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March 24, 1948
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Bunny Morganson Views the Ontario Scene
THE OLD TIMERS have “dood” ’ it again! Yes folks, the famed Hamilton Tigers are champions of the Senior Ontario Hockey Association series for the fourth straight season. With Carl Smelle in the hero role, on a driving shot, Hamilton eliminated K.-W, Flying Dutchmen to take the senior crown in the fifth game of their best in seven final series. The contest went scoreless until the second overtime period when Smelle came through with his title-winning drive. Art Childs in the Tiger net and Keith Woodall, the Dutchmen custodian, put on a brilliant display of netminding- to stave off attack after attack to keep their rivals off the score sheet. Tigers now will move against the winner of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association finals between Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds and McIntyre MacMen for…
Rambling with Ron Morrier
Montreal Canadiens have dropped out of the playoff picture and now have joined the Hawks as bystanders when time comes to battie it out for the Stanley Cup. Rangers eliminated the Canadiens when they cracked down on Chicago by a 5-2 score last Wednesday night, but up to that time, Montreal hockey fans were in a constant tail-spin—Canadiens had faced possible elimination for the past 10 days and it was strictly a story of IFS all along—So now the fight narrows down to Toronto, Detroit, Boston and Rangers. By the time this column reaches the press, the whole affair? will be over. but let’s take a chance and see how this shapes up with what actually happened over the weekend: We pick Detroit to end up on top by one point,…
BRODA WINS VEZINA AS CAMPAIGN ENDS
TORONTO, Ont.—It didn’t become official until the final game Sunday, but as far as the howling fans who filled Maple Leaf Gardens were concerned, chubby Turk Broda was the Vezina Trophy winner last Saturday night when he played a stellar role as the Smythe men downed Detroit Red Wings 5-3 to clinch the N.H.L. championship. Broda and Harry Lumley, young Wing goalie, had gone into that crucial weekend all square, with 138 goals against each in 58 games. Bro-da’s performance Saturday not only broke Wing’s chance to cop the title, but also put a sad crimp in Lumley’s aspirations to win his first Trophy. It was rather anticlimactic the following night in Detroit when Leafs ran roughshod over Wings for a 5-2 decision that made matters certain. Thus the 33-year-old Broda won…
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
LOS ANGELES, Calif.— The Pacific Coast Hockey League brought the curtain down on its 1947-48 schedule March 14, and two days later the first four teams in each division moved into the first round of the playoffs. Except for the league finals—Southern champ against Northern winner—every series will be a best-of-five. The finals is a best-of-seven series In the South we find Los Angeles and Fresno, first and fourth place clubs respectively, meeting in one series and San Francisco and San Diego, second and third spot teams, tangling in another round. Up North it’s division winners Seattle battling with No. 4 sextet New Westminster. Tacoma and Vancouver, second and third in the standings, make up the other bracket. Fresno Upsets Monarchs Fresno drew first blood against the defending champion Monarchs when they outskated and outscored…
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