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October 15, 1949

The Hockey News October 15, 1949

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Danny Lewicki, &ldquo;Peck&rsquo;s Bad Boy&rdquo; of Hockey, has been suspended from organized hockey indefinitely, President Clarence Campbell has announced. The 18 year old left-winger has been suspended by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association at the asking of the N.H.L.&ldquo;The request was made under the agreement that the N.H.L. has with the C.A.H.A.&rdquo; Campbell said.The strange case of the youngster came to a head last week after months of argument between Lewicki and Conn Smythe of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Danny, who signed a Form &ldquo;C&rdquo; with the Leafs of the N.H.L. failed to live up to the agreement. When he signed the form it gave the Leafs an option on his services. He agreed to sign a professional contract, when tendered, for the amount specified in the option.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0338/994848-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="315" height="527"><figcaption class="caption-body">Problem Child&nbsp;DANNY LEWICKI</figcaption></div>Campbell said Lewicki actually was &ldquo;offered more than the contract called for.&rdquo;It is said that the Fort William lad was offered $4,000 a season for two seasons and a bonus of $2,000 to sign the contract. However Lewicki is said to have asked $10,000 a season and a $2,500 bonus.George Dudley, manager of the C.A.H.A. has confirmed that his association has placed the youngster on the suspended list after it was satisfied he failed to carry out the undertaking he made when he signed a National Hockey League C form with Toronto.The C.A.H.A. Manager said the suspension will stick until after Lewicki &ldquo;straightens things out with the Leafs.&rdquo;Meanwhile in Stratford where Danny played last season, the club executives went into a special huddle to discuss the suspension. And there is speculation that the junior club might contest the suspension and carry the matter to the courts to test the validity of the C form, which President J. H. Wyatt, of the Stratford Club, attacked several time last season.Lewicki&rsquo;s suspension is another bump on the tangled career of the young player who was the object of a concentrated chase by professional scouts when he reached his 16th birthday, and who sat out part of last season because his original club at Fort William held up his C.A.H.A. transfer to Stratford.The Providence Reds of the American Hockey League beat the other pro clubs to the post when the lad hit his 16th birthday&mdash;hockey&rsquo;s legal signing age&mdash;on March 12, 1947. He signed a C form with Providence, giving the Reds the option on his professional services.Conn Smythe, G.M. of Toronto purchased the right to Lewicki&rsquo;s pro services from Providence in what Smythe called the second largest cash deal in the history of the club. Smythe did not announce the sum of cash that changed hands but it was rep.orted to be around $15,000 and one player.Last season the Leafs wanted Lewicki to play with their, farm club, Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Hockey Association. However Lewicki chose Stratford and he stayed there, finally getting into action when the Stratford club paid out $3,500. for his release.Last July Lewicki renewed his C form with the Leafs. The C form sets out the terms under which a player will turn pro and gives the club an option on the player&rsquo;s services.In September Lewicki attended the Toronto hockey school at St. Catharines. The Leafs wanted him to join the Marlboros for further seasoning but he declined. He went back to Stratford.On Sept 21, the Leafs offered Lewicki a pro contract calling for $4,000 a season for two years plus $2,000 bonus for signing. On Sept 30, Smythe announced that he had wired the player telling him to open contract negotiations immediately. On Oct. 3, a Stratford report said that Lewicki had countered the Leafs offer by asking $10,000 a season plus a $2,500. bonus.On the same day Smythe said he hadn&rsquo;t heard from the player and turned the case over to President Campbell of the N.H.L.And there it stands. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Fails To Comply WithC Form Rule

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N. S.Manager Jim McDonald and coach Marty Barry received good word from Montreal as they made plans to take to the ice with Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s Goalie Jack Donlevy back on duty. The Santamarians had feared they would lose their ace backstop, who was regarded as the best in the Maritimes during last spring&rsquo;s playoff series.Announcing everything was in readiness to start defense of the Maritime Senior (Big Four) Hockey League championship, the Saints will have Tommy Brennan, George McGregor, Ronnie Gaudet, Jackie Hollett, Billy Hannon, Rock Sullivan, and Peanuts McLaughlin back in harness. Brennan, McGregor and Gaudet were high-flying scorers last season, with McGregor tying Saint John&rsquo;s Dickie Wray for the league championship. Gaudet surprised everyone with his scoring activities and Brennan got many a valuable point along the way. Billy Hannon has been in hockey a long time but last season he was the sparkplug in the playoffs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0252/996302-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="291" height="473"><figcaption class="caption-body">Question Mark&nbsp;JIMMY GRAY, ace winger of Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s, injured his ankle playing ball this summer and may put a crimp in the squad&rsquo;s championship hopes.</figcaption></div><h2>Gray Question Mark</h2>A lot depends on Jimmy Gray&rsquo;s injured ankle. Gray was hurt during the baseball season. He&rsquo;s a hard driving winger who gets a lot of goals while doing more than his share of the backchecking. St. Mary&rsquo;s will have several new faces, including Bert Steele and Frank Bowman.Bert, who has been around the Maritimes several times, was with Moncton Hawks last winter. Before he served two seasons with Truro Bearcats. He can play forward or defense. Bowman is from Kirkland Lake and comes highly recommended.More men are on the way, and there are no financial worries this time. Although official word is lacking, it is understood a local brewing firm will back the team.<h2>Word On Officials</h2>Other Big Four news concerns referees. It has been a hit-and-miss matter until this season. Now president J. Elliott Hudson has come up with a referee-in-chief and an assistant. The chief is Maurice (Moe) Walsh, who handled games in the Cape Breton circuit last winter. Assistant is Hugh Gillis, who has been around the Maritime cycle for some years.Wily Jackie Keating, who is a fixture in Saint John, expects to have his best team yet. Jackie has retained a number of last season&rsquo;s best players and has added some from here and there. As a coach Jackie always gets the best out of his men. The job he did with Charlie Phillips last winter Is an example. Many thought the burly defenseman was through as a topflight player, but Jackie had him well up in the scoring lists. And he still has the hardest shot in the Maritime hockey. Reports have it that Charlie, who was up with Les Canadiens at one time, go back to Glace Bay to play for old friend Martie MacDonald.Glace Bay officials were disappointed when they failed to sign Bill Cowley as coach of the Miners. The Bay team will be hard hit by the loss of key players but expect to come up with a formidable aggregation.Saint John Beavers and Monoton Hawks have signed a number of last year&rsquo;s players. They have also signed men who played with other Maritime clubs in 1948-49. Moncton has come up with Rsddie McKenzie and Lou Milani, who starred for Dartmouth Arrows last winter. Roddie is a hard working centre, a good playmaker and a willing worker. Milani is one of the best gunseis in the Big Four.<h2>Amherst Moves Up</h2>Amherst Ramblers have gone &lsquo;big time&rsquo; for the first time in years. The Amherst team has been given permission to import 10 players. They hope to fill the ranks with a few outstanding Ma-ritimers. There is talk of getting Amherst-born Jimmy Gray, but St. Mary&rsquo;s hope to retain their starry winger. Gray, of course, is on the shelf right now with a broken ankle suffered during the early baseball season. But he hopes to be back in time for the first practice&hellip;.Amherst, by the way, is the hometown of Red Stuart, former Toronto St. Pats and Boston Bruins defense, and later coach of Allan Cup winning teams ja Halifax and Sudbury. wBert Hirschfeld, a member of the 1948-49 Memorial Cup champion, Montreal Royals, was signally honored in his home town a few days ago. Bert was presented with a handsome trophy given to the most proficient Halifax athlete of the past decade by Frank Bowie, former Halifax athletic star.Moncton fans report that Buck; Whitlock, Big Four scoring champion two years ago, won&rsquo;t be back this season. Buck is getting brittle and lost much time last year with injuries. But he&rsquo;s still a man with a puck and. one of the better-marksmen in the MaritimesAmherst would be glad to get him if Moncton turns him down. &#9632;

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St. Mary’s Ace Back; Dollar Men Eye Cup

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01121/996013-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="599" height="659"><figcaption class="caption-body">On Their Way&nbsp;SID ABEL, right and Jack Stewart the lusty pair of Detroit Red Wings veterans are all set for the new season. Just where they ore getting set to rush to nobody knows, but it is thought that it might be another N.H.L. crown.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;A revised league with an ambitious program, the International Hockey League will open here Oct. 17.The six-team loop of a year ago becomes five for 1949-50. Hettche, the defending champion, Detroit Auto Club and Windsor remain. Hettche, however has jumped its home base from Windsor across the river to Detroit. And Windsor, which was Ryancrete last season, still hasn&rsquo;t named a sponsor.Sarnia and Chatham, Ont., the the newcomers in this border cities competition. It&rsquo;s the first, time they&rsquo;ve been active here thouts since before the war. Dropped are Detroit Brights, Detroit Jerry Lynch and Toledo Mercurys.Like the NHL, the schedule has been boosted. Each club will play 40 games, compared to 31 last season. It&rsquo;s the biggest card arranged in the IHLs five-year history.The season opened last Monday which is the regular hockey night in Detroit. Hettche and Auto Club, both of which call Olympia their home ice, were on the inaugural program.The Windsor and Chatham Wwne games are booked for Fridays, and contests in Sarnia on Saturdays.Familiar figures will direct the teams. The Hettche and Windsor brass is unchanged with Manager Lloyd Pollock and Coach Jimmy Skinner running Hettche, and Manager Lee Hebert and Coach Harvey Teno operating Windsor.Pat Paterson is the new manager of Auto Club, which retains Johnny Mowers as coach.The two new clubs are set with T. Logie Allen bossing Sarnia and Bob (Rosy) Stoddard as managercoach at Chatham.One change has been made in personnel arrangement. In past years the Red Wings have assigned members of the Windsor Junior A team in the OHA to play also on various IHL teams. That&rsquo;s out now. One league only is the limit.A year ago this group operated as the Northern Division of the IHL. In the Southern Division were Louisville, Toledo, Muncie, Ind. Akron, O., and Milwaukee. That division has disbanded, and Toledo, Milwaukee along with two new teams at Grand Rapids and Cleveland have aligned with the Eastern Amateur League. &#9632;

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Sarnia and Chatham Set For New Starts

<h2>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 Ottawa 7, Valleyfield 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0476/995906-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="328" height="272"></div><h2>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3 Valleyfield 2, Montreal 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0561/995899-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="270" height="231"></div><h2>Quebec 6, Shawinigan 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0651/995892-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="323" height="325"></div> &#9632;

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QSHL SUMMARIES

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0134/996564-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div>VOL.3&mdash;No. 2 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 15, 1949 PRICE: TEN CENTS (15 CENTS IN U.S.A)<h2>At The Rinkside as seen by Kavetski &#9632;</h2>

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Puck Writers Pick Leafs

Here&rsquo;s the way sports writers in N.H.L. cities pick the teams to finish. Table shows how many picked each team for the various finishing positions. (Individual selections on Page Two)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0225/996595-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="586" height="220"></div> &#9632;

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NHL Race Preview…

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div>MONTREAL, Qua&mdash;If the experts haven&rsquo;t got their crystal balls steamed up, the race in the National Hockey League this semester shouldn&rsquo;t be too much different from last year&rsquo;s in the upper brackets&mdash;but there&rsquo;ll be some changes made down near the cellar regionIn a poll conducted by THE HOCKEY NEWS, sports writers in the six N.H.L. cities took deep breaths and plunged off the deep end with their predictions.They picked Toronto Maple Leafs by a good margin to dethrone Detroit Red Wings as league champions, relegating last winter&rsquo;s front-runners to second place in the standings.Nine picked Leafs to finish on top&mdash;against six who favoured Detroit.Back of Leafs and Wings the writers ruled Montreal Canadiens favorites to hang onto the third playoff rung they held last year. In fourth spot they named Chicago Black Hawks.That&rsquo;s right&mdash;they said Chicago Black Hawks. While the first and second place predictions weren&rsquo;t unexpected, an unusual development was the faith the sports writers placed in the once-lowly Chicago Black Hawks. There wasn&rsquo;t much doubt in Chuck Conacher their minds but that Chuck Conacher&rsquo;s crew would finally make the grade after a dreary period out of the playoffs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0313/996626-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="157" height="242"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chuck Conacher</figcaption></div><h2>LAST YEAR&rsquo;S FORM</h2>Much of that confidence Is based on Chicago&rsquo;s upsurge of the 1948-49 season, when for a time they threatened to upset the dope bucket and get into the Stanley Cup trials for the first time since the spring of 1945-46, when they wound up third.Boston Bruins, last spring&rsquo;s second place finishers, were rated as no better than a fifth-place prospect for this campaign, despite the addition of a new coach&mdash;Buck Boucher&mdash;and the acquisition of hockey&rsquo;s outstanding gentleman, Bill Quackenbush, who also rates near the top of the list as a defenseman. Bill, All-Star choice of 1948-49, should strengthen the Bruin rearguard, but the writers figure they haven&rsquo;t enough up front.The unhappy New York Rangers ruled an almost unanimous choice to bring up the rear.<h2>CLOSE FOR THIRD</h2>Behind Leafs and Wings, the pollsters placed Montreal Can-adiens in third place, choosing them to finish ahead of Chicago Black Hawks.The sad, downtrodden Gothamites, in fact, weren&rsquo;t highly enough thought of to be picked for a finish anywhere above fifth place, except for Joe Nichols of the New York Times, who bid them in fourth. Five writers named them in that comparatively lofty spot, while figured they couldn&rsquo;t aspire to anything past sixth and last in a field of half a dozen starters.That won&rsquo;t make Frankie Boucher and Coach Lynn Patrick any too happy&mdash;but still it&rsquo;s a safe bet they aren&rsquo;t banking any too heavily on a better finish than the writers prophesy for them.<h2>Wings, Leafs Rule</h2>Outside of Toronto and Detroit, only two teams were bid in for a first place finish. Canadiens and Chicago got one each. Bob Kelley of the New York Sun placed Canucks first, while John Carmichael, veteran Sports Editor of the Chicago Daily News, nominated the Hawks to fly home first.&ldquo;After all, Chicago has to finish first some time,&rdquo; he remarked whimsically in his reply to the questionnaire.The Habitants nudged into the third playoff spot in the poll on the strength of Kelley&rsquo;s first-place nomination added tr second-plage votes by Elmer Fergerson of the Montreal Herald and Gordon Campbell of the Toronto Star. Outside of that the two squads were airly even. &#9632;

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Scribes Judge Wings For 2nd Chi In Fourth

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0151/994762-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="285" height="147"></div>(This week, we introduce another feature of interest to hockey fans, with introduction of &ldquo;What the Fans Say&rdquo;&mdash;an inquiring reporter column. Each week, fans in one of the N.H.L. rinks will be asked a topical question about the game, and their answers will be given here.)Place: Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.Question: &ldquo;Do you think the All-Star Game should be played at the start of the season? If not, when do you think it should be played?<h2>Ed. Gould Advertising Executive</h2>&ldquo;I think the Game should be played in mid-season. The players are at their best form then, and are really going their best after engaging in actual league competition for several weeks. Then too, interest of the fans is keener than it is now, with baseball, football, etc., all competing for their attention,&rdquo;<h2>Mrs. M. Yanosh, Elevator Operator</h2>&ldquo;I think the All-Star Game should be played at the start of the season. The players are too tired at the end of the season after working all year and they wouldn&rsquo;t be much good for anything. Anyway, I wouldn&rsquo;t have any money left to see them, after buying tickets all year.&rdquo;<h2>Jack McKenzie, Sales Manager</h2>&ldquo;I think it would be best to play the game In the middle of the season, just as they do in baseball. Anyway, it isn&rsquo;t hockey weather now, and there are too many other things going on at the same time.&rdquo;<h2>Bill Watters, Plumber</h2>&ldquo;Well, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned the best time is right now, at the beginning of the season. If you played the game during the schedule, I don&rsquo;t think the players could find suitable dates. They&rsquo;d have to take long trips from some other city, play in the All-Star Game, and then rush off another few hundred miles for their next schedule game. Besides, right now they are fresh from training camp, and they can show us a lot better hockey.&rdquo;<h2>Dave Johnson, Office Manager</h2>&ldquo;Personally, I don&rsquo;t think it matters much when they play. After all, it&rsquo;s for a good cause, to help the Players Pensions fund along. As for the game itself, I&rsquo;m not too sold on the idea, because I don&rsquo;t think the boys take it too seriously.&rdquo;<h2>Joan McLaughlin, Stenographer</h2>&ldquo;I think this is the best time to play the game, before we get all interested and excited in cheering for our own Leafs once the season starts. I think it&rsquo;s a grand way to start the year!&rdquo;<h2>Sam Watson, Bookkeeper</h2>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to see them play during the Christmas holidays. That&rsquo;s about the middle of the season, and it sure would be some attraction to see at that time.&rdquo;<h2>Walter Sampson, Accountant</h2>&ldquo;I think somewhere around the middle of the season is the best time to play the All-Star game. The players would be at their best, after several weeks of tough competition. I&rsquo;ll admit though that there&rsquo;s one drawback: the Stars have been chosen on the basis of last year&rsquo;s play&mdash;and sometimes a star of one year is just a bum the next.&rdquo; &#9632;

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WHAT THE FANS SAY!

BOBBY HEWITSON Sports Editor &ldquo;Toronto Telegrom&rdquo;1. Detroit2. Toronto3. Montreal4. Chicago5. Boston6. New YorkJIM VIPOND Sports Editor &ldquo;Toronto Globe Cr Moil&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Detroit3. Chicago4. Montreal5. Boston6. New YorkGORDON CAMPBELL Hockey Writer &ldquo;Toronto Star&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Montreal8. Detroit4. Chicago5. Boston6. New YorkBILL GRIMES Hockey Writer &ldquo;Boston American&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Detroit3. Montreal4. Boston5. New York6. ChicagoGERRY MOORE Hockey Writer &ldquo;Boston Post&rdquo;1. Detroit2. Toronto8. Boston4. Chicago5. Montreal6. New YorkHENRY McKENNA Hockey Writer &ldquo;Boston Herold&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Boston3. Detroit4. Montreal5. Chicago6. New YorkTED DAMATA Hockey Writer &ldquo;Chicago Sun-Times&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Detroit3. Chicago4. Montreal5. New York6. BostonJOHN CARMICHAEL Sports Editor &ldquo;Chicago Daily News&rdquo;1. Chicago2. Detroit3. Toronto4. Montreal5. Boston6. New YorkED BURNS Hockey Writer &ldquo;Chicago Tribune&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Detroit8. Chicago4. Montreal5. New York6. BostonPAUL CHANDLER Hockey Writer &ldquo;Detroit News&rdquo;1. Detroit2. Toronto8. Chicago4. Montreal5. Boston6. New YorkMARSHALL DANN Hockey Writer &ldquo;Detroit Free Press&rdquo;1. Detroit2. Toronto8. Montreal4. Chicago5. Boston6. New YorkBAZ O&rsquo;MEARA Sports Editor &ldquo;Montreal Daily Star&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Detroit8. Montreal4. Chicago5. Boston6. New YorkDINK CARROLL Sports Editor &ldquo;Montreal Gazette&rdquo;1. Detroit2. Toronto3. Montreal4. Chicago5. Boston6. New YorkELMER FERGUSON Sports Editor &ldquo;Montreal Herald&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Montreal3. Detroit4. Chicago5. Boston6. New YorkBARNEY KREMENKO Hockey Writer &ldquo;N.Y. Joumal-Americsn&rdquo;1. Detroit2. Toronto3. Chicago4. Montreal5. New York6. BostonBOB KELLEY Hockey Writer &ldquo;N.Y. Sun&rdquo;1. Montreal2. Toronto3. Detroit4. Boston5. New York6. ChicagoJOE NICHOLS Hockey Writer &ldquo;New York Times&rdquo;1. Toronto2. Detroit3. Montreal4. New York5. Boston6. Chicago &#9632;

HOW WRITERS VOTED

The Boston Bruins resumed their torrid trading pace last week. This time Pat Egan, old &ldquo;Boxcar&rdquo; himself, was sent to the New York Rangers in exchange for defenseman Billy Moe, a hunk of cash and option on two players and the full rights on an outstanding amateur.Egan, who was rumored to be on the trading block months ago, came to the Bruins from the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for Flash Hollett during the 1943-44 season.The transaction saw the Bruins get defenseman Billy Moe from the Blueshirts. He will be sent to the Hershey Bears, the Bruin&rsquo;s farm club of the American Hockey League. Moe is one of the few American born players now active in pro hockey. For the Bruins the big factor in the deal was obtaining the rights to left winger Lorne Ferguson of the Guelph Juniors of the Ontario Junior League.Both the Bruins and the Rangers had been dickering for his services. He starred with the Guelph club last season they are a Ranger sponsored club.<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0242/994817-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="146" height="229"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 146px">Pat Egan</figcaption></div>On paper the Rangers seemed to have the better of the deal. However It&rsquo;s a long range one for the Bruins who hope to some day make an N.H.L. player out of Ferguson. The two players who Boston will have an option on have not been named.The Rangers, in dire need of defensemen, will now be a force to be reckoned with. On defense they will have Frankie Eddolls, Alan Stanley, Freddie Shero, Wally Stanowski and Egan. Pat will give the Blueshirts the added defensive strength which they have so badly needed during the past three seasons.Upon joining the Blues it will be &ldquo;Boxcar&rsquo;s&rdquo; fourth N.H.L. club he has played for. He started with the now defunct New York Americans, then to the Red Wings. From the Red Wings to the Bruins and now to the Rangers. Last season he enjoyed one of his best seasons since he turned pro. He played in 60 games, scored six goals, assisted on 18 more and finished the season with a total of 24 points. However he spent 92 minutes in the penalty box. If he spends that much time in the cooler this season it will be something new for a Ranger club of late for they are known as a notoriously clean outfit.Moe last season played in 60 games, scored no goals and had nine assists for a season total of nine points. He spent 60 minutes in the penalty box.Egan, now 31 years old, represented the Bruins in the All-Star game last Monday. He joined the N.H.L. in 1939, and played under Red Dutton who was then coaching the Americans. &#9632;</div>

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Egan To Rangers Bruins Clean Up

Published 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 Buffalo, N.Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $2.50 in Canada, $3.50 in U.S.A. &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0151/994903-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Before and After&nbsp;Two pictures of the Montreal Forum showing what it has looked like for the past 25 years and what it will look like when the huge crew of workmen have put the finishing touches to it somewhere around December 1. Left, the Canadian Arena Company big three. Center, Senator Donat Raymond, inset left, Frank Selke and inset right, William Northey.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;If Howie Morenz and Babe Siebert were to walk into the Montreal Forum today, they would probably turn right around and walk out again, believing they were in the wrong arena. Actually they wouldn&rsquo;t be, but the home of the Montreal Canadiens has changed face so completely of late that it&rsquo;s nearly impossible to recognize the 25-year-old building.Last season close to one million people saw hockey games in the Forum and some quarter of a million people were turned away. To remedy this situation the Canadian &lsquo;Arena Company are adding three thousand new seats which will be ready for the beginning of December. The cost of the additional seats and the new look inside the Forum will run somewhere in the vicinity of $700,000 and it is expected to be a good few years before they start paying off.Gone are the old wooden seats Kind chairs that decorated the rink tor so many years. In their place are new plush seats brightly painted blue and red. Only the circle above the mezzinine, remind you of the Forum of old and even Those have a thick coating of paint. Next season they will also be taken out and new seats will be put in.<h2>Get A Break</h2>The joyous part of the additonal seats is that they will be sold on a first come first served basis. There will be no season tickets nor any reserved seats. Now 3, 000 people who Lave been unable to see their favorites in action for the past years will finally get a chance. With the additional new seats the Forum will be able to seat 12,500 people and a capacity crowd will run somewhree around the 15,000 mark, that includes standing room.The new seats are being added On the West and East side of the Trink and will run to about ten rows on each side.Yet underneath all the new paint and color, the Forum to many is a place of memories. Many oldtimers still see it as it used to be years ago. They still remember the great Morenz as he flashed his blades from end to end on the huge sheet of ice. And they can still picture the sad night that their great hero hit the boards at the Southeast end of the rink and lay on the ice with a broken leg, never to play again.Did you ever stop to think about some of the players who have walked through the center doors of the famous emporium? Hundreds of them. Shore, Ching John son, Joliat, Nels Stewart, Lorne Chabot, Charlie Gardiner and many, many more who are now just memories in the minds of many. Nearly every player who has played in the N.H.L. during the past 25 years has some time or other passed through the center gates of the Forum. On many occasions it led to disaster and on many more, to fame.Some great deeds have been performed on Forum ice during the past two and a half decades. We&rsquo;ll go back to the night of April 7, 1928 when Lester Patrick donned the pads for his New York Rangers and went into the nets to stop the Montreal Maroons cold. That was a Stanley Cup game and the Blueshirts won 2-1. Lorne Chabot was the regular goaler for the New Yorkers but during the game he was hit in the face with the puck. Patrick appealed to the Maroons to let him use Alex Connell, the Ottawa Senators goaler, who was in the crowd. However, the Maroon management refused and so Patrick ended up in the goals. He was 44 years old that night.<h2>How It Happened</h2>But what many fans don&rsquo;t know is that the Maroons went into the final against the Rangers because of a faulty goaler&rsquo;s stick.The Maroons were playing the Montreal Canadiens in the semifinal round and at the end of the third period of the final game there was no score. The game went into sudden death overtime, and Russ Oatman, who hadn&rsquo;t played during the game, went to center ice for the Maroons. From the face-off he deftly hooked the puck to the end of his stick and started toward the Habs net. As he skated around the huge Canadiens&rsquo; defense, goaler George Hainsworth moved out of his cage about ten feet to cut off Oatman&rsquo;s angle of shot. But as he moved out Russ blasted a shot which hit Hainsworth&rsquo;s stick, broke it in half and the puck trickled into the net. The Maroons were in the Stanley Cup final.Yes, there are many memories connected with the Montreal Forum. The famous Maroon-Toronto Maple Leaf hockey battles which were led by Red Horner in Blue and Hooley Smith in Maroon, are just memories now. They battled torridly. There was the night that the Conacher brothers tangled on Montreal ice. The pair started to fight alongside the boards and as Charlie Conacher broke away from brother Lionel&rsquo;s grip a fan grabbed the &ldquo;Big Train&rsquo;s&rdquo; stick and refused to let go. Lionel finally pried the fan loose, stepped back a few feet and brought his club down on the fan&rsquo;s skull.<h2>Howie Not Forgotten</h2>But there are sad memories connected with the Forum as well. The death of Morenz is something that will never be forgotten. News of Howie&rsquo;s death had a stunning effect on hockey fans all over the world. Death seemed far away from Morenz and nobody ever dreamed of it striking the &ldquo;Stratford Streak.&rdquo;Howie&rsquo;s teammates scheduled to meet the Maroons that night were a sorrowful sight as they met in the dressing room. Mrs. Morenz had telephoned that she did not want the game postponed.The scene in the Habs dressing room was one of mourning. As a player walked into the room, his teammates looked up momentarily and quickly looked down again, their eyes wet with tears.A sob shook the figure of a player sitting near Howie&rsquo;s old place as he was overcome with emotion. Grim little Aurel Joliat, who wasn&rsquo;t dressing for the game, came in and sat down on the bench, bowing his head and fixing his eyes on a spot on the floor.<h2>The Last Faceoff</h2>On the night of March 11th, all that was mortal of the great Howie Morenz returned to center ice in the Forum. On the very spot where he had faced-off so many times, his body was placed.Deep sorrow gripped the entire city as thousands walked softly past his body for a last look at the greatest player that ever lived. Montreal will never forget Howie&rsquo;s funeral. No other sportsman, soldier or statesman was ever more sincerely mourned. Fifteen thousand people packed the Forum for the service while twice as many more stood with their heads uncovered outside, ready to follow the procession. That memory will live forever.We could go on and on writing about the happenings in the Montreal Forum. The All-Star games for Morenz and Babe Seiber.t The night Toe Blake scored the winning goal against the Boston Bruins and gave the Canadiens the Stanley Cup, and the night the Old Lamplighter clashed with Bill Juzda and finished his great career. One of the highlights of hockey is Maurice Richard and few will ever forget his exhibition against the Detroit Red Wings when he scored five goals and assisted on three more in the Forum.The arena was built in 1924 by a group of Montreal sportsmen who at that time composed to a large extent the monied factions of the Quebec sports scene. The group was headed by Jhe Honourable Donat Raymond, present President of the Canadian Arena Company and Mr. L. H. Timmins. Aiding them were Percy Collins, Sir Edward Beatty, Gordon Cushing, Kenneth Dawes, Herbert Mol-son, Major H. MacDougall and William Northey. While Senator Raymond was the driving force behind these men, Timmins was to a large extent the most responsible of the lot for the Forum&rsquo;s having been built. When the insurance companies were approached for loans they were reluctant to take up the mortgage, figuring that a structure to be used solely for sport was to be shunned as a very unstable investment. Timmins took the mortgage himself and saved the day.In hockey parlance the Forum has been built on hallowed ground. Many years ago when the site oi the Forum was one of many vacant lots around the City of Montreal, a shallow depression in the center of the lot filled with water from melting snow, and when the cold weather returned the water froze into a suitable spot to play hockey. On that spot many great names learned to play the game. Among them are Lester and Franb Patrick, Art Ross and the greal Russell Bowie.Although the Forum is far from modern, it has many good points and has long been regarded as one of the best in America from the spectators point of view. The Forum was constructed in such a way that no matter what seat you may choose you can always see the entire ice surface.The big three of the Canadian Arena Company today are Senator Donat Raymond, Mr. William Northey and Frank Selke. Selke is the man responsible for the &ldquo;new look&rdquo; which the Forum now boasts.He is also largely responsible for the great popularity hockey is now enjoying in Montreal. When he first arrived a few years ago he promised Montreal junior hockey fans tfiat one of the clubs playing out of the Forum would win the Memorial Cup inside three years. Last season the Junior Royals came home victorious. And now Montreal hockey fans would follow Selke to the ends of the earth. &ldquo;Whatever Selke does is good for hockey,&rdquo; they say.He seldom makes the wrong move &#9632;

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New Seats Will Benefit 3,000 On First Come First Serve Selling

This year the Montreal Canadiens are celebrating their 40th birthday. They are the oldest club in the National Hockey League, having been organized in the year 1909. They have come a long way since.It would be folly indeed to try and pick the Canadiens greatest team since they first arrived on the hockey scene. The Habs clubs of the war years have been rated among many as the greatest teams ever formed. Others will argue that they were war time clubs and had little competition.Although it is a hard job picking the best club from their long long trail, without a doubt two of their top teams in their history appeared during the 1929-30 and 1931-32 seasons. Led by the late Cecil Hart, the Habs had such great players as Hainsworth in the nets, Burke, both Manthas, Morenz, J&rsquo;oliat, Gagnon, Pit Lepine, Jean Pusie Gus Rivers, Albert Leduc, Nick Wasnie, Bert McCaffrey, Gerry Carson, Armand Mondou, Art Lesieur and Wildor Larochelle<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0240/994934-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="268" height="278"><figcaption class="caption-body">CECIL HART</figcaption></div>As we said, many consider these two clubs as the greatest pair of Canadien hockey clubs ever to play in the Old Bleu-Blanc-Rouge. They won the Stanley Cup both those seasons what do you think? &#9632;

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Greatest off All?

<div class="byline">by ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01121/994965-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="170" height="245"></div>WHEN SOLICITING sports writers on how the N.H.L. teams would finish the 1949-50 season, we queried John Carmichael, sports editor of the Chicago Dally News, at the Yankee Stadium press hox. John wired his selections midway through the second World Series game. His telegram read: &ldquo;Black Hawks, Detroit, Toronto, Canadlens, Boston and Rangers. After all we gotta finish first sometime don&rsquo;t we?&hellip; When a troop of Canadian mounties appeared in St. Louis recently In conjunction with a national horse show, one wag was heard to remark: &ldquo;I wonder if I&rsquo;ll ever see a Canadian on foot. They&rsquo;re either on skates or horseback! &hellip; Big tournout at the third annual National Hockey League All-fitar game and these events are getting better each year. It&rsquo;s the one time each year when hockey people from all over the circuit are able to convent together. A lot of good Ideas were exchanged between the different guests at Toronto&hellip; In reply to several queries we&rsquo;ve received of late from hockey players whose shoulders keep jumping out of place. We checked with Bill Head of the Montreal Forum on this and his answer was as follows: &ldquo;If a shoulder which keeps jumping out of place was not originally an injury where a dislocation occurred, the cause is a shallow cavity and the only help is medical gymnastics. If it was originally an injury then surgery is the only solution. The seven Boston hockey writers on hand at the All-Star game went over to Detroit for the season&rsquo;s opener on October 12 between the Red Wings and Bruins.DID YOU KNOW THAT Les Cunningham scored five points in one period in an N.H.L. game? Yep, it&rsquo;s true. While playing on the forward line for Chicago Black Hawks during the 1939-40 season, Les scored two goals and assisted on three others in a game against Montreal Canadlens at Chicago. The game was played on January 28, 1940. Cunningham actually did all his scoring in 10 minutes and four seconds &hellip; It was in the third period and was as follows: Cunningham (Siebert) 6:26; R. Carse (Cunningham, Cooper) 6:41; Chad (Cunningham) 7:44; Cunningham (R. Carse) 16:06 and Chad (Cunningham) at 16:30&hellip; The people of Zurich, Ont. and district are raising $50,000 to build a community center and arena, the latter as a memorial to the late Babe Siebert, one of the greatest players to ever perform in the N.H.L. Those friends of the Babe who would like to make contributions should contact W. A. Siebert, secretary of the project, at Zurich&hellip; Bob Kinnear, coach of Louisville Blades last season, will coach Fort Frances Seniors this term. Kinnear was coach of Winnipeg Rangers&rsquo; Memorial Cup team of 1943&hellip; Plans are now underway to build a $250,000 rink in Fort Frances&hellip; Fort Frances plays in a league with Hibbing, Duluth and Eveleth &hellip; Bun Nicholson, former Winnipeg Flyer senior goalie and last year with Toledo, is trying for the goaling spot on the Regina Caps, left vacant by Bev Bentley&rsquo;s decision to play for Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen this year&hellip; There is quite a rhubarb on at the moment between Cliff Ehrle, manager of Regina Caps and Bill Hunter, ditto of Saskatoon Quakers. It is over the services of Chuck McCullough, a centerman who played for Regina for the past two seasons. Hunter claims McCullough is starting a business of his own in Saskatoon but Ehrle says he won&rsquo;t come through with a transfer.CINCINNATI has the youngest managerial team in the American Hockey League and in all probability in all hockey. Charles Sawyer, general manager, is 28, Bill Niland, publicity director, is 27 and Ed Sinclair, building superintendent, is old at 32. Sinclair is said to be one of the best ice makers in the business. He hails from Port Arthur, Ont. They&rsquo;re still doing all they can in Cincy to counteract such lack of hockey knowledge as that of people who write in requesting tickets on the 50-yard line&hellip; Bud McPherson, husky Edmontonian who is expected to be the ace defenseman on Cincinnati, says it&rsquo;s a mighty big step from the Western Canada League to the National League. He played three games for Cana-diens last season. He thinks the A.H.L. is a lot rougher than the Western loop&hellip; Gordon &ldquo;Tony&rdquo; Savage, who was manager-coach of Fort Rangers in the U.S.H.L. during the last two seasons and who was appointed general manager this season, was up in Quebec on the prowl for players when notified that Fort Worth has decided to drop out of hockey entirely for one year. They were to have Bompteted in the newly-organized Texas League this season. Savage now makes his year-round home in Forth Worth where he has the concession at a popular golf course &hellip; Red Story, one of Canada&rsquo;s best-known football players, will act as an N. H.L. linesman this season&hellip; Demands for season tickets at Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens have been so intense that thy&rsquo;ve just got as far as filling the needs of the 1947 list. They&rsquo;re still two years behind in filling the requests&hellip; Kansas City Pla-Mors have changed their name to Kansas City Mo-Hawks. Miss Bess Johnson, who has missed only six K.C. games in the last five years, submitted the name.MOOSE JAW CANUCKS junior team, coached by Ken Doraty, are currently running a hockey school to which they invite prospects from all over Saskatchewan. That&rsquo;s how they come up with some of their best players&hellip; The Queen City Gardens in Regina is now known as the Regina Exhibition Stadium&hellip; The Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association will have 19 senior leagues operating within its confines this winter. The M.A.H.A. is the largest sectional group in the Amateur Hockey Association of the U.S&hellip;. Two of the bestlooking defense prospects at Boston Bruins&rsquo; Hershey training camp were Ross Lowe and Ivan Irwin. Lowe looks like a cinch N.H.L.&rsquo;er within a season or two &hellip; Doug Harvey, Hal Laycoe and Elmer Lach placed one-two-three in a quizz contest on hockey rules conducted by Professor Richard Irvin the other day at the Habs training camp. The quizz was in English but some of the French-speaking boys on the club fared better than the English ones&hellip; Mike Yaschuk, who played with Saskatoon Quakers Seniors last year, is slated to line up with Streathan in the English League this season&hellip; Clarence Campbell held a one-day session with N.H.L. referees and senior linesmen last week in Montreal. It was very successful, and Campbell went over the complete rule book with the arbiters&hellip; Cartoonist Lee Kavetski, a discovery of THE HOCKEY NEWS, has moved from Kingston, Pa. to Montreal and readers of the International Hockey Weekly will get better cartoons than ever before, thanks to Mr. Kavetski&rsquo;s move. &#9632;

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Passing the Puck

<div class="byline">By CARL GROTHMAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02112/994996-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="277" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body">Player&hellip;&nbsp;SYL APRS</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;When the Rangers face off against the Canadiens in Montreal on Saturday night they will be adding another game to a series of opening games that shows promise of developing into a tradition with the Blue Shirts. The New Yorkers will make their National Hockey League debut against the Habitants for the 4th consecutive season.The game will have added interest for New York hockey fans for it will be the rubber match of the series which now stands at one win, one loss and one tie for each team over the past three years. The Canadiens blanked the Blue Shirts 3-0 in 1946 and the Rangers triumphed 2-1 the following year. Last season the teams battled to a 1-1 draw. In addition to cementing the opening game tradition for the Blue Shirts the game should also break the deadlock.Following the game in Montreal, the Gothamites will continue a prolonged road trip htat will take them aronund the entire NHL circuit before they return to Madison Square Garden for their home opener against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday, October 26. They play at Boston, Sunday, Oct. 16; at Detroit Wednesday, October 19; at Toronto Saturday, October 22; and at Chicago Tuesday October 25, prior to their home debut. The Rangers are the only team in the league that will meet every opponent obi out-of-town ice before the start of their home campaign.The make-up of the Rangers squad still remains somewhat of a mystery at this writing. In past years the Blue Shirts were on the road playing exhibition games at this time but this season Manager Frank Boucher and Coach Lynn Patrick are keeping the players in camp at Lake Placid, N.Y. until the day before the game in Montreal. As a result, they have been able to delay the naming of the full roster and several talented newcomers are still battling Veterans for the still open spots on the squad.Among the rockies who are likely to be chosen as Rangers are Bing Juckes and Walter (Gus) Kyle. Juckes, a forward, was a 40-goal player with the St. Paul Saints last season and a vital cog in the Saints drive to regular season and playoff championships in the USHL. He was named to the league All-Star team at left wing. Kyle a 6&rsquo; 1&rdquo; defenseman from the Regina Caps, has performed so well in training camp sessions that he holds an inside track in the race for a berth with the Blue Shirts. &#9632;

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Jukes, Kyle, Maybe Blues

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div>(This is the second article of a series on the National Hockey League Pension Society.)The National Hockey League Pension Society functions as a corporation, formed under the Dominion of Canada Companies Act on October 1,1947. Entirely self-administering, the Society is governed by representatives of the players themselves, the clubs and the league&mdash;in the person of N.H.L. President Clarence Campbell who is also president of the Society.Syl Apps, great Toronto center ace who retired a year ago, is vice-president, with defen seman Glen Harmon of Montreal Canadiens as the other player representative.&rsquo;Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick of New York Rangers and Brig. Ian Johnston of Toronto are the club owners&rsquo; representatives. Conn Smythe of Leafs was one of the original members, but withdrew after the first year in favor of Johnston in the annual elections which are held to name the sla(te of officers.<h2>Worthwhile Benefits</h2>In addition to the retirement pensions which every N.H.L. player is eligible to receive, they also get other important benefits. Each is covered by a $10,000 policy in a group life insurance plan, as well as a further $10,000 permanent disability insurance in case of accident that ends their playing career. Premiums on these insurances are paid by the Society.Regardless of salary, each participant pays in $900 a year, which is tax-free in Canada. As President Campbell points out, if the players weren&rsquo;t paying that money. in to the Society, about one-third of it would be slashed off in income tax and the balance would soon melt away under today&rsquo;s high prices.Individual protection, for life and disability Insurance as well as pensions, would cost considerably more if the players bought it for themselves rather than under the group plan.<h2>Systems Differ</h2>While players In Canada receive income tax exemption for their $900 contributions, they pay tax on the pensions when they receive them at age 45 or whenever they avail themselves of the money coming to them. In the U.S. the procedure is reversed. N.H.L, puckchasers south of the border pay tax on their contributions, but the pension itself is exempt.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0357/995027-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="249" height="394"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; Reps&nbsp;GLEN HARMON</figcaption></div>One most interesting feature of the plan is the speed at which pension benefits accumulate if not cashed immediately. Based on an annual payment equal to 10 per cent of the player&rsquo;s total contributions, the maximum pension available at age 45 is $900 annually, or $75. month. A man gets that if he has contributed for 10 years.<h2>Can Let It Grow</h2>If the retired player isn&rsquo;t immediately in need of the pension, he can leave it in the Society to accumulate interest. If he waits until he is 50 years old, he will receive $94.57 a month. If he lets It lie another five years, until he is 55, he can draw $120.05 a month. Finally, if he doesn&rsquo;t choose to take his pension until he is 60&mdash;the normal retirement age in most business and industry&mdash;his pension will be worth a grand total of $156.60. a month!Truly, that&rsquo;s security for old age&mdash;and still another reason why hockey is just about as good a profession for a young fellow with talent as you&rsquo;ll find anywhere.(Next Week&mdash;what about past service?) &#9632;

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Puckster Has No Worries When Old Age Creeps On

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0172/995058-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="292" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Having&hellip;&nbsp;JIM McFADDEN</figcaption></div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;The Western Canada Hockey League jumped into the class of many pro clubs this week when it was reported that Ray Frederick, sensational goaler for the Brandon Wheat Kings last season, had signed to play for Frank Currie&rsquo;s Edmonton Flyers for a mere $7,000. Frederick, who has had repeated offers to sign pro, turned them all down to play in Edmonton.The youthful netminder is on negotiation list of the Minneapolis Millers of the United States Hockey League although the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League were given permission by the Minneapolis front office to dicker with him. The Hornets were considering giving Frederick the job as a replacement for Baz Bastien.Meanwhile President Clarence Campbell of the National Hockey League, commenting on the $7,000 contract of Frederick, said: &ldquo;All I can say is the Western Canada Hockey League is a high priced league and I hope the public support will enable them to stay in business.&rdquo;Ray was a sensation with the Brandon Wheat Kings throughout last season and was the main reason why the Memorial Cup Montreal Royals had so much trouble with the Wheat Kings in the Junior championship.<div class="sidebar"><h2>Some Sleep; Conn Thinks</h2>Speaking in admiration of ids boss Conn Smythe the other day, Hap Day, Toronto coach, said: &ldquo;Some fellows go to bed to sleep. He goes to bed to think.&rdquo; &#9632;</div>

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Frederick Happy For $7,000 With Edmonton Flyers

<div class="byline">By DAVE FARRELL</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;What price winning the Calder Memorial Trophy as the National Hockey League&rsquo;s rookie of the year? That&rsquo;s a question Pentti Lund of the New York Rangers might well ask himself as he gets ready for his somophore season in the N.H.L.Ever since Syl Apps of the Toronto Maple Leafs was the first recipient of this award at the conclusion of the 1936-37 season, things have been mighty tough for the laddies wearing the rookie crown. We&rsquo;re not superstitious and we place no credence in the age old superstitions, whammies, and other idiosyn-crasies in which many people, especially pro-fesional athletes believe. But it does seem a little more than coincidental that the winning of the Calder Memorial Trophy, especially in recent years, has been detrimental to the future career of a hockey player.&ldquo;What about Apps?&rdquo; you say. &ldquo;His play didn&rsquo;t deteriorate in the years after he won the rookle-of-the-year award. Even though Apps enjoyed a series of brilliant seasons after he captured the award, he was jinxed in another respect&mdash;Injuries. With the possible exception of Bill Crowley, Apps suffered more injuries tha many other player during the past decade.These mishaps which beset the great Toronto center iceman periodically throughout his career, prevented him from gaining fame and stardom comparable to that of the late Howie Morenz. It is the opinion of many hockey experts that if Apps had not been injured so often during his tenure in the National Hockey League, he would have rated on a par with the &ldquo;Stratfprd Streak.&rdquo;<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0259/995103-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="145" height="233"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 145px">Gus Bodnar</figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>Many the Mishaps</h2>Now consider the histories of the players who won the trophy in the years after Apps.Cully Dahlstrom won it for his play during the 1937-38 season. Seven years later, he had faded into oblivion, playing out his career in the N.H.L. as just another hockey player. He never again enjoyed a good season. His best was in 1943-44 when he scored 44 points. However, that was a war year, you&rsquo;ll recall, and Herb Cain of the Bruins set an all-time scoring mark that year with 82 points.The following year Frankie Brimsek of the Boston Bruins was the most sensational rookie ever to enter the National Hockey League. He broke in with a series of consecutive shutouts, made Boston fans forget the great play of Tiny Thompson in quick order, and then proceeded to win the Vezina Trophy and rack up a total of 10 shutouts in 41 games.<h2>First Was Greatest</h2>As in the case of most players who won the Calder Trophy, Brimsek&rsquo;s freshman year was his greatest. He did win the Vezina Trophy again three years later but he has never since displayed the form that earned him the title &ldquo;Zero&rdquo; in his first season. Since his return from duty in the U.S. Coast Guard, Brimsek has been hot and cold in the Bruin net. But the most glaring examples of players folding up after winning the Calder Trophy have occurred in th* years since the war ended.Jimmy McFadden stands out above all others in this respect. The 29-year-old Detroit center broke into the National Hockey League two years ago and set the league afire with 2 4 goals and the same number of assists for a season&rsquo;s total of 48 points.<h2>Jinx At Work</h2>McFadden seemed to have everything. He could skate, stickhandle and shoot. He had all the makings of a great hockey player. So what happened last season? The Calder Trophy jinx took its toll of this promising player.Jimmy suffered a big letdown&mdash;even bigger than the Detroit fans who expected so much of him. He scored only half as many goals as in his freshman year and managed to pick up 20 assists for a mediocre 32-point season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0344/995096-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="212" height="215"><figcaption class="caption-body">PENTTI LUND</figcaption></div>Howie Meeker of the Maple Leafs is another player whose brief career closely parallels that of the Red Wing center. Meeker broke in with a bang the year before and walked off with rookie-of-the-year honors. His great speed enabled him to rack up an impressive total of 27 goals that year which, coupled with 18 assists, gave him a total of 45 points for the campaign.A year later and you wouldn&rsquo;t know that Meeker was the same player who had skated right wing with Ted Kennedy not long before.<h2>Brief Career</h2>Frank McCool, the goalie who led an underdog Maple Leaf team to a Stanley Cup championship in 1945, had about the briefest career possible in the National Hockey League after winning the Calder award. Frank didn&rsquo;t win the Vezina Trophy that year but his general, all round play in the net kept Toronto in the championship running throughout the season.The following year saw McCool and the Maple Leafs go into a tailspin. Before the season was over, the veteran Tuck Broda had returned and Frank was out of the major loop, never again to return to National Hockey League competition.Johnny Quilty, ex of the Canadiens and Bruins, was never the same after copping the rookie award in 1941. Following several years in the Canadian armed forces, he returned to hockey and was farmed to Buffalo and Springfield in 1946-47. The following year he was sold to the Bruins and was making a comeback bid when he broke his leg in a game against the Black Hawks. The leg never mended properly and Johnny&rsquo;s playing days in the N.H.L. were over.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0432/995089-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="157" height="213"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gaye Stewart</figcaption></div><h2>Not Even Remembered</h2>We doubt that many readers even recall Kilby Macdonald of the New York Rangers. Kilby was rookie-of-the-year in 1940. A year later he faded out of the picture after a lack-lustre season. He entered the Canadian service whieh just about put the finishing touch on his hockey career. He made a comeback attempt but was so un-succesful that he finally quit pro-fesional hockey.And so it has been with the other Calder Trophy winners: Gaye Stewart (1943), Gus Bodnar (1944), Grant Warwick (1942) and Edgar LaPrade (1946).Stewart has been hot and cold since he won the award. One year he looks like a million only to fade the next. The same applies to Bodnar. He was even shipped down to Pittsburgh after a miserable showing during two-thirds of the 1946-47 campaign. Warwick has been consistent but has been benched off and on by the Rangers and Bruins. &#9632;

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Uneasy Lies Crowned Head!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0520/995134-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="297" height="476"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip;Troubles&nbsp;HOWIE MEEKER</figcaption></div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;If Howie Meeker can perform as sensationally on ice skates as he did this past summer on those of the roller variety, he&rsquo;s apt to make everybody forget his somewhat disappointing performances of the past couple of seasons.Crew-cut Howie spent most of the summer brushing up his technique with an unlikely looking set of apparatus. This included a sat of roller skates, four large sheets of blackboard slate, an improvised net and the willing help of some of the neighbors&rsquo; youngsters.Meeker, when he first broke in, was a headache to every goalie but Broda. He had a pet play, streaking across the goalmouth, getting the goalie to make a move and then flipping a backhand shot home.But since that first year, Howie has found the goalies completely baffling. They smartened up to his goal-mouth play and he had to change his tactics. The ambitious youngster tried a novel experiment this summer, and if he hits the score sheet with regularity in 1949-50 warfare, a lot of his success will be attribuable to four sheets of chalk slate, a pair of rooler skates, an old hockey net, a stick, a puck and the neighborhood&rsquo;s youthful &ldquo;Meeker for President&rdquo; admirers.Meeker used all these things to practice different scoring approaches and it will be interesting to watch the outcome of this ingenuity.Meeker weighed la at camp about four pounds heavier than last year, but It hasn&rsquo;t slowed him down any. In fact, he claims he&rsquo;s at least a step faster than last year&mdash;which should&rsquo;nt hurt him at all. &#9632;

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Slates, Skates, Nets Plus Kids Tuned Howie Up

As in any other sport, hockey followers usually think it the best policy to string along with the champion until a new challenger comes along who can dethrone the old king. So it is with the National Hockey League race for the 1949-50 season&mdash;now just nicely underway.The concensus seems to be that Toronto Maple Leafs&mdash;as Stanley Cup winners for the past three seasons&mdash;still have plenty of what it takes, and that it&rsquo;s strictly up to the opposition to strengthen to a point where they can halt the rampaging buckaroos from Ontario.That&rsquo;s exactly how sports writers in the six N.H.L. cities see it in a poll conducted by THE HOCKEY NEWS. By a substantial majority, they picked the Happy Day-led squad to finish first in this season&rsquo;s race. Detroit Red Wings, who finished first last year, were relegated to second place, which shouldn&rsquo;t be too surprising. Although they finished first against Toronto&rsquo;s fourth, Wings bowed out ignominously in the Cup finals, losing four straight games without a victory.The experts obviously figure that Leafs will get away fast this year, take the lead and hold it, while Wings will be unable to quite catch them through the race, or in the stretch drive.Leafs and Wings are definitely held to be the class of the loop, as evidenced by the voting. Of 17 sports writers who answered the questionnaire (three in each city except Detroit, where one writer failed to reply) all but two named those two teams for the top spots. Nine picked Leafs to finish first and six favored Wings. Toronto got seven second-place nods and Wings eight, while one writer saw Leafs no better than third and three picked Detroit in that spot.You don&rsquo;t have to look too far to see the reasons why Leafs are held in such high esteem around the circuit. When they started their Stanley Cup winning streak in 1946-47, they had a raw combination of green youngsters blended with veterans for steadiness. In 1947-48, the rookies were fast developing into big leaguers and last year&mdash;in the playoffs, particularly&mdash;Smythe had his youngsters clicking in championship style.Much of the secret lies in the fact that Leafs are a young club, and have the staying power. While their opponents may club them around in the early stages of the campaign, by the time the playoffs roll around the Toronto crew of youngsters are much fresher than their aged, jaded rivals.That fact will likely be more striking than ever this season, with the back-breaking 70-game schedule in vogue. Not only will the clubs play more scheduled games than ever before, but the season will be the longest ever, in terms of actual elapsed time between opening and closing dates. After that gruelling grind, only youngsters will feel much like going at full clip through an extended post-season series.<h2>IS THIS CHICAGO&rsquo;S YEAR?</h2>After the two leaders, the writers selected Montreal Canadiens to finish in third&mdash;the same position they occupied in the spring of 1949. Then, in fourth place, the experts figured Chuck Conacher&rsquo;s scrappy crew of Chicago Black Hawks should be good enough to pick up the marbles. If they do, it will mark the first time since 1945-46 that the once-proud Hawks have made the money series.Chicago&rsquo;s hopes have been crushed dismally every year since, as they plummeted down into the league&rsquo;s cellar regions. Only last year, after big, bruising Chuck Conacher took over the coaching reins, Chicago began surging ahead. This year, it&rsquo;s felt in Hawkdom and in the minds of the writers, they may finally make the grade.With Chicago coming up into the charmed playoff circle, it means that one squad has to drop out. Boston Bruins are the receivers of that most dubious honor as they are picked for no better than fifth place&mdash;a far cry from their second-place finish of last spring.In the cellar, of course, occupying the same spot they held down last year, are New York Rangers. Although potentially the richest club in the N.H.L., with an audience of close to 10,000,000 people to draw from, Rangers haven&rsquo;t been able to buy players or develop them fast enough to take the place of the old-time immortals as they faded from the scene.Once one of hockey&rsquo;s most colorful clubs, Rangers have slipped badly since the great days of the Cooks, Boucher, hulking Ching Johnson&mdash;and even the Patricks and Colvilles of recent years.It&rsquo;s to be hoped that they&rsquo;ll soon find their way out of the woods, because a strong, winning New York entry in the N.H.L. will strengthen the entire league immeasurably. &#9632;

BACK CHAMPION UNTIL HE LOSES

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01145/995189-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="941" height="130"></div><h2>PICTURE COLLECTOR</h2>Dear Sir,I am anxious to hear from hockey fans who are interested in buying, trading and selling pictures. Fans who are interested please state type of pictures interested in.Bill Chorney Sheho, Sask.<h2>BRUNETEAU BOYS</h2>Dear Sir,Could you give me the scoring and assist records of Eddie and Mud Bruneteau formerly of the Detroit Red Wings. In what year lid they join the Wings and what are they doing now? Also from what city or town are they from and what positions did they play?Ken Burnett(Eddie and Mud are both from St. Boniface, Manitoba and both shoot right. Eddie is now with the Indianapolis Caps of the A.H.L. and Mud is currently coaching the Omaha Knights. Eddie joined the Wings first of all during the 1940-41 season and Mud joined the Wings in 1935. Eddie scored 40 goals and assisted on 42 more while with the Wings and Mud scored 193 goals and 138 assists while in the Red Wings uniform.)<h2>HAB ROOTERS</h2>Dear Sir,Could you please tell me which team in the N.H.L. has the greatest farm system. Also how many teams in the system?We are ardent Montreal Canadiens fans and would like to see a story complete with pictures on Gerry Plamondon.We think The Hockey News is doing a great job only we would like to see more about the Canadiens. How about more crosswords? Keep up the good work.Eddie M. KenneyBill Kelly Arnprior, Ont.(We can&rsquo;t say exactly who has tile largest farm system. However we believe the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens are leading in that field.)Dear Sir,Could you please tell me where I can get pictures of the hockey clubs. Where do I write to.Victor Beermann Chicago, Ill.(Write to the publicity men of the clubs in the city they operate out of.)<h2>DETROIT BEEF</h2>Dear Sir,I have enjoyed your paper very much. However I would like to make a beef about the way the All-Star game was given to Toronto again this year. Why to Toronto and not Detroit, Boston, Montreal or New York. The fans are just as eager to see the AllStars as Toronto fans are if not more so.I don&rsquo;t think a 70 games schedule will work out after all. Look how tired Detroit was when they reached the final round of the playoffs.Jean Small Doris Crane Detroit, Mich.(It was decided by the executives of the N.H.L., after the 2nd All-Star game, that in future the dream game will be played in the rink of the Stanley Cup winner.)<h2>A.H.L. RECORDS</h2>Dear Sir,Could you tell me who holds the records in the American Hockey League for the most winning goals in a season? Who holds the A.H.L. record for the most &ldquo;hat tricks&rdquo; in a season?Joan Voelker Eggerstsville, N.Y.(Most winning goals in a season is 10 and was racked up by Murray Armstrong of Syracuse in 1938-39. Most &ldquo;hat-tricks&rdquo; in a season is six and Paul Gladu of St. Louis performed the feat in 1948-49.)<h2>TRADE PAPERS</h2>Dear Sir,This is the first time I have written to your paper requesting a favor. I am a subscriber since the first edition went to press so maybe I rate.. I have the first 35 papers printed and am willing to exchange them for any papers, pamphlets periodical or anything pertaining to the Quebec Senior Amateur League. I also have 16 New York Rover programs from Madison Square Garden for the season of 1946-47 when the Rovers were in the Eastern Amateur League. I will exchange them on the same conditions. I also have 16 programs from the 1947-48, 1948-49 seasons of the Rovers which will exchange for programs of the same league during the same seasons.James T. Stafford Bronx, N. Y.<h2>DUCATS WANTED</h2>Dear Sir,I have been saving up all my questions for this letter.One of my biggest problems is getting tickets for the first four N.H.L. games in Montreal this Fall. I know it isn&rsquo;t easy.Do I write to the Forum for them or do I get in touch with the team?I would also like to see some games in Ottawa and Quebec and of course the Montreal Royals. When they begin their games and how will I get tickets for them?Jeannette Marie Somers Chicago, Ill.(Write to tlie Montreal Forum, Box Office Manager, St. Catherine Street, Montreal. He may be able to help you. I don&rsquo;t think you will have very much trouble getting tickets for Ottawa, Quebec or the Montreal Royals. They start about the same time as the N.H.L.)<h2>&ldquo;GRAND SLAM&rdquo; ENQUIRY</h2>Dear Sir,This being my first letter to the Fan Forum I would first of all like to congratulate you on turning out an excellent hockey paper.Being a strong supporter of Toronto Maple Leafs, I would like to know why, after the Leafs pulling off the &ldquo;Grand Slam&rdquo;, not even one has been picked on the All-Star team.I suppose it is just as Hap Day says, &ldquo;They can have the All-Stars, we&rsquo;ll take the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;Could you please tell me the total number of goals scored by Howie Meeker in his N.H.L. career?Miriam Curtis Toronto, Ont.(Meeker has scored 48 goals since turning pro. Twenty-seven the first season, 14 in his second and seven last season.)<h2>WAY BACK WHEN</h2>Dear Sir,I enjoy reading your fine paper.Could you tell me if any N.H.L. teams were in competition in 1912 when the Moncton Victorias and the Quebec Bulldogs played off for the Stanley Cup, Quebec Winning and in the following year when Sydney played off with Quebec, with Quebec winning.Mike Donovan Jr. Moncton, N.B.(Only the Montreal Canadiens were in competition at the time. This year the Montrealers are celebrating their 40th birthday.)<h2>MAJOR LEAGUER</h2>Dear Sir,I think your paper is terrific, particularly your first weekly issue for this season.However I would like to see more stories on the American Hockey League in it. We think the A.H.L. will someday become a Major League just like the N. H.L.Could you please tell me where Eddie Bush, Phil Hergesheimer and Wally Stefaniw are playing this season. Also George Defelice. They all played for the Philadelphia Rockets last season.Joan Gardiner Philadelphia, Pa.(Bush, Stefaniw and Hergesheimer are now-playing for the new Cincinnati club in the American Hockey League. Defelice is with Springfield.)<h2>ALL-STAR QUIZ</h2>Dear Sir,Congratulations on your first weekly issue. It was really good and lots of pictures. Pictures count a lot in a paper like yours and young boys like myself like to know what the players, we read about look like. The crosword puzzles are good too.I would like to ask a question. Did Bill Durnan play in the second All-Star game and who were the other goalers in the game?Michael Terry Montreal, Que.(Yes Durnan played in the second All-Star game along with Frankie Brimsek and Turk Broda.)<h2>YIPE, TAKE IT EASY</h2>Dear Sir,Last week I read a letter from E. J. Sharbatz. Poor Sharbatz. What does he or she think we are in Boston? We&rsquo;re not going to throw Quackenbush into the ocean, in fact we&rsquo;ll treat him better than they did in Detroit, much better.Trades are what make hockey so interesting. So Mr. or Miss Sharbatz don&rsquo;t worry about poor Bill Quackenbush, he&rsquo;s with the best club in the world right now. Besides he didn&rsquo;t pass away he has merely been traded so take the black band off your arm. His career is far from finished. Now he&rsquo;ll really get famous. He&rsquo;s with fans who really appreciate him.Pat O&rsquo;Leary Boston, Mass.<h2>RICHARD FAN</h2>Dear Sir,Why is it that everybody is so down on a great player like Mau-riche Richard? Can&rsquo;t they stand seeing a player rising to such great heights?So far the &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; has said nothing about his playing. He always gives his best and all we do is criticize him. Let&rsquo;s pat him on the back and let him know that we are still with him.It&rsquo;s not often that a player becomes so great as Richard why try and tear his greatness to shreds purely because we are jealous. If Richard Isn&rsquo;t so great why did Frank Boucher and Conn Smythe offer so much for him.He could play on my team any day.Al. Benton Toronto, Ont.<h2>FOR THE TUBTHUMPERS</h2>Dear Sir,I don&rsquo;t have any beefs about your great paper, but I would like to see a story or two on the men behind the scenes of hockey. The publicity men who make people want to see more and more hockey. Let&rsquo;s hear about them, they are as much a part of hockey as the players themselves.Saskatoon, Sask. John Slater<h2>BASTIEN INQUIRY</h2>Dear Sir,I would like to know if Baz Bastien, Pittsburgh Hornets goalkeeper who recently lost an eye ever goaled for St. Michaels College Majors, and if so when.Stan Holmes Ayers Cliff, Que.(No, Bastien never played for St. Michaels Majors.) &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0251/995220-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="324" height="150"></div>16&mdash;Paul Mundriek. 1919; Frank Ashworth, 19 27.17&mdash;Joe Sadler, 1925.18&mdash;Roland Rossignol, 1921.&frac12;21&mdash;Alex Sandalack, 1921. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;It&rsquo;s often interesting to drop in on a former National Hockey League ace about 10 years after he has retired from active play in the puck chasing sport. The other day this writer called on Marty for a chat.Born in Toronto in 1903, Marty was christened Martin Alphonsus but is known to everyone as Marty. After discussing golf and several other topics with Marty he started to talk over old times and discuss his career in the National League. He laughed at the times he had with the late Howie Morenz, whom he roomed with for eight and one half years.&ldquo;If I had it all to do over again I think ld do everything the same way,&rdquo; laughed the pleasant speaking Burke.<h2>Has No Complaints</h2>&ldquo;Hockey was &lsquo;good to me and I certainly can&rsquo;t complain about the way things turned out. It gave me a great start in life which otherwise I would have had a much harder time making.Just as hockey was good to Marty he also has been fortunate in business. The manager of the Victoria Hotel in Calgary since the fall of 193 9, Marty is also part owner in the C. W. Boon and Company of Edmonton, a thriving wholesale tobacco firm. His slogan at the hotel he manages is &ldquo;Where the sportsmen meet.There are many days when Marty has plenty of trouble trying to get his work done. Athletes and former athletes from all parts of the country are continually dropping in on him and talking hockey&mdash;both the new version and the old.Burke is well qualified to talk hockey. He played junior in Toronto and then went to Stratford to play senior for two seasons. He then went west and played on the Port Arthur Bearcat team which won the Allan Cup. His fine play at left defence attracted the professional talent scouts and Marty turned pro in 1927 with Montreal Canadlens, replacing Herb Gardiner.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0196/995251-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="534" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARTY BURKE</figcaption></div><h2>He Got Around</h2>The first half of his pro career was spent on loan to Pittsburgh,. Burke then went to the Habitants and remained with the Flying Frenchmen until he was traded to Chicago Black Hawks in 1934. Howie Morenz and Lome Chabot, both now dead, were traded along with Burke. He stayed with Hawks until 1938 and retired, moving to Saskatoon to coach the senior Quakers.The following season he took up residence in Calgary and also the coaching duties of Stampeders. In his first year he piloted Calgary to the Allen Cup final but the team lost to Kirkland Lake Blue Devils down east.Burke piloted Stampeders for two more winters and then senior hockey was replaced with the services league. He kept his hand in the puck sport by organizing the H.M.C.S. Tecumseh Navy team.After the services league was running smoothly Burkes interest changed to golf. He is a member of the hole-in-one club and is also a member of the board of management at the Calgary Golf and Country Club. He is rated as a pretty hot golfer and shoots with around a 10 handicap, a little better than a Sunday afternoon shotmaker. He competes in most of the major tournaments and although the doesn&rsquo;t walk off with any of the top trophies he has a lot of fun and enjoys the good competition. He is also a member of the exclusive Glencoe Club and spends considerable amount of time in the winter curling.<h2>Hotel Popular Place</h2>Marty runs his business at the hotel in fine fashion. His hotel is a popular place where sportsmen often get together and chew the fat. He has the wholehearted respect of his staff as hie lengthy stint in sport taught him to play fair.Marty is a well established citi-,zen in Calgary. He owns his own home, has a grand wife and an 11-year-old daughter, Catherine Maureen.<h2>Cautious Comparison</h2>Asked how he thought the present day hockey compared with the style he used to play in the N.H.L., Marty commented:&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t see the knock them down, drag &rsquo;em out tactics used these days that featured the puck game when I played. In those days a guy had to take the rough going and like it or they rode him right out of the league.&ldquo;However, from the spectator&rsquo;s view point the present game is probably better to watch. The rules have changed the game a good deal since I played.&rdquo;One thing interesting in Burke&rsquo;s record is the fact that after making the grade in the N.H.L. he never played in minor ranks. &#9632;

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Marty-Calgary Citizen No. One

BALTIMORE, MD.&mdash;Kilby MacDonald, one time rookie award winner of the New York Rangers has been made the coach of the Baltimore Clippers of the revived Eastern Amateur Hockey loop.Last season MacDonald coached the Arvida, Quebec clnb of the Northern loop and for the past two seasons has been on the scouting staff of the New York Rangers. &#9632;

Clipper Coach

WELLAND, Ont.&mdash;The Pittsburgh Hornets training camp at Welland, Ontario was like a Hollywood casting office during the tail end of the trying-out season. But as per usual the Hornets and Leafs came up with the man they were looking for, after a short test of course.The Leafs and Hornets executives were looking high and low for someone to take Baz Bastien&rsquo;s place in the Pittsburgh picture for this season. They chose a little French-Canadian named Gil Mayer for the part. Mayer was voted the most valuable man in the Ontario Junior Hockey League last season where he played for Happy Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers.Jim Balmer, vice-president of the A.H.L., club bought the pint-sized goaler from Art Chapman, general manager of the Buffalo Bisons for an undisclosed sum. Mayor belonged to the Bisons.<h2>Baptism Of Fire</h2>The Barrie Graduate has already received his baptism of fire and he couldn&rsquo;t have had it in a more adequate spot. He played goal for the Toronto Maple Leafs in an exhibition game against the Buffalo Bisons and his great work help the Leafs on their way to 2-1 victory.Gil, who weighs 135 pounds, soaking wet, and is only five feet seven inches tall, replaced Turk Broda in the Leafs goal in order to give the Toronto and Hornet bigwigs a look see. At any rate they like what they saw because the kid has signed his A.H.L. contract along with the comment: &ldquo;It has long been my ambition to play in the Leaf organization.&rdquo;After the game against the Bisons Mayer commented: &ldquo;It was just like a Junior game.&rdquo; &#9632;

Tiny Gil Mayer Signed To Tend Pittsburgh Goal

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Player’s Please

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0275/995289-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="280" height="406"></div>See if you can guess his identity from these clues. You&rsquo;ll have to go well back down memory lane though!(1) Was an outstanding goa-ler in the early days of liockey.(2) His son is one of the greatest pro players in the country today.(3) He recently invented a radically new type of goal net.LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0281/995282-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="313" height="432"></div> &#9632;

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Remember The Stars Of Yesteryear?

<div class="byline">By ED FITKIN</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;If depth was the keynote of the third successive Stanley Cup triumph of the Toronto Maple Leafs last spring, it will occasion no consolation in rival NHL camps to learn that the Larruping Leafs seem to be even deeper in talent this year.Even though Old Man Injury has been hacking away at their defense corps, the champion Leafs will present a formidable phalanx when they open the 70-game schedule at home Oct. 15 with the Brim-sek-buoyed Black Hawks from Chicago as their colorful opposition.<h2>Four Full Lines</h2>Hap Day has four complete forward lines&mdash;barring injuries between the time of writing and the opening skirmish&mdash;to send into action. His six-man blue-line brigade has been diminished to four by injuries to Gus (The Nugget) Mortson and rookie Frank Mathers but a lot of coaches would like to be reduced to the point where they had to open the season with four rearguards like Jim Thomson, Garth Boesch, Bill Barllko and Bill Juzda.There is still a possibility that Mortson may make the opening game. He sustained a hairline fracture of a bone, known to the medicos as the fibula, of his left leg. But apparently it couldn&rsquo;t have been too serious as Gusty Gus was given the okay to start skating last Monday.<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01129/995406-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="133" height="227"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 133px">Garth Boesch</figcaption></div>Mathers, bidding briskly for a regular Leafian job, got his big right toe in the way of one of Max Bentley&rsquo;s whistling shots last week and wound up with a longitudinal fracture.</div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>Hope Not Gone</h2>These injuries and the netmind-lng trouble that beset the Toronto organization through the tragic termination of Baz Bastien&rsquo;s career and the retirement of Howie Harvey have failed to erase the feeling that the Leafs might take it all again this season.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be tougher this year,&rdquo; says Conn Smythe. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got more depth. We&rsquo;ve got youngsters like Smith, Mackell, Dawes and Timgren who have proved that they can step in against the best in the league and come through. We&rsquo;ve got good depth defensively, too, and we&rsquo;ve got strength down the middle.&rdquo;Yet, on paper, at least, the Leafs look like the best balanced team in the league. Almost to a man the experts have named them the No. 1 choice for honors in 1949-50. If the Toronto team is upset, the experts figure the upset will be provided by (a) Bubonic Plague; (b) the Detroit Red Wings; (c) either Chicago or Canadiens.What makes Leafian hopes roseate is that the players who will hit the deck for the opening game are all tried-and-proven operators. It&rsquo;s virtually the same squad that snowballed Detroit four straight In the Stanley Cup battling last spring. Training camp experiments have been conducted on various line formations but it seems almost definite that the Leafs will start with two of their championship units Intact.Cal Gardner, Harry Watson and Bill Ezlnicki seem slated to stick together, as well as &ldquo;Three Feathers&rdquo; line of Max Bentley, Joe Klu-kay and Ray Timgren.Captain Teeder Kennedy has the American Hockey League scoring champion, Sid Smith, patrolling left-wing and the Toronto-born Smitty hopes that this year he&rsquo;ll stay for keeps. Right-wing spot on this line seems now to be pointing toward Howie Meeker, who appears determined to recapture from Fleming Mackell the regular berth he held down until injuries sidelined him most of last season.Hap Day&rsquo;s fourth unit, thus far, has featured rugged Robert Dawes, has been a standout in preseason games, combining aggressiveness with a bullet-like scoring shot that makes even Turk Broda wince.If you want to probe for question-marks on the Toronto team, you can tick off these:Turk Broda, now 35, isn&rsquo;t getting any younger, has even been talking of hanging up his gear in another year. On the other hand, you couldn&rsquo;t call Bill Durnan or Frank Brimsek exactly on the young side and, temperamentally, Broda has a much better outlook on hockey life than, these two. He&rsquo;ll have his bad nights this winter, just as he did last season, but we&rsquo;re willing to wager all the tea in Tokay that the Turk won&rsquo;t be far off the Vezina pace at the end of the 70-game haul.Howie Meeker and Vic Lynn loom as two decisive factors in the ultimate hopes of the Leafs.<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0284/995399-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="140" height="232"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 140px">Sid Smith</figcaption></div>Lynn, like Meeker, had a good first year, but, also like Meeker, has been hounded by bad luck and injuries ever since. But he, too, has been working assiduously and should be a much more effective performer.</div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>Hap Is Cautious</h2>Young Ray Timgren, a sensation in his first crack at the N. H.L. last winter, faces the usual sophomore jinx that seems to beset so many first-year stars. In Tlmgren&rsquo;s case, however, the sideline experts are looking&mdash;not for a slump&mdash;but for a lift in Blond Ray&rsquo;s play. They figure he&rsquo;ll have more confidence this season and that it will be reflected in the scoring column.Sid Smith and Flem Mackell, the Pittsburgh recruits who produced so handsomely in the playoffs, are facing the acid test, of course, and will have to prove themseh&rsquo;es all over again. The same goes for Dawes.&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t going to be easy keeping the team alert through a 70-game schedule,&rdquo; Hap says. &ldquo;When you win a championship, there seems to be a tendency towards complacency. It&rsquo;s only natural, I guess, that there has to be a letdown, a little smugness I suppose you&rsquo;d call it. When you win two championships it&rsquo;s twice as bad. Now that we&rsquo;ve won three, maybe it&rsquo;ll be three times as bad.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Leafs Look Good On Paper, Smythe Calls On Youth

The BLACK HORSE &ldquo;Do You Know&rdquo; Advisory Panel<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0361/995479-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="123" height="161"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 123px">TED REEVE well-known sports writer</figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0438/995472-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="172" height="156"><figcaption class="caption-body">LOUIS BOURDON prominent radio singer and master of ceremonies</figcaption></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0521/995465-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="115" height="154"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 115px">RICHARD PENNINGTON University Librarian, McGill University</figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0619/995458-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="138" height="149"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 138px">GREGORY CLARK distinguished columnist</figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0717/995451-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="181" height="162"></div>The first man-made glass comes to us from the Egyptians living prior to 3,000 B.C.! At this time they discovered how to make a colored vitreous glaze to cover objects of stone and moulded sand. Centuries later this glaze was made thicker and was used for inlay and surfacing work. Still later they tried laying it thickly around a shaped core which was afterward removed. In this way were made the first self-standing glass objects.Do You Know&hellip; that the earliest glass known to mankind is Obsidian, a greyish, glassy volcanic rock made by Nature herself?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0814/995444-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="209" height="158"></div>Do You Know&hellip; that amazingly enough this natural glass of acid composition differs very little in analysis from our own man-made product?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0912/995437-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="196" height="155"></div>Do You Know any interesting and unusual facts? Our &ldquo;Advisory Panel&rdquo; will pay $25 for any authenticated readers&rsquo; submissions if they are usable. All letters become our property. Write Black Horse Brewery, Station L, Montreal, P.Q.DAWES BLACK HORSE BREWERY &#9632;

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Do You Know…

OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;Canadian boys aren&rsquo;t exactly born wearing ice-skates and with an ice-hockey stick in their hands&mdash;but within a few years most of them take to ice-skates and soon can handle an ice-hockey stick proficiently.This fall and winter more than 200,000 of them will play ice-hockey. They will play wherever they can find a few square feet of clear ice&mdash;on flooded fields and vacant lots, on frozen ponds and streams, on neighbourhood ice-rinks and the open-air ice sheets that are the centre of winter sport life in every Canadian Community. They&rsquo;ll play, too, in the enclosed ice arenas of the cities and on the multimillion-dollar artificial ice palaces of Canada&rsquo;s two largest cities, Montreal and Toronto.<h2>Canucks Are Everywhere</h2>In fact, Canadians can be found almost wherever ice-hockey is played. They dominate dozens of teams and leagues operating in the United States, and about 9 5 percent of the professional players in the world-renowned National Hockey League learned the game in Canada.Canadian players are well known in Europe too. Hundreds of them are exported annually to teach and strengthen local talent learning ice-hockey in Scotland, England and on the continent. Sweden, Finland, Poland, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Rumania and Hungary have witnessed the skill of Canadian teams and players in the Olympics, in world ice-hockey tournaments and during European tours by Canadian teams.In Canada, 60,000 youngsters play in regular leagues affiliated with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. In addition, hundreds of thousands play the game for their school, their church, their community, their town or city.&hellip; or just for the fun of it all. More than any other sport, ice-hockey is truly Canada&rsquo;s national game.The burning ambition of almost every one of these boys is to become a &ldquo;big league&rdquo; player, to wear the colorful, crested sweater of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings or the Chicago Black Hawks.<h2>Colin&rsquo;s Big Chance</h2>Such a chance came this year to 20-year-old Colin Kilburn, of Edmonton, Alberta. He is a &ldquo;rookie&rdquo;&mdash;the name given to freshmen players, trying out with the Montreal Canadiens.In many ways Colin is typical of the healthy, clean-cut, happy-go-lucky type of Canadian who plays ice-hockey for fun and for the money he can make by displaying his skill on ice. Kilburn was born in the prairie village of Wilkie, Saskatchewan. Soon after his family moved to Edmonton, Canada&rsquo;s most northerly city, where ice abounds in winter.Colin learned to skate on the ice-covered vacant lot beside his house, but unlike the majority of Canadian lads he did not lace on skates until he was seven years old. Two years later he was good enough to be chosen goalkeeper for his Wolf Cub pack team. Still playing goal, he entered organized hockey with a sponsored team in the Edmonton Midget League when he was 11. At 15 he played goal for a team in the Edmonton Junior League.&ldquo;Finally I got tired picking pucks out of the net behind me,&rdquo; Colin recollects with a wide grin. He switched to left wing.In 1948 Kilburn made good as a &ldquo;rookie&rdquo; in senior hockey with the Edmonton Flyers of the West-enr Canada Hockey League. He won the &ldquo;Rookie of the Year Award&rdquo; and was one of the league&rsquo;s leading scorers. On the strength of this performance he was invited to the training camp of the famous Montreal Canadiens.<h2>Chance To Advance</h2>If he stayed-with Montreal Canadiens, Kilburn would have been paid about $5,000 for playing some 70 games in seven months. He would double or treble this salary in his first year pro if he becomes a &ldquo;star&rsquo; &lsquo;player. This is only an indication of just how big a business ice-hockey is in the powerful National Hockey League. In the 1948-49 season more than 2,500,000 spectators paid millions of dollars to see what is claimed to be &ldquo;the fastest sport in the world.&rdquo;Ice-hockey as a highly organized, money-making enterprise is little more than a generation old. As a competitive sport it dates back less than a century. Its origin is somewhat obsure. Several nations claim to have invented the idea of playing a game on ice-skates.The first authentic story of ice-skajting, as such, concerns a young woman in Scheidam, Holland, who was seriously injured while ice-skating in 139 6. Despite her injuries she subsequently lived so patient and beautiful a life that she was canonized as Saint Siedwi. When ice-skating became popular in Europe and Asia in the 17th century, it spread the United Kingdom. There, the English field game of &ldquo;shinny,&rdquo; the Scottish &ldquo;shanty&rdquo; and the Irish &ldquo;hurley&rdquo; were adapted to ice. These games were brought to Canada by British troops and were played in various forms as early as 1837 in Montreal, 1855 in Kingston, Ontario, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Ed. note&mdash;all these cities claim to have originated hockey. It&rsquo;s a touchy controversy&mdash;in which we&rsquo;re neutral!)<h2>Where It Began</h2>However, the game we know today as ice-hockey apparently had its beginning in 1875 at McGill University, Montreal, where a set of rules was compiled after study of British field hockey and experiments on ice. The first Canadian Ice-hockey league was organized in 1885 with teams representing Royal Military College, Queen&rsquo;s University, Kingston Ath-leticc and Kingston Hockey Club. &#9632;

Over 200,000 YoungCanucks JammingRinks

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01113/995534-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="956" height="595"><figcaption class="caption-body">CANADIAN HOCKEY STARS, most of them servicemen on duty in Britain, helped make this Wembley Lions team of the first post-war years one of the most potent ever seen across the Atlantic. Front row left to right:&mdash;Captain Lou Bates; Johnny Mowers, former Detroit ace goalie; Sonny Rost; Johnny Chad, once with Chicago and now in the A.H.L.; and Collings. Back:&mdash;Bob Whitelaw; Jimmy Haggarty, now with Montreal Royals; Archie Stinchcombe; Sid Abel, Detroit star; Bobby Lee; Alex Archer; Johnny Oxley; Freddie Sutherland and Red Stapleford.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Puck Lend-Lease For Britain

Hockey was introduced into the United States in 1897 when teams&rsquo; from McGill and Queen&rsquo;s Universities played an exhibition game in New York. This was probably the first ice-hockey game on artificial ice. The first truly professional ice hockey league was organized in northern Michigan in 1903-04.As player interest increased, amateur teams and leayues multiplied and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association evolved. As spectator Interest increased promoter saw the commercial possibilities of ice-hockey. Huge icearenas were built and several professional leagues organized. From these the National Hockey League emerged as the top ranking ice-hockey circuit in the world.<h2>Europe Catches On</h2>Meanwhile, in Europe, the game was played but was not prospering. Overwhelming Canadian superiority demonstrated by the Winnipeg Falcons, who won the first Olympic ice-hockey championship at Antwerp in 1920, changed all that. Canadian players and coaches were imported to improve the game in many countries while others studied the speedy, colorful style of Canadian play. Several first class ice-hockey leagues are now operating in the United Kingdof and Europe, and visiting Canadian teams are assured keen competition.Today ice-hockey is a major spectacle in every Canadian hamlet, village, town or city where there is ice in winter. It is thriving in the United States and growing in popularity in the United Kingdom and Europe. Yet Canadians remain ice-hockey kings of the world&rsquo;s ice arenas, and more than 200,000 potential &ldquo;big league rookies&rsquo; &lsquo;learning the game on neighbourhood rinks and frozen rivers make ice-hockey Canada&rsquo;s national game. &#9632;

Source Of Ice Star Material For AU World

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;The Pacific Coast League was the first of the four &ldquo;play-for-pay&rdquo; leagues to open the 1949-50 season, October 8, at Portland, Tacoma and New Westminster in the Northern Division. The Southern Division openers were at Fresno and San Diego, October 11. All games were played before capacity houses.Victoria Cougars, newcomer to the now 11-team circuit, opened its home season before an excited sell-out crowd of over 4,200 fatn|s, who welcomed-professlonal hookey back to Victoria for the first tim&rsquo;e since 192728, and it was the first game in the B. C. capital Blnce 1944-45, the year the old Victoria rink burned down.<h2>Man Responsible</h2>Lester Patrick, owner of the Cougars and the one mah mainly responsible for bringing pro hockey to Victoria in 1911, is to be congratulated for reviving the puck game in Victoria.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01128/995589-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="301" height="808"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gets Headaches&nbsp;BILL CARSE has given up the carefree player&rsquo;s life to coach.</figcaption></div>All teams opened the season with improved rosters and the pre-season predictions forecasting an improved brand of hockey in the P.C.H.L. was borne out in the first week of league play.The Pacific Coast League has more up-and-coming youngsters spread out among the 11 clubs than ever before, and coupled with the seasoned veterans, combine to give all teams the needed youth to go with experience in building well-balanced clubs.New Westminster, last year&rsquo;s Northern Division champions, opened the current campaign with 11 holdovers from its 1948-49 title club. The Royals added four new men a goalkeper and three forwards, to its roster&mdash;Jerry Cotnoir, Don Slater, Clayton Lavell and Ken Cook.Tacoma presented only one new man&mdash;Gus Gustavesen, defense-majn, last year with the New York Rovers&mdash;in its opening game line-up, but at least three and possibly five new players are expected any day from the New York Rangers&rsquo; New Haven or St. Paul camps. The Rockets are affiliated with the Rangers.Portland&rsquo;s newly-named Penguins also have 11 players back from last season along with four new men, Rusty Waldriff. defense, and Joe Ciurnan, Art Strobel and Gordie Kerr (with Seattle last year), forwards.<h2>Seattle Has Shakeup</h2>Seattle&rsquo;s rejuvenated Ironmen with nine new players on its roster made more line-up changes than any team in the circuit. Owner-manager Frank Dotten has gone all out in an effort to avoid a| recurrence of last year when his teanr finished last in the Northern Division.Vancouver have seven new faces on its 1949-50 edition along with a new coach, Bill Carse, who was elevated from his centre-ice spot. Carse will be a playing-coach. Bill started his pro career in Edmonton in the old Western Canada Pro League, then to Vancouver Lions of the old P.C.H.L., prior to entering the N.H.L.Victoria&rsquo;s opening-day line-up was: Jerrv Fodey, goal: playingcoach Eddie Wares, Eddie Mari-neau. Tom Rockey. Fiori Goegan, defense; Bernie Strongman, captain. Allan Senior, Georges Bougie, Larry Thibeault, Joe Evans. Eddie Mazur, Roy McKay, forwards.ICICLES&hellip; It doesn&rsquo;t pav to win a championship in the PCHL! The list of coaches who have gotten the &ldquo;axe&rdquo; after copping a title reads like a Sears-Roebuck catalogue. Paul Thoprpson and Mac Colville. Vancouver: Alex Shibi-cky New Westminster; Eddie Dar&rsquo;tnell, Seattle; Mel Harwood, Oakland: Bob Oracle. Hollywood: Johnny Polich. Los Angeles: and George Boothman, Sail Diego. &#9632;

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Northern Squads Inaugurate New Schedule Last Saturday

CINCINNATI, O.&mdash;Eddie Bush, Wally Stefaniw and Phil Hergesheimer of the new Cincinnati hockey club have the distinction of holding hockey records.Bush, in 194 7-48, scored 72 points in one season with the Philadelphia Rockets, to establish an all time scoring record for A.H.L. defensemen.Stefaniw set a record for assists in one season by racking up a total of 72, also with the Philadelphia Rockets in 1947-48.Hergesheimer holds the all time points record with 513 in 11 years of professional hockey.Eddie Bush also holds the of holding a National Hockey League record jointly with Maurice Richard and Toe Blake. All three picked up six points in a single playoff game, Bush getting his while playing for Detroit Red Wings and Richard and Blake getting theirs while in the Montreal Canadiens livery. &#9632;

Three Cincinnati Players Holders OS League Records

<h2>NORTHERN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0295/995651-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="977" height="625"></div><h2>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0378/995644-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="974" height="585"></div> &#9632;

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PACIFIC COAST HOCKEY LEAGUE SCHEDULE

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UNITED STATES HOCKEY LEAGUE SCHEDULE… 1949-50 SEASON

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.&mdash;When the curtain rolled up to open the 1949-50 season the team personnel of the United States Hockey League showed a change for the first time in four years. Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston have withdrawn to join the newly formed Texas Hockey League. The remaining five teams with the addition of Louisville, Ky., will operate in a compact six-4eam circuit replacing the Northern and Southern Division Bfake-up of the past three years. A 70-game schedule, 35 at home and 35 away with each team to play seven at home and seven away with the other five, will commence October 13 and end March 19.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01127/995713-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="298" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">After Another&nbsp;RUDY PILOUS</figcaption></div>Louisville Blades, the new member, is expected to be a strong contender. Building around the best players left from the Huskies they also have plenty of help from their San Diego farm team and a number of former outstanding amateurs from the Ontario Junior Champion Barrie Flyers.<h2>Wants To Repeat</h2>Coaching the Blades is Rudy Pilous who led San Diego Sky Hawks to the Pacific Coast League title last season and Houston Huskies to the U.S.H.L. Championship in 1947-48. Rudy, who has had great success in developing young players, is a keen student of the game, popular with the fans, and should do a fine job for the entry from the Kentuckey Derby city. The Armory, home of the Blades, has a seating capacity of over 7,000 and is one of the best hockey arenas in the MidWest.As a member of the Internatio-League last year Louisville witnessed its first hockey. Finishing on top in a close race they were beaten by Milwaukee in the playoffs. Capacity crowds turned out all season and indications are that Louisville&rsquo;s addition will be a great asset to the U.S.H.L. In playing against Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Louisville hockey-goers will be treated to a Winter resumption of their Summer baseball rivalry.In operating as a six-tea unit the league is bound to show a more even balance of power which should create a great race for playoff positions.<div class="sidebar"><h3>True Foemen</h3>Although Billy Reay and Butch Bouchard both play for the Montreal Canadiens, there is as big a rivalry between the two as the one between Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs.When not playing for the Habs in the N.H.L., Bouchard coaches the Nationale club of the Quebec Junior Hockey League. Nationale&rsquo;s arch rivals are the Montreal Junior Canadliens of the same League. The assistant coach of the Junior Habs&hellip; none other than Billy Reay. &#9632;</div>

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Louisville To Be Strong In First U.S.H.L. Fling

<div class="byline">By TED RANDOLPH</div>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.&mdash;Strange as it may seem Branch Rickey, the Mahatmt of the vast Brooklyn baseball empire, and Carl Voss, new president of the United States Hockey league, have things in common.What? Young athletes is all. In Carl Voss&rsquo; case young hockey players.The other day as Carl talked over the coming season he dug in his desk drawer, pulled out a sheaf of papers anc tossed them across the desk. &ldquo;Look at them,&rdquo; he grinned cheerfully, &ldquo;look at those rosters. Everyone has new kids&hellip; a lot of them.&rdquo;Carl chuckled for a moment and then went on, &ldquo;and you can quote me right now that those kids&mdash;those new faces in the league are going to make a big difference in more ways than one this season. In the first place they will make for a lot better hockey and that means more fans in the stands.<h2>Stars Are Rising</h2>Every season since the end of the war one or two kids came along in the season to reach the heights. This campaign I believe you will see a real pre-war batch of newcomers reach the heights.&rdquo;Carl continued:&ldquo;Why, just look at those tentative rosters. Omaha will probably have at least half a dozen youngsters taking their first fling in the pro game. Minneapolis is going to have some newcomers. Likewise Kansas City, St. Paul, Tulsa and Louisville. No, I don&rsquo;t see how the league can miss having its best season&mdash;and a lot of it will be due to the new enthusiasm the kids will inject into things.&rdquo;Another factor Voss believes will go a long way toward making the season one of the greatest in U.S.H.L. history is the addition of Louisville as a member and the trimming of the far-away Texas teams.<h2>Louisville Adds Color</h2>&ldquo;Louisville showed last season that it would support good hockey by backing its strong amateur entry. This season the hockey should be even better and while it will be virtually impossible to improve on the capacity crowds they had in Julepville a season ago, it is safe to say they won&rsquo;t fall off.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0294/995744-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="294" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;Future Bright&rdquo;&nbsp;CARL VOSS, loop president</figcaption></div>Carl figures that a six team league will show a more even balance of power which should create a hotter race for playoff positions throughout the entire season.About the only thing that Carl won&rsquo;t venture a guess on now is the outcoming of the race. He grinned broadly when the question was put to him and cracked back, &ldquo;Oh,. I&rsquo;m not worrying about how the race finishes, I&rsquo;ve already asked the hockey writers how they think it will wind up. Come back in a week or two when I have their replies, then I&rsquo;ll answer that one.&rdquo; &#9632;

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League Prexy Sees Rookies Climbing Way Up To Heights

<div class="byline">By TED DAMATA</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;No matter who wins the title, no matter who gets the Stanley Cup, no matter what records fall in this impending National Hockey League season&mdash;things will never be the same. Something is missing.Eventually, as the 1949-50 semester progresses, Dick Irvin will make his annual charge that those roughnecks from Toronto are deliberately trying to make a physical ruin of his prize baby&mdash;Maurice (The Rocket) Richard. And Conn Smythe, major domo at Toronto, will make his annual retort to the effect that Richard was pretty much of a ruin before his Leafs ever cast a stick toward him&mdash;but he, Smythe, would relieve Irvin and les Canadiens of the cumbersome worries and of Mr. Maurice, and give them $35,000 to boot.Mr. Irvin&rsquo;s thumb will then make its annual trip to his nose, and a familiar voice will utter faprilliar words, &ldquo;Throw in Max Bentley and it&rsquo;s a deal.&rdquo;<h2>Boucher the Prophet</h2>Frank Boucher will deliver his annual statement out of New York in which he will name the first four teams in the league, and once again with monotonous perfection he will be correct. But things will not be the same.Redfaced Jawn Adams again will bellow and pound the boards on behalf of the Detroit Red Wings. William J. Tobin of the Chicago Black Hawks again will wave the green stuff (U.S.) in an endless if futile effort to pry loose a couple of star defensemen.But things just won&rsquo;t be the same. Boston&rsquo;s Bruins already know things are different, no Frankie Brimsek.And for the league as a whole, things will continue to be different.No Clancy.<h2>Leaves Aching Void</h2>We do not know to what extent the rest of the league will miss Frank (King) Clancy, but here in Chicago; here in the hallowed vastness of the Chicago Stadium, there will be a void&hellip; a deep, unfillable void.Al Melgard, the king of organists, will shake the Stadium to its rafters with his mighty and majestic thunder; 20,000 fans will jairt the place and become hysterical over the speedy swoops and sweeps of little Willie Mosienko; the sharp, speed breaks of Doug Bentley the invincible; the &ldquo;death shots&rdquo; of Roy Conacher, and. now the hairbreadth saves the Goalie Frankie Brimsek, the Zero kid.But things will be different Clancy will not be there, and with out Clancy, the ancient hymn oi hate will mean nothing.&ldquo;Clancy Stinks! Clancy Stinks! Clancy Stinks!&rdquo;<h2>Clancy Was &ldquo;It&rdquo;</h2>In Chicago&rsquo;s Stadium during the hockey season, somebody has just got to stink. It just wouldn&rsquo;t be hockey if somebody didn&rsquo;t stink, and Clancy has been &ldquo;it&rdquo; for so many years it is impossible for anyone to replace him.The retirement of Ref King Clancy, to Cincinnati, saddened many a heart here. He acquired great stature and continues to be a symbol of hockeydom. He was a paradox&mdash;a man with a legion of friends until he donned skates and the white sweater. Then he became the most &ldquo;hated&rdquo; pran in the arena. He became the greatest &ldquo;one man attraction&rdquo; in the Stadium.During the last few years it became a matter of record that fans &ldquo;pointed&rdquo; for Clancy. It didn&rsquo;t matter whether Maple Leafs, Canadiens, Red Wings, Bruins or Rangers were here; the important question was &ldquo;is Clancy here?&rdquo;But for his popular feigned unpopularity among the fans, Clancy might have been manager of the Black Hawks. Oh, sure, there are people here who really bear a grudge against The King, but to the whole he was a great little guy playing the inevitable role of &lsquo;goat&rdquo; which is and ever wil be the fate of those who choose to don the garb of officialdom in sports.<h2>Clancy Unmasked</h2>He unmarked himself in that respect just once, and that was unintentional. It happened two seasons ago, with Toronto visiting us, A restaurant owner front the West Madison &ldquo;hotcha&rdquo; section, started the incident. The little man was a very rabid Hawk fan, but at the same time hockey was his emotional outlet. He became a kid again; wearing a helmet for protection against the gallery debris, and using a megaphone to make himself heard.Mr. Restaurant owner must have had a pretty bad time of it that day dishing out the hash, because, during the last minute of the game, he managed to make his way to the boards and take a swing at Clancy. He missed, but left a swirling mass of confusion in his fleeing wake. Clancy tried to get over the boards and after his man, but added to the confusion. It looked like murder all around, but actually it was a case of everybody grabbing somebody and hanging on.Hockey writers raced to the referee&rsquo;s powder room to get the gory details from Clancy himself. As they barged through the door. The King leaped to his feet and yelled: &ldquo;Look, not a mark!&rdquo; And he emphasized his words with gnarled hands stretching the skin on his face.One enterprising reporter stepped close to the King and studied the famous face with its old battle scars and gold teeth; then stepped back and asked&hellip; &ldquo;not even a scratch? Maybe a little blood?&rdquo;Clancy repeated, &ldquo;not a mark&rdquo;, but this time in a triumph tone.<h2>What a Disappointment!</h2>The writer dropped his shoulders in feined dejection and replied, &ldquo;Clancy you have just disappointed 19,842 fans.&rdquo;Clancy&rsquo;s hands dropped from his face, and a grin became the new adornment. &ldquo;Well, okay&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;just make it a slight scratch. He&rsquo;ll probably make it a gash about the third time he tells the story to his friends. Did you see that guy run&rsquo;?&rdquo;So Clancy The Great, Clancy The Goat, Clancy The Showman, Clancy The&hellip;, Clancy The Bril-liant, Clancy The Paradox is in Cincinnati. He has stepped down to step up. He gave up his berth as referee-in-chiet of the big league, to take over the reins of Cincinnati in the junior circuit.Things will never be the same in the National Hockey League, and things will never be the same in Cincinnati. But mostly, things will never be the same in Chicago&rsquo;s Stadium. We have proof.A mite more than a week ago. about a dozen galleryites invaded the Stadium and tested the acoustics.&ldquo;Gravel Stinks! Gravel Stinks! Gravel Stinks!&rdquo;No, no, no!&ldquo;Chadwick Stinks! Chadwick Stinks! Chadwick Stink!A&hellip;! Nope, things will never be the same in the Stadium! &#9632;

Chi Fans Miss Their Sport Deriding King

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01140/995799-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="999" height="626"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toronto Maple Leafs Roster</figcaption></div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;When Calgary&rsquo;s new ice hockey rink is finished for the 1950-51 campaign it will no longer be known as Victoria Arena but the Calgary Coliseum. That has been the new name tabbed to the steel and concrete rink that will be the new home of Galgary Stampeders and which will cost around one and one quarter million dollars to construct.Work started on the new rink this spring and it is slated to be finished by August 1950. Main reason for erection of the new rink was to provide more accommodation for the fans. Since the hockey bug bit Western cities after the service loops, Calgary&rsquo;s 5,200 accommodation has been inadequate for the demand the public has shown.With no possibility of enlarging Victoria Arena officials of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Association, operators of the rink and Stampeders, decided to go ahead with the costly venture.The new coliseum will seat 6,500 fans with room for an additional 2,500 to stand. One fine feature of the new Ice arena will be that there will be no pillars to block the public&rsquo;s view. The only pillars in the rink will be behind the seats and these will affect only a few of the standing patrons. The rest will get an unobstructed view of every bit of action going.The ice surface of the new rink will be 200 feet long and 85 feet long. Victoria Arena&rsquo;s surface is 208 by 83. Victoria Arena was constructed in the 1911-1912 season. At first the seats in the coliseum will be of the bench variety but later officials plan to instal theatre type seats.When the coliseum is completed, the old arena will be used for curling and it will be among the&rsquo; largest curling centres in Canada. Two years ago the Dominion curling final was held in Victoria Arena. &#9632;

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Calgary Building New Hockey Center Old Arena Will Be Used For Curling

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;One of the best builders of young hockey players and one of the most successful organizations of its kind in Canada is the Calgary Buffalo Athletic Association, a sports minded body that supports pee wee, midget, juvenile and junior hockey through profits of operating a baseball park.The organization was started in the 1943-44 season with the idea of building a Memorial Cup junior hockey club under a &ldquo;five-year plan.&rdquo; Last year was the end of the half decade term and although Calgary Buffaloes didn&rsquo;t win the Dominion junior championship, the squad went to vie Western Canada final with Brandon Wheat Kings and was by far the best junior team turned out of the Foothills City since Calgary Canadians won the Memorial Cup in 1926.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01147/995830-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="288" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">In At Start&nbsp;RED DUTTON</figcaption></div>The Idea of starting the Buffalo Association came from a bunch of veterans of the puck-propelling game. In the 1942-43 season a group of old timers had an Intermediate team. The club started more as a joke than anything but the sextet had players of such a high quality the team had no trouble winning the Western Canada championship.<h2>Some Famous Graduates</h2>Such players as Mervyn Dutton, Jack Arbour, Joe McGoldrick, Sid Craddock, Bill Creighton, Tommy Anderson, Sam Timmins, Gordon McFarlane, Doug Cairns, Eddie Wares, Ray Jefferies, Dave Duc-hak, Billy Hudson, Irwin Frew, Pete Atkinson, Dave (Sweeney) Schriner, Cecil (Tiny) Thompson and Bob Marshall performed with the club. With such a starry array of puck talent a coach wasn&rsquo;t necessary and nearly all the players took a hand in direction of the club.After winning the Western Ampionship the players talked of again forming the following year. One veteran, however, got the idea it would be better for the oldtimers to instruct youngsters how to play hockey than to keep at the game themselves. Out of this idea came the Buffalo Association.The first year the association started with six pee wee teams and four midget clubs. The next year it was six pee wee, four midget and four juvenile clubs. The following season three junior &lsquo;B&rsquo; clubs were added to the rapidly growing circuit.In the 1947-48 season an ajl-star junior team was selected and the club took part in the Southern Alberta League. The 1948-49 saw the termination of the five-year plan and the formation of the powerful Buffs. This Western Cana|da finalist team had 14 players on its roster who started in the original organization.The teams are coached and handled by managers, who devote time freely to the bringing up of young hockey talent. The teams are all dressed smartly and players are given first class equipment. Because of this, injuries are few and far between and officials believe it pays off in the long run.<h2>Mammoth Banquet</h2>At the conclusion of every hockey season a prammoth banquet is staged in the ball room of Calgary&rsquo;s largest hotel. From between 350 and 400 hockey players and their fathers attend this dinner every year.Jim Cross, one of Calgary&rsquo;s leading citizens, is president of the association while Walter Bruce Is vice-president and Jim Kerr secretary-treasurer. Dave DuchaJc acted as registrar for the loop the first five years but since has found he hasn&rsquo;t time to devote to the position and Fred Hergert was appointed to the position this year. Art. Rfce-Jones stepped in to take over from Duchak in the middle of last year.Profits from operating Buffalo Stadium, also owned by the organization, go towards running the hockey. Buffalo Stadium is used for baseball in the summer and has three outdoor hockey rinks in the winter. Games are played in Buffalo Stadium and on Victoria Arena&rsquo;s artificial ice. &#9632;

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Civic Croup Gives Kid Break To Learn Sport

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02114/995861-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="940" height="545"><figcaption class="caption-body">Where Opportunity Knocks&nbsp;CALGARY BUFF YOUNGSTERS &hellip; at victory dinner</figcaption></div>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;The biggest topic of conversation in the Ottawa Senator camp&mdash;apart from their opening set-to against Toe Blake&rsquo;s Valleyfield Braves last Saturday night, was the departure of big Jack Irvine to the camp of the opposition.Unable to come to terms with T. P. Gorman this season, the colorful Senator rearguard finally ended up with Arthur Vinet&rsquo;s Braves in a last minute deal. But, while the Braves were jubilant over obtaining Irvine for the coming season, Ottawa fans were disappointed In losing the rugged rearguard who came through for the Ottawa team on many an occasion.Numerous attempts were made by the fans and Ottawa manThe other item of interests in the Connell camp centered around the appearance of Johnny Quilty, former St. Pat&rsquo;s College, Montreal Canadien, and Boston Bruin star, at practice sessions last week.Quilty, who has been hounded by ill iuck during most of his pro career, played in the Cape Breton Hockey League last season. The 28-year old former Canadien was traded to Boston Bruins two years ago but broke his leg shortly afterwards and never regained his stride.However, Quilty has been&rsquo;impressive in workouts of late and coach Alex Connell, under whom Quilty first rose to fame at 9t. St. Pat&rsquo;s College, intimated that the Ottawa club might be able to find a place for the big center player.If Quilty does not sign with the Senators, he will probably head for the west coast where, it is rumoured, he will line up with one of the Pacific Coast League teams.Skippy Frezell, formerly with Quebec Citadels, and George Robinson, of Tacoma, will play with district teams this season. Both players worked out with Senators during pre-season drills. They will probably line up with one of the Eastern Canada League teams. &#9632;

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Nats Lose Ace Jack Irvine Gain Burly Johnny Quilty

<div class="byline">By LOIS FEGAN</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;A bit of old Canada tranplanted to the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch countryside&mdash;that&rsquo;s what the back yard of the Buck Jones menage in Hershey resembles all winter as the Jones youngsters, Bucko and Hughie, hold classes in the gentle art of passing the puck.While pop holds down a defense spot for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League, son Bucko, 7, offers his newfound Hershey pals the opportunity to learn the fastest game on earth from an &ldquo;experienced player.&rdquo; Bucko was goaler and defenseman for the Junior C&rsquo;s in Owen Sound, Ont., where he spent most of his seven years, and as a result of his experience has set up his own school to instruct his Chocolatetown playmates. As a result Hershey resembles nothing more than any small Canadian town where the kids learn to wield a hockey stick as soon as they can walk.When Jones pere joined the Bears early last season, coming up from Tulsa, he was one of the fortunate to obtain a roomy house, complete with spacious back yard which his family has utilized to good advantage as the gathering spot of all the Hershey small fry.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01153/995937-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="635" height="895"></div>Buck started with the Barrie juniors in 1936 and the following year went to London with the Harringay Greyhounds. In 1938-39 he came back, landing with Detroit, and until 1941-42 played with the NHL Wings, the AHL Pittsburgh Hornets, Indianapolis Caps and Providence Reds.During his army service the 190-pound guard played some hockey overseas, teaming with Red Hamill, Turk Broda, Syl Apps and Hank Goldup for a tour of Scotland and some exhibition games.In 1946, discharged from the service, he reported to the Tulsa Oilers and at the start of the 1948-49 campaign came to Hershey.Despite his rough and rugged style of play, Buck has sustained only one injury in his hockey career, and that way back in his junior days. In the habit of playing with his tongue extended, he was checked against the board so hard he bit the tip almost off. So intense was his interest in the game, he didn&rsquo;t realize he was injured until the period intermission when he noticed blood dripping on his boots.Jone&rsquo;s wife, a beauteous raven-haired, black-eyed beauty, had never seen a hockey game until one night about nine years ago when a friend invited her on a blind date.The friend&rsquo;s beau was the stalwart Eddie Bush, a teammate of Buck&rsquo;s. That couple drifted apart, but Buck and Anna Kay clicked, and a year later were married. Needless to say, Mr 3. J. has since become not only Buck&rsquo;s number one fan, but also a true hockey enthusiast.She says she used to argue with fans who criticized her husband and his teammates, but adds &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve developed a sort of blankness by which I pretend to myself that I don&rsquo;t hear the comments.&rdquo;One of the principal factors in Buck&rsquo;s turning pro was his father&rsquo;s interest in the game. Although the elder Jones had never seen a pro hockey game until after his son joined the Red Wings he had always hoped to have a hockey player in the family. He saw that dream fulfilled before he died several years ago. &#9632;

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Bears’ Jones Okay Son Tells Him How

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02102/995982-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="993" height="551"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boston Bruins Roster</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The only changes in the Montreal Canadiens lineup this season will be the addition of Gilles Dube. He will play left wing with Maurice Richard and Elmer Lach. So far Dube&rsquo;s sidekick, Adjutor Cote has not signed a pro contract and he thinks that the tough grind may be too much for him&hellip; although you couldn&rsquo;t tell it on the scales, he gained three pounds during the rugged training season.Bill Durnan will be in the cage when the Canadiens step on the ice to take on the revamped Chicago Black Hawks on Thursday night. In front of him will be Kenny Reardon and Butch Bouchard as one combination, Doug Harvey and Harold Laycoe as another and Roger Leger and Glen Harmon as the third combo.<h2>Punch Trio Ready</h2>The new 1949-50 version of the &ldquo;Punch Line&rdquo; will be ready for the first game and if exhibition games mean anything, the Lach, Richard and Dube trio are in for a big season. Richard in particular has impressed with his sharpshooting antics. He has also regained his old skating form so it should turn out to be one of these seasons when opposing coaches turn their best men on the &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo;. Lach&rsquo;s jaw seems to be well mended and he&rsquo;s once again mixing it in the corners with the best of them.This will be Dube&rsquo;s test game. At one time there was a Montreal-Buffalo air-lift in operation trying to find a left winger to fit into the front line.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0375/995975-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="151" height="228"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rocket Richard</figcaption></div>Now it may become a Montreal-Cincinnati air-lift.The Habs&rsquo; second line will start intact with Reay centering Joe Carveth and Gerry Plamondon. Carveth has surprised everybody with his early season form for at one time it was rumored that he wouldn&rsquo;t even be with the Habs this season. &ldquo;Eagle Eye&rdquo; Plamondon is expected to be a potent factor in the Canadiens hunt for the Stanley Cup.The Habs&rsquo; third line will probably consist of Normie Dussault at left wing with Leo Gravelle at center and Adjutor Cote at right wing, if he signs.The fourth Montreal trio will see Kenny Mosdell at center with Floyd Curry and Rip Riopelle at wings. Bobby Fillion will be the utility man.Irvin has deviated little from the clulj that ran the Detroit Red Wings ragged in the seven games in the semi-final Stanley Cup playoffs last April.He prescribed hard work and exhibit ion games for his crew for the last week prior to opening night. Irvin says his club will be better than last season&rsquo;s and will have more depth.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0461/995968-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="152" height="233"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Durnan</figcaption></div>Rumors that Doug Harvey would be traded have fizzled out, in fact there is belief around the Hab club that it was never on the fire at any time.So far the veterans have shown no signs of slipping in their prel season play, and Irvin is counting on them to take his club a long way in the hunt this season.They may go farther than anyone thinks. &#9632;

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Habs Ready For 49-50 May Surprise Experts

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;This is the season which starts WITHOUT an announcement that Capt. Sid Abel no longer is a key figure in the plans of the Red Wings.That is indeed novel. But, that&rsquo;s the story. Down filters the official word through the Wings&rsquo; chain of command:&ldquo;Sidney Gerald Abel is fully considered an integral and important cog in the Detroit hockey mechanism. His presence on an offensive combination is anticipated to be both a permanent and effective part of opr renertoire.&rdquo;Give or take a word or two, here&rsquo;s what that means: Abel is tagged as a full-time regular. He gets a regular turn on a line. Sid is set. Abel is able.It&rsquo;s the first time in recent years that Abel has had such a eendoff. They&rsquo;re always counting Sid out before it starts&mdash;either blood poisoning, expected slowing up or just advanced old age. You kept hearing that Sid was about to retire or was to become a spot player or was to move back on the defense and play in a rocking chair.Old Boot-Nose has been around so long that lately he&rsquo;s been forced to deny that he once was a linemate with Jack Adams on the Ottawa Senators. Actually, Abel&rsquo;s not so old. He can barely remember, for instance, what year Turk Broda broke in with the Maple Leafs.You remember what happened last autumn. Out of training camp came the sorry news that Abel no longer would play on a line. He would be retained as a &ldquo;spot&rdquo; player&mdash;act as relief for the youngsters and kill the odd penalty.And, you also remember what happened next. How Sid was drafted back at center when one of the rookies was hurt. And how he sparkled once he was started.All Abel has to show for his work in 1948-49 is (A: the Hart Trophy as the NHLs most valuable performer, (B: first-team All Star berth, (C: the NHL goalscoring championship, (D: recognition as the Key man in the Howe-Abel-Lindsay Line which topped the loop in scoring and (E: league-wide acclaim as the man who did the.most to bring Detroit the NHL championship. That&rsquo;s all.Yes, the greying 31-year-old Westerner from Melville, Sask., is ready to go again. He&rsquo;ll be captaining the Wings for tire fifth straight season as they defend the Prince of Wales Trophy.Abel was the surprise of training camp. The old zip was still there as he led down-ice rushes and dug into the corners to fight for the puck. No rookie topped him for spirit. You&rsquo;d thought Abel intended to add the Calder Trophy to his Hart silverware.Of course, no season could start without some juggling of Abel in the lineup. Here&rsquo;s what is planned this time. Sid has been assigned to pivot a line with the two newcomers, Pete Babando and Jimmy Peters. His former spot with Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe goes to George Gee.In the exhibitions that strategy appears to be paying off. The Abel Line and Gee Line are about even in scoring.The worrisome feature about the club is that the offensive punch seems to end with those two lines. Manager Jack Adams and Coach Tommy Ivan have been toying with about 10 more forwards for the six other open forward positions. The solution hasn&rsquo;t crystalized yet.Center Jim McFadden, right wing Jerry Couture and Rookie left wing Steve Black should make the grade, although not necessarily as a unit.Poised on the edge between Detroit and the Indianpolis farm club are Marty Pavelich, Jim Enio Jerry Reid, Don Morrison, Fred Glover and Max McNab two or three will be retained.There hasn&rsquo;t been any question about defense. Clare Martin looms as a capable replacement for Bill Quackenbush and will join Jack Stewart, Leo Reise and Red Kelly. Behind them rank Lee Fogolin, Al Dewsbury and Benny Wolt, with one or two to be kept. &#9632;

Abel Is Able And Important Now

<div class="byline">By SHIRLEY JACOBSON</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;At the conclusion of the past hockey season, 1948-49 to be exact, followers of the &ldquo;Fastest Game on Earth&rdquo; did a fast double take. When all the records were in and all the ballots counted, hockey&rsquo;s good conduct award, the Lady Byng Trophy, was presented to Bill Quackenbush of Detroit, now a Boston Pastimer after that notable off-season trade. No one denies that Quackenbush deserved this honor. Each year the Byng Trophy is presented to the player &ldquo;who best combines good sportsmanship with ability&rdquo;. And certainly the Red Wing player did just that.The only fly in the ointment was Quackenbush himself. For Bill is one of hockey&rsquo;s outstanding defensemen. And as a defenseman, he is hardly expected to win laurels for his clean playing and good sportsmanship. Yet that is precisely what &ldquo;QuackQuack&rdquo; did!<h2>He&rsquo;s Out Of Step</h2>In a position where mayhem and brutality go hand in hand, Quackenbush was completely out of step. During the season, he incurred a total of no minutes in the penalty box. His clean performance was a fine example of how a defense position could be played.Rugged, but open, checking was his outstanding play and before the season was two-thirds over, it was apparent that Bill was destined to become the defense corp&rsquo;s first Lady Byng winner. There were plenty of opportunities for Bill to incure penalties. In fact we saw some players spend an entire evening trying to entice Mr. Q. into penalty-incurring sorties,&mdash;but to no avail.Just what has this to do with this story. Well let&rsquo;s look at the list of 10 top penalty getters for 1948-49. Here is the spot where defensemen usually lead the parade, but what do you find?The first four are all forwards! Not a single defenseman entered the list until Kenny Reardon of Montreal nosed in as number 5! Shades of Eddie Shore and Red Horner!<h2>Gone Up Front!</h2>Where are all those old timers who bemoan the fact that hockey players today aren&rsquo;t as tough as those boys of 20 years ago? What has become of those rugged defensemen who would just as soon knock you down as look at you? Perhaps they&rsquo;ve all become forwards?At any rate something has happened to the forward line of good conduct men, especially among the wings. The centermen, still remembering the hallowed days of Frankie Boucher and Clint Smith, haven&rsquo;t kicked up their heels as yet, but it won&rsquo;t take them long if the current trend continues.Heading the parade is Maple Leaf&rsquo;s Bill Ezinicki. Toronto Bill no ody led the N.H.L. in penalties, but his 145 minutes set two new records. It was the highest amount of penalties ever incurred by a right wing, and it broke the old record of most penalties handed to a forward. The latter mark of 133 minutes was set by Nels Stewart of the old Montreal Maroons way back in 1926-27.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01127/996068-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="276" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Out Of Step&nbsp;BILL QUACKENBUSH</figcaption></div><h2>More Opportunity Now!</h2>In establishing these new markers, one must remember that Ezinicki and company has the benefit of a 60-game schedule to work with. Smith and Stewart both set their respective records back in the days of 44-game schedule. It makes a slight difference. Ezinicki earned his total of 145 PIM during the course of 52 games. It might have been slightly higher had he not missed eight games because of injuries.Runner-up for the dubious honor was Chicago&rsquo;s Bep Guidolin. The &ldquo;Beep-Beep&rdquo; left wing for the Black Hawks was tossed off the ice for 115 minutes in 60 games. Guidolih incidentally was given the heave-ho for no less than five misconduct penalties, which accounted for 50 minutes in his grand total. This may be a record for left wings, but we haven&rsquo;t been able to check throughly yet.Murph &ldquo;Hardrock&rdquo; Chamberlain of the Montreal Canadiens rated number three. Chamberlain, who should have long ago reached the age where he learned to behave himself, was thumbed off 111 minutes in 54 &lsquo;games.<h2>Goals Down, Pirn Up</h2>Right behind Murph was another Flying Frenchman, &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard. The Rocket set his total of 110 PIM in 59 games. It is interesting to note that as Richard&rsquo;s scoring feats have gone down, his penalty total has gone up. No doubt his inability of late to score goals has affected the highly excitable French temper. It was the highest total of penalties in his career.<div class="sidebar"><h3>Your Star Of Yesteryear</h3>BERT LINDSAY, star of the fabulous Renfrew Millionaires and father of Ted Lindsay of the Detroit Red Wings.</div>After Richard, the defense finally moved in Kenny Reardon, the third and last Canadien to make the list was fifth, with 103 minutes in 46 &lsquo;games.Five minutes behind the re-doutable Reardon, was Detroit&rsquo;s fiery left wing, Ted Lindsay. Another player forced out of action by injuries, Lindsay nevertheless ran up a total of 97 minutes in 50 games. However, penalties or not, Lindsay managed to come in 4th in league scoring. No N.H.L. player has ever led the league in points and penalties at the same time, but Ted looks like the chap who may some day do it.<h2>Rearguards Get In</h2>The second Hawk to make the list was Ralph Nattrass.. The Chicago rear-guard made his first appearance with the top 10, running up a total of 97 minutes in 60 games. Right behind Nattrass was Detroit&rsquo;s formidable Jack Stewart. Stewart, who incidentally was Quackenbush&rsquo;s linemate, was waved off the ice for 96 minutes. A far cry from blond Bill&rsquo;s &ldquo;zero&rsquo; to Black Jack&rsquo;s 96.Another Bill from Toronto was number nine. This was Bill Bar-ilko who during 1947-48 led the league with 147 minutes, just 20 short of the all-time record. During 1948-49 however, he dropped to 9 5 PIM in 60 games.Anchor man for the penalty brigade was Boston&rsquo;s Pat Egan. Burly Patrick had 92 minutes in 60 games. This was 11 minutes ahead of his 1947-48 total, but fell far short of his personal high. Back in 1941-42, when Pat was a member of the fabulous Brooklyn Americans, he ran up a total of 124 PIM in 48 games. &#9632;

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Twas Wrong-Way Season in Big Top Last Winter!

STRATFORD, Ont.,&mdash;There is a problem facing Lyle (Mickey) Roth Whether to play hockey or teach school. Roth says he doesn&rsquo;t know what his answer will be if the Stratford, Ontario board of education asks him to choose between O.H.A. senior hockey and his job as a teacher.Last season Roth played for the Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Dutchmen, but he is a resident of Stratford. He was sold to the Flying Dutchmen by the Stratford Indians for $5,000 and player Billy Flick. It was considered a large amount for an amateur deal.But regardless of what Roth decided the Stratford board of education wants him to finish hockey and telach the kids, and a member of the board lias been delegated to Interview him on his intentions.Roth says he feels he will gain financially if he were to give up his teaching job and move to Kitchener. Money he would receive for working in Kitchener and playing hockey would far exceed his teaching salary.&ldquo;The maximum which I could reach teaching would be $2,900 per year, and it would take me five or six years to reach. that maximum,&rdquo; lie said.Meanwhile, Mort Mezeau, a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo executive, said the club would get a job for Mickey if he decided to move to Kitchener.&ldquo;But&rdquo;, he said &ldquo;If hockey interferes with his teaching in Stratford, it likely would interfere with teaching here. And our people would be no more likely to be satisfied with such a situation.&rdquo;Some Problem &#9632;

May Quit Teaching; Hockey Pays Better

<div class="byline">BY LLOYD SAUNDERS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0270/996123-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="291" height="471"><figcaption class="caption-body">Old Prexy&hellip;&nbsp;D. P. McDONALD, remains as president of Western senior loop.</figcaption></div>REGINA Sask.&mdash;Hockey fever is on the upgrade here in Western Canada at the moment with coaches slowly moulding their clubs together&hellip; Actually one can&rsquo;t speculate on the definite starting lineups until all pro camps have been closed&hellip; Favorites to finish high in the Western League are the Edmonton Flyers Allan Cup Champions of two season&rsquo;s ago&hellip; Coach Frank Currie has a stronger goaler in Ray Frederick the Brandon star, and with Eddie Cutts the reinstated rear-guard and Steve Latoski added to his lineup will be heavier on defense and the Gorward lines&hellip; Latoski is a former Lethbridge player&hellip; Bev. Bentley will not play with Regina Caps according to coach Art Somers.<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0198/996130-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="137" height="220"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 137px">S Schriner</figcaption></div>Prexy Bill Tobin of Chicago has turned the Delisle puckblocker over to the Kitchener club in eastern Canada&hellip; Two Regina aces of last year&rsquo;s championship squad are expected to play with the New York Rangers&hellip; Ab McDougall and Gus Kyle both amateur veterans have impressed Frank Boucher at the Ranger camp at Lake Placid&hellip; Bun Nicholson the former Louisville and Winnipeg goalie will likely get the call to start in the Cap nets&hellip;Nick Metz the Saskatoon Quaker mastermind is well satisfied with his club to date, but needs added strength for his forward combinations&hellip; Cy Rouse last year with Spokane is expected to join the Hub City squad soon&hellip; Se&rsquo;s been going well at the New York Ranger school&hellip;Three stars of last year&rsquo;s Fort Frances Canadians are trying out with the Regina Caps&hellip; They jare defensemen Sambo Fedorek and Harold Brayshaw and forward Willy Tontinato&hellip; Buck Rogers the Saskatchewan Roughrider football star is also making a bid for a spot on the Regina team&hellip;Calgary Stampeders picked up a good blueline man in Hugh Cof-lln the former Moose Jaw Canuck Coflin is a good two way player&hellip; Murray Armstrong&rsquo;s Regina Pats should have a good contender for junior laurels. The former Detroit star remarks about his club, &ldquo;We have several holdovers and a bunch of eager rookies. If they come along together like I&rsquo;m hoping we shouldn&rsquo;t be too easy to knock over&rdquo;&hellip;</div><div style="clear: both;"></div>Bunny Smith a Pat star last winter will play his hockey in Montreal with the Montreal Junior Royals. He&rsquo;s attending McGill&hellip;Russ Dertell one of the most underated goalies in Western Canada will again guard the pipes for the Calgary Stamps&hellip; Russ a graduate of Saskatoon hockey is as steady as the rock of Gibraltar&hellip; If He ever gets a good defense in front of him he&rsquo;ll be very tough to beat&hellip; Two former big leaguer&rsquo;s are farming out west.Lude Waring is just outside Regina&hellip; while Buzz Boll holds forth at Fillmore, Sask&hellip; Don Metz told us the other day he was retiring from hockey, but if were not too far wrong we think he&rsquo;ll be back in hockey before too long. Some rumors have him joining brother Nick at Saskatoon, if he gets his release from the Toronto Leafs&hellip; Sweeney Schriner didn&rsquo;t deny the question&hellip; &ldquo;Will you play hockey in Sydney this winter&rdquo;, He remarked &ldquo;I might go on playing hockey forever&rdquo;&hellip; Russ McQuarrie for the first time in fifteen years won&rsquo;t have a junior club in Saskatoon&hellip; &ldquo;Mr. Hookey&rdquo; has turned over his junior interests to the Saskatoon Wesley&rsquo;s a name very familiar in junior ranks many year&rsquo;s ago&hellip;Jerry Berenek who started his career in hockey, capitalized on his hockey liability to obtain a degree in engineering at Los Angeles&hellip; He&rsquo;s now chief engineer for the Columbia Broadcasting system which means only that if your good to the game, it will be good to you&rdquo;&hellip;Joe Fisher is back at the helm of the Medecine Hat Tigers in the Western Junior League&hellip; The former pro has lined up a well balanced squad&hellip; Lome Carr will again mastermind the Calgary Buffaloes&hellip;Early season predictions point to a tight race in each of the two leagues, senior and junior, and they could be very right&hellip; &#9632;

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Currie’s Crew Of W.C.S.H.L. Rate In 49-50

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY; Alta.&mdash;&ldquo;I look forward to a big season this year in the Western Canada Hockey League,&rdquo; commented loop president D. P. McDonald of Calgary when asked for a preseason forecast.&ldquo;Operating on the four-team instead of a five-club basis won&rsquo;t hurt the league in the slightest. In Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Regina the demand for tickets has been good and everything points to just as big a year as the clubs have experienced in the past.&rdquo;At the end of last year Lethbridge Maple Leafs announced they planned to relinquish their franchise for at least one season&mdash;thus cutting the circuit to Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Flyers, Saskatoon Quakers and last season&rsquo;s loop champion, Regina Capitals.<h2>Watch Those Quakers</h2>All four clubs have been drilling for three weeks now and the coaches rate their chances good. Many are looking for Saskatoon Quakers this year. The doormat of the loop since it was organized, Quakers have gone all out this year. Nick Metz has been obtained to coach the club and Quakers have such classy performers as Tommy Burlington and Mike Sha-saga. Vic Myles, last year with Regina Caps, will play on the Quaker blueline this season.Edmonton Flyers, piloted again by Frank Currie who bossed the club to the Allan Cup championship in 1948, will have nearly the same roster as last year. One player who will be missing from the Flyer lineup this year is Morey Rimstad, flashy center, who will coach the Edmonton junior sextet this season.Art Somers, boss of Regina Capitals, will have.a mixture of newcomers and members of last year&rsquo;s club to work with this year. Dave Schriner, who made his senior comeback with Caps last year and rattled home 53 points during the regular playing schedule, will perform in Sydney this year.<h2>Stamps Go For Youth</h2>Calgary Stampeders this year will put the stress on younger players. Many of the fans last year felt Stampeders played too many pucksters who were over the hill and there was considerable grumbling. Coach Marty Burke is expected to use one line intact which started last year with Buffaloes, western Canada junior finalists. The trio includes center Sid Finney, right wing Bob Carlson and left winger Johnny Mi-chaluk shall add punch to the circuit.Hugh Coflin, defence star last year with Moose Jaw Canucks, has signed a contract with Stampeders. It was earlier reported he would line up with Regina Caps this year. &#9632;

Though Down One Club WCHL Sees Big Season

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0349/996185-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="273" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; New Coach&nbsp;NICK METZ lays down his N.H.L. war club to coach Saskatoon Quakers.</figcaption></div>SAN DIEGO, Calif.&mdash;Professional hockey returned to San Diego Tuesday night when the champion San Diego Skyhawks met the Los Angeles Monarchs, at Glacier Garden, foot of Eighth St. in San Diego.Embarking on his second year at the San Diego helm Morden &ldquo;Ducky&rdquo; Skinner will try to duplicate last season&rsquo;s feat when he led his band of puckchasers to the Pacific Coast Hockey League playoff championships.Skinner arrived in San Diego last week with a three-car caravan from the Montreal training site. Included in the list of returning pucksters were Larry Frechette, defensemen John Baby, Norman McKay, Morris Lallo; left wingers Stan Wareckl, Maurice Vaillancourt, Rusty Aiken, and center Andy Brown. &#9632;

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Skinner’s Squad Hopes To Repeat

CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;The 1949-50 edition of the Calgary Stampeders, busily preparing for the approaching Western Canada Senior Hockey League season, will offer several new faces this year and four members of last year&rsquo;s junior Buffaloes, Western finalists, will have the opportunity to make the grade.Marty Burke, who took over coaching reins from Jack Arbour at the latter part of last year, expects to have a strong contender for the four-team loop this year. Burke coached Stampeders when the Calgary team bowed In the Allan Cup final to Kirkland Lake Blue Devils in 1941. He had a colorful career in the National Hockey League before retiring from the puck sport. He operates a hotel in Calgary and his main hobby is golf.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0432/996216-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="164" height="234"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dune Grant</figcaption></div><h2>Youth Adds Punch</h2>Bob Carlson, Jim Finney, Johnny Michaluk and Al Purvis&mdash;all with last year&rsquo;s Buffaloes&mdash;have been signed by Stampeders and. the young eliment is expected to add a good deal of punch to the red and white squad.In the past a lot of local fans have been howling that not enough attention is paid to home brew players but it looks like the Stam-peder club is changing its ways.Carlson, Michuluk and Finney all attended the Chicago Black Hawk training camp in North Bay and the N.H.L. Hawks think a year in senior ranks will do a world of good to help &ldquo;finish&rdquo; the three.Stampeders will have Russ Dar-tell and Frank McCool for goaltending duty. Dertell has been a mainstay with the club for three years while McCool has been substitute the past two. In 1945 he starred with Toronto Maple Leafs In the Stanley Cup playdowns. &#9632;

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Stamps Hoist Danger Signal For Loop Foes

<div class="byline">By WILLIAM JULISSON</div>GRAND FORKS, S.D.&mdash;The Red River Valley, popularized long ago by its bread and a ballad, has succumbed to the grip of an &lsquo;epuckdemic&rsquo;. So deep a swath has been cut from Warroad, in northernmost Minnesota down to the easternmost tip of North Dakota, the main concern of the valley&rsquo;s staunch natives during the winter is the condition of highways connecting cities which have placed hockey first on their night-time and Sunday afternoon entertainment lists.Hardest hit by hockeyitis is Grand Forks, N.D. (Population 28,000) a Mecca city for puck chasers from four to 40. In this new-born &ldquo;hockey hotbed,&rdquo; all the &ldquo;big&rdquo; games are played, in the University of North Dakota&rsquo;s huge Winter Sports building on a natural ice sheet.<h2>Amerks Are Anxious</h2>On the heels of the UND sextet, free of Canadian players and one of the nation&rsquo;s top collegiate powers, is the Grand Forks Amerks Independent club. The Amerks are affiliated with the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States and operate in the States-Dominion league. Many non-league game, however, are scheduled with Winnipeg teams.Included in this alliance are Emerson and LeTeilier of Manitoba; Hallock, Thief River Falls and Crookston of Minnesota. The Amerks gave Grand Forks one of its best years in history in 1948, capturing the league crown, adding the Minnesota A.H.A. title and finishing fourth in the National Senior A.H.A. tourney in Toledo, O.The intramural hockey program on the UND campus keeps about 100 young men in an eightteam league busy one night a week. The fraternities have been waging puck wars ever since the structure was opened in 1936.<h2>High School Doings</h2>Two high schools, Central High and Academy of St. James, will be active again after a war-time lapse. The Eagles, another independent sextet, are comprised of former park board and high school athletes who play the ma-<h2>Fido Is Busy</h2>Clifford (Fido) Purpur has had much to do with the phenomenal growth of hockey in the valley. He Is Grand Forks&rsquo; and North Dakota&rsquo;s oply contribution to major league hockey and in 14 years he chased pucks for the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Flyers, St. Paul Saints, Minneapolis Millers and Omaha Knights. Fido is devoting the rest of his life to the game and dreams daily of a modern hockey coliseum in the of town.Now head hockey coach at the University at 36, he also finds time to be player-coach of the Amerks, coaches and advises Central High&rsquo;s team, supervises park board play and referees many home contests. He is tutoring 17-year-old Ken, a younger brother, for a career with the Chicago Black Hawks. Fido realized a boyhood ambition when he joined the &lsquo;Hawks in 1941.<div class="sidebar"><h3>Voice Is Still</h3>Detroit&mdash;&ldquo;The Voice&rdquo; will be silent at Olympia this season No longer does eloquent, erudite Fred A. Huber, Jr., man the microphone on the public address system.When the new press box was built up under the balcony, Huber had to retire as an announcer. He reigns over pressbox activities in his official capacity as the Red Wings&rsquo; publicist.Picked as the new announcer at the rink-side statiion was Win Spence, who previously-subbed for Huber on occasion. &#9632;</div>

Hockey Fever Rages In Red River Valley

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01108/996271-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="284" height="467"><figcaption class="caption-body">Business Calls&nbsp;RIP RIOPELLE</figcaption></div>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;Left Winger Rip Riopelle of the Montreal Canadiens has asked to be retired from hockey, and his request will in all probability be granted as Frank Selke, general manager of the Habs has no intention of keeping players in his line-up who are not willing to play.Riopelle says he wants to quit hockey to return to the Capital City where he will devote all his time to a budding fabric business.&hellip; So far he has been cautious about talking contract for the 1949-50 season. However it is thought that it would have contained a minor league clause which would have meant a reduction in salary if Riopelle could not hold a spot on the N.H.L. club.Up until now Riopelle has not been impressive and it is generally thought that before the season was very old the Ottawa Winger would be on his way to Cincinnati, number one farm club of the Habs in the A.H.L. &#9632;

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Progress Slow, Hab Hope Quits

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0184/996333-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="724" height="1042"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1 Left winger pictured in center.6 Initials of Cooper, Buffalo winger.8 Playing surface.9 First name of Goldsworthy, former player, now a coach.11 Short nickname given to club for which pictured star plays.12 Month in which Pat Egan celebrates birth, (abbr.)13 Neuter pronoun.15 Home state of Indianapolis Capitals (abbr.)16 Initials of Conrad Lund&rsquo;s brother.17 Short for first name of Mich-aluk, R.I. Red.18 Pictured player is 5&mdash;, 11 inches tall, (abbr.)19 Nickname of one of players used by Rangers in Stanley deal.22 Paid (abbr.)23 Short for first name of Sprout Cleveland defenseman.25 Consonantal digraph.26 Homo state of PCHL Eagles (abbr.)27 First name of Buller, Cleveland defenseman.30 Bill Benson&rsquo;s middle name.34 First name of coach of Springfield Indians.36 Initials of Unger.37 Nickname of Brandon, ama-rteurs for which Wycherley ronce played (sing.)38 First name of pictured player.<h2>DOWN</h2>1 &ldquo;Flash&rdquo; Hollett&rsquo;s given name.2 Nickname of Irving Bailey.3 Hockey sextet.4 Left winger for St. Louis Flyers.5 Symbol for neon.6 Where 11 Across landed in 1949 playoffs.7 First name of &ldquo;Cy&rdquo; Thomas.10 What Laplante is called for short.14 1948-49 Lady Byng went to Quackenbush.16 Sid Smith led AHL with 112 of these (abbr. sing.)18 Short for first name of captain of 11 Across.19 Clifford Purpur&rsquo;s nickname.21 Numeral worn by Ralph Almas24 Trainer of champion R.I. Reds.25 Number of times in succession 11 across has won Stanley cup.28 What Clarence Warquess is called.29 Initials of Larson, Hershey player.31 Clarence Campbell Is president of one (abbr.)32 Pronoun.33 Coach of 11 Across.35 What Rollins, Cleveland goalie is called. &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0258/996388-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="328" height="513"><figcaption class="caption-body">J. HARPER PARRY, secretary-manager of Western Canada&rsquo;s junior circuit, says there&rsquo;ll be no player tampering if he can help it.</figcaption></div>HERSHEY, PA.&mdash;Members of the Boston Bruins and Hershey Bears should be pretty adept at flashing in on goal in a shower of ice chips and then unleashing a lethal shot at nets. During pre-season training, Bruin coach Buck Boucher and Bear chief Don Penniston had their charges hard at work &ldquo;putting the brakes on&rdquo;&mdash;skating in at high speed and then stopping for a fast turnaround. &#9632;

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Apply the Brakes

<div class="byline">By MURRAY BROWN</div>MOOSE JAW, Sask.&mdash;It&rsquo;s going to cost Western Canada junior hockey league operators caught practicing the fine art of player pilfering, money from now on. To forestall any &ldquo;dickering&rdquo; between rival clubs, the league at its semi-annual meeting in Calgary decided a team found guilty of attempting to lure a player from another club would be fined $500.The league, as last year in its maiden term, will be composed of Calgary Buffaloes, last season&rsquo;s champions; Moose Jaw Canucks, Regina Pats, Lethbridge Native Sons, Medicine Hat Tigers and Crow&rsquo;s Nest Pass Lions, nee Bellevue.<h2>Edmonton Couldn&rsquo;t Agree</h2>A new entry from Edmonton failed to materialize when the four Edmonton clubs couldn&rsquo;t come to terms over a proposed composite entry.J. Harper Parry, Moose Jaw, secretary-manager of the league, said the W.C.J.H.L. would accept a single Edmonton entry but would have to secure permission from the Alberta Amateur Hockey association.The A.A.H.A. apparently doesn&rsquo;t want a single organization to sponsor a team for fear the move has an adverse effect on the game in Edmonton and so the capital city will run itg own show for another season at least.Meantime there are reports that Saskatoon and Princ? Albert of the Northern Saskatchewan junior league are considering applying for membership in the W.C.J.H.L. next spring.If this happens and Edmonton also comes in, officials foresee the league split into north and south divisions.The 1949-50 schedule, due to start about Oct. 19, provides each team with 20 home games. Each Alberta squad will play three times in Saskatchewan and each Saskatchewan entry will play four times in Alberta.<h2>Pool Receipts</h2>All gate receipts from interprovincial games will he pooled and divided on a pro rata basis.The team at the top of th? league at the end of the regular schedule will be the league champion and the bottom-place outfit will be dropped. All others will be eligible for provincial eliminations leading to Memorial Cup Play.All six clubs are in good coaching hands. Except for the Crow&rsquo;s Nest entry handled by Scotty Munro, an able mentor, all teams have former N.H.L.&rsquo;ers at the helm.Lorne Carr coaches Calgary; Ken Doraty, Moose Jaw; Murray Armstrong, Regina; Joe Fisher, Medicine Hat, and Pete Slobodian, Lethbridge. &#9632;

Penalty 500 Bucks for Clooks

<div class="byline">By Ken McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-068/996443-1-eng-US/f0020-062.jpg" title="f0020-06" width="284" height="165"></div><h2>Star Power Too Potent For Maples</h2><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0195/996464-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="147" height="169"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0236/996457-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="152" height="174"></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The N. H. L. All-Stars made it a grand slam over the Stanley Cup champions, the Toronto Maple Leafs, Monday when they set back the world Champions 3-1. Playing before a perspiring crowd of 13,513 and in weather more suitable to baseball, the N. H.L.&rsquo;s classy crew of stick wield-ers scored three goals in succession and were holding a decided edge in play at the finish.Torono had a short-lived lead In the first period when bashrn Bill Bari1ko fired a 20-foot-er past goaler Bill Durnan at the 15.22 mark. Harry Watson and Cal Gardner were given assists on the play. Durnan, the five-timeVezina Trophy winner, had no chance at all on the play. The shot was screened all the way.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0324/996450-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="158" height="232"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Goldham</figcaption></div>Bob Goldham, heady Chicago defenseman who was an added starter for the All-Stars scored the prettiest goal of the evening at 18:03 of the opening canto when he picked up Edgar La-prade&rsquo;s deft shot, pulled Turk Broda out of the nets and slipped the puck in. Jimmy Thomson, Toronto defenseman was serving a penalty at the time.Demonstrating the best hockey he&rsquo;s played for some time, Gold-ham put the All-Stars ahead 2-1 after 14 minutes and 42 seconds of action in the second stanza when he carried the puck right from his own end, decked the defense and laid down a perfect pass for center Paul Ronty who made no mistake in whipping the rubber home. The middle, chucker ended with the score favoring the All-Stars 2-1.Doug Bentley wasted little time in the final frame before potting goal number three for the satellites. Bill Quackenbush was given credit for the assist on the play. It was a rather sloppy goal. Bentley pounced on the puck, spun completely around and pushed the disc along the ice past the hapless Broda.It was an exceptionally fine game from start to finish and the capacity throng in attendence left Maple Leaf Gardens completely satisfied that they had witnessed one of hockey&rsquo;s outstanding games.It was a much better contest than last year&rsquo;s game which was played in Chicago and which the Stars won by an identical score 3-1.Picking an individaul star other than Bob Goldham was tough. Every player on both teams played well with Max Bentley, Bill Juzda, Bob Dawes and Harry Watson playing well for the Leafs while Chuck Rayner, who replac ed Bill Durnan in the nets mid way through the second period Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Kenny Reardon Doug Bentley, Bill Quackenbusl and Edgar Laprade played wel for the All-Stars.In a pre-game ceremony, Cia rence Campbell, President of the National Hockey League present ed gold pucks to the first All-Star team of last year, namely Bill<h2>Goldham OK With Coal And Assist</h2>Durnan, Bill Quackenbush, Jackfl Stewart, Sid Abel, Maurice Richard and Roy Conacher. Campbell also presented gold pucks to the two coaches, Tommy Ivan of the Stars and Hap Day of the Leafs.Syl Apps, vice-presidnet of the N.H.L. Pensions Society, faced-off the puck between Sid Abel and Ted Kennedy to start the game.LineupsAll-Stars&mdash;Goal, Durnan, Montreal; defense, Stewart, Detroit; Quackenbush, Boston; center, Abel, Detroit; wings, Richard, Montreal; Conacher, Chicago. Subs&mdash;Reardon, Montreal; Harmon, Montreal; Goldham, Chicago; Egan, New York; D. Bentley, Chicago; Howe, Detroit; Les wick, New York; O&rsquo;Connor, New York; Ronty, Boston; Mosienko, Chicago; Rayner, New York.Toronto&mdash;Goal, Broda; defense, Boesch, Barilko; center, Kennedy; wings, Meeker, Smith. Subs&mdash;Thomson, Mortson, Juzda, Mathers, Gardner, Watson, M. Bentley, Klukay, Timgren, Dawes, Mackell, Lynn.Referee&mdash;Bill Chadwick. Linesmen&mdash;Jim Primeau, Eddie Mepham. &#9632;

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NHL Squad Takes 3rd In Row

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0510/996495-1-eng-US/f0020-052.jpg" title="f0020-05" width="311" height="491"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defends Title&nbsp;TERRY REARDON, seeks to retain Calder Cup with his Championship Providence Reds.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;With the opening of the 1949-50 seasjn on the doorstep things look rosy for the American Hockey League. Ten clubs, which have been busily engaged in hectic practice sessions for the past few weeks, comprise thisseason.&rsquo;s complement. And there doesn&rsquo;t look to be any weak sisters in the League either.Cincinnati&rsquo;s new entry with their present lineup look to be able to hold their own and it is reported that the Ohio club will be strengthend considerably. Reports which came in from the various A. H.L. camps during the get ready season for-told another great year for the league. The calibre of play has steadily risen in recent years and there are many reasons to believe that this will again be the case this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0415/996502-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="170" height="252"><figcaption class="caption-body">M Podoloff</figcaption></div>One of the great reasons for the optimistic outlook is the better balance of the circuit. This was brought about with the elimination of two weak clubs of last season, Washington and Philadelphia, the transfering of Buffalo from the Western to Eastern Division and the addition of an expected worthy representative in Cincinnati. Last year&rsquo;s Eastern clubs will have much sterner competition with Buffalo fighting for a playoff post, while the Cincinnati entry will provide a battle for the Western holdovers, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The rest of the Eastern section will find four of last sea son&rsquo;s clubs, Providence, Hershey, New Haven and Springfield ready and eager to meet the challenge of Buffalo.Besides the better balance in team competition, the actual schedule itself will be more interesting. In the past, with six teams in the East and only five in the West, an uneven number of games was the result between the teams in the East. This season, the 7C game schedule will be equally divided, each team playing 35 at home and away, and with the clubs meeting their division rivals ten times and the opposite section six.Last year&rsquo;s champions, Providence Reds, will have just about all of their fine squad returning. As a matter of fact, Terry Reardon&rsquo;s powerhouse which has been in Three Rivers, Quebec for the last few weeks should be stronger. This should come about through the acquisition of Ken &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Davies from New Haven. Davies who scored 32 goals for the Ramblers is an efficient workman at either a center ice position or on the wing.Art Chapman In Buffalo has done a remarkable A&gt;b in building up the Bisons, stressing particular attention to defense, and has pro-curred Larry Archambault, Harry Dick and Gordon Davidson to augment last year&rsquo;s rearguards. In addition, a wealth of young forward and defense talent has been trying out in Fort Erie, Ontario. The expert. Connie Dion, is expected to again guard the Bison cage.The New Haven Ramblers also have a host of youngsters trying out for places.A few certain players to wear New Haven livery however, will be their stellar goaltender, Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis, Sherman White, Jack Lancien, Johnny Denis, Freddie Brown and a few others from last year&rsquo;s team.Don Penniston&rsquo;s Hershey Bears, will have most of its same efficient squad, with a few new possibilities coming from the amateur school which Pennlston conducted at Sudbury.The Springfield Indians, under the direction of Eddie Shore coach Earl Seibert and Max Kaminsky, Oakland Oak coach have been working out at Barrie, Ontario. The Indians acquired many of the players from last year&rsquo;s Philadelphia Rockets, when that team left the league, and also hold the rights to many of the Rocket amateurs. With all these additions fighting for places along with the holdovers. Springfield is again expected to be in the thick of the battle for a playoff.The big question in everyone&rsquo;s mind of course is the new Cincinnati team, as new clubs naturally always are unknown quantities. However when one considers the guiding hand behind Cincinnati, Frank Selke, who is rich in hockey lore, those who know the game are sure the new Ohio city will have a fine representative although they are newcomers. Selke has been busily engaged in obtaining players, both of the professional experienced variety and promising amateurs. A glance at his prospective roster displays that his work has not been in vain and the new American League fans in Cincinnati should have a team well worth their cheering. Among the better known players on the Cincinnati list, those familiar to American League spectators are, Ed Bush, Phil Hergesh-eimer. Les Hickey and Wally Stef-aniw. The reuniting of Hergy and Stefaniw formerly of Philadelphia was a wonderful move as each is well acquainted with the other&rsquo;s style. Stefaniw, a center holds the league record for assists.Just like Providence, the Western Division title holders, St. Louis, were not content to sit on last year&rsquo;s laurels although having a powful team, but strived to better it. This they did with the acquisition of the high scoring Cliff Simpson and Fern Gauthier and the rugged rearguard Eddie Nicholson. True they gave up a great forward in Steve Black to obtain the newcomers, but with three top notch players in return, a three for one deal is always a benefit. Ebbie Goodfellow&rsquo;s charges have been training at Midland, Ontario, and the former Detroit Red Wing all star defenseman will again provide the know how to have his team up near the top, it not in that exalted position.The Cleveland Barons with an entire new executive set up since last season seem to be putting the accent on agressive youngsters as new General Manager Jim Hendy has engineered more deals during the summer than any other hockey boss. Gone from last year&rsquo;s club are Johnny Black, Church Russell, Bob Solinger and Ralph Wycherley, with a few others not expected to be in Baron uniform either. In return they have obtained three hard fighting youngsters from Pittsburgh, who are fine prospects. Ray Ceresino, Ted Sloan and Harry Taylor. Sloan and Taylor saw service most of last year with Toronto. From Springfield came Billy Warwick and also trying out for the team were Steve Wochy and Bill Harts-burgh formerly with Philadelphia and goaltender Lou Crowdis of Washington. Defenseman Joe Conn of Springfield was also ad ded, and one of the brightest prospects is goaltender Al Rollins who starred for Kansas City in the USHL last year.The Indianapolis Capitals are another of those teams that won&rsquo;t be determined finally until their National League counterpart, Detroit has been settled upon. However, reports from the training site give an indication that many of the familiar faces of last year will again be back.The Pittsburgh Hornets, last team to be reviewed, suffered one of the worst misfortunes in recent hockey when they lost the services of Baz Bastien, all star goalile of the league for the last three years and the best in the circuit.The rest of the Pittsburgh team is its usual strong self, with the addition ob Bob Solinger and Church Russell expected to help considerably. Both are strong goal scorers. The Hornets are particularly impressed with a young defense star, Tim Horton, of last year&rsquo;s St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors of Toronto. Conn Smythe rates Horton as Canada&rsquo;s No. 1 defense prospect. &#9632;

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Outlook Rosy In A.H.L.

<div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-078/996533-1-eng-US/f0020-072.jpg" title="f0020-07" width="140" height="238"></div>General Manager Franke Selke has announced that the Montreal Canadiens have bought Grant &ldquo;Knobby&rdquo; Warwick, diminutive right winger who played for the Boston Bruins last season. Warwick, a native of Regina, was bought by the Habs for an undisclosed sum of cash. The 28-year-old winger will report to Montreal for the club&rsquo;s first N.H.L. game.Warwick is the second Bruin player within a week to be disposed of by the Hub-towners. Pat Egan was sent to Rangers earlier in the week.Last season &ldquo;Knobby&rdquo; scored 22 goals and led the loop in scoring at one time. This is Ills third N.H.L. club. Before being traded to the Bruins last season he was with the New York Rangers. &#9632;</div>

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October 15, 1949

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