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April 6, 1949

The Hockey News April 6, 1949

<h2>One Goose Egg</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>n the first 11 playoff games this season, only one goaltender was able to mark up a shutout. Turk Broda got the solitary goose egg as Toronto blanked Boston 3-0 in the first game.</p><h2><b>Tough On Road</b></h2><p>Toronto won all three games played in Boston, and split a pair in Toronto. Canadians and Detroit each won two on home ice, and one victory each in the enemy camp in their first six games.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M., APRIL 5</h3><p><b>SEMI-FINALS, BEST-OF-SEVEN</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01144/1136781-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="588" height="79"></div><p><b>(Series tied 3-3)</b></p><p><b>East Week&rsquo;s Games</b></p><p>Tuesday. March 29&mdash;Detroit 3 at Montreal 1.</p><p>Thursday, March 31&mdash;Montreal 1 at Detroit 3.</p><p>Saturday, April 2&mdash;Detroit 1, at Canadians 3.</p><p><b>Final Game</b></p><p>Tuesday, April 5&mdash;Montreal at Detroit</p><p><b>SERIES B</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02121/1136774-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="573" height="59"></div><h3>(Toronto wins series, 4-1)</h3><p><b>Jutst Week&rsquo;s Games</b></p><p>Tuesday. March 29&mdash;Boston 1 at Toronto 3.</p><p>Wednesday, March 30&mdash;Toronto 3 at Boston 2.</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs disposed of Boston Bruins in short order in their semi-final bracket, taking four games in five, but Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings locked in a bitter struggle that went the full seven games for a decision.</p><p>Leafs nipped Bruins 3-1 and 3-2 on last Tuesday and Wednesday to eliminate the Clapper Crew and waltz into the Stanley Cup finals for the third year in a row.</p><p>Meanwhile, in the other semifinals, the clubs were seesawing back and forth in an evenly-contested trial of strength. After splitting the first two games in Detroit, Canadiens and Wings again sawed off in the next two games on Montreal ice to deadlock the series 2-2.</p><p>From then on, with the teams alternating on home ice, the host club won each time, Detroit taking a 3-1 decision Thursday and Canadiens duplicating that score Saturday night in the Montreal Forum.</p><p>That left the series deadlocked at three games apiece, with the finale set for Tuesday night in Detroit Olympia to tell the tale</p><h3>SEMI-FINALS TUESDAY. MARCH 29</h3><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Canadiens blew a great chance to take a commanding lead in their best-of-seven Stanley Cup semi-final series with the Detroit Red Wings by losing to the Wings, 3-1 before a jampacked house at the Forum.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Lumley: defense, Quackenbush, Kelly: center, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Stewart, Relse, Gee, McNab, Horeck, Poile. Lundy, Couture, Pavelich, Fogolin, Podolsky.</p><p>Goal.; Harvey, Bouchard; center. Mosdell; wings, Richard, Chamberlain; subs.: Riopelle, Plamondon, Carveth, Harmon, Fillion, Reay, Gravelie, Reardon, McKay, Leger, Laycoe.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> King Clancy; linesmen: Sam Babcock, Mush March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0480/1136767-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="592" height="366"></div><p>TORONTO&mdash;Only Toronto native on the team. 23-year-old Sid Smith came up from the minors to lead the World Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-l victory over Boston and virtually clinch the Stanley Cup semi-final round.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Brimsek; defense, Egan, Henderson; center, Sandford; wings, Peters, Dumart; subs.: Flaman, Kryzanowski, Schmidt, Warwick, Babando, Ronty, Pierson, K. Smith, Topazzinl, Harrison, Creighton.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Broda; defense, Boesch Barilko; center, Bentley; wings, Klukay, Timgren; subs.: Mortson, Thomson, Juzda, Kennedy, Mackell, Gardner, Ezinicki, Watson, S. Smith, Taylor, Dawes.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Ray Getliffe, Doug Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0559/1136760-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="580" height="344"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30</h3><p>BOSTON&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs gained a chance to wrap up the Stanley Cup for the third year in a row as they clambered over Boston Bruins into the Cup final. Leafs tripped Bruins 3-1 to take their best-of-seven semifinal round by four games to one.</p><p>Hap Day&rsquo;s men now return to their training camp at SL Catharines Ont., to await the winner of the nfp-and-tuck struggle between Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings in the other semi-final bracket.</p><p>Before a capacity crowd of 13,909 at Boston Garden, Leafs took a 2-1 lead in the first period on goals by Cal Gardner and rookie Ray Timgren. Max Bentley sewed it up in the third as he combined with Gus Mortson for the final tally.</p><p>A penalty called against Boston&rsquo;s Fernle Flaman in the third period drew such a storm from the crowd that the game had to be held up for 17 minutes while the ice was cleared of bottles and other debris.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Brimsek; defense, Egan. Henderson; center, Ronty; wings, Peirson, K. Smith; subs.: Sandford, Warwick, Babando, Kryzanowski, Flaman, Harrison, Creighton, Toppazzini, Dumart</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Broda; defense, Boesch, Barilko; center, Bentley; wings, Klukay, Timgren; subs: Gardner, Ezinicki Watson, Mortson, Thomson, Juzda, 8. Smith, Kennedy, Mackell, Lynn, Dawes.</p><p><b>Officials:</b> Referee, Frank &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy; linesmen, Sam Babcock, Butch Keeling.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0737/1136753-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="585" height="385"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 31</h3><p>DETROIT&mdash;Gord Howe celebrated his 21st birthday by potting a goal, helping the Wings to a 3-1 playoff victory over Canadiens.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Durnan; defense, Reardon, Laycoe; center, Reay; wings, Carveth, Plamondon; subs: Bouchard, Riopel&rsquo;le, Harmon, Richard, Fillion, Chamberlain, Gravetie, Mosdell, Campeau, Leger, Harvey.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Lumley; defense, Reise, Stewart; center. Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Quackenbush, Kelly, Gee, McNab, Horeck, Poile, Lundy, Couture, Pavellch, Enio. Fogolin. Podolsky.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0836/1136746-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="583" height="389"></div><p>MONTREAL&mdash;A three-goal outburst in the second period gave Montreal Canadiens a 3-1 decision over Detroit Red Wings and deadlocked their best-of-seven semifinal series three games apiece.</p><p>The clubs battled on even terms to a scoreless draw in the opening session. Then, after nearly seven minutes of the middle frame the Habs got hot. Rookie Gerry Plamondon started them off, and before Wings could recover Maurice Richard sank another and Plamondon tallied his second of the game, all within the space of three minutes.</p><p>Gordie Howe potted his seventh goal of the series at 12: 56, but from them right to the finish the Canucks battled off a desperate band of Wings and Big Bill held them scoreless.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal. Lumley; defense, Quackenbush, Kelly; center, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Stewart, Reise, Gee, McNab, Horeck, Poile, Lundy, Couture, Pavellch, Fogolin, Podolsky.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Durnan; defense, Reardon, Laycoe; center, MacKay; wings, Curry, Riopelle; subs.: Harvey, Bouchard, Plamondon, Carveth, Harmon, Richard, Fillion, Reay, Gravelle, Mosdell, Dussault.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1027/1136739-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="590" height="389"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0931/1136732-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="594" height="1642"></div><h2><b><i>Merry Gerry</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0644/1136725-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="524" height="865"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY PLAMONDON, rapid rookie of Montreal Canadiens, scored two goals as Habs donwed Detroit Saturday. Plamondon leads all Canucks scorers in te playoffs, with five tallies.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0136/1138064-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg"></div><p><b><i>IN THE SERVICE OF THE PUBLIC</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Canada’s finest

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Frank Dotten, owner-manager of the Seattle Hockey Club, will petition the Directors of the Pacific Coast League at their annual meeting to inactivate his Seattle Club unless his rent is reduced. The Seattle Arena is a civic-owned building under lease to a private operator who in turn rents the ice accomo-dations to the hockey club, ice shows and other attractions.</p><p>Dotten claims to have lost several thousand dollars the past season and although he has no intentions of quitting the game he does want his rental reduced so it will be in line with what other clubs have to pay. Dotten pointed out that his present rental is 35% of the receipts after deduction of all ticket taxes, and in addition it cost him another 6% to staff the building and pay for his ticket sales. This is more than twice as much as any other Coast league club has to pay for rent.</p><p>Operation costs have increased steadily since Dotten became active in hockey in Seattle and it has came to the point where it is impossible to operate and pay this much rent. Dotten stated that &ldquo;after the present season closed I requested the&rsquo; leasor to reduce my rent for future seasons. He flatly refused to make any reduction so I have no other alternative than to quit&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

High Rent Beats Club

<div class="byline">By GLEN GARRY</div><p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.&mdash;</p><p>Those two-buck sports who always can ten you now a game or series will end have been somewhat embarassed to explain the abrupt fashion in which the preliminary playoff rounds have been ending in the United States Hockey League. This season the Directors of the U.S.H.L. guaranteed the players $40,000 as their share of the playoffs. In addition, substantial cash awards have been made to all-stars and special trophy winners.</p><p>One &ldquo;sport&rdquo; was heard to say: &ldquo;Watch &lsquo;em stretch each series out the limit now.&rdquo; What happened? you guessed it. Hockey games are decided on the ice by the players, with the best team invariably winning unless haunted by terribly bad luck. Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; between the Omaha Knights and Kansas City Pla-Mors ended in two straight with Omaha the winner, thus eliminating an almost cer-tain Sunday night full house for the third game in Kansas City. Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; between those bitter inter-city rivals Fort Worth and Dallas, took the same length of time with Dallas winning at home and the second game in Fort Worth. The third game scheduled for Dallas on Saturday, would have packed them in to the ratters.</p><h2>All straight Knockouts</h2><p>Then along came Series &ldquo;D&rdquo;, also a best 2-ln-3 series between Tulsa, Southern Division champions, and Dallas, winners of Series &ldquo;B&rdquo;. The first game was played in the oil city before a capacity house with the Oilers on top. The second was staged in Dallas and again the Oilers were victorious. The third scheduled for Tulsa on Saturday was never played and a &ldquo;standing room only&rdquo; crowd was lost.</p><p>Series &ldquo;C&rdquo; was between St. Paul, leader of the Northern Division and Omaha winner of series &ldquo;A&rdquo; St. Paul annihilated the Knights 8-0 in the first game before a near capacity audience in St. Paul on Sunday, March 27. The second game last Friday, April 1, was closer, but Saints took that one 6-5 to cop the series.</p><p>The one certain winner at playoff time is the player. They get all the money. The certain loser is the owner. The certain squawker is the two buck &ldquo;sport&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Wise Boys Silenced By U.S.H.L. Swifties

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0171/1138116-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WIDE-OPEN NET looms in Boston-Toronto game as Frankie Brimasek comes out to stop Max Bentley (7). Brimmie is sanawiched between Johnny Crowford and Murray (4). (SELOW)</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>Absent Goalie&hellip;Playoff Thrills</i></b></h2><p>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;</p><p>Shorn of their Coach andwith their ace goaltender asking to be traded, Boston Bruins were in a bleak position today. Following closeon their elimination from the Stanley Cup hunt, the resignation of &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper and Frankie Brimsek&rsquo;s surprise request to be traded left gloom in the Hub.</p><h3>COACHING JOB DOUBTFUL</h3><p>Bruins have been trying to develop new young players, bringing up a few youngsters the past couple of seasons, but as yet their farm system hasn&rsquo;t paid paid off in Stanley Cup currency.</p><p>Now, to add to their troubles, they are forced to find a successor to Clapper, who has announced he will devote full time to his family and business in Peterborough, Ont. His successor is still doubtful, although there has been some speculation that Chuck Conacher, present Chicago mentor, might be invited to take over. This was denied by club officials early this week, however. They said Conacher was not considered.</p><h3>PAIR OF BOMBSHELLS</h3><p>If Clapper&rsquo;s resignation was a surprise, Brimsek&rsquo;s announcement was even more of a bombshell.</p><p>&ldquo;I was stunned to hear of Dit Clapper&rsquo;s resignation,&rdquo; said Frankie. &ldquo;You know of my high personal regard for him. Now, with Dit gone, I sincerely hope the management will let me go to some other club.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams said he was surprised at Brimsek&rsquo;s move, not knowing he had been dissatisfied with his job at Boston. &ldquo;I hope he will reconsider before the start of the season, he added.</p><p>Brimsek, it is understood, would like to play for Chicago or some western club nearer his home town of Eveleth, Minn.</p><p>Whether he will press to be traded, or will reconsider, Brimsek&rsquo;s announcement currently has Hub fans in a ferment.</p><p>There&rsquo;s gloom along the Charles tonight.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0253/1138109-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2330" height="741"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vancouver Goalie Doug Jackson foils Fern Perrault of Tacoma.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0328/1138102-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="2252" height="981"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WHERE&rsquo;S THE PUCK? Detroit goalie Harry Lumley seems to be asking the question after Gerry Plamondon of Canadians blasted one at him and then sprawled to the ice. Standing guard over the prostrate Plamondon is Detroit&rsquo;s Black Jack Stewart (2) while Red Kelly at the right, gazes in astonishment at the strange affair.</b></figcaption></div><h2>Fans&rsquo; Choise</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01100/1138095-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="2898" height="1748"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WINNERS IN THE CUSTOMERS&rsquo; DER BY are these brilliants who were chosen to THE HOCKEY NEWS Second Annual A.H.L. All-Star Team. Left to right: ROGER BEDARD, Providence, Right Wing; OTT HELLER, Indianapolis, Defense; TERRY REARDON, Providence, Coach; PETE BACKOR, Pittsburgh, Defense; SID SMITH, Pittsburgh, Left Wing. Inset, BAZ BASTIEN, Pittsburgh, Goal. Bottom, HARVEY FRASER, Provi-dence, Center.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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TRIPLE BLOW ROCKS BRUINS

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Except for the fact that one cagey old veteran crept under the wire for Indianapolis, THE HOCKEY NEWS American Hockey League All-Star Team for 1948-49 would have been strictly a private affair between Providence Reds and Pittsburgh Hornets. Ott Heller was voted in for one defense position, but the Reds and Hornets split the other six positions evenly.</p><p>Hornets took the goalie position and one defense berth, along with left wing while the Reds got the rest, including Terry Reardon as Coach. Here&rsquo;s the First Team:</p><p>Goal: Baz Bastien, Pittsburgh.</p><p>Defense: Pete Backor, Pittsburgh and Ott Heller, Indianapolis.</p><p>Center: Harvey Fraser, Providence.</p><p>Right Wing: Roger Bedard, Providence.</p><p>Left Wing: Sid Smith, Pittsburgh.</p><p>Coach: Terry Reardon, Providence.</p><p>Three of this year&rsquo;s dream team were holdovers from the First Annual voting held during the 1947-48 season. Last year, the fans picked Bastien and Backor in the same spots, and named Reardon as Coach. But the 194748 squad had Hugh Millar of Indianapolis on the other defense berth, with Cliff Simpson of Caps at Center and Flemang Mackell and Carl Liscombe on the wings.</p><p>Voting for the Coaching job duplicated that in the National League, where Tommy Ivan of has been a high-scoring center Detroit was named as All-Star mastermind in both his freshman and sophomore seasons. This is the second win in a row for Reardon in as many seasons of coaching. Sophomore Terry has had his Reds flying ever since he took over their reins last seasons.</p><h2>Sketches Of Stars</h2><p>Baz Bastien was born in Timmins, Ont., August 29, 1920. After playing with Cornwall Army, he turned pro, playing a few games with Toronto Maple Leafs before coming to Hornets, defunct Hollywood Wolves of the also serving time with the now Pacific Coast League.</p><p>Pete Backor was born in Fort William, Ont., March 26, 1928. He joined St. Louis Flyers from Port Arthur amateurs in 1946-47, then came to Hollywood Wolves and Hornets, where he has been a star ever since.</p><p>Ott. Heller, grand-daddy of them all, was born at Kitchener, Ont., away back on June 2, 1910. After three seasons with Springfield in the old Can-Am League, he joined New York Rangers in 1931-32, becoming Old Man perpetual motion there for 15 seasons. In January, 1946, he went to St. Paul, returned to New Haven for two seasons, and last fall was appointed playing Coach at Indianapolis.</p><p>Harvey Fraser, pivotman of the team, was born in Souris, Man., October 14, 1918. He played 21 games with Chicago Black Hawks in 1944-45, went to Providence, then Cleveland, St. Louis and back to the Reds in 1946-47. He ever since.</p><p>Roger Bedard, another Providence goal blaster, was born in Granby, Que., March 5, 1925. He broke into pro hockey with Reds in 1944-45 and has been there since, steadily increasing his goals and assists output.</p><p>Sid Smith, born in Toronto on July 11, 1925, has shuttled back and forth between Pittsburgh and Leafs, but after his showing in this year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup play, should stick around the N.H.L. for awhile. He topped the pointscorers in the A.H.L. with a rousing 112 total this semester.</p><p>Terry Beardon was born at Winnipeg, Man., April 6, 1919. Elder brother of Montreal&rsquo;s Kenny, the Irishman played four seasons with Boston Bruins and two with Montreal, with a couple of side excursions to Hershey Bears, before drawing his coaching appointment.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Reds, Hornets Monopolize Berths Take 3 Each While Caps Get Single

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he American League employs a very efficient officiating system in the playoffs, with an alternate referee in attendance at each game. In present-day hockey, an official must be close to every play to call a game properly, and is always liable to injury. While it would take something really serious to get an A.H.L. tooter to leave the ice, the possibility always exists, and a substitute in the building is good insurance.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Alternate Ref

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ublished Weekly, except monthly May through September, by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 603A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebec. Canada. Entered as second class matter June 1, 1948, at the Post Office in St. Albans, Vermont, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $2.50 in canada&mdash;$3.50 in U.S.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0286/1136287-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"></div><h2>GOALTENDERS</h2><h2>DEFENSEMEN</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0381/1136280-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1104" height="216"></div><h2>CENTERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0462/1136273-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="1101" height="173"></div><h2>HIGHT WINGERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0549/1136266-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="1104" height="218"></div><h2>LEFT WINGERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0635/1136259-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="1104" height="151"></div><h2>COACHES</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0721/1136252-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="1102" height="147"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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How Fans Voted

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01100/1136325-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THREE HAPPY WARRIORS (ABOVE) who helped Toronto to victory over Boston in semi-finals are (I. to r.) Harry Watson, Turk Broda and Max Bentley.</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0282/1136318-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1721" height="947"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROOKIE SID SMITH, reinforcement from Pittsburgh of A.H.L., sinks his first N.H.L. playoff goal in the fourth game. Sm ith scored twice and had an assist that night</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Happy Leafs…Kayoed Bruins

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>As playoff time rolls along, the field is graduall narrowing down, with club after club knocked out of the silverware scrambles. Of the 24 clubs which started down the playoff trail in the four professional leagues last month, only 10 were left by last weekend. And of those, two more will be on the side lines by the time you read this. On Tuesday night, after THE HOCKEY NEWS presses have rolled, either Detroit or Montreal will be out of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Stanley Cup derby. In the American Hockey League, either St. Louis or Providence will be finished for the season.</p><h2>Home Stretch</h2><p>By Thursday, all leagues will be in the finals, and the end of the long hockey roundup will be in sight.</p><p>The way it stands now there are three clubs in the N.H.L. and the same in the A.H.L. still in the fight (until after Tuesday&rsquo;s games, that is) with a pair in the United States Hockey League and two more in the Pacific Coast Hockey League.</p><p>In a nutshell, here&rsquo;s the situation for each league:&mdash;</p><p><b>National&mdash;</b>Toronto Maple Leafs beat Boston Bruins, and now await the winner of the Detroit-Montreal series, the seventh and final game of which was played Tuesday night in Detroit.</p><p><b>American&mdash;</b>St. Louis and Providence, first-place finishers in the two divisions, will settle their feud Tuesday night in Providence, the seventh game. Hershey Bears, conquerors of Indianapolis and Cleveland, will meet the winner. Cleveland eliminated Springfield in the first round, before bowing to the Bears, 1946-47 Calder Cup winners.</p><p><b>United States&mdash;</b>Tulsa Oilers and St. Paul Saints are locked in a best-of-seven final for the league crown, with Oilers drawing first blood in the opening game. In the preliminary rounds, Omaha knocked out Kansas City and Dallas eliminated Fort Worth, then St. Paul clipped Omaha while Tulsa disposed of Dallas.</p><p><b>Pacific Coast&mdash;</b>New Westminster and San Diego alone remain of the eight clubs which opened the playoffs March 13. They are meeting in a best-of-seven league final. In the preliminaries San Diego knocked out Oakland, Los Angeles upset first-place Fresno, New Westminster put Portland out and Tacoma eliminated Vancouver. Then, in the semi-finals San Diego triumphed 6ver Los Angeles in the Southern Division while New Westminster easily disposed of Tacoma to enter the final round.</p><h2>No Fooling Here!</h2><p>Except for the National and American playoffs, most of the series were wound up in swift fashion. The tussles between the first-place finishers in those leagues went the full seven games. But in the United States loop all preliminary rounds&mdash;best-of-three affairs&mdash;were settled in two straight games. In the P.C.H.L. only one of the three-of-five series went past three games, when San Diego took four to eliminate Oakland.</p><p>In the A.H.L., Cleveland took three games to dispose of Springfield, but Hershey took Indianapolis and Cleveland into camp two straight. In the other N.H.L. semi-final, Toronto Maple Leafs needed only five games to knock out the Bruins.</p><p>One oddity of the Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; playoffs in the N.H.L. and A.H.L. is the way they have parallelled one another. After splitting the first four games, Detroit-Montreal and St. Louis-Providence then alternated victories on home ice in the next two contests, leaving the decision up to the seventh games Tuesday in Detroit and Providence.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Playoff Field Is Pruned; All Leagues Enter Finals

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0352/1136428-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANKIE BRIMSEK, the &ldquo;Mr. Zero&rdquo; of Boston Bruins&rsquo; nets, set Beantown buzzin&rsquo; with his announcement that he would like to be traded to some other club next season. Bruin officials hope he will change his mind.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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What’s Brewin’?

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>ince the National Hockey League was established back in 1917, Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens have each won the prized silverware five times. Canadiens, however, also won in 1916, the last year of the old National Hockey Association. Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings of this spring&rsquo;s playoff entries each won three times, as did New York Rangers. Chicago Black Hawks, the N.H.L.&rsquo;s other present entry, have won twice.</b></p><p><b>Following are the playoff records of this year&rsquo;s semi-finalists:</b></p><h2><b>TORONTO PLAYOFF SUMMARY</b></h2><p><b>Years Won Stanley Cup</b></p><p>1948-Defeated Detroit In 4 games</p><p>1947-Defeated Canadiens in 6 games</p><p>19 45-Defeated Detroit in 7 games</p><p>1942-Defeated Detroit in 7 games</p><p>1932-Defeated Rangers in 3 games</p><p><b>Years Stanley Cup Finalists</b></p><p>1940-Lost to Rangers in 6 games</p><p>1939-Lost to Boston in 5 games</p><p>1938-Lost to Chicago in 4 games</p><p>193 6-Lost to Detroit in 4 games</p><p>1935-Lost to Maroons in 3 games</p><p>1933-Lost to Rangers in 5 games</p><p><b>Other Playoff Years</b></p><p>1944-Lost to Canadiens, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1943-Lost to Detroit, 1st Round (6 games)</p><p>1941-Lost to Boston, 1st Round (7 games)</p><p>1937-Lost to Rangers, 1st Round (2 games)</p><p>1934-Lost to Detroit, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1931-Lost to Chicago, 1st Round (2 games)</p><p>1929-Lost to Rangers, 2nd Round (2 games)</p><p><b>Years Failed to Make Playoffs</b> 1927, 1928, 1930, 1946.</p><h2><b>DETROIT PLAYOFF SUMMARY</b></h2><p><b>Years Won Stanley Cup</b></p><p>1943-Defeated Boston in 4 games</p><p>1937-Defeated Rangers in 5 games</p><p>1936-Defeated Toronto in 4 games</p><p><b>Years Stanley Cup Finalists</b></p><p>19 48-Lost to Toronto in 4 games</p><p>1945-Lost to Toronto in 7 games</p><p>1942-Lost to Toronto in 7 games</p><p>1941-Lost to Boston in 4 games</p><p>1934-Lost to Chicago in 4 games</p><p><b>Other Playoff Years</b></p><p>1947-Lost to Toronto, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1946-Lost to Boston, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1944-Lost to Chicago, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1940-Lost to Toronto, 2nd Round (2 games)</p><p>1939-Lost to Toronto, 2nd Round (3 games)</p><p>1933-Lost to Rangers, 2nd Round (2 games)</p><p>1932-Lost to Mtl Maroons, 1st Round (2 games)</p><p>1929-Lost to Toronto, 1st Round (2 games)</p><p><b>Years Failed to Make Playoffs</b></p><p>1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1938.</p><h2><b>CANADIENS PLAYOFF SUMMARY</b></h2><p><b>Years Won Stanley Cup</b></p><p>1946-Defeated Boston in 5 games</p><p>1944-Defeated Chicago in 4 games</p><p>1931-Defeated Boston in 2 games</p><p>1930-Defeated Boston in 2 games</p><p>* Won Cup in 1924 defeating Vancouver and Calgary in 2 game total point series.</p><p><b>Years Stanley Cup Finalists</b> 1947-Lost to Toronto in 6 games</p><h2><b>BOSTON PLAYOFF SUMMARY</b></h2><p><b>Years Won Stanley Cup</b></p><p>1941-Defeated Detroit in 4 games</p><p>1939-Defeated Toronto in 5 games</p><p>1929-Defeated Rangers in 2 games</p><p><b>Years Stanley Cup Finalists</b></p><p>1946-Lost to Canadiens in 5 games</p><p>1943-Lost to Detroit in 4 games</p><p>1930-Lost to Canadiens in 2 games</p><p>1927-Lost to Ottawa in 4 games</p><p><b>Other Playoff Years</b></p><p>1945-Lost to Toronto, 1st Round (6 games)</p><p>1943-Lost to Boston, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1942-Lost to Detroit, 1st Round (3 games)</p><p>1941-Lost to Chicago, 1st Round (3 games)</p><p>1939-Lost to Detroit, 1st Round (3 games)</p><p>1938-Lost to Chicago, 1st Round (3 games)</p><p>937-Lost to Detroit, 1st Round (5,games)</p><p>1935-Lost to Rangdrs, 1st Round (2 games)</p><p>1934-Lost to Chicago, 1st Round (2 games)</p><p>1933-Lost to Rangers, 1st Round (2 games)</p><p>1932-Lost to Rangers, 1st Round (4 games)</p><p>1929-Lost to Boston, 1st Round (3 games)</p><p>1928-Lost to Mtl Maroons, 2nd Round (2g.)</p><p>1927-Lost to Ottawa, 2nd Round (2 games)</p><p><b>Years Failed to Make Playoffs</b> 1936, 1940, 1948.</p><p><b>Other Playoff Years</b></p><p>1948-Lost to Toronto, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1947-Lost to Canadiens 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1945-Lost to Detroit, 1st Round (7 games)</p><p>1942-Lost to Detroit, 2nd Round (2 games)</p><p>1940-Lost to Rangers, 1st Round (6 games)</p><p>1938-Lost to Toronto, 1st Round (3 games)</p><p>1937-Lost to Canadiens, 1st Rounds (3 games)</p><p>1936-Lost to Toronto, 1st Round (2 games)</p><p>1935-Lost to Toronto, 1st Round (4 games)</p><p>1933-Lost to Toronto, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1931-Lost to Canadiens, 1st Round (5 games)</p><p>1928-Lost to Rangers, 2nd Round (2 games,</p><p><b>Years Failed to Make Playoffs</b></p><p>1932, 1934, 1944<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Cup Play Of The Past

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The famous Calvert Family of fine Canadian Whiskies

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ETROIT&mdash;</b>The Red Wings hold an edge over Canadiens and Leafs in games played during the regular season. In 12 games with Montreal the Wings won seven, lost four and tied one. Against Toronto the Ivanmen won seven, lost three and drew two&hellip;Gordon Howe, the individual star. of the Detroit-Montreal series has scored seven goals against the Habs in six games. During the season he was only able to place the puck behind Bill Durnan once. Howe helped celebrate his birthday on March 31 by scoring the third goal of the game. He&rsquo;s just turned 21 and for the past three years he has celebrated his birthday playing in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The only ambidextrous forward in the National Hockey League, Howe appears destined for hockey&rsquo;s greatest heights. Other players besides Howe who have observed birthdays during the playoffs are Bill Barilko of Toronto and Montreal defensemen Ken Reardon and Roger Leger. Reardon was 27 on April 1, Leger was 30 on March 26 and Bashin&rsquo; Bill turned 22 on March 25&hellip;Detroit spectators are a gambling crowd. In one game a deck of cards was thrown onto the ice&hellip;in another a stack of poker chips&hellip;Detroit outscored Canadiens 25 to 19 during the season. After six games in the playoffs the Wings held a one goal margin over the Canadiens, 14 to 13.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01168/1136508-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="293" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Reardon</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02150/1136501-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="286" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Barilko</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0388/1136494-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="283" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roger Leger</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0460/1136487-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="295" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p><b>OF THE 14-GOALS</b> scored by Detroit, all but three were scored by members of the Big Line of Howe, Lindsay and Abel&hellip;Red Kelly, Jerry Couture and Max McNab notched the odd three&hellip;Kelly the red-headed defensenian who plays on the forward line when the Wings are one man short, has played standout hockey throughout the series&hellip;Bill Quackenbush, Kelly&rsquo;s defense mate, has performed in his usual All-Star manner. Still shy a trip to the penalty box after 66 games this season, Quackenbush is a bulwark on defense for the Wings and never makes a foolish mistake. His all-round ability singles him out as the best player in his position in the game today&hellip;Montreal fans received quite a surprise when a new automobile was driven onto the ice prior to the start or the game on April 2 and who jumped out from behind the wheel but Elmer Lach. The injured Canadien center drove the car that was presented to Bill Durnan by Montreal fans in appreciation of his great play for the Habitants during the last six years&hellip;Durnan became the third N.H.L. player to be presented with a new car this season. Doug Bentley of Chicago and Johnny Crawford of Boston were the others&hellip;Al Nagler of Station W.J.B.K. in Detroit did the play-by-play of the series both at home and way&hellip;Murdo MacKay and Floyd Curry of Canadiens and Nels Pedolsky of Detroit are the only non-regulars to see action in the series.</p><p><b>TEN TICKET SCALPERS</b> were arrested in Montreal during the series. The guys with the gall were asking $35 for a $3.50 ticket and $6.50 for a $1.50 standing room ducat&hellip;Boston minor officials are handling all games in the series played in Montreal while Toronto minor officials are working the Detroit games&hellip;Ken Reardon and Maurice Richard have been a big disappointment to Canadiens so far in the series. Reardon&rsquo;s injured shoulder has been a hinderance to him&hellip;Gerry Plamondon, who has scored five of Montreal&rsquo;s 13 goals, has been a surprise package. He is Canadiens top scorer&hellip;Bert Lindsay, father of Ted and former goaltending great, witnessed the game in Montreal on April 2. Bert also took in the playoffs last spring&hellip;Sprightly Ted is regarded by many as the best hockey player in the N.H.L. He is certainly one of the most aggressive and guttiest performers&hellip;Tommy Ivan has played the Howe, Abel, Lindsay line close to 30 minutes in each game of the aeries. Howe and Lindsay, who are youngsters, are able to stand the strain, but the veteran Abel looked dead beat at the end of the sixth game&hellip;Center Billy Reay has played his heart out for Canadiens in every game, as has Hal Laycoe on defense.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0551/1136480-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="279" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Durnan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0642/1136473-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="289" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0736/1136466-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="292" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Thomson</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0833/1136459-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="286" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><p><b>JAMES D. NORRIS</b>, more familiarly known as Young Jim, bought Gordie Howe a wristwatch for his 21st birthday&hellip;Detroit does not lack for vocal support when their three trainers, Lefty Wilson, Carl Mattson and Buck Abell are on hand for the playoffs. Wilson is one of the best &ldquo;jockeys&rdquo; in hockey&hellip;Ott Heller, part of the Detroit organization as coach of Indianapolis Caps made the trip to Montreal for the sixth game. Heller, incidentally, did a wonderful job in his first year as a coach and the Detroit executives are very well pleased with his efforts&hellip;First casualty of the season among hockey photographers was Scotty Kilpatrick of the Detroit News who was knocked unconscious when he was accidentally struck in the face by Joe Carveth&rsquo;s stick. Joe was so incensed at having missed scoring on his breakaway in the third period of the fifth game that he let his stick fly&hellip;The penalty for having seven men on the ice has been called twice in the series. It was called against Canadiens in the opening game and against Detroit in the second encounter&hellip;Harry Lumley was given a minor penalty in the last minute of the first canto of the sixth game for throwing the puck into the crowd&hellip;Murdo MacKay&rsquo;s game-winning goal in the third game was his first N.H.L. goal in 30 games.</p><p><b>TORONTO&mdash;</b>In eliminating Boston Bruins in the semifinals, Toronto Maple Leafs have now defeated the Bruins in six playoff series out of eight&hellip;The two clubs have played 11 overtime games including the long game of April 3, 1933, when Ken Doraty scored for Toronto after 104 minutes and 46 seconds of overtime&hellip;Leafs won seven of the overtime games&hellip;Jim Balmer, general manager of the Pittsburgh Hornets and Dick Fortune and George Elby, also of the Pittsburgh organization, were on hand for the last game played on Toronto ice and were tickled pink as it was in this game that Sid Smith scored two goals and picked up one assist. Smith is Balmer&rsquo;s boy&hellip;Conn Smythe calls Smith, only Toronto-born player on the Leafs, his secret weapon&hellip;Red Dutton, former N.H.L. president, was an Interested spectator at the third game of the Leafs-Bruins series&hellip;Cal Gardner, who has played like a trojan throughout the playoffs, might be getting that extra incentive from his folks who are attending the playoffs from Transcona, Man.&hellip;Garth Boesch, mustachioed defenseman of the Toronto Leafs, played his most outstanding game of the season in the fourth game of the series. Bill Juzda and Jimmy Thomson have also shone on the Leaf rearguard.., Talk that Max Bentley would be traded by Toronto has been scoffed at by Smythe&hellip;&ldquo;Never,&rdquo; said Conn&hellip;Weston Adams and Bill Tobin had lunch together here during the playoffs for the principal purpose of talking trades. &ldquo;Nothing came out of it, however,&rdquo; Adams related&hellip;Interested spectator at the series was Red Hamill of Chicago. Hughie Lehman, the star goalkeeper of yesteryear, Marty Burke, newly-appointed coach of the Calgary Stampeders and Busher Jackson were other keen fans noticed at the games here&hellip;Squib Walker,, chief Toronto scout, had Pat Lyons, Winnipeg scout for the Leafs, in tow during the series&hellip;If the Saturday, March 26 game had still been deadlocked at 11.45 p.m. the game would have been called and another game replayed. Toronto&rsquo;s Sunday Blue Laws stipulates that all entertainment attractions must end by 11.45 p.m.</p><p><b>CANADIENS AND DETROIT</b> both hold an edge over Toronto during regular season&rsquo;s play. Detroit won seven, lost three and tied two against the Leafs during the season, while Montreal won six, lost four and tied two&hellip;Milt Schmidt is anxious to land a coaching job when his playing days are through. However, that shouldn&rsquo;t be for some time as Milt the Magnificent still has several good years of hockey left in him yet&hellip;probably as a defenseman&hellip;Frank Brimsek seems to have lost his desire to play goal. The once invincible &ldquo;Mr. Zero&rdquo; appears to have lost his touch somewhat&hellip;Ed Kryzanowski looked very good on defense for the Bruins when given his chance after Johnny Crawford was injured. He handed out plenty of good solid checks&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Along The Rails In The Cup Hunt

<div class="byline">By GLEN GARRY</div><p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-</p><p>Once more the eight coaches of the United States Hockey League have named their all-star selections and the special award winners for the 1948-49 season. It is doubtful if it would be possible to improve on either the first or second all-stars named by the boys who run the clubs. The pilots have also named the winner of the &ldquo;Most Valuable&rdquo; player award and the season&rsquo;s &ldquo;Outstanding Rookie&rdquo;. To the veteran goaltender, Paul Bibeault of Dallas, goes the honor of having almost scored a &ldquo;grand slam&rdquo;. The only honor which Paul did not win was the &ldquo;Outstanding Rookie&rdquo; award and, as the popular veteran is now playing his eighth season of professional hockey, he could not very well qualify for this trophy.</p><h2><b><i>Freshman First</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01121/1136608-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="591" height="1199"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIM UNIAC Omaha</b></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>Center Choice</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02104/1136601-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="540" height="1406"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RAY POWELL</b></figcaption></div><h3>Bibeault Triple Winner</h3><p>Bibeault was selected as goaltender on the first all-star team, which automatically made him the season&rsquo;s best goaltender and gave him the Charles Gardiner Memorial Trophy. In addition, he was voted the &ldquo;Most Valuable&rsquo;&rsquo; player to his team. Paul receives a cheque for $300 for being on the first team, and a solid gold puck; another cheque for $250 goes with the Charles Gardiner Trophy; and a third also for $250. along with the &ldquo;Most Valuable&rdquo; Player Trophy. That&rsquo;s a total of $800, two trophies and the gold puck.</p><p>In winning the position of goalie on the first team, Bibeault registered 14 points out of a possible 21, while the runner-up, Gordie Bell, polled 11 points. Paul garnered 12 points out of a possible 21 in winning the &ldquo;Most Valuable&rdquo; Player Trophy, which gave him a two-point margin over the League&rsquo;s scoring champion, Ray Powell of Kansas City.</p><p>There were many fine first year men playing in the U.S.H.L. this season but the Omaha Knights, whose Terry Sawchuk was named the league&rsquo;s outstanding rookie last season, came back with the winner again. This year it was forward Jim Uniac who barely nosed out two other fine youngsters, forward Jimmy Moore of Dallas and Al Rollins of Kansas City. Uniac polled nine points out of a possible 21; Moore (who broke his leg some weeks ago) was tied with Rollins with eight each, while votes were also registered for Sam Casanato of Fort Worth; Eddie Dorohoy of Dallas; Keith Burgess of Omaha; Dennis Fillion of Dallas; Bill Richardson of Minneapolis; Max Quackenbush of Omaha; Vic Stasiuk of Kansas City; and Pete Durham of Tulsa.</p><p>Uniac will receive the &ldquo;Outstanding Rookie&rdquo; Trophy and a cheque for $250.</p><p>For his teammates on the first all-star team, goaltender Paul Bibeault has two team captains in Lloyd Ailsby of St. Paul and Jake Forbes of Omaha, with him on defense. The most points any player could register was 21 and Ailsby received 19. having been named to the first team by five coaches and to the second by two. Forbes has been a standout on the Omaha defense for several years and has been on both the first and the second all-stars before.</p><p>The forward line on the first team is composed of that master play-maker and sniper, Ray Powell of Kansas City, at center, with Dick Butler of Tulsa on one wing and Bing Juckes of St. Paul on the other. Powell led the entire league in scoring with 106 points and between them this trio accounted for a total of 271 points, 130 of them being actual goals.</p><h3>Brothers On Team</h3><p>Gordie Bell, the goaltender who literally lifted the Omaha Knights into the playoffs, was named to the second team and his defense is composed of Joe Schertzl of Tulsa and Tom Rockey of Dallas and Vic Lofvendahl of Fort Worth, who tied with 8 points apiece. Hal Brown, St. Paul&rsquo;s goal scoring right wing, holds down one wing with Joe Bell, brother of Gordie and Dallas&rsquo; leading goal scorer, on left wing. There was also a tie for the center ice berth, with Sam Kennedy of Fort Worth and Frank Ashworth of Tulsa both polling 10 points. Each player on the second team will receive a cheque for $150.</p><p>Those players who made an excellent showing but did not register sufficient points to make the first on second team but who would have been on the third team, had one been named, are: Al Rollins, Kansas City, goal; Gordie Petrie, Dallas; Hank Brade, Kansas City; and Bert Olmstead, Kansas City, forwards.</p><h2><i>BEHIND THE BLUE LINE</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0380/1136594-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1710" height="1458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>LLOYD AILSBY DEFENSE</b></p><p><b>JAKE FORBES DEFENSE</b></p><p><b>PAUL BIBEAULT GOAL</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hendy Loop Coaches Pick Six

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0461/1136639-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>uccessful candidates for the U.S.H.L. First and Second All-Star Teams, as selected by the Coaches, are listed below. Bracketed figures indicate point totals, of a possible perfect score of 21.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOW THEY RATED

<p><b>Founded October 1, 1947</b></p><p>Published by</p><p><b>Hockey News Company, 608A Sun Life Building.</b></p><p>Montreal. Que.</p><p>Yearly Subscription Price $2.50 in Canada&mdash;$3.50 in U.S.A.</p><p>Authorized as second class mall. Post Office Department, Ottawa.</p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p>Vol. 2 April 6, 1949 No. 27</p><h2><b>GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK!</b></h2><p>Things won&rsquo; be quite the same, somehow, now that Aubrey &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper has announced his retirement from the game he has served so well. After 22 years at Boston&mdash;20 of them as a player&mdash;Clapper has become so much a part of the Bruins and the game around Boston that it is going to seem strange without him.</p><p>&ldquo;Dit&rdquo; revealed his plans to retire at the Bruins&rsquo; end-of-season banquet, after they had been eliminated from the Stanley Cup hunt. Clapper said he could no longer stay on as Coach of the Boston squad, but wanted to devote more time to his family and to his business in Peterborough, Ontario.</p><p>Thus, finis is written to a great career in the National Hockey League. Clapper, now 42 years old, broke in with Bruins as a youngster back in 1927. He rose to fame as a brilliant and valuable forward, a member of that famous and feared line of Clapper, &ldquo;Cooney&rdquo; Weiland and Dutch Gainor, the &ldquo;Dynamite line.&rdquo;</p><p>Later, as the years took their toll, he moved back on defense, and played there with the same courage and resourcefulness he has always shown. He retired from active play only two years ago, but not before he set a record of 20 years service in N.H.L. competition, a feat that won him a nomination to the International Hockey Hall of Fame at Kingston, Ont.</p><p>The regard in which &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper is held in Boston was amply demonstrated at the farewell dinner, and ably summed up by Walter A. Brown, President of the Boston Garden. Said Brown:</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know of anyone who ever represented a city in sports who ever brought it more credit than &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper.&rdquo;</p><p>Boston fans, and other hockey followers around the circuit can well echo those words. Because the personable and likeable Clapper was always popular with everyone, players and customers alike.</p><p>A gentleman of the old school, you might almost call him, a representative from the days of sport&rsquo;s golden 20&rsquo;s, &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper has always been a credit to the game he liked so well.</p><p>Goodbye and good luck, &ldquo;Dit&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>EXPANDING THE HOCKEY SCENE</b></h2><p>With entry of the new province of Newfoundland into the Dominion of Canada, another field is thrown open for the development of hockey players, and perhaps teams for competition with those from the rest of Canada and the United States.</p><p>Newfoundland has hockey now, of course, and has had for many years. But there has never been any co-ordination with the game as played on the mainland. Newfoundland teams have never journeyed very far afield to meet others.</p><p>But now, there is already talk and speculation that perhaps some day teams from Newfoundland will be competing for the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup, emblems of supremacy in Canadian amateur hockey, and contributing its share of players to amateur and professional circuits.</p><p>One noteworthy feature of Newfoundland hockey of today is the fact that this island is probably the last outpost of truly amateur hockey in North America, if not in the world. All subterfuge about playing salaries, jobs for stars and other common practices are strictly frowned upon. Newfoundland teams must be amateur or nothing.</p><p>In fact, in recent years players brought in from Canada have not been permitted to play in Newfoundland leagues because they had come from teams and leagues where money was openly given to the puckchasers for their duties.</p><p>Despite its small size, and the unwillingness to follow the mainland lead in letting down the bars in amateurism, Newfoundland is producing some good players, and it may not be very many years before they are being exported in numbers.</p><p>Gordie Drillon, former N.H.L. star, and other retired players now are at work in Newfoundland, coaching teams and building playing talent. As Newfoundland now is part of Canada, there is little doubt but that the trend will continue. Transportation difficulties probably will prevent Newfoundland teams from competing in mainland leagues for some years at least. But there is nothing to prevent the new province from picking strong teams to challenge for the Allan and Memorial Cups, or making tours of Canada and the U.S.</p><p>It all means another field for hockey, room for expansion and development of. the winter sport in an even wider area.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01193/1136694-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>IS THAT SO?</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>It is too bad that an effective and generally clean player of long standing such as Red Hamill, had to be made the goat by the N.H. L. after he clipped Vic Lynn of Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>Why don&rsquo;t the officials get at the real trouble with hockey&mdash;the red line at center ice. Its presence practically eliminated all the finer points of the game, such as stickhandling the clean-cut goals, and the individual star.</p><p>With the red line and that long passing, stick&mdash;handling has become a lost art. Players are just skating from one end of the rink to the other, waving their sticks in the air. Somebody is sure to get clipped by a stick under these circumstances.</p><p>It was the old blue-line style of hockey that filled the rinks back in the depression years, and it was that brand of hockey that developed the Cooks, Conachers, Howie Morenz and Hooley Smith.</p><p>So why not take away that red line and let them go back to playing hockey again, and the boys will go back to using their sticks as they were meant to be used.</p><p>Raymond Yake Cappon, Alta.</p><h2>MINOR ERRORS</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>In recent issues I have noticed a few minor slips you have made and would like to draw your attention to them.</p><p>You stated that Arthur Rose, the lad who had a try out with Montreal junior Canadiens, was playing for Fort William Columbus Canadiens. I have seen him playing for Port Arthur West End Bruins this year and just recently he broke his ankle and will be out of the Memorial Cup playdowns for this year.</p><p>Also, I think you will find that Harry Barefoot is currently playing goal for the Fort Frances Canadians.</p><p>Then I also noticed that the picture in the crossword puzzle was that of Roy Conacher, though the puzzle calls for James (No Relation) Conacher&rsquo;s name.</p><p>How about a section of your publication telling when a player is traded, released or optioned to another club.</p><p>I wish you would print a picture of any player on the Washington Lions. I am curious to see what kind of uniforms they wear.</p><p>Bill Cole. Port Arthur, Ont.</p><h2>WHERE, OH WHERE!</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I would like some information about Edouard Marineau from Ottawa. There is one Marineau playing in the United States Hockey League. Is he the same one? Also, what about Larry Thibeault, I thank he played one game for Montreal Canadiens two or three years ago. He started the season with Fresno or San Diego.</p><p>Guy Fortier Hull, Que.</p><p><b>(Eddie Marineau played with Dallas Texans during the regular schedule. Thibeault turned out with Houston Huskies, after moving from the P.C.H.L. Those are your boys, all right)</b></p><h2>LEASED READER</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I was very pleased to find articles on the Pittsburgh Hornets and Sid Smith in the recent issues. The Hornets are my favorites and I&rsquo;d like to see an article on Phil Samis.</p><p>But I think the hockey writers and announcers showed very poor judgment in choosing Carl Liscombe for the Most Valuable Player Award in the A.H.L. I still think Smith deserved the award.</p><p>Would it be possible for me to go to Canada to try out for some amateur teams?</p><p>Joseph Wujcik, jr. Monongahela, Pa.</p><p><b>(Would advise you to write to W. A. Hewitt, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ont. for info on Amateur tryouts.).</b></p><h2>FIVE LOOPS</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Do you think my three friends and I established any sort of record when we saw five different leagues in action recently? It began on Saturday night at Springfield, Mass., where we saw an A.H.L. game. The following afternoon at Madison Square Garden we witnessed an Atlantic H. L. game, also a Quebec Senior contest, and on the bill also that afternoon was a Pee Wee League game. That night also at the Garden we saw a National League battle between the Rangers and the Red Wings.</p><p>Bobby Cohen Brooklyn, N.Y.</p><p>(Sounds like a record to us).</p><h2>WATSON, TOO</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>In your publication which I received recently, I noticed you made special mention of Bill Quackenbush of Detroit Red Wings, going through SO games without a penalty. Harry Watson of Toronto Maple Leafs also performed this feat. How about a little praise for him too?</p><p>Katharine Molloy Toronto, Ont.</p><p>(Special mention, as you term it, went to Quackenbush because he was a defenseman and therefore is more likely to draw a penalty while playing that tough, bodychecking position. Watson is a forward).</p><h2>PLAYER PICKER</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>With reference to your March 9th issue, I would like to take this opportunity to clear up a small point in the article &ldquo;Freshmen Futurity Favorites&rdquo;. Nick Mickoski played with St. James Canadians in the Winnipeg City Junior Hockey League the season of 1945-46 and as he played in the playoffs in March of &lsquo;46, I fall to see how he could have graduated through the &lsquo;Three-R&rsquo;s&rsquo; system which you explained were, the Rovers for several seasons, thence to New Haven Ramblers, and finally to the parent Rangers.</p><p>I was in Winnipeg at the time of the playoffs and viewed the games and players with interest, and might add that I personally picked Mickoski, Albright, Taylor and Raleigh to make names for themselves in the &ldquo;Big-Time&rdquo;.</p><p>J. E. Radley, Leading Seaman Esquimalt, B.C.</p><p><b>(Mickoski played for both the Rovers and Ramblers last year).</b></p><h2>HIS SECRET</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Could you please tell me why Jack Crawford of Boston Bruins wears a helmet when playing hockey. I noticed that none of the other players wear this protection.</p><p>Betty Markle Huntsville, Ont.</p><p><b>(Could be because the burly rearguard is sensitive about his hair, or lack of it).</b></p><h2>THE &lsquo;S&rsquo; LINE</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I have been reading about Nels Stewart of the old Montreal Maroons and an article referred to the big &ldquo;S&rdquo; line. Would you please tell me who the other members of the line were?</p><p>Sam Blakely.</p><p>Botha, Alta.</p><p><b>(The big &lsquo;S&rsquo; line was composed of Nels Stewart, Hooley Smith, and Babe Siebert.)</b></p><h2>HERE&rsquo;S ONE MORE</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I get a special kick out of all the fans who write in asking for stories about their favorites, because I know you would have a tough time answering hundreds of their requests.</p><p>However, I am no different than any of the rest. So how about a story on my favoritte, Pittsburgh&rsquo;s great goalie, Bas Bastien.</p><p>Anna Mae Pfeifer Pittsburgh, Pa.</p><h2>BLOOD BROTHERS</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I would like to know if Terry Readon, coach of the Providence Reds, is any relation to Ken Reardon of Montreal Canadiens and if he has ever played for an N.H.L. club.</p><p>Ronald Cummings Noranda, Que.</p><p><b>(Yes, they are brothers. Terry once played with Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens.)</b></p><h2>TOP ATTENDANCE</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Could you tell me the capacity of the Montreal Forum.</p><p>Paul Ballard Waterloo, Que.</p><p><b>(The Forum has a seating capacity of 9,500.)</b></p><h2>WORDS ON WOIT WANTED</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Would you please inform me if I could secure photographs of &ldquo;Baz&rdquo; Bastien and Pete Backor from your paper I would like you to print a story on Benny Woit who plays for Indianapolis-He was Port Arthur&rsquo;s best defenseman last year. Please write a story on Ray Timgren too.</p><p>Walter Serkowney. Fort William, Ont.</p><p><b>(We do not have photos here of Bastien or Backor. Write to the Pittsburgh Hornets and see if they can look after you.)</b></p><h2>REARDON REPORT</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Could you please tell me if Kenny Reardon has any other brothers or sisters besides Terry and Larry? Just what does Kenny do in the summer? I&rsquo;ve read two or three different things he is supposed to do.</p><p>Katherine McCallum. Toronto, Ont.</p><p><b>(Kenny has one sister besides Terry and Larry. He works as a salesman for Calvert Distillers during the summer. Last year he worked as a laborer in Labrador, but this summer he will be a salesman again.)</b></p><h2>SAME SUBSCRIPTION RATES</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I would like to know if you will have the same subscription rates for THE HOCKEY NEWS next year. If it is please send me another subscription form, or more if you can, as there are a lot of hockey fans here who are going to subscribe to THE HOCKEY NEWS next year.</p><p>Carmen J. Humchitt, Bella Bella, B. C.</p><p><b>(Subscription rates to THE HOCKEY NEWS will be the same next year. Another four pages will be added also. This will bring the Paper to 20 pages weekly and will give you more features and profiles on your favorite players.)</b></p><h2>COLUMN ON TRADES</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I suggest a column in THE HOCKEY NEWS giving the trades made in the professional leagues. There are many trades made in the A.H.L. that are not mentioned. How about a small story on the former Washington Lion now with Cleveland Barons and a terrific center-ice man, Ken Schultz.</p><p>Arthur J. Craig, Washington, D. C.</p><p><b>(Your suggestions are excellent and will see what can be done about them.)</b></p><h2>A MORENZ PICTURE</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I agree 100 per cent with Bob Smith who thinks a hockey picture should be made of the life story of Howie Morenz or some. other hockey great. It couldn&rsquo;t miss being a hit. How old is Howie Harvey of the Toronto Marlboros Keep up the good work on the paper. It&rsquo;s tops!</p><p>Bob Kain, Hamilton, Ont.</p><p><b>(Howie Harvey was born in Montreal on August 31, 1928.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0390/1136812-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="292" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gordie Howe</figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>asiest task to confront THE HOCKEY NEWS for a long time was the selection of the outstanding N.H.L. player last week. Gordon Howe, the strapping 5&rsquo;11&rdquo; 185-pound right winger of the Detroit Red Wings takes the honors by a prairie mile. The clever Saskatchewan product scored four goals and acaulred one assist in the three games against Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup semi-finals. Gordie scored a pair on March 29, helped celebrate his 21st birthday on March 31st by popping in another, and on April 2 tallied the only Detroit counter. He picked up his assist in the March 29 contest.</p><p>Howe, who wins the Morgan Hat Award on his selection as the Player-Of-The-Week by THE HOCKEY NEWS, has played three seasons in the National League and each year he has observed his birthday while performing in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Born in Floral. Sask, on March 31, 1928, Howe played his first professional game with Omaha Knights of the U.S.H.L. at the age of 17. He showed so much promise with Omaha, scoring 22 goals and assisting in 26 others that he made the big leap to the N.H.L. the following season with the Wings.</p><p>Gordie has scored 35 goals and assisted in 68 others for a total of 103 points during regular season&rsquo;s play in the N.H.I. Right now he tops all players in scoring in the playoffs with seven goals and one assist for eight points. He had one goal and one assist in the playoffs a year ago.</p><p>A rugged individual. Howe can score goals from either the right or left side, and is one of the few players in organized hockey able to do this.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-03

Player-Of-The-Week

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01177/1136864-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="291" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Reardon</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>OCKEY AT ITS BEST has been the keynote of the American Hockey League playoff classics, with perfect play and the tenseness of &ldquo;Sudden Death&rdquo; overtime providing thrills for the spectators. Veteran hockey observers have proclaimed some of the games to be among the finest they have ever witnessed in any rink, anyplace&hellip;Coach Terry Reardon of Providence displayed one of the reasons why his Reds have become one of the greatest crowd pleasers in hockey, during the 2-0 win over St. Louis, March 24. After a scoreless opening period. Ray LaPlante had given the Reds a one-goal lead. Shortly after, a St. Louis player was banished to the penalty box. Most coaches would be satisfied to &ldquo;sit on&rdquo; the 1-0 lead and wait for the breaks, even though having an extra man in play. Not Reardon, however. He immediately sent out his power forwards, five strong, removing his defense, in an effort to build up his lead, and relying on the efficient goalie Harvey Bennett to stop any Flyer who might break through&hellip;Another Reardon method that has paid dividends is keeping himself and Chuck Scherza strictly for &ldquo;killing penalties&rdquo;. Whenever a Rhode Islander is in the coop, Reardon and Scherza team up with two defensemen and it is a rare occasion when they are scored on. Having two fresh men while shorthanded has proven to be much more efficient than using players who have, been taking regular turns in the game.&hellip;</p><p>A GALLANT BAND of Springfield Indians went down to defeat, A but not disgrace, before the Cleveland Barons and were eliminated from the post-season classic. The Barons, led by Bobby Solinger who tallied three times, had stubborn resistance from the Massachusetts skaters until the 10 minute mark of the third period, having a scant 3-2 lead. However another Baron tally forced coach Earl Seibert to pull out all tne stops in an effort to tie, and the Clevelanders sifted through for two more scores&hellip;. Phil McAtee in the Springfield nets, and Johnny Bower of Cleveland were both sensational in kicking out scoring shots&hellip;Danny Sprout of the Baron defense, one of the most outstanding rearguards in anybody&rsquo;s league, was all over the place breaking up Indian scoring thrusts, and in addition, scored the second Cleveland goal&hellip;All-Star Right Wing Pete Leswick, made one of the finest defensive plays ever credited to a forward when he swooped in front of his own cage and picked the puck, off the stick of a goal-bound Indian. Perhaps Pete was inspired by the attendance of his younger brother Tony, star of the New York Rangers, who was an interested spectator at the game, cheering the family on&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02127/1136857-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="293" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Leswick</b></figcaption></div><p>PROVIDENCE AND ST. LOUIS journeyed to the Missouri city for the next two games of their set; with the Reds holding a 2-0 lead in games. However, the Flyers made good their boast of evening things up, by taking the next two in the Mound City, 2-1 and 5-3&hellip;It was the first playoff game in the American League for the home town St. Louis fans to witness and they got a barrel-full of thrilling firsts to talk about. In addition to their first post-season A.H.L. classic, the Flyer followers saw an almost perfect game, one of the greatest ever played anywhere, they saw &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; overtime, and to top it off, a Flyer victory, supplied by the stick of Lloyd &ldquo;Red&rsquo;&rsquo; Doran&hellip;A very dramatic touch was given to the game by the way in which the winner came. Doran had just finished his regular turn on the ice and was &ldquo;resting&rdquo; when relief center Ernie Trigg was clipped by a flying puck in the mouth. Trigg, in pain, skated over to the bench, and without hesitation, Doran leaped on the ice, skated into the play up to the Providence cage and was in position to take a pass and blast the winner past Harvey Bennett. The goal came at 5: 54 of the &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; session and the St. Louis fans went wild&hellip;The American League method of settling ties is somewhat different than the National League. At the end of the regular game, a 10-minute period is played to completion, regardless of score. If still tied, then the &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; periods begin, each of 20 minute duration. The National League starts &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; immediately at the conclusion of regulation time. Thus Doran&rsquo;s game winner came after 75 minutes and 54 seconds of time.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0395/1136850-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="291" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Danny Sprout</b></figcaption></div><p>THE ST. LOUIS ARENA is one of the most beautiful structures in the world, both from outer and inner appearances. Two large towers grace the front of the building, one on each side of the main entrance. The building affords perfect vision from any seat in the house and is spotlessly clean. The ice surface, one of the largest in hockey, makes for perfect passing and play&hellip;A good number of Providence fans made the 1,200-mile trip trom Rhode Island to Missouri to see their heroes in action. Also, practically every hockey writer was along to give first hand information to the fans back home, and one of the radio stations broadcast the games directly from St. Louis to Providence. The Red fans are among the greatest and most rabid in the world, and the service supplied by their press and radio is in keeping with what such enthusiasm for the Reardonmen deserves&hellip;Steve Black of the Flyers was voted the most popular player by a fan poll in St. Louis. The Flyer sophomore has been one of their mainstays all season, and richly deserves the honor&hellip;. An amusing incident that at first brought a near fainting spell to St. Louis players, Coach Goodfellow and the accompanying press, happened on the train back from Providence. As Harold Flaschbart of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports it, three of the four Italian stars of the Flyers, Hec Pozzo, Johnny Mariuccl and Don Grosso, always play cards with Eddie Olson. The friendly arguments are always in abundance and sometimes the shouting reaches a high note. During the trip, the usual was in progress, when Pozzo pulled out a pistol, and put two &ldquo;shots&rdquo; into Mariucci. The gun was so real looking that teammates and Goodfellow had nervous prostration before they realized it was a cap pistol and was all just a gag&hellip;Besides playing on home ice, another factor in the comeback of the Flyers was the return to action of defense star George Milligan, who missed the opening two games with a bad leg injury. He astounded the doctors by being able to kate so soon and played a whale of a game in addition&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0465/1136843-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="290" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Steve Black</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AHL Playoff Trail

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0631/1136902-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK, INDIANAPOLIS CAPITALS</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Terry Sawchuk, youthful goaltender of the Indianapolis Capitals, has the unparallelled distinction of being voted the outstanding first year player in consecutive years in two different professional hockey leagues. Sawchuk was selected as the best rookie in the American Hockey League this season, by a committee of sportswriters and radio broadcasters in all the 11 League cities, and thus duplicated his feat or last season when he was chosen as the best of the newcomers in the United States League. His stellar play in the Indianapolis cage this season, has brought him the Dudley &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Garrett Memorial Award, plus a League bonus of $300.</p><p>Carl Liscombe of the Providence Reds has completed the cycle of winning every award possible for him during the past two seasons in the American Hockey League, by being selected as the recipient of the Jack Fox Memorial Award by the League staff of referees. The award, carries with it a League bonus of $300, is for the player who best combines gentlemanly conduct on the ice with effective playing ability. In winning the title, Liscombe adds another trophy to his Most Valuable Player Award which he annexed this season, and the League scoring title won last year. He finished second to Sid Smith of Pittsburgh in scoring this season, with 102 points to Smith&rsquo;s 112.</p><h2><i>Talented Terry</i></h2><h3>Carl Conquers All</h3><p>As Liscombe was chosen for the second all-star team this season, and the first last year, he now has won all League commendations except rookie and goaltender, which of course is impossible. His all-star second team selection, most valuable player award and now the &ldquo;clean player&rdquo; award has brought him $800 in League cash this season. Last year he was given $900 for leading scorer, most valuable player and all-star team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0538/1136895-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="296" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Liscombe</b></figcaption></div><p>The eleven League referees each voted for three players on a three, two, one basis in points, with a maximum of 3 3 points possible for any candidate. The voting was extremely close with Liscombe having 17 points. Smith 16, Danny Sprout of Cleveland, 14, and Phil Hergesheimer of Philadelphia, 9. Liscombe gained a measure of revenge on Smith by beating him out by a single point, as that was the margin by which Smith was selected for first all&mdash;star team left wing over the Providence veteran.</p><h3>No. 2 Votes Win</h3><p>The surprising part of the balloting was that Liscombe received the smallest amount of first choice votes of any of the other three top contenders. Only one referee put him first, but his second place votes, of which he had six, was what gave him the award. He also had two ballots for third place. Smith had three top choice votes, two seconds and three thirds. Sprout was given the most first place nods with four, but only had two for third, and no seconds. Hergesheimer had two firsts and three thirds.</p><p>The youthful Sawchuk has definitely established himself as one of the future greats of hockey by continuing his improvement as he moved up the ladder from one class of the game to another, and by his being judged the top in his class. Sawchuk had stiff competition in winning his title, as the crop of rookies in the AHL this season was brilliant. Two it his main rivals were his team-mates, Gerry Reid and Fred Glover, and his other chief challenger was Phil Maloney of Hershey However, Sawchuk almost doubled the points of his closest opposition as he compiled 45 points in the voting, while Reid and Maloney each had 24. Glover was next in line with 15 points.</p><h3>Eleven Picked Him</h3><p>Three members of the press and radio from each of the 11 League cities were the selectors with each voter choosing three players, and ballots were rated with 3 points for first choice, two for second and one for third. The committee was not permitted to vote for any player on the team from the city they represent. Thus the total number of points possible for any candidate was 90.</p><p>Eleven ballots gave Sawchuk a first place vote, five picked him for second and two for third. Reid was given the top choice nod from four voters, while three thought him second best and six gave him a third place. Three of the selectors thought Maloney was tops, five, second, and a like number third.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-06

Best In 2 Loops, 2 Years; Sawchuk Cops Rookie Vote

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SPORTS PHOTOS

<h2>Medicos Wrong</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>lare Martin of Hershey Bears fooled the doctors. He suffered a badly torn ligament in his leg earlier this season, and the medicos said he would never skate again. He&rsquo;s bodychecking with all his old zeal now.</p><h2><b>Penalty Shot</b></h2><p>That hockey rarity, a penalty shot, was called against Cleveland Barons in the March 29 game with Hershey Bears. Rookie Phil Maloney of the Bears took the chance, but goalie Johnny Bower turned his shot aside.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON MON. A.M., APRIL 4</h3><p><b>SERIES A (Best-of-seven)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01162/1137010-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="591" height="80"></div><h3>Last Week&rsquo;s Games</h3><p>Tuesday, March 29&mdash;Providence 3, at St. Louis 4.</p><p>Thursday, March 31&mdash;St. Louis 2, at Providence 3 (overtime).</p><p>Sunday, April 3&mdash;Providence 5, at</p><p>Bt. Louis 6 (overtime).</p><p><b>Final Game</b></p><p>Tuesday, April 5&mdash;St. Louis at Providence.</p><p><b>SERIES D</b></p><p><b>(Best-of-tliree)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02142/1137003-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="585" height="82"></div><p><b>(Hershey wins series, 2-0, qualifying to meet winner of series &ldquo;A&rdquo; in league finals for Calder Cup).</b></p><p>Tuesday, March 29&mdash;Hershey 3, at Cleveland 2 (overtime) Thursday, March 31&mdash;Cleveland 1, at Hershey 6.</p><p>While Providence Reds and St. Louis Flyers slugged it out even-stephen in the battle of first-place finishers, Hershey Bears polished off Cleveland Barons in short order to win a berth in the league finals.</p><p>Don Pc.nniston&rsquo;s Bears, Calder Cup winners in 1946-47, took two in a row from Bun Cook&rsquo;s Barons, last year&rsquo;s champions, to sweep their best-of-three semi-final.</p><p>Bears were hard put to capture the opener on Cleveland ice last Tuesday, finally eking out a 3-2 win after nearly 20 minutes of overtime play&mdash;the regulation first 10-minute session and 9: 24 of the succeeding sudden death play.</p><p>It was easier on Hershey ice Thursday as Bears clipped the bedraggled champions 5-1 to enter the Cup round.</p><p>Providence, after getting away to a fast start with two straight wins on home ice, haven&rsquo;t been having an easy time of it since. Ebbie Goodfellow&rsquo;s fighting Flyers squared the series 2-2 bv taking both games in St. Lous, then the clubs split the next two, a pair of overtime thrillers Providence took a 3-2 decision at home Thursday, and St. Izmis won 6-5 in the Mound City Sunday night. That last game was played before a record crowd of more than 15.000 howling fans, largest ever to turn out in St. Louis.</p><h3>SATURDAY. MARCH</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Bobby Solinger scored three goals as Cleveland Barons trampled Springfield Indians 6-2 before 10,922 fans. The victory was the second in a row for last year&rsquo;s cun after dropping a surprising 8-4 decision in the series opener.</p><p><b>Sprinfield:</b> Goal. McAtee: defense. Kaiser Allen: center. McMurdy; wings, Summerhill, Lemieux: subs.: McAndrew, Tottle, Conn, Courteau. Curick. Schimdt, Gonden. Trudel&rsquo;.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal. Bower: defense, Sprout, Davidson; center. Holota; wings, Leswlck, Carse: subs: Buller. Bush, Thurler. Porteous. Russell, Solinger, Kelly, Brannan. Williams.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03111/1136996-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="590" height="492"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 27</h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Ebbie Goodfellow&rsquo;s Flyers finally got back into the playoff picture as they snared a thrilling 2-1 overtime decision from the high-flying Providence Reds. Flyers lost the first game of the hpst-of-soven round in Pro-vidence. While 10,400 fans screamed themselves hoarse, Lloyd &lsquo;&lsquo;Red&rdquo; Doran elapped home the winner at the 5: 54 mark of the second overtime session. Steve Black and veteran Johnny Mariucci helped set up the winning play that put Flyers back in contention.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goai, Almas: defense, Oions, Marlucci; center, Trigg; wings, McComb, Black; subs.: Simon, Milligan, Grigg, Gladu, Grosso, Sullivan, Doran, Licari, Pozzo, Backor.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett, defense, Morris, Arcand: center, McGill; wings, Chad. Hamilton; subs.: Reardon, Fraser, Summers, Laplante, Liscombe, Bedard, Scherza, Kapusta, Stoddard.</p><p><b>Referees:</b> Rabbit McVeigh, Bernie Lema it re.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0578/1136989-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="579" height="466"></div><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 29</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Going into two overtime sessions, Hershey gained a 3-2 decision over Cleveland here.</p><p>Hershey; Goal, Henry; defense, Martin, McLenahan; center, Kullman; wings, Brown, Bruce; subs.: Branigan, Jones, Lowe, Maloney, Cain, Margues,, Mario, Bettio, Hunt, McCatee.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defense. Sprout, Davidson; center, Thurier; wings, Kelly, Solinger; subs.: Butler, Brennan, Williams, Maloney, Cain, Marguess, Mario, Bettio, Hunt, McAtee.</p><p><b>Referees:</b> Hugh McLean, Des Smith.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0669/1136982-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="584" height="521"></div><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Coming from behind an early two-goal deficit, St. Louis Flyers edged Providence 4-3.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defense, Milligan, Grigg; center, Trigg; wings, McComb, Black, subs.: Marlucci, Simon, Gladu Grosso. Olson, Sullivan, Doran, Licari, Pozzo. Blackor.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defense, Michaluk, Summers; center, McGill; wings, Chad, Hamilton; subs.: Reardon, Morris, Arcand, Fraser, Laplante, Liscombe, Bedard, Scherza Kapusta, Stoddard.</p><p><b>Referees:</b> Rabbit McVeigh, Bernie LeMaitre,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0760/1136975-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="589" height="471"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 31</h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Player-Coach Terry Reardon&rsquo;s third goal of the game at 18: 30 of sudden death play gave Providence Reds a 5-4 victory over St. Louis Flyers and a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven semi-final playoff series.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defense, Milligan, Grigg; center, Trigg; wings, McComb, Black; subs.: Mariucci, Simon, Gladu, Grosso, Olson, Sullivan, Doran, Licari, Pozzo, Backor.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defense, Morris, Arcand; center Laplante; wings, Stoddard, Kapusta; subs.: Liscombe, Fraser, Bedard, McGill, Kullman, Hamilton, Michaluk, Summers. Reardon, Scherza.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0855/1136968-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="584" height="655"></div><p>HERSHEY&mdash;The Hershey Bears defeated Cleveland Barons 5-1 before 7,375 fans and won their way to the final round of the playoffs for the cham-pionship.</p><p>The Bears have now eliminated Springfield from the playoffs and will meet the winner of the Providence-St. Louis series for the title.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defense, Sprout, Davidson; center, Thurier; wings, Kelly. Solinger; subs.: Buller, Leswick&rsquo; Shultz, Wycherley, Porteous, Holota, Russell, Carse, Brennan, Williams.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry: defense, Martin, McLenahan; center, Kullman; wings. Brown. Bruce; subs.: Jones, Branigan, Cain, Mario, Maloney, Marquess, Bettio, Hunt, McAtee, Lowe.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0955/1136961-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="585" height="409"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 3</h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The battling St. Louis Flyers tripped Providence Reds 3-1 to square their best-of-seven semi-final at three games apiece. The decision forced the playoff into a seventh and final game at Providence Tuesday night.</p><p>A record crowd of 15,331 jammed every nook and. corner of the rink, and cheered wildly as Vic Grigg sent the homesters into a 1-0 first-period lead they never relinquished. Lloyd Doran scored one for Flyers in the second and Hec Pozzo put the game on ice in the third before Danny Summers broke through for the Reds&rsquo; only tally of the game.</p><p>Flyers played one of their best offensive games of the year, effectively choking off every power play by the dangerous Reds.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defense. Mil ligan,/Grigg; center, Grosso; wings, Licari, Gladu; subs.: Marlucci, Simon, McComb, Trigg, Black, Olson, Sullivane Doran, Pozzo, Backor.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett: defense, Morris, Arcand; center, Fraser; wings, Bedard, Liscombe; subs.: Reardon, Summers, Laplante, Hamilton, McGill, Scherza. Kapusta, Stood, D. Paul, Kullman.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1050/1136954-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="584" height="395"></div><h2><i>Another For Hergie</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0496/1136947-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="1751" height="1032"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FIRST A.H.L. 250-GOAL MAN, Phil Hergesheimer of Philadelphia Rockets, admires the handsome Glen Mousseau Memorial Trophy donated this year by George and Elsie Will, Cleveland fans, for the first A.H.L. player passing that lifetime scoring mark. Hergesheimer wound up the season with 251 goals. With Hergy are Coach Wally Kilrea, sitting beside him, and teammates (I. to. r.) Rusty Waldriff, Harry Pidhirny, Bill Hartsburg, Larry Archambeault, Chuck Kraiger and George DeFelice. The players will be scattered next season when the Philadelphia franchise will not operated.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1139/1136940-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="583" height="1350"></div><h2>Star And Future Stars</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01177/1136933-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="1745" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KIDS&rsquo; MOVIE IDOL MARGARET O&rsquo;BRIEN helps in the drawing of teams at the first annual National Pee Wee Ice Hockey Championships of the United States. New York&rsquo;s Pee Wees and General John Reed Kilpatrick, President of Madison Square Garden and the New York Rangers, are interested spectators.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div><p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>For the first time since Calgary Rangers won in 1936, the Alberta junior hockey championship is back in the Foothills City. Under the able direction of Coach Lorne Carr, Calgary&rsquo;s high-flying Buffaloes made quick work of Edmonton Athletic Club in the provincial final and took the best-of-seven final four games to one.</p><p>Last year the potent Lethbridge Native Sons won junior laurels in Alberta and prior to that Edmonton clubs&mdash;mainly Canadians and E.A.C.s&mdash;completely dominated the picture.</p><h2>Edmonton Pulls Surprise</h2><p>Despite the fact it lost out, the Edmonton team was unique. In the city final with Maple Leafs it went in as underdogs and scored an upset by shunting Leafs to the sidelines.</p><p>E.A.C.&rsquo;s victory over Leafs gave the club the right to oppose Wetaskiwin. The wise boys figured Wetaskiwin would take it in a walk but Edmonton surprised by chalking up another upset.</p><p>Clarence Moher directed E.A. Cs in the first playoff game against Calgary and then Scotty Munro, pilot of Bellevue Lions ail winter, took over the masterminding spot. Scotty turned in a good job with the club and bucked it up. considerably. He put enough life into E.A.C.s to lead the club to a 5-0 victory. Other than that Buffs outclassed the Capital City sextet.</p><p>And so it&rsquo;s the Western Junior Hockey League rivals back at it again. Buffs now are playing Moose Jaw Canucks for the right to advance into the western final.</p><h2>Some Odd Features</h2><p>The current series presents many interesting aspects. Canucks and Buffs finished deadlocked for top place in the new six-team western loop. Both won their. semi-final series to remain in the Memorial Cup race and then Buffs took Canucks out two straight in the loop final for the championship.</p><p>In six starts Canucks have been able to hang the Indian sign on Buffaloes only once, which would seem to install the Carrmen favorites in the interprovincial playoff.</p><p>Both clubs know the style of play of the other and know exactly what they will be up against. Possibly a factor in Calgary&rsquo;s favor is the fact it has more reserve strength than Ken Doraty&rsquo;s crew. However, Moose Jaw has a record of being a tough playoff team and the winner of this series definitely will have to be on its toes all the way.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Buffs Bring Calgary Title First Time In 13 Long Years

<p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;Ebbie Goodfellow, Coach and Manager of St. Louis Flyers was reminiscing with Johnny Gagnon of Montreal Canadiens fame and now chief scout for Providence Reds, during the playoffs here. Little Johnny, who played on the famous Morenz-Joliat-Gagnon line, claimed that he never had any trouble getting around Ebbie when the latter was the league&rsquo;s standout defenseman with Detroit.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Still Pals!

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Northern Ontario Wolves howl good and loud, but, brother, they have nothing on northern hockey leaders these days. From Port Arthur and Fort William at the lakehead, right through the thriving industrial and commercial city of Sault Ste. Marie, past Sudbury and North Bay and fanning right up north again to Timmins and Kirkland Lake, the hockey moguls&rsquo; cry &ldquo;WE CAN BRING THE ALLAN AND MEMORIAL CUPS BACK TO THE NORTH NOW!&rdquo; is ringing out sharper than any timber wolf&rsquo;s tongue.</p><p>What&rsquo;s the reason for all this? A tremendous resurgence in hockey interest throughout the north country from tiny villages, small towns to the bigger centres. Kids from the farms are flocking to join organized leagues and are giving &ldquo;Big City&rdquo; squads tough battles. Rinks are springing up in even the tiniest hamlet in the north. Bigger centres have set up modern ice palaces at huge exp ense and this season have drawn record crowds past the clicking turnstiles.</p><h2>Ice Palaces Planned</h2><p>Sudbury already has commenced work on a mammoth $1,000,000 ice palace. Sault Ste. Marie has its $750,000 Memorial Gardens in full operation, breaking all the Northern Ontario attendance marks at senior and important junior games; North Bay has artificial ice; Port Arthur and Fort William are well set and the rich Timmins area has one of the finest arena setups in Ontario.</p><p>Sure, that&rsquo;s fine as far as that goes. What are the hockey guys howling about? Just this&hellip;. they are envisaging an all-ambracing Northern Ontario hockey setup heretofore dreamed an impossibility. THE HOCKEY NEWS visited all these important hockey centers this season and found a distinct yearning for a truly representative circuit to get underway early in the season and grind away to a full schedule in senior and junior brackets. Air travel was suggested as the cure for &ldquo;ills of distances.&rdquo;</p><h2>Far&mdash;Flung League</h2><p>The leaders see a gold-mine in a big league comprising teams such as Fort Frances, Port Arthur, Fort William, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, North Bay, Kirkland Lake and Timmins.</p><p>They looked back&hellip;saw North Bay and Sudbury fooling around in one league, the Soo in another, Fort William, Port Arthur, Fort Frances in another, Timmins and Kirkland Lake in another; why not one big league? Wouldn&rsquo;t that be something? Wouldn&rsquo;t that bring in the dollars? Wouldn&rsquo;t &lsquo;hat be a league and a half?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Northern Hockey Men Dream Of Huge League In Ontario Outposts

<p><b>ALFRED DUROCHER of Duchesnay, Que., <i>calmly and coolly averts double tragedy</i></b></p><p>The two boys had ventured about 15 feet out when the ice broke and they both tumbled in. Durocher, hearing cries for help, rushed to the scene and crawled out on the thin ice, telling the boys to stay calm. With the help of a stick, he succeeded in getting them both out of the water.</p><p>On the way back to shore he had great difficulty in forcing the youngsters to crawl&hellip;but he finally managed to get them to safety. His action won him The Dow Award.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WINS DOW AWARD

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03118/1137196-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0488/1137189-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="801" height="512"><figcaption class="caption-body">1. The two children had ventured too far out on the thin Lake St. Joseph ice. Almost before they knew what had happened, the ice broke and they both fell in.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0669/1137182-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="823" height="513"><figcaption class="caption-body">2. Frantic, and blue with cold, the two lads floundered and spluttered. One clung to the edge, while 4-year-old Andre clutched his brother&rsquo;s clothing.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0575/1137175-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="801" height="512"><figcaption class="caption-body">3. Durocher tried to calm the frightened pair as he reached towards them with a long stick. He got Claude safely out&hellip;and then rescued little Andre who was just about to give up.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0754/1137168-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="798" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NATIONAL BREWERIES LIMITED</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><i><b><span>T</span>HE DOW AWARD is a Citation presented far acts of outstanding heroism and includes a $100 Canada Saoings Bond. The Dots Award Committee, a group of editors of leading Canadian daily newspapers, selects winners from recommendations made by a nationally known news organization.</b></i></p><p><b>DOW BREWERY&mdash;MONTREAL</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-03

RESCUES BOYS TRAPPED IN ICY WATERS

<h2><b>Two Shutouts</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>ack McGill of St. Paul Saints and Paul Bibeault of Dallas Texans chalked up shutouts in the first eight playoff contests. That works out to exactly one-quarter of the preliminary playoff games staged, a fair shutout percentage.</p><h2><b>Didn&rsquo;t Help Any</b></h2><p>Dallas Texans had six men in the first 10 point scorers during preliminary playoffs, but didn&rsquo;t even make the finals. Tulsa Oilers, Southern finalists, failed to place a single man in the top 10.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON MON. A.M. APRIL 4</h3><p><b>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01176/1137311-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="592" height="78"></div><p><b>St. Paul wins best-of-three series 2-0)</b></p><p>Saturday, March 16&mdash;Omaha 0, at St. Paul 8.</p><p>Friday, April 1&mdash;fit. Paul 8 at Omaha 5.</p><p><b>&ldquo;Series D&rdquo;</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02141/1137304-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="593" height="83"></div><p><b>(Tulsa wins best-of-three series 2-0)</b></p><p>Saturday, March 26&mdash;Dallas 1, at RuTsa 4</p><p>Wednesday, March 80&mdash;Tulsa 4, at Dallas 1.</p><p><b>SERIES &ldquo;E&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>LEAGUE FINALS (Best-of-seven)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03116/1137297-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="590" height="83"></div><p><b>(Tulsa leads best-of-sevee final series, DO).</b></p><p>Sunday, April 8&mdash;Tulsa 4, at fit. paul 8</p><p><b>Future Games</b></p><p>Tuesday, April 6&mdash;Tulsa at fit. Paul.</p><p>Saturday, April&mdash;St. Paul at Tulsa.</p><p>(Dates not set for further games)</p><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 26</h3><p><b>ST. PAUL</b>&mdash;A brilliant shutout effort by Jackie McGill featured as the Saints battered haplees Omaha, 8-0, in the first game of the final Northern division playoff series at the Auditorium.</p><p><b>Omaha:</b> Goal, G. Bell; defense, Forbes, Quackenbush; center, Unfac; wings, Wiseman, Smith; subs.: Relgle, Lavitt, Folk, McLean, Strongman, Heale, Bursess, Homenuke.</p><p><b>St. Paul:</b> Goal, McGill; defense, San-, H. Bell; center, Schwartz; wings, Slowlnski; McIntosh; subs.: Ailsby, DIll, Pechet, DelMonte, Brown, Bend, Agar, Juke&reg;, Cameron.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Harry Ornest; Uneeman; Bill McGlone.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0488/1137290-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="594" height="603"></div><p>TULSA&mdash;The Tulsa Oilers conquered Dallas 4 to 1 here in the first game of a best of three series in the southern division semifinals.</p><p><b>Dallas:</b> Goal, Bibeault; defense, Marlneau, Rockey; center, Petrie; wings, Fillion, Bell; subs.: Mazur, Deslauriers, Morenz, Bougie, Gagnon, Dorohoy, Allen, Cook.</p><p>Tulsa Goal, Little; defense, Schertzl, Young; center, Ashworth; wings, Butler, Schnurr; subs.: Durham, Knott. Ritson, Dheere, Ubriaco, Gronsdanl, Webster, Dillon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0574/1137283-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="590" height="396"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 24</h3><p>FORT WORTH&mdash;Eddie Dorohoy and Jimmy Fillion banged home a pair of third period markers to counteract a pair by the enemy as Dallas Texans defeated Fort Worth Rangers 5-3 The victory, second in a row for the boys from Dallas, gave them the divisional semifinals two games to none and sent them against Tulsa Oilers in the second round.</p><p><b>Fort Worth:</b> Goal, Jessiman; defense, Unger, Kane; center, Iannarelli; wings, Casanato, Kennedy; rubs.: Lofvendahl, Travis, Weaver, Kopak, Glover, Warwick, Cupolo.</p><p><b>Dallas:</b> Goal, Bibeault; defense, Marlneau. Rocky; center, Petrie; wings, Bell, Fillion; subs.: Mazur, Deslauriers, Moirenz, Bougie, Gagron, Dorohoy, Allen, Cock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0667/1137276-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="593" height="472"></div><h3>FRIDAY, MARCH 25</h3><p>KANSAS CITY&mdash;Omaha Knights made it two in a row over Kansas City PlaMors edging them 4-3 and sweeping the Northern Division semi-finals in straight games. Gordie Heale and Jimmy Uniac starred for Omaha as they rapped home a pair of tallies early in the third period. Knights then mended their fences, and held Pla-Mors to solitary tally to take the marbles.</p><p><b>Kansas City:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense, Tarala, Jackson; center, Powell; wings, Harms, Fashoway; subs.: Blade, Bedard, Wares, Groves. Olmstead, Slater, Silvestri, Miller, Stasiak.</p><p><b>Omaha:</b> Goal, Bell; defense, Forbes, Quackenbush; center, Lavitt, wings, Wiseman, Uniac; subs.: Relgle, Folk, Homenuke, McLean, Strongman, Heale, Burgess, Boyce, Smith.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Ornest; linesman: McGlone.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0759/1137269-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="590" height="446"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30</h3><p>DALLAS&mdash;The Tulsa Oilers knocked Dallas out of the Southern Division playoff of the U.S. Hockey league, 4-1.</p><p>The victory was the second in a row for the Ollers over the Texans.</p><p>Bob Schnurr paced Tulsa, scoring three of the Oilers&rsquo; four goals.</p><p><b>Dallas:</b> Goal, Bibeault; defense, Marineau, Rockey; center, Petrie; wings, Fillion, Bell; subs.: Mazur, Deslauriers, Morenz, Bougie, Gagnon, Dorohoy, Allen, Cook.</p><p><b>Tulsa;</b> Goal, Little; defense, Schertzl, Young; center, Ashworth; wings, Butler, Schnurr; subs.: Durham, Knott, Ritson, Dheere Ubriaco,&rdquo; Gronsdahl, Webster, Dillon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0857/1137262-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="588" height="406"></div><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 1</h3><p>OMAHA&mdash;St. Paul Saints won their way into the league finals against Tulsa Oilers when Bob Dill lashed home the winning goal after 14 minutes and 22 seconds of overtime to sink Omaha Knights 6-5.</p><p>Saints thus took the best-of-three semi-final in two straight games. They crushed Omaha 8-0 in the opener.</p><p>Dill&rsquo;s big counter was his third of the game, and followed close on the heels of a goal at 16: 23 of the third session that evened the score at 5-5 and sent the game into overtime.</p><p><b>St. Paul:</b> Goal. McGill; defense, Allsby, Dill; center, Schwartz; wings, McIntosh, Slowinski; subs.: Sandalack, Bell, Cameron, Bend, Brown, Agar, Juckes, Delmonte, Pechet.</p><p><b>Omaha:</b> Goal, Bell; defense, Forbes, Quackenbush; center, Uniac; wings, Smith, Wiseman; subs.: Reigel, Folk, Heale, Homenuke, Lavitt, Strongman, Burgess, McLean.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0953/1137255-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="584" height="618"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>PLAYOFF STATISTICS</h3><p><b>(Include, came, of Sunday, March 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1236/1137248-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="589" height="283"></div><h3>THE LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Points:</b> Gordon Petrie, Dallas (6).</p><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Joe Bell, Dallas (4).</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Gordon Petrie, Dallas (4).</p><p><b>Most Penalties in Minutes;</b> Ken Cook. Dallas (20).</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> J. McGill, St. Paul; P. Blbeault, Dallas (1).</p><p><b>Best GA Average:</b> J. McGill, St. Paul. (No G.A.).</p><h3>GOALTENDERS AVERAGES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1326/1137241-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="589" height="181"></div><h3>REGULAR SCHEDULE</h3><p><b>(Includes Games of Sunday, March 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1415/1137234-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="596" height="784"></div><h3>THE LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Points:</b> Ray Powell, Kansas City, (106).</p><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Ray Powell, Kansas City (48).</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Frank Ashworth, Tulsa (60).</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Nelson Little, Tulsa (4) <b>Best GA Average: Gordon Bell, Omaha (2.38).</b></p><p><b>Most Penalties in Minutes:</b> Don Webster, Tulsa (137 minutes).</p><h3>GOALTENDERS AVERAGES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-158/1137227-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="588" height="235"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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UNITED STATES LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1046/1137342-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="572" height="887"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LIN BEND</b></figcaption></div><p>ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;</p><p>You&rsquo;ve heard about people leading charmed lives.</p><p>Well, every time you watch little Lin Bend of the St. Paul Saints in action, you&rsquo;re looking at one.</p><p>Little Lin leads a charmed life in a circle where you don&rsquo;t expect to find such things&mdash;hockey.</p><p>But the fact remains he&rsquo;s leading it and expects to go on until he decides to hang up the skates and stick for good.</p><p>Since Lin started playing hockey as an amateur he has never missed a game.</p><p>Lin doesn&rsquo;t recall how many games he played as an amateur, but &ldquo;I guess I played plenty.&rdquo;</p><p>Since turning pro with the New York Rangers he has played in 169. That includes 66 played this season.</p><p>Altogether Lin has probably played in well over 700 games if he has taken part, in one.</p><p>Of course the little guy hasn&rsquo;t missed injuries over the long haul, but he hasn&rsquo;t allowed the injuries to make him miss games. One of the most recent cases of his desire to play despite injury came a few weeks ago. Lin suffered a severe shoulder injury during a practice session before a game.</p><p>Doctors shook their heads and decided that, &ldquo;you&rsquo;d better sit the next one out on the sidelines.&rdquo;</p><p>Lin would have none of that ami when game time came 24 hours later he was one of the first skaters out on the ice. Did the bad shoulder keep him from mixing it? Not on your life. He was right out in front as usual mixing with any and all comers who wanted to mix.</p><p>After the game, someone asked him about the shoulder He didn&rsquo;t say anything for a minute as a shy grin covered his face. Then he said quietly, &ldquo;I guess it&rsquo;s O.K. I never paid any attention while I was on the ice.&rdquo;</p><p>And that&rsquo;s how &ldquo;iron men&rdquo; in hockey function.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Saint With ‘Charmed’ Life

<div class="byline">By SAM B. GUNST</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.-</p><p>The New York Rovers may have finished last in the Quebec Senior Hockey League, but Phil Watson&rsquo;s gallant Red Shirts won an everlasting place in the hearts of New York fans. Proof of this was a dinner given in honor of the Rovers by the Blue Line Club, a recently formed fan organization.</p><p>The dinner came right after the Rovers had played their final home game at Madison Square Garden and was attended by some 200 members and guests of the Blue Line Club. The affair was such a success that it will be held annually.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1137/1137373-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="295" height="407"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Phil Watson</b></figcaption></div><p>Rover fans hailed the dinner as a victory affair. The Red Shrits defeated the powerful Soo Indians, champions of the Northern Michigan-Wisconsin League, 4-3 on Vai DeLory&rsquo;s goal at 12: 44 of the third period. This was the first game on a path which Rover adherents were hopeful would lead their favorites to the United States amateur hockey championship. All the rest of the games were to be played on the road.</p><p>General John Reed Kilpatrick, president of Madison Square Garden, addressed the dinner and lauded the Blue Line Club. He recalled the old days when the Rovers had a fan club. That fan club, said he, consisted then of his daughter and a few of her friends.</p><p>Mr. Hockey, in other words, Lester Patrick, vice president of the Garden, brought down the house with his entertaining remarks about the situation in general.</p><p>Tom Lockhart, manager of the Rovers and business manager of the New York Rangers had the pleasant assignment of Introducing the Rovers. As the spotlight was directed on each member of the squad the fans really cut loose.</p><p>Phil Watson, Ranger Immortal who retired from active playing to become coach of the Rovers, was praised for the magnificent job he has done in this, his first year as a mentor. The superlatives which were hurled on &ldquo;Phiery Phill&rdquo; were terrific.</p><p>Howard Frank, president of the Blue Line Club praised the Rovers</p><p>Said Frank: &ldquo;The word quit simply does not exist in the Rovers&rsquo; vocabulary. The fact that they were up against bigger and more experienced players made not the slightest bit of difference to them. They were in there bat-tling every minute of the way and the Blue Line Club is proud of them.&rdquo;</p><p>As the climactic point of the dinner, Frank presented defenseman Dick Kotanen with a gold wrist watch for having been voted the most valuable member of the Rovers by the Blue Line Club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Phiery Phil Acclaimed By Fans For Freshman Coaching Feats

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><h2><i>THREE OF THE BEST</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01188/1137425-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="526" height="836"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JIMMY GRAY Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s LEFT WING</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02139/1137418-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="547" height="851"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LARRY DUNVILLE Dartmouth Arrows DEFENSE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03114/1137411-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="530" height="1503"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CHARLIE PHILLIPS Saint John Beavers DEFENSE</b></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.-</p><p>Saint John Beavers, although knocked out of the playoffs by Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s, got some measure of consolation in voting for the Maritime Senior Hockey League AllStars. Coach Jackie Keating&rsquo;s men won three places on the Big Four dream team, holding down goal, center and one defense spot.</p><p>Halifax, the loop champions, won left wing, while Moncton and Dartmouth each placed one man.</p><p>Goal&mdash;Angus &ldquo;Sonny&rdquo; MacDonald, Saint John.</p><p>Defense&mdash;Charlie Phillips, Saint John.</p><p>Defense&mdash;Barry Danville, Dartmouth.</p><p>Center&mdash;Dick Wray, Saint John.</p><p>Right Wing&mdash;Joe Fitzpatrick, Moncton.</p><p>Left Wing&mdash;Jimmy Gray, Halifax.</p><p>The selectors failed to name an All Star coach, but if they had the choice would probably have been Saint John&rsquo;s Jackie Keating. Veteran of many years in professional minor leagues, Keating led his charge to the league title, al-though Beavers were beaten in the semi-final playoffs by Halifax. Gordon (Doggie) Kuhn, who also played for several years in the Canadian-American, International and American Leagues, did a splendid job with the makeshift Dartmouth Arrows. Like Mike Gonzales of baseball fame, Kuhn could say of his charges: &ldquo;Good field, no hit&rdquo;. Defensively they were strong; offensively they weren&rsquo;t too potent.</p><p>Here are some of the accomplishments of the all stars:</p><p>MacDonald, native of New Glasgow, N.S. and one of the veterans of senior hockey in these parts, turned in the best defensive record of any goalie, to win the nod the second straight year.</p><p>His work enabled the Saint John Beavers to finish atop the table during the regular league campaign. He has played with Pictou, New Glascow, Truro and. Saint John over a long period. Good with his hands, Sonny has also served as playing coach in baseball in Truro and Saint John.</p><h3>Ex-Canuck Bumper</h3><p>Phillips, once with Montreal Canadiens, has the hardest shot in the league and was the top scoring defenseman. Biggest man in the Big Four, Phillips proved to be a smart clearer, a keen feeder and a great rusher. He doesn&rsquo;t throw around much, though he prefers to pokecheck and rush.</p><p>Dunville was rated by many as the league&rsquo;s best rushin rearguard. A potent pokechecker, Dunville was very fast, a quick breaker and a hard shooter. He&rsquo;ll return to the Maritimes to play baseball with Dartmouth Arrows.</p><p>Dick Wray, native of Stratford, Ont., tied with Halifax&rsquo;s George McGregor in the scoring race, each reelving a trophy. Wray proved to be a terrific worker as well as a keen shooter. A great retriever, Wray survived a shaky start to receive unanimous support in All-Star poll.</p><h3>Fight For Wing</h3><p>Fitzpatrick had to fight off McGregor to take the right wing post, but the selectors thought his weight, powerful shot and tricky passing entitled him to the position. Joe was in the top five scorers all season, but was eliminated from the race when he was sidelined with injuries for two weeks late in the year. In the seven-game semi-final playoff with Dartmouth, Fitzpatrick caged 10 goals, performing the hat tricks three times.</p><h2><i>Best Backstop</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0486/1137404-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="1085" height="1472"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SONNY MacDONALD, SAINT JOHN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Beavers Collect Three Big 4 All-Star Berths

<div class="byline">By MAC PRESTON</div><p>FORT FRANCES. Ont-</p><p>Are Fort Frances Canadians too good for the Northern Amateur Hockey League?.</p><p>A quick glance at the record would seem to indicate something of the sort. The Canadians, who went to the western Canada semi-finals in Allan Cup competition last year, racked up a sensational skein of triumphs in their circuit this season.</p><p>Here is their record: 27 victories, one tie and two losses. On top of that they won four and tied one in five exhibition contests. A figure filbert toted up that the average of 7.4 per game in 40 contests (this included some playoffs) against 2.2 goals per game for the opposition.</p><p>Against Eveleth in their league playoffs, Canadians took the round in two straight games, scoring 19 goals while holding Eveleth to one. Against Hibbing, in the league final, Canadians rammed home 14 goals to sweep the series in three straight contests.</p><h2>Draws Some Comment</h2><p>All this terrific display of power prompted Reidar Lund, sports editor of the Duluth News-Tribune, to pen a column about Canadians in which he also mentioned that some of the clubs in the circuit are finding it tough going financially.</p><p>Lund then went on to add that he imagined that Hibbing&rsquo;s case is the same as Duluth&mdash;only a strong team is able to draw fans. Then he continued: &ldquo;At Eveleth, we understand players work on a percentage basis. Fort Frances, of course, is a hockey-hungry town. The problem, there is not drawing fans, but where to put them.&rdquo;</p><h2>Class By Themselves</h2><p>On the subject of how Canadians have dominated the league, Lund said:</p><p>&ldquo;As for Fort Frances being too good, that&rsquo;s a more difficult problem to overcome. It&rsquo;s a fact the Canadians are out of our class. Everybody knows it, and as long as they&rsquo;re in the league the other teams will fight for second place.&rdquo;</p><p>Observers around Fort Frances lean to a belief that the crux of the entire matter is that Fort Frances has better coaching than the other clubs. Commenting on the Lund column, the Fort. Frances Times had this to say:&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;In hockey, Fort Frances has had its ups and downs. It has achieved its greatest successes under capable coaches, especially non-playing coaches. Percy Nicklin, who guided Fort Frances in the old Arrowhead league, dumb-founded Iron-range teams by using the forward pass when it was first introduced. Fort Frances was so successful with it that the rule was rescinded in the league.</p><p>&ldquo;The late Joe Thorsteinson, Eddie Oatman and Alex Sinclair turned out stellar teams prior to the war. With the revival of hockey after the close of hostilities, Gordon Fraser was brought to Fort Frances to rebuild the senior team.&rdquo;</p><h2>The Times then continued:</h2><p>&ldquo;A better balanced league is necessary but it must be an improved league. N.A.H.L. officials must not consider this an old man&rsquo;s league. Young players are needed to provide the type of hockey that fans will pay to see, but young players require competent coaching. Fort Frances has found this combination most successful. Eveleth, Hibbing and Duluth can do the same.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fort Frances Prove Too Hot For N.A.H.A. Squads To Stop

<h2>Just The Same</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>ucien Deschene held the Rockets to an average ot 2.66 goals per game and stopped 77 shots tor an average of. 905 per game. This was exactly the same record as Deschene turned in when the Royals beat Portland three straight games in the first playoffs series.</p><h2><b>Shutout Record</b></h2><p>Doug Stevenson, Tacoma goalie, established a playoff record when he held the opposition scoreless for 133 minutes and 54 seconds. The league record is held by Tom Kara kas. of Portland, who blanked the opposition 159 minutes and 30 seconds.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON SAT. A.M., APRIL 2 DIVISION FINALS</h3><p><b>Southern Division</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01194/1137557-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="599" height="81"></div><p><b>(San Diego wins best-of-five series 3-1)</b></p><p>Thursday, March 24. Los Angeles 0, at San Diego 7.</p><p>Saturday, March 26. San Diego 2, at Los Angeles 5.</p><p>Sunday, March 27. Los Angeles 0., at San Diego 5.</p><p>Wednesday, March 30. San Diego 4, at Loe Angeles 1.</p><p><b>Northern Division</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02159/1137550-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="602" height="83"></div><p>(New Westminster wins series, 3-0, to advance into league finals against Southern Division champs, in a best-four-out-of-seven series; first two games on New Westminster&rsquo;s home ice, balance on Southern Division&rsquo;s team home ice. First game probably played in N.W., Saturday, April 2.)</p><p>Wednesday, March 23&mdash;Tacoma 2, at New Westminster 3 (overtime, 1: 17).</p><p>Saturday, March 26&mdash;Tacoma 4, at New Westminster 6.</p><p>Sunday, March 27&mdash;New Westminster 4, at Tacoma 2.</p><h3>LEAGUE FINALS (Best-of-seven)</h3><p>Saturday, April 2&mdash;San Diego at New Westminster.</p><p>Monday, April 4&mdash;San Diego at New Westminster.</p><p>Friday, April 8&mdash;New Westminster at San Diego.</p><p>Sunday, April 10&mdash;New Westminster at San Diego</p><p>Tuesday, April 12&mdash;New Westminster at San Diego.</p><p>Thursday, April 14&mdash;New Westminster at San Diego.</p><p>Sunday, April 17&mdash;New &ldquo;Westminster at San Diego.</p><p>Games No. 5, 6 and 7 if necessary,</p><h3>By LEO ORNEST</h3><p>New Westminster Royals have gone and done it&mdash;won three straight over Tacoma to become Northern Division playoff as well as league champs, and they will now meet the Southern Division playoff champs&mdash;San Diego or Los Angeles&mdash;for the P.C.H.L. championship and the Phil Henderson Memorial Trophy, won last year by Vancouver.</p><p>New Westminster has now recorded the remarkable feat of winning all six of its playoff games.</p><h3>Ullyot Connects</h3><p>Coach Alex Shibicky&rsquo;s divisionwinning Royals defeated Muzz Patrick&rsquo;s game, but outclassed Rockets, 3-2 in 1: 17 of overtime, March 23 and 6-4, March 26, in New Westminster, to lead, 2-0, as the teams moved to Tacoma, where the Royals ended it, winning, 4-2.</p><p>The turning point of the series came in the opener when Ken Ullyot, classy Royal centerman, potted the all-important winner just after the overtime session began&mdash;1: 17 minute mark&mdash;to break Tacoma&rsquo;s three-game winning streak and keep the Royal&rsquo;s win skein alive at four in-a-row.</p><p>Meanwhile in the South, San Diego and Los Angeles, battled it out for the right to represent the finals with San Diego taking the series three games to one.</p><p>Los Angeles managed to win the second game of the series, 5-2, at home on Pan Pacific ice, in a free swinging game that nearly saw a riot develop on the heels of a fight between Ike Hildebrand, L.A. forward, and John Baby, San Diego defenseman. Andy Barbe, all-star right wing, paced the Monarch, scoring twice.</p><p>However, the superb goalkeeping and defensive skill of the &lsquo;Hawks on home ice, Glacier Gardens, has been the most re-vealing and eye-opening feature of the entire series. San Diego shutting out L.A. twice on its own rink, 7-0, March 24 and 5-0, March 27.</p><h3>Playoff Banter</h3><p>New Westminster, enter their first league final, and they will be defending Canada&rsquo;s remarkable record or winning two of the previous three championships&hellip;Los Angeles, underdogs in their round with San Diego, last season&rsquo;s finalists, losing in five games to champion Vancouver, is the United States club which won the bunting, 1946-47&hellip;</p><h3><b>DIVISION FINALS</b></h3><p><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23</b></p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Ken Ullyot&rsquo;s deflected shot gave the New Westminster Royals a 3-2 overtime victory over the Tacoma Rockets in the first game of the Northern Division playoffs.</p><p>Ullyot work his way in close and drilled a shot at the Tacoma net shortly after one minute of over time play. Defenseman Joey Johns partially blocked Ullyot&rsquo;s shot, but the puck slipped in.</p><p>The biggest crowd of the season, 4.800, was kept on its feet throught the hectic, but cleanly-fought game. Not a single penalty was handed out throughout the contest. ,</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Deschene, defense, Bergeron, Pratt; center, Ullyot; wings, Voll, Dorohoy; subs.: Duffy, Adams, Evers, Dufault, Kirk, McIntyre.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defense, Johns, Jenkins; center, Read; wings, Johnston, Adam; subs.: Giokas, Watt, Lambrecht, Andrews, Perrault, Milford, Toole, Robinson. Anslaw.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0598/1137543-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="596" height="440"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 24</h3><p>SAN DIEGO&mdash;The San Diego Sky Hawks turned a hockey game into a rout to defeat the Los Angeles Monarchs 7-0 in the first game of their final playoffs for the championship of the Southern Division.</p><p>The victory broke a win streak for the Los Angeles club and gave spare San Diego goalie Larry Frechette a shutout. The locals tallied once in each of the first two frames and then cut loose in the final stanza. The game was played before a capacity crowd of 3,300.</p><p><b>Los Angeles:</b> Goal, Highton; defense, Papike, Church; center, Zuk; wings, Leger, Hildebrand; subs.: Mesich, Adolph, Barbe, Smith, Mulligan, Billie, Dockery, Prokop.</p><p><b>San Diego:</b> Goal, Frechette; defense, Currie, Bloom; center, St. Pierre; wings, Aikin, Thorpe; subs.: McKay, McArthur, Smrke, Poitras, Skinner, Vaillancourt, Giesebrecht.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0684/1137536-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="600" height="467"></div><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 20</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;The New Westminster Royals were skating one game away from the Northern Division league championship when they defeated the Tacoma Rockets 6-4 before a Jam-jacked house or 5,500 fans at Queen&rsquo;s Park Arena.</p><p>The Royals won the first game of the bes: -of-five series 3-2 in overtime.</p><p><b>Tatoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defense, Johns, Jenkins; center, Read; wings, Johnston, Adam; subs.: Duffy, Adams, Evers, Love Dufault, Kirk, Ritchie, Mein tyre.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Deschene; defense, Berg ron, Pratt; center, Ullyot; wings, Voll, Dorohoy subs.: Giokas, Watt, Lambrecht, Andrews, Perrault, Milford, Toole, Robinson, Anslow.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0775/1137529-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="602" height="565"></div><p>LOS ANGELES&mdash;The Southern Division championship playoffs were deadlocked when the Los Angeles Monarchs defeated the San Diego Sky Hawks 5 to 2 before 5,354 fans.</p><p>The Monarchs dominated the play, staving off a late Sky Hawks rally in the third period after leading all the way.</p><p><b>Los Angeles:</b> Goal, Highton; defense, Adolph. Mesich; center, Smith; wings, Kunkel, Barbe; subs. Papike, Hildebrand, Dockery, Zuk, Prokop, Stearns, Church, Mulligan, Leger.</p><p><b>San Diego:</b> Goal, Frechette; defense, Currie, Bloom; center, St. Pierre; wings, Thorpe, Aiken; subs.: McKay, McArthur, Poitras, Smrke, Vaillancourt, Giesebrecht, Baby, McCarthy, Skinner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0869/1137522-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="596" height="392"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 27</h3><p>TACOMA&mdash;The New Westminster Royals won the. Northern Division Division championship by defeating the Tacoma Rockets 4-2 to sweep the best-of-flve series three straight.</p><p>The Canadian club took a two-goal lead in the first period only to have the Rockets even things up. Bobbie Love scored the winning goal late in the second period and Ken Ullyot added an insurarice tally midway in the final frame.</p><p>The game featured defensive play by both squads as only 29 shots were stopped by. both goaltenders.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defense, Johns, Jenkins; center, Read; wings, Adam, Johnston; subs.: Giokas, Lambrecht. Watt, Andrews, Anslow, Milford, Toole, Perrault, Robinson.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Deschene; defense, Pratt, Bergeron; center, Ulloyt; wings, Dorohoy, Voll; subs.: Duffy, Adams, Evers, Love, Duffault, Kirk, Ritchie, McIntyre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0966/1137515-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="600" height="403"></div><p>SAN DIEGO&mdash;The San Diego Sky Hawks took a 2 to 1 lead in their Southern Division Hockey playoff finals by whitewashing the Los Angeles Monarchs 5 to 0 here.</p><p>After being to two goals in the first two periods, the Sky Hawks brooke loose for a flurry of three markers in the final session, turning the game into a rout.</p><p><b>Los Angeles:</b> Goal, Highton; defense, Papike, Church; center, Smith; wings, Kunkel, Barbe; subs.: Mesich, Adolph, Zuk, Hildebrand, Leger, Dockery, Mulligan, Prokop, Stearns.</p><p><b>San Diego:</b> Goal, Frechette; defense, McKay, Babcy; center, Skinner; wings, Vaillancourt, Giesebrecht; subs.: Currie, Bloom, Lallo, St. Pierre, Aikin, Thorpe, McArthur, Poitras, Smrke.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1065/1137508-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="597" height="364"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><p><b>(Includes games of Sunday. March 27) Southern Division</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1157/1137501-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="600" height="552"></div><p><b>Northern Division</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1252/1137494-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="594" height="576"></div><h2><i>Royal Flush Scorers</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03136/1137487-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1197" height="1516"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04118/1137480-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="600" height="1204"><figcaption class="caption-body">OLLIE DOROHOY (left) and KEN ULLYOT are two reasons New Westminster Royals have swept into the finals in six straight games. Dorohoy and Ullyot have been big guns in the &lsquo;Minster attack all season</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-13" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1340/1137588-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>f you&rsquo;re not and are planning on reading the five snappy, statistical summer issues of <u>THE HOCKEY NEWS</u> you would be wise to send in your subscription today.</p><p><u>THE HOCKEY NEWS</u> will be available by subscription only during the summer months (May to September inclusive). There will be no newsstand sale.</p><p>A subscription is for 35 consecutive issues and commences immediately upon receipt of order.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER?

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div><p>CALGARY, Alta.-</p><p>A player who definitely appears headed for the big time is Frank Kubasek, ace center with Bellevue Lions in the Western Canada Junior Hockey League this year. The 20-year-old Kubasek won the individual scoring championship of the circuit in a cake walk, bagging 38 goals and counting 34 assists tor a snappy total or 72 points. This record will be hard to beat in future seasons. If a most valuable player award were presented, Kubasek undoubtedly would win it. Without him this year Scotty Munro&rsquo;s club wouldn&rsquo;t have been half as potent as it was, even though his squad was knocked out in the playoffs.</p><p>Kubasek has signed with Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League. Chief Scout Gail Egan snapped Kubasek up midway through the season and figures he has a real find.</p><p>Frankie has a strange style of skating and often appears to be falling over. He scores most of his goals when he looks off balance and is very deceptive in front of a goal. Fireball Frank played between Mario Scodellaro and Frank Antonennko this year, he fact that he is a good playmaker as well as a crack goal scorer is indicated by the fact that Scodellaro finished second in the individual scoring race.</p><p>This was Kubasek&rsquo;s last year in junior and what the future holds for him is anyone&rsquo;s guess With top-flight coaching Kubasek certainly should make Cleveland&mdash;probably not this fall, but he should make it in a couple of years.</p><h2><i><b>Lion Of West</b></i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01198/1137619-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="571" height="932"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK KUBASEK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Road To The Memorial Cup

<h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN FINAL</b></h2><p>SATURDAY, MARCH 26</p><p>Moose Jaw 4, at Prince Albert 0</p><p>(Moose Jaw wins best-of-five series, 3-0)</p><p><b>Moose Jaw:</b> Goal, Betker; defense, Vogan, Johnston; center, McLeod; wings, Smith, Mentor; subs.: Pechet, Popein, Andrews, Shave, Greig, Markewich, Inglis, Rogerson.</p><p><b>Prince Albert:</b> Goal, Matwick; defense Haas, Merkowski center, Fielder; wings, Drew, Wilson; subs.: Stephenson, Clearwater, Jeffrey, Burkosky, Woods, Grimes, Holdaway, Barrisk.</p><p><b>Officials:</b> Buck, Crawford, Dede Klein Saskatoon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02138/1137664-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="587" height="336"></div><h2><b>ALBERTA FINAL</b></h2><p>SATURDAY, MARCH 26</p><p>Caigary 8. at Edmonton A.C. 1 (Calgary leads best-of-seven series, 8-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03100/1137657-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="598" height="550"></div><h2>MONDAY, MARCH 28</h2><p>Edmonton A.C. 2, at Calgary 7 (Calgary wins best-of-seven series, 4-1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0483/1137650-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="587" height="487"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THE WEST

<div class="byline">By JEFF BLADES</div><p>BRANDON. Man.&mdash;</p><p>Brandon Wheat Kings received a mighty scare but now they&rsquo;re out of their own league and on the trail they hope will lead to the Memorial Cup.</p><p>The Wheaties, rated by many hockey men as the club to beat for the Canadian junior title, were forced to the seven-game limit to beat off a challenge by Winnipeg-Canadiens. Brandon won four, lost two and one game was tied.</p><p>After the final game of the Wheatles-Canadiens series, Brandon coach. Bill MacKenzie had this to say:</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t let anybody try to kid you that we didn&rsquo;t beat a good team. There can&rsquo;t be many junnior clubs in the country better than Canadiens.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>The likeable MacKenzie then paid a fine tribute to Andy Hebenton of the Canucks, definitely one of the stars of the series. Said Bill:</p><p>&ldquo;Montreal Canadiens should take Andy Hebenton right up to the N.H.L. next season, give him Toe Blake&rsquo;s old locker and let him carry on from there. He&rsquo;d make the grade O.K.&rdquo;</p><h2>They&rsquo;re Huskies</h2><p>Once before, earlier this season, this corner passed along a number of comments from observers about the size (for juniors) of the Brandon team. Well the Wheaties certainly haven&rsquo;t shrunk at all in the interval.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s what Minneapolis coach Bill Cook had to say, after taking in the final game which Wheaties won 5-1.</p><p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t see many junior clubs with the size of the Wheat Kings. They should go a long way.&rdquo;</p><p>It&rsquo;s this size&mdash;they&rsquo;d put many a senior club to shame in this respect&mdash;that is likely to mean a considerable edge to the Wheaties as the playoffs progress. There&rsquo;s no denying it&mdash;the Wheaties love those five and seven games series. They&rsquo;re big, rugged and fast and this means they&rsquo;re able to stand up well under gruelling playoff rounds.</p><p>This means that an opposition club might catch the Wheaties off balance in a single game. But for seven! Well, that&rsquo;s a different matter. By the time the seventh game rolls around the opposition players have been worn to a frazzle. The Wheaties, on the other hand, are just getting up steam.</p><h2>Hard To Beat</h2><p>It&rsquo;s just another variation of the theme that a good big man can lick a good little man. All Brandon&rsquo;s players are big&hellip;and that means they&rsquo;ll take a lot of licking.</p><p>After the series one of the Winnipeg scribes put it this way about Brandon&rsquo;s victory:</p><p>&ldquo;The new provincial champions had better goalkeeping, better defensemen, three good forward strings and a superiority in physical strength to go all the way. We shall be surprised if they are not in at the death when Memorial Cup final time comes around.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Brandon Kings Bypass ‘Pegs; Ready for P.A.

<p>MONDAY, APRIL 4 EAST</p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Montreal Royals.</p><p><b>Ontario:</b> Barrie Flyers, South Porcupine Combines.</p><p><b>Ottawa and District:</b> Inkerman Rockets.</p><p>WEST</p><p><b>Thunder Bay:</b> Port Arthur Bruins.</p><p><b>Manitoba:</b> Brandon Wheat Kings.</p><p><b>Saskatchewan:</b> Moose Jaw Sons.</p><p><b>Alberta:</b> Calgary Buffaloes, Edmon-Alberta: Calgary Buffaloes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

SURVIVORS

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div><h2><b>BARRIE ON WAY</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>arrie Flyers are well on their way to winning the All-Ontario junior hockey championship against South Porcupine Com-bines, champions of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. Flyers took the first three games of the best-in-seven series.</p><p>Playing their first game at Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens, Barrie had quite a time winning by a 4-0 score, thanks mainly to the fine goaltending of the Porkies&rsquo; goalie, &ldquo;Handy&rdquo; Howes. It was a different story when they clashed for the second game in the Barrie Arena with the Flyers winning 11-2 before their home fans to move into a two-game lead.</p><p>The next game at the Schumacher Arena up north on Thursday was taken 4-1 by the Barrie crew, with the fourth game Saturday.</p><p>Goalie &ldquo;Wyn&rdquo; Mayer of the Barrie Flyers was honored with the presentation of the &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Tilson Memorial Trophy for being voted by the O.H.A. junior hockey writers as the most valuable player of the past season. George Panter, past president of the O. H. A., made the presentation between periods of the Porcupine at Barrie game on Monday, March 29.</p><h2><b>ALL-ONTARIO FINAL</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON SAT. A.M., APRIL 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0572/1137778-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="588" height="87"></div><h3>PROVINCIAL FINALS</h3><p>(Best-of-seven) SATURDAY, MARCH 26 Barrie 4, Porcupine 0</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0663/1137771-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="588" height="336"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 31</h3><p>Barrie 4, at Porcupine 1</p><p><b>Barrie:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense, Shedden, Long; center Pennell; wings, Gordon, Meger; subs.: Hogg, Brandon, Ashbee, Burcham, McNabney, Hopper, Chevreflls, Leckle.</p><p><b>Porcupine:</b> Goal, Howes; defense, Brklacich, McCullough; center, Dionne; wings, Trevenna, Mestan; subs.: Plouffe, Ewing Volotarie, Marson, Lamarche, Pitt, Towers, Warner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0752/1137764-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="600" height="405"></div><h2><b>EASTERN SEMI-FINAL</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON MON. A.M., APRIL 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0845/1137757-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="589" height="79"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30</h3><p>Inkerman 2, at Royals 10</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0941/1137750-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="590" height="647"></div><h3>Royals 7, at Inkerman 4</h3><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal, Bleau; defense, Manasterky, Rousseau; center, Knutson; wings, Benoit, Moore; subs.: Appleby, G, Armstrong, Hirschfeld, Frampton, Langill, Burchell, Rattray, Fildes.</p><p><b>Inkerman:</b> Goal. Felthan; defense, Boivin, Marshal); center, Hunter; wings, Kelly, Lynn; subs.: Potvin, Lunny, Loveless, Macdonald, N. Armstrong, Baldwin, Crowder, Hudson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1038/1137743-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="589" height="632"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THE EAST

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01168/1137809-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SYDNEY MILLIONAIRES, conquerors <i>of</i> Pembroke Lumber Kings, eye the Allan Cup. Standing in back at left, Paul Platz, Cliff Roach. Back row: Lou Medynski, Don McRae, Joe Watts, Johnny Arundel, Doug Fritz, Jock Gibson, Johnny Myketyn. Front: Don Whalen, Bruce Gallagher, Alex Birukow, Bernie MacDonald, Ron Gibson.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Along The Allan Cup Trail

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02136/1137875-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="580" height="542"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03120/1137868-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="625" height="756"></div><h2><b>QSHL SEMI-FINALS</b> &lsquo;ESDAV. MARCH 29</h2><p>Royals 0, at Sherbrooke 1</p><p>Roy. McNeil, defense, La-</p><p>force, D. McNeil, center. Haggarty; wings, Malone, Dolbec; subs.: Orlando, Lepine, Desaulnlerg. Morin, Pepin, Marchessault, Crawford, Denis, Trudel.</p><p><b>Sherbrooke:</b> Goal, Leclerc; defense, Goupille, Irwin; center, H. Carnegie; wings, O. Carnegie, McIntyre; subs.: Heindl, Cote, Demers, Burnett, Vlnet, Dube, Barry, Roy, Fillion.</p><p><b>Officials:</b> Red Storey and Ken Mullins.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0489/1137861-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="604" height="295"></div><h3>THURSDAY, MARCH 31</h3><p>Sherbrooke 7, at Royals 0</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0570/1137854-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="607" height="496"></div><h2><b>EASTERN SEMI-FINAL</b></h2><p><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30</b></p><p>Sydney 1, at Marlboros 1 (tie) Syaaey: Goal, Gibson; defense. MyMcRae, Platz: subs.: Watts. Fritz. Nelketyn, Arundel; center, Whalen; wings, son, Gallagher, Birukow, Medynski, Roach. Dowling.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Harvey; defense, Davidson. Hollett; center, McCormack; wings, Mair, Hannigan; subs.: Robertson, Pirie, Buchanan, Bolton, McLellan, Blair, Simpson, Johnson.</p><p><b>Referees;</b> Hap Should ice, Stan Pratt, both of Ottawa.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0656/1137847-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="602" height="430"></div><h2>QUEBEC SENIOR</h2><p><b>STANDINGS O NMON. A.M. APRIL 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0749/1137840-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="606" height="83"></div><p><b>(Sherbrooke wins best-of-thre series.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<p><b>MONDAY, APRIL 4</b></p><p><b>EAST</b></p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Ottawa Senators, Sherbrooke St. Francis.</p><p><b>Ontario:</b> Toronto Marlboros.</p><p><b>Ottawa and District:</b> Pembroke Lumber Kings.</p><p><b>Maritimes:</b> Sydney Millionaires.</p><p><b>WEST</b></p><p><b>Thunder Bay:</b> Fort Frances Canadians, Port Arthur Bearcats.</p><p><b>Manitoba:</b> Winnipeg Nationals.</p><p><b>Saskatchewan:</b> Regina Capitals,</p><p><b>British Columbia:</b> Trail Smoke Eaters.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>ALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Dave Duchak, who brought the Allan Cup to Calgary once and took Stampeders into the final on another ocoasion during his regime, has retired as Manager of the club in Trail, B.C., leading the Smoke Eaters to the Allan Cup in 1938 and the next year came to Calgary where the Stampeders were being organized. Duchak retired as an active player in 1940, but came back for a few games in 1947.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Duchak Through

<h2><b>SMOKIES MEET CAPS</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>EGINA, Sask.&mdash;As a result of Trail Smoke Eaters&rsquo; upset of Kimberley Dynamiters, the men from the smelters will meet Regina Capitals in the All-Western Final, which opened March 31.</p><p>Caps, conquerors of the Allan Cup defending Edmonton Flyers in the Western Canada Senior League playoffs, journeyed to Nelson, B.C. for the first two games with the Smokies on Thursday and Saturday.</p><p>From there, the scene shifts to Regina, where Caps will have home ice advantage for the third and fourth games April 5 and April 7.</p><p>Locale of the remaining games in the best-of-seven series will depend on the results of the initial contests. President Al Pickard of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association revealed here.</p><h2><b><i>Ontario Minors</i></b></h2><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Ontario Minor Hockey Association Juvenile &ldquo;A&rdquo; series, for the Mitchell Hepburn Trophy, finds St. Catharines Lions, defending All - Ontario champions, tackling Toronto Marlboros in a three-out-of-five series.</p><p>The Midget series, Toronto Marlboros against St. Catharines Mason Dairy, will also be a three-out-of-five series.</p><p>St. Catharines Mason Dairy and Wyn Law&rsquo;s Barrie Flyers will tangle in the Bantam &lsquo;A&rdquo; finals, a home-and-home, total-goal series.</p><p>The All-Ontario Juvenile series, between the O.M.H.A. champions and the champions of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association, for the Victory Trophy, will this season be played on the home ice of the O.M.H.A. champions. It is scheduled for Good Friday and Saturday, with a third game, if necessary on Easter Monday.</p><h2><b>BRITISH COLUMBIA FINAL</b></h2><h3>SATURDAY, MARCH 26</h3><p>Trail 3, at Kimberley 2 (TvaiI wins series. 3-1)</p><p><b>Trail:</b> Goal, Scodellaro; defense Cronie, Corrado; center, J. Anderson; wings, Christensen, Sutherland; subs.: Clements, Love, D. Anderson, Turik, Cavanagh, Gardner, Buckna, Pasqualatto, Nicol.,</p><p><b>Kimberley:</b> Goal. Nash; defense. Brown. Johnson; center. Jones; wings, Swaney, Kavanaugh; subs.: CaMes, Coombs, Sullivan, Tarnow, Kromm, Wilson, Yost, Bell.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0841/1137954-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="608" height="460"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">By GLEN GARRY</div><p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn&mdash;</p><p>The players of the United States Hockey League have proven once more that hockey players never forget their own. Last November rookie defenseman Bill Simpell. of the Minneapolis Millers had just finished practice when, as he was skating from the ice, another player shot, the puck to him. It touched the blade of his stick and bounced up hitting him in the eye, causing a severe injury. Doctors say they will have to remove the optic, and Simpell may never play again.</p><p>At the suggestion of Jim Hendy, president of the United States Hockey League, the players of the Northern Division eagerly agreed to play an exhibition for Simpell and it was decided that the leader of the Northern Division (St. Paul) would play the eliminated club (Minneapolis). The Southern Division then advised they too wanted to do something and Sam Avey, owner of the Tulsa Oilers said that his lads would be happy to meet the Houston Huskies in a post season exhibition. Proceeds in both games will go to Simpell.</p><p>Down in Tulsa the press, radio and fans quickly got behind the game and in addition to the exhibition, several other events were arranged. There were speed races between the Houston and Tulsa players and a never-to-be-forgotten race around the ice while carrying the puck between goaltenders Freckles Little of Tulsa and Nick Pidsodny of Houston. This latter event ended in a dead heat.</p><h2><b>PLAYERS CONTRIBUTE</b></h2><p>Players of the Fort Worth and Tulsa clubs took up a collection among the members with each team &lsquo;donating $50., and in addition every player paid his way into the game. Owner Sam Avey matched this with his personal check and Dick Owen, publicist of the new Eagle-Lion motion picture &ldquo;Tulsa&rdquo;, contributed another hundred. Everything including a check for $2,500 was sent in to President Jim Hendy by the Tulsa clul&rsquo;</p><p>The St. Paul fans turned their game into an &ldquo;appreciation night&rdquo; for the Saints, with local me joining in with gifts for each of the St. Paul players.</p><p>A check for close to $2,000 has been realized from St. Paul, and as the League plans on adding all fines collected from players this season, the fund for Simpell should exceed $5,000 cash.</p><p>Hendy will meet with Simpell in Brantford, Ontario, early in June and will then arrange how the money will be disbursed and the amount of the monthly payments which will be made. Simpell, in addition, will receive monthly checks through his state compensation insurance. Nothing of course, will compensate for the youngster losing his eye, but at least every effort is being made to give him a hand in making a new career for himself.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Puck Stars Have Big Hearts Rally To Help Injured Rookie

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0235/1138009-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="610" height="285"></div><p>April 7 to April 13</p><p>8&mdash;Cordon (Moose) Sherritt, Minneapolis, defense, 1922.</p><p>9&mdash;Tony Licari, St. Louis, right wing, 1921.</p><p>10&mdash;John &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty, Pittsburgh, left wing, 1918; Mel Read Tacom&rsquo;a, center, 1924.</p><p>11&mdash;Andy Branigan, Hershey, defense, 1922; Gordon Haidy, Indianapolis, right wing, 1928.</p><p>12&mdash;Al Dewsbury, Indianapolis, defense, 1926; Lloyd Finkbeiner, Buffalo, defense, 1920; Don Grosso, St. Louis, center, 1915.</p><p>13&mdash;Hub Macey, Springfield. let&rdquo; wing, 1921: Paul Bibeault, Dallas, goaler, 1919.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Bill Durnan, the goaltender Montreal fans jeered last season and cheered this year, was presented with a new automobile Saturday night by the fans who now are his best friends. Elmer Lach, much-injured Hab star who has reached the end of the hockey trail, made the presentation.</p><p>The automobile was bought with the dimes, quarters and other contributions made by Durnan&rsquo;s admirers in a collection organized by Louis DeFrancisco and Raymond Godbout.</p><p>Durnan also stands to cash in on his play in other ways. The Canadiens management will match any bonus money he gets from the league with an equal amount.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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