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November 3, 1948
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Stardom Not Reserved For The Young
MONTREAL, Que.— Mr. and Mrs. Average Fan gazing at a hockey contest from their hard slabs of wood and concrete, may be pardoned for thinking that the sport is solely a young man’s game, involving as it does the use of such blood-curdling mayhem and Shillelagh-swinging. But a glance around the National League, past and present, does much to dispel that notion. In most sports 30 is usually considered as the age when an athlete is just about all washed up, ready for the scran hean and the arm chair. But life, it seems just beging to get Interesting at 30 for those hardy National Leaguers. Just for argument’s sake, let’s take a rundown through the names of some of hockey’s bright est stars of today. Consider the cases of Frankie Brimsek, Bll…
Toledo Mercurys Mooted Team To Beat In International Loop
TOLEDO, O.— Form, and the capturing of the United States Senior Championship last season make the Toledo Mercurys the team to beat in the International League this year. The green and white uniformed Marks are the only club in the circuit with a year’s experience on which to build. Andy Mulligan, longtime defense man in the Midwest, and a na tive of Winnipeg, has assembled a mixture of youth and age whicl already has proven its mettle by defeating the Milwaukee Clarks 5 to 1 in the season inaugaural. In goal Andy has Bun Nicholson ‘rom the Sydney, Nova Scotia, Mil-ionaires. Noted as a hard luck letminder Nicholson has a fine pair of hands and is expected to continue in the tradition of good Toledo goalkeepers. A husky fellow, Nicholson is the stand…
Reds’ Plucky Rosie Rossignol Battles To Get Back In Game
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Last season in the Rhode Island Reds’ sixth game of the season, Roland (Rosie) Rossignol fractured his left leg. Since that time, Rossignol has been thrust into the background of the Reds’ hockey picture but he appears to be on the comeback trail. Up to now, the trail has been a long and tough one. Although many hockey followers, in fact most of the R.I. Reds fans, believed that Rossignol’s busted leg was just one of there usual breaks, events have proven differently. Rossignol broke the leg in a collision with Les Costello of Pitts burg on October 26, 1947 in a game that ended in a 2-2 deadlock. From that day to this Rosie has been waging a siow but apparently winning battle. Throughout the past summer, Rossignol spent…
Cowley Popular With Press And Radio Men
VANCOUVER, B.C.— Bill Cowley met his most severe critics in Vancouver a few days before the Pacific Coast Hockey League season started—and passed the test with fying colors. Boston Bill, new coach of the Vancouver Canucks, was brought face-to-face with the city’s sports writers, editors and radio commentators by Boss Coley Hall, and Bill not only told the boys what he had in mind for the coming season, but he sat back chewing on a big cigar and answered a hundred questions from the Fourth Estate. The boys liked Cowley, and in their stories the next day made no bones about expressing their pre-season affections for one of the greatest stars the NHL has ever produced. Whether this affection will continue all season remains to be seen. Newspaper and radio men in Vancouver have…
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