; chore in picking the centre ice star for THE HOCKEY NEWS American League All-Star sextet is going to be just as tough as it is in the National loop, since down the middle is proving to be a strong point with most of the squads this season. Some of the strongest candidates for the position are shown in the accompanying layout, but after you consider those five slick jobbies of the playmaking division, you have by no means exhausted the possibilities in the Podoloff circuit.Taking a look at the top candidates, it&rsquo;s of more than passing interest to note that no less than eight of the first 12 high scorers in the league are centres. And it&rsquo;s been that way most of the season, paralleling the trend in the N.H.L where the pivotmen have been going out and racking up points galore.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01173/1128892-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="274" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cliff Simpson IndianapoUs</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02123/1128885-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="262" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Les Douglas Buffalo</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0392/1128878-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="240" height="353"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Grosso St. Louis</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0462/1128871-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="264" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Holota Cleveland</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0537/1128864-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="262" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wally Stefaniw Philadelphia</figcaption></div>There was a time when the centre&rsquo;s job was mainly to bore in and make the opportunities, then setting up plays for his goalspecializing wings to take advantage of. But in the modern scramble type of hockey the centres are right in their all the time banging away at the goalies and getting more than their former share of goals.Right in RaceHarvey Fraser of Providence, who started with the Reds and Chicago Black Hawks in 1944-45 and then shifted to Cleveland and St. Louis before returning to the Rhode Island centre last season has been fighting with another centre, Cliff Simpson of Indianapolis Capitols, for second place in the standings the past week. Both are threatening the scoring leader, veteran Carl Liscombe of Providence.Looking down the list a trifle we find Don Grosso, the former &ldquo;Count&rdquo; of Detroit Red Wings who is still showing lots of zip and zing with St. Louis Eagles. Ab DeMardo, former New York Ranger now with Cleveland Barons, and Ray LaPlante of Providence are two more centre ice Johnnies who have kept well up in the scoring parade this semester, along with rookie Ken Davies of New Haven, sparky Eldie Kobus-sen of Springfield and Billy McComb of St. Louis.Davies, who currently is in seventh place in the scoring summaries, has been a streak of speed in the A.H.L. as he was in the United States League last winter when he was voted the outstanding rookie in that circuit.Aging Les Douglas of Buffalo is another pivot who has been scoring consistently, but his value to his team as a puck-wise, steadying type of player has made him of even more value to the Bisons than his scoring marks indicate.Johnny Holota of Cleveland, the choice of sports writers and hockey broadcasters for the official A. H. L. All-Stars in 1946-47, is staging a keen race for THE HOCKEY NEWS honors with the other aces of the middle isle. Les Douglas drew down the centre berth on the second All-Star team last season, incidentally.Other leading candidates for the post include Kenny Schultz, the hope of Washington Lions for the pivot position on the dream team, and Polish-born Wally Stefaniw of Philadelphia, both of whom are playing heads-up hockey.Looking a little further among the aspirants, one who matches the eye is Paul Ronty of Hershey Bears, who played seven games with Boston Bruins this winter and notched three points in the process. Ronty, who turned pro with Hershey last season from the Boston Olympics, collected an impressive total of 59 points in his freshman season, but is somewhat off that pace so far this year.Other centres in the running for HOCKEY NEWS ballots include Fred Thurier of Cleveland; rookie Hank Backor of St. Louis; Ab Collings of Providence; Bobby Walton and Danny of the Washington Porteous twins; Pat Lundy and Red Doran, former Detroiters now with Indianapolis; Murdo McKay and Len Halderson of Buffalo; Frank Mario and Jack McGill of Hershey; Johnny Mahaffy and Kenny Kilrea of Philadelphia; Pete Langelle and Bob Dawes of Pittsburgh; Chick Webster and Sherman White of New Haven; and Paul Courteau of Springfield.<h2>BISON MASTERMINDS HAVE ODD HABITS</h2>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;General Manager Art Chapman, and Coach LeRoy Goldsworthy, brain trust of the American Hockey League Buffalo Bisons, both hold to one of the oddest superstitions which has yet come to light. Both are extremely careful as to where they park their overcoats on the night the Herd is scheduled to play in Memorial Auditorium here.Chapman invariably hangs his coat on a certain peg in the Herd&rsquo;s dressing room, rather than in his private office in the building. After each game, Bison Trainer Stan Irvine brings Chappie&rsquo;s coat back to him in the Bisons&rsquo; well-appointed Press Room.Goldsworthy, who also has an office in the building, always parks his hat and coat on one certain chair in the club&rsquo;s publicity office. There, and there alone, the hat and coat must remain until the game is over.CHARLEY BARTON &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Strong Centre Ice Field In A.H.L. All-Star Fight

<div class="byline">By ARNIE JONES</div>A GREAT CLIMBVictories over Boston and Montreal last week crowned a dazzling climb from a low sixth position. To show how Chicago gained ground on the Habitants, the Hawks were a full 11 points behind Les Canadiens on January 21. The following week they whittled that lead down to eight. However on the week ending February 1 they fell-off a little and trailed the Irviumen by nine marks but seven days later only six points separated the two clubs.Now Canadiens are in a position whereby a few more losses will plunge them into the cellar. Last Wednesday the Hawks cut their deficit to four points by blanking Boston Bruins 3-0 as young Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis hung-up his first N.H.L. shutout. Chicago then landed its Sunday punch on Canadiens&rsquo; already battered jaw Sunday when they edged the Montreal visitors 2-1,This week will undoubtedly tell the tale. Will the Hawks overtake Canadiens or will Dick Irvin pull a much needed trick from his coaching sleeve? These questions can be answered this week when Hawks face Boston on home ice tonight and Canadiens play hosts to the surging Toronto Maple Leafs.Both clubs need a win in a bad way and if Chicago can topple the Bruins coupled with a Habitant loss to Toronto, the Black Hawks can then move right in there on even terms with the Montrealers. On Saturday in Montreal the Canadiens meet the same Bruins while the Hawks rest-up for their encounter with the Leafs in Chicago on Sunday.Who has been the key figure back of the Hawks&rsquo; recent splurge? Some credit the coaching of Charlie Conacher. Others claim it&rsquo;s the improved playing of Goaler Francis while others maintain that the stellar work of the Fort Line of Gaye Stewart, Bud Poile and Gus Bodnar has been the reason. Leafs in Montreal Thursday.Certainly Stewart, Poile and Bodnar have aided Chicago no end since they joined the club in the deal with Toronto for Max Bentley. Their play to date has made many Chicago fans forget the great feats of the slick Bentley. Since he rejoined the club from Kansas City, Francis has been spectacular at times.Records show that the Hawks started their march from the darkness of the N.H.L. coal-pile on January 31 when they trampled Boston 7-4. The next night they tied New York 2-2 only to be downed by Detroit on February 3 by 2-1.The Hawks then seemed to take on a new lease on life after that Detroit setback. They invaded Montreal and stunned both the Canadiens and Montreal&rsquo;s hockey millions by trouncing the Habs 7-2. After holding the Rangers to a 2-2 draw on February 8, they travelled to Boston to blank the Rossmen 3-0.Since that Boston tussle on January 31, the Hawks have scored 24 goals against enemy net minders while Francis had fanned on but 13. With but 13 games left to play, Chicago is gunning for a slice of the playoff pie and since every one is wearing a sunshine smile these days in Chicago nothing is going to halt that drive now. &#9632;

Chicago Squad Trailing Habs By Two Points

<div class="byline">By FULTON OURSLER</div>MY search began one morning in April, more than 50 years ago, when my colored nurse led me to the door of a gray stone chapel at Twenty-third Street and Guilford Avenue in Baltimore. Welcoming me inside, a Sunday-school teacher explained that I was now in God&rsquo;s house.&ldquo;Whereabouts,&rdquo; I asked, &ldquo;is God?&rdquo;&ldquo;He,&rdquo; the lady assured me, &ldquo;is everywhere.&rdquo;But I wanted Him to be somewhere. Like the little girl in the fable, I did not want Him to be invisible; I wanted Him &ldquo;with skin on.&rdquo;That was why I peeked under the pew and in a broom closet, only to be rescued finally, weeping and dusty, from behind the pipe organ.Thus began my quest, and through half a century I never entirely abandoned it. Even in boyhood, the reality or nonreality of the Creator seemed to me the most important matter in life, and to this day I cannot understand how an intelligent person can think otherwise. It is the one supreme matter on which a man has to be sure, for every decision he makes hinges upon it.But can anyone really know? Lanland said: &ldquo;I have swept the heavens with my telescope and have not found God,&rdquo; while other scientists testify: &ldquo;We have examined the brain with our microscopes and have not found the soul.&rdquo;Yet every day I speak the words of the ancient creed:&ldquo;I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth&mdash;&rdquo;I recite it all because I believe it all, though earnest friends accuse me of credulity: &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t really know, now, can you?&rdquo;My friends, who are earnest doubters and of genuine good will, demand to know how anyone can ever prove that God exists. To that question there are two answers&mdash;two keys to the most exciting mystery of life.The first way is by sheer reason, through the brain. That was my first way. Surely, I told myself, if logic is a science, then the existence of God should be proved or disproved scientifically. I knew that physicists had often established beyond dispute the reality of things which could neither be seen nor heard nor ever known by other senses. Has any eye ever seen an atom? Yet the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki know its terrible actuality. Again, all the billions upon billions of genes in the world could be contained in one child&rsquo;s thimble. Beyond vision or touch, these particles had nevertheless been demonstrated; they existed, reservoirs of incredible power.EVERY high-school student knows how once upon a time an astronomer discovered a star without ever having looked upon it. So exact was his knowledge of stellar mathematics that he calculated&mdash;he did not have to believe; he knew&mdash;that there must be another planet in our solar system or else the whole celestial circus would fly apart. When larger telescopes were built, astronomers did actually see that star. But it had already been discovered by sheer reason. So, through the mechanism of the intellect, our Father in heaven also clearly reveals himself to the logical mind. You don&rsquo;t have to be a scholar and follow the profundities of St. Thomas Aquinas to find this for ypurself. A most readable book by John A. O&rsquo;Brien, The&rsquo; Truths Men Live By, will give you logical proofs.But I preferred firsthand knowledge. While it was possible, I told myself, for a man to read a textbook on swimming and come to know aquatics thoroughly, I would rather plunge in a pool and swim. We all exult in the joy of experience, free motion, the splendor of survival in another element.That is the second way to know God&mdash;by personal experience. That was my second way.In search for truth, I had already explored in many different fields. A study of comparative religions over a decade of years led me from Buddhism, and its Western translation called Theosophy, all the way to Bahaism and Zoroastrianism, with many steps between. As a reporter for the Baltimore American, I had attended annual conferences of Methodists, diocesan meetings of Episcopalians, conventions of Baptists, synods of Presbyterians; and for three months I &ldquo;covered&rdquo; evangelistic meetings of Billy Sunday. I was drenched with doctrine. I had even waited for specters in darkroom seances of spiritualist mediums. Out of all this I emerged, at the age of 30, a self-styled agnostic. In those days I considered myself a liberal person, emancipated-from superstition, although still genially loyal to ethical values&mdash;when they did not interfere too much with what I wanted to do.I declared that I believed in live and let live. Circumstances, I felt, altered not some cases, but all. There were no absolutes. No more right or wrong. And, for me, no authority and no revelation. Certainly no supernaturalism. All these things were anathema to my emancipated and rational mind. I couldn&rsquo;t be like Christ, I told myself; I would just be myself.Such tolerance and emancipation and what I considered common sense and good will, should have brought me happiness, but did not. Nor did they bring happiness to anyone I knew. Most of my friends and scaled only 145 pounds. Both Boston and Toronto turned him down. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll have to put on height and weight or they&rsquo;ll break him in two in this league,&rdquo; the experts would say. Ten years later he still stands only 5&rsquo;8&ldquo;, weighs only 145 pounds and is still very much in one piece.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01143/1129684-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="928" height="1053"><figcaption class="caption-body">Center&mdash;Doug Bentley Chicago Black Hawks</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0285/1129677-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="948" height="1045"><figcaption class="caption-body">Left Wing&mdash;Roy Conacher Chicago Black Hawks</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0353/1129670-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="964" height="1033"><figcaption class="caption-body">Right Wing&mdash;Maurice Richard Montreal Canadiens</figcaption></div>In the off-season, he&rsquo;s a family man and wheat farmer. He also has hopes of building up a winning racehorse stable with brother Max.ON left wing, 32-year-old Roy Conacher is a package of dynamite whose fuse has no warning sizzle. He&rsquo;s calmly patrolling his wing, a pass slides his way and BANG&mdash;-he blasts in on the net. He doesn&rsquo;t always click but his misses are always near. With Bentley he formed the league&rsquo;s most powerful one-two punch this season. With 12 games left, he had scored 21 goals, Bentley 20.Conacher is smaller than his better-known brothers but is still a big man at 6&rsquo; 1&ldquo;, weighing 175. He&rsquo;s as quiet off the ice as on, speaking in a deep, modulated voice. He&rsquo;s an avid fan of any sport and plays a lot of golf and softball in the off-season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0440/1129663-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="403" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Center&mdash;BILLY REAY Montreal</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0530/1129656-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="404" height="467"><figcaption class="caption-body">Left Wing&mdash;HARRY WATSON Toronto</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0626/1129649-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="409" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Right Wing&mdash;BILL EZINICKI Toronto</figcaption></div>MAURICE RICHARD, lantern-jawed Canadien right-winger, is the $100,000 prize we mentioned before. Toronto Leafs have rubbed it into the Rocket probably more than any other team in the league for the last five seasons. But they&rsquo;ve always wanted him on their side. A couple of years ago Conn Smythe offered Montreal $50,000 for the 28-year-old French Canadian &ldquo;and $75,000 if he was a back-checker.&rdquo; Apparently Smythe now feels he has enough other people to do the back-checking, for this season he doubled his original bid. Rangers have also bid high for the taciturn forward, offering $75,000 last season.Richard has had a hot and cold season, even as far as partisan Montreal fans are concerned. But the 180-pounder, probably more than any other, is a player&rsquo;s player. And because he&rsquo;s dynamite, he&rsquo;s given more personal attention by the opposition than any other player in the league.Richard is one of the fastest and powerful skaters in the game. He also has a dead eye, could fire a puck into a letter-box. Because of the way he is held and harried, Richard takes a good share of penalties. Off the ice he is downright quiet. A good businessman, he sells Chrysler products on the side and owns a set of thriving bowling alleys in Montreal. He&rsquo;s married to a pretty French-Canadian girl, has two children. He doesn&rsquo;t smoke or drink, likes jazz, loud sportshirts and ties.An alternate All-Star team was picked this way:GOAL&mdash;Charlie Rayner, New York.DEFENCE&mdash;Glen Harmon, Montreal. DEFENCE&mdash;Jack Stewart, Detroit.CENTER&mdash;Billy Reay, Montreal.LEFT WING&mdash;Harry Watson, Toronto.RIGHT WING&mdash;Bill Ezinicki, Toronto.Other New Liberty awards:Most improved player&mdash;Billy Reay, Montreal, who led his team in points&mdash;after a disappointing 1947-48 season in which he scored only six goals. With 12 games to go this season he had scored 19 goals and had 19 assists.Best first-year player&mdash;Allen Stanley, New York defenceman who was turned down by Boston, leaving Rangers to pick up the option on him.Best line&mdash;Doug Bentley, Roy Conacher, Bill Mosienko, Chicago.Best playmaker&mdash;Doug Bentley, Chicago.<h2>Here is the Top Ranking Line-up for 1948-49</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01122/1129642-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="946" height="1078"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goal&mdash;Bill DurnanMontreal Canadiens</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0288/1129635-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="955" height="1084"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defence&mdash;Kenny Reardon Montreal Canadiens</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0369/1129628-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="940" height="1081"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defence&mdash;Bill Quackenbush Detroit Red Wings</figcaption></div>No one player was a unanimous choice for any one position but Bill Durnan of Montreal and Bill Quackenbush of Detroit were picked by five of the six captains.Here&rsquo;s the team:GOAL&mdash;Bill Durnan, Montreal.DEFENCE&mdash;Kenny Reardon, Montreal.DEFENCE&mdash;Bill Quackenbush, Detroit.CENTER&mdash;Doug Bentley, Chicago.LEFT WING&mdash;Roy Conacher, Chicago.RIGHT WING&mdash;Maurice Richard, Montreal.Selection of Durnan won&rsquo;t surprise many fans. The tall, Toronto-born athlete is one of the best goaltenders in history; relies on positioning and timing more than acrobatics to keep out the puck.He stands six feet and weighs 190 pounds. Broke into professional hockey six years ago at the age of 28, but could have made it before then. When playing for Allan Cup teams like Kirkland Lake Blue Devils and Montreal Royals, he turned down several pro offers only because he was making enough money as an amateur. But when the Montreal club laid enough on the line, he made the jump. In his first five NHL seasons he won the Vezina Trophy four times, yielding it last season to Toronto&rsquo;s Turk Broda.THE defence is a combination of the roughest and mildest back-liners in the league. Canadiens&rsquo; Ken Reardon plays the man and Bill Quackenbush of Detroit plays the puck.Bull-shouldered Reardon is one of the best two-way defencemen since Eddie Shore and one of the bashingest. But he doesn&rsquo;t ask any breaks from anybody. Standing 5&rsquo; 11* and weighing 180, he hits with everything&mdash;hips, knees, elbows and, if anybody else starts it, he&rsquo;ll swing sticks.He&rsquo;s also one of the league&rsquo;s best &ldquo;jockeys&rdquo;. &ldquo;Who let you inta the league, ya bum,&rdquo; he&rsquo;ll snarl at a forward after thumping him into the boards. In many cases the player loses his temper and hits back in some way which earns him a penalty, while Reardon mouths one of his wide, Irish grins.Off the ice he&rsquo;s a carefree, likeable bachelor who sells Calvert&rsquo;s rye on the side and goes for flashy roadsters and loud clothes.QUACKENBUSH is as quiet as Reardon is riotous. In six seasons in the NHL he has drawn fewer penalties in minutes than the 129 minutes Reardon drew in the 1947-48 season alone. He looks like a cinch to win the Lady Byng trophy this season. And if he does he will be the first defenceman ever to cop it. The trophy is awarded annually to the player who best combines clean play and ability. Thirty-four of 60 games went by this season before Quackenbush drew his first penalty, a minor for tripping.A quiet blonde who weighs a slim, hard 175 and stands 5&rsquo; 11&ldquo;, Quackenbush is one of the best blockers since the Big Train, Lionel Conacher, was stopping most of the shots intended for the goaltender behind him. He always seems to know what the other fellow is going to do.Quackenbush, 26 years old and single, relaxes during the summer in and around Toronto. He plays a lot of softball and a little golf.At center, Doug Bentley is definitely the player of the year. The swarthy dark-haired little prairie farmer from Delisle, Sask., led the scoring race for most of the season, playing with a club which was never near the top. He&rsquo;s a clutch player with the knack of firing a goal when it&rsquo;s needed most.When Bentley, 32, jumped from the Drumheller team to the Black Hawks in 1939 he stood only 5&rsquo;<h2>These Men Were Second Choices</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0454/1129621-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="412" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goal&mdash;CHARLIE RAYNER New York</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0541/1129614-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="403" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defence&mdash;GLEN HARMAN Montreal</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0628/1129607-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="406" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defence&mdash;JACK STEWART Detroit</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Why I Know

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0395/1129545-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="614" height="279"></div>February 18 to 2418&mdash;Maurice Courteau, Philadelphia, goaler, 1918.20&mdash;Norm Burns, Minneapolis, centre, 1918.21&mdash;John Forbes, Omaha, defence, 1925.22&mdash;Sid Abel, Detroit, centre, 1918.23&mdash;Gus Schwartz, St. Paul, left wing, 1923; Jim Thomson, Toronto, defence, 1923.24&mdash;Doug McCaig, Detroit, defence, 1919; George Pargeter, Buffalo, left wing, 1923 &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="byline">By BETTY HARDESTY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0168/1129826-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE PHANTOM Phil Hergeshehncr, Philadelphia&rsquo;s veteran winger, is shown in the centre proudly displaying the puck with which he scored the 200th goal of his American League career. He scored it against Pittsburgh on February 11. His linemates Mike Narduzzi (left) and Wally Stefaniw (right) look as happy as Phil while Rocket coach, Wally Kilrea also gets in on the celebrations. Hergesheimer is the fourth A.H.L. player to join the league&rsquo;s &ldquo;200 Goal Club.&rdquo;</figcaption></div><h2>The Token Of All Tokens</h2>&ldquo;What next, Hergie?&rdquo; PHILADELPHIA&mdash;It was a timely question. Phil Hergesheimer, the &ldquo;Phantom of the Ice,&rdquo; had just scored his 200th goal in American Hockey League action to join Les Cunningham, Lou Trudel and Fred Thurier, only other players in the history of the circuit to gain player ever to take the title by scoring more goals Club.&rdquo;Last season, he had won the scoring championship, producing the fifth best individual performance the AHL had ever known and becoming the first player ever to take the title byscoring more goals than assists (48 goals: 44 assists). He had made the all-star team at right wing &hellip; for the third time.Now, at 18:27 in the final period of a February 11th (1948) AHL game against Pittsburgh at the Philadelphia Arena, the 3 4-year-old Captain of the Rockets had made his second goal of the evening&hellip; the 200th of his American League career. He had collected both his 199th and 200th against &ldquo;Stonewall&rdquo; Baz Bastien, the league&rsquo;s all-star goalie and one of the best net-minders in the hockey business.So &hellip; What next, Hergie, what&rsquo;s ahead? It wasn&rsquo;t such a tough one for the veteran Phantom. Like he generally executes his hockey, thinking one play ahead, he had the answer.&ldquo;Records are made to be broken&rdquo;, he said &ldquo;and before I hang up my skates, I&rsquo;d like to beat Les Cunningham&rsquo;s all-time scoring mark. He made 233 goals in the American League before he retired.&ldquo;And I wouldn&rsquo;t mind collecting two more &lsquo;hat tricks&rsquo; to match Lou Trudel&rsquo;s record of 10, the most ever made by one player in this league. But that&rsquo;s well ahead.&ldquo;Right now, Mike Narduzzi and I are out to help Wally Stefaniw, our centerman, beat the assists&rsquo; record. That, incidentally, is still held by our coach, Wally Kilrea. He made 68 in the 1942-43 season when he set an all-time scoring mark of 99 points which is still unbeaten. I don&rsquo;t believe Wally would mind very much if Stefaniw wiped out his assists record this year. Stefaniw leads the league with 50 and with 15 games left to play. Do you think we can make it?&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0252/1129819-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="580" height="709"></div>Typically Hergesheimer, he had the whole line in on the play. Do you think &ldquo;WE&rdquo; can make it, he wanted to know. Could be. In six successive games, including the one that gave Hergesheimer membership in the "Two Hundred Goals Club,&rdquo; the Rockets&rsquo; No 1 line of Hergesheimer, Narduzzi and Stefaniw had collected a total of 20 goals and 2 6 assists. They were rather red hot.Hergie&rsquo;s only regret on making his 200th goal was that &ldquo;it was not a good one.&rdquo; He wasn&rsquo;t &ldquo;satisfied&rdquo; because the puck had &ldquo;glanced off his stick,&rdquo; The 199th was more like it, he pointed out. A good clean shot into the net.&ldquo;I want to thank all of the players who have played on lines with me and who have helped me achieve my 200 goals. I have been fortunate having centremen like Wally Stefaniw, Bud Cook and Earl Bartholome. Bud, who quit hockey last year, was my first centreman and I led the league in goals. That was in 1937-38 in Cleveland. The next year, I had Earl Bartholme as centre and again I led the league in goals. Last season when I won the scoring championship, Wally was my centre, as he is now.&ldquo;I want to thank them all. Without them, I never could have collected my 200.&rdquo;Currently, he is leading his team in goals, despite missing 11 games this campaign as a result of a broken jaw suffered in training camp and a knee injury.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on July 9, 1914. He turned pro in 1934-35 with the Boston Cubs in the Can-Am Hockey League. Since, then he has starred with Minneapolis, Cleveland, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins. Hershey and Philadelphia. This is his 13th year of professional hockey, being entirely out of competition in 1944-45 while serving 23 months in the Royal Canadian Navy. He is married and has a seven year old daughter, Jo Ann.One of his big ambitions is to some day play on the same line with his kid brother, Walter, now with Minneapolis where Hergie got his first real start. Young Walter is now playing under the same coach, Bill Cook.Hergie laughs and says, &ldquo;I want to teach Walt some tricks so he can keep the Hergesheimer name in hockey. After all, I bought him his first pair of skates. I never even saw him play though until last year when he was playing with Brandon for the Western Canadian Junior Championship. Incidentally, he scored a hat trick. The game ended in a 3-3 tie.&rdquo;One thing is certain, the &ldquo;Phantom&rdquo; hasn&rsquo;t any intention of hanging up his skates anytime soon. When he does, he wants to be connected with &hellip; you guessed it &hellip; hockey. After all, Phil Her gesheimer and hockey are somewhat synonymous. &#9632;

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Hergesheimer Joins Select Group Scores 200th Goal Of AHL Reign

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>MONTREAL&mdash;Every one of the six teams in the National Hockey League has one club that plays &ldquo;cousin&rdquo; to it in the matter of scoring goals. There is always one team that a club holds an edge over and will always scare well against. These are the teams that the club with the upper-hand would like to play every night of rhe week.Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs, the two front-runners in the loop, both enjoy their greatest scoring successes against the sixth-place Chicago Black-Hawks. After Sunday&rsquo;s games the Red Wings had scored 151 goals, and out of this number 53 were tallied against the Hawks. Toronto fired no less than 44 of their 143 goals into the Chicago citadel.FAVORITE CLUESAfter Chicago, the Detroit crew found Boston Bruins; and New York Rangers their favorite playmates. The Motor City sextet scored 28 goals against Boston, and 26 past the Rangers. They had their toughest chore scoring against Toronto, and only deposited 20 pucks back of Goale Turk Broda,Toronto scored 30 goals against New York. 24 against Detroit but only 22 against the fifth-place Canadiens. The Habitants blanked the Leafs on two successive games on Montreal ice.&ldquo;Cousins&rdquo; to the New York Rangers are these same Montreal Canadiens. While Leafs find their greatest difficulty scoring goals against the Canucks, the Broadway Blues find it easy and scored 30 of their 138 goals against the Flying Frenchmen. Rangers slipped the disc past Boston 30 times and pumped home the rubber 27 times against Chicago and Toronto.NEW YORK COUSINSBoston Bruins are very pleased when they see they are scheduled to play New York, as the Beantown Boys scored 38 of their 125 markers against the Manhattanites. Toronto are also the nemesis of the Bruins as the best they could do against Broda was 18 goals, whereas against Chicago and Canadiens they scored 23 and 22 goals respectively,Canadiens had scored 104 goals on February 14, and 29 of these were potted against the Black Hawks from Chicago. They scored 20 against the Rangers and 21 against Toronto but were able to register only 17 counters against Detroit.Although in last place in the National League standings, Chicago Black Hawks are the second highest scoring team in the loop with a total of 147 goals. Hawks have been treated to a field day each time they clashed with Boston as they notched no fewer than 38 of their markers against the Rossmen. They also did well when they played Rangers, sniping 34 goals past Ranger goaltenders. Two teams proved tough for Hawk players to penetrate and they were Detroit and Montreal. The Chicagoans scored 23 goals against Detroit and 25 against Canadiens.Scanning over the figures it is seen that Toronto Maple Leafs are the most formidable foe to score on, for two of the six teams Boston and Detroit have more trouble getting the puck past the Toronto goalkeeper than they do versus any other teams. Detroit is the toughest team for Canadiens to score on while Toronto suffer their severest headache trying to plunk the rubber into the Canadiens&rsquo; cage. Chicago has its greatest difficulty when playing Detroit Red Wings.The following is a chart showing how the different clubs fared against each other in the matter of goal scoring.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0733/1129788-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="574" height="333"></div><h2>THE RULES</h2>1&mdash;Anyone can cast ballots for AllStar teams of the National, American and United States Hockey League, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming one complete team, in each league.2&mdash;Stories and pictures of some leading candidates for each position will appear in THE HOCKEY NEWS each week. You NEED NOT name any of the candidates mentioned, If you consider some other player better qualified for the position.3&mdash;N.H.L. ballots will run until February 25; A.H.L. ballots to March 3 inclusive; and U.S.H.L. ballots to March 10.4&mdash;Ballots for the choice of three players at each position (six in the case of defencemen) must be filled in as indicated, with the names of the players and their clubs, and the names and addresses of the voters given in the blanks provided each week. Use ballots appearing in paper, or reasonable facsimiles or tracings if you wish to keep your HOCKEY NEWS intact.5&mdash;Ballots may be sent in each week as published or held until all have appeared and selections for all six positions, plus coach, submitted at the same time.6&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to&mdash;All-Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, 803 Dominion Square Building, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.7&mdash;N.H.L. All-Star ballots must be POSTMARKED NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT, MARCH 4; A.H.L. ballots NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT MARCH 11; and U.S.H.L. ballots NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT, MARCH 18. &#9632;

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N.H.L. Sextets Like To Meet ‘Cousin’ Clubs

<div class="byline">By DAVE FARRELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0196/1128481-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIMMY CONACHER</figcaption></div><h2>Freckled Young Scot Playing Fine Game; Only One Penalty</h2>BOSTON&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings had just arrived for a game with the Bruins and Jimmy Conacher, the hustling left wing of the Detroit team, had just finished&rsquo; shaving when we entered his hotel room.&ldquo;This is an important one for the Bruins,&rdquo; we remarked. &ldquo;Besides, the haven&rsquo;t beaten you on Boston ice this year. The fans are looking lor a victory tonight.&rdquo;&ldquo;We&rsquo;re pointing for this game too. The boys want to cop the league championship and so we are going after each game as it comes along,&rdquo; opined the frecklefaced youngster from Motherwell, Scotland.&ldquo;You&rsquo;re well up in the running for the Lady Byng Trophy,&rdquo; we said, changing the subject. &ldquo;Did you set that as your goal at the start of the season?&rsquo;&ldquo;Way Things Turn Out&rdquo;&ldquo;Some of hockey&rsquo;s greatest players have won it. Look at Frankie Boucher. Why he was one of the great players of his day and he won it a total of seven times. And then there&rsquo;s Bobby Bauer. He was a great all round player and&rsquo; he copped it three times.&ldquo;But the method of Selecting trophy winners has undergone changes. In the old days it seamed that the Byng Trophy was often given to a player solely because he had the least number of penalties. But that system has been abandoned. As President Clarence Campbell recently stated, the Byng Trophy will be given to the player who not only displays great sportsmanship but who also contributes a great deal to his team by his all round&rsquo; play.&rdquo;Accidental Penalty&ldquo;That minor penalty I received this year was a funny one,&rdquo; Jimmy continued. &ldquo;We were playing the Black Hawks in Chicago and it was a very rough game. After a big mixup in which several penalties were handed out, Tommy (Ivan) sent my line onto the ice. Just as I was attempting to lead a rush out of our zone, Bud Poile started checking me. He was more or less hooking me so I gave him a shove and the referee sent us both off. Clancy was probably trying to prevent any further mixups and so he was ready to penalize the slightest infringement of regulations. I deserved the penalty but on any other night, I think the referee would have overlooked it.&ldquo;It depends on how things are going in the game. Some nights the referee will call almost anything to prevent recurrences of trouble and in other games he will let a lot go by the boards. But I have no complaint against the refs. When they hand out a penalty, they are in the right as far as I&rsquo;m concerned.Hopes For Best&ldquo;But to get back to the subject, it would be nice to win the Byng Trophy. I&rsquo;ll keep playing the same brand of hockey and hope tor the best. But if winning the league championship ever depended on my getting penalized, I wouldn&rsquo;t hesitate to risk the penalty. That championship means a lot to all of us on the team.&ldquo;You know, when I first turned pro with the Omaha Knights, I was pretty hotheaded. I guess&rsquo; I don&rsquo;t have this red hair for nothing. Every time some opposing player provoked me, I invariably ended up in a brawl and the penalty box. Then one day as I was sitting in the box for some offence &mdash; I can&rsquo;t remember just what it was&mdash;but anyway while I was sitting there, I suddenly realized that I was doing my team absolutely no good every time I got penalized. So right there and then I resolved to control my temper a little more.<h2>Freckled Detroiter</h2>Permanent Detroiter&ldquo;If I should be fortunate enough to win the trophy this year,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;d invest the $1,000 bonus in insurance back in Detroit. My wife &mdash; whom I met in Omaha while I was playing there six years ago &mdash; and I live in Detroit in the off-season. I have a permanent visa and I work for the city in the Summer as a baseball instructor for young boys. The job keeps me in condition and I have a lot of fun with the kids. If I were to give any advice to kids who want to become hockey players, I&rsquo;d tell them to skate as much as possible. I myself started when I was six years old. After they learn to skate, they should&rsquo; make the hockey stick a must in their equipment. In this way they will get the feel of the stick.&ldquo;I know that when I skate without my stick, I feel off balance. Hockey players are made, in my opinion, between the ages of 15 and 19. If a fellow about 15 can hook up with a good coach, then he&rsquo;ll have a better chance of making good as a player. At this age you can correct a boy&rsquo;s mistakes and show him the right thing to do. The habits he forms in this age span will stick with him for the rest of his hockey career.&rdquo;&ldquo;Well, what do you think of your team&rsquo;s chances of finishing first this year?&rdquo; we asked.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t like to commit myself on that question,&rdquo; he answered. &ldquo;Right now Toronto and we are battling nip and tuck for the league leadership and so far at least it&rsquo;s a tossup. We have quite a team. It&rsquo;s a blend of young players and a few well-seasoned veterans like Stewart and Abel who can teach the kids a lot of hockey. About all you can do is look at past records. We have been doing well this season but you never know what the future holds. The Leafs are tough and we do expect the most trouble from them.&rdquo;Few fans realize that the hustling, whiffle-heade Red Wing finished second to Howie Meeker in the balloting for the Calder Memorial trophy last year. Playing only a little more than half the season, Conacher scored 16 goals and 13 assists for an average of almost a point a game.Second Best Rookie&ldquo;If I had played the whole Season, I would have given Howie a much better battle for the award,&rdquo; he commented. &ldquo;According to the record books, I appeared in 20 games during the 1945-46 season, but actually I played very little. They have a new ruling now if a player dresses but is not used in a game, then he is not credited with playing that game. But two years ago ths rule was different and if you dressed for a game, you were charged with a game even though you might not have played. That happened to me quite a bit that season and although the records say that I played in 20 games that year, I actually played very little hockey during the 1945-46 seasan.&rdquo;&ldquo;On our team we have a potential winner of every National Hockey League trophy,&rdquo; he continued &ldquo;Harry Lumley is playing a great game in the nets and is currently leading in the race for the Vezina Trophy. Ted Lindsay is way up in scoring and a definite contender for the Hart Trophy. And then both Jimmy McFadden and Red Kelly are battling for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the rookie of the year. McFadden is well up in the scoring race and being a forward, he probably has the edge in the running for that award.&ldquo;But Kelly, don&rsquo;t forget, is also in the battle for the Byng Trophy. He has only a single minor penalty this year which is exceptional for a defenceman (Ed. Note&mdash;Kelly received a major penalty for fighting with Fernie Flaman in the next game with the Bruins). And he&rsquo;s playing a terrific game on defence. Quackenbush is teaching him a lot and I don&rsquo;t think you could expect a rookie to turn in a better job than Red has performed this year.&rdquo;<div class="sidebar"><h2>Who Holds That Record?</h2>N.H.L. INDIVIDUAL RECORDSMost shutouts recorded in playoff series&mdash;(4)&mdash;Frank McCool of Toronto Maple Leafs had four shutouts in 13 games in 1944-45 playoff series against Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings. Three of the shutouts were in succession against Detroit.Most goals scored in playoff game&mdash;(5)&mdash;Maurice Richard of Montreal Canadiens scored five goals in second games of semi-final series against Toronto on March 23, 1944. Richard scored all Canadiens&rsquo; goals and they won 5-1.Most assists in single playoff game&mdash;(5)Toe Blake of Montreal Canadiens had five assists on March 23, 1944 in Montreal. Canadiens defeated Toronto 5-1.Most points in single playoff game&mdash;(5)&mdash;Maurice Richard and Toe Blake of Montreal Canadiens each garnered five points on March 23, 19 44 as Canadiens defeated Toronto 5-1. &#9632;</div>

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Hustling Jimmy Conacher In Line For Byng Trophy

<div class="byline">By ARNIE JONES</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0196/1128526-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">LACING UP&mdash;Syl is meticulous in his dress both on and off the ice. This informal picture shows the dapper Leaf general lacing-up his skates in the club&rsquo;s dressing room before a regular National League tussle. (Turofsky)</figcaption></div>33-Year-Old Native Of Paris, Ontario Excelled In Many Sports Fields; Playing 10th Year With LeafsIn any phase of business, politics or sport there is always an outstanding figure, a man who stands out above all the others, a luminary and one who sets the example. Hockey is no exception for there is one man who has been cutting a trail of glory down the centre ice lanes of every rink in the National Hockey League circuit for the past 10 seasons. He is the great centre star and captain of Toronto Maple Leafs, Sylvanus Apps.If there was ever a man who was a credit to Canada&rsquo;s great national pastime, Apps without a shadow of a doubt stands out with the many others whose names have been engraved forever on hockey&rsquo;s tablets of fame.Apps has always combined his gift of superlative playing qualities with a character which offers an ideal for Canadian youth from Vancouver to Halifax and there are few players who have ever shouldered the woolens of a National League club who can match the colorful Leaf captain&rsquo;s examplary manliness.Idol Of ThousandsNot only is he a splendid athlete but his top-flight playing ability coupled with a clean mind and upright way of life and his sportsmanship both on and off the ice has made him an idol to thousands of fans in the United States and Canada. Now 33 years old, time has greyed his hair in spots but despite a recent leg injury, Syl has maintained the dazzling pace of pre-war days with the Maple Leafs.Born in Paris, Ontarioson January 18, 33 years ago, Apps started his hockey career with a junior club in Paris and advanced to the intermediate ranks following his enrollment at McMaster University. With a name that would appear more suited to be posted on a billboard announcing the coming of a Shakespeare play than a hockey game, Apps was first recommended to the Leafs while playing college hockey for McMaster. However, at that time it seems that Toronto&rsquo;s list was overcrowded and the young collegian was forgotten for the moment. Again Syl&rsquo;s name was brought to the attention of Conn Smythe but despite a brilliant picture painted about Apps&rsquo; play for Mr. Smythe&rsquo;s benefit, no action was taken.<h2>The Knight Dons His Armor</h2>Gridiron StarStrange as it may seem, Apps&rsquo; big break came not on the ice but on a football field in Toronto. It happened when McMaster was playing the Toronto Varsity grid-ders one Saturday afternoon and the Toronto boss was viewing the game from the stands. Smythe&rsquo;s eyes were glued to one McMaster player who was galloping for large gains and playing an outstanding game for the McMaster side. When this unknown turned out to be a young man named Apps, Smythe later stated that he rushed down to the Maple Leaf office to place the Paris native on the club&rsquo;s list.It was said that while attending McMaster, Apps was studying for the ministry and that a career as a professional hockey player was out of the question. But even if he didn&rsquo;t continue with his plan to enter the ministry, Apps has accomplished a tremendous piece of missionary work In his present capacity as Maple Leaf star and team captain. He is one of the best examples of clean living and sportsmanship that can be offered to the country&rsquo;s juvenile citizens.<h2>From Start To Stardom</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0278/1128519-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1690" height="1012"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE PAST AND PRESENT are shown in the above pictures in the brilliant hockey career of Sylvanus Apps of Toronto Maple Leafs. The picture on the left was taken while Syl was attending McMaster University while the closeup at centre is a familiar to Syl&rsquo;s numerous followers. The camera catches the lanky pivotman on the right as he winds-up around his own goal for a dash into enemy territory. (Turofsky)</figcaption></div>Smythe, is is said, had to do some tall talking to persuade the coach of the Hamilton Tigers to inject Apps into the Hamilton lineup. But as soon as he had played his first game with the senior club his future as a hockey star was established. Apps spent eight years in the amateur (company before he signed his first contract with the Leafs in 1936. He worked on a line with Bob Davidson and Gordie Drillon and was an instantaneous hit in the Queen City.First Calder WinnerSyl has the honor of being the first N.H.L. player to win the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league&rsquo;s outstanding rookie. He won the award in 1936-37 when he scored 16 goals and 29 assists for 45 points in his freshman year.Because of the contributions he made to sport and his popularity in both sport and business, it was a logical choice that the Ontario Government should select Apps as the province&rsquo;s Athletic Commissioner. The new post gives him very little time-off. You can see that with hockey games, practices and his commission work, Syl has few spare moments.Meticulous in his dressing and appearance, Apps is a family man in the true sense of the word. A 10-year idol of hockey lovers everywhere, he is the father of a handsome family that now numbers four. An all-around athlete, Syl excelled in football and in the 1936 Olympic Games at Berlin he represented Canada as a pole vaulter and trackman and garnered a point for the Canadian side.Top Army CadetApps has always been a member of the Maple Leaf organization and played for no other professional team outside the Toronto chain with the exception of an Army team during his two year term of service with the Canadian Army. At the time of his honorary discharge, Apps held the rank of lieutenant and during his officers&rsquo; training period at Brookville he was picked as the most proficient cadet.In 1941-42 he was awarded the Lady Byng Trophy as the most gentlemanly player as he took part in 38 league games without a single penalty. During his entire 10-year stay in hockey&rsquo;s &ldquo;big time,&rdquo; Syl has never served more than 10 minutes in penalties.Although he has never won the scoring championship, Apps has come close on many occasions. Several years he appeared headed for the point crown only to suffer a serious injury that always eliminated him from the race. In his second year as a Leaf, he topped the league in assists with 29 and scored 50 points.In the memorable Stanley Cup series of 1941-42 when the Leafs won the cup after losing the first three games of the best-of-seven series to Detroit, it was Apps who was the sparkplug of the team. When Drillon was benched in favor of Don Metz, Apps pivoted the newly-formed line and he roamed the centre ice lane with a free hand as the Leafs won the last four games and the championship.When Apps returned to the club after his two-year stay in t h e Army, the Leafs had a poor season and failed to make the playoffs. During the early part of the season many thought that the cagey captain had just about reached the end of the hockey trail. But Apps returned to his old form scoring 24 goals and 16 assists. In a desperate move to bring the Leafs back to their former standing, Conn Smythe made several trades and changes, one of which brought Harry Watson from Detroit for Billy Taylor. Coach Happy Day after seeing that Watson could not be converted into an effective defenceman, moved him to a line with Apps and a rookie named Bill Ezinicki. The new line soon began to click as Watson and Ezzie were two players suited to a free-wheeling style of player like Apps.Before last season got under way it was rumored that Apps had just about decided to retire. The word spread fast and Eddie Fitkin, the club&rsquo;s hustling publicity man quoted Smythe as saying after he heard the rumor of Syl&rsquo;s retirement, &ldquo;Imagine a man like Apps slowing down a hockey team! I only wish I had five more players slowing down the team the same way.&rdquo; Apps had stated earlier that he thought he&rsquo;d quite because he would slow down the club.Twice An All-StarSyl missed only six of the 71 games the Leafs played to recapture the Stanley Cup. In 54 league games he scored 25 goals and 24 assists and next to Ted Kennedy he was the Leafs&rsquo; highest pointgetter. He has been names to National League first All-Star teams, in 1938-39 and again in 1941-42. He was picked as second All-Star centre in 1937-38, 1940-41 and in 1942-43.Just because he prefers to stay away from the penalty box doesn&rsquo;t mean that Apps is a meek or mild character whenever he takes to the ice. Far from it, he is a rugged player and opposing stickmen are all known to think twice before mixing it up with the smoothskating Commissioner. He plays for the love of the game, his team and points and although he puts every ounce of energy into his task, never once has it been said that Syl ever fouled or deliberately injured an opponent. But words could not bring out what hockey means to Apps or what Apps means to hockey. A great performer and a fine sportsman, ha would be a credit to any sport. We should all be proud that Sylvanus Apps is a Canadian.<div class="sidebar"><h2>TRAIL TO GLORY</h2>Here are the facts and figures on Syl Apps&rsquo; career in the National Hockey League with Toronto Maple Leafs:Born in Paris, Ont. on January 18, 1915. Plays centre and shoots left. Height-six foot: Weight 185 pounds. Played last amateur hockey with Hamilton Tigers of Senior O.H.A.First year with Toronto 1936-37.Trophies won-Calder Memorial Trophy in 1936-37; Lady Byng Trophy in 1941-42. Named to N.H.L. First All-Star team-1938-39 and 1941-42.Best scoring season 1937-38. Scored 21 goals, 29 assists, 50 points.Last season&rsquo;s record-54 games, 25 goals, 24 assists, 49 points.</div><div class="sidebar"><h2>GREAT LEAF CENTRE NEARING 200 MARK</h2>Syl Apps, Toronto&rsquo;s brilliant centre star and team captain, is presently on the treshold of joining 15 other National Hockey League greats in the select circle of those who have scored 200 or more goals. At the close of last season Apps had scored 175 goals in regular league play and so far this season he has added an additional 17. With a grand total of 192 markers in a little less than 10 full season, Apps is eight away from the &ldquo;200 Goal Club&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0348/1128512-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="500" height="437"></div>x&mdash;Indicates no recorda&mdash;Includes game of Feb. 15. &#9632;</div>

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Syl Apps Is Idol Of Hockey Throngs

The veterans among the National League&rsquo;s left wingers are going to have a tough struggle ahead of them this season to ward off the threat posed by some classy youngsters who are vying for the position on THE HOCKEY NEWS All-Star Team, the people&rsquo;s choice.Doug Bentley of Chicago Black Hawks, who captured the first team berth in last season&rsquo;s official selections, and Porky Dumart of Boston, who placed second in the voting, are the leading candidates among the oldsters, while Jim Conacher and Ted Lindsay of Detroit, Harry Watson of Toronto Maple Leafs and Gaye Stewart of Chicago spearhead the attack by ths younger fry.Stewart, who has come into his own after being traded to t h e Hawks by the Leafs earlier in the season, still rates among the younger fry since his 25th birthday doesn&rsquo;t come until June 28 this year. Despite that, he has been around the N.H.L., except for war service, since the 1941-42 season, when he took part in one playoff game with Leafs.Wings Lead FieldRed Wings, as befits their high status as leaders of the league, have two men in the running for the left wing berth, in Conacher and Lindsay, both of whom have been well up in the scoring statistics all season. The 22-year-old Lindsay has been with the Wings three full seasons before this one.Conacher, the Detroit sensation who owns Scotland as his birthplace, will be 27 years old in May, but nevertheless is classed as a newcomer, since last season was his first full-fledged stretch in the National loop.Watson in ComebackBesides Bentley and Dumart, the oldsters have support from an unexpected source in the person of Phiery Phil Watson of New York Rangers. Watson, now well past the 33-years-old mark, and supposed to be just about all washed up at the end of last season, is having his best winter since 1943-44 when he notched 49 points while with Montreal Cana-diens on a lend-lease basis.Roy Conacher, 31-year-old younger brother of Black Hawks coach Charlie the Chuck, is another veteran who has perked up noticeably. Despite the handicap of a slow start after his lengthy early-season holdout and later threats of retirement when he was originally traded to New-York by Detroit, Roy has moved steadily up the scoring ladder until now he is well up toward the top 15.Toe&rsquo;s Tough BreakAnother veteran who was a strong candidate before a broken ankle snapped his chances was Toe Blake of Canadiens, a threetime placer on N.H.L. All-Star teams.Outside of Blake and Bentley, the only left winger in the N.H L. today who can boast an All-Star gold puck is Gaye Stewart, who took the laurels in the 1945-46 season.Other portsiders around the circuit who all have their followers when the ballots are being cast include Joe Klukay and veteran Nick Metz of Toronto; Pete Ba-bando and Kenny Smith of Boston; Adam Brown and Alex Kaleta of Chicago; Bep Guidolin and Pete Horeck of Detroit; Tony Leswick and Church Russell of Rangers; and old &ldquo;Hardrock&rdquo; Murph Chamberlain and Bobby Fillion of Canadiens.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01164/1128592-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="286" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay Detroit</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02146/1128585-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="292" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gaye Stewart Chicago</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0384/1128578-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="261" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Conacher Detroit</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0456/1128571-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="286" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Watson New York</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0547/1128564-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="254" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body">Porky Dumart Boston</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0639/1128557-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="238" height="379"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Watson Toronto</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Tread On Heels Of Old Guard In Vote For All-Star Crew

<div class="byline">By ED FITKIN</div>TORONTO&mdash;Hanging on the rail of Bill Tobin&rsquo;s office in Chicago is a memento of his gin rummy ability. It&rsquo;s a framed drawing of a horsehoe, which, in its original state, was studded neatly with, pennies. The pennies now rest at the bottom of the frame, as somehow the heat dislodged them from their glued moorings, but the salutation is there for all to see: &ldquo;Bill Tobin, Gin Rummy Champion of the World.&rdquo;Mr. Tobin modestly confesses that Al Sutphin, red-necktied boss of the Cleveland Barons, is responsible for this tribute. In sweeping disregard for the gin rummy adicts of the universe, even the mighty Joe Perlove of the Toronto Star, Mr. Tobinand Mr. Sutphin calmly sat down to determine world supremacy. When Mr. Tobin turned out to be the better participant who emerged triumphant, as Harry Ballogh. would say, Mr. Sutphin with a true sense of sportsmanship, honored him with the aforementioned scroll.Mr. Tobin is quite proud of it but we doubt if it makes much of an impression on Joseph Chesterfield Farrell, one-time songwriter, distinguished poet and the oldest publicity director in hockey. Mr. Farrell, who was born on the day that General Custer made his last stand, also dabbles in gin rummy and likes his own game. So does Charles Conacher. All of which, as you can well imagine, leads to some very merry battles in the Hawk front-office when the boys have a moment or two to spare.IT SEEMS they had a moment or two the other week. Emil (The Cat) Francis was on hand, too, and Miss &ldquo;Finney&rdquo; Finsen had embellished the competition by boiling up some Manor House coffee and procuring some Danish pastry. The battle had reached an engrossing point when all of a sudden the whole room rocked and shook under the impetus of a tremendous blast and the glass windows fronting the street were stove in and glass cascaded all over the office.Mr. Conacher, Mr. Farrell, Mr. Tobin and Mr. Francis leaped to their feet with such celerity that all four could lay claim to the sitting jump record.They rushed to the window, or what passed as a window. Across the street was a scene of destruction. What had once been a four-storey building had been blown sky high by a gaseous explosion.NOT ALL gin rummy games in the Chicago office end with such. stark drama, fortunately. Mostly they are light-hearted affairs, studded with insults, deprecating remarks of a banterish nature. If you happen to wander in on one of these duels you will find it very educational.The last time we were there, Red Dutton was a visitor. To celebrate his appearance, Miss Finsen brought out the coffee and cakes. She also brought out Joe Farrell&rsquo;s special &ldquo;mug&rdquo;, a huge cup which was presented to him by Chicago hockey writers. At a rough estimate it holds the equivalent of three ordinary cups.The phone rang. &ldquo;You answer it, Red,&rdquo; Farrell said.Dutton picked up the receiver, listened a moment, then said. &ldquo;Just a minute.&rdquo; He turned to Farrell. &ldquo;The guy wants tickets.&rdquo; Farrell threw up his hands in dismay. So Dutton said, courteously: &lsquo;Sorry, no tickets.&rdquo; He hung up the phone. &ldquo;No tickets,&rdquo; he repeated. &ldquo;Shades of the old Amerks! Imagine me turning down a customer!Dutton recounted some of his experiences in the early days of hockey with the Amerks, particularly the dodges employed to get people to even take a pass to see them play.&ldquo;Huh&rdquo;, snorted Farrell. &ldquo;I figure I must be the most generous man in America. I&rsquo;ll bet I&rsquo;ve given away 100,000 passes since we opened the Stadium&mdash;most of them in the early years. Now it&rsquo;s got to a point where we can&rsquo;t buy, beg, borrow or steal a ticket. Last year we were hopelessly out of the playoffs but we had two of our largest crowds of the season turned out for the last two league gamesHe also concluded that he must be the country&rsquo;s leading authority on goalies. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s a goalie in hockey that I haven&rsquo;t categorized,&rdquo; he murmured. &ldquo;The last time I counted I had the date on 34 of &rsquo;em.&rdquo;The Hawk search for a net-minder reminded him of another search for a netminder, a goalie who had a fondness for the grape. &ldquo;We never knew whether he&rsquo;d turn up sober for a game,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Funny thing about this guy was that, when he got high, he insisted on discussing the most engrossing subjects of education&mdash;such as who built the Sphinx and why.&rdquo;It so happened that one day before an important game, Mr. Goalie was missing. The Hawk bosses figured he&rsquo;d be in a pub somewhere in Chicago, so each took a section of the city to scour. &ldquo;I got the west side,&rdquo; Farrell recalled wryly, &ldquo;and there must be all of 3,000 pubs on the west side.&rdquo;It was Farrell, though, who finally turned up the quarry and lured him back to a hotel. &ldquo;We figured the best thing to do was keep him there by giving him all he wanted to drink. That meant that we had to drink along with him&mdash;and this fellow really had a hollow leg. The whole bunch of us were flying high before he finally collapsed.&ldquo; &#9632;

FOOTLOOSE WITH FITKIN

<div class="byline">By GLEN GARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01117/1128647-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">FORMER STAR&mdash;Elwin &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Romnes, one-time centre star of the Chicago Black Hawks and also a member of Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans gathers four Canadian students of the University of Minnesota around him for a few pointers. Left to right the players are, Bud Frick, Johnny O&rsquo;Brien, Romnes, Bob Fleming, and Denis Bergman. All four boys are from Winnipeg, Man.</figcaption></div>MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;One of the greatest centres ever developed in the United States was Elwin &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Romnes who for many years was a member of the Chicago Black Hawks, and later with the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Americans.Doc was named coach of the University of Minnesota hockey team last fall, and is once more back in the game which he loves so much and served so well.Romnes was born at White Bear Lake, Minnesota, on January 1, 1908, and learned to play hockey in the public schools of St. Paul. He was a member of Humboldt High team in 1923, and with Mechanic Arts High teams in &rsquo;24 and &rsquo;25. Upon his graduation he migrated to that hockey hotbed and home of professional hockey&mdash;Houghton, Mich. The following season Doc turned professional with St. Paul in the old American Hockey Association and. in the fall of &rsquo;31 the Chicago Black Hawks brought him up to the NHL. For the next seven years Doc was a standout with the Hawks and was the centre for Mush March andPaul Thompson when that trio rated with the top lines in the NHL. Doc was an important factor in the Hawks winning the Stanley Cup in 1933-34 and again in 1937-38.Traded To LeafsAt the start of the 19 3 8 season he was traded to Toronto for Bill Thoms and finished the season with the Leafs. Conn Smythe sold him to the American the following season, but arthritis finally forced him from hockey in midseason. He tried a comeback just before the season ended and in 12 games with the Omaha Knights he bagged 32 points.Doc was out of hockey for the next few years fighting against arthritis which at that time had him so crippled that he had to use a wheel chair in order to get around. He fought against it and through constant exercise managed to regain his health sufficiently to return to hockey in a coaching role with Michigan Tech at Houghton.When the United States Hockey League was organized after the war Doc was named coach of the Kansas City Pla-Mors a n d led them to the league and playoff championship.Doc A Good ChoiceEarly last fall when the University of Minnesota was casting around for a coach who not only knew hockey but had the welfare of his players at heart and to whom sportsmanship was more than a word, they decided on Romnes. It is very doubtful whether they could have made a better choice because there is no finer example of clean sportsmanship in amateur or professional sports today than Doc Romnes.When he was a member of the Chicago Black Hawks in 1935-36 Doc won the Lady Byng Trophy, annual NHL award to the National Hockey League player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanlyconduct combined with a high standard of playing ability. But Doc didn&rsquo;t need a trophy to prove to those who played with and against him that he was indeed a sportsman in every sense of the word.The University of Minnesota is lucky to have Doc Romnes as its coach. He will not only teach his players how to play hockey, but most important, he will teach them to be sportsmen.<h2>The &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Lends Hand</h2><h2>Old-Time Player Forum Director Dies In Montreal</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;William Harty, old-time hockey player, director of the Montreal Forum and Les Canadiens, and devoted sportsman, died here last week. Funeral services were held in Kingston, Ont. Monday for one of hockey&rsquo;s most enthusiastic followers.He played with Royal Mili-taryCollege in Kingston, in his youth, and was a noted allround athlete. As a hockey executive he pioneered the winter sport in Pittsburgh in one of the earliest organized leagues within the United States.His last public appearance was at the Old Timers Dinner here recently when great players of former Canadiens teams were honored, along with those of a later generation. &#9632;

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Doc Romnes, Former Chicago Star, Now Coaches Minnesota Collegians

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02100/1128678-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">D. M. &ldquo;DAVE&rdquo; PINKNEY</figcaption></div>STRATFORD, ONT.&mdash;One of the most popular and highly respected hockey men in Ontario, who is also well known in other provinces of Canada, Was fittingly honored at the Classic City Arena, Stratford, on Feb. 11. That man was D. M. (Dave) Pinkney, who has done more to keep the popular winter pastime flourishing and maintain Stratford&rsquo;s enviable hockey record intact that any other dozen men.In the 1925-26 season he coached a young team in Stratford. But it was during the season of 1931-32 that Dave actually broke into O.H.A. hockey with a bang, icing his first edition of the Stratford Midgets, losing out in the semi-finals to Toronto Marlboros.The following season Dave&rsquo;s greatest midget team sprang into prominence, when they cleaned up in the now dormant S.P.A. preseason series, by defeating Sudbury Wolves for the all-Ontario crown, only to falter to Newmarket Redmen in that memorable four-game series for the O.H.A. championship.St. Michael&rsquo;s College forged to the fore in the 1933-34 season by eliminating Dave&rsquo;s Stratford Midgets in the finals for the junior O.H.A. crown. The next season the Midgets were beaten for junior group honors by that fine Kitchener team including the famous Kraut Line, Milt Schmidt,&ldquo;Porky&rdquo; Dumart and Bobby Bauer.The Midgets failed to win their group in the 1935-36 season, but came right back the following season, before bowing to St. Michael&rsquo;s College in a five-game finals.Graduating to junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; ranks in the 1943-44 season, the Pinkney-managed Stratford team adopted its present name, Kroehlers, but failed to get by Brantford Lions. Then in 1944-45, Kroehler advanced to the junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; O.HA. finals before they bowed to St. Michael&rsquo;s College Buzzers in the finals. Last season Dave again assembled a powerful club, but failed in a bid for the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. crown, when they were eliminated by Galt Red Wings in the group play-offs.In the face of these discouraging setbacks in his bid for a junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; championship, but heartened by the hundreds of fine young men he has had under his care and that great junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; all-Ontario championship team in the season of 1941-42, then performing under the banner of Stratford Kists, Dave Pinkney is still very much in the fight for the elusive junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; O.H.A. championship. &#9632;

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Founded October 1, 1947Published byHockey News Company, 803 Dominion Square Building, Montreal, Que.Subscription Price $2 tor 30 Issues in Canada-$3 in U.S.A.Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.VOL. 1FEBRUARY 18, 1948No. 21<h2>DOWN THE STRETCH</h2>With little more than a month to go before the curtain rings down on the regular league schedules, the clubs in the three professional leagues have readied themselves for the dash to the wire with the status quo the rule, at least as far as exchange of players between the different loops is concerned.Regular league schedules end March 21 in the National, American and United States Leagues, but as of February 10 members of teams in the American and United States circuits are safe from raids by the N.H.L. teams - at least until they are eliminated from further play in their respective loops.This means that National League teams will have to stay pat and base their hopes for a championship or the Stanley Cup on the players they have on their active list as of February 10. Clubs like Detroit Red Wings, which has players stationed at Indianapolis in the A.H.L. and Omaha in the U.S.H.L., won&rsquo;t be allowed to recall their men as long as the Capitols or the Knights are still in contention for honors in their leagues. When they are eliminated, however, the ban is lifted and some of the aspiring puckchasers in those leagues may get a chance to show their wares. But considering that Red Wings are doing pretty well for themselves without any extra help, the outlook isn&rsquo;t too hopeful for players from the Capitols or Knights.With some of the other clubs, however, it&rsquo;s a different matter, since several of them are fighting hard to keep up with the pace-setting Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs. Montreal Canadiens, for instance, may well call on Buffalo Bisons or Dallas Texan for help in the event the Montrealers get into the playoffs and either Buffalo or Dallas are knocked out the post-season trials. Boston has Hershey Bears to fall back on, Chicago Black Hawks have Kansas City Pla-Mors, and so on around the N.H.L.The February 10 ruling is a result of the agreement between the three pro circuits, designed to prevent clubs from recalling optioned players from another club in another league. Without that ruling, the playoff chances of some clubs could easily be wrecked. For instance, if Canadiens recalled some of their players from Buffalo, or Boston grabbed up some Hershey Bears at this late stage, the playoff hopes of those clubs could easily be wrecked.Under the existing system, the A.H.L. or U.S.H.L. teams are allowed to retain all men obtained on loan from other leagues until they have either lost all chances of reaching the playoffs, or have been knocked out in the postseason Cup eliminations. The same rule works for American League clubs, for instance, which may have players optioned to a U.S.H.L. team, and makes for better balanced play right to the last ditch.It&rsquo;s also much better for the home town fans. In the old days of cut-throat competition three or four players might be withdrawn by the parent clubs, wrecking the team&rsquo;s chances and leaving a decidedly sour taste in the mouths of the fans who had laid out good money all year to support their favorites, only to see them collapse at the crucial playoff time.AMATEUR TRYOUTSAmateur clubs are also protected against raids by the professionals, under the agreement with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and the United States A.H.A. In this case, the deadline for signing amateur prospects comes even earlier-on November 15. After that date, it&rsquo;s strictly a hands-off policy for the pros until the following season, unless special permission is granted by the amateur club, or until the amateurs wind up activities for the season.But outstanding amateur prospects are allowed to give a display of their prowess under the broadened code adopted by the amateur bodies which allows a three-game trial with the pros without loss of amateur standing.This lend-lease basis has been called on several times this season as in the case of Johnny McCormack when Toronto&rsquo;s Syl Apps was injured and Gerry McNeil, who subbed so capably for Bid Durnan of Montreal Canadiens-and has proved beneficial to all concerned.No player can take the three-game tryout without the consent of the amateur club for which he is playing-an-other rule which eliminates the possibility of a team&rsquo;s chances being spoiled by having two or three men taken away at once for trials.It sometimes helps the pro team out of a hole created by injuries and the like, and is definitely to the amateur player&rsquo;s advantage. The pro masterminds can look him over while he is at the peak of his prowess during the regular season and see how he fits in with the rest of the team. It also gives the youngster an opportunity to study the style of play in the N.H.L. and decide how to adapt himself to it. &#9632;

The Hockey News

A FAN KICKSDear Sir,In the National Hockey League Campaign of 1945-46, 150 games were played.Of this number, a total of 23 games resulted in ties.Contrast those figures, however, with progress so far this season in the National Hockey League. At this writing there have been played 108 games and of these, 22 have resulted in ties.Having viewed all the Ranger home games this season, I can assure you that such a situation is not in accord with the likes of the hockey fans. The owners have raised the prices every season for the past six years and the fans obliged them with continuous S. R.O. crowds. Is it too much to ask, that at least one overtime be played?Martin T. Walsh Richmond Hill, N.Y.Dear Sir,Even though Tommy Burlington, formerly of Cleveland and Providence, and Armand Gaud-reault, formerly of Hershey of the A. H. L, never played for my home team I&rsquo;ve always thought very highly of them.Could you tell me where these two are at present?Frank J. Meyer Pittsburgh, Pa.(Burlington is playing coach of Owen Sound of the Ontario Senior Association; Gaudreault is out of pro hockey this season.)Dear Sir,You certainly deserve a bouquet of roses for the splendid job you have done on THE HOCKEY NEWS. It provides loads and loads of hockey information. How about a story on one of the forgotten men in the whirl of Toronto Maple Leaf stars in the person of Joe Klukay.R. G. Redman Winnipeg, Man.THE FORGOTTEN MANDear Sir,I happened to be glancing through your records in the January 21 issue, and I noticed the name of Toronto&rsquo;s Nick Metz was missing. However, at the bottom of the lengthy column it read: &ldquo;continued on page 10. &ldquo;Gosh&rdquo; I thought to myself, &ldquo;how low is the guy?&rdquo; Metz, to be painfully exact, was the 87th on the point parade. He could be hardly classed a &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo;.I thought to myself: &ldquo;Why does the Toronto club keep this player who plays on no line and has only one goal to show for his efforts this season?&rdquo; The answer was easy. He&rsquo;s a great defensive player. And I mean great. We often speak of underrated players. Well, Metz would win, hands down. Virtually every &ldquo;clutch&rdquo; situation the Leafs are in finds the ageing red-head on the ice.He is, in my humble estimation, the finest back-checker and keenest &ldquo;thinker&rdquo; in the league. Without him the Leafs would not be nearly as effective. Perhaps it might be proper (if it hasn&rsquo;t been done so before) that some space in your publication be given to this deserving &ldquo;team-player,&rdquo; and render him the recognition he so richly deserves.Joseph Falls New York, N.Y.A LEAF KIDDear Sir,Could you please tell me if Eric Pogue now playing with the Oshawa Generals is on the Toronto Maple Leafs negotiation list or what team is he hooked-up with?Arnold Unbas Toronto, Ont.(Pogue is on Toronto&rsquo;s reserve list.)MALONE THE MARVELDear Sir,I wish you would settle an argument that I had with one of my friends. He claimed that Maurice Richard of Montreal Canadiens scored nine goals in one game last season. I think he is wrong.Could you tell me what the record for scoring goals in one game by one player in the N.H.L. is?Michael Travers Tenafly, N.J.(Your friend is wrong. Joe Malone of Quebec Bulldogs scored seven goals in a game on January 20, 1917.)Dear Sir,I would like to congratulate you again on your great hockey paper. Does any player in the N. H. L. wear a hat or cap while playing? I have a picture of Normie Smith, former Detroit goalie, and he is wearing a cap. If I write to some of my hockey idols could I get their pictures and autographs?Does Syl Apps coach a team like Ezinicki&rsquo;s Phipps-Morris and Max Bentley&rsquo;s Mimico Wildcats. Who is the tallest player in the N.H.L. today and who is the shortest?Russell Piper Princton, Ont.(Johnny Crawford of Boston al. ways wears a helmet. Apps coaches Upper Canada College. Butch Bouchard is the tallest and Grant Warwick the shortest.)DEFENDS BOUCHERDear Sir,Why are all these silly, innocent-acting sportswriters shrugging off Frank Boucher&rsquo;s charges against Toronto Maple Leafs merely for publicity purposes? Let&rsquo;s 6top kidding ourselves. Mr. Boucher is the coach of the Rangers, not their owner, so what has he to gain by building up publicity? Nothing but more injuries through bitter rivalry and more spirited action.Is it reasonable to suppose that men like Messrs. Boucher and Ross, two of hockey&rsquo;s smartest men, would risk their high-standing and reputations by making false accusations? The Leaf management have been getting by with cute remarks, refraining from outright denials or admittals. No, I think there is something to the charges.Ray Christenson Camrose, Alberta.Dear Sir,Would it be possible for you to publish the names of captains and alternate captains of all the teams in the National Hockey League?Charles Ardelli Sydney, N.S.(Here they are. The captain first and the two alternates second: Toronto, Apps, Kennedy and Nick Metz; Canadiens, Blake, Durnan and Chamberlain; Boston, Schmidt, Crawford and Henderson; Chicago, Mariucci, Hamill and Doug Bentley; Rangers, Neil Colville, Jim Henry and Phil Wat. son; Detroit. Sid Abel, Jack Stewart and Bill Quackenbush.)Dear Sir,Since I am an amateur goaltender in the Toronto Hockey League I am very much interested in all stories, articles and especially pictures of goalies. I think your picture and write-up on my favorite, Frank Brimsek of the Boston Bruins was splendid. Let&rsquo;s have more publicity for the fellows that tend the twine.Keep up the good work, your paper is tops.Dave &ldquo;Zero&rdquo; Zand Toronto, Ont. &#9632;

Hockey Fans’ Forum

<div class="byline">By ken McKenzie</div>Many hockey fans have written to us inquiring whether or not THE HOCKEY NEWS will be discontinued during the summer months. They have also wanted to know whether THE HOCKEY NEWS if published during the summer would carry reports on other sports such as baseball, golf tennis etc.After careful thought and deliberation and as a result of numerous letters from readers and sound advice by competent hockey leaders THE HOCKEY NEWS is happy to announce that issues will be published on the fifteenth of each month during the off season months of May, June, July, August and September. THE HOCKEY NEWS will continue its original policy of featuring hockey solely and will not touch on any other sporting activities during the summer months.The editors of Hockey&rsquo;s International Weekly feel that there will be enough interesting and informative hockey happenings taking place during the summer to warrant complete coverage of the world&rsquo;s fastest sport. The complete final scoring statistics of all hockey leagues will be published in the summer issues as will all off-season trades, rumors and gossip as to just what players will be back with such-and-such a team etc. There will be breezy interviews with the stars in their home towns and articles letting you fans know just what your favorite player does in the off season.COMING AT YOUSo all you readers who&rsquo;ve been wondering and worrying that THE HOCKEY NEWS might discontinue in the summer, can now relax and look forward to receiving a copy of your favorite sports paper delivered at your home each month. If you have been buying your copy of THE HOCKEY NEWS at the newsstands each week and have not as yet taken out a subscription to the hockey fans own publication&mdash;send a postal note or money order ($2 in Canada; $3 in U.S.A.) to THE HOCKEY NEWS, P.O. Box 131, Montreal, Canada, right away and be sure of getting the paper each week from now until the end of the season and once a month during the summer.It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you take out your subscription&mdash;you still get 30 consecutive issues&mdash;and it makes absolutely no difference when you send in your subscription.HOCKEY&rsquo;S ORGANTHE HOCKEY NEWS is also very proud to relate to its readers that the circulation has now climbed to 20,000 a week. This rather astonishing mark has been reached in the first 20 weeks of publncation and the editors and owners of the paper are extremely pleased and elated at the way hockey followers throughout Canada and the United States have taken to the paper.Already recognized as the Official Organ of Hockey by the three professional leagues&mdash;the National, American and United States&mdash;THE HOCKEY NEWS has a far greater goal and ambition yet to achieve. It wants to be recognized as the Official Organ of all Hockey&mdash;amateur ts well as professional&mdash;and is making plans and taking lengthy steps to reach those heights at the present moment.However, we are still wearing diapers as far as the publishing business is concerned, and anything that is young and new is bound to make mistakes. THE HOCKEY NEWS will undoubtedly make any mistakes during its formative years but if we can benefit by these mistakes and improve the paper as a result of them&mdash;everyone connected with the paper will be well pleased.The editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS welcome your comments and criticism and take considerable pleasure n reading your different views and suggestions. So please keep sending your letters into us and we&rsquo;ll keep trying to give you as good a hockey publication as it&rsquo;s possible to give the hockey public.<h2>Great Performance</h2>the hockey season was turned in by Ray Powell, centre of the Kansas City Pla-Mors of the USHL. In Kansas City&rsquo;s recent 9-4 victory over the Dallas Texans, Ray scored three and set up tour for seven points. Defenceman Doug. Baldwin of the Pla-Mors was right on his heels with three and three for six points. &#9632;

Round the Rinks

Here is a reverse example of the old sport adage or &ldquo;A hero today and a goat tomorrow&rdquo;. Little Emile Francis, nicknamed &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; because of his feline actions between the posts, today is a hero and because of his outstanding work in the Black Hawk cage, THE HOCKEY NEWS unanimously picks the 21-year-old cage guardian as The Player Of The Week and with it goes the weekly Morgan Hat.Conacher&rsquo;s Chicago aggregation have been the talk of hockeydom o f late with their sensa-tional late season spurt that has now brought them within two points of fifth place in the National League race. One of the players most responsible for the club&rsquo;s great drive is Francis who has been turning in a startling brand of puck-stopping for the one-time doormats of the league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0387/1128833-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="598" height="2638"></div>The Hawks started their present red-hot drive to catch Montreal Canadiens on January 31 when they whipped Boston 7-4. In the seven games since that date Francis has been scored upon 13 times for an average of less than two-goals-per-game. On February 11, the Battleford-born blocker registered his first N.H.L. shutout when he blanked Boston 3-0.In four games prior to his shutout over the Bruins, Francis allowed only two goals to be pumped past him in four straight games and Sunday night in Chicago the Canadiens beat him but once. &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; has played 41 games for Chicago and has 13 4 goals scored against him. His average now stands at 3.26 goals-per-game.Francis broke in with the Hawks last season near the close of the schedule after playing the season in amateur company with Regina Capitals. In his first 19 games a total of 104 pucks flew past him for a 5.47 average. Born in Battleford, Sask., on September 13, 1926, Francis was moved down to Kansas City earlier in the season to be replaced by Doug Jackson. He was later brought back from the U.S.H.L. farm club when Jackson was unable to produce a better brand of hockey. Since then his play has been improving with every game. &#9632;

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PLAYER-OF-THE-WEEK

Rayner RecalledNew York Rangers recalled Coaler Charlie Rayner from the New Haven Ramblers last week. Rayner has been out of N.H.L. action since early in the season and it was stated that he will act as an understudy for the club&rsquo;s regular netminder, Sugar Jim Henry.Plan OpeningIt was announced last week that Toronto Maple Leafs will open the 1948-49 hockey season with an exhibition game against Ottawa next full. The charity game will mark the Leafs&rsquo; first appearance in the Capital in 15 years.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01140/1128802-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="608" height="225"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 11&mdash;Chicago 3, Boston 0.February 14&mdash;Toronto 4, Canadiens 2; Boston 4, Rangers 4.February 15&mdash;Boston 3, Detroit 1; Toronto 4, Rangers 4; Chicago 2, Canadiens 1.Games of Coming WeekFebruary 18&mdash;Detroit at Rangers; Boston at Chicago.February 21&mdash;Boston at Canadiens; Detroit at Toronto.February 22&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit; Boston at Rangers; Toronto at Chicago.The talk of the National Hockey League is the current streak at Chicago Black Hawks who have been climbing at a steady clip. The Hawks are no longer the doormats of the league and after last week they are only two points away from Montreal Canadiens in the fight for fifth place.The great showing of Charlie Conacher&rsquo;s club has stole the spotlight away from the two league leading clubs, Detroit and Toronto. Last week Chicago hung-up their first shutout for Emil &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis when they blanked Boston Bruins on Wednesday 3-0 and on Sunday night in the Windy City when they handed the Canadiens their second defeat in two nights.In the race for top honors, the Red Wings lost sole possession of first place last week and the standings now show the Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs all even in the leaders&rsquo; position. Both clubs have 59 points with the Leafs holding a game advantage. In their only contest scheduled last week, Detroit lost out to Boston 3-1 in Boston Sunday. The Leafs, on the other hand, whipped Canadiens in Toronto Saturday. &ldquo;4-2 and then travelled to New York to earn a 4-4 tie with Rangers.The Rangers, hit with a string of injuries last week with Rene Trudell and Cal Gardner on the shelf, remained 13 points back of the two leaders. Boucher&rsquo;s band of blue-shirted stickmen played to two ties over the weekend holding Boston 4-4 and holding Toronto to the same score on home ice on Sunday.Bruins Pick UpThe Bruins, now trailing Rangers by four points with the same number of games played, broke even on their three games last week. They were snutout by Chicago Wednesday 3-0 and then tied Rangers Saturday. They foiled Detroit&rsquo;s bid to remain the leaders by topping the Wings 3-1 Sunday.Now it&rsquo;s a toss-up as to what club will wind-up the 1947-48 schedule in last place. Montreal&rsquo;s slipping Canadiens have been on a steady decline of late while the Hawks have been improving as the grind grows older. This week&rsquo;s schedule of games will likely tell the tale. Tonight the Hawks will play hoststo Boston while Thursday Toronto plays the Habs in Montreal.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11BOSTON&mdash;Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis hung up his first National League shutout as Chicago Black Hawks blanked Boston Bruins 3-0. The win moved the Hawks to within four points of the idle canadiens and six points closer to the Bruins.Bill Gadsby scored the first Hawk tally in the first period at 6.38 from Gus Bodnar and after a scoreless middle frame. Billy Mosienko increased the count to 2-0. Bodnar notched the third ar 18.27 on an unassisted play.Chicago&mdash;Goal, Francis; defence, Nattrass, Gadsby; centre. Bodnar; wings, Poile, Stewart, subs.&mdash;Bentley, Conacher. Mosienko, Dickens, Mariucci, Gee, Kale-ta. Hamil, Prystai.Boston&mdash;Goal, Brimsek; defence, Fla-man, Crawford; centre, Sandford; wings, Peters, Dumart. subs.&mdash;Gallinger, Warwick, Babando, Henderson, Martin, Egan, Harrison, Ronty. Pierson, Smith.Referee&mdash;King Clancy, Linesman&mdash;Sam Babcock and George Hayes.First Period1&mdash;Chicago. Gadsby(Bodnar) &hellip;&hellip; 6.38Penalties&mdash;Martin, Gadsby.Second PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;Wilson, Crawford, Nattrass.Third Period2&mdash;Chicago, Mosienko(Conacher, Bentley) &hellip;&hellip; 10.553&mdash;Chicago, Bodnar &hellip;&hellip; 18.27Penalty&mdash;Flaman.SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14TORONTO&mdash;Goals by Max Bentley and Harry Watson in the early stages of the game was more than enough to send Toronto&rsquo;s rollicking Maple Leafs to a 4-2 triumph over Montreal Canadiens. After the Leafs popped two quick tallies past Goaler Durnan, they scored singles in the second and third periods.Ted Kennedy and Nick Metz tallied again for Toronto in the second and last frames while Glen Harmon was the first Hab to fan Turk Broda at 16.24 of the first period. Billy Reay scored the second on an unassisted effort at 8.02.Canadiens&mdash;Goal, Durnan; defence, Harvey, Bouchard; centra Reay; wings, Curry, Riopelle; subs: Lach, Richard, Fillion, Harmon, Leger, Carveth, Chamberlain, Dussault, Locas Plamondon.Toronto&mdash;Goal, Broda; defence, Baril-ko, Stanowski; centre, Bentley; wings, Smith, Klukay; subs: Mortson, Thomson, Kennedy. Meeker, Lynn, Apps, Ezinicki, Watson, N. Metz.Officials:Bill Chadwick, referee; Sam Babcock, George Hayes, linesmen.First Period1&mdash;Toronto, Bentley(Barilko, Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 1:562&mdash;Toronto, Watson (Apps) &hellip;&hellip; 4:553&mdash;Canadiens, Harmon(Reay, Fillion) &hellip;&hellip; 16:24Penalties&mdash;Barilko, Mortson. Harmon.Second Period4&mdash;Toronto, Kennedy (Mortson) &hellip;&hellip; 1:495&mdash;Canadiens, Reay &hellip;&hellip; 8:02Penalties&mdash;Lynn,&rsquo; Mortson, Reay.Third Period6&mdash;Toronto, N. Metz(Klukay, Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 13:10Penalties&mdash;Harvey, Chamberlain.BOSTON&mdash;Boston Bruins gained a firmer hold on the last playoff spot by deadlocking New York Rangers 4-4. The Bruins drew only one of the game&rsquo;s three penalties but while Wally Wilson was off in the second Rangers scored two quick goals to lead 3-1.Boston&rsquo;s four goals were scored by Clare Martin, Fern Flaman, Pete Babando and Woody Dumart while Ed La-Prade Frank Eddolls, Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and Phil Watson scored for Rangers.New York&mdash;Goal, Henry; defence, Colville, Moe; centre, Laprade; wings, Kullman, Leswick. Subs: O&rsquo;Connor, Watson, Hextall, Eddolls, Juzda. Taylor, Raleigh. Lamirande, Slowinski.Boston&mdash;Goal, Brimsek; defence, Fla-mana, Egan; centre, Gallinger; wings, Warwick. Babando. Subs; Sandford, Peters, Dumart, Crawford, Henderson. Martin. Smith, Wilson, Ronty, Harrison.Officials&mdash;Referee, Butch Keeling; linesmen,. Ray Getliffe and Sibby Mundey.First Period1&mdash;Boston, Martin(Wilson, Ronty) &hellip;&hellip; 12:092&mdash;New York, Laprade (Kullman) &hellip;&hellip; 13:25 Penalties&mdash;None.Second Period3&mdash;New York, Eddolls(O&rsquo;Connor, Laprade) &hellip;&hellip; 6:174&mdash;New York, O&rsquo;Connor &hellip;&hellip; 7:105&mdash;Boston, Flaman(Babando, Gallinger) &hellip;&hellip; 17:14Penalties&mdash;Wilson, Colville.Third Period6&mdash;Boston Babando (Warwick) &hellip;&hellip; 7:417&mdash;Boston, Dumart (Peters) &hellip;&hellip; 11:418&mdash;New York, Watson(Juzda, Eddolls) &hellip;&hellip; 16:15Penalty&mdash;Leswick.SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 15CHICAGO&mdash;Charlie Conacher&rsquo;s recamped Chicago Black Hawks maintained their present red-hot pace by climbing within two points of the fifth-placed Montreal canadiens by edging the Habs 2-1. It was Chicago&rsquo;s third straight win over Canadiens.After Rookie Gerry plamondon scored his first N.H.L. goal in the first period, Gaye Stewart evened the count at 12:02 Gus Bodnar scored the winner at the 10 minute mark of the second period on a play with Bud Poile and Doug Bentley.Canadiens&mdash;Goal, Durnan; defence, Harmon, Leger; centre, Reay; wings Fillion, Chamberlain; subs: Bouchard, Riopelle, Locas, Richard, Curry, Lach, Carveht Dussault, Harvey, Plamondon.Chicago&mdash;Goal, Francis; defence, Gadsby, Nattrass; centre, Bodnar/, wings, Stewart, Poile; subs. Mariucci, Dickens, Prystai. Bentley, Conacher, Gee, Mosienko. Hamill, Kaleta.Referee&mdash;Georges Gravel; linesmen, Doug Young, Stan McCabe,First Period1&mdash;Canadiens, Plamondon(Richard) &hellip;&hellip; 5:312&mdash;Chicago, Stewart (Bodnar) &hellip;&hellip; 12:02 Penalties&mdash;Bouchard, Mariucci, Richard, Lach., Nattrass.Second Period3&mdash;Chicago, Bodnar(Bentley, Poile) &hellip;&hellip; 10:00Penalties&mdash;Dickens, Leger.Third PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;Gadsby.NEW YORK&mdash;The fighting Toronto Maple Leafs put on a burst of power in the late stages of the game and scored in the last 15 seconds of the game to gain a 4-4 tie with New York Rangers. The Rangers led 3-0 and 4-2 until Bentley and Harry Watson scored twice in the last period.Goals by Frank Eddolls, Ed Kullman and Don Raleigh put the Rangers ahead 3-0 until Bill Ezinicki and Ted Kennedy scored for the Leafs. Phil Watson put New York ahead 4-2 with a goal at 11:44 but the Leafs tallied two more to tie the count.Toronto&mdash;Goal, Broda; defence, Mort-son, Thomson; centre, Kennedy; wings Meeker Lynn; subs: Stanowski, H. WatFirst Periodson, Metz, Bentley, Apps, Ezinicki, Smith, Klukay,. Barilko,New York&mdash;Goal. Henry; defence, Colville, Moe; centre, O&rsquo;Connor; wings Hextall, P. Watson. Subs: Eddolls, Raleigh, Laprade, Kullman. Lamirande, Gardner, Leswick, Juzda, Slowinski.Officials&mdash;Bill Chadwick, referee; Sammy Babcock and Herb Gallagher, linesmen.Scoring&mdash;NonePenalty&mdash;Thomson.Second Period1&mdash;Rangers, Eddolls(Kullman Laprade) &hellip;&hellip; 2:402&mdash;Rangers, Kullman(Juzda, Laprade) &hellip;&hellip; 11:353&mdash;Rangers, Raleigh (Gardner) &hellip;&hellip; 13:504&mdash;Toronto, Ezinicki(H. Watson) &hellip;&hellip; 16:45Penalties&mdash;Juzda, P. Watson.Third Period5&mdash;Toronto, Kennedy (Lynn) &hellip;&hellip; :596&mdash;Rangers, Watson (O&rsquo;Connor) &hellip;&hellip; 11:447&mdash;Toronto, Bentley (Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 12:118&mdash;Toronto, Watson(Apps Ezinicki) &hellip;&hellip; 19:45Penalty&mdash;Barilko.BOSTON&mdash;Behind a spectacular goaltending job by Frank Brimsek, Boston Bruins whipped the leading Detroit Red Wings 3-1 before a crowd of 13,900 in the Boston Garden. Brimsek was sensational throughout and in the first 10 minutes he stopped 13 hard shots.Paul Ronty put Boston one-up in the first period but Leo Reise tied it up at 5:08 of the second session. Grant Warwick clicked for Bruins soon after with the goal that proved to be the winner. Jimmy Peterg scored again in the third from Crawford and Flaman.Detroit&mdash;Goal, Lumley; defence, Quackenbush, Stewart; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay. Subs: McFadden, Guidolin. Horeck, Reise, Kelly, Conacher, D. Morrison, R. Morrison, Pavelich, GauthierBoston&mdash;Goal, Brimsek; defence. Flaman, Egan; centre, Sandford; wings, Peters Dumart, Subs: Gallinger, Warwick, Babando, Crawford, Henderson, Martin, Smith, Harrison, Wilson, Ronty.Referee&mdash;King Clancy; linesmen: Sibby Mundey and Ray Getliffe,First Period1&mdash;Boston, Ronty (Martin) &hellip;&hellip; 10:42Penalties&mdash;D. Morrison, Peters Lindsay, Gallinger.Second Period2&mdash;Detroit, Reise (Stewart) &hellip;&hellip; 5:083&mdash;Boston, Warwick(Gallinger, Babando) &hellip;&hellip; 12:17Third Period4 Boston, Peters(Crawford, Flaman) &hellip;&hellip; 19:36Penalties&mdash;Egan, Howe, Henderson, Quackenbush.<h2>BOOST FOR CHI</h2>Yes Chicago is mighty happy about the way its hockey team is performing these days. Get a load of this plug given the Windy City by Joe Farrell, Publicity Director of the Black Hawks, in a telegram to Ken McKenzie of THE HOCKEY NEWS, who inquired the best time to visit Chicago.&ldquo;Any time is a suitable time to come to Chicago, with its massive hotels, its multitudinous boulevards, its 31 miles of lake shore, its gunmen, its Mar-di Gras spirit and its beloved Black Hawks. Yes, the 18th of any month, particularly February, is a good time to visit our hospitable burg.&rdquo;<h2>Good Will Tour</h2>TORONTO&mdash;About 100 members of the Montreal Junior Chamber of Commerce roared into Toronto Saturday to root for Canadiens as they visited the Maple Leafs. The group made a presentation to Leaf Captain Syl Apps before the game as a good will expression between the rival cities.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>Includes games of Sunday, Feb. 15<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02117/1128795-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="260" height="419"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0940/1128788-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="580" height="1137"></div>*Tom McGratton replaced Harry Lumley in Detroit nets at 12-minute mark of third period in game played on Nov. 9, 1947.**Gerry McNeil replaced Bill Durnau in Canadiens nets at 4.51 mark of second period in game played on Nov. 22, 1947.***Bob DeCourcy replaced Charlie Rayner in Rangers nets at 10.42 mark of second period in game played on Nov. 12, 1947.PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBSRANGERS &hellip;&hellip; 369BOSTON &hellip;&hellip; 397CHICAGO &hellip;&hellip; 431DETROIT &hellip;&hellip; 488CANADIENS &hellip;&hellip; 515TORONTO &hellip;&hellip; 559<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1037/1128781-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="578" height="713"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By DICK FORTUNE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0630/1128923-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL SAMIS&mdash;</figcaption></div><h2>Phil No Easy Pill</h2>Cold statistics of the American Hockey League might lead the casual observer of the great ice game to believe that young Phil Samis, husky rookie defenceman of the Hornets, is more of a handicap than a help to the Hornet cause. That&rsquo;s because these figures show that he leads the league in penalties. But they fail to tell the whole story and consequently are unfair to the hard-driving kid.Hockey experts will tell you that Samis can&rsquo;t miss being a star in the big leagues. Even Phil will admit that he has a lot to learn but he now possesses the one thing that you can&rsquo;t teach a fellow&mdash;he knows how to play the rock-&rsquo;em-sock-em style that is most effective in spoiling opponents&rsquo; scoring plans.Junior StarPhil was only 20 years old last Dec. 28, yet he has been in organized hockey since 1941. He started as a bantam in his native Edmonton, Alberta and moved up to the St. Michael&rsquo;s junior team in 1944. For the last two Seasons he was an outstanding star on the Oshawa Generals and last fall came to the Hornet camp.He established himself early in the training season and won a regular defence past with the Wasps Throughout the season he has played a rough, aggressive game and nobody is too big for him. Despite his numerous &ldquo;sentences&rdquo; in the penalty box, he has been a big help to Coach Bob Davidson, who considers him a potential hockey &ldquo;great&rdquo;.Off the ice, Phil is a quiet, likeable boy who spends much of his spare time reading. He goes all out for anything he consider: worth doing. That&rsquo;s why he neither asks nor gives quarter in a hockey game.Statistics may brand Phil Samis a &ldquo;bad boy&rdquo; of hockey but, in this instance figures do lie. &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02138/1128999-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg"></div>PROVIDENCE&mdash;To the rampaging Reds, the world is just a bed of thornless roses. The hockey club can do no wrong. Terrible Terry Reardon&rsquo;s sharpshooters are the scourge of all enemy goaltenders. They are well on their way to all-time scoring records, and speaking of goalies, every time a Red scores another goal he marks up a mental assist to Harvey Bennett, the willowy young man who guards the Providence crease.It is only sublime faith in the invincibility of Bennett that frees the skaters for their goal-getting. forays. The Reds are winning and they are a serenely happy family, as only a winning club can be.In the meantime coach Reardon&rsquo;s terrifying Reds are making hay while the sun shines. All Reardon had to say before the third period was, &rsquo;We played like a lot ofopening of the schoolboys.&rdquo;Their pride in themselves being exceeding, those Reds went out and got Reardon six more goals. There is nothing like making sure.Reardon is having a great season in his freshman coaching year in the American League. A veteran of seven years in professional hockey, Terry played for Hershey Bears, Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins. In his first year with Hershey in 1938-39 he scored 27 points and made a game comeback three years ago with Boston after being seriously wounded overseas with the Canadian Army. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Terry is the older brother of Kenny, star defenceman with the Montreal Canadiens.<h2>BARON CLUB EYES BABY FOR FUTURE</h2>DETROIT&mdash;John Blyth Nicol, 11-pound nipper of a defenceman, is under contract to Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey Dengue.At the age of two months he is probably the youngest signed hockey player in the world.His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Nicol, arc good friends of Al Sutphin, owner of the Barons, a shrewd assayer of hockey talent. When Jack Realy, Cleveland scout, reported young John&rsquo;s arrival, Sutphin mailed a contract.&ldquo;You may sign this contract at your convenience, say in eight or 10 years,&rdquo; Sutphin wrote.The Cleveland boss offered his new player&mdash;who is expected to join the 1967 Barons&mdash;a $5 signature bonus. The basic contract calls for a St annual salary, plus $1 for training camp exhibition work.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03107/1128992-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="254" height="403"></div>THE LEADERSGoals&mdash;Carl Liscombe, Prov. (39)Assists&mdash;Wally Stefaniw, Phil. (52)Penalties&mdash;Phil Samis. Pittsburgh 133 mThree Goals in One GameH. Fraser and C. Lisicombe, Prov. (3)Leading GoalerBaz Bastien, Pittsburgh 53 games,137 goals, 2 shutouts, average 2.51ShutoutsB. Bastien. Pitts, and F Perras. Springfield (2)Most Penalties by a TeamPhiladelphia (581 mts.)<h2>Trainer Requires Aid</h2>Ross &ldquo;Lefty&rdquo; Wilson, expert trainer and also spare goaltender for the Indianapolis Capitols in the American Hockey League has been doing a worthy medical and conditioning job on any players that needed his assistance. However, recently, Lefty had to submit to a needle, taking three stitches when a flying puck caught him near the eye during a game.<h2>A SPECIAL PREPARATION FOR SHAVING</h2>For the 1 man in 7 who shaves dailyModern life demands at least 1 man in 7 shave every day&mdash;yet daily shaving often causes razor scrape, irritation. To help men solve this problem, we perfected Glider, a rich soothing cream.Glider protects your face while you shave. It enables the razor&rsquo;s sharp edge to glide over your skin, cutting whiskers close and clean without scraping or irritating. It&rsquo;s quick and easy to use. Needs no brush&mdash;not sticky or greasy.SEND FOR GUEST-SIZE TUBEGet Glider at your regular dealer&rsquo;s. Or send us your name and address&mdash;and we&rsquo;ll mail you a guest-size tube, enough for three full weeks. The J. B. Williams Co., (Canada) Limited, Dept HN-11, LaSalle, Montreal.<h2>A.H.L. TEAM TOTALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0493/1128985-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="598" height="945"></div> &#9632;

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Players’ Faith In Tall Harvey Bennett Is Key To Reds Successful Performance

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The line forms to the right in the United States Hockey League this week, as the fans get their chance to vote for the player of their choice as the starboard nominee on THE HOCKEY NEWS All-Star team for the mid-west circuit presided over by genial Jim Hendy.With last season&rsquo;s right wing member of the official All-Star six, Virgil &ldquo;Wingy&rdquo; Johnston now with New Haven of the American League, the field is wide open for the aspirants who are gunning for the coveted spot on this season&rsquo;s edition of the dream team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01173/1129044-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="264" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">L. Silvestri Kansas City</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02136/1129037-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="262" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sam Kennedy Omaha</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03115/1129030-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="266" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">J. Levandowski St. Paul</figcaption></div>Among those whose chances look brightest are Paul Mundrick of Houston Huskies, Hal Brown of St. Paul Saints and Walter &ldquo;Ants&rdquo; Atanas of the powerhouse Minneapolis Millers, Bill Cook&rsquo;s pride and Joy.Mundrick, who moved west this season after three winters in the A.H.L. with Buffalo and Houston, is enjoying the finest marksmanship of his pro career and currently stands third in the U.S. H.L. scoring derby. Brown and Atanas are well up among the leaders also, as they have been sinking the goals and notching assists regularly while their teams run one-two in the Northern Division of the league. Also shown on this page are three other highflying right wingers who stand a good chance to collect a flock of ballots in the voting this week. They are-Larry Silvestri of Kansas City, who may see action with Chicago next season; Joe Levan-dowski of St. Paul and Sam Kennedy of Omaha Knights.Also with the Knights is Nelson &ldquo;Blinky&rdquo; Boyce, scoring leader of the Omaha crew and one of the big reasons Mud Bruneteau&rsquo;s scrappers are still in t h e race, even though they hold up the bottom of the Nor Veteran Shows StuffJohnny Harms of the Pla-Mors is another strong right wing candidate, standing second in Kansas City pointmaking to flashy centre Ray Powell who is-right up among the leaders.The battle for the right wing slot on the fans&rsquo; own team promises to be quite a battle in the progressive U.S.H.L., with these smooth-working types in the running, and getting lots of competition from a flock of others who can&rsquo;t be counted out until the last ballot is in.One of the greybeards in the circuit who has been taking a fling at the right wing post and turning in a creditable job is 34-year-old Earl Bartholome of the Millers. Bartholome, who spent 11 seasons in the American League with Rochester and Cleveland, was a centre in his heyday when he set many records&mdash;some still standing&mdash;in the A.H.L. He has been used on the wing this season, and at latest count had racked up a not-to-be-sneezed-at total of 45 points, pretty good for an oldtimer!Others in the running include Vernon &ldquo;Wimpy&rdquo; Jones, Jack Hewson and Russ Bedard of Fort Worth Rangers; Leo Gravelle, Jack Giesbrecht and &ldquo;Ducky&rdquo; Skinner of Houston; Bobby Schnurr, &ldquo;Nick&rdquo; Knott and Joe Sadler of Tulsa Oilers; &ldquo;Squee&rdquo; Allen, Lou Smrke and Gerry Bellemarre of Dallas Texans; Walt Melnyk of Minneapolis; Tom Por-teous and Lyall Wiseman of Omaha.<h2>I Did It, Coach</h2>Bespectacled Bill Thomson, veteran wing of the Tulsa Oilers of the USHL is one of hockey&rsquo;s best back-checkers. Bill doesn&rsquo;t score too many goals but not many are scored on his wing. When he bagged a goal in recent game he skated over to the bench, slammed his stick against the boards and cracked to Coach Clint Smith: &ldquo;I did it, coach, and I&rsquo;m glad!&rdquo; &#9632;

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Huskie OratorRudy Pilous, manager of the Houston Huskies, who has at various times filled in as chief scout, publicity and promotion director and coach for the Buffalo Bisons organization. is considered one of the best after dinner speakers and story tellers on the sports banquet circuit.Hockey FilmsLyle Wright, president of the Minneapolis Millers, has completed an interesting moving picture for promotion work. It shows highlights of a Minneapolis-St. Paul game and also shown is Coach Bill Cook and players teaching youngsters on outdoor rinks.HOW THE RACE GOES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01172/1129103-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="585" height="367"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 8&mdash;Houston 5, St. Paul 4; Omaha 7, Kansas City 2.February 10&mdash;Kansas City 5, St. Paul 2; Omaha 10,. Minneapolis 1.February 11&mdash;Tulsa 3, Dallas 1; Kansas City 2, Minneapolis 0.February 12&mdash;Tulsa 5, Dallas 2; Minneapolis 9, St. Paul 2; Omaha 4, Fort Worth 3.February 14&mdash;Tulsa 6, Houston 4; Omaha 7, Dallas 2; Minneapolis 6, Fort North 0.Games of Coming WeekFebruary 17&mdash;Omaha at Tulsa.February 18&mdash;St. Paul at Minneapo-is; Tulsa at Houston; Fort Worth at Dallas.February 19 Omaha at Houston.February 21&mdash;Houston at Tulsa; Dallas at Minneapolis; Kansas City at Omaha.February 22&mdash;Tulsa at Fort Worth; Dallas at St. Paul; Minneapolis at Kanias City.The league-leading Minneapolis Millers had their ears pinned back earlier last week by suffering two stunning defeats but they reboun-led back in true championship form later in the week with a pair of one-sided triumphs to cement heir hold on first place in the Northern Division of the United States Hockey League.After another week of competition the race in the Southern Division still remains a tightly knit affair. Fort Worth Rangers still gold sway with a one-point edge her Houston. The Rangers have 50 points to Houston&rsquo;s 49 while not far behind in third spot is Dallas with 42.Back in the Northern section, the Millers hold a comfortable sight-point lead over St. Paul. Last Tuesday Minneapolis suffered their worst defeat of the year when they were shellacked by Omaha 10-1 and the following evening they were blanked by Kasas City 2-0. On Thursday the Millers bounded back and walloped St. Paul 9-2 and then shutout Forth Worth on Saturday 6-0.The Sainst and Kansas City Pla-Mors holding two games inhand. The improved Omaha Knights have gained ground on the rest of the league and they are now only one-point out of second position.THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5OMAHA&mdash;The Knights came up with a, dazzling reversal of form as they wamptcd Kansas City Pla-Mors 7-0 before a Coliseum crowd that numbered 4,841 spectators. Strongman and Mc-Nahspaced the Omaha club with two goals each as young Terry Sawchuk racked-up his third shutout of the season. McLean, Lavitt and Iannarelli scored the other three goals.Omaha&mdash;Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Forbes, Bak; centre, McNab; wings Wiseman, W. Smith, subs.&mdash;Lavitt, Dewsbury, Strongman, Glover, Senick, Iannarelli, Kennedy McLean.Kansas City&mdash;Goal, D. Jackson; defence, Baldwin, Conn; centre. Blade; wings, Silvestri, Olmstead, subs.&mdash;J. Jackson, Mitchell, Powell, Harms, Miller, Ashworth, Groves, Butler, Tarala, Wilson.First Period1&mdash;Omaha, McNab(Smith, Wiseman) &hellip;&hellip; 1.012&mdash;Omaha, McLean(Kennedy, Iannarelli) &hellip;&hellip; 7.39Penalties&mdash;None.Second Period3&mdash;Omaha, McNab(Smith, Forbes) &hellip;&hellip; 594&mdash;Omaha, Lavitt(Smith, McNab) &hellip;&hellip; 12.486&mdash;Omaha, Strongman(Clover) &hellip;&hellip; 19.06Penalties&mdash;J. Jackson, Baldwin, Bak, Mitchell.Third Period6&mdash;Omaha, Strongman(Clover, Lavitt) &hellip;&hellip; 10.357&mdash;Omaha, Iannarelli(Lavitt, McNab) &hellip;&hellip; 14.10Penalties&mdash;McLean, Bak.SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7OMAHA&mdash;Paced by Max McNab with three tallies, Omaha&rsquo;s improved Knights waltzed to a 4-0 lead and then went on to humble Dallas Texas 7-4 before 5,988 fans. Strongman was the second highest Omaha scorer with a brace of goals. The win moved the Knights within five points of Kansas City in the Northern Division.Omaha&mdash;Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Forbes, Bak; centre, McNab; wings, Wiseman, W. Smith, subs.&mdash;Lavitt, Dewsbury, Strongman, Glover, Senick, Iannarelli, Kennedy, McLean.Dallas&mdash;Goal, Pidsodny; defence, Milford, Rockey; centre, Peterson; wings, Bellemarre, Gagnon, subs.&mdash;Finkbeiner, McKay, Petrie, Poitras, Homenuke, Shill, Allen, Horeck, Medynski.First Period1&mdash;Omaha, Kennedy,(Forbes, Iannarelli)&hellip;&hellip;5.512&mdash;Omaha, McNab(W. Smith, Bak)&hellip;&hellip;14.02Penalties&mdash;None.Second Period3&mdash;Omaha, Strongman(Glover)&hellip;&hellip;4:544&mdash;Omaha, McNab&hellip;&hellip;10.135&mdash;Dallas, Horeck(Allen. Shill)&hellip;&hellip;12.406&mdash;Dallas, Bellemarre(Gagnon, Peterson) &hellip;&hellip; 16.807&mdash;Omaha, Strongman(Dewsbury, Glover) &hellip;&hellip; 19.27Penalties&mdash;None.8&mdash;Omaha, McNab &hellip;&hellip; 1.49Third Period9&mdash;Dallas, Bellemarre(Peterson, Gagnon) &hellip;&hellip; 6.0710&mdash;Omaha, Senick(Glover, Strongman) &hellip;&hellip; 8.0311&mdash;Dallas, Homenuke(Petrie) &hellip;&hellip; 12.54Penalty&mdash;Finkbeiner.MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;Goaler Harry Mc-Queston turned in one of his best games of the U.S.H.L. season as he blanked Houston 3-0. It was McQueston&rsquo;s second shutout of the season and he handled a total of 38 shots, 16 in the last period. Strobel, Bartholome and Tomiuk were the Miller snipers.Houston&mdash;Goal, Ceryance; defence, Melong, Blake; centre, Agar; wings, McArthur, Gravelle. subs.&mdash;Maher, Macey, McKenzie, Giesbrecht, Skinner, Brown, Eisenzoph.Minneapolis&mdash;Goal, McQueston; defence, Allum, Williams; centre, Smith; wings, Wycherley, Bartholome. subs.&mdash; Sherritt, Fraser, Milne, Burns, Tomiuk, Melnyk, Forgie, Strobel, Atanas, Robertson.First Period1&mdash;Minneapolis, Strobel(Forgie, Milne) &hellip;&hellip; 9.37Pena1ty&mdash;Sherritt.Second PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;McKenzie, Wycherley, Melong.Third Period2&mdash;Minneapolis, Bartholome(Williams) &hellip;&hellip; 433&mdash;Minneapolis, Tomiuk(Melnyk, Robertson) &hellip;&hellip; 6.18Penalty&mdash;Sherritt.TULSA&mdash;Vic Lofvendahl pumped home a goal past Goaler Little with but two seconds remaining in regulation time to give Fort Worth Rangers a 2-2 tie with the Tulsa Oilers. The overtime period was scoreless. Lofvendahl also scored Rangers&rsquo; first goal in the frame. Tulsa goalgetters were Smith and McMurdy.Fort Worth&mdash;Goal, P. McAtee; defence, Lofvendahl, Kane; centre Drainville, wings, Bedard, Kaiser, subs.&mdash;Brodeur, Baby, Ritson, Mutcheson, Schmidt, Hewson, Fowler, Thorpe.Tulsa&mdash;Goal, Little; defence, Jones, Young; centre, Smith; wings, Schnurr, Ubriaco. Subs.&mdash;Matthews, Dillon, Dick, McMurdy, Knott, Webster, N. McAtee, Thomson, Dheere.First Period1&mdash;Tulsa, Smith(Ubriaco) &hellip;&hellip; 252&mdash;Fort Worth, Lofvendahl(Drainville) &hellip;&hellip; 1.35Penalties&mdash;Ritson, Dillon (2), Kaiser.Second PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalty&mdash;Dick.Third Period3&mdash;Tulsa, McMurdy (Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 8.304&mdash;Fort Worth, Lofvendahl,(Ritson, Kane) 19.58Penalty&mdash;Dillon.Overtime PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;None.Hockey Cutups, by GraczakSUNDAY. FEBRUARY 8KANSAS CITY&mdash;Omaha&rsquo;s playoff hopes took on a brighter look as the Knights walloped the Stumbling Kansas City Pla-Mors 7-2 and to give the Knights their first win on Kansas City ice since December 1946. The Knigflhts pulled within three points of the Pla-Mors in the Northern Division.Kansas City&mdash;Goal, D. Jackson; defence, Baldwin, Conn; centre, Powell; wings, Harms, Miller. Subs.&mdash;Tarala, J. Jackson, Mitchell, Ashworth, Groves, Butler, Blade. Silvestri, Olmstead, Wilson.Omaha&mdash;Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Bak, Forbes; centre, McNab; wings, Wiseman, Smith. Subs&mdash;Lavitt, Dewsbury, Strongman, Glover, Senick. lannarelli, Kennedy, McLean.First Period1&mdash;Kansas City, Groves (Blade) &hellip;&hellip;19:25 Penalties&mdash;Bak, Wiseman.Second Period2&mdash;Omaha, Smith &hellip;&hellip;6:493&mdash;Omaha, McNab(Lavitt, Smith) &hellip;&hellip;11:544&mdash;Omaha, Strongman (Senick) &hellip;&hellip;12:175&mdash;Omaha, Dewsbury (Glover) &hellip;&hellip;13:276&mdash;Omaha, McNab (Wiseman) &hellip;&hellip;17:177&mdash;Omaha, SenickStrongman, Glover) &hellip;&hellip;18:42Penalties&mdash;Cenn, Bak (2), Miller, Harms.Third Period8&mdash;Kansas City, Blade (Silvestri). &hellip;&hellip;13:179&mdash;Omaha, Smith(McNab, Wiseman) &hellip;&hellip;16:50Penalties&mdash;J. Jackson, Bak, Dewsbury, Olmstead (2).ST. PAUL&mdash;Houston Huskies rallied with a three-goal spurt in the second period to nose out St Paul Saints 5-4. Leo Gravelle was the leading scorer for Houston with two goals while Gies-brecht, Skinner and Blake added the other three.Houston&mdash;Goal, Gauthier; defence, Melong, Blake; centre, Agar; wings, McArthur, Gravelle. Subs.-Maher, Macey Giesbrecht, Brown, Eisenzoph, Skinner.St. Paul&mdash;Goal, McGill; defence. Sandalack, Aisby; centre, Rozzini; wings, Bend, Brown. Subs&mdash;Dill, Lambrecht, Read, Pechet, Levandowski, Dowling, Shack, Shero. Schwartz.First Period1&mdash;Houston, Blake(Agar, McArthur) &hellip;&hellip;1:242&mdash;St. Paul, Toole(Schwartz. Pechet) &hellip;&hellip;7:273&mdash;St. Paul, Shack(Levandowski, Read) &hellip;&hellip;10:284&mdash;St Paul, Dill(Levandowski, Read) &hellip;&hellip;11:395&mdash;Houston, Gravelle (McArthur). &hellip;&hellip;16:42 Penalties&mdash;None.Second Period6&mdash;Houston, Gravelle(Agar. McArthur) &hellip;&hellip;3:037&mdash;Houston. Giesbrecht(Macey, Skinner) &hellip;&hellip;8:528&mdash;Houston, Skinner(Macey) &hellip;&hellip;6;09Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period9&mdash;St. Paul, Levandowski(Dill, Shack) &hellip;&hellip;10:01WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;Kansas City Pla-Mors pulled within four points of the league leaders when they dropped the Minneapolis Millers 2-0 on the Millers&rsquo; home ice. It was the fifth victory for the Pla-Mors on Minneapolis ice in six games. Both goals by Harry Groves and Johnny Harms were scored in the second period.Kansas City&mdash;Goal, D. Jackson; defence, Conn, Baldwin; centre. Powell; wings Miller, Harms. Subs: Tarala, J. Jackson, Mitchell, Ashworth, Olmstead, Groves, Wilson, Butler Blade.Minneapolis&mdash;Goal, McQueston; defence, Allum, Williams; centre, Smith; wings, Wycherley, Bartholome. Subs: Sherritt, Milne, Fraser, Burns Tomiuk, Melnyk, Forgie, Strobel, Atanas, Robertson.First PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penal ty&mdash;Fraser.Second Period1&mdash;Kansas City, Groves(Miller, Mitchell) &hellip;&hellip;2:182&mdash;Kansas City, Harms (Powell). &hellip;&hellip;19:10 Penalty&mdash;Blade.Third PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;None.DALLAS&mdash;The fast improving Tulsa Oilers played a great game in dropping Dallas Texans 3-1 before 1.500 fans. The victory moved the Oilers to within two points of a third-place tie of the home club.Dallas&mdash;Goal, Pidsodny; defence, Finkbeiner, McKay; centre, Peterson; wings, Bellemarre, agnon. Subs. Petrie, Homenuke, Poitras, Milford, Rockey.. Shill, Horeck, Allen, Medyski,Tulsa&mdash;Goal, Little; defence, Dick, Dillon; centre, McMurdy; wings, Knott, Webster. Subs. Young Jones, Chakow ski, Ubriaco, Dheere, Smith, McAtee, Brayshaw, Schnurr, Matthews.First Period1&mdash;Dallas Rockey(Shill, Horeck) &hellip;&hellip;6:432&mdash;Tulsa, Knott(McMurdy, Webster) &hellip;&hellip;11:59Penalties&mdash;Rockey, Dillon.Second Period3&mdash;Tulsa, Smith (Ubriaco) &hellip;&hellip;11:054&mdash;Tulsa, Dheere (Dillon) &hellip;&hellip;13:40Penalties&mdash;Webster, Bellemarre, Dillon, Dick, Poitras.Third PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;Dillon Matthews,<h2>Coach Muzz Patrick High In Praises Of Stocky Centre, Mel &ldquo;Pee Wee&rdquo; Read</h2>ST. PAUL&rdquo;&ldquo;I would be willing to race him against any man in the league,&rdquo; boasts Coach Muzz Patrick of St. Paul Saints of the United States Hockey League about Mel &ldquo;Pee Wee&rdquo; Read, the club&rsquo;s stocky centre and one of the best pivotmen in the loop. Read has been creeping up in the scoring parade lately and although he doesn&rsquo;t appear to be going fast, Coach Patrick claims he is a whirlwind on blades.This week&rsquo;s U.S.H.L. scoring statistics released from Min-neapolis show that &ldquo;Pee Wee&rdquo; of the Saints has scored 17 goals and 28 assists in 44 games and is St. Paul&rsquo;s third highest scorer next to Gino Rozzini and Hal Brown. A 23-year-old Montreal-born player, Read played his last amateur hockey with Cornwall Flyers where he scored 73 points in 30 games in 1941-42. He then enlisted in the Canadian Navy and after his discharge in 1945 he hooked-up with Dallas Texans for the 1945-46 campaign.&ldquo;Pee Wee&rdquo; has been Mel&rsquo;s nickname ever since he was six years of age. In his first pro year with Dallas he scored 39 goals and 53 assists and last season he was graduated to New Haven Ramblers of the American League. He had another great season in New Haven, scoring 40 more points in 59 games.Read is the type of player who gives his &ldquo;all,&rdquo; in every game and his play this season with the Saints has greatly aided the club in giving the Minneapolis Millers a run for their money in the Northern Division. He stands five foot, six inches and tips the scales at 165 pounds.<h2>The Little Saint</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02137/1129096-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1125" height="1098"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03115/1129089-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="550" height="1147"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0487/1129082-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="598" height="630"></div>THE LEADERSMost points: Agar, Houston, 75Most goals: Brown, St. Paul, 32Most assists: Agar, Houston, 46Most Shutouts: McAtee Ft. Worth: Jackson K.C.; Sawchuk, Omaha ..3Most penalties: Dick, Tulsa, 143 minutes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0573/1129075-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="598" height="303"></div>PENALTY TOTALS IN MTS.Omaha Knights &hellip;&hellip; 506Kansas City Pla-Mors &hellip;&hellip; 62Fort Worth Rangers &hellip;&hellip; 427Tulsa Ollers &hellip;&hellip; 403Minneapolis Millers &hellip;&hellip; 373Houston Huskies &hellip;&hellip; 359St. Paul Saints &hellip;&hellip; 352Dallas Texans &hellip;&hellip; 285<h2>Hard Rock Hitter</h2>Art Michaluk who just recently joined the Providence Reds defence corps in the American Hockey League, has already established himself as one of the hardest checking rearguards in the loop. Art builds his powerful muscles and physique with hard offseason work as a miner. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01184/1129148-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"></div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;The man of the hour in these parts these frosty nights is Martin J. Barry, former National Hockey League star with Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings and once winner of the Lady Byng Trophy, in the 1936-37 season.Barry&mdash;called &ldquo;Martin&rdquo; by his family and &ldquo;Marty&rdquo; by practically everybody else&mdash;is coach of the Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s juniors, the most potent teen-aged aggregation of pucksters ever banded together in these seaward provinces.Apart from the fact that they&rsquo;re head and shoulders over the remaining Maritime junior teams, the Santamarians are also becoming famous as giant killers. For in six exhibition games with senior teams the sprightly juniors have won five and tied one.Pictou and Stellarton (twice) of the Antigonish-Pictou-Colches-ter League fell before the rampaging juniors. Kentville Wildcats of the Valley League were blanked, 8-0; Halifax Crescents were nudged 6-5 and Truro Bearcats, leaders of the Maritime Big Four, were held to a 2-2 tie in the most outstanding game played in Halifax in several years.Rough On SeniorsFurthermore, there are complaints from some of the seniors&mdash;the juniors are playing too rough! It&rsquo;s true, too. For Barry is driving his charges for the Memorial Cup games ahead and the boys are playing along National League lines.Playmaker Bill Cowley, in Halifax on a scouting trip two weeks ago. was the first to remark that Marty had what looked like an N.H.L. team in miniature. Others were quick to realize that Cowley had put his finger on the answer.The team, has four rugged defencemen, three hard hitting forward lines and a crack young goalie in Ernie Yeadon, a slim youngster just out of juvenile ranks. Managers Jimmy McDonald and Gerry Reardon &ldquo;imported&rdquo; Dick Beazley of Toronto for the goaltending duties this season but Yeadon was so far superior the visitor returned home before Christmas. The work of the slender kid against the crafty and high scoring Truro Bearcats was a revelation.Only holdover last season among the defencemen is Douglas (Dugger) O&rsquo;Neill, the property of Montreal Canadiens. Newcomers are brawny Don (Peanuts) McLaughlin of Halifax, Bill Franklin of Ottawa and Art Stewart from Northern Ontario.Crack Front LinersThe crack first line is well known to followers of junior hockey all over Canada. Centre Bert Hirschfeld, native of Halifax, is due to report again to Les Canadiens in the fall. Wingers Elmer McGillivray and Hugh Campbell, from nearby Cape Breton, are widely sought after.The second line has had a promotion. It used to be the third unit but so well have centre Dougie Burns and wingers Red Conrad and Butter Duggan played this semester that the boys are sharing honors with the Hirschfeld-McGillivray-Campbell trio. Duggan, by the way, was signed by Bill Cowley for a tryout with Washington Lions next season, as was defenceman McLaughlin.Recruited from three different sections of the country, the third line has been slow to hit its top stride but right now is showing lots of promise. In centre is the popular Ed Rowett from Manitoba; on left wing is Lou Mathieu of Northern Ontario and at right wing is the all-round Halifax athlete, Muckle Hollett.Back of them all is the quiet but efficient Marty Barry, as popular a sportsman as Halifax fans have seen in years Marty is the strong silent type. His &lsquo;pep talks&rdquo; are short but to the point. He&rsquo;d rather take a boy into a corner and quietly point out the errors of his ways than stand up in the middle of the room and make a speech.The Santamarians have delighted the senior patrons at Stellarton and Kentville and they&rsquo;ve entranced the rabid ice fans of Halifax.The night St. Mary&rsquo;s edged the senior Crescents 6-5 the fans were delighted. The night they battled the Big Four leading Truro Bearcats to a 2-2 standstill, their joy threatened to overflow.Yes, St Mary&rsquo;s are the talk of the Maritimes. And they hope to keep in form with the kind of competition only the best senior teams can provide. Marty Barry represents the best break sports have had in Halifax in years. He&rsquo;s the most popular man in town.He&rsquo;s the sports personality of the week.<h2>His Crew Cup Hunting</h2>MARTY BARRY, currently the favorite coach of Halifax fans, whose St. Mary&rsquo;s College Juniors are hoping to bring the Memorial Cup to the Maritimes for the first time in history. Barry is shown as he appeared in the 1939-40 season, when he closed his N.H.L. career with Montreal Canadiens after 10 years in the Big Top with Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings.<h2>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE</h2><h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02135/1129141-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="596" height="257"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 11&mdash;Quebec 6, Valleyfield 1.February 12&mdash;Shawinigan 4, Montreal 3; Boston 6, New York 4.February 14&mdash;Ottawa 4, Valleyfield 3.February 15&mdash;Quebec 6, Valleyfield 4; Montreal 4, New York 3; Shawinigan 4, Boston 3.Games of Coming WeekFebruary 18&mdash;Boston at Ottawa; Montreal at Quebec.February 19&mdash;Boston at Shawinigan; New York at Valley field.February 20&mdash;New York at Montreal.February 21&mdash;Shawinigan at Ottawa; Montreal at Boston.February 22&mdash;Valleyfield at Quebec; Montreal at New York; Ottawa at Shawinigan.Holding a five-point lead over their nearest rivals, Shawinigan Falls Cataracts, the powerful Ottawa Senators are rulers of the Quebec Senior Hockey League roost for another week. The Senators had only one game scheduled last week and on Saturday they edged out Valleyfield 4-3.With 29 wins and two ties in 41 starts, Ottawa has 60 points to Cataracts&rsquo; 55. Five points behind Shawinigan is Montreal while holding down fourth position are the Quebec Aces with 45 points.The Valleyfield Braves slipped down last week when they lost all three of their scheduled games. They bowed to the Aces 6-1 on Wednesday and in Ottawa Saturday they finished in the short end of a 4-3 count. Sunday the Braves lost again to the Acemen of Quebec 6-4.Valleyfield is now leading the two American entries with a five-point edge over Boston Olympics. The New York Rovers, like Valleyfield, failed to record a win in two outings last week. They lost to Boston 6-4, and then were defeated by the Royals Sunday 4-3.WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Valleyfield 1, at Quebec 6First Period1&mdash;Quebec. Heale &hellip;&hellip;12:452&mdash;Quebec, Poulin(Marshall, Tremblay) &hellip;&hellip;15:45Penalties&mdash;Barilko (2), Schmidt, Brennan Heale.Second Period3&mdash;Quebec. Kovalchuk(Planche. Marshall) &hellip;&hellip;12:494&mdash;Quebec, Marshall &hellip;&hellip;13:125&mdash;Valleyfield. Schmidt(Joannette) &hellip;&hellip;18:01(Brown. Boyer) &hellip;&hellip;18:486&mdash;Valleyfield, BessettePenalties&mdash;Brown, Brennan (2 minors, 10-minute misconduct and match), Raglan, Heale, Bergeron P. Renaud.Third Period7&mdash;Quebec, Heale &hellip;&hellip;12:488&mdash;Quebec, Zeidel(Kovalchuk, Heale) &hellip;&hellip;18:049&mdash;Valleyfield, Belanger(Brown) &hellip;&hellip;18:35Penalties&mdash;Bougie (2), Brown, Heale, Tremblay. Bessette, Planche (minor and 10-minute misconduct).THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 12Montreal 3, at Shawinigan 4First Period1&mdash;Shawinigan, Buchanan(Kosick, Theberge) &hellip;&hellip;1:102&mdash;Shawinigan. Buchanan(Kosick. Carthy) &hellip;&hellip; 12:48Penalties&mdash;Bergeron. Laforce, Pilon.Second Period3&mdash;Shawinigan, Buchanan(Kosick) &hellip;&hellip;1:114&mdash;Royals, Morin(Pepin, Haggerty) &hellip;&hellip; 5:085&mdash;Shawinigan. Carthy(Theberge Buchanan) &hellip;&hellip; 12:356&mdash;Royals, Robertson(Planmondon, Malone) &hellip;&hellip; 17:47Penalty&mdash;Theberge.7&mdash;Royals, Gladu (Laforce) &hellip;&hellip; 11:21Third PeriodPenalties&mdash;Maloney, Carthy, Lepine, Plamondon.SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 14Valleyfield 3. at Ottawa 4First Period1&mdash;Valleyfield, Bessette (Brown).. 1:312&mdash;Ottawa, Irvine(Smith, Tudin) &hellip;&hellip;8:523&mdash;Ottawa, Smart(Greene, Emberg) &hellip;&hellip;14:09Penalties&mdash;Barilko (2). Stahan.Second Period4&mdash;Ottawa. Check (Regan) &hellip;&hellip;7:505&mdash;Valleyfield Bougie (Corriveau) &hellip;&hellip; 13:36 Penalties&mdash;Smith. Belanger.Third Period6&mdash;Valleyfield, Brown(Bessette) &hellip;&hellip; 4:247&mdash;Ottawa, Copp(Smart, Emberg) &hellip;&hellip; 12:48Penalties&mdash;Regan (major and 10minute misconduct), Barilko (major and 10-minute misconduct), Watson.SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 15 Montreal 4. at New York 3First PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalty&mdash;KotanenIncluding Games of February 8Second Period1&mdash;Royals. Morin &hellip;&hellip; 5:42&mdash;New York, Anslow(Rowe Kwong) &hellip;&hellip; 6:23&mdash;Royals, Morin(Haggarty. Pepin) &hellip;&hellip; 7:4Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period4&mdash;New York. Foster(Brenchley, Duranceau) &hellip;&hellip; 2:45&mdash;Royals, Morenz(Fryday, Morrison) &hellip;&hellip; 8:46&mdash;Royals, Morin (Pepin) &hellip;&hellip; 10:07&mdash;New York, Rowe(Clande, Anslow) &hellip;&hellip; 15:4Penalties&mdash;None.Quebec 6. at Valley field 4First Period1&mdash;Quebec. Marshall (Labrie) &hellip;&hellip; 2:032&mdash;Valleyfield, Bisaillon (Bougie) &hellip;&hellip; 3:13&mdash;Valleyfield, Frown &hellip;&hellip; 10:04&mdash;Valleyfield, Bessette (Brown). &hellip;&hellip; 17:1Penalties&mdash;Bergeron. Poulin.Second Period5&mdash;Quebec, Tremblay(Ziedel, Labrie) &hellip;&hellip; 2:26&mdash;Quebec, Tremblay &hellip;&hellip; 17:4Penalties&mdash;Imlach, Belanger, Imlach Bessette (major).Third Period7&mdash;Valleyfield. Bessette &hellip;&hellip; 3:28&mdash;Quebec. Tremblay(Marshall, Poulin) &hellip;&hellip; 12:21Penalties&mdash;Marshall (major).Overtime Period9&mdash;Quebec, Tremblay (Marshall) &hellip;&hellip; 2:110&mdash;Quebec, Kovalchuk(Ziedel, Imlach) &hellip;&hellip; 8:23Shawinigan 4. at Boston 3First PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;M. Filion, Folk, ThebergeWilson Campbell.Second Period1&mdash;Shawinigan. Buchanan(Carthy, Limoges) &hellip;&hellip; 7:212&mdash;Shawinigan, Theberge(Carthy) &hellip;&hellip; 8:473&mdash;Boston. Manson(Dumond, Kullman) &hellip;&hellip; 10:56Penalties&mdash;Bergeron, Campbell.4&mdash;Shawinigan, DeweyThird Period(Maloney, Limoges) &hellip;&hellip; 6:065&mdash;Boston, M. Fillion &hellip;&hellip; 9:016&mdash;Shawinigan, Dewey (Maloney) &hellip;&hellip; 11:367&mdash;Boston. Meldrum(M. Filion, Kullman) &hellip;&hellip; 17:48Penalties&mdash;Gaber, Buchanan.<h2>Bush-Whacker</h2>One of the main reasons for the vast improvement in the play of the Philadelphia Rockets of the American Hockey this season, is the stellar playing of big, rough tough Eddie Bush. Bush is rated as one of the hardest body checkers in the league, and makes life miserable for incoming attackers. In addition to his rugged rearguard play he is a constant threat on the offence too, having already passed the 40-mark in scoring points, and nearing a total of 20 goals scored.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03110/1129134-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="574" height="969"></div> &#9632;

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Potent College Club Undefeated In Six Contests

<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01191/1129179-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="580" height="250"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 9&mdash;Kitchener 3, Marlboros 8.February 10&mdash;Owen Sound 12, Brantford 5.February 11&mdash;Hamilton Tigers 5, Hamilton Pats 2; Hamilton Tigers 4, Stratford 1; Kitchener 10, Brantford 6.February 14&mdash;Hamilton Tigers 5, Owen Sound 1; Stratford 4, Hamilton Pats 0.Games of Coming WeekFebruary 17&mdash;Owen Sound at Marlboros; Hamilton Pats at Kitchener.February 18&mdash;Kitchener at Hamilton Pats; Brantford at Stratford.Playoffs start Friday, February 20.SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Ham. Pats. 6, at Owen Sound 9First Period1&mdash;Owen Sound, McReavy (Miller, Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 3:052&mdash;Owen Sound, Pollock (White). &hellip;&hellip; 5:103&mdash;Owen Sound, White (Gillespie) 7:004&mdash;Hamilton, Comfort (Barlow).. 12:005&mdash;Hamilton, Runions (Comfort). 16:53 No Penalties.Second Period6&mdash;Owen Sound. McReavy(Miller, Burlington) &hellip;&hellip; 6:057&mdash;Hamilton, Kilpatrick(Comfort, Long) &hellip;&hellip; 13:328&mdash;Owen Sound, White (Gillespie, Pollock) &hellip;&hellip; 14:409&mdash;Owen Sound, Pollock(Gillespie, Hayward) &hellip;&hellip; 15:0010&mdash;Hamilton, Runions(Comfort, Kilpatrick) &hellip;&hellip; 18:45Penalties&mdash;Phillire, Hayward, Comfort.Third Period11-Owen Sound, Sullivan &hellip;&hellip; 5:2312&mdash;Owen Sound, Pollock (Boddy) &hellip;&hellip; 11:4513&mdash;Hamilton, Comfort &hellip;&hellip; 14:4514&mdash;Owen Sound, McReavy(Burlington) &hellip;&hellip; 16:2615&mdash;Hamilton, Robinson (Gluck) &hellip;&hellip; 17:40 No penalties.Brantford 2, at Ham. Tigers 7First Period1&mdash;Tigers, T. Smelle(Dinning. Shillington) &hellip;&hellip; 8:552&mdash;Tigers. Dinning (J. Conick) &hellip;&hellip; 9:503&mdash;Brantford, Smith (Holota, Moy) &hellip;&hellip; 15:15&mdash;Moy, T. Smelle.Second Period4&mdash;Brantford, Kenny &hellip;&hellip; 9:455&mdash;Tigers. Mason (Liscombe, Tindal) &hellip;&hellip; 15:30Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period6&mdash;Tigers, Peer &hellip;&hellip; 4:507&mdash;Tigers, T. Smelle(Shillington, J. Conick) &hellip;&hellip; 11:408&mdash;Tigers, Mason (Peer) &hellip;&hellip; 13:009&mdash;Tigers, Shillington(C. Smelle. T. Smelle) &hellip;&hellip; 19:15Penalties&mdash;Hann.MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Marlboros 3, at Kitchener 3First Period1&mdash;Toronto, Curik (Psutka) &hellip;&hellip; 18:45Penalties&mdash;D. Bauer, Davidson, Psutka 42); R. Bauer Roubell, Weller.Second Period2&mdash;K-W. Zuk (D. Bauer) &hellip;&hellip; 1:443&mdash;K-W. Weller (Hurst, Grasser) &hellip;&hellip; 8:19Penalties&mdash;Psutka (2).Third Period4&mdash;Toronto, Buchanan (Paul) &hellip;&hellip; 18:45Penalties&mdash;Psutka, R. Bauer, Davidson.Overtime5&mdash;K-W. Hurst (Grasser, Roubell) &hellip;&hellip; 5:256&mdash;Toronto, Hannigan(McCormack, Paul) &hellip;&hellip; 9:40Penalties&mdash;None.TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Brantford 5, at Owen Sound 12First Period1&mdash;Owen Sound. Smith (McReavy, Burlington) &hellip;&hellip; :402&mdash;Owen Sound, McReavy (Burlington) &hellip;&hellip; :583&mdash;Brantford, Hewson (Pidgeon) &hellip;&hellip; 9:054&mdash;Owen Sound Boddy &hellip;&hellip; 3:20Penalty&mdash;B. Smith.Second Period5&mdash;Owen Sound, McReavy &hellip;&hellip; 3:426&mdash;Owen Sound, White &hellip;&hellip; 5:137&mdash;Owen Sound, White (Gillespie, Boddy) &hellip;&hellip; 7:238&mdash;Owen Sound, SullivanFife, Inglodsby) &hellip;&hellip; 7:459&mdash;Owen Sound, Burlington (McReavy) &hellip;&hellip; 12:12Penalties&mdash;Beauchamp. Kipp.Third Period10&mdash;Brantford, Pidgeon(Hewson, Wiacek) &hellip;&hellip; :5611&mdash;Brantford, Beauchamp (Moy) &hellip;&hellip; 2:4512&mdash;Owen Sound. Miller(Burlington. Pollock) &hellip;&hellip; 7 9:0013&mdash;Owen Sound. Gillespie(McReavy, Small) &hellip;&hellip; 12:0914&mdash;Brantford. Smith &hellip;&hellip; 12:2015&ldquo;Brantford, Pidgeon &hellip;&hellip; 15:07(McReavy, Miller) &hellip;&hellip; 18:5216&mdash;Owen Sound. Burlington17&mdash;Owen Sound, Miller (Burlington) &hellip;&hellip; 19:58Penalty&mdash;Hayward.WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11Ham. Pats 4, at Ham. Tigers 5.First Period1&mdash;Patricias. Phillips &hellip;&hellip; 3:352&mdash;Tigers. Mason(Liscombe. Peer) &hellip;&hellip; 4:553&mdash;Tigers, T. Smelle(Shillington, Laurent) &hellip;&hellip; 19:55Penalties&mdash;Peer, Comfort. Robinson, C. Smelle, Barlow.Second Period4&mdash;Tigers. Liscombe (Peer) &hellip;&hellip; 14:255&mdash;Patricia. Comfort (Runions) &hellip;&hellip; 15:45 Penalties&mdash;Laurent, Jacklin.Third Period6&mdash;Patricias, Jacklin (Comfort) &hellip;&hellip; 1:557&mdash;Tigers, J. Conick &hellip;&hellip; 13:108&mdash;Patricias Comfort(Kilpatrick, Jacklin) &hellip;&hellip; 17:35Penalties&mdash;Jacklin, C. Smelle.Overtime Period9&mdash;Hamilton Tigers, J. Conick(C. Smelle) &hellip;&hellip; 1:05Penalties&mdash;None.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13Ham. Pats 2. at Marlboros 10First Period1&mdash;Marlboros: Hildebrand, (Curik) &hellip;&hellip; 5.442&mdash;Marlboros: Hannigan,(Buchanan) &hellip;&hellip; 12:203&mdash;Marlboros: Curik, (Psutka) &hellip;&hellip; 16.35 Penalties: Cooper, McLellan (minor and major). Phillips (major).Second Period4&mdash;Marlboros: Hannigan,(McLellan, Buchanan) &hellip;&hellip; 14:395&mdash;Marlboros: McLellan,(Hannigan, Davidson) &hellip;&hellip; 17.096&mdash;Marlboros: Curik (McCormack) &hellip;&hellip; 19.57 Penalties: None.Third Period7&mdash;Hamilton Pats: Comfort,(Barlow Kilpatrick) &hellip;&hellip; 1.368&mdash;Hamilton Pats: Long,(Robinson, Phillips) &hellip;&hellip; 2.569&mdash;Marlboros: Curik, (McCormack) &hellip;&hellip; 7.4410&mdash;Marlboros: McCormack,(Cu ik, Hilderbrand) &hellip;&hellip; 11.3511&mdash;Marlboros: Buchanan,(Hannigan, McLellan) &hellip;&hellip; 14.4512&mdash;Marlboros: Psutka,(McCormack) &hellip;&hellip; 16.27Penalties: None.Stratford 1, at Ham. Tigers 4First PeriodScoring: None. Penalties: Eady, Mason, Long.Second Period1&mdash;Ham. Tigers: A. Conick,(Shillington, T. Smelle) &hellip;&hellip; 14.002&mdash;Ham. Tigers: T. Smelle,(Shillington) &hellip;&hellip; 18.00Penalties: Dinning. Scherer.Third Period3&mdash;Ham. Tigers: Shillington,(J. Conick) &hellip;&hellip; 2.404&mdash;Ham. Tigers: Laurent,(J. Conick, Shillington) &hellip;&hellip; 11.105&mdash;Stratford: Messmer,(Blake, Flick) &hellip;&hellip; 12.05Penalties: NoneBrantford 6 at Kitchener 10 &hellip;&hellip;First Period1&mdash;Kitchener: Verity,(D. Bauer, Blute) &hellip;&hellip; 0.352&mdash;Kitchener. Hiller,(Herchanratter) &hellip;&hellip; 3.353&mdash;Kitchener: Blute,(Behling. D. Bauer) &hellip;&hellip; 9.104&mdash;Kitchener: Hiller,(B. Bauer, Herchenratter) &hellip;&hellip; 11.315&mdash;Brantford: Hewson, (Moy) &hellip;&hellip; 13.10 Penalties: None.Second Period6&mdash;Kitchener: Blute,(Verity, D. Bauer) &hellip;&hellip; 4.107&mdash;Brantford: Beauchamp,(Moy, Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 9.578&mdash;Brantford: Hewson,(Beauchamp, Moy) &hellip;&hellip; 10.339&mdash;Kitchener: Zuk,(Hurst, Weiler) &hellip;&hellip; 19.55Penalties: Grasser, Roubell, Kenny.Third Period10&mdash;Kitchener: B. Bauer, (Blute &hellip;&hellip; 1.4011&mdash;Kitchener: D. Bauer,(Behling, Blute) &hellip;&hellip; 1.5812&mdash;Kitchener: Hiller,(Herchenratter) &hellip;&hellip; 2.4013&mdash;Kitchener: Hiller, (B. Bauer) &hellip;&hellip; 4.4514&mdash;Brantford: Pidgeon, (Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 7.5615&mdash;Brantford: Denneny &hellip;&hellip; 16.0516&mdash;Brantford: Hewson, (Boyd) &hellip;&hellip; 19.46Penalties: Hurst, D. Bauer. &#9632;

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O.H.A. SENIOR “A”

<div class="byline">By JAMES ELLIS</div>(Baltimore Evening Sun)BALTIMORE, MD.&mdash;The big guy flopped himself into an overstuffed chair, shoved his weatherbeaten hat to the back of his head and exposed a receding hairline.Frank Beisler, the Baltimore Clippers&rsquo; new coach, has had his share of danger in the 14 years he has played organized hockey.Scars which punctuate his otherwise handsome face stamp him as a veteran of many an Eastern hockey war.There are other reminders of his playing days. He has absorbed 79 stitches from wounds incurred on the ice. And that figure, he points out, is not uncommonly high among stickwielders who have been in the game as long as he has.Opponents who have played against Beisler aren&rsquo;t exuding sympathy, for they recall the vicious defensive blocks he used to throw with his 6-foot, 2-inch, 190 pound frame.Gruesome OccupationFrank has another profession he can turn to if need be. He&rsquo;s a licensed undertaker, having followed in his father&rsquo;s footsteps in learning that business. Father and son practice it in the summer, but he hopes he&rsquo;ll never have to fall back on the mortician trade as a full-time job. He likes hockey too well to leave it.Beisler first took up ice hockey with his high school team in New Haven, Conn., &ldquo;about 18 winters ago&rdquo;, and his scholastic play earned him a tryout with the Bronx (N.Y.) Tigers. After a season there he joined the Hershey Bears.He turned professional with New Haven in 1934, spent some time with the Springfield (Mass.) club and wound up first as player, then as coach of the Buffalo Bisons, of the American League, three years ago.Frank was a rough, tough defenceman and he seldom let any desire to break into the scoring column snarl his bulwarking proclivities. Defencemen, he explains, should be exactly what the name implies and nothing more.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care if Lome Smith, Kenny Schwartz or Dan Nixon, my three defencemen, e v e r score a point. They have enough to do behind the blue line to keep them busy. I don&rsquo;t think I scored 25 points in my life.&rdquo;<h2>Pick Junior Stars</h2>CALGARY&mdash;Awards to outstanding players in the Buffalo Athletic Association&rsquo;s Junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; Hockey league were announced recently.Orville Martini of Bears captured the award as the league&rsquo;s leading scorer while a teammate, Neil Winchester, was adjudged most valuable player in the loop.Jim Perkins of Cubs garnered honors as leading goalie while Doug McClelland of the same team was named most efficient player.The most sportsmanlike player in the league was Sherrold Moore of Giants. &#9632;

Baltimore Clippers Coach Relies On Strong Defence

HALIFAX&mdash;Maritime Senior hockey playdowns will start February 25 it was decided at a meeting of the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association held here last week.Twenty teams will compete for the title with Maritime Big Four winner drawing a bye into the finals. Survivor of the Central, Valley and Antigonish-Pictou-Col-chester leagues will meet the Cape Breton champion.Winner of that playoff will face the Big Four title-holders for the right to represent the Maritimes in the Allan Cup hunt.First round sends the Valley champion against the Central league winner February 25 and 27. final will be staged March 12 and First two games of the Maritime 13 with the next three March 15-17.Junior Dates SetNineteen clubs will compete for the Junior title with the Halifax city winner drawing a bye into the semi-finals. The Nova Scotia final opens Febraury 18, the Maritime final March 9.Truro has a junior representation this year for the first time in several years and although the Truro juniors, like the other Maritime centres, have nothing to compete with St. Mary&rsquo;s Juniors, they nevertheless, stand to last several rounds considering the fact that Saint Mary&rsquo;s have drawn a playoff bye. &#9632;

Maritime Senior Playoffs Start On February 25

Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s mad play-off scramble is, but definitely on &hellip; Hamilton Tigers are defending their senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA honors against Toronto Marlboros, Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen&hellip; Stratford Indians&hellip; Owen Sound Mercurys and Hamilton Pats &hellip; It&rsquo;s avastly different picture in the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; scramble this season&hellip; St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors, for the past three years OHA champions and a stalwart in CAHA Memorial Cup play, must watch this spring&rsquo;s merry-go-round from the sidelines &hellip; Without any of their championship players of last season, the Irish never got out of eighth place all season and finally finished up in the ninth spot, second to last in a ten-team group &hellip; A new junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; champion is assured within the OHA this season &hellip;Marlboro&rsquo;s Johnny &ldquo;Goose&rdquo; McCormack and Hamilton Tigers&rsquo; Clarence Shillington were also enjoying a neck-and-neck personal struggle for settlement of the OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; scoring honors. With the final schedule week-end yet to be played, both players were tied for the lead with a grand total of 70 points each &hellip; Shillington&rsquo;s climb to the top has bordered the sensational with 50 of his total points being recorded after the Christmas lay-off. McCormack has been, to his credit, consistant and had maintained a fairly healthy lead over-all until the veteran centre-player for the Hamilton Tigers caught up with him&hellip;Ike Hildebrand, the title package of charged energy at rightwing for the Senior Dukes is right behind the two leaders with a creditable individual scoring display despite the fact that illness and injuries forced him out of at least six league games &hellip; Adding power to Hamilton Tigers&rsquo; late season drive has been Johnny Conick&rsquo;s return to top form. Last year&rsquo;s scoring champion and winner of the Robert &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Ecclestone Trophy, was slowed down to a mere walk during the early weeks of the current season because of a knee injury that refused to respond to treatment. Finally, Conick elected to take a few weeks holiday from hockey and it served the purpose of putting the injured knee back in tip-top condition. Like Shillington, Johnny Conick has bolstered his point collection, considerably, since the first of the new year.Hockey writers, radio experts and coaches around the OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit are in the midst of selecting their All-Star team. Here&rsquo;s the Morganson nominations, and none of the former professionals included. Our team is strictly for the lads coming up the boys who&rsquo;ll likely be making headlines in future professional games &hellip;Goal, Howard Harvey of Marlboros and Art Childs of Hamilton Tigers. Defence, first combination Dean McBride of Marlboros and Bobby Laurent of Hamilton Tigers. Second combination, Jerry Olinski of Kitchener and Bill Walsh of Stratford. Centre, first, Johnny McCormack of Marlboros; second, Clarence Shillington of Marlboros; third, Douglas Gillespie of Owen Sound. Right wingers, first, Ike Hildebrand of Marlboros; second, Tommy Smelle of Hamilton Tigers. Left Wingers, first, Johnny Conick of Hamilton Tigers; second, Johnny Blute of Kitchener. Coach, Joe Primeau of Marlboros; Manager, George Redding of Hamilton Tigers.It is almost certain that George Armstrong, right-winger with Stratford Kroehlers, will capture the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; scoring championship, as he has gained a sizeable lead over his two nearest rivals, Barrie&rsquo; Gil St. Pierre and Windsor&rsquo;s Jimmy Uniac&hellip; However, with the final four-days of the schedule yet to be played, anything can happen and oficial nomination will have to wait until the next issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS.St. Catharines Tee-Pees came up with a winning drive at the right time to just about clinch the sixth and final playoff station in the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series with a stretch of seven wins in nine games&hellip; Marlboro Juniors, however, couldn&rsquo;t stand the pace and with sixth place close at hand, dropped four games in a row, including two heart-breaking one-goal decisions to Barrie Flyers, the last one being an overtime 4-3 affair at the Maple Leaf Gardens &hellip; And it all happened when the Junior Dukes blew a two-goal lead in the last period&hellip;All hockey is concerned over the illness of W. A. Hewitt 45 years secretary of the Ontario Hockey Association and Registrar Treasurer of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association&hellip; Mr. Hewitt hasn&rsquo;t been at his best since the CAHA semi-annual meeting in Regina last January, but he refused to leave his desk&hellip; Finally, he was obliged to stay in bed, at the insistance of his good lady and physician, and has been ordered to take a good rest&hellip; While Mr. Hewitt is confined to his home in Toronto.OHA president George Panter has moved into Toronto from his Gravenhurst home to hold the secretarial fort&hellip; &#9632;

Bunny Morganson Views the Ontario Scene

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01195/1129331-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="568" height="207"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 9&mdash;Halifax 8, Truro 5.February 10&mdash;Saint John 7, Halifax 1.February 11&mdash;Truro 5, Moncton 9.February 12&mdash;Saint John 8, Truro 2. February 13&mdash;Moncton 11, Halifax 10.February 14&mdash;Moncton 3, Truro 5.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02136/1129324-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="572" height="901"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 7&mdash;Glace Bay 6, North Sydney 3.February 9&mdash;North Sydney 5, Glace Bay 2.February 10&mdash;Sydney 7, Glace Bay 0.February 11&mdash;Sydney 3, North Sydney 2.February 12&mdash;Glace Bay 7, North Sydney 1.February 13&mdash;Sydney 10, North Sydney 1.(Playoffs opened Monday, February 16)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0398/1129317-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="584" height="209"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 10&mdash;Sherbrooke 14, Lachine 3.February 11&mdash;Sherbrooke 5, Lachine 1.February 12&mdash;St. Hyacinthe 3, Victoriaville (tie).February 14&mdash;Sherbrooke 7, St. Hyacinthe 3; Victwiaville 6, Lachine 3.February 15&mdash;Victoriaville 11. Lachine 4; St. Hyacinthe 5, Sherbrooke" 4.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0481/1129310-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="624" height="1564"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 14&mdash;McGill 8. of Montreal 2; U of Toronto 9, Queen's 6.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0570/1129303-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="574" height="351"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 9&mdash;Barrie 5, Marlboros 4; Stratford 10, Guelph 6.February 11&mdash;Barrie 4, Marlboros 3; St. Michael&rsquo;s 4, Guelph 1; Stratford 8, Young Rangers 5; Windsor 11, Galt 3.February 12&mdash;Guelph 5, St. Michael&rsquo;s 1.February 13&mdash;Barrie 15. Young Rangers 0: St. Catharines 6, Windsor 1.February 14&mdash;Windsor 2, Marlboros 0; Barrie 16, Young Rangers 1; St. Catharines 4, Guelph 3; Oshawa 8, Stratford 2; Galt 6, St. Michael&rsquo;s 4.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0661/1129296-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="576" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL SAMIS&mdash;</figcaption></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 11&mdash;Royals 5, Leafs 4; Canadiens 3, Cyclones 1; Three Rivers 4, Lachine 1.February 12)&mdash;Quebec 7, Three Rivers 1.February 13&mdash;Nationals 2, Lachine 1.February 15&mdash;Quebec 4, Royals 3; Three Rivers 14, Valleyfield 1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0750/1129289-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="578" height="1129"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL SAMIS&mdash;</figcaption></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesFebruary 9&mdash;Canadiens 8, Brandon 3.February 13&mdash;Canadiens 6, Monarchs 2; Brandon 8, Hawks 7.February 14&mdash;Monarchs 7, Brandon 1.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0844/1129282-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="576" height="529"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL SAMIS&mdash;</figcaption></div>Semi-Final Playoffs (Best-of-5)February 6&mdash;Lethbridge 18, Bellevue 2.February 7&mdash;Calgary 4, Medicine Hat 3.February 9&mdash;Lethbridge 10, Bellevue 2; (Bellevue defaulted third game. Calgary 7, Medicine Hat 2.February 11&mdash;Medicine Hat 4, Calgary 3.February 12&mdash;Calgary 4, Medicine Hat 2. (Calgary wins series games to 1.)Final Playoffs (Best-of-7)February 14&mdash;Lethbridge 8, Calgary 1.EDMONTON JUNIORFinal Playoffs, Best-of-FiveFebruary 10&mdash;Maple Leafs 5, E.A.C. 3.February 12&mdash;Maple Leafs 8, E.A.C. 1.February 14&mdash;E. A. C. 3. Maple Leafs 2. (Leafs lead series 2-1) &#9632;

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Amateur Parade At Quick Glance

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6Los Angeles 2, at Oakland 3First Period1&mdash;Los Angeles: Barbe, (Chaisson, Keating), 4:02; 2&mdash;Los Angeles: A. Papike, (unassister), 19:22.Penalties: Tutten, Emerton, Labovitch.Second Period3&mdash;Oakland: McPherson, (Rittinger), 15:50.Penalties: Barbe, E. Papike.Third Period4&mdash;Oakland: Emerton, (Hamilton), 9:25; 5&mdash;Oakland: McPherson, (Rittinger), 14:02.Penalties: None.Tacoma 1, at Vancouver 6First Period1&mdash;Tacoma: Adams, (Filion), 6:36; 2&mdash;Vancouver: Milliard, (Ballance), 8:36.Penalties: Taillifer, Auger, Fennell, Sloboda, Casanoto.Second Period3&mdash;Vancouver: Millman, (Unassisted), 3:45; 4&mdash;Vancouver: Carse, (Milliard), 17:45.Penalties: Johns (2), Gruhn, Fennell, Nichols.Third Period5&mdash;Vancouver: Milliard, (Ballance), 0:27; 6&mdash;Vancouver: Millman, (Gruhn), 12:36; 7&mdash;Vancouver: Gruhn, (Nichols), 18:06.Penalties: Auger (2 mins, match), La-vel (5 mins, match misconduct).SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7San Diego 10, at Fresno 6First Period1&mdash;San Diego: McCarthy, (Hellyer), 00:15; 2&mdash;San Diego: McIntosh, (Boothman), 5:40; 3&mdash;San Diego: Warecki, (Gibbon), 10:47; 4&mdash;San Diego: Boothman, (Unassisted), 15:22; 5&mdash;San Diego: Burke, (Boothman), 15:32.Penalties: Norris, Lallo, McIntosh.Second Period6&mdash;Fresno: Roach, (Prentice-Desilets), 7:52; 7&mdash;Fresno: Desilets, (Powers), 8:25; 8&mdash;San Diego: Hellyer, (Vaillancourt, McCarthy), 12:35; 9&mdash;San Diego: Hellyer, (Vaillancourt, McIntosh), 18:01.Penalties: Desson, Burke (2), Bastien.10&mdash;Fresno: Corrigan, (Richardson, Peterson), 2:30; 11&mdash;Fresno: Bastien, (Richardson), 3:54; 12&mdash;San Diego:Vaillancourt. (Unassisted), 6:25; 13&mdash;Fresno: Cinor, (Rheault, McCullough), 10:15; 14&mdash;San Diego: Wareckt, (Gibbon, Wharton), 12:57; 15&mdash;San Diego: Marchant, (Warecki), 18:02; 16Corrigan, (Richardson), 18:20.Penalties: Lallo 2, McIntosh, Pidsodny, Warecki, Vaillancourt.Oakland 5, at San Francisco 4First Period1&mdash;San Francisco: Cunningham, (Clements, Williams), 17:03.Penalties: None.Second Period2&mdash;Oakland: McPherson, (Wilson),3:35; 3&mdash;Oakland: Hamilton. (Emerton, S. Jones), 6:04; 4&mdash;San Francisco: Evans, (Richardson), 11:30; 5&mdash;Oakland: S. Jones, (Hursley), 15:47; 6&mdash;Oakland:Hamilton, (Emerton, 8. Jones), 16:30.Penalties: Strain, Hursley, Rittinger.Third Period7&mdash;Oakland: Rittinger, (Unassisted), 9:36; 8&mdash;San Francisco: B. Richardson, (Wywrot, Evans), 9:59; 9&mdash;San Francisco: Strain, 10:05.Penalties: Hursley, Richardson, Johnson, McPherson.Portland 6, Tacoma 6First Period1&mdash;Tacoma: Klein, (Watt), 00:18; 2&mdash;Portland: Dalgleish, (DelMonte, Gauthier), 7:58; 3&mdash;Tacoma: Filion, (Adam, Klein), 8:42; 4&mdash;Portland: Reardon, (Rypien), 11:08; 5&mdash;Tacoma: Kalapaca, (Milford), 12:23; 6&mdash;Tacoma: Klein, (Filion), 19:00; 7&mdash;Portland: Reardon, (Tolton), 19:16.Penalties: Kalapaca, Taillifer.Second Period8&mdash;Portland: Desbiens, (Reardon), 4:34.Penalties: Allan, Dalgleish.Third Period9&mdash;Portland: Desbiens, (Gauthier, Broboski), 10:03; 10&mdash;Tacoma: Kalapaca, (Andrews), 12:26; 11&mdash;Portland: Desbiens,, (Unassisted), 15:05; 12&mdash;Tacoma: Klein, (Adams, Filion), 16:50.Penalties: Dalgleish (major), Fennell, (major), Taillifer, Rypien.Overtime PeriodNo scoring.Penalties: Sutherland, Fennell, Gauthier, Adam.Vancouver 6, at N. Westminster 1First Period1&mdash;Vancouver: Nichols, (Ballance), 8:05.Second Period2&mdash;Vancouver: Millman, (Bathgate, Gruhn), 2:38; 3&mdash;New Westminster: Schmidt, (Ullyot), 6:37; 4&mdash;Vancouver: Ballance, (Carse), 12:45.Penalties: Gruhn, Vickery (2), Sloboda, Thomson, Nichols, McIntyre, Millard.Third Period5&mdash;Vancouver: Corse, (Millard), Ballance), 1:35; 6&mdash;Vancouver: Gruhn, (Unassisted), 5:40; 7&mdash;Vancouver: Bathgate, (Gruhn). 8:54.Penalties: Thomson (2), MacKay (J), Bathgate, O&rsquo;Reilly.SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8Fresno 2, San Diego 6First Period1&mdash;San Diego: Burke, (Marchant, Boothman), 6:07; 2&mdash;San Diego: Hellyer, (Vaillancuort, McCarthy), 9:18; 3&mdash;San Diego: Marchant, (Boothman, Burke), 14:41.Penalties: Macintosh, Lallo.Second Period4&mdash;Fresno: Richardson, (Desilets), 4:44;5&mdash;San Diego: Warecke, (Wharton, Carl son), 5:17.Penalties: Bastien, Cinor, Fritz, Pid-sodny.Third Period6 San Diego: Warecke, (Wharton), 4:36; 7&mdash;Fresno: Rheault, (Corrigan) 9:33; 8&mdash;San Diego: Hellyer, (Vaillancourt, McCarthy), 15:48.Penalties: McCullough, Lallo, Bastien.Tacoma 2, at Seattle 3First Period1&mdash;Tacoma: Milford, (Kalapaca), 8:44.2&mdash;Seattle: McBride, (Kerr, McFadzen), 10:57;.Penalties: Adams, Marchant, Taillifer, Toohy.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1134/1129369-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="572" height="1269"></div>THE LEADERSMost goals: Maurice Vaillancourt, SD.Most assists: Ray Chaisson, LA, 38.Most Shut Outs: Duff McDermid, SF, 4 Most Hat Tricks Against:Vic Polich, LA 5Bill Brennan, Free &hellip; 5Most Shots Saved:Duff McDermid, SF &hellip;136Most Winning Goals Scored:Stan Warecki, SD &hellip;7Most Penalties: Joe Desson, SD, 46 134<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1228/1129362-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="579" height="1196"></div>THE LEADERSMost Goals: Pat Desbiens, Port &hellip;Most Assists: Bernie Bathgate, Vanc WMost Shut Outs:Dinny McManu, NW &hellip; 1Les Colvin, Vanc &hellip; 1Jerry Cotnoir, Tac &hellip;1Ron Pickell, Sea &hellip; 1Most Hat Tricks Against:Jerry Cotnoir, Tac &hellip; 10Most Shots Saved:Jerry Cotnoir, Tac &hellip; 1414Most Winning Goals Scored:Cy Rouse, Sea &hellip; 5Dutch Evers, Sea &hellip; 5Gordon Fashoway, NW &hellip; 5Most Penalties:Pete Taillifer, Tac, 43,151Second PeriodNo scoring.Penalties: McFadzen, Taillifer, Casonato (imnor, misconduct), Robinson (2)Evers, Milford.Third Period3&mdash;Seattle: Robinson, (Dartnell), 4:474&mdash;Seattle: McFadzen, (Unassisted), 7:1325&mdash;Tacoma: Milford, (Taillifer, Andrews). 14:44.Penalties: Watt, McFadzen (3), Mare chant, Casonato, Fennell, Evers.Los Angeles 1, at Portland 3First Period1&mdash;Los Angeles: Keating, (Labovtch, Chaisson), 2:32; 2&mdash;Portland: Rypien (Reardon), 17:00.Penalty: Keating.Second Period3 Portland: DelMonte, (Gauthier)4 19:25.Penalties: Lebovich, Tuten, DelMonte.Third Period4&mdash;Portland: Dalgleish, (DelMonte Guathier), 15:23.Penalty: Tuten. &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01165/1129407-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="608" height="201"></div>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4Lethbridge 0, at Regina 4.First PeriodScoring&mdash;NonePenalty&mdash;Heximer.Second Period1&mdash;Regina, Fisher(Schmidt, G. Kyle) &hellip;&hellip; 7.22Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period2&mdash;Regina, Barnes(McDougall, B. Kyle) &hellip;&hellip; 5.203&mdash;Regina, B. &rsquo;Kyle,(Fisher) &hellip;&hellip; 6:514&mdash;Regina, G. Kyle5&mdash;(Staseson, Fisher) &hellip;&hellip; 7.27Penalties&mdash;None.THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5Lethbridge 4. at Saskatoon 3.First Period1&mdash;Lethbridge, Boorman(Maxwell, Kirkpatrick) &hellip;&hellip; 16.102&mdash;Lethbridge, Hall(Heximer, Nordin) &hellip;&hellip; 19.26Penalty&mdash;Taggart.Second Period2&mdash;Saskatoon, Bentley (Livingstone, Jenkins) &hellip;&hellip; 1.454&mdash;Lethbridge, Heximer (Luke) &hellip;&hellip; 10.265&mdash;Saskatoon, Bentley &hellip;&hellip; 13.02 Penalty&mdash;Hal).Third Period6&mdash;Lethbridge, Simpson (Gray, Gibson) &hellip;&hellip; 4.007&mdash;Saskatoon, Bentley, (Shabaga, Snider) &hellip;&hellip; 11.37Penalties&mdash;Shabaga, Boorman (major), Bentley, Taggart.FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6Regina 4, at Calgary 3.First Period1&mdash;Calgary, French(McDougall) &hellip;&hellip; 10:362&mdash;Regina, MylesMcDougall) &hellip;&hellip; 10.36Penalty&mdash;Hergert.Second PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;G. Kyle, VanDeelan.Third Period3&mdash;Regina, Hauck (Brown. Wilkie) &hellip;&hellip; 7.044&mdash;Calgary, McDonald(Dame, Emery) &hellip;&hellip; 10.57Penalties&mdash;Hergert, Brown, Emery.Overtime Period5&mdash;Regina, Schmidt (Myles) &hellip;&hellip; 116&mdash;Regina, HauckMONDAY, FEBRUARY &hellip;&hellip; 9Regina 2, at Lethbridge 7.First Period1&mdash;Lethbridge. Taggart(Kirkpatrick) &hellip;&hellip; 6:292&mdash;Lethbridge, Gibson (Maxwell) &hellip;&hellip; 7:50Penalties&mdash;McDougall. Barnes.Second Period3&mdash;Lethbridge. Simpson(Maxwell, Kirkpatrick) &hellip;&hellip; 10:254&mdash;Regina. McDougall (B. Kyle) &hellip;&hellip; 12:375&mdash;Regina, Wilkie (Grinke) &hellip;&hellip; 18:076&mdash;Lethbridge, Latoski (Boorman) &hellip;&hellip; 18:37 Penalties&mdash;G. Kyle (2), Hall, McDougall, Taggart.Third Period7&mdash;Lethbridge, Taggart(Nordin, Boorman) &hellip;&hellip; 4:158&mdash;Lethbridge. Hall(Latoski, Heximer) &hellip;&hellip; 8:099&mdash;Lethbridge Taggart(Latoski, Hall) &hellip;&hellip; 19:30Penalties&mdash;Grinke, Myles.FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 13Calgary 5, at Edmonton 3First Period1&mdash;Calgary, Cairns (Desmarais) &hellip;&hellip; 12.45. Penalties&mdash;Watt, Hergert.Second Period2&mdash;Calgary, McDonald (Culley) &hellip;&hellip; 8.00;3&mdash;Edmonton, Pringle (Watt) &hellip;&hellip; 8.55;4&mdash;Edmonton, Merluk (Holmes) &hellip;&hellip; 12.23;5&mdash;Edmonton, Clovechok (Anderson) &hellip;&hellip; 13.38;6&mdash;Calgary, Desmarais (Wilder) &hellip;&hellip; 17.46.Penalties&mdash;Pringle, Hergert, Emery, Anderson, DesmaraisThird Period7&mdash;Calgary, Devico 3. 10. 8&mdash;Calgary, McDonald &hellip;&hellip; 19.50.Penalties&mdash;Hunter, Pringle.Regina 5. at Lethbridge 1First Period1&mdash;Regina, Bernes (Fairburn) &hellip;&hellip; 15.00.Penalties&mdash;Menzies, Grinke.Second Period2&mdash;Regina, Fairburn (Schmidt, Tta-sesson) &hellip;&hellip; 7.54;3&mdash;Lethbridge, Latoski (Hall, Heximer) &hellip;&hellip;8.12;4&mdash;Regina, G. Kyle (Fisher) &hellip;&hellip; 18.00.Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period5&mdash;Regina, Brown (Fisher, Haucks) &hellip;&hellip; 3.32.6&mdash;Regina, Fisher (Barnes) &hellip;&hellip; 12.20. Penalties&mdash;Van Deelan, G. Kyle.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02133/1129400-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="602" height="931"></div> &#9632;

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The dopesters and crystal gazers are rechecking their figures hurriedly today as a result of the latest turn of events in the NHL. Those lowly Hawks from Ye Olde Windy City have dumped that apple cart all ever the ice sheets of the circuit and right now there&rsquo;s more hustle in the Cana-diens camp than you&rsquo;ll find at a one-cent sale. The Canucks are faced with a definite possibility of ending up in last place&mdash;an ignominous honor that the Bleu Blanc Rouge haven&rsquo;t experienced for a number of years&mdash;can&rsquo;t even remember when it last happened! What Dick Ir-i vin and crew J will come out with t o match the drive shown by exLeaf Chuck Conacher, is still the big question mark in NHL circles&mdash;but whatever it is&mdash;it will have to come fast and what&rsquo;s more be plenty good.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03117/1129438-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="254" height="419"></div>In &rsquo;my chipped crystal ball it&rsquo;s easy to foresee that Detroit and Toronto should sail into the playoffs&mdash;(that&rsquo;s one prediction where the odds are in our favor) but from there in, anything can and probably will happen. Rangers and Boston will have a golden opportunity of staging their own donnybrook to establish third place contendership&mdash;but the fun only starts at this point, with the do-or-die battle for the fourth and final berth at stake.In Canadian hockey circles there are many &ldquo;analysts&rdquo; who were a little red in the puss&mdash;and not from sun-lamp treatments either&mdash;when the RCAF Flyers copped the Olympic hockey title&mdash;the Flyers gave some scribes a few anxious moments. We&rsquo;d like to acknowledge a job well done&mdash;we&rsquo;ll doff our 7 &frac12; to the RCAF Flyers&mdash;in the words of Irving (gent who&rsquo;s known to turn out a pretty fair ski suit for a living) who has just returned from St. Moritz&mdash;the Flyers played like champs and were the favorites of the crowd.C&rsquo;est tout for this week&mdash;till next time, let&rsquo;s compare notes, sharpen a few dozen pencils&mdash;take out our hockey annual and find what&rsquo;s wrong with Canadiens. P.S.&mdash;If you get one&mdash;send italong to Frank Selke&mdash;he&rsquo;s a very appreciative fellow!<h2>What, No Penalties!</h2>The St. Paul Saints and Minneapolis Millers, bitter hockey rivals for almost 50 years, recently set a record when they played a regulation game in the U.S.H.L., without a single pen-. alty. It was a hard fought game from the opening whistle till the end but the players paid strict attention to hockey and while many lusty body checks were handed out sticks were kept down and Referees James (Red) Dunn and E. W. (Red) Reynolds were congratulated by players, press and radio for a well-handled game. Oh, yes, the Millers won, 3-1.<h2>Happy Collision</h2>When Rookies Bob Solinger and Roy Kelly of Cleveland combined to score the winning goal against Springfield on Jan-28 in an American League contest, they collided and fell to the ice together just as Solinger passed to Kelly for the tally. Both players slid past the cage into the sideboards after their winning effort was completed, and lay there for a few seconds hugging each other over their successful achievement. &#9632;

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Rambling with Ron Morrier

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0487/1129476-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="608" height="2865"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0569/1129469-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="607" height="3334"></div><h2>Stampeders Bolster For Playoff Rounds</h2>CALGARY&mdash;Tightening up the team for the drive through the home stretch and into the playoffs, Manager Dave Duchak and Coach Jack Arbour last week announced Tank Kummerfield, recently obtained defenceman, had been dropped from the Calgary Stampeder lineup.Stamps, it was pointed out, had been carrying two extra players all season and the cut puts them closer to the regular limit.In addition to the two extra men, the club has also had Satch Craddock registered since league play opened&mdash;a move calculated to give the club playoff insurance as it did last year when Craddock, always a late starter, played a starry role on the Allan Cup trail. He has been a standout star in the Foothills League recently where he has been picking off plenty of goals for Okotoks. &#9632;

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Monthly Records American League

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01170/1129514-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="274" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02121/1129507-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="268" height="319"></div>VOLUME 1, MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 18, 1948 NUMBER 21Ottawa RCAF Flyers May Prove Strong Senior RivalsOTTAWA&mdash;The Olympic hockey champions, Canada&rsquo;s Ottawa R.C.A.F. Flyers, may file a challenge for the Allan Cup, emblematic of Canadian senior amateur hockey supremacy, it was announced here last week. The Flyers who surprised many by roaring through the Olympic tournament undefeated may return to Canada a definite threat for the Dominion senior honors.With more than 30 post-Olym-pic games scheduled in all parts of Europe, the Flyers may come back in search of more honors. As one Ottawa hockey official stated, &ldquo;&lsquo;They may be the kind of a hockey team that will show their appreciation by upsetting some of the favored Canadian teams who probably could have skated rings around them before they went away.&rdquo;The present team is in no way camparable to the squad that looked so bad against McGill University and the Ottawa Army club. At that time no one saw the sensational young goalkeeper, Murray Dowey and Toronto&rsquo;s Wally Halder and George Mara were in bad playing condition before the club sailed.While nobody is really unhappy that Canada&rsquo;s Olympic hockey team showed its heals to the rest of the world at St. Moritz, columnists from coast to coast are still regarding the feat as &ldquo;an exceptional upset&rdquo; or concluding from the results that Europe&rsquo;s teams were given too much of an advance build-up, and weren&rsquo;t solid competition.<div class="sidebar"><h2>PRAISE FLYERS</h2>OTTAWA &mdash; &ldquo;All Canada has been proud of the achievements of the R.C.A.F. hockey team in winning the Olympic championship,&rdquo; declared Secretary of State Colin Gibson in the House in the absence of Defence Minister Brooke Claxton.Col. Gibson said messages of congratulations had been sent from all over Canada. &ldquo;I had the pleasure,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;of congratulating the team on living up to the famous motto of the air force &lsquo;Per Ardua ad Astra,&rsquo; the meaning of which is known to all members of the House.&rdquo; &#9632;</div>

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THE HOCKEY NEWS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0478/1129576-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg"></div>NEW YORK&mdash;Rene Trudell, regular right winger of the New York Rangers, was injured in a game against Chicago Black Hawks on February 8 and will be missing from action for a least 10 days. Trudell entered a Chicago hospital for treatment.He was treated for an infla-matlon caused by a cut vein on the left thigh. Coach Frank Boucher announced after Trudell was injured that rookie Eddie Slowinski will play Trudell&rsquo;s position.REGINA, SASK.&mdash;Now that more and more young junior hockey players are signing contracts with professional clubs, Western Canada hockey officials are thinking that the youngsters are moving to pro clubs before they are ready. A Western writer states that local hockey heads are talking about the advantages of boosting the junior age limit from 20 to 21. It is thought that the change would keep the kids in amateur hockey another year.Among the scheme&rsquo;s backers is President George Vogan of Moose Jaw Canucks, perennial Allan Cup contenders who have contributed their share of recruits to professional leagues. Vogan says most of the younger players need the extra year as a junior before turning pro.<h2>Lots Of Space</h2>INDIANAPOLIS&mdash;The Indianapolis Coliseum, home of the Capitals of the American Hockey League, provides an ice surface that makes for a well played game of hockey. Termed the &ldquo;indoor ocean&rdquo; by many players because of its size, being one of the largest rinks there is, there is much better opportunity for passing plays and a spectacular game due to the roominess. The arena is situated in a beautiful setting at the Indianapolis State Fair Grounds. &#9632;

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Western Hockey Heads Hope To Boost Junior Player Limit From 20 To 21

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f00C4-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0129/1129757-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG BENTLEY, Chicago centerman and outstanding NHL player for 1948-49.</figcaption></div><h2>These NHL Captains Selected The Team</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0228/1129750-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="406" height="511"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED KENNEDY Toronto</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0328/1129743-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="410" height="527"><figcaption class="caption-body">SID ABEL Detroit</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0423/1129736-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="394" height="514"><figcaption class="caption-body">EMIL BOUCHARD Montreal</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0513/1129729-1-eng-US/f00c4-052.jpg" title="f00C4-05" width="406" height="508"><figcaption class="caption-body">BUD O&rsquo;CONNOR New York</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-066/1129722-1-eng-US/f00c4-062.jpg" title="f00C4-06" width="391" height="526"><figcaption class="caption-body">MILT SCHMIDT Boston</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-073/1129715-1-eng-US/f00c4-072.jpg" title="f00C4-07" width="403" height="526"><figcaption class="caption-body">GAYE STEWART Chicago</figcaption></div>YOU couldn&rsquo;t buy this hockey lineup for less than $300,000.New Liberty&rsquo;s All-Star team for 1948-49, picked by captains of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s six teams, is the highest-priced collection of hockey talent in history. One man alone was worth a $100,000 bid. It was turned down.We asked team captains to make the selections for the simple reason that they&rsquo;re the best men to do the job. Top players in any game are those rated that way by men who play against them, or with them. Fine points which fans often miss are not lost on athletes in action.There was only one thing the experts couldn&rsquo;t do. They couldn&rsquo;t vote for themselves but they could have voted for each other if they had felt like it.An odd thing about their final line-up is that only one player from the League-leading Detroit Red Wings made the grade. Three men&mdash;half the team&mdash;were from the hot-and-cold Montreal Canadiens, while the two remaining spots were taken by a pair of Chicago Black Hawks. Toronto, Boston and New York failed to get a lookin at all. &#9632;

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February 18, 1948

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