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April 7, 1948

The Hockey News April 7, 1948

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>GREAT FALLS, Montana&mdash;It may take another two or three seasons but if Great Falls, Montana, continues to operate the puck sport on the same basis it is at present some hoekey talent should start developing that will rate contracts from professional clubs.Three years ago the Veterans of Foreign Wars Athletic Association found itself with a large surplus of money obtained from U. S. Army canteen sales during the war. The heads of this association decided to use the money to promote hockey.It was a long uphill battle for the energetic men behind the promotion but the 1947-48 season has indicated that there are enough fans in Great Falls. who want hockey to make it worthwhile.As most American cities, football is the big sport in Great Falls and hockey is alien and not understandable to many of the sporting folk. Crowds were slim the first year and it cost quite a sum to keep the venture operating. In the 1946-47 season it wasn&rsquo;t so bad and more fans&rsquo; started to take interest.This year the Great Falls sextet, composed nearly 100 per cent of Canadian pucksters, drew fairly good crowds and most games attracted nearly 2,000 people&mdash;which isn&rsquo;t bad for a city with a population of less than 50,000.Where does the development of pucksters come from if nearly the complete club is made up of Canadians?The Canadians that have gone down to the States have undertaken to coach bantam clubs. At present the first crop are just reaching junior ranks but after a few more seasons they may have something.A good many of the Canadian puckmen that have gone to Great Falls have liked the setup so well that they have taken out papers and plan to remain in the U. S. permanently. Possibly the player who has been there the longest is Archie Naismith of Medicine Hat. At present Archie has U. S. papers and took over coaching duties midway through the season from Billy Hudson of Calgary, former speedster in pro ranks.As yet the Great Falls club hasn&rsquo;t a league to play in but played through a 42-game schedule with clubs from Canada. Although all games were exhibitions the Great Falls club played for keeps and won 28, tied eight and lost only six contests this year.Majority of exhibitions were played with Calgary clubs from a Big Six intermediate league. Other exhibitions were filled in. by Medicine Hat, Blairmore and Coleman sextets.Now that the ground work has been done the Montana youngsters should start developing, since now they have the ice and the training to really get in and learn the puck sport. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

GREAT FALLS MIGHT BE GROUNDS FOR FUTURE PRO HOCKEY TALENT

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01175/1289550-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">MURRAY HENDERSON reclines in bed following operation on his broken nose by Dr. Vincent Kelly the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infarmary. The Boston defenceman suffered one of the worst broken noses possible in his fight with Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Watson.</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;After Tuesday&rsquo;s fearful display of rowdyism on the part of a section of fans near the Toronto bench, the police protection afforded the visiting club was increased considerably for the game Thursday. Compared with the 29 patrolmen, sergeants, lieutenant and Garden police on hand for Tuesday&rsquo;s game there were 50 patrolmen, three sergeants, one lieutenant and 12 Garden police in attendance at Thursday&rsquo;s tussle.Thursday&rsquo;s game was the best played in the series and the Bruins displayed a complete reversal of form. However, they made their form reversal too late, as Leafs applied the clincher on Toronto ice Saturday night. The line of Kenny Smith, Paul Ronty and Johnny Peirson, which carried the freight in Thursday&rsquo;s game has been nicknamed the &ldquo;Muscle Line&rdquo;. All three are either tall and skinny or short and skinny.Murray Henderson listened to Thursday&rsquo;s game from a big corner room on the fourth floor at the Eye and Ear Infirmary of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Henderson had his nose operated on the following morning by Dr. Vincent Kelly&hellip; Conn Smythe calls Harry Watson&mdash;the new champion. Incidentally, Watson&rsquo;s fight with Henderson marked the first time he has ever tossed punches since he came into the N.H.L. He is currently in his fourth season in the league and people have been waiting all that time to see him show a little &ldquo;fight&rdquo;. His major fault up to date has been his lack of drive and aggressiveness.Schmidt OutstandingMilt Schmidt played a tremendous game throughout the series. Not only did he have to contend with an injured left knee throughout Thursday&rsquo;s game but he suffered a charley horse high on the left leg in the early minutes of the game. He still continued to take his regular turn on the ice but every time he went off for a rest he had to limp off&hellip; What a competitor!!!Arthur Siegel, the witty sports editor of the Boston Traveler says that with so many police on duty this well might be called the &ldquo;Stanley Cop&rdquo; series instead of Stanley Cup&hellip; Pentti Lund, the &ldquo;unnamed player&rdquo; in the Grant Warwick-Billy Taylor deal, dressed as the 16th man in Thursday&rsquo;s game. Lund is to go to Rangers next season as final payment in the Warwick-Taylor deal&hellip;. With Lund in uniform it gave the Bruins two Finnish players on their lineup. Pentti was born at Helinski, Finland while Ronty was born in Toronto of Finnish extraction.After Peirson scored in the second period on Thursday, one fan became so wildly elated that he knocked down two sections of the screen&hellip; The exuberant spectator was quickly evicted by a couple of bluecoats.Reporters had a tough time getting into the Toronto dressing room after Thursday&rsquo;s game with three policemen forbidding entrance to anyone not identified by Coach Hap Day&hellip; Day lost a new fedora in his scuffle with a spectator on Tuesday and the way the cops were protecting him on Thursday, he was making sure he wasn&rsquo;t going to lose another hat&hellip; Ted Kennedy had his hockey gloves and stick stolen by a youthful delinquent on Tuesday. When Kennedy came back to the Toronto bench to help Coach Day, he dropped his gloves and stick and a pint-sized youngster scooped up the gloves&hellip; stuck them under his windbreaker and was off like greased lightning.Dit Clapper, Boston coach, wore a bow tie for the first time the night Bruins won their first game of the series and now says he will continue to wear it&hellip;<h2>Bereft Youth Stars</h2>LETHBRIDGE, Alta.&mdash;Young Howie Milford, star defenceman of the Lethbridge Native Sons, came up with one of the most courageous performances this season. Despite the fact that his mother, Mrs. Russel Milford, passed away at Moose Jaw, Sask, that very day, Howie went out under terrific pressure and sparked the Sons to a 4-3 win over the Moose Jaw Canucks.<h2>Most Productive</h2>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.&mdash;The most productive forward line in the Southern Division of the P.C.H.L. this year was San Francisco&rsquo;s trio of Pete Wywrot, center; Joey Evans, left wing; and Roy McKay, right wing. The line scored 102 goals and garnered 138 assists for 240 points. Evans led with 88 points. Wywrot had 83 and McKay&rsquo;s record showed 69 points. &#9632;

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Wild Scenes Mark Playoffs Between Leafs and Bruins

OTTAWA, ONT.&mdash;Two protests over the eligibility of players over the weekend complicated the Memorial Cup playdowns in which Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s holds a 2 to 1 lead over Inkerman Rockets in their best-of-five-game series.Both teams charged their opponents with using players who were ineligible.The complaint came from the Rockets. Inkerman&rsquo;s manager Lloyd Laporte charged that St. Mary&rsquo;s Bill Franklin wasn&rsquo;t eligible for the series on the grounds that he had never been properly transferred to the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association from Ottawa, where he played last year.Laporte&rsquo;s counter-attack followed charges from St. Mary&rsquo;s officials that Hugh Riopelle should not be playing for Rockets. They based their complaints on allegations that Riopelle had played too many games in senior hockey for Army Both complaints were dumped into the lap of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association secretary, George S. Dudley, at Midland. Dudley, so far, has been keeping quiet on the subject.James MacDonald, St. Mary&rsquo;s manager, reported that he had telephoned the C.A.H.A. secretary to find out how his complaint stood. According to MacDonald, Dudley referred him to Cecil&rsquo; Duncan, secretary of the Ottawa and District Hockey Association.Duncan first fielded the play by telling reporters:&ldquo;I&rsquo;m off hockey&mdash;I&rsquo;m out of hockey.&rdquo;Later however, he said, there was no proof Riopelle had played five games for Army.&ldquo;Having his name in the paper doesn&rsquo;t constitute proof that Riopelle actually played in every game. That is a point that will have to be cleared up.&rdquo;The standing, in complaints and counter-complaints, now stands: Inkerman&rsquo;s Laporte claimed that St. Mary&rsquo;s two victories should be thrown out and ordered replayed. Macdonald, for St. Mary&rsquo;s, claimed his team should be awarded the series.President Emile Brisebois, of the Ottawa Valley Association, said Riopelle was granted permission to play for Inkerman as a replacement. &#9632;

St. Mary’s And Inkerman Wage Feud Over Ineligibility Of Two Players

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01247/1290160-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="609" height="2989"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02181/1290153-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="604" height="2987"></div><h2>QUEBEC PLAYOFFS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03132/1290146-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="594" height="929"></div> &#9632;

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P.C.H.L. Official Scoring Statistics

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01109/1290511-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Taxi drivers are noted for their loquaciousness and wide knowledge on a variety of subjects&mdash;but there&rsquo;s one Toronto cabbie who picked the wrong audience recently. All unwittingly, he selected a group of hockey experts before whom to air his views on the Toronto-Boston playoffs.It happened this way. On Saturday, March 2 7, the hockey men hopped in a cab at the Royal York Hotel and asked to go to Maple Leaf Gardens, where Hamilton Tigers were playing Sault Ste. Marie in an Ontario Senior playoff.&ldquo;Going to the Gardens, eh?&rdquo; asked the hackie. &ldquo;There a game on there this afternoon?&rdquo;After being told there was, he said, &ldquo;Oh, that so? I knew there was a game here tonight, though.&rdquo;Feigning surprise, the occupants of the cab asked what game that was.&ldquo;Oh, Boston&rsquo;s playing Toronto. It&rsquo;s the playoffs.&rdquo;&ldquo;Well, what do you know about that?&rdquo; was the reply from the back seat.&ldquo;Sure,&rdquo; said hackie, &ldquo;Boston&rsquo;s going to win, too. They could&rsquo;ve won Wednesday night too, only they want to stretch this series out as long as possible. Figure the other guys will break a leg or something if they do. It&rsquo;ll make it easier for them in future games.&rdquo;&ldquo;Well, fancy that&mdash;thanks a lot,&rdquo; said the spokesman for the passengers as they piled out in front of the Gardens.To this day, the cab driver doesn&rsquo;t known who he was talking to on that epochal ride to the rink. The tall, silver-haired man who did most of the talking for the passengers was&mdash;Lester Patrick! And with Patrick, who needs no introduction to hockey fans, was Weston Adams, owner of the Bruins; Clarence Campbell, President of the National Hockey League; Mr. Campbell&rsquo;s father, and Ken McKenzie, Publicity Director of the N.H.L. &#9632;

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Toronto Cabbie Hockey Expert Picks Wrong Audience!

<div class="byline">By ARNIE JONES</div>The way the current American Hockey League playoffs are proceeding the Barons of hockey will soon be climbing the steps to the league throne to be elevated to the rank of Kings for Al Sutphin&rsquo;s Cleveland club appears to have a straight path ahead of them with the Calder Cup waiting at the end.All good things must come to an end as the saying goes and the Barons were no exception as on Tuesday, March 30 their new alltime record of 30 games without a defeat came to a close when the Reds won their first and only game in the best-of-seven series.Leading the round three games to nothing, the Barons were brought to a halt by Terry Reardon&rsquo;s aggregation to the tune of 8-3. The loss, however, seemed to inject new fire into the Barons as they then proceeded to plant their Sunday punch on the Reds with an 8-1 triumph on Cleveland ice. That was all for the club that made the Eastern Division schedule a run-away this season.Meanwhile in Series &ldquo;D&rdquo;&rsquo;, Buffalo Bisons didn&rsquo;t waste any wind in conquering New Haven in straight games. Buffalo won the right to enter the Calder Cup finals by downing Ramblers 2-1 and 6-2.So now the finals! The best-of-seven last round opened in Cleveland on Sunday before 11,765 Baron faithful and because the club didn&rsquo;t want to have any sad faces in the audience they promptly roped-up the Herd with a 6-1 win.Now the Barons are on their way again and unless Buffalo can get permission from President Maurice Podoloff to construct a stonewall in front of Connie Dion&rsquo;s cage Cleveland will be extremely hard to halt. &#9632;

CLEVELAND STILL IN HIGH GEAR ALONG AHL TRAIL TO CALDER CUP

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Those perennial playoff rivals, the torrid Toronto Maple Leafs and the rollicking Red Wings of Detroit clash in the final round of the nerve-tingling, excitement-crammed Stanley Cup playoffs. The arch-enemies of puckdom reached the climactic stages of the 1947-48 National League season by virtue of their victories in the semi-final series for the right to have their name engraved on Lord Stanley&rsquo;s coveted old mug. Toronto breezed through their semi-final series with Boston Bruins winning four games to one while Detroit had a more difficult chore disposing of the stubborn, never-say-die New York Rangers, four games to two.Toronto and Detroit were the cream of the N.H.L. crop throughout the regular season and waged a fiercely-contested battle for league leadership right down the home stretch to the final two games of the season. The Maple Leafs, who seem to be able to come through in the all-important clutch games, finished the regular schedule like true champions capturing both games over Detroit and thereby emerging as National League Champions for 1947-48.The Red Wings, who barely managed to squeeze into the Stanley Gup. playoffs last season, were by far the most improved club in the N.H.L. this season and under the expert guidance of Coach Tommy Ivan and Manager Jack Adams finished the regular 60-game schedule in second place, five points back of the Leafs.FOURTH RENEWALThis will mark the fourth time that Detroit and Toronto have met in the Stanley Cup finals. In the previous three encounters, Toronto has emerged triumphant twice; The 1942 final between these two clubs was the most exciting in the history of playoff hockey.Detroit took the Leafs into camp winning the first three games by scores of 3-2. 4-2 and 5-2 and seemed assured of carrying off the Cup. However, destiny ruled otherwise, and the scrappy Maple Leafs, heeding the inspirational leadership of Manager Conn Smythe, got up off the canvas and went on to win the next four games and the Stanley Cup. This was the epic series when Toronto benched Gordie Drillon, one of the top scorers that season and brought up such rookies as Gaye Stewart, Don Metz, Ernie Dickens and Bob Goldham. Fight and fight alone were the qualities that pulled the Leafs through to victory in that series.Leafs RepeatedIn 1945 Toronto and Detroit hooked up again in another Stanley Cup final that went the limit of seven games and once again Toronto edged out the Motor City sextet. This was the final that saw Frank &ldquo;Ulcers&rdquo; McCool guarding the Maple Leafs goal in a fashion never before exhibited in Stanley Cup play. McCool shut out the Red Wings in the first three games of the series while his teammates managed to garner one goal in the first game, two in the second and one in the third to give the Leafs a three game lead in the series.Detroit then displayed a complete reversal of form to win the next three games by scores of 5-3, 2-0 and 1-0. Harry Lumley In the Wings&rsquo; nets not wanting to be outshone by McCool recorded two straight shutouts himself. Toronto eked out a 2-1 verdict in the seventh and final game to set back the Men of Adams for the second time in four years in the Cup final.In 1936 it was a different story as the Red Wings downed the Leafs three games to one to annex the trophy. In 1936 the final series was three games out of five instead of the four-out-of-seven as it is today. Detroit won the first two games by scores of 3-1 and 9-4. Toronto came back to win the third game, 4-3 but the Wings made sure of the next game winning 3-2.Season ComparisonIn 12 meetings this season Toronto has won six, tied four and lost two which would give them a fairly commanding lead over the Red Wings on play during the regular schedule. In the six games at Maple Leaf Gardens, the Leafs triumphed four times and drew twice with the Wings while at the Olympia in Detroit the Red Wings broke exactly even with Toronto winning two, losing two and tieing two.In their 12 skirmishes this season Toronto outscored the Wings by 10 goals. Toronto scored 37 goals to Detroit&rsquo;s 27. In their six games on Toronto ice the Leafs scored 22 goals to the Wings 16, and while playing over the spacious ice surface of the Detroit Olympia the Mapleos tallied 15 times to Red Wings&rsquo; 11&mdash;which means that Toronto outscored the Wings both at home and away.Ted Lindsay, Detroit&rsquo;s All-Star left winger and the top goal getter in the N.H.L. with 33 goals, sniped eight counters against the Leafs. He was the best goal producer among the Wings against Toronto while Syl Apps held a similar honor for the Leafs against Detroit. Apps notched seven markers against the Wings.The other Toronto players besides Apps who accounted for the team&rsquo;s 37 goals were Vic Lynn and Harry Watson with four each: Max Bentley, Bill Ezinicki, Ted Kennedy and Joe Klukay with three apiece; Bill Barilko, Howie Meeker and Don Metz with two each and singletons by Gus Morison, Sid Smith, Wally Stanowski and Cy Thomas.Most prolific goal scorer for the Wings against the Leafs after Lindsay was Sid Abel with four. Jimmy Conacher, the red-headed Scotsman is next with three tallies, and is followed by Gordon Howe and Don Morrison with two each. Jerry Couture, Pete Horeck, Red Kelly, Pat Lundy, Jim McFadden, Rod Morrison, Marty Pavelich and Enio Sclisizzi each scored once against the Toronto team.Another four-star feature of this Toronto-Detroit final is that the two top goalkeepers in the League, namely Turk Broda of Toronto and Harry Lumley of the Red Wings will be facing each other.Two Top GoaliesBroda and Lumley were the class of the N.H.L. netminders throughout the season and Broca just edged out Lumley for the Vezina Trophy awarded annually &ldquo;to the goalkeeper who has played the greatest number of games for the team with the fewest goals goals scored against it.&rdquo;Turk Broda also pocketed the $1,000 that accompanies winning the trophy. In 60 games this season he allowed 143 goals to be scored on him for an average of 2.38 goals per game while the pink-cheeked Lumley allowed 147 goals to get past him for an average of 2.45 goals-against per game.Ivan, Detroit&rsquo;s rookie coach, will be striving for his first Stanley Cup while Hap Day will be attempting to pilot the Torontos to his fourth Stanley Cup. The rival managers. Conn Smythe of the Leafs and Jack Adams of the Wings will be seeking their fifth and fourth Stanley Cups respectively.After a cursory glance at previous playoffs between these two clubs, everything points to a great final series. Both teams are directed by hockey leaders who hate to lose&hellip; and from the time the puck is dropped to start the series until the final minute of play there will be action and excitement aplenty in this blue plate hockey special&hellip; the playoff of playoffs&hellip; the Stanley Cup finals.<h2>Number Four?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0276/1290542-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="544" height="874"><figcaption class="caption-body">HAPPY DAY, Coach of Toronto Leafs, seeks his fourth Stanley Cup win in the final playoffs opening Wednesday night. Day-coached squads took the prize in 1942, 1945 and 1947.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Fourth Time Since 1936 Teams Have Met For Stanley Cup Prize

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01155/1289405-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY GORMAN</figcaption></div><h2>&ldquo;T.P.&rdquo; On His Capital Throne</h2>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;The Gay Nineties were hardly hitting the headlines when a writer fellow by the name of Thomas Huxley, little dreaming that he was penning a very profound and prescient piece of prose, wrote to the effect that: &ldquo;The rung of every ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man&rsquo;s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.&rdquo;The ink was hardly dry on his paper when the Charletown Daily Bugle and Bladder rushed out a special edition proclaiming to one and all in screaming headlines that Thomas Patrick Gorman had placed his little foot on the first rung of the ladder. And from that day until this, few can say that the confident Celt ever paused to rest on a rung! In fact, most of the time he was climbing so fast up the ladder of life that he didn&rsquo;t bother with the formality of touching the rungs!Viewed from an angle, Tommy Gorman, the current sports impression of the nation&rsquo;s capital, is one of the most colourful characters you could&rsquo; meet up with in a month of Sundays, or a lifetime, for that matter.In fact a progressive perusal of the annals of sport would scarcely divulge a parallel to the meteoric career of the genial &ldquo;TP&rdquo; whose colourful campaign of life has amazed all those who know or have heard of him.From that day some two score and more years ago when Tommy amazed the doughty and dignified members of Parliament by labelling himself the first &ldquo;ten-second&rdquo; man in the page boy history of the House of Commons, his life has run the gamut of lacrosse star, newspaperman, race track and baseball executive, coach and manager of seven Stanley Cup teams.Hockey Was First LoveHockey, however, was Tommy&rsquo;s greatest love, and so it was only natural that the interview should turn into that channel with &ldquo;T.P.&rdquo; delving deeply into his experience with our national game.After several years of page boy plots and counterplots in the palace of politicians. Tommy bid fond adieu to the fathers of our country and decided to try a hand at journalism. Commencing as a police reporter, Tommy eventually landed himself in the sports department of a Montreal paper. From there it was only a short jump to sports editor of an Ottawa paper.The story that landed Tommy his job was typical of his later efforts, but was a mere ripple compared to some of the tidal waves that rolled off his typewriter years later.The famous Ottawa Senator, Fred &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor, had succumbed to the lure of gold which the Renfrew O&rsquo;Briens were throwing around, and had bidden farewell to Ottawa without so much as shedding a false tear. Naturally, he was regarded as a base and unreasonable fellow.When prodded on the subject, Taylor jokingly remarked that he was not afraid of the ride he would receive both from the fans and players in Ottawa, and further stated he would skate backwards through the Ottawa team and score a goal. He little knew that &ldquo;T.P.&rdquo; was hanging overhead from a rafter and was jotting little notes in his book.The famous prediction was given due publicity a la Gormanesque, and the resultant commotion was so great that a tunnel had to be dug from the Union Station to the Arena to provide Taylor with safe passage.In 1917, Tommy made his initial appearance in the hockey lime light as publicity director of the Ottawa Hockey Association. In view of the foregoing events, the move was the smartest ever made by the association, and would lead one to believe that it was desperately in need of a shot in the arm. As events afterwards proved, the move was more than justified.Formed Ottawa ClubIn 1919, Tommy formed a three-cornered partnership with the late E. P. Day and Martin Rosenthal and took over the Ottawa Hockey Association. Before the year was over, Gorman and Day had bought out Rosenthal and formed the Ottawa Arena Club. It was the beginning of another golden era of hockey in the Capital.&ldquo;We had some pretty fair teams in the next few years,&rdquo; reminisced Tommy. &ldquo;In 1919 we lost to Canadiens in the finals. The old Habs went on to the West coast to play Seattle for the Stanley Cup but after five games the series was halted by an epidemic of Spanish flu which struck several of the players and was fatal to Joe Hall, one of the greatest players of the day.&ldquo;1920 we won the league championship and travelled to Toronto to complete cup finals with Seattle when mild weather ruined the natural ice in Ottawa. The following year, 1921, was a repetition of 1920, only this time we defended the Stanley Cup against a strong Vancouver team in a series which was played out on the coast.&ldquo;The next year, we were defeated in the finals by the Toronto St. Pats, but came back in 1923 to cop the NHL title and trim both Vancouver and Edmonton for the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;Great Team&ldquo;That really was a great team,&rdquo; enthused Tommy, &ldquo;they had everything. There was Benedict, Gerard, Cleghorn, Boucher, Nighbor, Denneny, Darragh and two subs McKell and Bruce.&rdquo; (Everyone was a sixty minute man in those days).Asked how he rated Cleghorn as a defenceman, Tommy waxed enthusiastic as he related how the Ottawa team acquired the great defence player. &ldquo;In 1918, Cleghorn broke both his ankles,&rdquo; said Tommy, &ldquo;and the late George Kendall discarded him. Can you imagine that? And we picked him up for the price of a train fare to Ottawa. He was terrific. You know, you couldn&rsquo;t buy his equal to-day for $100,000.&ldquo;In 1922. however, we lost Cleghorn to the Canadiens, but that was the year we broke in Lionel Hitchman and King Clancy. We went to the coast that year to take on Edmonton in a series as thrilling as I ever witnessed. Clancy and Hitchman played phenomenal hockey. Especially Clancy. We won that final game by a score of 1-0 on Broadbent&rsquo;s goal, but if it hadn&rsquo;t been for Clancy, I shudder to think what would have happened.Played Every Position&ldquo;Benedict was given a penalty for trying to scalp an Edmonton player and Clancy went into the nets. In fact, he not only played goal in that game, but every other position as well during some part of the game. I think it was his greatest game. While he was in the nets, he made two phenomenal saves on shots by Bullet Joe Simpson.&ldquo;In 1924 we lost a tough series to Canadiens who had such great players as Morenz, Joliat, Vezina. Billy Boucher and others. And that was the curtain fall on the Ottawa scene.&ldquo;On January 24, 1925, I sold out to Frank Ahearn and one day later, in New York, I signed with the fabulous Tex Rickard to handle the Amerks. However, I didn&rsquo;t get an opportunity to actually run the team for three years. During those three years, Al Smith. Newsy Lalonde and Shorty Green were coaches.&ldquo;The year I handled the team was my last in New York. In the finals we were defeated by the Rangers 1-0 on Butch Keeling&rsquo;s goal in 70 minutes of overtime.&rdquo;Mayor Of Mexico!When the season ended, Tommy had the travel bug again and before long he was firmly installed as general manager of the Agua Caliente racetrack in Mexico. This was an entirely new phase in his career and to top it off he actually became the first foreign mayor of San Ysidro.But four years of racing was enough for Tommy and before long he was hammering on the door of Chicago&rsquo;s Major Fred McLaughlin. Before he knew what was happening, he found himself signing Tommy to a contract and making arrangements to find another of whom Gorman managed to abduct from the Maroons.In the middle of the season, Tommy succeeded Emile Iveson as manager but the team finished out of the playoffs. The following season, however, the Hawks won the Stanley Cup mainly through the solid play of Lionel Conacher.Conacher Most Versatile&ldquo;That Conacher was the most versatile player in hockey&rsquo;s history&rdquo;, remarked Gorman.&rdquo; he not only was a standout as a defenceman, but he was a scorer and tallied many a decisive goal.&rdquo;Then without so much as a hi-ho and what-for, Tommy kissed the Major fondly on the cheek and was on his way to Montreal to take over the Maroons. It so happened, however, that in the rush to leave Chicago, Tommy neglected to tell the Major that he intended to take Conacher with him. Before the Major knew it, he was reading in the evening paper where he had traded Conacher to the Montreal club! Naturally the Maroons won the Stanley Cup.Two years later the Maroons suspended operations and in 1940 Gorman was appointed General Manager of the Canadiens. The Habs wanted Bill Cook as coach but Tommy held out for Dick Irvin and got him.From then on the Canucks became the most feared team in the league. &ldquo;We were in the playoffs every year, and won the NHL championship as well as the Stanley Cup in 1943. That was my last year with the Habs. Next year I took over in Ottawa and have been here ever since.&rdquo;When asked a&rsquo;bout some of the former greats, Tommy tactfully answered that comparisons were very difficult but he had a few opinions on some of the players he had handled.&ldquo;I think Frank Nighbor was the best of all. He was part of the most powerful forward line I ever handled. That was the Neighbor-Broadbent-Denneny line, nell, Benedict and Vezina were They had everything.&ldquo;Along the blue line, I would rate Cleghorn, Gerard and George Boucher as tops. And among the goalieb, Gardiner, Worters. Con-tops. A goalie is 50 per cent of any. team, and that will always be my opinion.&ldquo;Among the more modern players,&rdquo; remarked Tommy, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rate the Rocket as the best player ever produced over the blueline. And that Bouchard. He&rsquo;s really a defenceman. And with Bill Durnan in the nets, you needn&rsquo;t worry much.&rdquo;&ldquo;But there&rsquo;s one defenceman in the league who will be a great star in a few years. That&rsquo;s Frankie Eddolls of New York. A couple of years ago, Bouchard was hurt in the playoffs and it is my opinion that Eddolls saved the day for the Habs. He rose to terrific heights and played the greatest game of his career that night.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Tommy Gorman, Ottawa’s Mr. Hockey, Climbed From Page Boy To Magnate

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0454/1289488-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg"></div>Following are tabulations by positions of the votes cast by fans in the USHL All-Star selection. Only the top contenders are shown for each position, since other players winning nominations received such low point totals. First column of figures below shows number of FIRST CHOICE votes cast for each player, second column SECOND CHOICE and the third the number of THIRD CHOICE ballots. The final column shows the total points earned by each player, on the basis of five points for a first, three for second and one for third.<h2>FIRST TEAM COACH</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0536/1289481-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="1126" height="1273"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL COOK, MINNEAPOLIS</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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How Fans Voted

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01154/1289450-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHOICE OF THE CUSTOMERS FOR THE U.S.H.L. ALL-STARS for 1947-48 are show&rsquo;ll above, grouped around the brillant rookie goaltender, Terry Sawchuk of Omaha Knights. To the left above Sawchuk is Bill Allum of Minneapolis Millers and to the right Doug Baldwin of Kansas City Pla-Mors, the All-Star defencemen. Centre below is George Agar of Houston Huskies, who set a league vet-ord of 112 points this season and captured the pivot position. Beside him are his All-Star linemates&mdash;Ken MacKenzie of Houston Huskies (left) and Walter &ldquo;Ants&rdquo; Atanas of Minneapolis Millers.</figcaption></div>The hustling Houston Huskies, who exploded into action after veteran Toe Blake came down from Montreal to take over the coaching reins mid way through the season, placed two players on THE HOCKEY NEWS fans&rsquo; All-Star team of 1947-48. The smooth-working Minneapolis Millers also placed two men aboard the bandwagon and saw their Coach, Bill Cook, also voted to the squad. Kansas City and Omaha, with one each, rounded out the select ciccle.The Huskies, who came from nowhere under Blake&rsquo;s inspired guidance to sweep to the championship of the Southern Division and lead the entire league with 75 points in 6 6 games, had starry centre George Agar and left winger Ken MacKenzie named to the Dream Six. Minneapolis placed Bill Allum on defence and Walter &ldquo;Ants&rdquo; Atanas at centre, with Cook nominated as the coach-of-the-year. Brilliant rookie Terry Sawchuk of Omaha and defenceman Doug Baldwin of Kansas City Pla-Mors rounded out the team.On the Second Team, the fans named steady-playing Harry McQueston of Minneapolis as their goaltending choice, with an allSt. Paul defence in front of him. Fred Shero and Bob Dill of the Saints were named to the blueline&rsquo; posts. At centre on the second line was Gino Rozzini of St. Paul, with Paul Mundrick of Houston and Bus Wycherley of Minneapolis on the wings. Blake received the nod as the Second Team Coach.Outside of the right wing post, the voting wan&rsquo;t very close at any position. On the starboard side, there was a nip-and-tuck battle between Atanas and Mundrick, with the speedball Minneapolis winger getting the nod by a scant 22 points. Atanas received only 87 first-place votes against 112 for Mundrick, but made up the lost ground in the second and third place balloting. His 84 second choices and 49 thirds against 42 and 28 for Mundrick was enough to swing the tide and prevent the Huskies from capturing the entire forward line positions.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02128/1289443-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="278" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Blake</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0389/1289436-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1132" height="478"></div>Baldwin romped home in the lead among defencemen, but Shero gave Allum a race for the second spot on the First Team, collecting 1043 points against 1232 for the Miller blocker. Dill, the fourth man, was far below the leading threesome.Young Sawchuk, the 17-year-old backstop who stepped into the Omaha nets last November directly from amateur ranks around Windsor, Ont., far outpaced McQueston with 1267 points against 784. Agar at centre nearly doubled Rozzini&rsquo;s point total of 574, while MacKenzie had a 364-point margin over Wycherley&mdash;who was the unanimous choice of the league coaches when they selected their All-Stars. Bill Cook pooled 1484 points against 819 for Blake to take the braintrust honors.Thumbnail SketchesHere are some brief sketches of the players named to THE HOCKEY NEWS U.S.H.L. All-Stars First Team:&mdash;Terry Sawchuk&mdash;Performed brilliantly in the International Amateur Hockey League and also with Windsor Junior Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey Association before Jack Adams gave him the call to Omaha. He took over the net duties after Harvey Jessiman was sold to Philadelphia Rockets of the American League, and led the U. S. H. L. goaltenders in goals-against average of 3. 22 in 5 4 games while chalking up four shutouts.Doug Baldwin&mdash; Broke into pro hockey in the 1945-46 season, moving up from Quebec Aces to play four games with Pittsburgh of the American League and 15 with Toronto Maple Leafs. Sold to Detroit Red Wings, he appeared in four games with the Adamsmen in 1946-47, then moving to Kansas City to complete the season. He was voted to the Coaches&rsquo; team last year and again this season, when he accumulated 6 3 scoring points. Born in Winnipeg, Man., November 2, 1922, he weighs 175 and stands an even 6&rsquo;.Bill Allum&mdash;A 31-year-old veteran who played seven seasons in the A. H. L. and had a brief fling with New York Rangers in 194041, Allum played a sturdy, reliable game this season. Also born in Winnipeg&mdash;on October 9, 1916, Allum stands 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo; and scales a husky 194 lbs.George Agar&mdash;Born in Saskatoon, Sask., on May 3, 1919, Aga last played amateur hockey witW Edmonton (Alberta) Athletic Club sextet, turning pro with Cleveland of the A. H. L. in 1939-40. He moved to Minneapolis that season and again in 1940-41, spent three years in the Armed Services, came back to play with Millers, Cleveland again, Fort Worth, Houston, Springfield, Buffalo and finally back to Houston. The rolling stone, who led the league scorers with 112 points to set an all-time record, weighs 150 and stands 5&rsquo; 9&rdquo;.Walter Atanas&mdash;Born in Hamilton, Ont., December 22, 1923. &ldquo;Ants&rdquo; jumped from Hamilton&rsquo; Juniors to Buffalo Bisons in 194344. The next season he played 49 games with N. York Rangers and collected 31 points went to Cleveland in 1945-46 and to Minneapolis the following semester. He weighs 168 and stands 5&rsquo; 8&frac12;&rdquo;.Ken MacKenzie&mdash;Another Winnipeg-born puckchaser, MacKenzie moved to pro ranks from Brandon Elks Junior, joining Fort Worth Rangers in 1945-46. In 1946-47 he played for Dallas Texans, then came over to Houston this season to get on the Blake bandwagon. Now 27 years old by virtue of his May 29, 1920, birthday, MacKenzie weighs 165 and measures 5&rsquo; 9&rdquo;.Bill Cook&mdash;On of the greatest right wingers &rsquo;who ever donned skates, Bill Cook won fame with, that fearsome Cook-Boucher-Cook threesome of New Rangers. Ha hung up his skates at the end of the 1935-36 season, after captaining the Blueshirts 10 years, and then went to Cleveland where, he served as Coach, Manager and Chief Scout for the Barons. He moved to Minneapolis for the 194 6-47 season as Manager and Coach, and has had the Millers in there fighting ever since. &#9632;

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Fans Pick Classy USHL All-Star Six

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01225/1289519-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED KENNEDY, starry Toronto Maple Leafs centre ice playmaker, chortles gleefully as he watches the puck slam into the nets behind the crestfallen Frankie Brimesk, Boston Bruins goalie. Just behind Kennedy, anti moving in trifle too late to halt the damage, is Milt Schmidt, veteran centre ace of the Bruins, who played bang-up game during the Leafs-Boston semi-final setto. It was Kennedy&rsquo;s goal Saturday that sank the Bruins, and gave Toronto the series, four games to one.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Detroit Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup playoff game on New York ice on Sunday. Try as they might&hellip; and brother, how they tried&hellip; they just couldn&rsquo;t seem to shake the jinx prior to Sunday&rsquo;s tilt.Madison Square Garden is the only arena in the N.H.L. where the National Anthem is sung as well as played on the organ&hellip; and Miss Gladys Gooding who accompanies herself on the organ while singing the National Anthem at M.S.G. does a marvellous job of it, too. Miss Gooding is the organist and also sings the National Anthem at the start of all baseball games at Ebbetts Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, during the summer months.Referee Frank &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy is having a tough time all-around in the playoffs this year. He has been taking quite a riding from the fans; he had to appear in court in Boston on a charge of assault and battery, of which he was acquitted, and then he had the ill-luck of having $36 stolen from him in Toronto&hellip;AFTER AN ABSENCE of five years, New Yorkers were mighty happy to have the Rangers engaged in the Stanley Cup playoffs and the Rangers semi-final series with the Red Wings had been getting a big play in the papers and over the radio. Fan interest was stepped up considerably.One night last week Frank Boucher, manager-coach of the Rangers appeared on two national radio shows&hellip; He was the guest of Bill Stern over N.B.C. and Joe Hasel over A.B C.&hellip; Frank Eddolls and Bill Moe, the two crippled defencemen are not working out on the ice these nights but the Rangers keep them busy on radio and television shows.Frank Shero, the Rangers rookie defenceman who has played such outstanding hockey throughout the series, has been dubbed &ldquo;Hero Shero&rdquo;&hellip; and slender Don Raleigh is now called &ldquo;Mr. Bones&rdquo; by the gallery mob&hellip; Marty Pavelich, the Detroit rookie, who has fitted in so well with the team and who has tallied some very important goals in the series, is a Croatian&hellip; Marty is the first Croatian to play in the N.H.L. since Mike Karakas guarded the goal for Chicago&hellip; Bill &ldquo;It ain&rsquo;t-necessarily&rdquo; Moe brought back a new car from his trip to Detroit.PHIL WATSON, the veteran Ranger forward has been getting a lot of ink in the series. He played the role of a hero in the Blues first win. Watson is a great favorite with the New York scribes and he&rsquo;s excellent copy with his excited manner and French-Canadian accent. Phil has decided he wants to be a hockey press agent after his playing days are over&hellip; He has promised the writers a personal chaperon on all trips.There seemed to be trouble with the piping here as the ice was far from hard and the Red Wings were particularly not happy about conditions of the ice in the third game of the series. This series is was played on the largest and smallest ice surfaces in the National League&hellip; Detroit with a rink 210 feet long and 8 5 feet wide is the largest ice surface while Madison Square Garden is 186 feet in length and 86 feet in width and is the smallest in the circuit.THE MINOR OFFICIALS (goal judges, penalty time keeper, official scorer, etc.) are neutral in each city. Detroit officials worked the games in Toronto&hellip; Chicago officials were in Detroit&hellip; Boston officials handled the games in New York and New York officials did likewise in games played in Boston.When Rangers defeated Detroit 3-2 on Easter Sunday it was the first time Rangers had beaten Detroit since Christmas Night. The religious holidays seem to be a help to the Broadway Blue Shirts.<h2>Boucher&rsquo;s Strategy Fails</h2>Rangers have not won a game on Detroit ice since they walloped the Wings 2-0 on Christmas Night&hellip; when Rangers lost to Detroit on Sunday it was their second loss in 14 starts in playoff games at Madison Square Garden&hellip; Coach Frankie Boucher tried a little strategy in the sixth game of the series by benching regulars Cal Gardner and Rene Trudel in favor of Nick Mickoski and Dunc Fisher&hellip; and although the strategy didn&rsquo;t pay off in a win&hellip; the play of Mickoski and Fisher teamed one line with Don Raleigh sparked throughout for the losers&hellip; and this trio might very well be the Rangers number one attacking unit next season&hellip; Fisher had 25 goals and 34 assists with New Haven in the A.H.L. this season while Mickoski racked up 11 goals and 16 assists with the Ramblers after Joining them late in the season.<h2>Brimmie Baptised With Fire</h2>When Hap Day pulled Goalie Turk Broda with 76 seconds of play remaining in the fourth game and shoved on five forwards and a defenceman, Frankie Brimsek had plenty of work in the Bruins cage&hellip; there were no less than seven faceoffs at the circle to Brimek&rsquo;s right.Boston Bruins failed to win a game on Toronto ice in their last 14 visits&hellip; Because of limited space due to the transportation tieup, only writers on the Boston morning papers made the trip to Toronto for the fifth and final game of the series.<h2>Playoff Notes</h2>Largest attendance at a Stanley Cup Playoff series was in 1945 when the series went 20 games out of a possible 21, and 247,805 fans passed through the turnstiles &hellip; Average number of games played in each series for the past five years has been 16. &hellip;Montreal Canadiens won the most consecutive games in a single playoff series in 1944 when they won eight straight. They dropped first game of semi-finals to Toronto, and then completed series in straight games by disposing of Toronto and Chicago in four straight games each to win Stanley Cup&hellip; Canadiens are also holders of the highest shutout victory in playoff history. On March 30, 1944 they blanked Toronto Maple Leafs in fifth game of semi-final series 110. A 6-0 shutout is held by several clubs&hellip;Most points in a playoff series is 18 and was made by Toe Blake of Canadiens in 1944 playoffs against Toronto and Chicago in nine games&hellip; Most goals in a playoff series is 12 and was set by Canadian&rsquo;s Maurice Richard in nine games in 19 44&hellip; Elmer Lach, centre for Blake and Richard on the Canadiens in 1946 series established a record for most assists. In nine games against Chicago and Boston, Lach picked up 12 assists&hellip; &#9632;

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Along the Rails In the Cup Hunt

Boston, Mass.&mdash;Judge Charles L. Carr was a busy man settling disputes after that historic Stanley Cup game here last week. He spent two days hearing cases about fights at the game&mdash;including a case involving two N.H.L. officials, &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy and Murray Hayes.After all that, Judge Carr had another case come up, tills time a charge against a speculator who sold a $1.40 hockey ticket to a sailor for an even two bucks. The speculator was fined $100 and the Judge finally got a reprieve. &#9632;

JUDGE BUSY MAN AS AFTERMATH OF GAME

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Practically everybody including Pete Babando, gets into the act at the Boston Garden. The husky rookie Bruin drew a $100 fine in Boston Municipal Court for slugging a fan after the tumultuous game January 31, but Babando said he would appeal the conviction by Judge Charles L. Carr.Sygmund Wojciekowski, a former professional boxer, told the court that he attended the hockey game at the Boston Garden with his son Joseph, who is 11. At the close of the game, he said, he took his son down from the balcony to watch the players at close range as they filed off the ice. While he was looking in another direction, he said, Babando came up and hit him in the nose without any provocation.Babando testified that he had become excited during a jam on the ice and swung at Sygmund when he saw the latter put up his hands in a fighting pose as he was being led off the ice by &ldquo;a big cop.&rdquo; He said he thought Sygmund was going to strike him. &#9632;

BRUIN, PETE BABANDO SLUGS FAN, FINED ‘C’ NOTE, WILL APPEAL

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02153/1289629-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">GEORGE HAYES, N.H.L. linesman and FRANK &ldquo;KING&rdquo; CLANCY, N.H.L. referee-in-chief, are snapped on their arrival at the Municipal Court in Boston on charges of assault and battery, brought by Edward P. Shallow, a spectator at Tuesday&rsquo;s Boston-Toronto game. Hayes and Clancy were found not guilty by Municipal Judge C. L. Carr.</figcaption></div><h2>AFTER THE BATTLE!</h2>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;After telling N.H.L. referee-in-chief Frank &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy that &ldquo;I am absolutely certain you are not telling the entire truth,&rdquo; Municipal Judge Charles L. Carr found Clancy and linesman George Hayes not guilty on assault and battery charges brought by Edward P. Shallow, a 4 6-year-old Boston Housing Authority employee.Shallow testified that following Tuesday&rsquo;s game here between Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins he was dragged into the officials&rsquo; room. He said that his eyeglasses were torn from his face and he was forced to the floor to a sitting position before he was thrown out of the room with a kick.Clancy testified that he did not know how the man got into the room but that no one touched him other than ordering him to leave.Judge Carr acquitted the two hockey officials on the charges brought by the five-foot three, 140-pound hockey fan although stating he did not believe Clancy&rsquo;s story, but added that he would find both defendants not guilty &ldquo;because I don&rsquo;t think the case has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Judge Is Doubtful—But Officials Freed

Founded October 1, 1947Published byHockey News Company, 803 Dominion Square Building,Montreal. QueSubscription Price $2 tor 30 Issues in Canada-$3 in U. S. A.Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.Printed in CanadaVOL. 1 APRIL 7, 1948 No. 28THE STAGE IS SETThis season of 1947-48 has been a memorable one right from the beginning, with trades, reversals of form, comebacks, daring feats by rookies and all the things that live long, in the fans&rsquo; memories. The playoffs have been no exception, especially as far as that tumultuous Boston Bruins-Toronto Maple Leafs final is concerned.The final series for Lord Stanley&rsquo;s prized silverware now getting under way promises to be equally as memorable if past performances of the two clubs are any criterion.The way Leafs and Wings won their way into the final also qualifies for mention under the heading of this season&rsquo;s strange happenings. They were the favored teams to win through to the money derby, after finishing one-two in the regular season race, put the prophets took a licking over the way they accomplished that feat.For, the soothsayers had it before the playoffs began, Boston was going to give Toronto a thorough going over, they&rsquo;d be tough to beat. Wings, on the other hand, should find pushovers in the enfeebled New York Rangers, who shot their bolt in landing a playoff position and limped to the wire. Even the New York experts agreed with that analysis, and wrote the Blueshirts off long ago.But instead, it was the Leafs who won in handy fashion over the Bruins, losing only one game in five, while the lowly-regarded Rangers threw a king-sized scare into the powerful Red Wings. After dropping the first two games, Frankie Boucher&rsquo;s men bounced back to take the next two from the Detroiters and threaten to make a rousing fight of it. But Wings pulled up their socks and came through with the next two wins to clinch the series, although they definitely realized afterward they weren&rsquo;t up against any soft touch.That&rsquo;s the way it went&mdash;unpredictable as only hockey playoffs can be. It would be a brave man who would venture a prediction on the outcome of the final series, especially after viewing the record of previous meetings between the Smythe Men and the Adams crew. In their last two meetings the Wings and Leafs had the dopesters in a turmoil.The 1942 classic, for instance, saw Leafs written off after dropping three in a row&mdash;only to come back with four straight victories to capture the Cup. And in 1945, Leafs won the first three, then Wings swooped back with three in a row to deadlock the series and threaten to reverse the 1942 story. Leafs eked out a win in the seventh game, however, to take the Cup again.With a record like that, who can say what will happen this year? The only sure thing is that it will be a lallapalooza of a series right to the finish.THE WAY OF LACROSSEWithout meaning in any way to raise a cry of alarm, or make a prophecy of ruin, there is an excuse for a word of caution to hockey officials not to let it go the way of lacrosse. For the game of the gutted, stick, once Canada&rsquo;s national pastime, now is but a shadow of its former lusty self&mdash;all because the &ldquo;rough stuff&rdquo; ruined it as a good spectator sport in the minds of those fans who like virile action but don&rsquo;t want planned mayhem.Events surrounding the playoffs in the National and American Leagues this spring make a warning of some kind necessary. For, although certain outbursts must be expected m the Stanley cup playoffs when such large prizes are at stake, it can be carried a bit too far.Aside from the inevitable brawls between players of opposing teams, this year&rsquo;s playoffs have been noticeable because of the prominence of cases involving players and fan and even officials and fans.It all boils down to this&mdash;strict supervision must be maintained constantly to keep the players in hand, and there must be adequate and efficient police protection at all times to guard both players and officials from the intrusion of hotheaded spectators. The latter undoubtedly have a right to protest what they consider unfair decisions&mdash;but do not have any right to involve themselves actively in the course of a game or its aftermath.Hockey is game, the world&rsquo;s fastest, and it must not be allowed to go the way of lacrosse, for want of reasonable safeguards to keep it on an even plane. &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01247/1289684-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div>EACH IN ITS PLACEDear Sir,I have a suggestion to make; it is not a very important point. If possible I would like to see each hockey league confined to a special place. For instance, the National Hockey League to its own section. All the facts and figures of games and players. I fully realize, however, that this is the first season for THE HOCKEY NEWS and all things can not be done in one term.The reason for writing this note is to obtain from you the first and alternate teams in the National Hockey League for the 1945-46 and 1946-47 season.Gerald McArthurSydney, NS.(1945-45 First Team: Durnan, Crawford, Bouchard, M. Bentley, Richard and G. Stewart. Alternate Team: Brimsek, Reardon, J. Stewart, Lach, Mosienko, Blake. 1946-47 First Team: Durnan, Reardon, Bouchard, Schmidt, Richard, D. Bentley. Alternate Team: Brimsek, Stewart, Quackenbush, M. Bentley, Bauer, Du-rnart.)Dear Sir,Could you please tell me if Ted Kennedy of Toronto Maple Leafs was in the armed forces?Walter LachanskyOwlseye, Alta.(No, according to his record he didn't serve in the armed forces.)WOT, NO PRIZES!Dear Sir,When you sent out circulars announcing THE HOCKEY NEWS you stated that there would be contests with prizes for the lucky ones You have contests but where are the prizes? Hockey photographs, books about various teams and players would be appropriate and inexpensive prizes.How about publishing the names and addresses of hockey players so we can write to our idols ourselves?Paul G. KlattEask. Sask.(Our plans for a crackerjack contest had to be held in abeyance for awhile&mdash;maybe next year! Your other idea is worth considering.)Dear Sir,I wrote to you at the beginning of the season, but my letter was not published. I understand fully that all letters cannot be published, but will you PLEASE put the O. H. A. Senior All-Stars in one of your forthcoming issues, just as you did the Quebec Sr. League All-Stars in your issue of March 17, 1948.Betty-Lou BaxterMontreal, Que.(We were unable to obtain the O. HA. All-Stars.)Dear Sir,I have been enjoying my subscription to THE HOCKEY NEWS for almost twenty weeks now, and I wanted to renew it now so that I will continue to receive the paper without interruption.This news-sheet has been needed for some time now, and it is wonderful to be able to read about my favorite sport. Incidentally, how about some news on my favorite player, Bob Dawes?Catharine GallagherForest Hills, Pittsburgh,, Pa.Dear Sir,I have been getting THE HOCKEY NEWS for the past few months and have enjoyed it very much. I think it is a splendid sports paper.I would like to see a writeup on the following players, Nick and Don Metz, Bing Juckes and Bob Davidson.Bill LawrencePepistone, Man.(We shall try to oblige in the near future.)RECORD TABLEDear Sir,Now that the National Hockey season has ended, with my favorite team, the Maple Leafs, topping the list, I wonder if you could print a table showing the record of each team against the other teams in the league. This table should show number of games won, lost and tied, and goals for and against in the case of each pair of teams.By the way, I shall be very much disappointed if the Leafs fail to win the Stanley Cup again this year. I have no use for the Boston Bruins, although I have spent over 50 years in Boston and vicinity.George R. ConroyGloucester, Mass.(That&rsquo;s an idea we have in mind for our summer issues.)Dear Sir,Congratulations on the fine job you are doing with the great hockey paper. Keep up the good work.I would like to see an article on Toronto&rsquo;s &ldquo;forgotten man&rdquo;&mdash;Wally Stanowski. It&rsquo;s about time one was appearing.Joan MoarDorchester, Mass.Dear Sir,Congratulations on your idea of having THE HOCKEY NEWS readers select the 1947-48 N. H. L. All-Stars. It certainly is an item in which every hockey fan is interested. I hope you will continue to poll the readers in future years.However, I have a suggestion which I think will improve the readers' selections. Why don&rsquo;t you wait until the schedule closes before choosing the All-Stars?This year the players were selected before the final game and as a result, two players who have&mdash;and probably would have&mdash;made the team didn&rsquo;t. Those two players are, of course, Lach, who climaxed one of the greatest comebacks in hockey history by capturing the N. H. L. scoring championship; and Maurice Richard, still the greatest hockey player in the world who scored seven goals in two games just before the schedule closed.They put up a stretch drive that certainly proves them better players than Max Bentley or Bud Poile. This error could have been avoided by selecting the All-Stars at the end of the season.Frank ShamyOutremont, Que.Dear Sir,I would appreciate it it you could set me right on a certain matter, which my friends have argued about. When a goaler is penalized does a player from the bench serve the penalty for him and still leave the full team on the ice and a man in the penalty box or does it send a player from the playing team, leaving only four players and the goaler on the Ice.Louie GampelNiagara Falls, Ont.(When a goaler receives a minor penalty the coach nominates another player to sit it out for him. The team plays with five men on the ice. The procedure for a major penalty to a goaler is to award a penalty shot.)ALL-STAR BEEFSDear Sir,The release of your N. H. L. AllStar team demonstrates perfectly one of the sad things about all these selections, i. e. the choice of teams before the end of the regular season. This is both unfair to selectors and to the players. For instance, one could not but notice the glaring absence of Elmer Lach from either team. Lach is the scoring champion, yet other players who have been of lesser value receive more consideration. The same goes for Walter Broda, the Vezina Trophy winner, who has a lesser goal average than Lumley, all the while having a weaker defence.The National League cured this ill by waiting until the end of the playoffs before releasing their team. In this way they have stopped what was a very unfair practice. Here&rsquo;s hoping you profit by your experience, and do as the N. H. L. in future years.I still think your paper is tops.John KennedyOttawa, Ont.NOT AGAIN!Dear Sir,I would like to know why the overtime was stopped in case of a tie game during the regular season of play. I would like to know why this could not be redeemed once again.John FranklandBronx, N. Y.(Read Syd Thomas&rsquo; story in March 3 issue on his interview with President Clarence Campbell)Dear Sir,Could you answer a question for me. When the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup in 1939-40 who played goal for them that year?Gregory CahillVictoria, B. C(Dave Kerr was the club&rsquo;s regular goaler.)Dear Sir,I want to say I agree with Jack Adams when he said Ted Lindsay is the best left wing in the National Hockey League. I also feel that Lindgay and Bill Quackenbush are two of the most underrated players in the league.Dolores HumeChicago, Ill.Dear Sir,Just read the National League all-star team and would like to know if you forgot to put how many votes Ted Kennedy received. Milt Schmidt was the last centre with 79 5 points and I&rsquo;m sure Kennedy had more than this. I can&rsquo;t see how Kennedy was overlooked when he had 46 points to Schmidt&rsquo;s 2 6 for the season.How much longer is Kennedy going to be so underrated? Last season, too. with 28 goals and, 32 assists he was the &ldquo;forgotten man&rdquo;. When, oh, when will the fans wake up and recognize the great player Ted Kennedy is?Rita ClementChicago. Ill.(Kennedy received 332 points. We agree that Teeter is vastly underrated&mdash;see our March 24 issue)Dear Sir,THE HOCKEY NEWS is a swell paper. How about a story on Vic Lynn of Toronto. Also would you please tell me who he played for before turning professional, and if he is married.June McKayNew Glasgow, N. S.(Lynn played for New York Rovers before turning pro in 1943-44. Yes, he&rsquo;s married.)Dear Sir,In your last issue someone said to cut out some of the American League news I disagree, as many people follow it very closely. How about some writeups about the rookies such as Peirson and Routy of the Bruins.John SwaineWestmount, Que.<div class="sidebar"><h2>REARDON&rsquo;S FANETTES SNIFF ROMANCE IN AIR</h2>Dear Sir,Is it true that Kenny Reardon and Barbara Ann Scott are to be engaged soon? I. so, it couldn&rsquo;t happen to a sweller guy.Some Reardon admirers,Jane, Marge, Berth,Dimmy and Boots.Montreal High School Montreal, Que.(Well, this is something new to us&mdash;and we bet it&rsquo;s new to that rollicking, roistering rearguard, Reardon! How about it, Kenneth, come clean!) &#9632;</div>

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THE FAN FORUM

Firsts For CostelloLes Costello, Toronto rookie, play Ing in his first N.H.L. game against Boston on April 3 garnered Ms first N.H.L., goal and first N. H. L. penalty.Loch Holds RecordElmer lach of Canadiens holds the record for most assists in a Stanley Cup playoff. In nine games in 1946 he was credited with 12 assists.HOW THE RACE GOES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01199/1289736-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="598" height="326"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GainesMarch 30&mdash;Toronto 5, Boston 2; Rangers 3. Detroit 1.April 1&mdash;Boston 3, Toronto 2; Detroit I, Rangers 3.April 3&mdash;Toronto 3, Boston 2.April 4&mdash;Detroit 4, Rangers 2.The road is now clear for the Stanley Cup Finals after the outcome of the two weekend games iu Toronto and New York. With Toronto&rsquo;s 3-2 triumph over Boston on Saturday and Detroit&rsquo;s cleancut 4-2 win over the New York Rangers Sunday, the last round is settled with the Red Wings opposing the Leafs.Thanks to their ace minute-man Ted Kennedy, the Maple Leafs are in the same position they were in last season. Kennedy, who has been the glittering Leaf star in the Bruins series and the leader of the playoffscoring race, came through with the winning goal Saturday night that eliminated the Beantowners.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02173/1289729-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="286" height="431"></div>Another Star EffortKennedy, often referred to as the &ldquo;forgotten man&rdquo; produced another startling performance as he also assisted on the first goal by Vic Lynn. The Bruins looked a different club than the one that was easily downed 5-1 Tuesday in Boston. They rallied on Thursday to hand the Leafs their first setback and on Saturday in Toronto Clapper s club came close to tying the game in the late stages of the last period.Over in New York on Sunday, the Red Wings didn&rsquo;t have too much trouble knocking off the bruised and battered Rangers. The bottom seemed to fall out of the Ranger apple-cart when Capt. Neil Colville had to retire in the first period when an old groin injury was aggravated.After putting up a great fight that tied the series at 2-2 earlier last week, the Rangers didn&rsquo;t have the reserve power to carry them through the sixth game. It was a costly penalty to Jack Lancien in the first frame Sunday that started the Rangers on the road to elimination. It was then that the Wings sunk two goals to start them off.Rookie BrilliantA word of praise should be extended to a pair of rookies who came through last week with outstanding performances. Boston&rsquo;s Johnny Peirson played great hockey together with linemates Paul Ronty and Ken Smith while Leonard &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly picked up five scoring points in the last two games. In New York on Sunday he scored the club&rsquo;s first tally and then assisted in the next two.Saturday night marked the fifth time that the Toronto Leafs had eliminated Boston from Stanley Cup play. The Bruins won the other two meetings. Another freshman Les Costello of the Leafs also came in for a share of the honors when he scored a goal in his first N. H. L. appearance. Costello, a native of South Porcupine, Ont., played with Pittsburgh all season.TUESDAY, MARCH 30BOSTON&mdash;Toronto outplayed Boston B&rsquo;lins by the widest margin of the series to date when they toppled tho Clasppe-rmen 5-1 before 13,909 fans in the Boston Garden. The Leafs emerged h(we favorites to sweep the best-of-seven series four straight as they now hold a three-game lead.Despite the fact that Johnny Crawford was back in action it was the most one-sided game in a long while. The Bruins were never able to shift into high gear and they took 40 minutes to fire five shots at Turk Brodx The Leafs took a two-goal lead in the first period on allies by Howie Meeker and Bill Barilko.Boston scored at 1. 10 of the second when Crawford shot a 50-footer that was defected i-n by Milt Schmidt. But eight minutes after the goal, Ted Kennedy sunk his own rebound at 9. 24 for his fifth goal of the series.Garth Boesch and nike Metz scored two more in the last period. After the game Toronto&rsquo;s Wally Stanowski was mobbed by Boston fans and Boesch another spectator jumped Boesch before police broke the trouble up.Toronto: Goal, Broda; defense, Boesch, Barilko centre, Apps; wings, Ezinickl, Watson; subs: Kennedy, N. Metz Lynn, Mortson, Thomson, Bentley, Meeker, S Smith, Klukay, Stanqpski.Boston: Goal, Brimsek; defence Crawford Henderson; centre, Schmidt, wings, Peters, Dumart; subs; Sandford, Harrison, Babanbo, Egan Martin, Flaman, Warwick, K. Smith, Ronty Peirson.Referee: George Graved. Linesmen, George Hayes and Doug Youn. gFirst Period1&mdash;Toronto: Meeker (Lynn) &hellip;&hellip; 3:402&mdash;Toronto: Barilko &hellip;&hellip; 12:23Penalties: Boesch, Flatman(2).Second Period3&mdash;Boston: Schmidt(Crawford. Peters) &hellip;&hellip; 1:104&mdash;Toronto: Kennedy &hellip;&hellip; 9:24 Penalties: Thomson Mortson.Third Period5&mdash;Toronto: Boesch (Kennedy) &hellip;&hellip; 7:006&mdash;Toronto: N. Metz &hellip;&hellip; 17:49Penalties: Lynn, Ezinickl, Warwick, Watson, (major), Henderson (major).NEW YORK&mdash;With Chuck Rayner playing an outstanding game in goals, New York Rangers, underdogs, in their series with Detroit squared the round at two games each by defeating the Red Wings 3-1 before a cheering New York crowd that numbered 15,772. After losing the first two games, Rangers have rallied to even the series.Detroit got off to a good start in the first period and appeared victory bound when Jimmy McFadden took passes Pete Horeck and Leo Reise to score after three minutes and 41 seconds of play.The Rangers struck back in quick fashion in the next frame when Byran Hextail and Eddie Kulliman put the home club in front with two goals within 34 seconds. At 10:07 Hextail beat Harry Lumley with assists going to Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and Phil Watson while Ku liman was aided by Ed Laprade.Tony Leswick put the finishing touches to the victory by scoring on a break away in the third period after being set up by rookie defenceman, Fred She-ro. Rayner was outstanding between the Ranger pipes. He handled 31 shots while Lumley was kept busy with 20.Detroit: Goal, Lumley; defence, Quackenbush, Stewart; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay. Subs: Reise, Gauthier,&rsquo; Horeck, Sclisizzi, McFadden, D. Morrison, Conacher, Pavelich, Kelly. R. Morrison.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Colville, Lamlrande, centre, Laprade; wings, Kuhlman, Leswick. Subs: Shero, Trudell, O&rsquo;Chnnor, Watson, Raleigh. Hex tail, Rowe, Gardner, Juzda Siowinski.Officials: Bill Chadwick, referee; Ray Getliffe and Sibby Mpndey, linesman.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: McFadden(Horeck, Reise) &hellip;&hellip; 3:41Penalties: Stewart, Raleigh, sclisizzi, Shero.Second Period2&mdash;New York: Hextall(Watson, O&rsquo;Connor) &hellip;&hellip; 10:073&mdash;New York Ku liman (Laprade). 10:41 Penalty: Lindsay.Third Period4&mdash;New York: Leswick (Shero) &hellip;&hellip; 13:32 Penalties: Colville, Hatfeck.THURSDAY, APRIL 1BOSTON&mdash;Much to the surprise of many including the Maple Leafs themselves, Boston Bruins came up with a complete reversal of form as they downed Toronto 3-2 in a cleanly played game before 13,90S stunned Bruin fans. The Bruina went into the game trailing Toronto three games to nothing in the best-of-seven series.It was the outstanding play of rookie johnny Peirson who paved the way for the Boston victory. The Montreal-born freshman fired two of the Bruin goals including the winner in the third period. Actually it was the steller goaling of Frank Brimsek that saved the Bruins who weie pressed by the Leafs in the dying minutes of the game.Another rookie Ed Sandford got Boston off to a quick start by scoring at 2. 47 of the opening canto. Sandford&rsquo;s goal came after Grant WarwlcK passed out from behind the Toronto net and Turk Broda, trying to intercept the pass, layed the puck right on Ed&rsquo;s stick.The Leafs got back into the game when Bill Ezinickl scored after a little more than a minute of play in the middle period but Peirson&rsquo;s first counter at 7:31 moved the Bruins ahead to stay. His second marker, also assisted by Paul Ronty and Kenny Smith fanned Broda at 13:24. It was a blistering 20-foot drive. Syl Apps scoring on a solo play soon after but that was all for the Leafs. With a minute and 16 seconds left in the game Broda was pulled from the net but the Bruins fought off six quarter-ice fase-offs.Boston&mdash;Goal, junsek; defence, Martin, Crawford; cenre, Schmidt; wings, Peters, Dumart; subs: Sandford, Warwick, Ronty, Egan, Flaman, Babando, Lund, Wilson, Peirson, Smith.Toronto&mdash;Goal, Broda; defence, Thompson, Stanowski; centre, Kennedy; wings, Meeker, Lynn; subs: Apps, Watson, Ezi-nicki. Boesch, Barilko, N. Metz, D. Metz, Klukay, Bentley, Samis.Referee: Frank (King) Clancey. Linesmen: George Hayes and Doug Young.First Period1&mdash;Boston, Sandford (Warwick) &hellip; 2:47Penalties: D. Metz, Schmidt.Second Period2&mdash;Toronto, Ezinickl (Boesch,Apps) &hellip;&hellip; 1:363&mdash;Boston, Peirson (Ronty,Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 7:3Penalties: Flaman, Barilko.Third Period4&mdash;Boston, Peirson (Smith,Ronty) &hellip;&hellip; 13:245&mdash;Toronto, Apps &hellip;&hellip; 15:08DETROIT&mdash;Two goals by Rookie defenceman Leonard &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly was enough to give Detroit Red Wings a 3-1 decision over New York Rangers before 13,442 onlookers at the Olympia. The Red Wings now need but one more win over the Rangers in their best-of-seven series to advance into the finals.Kelly&rsquo;s first goal in the first period came after he rifled a 60-foot dribbler past Chuck Rayner and in the third he outskated the veteran Bryan Hextail and beat Rayner again from 15 feet out. It was at 4. 02 of the opening session that Kelly put the Wings one-up and late in the following period little Pete Horeck scored one a fast play with Gorgie Howe.Buddy O&rsquo;Connor put the Rangers back Into the fight with a goal at 12. 49 in the third after taking passes from Hextail and Phil Watson but Kelly soon pokedin the equalizer. The Red Wing win broke New York&rsquo;s two-game winning streak that tied the series after Detroit went two up.Detroit&rsquo;s first two goals were scoring while the Rangers were playing shorthanded. Rayner had a busy night in the Ranger cordage stopping 29 saves but the luck that was with him earlier In the series was gone. Harry Lumley missed only one of the 18 shots at his net.New York&mdash;Goal, Rayner; defence, Colville, Lamirande; centre, Laprade; wings, Kullm, Leswick. Subs: Shero, Trudell, O&rsquo;Connor, Watson, Raleigh, Hextali, Gardner, Juzda, Lancien, Mlckoski.Detroit&mdash;Goal, Lumley; defence, Quac-enbush, Stewart; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay. Subs: Kelly, Pavelich, Bruneteau, Conaclier, McFadden, Sclisizzi Horeck, Gauthier, Lundy, Reise.Referee; George Gravel. Linesmen: Ed. Mepham and Jim Primeau.First Period1&mdash;Detroit, Kelly &hellip;&hellip; 4-03Penalties&mdash;Leswick (3, one misconduct).Kelly, Conacher, McFadden.Second Period2&mdash;Detroit, Horeck (Howe) &hellip;&hellip; 14:13(Penalties&mdash;Juzda. Reise, Pavelich.Third Period3&mdash;New York, O&rsquo;Connor (Hextali,Watson) &hellip;&hellip; 12:49Detroit, Kelly (Horeck) 13 55Penalties&mdash;Lamlrande.SATURDAY, APRIL 3TORONTO&mdash;Ted Kennedy, Toronto&rsquo;s pay-off man delux, was the hero again as his timely third period goal gave the Maple Leafs a 3-2 win and knocked B6ston Bruins out of the Stanley Cup running. The Leafs gave their 14,460 home fans a few" anxious moments in the last period when the Bruins went on the offensive but they held on to take the best-of-seven series, 4-1.The Bruins appeared headed for their second straight win over Toronto when Jim Peters fired a goal past Turk Broda when the first period was a little more than five minutes old. Jack Crawford had just returned from the penalty box when Vic Lynn tied it up at 8. 40.Les Costello, up from the Pittsburgh Hornets, put the Leafs into the lead with his first N. H. L. goal at 16. 13 on a play with Max Bentley and Gus Mortson. Boston&rsquo;s most effective line of Ken Smith, Paul Ronty and Johnny Peirson made the count 2-2 in the second period Smith bagged the goal with the other two players getting assists The time ox Kennedy&rsquo;s winner was 5. 52, his Axth of the playoffs, came after he took a pass from Howie Meeker. The Bruins were outshot 27-24.Boston&mdash;Goal, Brimsek; defence Crawford, Martin; centre, Sandford; wings, Warwick, Babando; subs: Egan, Flaman, Schmidt, Peters, Dumart, Ronty. Smith, Peirson. Harrison, Lund.Toronto&mdash;Goal, Broda; defence, Barilko, Boesch; centre, Apps; wings, Ezinickl, Watson; subs: Stanowski, Thomson. Mortson, Kennedy, Meeker. Lynn, Bentley, Costello, Klukay, N. Metz.Referee: Bill Chadwick. Linesmen: Doug Young and Ray GetlifferFirst Period1&mdash;Boston. Peters(Smith, Schmidt) &hellip;&hellip; 5.202&mdash;Toronto. Lynn(Bentley, Kennedy) &hellip;&hellip; 2.403&mdash;Toronto. Costello(Bentley,) &hellip;&hellip; 16.13Penalties: Stanowski, Crawford, Martin, Costello,Second Period4&mdash;Boston. Smith(Peirson, Ronty) &hellip;&hellip; 12:07Penalties: Flaman, Barilko.Third Period5&mdash;Toronto. Kennedy (Meeker) &hellip;&hellip; 5.52Penalty: Flaman.SUNDAY, APRIL 4NEW YORK&mdash;Detroit Red Wings battled their way into the Stanley Cup finals by dropping New York Rangers 4-2 before 15,925 fans to win the best-of-seven series 4-2. The Wings started their victory inarch in the first frame with two quick goals.With Rookie defenceman Jack Lancien serving time for holding, tho Wings scored a pair of goals while ho was off. Red Kelly notched the first unassisted at 13. 46 and he set-up the second scores by ordie Howe at 14. 30. Detroit moved ahead 3-0 soon after Kelly drew another assist for feeding Pat Lundy a pass that, resulted in the goal.After a scoreless second period, Jimmy McFadden found the net at 10. 40 with assists from Marty Pavelich and Jack Stewart. Lt was soon after this that Rangers finally showed a spark of life. Don Raleigh beat Harry Lumley at 12. 49 and he did the trick again at 19. 07 with Phil Watson assisting.The Rangers brought up two rookiea Dun Fisher and Nick Mlckoski for tho game from New Haven and they together with Raleigh formed Rangers&rsquo; best scoring punch. Neil Colville, Ranger captain, was forced out of the game in the opening period when he aggravated an old groin injury. Chuck Payner made 28 saves to Lumley&rsquo;s 20.Detroit&mdash;Goal Lumley; defence, Quackenbush, Stewart; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay. Subs: Reise, Gauthier, Horeck, McFadden, D. Morrison, Conacher, Pavelich, Kelly Bruneteau, Lundy.New York&mdash;Goal, Rayner; defence Colville, Lap and; centre, Laprade! wings, Kullman, Leswick, Subs: Shero O&rsquo;Connor, Watson, Raleigh, Hextail, Juzda, Davies, Fisher, Mlckoski, Lancien.Officials: referee, Frank (King) Clancy; linesmen, Sam Babcock and George Hayes.First Period1&mdash;Detroit. Kelly &hellip;&hellip; 13. 412&mdash;Detroit. Howe(Quackenbush, Kelly) &hellip;&hellip; 14.303&mdash;Detroit. Lundy (Kelly) &hellip;&hellip; 17.51Penalties: Lancien, McFadden.Secend PeriodScore&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period4&mdash;Detroit.. McFadden(Pavelich, Stewart) &hellip;&hellip; 10.425&mdash;Rangers.. Raleigh(Mlckoski, Fisher) &hellip;&hellip; 12.426&mdash;Rangers.. Raleigh (Watson). 12.07Penalties&mdash;McFadden, Watson.Red Kelly<h2>PLAYER-OF-THE-WEEK</h2>The little town of Simcoe, Ontario can feel quite proud of one of its native sons this week for Defenceman Leonard &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly who saw the first light of day in that town 21 years ago is presently the talk of the National League. Kelly, the kid with the flaming red locks, was one of Detroit&rsquo;s outstanding performers last week and he earns the Player Of The Week nomination by THE HOCKEY NEWS.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03130/1289722-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="262" height="413"></div>Kelly is the only member of the Detroit Red Wings club now in the finals for the Stanley Cup who has never had any previous profession a 1 experie neg. But he proved last week that that doesn&rsquo;t count. It was his starry play that last week led the Wings to their series victory over New York Rangers. With the series tied 2-2 on Tuesday, Kelly had a finger in all three Wing goals as they won 3-1. He scored one himself and assisted in the other pair.On Sunday in New York it was Red who started the Detroiters off to their final win. He netted the first goal unassisted and two deft relays resulted in two more goals in the same period. He has a total of five points in this season&rsquo;s Stanley Cup play and all were registered in the last two games.Kelly, who is equally at home as a defenceman or forward, is expected to he a top-flight major leaguer in the near future. The main cog on the St. Michael&rsquo;s defence last season he sparked the Toronto junior outfit to the Memorial Cup and had enough abilitiy to jump right into the N. H. L.Kelly, a personal protege of Scout Carson Cooper, is a clever blocker and is an excellent counter-rusher with the ability to pass or finish a play. He makes his home in Simcoe where he works on the family farm during the off season. Standing five feet, 11 inches, the young blocker with the technicolor head swings the scale needle to 180 pounds.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04108/1289715-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="582" height="421"></div><div class="sidebar"><h2>FINAL PLAYOFF DATES ARE SET</h2>The first game of the final playoff for the Stanley Cup between Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Wings will open tonight in Toronto it was announced after both clubs had finished the semi-final series on Sunday.The second game of the best-of seven round will also be played in Toronto on Saturday with the next two games scheduled for the Olympia ice in Detroit on Sunday, April 11 and Tuesday, April 13.If further games are necessary the dates will be announced later. &#9632;</div>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By SAMUEL. POMPEI</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01232/1289767-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"></div>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;He&rsquo;s &ldquo;Mr. Hockey&rdquo; to puck fans all over the continent but to the youngsters in the Greater Springfield area he&rsquo;s a &ldquo;God Father.&rdquo; Since Eddie Shore took over the ownership and management of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League and the Coliseum amateur hockey reached a new pinnacle of enthusiasm. With this youth movement now in full swing even brighter days are in sight for the close to 700 participants, and the thousands of fans. Players range in age from 10 to 40.The league that Eddie takes the most pride in is the Greater Springfield Junior Amateur circuit. Irrepressible lads from 10 to 16 virtually take over the rink every Saturday morning and put on an interesting program. There are eight teams in the 10-12 age group, and 12 each in the 12-14 and the 14-16. After a terrific grind, the leagues wind up with a post-season playoff for the grand championship of the respective age classes.Support From ScribesSports editor Walter Graham of the Springfield Sunday Republican sees to it that the games played on Saturday morning get complete coverage on his pages, while action shots and team pictures frequently help tell the story. Daily papers, namely the Springfield Daily News with Graham as sports editor, and the Springfield Union with Les Stearns as editor of the sport pages carry the schedules on the Junior Leagues, as well as all other hockey information.&ldquo;Mr. Hockey&rdquo; also conducts a hockey school for the Junior League pucksters, in which he personally takes active supervision. Piner points of hockey are taught. The game has shown a marked improvement since Shore&rsquo;s regime started in 1939Chain SystemWhen the youngsters graduate from the Junior Leagues they usually wind up with a high school. team, and then many of t hem further their hockey talent with one of the nine factory teams of the Springfield Industrial Hockey League. No age limit is placed on the players in this circuit, but he must be employed&rsquo; by the shop he represents. Like most industrial circuits rivalry is keen, and the calibre good.The Springfield Rifles, a senior amateur hockey team, was established this year and was entered in the Atlantic Hockey League with the Needham Rockets. Boston Junpics, Providence Scarlets, New Haven Bears, and the New-York Metropolitans. Finishing a strong second, the Rifles drew over 3,000 spectators in one game, a new record for amateur hockey In the area. Managed by Tom Dolan and coached by Angelo (Bert) Bertelli, the ex-Notre Dame football great, the Rifles are made up of the cream of the Western Massachusetts hockey talent.Keen Puck FansA recent poll showed that all 23 members of the Rifles are former members of the Junior Leagues, proving the value of Shore&rsquo;s pet project. Shore has the youngsters as his guests at American Hockey League and Atlantic League matches frequently and they are keen enthusiasts of hockey.However, the Junior Leagues really reached their own &ldquo;major league&rdquo; when they were invited to play a preliminary game to the Springfield Rifles-New York game. A huge crowd attended to give the youths a thunderous reception.<h2>&lsquo;Hockey Too Bough&rsquo;-Shore</h2>Airs His Views &#9632;

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Minor Hockey At New High Among Springfield Youth

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Every hockey fan knows what&rsquo;s wrong if anything with hockey. Maybe the rules need changing, maybe the game is too rough, maybe the officiating poor. Maybe things are okay just as they ar4.The business man who came to town, interested in scouting junior players, had his opinion:&ldquo;The future of hockey lies in cutting out the illegal charging, and the holding and the interference.&rdquo;The erudite gentleman was the roughest, toughest and most-penalized player perhaps of his day&mdash;Eddie Shore.Shore, the bruising bouncer on the old Boston Bruins&rsquo; defence, now is a hockey magnate himself, owner of clubs in the American and United States leagues.&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re playing better hockey, comparatively, in our American league than they&rsquo;re playing in the National league,&rdquo; said Shore. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t get me wrong. I don&rsquo;t mean in point of actual hockey class, in which we&rsquo;re a couple of strides behind. But I believe we&rsquo;re getting faster hockey, within our own scope, more open hockey, less ganging and holding, and less interference and other illegal forms of play than you have in the National League.&rdquo;And how come this miracle?&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no miracle about it. The answer is that we have two referees, with equal authority vested in both, and no alibis accepted. I know the National League once tried out the dual-referee system and it didn&rsquo;t work for a very good reason. Each referee was allotted half the rink as his territory. So if there was some offence and the referee in that end didn&rsquo;t see it, the other referee would shrug his shoulders and say. &lsquo;sorry, but it wasn&rsquo;t in my end of the rink.&rdquo;&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have any of that nonsense in the American league. Our referees have equal power, the whole rink belongs to both&hellip;&rdquo; Would Eddie have liked two referees in his day?Eddie grinned. &ldquo;I had plenty trouble with only one referee at a time. Remember the season I spent 165 minutes in the penalty box? That&rsquo;s about two full games and a half!&rdquo; &#9632;

Ex-Boston Star Likes AHL Play Over NHL Brand

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02178/1289822-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"></div>PROVIDENCE, R. I.&mdash;The amazing streak of 30 games without a loss by Cleveland Barons came to a sudden end here on March 30 when Terry Reardon&rsquo;s Providence Reds defeated the Barons 8-3 in the fourth game in the best-of-seven series between the two division leaders. It ended the great string that all started in Springfield on January 28 when Cleveland whipped the Indians 6-4.It was a world hockey record that carried the Barons to the point championship of the Western Division of the American League and to a three-game lead in the series with the Reds. In the 30 straight games, the Barons won 24 while six ended in ties. Their goal record was 157 for and 68 against.The Barons tied the old record of 18 games without a loss on March 3 by beating Pittsburgh&mdash;the team that set the record last season&mdash;on Hornet ice 2-1 They then broke it three nights later here by beating the Reds 8-3.The following is the great Cleveland record in tabulated form.<h2>Monarchs&rsquo; Trainer Is Busy All Year</h2>LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;The Los Angeles Monarchs boast of one of the most able as well as busiest trainers in the business in &ldquo;Mushy&rdquo; Eisler. &ldquo;Mushy&rdquo; is head trainer for the Chicago Cardinals, National Football League champions last year, and when his chores are through there he joins the Monarchs for the hockey season.Comes spring training for the Chicago White Sox and Eisler is on their staff helping to keep the ball players in fit condition. During the recent Los Angeles&mdash;Fresno playoff series &lsquo;Mushy&rsquo; spent the mornings and afternoons with the Chisox and the evenings with the Monarchs. He was kept hopping! &#9632;

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Cleveland Streak Of 30 Straight Snapped By Reds

A Future RedHarvey Bennett, star goaler of the non eliminated Providence Reds was passing out cigars to his trammater, last week. Bennett is now the proud father of a baby boy. He was in an important, series with (&rsquo;leveland when the word came from his Regina home.Never Say DieThe veteran Ott Heller, often referred to as the spark behind the New Haven Ramblers all year, gave a great display of sheer courage that has marked his long career. Hr played the entire final period of the last game with Buffalo with a broken nose.HOW THE RACE GOES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01216/1289874-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="607" height="640"></div>Last Week&rsquo;s GamesMarch 30&mdash;Providence 8, Cleveland 3; Buffalo 6. New Haven 2.April-1&mdash;Cleveland 8, Providence 1. April 3&mdash;Cleveland 6, Buffalo 1.It was a tough break for the Baron players to have their great 30-game winning streak snapped by Providence Reds last Tuesday, but the defeat seems to have taken much of the pressure of play off hockey off their minds and since losing. 8-3 to the Reds, the Barons have been travelling hockey&rsquo;s highway at a better clip.heavy favorites to capture the Calder Cup, Cleveland bounced right back on the Reds on Thursday on home ice winning 8-1 to &rsquo;advance into the finals against Buffalo.But the Bisons were unable to do any better than the Reds in the opening game of the final best-of-seven series. The Barons just swept the Herd to the sidelines with a 6-1 triumph.Buffalo took the New Haven Ramblers into camp in the best-of-three Series &ldquo;D&rdquo; by taking the Rams two straight by scores of 2-1 and 6-2.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02196/1289867-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="254" height="405"></div>Connie DionThe finals opened in Cleveland on Saturday with 11,765 fans on hand to see the Barons hurdle into the series lead. Cleveland got off to a two-goal lead in the second period and sparked by Roy Kelly with a pair of markersthe Barons poured four goals past Connie Dion in the Buffalo cage in the last frame.By winning the all-important first game by such a one-sided score, the Barons look headed for certain victory. It is a well balanced club from goal out having the weight and needed speed to win games.In Roger Bessette and Johnny Bower, the Barons own two of the best netminders in the American League.TUESDAY, MARCH 30NEW HAVEN&mdash;Buffalo Bisons skated into the final series for the Calder Cup handing New Haven Ramblers a 6-2 beating before a stanalng-room-only crowd of 4,100. It was Buffalo&rsquo;s second straight win over the Rams in the best-of-three series for the right to meet the winners of the Cleveland-Providence round.New Haven held the Herd fairly well in check in the first period but they appeared to tire later in the game leaving the door open for three Bunalo goals in the second frame.Fisher shoved the Ramblers ahead 1-0 one a three-way play with Hrymnak and Mlckoski at 3 41 but exactly four minutes later the game was all tied-up when Hal Laycoe blasted a shot past Doug Stevenson.The Bisons had their big inning in the second when Fred Hunt George Pargeter and Murdo McKay scored. Webster fired the second Rambler goal at 2:36 of the third period but Buffalo came right back with two more by Hunt and Cooper.Buffalo&mdash;Goal, Dion; defence, McMahon, Laycoe; centre, McKay; wings. Hunt, Brown; alternates: Jackson, Field Douglas, Cooper J. Bell, Hickey, Mun-drick Campeau, Lewis, Pargeter.New Haven&mdash;Goal, Stevenson; defence, I Heller, H. Bell; centre Davies: wings, Johnston, Webster; alternates, Lanclen, Hrymnak, Gordon, Juckes, Fisher, Macintosh White, Robinson Denis, Mlckos-kl.Officials&mdash;Rabbit McVeigh and Hugh McLean,First Period1&mdash;New Haven, Fisher(Hrymnak, Mickocki) &hellip;&hellip; 3:412&mdash;Buffalo, Laycoe (McMahon).. 7:11Penalties&mdash;H. Bell, Hunt.Second Period3&mdash;Buffalo, Hunt (McKay) &hellip;&hellip; 6:524&mdash;Buffalo, Pargeter &hellip;&hellip; 14:555&mdash;Buffalo McKay (Field, Hunt). 19:30Penalties&mdash;Heller Juckes (2), Field, Jackson.Third Period6&mdash;New Haven, Webster(Johnston) &hellip;&hellip; 2:367&mdash;Buffalo, Hunt (McKay) 3:048&mdash;Buffalo, Cooper (Douglas) &hellip;&hellip; 6:13Penalty&mdash;Davies.PROVIDENCE&mdash;With Coach Terry Reardon sparking his cub, Providence Reds avoided elimination from the Cai-der Cup playoffs by downing Cleveland Barons 8-3. The loss halted the Barons&rsquo; great winning streak of 30 games without a loss. The Barons now lead the best-of-seven series, 3-1.Before 5,850 fans, the Reds finally got back onto the winning path and right from the first period they completely dominated the play. With the score tied at 2-2 after the first frame, Tony Bukovlch put Cleveland up 3-2 but the Reds came back with two goals by Liscombe and Reardon.It was in the third period that Providence took the lead. They baffled the Barons by scoring three goals with a minute and 28 seconds by Fraser Mich-aluk and Stoddard. Laplante sunk the last goal at 15:28.Kelly and Sprout were the other Cleveland goalgetters. The loss was the first for Cleveland since January 24.Cleveland&mdash;Goal. Bessette; defence, Wales, Allen; centre, Holota; Wings, Bukovich, Carse; alternaes: Davidson, Sprou, DeMarco Lavoie, Thurler, Russell, Solinger, Kelly, Brennan Buller. Providence&mdash;Goal, Bennett, defence, Ar-cand, Stanley; centre Taylor, wings, Chad. Scherza; alternates:; Liscombe. Stoddard Fraser, Prokop, Laplante Ka-pusta, Church Michaluk, Reardon, Collings.Officials&mdash;Bernie Lemaitre, and Des Smith.First Period1&mdash;Providence &hellip;&hellip; Reardon(Kapusta, Laplante) &hellip;&hellip; 3:452&mdash;Cleveland, Kelly, (Sprout,Sollnger) &hellip;&hellip; 10:163&mdash;Providence, Taylor(Chad Liscombe) &hellip;&hellip; 13:064&mdash;Cleveland, Sprout(Kelly, Solinger) &hellip;&hellip; 14:17Penalties&mdash;Buller Laplante, Reardon.Second Period5&mdash;Cleveland, Bukovich(Allen, Carse) &hellip;&hellip; 11:426&mdash;Providence,. Liscombe(Stoddard, Fraser) &hellip;&hellip; 12:247&mdash;Providence Reardon(Laplante) &hellip;&hellip; 17:37Penalties&mdash;DeMarco, Liscombe.Third Period8&mdash;Providence, Fraser (Kapusta) &hellip;&hellip; 10:109&mdash;Providence, Michaluk &hellip;&hellip; 10:4210&mdash;Providence. Stoddard (Fraser) &hellip;&hellip; 11:3811&mdash;Providence, Laplante(Michaluk) &hellip;&hellip; 15:28Penalties!&mdash;Fraser, Holota, Allen, Stanley Thurler, Arcand.THURSDAY, APRIL 1CLEVELAND&mdash;The Barons took full advantage of their home Ice to move into the Calder Cup final play off series against Buffalo Blsona by humbling Providence Reds 8-1. The Barons took the best-of-seven series four games to one. Johnny Holota was the Cleveland star as he scored two goals and assisted in two others.The Reds were never able to play the same brand of hockey that ended Cleveland&rsquo;s streak of 30 games on Tuesday night in Providence. Hoota started the Barons off with his first goal at 3:38 of the opening frame and he scored again after three minutes it the second. The Barons went ahead 4-0 when Les-wick and Carse added two more.The Reds put on a short rally in the last period when Chuch Scherza scored the lone goal at 5:41 but the goal seemed to add new fire to the Cleveland attack.The winners then went on to powder Goaler Harvey Bennett with four more goals. Sollnger. Kelly Brennan and Thurler were the scorers. The Barons now meet Buffalo in a best-of-seven series for the league title.Providence&mdash;Goal. Bennet: defence, len. Wares: centre, Holo-la; wings. Carse Keswick. Subs: Bukovich. Davidson, Sprout, DeMarco. Lavoie. Thurler Russell, Solinger. Kelly Rrenmn, Buller.Providence&mdash;Goal Bennette; defence, Arcand. Stanley; centre. Taylor; wings, Chad. Taylor, subs: Liscombe. Fraser, Stoddard. Prokop laplante Kapusta, Church, Michaluk, Reardon, Collings.First Period1&mdash;Cleveland. Holota(Carse, Wares) &hellip;&hellip; 3:38Penalties: Church Kapusta Leswick. Second Period2&mdash;Cleveland. Ho&rsquo;ota(Leswick, Allen) &hellip;&hellip; 3:543&mdash;Cleveland, Leswick(Holota) &hellip;&hellip; 17:544&mdash;Cleveland, Carse(Holota, Allen) &hellip;&hellip; 18:35Penalties: Ho&rsquo;ota. Church.Third Period5&mdash;Providence Scherza(Reardon Church) &hellip;&hellip; 5:416&mdash;Cleveland. Salinger(Kelly, DeMarco) &hellip;&hellip; 7:367&mdash;Cleveland, Kely(Sollnger, DeMarco) &hellip;&hellip; 8:088&mdash;Cleveland, Brennan,(Thurler) &hellip;&hellip; 10:399&mdash;Cleveland, Thurler(Brennan Bu&rsquo;ler) &hellip;&hellip; 17:28Penalties&mdash;None.SATURDAY&rsquo;, APRIL 3CLEVELAND&mdash;Rolling along the A. H. L. playoff trail like a ste-engine. Cleveland Barons took a one-game lead in the best-of-seven final series for the Calder up by whipping Buffalo Bisons 6-1 before 11,765 fans.The veterans Fred Thurier and Roy Kelly paced the Barons with a pair of goals each.Behind the brilliant goal-tending of Roger Bessette, the Barons seized a 2-0 lead in the second period. They poured in foui more goals in the final 20 minutes of play.With only two seconds left of the final period, Fred Hunt swept by Cleveland&rsquo;s net to srcie Buffalo&rsquo;s lone goal and spoil a shutout for Bessette. The goalie was so disgusted that be walked to the gate leading to the dressing room as the teams fared oft for the last two seconds of play, leaving the net open.The Blsons outplayed Cleveland through the first period, but on several excellent chances, were foiled by Beseette. In the second period the Barons took complete command, although goalie Connie Dion stood them off until 11.56 when Bob Solinger, Cleveland&rsquo;s prize rookie left winger, made good a short shot.The Barens, runaway leaders of the regular season, eliminated Providence, four game to one, in the semi-final playolfs, and have lost only once in their last 3 3 starts.Thurier made it 2-0 for Cleveland at 19.56 on a well-placed pass in the goal mouth by Jack Lavoie.The second game of the finals will be played here Tuesday and the next two at Buffalo.First PeriodNo score.Penalty&mdash;Campeau.Second Period1&mdash;Cleveland, Solinger (Demarco) 11:36 1&mdash;Cleveland, Thurier (Lavoie, Brennan)&hellip;&hellip;19:56Penalties&mdash;Holota, Jackson.Third Period3&hellip;Cleveland Davidson (Kelly, Demarco)&hellip;&hellip;1:50Cleveland Thurier (Lavoie).. 15:035&mdash;Cleveland, Kelly (Solinger, Sprout)&hellip;&hellip;16:466&mdash;Cleveland, Kelly (Solinger, Demarco)&hellip;&hellip;17:207&mdash;Buffalo, Hunt&hellip;&hellip;19:58<h2>Will Fields Eaves Up Io Police after Brawl In Mew Haven Cafe</h2>NEW HAVEN, Conn.,&mdash;Defenceman Wilfred Fields of Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League, identified by league president Maurice Podoloff as the player who struck and seriously injured a counterman in a restaurant fight here last week returned here and surrendered to police.Fields, who said the struck Wallace Holland only in selfdefence, was charged, as previously had been five others members of the team, with breach of the peace. He posted bail of $2,500 for appearance in city court. The other five were arrested on the scene.Fields, who hails from Winnipeg, arrived after an overnight trip from Buffalo. He went immediately to Podoloff&rsquo;s office and both men then went to detective headquarters where Fields was served with the warrant.Hospital officials reported that Holland&rsquo;s condition continued &ldquo;fair.&rdquo;Fields said the six players were happy over having made the finals and there was some &ldquo;fooling around.&rdquo; Holland made a slurring remark, said Fields, and followed it up by punching the player in the eye.&ldquo;I struck back and then Mike McMahon (another of the arrested players) stepped in between us and that&rsquo;s all there was to it.&rdquo; Arrested on a charge of breach of the peace and along with Fields and released in court in bonds of $2,500 each were Joe Bell and Douglas, Leslie Hickey, Tom Cooper and McMahon.Bond was furnished by Maurice Podoloff, president of the league. The players were arrested a few hours after thier team had defeated New Haven Ramblers 6-2 to reach the finals for the Calder Cup, emblematic of the AHL playotf championship.<h2>Doug LewisSteams-Up For Playoffs</h2>BUFFALO, N. Y.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03163/1289860-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="548" height="1233"></div>DOUG LEWISIf there was any doubt, as to how much the veteran Doug Lewis is werth to the Buffalo Bisons, It can be all ironed out now for Doug seems to have waited for the Calder Cup playoff before he really strutted his stuff.The veteran of five American League campaigns w i t h the Herd, Lewis lias been flying in the playoffs to date and h 1 s outstanding performance lias been one of the reasons why Buffalo is now in the A. H. L. finals for the Calder Cup.He has just completed his fifth season in Buffalo and during that time, with the exception of a year in the Canadian armed forces he has been a regular Bison.Doug really glittered in the second and deciding game of the first, series against Hershey Bears. Leading the Bears one gam? to none, Lewis scored two goals in the second game that eliminated the Beass. After hitting the cords in tile first period, he came through with the winner in the third to give the Bisons a 3-2 win.He has just completed his second best season as far as point-totals are concerned. He played in all 67 Buffalo contests this season, scoring 22 goals and 24 assists for 44 points and was the seventh highest pointmaker on the club.Now 27 years old, Lewis hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and bis best year was in 194546 when lie scored an even 20 goals plus 32 assists for 52 points. He started his professional career with Springfield in 1941 and in 56 games registered 34 points.The following year he was moved to Buffalo where he has been ever since. Last season he was called up by Montreal Ca-nudiens of the NH. L. for a three-game try-out.Doug plays left wing and also shoots from the same side. Before he entered the moneyranks of hockey he played junior hockey with the Edmonton Athletic Club. During his entire pro career he has never finished the season with less than 30 scoring points. Standing five-feet, eight inches, Lewis will be a valuable man in Buffalo&rsquo;s hopes of regaining the cup they last held in 1945-46.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04140/1289853-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="604" height="2329"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01230/1289905-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"></div>TULSA, Okla.&mdash;The Tulsa Oilers of the United States Hockey League lost seven of their first nine games in the, current campaign, and tied the other two.They also opened the season on a strictly independent basis, the only club in the United States League without a connection in higher hockey (In mid-season they effected a working agreement with the Boston Bruins).Yet the Oilers have managed to play to 120,000 paid customers in their regular home season of 33 games, drawing an average of more than 3,600 per game.And the club had battled so well out there on the ice that in spite of a desultory start they managed to romp into the last playoff spot in the Southern Division only to bow out fighting to Fort Worth Rangers in the first round of the league playoffs.A good deal of the credit for the success of the Tulsa club in the United States League&mdash;this year and for the last two previous seasons&mdash;must go to the aggressive, resourceful and popular owner of the Oilers, Sam Avey.In his last 24 years in Tulsa, Avey has developed from a mere wrestling promoter into a leading citizen He&rsquo;s still the entrepreneur who presents weekly wrestling shows at the Coliseum, but&mdash;-He now owns the Coliseum, home of the hockey club, which was built in 1929 by Oilman Walter Whiteside at a cost of $700,000.He owns and operates the Tulsa Hockey club.Also Radio MagnateHe owns a radio station (KAKC) is the vice-president and a major stockholder in a Tulsa bank (Farmers and Merchants), owns a successful grocery store, owns his own home and other Tulsa real estate.He is the host at an annual Christmas party for Tulsa children. that has averaged 7,000 guests the last four years.He is the owner of the annual Baby Milk Fund wrestling benefit that, netted the charity $6,451 this year, $6,541 a year ago and has been an outstanding Civic Party member for 13 years.He is a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce.Avey is his own public relations man, and such a good one that his hockey club never lost favor with the public even when dropping seven of its first nine games.He and Jack MacDonald, the hard working general manager of the hockey club, kept bringing in new players until they had supplied Coach Clint Smith with enough talent to put the Oilers in contention.Aid For SmithThey also kept working on a friendly relationship with Art Ross and the Boston Bruins until they effected an official working agreement in mid-season. This partnership is expected to bolster Tulsa&rsquo;s hockey club before the next U. S. H. L campaign opens. It already has helped.The 53-year-old Avey is a violent hockey fan. Sometimes he watches the games from his box, at the blue-line in the end of the rink where his goalie is in the cage for two of the three periods. Sometimes he stands back of the heavy wire screen about the north end of the rink.He roots so ferociously some of his friends advised a blood pressure check. Avey pooh-poohed this, but some time later he was seeing his doctor about a cold, and did have the blood pressure tested. It was normal&mdash;so the ferocious rooting continued.Avey got into the hockey business primarily because he considered it a game rapidly gaining popularity, and because he owned the rink. But he also rates hockey a distinct asset to the city in a double-barrelled way. First, it attracts thousands of visitors to Tulsa from all over eastern Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas and Kansas. Second, it adds importantly to the city&rsquo;s general entertainment.Avey is an aggressive city builder. He thinks Tulsa is the greatest town in the country and is ambitious for it to gain new industry, more population. He rates entertainment&mdash;including sports of all sorts, theatres, parks, recreation activities, etc.&mdash;right along with such municipal assets as water, schools, churches.When he builds a better hockey club, or a bigger Milk Fund benefit, or attracts 10,00 0 boys and girls to his Christmas party instead of the 7000 of recent years, he feels he has made a real contribution to his home town.The owner Of the hockey club and the Coliseum is a native Oklahoman, born on a &ldquo;claim&rdquo; near Kingfisher in February of 1895, after his father had made the run from Kansas into Oklahoma as the state was being opened up.<h2>What Makes Sammy Click</h2>SAM AVEY &#9632;

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Deserves TrailAfter the Omaha Knights were eliminated from the U.S.H.L. playoffs, Coach Mud Bruneteau admitted that he didn&rsquo;t have much hope of retaining Terry Sawchuk next season. After his great play Mud thinks be deesrves a major league trial.A Major LeaguerBill Cook coach of the Minneapolis Millers is high in his praises for the Inshy Max McNab of Omaha Knights Cook, a former great himself, describes McNab as &ldquo;A National League player if I ever saw one.&rdquo; He is the property of Detroit Red Wings.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01230/1289981-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="600" height="527"></div>Just one more game will decide it all. With Minneapolis Millers standing by awaiting the winner of the &ldquo;A&rdquo; series, Kansas City Pla-Mors and Houston Huskies have waged a tooth-and-nail fight in Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; and after Houston came back on Sunday to tie the best-of-seven series at 3-3, the last game of the series would decide it all.After knocking off Omaha Knights in a close best-of-three round 2-1, the Millers made short work of Fort Worth in the &ldquo;D&rdquo; fight. Minneapolis swept the series two games straight and will now advance into the finals against the ultimate winner of the Pla-Mor-Huskie bout.After putting Mud Bruneteau&rsquo;s Knights on the shelf for this season on March 27, the Millers had a two-day layoff before they opened against the Rangers. Fresh as new born daisies, the Millers set-down the Rangers 2-1 in the initial contest.Two nights later thanks to the great scoring sprees produced by Ants Atanas and Earl Bartholome, the Cookies downed Fort Worth 5-2 to clean-up the series.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02192/1289974-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="262" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Miller</figcaption></div>Kansas City has fought a game battle with the Huskies in their best-of-seven series and after trailing Toe Blake&rsquo;s crew two-games to-one, the Pla-Mors have climbed back until they are right in the thick of the fight.Kansas City tied the series on Tuesday when Ray Powell fired an overtime goal after 13 minutes and 38 seconds of extra play on Pla-Mors ice. On Thursday in Houston, the PM&rsquo;s soared to a 4-1 win take the lead in the series. Jack Miller, Larry Silvestri, Bert Olmstead and Ray Powell were the scorers for the Pla-Mors.When everything seemed rosy for Kansas City, Houston came up with a sparkling performance on Sunday to win 7-2. Ducky Skinner and Jack Giesbrecht sparked the Huskies with a pair of goals each.THURSDAY, MARCH 25MINNEAPOLIS.&mdash;Mud Bruneteau&rsquo;s Knights stayed in the playoff race by taking a 4-3 overtime victory from Minneapolis Millers squaring the best-of-three series at one game apiece. In a game that lasted 97 minutes, Max McNab shot the deciding goal at 17.23 of&rsquo; the second overtime period.The Knights led 3-0 after the first period but then faded. Iannarelli, Smith and Wiest put Omaha ahead with counters in the first period but after that the Millers took over. They chopped the lead to 3-1 when Sherritt counted in the second and the score was tied in the third frame when Atanas and Wycherley beat Terry Sawchuk.It was the Blinky Boyce-McNab combination that gave the Knights the game. Boyce started the play and then layed a neat pass on Max&rsquo;s stick in front of the cage. The Millers outshot the Knights 60-47.Omaha: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Dewsbusry, Forbes; centre, McNab; wings, C. Smith, Boyce; subs.: Lavitt, Riegle, Strongman, Glover, Senick, Iannarelli, McLean, Kennedy, Wiseman, Wiest.Minneapolis: Goal, McQueston; defence, Sherritt, Milne: centre, Forgie; wings, Bartholome, Melnyk; subs.: Williams, Allum, Fraser, S. Smith, Wycherley, Atanas, Burns, Strobel, Hergesheimer, Tomiuk.First Period1&mdash;Omaha: Iannarelli(Dewsbury, Wiseman)&hellip;&hellip;5.202&mdash;Omaha: Smith(McNab, Boyce)&hellip;&hellip;8.583&mdash;Omaha: Wiest(Wiseman, Kennedy)&hellip;&hellip;11.36Penalties: Fraser, Riegle (major and minor), Sherritt.Second Period4&mdash;Minneapolis: Sherritt&hellip;&hellip;18.14Penalty. Riegle.Third Period5&mdash;Minneapolis: Atanas(Wycherley, Sherrit)&hellip;&hellip;11.496&mdash;Minneapolis: Wycherley(Smith, Bartholome)&hellip;&hellip;18.37Penalties: None.First Overtime PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Riegle.Second Overtime Period7&mdash;Omaha: McNab (Boyce)&hellip;&hellip;17.23Penalties: Atanas, Riegle (2), Dewsbury.HOUSTON.&mdash;Houston came from behind a one-goal deficit to defeat the Kansas City Pla-Mors 3-1 to even the best-of-seven series at 1-1. The Pla-Mors jumped into the lead after seven minutes of play but Toe Blake&rsquo;s forces tied it up later in the frame and then scored two more in the middle period to win.Wilson started the scoring off for Kansas City at 7.54 but Leo Gravelle&rsquo;s marker four minutes before the bell evened the score. The Huskies took over in the second session and goals by Maher and Skinner was enough to win. The home club held a wide edge in the play around the net as they fired 26 shots at Goaler Doug Jackson compared to 15 at Ceryance.Kansas City: Goal, D. Jackson; defence, Baldwin, Conn; centre, Blade; wings, Wilson, Silvestri; subs.: Tarala, J. Jack-son, Ashworth, Olmstead, Groves, Powell, Harms, Miller, Mitchell, Butler.Houston: Goal, Ceryance; defence, Melong, Curry: centre, Macey; wings, McKenzie, Giesbrecht; subs.: Maher, Blake, Agar, Gravelie, Brown, McArthur, Skinner, Thibeault, Eisenzoph.First Period1&mdash;Kansas City: Wilson (Blade).. 7.542&mdash;Houston: Gravelle(Agar, Brown)&hellip;&hellip;16.38Penalties: None.Second Period3&mdash;Houston; Mahey(Macey, McKenzie)&hellip;&hellip;6.024&mdash;Houston: Skinner&hellip;&hellip;14.50 Penalties: Melong, Powell.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: None.FORT WORTH.&mdash;Fort Worth Rangers chalked up their second straight win over Tulsa when they won out 6-2 to eliminate the Oilers from the U.S.H.L. playoffs. The Rangers led 3-1 after the first period and at the end of the second they were up on Tulsa 5-1.Fowler, Kaiser and Weaver put Fort Worth in front in the first period and then Mutcheson and Warwick added two more in the middle heat. Thorpe closed-off the scoring for the winners at 6.37 of the last period. The Tulsa goalgetters were Webster and Thomson.Fort Worth: Goal, P. McAtee; defence, Drainville, Lofvendahl; centre, Ritson; wings, Kaiser, Thorpe; subs.: Baby, Brodeur, Fowler, Bedard, Schmidt, Warwick, Weaver, Mutcheson.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Jones, Young; centre, N. McAtee; wings, Ubriaco, Schurr; subs: Dillon, Dick, Smith, Brayshaw, Chakowski, Thomson, McMurdy, Knott, Webster, Matthews.First Period1&mdash;Fort Worth: Fowler (Weaver). 2.282&mdash;Tulsa: Webster(Knott, McMurdy)&hellip;&hellip;15.393&mdash;Fort Worth: Kaiser(Thorpe, Lofvendahl)&hellip;&hellip;15.564&mdash;Fort Worth: Weaver(Schmidt. Bedard)&hellip;&hellip;16.52Penalties: Webster, Dick.Second Period6&mdash;Fort Worth: Mutcheson (Drainville, Bedard)&hellip;&hellip;4.176&mdash;Fort Worth: Warwick(Fowler, Schmidt)&hellip;&hellip;19.30Penalties: Dillon, Bedard, Thorpe,Jones, Webster.Third Period7&mdash;Tulsa: Thomson(Smith, Chakowski)&hellip;&hellip;1.088&mdash;Fort Worth: Thorpe(Ritson, Baby)&hellip;&hellip;6.37Penalties: Lofvendahl, Dick (major and misconduct), Weaver.SUNDAY, MARCH 28MINNEAPOLIS&mdash;Omaha Knights bowed out of the United States League playoff play after putting up a great fight as Minneapolis Millers took the best-of-three series 2-1 by edging out Omaha 3-2.Before 4,000 spectators, the Millers led all the way with the exception of 17 min. in the opening period Tom Forgie the veteran centre, star, led the Millers with two goals. After Sam Kennedy put Omaha in front at 7.30 of the first period, Forgie tied it up 10 minutes later. Nick Tomiuk&rsquo;s fluke goal in the middle period put the Millers one-up. The shot caromed off Al Dewsbury into the net behind Terry Sawchuk.Forgie scored the winner after 11 minutes of the last frame from a wild melee in front of Sawchuk. Max McNab cut the lead to 3-2. The Knights used four forwards for the last two minutes of the game but they were unable to penetrate the Miller defence.Omaha&mdash;Goa., Sawchuk; defence. Dewsbury, Forbes; centre, McNab; wings, Boyce C. Smith. Subs: Lavitt Reigle, Strongman, Glover, Senick, Iannarelli, Kennedy, Wiseman, McLean, Weist.Minneapolis&mdash;Goal, McQueston; defence Sherritt Fraser; centre, Forgie; wings, Bartholome, Melnyk. Subs: Williams, Allum, Milne, S. Smith, Wycherley, Atenas, Burns, Strobel, Hergensheimer, Tomiuk.First Period1&mdash;Omaha: Kennnedy(McNab, Forbes)&hellip;&hellip;7:302&mdash;Minneapolis: Forgie(Melnyk, Bartholome)&hellip;&hellip;17.17Penalties; None.Second Period3&mdash;Minneapolis: Tomiuk&hellip;&hellip;7:36Penalties: None.Third Period4&mdash;Minneapolis: Forgie(Bartholome, Melnyk)&hellip;&hellip;9:325&mdash;Omaha: McNab(Boyce, Dewsbury)&hellip;&hellip;15:11Penalty: Atanas.TUESDAY MARCH 30KANSAS CITY&mdash;Kansas City PlaMors scored a goal in a thrilling overtime period to draw even with Houston at two games apiece in the best-of-seven series by edging out the Huskies 2-1. The winning goal came off the stick of Ray Powell after 13.38 of the extra period.Playing before a crowd of 2,983 spectators, the game was fast, close and clean all the way. With only three penalties handed out, the Pla-Mors outshot the Huskies by the slim margin of 40-38.The first period was scoreless but at 12.40 of the second frame, the Pla-Mors took the lead when Dick Ashworth beat Goaler Ceryance with Butler and Olmstead assisting. The Huskies waited until late in the third before they tied the score at 1-1. George Agar was the marksman. Powell&rsquo;s winning tally came on the end of a two-way passing attack with Tarala and Harms.Kansas City: Goal D. Jackson; defence, Tarala, Conn; centre Powell; wings, Harms, Miller. Subs: Mitchell, J. Jackson, Blade, Wilson Silvestri, Ashworth, Olmstead, Butler, Groves.Houston: Goal, Ceryance; defence, Melong Curry; centre Macey, Giesbrecht, MacKenzie; subs: Maher, Blake, Agar, Eisenzoph, McArthur, Gravelle. Skinner, Thibeault Brown.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: None.Second Period1&mdash;Kansas City: Ashworth(Butler Olmstead)&hellip;&hellip;12:40Penalties: Ashworth, McArthur.Third Period2&mdash;Houston: Agar (Brown)&hellip;&hellip;10:27Penalties: None.Overtime Period3&mdash;Kansas City: Powell(Tarala, Harms)&hellip;&hellip;13:38Penalty: Butler.FORT WORTH&mdash;Earl Bartholome&rsquo;s overtime goal gave Minneapolis Millers a 2-1 victory over Fort Worth Rangers and a one-game lead in the semi-final best-of-three series.Bartholome also scored the first goal for the winners in the first period and, that lead stood until at 4.13 mark of the third period when Fred Weaver scored after snaring a sharp pass from Tom Fowler. Pinky Melnyk set-up the game-winning goal.Fort Worth&mdash;Goal, McAtee; defence, Lofvendahl, Drainville; centre, Ritson; wings V. Kaiser Thorpe; Subs: Brodeur, Baby, Kane, Schmidt, Bedard. Weaver, Fowler, Mutcheson, Warwick, Hewson.Minneapolis&mdash;Goal McQueston; defence Sheeritt, Fraser; centre, Forgie; wings, Bartholome, Melynk. subs: Allum, Williams, C. Kaiser. Burns, Smith Gas-parinl. Tomiuk, Strobel Wycherley, Atanas, Hergesheimer.First Period1&mdash;Minneapolis, Bartholome(Melynk)&hellip;&hellip;19:43Penalties&mdash;None.Second PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period2&mdash;Fort Worth Weaver (Fowler). 4:13Penalties&mdash;None.Overtime Period3&mdash;Minneapolis, Bartholome(Melynk)&hellip;&hellip;8:42Penalties&mdash;None.THURSDAY, APRIL 1MINNEAPOLIS.&mdash;Minneapolis Millers moved into the final round for the U.S.H.L. championship by defeating Fort Worth Rangers 5-2. The win gave the Millers a clean two-game sweep in the best-of-three series with the Rangers.The Millers were led to their victory by Walter &ldquo;Ants&rdquo; Atanas who scored three of the five goals. Earl Bartholome scored the other pair to give him four goals in two games. The Millers led 4-0 with two tallies in the first two periods before and one in the second and third Weaver broke to zero at 2.14 of the second period.Fort Worth; Goal, McAtee; defence, Drainville, Lofvendahl; centre, Ritson; wings Kaiser, Thorpe; subs.: Brodeur, Baby, Kane. Fowler, Schmidt, Weaver, Bedard. Mutcheson. Warwick, Hewson.Minneapolis: Goal, McQueston; defence, Sherritt, Fraser; centre, Forgie; wings, Bartholome, Melnyk; subs.: Williams, Allum, Milne, Smith, Wycherley, Atanas, Strobel, Tomiuk, Burns Gasparini.First Period1&mdash;Minneapolis: Atanas(Wycherley, Smith)&hellip;&hellip;4.242&mdash;Minneapolis: Bartholome(Forgie, Melnyk)&hellip;&hellip;9.45Penalties: Sherritt, Kaiser.Second Period3&mdash;Minneapolis: Atanas(Wycherley. Smith)&hellip;&hellip;16.16Penalties: None.Third Period4&mdash;Minneapolis: Bartholome(Sherritt. Forgie)&hellip;&hellip; .525&mdash;Fort Worth: Weaver(Baby, Warwick)&hellip;&hellip; 2.146&mdash;Minneapolis: Atanas(Wycherley)&hellip;&hellip; 3.167-Fort Worth: Bedard (Kane).. 19.52Penalties: Tomiuk. Mutcheson, Thorpe.HOUSTON.&mdash;Kansas City Pla-Mors put a stonewall defence in front Houston and the strategy paid off as the Pla-Mors whipped Huskies 4-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Dotg, Jackson was redhot In the KC goal and the play of Joe Conn and Hal Tarala halted the Houston drive completely.Miller and Silvestri put the Pla-Mors up 2-0 m the second period after the opener was scoreless and they then went ahead 4-0 in the third when Olmstead and Powell found the target behind Goaler Ceryance. Eisenzoph broke Jackson&rsquo;s shutout at 12.15 of the last period.Kansas City: Goal. D. Jackson; defence, Conn, Tarala; centre, Powell; wings. Miller, Harms; subs.: J. Jackson, Ashworth. Olmstead. Groves. Silvestri, Wilson. Mitchell, Blade, Butler.Houston: Goal, Ceryance; defence, Blake. Maher; centre, Macey; wings, McKenzie. Giesbrecht; subs.: Curry. Melong, Agar. Gravelle. Brown, Eisenzoph, Skinner, McArthur.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Conn.Second Period1&mdash;Kansas City: Miller (Powell). 9.452&mdash;Kansas City: Silvestri(Harins, Tarala)&hellip;&hellip;13.11Penalties: None.Third Period3&mdash;Kansas City: Olmstead(Ashworth)&hellip;&hellip;6.074&mdash;Kansas City: Powell(Harms, Tarala)&hellip;&hellip;11.525&mdash;Houston: Eisenzoph(Skinner, McArthur)&hellip;&hellip;12.15Penalties: Tarala, Conn.<h2>Oh, Those Lucky Texans!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03159/1289967-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1744" height="1087"><figcaption class="caption-body">NO WONDER CANADIAN PUCKCHASERS like to play in the United States Hockey League. They can enjoy plenty of sunshine and outdoor sports in their hours off the ice, like these players from Dallas Texans are doing. The photo shows Lloyd Finkbeiner, star defenceman of the Texans, teeing off at Cedar Crest Golf Club in Dallas while Coach Lex Cook and his teammates look on. Fink is one of the best golfers in hockey, although he shoots lefthanded.</figcaption></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04124/1289960-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="601" height="1321"></div> &#9632;

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<h2>IN THE EAST</h2>With the Hamilton Tigers standing by waiting to enter the Eastern Canada Allan Cup final series, one of the biggest upsets of the year in Quebec senior hockey circles took place on Montreal Forum ice on Sunday when the Victoriaville Tigers defeated the powerful Ottawa Senators in the first game of the Quebec finals.The Tigers, champions of the Quebec Provincial league, topped the Bytown club 5-1 to take a one-game lead in the best-of-three series. In such a short round, the first game is the all-important tussie.Playing two games in two nights, Ottawa was unable to match strides with the Bengals. Considered to be the best team to ever represent the Provincial League in Allan Cup play, the Tigers were slated to continue the series with the Senators on Tuesday and Friday in Ottawa. The Senators have not lost a playoff game on home ice this year.Ottawa advanced into the Quebec finals by whipping Quebec Aces on Saturday 6-2 to take the Q.S.H.L. final series 4-1.In Ottawa on Friday, Hamilton Tigers, perennial Ontario champs, knocked Renfrew Lions from the running by sweeping the best-of-three semi-final round in straight games. The Tattered Tigers were forced into overtime Friday before they won out 6-5. In the first game Wednesday, Hamilton won out 11-3.Q.S.H.L. FINALS TUESDAY, MARCH 30 Quebec 2, at Ottawa 5Quebec Aces&mdash;Goal, Marois; defence Renaud. Labrie; centre. Charest; wings, Brennan, Paulin; subs: Kovalchuck, Petit, Planche Raglan, Imlach, Zeidel, Themblay. Marshall, Heale.Ottawa Senators&mdash;Goal, Fraser; defence, Stahan, Mathers; centre, Emberg; wings, Greene, Smart; subs: Copp, Trainor. McLean. Irvine, Tudin, Check, Smith, Watson, Dagenais.Officials: P. Bennett and K. Mullins.First Period1&mdash;Ottawa.. Greene(Emberg, Stahan)&hellip;&hellip;1.16Penalties&mdash;Poulin, Check, Smart, Brennan.Second Period2&mdash;Ottawa.. Tudin(Irvine, Trainor)&hellip;&hellip;12.523&mdash;Ottawa.. Greene(Smart)&hellip;&hellip;19.42Penalties&mdash;Zeidel, Copp, Stahan, Dagenais, Imlach.Third Period4&mdash;Quebec.. Marshall(Imlach, Zeidel) 6.366&mdash;Ottawa.. Mathers(Stahan, Tudin)&hellip;&hellip;9.357&mdash;Ottawa.. Tudin&hellip;&hellip;15.47Penalties&mdash;Renaud, Dagenais,THURSDAY, APRIL 1Ottawa 1. at Quebec 5Ottawa&mdash;Goal, Fraser; defence, Stahan Mathers; centre, Emberg; wings, Greene, Smart. Subs.: Copp, Trainor, McLean, Irvine, Tudin, Check, Smith, Watson, Dagenais.Quebec&mdash;Goal, Marois; defence, Renaud, Labrie; centre, Marshall; wings, Tremblay, Imlach, Subs.: Brennan, Poulin. Kovalchuk, Petit, Planche, Raglan, Zeidel, Heale, Rinfret.Officials&mdash;Pean Bennett and Ken Mullins.First PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;McLean, Heale, Imlach.Second Period1&mdash;Quebec, Petit (Labrie)&hellip;&hellip; 12.272&mdash;Quebec, Petit(Poulin, Brennan)&hellip;&hellip;18:43Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period3&mdash;Ottawa. Mathers(Greene, Smart)&hellip;&hellip;3.534&mdash;Quebec. Poulin (Brennan)&hellip;&hellip; 7:065&mdash;Quebec, Heale(Planche, Zeidel)&hellip;&hellip;12:386&mdash;Quebec, Poulin (Brennan)&hellip;&hellip; 17:56 Penalty&mdash;Zeidel.SATURDAY, APRIL 3 Quebec 2, at Ottawa 6Quebec Aces&mdash;Goal Marois; defence Labrie, Zeidel; centre, Marshall; wings, Brennan, Kovalchuck, Petit, Planche Rinfret, Raglan, Poulin, Heale.Ottawa Senators&mdash;Goal, Fraser; defence Stahan, Mathers; centre, Emberg; Tudin, Check, Smith, Watson, DagenaisOfficials&mdash;Pean Bennett and Ken subs: Copp, Trainor, McLean, Irvine Mullins.First Period1&mdash;Ottawa.. Greene(Smart, Emberg)&hellip;&hellip;8.542&mdash;Quebec.. Kovalchuck(Planche, Heale)&hellip;&hellip;11.423&mdash;Ottawa.. Tudin (Irvine)&hellip;&hellip; 13.04Penalties: Stahan, Petit.Second Period4&mdash;Ottawa.. Check(Irvine, Tudin)&hellip;&hellip;8.085&mdash;Ottawa.. Smith(McLean, Dagenais)&hellip;&hellip;19.277Penalties&mdash;Renaud Smith, Dagenais, Raglan.Third Period6&mdash;Ottawa.. McLean(Dagenais, Smith)&hellip;&hellip;13.457&mdash;Ottawa.. Coop (Irvine)&hellip;&hellip;18.518&mdash;Quebec.. Heale(Kovalchuck, Planche)&hellip;&hellip;19.35Penalties: Marshall, Zeidel.P.H.L. FINALS TUESDAY, MARCH 30Sherbrooke 4, at Victoriaville 6Sherbrooke&mdash;Goal, Leclerc; defence, Goupille, Heindl; centre, Carnegie; wings, Demers, Dube Subs, Cote, Tremblay, Gaudreault, McDougall, Denault, Perron, Vinet.Victoriaville&mdash;Goal, Deschesne; defence, Roy, Roberge; centre, Valenti; wings, Carragher, Leduc; Subs: Legrsi, Vitale, Wray, Vigneau Burnett, Gauthier, Cecchini, Smith, Dufault.Officials: Red Storey and Lloyd Daniels.First Period1&mdash;Sherbrooke.. Demers(Carnegie, Dube)&hellip;&hellip;6.312&mdash;Sherbrooke.. Carnegie(Demers)&hellip;&hellip;15.553&mdash;Victoriaville.. Vitale(Vigeault)&hellip;&hellip;16.354&mdash;Victoriaville.. Gauthier(Burnett)&hellip;&hellip; 18.49Penalty: McDougall.Second Period5&mdash;Victoriaville.. Dufault(Burnett. Vitale)&hellip;&hellip;2.536&mdash;Sherbrooke.. Dube(Carnegie, Heindl)&hellip;&hellip;10.55Third Period7&mdash;Victoriaville.. Carragher(Valenti, Vigneau)&hellip;&hellip;.308&mdash;Victoriaville.. Valenti(Vigneau)&hellip;&hellip;6.479&mdash;Sherbrooke.. Demers(oupille, Dube)&hellip;&hellip;14.4410&mdash;Victoriaville.. Burnett&hellip;&hellip;18.01Penalties&mdash;None.WEDNESDAY. MARCH 31 Victoriaville 2, at Sherbrooke 1.Victoriaville&mdash;Goal, Deschenes: defence, Vitale, Roberge; centre, Valenti; wings, Carragher, Nigneau; subs, Roy, Legris, Burnett, Gauthier. Default, Cecchini, Smith, Leduc, Labbe.Sherbrooke&mdash;Goal, Leclerc; defence, Heindl, Goupille; centre, Cote; wings, Perron, Vinet; subs Demers, Carnegie, Dube, Gaudreault. McDougall, Bouchard Denault, Bourdon, Tremblay, Dion.Referees: Storey and Murray.First PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalty&mdash;Vinet.Second Period1&mdash;Victoriaville.. Carragher(Leduc)&hellip;&hellip;13.35Penalties&mdash;Gaudreault, Vinet.Third Period2&mdash;Sherbrooke.. Tremblay(Dube, Demers)&hellip;&hellip;5.413&mdash;Victoraiville.. Legris(Valenti, Vigeau)&hellip;&hellip;11.25Penalties: Heindl, Tremblay.EAST SEMI-FINAL WEDNESDAY. MARCH 31Hamilton 11, Renfrew 3, (Played at Toronto)First Period1&mdash;Hamilton.. J. Conick(Shillington, T. Smelle)&hellip;&hellip;7.10Penalties&mdash;NoneSecond Period2&mdash;Hamilton.. T. Smelle(Shillington, Laurent)&hellip;&hellip;6.333&mdash;Hamilton.. T, Smelle(Shillington, J Conick)&hellip;&hellip; 10.154&mdash;Hamilton,.Mason(Liscombe, Tindal)&hellip;&hellip;16.595&mdash;Renfrew.. Steel(Molinski)&hellip;&hellip;19.52Penalties: Grant, Laurent, Timmins.Third Period6&mdash;Hamilton.. Shillington(T. Smbelle, J. Conick)&hellip;&hellip; 4.077&mdash;Hamilton.. Mason (Tindall) 8.078&mdash;Hamilton.. Mason (Tindal) 8.359&mdash;Renfrew.. Steel(Sevginy, Cunningham)&hellip;&hellip; 10.1610&mdash;Hamilton.. Liscombe(Mason)&hellip;&hellip; 10.3111&mdash;Hamilton.. A. Conick(Liscombe, Mason)&hellip;&hellip;11.2012&mdash;Hamilton.. Mason(A. Conick)&hellip;&hellip;11.2813&mdash;Renfrew.. Timmins(Dunlop)&hellip;&hellip;11.2814&mdash;Hamilton.. J. Conick(Shillington, T. Smelle)&hellip;&hellip; 13.15Penalties&mdash;None.FRIDAY. APRIL 2Hamilton 6, Renfrew 5.(Played at Ottawa)First Period1&mdash;Hamilton.. T. Smelle(J. Connick)&hellip;&hellip;.472&mdash;Hamilton.. Shillington(J. Connick)&hellip;&hellip;7.063&mdash;Renfrew.. Lemenchick(Slater, Timmins)&hellip;&hellip;10.24Penalties&mdash;None.Second Period4&mdash;Renfrew.. Steele(Grant, Molinsky)&hellip;&hellip;7.305&mdash;Hamilton.. Mason(Liscombe, Miocinovich)&hellip;&hellip; 11.416&mdash;Renfrew.. Timmins(Lemenchick, Cunningham) 16.127&mdash;Hamilton.. Laurent&hellip;&hellip;18.378&mdash;Renfrew.. Dunlap(L&rsquo;Heureux, Timmins)&hellip;&hellip; 18.56Penalty&mdash;Miocinovich.Third Period9&mdash;Renfrew.. Steele(Grant)&hellip;&hellip;14.3410&mdash;Hamilton.. MasonPenalty&mdash;T. Smelle.Overtime PeriodPenatlies&mdash;None.11&mdash;Hamilton.. Shillington&hellip;&hellip;6.54(Liscombe, Ab Connick)&hellip;&hellip; 15.43QUEBEC FINALSSUNDAY, APRIL 4Victoriaville 5, Ottawa 1.(Played at Montreal)Ottawa&mdash;Goal, Fraser; defence;. Stahan, Mathers; centre, Emberg; wings. Smart, Greene; subs: Copp Trainor, McLean. Irvine Tudin, Check, Smith, Dagenais.Victoriaville&mdash;Goal, Deschesne; defence, Vitale, Roberge; centre, Burnett; wings, authier, Dufault; subs: Legris, Roy, Carragher, Wray, Valenti, Vigneau, Leduc Cecchini.Officials: Sibby Mundey and Red Storey.First Period1&mdash;Victoriaville.. Gauthier(Dufault Burnett)&hellip;&hellip;6.242&mdash;Victoriaville.. Dufault&hellip;&hellip;19.32 Penalties: Trainor, Vitale.Second Period3&mdash;Victoriaville.. Gauthier(Dufault, Burnett)&hellip;&hellip;5.08Penalties: Vitale, Tranior, Roy, Third Period4&mdash;Victarioville.. Vigneau(Cecchini)&hellip;&hellip;4.555&mdash;Victoriaville.. VigneauCecchini, Wray)&hellip;&hellip;15.526&mdash;Ottawa.. Tudin(Irvine, Check)&hellip;&hellip;19.15Penalties&mdash;Stahan, Dufault, Trainod.IN THE WESTIt will be an All-Flyer Western Canada Allan Cup final series this season as the two clubs left in the running after another week of elimination play are Frank Currie&rsquo;s Edmonton Flyers and the Winnipeg Flyers. Edmonton gained the final place trouncing the highly touted Trail Smoke Eaters three straight.In the other semi-final round series only to come back to capture the next three.MONDAY, MARCH 29Winnipeg 6 at Fort Frances 3.Winnipeg&mdash;Thompson; Sulkers, Sykes; McRae; Tergeson, Telencoe. Subs: Fabro, Toshack, Yaschuk, Ballance Beatty, Whight, Stevens, Glover, Platz.Fort Frances&mdash;Johnstone; Fedoruk, Sampson; Sugar, Robertson; Spike, Robertson, O&rsquo;Donnell. Subs.: Hupchuk, Christianson, Johnson. Toninato Sam Robertson, Murray Robertson, Percy Robertson, Erskine, Groulx.Officials&mdash;Stan Fuller, Regina and Hedly McDonald, Saskatoon.First Period1&mdash;Winnipeg.. McRae(Yaschuk)&hellip;&hellip;4.54Penalties&mdash;Sykes, Tergeson, McRae.Second Period2&mdash;Winnipeg.. Glover(McRae)&hellip;&hellip;16.233&mdash;Winnipeg.. Ballance(Beatty)&hellip;&hellip;19.41Penalties&mdash;Fedoruk (2), Sykes.Third Period4&mdash;Fort Frances.. Fedoruk(Toninato)&hellip;&hellip;2.205&mdash;Winnipeg.. Sykes&hellip;&hellip;16.28Penalties&mdash;Telencoe (2), Toninato, Sugar Robertson.MONDAY, MARCH 20Edmonton 4, Trail 1.Edmonton&mdash;Rollins; Young, Watt Rimstad; Maher, Black. Subs.: D. Anderson, Clovechuk, Merluk, Kreller, Pringle, Smitten, McPherson.Trail&mdash;Scodellaro; J. Anderson, Christensen, Turik; Cavanaugh, Clemens, Turik; Cavanaugh Clements. Subs: Scott Nicol, Secco, Cronie, Gardner, Deapolis, Sutherland.First Period1&mdash;Edmonton.. Merluk(Anderson)&hellip;&hellip;9.45Penalties&mdash;Rimstad, (10 min. misconduct) Young (10 min. misconduct). Black.Second Period2&mdash;Edmonton.. Anderson&hellip;&hellip;8.203&mdash;Edmonton.. Black(Rimstad)&hellip;&hellip;14.15Penalties&mdash;Secco, Clovechuk,Third Period4&mdash;Trail.. Turik,(J. Anderson)&hellip;&hellip;7.355&mdash;Edmonton.. Young(Anderson. Clovechuk)&hellip;&hellip;. 6.15Penalties&mdash;None.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31Winnipeg 5 Fort Frances 4(Played at Port Arthur)First Period1&mdash;Winnipeg.. Yaschuk(Mac Rea)&hellip;&hellip;4.482&mdash;Winnipeg.. Glover(Yaschuk)&hellip;&hellip;10.023&mdash;Winnipeg.. Balance (Fabro). 16.43Penalty&mdash;Sykes.Second Period4&mdash;Fort Frances.. Dunnville(O&rsquo;Donnell)&hellip;&hellip;4.185&mdash;Fort Frances.. Toninato(Christianson)&hellip;&hellip;6.446&mdash;Winnipeg.. Ballance(Beatty, Fabro)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.017&mdash;Fort Frances.. Hupchuk(O&rsquo;Donnell)&hellip;&hellip;18.18Penalties&mdash;Glover (2), SulkersThird Period8&mdash;Fort Frances.. O&rsquo;Donnell(Dunnville)&hellip;&hellip;4.209&mdash;Winnipeg.. Glover(Yaschuk)&hellip;&hellip;19.18Penalty&mdash;Sykes.SATURDAY, APRIL 3Trail 0, at Edmonton 10First Period1&mdash;Edmonton.. Merluk(Watt, Anderson)&hellip;&hellip;11.062&mdash;Edmonton.. Merluk(Watt)&hellip;&hellip;11.40Penalties&mdash;Turik, Black.Second Period3&mdash;Edmonton.. Smitten(Kreller, Young&hellip;&hellip;2.014&mdash;Edmonton.. Rimstad(Maher, Black)&hellip;&hellip;8.515&mdash;Edmonton.. Clovcehok(Anderson, MacPherson)&hellip;&hellip; 5.006&mdash;Edmonton.. Smitten&hellip;&hellip;5.467&mdash;Edmonton.. Anderson(Clovechok, Merluk)&hellip;&hellip;11.458&mdash;Edmonton.. Smitten&hellip;&hellip;16.36Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period9&mdash;Edmonton.. Anderson(Clovechok)&hellip;&hellip;6.2510&mdash;Edmonton.. Pringle (Kreller).&hellip;&hellip;14.54Penalties&mdash;None. &#9632;

Along The Allan Cup Trail

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01239/1290036-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">SENATOR KILLERS&mdash;Pictured above are some of the Victoriaville Tigers who pulled a surprise 5-1 victory over the favored Ottawa Senators in the first game of the Quebec senior final Sunday. Top left to right: Kelly Burnett, the league leading scorer for two straight years, Phil Vitale and Dick Wray. In the centre is Goaler Lucien Deschenes. Bottom: Armand Dufault and Gaston Gauthier. (Montreal Gazette Photo)</figcaption></div>SHERBROOKE, Que.&mdash;Herbie Carnegie, the only Negro player in organized hockey in Canada today was awarded the George Povie Memorial Trophy last week as the player considered the most valuable to his team, the Sherbrooke St. Francis club of the Provincial Hockey League of Quebec.The presentation followed the game which saw the Victoriaville Tigers dethrone Sherbrooke as P.H.L. Champions. It was the second year running that Carnegie has received the trophy. &#9632;

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<h2>IN THE EAST</h2>Montreal Nationale, Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s and&rsquo; Barrie Flyers are all that remain in the hunt for the Memorial Cup in Eastern Canada. The three clubs are the survivors and the East&rsquo;s hope of retaining the junior Canadian title won by St. Michael&rsquo;s College last winter.The last lap of the junior road is now in site and Barrie will now stand by to wait the winner of the other semi-final series between the Montreal Nationale club and Halifax.Saints, under the wise coaching eye of Marty Barry, beat out the stubborn Inkerman Rockets in a best-of-five series in the Auditorium in Ottawa on Saturday afternoon. The Halifax club, rated stronger than the team beaten out last year by Montreal Canadiens, took the final game by downing the Rockets 8-5. The Rockets scored a minor upset when they toppled the Saints in Ottawa on Wednesday by 6-2. Halifax won the first two games on home ice 9-1 and 9-3.Barrie Flyers walked off with the Ontario crown last week when they smothered Porcupine Combines 13-3 in the last game. It was a case of too much power and speed for the Porkies. The Flyers took the opening game 6-3 and then scored an easy 5-1 victory in the second tussle.ONTARIO FINALMONDAY, MARCH 29Barrie 13, Porcupine 3Porcupine&mdash;Goal, Perron; defence, Telford, Montigny; centre, Campbell; wings, Kovich, Mineault; alternates&mdash;Frapporti, Domenico, McGinn, Keefe, Jammett, Bourrassa, Bragagnon, Clements, Byers.Barrie&mdash;Goal, Mayer; defence, Gariepy, Long; centre, Reid; wings, Meger, Favero; alternates&mdash;Bingley, Guarda, St. Pierre, Mayer, Barrett, Aitkin, Ashbee, McNabbey, Strachan (sub goal).Officials&mdash;Ken Holmshaw, Toronto; Ken Vail, Timmins.First Period1&mdash;Porcupine, Mineault(Campbell)&hellip;&hellip;6:472&mdash;Barrie, Reid(Meger, Favero)&hellip;&hellip;12:053&mdash;Barrie, Aitkin (Barrett)&hellip;&hellip; 12:414&mdash;Barrie, Meger(Reid, St. Pierre)&hellip;&hellip;13:205&mdash;Barrie, Reid (Favero)&hellip;&hellip;17:554&mdash;Barrie, Meger (Long)&hellip;&hellip;19:23Penalties&mdash;Bourassa, Gariepy, Clements McNabney, Bragagnola, Telford.Second Period7&mdash;Barrie, Favero(Reid, Meger)&hellip;&hellip;6:228&mdash;Barrie, Bingley&hellip;&hellip;11:589&mdash;Barrie, Mayer(Meger, McNabney)&hellip;&hellip;13:1010&mdash;Barrie, Long&hellip;&hellip;14:32Penalties&mdash;Gariepy, Long.Third Period11&mdash;Barrie. Mayer (Gariepy)&hellip;&hellip;1:0712&mdash;Porcupine, Keefe (Kovich) &hellip;&hellip; 8:4613&mdash;Porcupine, Domenico(Keefe, Kovich)&hellip;&hellip;14:3514&mdash;Barrie, Barrett(St. Pierre, Aitkin)&hellip;&hellip;18:1015&mdash;Barrie, Aitkin (St. Pierre).. 19:1516&mdash;Barrie, McNabney(Meyer, Long)&hellip;&hellip;19:53Penalties&mdash;Gariepy, Telford.EAST SEMI-FINALWEDNESDAY, MARCH 31Inkerman 6, at Halifax 2.First Period1&mdash;Halifax: Hirschfeld (Campbell) 8:432&mdash;Inkerman: Whittaker (Lunny). 13:10 Penalties: Mathieu, Conrad McLaughlin.Second Period3&mdash;Halifax: MacGillivray(Hirschfeld, Franklin)&hellip;&hellip;2:464&mdash;Ingerman: Armstrong(Ed Duncan)&hellip;&hellip;3:085&mdash;Inkerman: Marshall(Erwin Duncan)&hellip;&hellip;8:156&mdash;Inkerman: Brown&hellip;&hellip;10:257&mdash;Inkerman: Boivin(Riopelle, Defalco)&hellip;&hellip;17:038&mdash;Inkerman: Armstrong(Erwin, Duncan)&hellip;&hellip;18:01Penalties: Hudson McLaughlin, Thompson.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: McLaughlin, Hudson, Marshall, McNeil.SATURDAY, APRIL 3Halifax 8, Inkerman 5(Played at Ottawa)Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s&mdash;Goal, Yeadon; defence, McNeil and Franklin; centre, Hirschfield; wings, Campbell and MacGillviray; alternates. McLaughlin, Reardon, Burns, Conrad, Duggan, Hollett, Hagan.Inkerman Rockets&mdash;Goal, Feltham; defence, Marshall and Thompson; centre, Ed Duncan; wings, Erwin Duncan and Armstrong; alternates, Hanes, Hudson, Baldwin, Lunny, Whittaker, Defalco, Boivin and Menchini.Officials&mdash;Pat Patterson and Frank Elliott.First Period1&mdash;Halifax, Campbell(Herschfeld)&hellip;&hellip;5:472&mdash;Inkerman, Irwin Duncan &hellip;&hellip; 8:003&mdash;Inkerman, Brown(Lunny, Whittaker)&hellip;&hellip;16:304&mdash;Halifax, Burns&hellip;&hellip;17:585&mdash;Halifax, HirschfeldMacGillivray, McLaughlin)&hellip;&hellip;19:38Penalties&mdash;Hudson and McLaughlin.Second Period6&mdash;Inkerman, Ed Duncan(Irwin, Duncan)&hellip;&hellip;1:127&mdash;Halifax, Duggan (Burns) &hellip;&hellip; 15:598&mdash;Halifax, Duggan&hellip;&hellip;18:099&mdash;Halifax. McNeil&hellip;&hellip;18:5010&mdash;Inkerman, Lunny (Boivin).. 19:26Penalties&mdash;Campbell (2), McNeil, Menchini, McLaughlin.Third Period11&mdash;Halifax, Hirschfeld(McLaughlin, Campbell)&hellip;&hellip;7:4612&mdash;Inkerman, Whittaker(Armstrong)&hellip;&hellip;11:3413&mdash;Halifax, Hirschfeld&hellip;&hellip;14:57Penalties&mdash;McNeil, Ed Duncan, Burns,McGillivray, Hudson.IN THE WESTTwo of the highly touted junior squads of Western Canada and both rated earlier in the season as sure bets for the Memorial Cup final will now lock horns in the Western final series for the right to meet the Eastern Representatives.Port Arthur West End Bruins eliminated the Winnipeg Monarchs while Lethbridge Native Sons repulsed Moose Jaw Canucks in the two semi-final series and they will now meet in a best-of-seven final fight.The Bruins knocked off the Monarchs on Wednesday by pounding a game but tired Winnipeg club to a 7-2 score. They took the best-of-seven series 4-2. In Calgary the same night, the Native Sons whipped the Canucks 7-3. The also won their series 4-2.SATURDAY, MARCH 27Port Arthur 5, at Winnipeg 7.Port Arthur&mdash;Zaeger; Durham, Olson, Baccari; Childs. Lewicki, Woit Ripka, Forslund, Fonso, Bhardley, Migay, Ferog. Creighton.Winnipeg Monarchs&mdash;McMeekin; Moulden, Kusmack; Rope; Arundel. Shepherd, Simpson. Swindlehurst, Mazur. Thompson, Kaye, Tougher, Tamblyn McCracken.First Period1&mdash;Port Arthu6.. Forslund&hellip;&hellip;2.252&mdash;port Arthur.. Forslund(Baccari)&hellip;&hellip;4.21;3&mdash;Winnipeg.. Shepherd(Tamblyn)&hellip;&hellip;10.524&mdash;Winnipeg.. Kaye(Arundel, McCracken)&hellip;&hellip;13.185&mdash;Winnipeg.. Swindlehurst(Rope)&hellip;&hellip;14.156&mdash;Port Arthur.. Lewicki&hellip;&hellip;15.097&mdash;Winnipeg.. Tamblyn(Mazur)&hellip;&hellip;16.21Penalties&mdash;Baccari, Durham, McCracken.Second Period8&mdash;Winnipeg.. Moulden&hellip;&hellip; 1.308&mdash;Winnipeg.. Shepherd(Mazur, Swindlehurst)&hellip;&hellip;11.5310&mdash;Port Arthur.. Creighton(Fero, Bradley)&hellip;&hellip;12.50Penalties&mdash;Lewicki, McCracken, Durham, Creighton.Third Period11&mdash;Port Arthur.. Forslund(Baccari)&hellip;&hellip;1.1712&mdash;Winnipeg.. McCracken(Kaye)&hellip;&hellip;19.52Penalties&mdash;Fero, Woit, Forslund. Baccari (2), ShepherdSUNDAY, MARCH 28 Moose Jaw 3, at Lethbridge 4.Moose Jaw,&mdash;Betker; Vogan, Johnstone; McLeod; Krekelwetz, Stein. Subs: Wylie, Popein, Juckes, Lovett, Van Buskirk, Coflin, Shave.Lethbridge&mdash;Rodzinyak; Milford, Evans; Ramsden; Brown, Dorohov. Subs Murphy, Manson, Richardson, Maglio, Lavell, Wood, Holmes.Officials&mdash;Dick Davis, George Hodges, both Winnipeg.First Period1&mdash;Moose Jaw.. Kdekelwetz(Stein)&hellip;&hellip; :232&mdash;Lethbridge.. Ramsden(Brown)&hellip;&hellip; 10.283&mdash;Lethbridge.. Dorohoy(Ramsden, Milford) 14.47Penatlies&mdash;Krekelwetz. Johnstone(major), Shave, Lavell, Holmes,Second Period4&mdash;Moose Jaw.. McLeod(Krekelwetz)&hellip;&hellip;1.39Penalties&mdash;None.Third Period5&mdash;Lethbridge.. Richardson&hellip;&hellip; 1.396&mdash;Lethbridge.. Dorohoy(Ramsden, Lavell)&hellip;&hellip;15.447&mdash;Moose Jaw.. Krekelwetz(Stein)&hellip;&hellip;18.36Penalties&mdash;Shave, Brown (two), Johnstone (three), Richardson.MONDAY, MARCH 29Moose Jaw 2, at Lethbridge 5First Period1&mdash;Moose aw.. Krekelwetz&hellip;&hellip;9.16Penalties&mdash;Dorohoy, Juckes, Lavell, McLeod.Second Period2&mdash;Lethbridge.. Leclair(Brown)&hellip;&hellip;10.33S&mdash;Lethbridge.. Dorohoy(Milford)&hellip;&hellip;12.474&mdash;Moose Jaw.. Thompson(McLeod&hellip;&hellip; 18.98Penalty&mdash;Bedard.Third Period5&mdash;Lethbridge, Monson(Leclair, Lavell)&hellip;&hellip; 5.176&mdash;Lethbridge.. Richardson(Manson, Leclair)&hellip;&hellip; 13.087&mdash;Lethbridge.. Dorohoy(Ramsden)&hellip;&hellip; 18.44Penalties&mdash;None.MONDAY, MARCH 29Port Arthur 3, nt Winnipeg 5First Period1&mdash;Part Arthur.. Creighton (Durham)&hellip;&hellip; 10.103&mdash;Winnipeg.. Shepherd(Tamblyn)&hellip;&hellip; 19.41Penalties&mdash;McCracken, Kaye (major), Lewicki.Second Period4&mdash;Winnipeg&mdash;McCracken 1.235&mdash;Winnipeg, Thomson(Kaye, McCracken)&hellip;&hellip; 2.026&mdash;Winnipeg.. Tamblyn(Shepherd, Mazur)&hellip;&hellip;6.017&mdash;Port Arthur.. Creighton(Ouson)&hellip;&hellip; 9.588&mdash;Winnipeg.. Arundel(penalty shot)&hellip;&hellip;15.41Penalty&mdash;Olson.Third PeriodScoring&mdash;None.Penalties&mdash;Kusmack.Durham. Migay.WEDNESDAY MARCH 31Port Arthur 7, at Winnipeg 2.Port Arthur&mdash;Chabot; Durham, Olson; Migay; Childs, Lewicki. Woit, Forslund, Bradley, Johnston, Creighton Baccari Wrightsell.Winnipeg&mdash;McMeekin; Moulden, Kusmack; Rope; Arundel, Sheperd. Simpson, Swindlehurst, Mazur, Thomson Kaye, Tamblyn, McCracken.Officials&mdash;Gord Porter and Chick Little, both of Regina.First Period1. Winnipeg, Sheperd (Rope, Arundel) :25; 2. Port Arthur, Baccari (Bradley) 2:45; 3. Port Arthur Forslund (Johnston, Wrightsell) 12:20; 4. Winnipeg,Mazur 17:41. Penalty&mdash;Childs.Second PeriodScoring.&mdash;None. Penalty&mdash;Kusmack.Third Period5. Port Arthur, Woit (Childs) 1:52; 6. Port Arthur, Creighton (Bradley) 2:52; 7. Fort Arthur Bradley (Olson) 13:02; 8. Port Arthur, Lewicki (Childs) 17:01; 9. Port Arthur, Lewicki (Migay) 19:52. Penalties&mdash;McCracken, Bradley.Lethbridge 7, at Moose Jaw 3.(Played at Calgary)Moose Jaw&mdash;Betker; Bedard, Vogan; Wylie, Juckes Popein. Krekelwetz, Thompson, Stein, McLeod, Van-Buskirk, Johnston, Coflin.Lethbridge&mdash;Rodzinak; Evans Milford; Dorohoy; Brown, Ramsden. Wood, Murphy, Leclair, Manson, Richardson, Holmes Lavell.Officials&mdash;Dick Davis, Gordon Haves, both of Winnipeg.First Period1. Moose Jaw, Stein 5:20; 2. Lethbridge, Manson (Murphy) 5:57: 3. Moose Jaw, Stein (Krekewetz) 15:09. Penalties: Bedard (2), MsLeod.Second Period4. Moose Jaw McLeod (Kreklewetz) 8:24; Penalties&mdash;Evans (2), Lavell, Stein, Vogan, Brown.Third Period5. Lethbridge, Murphy (Richardson. Dorohoy) 6:30; 6. Lethbridge, Evans (Dorohoy) 14:16. Penalties&mdash;Johnston, Brown.Overtime Period7. Lethbridge, Manson (Lavell, Murphy) 1:00; 8. Lethbridge. Ramsden(Richardson) 2:46; 9. Lethbridge, Evans 5:18: 10. Lethbridge. Richardson (Leclair) 9:43. Penalties&mdash;Leclair, Kreklewetz, Brown.<h2>Monarchs Feted</h2>LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;The newly-crowned Southern Division P. C. H. L. champion Loa Angeles Monarchs were given a victory banquet here recently by owner and president Charlie Cord and Lyman Johnson, executive vice-president of t h e Pan-Pacific Auditorium. Held at the Igloo Room, Pan-Pacific, the champs also received smartly tailored brown gabardine sport jackets with &ldquo;Los Angeles Monarchs&rdquo; inscribed across the top of one of the jacket pockets &#9632;

Road To The Memorial Cup

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01244/1290115-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"></div>REGINA, Sask&mdash;Third game in the Western Canada Junior hockey final series will be played at Regina April 10 if Lethbridge Native Sons and Port Arthur Bruins split points in the first two encounters, Al Pickard of Regina, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president announced on Friday&hellip; First two games of the best-of-seven series will be played in Lethbridge. The series opened on Monday and continued on Wednesday.If the Regina game is necessary, Mr. Pickard said, the fourth encounter will be at Port Arthur April 13. Should either of the two clubs win the first two games the series will move directly from Lethbridge to Port Arthur. Definite dates have not been decided in this case.<h2>Carry Ontario Junior Hopes</h2>SMILES OF VICTORY&mdash;These two young members of the Barrie Flyers give out with the victory smile and they have reason to be happy as the Flyers now hold the O.H.A. Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; title. They are Ray Gariepy, on the left, and Gil St. Pierre the club&rsquo;s leading scorer. &#9632;

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EDMONTON&rsquo; The Canadia Amateur Hockey Association lias increased the ticket prices for remaining Western Canadien senior and possible Allan Cup hockey playoffs in the Edmonton area.Charles Wilson, manager of the Edmonton Exhibition Association,. said the C. A. H. A. was adding 25 cents to the price of each of the 5,411 seat tickets. However, rush tickets will still sell for 50 cents.He also announced that plans to enlarge the arena capacity to 8,000 would be completed by next fall and that the complete program would cost between $100,000 and $125,000. &#9632;

PLAYOFF TICKETS TAKE PRICE JUMP

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><h2>HOW THEY STAND IN THE PLAYOFFS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04110/1290215-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="592" height="427"></div>Northern DivisionFinalsVancouver Canucks 3 2 1 16 11 4Seattle Ironmen&hellip; 3 1 2 11 16 2(Vancouver leads best-of-five series, 2-1)Sunday, March 28&mdash;Vancouver 6, at Seattle 4.Tuesday, March 30&mdash;Seattle 3, at Vancouver 4.Wednesday March 31&mdash;Vancouver 2, at Seattle 3Balance of Division FinalsApril 2&mdash;Seattle at VancouverApril 3,&mdash;San Diego at Rresno.April 4&mdash;Vancouver at Seattle.Overtime PeriodP. CH. L. FINALS TO START TUESDAY, APRIL 6 at home of Southern Division winners. Second game, Thursday, April 8, at home of Southern Division winners&hellip; third, fourth, fifth sixth and seventh games in best-of-seven series to be played at home of Northern Division champs dates to be announced when division titlists ar known.SATURDAY, MARCH 27FRESNO&mdash;The San Diego Skyhawks defeated the Fresno Falcons 2-1 in the opening game of their playoff series. The Falcons opened the scoring with a goal at 10:35 of the first period by Chuck McCullough but were unable to beat Goalie Frechette again. The Skyhawks evened the count at 1.48 of the third period on a goal bp Maurice Vaillancourt, Bernie McCarthy scored the winner 8 minutes later:Fresno&mdash;Brennan; Powers, Bastien; Prentice; Rheault, McCullough; Roach, Fritz, Peterson, Desilets Cinor, Richardson, Whitte, Corrigan.McCarthy; Vaillancourt, Hellyer; PidsodSan Diego&mdash;Frechette; Lallo Desson; ny, McIntosh Warecki, Gibbon, Boothman, Marchant.First Period1. Fresno. McCullough (Rheault) 10:35. Penalties&mdash;Desson Powers, Cinor.Third PeriodNo scoring. Penalties: Hellyer, Marchant, Pidsodny Roach, Desson, Bastien, Pidsodny.Third Period2. San Diegos Vaillancourt (McCarthy) 1.48. 3. San Diego McCarthy (Hellyer) 9.45. Penalties: McIntosh, McCarthy.SUNDAY, MARCH 28SAN DIEGO&mdash;Although outshot 3-1 the Fresno Falcons defeated the Skyhawks 3-1 here. Goalie Frechette of the Skyhawks was only called upon to make seven saves during the game but the Falcons made the m ost of every opportunity to knot the series at one game each. Jof. Desilets. who started the season as the San Diego coach, was the hero of the Falcons, scoring the winning goal and assisting in the clincher to beat his former charges.San Diego&mdash;Frechette; Lallo Desson; McCarthy; Vaillancourt, Hellyer; Pidsodny, Macintosh, Warecki Gibbon, Boothman, Marchant.Fresno&mdash;Brennan; Roach, Fritz; Bellinger; Richardson. Desilets; Powers, Bastien, Peterson, Rheault Cinor, McCullough, Whittet, Corrigan.First Period1. Fresno, Whittet (Corrigan Peterson) 16:54. Penalties: Pidsodny, Brennan.Second PeriodNo scoring. Penalties: Pidsony, Bellinger Desson, Cnior, Pidsodny.Third Period2. Fresno, Desilets (Roach, Bellinger) 1:43; 3 San Diego, Gibbon (Warecki, Marchant) 4:24; 4. Fresno, Richardson (Desilets, Bellinger) Penalties: Pidsodny kl. Boothman.SEATTLE&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks defeated th? Seattle Ironmen 5-4 in the first game of their play-off series. Mel Neilson, Vancouver wingman, turned the &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; by scoring four of the Canucks five goals.Seattle&mdash;Pickell; McFadzen Toohy; Robinson; Duffy, Dartnell; Marchant, Dorohoy, Kerr, McBride, Rouse, Evers, Tilson Bentley.Vancouver&mdash;Picard: O&rsquo;Reilly Vickery; Carse; Milliard, Ballance; Milman, Nichos, Bathgate, Sloboda, Gruhn, Shamlock Neilson Colville.First Period1. Vancouver, Gruhn (Ned-Ison) 3:48; 2. Seattle, Dartnell Robinson, Bentley) 10:04; 3. Vancouver. Neilson 14:27; 4. Seattle. Rouse (McBride) 15:34. Penalties&mdash;Nichols, Dorohoy.Second Period5. Vancouver Neilson 2:31; 6. Vancouver Neilson (Millman) 7:54. Penalties&mdash;O&rsquo;Reilly, Nichols.Third Period7. Seatte, Robinson (Dartnell) 3:34; 8. Seattle, Dorohoy (Tilson) 4:28; 9.Vancouver, Neilson (Bathgate) 8:59. Penalties&mdash;Dartnell, Bentley. Carse.TUESDAY MARCH 30FRESNO&mdash;The Fa icons clipped San Diego Skyhawks 4-1 to go one game up in their Southern Division finals as Joey Peterson scored three goals and assisted on another.First Period1. Fresno Peterson (Bellinger-Roach) 2:30; 2, Fresno. Rheault (Cinor) 5:12; 3. San Diego, Hellyer (McCarthy, Vaillancourt) 13:10. Penalties&mdash;None.Second Period4. Fresno Peterson (Whittet Fritz) 1:04; 5. Fresno, Peterson (Whittet) 7:25. Penalties&mdash;McIntosh (tripping), McCartny (cross checking), McCullough (tripping). Cinor (hooking) McIntosh (hooking), Richardson (hooking).Third PeriodScoring none. Penalties&mdash;Lallo (charging) McIntosh and McCullough (fisticuffs) McCarthy (cross checking), Bastien (high sticking).VANCOUVER&mdash;Vancouver&rsquo;s Canucks gained a 2-0 lead over Seattle in the best-of-five Pacific Coast League, northern division, championship finals by defeating the Ironmen 4-3 in a fast, rough game.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31SEATTLE&mdash;Seattle Ironmen clambered back into the running In the Northern Division playoffs by dynamitting the game before 4800 fans. Vancouver con-Vancouver Canucks 9-2, In a playoff game before 4800 fans. Vancouver continues to lead two games to one.LOS ANGELES, Calif.&mdash;It is open season for ticket scalpers in San Diego, Fresno, Seattle clubs left in the running for the P.C.H.L. championship are battling it out before turnaway crowds ever time they take to the ice.Never before in the history of the circuit has interest and enthusiasm been as rabid and as intense as it is now. Tickets are grabbed up immediately after they are put on sale and within a couple of hours the S.R.O. sign is hung up in the ticket office. It Is a good omen for hockey in these parts.In the Southern Division finals the Fresno Falcons and' the San Diego Skyhawks are all even after four games, each club having won two and lost a pair. The &ldquo;payoff&rdquo; game was scheduled for April 3 in Fresno. By the time this issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS hits the stands the winner of this series and the Northern series will be known and the first game of the league finals will have been played, April 6, on the home rink of the So. Div. kingpins.Surprising FalconsBob Grade&rsquo;s surprising and improved Falcons after dropping the opening game of their best-of-five series with San Diego, 2-1, in Fresno, March 27, came back with two straight wins, 3-1 and 4-1, in San Diego, March 28 and Fresno, March 30, respectively, before dropping the fourth game, 6-1, April 1 in the Border City.George Boothman&rsquo;s third place Skyhawks were odd-on-favorites to cop the series handily on the basis of their season&rsquo;s record with Fresno: 10 wins, 3 losses and 1 tie in 14 games. But from the opening whistle in Pacific Coast playoffs this year the &ldquo;underdog&rdquo; teams have fooled the experts and defeated the supposed favorites.Over 3,700 partisan Fresno fans packed every available nook and corner in the Fresno Ice Arena to root their beloved Falcons to an opening game win over San Diego, washed out in the final period but an early Fresno goal when goals by Maurice Vaillancourt&mdash;division&rsquo;s leading pointman&mdash;and Bernie McCarthy turned the tide in favor of the visitors.Skyhawks Get HotThe San Diego win came on the heels of three consecutive overtime triumphs over San Francisco and it was their 11th win in their last 13 games.Travelling to Glacier Gardens, San Diego, for the second tilt, the Graciemen, although outshot 3-to-1, took advantage of every opportunity and' to the disappointment of a thunderous sellout S.D. audience skated off with a well-earned, 3-1, verdict.Paced by left winger Joey Peterson who potted three goals in the first two periods, the Falcons fought their way to a convincing, 4-1, win over the 'Hawks in the Raisin City and a one game lead in their bitterly contested series.San Diego picked itself up the skate laces April 1 and they weren&rsquo;t fooling when they soundly drubbed Fresno. 6-1, to even their series at two wins apiece, to the delight of San Diego's biggest crowd of the season. The Fresnorink is already sold out for the series finale.Seattle On RopesUp North, the hot Vancouver sextet have backed the circuit's number one club during the regular season&mdash;Seattle Ironmen&mdash;up against the wall, defeating them 5-4 and 4-3 in the first two games before the Ironmen retaliated with a 9-2 shellacking job. The Seattle men will have to win the next two games, April 2 and April 4, if they hope to continue the past record of Northern Division champs, who have managed to go to the league finals against then Southern champs.Mel Neilson, Vancouver&rsquo;s high scoring right winger, was the whole show in the series opener, March 28 in Seattle, when he bettered the hat trick by one&mdash;scoring four goals&mdash;and assisted in his club&rsquo;s other tally. It was one of the most outstanding performances in the league this season.The Forum in Vancouver had no vacancies, March 30, when over 6,000 onlookers roared approval as the Canucks took a 4-3 second game verdict over the Ironmen in a hard, fast, rough game. Seattle was handicaped early in the game when their high scoring wingman, Maurice Duffy, got a minor, 10-minute misconduct and match penalty in the first period.Eddie Dartnell&rsquo;s Ironmen were not fooling March 31 when they goalie Al Picard for a decisive, 9-2, shot nine pucks past Vancouver wiu to the satisfaction of 4,800 Washington State fans.ICINGS: Vaillancourt aided and abetted by McCarthy and Vince Hellyer have been pacing the San Diego club, who have been playing with 12 men, injuries sidelining one complete forward line &hellip; Bob Grade&rsquo;s inspired Falcons have seen Joey Peterson, Chuck Corrigan, Joffre Desilets and Bill Whittet scoring the &ldquo;all-important&rdquo; goals &hellip; Hermie Gruhn, Mel Neilsen and Bernie Bathgate have been bell-ringers on the Vancouver outfit, and Duffy and Bill Robinson along with mentor Dartnell are the Seattle red lighters &hellip; Freddie Metcalfe, New York coach who suffered a stroke in Montreal a few weeks back is now in Los Angeles recuperating at his brother's (Tommy) and sister&rsquo;s home, and we are happy to report that Freddie is getting better each day.<h2>INDIVIDUAL LEADERS</h2>IN REGULAR SEASONNORTHERN DIVISIONLeading; scorer:Ken UllyotNew Westminster&hellip; 64 88 71 109Most Assists:Ken Ullyot New Westminster&hellip; 71Most Penalties:&hellip;&hellip;Pete Talllifer, Tacoma 184Leading goalkeeper:Ron Pickell, Seattle. Games played 66; goals against 239.Average per game 3.46.Most Shots stopped by Goalkeeper:Dinny McManus, New West&hellip;&hellip;1944Best average of shots stopped:Ron Pickell Seattle 886%Most Hat tricks (3 goals per game):Pat Desbiens, Portland&hellip;&hellip;7,Most games, winning goal scored:Walt. Dorothy Seattle andGordon Flashoway, New West&hellip;. 7Most hat tricks scored against:Dinny McManus New W&hellip;&hellip;15Most Shutouts:Dinny McManus, New W&hellip;&hellip;2(New league record).<h2>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h2>Leading Scorer:Maurice Vaillancourt, San Diego&hellip;&hellip;57 45 46 91Most Goals:Maurice Vaillancourt, San Diego&hellip;&hellip;45Most Assists:Ray Chaisson, Los Ang&hellip;&hellip;51Most Penalties:Joe Desson San Diego&hellip;&hellip;182 Min.Leading Goalkeeper:Duff. McDermid, San Francisco Games played 66, Goals against 227.Average per game 3.44.Most Shots stopped by Goalkeeper:Duff McDermid, San Fran 1889Best average of shots stopped:Duff McDermid, San Fran 892%Most Hat Tricks (3 goals per game):Fred Gibbon Oak-San Diego&hellip;&hellip;4Most games, winning goal scored:Stan Warecki, San Diego&hellip;&hellip;7Most Hat Tricks scored against:Larry Frechette, San Diego&hellip;&hellip;8Most Shutouts:Duff. McDermid San Fran&hellip;&hellip;5 &#9632;

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Frank Currie made his first coaching venture in western Canada a successful one when he piloted Edmonton Flyers to the first Western Canada Senior Hockey championship the club has won in three years of trying. Currie&rsquo;s Flyers won the title in convincing style by routing the defending champions, Calgary Stampeders, four games to one, with one contest tied.At the start of the playoff it looked like it would be a rugged series but after the first three games, Flyers&rsquo; supremacy started to show in marked quantities. Sampeders, who won the Allan Cup in 1946 and reached the final in 1947, battled hard but just did not have the fight or power to cope with the potent Edmonton sextet.Flyers attained peak form just before the playoffs while Stampeders may have burned themselves out in battling to finish atop the circuit. As it turned out the advantage of extra home gar mes and the first two of the series didn&rsquo;t mean a thing for Calgary. Edmonton won two out of the three fixtures played on Stamps&rsquo; home pond.The defeat couldn&rsquo;t be classed as too great a disappointment for Stampeders and the outcome possibly was the best thing that could happen to the league. Stampeders have had two rich seasons in playcup competition and it won&rsquo;t hurt thin a bit to sit by and watch Edmonton strut its stuff this year.In fact the loss may make the club promoters realize that new talent is needed on the Calgary squad. You can&rsquo;t keep practically the same lineup intact for three straight seasons and hope to come up with a winner each time.Edmonton has plenty on the ball-and it will take a rugged, high scoring club to eliminate them. In Big Merluk, Doug Anderson and Andy Clovechok Edmonton has as classy a line as in the league while the Morey Rimstad-Bill Maher-Johnny Black trio doesn&rsquo;t have to take a back seat to any forward line in scoring ability.The real thing that Edmonton beat Calgary with was checking. Flyers were content to play organized hockey and capitalize on the breaks. When the breaks didn&rsquo;t one they just sat back and forechecked Calgary players as they came in.Al Rollins, easily the best net-minder in the league, displayed the ability he is capable of in the playoff with Calgary. Stampeders have some of the most finished pucksters in the league around the net.Yes it will take quite a club to beat the Alberta and Saskatchewan champions. &#9632;

Edmonton And Winnipeg Will Tangle In Western Canada Senior Finals

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Winnipeg Flyers, the club that has been knocking on the Allan Cup door with increased urgency the past few seasons, is at it again and this time the Manitoba sextet is up against a newcomer in Edmonton Flyers. Both clubs having the same name may cause a little confusion.On their record so far Edmonton definitely is a big favorite. The Alberta sextet showed power to spare in disposing of Calgary Stampeders in easy fashion and bouncing back to stop Trail Smoke Eaters&rsquo; playoff hopes when they were just getting started.For Winnipeg it was different. Flyers had their hands full and it was only a &ldquo;Hollywood&rsquo;&rsquo; goal less than a minute before the end of the deciding game that provided the winning edge over Fort Frances Canadiens.However, a club that has been in the western final for three years running must have some thing on the ball and this might be the season that the battling &rsquo;Peg sextet gains the Allan Cup final.<h2>Allan Cup Bound</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01218/1290270-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="550" height="814"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK CURRIE</figcaption></div>You can be sure that Winnipeg will put up a game struggle. Last year the youthful club gave Calgary Stampeders a few bad moments and Frank Currie&rsquo;s Edmontonians will have to be on the bit all the way to get past Winnipeg.Edmonton has been crying for an Allan Cup ever since the Western Canada Senior Hockey League was formed three years ago. The Alberta Capital figured Flyers could have annexed the crown in 1946 against Hamilton Tigers had Calgary Stampeders not been at peak form.In 1946 and again in 1947 it has been the Western Canada senior league winner that has gained the coveted Allan Cup final and it may very well be the same this term. Edmonton has the power and stamina to last a long time.Sports writers predictions are usually all wet but we&rsquo;ll pick Edmonton to get past Winnipeg and go on to win the Allan Cup against the east. &#9632;

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Edmonton Club Is Favored To Win Over Rivals

<div class="byline">By MARCEL CLAVET</div>VICTORLAVILLE, Que.&mdash;The town of Victoriaville in Quebec&rsquo;s Eastern Townships now has a population of only 10,000&mdash;but its citizens are convinced the community is really going places in the hockey world. And after the local Tigers&mdash;champions of the Provincial Hockey League&mdash;trounced the proud Ottawa Senators in the opening game of the all-Quebec Senior finals, Vlctoriavilie is even more jubilant.Ottawa Senators swept aside all opposition to win the Quebec Senior Hockey League title this season&mdash;heading a circuit that included the Montreal Royals, last year&rsquo;s Allan Cup winners. The Provincial League has always been held in low esteem by the lordly Q.S.H.L. which all makes Victoriaville&rsquo;s opening win all the sweeter. Whether Tigers can take the Senators, and advance in the Allan Cup hunt, will be known after the series is finished, but the initial success is a fitting climax to a story of fan loyalty that is rarely surpassed.It all started many years ago, when Victoriaville had only an open rink and an intermediate calibre team, under the direction of an association headed by J. D. Gagne, a prominent businessman.Caught On FastThe people of Victoriaville&mdash;then numbering only a little more than 7,000&mdash;went all out for hockey. The game grew in popularity year by year until the need for an indoor playing surface was felt and Gagne decided to do something about it.Along with the mayor, and the country deputy in the provincial legislature, and&rsquo; with the aid of a substantial grant from the Provincial Government, Gagne supervised the building of a modern rink seating more than 2,000. With the help of other hockey boosters like Lucien Corriveau, Albert Morisette and&rsquo; Maurice Hamel, the town won several intermediate titles and then looked for wider fields.In 1945-46 for the first time, Victoriaville entered Senior &ldquo;D&rdquo; hockey, in the Provincial League. Gaston Jolicoeur was the president of the club that season, as the Victoriaville entry won the league title, despite the fact they had to play the finals on Sherbrooke ice because they lacked an artificial freeze themselves.Missing the chance to see their club in action for the playoffs, the fans decided to press for an artificial ice plant, so a Sporting Club under the direction of J. E. Alain began raising money for the project. Since then, the townspeople have raised $40,000 toward the cost of an artificial arena, besides supporting Tigers as they moved into senior classification along with the other Provincial League entries.Artificial Ice NextThis season, Coach Roland Hebert collected a smart band of players from aH over Canada, and they look capable of giving Ottawa Senators quite a battle in the Quebec finals for the right to move along the Allan Cup trail.Among the players gathered for the 1947-48 campaign are Lucien Dechasse, Roger Roberge and George Roy from Quebec City; Hector Legris from Hull, Que; Phil Vitale from Toronto, Armand Dufault from Winnipeg, and Kelly Burnett from Lachine, Que. Burnett has been the P.H.L.&rsquo;s leading scorer for the past two seasonsOther stars of this year&rsquo;s Tigers are Gaston Gauthier of Verdun, Que., Fred Valenti of North Bay, Ont., Bobby Carragher of Montreal, Edmund Vigneau of Edmundston, N.B., who learned his hockey in Verdun, Walter Cechini of Timmins, Ont., Raymond Leduc from Valleyfield, Que., Doug Smith from Richmond, Que. The only Victo-riaville-born player on the roster is Gerard Labbe, the sub goaltender.Last season, the average attendance at the 30 scheduled home league games was 2,300. Now plans are afoot to enlarge the rink capacity to 5,000 and build an even stronger team.<h2>Juniors Honored</h2>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;Gordon Knutson of Regina Pats, the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey league&rsquo;s leading scorer, was presented with the Wes Champ Memorial trophy as the most valuable player to his team, at an in-between period show at Queen City Gardens last week. &#9632;

Victoriaville Town Goes All Out In Support Of Champion Tigers

CALGARY, Alta&mdash;The fast-skating forward line of the champion Edmonton Flyers, nick-named the Pony Express Line by Western Canada League writers, finished one-two-three in the final official playoff scoring statistics released last week.Doug Anderson, who will get a try-out with Montreal Canadiens next fall, was top man with five goals and 10 assists while linemate Andy Clovechok was in second place with 14 points. He scored eight markers and six assists. The Czech-born star was the top goalgetter. The other third of the sleek line, Bing Merluk was third with 13 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02185/1290325-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="592" height="1345"></div> &#9632;

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Anderson Sweeps Playoff Scoring Title Of W.C.H.L.

<div class="byline">By GLEN GARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0147/1290363-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="274" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0246/1290356-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="319"></div>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.It&rsquo;s in the &ldquo;clutch&rdquo; games of the playoffs where experience so frequently turns the tables In Series &ldquo;A&rdquo;, a best 4-in-7 series for the Directors&rsquo; Cup and League championship is now being played between the Kansas City Pla-Mors and Houston Huskies. Players like Hank Blade, Ray Powell, Larry Silvestri, Doug Baldwin, Red Mitchell and Doug Jackson of Kansas City are veterans of playoff action.Blade&rsquo;s playoff record is as good as any players. The husky forward registered 15 points in the playoffs of &rsquo;46, and 11 last spring. His brilliant play had much to do with Kansas City winning both playoff championships. Powell was also with the Pla-Mors lastspring and was credited with 13 points. Silvestri, Minnesota-born winger, came up with seven goals in the playoffs of &rsquo;46, and eight goals last season, a record which is better than par for any championship series.Baldwin and Mitchell, backed up by Jackson in the nets, give Kansas City a world of &ldquo;know how&rdquo; where it counts most, on the backline.The Houston Huskies, Kansas City&rsquo;s opponents, can match the Pla-Mors, however, in playoff experience. Their coach, Toe Blake, was the star of the Montreal Canadiens for the past decade and holds the all-time N.H.L playoff scoring record of 18 points made in the spring of 44. Toe likes a winner and will not be content without one.LEADING SCORERIn George Agar the Huskies have the League&rsquo;s leading scorer and a veteran of four playoff series. Hub Macey, Houston centre, played for the Montreal Canadiens in the playoffs last season. Kenny MacKenzie, right wing of the Huskies led the goal scorers in the playoffs last spring when he whacked in nine markers in six games while playing for Dallas.Bob Blake, Wisconsin-born defence ace of the Huskies, is a yeteran of nine playoff series and was one of the stars of the Buffalo Bisons in the championship series in the spring of &rsquo;46 when the Bisons won the American Hockey League championship. In Frank Ceryance and Paul Gauthier the Huskies have a pair of netminders who have been around a long time and are not bothered by &ldquo;playoff fever&rdquo;.Minneapolis has the veteran Harry McQueston between the pipes. Harry likes his victories as well as any goaltender and has the habit of turning in his best games when under pressure. Bill Allum and Red Williams are two of Bill Cook&rsquo;s best rearguards and what makes them particularly valuable is they manage to keep out of the penalty box.In Ralph &ldquo;Bus&rdquo; Wycherley the Millers have the league&rsquo;s unanimous choice for left wing on the all-stars for the second consecutive season. Wycherley had two men dogging his trail in the closing games of the season and in the playoffs, but still managed to break away for his share of goals. Bus is the league&rsquo;s top &ldquo;clutch&rdquo; scorer, and came up with the tieing goals in the first and second playoff games against Omaha.Besides those the Millers still have such classy performers as &ldquo;Ants&rdquo; Atanas, Tom Forgie, Pinky Melnyk, Stan Smith, Norm Burns, Earl Bartholome and young Walt Hergesheimer.The winner of Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; between the KC Pla-Mors and Houston Huskies will meet Minneapolis Millers with the dates for the finals&mdash;Series &ldquo;E&rdquo;&mdash;still to be determined. The winner of the playoffs will receive the Paul W. Loudon Trophy, emblematic of the League Playoff Championship. &#9632;

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Huskies and Pla-Mors Count On Experienced Players For Victory

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0343/1290394-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="614" height="279"></div>April 7 to April 137&mdash;Ross Johnstone, Springfield, defence, 1926.9&mdash;Tony Licari, Indianapolis, right wing, 1921.10&mdash;John &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty, Pittsburgh, left wing, 1918; Mel Read, St. Paul, centre, 1924.11&mdash;Andy Branigan, Hershey, defence, 1922.12&mdash;Al Dewsbury, Omaha, defence, 1926; Lloyd Finkbeiner, Dallas, defence, 1920; Don Grosso, St. Louis, centre, 1915.13&mdash;Hub Macey, Houston, left wing, 1921; Paul Bibeault, Buffalo, goaler, 1919. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By LOIS BEGAN</div>HARRISBURG, Pa.&mdash;Although the Hershey Bears failed to make the grade and were washed out of the third-place preliminaries in the American Hockey League this season by Buffalo, the home fans are sticking by them, even to the point of organizing a Hershey Bears Booster Club.Though the efforts of Miss May Spence of 1942 N. 5th St., Harrisburg, Pa., the wheels were set in motion for the formation of a fan club. At a meting held in the Arena press box after a recent game about 12 persons formed the nucleus of what is hoped will be &ldquo;the biggest and most active fan club in the loop.&rdquo;Miss Spence, a Hershey rooter since she was a tiny girl, was named acting chairman of the group, and was authorized to write to other fan clubs in the league for information. She reported that J. B. Sollenberger, Hershey Arena manager, has pledged complete support of the Chocolatetown officials, even to the point of providing membership cards and letterheads.Bear supporters interested in joining have been asked to notify Miss Spence, who will keep them posted of organizational activities. &#9632;

Hershey Fans Not Downhearted; Now Form Booster Club

<div class="byline">Photo by Turofsky)</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f00C4-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0520/1290456-1-eng-US/f00c4-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Turofsky)</figcaption></div><h2>A Rookie In Raptures</h2>A BRUIN TALLY&mdash;Rookie Paul Ronty jumps with joy after this goal, Boston&rsquo;s second Saturday night in Maple Leaf Gardens. Ken Smith who is not. in the picture, notched the goal at 12.07 of the second period. In the picture from left to right are, Referee Bill Chadwick, Joe Ktukay, Gus Mortson, Johnny Peirson (No. 23) and Turk Broda.TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;His Maple Leafs had just qualified to defend the Stanley Cup in professional hockey&rsquo;s world but instead of exulting, Conn Smythe&rsquo;s first words were: &ldquo;Do you want to see three more Meekers&mdash;Boy, there&rsquo;s a sample of young Canada.&rdquo;The Toronto team managing director led the way from the rubbing room to the lockers. There, three rugged Ontario youngsters watched admiringly as their older brother, New Hamburg&rsquo;s Howie, pulled of sweat-soaked togs after setting down Boston Bruins 3-2 Saturday night to knock them out of the playoffs.Howie, himself only 23 although a twice-wonded war veteran cracked to scout Squib Walker: &ldquo;You should take these kids with us on the road. We have never lost once in two years any time they watched us.&rdquo;Quickly the younger Meekers&mdash;Ken, 17, Chuck. 17 and Howie Meeker Tom, 14&mdash;voted for the idea. They&rsquo;d come from their new home at Chalk River, Canada&rsquo;s uranium research centre and as Tom put it: &ldquo;To the Leafs&rsquo; enemies we&rsquo;re just like the atomic bomb.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0438/1290449-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="282" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Howie Meeker</figcaption></div>As the young Canada exhibition continued, Boston Manager Weston Adams strode in and congratulated all hands. To Rookie Les Costello who scored a goal in his first National League start, he said: &ldquo;A great series, I hope yon go all the way.&rdquo;Costello up from Pittsburgh Hornets, didn&rsquo;t have a chance to reply as to how he reacted to his first big-time start. Max Bentley, centre for the former South Porcupine winger, interjected with: &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t make any difference to Les&mdash;he just keeps popping them in.&rdquo;There was no despondency in the Boston room, Milt Schmidt, great Bruins centre and outstanding individual star of the series, smiled weakly as he rubbed a painful charleyhorse in his left leg which kept him out of most of the contest. &#9632;

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Meeker Brothers Celebrate Leaf Win Over Bruins

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Unruly spectators attacking visiting players will be a thing of the past in Boston if Walter Brown, general manager of the Boston Garden has his way. If a New England concern is able to fabricate it. Brown will install plexiglass dugouts next season to house the rival teams. The plexiglass dugouts will protect the players and segregate them from the fans. In order to install these dugouts it will be necessary to remove the two rows of seats back, of both players&rsquo; benches.This will mean the elimination of 56 seats.The only detail needed to clinch the innovation of hockey players&rsquo; benches is the o.k. from Weston Adams, president of the. Bruins. With the removal of the 56 seats the Bruins will lose the revenue that these seats bring in each year which amounts to approximately $4,480. It is believed that Adams will readily agree with Brown&rsquo;s idea and have the seats removed, realizing the great value such a move would be to hockey in Boston.The spectators will have an unobstructed view of the game if the dugouts are installed as they will be made of plexiglass and will be 100 per cent translucent.Furthermore, whether rink side patrons complain or not, next season glass sideboards will be erected completely around the rink. A few years ago the Garden installed a low wire sideboard around the rink to protect the fans from flying sticks and pucks, and the players from just such attacks as the one on Toronto&rsquo;s Bill Barilko Tuesday. When rinksiders squawked so loudly and longly the Bruins asked to have them removed to please the fans. This low wire board is still used at all amateur and Olympics games.Brown is determined to have the glass installed next year and no matter what the fans think it will still go up.&ldquo;We would have had it up this year except the glass is too heavy tor our present dasher. We&rsquo;ve had the glass since the second game of the season and this summer we will rebuild the rink boards entirely to hold the load and will put them up when next season opens,&rdquo; Brown stated.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll do everything In our power,&rdquo; declared Brown, &ldquo;to prevent a good sport like hockey from being ruined. Remember it was roughness that killed lacrosse in Canada,&rdquo; he warned. &ldquo;People will stand for just so much rough stuff.&rdquo;Brown made it clear that any spectator who did anything wrong at a hockey game in the Boston Garden in future would be ejected at once. He closed by saying, &ldquo;Honestly, I can&rsquo;t understand what&rsquo;s come over Boston fans to act in the rowdyish manner they have this year.&rdquo; &#9632;

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April 7, 1948

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