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April 7, 1948
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Huskies and Pla-Mors Count On Experienced Players For Victory
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. It’s in the “clutch” games of the playoffs where experience so frequently turns the tables In Series “A”, a best 4-in-7 series for the Directors’ 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’s playoff record is as good as any players. The husky forward registered 15 points in the playoffs of ’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 last spring and was credited with 13 points. Silvestri, Minnesota-born winger, came up with seven goals in the playoffs of ’46, and eight…
BRUIN, PETE BABANDO SLUGS FAN, FINED ‘C’ NOTE, WILL APPEAL
BOSTON, Mass.—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…
REGINA TO BE SITE FOR THIRD CONTEST
REGINA, Sask—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… 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. Carry Ontario Junior Hopes SMILES OF VICTORY—These two young members of the Barrie Flyers give out with the…
GREAT FALLS MIGHT BE GROUNDS FOR FUTURE PRO HOCKEY TALENT
GREAT FALLS, Montana— 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…
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