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January 21, 1950

The Hockey News January 21, 1950

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03194/1434740-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="284" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sam Pollock</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04151/1434733-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="288" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Billy Gould</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&#8213;Silent Sam Pollock, coach of the Montreal Canadiens Jrs., hasn&rsquo;t taken the blasting which his players have and still are receiving, following a hectic trip out west, too hard.Mention Tony Allen and he laughs and says, &ldquo;that jerk, he&rsquo;s just a bad loser.&rdquo; Allen, incidentally, is the sports writer from Winnipeg who wired Frank Seike, general manager of the Canadien Arena Company, for a public apology after Pollock&rsquo;s charges started a riot on Western ice.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t have any trouble when we played the Winnipeg Canadiens, or when we played in Kenora or in Brandon. Just when we played against the Monarchs,&rdquo; said Pollock.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll admit that we weren&rsquo;t 100 percent in the right, but that refereeing out there was the worst I have ever witnessed. And that&rsquo;s not the worst of it. We get panned for playing a rough game and starting a riot, well the night before we played against the Monarchs we saw the Winnipeg Black Hawks and Brandon Wheat Kings play and in that game, believe it or not, there were 3 4 penalties. There were only 23 in our game, but not one word was said about the game in their own league.&ldquo;Of course we can&rsquo;t blame the referees too much. The regular ones were on strike for more money and what we had were just pick ups.&rdquo;&ldquo;There are two sides to every story and naturally mine is different than Allen&rsquo;s&rdquo;, said the Canadiens&rsquo; coach.&ldquo;I only wish I had taken along one of our own reporters from Montreal. I&rsquo;ll take one along next time.&rdquo;Asked how the fight started Sam smiled and went into detail. &ldquo;Dickie Moore was facing off at center ice and he said something to the referee about the face off. Then the other ref skated across the ice from the boards and gave him a penalty. He couldn&rsquo;t even hear what Moore said. Anyway Moore got mad and started to argue and finally he ended up with the ref under his arm. There was only two policemen in the whole place and when the fans started to get on the ice naturally we went over and started to help out our own players. We didn&rsquo;t get any protection from the fans at all, the policemen were more interested in breaking up the players than getting the fans off the ice.&ldquo;The Monarchs belong to Toronto and we belong to Canadiens so it was just like Toronto and Montreal playing a game. They started to play rough and we weren&rsquo;t going to take a back seat for anybody. Besides I don&rsquo;t see what everybody is kicking about, we lost three good players out of that game.&rdquo;Silent Sam wouldn&rsquo;t say very much about the chances of a return meeting at Memorial Cup time.&ldquo;All I can say is that the team that wins the Eastern Championship is a pretty good bet to win the Memorial Cup. At least from what I saw out West anyway. When we played Brandon we were minus our three best players and we beat them. They are supposed to be the best in the West.&rdquo;While Pollock wouldn&rsquo;t go too far in criticizing the Western newspapermen one of his players, Billy Gould, went a little farther.&ldquo;That guy Tony Allen never changes.&rsquo;&rsquo; said Gould, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve talked to football players from Ottawa who went to Winnipeg to play and he did the same thing Look what he wrote about the junior Royals last season when they won the cup. He wouldn&rsquo;t have said anything if his team had won.&rdquo; &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Sam Pollock Of Habs Tells Of West Riot

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02226/1435131-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="558" height="1206"><figcaption class="caption-body">Moe Young</figcaption></div>Four good reasons why the Tulsa Oilers are still in the running of the United States Hockey League are Moe Young, Bobby Schnurr, Dickie Butler and Pinky Melnyk.Although if you look at the league standings Tulsa is in fifth place they are only three points out of second and nine out of the top slot.Len Haldorson and Frank Ashworth are the two top sccrers on the club. Haldorson is second in the scoring race with 22 goals and 30 assists while Ashworth has 17 goals and 26 assists. Dickie Butler has 17 goals and 19 assists and Lorne Ferguson has 17and 17. Schnurr has scored 10 goals and 23 assists and Moe Young has 15 goals and 16 assists. Melnyk is the other high scorer of the Oilers with 10 goals and 20 assists.The Oilers are one of the highest scoring clubs in the league and are expected to be tough opposition from here on in.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03205/1435124-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="562" height="854"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Schnurr</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04162/1435117-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="274" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Butler</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05129/1435110-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="263" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pinky Melnyk</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Oilers In The Battle

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01208/1435586-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Solution Next Week)<h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Toronto player pictured in center.5. Nickname of former Bruin now with Rangers.8. Club for which Nattrass plays.10. Former player for Stanley Cup St. Patricks, known as &ldquo;Babe&rdquo;.11. Initials of former Buffalo player now with Tulsa.12. Noun suffix.13. Trainer of 1922-23 Ottawa Senators.16. Short for first name of AHL &ldquo;badman&rdquo; now with Sherbrooke Saints.18. Bison netminder.19. Joe Klukay is 27 &hellip; old (abbr.).20. Self.22. Short for first name of Pike, former Ranger.24. Lamoureux&rsquo;s initials.25. Keith Crossman, Windsor coach, recently broke this in fall.27. Coach of 1947-48 Calder Cup winners.28. Some.29. Puck weighs 5&frac12;-6 &hellip;(sing.),30. Short for first name of a Providence Reds defenseman.32. Club for which Bud Poile plays (abbr.).33. Hornet wingman.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. First name of pictured player.2. Descriptive of puck in certain plays.3. Consonantal digraph.4. Former NHL player for Boston, Brooklyn and Toronto.5. State where Hornets play home games (abbr.).6. Jack Crawford&rsquo;s is 33.7. Team for which Ray Timgren plays.9. Wingman for Providence Reds.14. Upon.15. Numeral worn by &ldquo;The Rocket.&rdquo;17. Member of 1941-42 Stanley Cup championship team.21. Red Wing player.23. &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Currys given name.25. They are known as &ldquo;Joe&rdquo; and &ldquo;Penny.&rdquo;26. Trainer of 1928-29 Stanley Cup champions.27. One of Hershey Bears.29. Durnan&rsquo;s numeral.31. Initials of one of players traded to Chicago for Bentley and Thomas.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02154/1435579-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="575" height="934"></div> &#9632;

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HOCKEY CROSSWORD

(Including games of Sunday, Jan. 1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01282/1434944-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="592" height="625"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02218/1434937-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="585" height="707"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03177/1434930-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="596" height="583"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04133/1434923-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="589" height="560"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0598/1434916-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="596" height="580"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0679/1434909-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="587" height="590"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0768/1434902-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="586" height="602"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0857/1434895-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="591" height="593"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0945/1434888-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="593" height="543"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-1041/1434881-1-eng-US/f0012-102.jpg" title="f0012-10" width="590" height="615"></div> &#9632;

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American League Monthly Records

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01145/1435786-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Not So Blue Blues by Kavetski</figcaption></div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;Spearheaded by the most devastating attack in the American Hockey League, the rampaging Cleveland Barons are spread-eagling the field right and left in a drive reminiscent of their record-shattering dash of the 1947-48 campaign.Bun Cook&rsquo;s Barons, while showing their heels to the rest &lsquo;of the A.H.L. pack, are staging the most lopsided race seen in years among the usually closely matched Western Division squads. After last weekend&rsquo;s games, the spangled crew from the shores of Lake Erie had a cosy 17-point margin over their nearest competitors, the Indianapolis Caps and enjoyed an equally decisive margin over Providence, the Eastern leaders and defending Calder Cup champs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02102/1435779-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="261" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Les Douglas</figcaption></div>Their breakneck drive broke the Divisional race wide open&mdash;in marked contrast to last season&rsquo;s close-fisted fight where the end of the schedule saw four Western clubs grouped within three points of one another in a thrilling photo finish, with Barons third.<h2>BLASTING THE NETS</h2>Including last weekend&rsquo;s contests, the Cook crew had won 28 and tied seven of their first 43 games, and had marked up the shattering total of 22 goals. That&rsquo;s far and away ahead of any of the opposition, and the scoring lists show the effect dramatically.As 31-year-old Les Douglas shows the way, no fewer than six Barons are sniping their way along in the ranks of the first 10 scorers in the loop.With 26 games still to play, the Cleveland colossus bids fair to shatter the season records of 347 goals and 44 games won, set by the red-hot Providence crew of last winter when they staged a similar runaway in the Eastern Division.Those are marks the Barons are very interested in overtaking, because last year&rsquo;s Providence crew out did the 1947-48 Baron marks of 332 goals and 4.5 games won in setting their new records. The Cook men are avowedly out to spoil the Providence broth if they can.Every member of the Cleveland goalie-killers has been playing great hockey, and right now coach Cook rates it equally as great a crew a&rsquo;s that one&rsquo; of two years ago.After that setback, the Barons polished off the Reds in one more game, and then knocked off Buffalo Bisons four straight in the tinals. &#9632;

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Runaway Barons Eye Loop Marks

CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;There is a current rumor in the National Hockey League that the Chicago Black Hawks and the New York Rangers and tire Toronto Maple Leafs are about to pull off a trade. Just how much truth there is to the rumors is not known. One of the stories came out of New York while the other originated in Toronto, so far there has been no comment from the vicinity of Chicago.The trade between the Hawks and Rangers is said to concern a defenseman, probably Jack Lancien or Freddie Shero but who Bill Tobin is said to be giving up is not known. The Rangers are now overflowing with rearguards and have no less than seven parading their bench. Now Lynn Patrick is looking for some scoring punch and may be after either Gaye Stewart or another winger.From the vicinity of Toronto comes the report that Conn Smythe, boss of the Leafs, is ready to give up both Bill Ezinicki and Howie Meeker for Doug Bentley. Just what Smythe would do with the 33 year old Bentley is not known. However the report says he would like to reunite the Bentley Brothers some way or other. And you can be sure that if Smythe does reunite them it won&rsquo;t be because he has a soft heart and wants to see the boys end up their careers on the same club but rather to get somebody who can make Max Bentley go like he used to. &#9632;

Toronto, Chi. and Rangers Hint Deals On The Fire

<div class="byline">By DAVE FARRELL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01208/1434090-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Three Bruins That RuinThe Muscles Line, above, are three good reasons why the Bruins are still in the running. Ken Smith, left, Poul Ronty, center and Johnny Peirson, the ex-McGill student is on the right.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02192/1434083-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="250" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bon Penniston</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Johnny Peirson hobbled off a table in the Bruins dressing room where Win Green, the Boston trainer, had worked on his severe Charley horse for the past half hour.The 24-year-old Boston right winger limped heavily on his right leg as he nervously paced back and forth in the dressing room.&ldquo;This is the third week of play I&rsquo;ve missed because of this injury,&rdquo; he moaned. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think much of it at first, but it grew worse after that game with the Hawks was over.&rdquo;Peirson was referring to a Bruins-Black Hawks game in Chicago the week before Christmas when Bill Gadsby felled him whale he was racing in on 1 Brimsek.<h2>DOESN&rsquo;T KNOW HOW</h2>&ldquo;For the life of me, I don&rsquo;t know how Gadsby ever got me,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I saw him all the way and thought I was by him when he dropped me. It was only a glancing blow but it aggravated a slight Charley horse I received a week before when Garth Boesch of the Maple Leafs dumped me into the boards in Boston.&rdquo;Peirson obviously was irked with the slowness with which the Charley horse has responded to heat treatments. He wants to get back into the Boston lineup, but quick.The former McGill University star was injured at an inopportune time&mdash;the Bruins were already plagued by a series of injuries and Johnny himself was headed towards another brilliant season.&ldquo;I had set my sights on a 35-goal season at the start of the campaign,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and I was making good that average &mdash; with 16 goals in 33 games. Then came the Charley horse.&rdquo;For a guy who only dreamed of ever making the grade in the National Hockey League and never thought he had the stuff to do it, Johnny Peirson has come a long way. He now rates as one of, if not the best right wing in the National Hockey League. He&rsquo;s no Richard yet but he is rapidly developing into one of the league&rsquo;s slickest wings.<h2>NEVER THOUGHT OF N.H.L.</h2>&ldquo;No, I never thought I&rsquo;d be playing in the National Hockey League,&rdquo; Johnny said, reviewing his meteoric rise to hockey stardom. &ldquo;Before the war, I was just kicking around with the Canadiens&rsquo; junior-sponsored team. Gerry Plamondon was the star junior in Quebec circles at that time.&rdquo;&ldquo;About that time,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;Don Penniston of the Hershey Bears asked me to play for the Galt Red Wings but the war was in full bloom then and I went into the army. That was in 1943.&ldquo;I got out of the service in the fall of 1945 and decided to enter McGill. Jack Gelineau was also starting then and we both had good years. I bumped into Don Penniston again after the season had ended. It was in April, I believe.&ldquo;Don asked me to go to Hershey, the next fall but I told him I was thinking of quitting hockey. The summer passed and I headed for Chocolate Town after a change of heart.&ldquo;After a few days at the training camp, the Bears were scheduled to meet the Bruins in. an exhibition game. Penniston put me at right wing on one of his lines but the thrill of playing against such bigtime opposition as the Bruins soon faded as I suffered a fractured hand when I crashed into Clare Martin.&ldquo;I thought my hockey days were over then but a few days later Art Ross called me on the phone and asked me to sign with the Bruins. I jumped at the opportunity and following a 10-week layoff while my hand was healing, I reported to the Boston Olympics in December.&ldquo;I played about 15 games with the Pics and then on New Year&rsquo;s day, 1947, the Bruins called me up for a two-week road trip throughout the N.H.L. circuit. There were five games on that trip and we didn&rsquo;t fare too well. The Bruins shipped me to Hershey after the trip for further seasoning along with Babe Pratt and Don Grosso.&rdquo;<h2>COST HIM ROOKIE AWARD</h2>That 14-day stint with the Bruins in January&rsquo; of 1947 in all probability cost Peirson the Calder Memorial Trophy last year. The Winnipeg native who has lived in Montreal for the past 16 years, would have been a cinch to cop the rookie award last year since he had appeared in only 15 games the year before when the Bruins recalled him and Paul Ronty from Hershey.Peirson, like Ronty, enjoyed tremendous year last season with, the Bruins. He scored 22 goals and set up 21 others for a neat total of 43 points&mdash;not bad for a kid who never thought he had the ability to make the National Hockey League.His record this season, as previously noted, has been even more impressive. His 16 goals and similar number of assists give him an average of almost a point a game (he appeared in 33 games prior to his recent injjury). Yet, despite this brilliant record, Johnny is one of the most underrated forwards in the National Hockey League. One wonders where the Bruins would be without him &mdash; certainly among the also-rans.<h2>The Hockey News</h2>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September, by HOOKEY 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 $2.60 in Canada, $3.50 in U.S. &#9632;

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Peirsons Injury Makes Him Blue—He Wants To Get Into Action

<div class="byline">By CARL GROTHMANN</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The most surprising reversal of form seen in the National Hockey League in many a season is that accomplished by the New York Rangers in the past six weeks. The Blues were picked to finish in the cellar in a pre season poll of sportswriters conducted by The Hockey News and they displayed last-place form in their first 20 games of the year. Then, without any warning, they turned the tables and started the best hockey in the league, a brand of hockey that lifted them from sixth place to second, their highest ranking since 1941-42.The main reason for this happy state of affairs, if you believe in the record books, is the big Ranger line of Edgar Laprade, Tony Leswick and Dune Fisher. Almost without exception the play of every Blue Shirt has improved noticeably over the past month and a half to contribute to the furious pace the Rangers have been setting but this line has been the trio that has made the record remarkable rather than merely good. Chuck Rayner has been doing the best netminding of his career. The defensemen are giving him better protection than he has ever before known. The other forwards are adding their fair share of goals. But it is the Laprade-Leswick-Fisher line that has been scoring the extra goals that have been winning the surplus of games.Lynn Patrick, the Blue Shirts coach whose smile grows broader with each new victory, agrees that the records are correct in pegging the Laprade line as the biggest factor in the Blues&rsquo; surge. But Lynn goes even farther and gives the major share of the credit to Edgar, the center ice man of the trio.&ldquo;Edgar has been at his very best for the last month,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Lynn recently. &ldquo;Without trying to take credit away from the other two fellows, Laprade, and Laprade alone, has been making the combine click. I think that almost any wing in the league could be scoring on those passes that Edgar has been feeding his mates.&rdquo;<h2>CAN&rsquo;T PICK ONE PLAYER</h2>It is difficult to pick one player from the pack to give the lions share of. credit for a streak. To move from last place to second in barely a month&rsquo;s time means that every one is doing his share or maybe a little more. And it is hard to overlook the brilliant record of Charlie Rayner but it takes goals to win games and Edgar has been hitting the twines more than any other player on the club and adding assists on many other tallies. Above all, he has been the spark that has lifted the spirits of the whole team.Of the 16 games since the Blues started moving upwards they have won 11. lost three and tied two. The Rangers were shut out in three of those games, one of them a scoreless tie. They won 11 of the other games and in all but two of them Laprade scored at least a goal or an assist, indicating that when Edgar scored the Rangers won.In seven of the games Edgar tallied in person. And against the Chicago Black Hawks in Madison Square Garden, December 28th, he put two goals in within 45 seconds, while the Rangers were short-handed, to establish a new NHL mark for the feat.The biggest pair of goals however, came in successive games against the Detroit Red Wings early in the month. These goals rank first in importance because they were goals that beat the Wings, started the Blues on their big surge, and most of all, gave the Rangers a confidence that had been lacking since pre-war years.The first came in Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia Stadium on December 10th and Laprade&rsquo;s third period tally gave the Blues a 1 to 0 triumph, their first of the season over the Wings. The following night in New York Laprade scored in the second period in a 2 to 1 win over the Motor City sextet. It was this achievement of knocking off the league leaders on successive nights that gave the Blues the boost they needed. Since that time they have been playing like pennant winners. A major share of the credit for the double triumph over Detroit and the Rangers success since belongs to the little center from Port Arthur who started it all.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01207/1434135-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="568" height="921"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lauds EdgarLYNN PATRICK</figcaption></div><h2>NEVER GOT CREDIT</h2>Although he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the most valuable rookie in the National Hockey League back in 1945-46, Laprade has never until now received the league-wide attention he has deserved. Ever since joining the Rangers he has ben one of their top stars, even though his scoring record never equalled that compiled by marksmen such as Maurice Richard, Doug Bentley and the like.But it Laprade has been bypassed by all-star selectors and the majority of fans in the past his value as a team player has not gone unnoticed by the Ranger brain trust. The Blue Shirt brass tabbed Laprade as a top flight playmaker long before he ever put on a major league uniform. In fact, Laprade&rsquo;s reluctance to join the Rangers during several years of pleading nearly drove them to despair.Laprade, now 30 years old, first came to their attention when he was barely in his twenties and he was promptly added to the Ranger list. For five years Edgar dutifully reported to training camp and in those lean years in particular, his elusive antics on ice made the boss Blues rave. But when it came time to sit down at the contract table Edgar would pack his bag and return to Port Arthur. It wasn&rsquo;t that he didn&rsquo;t want to play major league hockey, it was just that he liked Port Arthur too much to leave it for a whole winter.<h2>STARTED IN &lsquo;PEG</h2>He started his hockey career with a bantam team in Winnipeg and followed this with two years of midget play in the same city. Before the 1935-36 season got under way his family moved to Port Arthur and Edgar promptly joined a junior sextet that won a district championship in his second of three seasons of junior hockey. He moved up to the Port Arthur Bearcats for the 1938-39 campaign and helped them annex the Allan Cup that year.Four more season followed with the Bearcats while the Rangers were trying to lure him Into the fold and the Bearcats made the Allan Cup games one year, the Western Canada Finals two years and captured a district championship once. Through the entire period Edgar was the favorite of Port Arthur and the many friends he won were a factor that kept him in the lake region and out of New York.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03117/1434128-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="569" height="1464"><figcaption class="caption-body">At His BestCHUCK RAYNER</figcaption></div>During the 1943-44 and 1944-45 season Edgar played on army teams, first in Winnipeg and the following year with Barrie Field. And in keeping with his perfect amateur record, both teams won at least league championships. It was after his discharge from the army, where he served for two years as a corporal, that Edgar decided to take a crack at the NHL. And though he often gets a little homesick for the fishing in the lakes around Port Arthur when early spring rolls around, he considers the move to New York a happy one.<h2>HELP HIS FATHER</h2>He still spends his summers in Port Arthur where he assists his father in the management of Laprade&rsquo;s Hotel. He also tries to spend as much time as possible with his family. His wife and youngest daughter come down to New York each year for a long visit but he has two older daughters who remain in Port Arthur so their schooling will not be interrupted. Edgar says he likes to be with them as much as he can during the summer because he misses them so in winter months. As a proud father, Edgar is prouder than most.Now in his fifth season of NHL competition, the five-feet-eight, 160 pound center is heading for the best record of his career. In his first 34 games he accumulated a total of 12 goals and 15 assists, a pace that will easily surpass his best previous effort. He has already surpassed his assist total of last year and he stands just six goals short of his 18 goals of a year ago, the most he ever scored in a season. If he maintains his present pace he will hit the 20 goal mark for the first time in his big league career. And if he keeps going at the rate he has in the last month he&rsquo;ll reach 30 goals. All in all, the little center is playing terrific hockey a brand that will have to be reckoned with when it comes time to league all-star team.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02174/1434121-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1745" height="1483"><figcaption class="caption-body">Manhattan&rsquo;s Tricky TrioDUNC FISHEREDGAR LAPRADETONY LESWICK</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rangers’ Line of Laprade, Leswick, Fisher Main Reason For Blues Position

<div class="byline">by KEN McKENSE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01278/1434222-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="334" height="494"></div>CURRENT CROP OF ROOKIES performing in the United States Hockey League this season is the finest in the loop&rsquo;s history. Seven of the 23 leading scorers are first-year men in the Carl Voss circuit&hellip; Terry Sawchuk, youthful goaltender of the Indianapolis Caps who filled in for Harry Lumley when the Detroit goaler was sidelined with an injured ankle, was once offered a professional baseball contract by the St. Louis Cardinals. Terry is a hard hitting first baseman in the summer months and has been one of the top batsmen in the Manitoba Senior Baseball League the past two years&hellip; Holland is the latest country to accept an invitation to play in the World Championships at London in March. The Dutch entry brings the total participants up to 13 countries &hellip; One of the reasons for the improved play of Bep Guidolin, Chicago winger, this season may be attributed to the fact that he&rsquo;s staying on the ice more this year. In the first 38 N.H.L. games Beppo played in this season he spent a total of 21 minutes in the penalty box. Last year for the same period he racked up 53 minutes in penalties &hellip; Interesting article on Elmer Lach in the current issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Of his many injuries he says: &ldquo;No one ever deliberately injured me. I&rsquo;ve been deliberately hit, yes, but there&rsquo;s nobody in this game who wants to hurt anyone permanently. Injuries are part of hockey, and if you don&rsquo;t want to get hurt, I figure you&rsquo;d better not play,&rsquo;&rsquo; &hellip; The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association will hold their annual meeting in Banff, Alberta. It will start on June 6 and finish its working program the following Saturday night&hellip; Toronto Marlboros are favorites to win the Allan Cup this year and Montreal Nationales to capture the Memorial Cup.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02250/1434215-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="261" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03177/1434208-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="268" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ott Heller</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04131/1434201-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="280" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bep Guidolin</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05115/1434194-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="254" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Gravelie</figcaption></div>DUCK BOUCHER of the Bruins is coming in for plenty of praise for the fine way he&rsquo;s handled the younger players this season. He&rsquo;s been patient at all times and has not given up on any of the rookies. Buck is also very popular with the veteran Boston players like Milt Schmidt and Johnny Crawford&hellip; Johnny Peirson, best right-winger of the Boston Bruins who was third highest scorer at the time he was injured, will be out of the Boston lineup for another couple of weeks &hellip; What a Heller is Ott! When the Indianapolis Caps were beset with injuries recently, who appeared in the lineup at center but Coach Ott Heller. Big Ott has been playing professional hockey for 23 seasons The Danny Lewicki-George Armstrong-Jack McKenzie line of the Toronto Marlboros is regarded as the best line in junior hockey today. The trio is a pro line for sure &hellip; Ray Powell is striving hard to retain the U.S.H.L. scoring title which he won last season. The tall Kansas City center has scored 132 goals and assisted in 176 others for 308 points during the last four years &hellip; Kansas City and Chicago played two exhibition games in Denver, Colorado last week. This marked the first pro hockey ever played in Denver&hellip; Clarence Campbell, N.H.L. president, dropped in to see Carl Voss, United States Hockey League prexy, in Minneapolis one day last week. Campbell went to Minneapolis from Chicago &hellip; Wembley Lions of the English League released five players recently&hellip; When Leo Gravelie scored three goals for Canadiens against Chicago on January 10 it was his first &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; since entering the N.H.L. in 19 46. It was also the first &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; turned in by a Montreal player this season and only the fifth of the 1949-50 campaign. Other players to notch three goals in a game this season are Roy Conacher, Chicago; Harry Watson, Toronto; Sid Abel, Detroit and Tony Leswick, Rangers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0698/1434187-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="264" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">M. Podoloff</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0788/1434180-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="235" height="376"><figcaption class="caption-body">Elmer Lach</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0880/1434173-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="269" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Carl Liscombe</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0979/1434166-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="276" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Conacher</figcaption></div>CARL LISCOMBE was presented with the Jack Fox Trophy for being the outstanding player combining sportsmanship and playing ability in the American Hockey League last season, in Providence the other night. Maurice Podoloff, president of the A.H.L., made the presentation &hellip; Jimmy Girgulis writes from Saskatoon to say that the author of hockey&rsquo;s curved shot was Dr. Gordie Roberts, last reported in San Francisco. Roberts played in Eastern Canada and also on the Pacific Coast. They say he used a boomerang stick and could fire a puck half the length of the rink, arch it around a goaltender&rsquo;s ears, and coax it right back to his stick without moving a muscle. Goodness, gracious, what next? &hellip; Val DeLory of the New York Rovers is the outstanding player in the Eastern Amateur League. The Toronto product has been one of the top scorers all season &hellip; Nice to see Scoop Botkin in the Forum press box the other night. He doesn&rsquo;t get around often enough&hellip; Baz Bastien&rsquo;s unfortunate accident in losing an eye at Pittsburgh&rsquo;s training camp this fall inspired an American writer to do a fiction story for Collier&rsquo;s &hellip;Bob Goldham, Chicago defenseman, is playing his best hockey right now. Before Bob suffered a broken arm early in the &lsquo;46-47 season he was recognized as the best defenseman in the N.H.L&hellip; Marty Pavelich of Detroit is one of the most consistent forwards in the loop. He&rsquo;s got plenty of speed and hustle and there&rsquo;s more than one N.H.L. team that&rsquo;s anxious to get him &hellip; Rumors have it that Hap Day is far from pleased with the showing of Al Rollins to date. Apparently Rollins isn&rsquo;t the answer to Day&rsquo;s problem of finding a successor to Turk Broda when that worthie hangs up his pads. &#9632;

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Passing the Puck

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1072/1434274-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="267" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hap Day</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Lanky Johnny McCormack has finally signed a professional contract to play with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He signed on the dotted line in Coach Hap Day&rsquo;s office in the Gardens late Thursday, January 12, after a spectacular three game tryout with the Blue and White.Actually the Leafs and Goose, as McCormack is called, came to terms in New York after the Daymen had set back the high flying Rangers 2-1. The signing in Toronto was a mere formality.With McCormack in the lineup it gives the Leafs a much needed center man which, of late, the Toronto club has had a definite lack of. Johnny will center Harry Watson and Bill Ezinlcki.Clad In pyjamas. Day gave out the news of the signing of the former Toronto Marlboros&rsquo; star in his drawing room aboard the Toronto bound train after the game in New York. Day also revealed that Rudy Migay and Johnny Arundel had been returned to the Pittsburgh Hornets for further seasoning.<h2>New Lease</h2>With McCormack playing on their line Harry Watson and Ezinicki seem to have taken a new lease on life. Neither have been too impressive at times this season.Johnny fits in with Watson and Ezinicki perfectly and his quick passes has lumbering Harry skating faster than ever before. Likewise &ldquo;wild&rdquo; Bill looks like he is finally crawling out of his shall and shows signs of belting around the opposition like old.With McCormack signed it gives the Leafs three solid lines, something the Toronto club has lacked for some time. The injuries to Cal Gardner and Ted Kennedy left the club high and dry down the center. On top of that the &ldquo;battle of the bulge&rdquo; ended up with Bobby Dawes, another centerman being traded to the Cleveland Barons for goaler Al Rollins as netminding insurance for the injury riddled Leafs.Now Day can look down his bench and find three powerful lines that can hold the best opposition in the league. His first line has Teeder Kennedy at center with Howie Meeker and Sid Smith flanking him. The Watson, McCormack and Ezinicki line is the second trio and the &ldquo;Three Feathers&rdquo; threesome of Max Bentley, Joe Klukay and Ray Timgren have been reunited. That leaves Vic Lynn to plug any gap and do the penalty time killing.Just what Day intends to do when Cal Gardner returns in a few weeks is not known.. Whether he will bring up another man to play on a line with Lynn and Gardner is anybody&rsquo;s guess.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1149/1434267-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="270" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gus Mortson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1224/1434260-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg" title="f0004-12" width="261" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Thomson</figcaption></div><h2>A Dizzy Career</h2>While McCormack has finally opened the door to professional hockey his past hockey career has been a dizzy one to say the least.The gawky looking lad with the pointed features has once before been re-instated as an amateur and during one season he left the hockey scenes completely and became secluded in his hometown of Edmonton where he tried studying for the priesthood.McCormack was a star with the Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s powerful junior club during the 1944-45 season. Included on that team were Gus Mortson and Jimmy Thomson. The following season he was persuaded to turn pro and was sent to the Tulsa Oilers who had a working agreement with the Leafs at that time. He scored 9 goals and added 32 assists that season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1313/1434253-1-eng-US/f0004-132.jpg" title="f0004-13" width="550" height="871"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY McCORMACK</figcaption></div>The next season, after watching him play in Tulsa, the Leafs decided that he wasn&rsquo;t yet ready for the N.H.L. and wanted to send him to the Pittsburgh Hornets. But Johnny said no, it was Leafs or nothing and it turned out to be nothing.<h2>Quit Once</h2>He quit hockey and went home to Edmonton at the start of the 1946-47 season. He joined a seminary and began studying for the priesthood. But that didn&rsquo;t pan out either and the following season he was re-instated as an amateur and lined up with the Toronto Marl boros in the Ontario Hockey Association.Still educationally minded McCormack decided to try law and began studying in Toronto. During the 1947-48 season the Leafs brought him up for his first three game tryout. In the three games he had only one assist. The next season, last year, he was brought up for only one game but there was still no sign of an N.H.L. contract.Finally the Leafs&rsquo; center string ran out this season. McCormack, still waiting for his Leafs&rsquo; contract was given a chance and this time he made good. In his latest tryout he had one goal and two assists.After a bad losing streak the Leafs managed to win two and tie one while Goose was in the lineup for three games. Although he didn&rsquo;t get any points in his first game as the Leafs tied the Hawks 4-4, he was the best man on the ice for the club. The next night the Leafs trounced the Hawks in Chicago 5-2 and McCormack scored a goal and added an assist. Then in his third game the Leafs downed the Rdhgers 2-1 and he assisted on the winning goal. It was during this game that Conn Smythe, Leafs&rsquo; boss flew up from Florida to watch the team in action. He must have made a pretty good impression because the next day he was finally a Leaf, for good, Johnny hopes.<h2>Players Required For English League &ndash; Season 1950-51</h2>Any senior or junior A player desirous of playing a season in the English league please apply to Dept. S. THE HOCKEY NEWS, 603 A, Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que., stating age, position, present team, permanent address and phone number. &#9632;

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Seminary And Law Failed Johnny Pens A Contract

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01228/1434319-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="281" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Lumley</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The National Hockey League finally had a look at one of the most discussed and promising rookies in the hockey profession&mdash;Terry Sawchuk, the pride of the Detroit Red Wing farm system.Fate also took a peek at Sawchuk &mdash; and then looked the other way through the entire night of Sawchuk&rsquo;s major-league debut.Sawchuk got his chance to show the goal tending wizardry which brought him two successive &ldquo;rookie of the year&rdquo; awards while he waltzed up the minor-league chain. He moved into the Wing&rsquo;s nets after Harry Lumley was injured.The Lumley Story, by itself, is something that reads like fiction. The 23-year-old Detroit goalie, who has been in the big time for seven seasons, was the victim of one of the screwiest accidents of any hockey season.Lumley was sidelined during an exhibition game when he was clowning around as&mdash;of all things&mdash;a forward. The exhibition contest between Detroit and the local International League All Stars pitched as a benefit for the IHL medical fund. But it definitely was of no benefit to the Wings or Lumley.<h2>LIKE COMIC-OPERA</h2>Big Harry, a 245-pounder bulldozer in his heavy pads and equipment, was following the script in this comic-opera game in which everything went wide-open, it was nothing, as the 17-10 score indicates. But as farcial entertainment, the entire performance was a wow.All, that is, except one little incident in the second period. That&rsquo;s when Lumley was hurt. Few in the crowds knew it. They thought it was all part of the act like when Lumley skated over to throw snow on rival manager Jim Skinner on the IHL bench.This time Lumley was up playing forward, waiting for a breakaway well inside the far blue line. Connie Hill, an ex-collegian toiling for the All-Stars, skated behind the Detroit goalie and playfully tripped him.The crowd roared with laughter as Lumley fell awkwardly to the ice. It looked like a rehearsed gag. Only Manager Jack Adams wasn&rsquo;t laughing when Lumley limped a bit when he rushed the net for a shot a few seconds later.Lumley made an unnoticed exit from the game&mdash;goalies were unimportant and never missed in that affair&mdash;Adams following him off. The serious side of the event was quickly apparent. Lumley had a badly sprained ankle, and wouldn&rsquo;t be able to play for at least a week and maybe longer.That brought Sawchuk onto the scene. An emergency SOS called the 2 O-year-old Westerner from Winnipeg in from the Indianapolis farm club. Sawchuk rushed into the nets to meet Boston in the fateful game of Jan. 8. That&rsquo;s a date he, Defenseman Clare Martin and a raft of Detroit fans never will forget.Sawchuk&rsquo;s appearance in the NHL seemed fore-destined some time ago. In his first pro season, at the age of 18, he was the &ldquo;top rookie&rdquo; of the United States League with Omaha. The next year, 1948-49, he added the rookie award of the American League at Indianapolis. Many call him a sure-fire star of NHL brilliance.With the stage set for a heroic debut in this emergency, the entire deal panned out in a way you don&rsquo;t find in fiction. The breaks, the bobbles and the Bruins were all against him.<h2>TRIED DEFENSIVE GAME</h2>The Wings tried to give him an air-tight defense, but instead sent two, and possibly three goals past him into their own nets in one of the weirdest games the Detroit Olympia has seen in many seasons.Martin was the innocent victim of two miscues. Trying to intercept hard passes, he deflected two shots in for Boston goals. Another tally trickled off a Detroit player&rsquo;s skate into the net.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02204/1434312-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="282" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Adams</figcaption></div>That 4-3 loss to Boston probably will become one of the best remembered games here this season, and one the fans will hash over for years to come.Sawchuk obviously was nervous but still looked like a boy the customers in other NHL cities will have a chance to watch in action.Those &ldquo;first-night jitters&rdquo;, however, didn&rsquo;t compare with the tenseness Sawchuck had in his pro bid at Omaha.&ldquo;I was scared out there the other night,&rdquo; he related, &ldquo;but it wasn&rsquo;t like my opening pro game in Dallas. I was so tense then that I let the first shot on goal go in without making a single moveright in the first 40 seconds.&rdquo;Sawchuk won that one, 5 to 1, however. And, there are indications that he&rsquo;ll be around to write a happy ending to his NHL career as well.In appearance, Sawchuck isn&rsquo;t much different from Lumley. He weighs the same, 205 pounds, but is an inch shorter at 5-foot-10&frac12;. He wore Lumley&rsquo;s uniform, but it was a tight squeeze at the waist line.Lumley&rsquo;s absence, incidentally, marked the first time in 157 games that anyone else has appeared in the Detroit goal. He had the longest consecutive game streak in the NHL among the goalies.Going into this season Toronto&rsquo;s Turk Broda was tops in longevity, and Broda ran his string to 244 games before Manager Conn Smythe benched him on an overweight charge Dec. 1.Now the goalie who has played the most games in a row (counting playoffs) is Bill Durnan, of Montreal. Durnan had worked 139 straight the night Lumley was forced to the bench.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03161/1434305-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1720" height="2172"><figcaption class="caption-body">Caps Cager CuppedTERRY SAWCHUK, husky goalkeeper of the Indianapolis Caps, is pictured receiving the Dudley &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Garrett Mmorial Award from President Maurice Podoloff of the American Hockey League. Sawchuk was presented with this award for being selected the outstanding rookie in the A.H.L. in 1948-49.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Wings Fail To Give Terry Debut Victory

<h2>TEAM OR INDIVIDUAL?</h2>When Detroit goalie Harry Lumley was knocked out of action for a few games recently, and replaced by Terry Sawchuk from Indianapolis, it stirred up anew the controversial discussion about the method of awarding the Vezina Trophy.Around Detroit they point out that a substitute goalie for an injured regular might let in enough goals to ruin the full-time netminder&rsquo;s chances of collecting the prize trophy and the $1,000 cheque that goes with it.Under the present system, the Vezina Trophy for goaltending excellence is awarded to the goalie who has played the most games for the team having the fewest goals scored against it during the complete season.If a cage custodian is out of action for two or three games, his substitute might let in six or seven goals every night&mdash;enough to wreck his chances in an exceedingly close race.It hasn&rsquo;t happened yet, and actually Detroit hasn&rsquo;t suffered so much in the present case. Sawchuk let in four goals his first time out, and two the next time. An average of three a game is pretty close to the mark with which goalies usually garner the prize.It&rsquo;s not so much the present circumstance which has caused discontent in Detroit, but rather the incongruity of the system. Also, in determining the award winner, any goals scored while the backstop is out of his net (for a six-man drive in the last minute of play, for instance) are still counted against him.The opinion has been expressed that only the actual goals scored against any particular netminder should be counted, and that the award be based on his goals-against average. That might prevent a controversial situation arising some time in the future.For instance, it&rsquo;s possible that the trophy might go to a goalie whose team had 198 goals against in 70 games, while his closest rivals had let in 185 in 67 games, but lost out when his substitute let 14 markers slip by in the other three. In such a hypothetical case, the second netminder would actually have the best average&mdash;but the 70-game man would be rated the league&rsquo;s best and his name would be inscribed in the record books.Of course, it could be argued that goalie No. 2 might have let 14 or 15 goals in himself, if he had been playing, but that&rsquo;s something that can never be determined definitely. On the surface, if such a case occurred, the losing goalie would be justified in feeling he &ldquo;wuz robbed!&rdquo;With the N.H.L. schedule getting longer all the time, cases of goalies missing action are bound to occur more frequently since that worthy alone among the players is required to play the full 60 minutes of every contest.It should be possible to inaugurate some system where a goalie would have to play a minimum number of games in order to qualify. This could be three-quarters, or some similar proportion of his team&rsquo;s games. This would be flexible enough to allow for any changes in the number of games scheduled.It&rsquo;s a matter that should be given some thought, in any case. As it stands at present there&rsquo;s always the possibility that the highest individual award for goaltending can actually be decided by the performance of the team as a whole and its substitutes, which certainly wasn&rsquo;t the intention when the Vezina Trophy was originally put up for competition.<h2>HIGH PRICE OF AMATEURISM</h2>It&rsquo;s never been any secret in recent years that amateur hockey players are rewarded generously for their services, but the recent tiff between Conn Smythe and the Ontario Hockey Association struck a jarring note nevertheless.Smythe, boss man of the N.H.L. Leafs, also owns the Marlboro senior and junior &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; squads whose primary duty is to groom players for the parent organization. So Smythe was a bit irked the other day because the O.H.A. as yet hasn&rsquo;t decided the league playoff dates.Smythe would brook no delay, he warned the O.H.A. officials, because it cost &ldquo;$2,000 a week&rdquo; to operate the Marlies! We have to recognize the fact that amateur hockey today is operated solely as a big business&mdash;it has to be&mdash;but it still strikes a nostalgic chord to think of the late lamented day when teams went into battle for the love of the sport, and to bring honor to their home towns by winning the Cup.That&rsquo;s impossible today, in hockey&rsquo;s production line technique so necessary to keep a steady flow of players on the way up. Amateur sport today is a deadly serious business! &#9632;

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01300/1434381-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>WHO OWN WHO</h2>Dear Sir,Could you please tell me what National Hockey League club owns Colin Kilburn and Marcel Pronovost?Gerald Comeau.Fredericton, N.B.(Canadiens own Kilburn and Detroit have the right to Pronovost.)<h2>DON&rsquo;T CRY LEO</h2>Dear Sir,In the December 24th edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS, you said you published stupid letters, well I agree with you.The letter from Mr. Leo Mercado of Boston sounds as if he has a grudge against Toronto. He almost accused Bill Barilko of deliberately injuring Eddie Sandford. This may be true, but 1 doubt if any player would deliberately injure another player. Don&rsquo;t you think it&rsquo;s up to Sandford to do the beefing.As far as the incident with Elmer Lach goes, it probably could have happened to anyone. I don&rsquo;t think Mercado should pass judgment on anyone, (Bill Barilko or Gus Mortson) on what rumors he has heard or what columns in the paper he has read.Just remember Mr. Mercado, there are always two sides to every story.Margaret FraserSt. Catharines, Ont.<h2>TORONTO, VICTORY&rsquo; MINDED</h2>Dear Sir,I am a Toronto fan and think that a statement made about the Maple Leafs in the Fan Forum some time ago was very silly.A New York Ranger fan said that the Leafs were brutal, mean and won mostly by luck.This is definitely not true. They are an aggressive, victory minded team. They play hockey hard and clean as it should be played and if any opposing players get hurt that is their hard luck. I think most of the players in the N.H.L. are big enough to take care of themselves. So whatever and when ever the Leafs have won anything they earned it.Another Bruin fan blamed Bill Barilko for the injuries to Sandford and Lach. I am sure that if Barilko hit either of these players with his skate it was purely accidental. Barilko, a brilliant young defenseman, is not that kind of a player. He also criticized Gus Mortson. Why can&rsquo;t people leave those great players alone?Michael GormleyMontreal Que.<h2>SINGLETON &ldquo;GUTS&rdquo;</h2>Dear Sir,Your &ldquo;Fan Forum&rdquo; in the January 7th issue contained a query as to the whereabouts of one Alan &ldquo;Ding&rdquo; Singleton, late of the Boston Olympics. I&rsquo;d like to send a little information about this chap your way.Singleton, a native of Brockville, Ontario, where he learned his hockey, playing with his town&rsquo;s junior O.D.H.A. entry for three years and then playing his last junior year with the Galt Rockets of the O.H.A. Junior. A circuit in the 1947-48 season. The next season he started out with the ill fated Boston Olympics of&rsquo; the Q.S.H.L. and went to the Stratford Indians to finish out the season.Shortly before reporting to training camp last September, Singleton was stricken with a serious case of Polio and rushed to hospital in Toronto. He has been there ever since and although in serious condition, the doctors have high hopes for his chances of walking again, and we are quite sure that if given a little time Al, with the same fight he has shown wherever he played hockey, will pull himself through.Al would certainly be pleased to know that his fans are with him in his &ldquo;fight&rdquo; and would be pleased to hear from them His address is simply c/o Riverdale Hospital, Toronto, Ontario.Craig SwayzeBrookville, Ont.<h2>GOALER AVERAGES</h2>Dear Sir,During Detroit&rsquo;s past few games Harry Lumley has seen his chances for winning his first Vezina Trophy hampered even though he wasn&rsquo;t in his club&rsquo;s goal.I am the last one in the world who would ride Terry Sawchuck for his performances in the Wings&rsquo; goal, he did a creditable job, but why should Lumley suffer the penalty.The only solution is to change the rule for goalers. Instead of judging the winner by the amount of goals scored against him why not use an average system as is done in baseball. It would surely patch tip a lot of beefs.James J. SheneyDetroit, Mich.<h2>A KID NAMED HOSKING</h2>Dear Sir,As I am a regular fan and reader of your interesting paper, I have read from time articles on different players in various leagues. I am a frequent visitor to the Buffalo Arena on week-ends and so far I have not read any mention of a player on defense for the Springfield Indians that I have noticed.I think this player is outstanding and deserved mention in regards to his ability. He is a Toronto boy, Ralph Hosking, by name.On December 11 Ralph Hosking played on outstanding game, both offensively and defensively, his ability and quick thinking has made him an invaluable addition to the team.A. McDermottToronto, Ont.<h2>LINDSAY FAN</h2>Dear Sir,Just couldn&rsquo;t let a wonderful article like that of Ted Lindsay pass without a word of praise for the author, Len Bramson. It was as terrific as Ted is.I have long been a Lindsay fan and truly appreciated it.However I have a correction. It was stated Teddy was charged $75 for rushing Referee George Gravel in Chicago. I think Len meant New York. I remember the game distinctly for Rayner shutout the Wings 1-0.Nevertheless thanks to THE HOCKEY NEWS for keeping the fans so well posted. Looking forward to every issue.Lee MillsDetroit, Mich.(Bramson says you&rsquo;re right about the New York game).<h2>HE AGREES</h2>Dear Sir,I would just like to say that I agree with Leo Mercado. The Leafs, and that half wit, Barilko in particular, are lucky. Anybody who would try to kick another player when he is down is pretty low. Quite a coincidence that both Sandford and Lach should be cut in the same place by the same player.John LabrosseChicago, Ill.<h2>FLAGRANT EXAMPLES</h2>Dear Sir,Regarding the editorial in THE HOCKEY NEWS January 7. We wonder whether the editorial is an apoiogy for the standing of the Royals in the Quebec Senior League or an honest attempt to solve problems confronting every team in amateur hockey today.To quote Mr. Seike&rsquo;s editorial, &lsquo;give clubs protection against raiding by fly-by-night operators.&rdquo; Does this apply to raiding tactics indulged in by the Canadiens&rsquo; organization, or was Ivan irwin forced to sign a professional contract under threat of suspension from organized hockey?The C.A.H.A. should protect such players of independent clubs, not pamper the hockey moguls.As for the statement that the Q.S.H.L. is rapidly becoming the burial ground of pro hockey&rsquo;s cast offs. Mr. Seike and his Senior Royals are flagrant examples of such conditions keeping such players as Laforce, Morin, Pepin and Malone, while abandoning to other clubs as &ldquo;useless&rdquo; such players as Smrke, Robert and Jacques Richard. Royals did not let such players go merely to aid Chicoutimi.Finally, if &ldquo;frustration&rdquo; as Mr. Seike sees it, can win hockey games it is time both the Canadiens and their offspring. Senior Royals, acquire such &ldquo;frustration&rdquo; and not depend on brilliant inexperience.Robert DaviesPaul GagnonMel DorterBud JacksodSherbrooke, Que.<h2>DOWDY CINCINNATI</h2>Dear Sir,Some time ago a national magazine ran an article about &ldquo;Dowdy Cincinnati!&rdquo; At that time most Cincinnatians took offense and shouted to the housetops that we are not dowdy &mdash; that we&rsquo;re interested as most other major communities are, in advancing in all fields of endeavor, to make ours a better city. I was one of those who objected to the &ldquo;Queen City&rdquo; being singled out as dowdy.But these days I change my mind. I am most ready to agree with anyone who says we are standing still; making too much effort to forge ahead.Back to Cincinnati&rsquo;s dowdiness &hellip; we who are Interested in hockey in this city are denied by our papers the information and boost the press can give a sport such as hockey. True &mdash; we don&rsquo;t find too much in the Star about our Mohawks, but we do at least read about hockey in your paper. Our thanks to you.We feel that it is a newspaper&rsquo;s responsibility to the public to print stories of interest to the public. Those interested in hockey in this area are being sadly neglected. Because our Mohawks are in last place, the only publicity the team gets Is either detrimental or negative.You have the right idea. Support what you have in your own city &mdash; boost it to its greatest heights. Congratulations on serving your readers well. You set an example that the Cincinnati papers are not following.Orville L. BrownCincinnati, O.<h2>FAN CLUB</h2>I have been reading your paper ever since it was first printed and I believe it is the finest thing that ever happened to hockey.I would be very pleased if you would print my letter in your Fan Forum as I am sending out an appeal to Frankie Brimsek fans. I am starting a Frankie Brimsek fan club and I would be pleased to hear from anyone wishing to join it.Ron Cullen22 Natal Ave.,Toronto, Ont<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02190/1434374-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="581" height="287"></div><h2>JANUARY&rsquo; 22 TO JANUARY&rsquo; 28</h2>22&mdash;Elmer Lach, Montreal, forward, 1918; Bill Durnan, Montreal, goaler, 1915.24&mdash;Gus Mortson, Toronto, defenseman, 1926; Blinky Boyce, San Francisco, forward, 1924; Larry Frechette, San Diego, goaler, 1925.25&mdash;Fernie Flamon, Boston, defenseman, 1925; Pinky Melnyk, Tulsa, forward, 1921.26&mdash;Vic Lynn, Toronto, forward, 1925; Bud Lamarche, Fresno, goaler, 1921.27&mdash;Tom Rockey, Victoria, defenseman, 192 6.28&mdash;Frank Eisenzoph, Vancouver, forward, 1927. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03167/1434412-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bibeault Played For HimWilliam Ronald Bill Durnan, one of the most spectacular Sealers that has ever shown on the professional hockey horizon, is now in the lead in the close Vezina Cup race. He&rsquo;s already won the coveted trophy no less than five times, and if he picks it up again then they may give it to him for keeps. Irvin used him as an example in the current beef to change the Vezina trophy ruling on how to pick the top goaler for the season.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01251/1434426-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="237" height="373"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Irvin</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02220/1434419-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="238" height="361"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Bibeault</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&#8213;Dick Irvin looked up from the pages of a local newspaper and casually remarked:&ldquo;I see there&rsquo;s talk in Detroit about trying to get the Vezina Trophy rule changed, isn&rsquo;t that just too bad.&rdquo;&ldquo;Well the Wings lost two games with Sawchuk in the nets and they&rsquo;re being counted against Lumley, that&rsquo;s not to good for poor Harry,&rdquo; someone remarked.&ldquo;So what,&rdquo; came back Irvin, &ldquo;Lumley&rsquo;s let in more than Sawchuk did in those two games. With him in the goal the score might have been 6-1. They &mdash; only scored four on that kid in the first game and two in the second, that&rsquo;s pretty good going.&ldquo;Darn it, look here,&rsquo;&rsquo; and the Grey Haired Pigeon Fancier lifted a copy of Bill Cote&rsquo;s Official N.H.L. Record Book out of his desk drawer. &ldquo;In 1945-46 Paul Bibeault played 10 games for Durnan and Bill won the Vezina Trophy. They scored 30 goals against Bibeault in that ten games and 104 against Durnan.&rdquo;<h2>Better Then Than Now</h2>&ldquo;But that was wartime hockey,&rsquo;&rsquo; someone commented.&ldquo;Wartime hockey my eye,&rsquo;&rsquo; spouted Irvin. &ldquo;Take a look down this list of players who played that season. Max Bentley, Toe Blake, Clint Smith, Richard, Mosienko, Lach, Kaleta, Taylor and plenty more. Would you call Bill Cowley a wartime hockey player or Terry Reardon a wartime hockey player, you guys are nuts, I&rsquo;d say that hockey in 1945-46 was better than it is today.<h2>Sick Feeling</h2>&ldquo;Just imagine what would happen if we changed the system of finding a Vezina Trophy winner,&rdquo; said Dick, &ldquo;A goaler would be able to sit out a game every time he felt sick. He could play 15 games less than another gaoler and still be the best in the league.&rdquo;Irvin was commenting on a piece written by Elmer Ferguson, sports editor of the Montreal Herald, in his column The Gist And Jest Of It.Said Ferguson and we quote:What has happened to the gaoling average of belligerent Harry Lumley, of Red Wings, since Sawchuk took over for him might result in a change in the Vezina trophy rules, which would not be a bad move, if it is intended that this trophy, given in the first place for individual goaling excellence, is to remain as such.Right now, the Vezina is, in reality a team trophy, but goes to an individual, and that is very confusing, and also annoying to all sports editors, because we&rsquo;re continually obligated to write to bewildered customers and explain why goals are counted against Broda, or Lumley, for instance, when neither of these players are in their respective nets.Naturally, observant hockey fans (and the powers of observation possessed by the average keen hockey fan is surprising) seem to wonder if there is any logic in a rule that makes Saw-Chutis work, for instance, count against Lumley&rsquo;s record in the chase for the Vezina trophy.National League rules are clear on the subject: &ldquo;The Vezina Trophy Is won annually by the goalkeeper who has played the most games for the team with the fewest goals scored against it.&rdquo;This makes the Vezina in reality a team trophy, which it was not intended to be in the first place, not an individual one. And the paradox (that word again) is that the $1,000 bonus goes to the individual goalie, free and clear, which destroys the &ldquo;team&rdquo; theory, for all practical purposes.So a nervous or shaky minor league replacement working a half dozen games, or perhaps less, could ruin whatever chalice the regular player might have to win the bonus and trophy.This complex rule could easily be simplified by changing it to read that the goaler with the best average, who had played the most games for his team, should get the award. And while they&rsquo;re at it, there should be included a stipulation that goals scored against a team when the gaoler has been temporarily removed so the club can put on a six-man power play, shouldn&rsquo;t count against the netminder. He should not be penalized because team strategy back-fired.In baseball, a player who lays down a sacrifice bunt to deliberately advance a mate on base, isn&rsquo;t charged with a time at bat. Neither should a goaler be charged with a goal scored when he has been pulled to the sidelines.It would be that simple to change the rules, and make the Vezina the individual trophy that its donors, the Canadian Hockey Club when owned by the late Joe Cattarinich, Leo Dandurand and Louis Letourneau, intended it to be when they awarded it in memory of a great net-minder, not of a team. &#9632;

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Irvin Spanks Talk Of Fixing Vezina Rule

ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;One of the brightest young prospects in the United States Hockey league this season is Tulsa&rsquo;s Lome Ferguson &hellip;The 6-1 19-year-old came into the league unheralded, but he has been creating quite a stir ever since.Born in Kingston, Ontario, Larne with the Kingston Saints in the O.H.A. midgets in 1941-&rsquo;42 &hellip; From there it was just a step to the Guelph Biltmore Juniors &hellip; Lorne played for Guelph two campaigns &hellip; He was voted the most valuable player on the club his last year when he made 38 goals in 42 games&hellip; &hellip;Boston Bruins signed him after he made 12 goals in 15 games with the New York Rovers in the Quebec Senior league last season. 6Lorne doesn&rsquo;t confine himself to starring in hockey &hellip; He is a baseball player of some repute, too &hellip; Fact is he has turned down many pro pro baseball offers to stick with hockey &hellip; His ambition &mdash; to play with the parent Boston Bruins. &#9632;

Tulsa’s Ferguson Rated Sure Comer

First-class senior gaoler Bill &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Jones, former goalkeeper for the Cleveland Knights of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League and spare goaler for the Providence Reds of the A.H.L. is open for a position with a senior club. Jones is 21 years old, 5&rsquo;10&rdquo; and weights 165 pounds.He was one of the best gaolers in the Eastern Amateur League until his team folded.Red is at home in Three Rivers, Quebec, and can be reached by phoning Three Rivers 3394.Any recommandations needed can be had from Jim Hendy, general manager of the Cleveland Barons. &#9632;

1st Class Senior Goaler Available for Position

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div>TORONTO, Ont.&#8213;Johnny McCormack, Marlies top scorer and league leader with 50 points, has been signed up for duty at center ice by the Toronto Maple Leafs, taking over for the injured Ray Timgren. McCormack has made a great comeback in senior hockey, after retiring from the game for a year when on the threshold of a professional bid with the Leafs.He starred as a junior in Edmonton and with Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s and played one season with Tulsa in the U.S.H.A. before quitting the game. John returned last season and, after a slow start, began to display his stick-handling tricks for the Dukes. This season McCormack has been a standout in all of Marlboros&rsquo; games. He is &ldquo;dead-eye&rdquo; around the opposition&rsquo;s net and has uncovered a flare for crafty poke-checking.<h2>At Greater Length</h2>Overtimeitis has once again made its presence felt in the Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series &hellip;It always happens during the excitement of the stretch drive to the play-offs &hellip;The competing players hardly had time to recover from the effects of the Christmas holiday season when it came&hellip;Three overtime games were played during the first week of the new year, two of them ending in tie scores&hellip;St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors under the direction of Joe Primeau started the trend when they defeated Oshawa Generals after the extra 10 minutes of play, by an 8-6 margin. They had to go back to Osshawa the next night and engage in another overtime affair but this time both clubs were willing to call it quits and share the points after a final 5-all reading.St. Catharines Tee-Pees were also pushed into the extra play business when Stratford Kroehlers, playing a much improved game before the home fans, rallied in the late period and came back during the closing sessions of the overtime to wind up with a 6-all count.<h2>Spitfires Climbing Back</h2>Marlboros are still leading the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; picture with a comfortable margin over the second place Guelph Biltmores. However, Windsor Spitfires, shoved from second to sixth position because of being ordered to replay ten games, are climbing back thanks to the aid of a couple of fourpoint wins registered over the Marlboros and St. Catharines.Although Guelph Bilts were given a &ldquo;hoist&rdquo; into second place because of the O.H.A. Executive ruling concerning Windsor, they are playing sound hockey in their own right and have strung up a streak of six straight victories&hellip;Their most recent achievement was a 6-5 win over Barrie Flyers, last year&rsquo;s champions and what made it more impressive was the fact they won the game right in Barrie&mdash;an achievement in itself&mdash;but more so this time considering the Flyers just returned from a successful tour of the Thunder Bay Association.<h2>Generals Still Lag</h2>St. Catharines Tee-Pees are riding along in third place while Windsor is fourth, a point ahead of Barrie and St. Michael&rsquo;s at present fooling around in a fifth place tie &hellip; Oshawa Generals, after several player changes, are still in the sixth and final play-off spot &hellip; They&rsquo;ll have quite a battle on their hands keeping ahead of Galt and Stratford. Both tailend clubs have made known their intentions of moving out of the cellar and getting their feet wet in the playoff gravy.There is still no official word from the O.H.A. headquarters, as to the final play-off arrangements in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series &hellip; Regardless of what arrangement is finally cooked up, Marlboros and Kitcheners, who have led the field all season and are bound to wind up in the final round for the championship slug-fest. &#9632;

Johnny Mac Called Up; Extra Time Junior Bane

NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The New York Rovers established a new Eastern Amateur Hockey League scoring record and tied two others by scoring nine goals in the third period of their game with the Atlantic City Sea Gulls in Madison Square Garden on New Year&rsquo;s Day.The new league mark is for most goals and assists in one period. Rovers added 15 assists to their nine goals to push the point total to 24. The old mark was seven goals and 11 assists, set by the Baltimore Clippers two seasons ago. Rovers also tied their own record of nine goals in one period, originally established In 1942. Bob Manson and Vai DeLory each scored the hatrick In the scoring melee to tie Roland LeMire&rsquo;s record of three goals in one period, set by LeMire when he Was playing for the Rovers in 1943-44 campaign. &#9632;

Set Two. Marks

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02225/1434581-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="302" height="282"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01284/1434588-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="222" height="278"></div>TED REEVE well-known sports writerLOUIS BOURDON prominent radio singer and master of ceremonies<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03169/1434574-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="218" height="279"></div>RICHARD PENNINGTON University Librarian, McGill University<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04127/1434567-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="253" height="272"></div>GREGORY CLARK distinguished columnistEvery year, at certain times, millions of birds in every part of the world suddenly take wing and fly varying distances to foreign climes. No one yet has been able to satisfactorily determine the prime impulse of these migrations and to fathom the great mystery of its accomplishment.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0590/1434560-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="406" height="291"></div>Do You Know&hellip; that the Arctic Tern nests within the Arctic Circle and then flies over more than 10,000 miles of ocean to winter on the islands of the Antarctic!&hellip; that the Grey Plover breeds in the Arctic Circle and winters in equatorial countries! &hellip; that swallows ringed in Great Britain have been traced to South Africa, more than 6,000 miles away!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0667/1434553-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="429" height="285"></div>Do You Know&hellip; that migrants usually fly at under 3,000 feet?&hellip; that the average distance flown in a day is 200 miles, even though the full flight may be thousands of miles? &hellip; that many species manage to cross these enormous distances without a break! &hellip; that even young birds, making the trip for the first time, make the flight unerringly, without guidance from the older birds!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 Block Horse Brewery, Station L, Montreal, P.Q.DAWES BLACK MORSE BREWERY &#9632;

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Do You Know… how far birds fly to migrate?

<h2>Plenty Goals</h2>Ken Mosdell, one of the finest poke-checkers in the game, scored the goal against Chicago that was goal No. 4.000 for the Montreal Canadiens Hockey Club in Its 40 years of campaigning as a professional club. Frank Brimsek was the goalie who flubbed the history-making shot.<h2>The Needle</h2>Metro Prystai of Chicago, rated by his own club as a $100,000 hockey player, had to face off recently with Elmer Lach who needled the Windy City worker incessantly. Stole he puck from the Hawks on two occasions, not forgetting to mention each time about the money story.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01269/1434633-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="596" height="228"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 10 &mdash; Canadiens 7, Chicago 8.Jan. 11 &mdash; Toronto 2, Rangers 1.Jan. 11 &mdash; Detroit 1, Boston 2.Jan. 14 &mdash; Canadiens 3, Chicago 0.Jan. 14 &mdash; Toronto 4, Boston 3.Jan. 14 &mdash; Detroit 4, New York 2.<h3>NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMES</h3>Jan. 18 &mdash; Canadiens at Toronto.Jan. 18 &mdash; Boston at Rangers.Jan. 18 &mdash; Detroit at Chicago.Jan. 19 &mdash; Toronto at Canadiens.Jan. 21 &mdash; Boston at Canadiens.Jan. 21 &mdash; Rangers at Toronto.Jan. 21 &mdash; Chicago at Detroit.Jan. 22 &mdash; Canadiens at Boston.Jan. 22 &mdash; Toronto at Detroit.Jan. 22 &mdash; Rangers at Chicago.Detroit Red Wings sprung back again over the weekend to win a pair of games. The loop-leaders had previously lost three in a row. The Wings are firmly entrenched in first place in the N.H.L. standing with 52 points, a comfortable 12 points edge over the second-place Montreal Canadiens. New York Rangers are in third place with 40 points, followed in turn by Toronto, 37 points; Boston, 3 6 points and Chicago, 32.Detroit&rsquo;s Ted Lindsay added four more points to his scoring total during the past week to retain his lead over linemate Sid Abel in the individual scoring race. Lindsay has 17 goals and 29 assists for 46 points, while Abel has 21 goals and 22 assists. Maurice Richard of Canadiens and Paul Ronty of Boston share third place with 3 7 points apiece. Richard has 25 goals and 12 assists, while Ronty has 16 goals and 21 assists.Roy Conacher of Chicago, last year&rsquo;s scoring champion, is in fourth spot with 3 6 points. Roy has 15 goals and 21 assists. Gordie Howe, who plays right wing with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay on Detroit&rsquo;s potent threesome is next with 15 goals and 20 assists for 35 points.Richard is the leading goal-getter with 21 counters. Lindsay passed the inactive Doug Bentley in setting up plays. The Detroit ace has 29 assists to head the League in that department, too.<h2>TUESDAY. JANUARY 10</h2>CHICAGO. &mdash; The Montreal Canadiens moved to within a point of the second place New York Rangers as they routed the cellar dwelling Chicago Black Hawks 7-3. before a crowd of 12,151.Canadiens: Goal, Durnan; defence, Leger, Harmon; centre, Lach; wings, Richard, Riopelle; subs.: Harvey, Bouchard, Curry. Fillion, MacKay, Reay, Gravel le. Reardon, Mosdell, Dussault, Plamondon.Chicago: Goal, Brimsek; defence, Nattrass, Gadsby; centre, Prystai; wings, Guidolin, Olmstead; subs.: Goldham, Dickens, McCaig, Mosienko, R. Conacher, Stewart, J. Conacher, Bodnar, Hamill.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Canadiens: Gravelie (Dussault) &hellip; 2:302&mdash;Canadiens: Gravelie (Reay, Bouchard) &hellip; 3:313&mdash;Chicago: Hamill (Dickens) &hellip; 16:454&mdash;Chicago: Bodnar (J. Conacher) &hellip; 17:39Penalties; Prystai. MacKay, Bouchard, Nattrass&hellip;<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;Canadiens: Curry (Moadell) &hellip; 12:19Penalties: Richard, Mosdell (major), Gadsby.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Canadiens: Richard (Bach) &hellip; 1:047&mdash;Canadiens: MacKay (Curry) &hellip; 1:568&mdash;Canadiens: Gravelle (Fillion) &hellip; 4:449&mdash;Canadiens: Riopelle (Richard, Laoh) &hellip; 6:3010&mdash;Chicago: Mosienko (Hamill, R. Conaoher) &hellip; 16:53Penalties: Richard, Nattrass.<h2>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11</h2>BOSTON. Bill Quackenbush scored the winner against his old Detroit mates here as the Bruins won 2-1.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, Henderson, Schmidt; centre, Ronty; wings, Smith. Bettio; subs.: Flaman, Quackenbush. Dumart, Harrison, Maloney, Creighton, Kryzanowski, Kullman, Poile.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise. Kelly; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Stewart, Martin, Gee, Peters, McNab, Babando, Pavelich, McFadden, Carveth, Couture, Black.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalty: Schmidt.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Boston: Smith (Ronty) &hellip; 13:26Penalty; Kelly.<h3>Third Period</h3>2&mdash;Boston: Quackenbush &hellip; 14:373&mdash;Detroit: Abel (Lindsay, Kelly) &hellip; 17:08Penalty: None.NEW YORK. &mdash; Harry Watson&rsquo;s goal in the 11th minute of the third period gave the Toronto Maple Leafs a hard-earned 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers.Rangers: Goal, Rayner; defence, Stanowski, Kyle; centre, Raleigh; wings, Slowinski, Lund; subs.: Shero, O&rsquo;Connor, Egan, Stanley, Laprade Fisher, Lancien. Kaleta, Leswick. McIeod, Webster.Toronto: Go Broda; defence, Boesch, Barilko; centre, M. Bentley; wings, Klukay, Lynn; subs.: Thomson. Mortson, Juzda, McCormack, Ezinicki, Watson&rsquo; Kennedy, Meeker, Smith, Migny, Timgren Arundel.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Toronto: Meeker (Kennedy, Smith) &hellip; 5:17Penalties: Meeker, Kyle, Mortson, Ezinicki, Stanowski.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Rangers: Laprade (Leswick) &hellip; 2:28Penalties: Kyle. Watson.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Toronto: Watson (McCormack, Ezinicki) &hellip; 11:01Penalty: Kyle.<h2>SATURDAY, JANUARY 14</h2>TORONTO. &mdash; Littie Max Bentley led the way with a pair of dipsy-doodle goals and an assist as Toronto Maple Leafs came from behind and beat Boston Bruins 4-3 in a game before 13,636 fans.Toronto: Goal, Broda; defence, Thomson, Mortson; centre, Kennedy; wings. Meeker, Smith; subs.: Boesch, Barilko, Juzda, Bentley, Klukay, Timgren, McCormack, Ezinicki, Lynn.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, Flaman. Henderson; cetnre, Ronty; wings, Bettio, Smith; subs.: Schmidt, Creighton&rsquo; Harrison, Crawford, Quackenbush Kryzanowski. Dumart, Poile.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Toronto: Bentley (Mortson) &hellip; 7:362&mdash;Boston: Creighton (Horeck, M. Schmidt) &hellip; 12:23Penalties: Lynn, Ezinicki, Poile, Meeker. Bettio.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Boston: Bettio (Flaman) &hellip; 2:544&mdash;Boston: Ronty (Henderson) &hellip; 3:245&mdash;Toronto: Meeker (Kennedy, S. Smith) &hellip; 7:006&mdash;Toronto: Timgren (Bentley, Klukay) &hellip; 19:53Penalties: Flaman, Barilko.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Toronto: Bentley &hellip; 11:49Penalty: Mortson.DETROIT. &mdash; The Detroit Red Wings, front runners in the N.H.L., spotted the New York Rangers two goals and then rallied to beat them 4-2 before 14,340 people. The win snapped a three game losing streak for the high flying Wings.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Eddolls. Kyle; centre, Laprade; wings, Fisher, Leswick; subs.: Shero. Egan, O&rsquo;Connor, Raleigh, Lund, McLeod, Landen, Slowinski, Webster.Detroit: Goal. Sawchuk; defence, Kelly, Reise; centre, McFadden; wings, Peters, Pavelich; subs.: Stewart, Martin, Lindsay, Gee, Howe, McNab, Abel, Babando, Carveth, Couture, Black Fogolin.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Landen McNab.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;New York: Leswick (Laprade) &hellip; 2:322&mdash;New York: Laprade (Leswick) &hellip; 4:133&mdash;Detioit: McNab (Black, Kelly) &hellip; 7:214&mdash;Detroit: Abel (McFadden) &hellip;. 15:04Penalties: Kyle, Fogolin, Howe, Slowinski.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Detroit: Martin (Lindsay, Howe) &hellip; 2:476&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Lindsay. Stewart) &hellip; 4:34Penalties: Abel, Kyle, Eddolls.MONTREAL. &mdash; Goaler Bill Durnan racked up his sixth shutout of the season as the Montreal Canadiens blanked the lowly Chicago Black Hawks 3-0.Rip Riopelle, Leo Gravelle, and Ken Mosdell supplied the scoring punch for the Habs and the victory sent the Montrealers into second place in the league standing. Over 14,000 spectators looked on.Chicago: Goal, Brimsek; defence, Goldham, Dickens; centre, Prystai; wings, Guidolin, Olmstead; subs.: Gadsby, Nattrass, McCaig, Mosienko, R. Conaoher, Stewart, J. Conacher, Bodnar, Hamill.Canadiens: Goal, Durnan; defence, Harvey, Harmon; centre, Lach; wings, Richard, Riopelle; subs.: Bouchard, Plamondon, Curry. Fillion, MacKay, Reay, Gravelle, Reardon, Mosdell, Leger, Dussault.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalty: Gadsby.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Canadiens: Riopelle (Lach Richard) &hellip; 8:252&mdash;Canadiens: Gavelle (Reay, Dussault) &hellip; 11:503&mdash;Canadiens: Mosdell (Fillion) &hellip; 18:06Penalty: Bouchard.<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Nattrass, Bouchard,<h2>SUNDAY, JANUARY 15</h2>BOSTON. &mdash; Inspired by Frankie Brimsek&rsquo;s spectacular goal-tending, the Chicago Black Hawks gained their first victory in their last six starts by overpowering the Boston Bruins, 5-1 before a 12,042 crowd at the Boston Garden.Chicago: Goal, Brimsek; defence, Goldham, Dickens; centre, Bodnar; wings, J. Conacher, Stewart; subs.: Prystai, Guidolin, Olmstead, Gadby. McCaig, Nattrass, R. Conacher, Hamild, Mosienko.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, Flaman, Henderson; centre, Ronty; wings, Bettio, Smith; subs.: Schmidt, Creighton, Crawford, Quackenbush, Kryzanowski, Duinart, Poile.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Chicago: Bodnar (Goldham) &hellip; 17:17Penalties: Bettio, Gadsby (2).<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Boston: Henderson (Ronty) &hellip; 0:383&mdash;Chicago: Prystai (Olmstead) &hellip; 13:40Penalties: Flaman, Olmstead.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Chicago: Mosienko (Hamill, R. Conacher) &hellip; 2:085&mdash;Chicago: J. Conacher (Gadsby) &hellip; 15:256&mdash;Chicago: Olmstead (Prystai, Goldham) &hellip; 10:26Penalties: Prystai (major), Flaman (major), Guidolin.NEW YORK. &mdash; Captain Sid Abel&rsquo;s goal midway in the third period gave the first-place Detroit Red Wings a 1-0 victory over New York Rangers and a sweep of a home-and-home week-end series with the Rangers.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence. Kelly, Reise; centre, McFadden; wings, Peters, Pavelich; subs.: Stewart, Martin, Lindsay, Gee Howe, McNab, Abel, Babando, Carveth, Couture, Black, Fogolin.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Eddols, Kyle; centre, Laprade; wings, Fisher, Leswick; subs.: Shero, Egan. O&rsquo;Connor, Raleigh, Lund, McLeod, Lancien, Slowinski, Webster.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Babando, Kyle, Leswick.<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalty: Egan.<h3>Third Period</h3>1&mdash;Detroit: Abel (Lindsay) &hellip; 9:15Penalties: Stewart, Egan.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(Including Games of Sunday Jan. 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03205/1434626-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="582" height="1520"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04171/1434619-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="591" height="402"></div><h3>Penalties In Minutes By Clubs</h3>CANADIENS &hellip; 401DETROIT &hellip; 390CHICAGO &hellip; 385RANGERS &hellip; 367BOSTON &hellip; 245 &#9632;

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Leo Gravelle, fast stepping right winger of the Montreal Canadiens, has been chosen by THE HOCKEY NEWS as the Player-Of-The-Week and becomes the third player to win the &lsquo;Schaefer Award&rsquo;.Last week Gravelie, often termed the &ldquo;Tiger&rdquo;, scored his first hat trick since turning professional from the Montreal Senior Royals two and a half seasons ago. He scored his fourth goal in one week when the Canadiens met and stopped the Chicago Black Hawks for the second time in five days.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02249/1434664-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="260" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Gravelle</figcaption></div>On January 10, playing in Chicago, the Goldy Locked Lad led the Habs to a one sided 7-3 victory over the Black Hawks, the low men on the N.H.L. Totem pole.Playing in Montreal last Saturday against the Hawks, Gravelie netted his fourth marker of the week as the Montrealers gave Bill Durnan his sixth shutout of the season by winning 3-0. While Gravelle has been showing more scoring punch of late than ever: before, his all around play has improved to such a great extent that the fans in Montreal now do with him as they do with Richard and Reardon. Every time he touches the puck they stand on their feet and scream to high heaven, not in agony, they just like him to carry the puck. He has become very popular lately.Often termed the fastest skater in the League, Gravelle, so far this season, has scored, 13 goals and added 7 assists for a total of 20 points. He is playing on a line with Billy Reay and Scooter Normie Dussault.Born in Aylmer, Quebec, on June 10,1925, Leo played junior for Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s College before joining the Montreal Royals in the Quebec Senior League.He turned pro with the Canadiens in 1946-47 and played 53 games with them, scoring 16 goals and adding 14 assists for 30 points. The following season he played 15 games and netted absolutely nothing and before the season was over he was on his way to Buffalo and finally to Houston. Last season he started out the season with Buffalo but was called up to the N.H.L. and played 36 game with Canadiens, scoring only four goals and 6 assists for 10 points.This season however it looks as though Leo has finally crashed the big league for good. He is skating faster than ever and generally playing better hockey. &#9632;

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Player – Of – The – Week

<div class="byline">By GEORGE CARSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01282/1434702-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="270" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Mariucci</figcaption></div>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;One of the toughest jobs facing defenseman Ed. Nicholson in his first season with the St. Louis Flyer hockey team is to fill the shoes, in the eyes of the rabid fans, of colourful Johnny Mariucci.Mariucci was a ball of fire early last season when the Flyers were racking up the points that helped to win the Western Division championship in the American Hockey League. The fans remember that, but some of the spectators don&rsquo;t remember that Mariucci fell off later in performance.Nicholson doesn&rsquo;t have the dash and fire of a Mariucci on the ice, but if you ask Flyer Coach Ebbie Goodfellow, he&rsquo;ll tell you he believes Nicholson is &mdash; among the steadiest defensemen in the circuit and hits with the hardest.With the players, Nick is tops. He&rsquo;s the kind of player who does not say much, blit he let&rsquo;s action talk out there on the ice-where it does the most good.<h2>He&rsquo;s Born Gagster</h2>He looks dead serious at all times, but behind that mask is a sense of humor. While playing with Indianapolis, Nicholson was among the characters who tabled Trainer Lefty Wilson &ldquo;Egg Head&rsquo;&rsquo; and it was Nick, without too much ceremony who once presented Wilson with a little present, carefully wrapped in a small box, from the &ldquo;boys;&rsquo;.Wilson opened it in the locker room for all to see, and what do you think was inside? An egg, all painted up to look like a &ldquo;head&rdquo;, even to the hair glued onto the shell.One reason a lot of people miss Nicholson on the ice is his size. Ed is only about five feet, eight inches tall (the record books say five-seven), but he weights close to 180. He doesn&rsquo;t show those 180 pounds, but he&rsquo;s hard as rock, and he packs a lot of muscle in his broad shoulders.<h2>They Sean &lsquo;Em Young</h2>Like most Canadians, Nicholson started skating at an early age. He was born 26 years ago at Portsmouth, Ontario, the gateway from Lake Ontario to the Thousand Lakes. He was only four feet tall when he started playing hockey at the tender age of 13.&ldquo;They used to have bantamweight clubs in the city leagues in Canada, and every kid would get plenty of action,&rdquo; Nicholson said. &ldquo;I played junior hockey for six years and then senior hockey, but I never was with a championship club. Maybe that will change in this move to St; Louis.&rdquo;Getting back to Nick&rsquo;s previous hockey experience, he played with senior amateur teams, before entering the service. During the war Ive served in the Canadian Army&rsquo;s Electrical and Mechanical Engineers&rsquo; Corps. Altogether he was in the service four years, two of them overseas, Nick managed to get in some hockey while in the military ranks, and while stationed at Brighton, England, he played with an all-Canadian team that also included Lloyd (Red) Doran, who later was to be a teammate at both Indianapolis and St. Louis.When Doran was a member of Indianapolis, he got a chance to play in the National League. Me played 21 games with Detroit in 1946-47 scoring, three goals and assisting in two others.<h2>Wings Discover Him</h2>Out of the service, Nicholson was signed by the far-flung Detroit Red Wing organization. He played only one game with the National League Wings two years ago but was well thought of as one of several tough defensemen on the Indianapolis roster. He played three years with the Caps and was recipient last winter of an unusual honor &mdash; an honor which gave him one of his greatest thrills. Indianapolis fans voted him the most valuable player on the club which finished only one slim point behind the Flyers in the Western Division standings.It was the second time in his career that Nicholson was voted &ldquo;most valuable.&rdquo; The other time was nine years earlier, when playing junior hockey with the Kingston Lions. He was 16 then.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02226/1434695-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="554" height="928"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED NICHOLSON</figcaption></div>Ed, who is married and has one son, likes to fish and swim in the summer time. Last summer he spent part of the off-season by taking fishing parties out on Lake Ontario.With typical modesty, Nick doesn&rsquo;t talk much about his own catches, but he did say that he took some dandy bass out of the lakes up north, wieghing maybe up to four and three-quarter pounds, and pike perhaps as big as 10 pounds. And that, friends, makes Missouri fishermen drool.<h2>He Likes St. Loo</h2>Nicholson, more or less an iron man performer, played in 65 games with the Caps last year. He was bothered by a back ailment in training camp and in earlyseason games for the Flyers but has tried to work out the stiffness rather than to give it the rest that might have done more good.&ldquo;I like St. Louis, I like the building (Arena) and above all I like the St. Louis fans&rdquo;, Ed says. &ldquo;&lsquo;The fans are very kind here and I think all the players feel like I do&mdash;that we&rsquo;ll go all out to give them a winner. Another thing, they say a change always does a hockey player a lot of good, and I&rsquo;m sure this change will do wonders for me.&rdquo;Trainer Shrimp McPherson of the Flyers maintains that Nick never causes him much trouble with calls for assistance or errands for this or that. &ldquo;But one time&rdquo;, the little round trainer relates, &ldquo;Nicholson kept telling me his skates were causing him pain and he couldn&rsquo;t understand what was wrong.&ldquo;A quick glance revealed the difficulty. You know every player has two sets of skate outfits and sometimes they&rsquo;re quite a bit different. Well, Nick was wearing one skate from each set, and that could cause anybody pain!&rdquo; &#9632;

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Ed Makes Flyer Fans Forget Feats Of Burly John Maroosh

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01282/1434778-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAN</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02241/1434771-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="1187" height="1822"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK</figcaption></div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;The most unusual brother combination in hockey now decorates the Hershey Bears&rsquo; lineup. The unusual combo is that of Dan and Frank Porteous, the only twins now playing in professional hockey ranks.However, more unusual than the fact that they are twins, is their contracts.One clause in their contracts says that where one brother goes the otlier will follow. In other words they can&rsquo;t be split up. It is said that their money arrangement with their club is exactly the same. What one brother is paid the other gets the exact amount. Some fun, eh kid.The Porteous brothers, Daniel Frederick and Thomas Francis, were born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, on September 10, 1923 where their father was, and still is for that matter, in the gold mining business.Business interests moved the Porteous family to Montreal when the Twins were very young and that&rsquo;s where they started to play hockey.Before the pair joined forces in the pro loops they wore the colors of Valleyfield&rsquo; Braves of the Quebec Senior League. In 1946 Frank turned pro for Omaha in the United States Hockey League, his service being acquired by the Detroit Red Wings. That left Dan at home alone.&rsquo; He decided that he&rsquo;d like to enter college and enlisted at McGill University.While there Dan played for the college team and his linemate was Johnny Peirson of the Boston Bruins and the goaler for the McGill club was none other than Jack Gelineau.During the 1947-48 season the brothers hooked up again. Dan left McGill and signed with the now defunct Washington Lions as did Frank.During the 1948-49 season the pair were sent to the Cleveland Barons and at the beginning of this season they were bought by the Hershey Bears. &#9632;

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Dan And Frank Are Unusual Hockey Duo

<div class="byline">By TED RANDOLPH</div>TULSA, Okla.&mdash;Len (Doc) Haldorsen is turning out to be just what the doctor ordered for the Tulsa hockey team this season.The veteran campaigner who got his pro start with Springfield in the AHL during the 1940-&rsquo;41 campaign is the ice Oilers&rsquo; most consistent scorer. And he comes pretty close to being the most consistent in the entire USHL, too.Only Minneapolis&rsquo; great scoring machine &mdash; George Agar &mdash; has done any better scoring while in the USHL. Including games of Jan. 8 Agar had 60 points &mdash; Haldorsen 52.The way Doc is going with the Oilers this campaign he will far exceed his three best seasons &mdash; all of them spent with Buffalo. Doc collected 56 points with Buffalo in 1945-&rsquo;46, 55 during the 1947-&rsquo;48 campaign and 54 in 1944-&rsquo;45.In a little over half of the games this season Doc has already totaled 52 points &mdash; 22 of them on goals. His best previous goal year was 1944-&lsquo;45 when he hit 27.<h2>Icelandic Descent</h2>The past week was one of the best of the campaign for Doc. He collected nine points the past week &mdash; four goals and five assists.While Doc has drawn quite a bit of attention as one of the league&rsquo;s top seoring threats, that isn&rsquo;t his only forte. He is also one of the league&rsquo;s best two-way performers.Seldom caught out of position, he proba&rsquo;oiy prevents almost as many goals as he gets a season.Len. who was born in Arborg, Manitoba, is of Icelandic descent &mdash; the second player of his race to compete in pro hockey. The first was Frank Fredrickson, one of the greatest center icers of all time. He was from the same colony in Manitoba.While Len will probably never reach the heighths that Fredrickson did, Oiler foes will tell you that he is doing well enough &mdash; by 22 goals and 52 total points worth. &#9632;

Old Doc Just What Oilers’ Doc Ordered

<div class="byline">By MIKE RODDEN</div>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;The history of world hockey and Kingston&rsquo;s honored place in the great winter game can not be considered unless the name of &ldquo;Jim&rdquo; Sutherland, whom Lester Patrick recently stated was the &ldquo;Connie Mack of hockey&rdquo;, was mentioned. He has been one of hockey&rsquo;s life-lines, from the time it was played in a few scattered, places until in his eightieth year he has seen it spread all over the world.Since the sport was first played by the Imperial soldiers, stationed in the Tete-dupont barracks facing the harbor at the foot of Barracks St., the then youthful Sutherland has taken an active interest in the development of the game. First as a playerjn the pioneer days, later as coach, manager, referee, and then president of the Ontario Hockey Association and also the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and in later years an honored life member of both organizations. Always an amateur at heart, he also has legions of friends in the professional branch of the sport. He is the annual selection for the president, a job in the Kingston City Hockey league, which is composed of 6 senior and 7 junior teams.When the first great war broke out he reported to Ottawa, as a former officer, and although past the age of forty, he proceeded overseas as the Quartermaster of the 146th Battalion.Captain Sutherland played in the first organized league that we have any record of. It consisted of teams from the Royal Military College, Queen&rsquo;s University, The Kingston&rsquo;s and the Athletics. It started to function down through the ages until the present season.During his period of activity as coach of O.H.A. clubs his teams were the winners or runners up in some 15 seasons, including a try at Winnipeg in 1926 for the Memorial cup, Calgary lead by the speedy Paul Thompson being returned the winners, in the 3 games played, each team scored a total of 8 goals.Some of the players who graduated from the Kingston teams were Marty Walsh, &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Davidson, George Richardson, &ldquo;Flat&rdquo; Walsh, &ldquo;Bill&rdquo; Cook, &hellip; Ray Marchand, &hellip; Bill ..Taugher, &ldquo;Paddy&rdquo; Patterson, Carl Voss (now President U.S.H.L.), George Van Horne, &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Crawford, Dr. Jock Harty, Art Bernier and other noted players.The crowning item in the life of the subject of this little story is the fact that, as founder of the International Hockey Hall of Fame, which is hoped to be erected during this present year, the realization of a dream of several years standing will have been accomplished. Sufficient funds are in sight to erect an edifice that will be the pride of all hockeyminded people in both the United States and Canada. &#9632;

Captain Jim-Hockey Patriarch

<div class="byline">By VINCE LEAH</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;Manitoba junior hockey has been in something of a turmoil of late since its ace referees went on strike. They now have been out of action for over six weeks, while they&rsquo;re demanding $15 per game instead of the $7.50 they have been receiving. The M.A.H.A. has decided to let them wait awhile and new whistlers such as Hy Beatty of Monarchs 1946 Memorial cup champions, Joe Vinet, Bill Toshack and Bill McEachern have made their junior debuts. McEachern who put in several seasons of bantam, midget and juvenile refeering, is the only experienced arbiter in the new lot.An offer of 110.00 a game, made by the league Jan. 4 was rejected by the officials, who whittled their original demand to $12.50.The new referees have had trouble, lots of it. When Black Hawks defeated Brandon Wheat Kings, 7-3, Dec. 2 8, Beatty and 18-year-old Gus Holloway from Brandon had 100 minutes in penalties with 3 4 sentences being meted out. The referees did their best to maintain order but it appeared that both clubs were flaunting their prowess and position in front of the youthful officials.<h2>Elders Are Resentful</h2>Screamed Hawks&rsquo; Nick Hill when thumbed off by Holloway:&ldquo;He&rsquo;s younger than I am and he gives me a penalty.&rdquo;The following night when Montreal junior Canadiens played Monarchs all heck broke lose When it was all over, police twice had been called on the ice to break up fights and to escort Ernie Roche of Montreal off the premises when he drew a misconduct penalty. In the second period, Dickie Moore of Montreal attacked Referee Toshack and also drew a match misconduct.The appearance of veteran arbiters Vic Lindquist and Jim Creighton in Oanadiens&rsquo; Friday exhibition at Brandon chilled the Habs&rsquo; exuberance and after Kevin Conway drew a misconduct penalty for debating a minor, the lads cooled down.In local league play, Monarchs, Hawks and Canadiens continue to show inconsistent form which is making for a wild scramble for second and third place and semifinal spots. Brandon Wheat Kings, not quite the powerhouse of last term, holds a 13-point lead at the moment. &#9632;

Young Refs Roughed Up In Manitoba

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

SYDNEY, N.S.&#8213;Cape Breton Senior Hockey League fans are beginning to see some of the competitive spirit which made Erwin (Murph) Chamberlain a big time star for 12 seasons, and may bring Sydney Millionaires the Allan Cup this spring. Chamberlain, who retired from active competition last spring, hopes to return to the National Hockey League as a coach. His first venture into the field as Sydney&rsquo;s pilot has won raves even from rabid opposition fans. He has whipped a young, fast team into a cup contender and has kept them on top of the three-team league most of the way so far.Some observers here maintain that Millionaires are coasting now, because it&rsquo;s a tough 76-game schedule with no less than four games a week. But with the playoff pressure near, Sydney&rsquo;s drive and better balance instilled by Chamberlain&rsquo;s shrewdness is expected to carry them past either Glace Bay Miners or North Sydney Victorias to their third straight league title, and eventually their third consecutive Maritime crown.<h2>NO NEED TO PLAY</h2>So far this season, the 34-year-old Shawville. Que., native hasn&rsquo;t played and said he doesn&rsquo;t intend to. Actually, he doesn&rsquo;t need to be out on the ice with his boys to inject some life into them.Most of the time he sits in the players&rsquo; box with his hand against his&rsquo; jaw in a seemingly disgusted, disinterested fashion. But when his keen eye catches what he figures is a mistake, his provoking, gravel-sounding voice makes everybody jump.Old Hardock plays them all to win and doesn&rsquo;t care if his team is six goals ahead. There was the case recently when Murph jumped from the players&rsquo; box and stormed across the ice to protest a goal. At the request of the referees two policemen led him off the ice and he was ejected from the game.<h2>PRINCIPLE OF THING!</h2>&ldquo;I was Just boiling for the moment because the main thing involved was a principle.&rdquo; explained Murph. &ldquo;That was the fourth time this season goals which hit the post and didn&rsquo;t go in have been scored against us. A goal like that might beat us in some crucial playoff game later.&rdquo;To Chamberlain the two-referee system used in the C.B.S.H.L. and for those close goals. He says that other amateur leagues is responsible one referee and two linesmen system used by the N.H.L. is cheaper and enables the referee to be in position for the close-in plays.<h2>WANTS NO SISSIES</h2>The former Montreal Canadians&rsquo; leftwinger keeps juggling his forward combinations in an attempt to make his blueshirts practice what he preaches. He wants players who can dish it out besides take it to avoid chippy hockey.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t advocate dirty hockey.&rdquo; says Murph. &ldquo;But when your team is aggressive and works hard it gets penalties. The sign of a good club is its ability to kill off penalties and score while shorthanded.&rdquo;Murph figures a championship team leads in goals scored, has the least goals against and the most penalties. Sydney has such a record so far under Chamberlain and he predicts that the winner of the Cape Breton-Quebec series will take the Western champion for the cup now held by Ottawa Senators.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01290/1435034-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="556" height="884"><figcaption class="caption-body">They Love Him!MVRPH CHAMBERLAIN</figcaption></div><h2>Get Schooling</h2>Through injuries to Frank Eddolls, Allen Stanley, Pentti Lund and Jackie McLeod of the New York Rangers, Coach Neil Colville of New Haven Ramblers has been sending up to the Blue Shirts at times Jean Lamirande, Nick Mickoski, Bill McDonagh, Johnny Denis, Jack Evans and Chick Webster.This experience in the National Hockey League should be of help to the Ramblers for while the list of changes is large yet on the other hand the men have been taken one at a time and It has not broken up Colville&rsquo;s lines for any length of time. &#9632;

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Happy-Go-Lucky Boy Murph Turns Serious Gets Raves As Pilot

<h2>Top Rookie</h2>The league leading Minneapolis Millers have acquired another promising; rookie in center Wait. Samanski whom they recently promoted from their Sun Francisco Shamrocks farm team. Walt, was the leading scorer with twenty-five goals in thirty-three games. Samanski made an Impressive debut with the Millers by scoring in his first two games.<h2>Clutch Guy</h2>Moe Young, Tules Ollers hard working left wing. Is a handy man to have around when It comes to scoring in the &ldquo;clutch.&rdquo; Recently, in two consecutive games on the road, he scored goals in the last minute of play to save the Ollers from defeat.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M., JAN. 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01261/1435079-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="600" height="241"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 3 &#8213; St. Paul 1. Louisville 10.Jan. 3 &#8213; Tulsa 3. Omaha 3.Jan. 4 &#8213; Tulsa 4, Minneapolis 4.Jan. 4 &#8213; St. Paul 5. Kansas City 4.Jan. 5 &#8213; Tulsa 4. St. Paul 7.Jan. 6 &#8213; Minneapolis 4. Louisville 1.Jan. 7 &#8213; Louisville 4. Minneapolis 4.Jan. 7 &#8213; St. Paul 1. Omaha 7.Jan. 7 &#8213; Kansas City 5. Tulsa 2.Jan. 8 &#8213; Tulsa 4. Kansas City 9.Jan. 8 &#8213; Louisville 2. St. Paul 5.St. Paul Saints made the biggest gain in the United States Hockey League during the week when they won three games and climbed from a fourth place tie into undisputed possession of second place. The Minneapolis Millers continue to dominate first place, chiefly on the strength of their fine record on the road. The Millers have a six point lead with 45 points to the Saints 39. Louisville Blades are in third place with 37 points.The Omaha Knights and the Tulsa Oilers are deadlocked in fourth place with 36 points although the Knights have earned their total in 34 games to 41 played by the Oilers. Kansas City Mohawks remained in last place with 35 points.George Agar. Minneapolis Millers center, continued to lead the point parade with 60 points in 35 games. Len Haldorsen, of Tulsa Oilers, who scored four goals and earned five assists during the week is second with 52 points. Ray Powell, of Kansas City Mohawks, picked up eight points and took over third place with 49 points. Jack Giesebrecht. of the Louisville Blades, held his lead in goals scored with 24. while Agar has most assists, 37.Harry Dick, Louisville Blades defenseman. spent 18 minutes in the &ldquo;cooler&rdquo; and leads the penalty department with 89 minutes, Omaha Knights netminder. Bill Brennan. has finally overtaken Harry McQueston, of the Millers, and now leads the loop&rsquo;s goal enders with a 3.29 average against McQueston&rsquo;s 3.31.Johnny Harms. or Kansas City Mohawks. Eddie Bruneteau. of Omaha Knights and Len Halderson. of Tulsa Oilers, all registered &ldquo;hat tricks&rdquo; during the week. This is the second of the season for Harms.<h2>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4</h2>MINNEAPOLIS. That last fateful minute spread a leer on the face of clock again at the Arena. The Milers suffered a 4-4 tie with the Tuisa sextet as the Ollers got the tying goal In the last eleven seconds.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence. Telford. Sandalack; centre, Ashworth; wings. McAtee; Butler; subs.: Schertxl, E. Young. Haldorsen, Ferguson. Melnyk, M. Young. Knot!, Riley.Minneapolis: Goal. McDermid; defence. Mariucci, Fraser; centre. King; wings. Son mor, Hergeshelmer; subs.: Lavitt, Kraiger, Kaiser, Agar. Warwick, Atanas, Samanski. Jackson. Richardson.<h3>First Period</h3>1&#8213;Minneapolis: Samanski (Mariucci, Richardson) &hellip; 6:222&#8213;Tulsa: Ferguson (Melnyk. Haldorsen) &hellip; 8:143&#8213;Tulsa: Melnyk (Haldorsen, Ferguson) &hellip; 12:014&#8213;Minneapolis: Hergeshelmer (Sonnior, King) &hellip; 16:20Penalties: None.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&#8213;Tulsa: Sandalack (Haldorsen, Ferguson) &hellip; 10:016&#8213;Minneapolis: Hergeshelmer (King, Kraiger) &hellip; 17:60Penalty: Fraser.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&#8213;Minneapolis: Sonmor (Heigesheimer) &hellip; 16:498&#8213;Tulsa: M. Young (Ashworth. Haldorsen) &hellip; 19:49Penalties: McAtee, M. Young, Atanas.KANSAS CITY. St. Paul&rsquo;s Saints jumped to a 3-1 lead in the first period and built a 5-4 victory over Kansas City.Kansas City: Goal, Henry; defence, Baldwin, Conn; centre, Leler; wings, Stasluk, Goodacre; subs.: Bedard, Jackson, Miller. Groves. Wycherly. Powell, Harms. Fashoway. Blade.St. Paul: Goal, McGill; defence Dill. Ailsby; centre, Schwarts; wings. Mclntosh. Brown; subs.: Giokas, DelMonte, Anslow, H. Brown, Bend, Rossini. Cameron. Bell.<h3>First Period</h3>1&#8213;St. Paul: Anslow (Rossini. DelMonte) &hellip; 4:092&#8213;St. Paul: DelMonte (Anslow. Dill) &hellip; 6:013&#8213;Kansas City; Fashoway (Harms) &hellip; 8:524&#8213;St. Paul: DelMonte (Anslow) &hellip; 10:48Penalties: None.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&#8213;Kansas City: Leier (Goodacre) &hellip; 5:166&#8213;St. Paul: Bell &hellip; 19:16Penalties: Anslow, Fashoway, Dill, Stasluk, Rossini.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&#8213;Kansas City: Blade (Fashoway, Harms) &hellip; 11:888&#8213;St. Paul: Cameron (Brown) &hellip; 16:319&#8213;Kansas City: Stasluk (Blade) &hellip; 19:20Penalty: Rossini.<h2>THURSDAY, JANUARY 5</h2>ST. PAUL. St. Paul moved Into second place by defeating Tulsa 7-4 at the St. Paul Auditorium.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, E. Young, Sandalack; centre, Haldorsen; winged Ferguson, Melnyk; subs.: Schertzl, Telford, McAtee, M. Young, Ashworth, Riley Knott.St. Paul: Goal, McGill; defence. Ailsby, Dill; centre, Schwartz; wings, McIntosh. F. Brown; subs.: Glokas, DelMonte, Anslow. H. Brown, Bend, Levandoski, Rozzini Cameron, Bell.<h3>First Period</h3>1&#8213;St. Paul: Anslow (Rozzlni, DelMonte) &hellip; 5:482&#8213;St. Paul: Rozzini (Ailsby, Anslow) &hellip; 6:293&#8213;Tulsa: Ashworth (Knott, McAtee) &hellip; 10:224&#8213;St. Paul: Anslow (Dill, Rozzini) &hellip; 19:145&#8213;St. Paul: Schwartz (F. Brown) &hellip; 19:43Penalties: DelMonte, E. Young.<h3>Second Period</h3>6&#8213;Tulsa: Ashworth (Knott, Schertzl) &hellip; 6:177&#8213;St. Paul: DelMonte. (Rozzini, Ailaby) &hellip; 7:108&#8213;Tulsa: M. Young (Schertzl) &hellip; 12:419&#8213;Tulsa: Knott (M. Young. Ashworth) &hellip; 13:4410&#8213;St. Paul: DelMonto (Ailsby. Rozzini) &hellip; 18:16Penalty: Sandalack.<h3>Third Period</h3>11&#8213;St. Paul: Macintosh (F. Brown, Schwartz) &hellip; 7:46Penalty: E. Young.<h2>FRIDAY, JANUARY 6</h2>LOUISVILEE. Minneapolis&rsquo; Millers increased their lead to seven points, brushing past the Louisville Blades 4-1.Louisville: Goal, Jessiman; defence, Bloom, Legris; centre, Courteau; wings, Gieseforecht, Gariepy; subs.: Archambeault, Dick, St. Pierre, Bell, Ashbee, Thorpe, McArthur, Ritson.Minneapolis: Goal, McDermid; defence, Mariucci, Lavitt; centre, King; wings, Hergesheimer, Sonmor; subs.: Fraser, Kraiger, Warwick, Jackson, Atanas, Richardson, Agar, Samanski, Kaiser.<h3>First Period</h3>1&#8213;Minneapolis: Richardson (Agar, Fraser) &hellip; 3:122&#8213;Louisville: McArthur (Ashbee) 8:06Penalties: Dick, Glesebrecht, Kaiser, Lavitt.<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalty: Dick (misc.).<h3>Third Period</h3>3&#8213;Minneapolis: Atanas (Jackson, Samanski) &hellip; 6:314&#8213;Minneapolis: Hergeshelmer &hellip;. 7:515&#8213;Minneapolis: Agar (Warwick) &hellip; 9:44Penalties: Gariepy, Ashbee, Dick, Kaiser.<h2>SATURDAY, JANUARY 7</h2>MINNEAPOLIS. Lady Luck was looking away as Minneapolis tried to make it two in two nights over Louisville and the Millers had to be satisfied with a 4-4 tie before 3,104 hockey fans at the Arena.Louisville: Goal, Jessiman; defence, Archambeault, Dick; centre, Ritson; wings, J. Bell Thorpe; subs.: Bloom, Legrls. Courteau, Gariepy, Giesebreoht, McArthur, Ashbee St. Pierre.Minneapolis: Goal, McDermid; defence, Mariucci. Lavitt; centre, King; wings, Sonmor, Hergeshelmer; subs.: Kaiser, Fraser. Kraiger, Agar, Warwick. Richardson, Samanski, Jackson, Atanas.<h3>First Period</h3>1&#8213;Louisville: Ashbee (McArthur. Archambeault) &hellip; 8:252&#8213;Louisville: Thorpe (Kitson. Bell) &hellip; 11:243&#8213;Minneapolis: Warwick (Agai, Mariucci) &hellip; 12:484&#8213;Minneapolis: Samanski &hellip; 14:23Penalty: Fraser.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&#8213;Louisville: Ashbee (McArthur) &hellip; 2:456&#8213;Minneapolis: Agar (Kraiger, Warwick) &hellip; 4:21Penalties: Bloom, minor and misc.), Thorpe (2), Agar, Sonmor, Legrls, Fraser.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Minneapolis: Agar (Warwick, Richardson) &hellip; 4:078&mdash;Louisville: Thorpe (Beil) &hellip; 9:30Penalties: Lavitt, Mariucci.OMAHA. &mdash; The Omaha Knights walloped the second place St. Paul Saints 7-1 here.Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Forbes, Durham; centre, L. Wilson; wings, J. Wilson, Brunetcau; subs.: Folk, Pronovost, O&rsquo;Grady, Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod, Heale, McLean, Burgess, Mulholland.St. Paul: Goal, DeCourcy; defence, Aihsby. Dill; centre, Schwartz; wings, Macintosh, F. Brown; subs.: Giokas, Bell, Cameron, H. Brown, Bend, Rozzini, DelMonte, Anslow, Levandoski.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Omaha: Bruneteau (L. Wilson, J. Wilson) &hellip; 14:552&mdash;Omaha: O&rsquo;Grady (Pronovost) &hellip; 16:173&mdash;St. Paul: Schwartz (H. Bell) &hellip; 19:01Penalties: F. Brown, Pronovost, Burgess.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Omaha: O&rsquo;Graxiey (Bruce Gieseforecht, Pronovost) &hellip;4:395&mdash;Omaha: Folk (L. Wilson) &hellip; 9:14Penalties: McLean, H. Belt.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Omaha: Bruneteau (J. Wilson, L. Wilson) &hellip; 1:567&mdash;Omaha: J. Wilson (L. Wilson. Pronovost) &hellip; 7:288&mdash;Omaha: Bruneteau (L. Wilson) &hellip;19:37Penalties: Dill, J. Wilson, Anslow.TULSA. &mdash; Injury-hobbled Tulsa faded in the stretch and Kansas City won with three last-period goals 5-2.Kansas City: Goal, Henry; defence, Baldwin, Conn; centre, Blade; wings, Harins, Wycherly; suhs.; Miller, Stasiuk, Goodacre, Leler, Fashoway, Groves, Bedard. Jackson, Powell.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence Sandalack, Telford; centre, Haldorsep; wings, Melnyk, Ferguson; subs.: Ashworth, M. Young, Knott, Cchnurr, McAtee, Dillon, E. Young, Schertzl, Riley.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Kansas City: Powell (Fashoway) &hellip;. 2:152&mdash;Tulsa: E. Young (Schnurr) &hellip;19:15Penalties: Goodacre, Knott, Harms, Blade.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Kansas City: Fashoway (Powell, Jackson) &hellip; 2:374&mdash;Tulsa: Knott (M. Young, Ashworth) &hellip; 7:58Penalties.: McAatee, Blade, Dillon, Meltiyk, Groves, C&rsquo;dirti&rsquo;, Ivnott, Bedard.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Kansas City: Blade (Wycherly) &hellip; 7:056&mdash;Kansas City: Harms (Fashoway &hellip; 16:517&mdash;Kansas City: Wycherly &hellip; 17:30Penalty: Stasiuk.<h2>SUNDAY, JANUARY 8</h2>ST. PAUL. St. Paul took undisputed possession of second place by defeating Louisville 5-2.Louisville: Goal. Jessiman; defence. Archambeault, Dick: centre, Kitson; wings. Thorpe, J. Bell; subs.: Ashbee, McArthur, Giesebrecht, Courteau, Gariepy. St. Pierre.St. Paul: Goal. DeCourcy; defence, Ailsby, Dill; centre, Schwartz; wings, F. Brown, Macintosh; subs.: Giokas, DelMonte, Anslow, H. Brown, Bend Levandoski, Rozzini, Cameron, H. Bell.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Louisville: Ashbee (McArthur. St. Pierre) &hellip; 4:172&mdash;St. Paul: H. Brown &hellip; 10:373&mdash;St. Paul: Bend (H. Brown, Cameron) &hellip; 11:454&mdash;St. Paul: Rozzini (Anslow, Giokas) &hellip; 17:08Penalties: Rozzini, Dick, Archambeault, Levandoski.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;St. Paul: Anslow (Ailsby, Rozzini) &hellip; 6:176&mdash;St. Paul: H. Brown (H. Bell) &hellip; 11:557&mdash;Louisville: McArthur (Dick, Ashbee) &hellip; 17:45Penalty: Ailsby.<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Levandoski (2), Courteau.KANSAS CITY. &mdash; Kansas City scored five goals in the last period to trounce Tulsa 9-4.Kansas City: Goal, Henry; defence, Baldwin, Conn; centre, Blade; wings, Harms, Wycherly; subs.; Bedard, Jack-son, Miller, Groves. Powell, Leier, Fashoway, Stasiuk, Goodacre.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Telford, Sandalack; centre, Ashworth; wings, Butler, M. Young; subs.: Dillon, E. Young, Knott, McAtee, Melnyk, Schnurr, Riley, Haldorsen.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Tulsa: Haldorsen (Ferguson) &hellip; 9:112&mdash;Kansas City: Baldwin (Powell) 16:12Penalty: Fashoway.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Kansas City: Fashoway (Gioves, Powell) &hellip; 10:074&mdash;Kansas City: Goodacre (Miller, Conn) &hellip; 12:335&mdash;Tulsa: Haldorsen (Ferguson. Sandalack) &hellip; 14:076&mdash;Kansas City: Harms (Jackson, Blade) &hellip; 14:497&mdash;Tulsa Haldorsen (Melnyk) &hellip; 19:00Penalties:; Butler, Ashworth, Jackson.<h3>Third Period</h3>8&mdash;Kansas City: Powell (Jackson) &hellip; 8:359&mdash;Tulsa: Ashworth (M. Young) &hellip; 9:1810&mdash;Kansas City: Wycherly (Blade, Conn) &hellip; 10:5911&mdash;Kansas City: Miller (Stasiuk) &hellip; 13:5512&mdash;Kansas City: Hjirms (Blade) &hellip; 14:5613&mdash;Kansas City: Harms (Powell, Jackson) &hellip; 19:23Penalties: Fashoway, Dillton (2), Be.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(Including Games of Sunday, Jan. 8)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06112/1435072-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="593" height="725"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07103/1435065-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="596" height="333"></div><h3>THE LEADERS</h3>Most Points: Agar, Mpls (60).Most Goals, J. Giesebrecht, Louisville (24).Most Assists: Agar. Mpls (37).Most Penalties: Harry Dick, Louisville (89 minutes).Most Shutouts: McQueston, Mpls (2).Best Goalkeepers Avg.: Brennan, Omaha (3.29). &#9632;

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UNITED STATES LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DON PILLING</div>LETHBRIDGE, Alta.&#8213;Pete Slododian, the former National Hockey League blueline bouncer, may have a winner in his first year as coach of the Lethbridge Native Sons. One chief reason why the Sons are scooting along at top of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League pack has been the steady play of captain Bob &ldquo;Cooney&rdquo; Wood, a 185-pound package of defense dynamite.Trying to find a veteran in junior hockey is a difficult job in any junior circuit, but the red-headed Lethbridge defenseman is just that, an honest-to-gosh veteran at 19. This year is his fifth and last with the Native Sons and if his play continues to improve like it has, the Sons are going to be one of the clubs to reckon with when the Memorial Cup firing gets under way.Along with the nifty goaltending of three-year man Boomer Rodzinyak and the dazzling scoring feats of Guyle Fielder, Wood has played a prominent role in the Sons&rsquo; climb to the Western Junior League&rsquo;s top rung. He&rsquo;s scored only one goal, but has assisted on 20 others and is regarded by many as the best defenseman in the league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01256/1435162-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="546" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body">COONEY WOOD</figcaption></div>He started playing junior hockey when he was of midget age, in 1945-46. For two years he played beside Slim Lavell, now with New Haven of the American Hockey League, and last winter paired up with Howie Milford, with Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Canada Senior League this term.<h2>Rangers Collar Him</h2>The six-foot one-inch Wood is the property of New York Rangers and will be attending one of their camps next fall. He&rsquo;ll be 20 in July, which makes him too old for another year of junior hockey. Coaches of other junior squads in the west are hailing this piece of news the best they&rsquo;ve heard in a long time. In five years, they&rsquo;ve seen too much of the red-thatched Mr. Wood.Junior hockey is going over big with the fans in Lethbridge. Lethbridge Maple Leafs withdrew from the Western Canada Senior Hockey League in 194 9 to make way for the junior variety. It has gone over with a bang in its first year without senior opposition. Crowds are numbering well over 2,3 00 a game and on three occasions the rink in Lethbridge, which holds around 3,100, has been completely sold out.One of the &ldquo;highlights of a successful season so far has been the bitter scoring feud of Lethbridge&rsquo;s Guyle Fielder and Crow&rsquo;s Nest&rsquo;s Vern Pachal. The two centre ice slickers are running one-two in the league&rsquo;s point derby and if they keep up their present scoring paces, they both may reach 100 or more points for the season. At this writing Fielder had 58 points and Pachal 55. Regina&rsquo;s Paul Masnick is third with 51 points.Masnick and Pachal are both Montreal Canadien property while Fielder belongs to Chicago Black Hawks. &#9632;

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Favorite Son Cooney Seasoned Star At 19

<h2>QUEBEC SENIOR</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02203/1435396-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="595" height="319"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 11 &#8213; Royals 2, Quebec 2.Jan. 11 &#8213; Valleyfield 4. Chicoutimi 1.Jan. 11 &#8213; Ottawa 4, Shawinigan 2.Jan. 14 &#8213; Ottawa 5, Quebec 4.Jan. 14 &#8213; Shawinigan 4, Sherbrooke 8.Jan. 15 &#8213; Quebec 8, Royals 1.Jan. 15 &#8213; Sherbroke 4, Shawinigan 8.Jan. 15 &#8213; Ottawa 1, Valleyfield 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03166/1435389-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="593" height="328"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04138/1435382-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="593" height="226"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 4 &#8213; Moncton 4, Saint John 2.Jan. 5 &#8213; Moncton 9, Halifax 4.Jan. 6 &#8213; Halifax 6, Amherst 2.Jan. 7 &#8213; Moncton 7, Halifax 3.Jan. 7 &#8213; Saint John 4, Amherst 1.Jan. 9 &#8213; Amberst 7, Moncton 1.Jan. 10 &#8213; Halifax 3, Moncton 0.Jan. 10 &#8213; Saint John 4, Amherst 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0595/1435375-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="595" height="308"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0671/1435368-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="593" height="220"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 11 &#8213; Glace Bay 9, Sydney 2Jan. 10 &#8213; Sydney 6, Glace Bay 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0761/1435361-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="592" height="226"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 6 &#8213; Kitchener 3, Marlboros 8.Jan. 6 &#8213; Owen Sound 3, Hamilton 6.Jan. 7 &#8213; Marlboros 8, Kitchener 4.Jan. 7 &#8213; Hamilton 5, Owen Sound 3.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0856/1435354-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="593" height="341"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0945/1435347-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="594" height="235"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1040/1435340-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="595" height="241"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1134/1435333-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="585" height="307"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1230/1435326-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="597" height="298"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 3 &#8213; New York 0, At. City 0.Jan. 3 &#8213; Boston 3, Grand Rapids 3.Jan. 4 &#8213; G. Rapids 3, Milwaukee 5.Jan. 4 &#8213; Boston 2, Toledo 8.Jan. 5 &#8213; Toledo 1, Grand Rapids 1.Jan. 6 &#8213; Boston 1, Atlantic City 8.Jan. 7 &#8213; Grand Rapids 4, At. City 3.Jan. 7 &#8213; Milwaukee 5, Toledo 8.Jan. 8 &#8213; G. Rapids 4, New York 3.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1326/1435319-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="595" height="329"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1424/1435312-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="596" height="234"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1523/1435305-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="593" height="239"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 2 &#8213; Duluth 2, Eveleth 3.Jan. 2 &#8213; Fort Frances 9, Hibbing 2.Jan. 3 &#8213; Fort Frances 10, Duluth 3.Jan. 4 &#8213; Fort Frances 13, Duluth 4.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1622/1435298-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="594" height="306"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1722/1435291-1-eng-US/f0016-172.jpg" title="f0016-17" width="599" height="328"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 4 &#8213; Streatham 5, Lions 2.Jan. 5 &#8213; Lions 5. Rangers 4.Jan. 5 &#8213; Tigers 6, Monarchs 2.Jan. 6 &#8213; Panthers 3, Tigers 4.Jan. 6 &#8213; Monarchs 10, Streatham 0.Jan. 7 &#8213; Lions 11, Panthers 5.Jan. 7 &#8213; Rangers 4, Monarchs 4.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1822/1435284-1-eng-US/f0016-182.jpg" title="f0016-18" width="597" height="252"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 6 &#8213; Windsor 5, Chatham 4.Jan. 6 &#8213; Auto Club 4, Hettehe 1.Jan. 7 &#8213; Sarnia 9, Windsor 5.Jan. 9 &#8213; Auto Club 7, Chatham 0.Jan. 9 &#8213; Hebtcthe 7, Sarnia 5.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-1921/1435277-1-eng-US/f0016-192.jpg" title="f0016-19" width="599" height="342"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2021/1435270-1-eng-US/f0016-202.jpg" title="f0016-20" width="596" height="286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2121/1435263-1-eng-US/f0016-212.jpg" title="f0016-21" width="594" height="328"></div>..Standing Include 1 Point and 4 Point Games.<h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 3 &#8213; Etenfrew 2, North Bay 1Jan. 3 &#8213; R.C.A.F. 2, Hull 0.Jan. 3 &#8213; Pembroke 5, Army 5.Jan. 4 &#8213; Cornwall 11, Army 7.Jan. 5 &#8213; Renfrew 4, Pembroke 3,Jan. 6 &#8213; Cornwall 7, Hull 4.Jan. 7 &#8213; North Bay 8, Army 2.Jan. 7 &#8213; Cornwall 6, Renfrew 4.Jan. 7 &#8213; Pembroke 4, Hull 0.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2221/1435256-1-eng-US/f0016-222.jpg" title="f0016-22" width="586" height="311"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2321/1435249-1-eng-US/f0016-232.jpg" title="f0016-23" width="602" height="320"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 14 &#8213; Verdun 10, Valleyfield 8.Jan. 15 &#8213; Quebec 6, Canadiens 2.Jan. 15 &#8213; Three Rivers 6. Royals 0,<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2421/1435242-1-eng-US/f0016-242.jpg" title="f0016-24" width="594" height="373"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Jan. 8 &#8213; Galt 2, Stratford 8.Jan. 6 &#8213; Oshawa 6, St. Catharines.Jan. 7 &#8213; Marlboros 11, St. Michael&rsquo;s 4.Jan. 7 &#8213; St. Catharines 7, Oshawa 1.Jan. 7 &#8213; Stratford 4. Galt 3.Jan. 7 &#8213; Barrie 1, Windsor 7.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2518/1435235-1-eng-US/f0016-252.jpg" title="f0016-25" width="589" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2617/1435228-1-eng-US/f0016-262.jpg" title="f0016-26" width="597" height="187"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2714/1435221-1-eng-US/f0016-272.jpg" title="f0016-27" width="588" height="264"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2812/1435214-1-eng-US/f0016-282.jpg" title="f0016-28" width="590" height="309"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-296/1435207-1-eng-US/f0016-292.jpg" title="f0016-29" width="598" height="221"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-306/1435200-1-eng-US/f0016-302.jpg" title="f0016-30" width="600" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-316/1435193-1-eng-US/f0016-312.jpg" title="f0016-31" width="598" height="260"></div> &#9632;

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Amateur Parade At Quick Glance

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LLOYD SAUNDERS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01229/1435500-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hockey Cutups &hellip;by Graczak&ldquo;Butch doesn&rsquo;t trust the timekeeper&rdquo;</figcaption></div>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;The race for honors in the Western Canada Senior Hockey League continued. This season the clubs are very closely matched and on one team&rsquo;s good night, the other club just doesn&rsquo;t seem to stand a chance. Managers of the various teams think this season will be the best yet. In the first two years of the competition Regina and Saskatoon had weak clubs, and for the past two seasons it&rsquo;s been the Quakers and Lethbridge who were the weak sisters. Experts are already naming their guesses as to who will win out. In our small poll it looks like Edmonton for first, Calgary second. Saskatoon third and Regina fourth.However other experts figure both Saskatoon and Regina will supplant Calgary who were the early pacesetters.<h2>Staley Gets Gate</h2>Red Staley, former New York Rover has been given his release by the Regina Caps. Coach Art Somers released the lanky forward, for indifferent playing. The Regina born boy is now working out with the Saskatoon Quakers and whether or not he will stick remains to be seen.The Caps also released George Burke, who played at the start of the season with Louisville in the United States League.Big Cy Thomas of the Saskatoon Quakers is having a great year. Still a young player the experts are inclined to believe that he still has a future in the big time.Bill Kyle has returned home after a two game tryout with the New York Rangers. The younger Kyle was greatly impressed with the style of hockey. He thought it was much lougher than amateur. When we asked him his opinion about National League Hockey he remarked.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s definitely not so much faster, but you don&rsquo;t skate with your head down that&rsquo;s for sure. However I would like to try it again next year&rdquo;Playing against Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Bill named the following who caught his eye. Frank Brimsek, Prystai, Guidolin and Olmstead for Chicago and Elmer Lach, Maurice Richard and Ken Reardon for the Canadiens. He thinks Chuck Rayner is just about the best goalie he has ever seen.Rumors have it that Edmonton may have two senior clubs next year.Regina Caps have announced that they will try and carry on for the balance of the season at least. It was reported towards the end of the year that the Regina club may have to fold due to bad crowds. However they started off the New Year in fine fashion with a jammed house.<h2>Metz Brothers Unsure</h2>By the time you read this Don and Nick Metz will have made their decision about staying in or out of hockey. The two Wilcox farmers made this statement to Cliff Ehrle as he made one last stand to try, and install some strength and experience into his ailing club.Calgary Stamps have made up their minds about plane travel. Even veteran Doug Cairns is all for the air rides. The club travelled to all recent games by air despite the fact the mercury read forty below.Best rise of the week in scoring was Regina&rsquo;s Paul Masnick. Playing for the Pats in the Western Junior eague Masnick jumped into within three points of league leader Gyle Fielder. The Pats have also improved a great deal of late, and should be real contenders if they continue to improve. &#9632;

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Flyers Rate As Class In West For Wire Dash

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;The surge of the Moncton Hawks is the talk of the Maritime hockey world. Under Harvey (Busher) Jackson, the Hawks are now running wild through the Maritime Senior (Big Four) Hockey League ranks, moving up steadily on the two leading teams and filling the cages with goals.The Moncton surge has been highlighted by the scoring antics of a new and starry forward line composed of Lou Milani at left wing, Rod McKenzie in centre and Joe Fitzpatrick on the right lane., Milani has opened a wide lead in the scoring race while McKenzie is third and Fitzpatrick fifth. They have gone from one triumph to another.<h2>St. Mary&rsquo;s On Ropes</h2>As this was written the Santa-marians were clinging tenaciously to a one-point margin atop the standings. They had been riddled by injuries and the suspension of high scoring winger Bill Ford came at the worst time possible. Ford is ineligible to play until some irregularity in his transfer from the Ontario Hockey Association is cleared up.The. expected return of Jimmy Gray, long-time Halifax favorite who broke his ankle during the baseball season, has not materialized. Jimmy has been skating for a month but he isn&rsquo;t ready yet. St. Mary&rsquo;s are faced with the possibility that maybe he won&rsquo;t make it this season.High scoring Billy Hannon and all-star defenseman Bert Steel are out with injuries, as is tricky little Jackie Hollett.<h2>Murph Gets Clipped</h2>The Cape Breton League campaign has been marked by fines to players and manager Murph (Hard Rock) Chamberlain of the Sydney Millionaires. Murph hopped onto the ice during a heated argument. It cost him $20. Others were assessed $15 or $10 for aguing too often and two Glace Bay players were hit in the pocketbook when referee Frank Elliott was manhandled at the close of a hard fought game.Millionaires continue to lead the league but they are by no means as potent as they were a few weeks ago. Now it&rsquo;s a real race, with Millionaires getting their share of losses at home and on the road.Connie Brown continues to pace the league in scoring but North Sydney Victorias have several men in the running. Both Glace Bay and North Sydney are offensive-minded while the Millionaires are better balanced both ways&rsquo; and have a goodly number of triggermen without one real sensation.Amherst Ramblers have been informed by the hockey authorities that they will have to go the rest of the way with what they have. No more players will be permitted to join the basement dwellers in the Big Four, a team that has won only five games since the league opened early in October. &#9632;

Fast-Rising Hawk Six Scare Big 4 Leaders

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.&mdash;King-pins in the southern division of the Pacific Coast Hockey League since the season opened, the San Francisco Shamrocks will find the going a lot tougher when they hit the road at the end of January for six games with northern division clubs.Expertly guided by Tony Hemmerling, the Shamrocks have led the southern sector by as much as 10 points and had only one major scare during mid-December when their margin over the runnerup San Diego Skyhawks dropped to three points.Hemmerling, however, is the first to admit that the Shamrocks will find their hands full when they appear on hostile ice at Seattle, Vancouver, New Westminster, Victoria, Tacoma and Portland, in that order.In recent weeks it&rsquo;s been apparent that the transfer of Walter Samanski, the sensational young wingman, to the Minneapolis Millers has hurt the San Francisco fense. Samanski and Larry vestri, the Southern division&rsquo;s top scorer, formed one of the finest one-two scoring punches in the history of coast hockey. The Cleveland Barons replaced Samanski with Stanford Smith but he was late in reporting. &#9632;

TOP-DOG SHAMROCKS FACE HEAVY GOING IN NORTHERN TRIP

WINNIPEG, Man. &mdash;The use of a sixth forward in the closing moments of play often has been debated as being impractical, but it worked beautifully &mdash; just as planned &mdash; for Canadiens of the local Bantam N.H.L. the other Saturday.With no score at 18 seconds left to play, Rangers&rsquo; Pepper Morris hit the net to give his team an apparent 1-0 victory.But Coach Laurie Artiss of the little Canyens removed Goalkeeper Tommy Gauthier for left winger Ron Shackett. Center Bert May, cousin to Laurie May and Ray Manson of minor pro hockey, grabbed the puck at the face-off, scooted over the Ranger blue-line and laced a pass onto Shackett&rsquo;s stick. Shackett&rsquo;s sizzling 3 5-footer beat Goalkeeper Don Holman all the way to tie the score with two seconds left. &#9632;

Even Bantams Know Tricks

<div class="byline">By ROLLY ETHIER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02167/1435648-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="268" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Syd Howe</figcaption></div>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;Hockey experts around these parts rate the Eastern Canada Hockey League a great deal stronger than it is given credit for being. They claim that the eventual E.C.H.L. winner will cause plenty of trouble when the Allan Cup playdowns roll around in the spring.This under-rated senior loop is having a banner year to date with seven teams vying for laurels. To indicate the strength of the loop, take for instance Cully Simon&rsquo;s Pembroke Lumber Kings, the squad Sydney Millionaires just managed to knock out of the running last year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03126/1435641-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="238" height="374"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Cowley</figcaption></div><h2>Pembroke Looks Stronger</h2>Pembroke&rsquo;s 1949-50 aggregation appear to be a vastly stronger lot than last semester. Lumber Town officials insist that the Pembrokers boast considerably more strength in every department.Ernie Morrison&rsquo;s R.C.A.F. Flyers lead the loop, and have almost from the start of the season two months ago. The Flyers have many former professional stars dotting their lineup, including Tony Licari, former Detroit Red Wing, and Johnny Quilty, previous Calder Cup winner with Montreal Canadiens.Holding down runner-up spot Is Cornwall Calumets, another strong squad, who boast the league&rsquo;s highest-scoring unit with players like Smiley Meronek, another ex-Montreal Canadien star, Pete Long, Fred Gardiner and Rheal Savard.The excellent positional coaching of Syd Howe, former all-time hockey great with Detroit Red Wings, is the secret of success behind the Army Squad. They are being held together by veteran hockey-wise players like Archie Creighton and Jake Brunning plus speedsters like George Maguire up front. Renfrew Lions, right up in the thick of the battle for a playoff position too, have another former N.H.L. great. Bill Cowley, at the coaching reigns.<h2>High Scoring Brothers</h2>Cowiey&rsquo;s maroon - and - white clan also have a couple of high-scoring brother acts in Larry and Charlie Lemenchick and the Milnes, Stan and Andy, who supply nearly all of their punch.Lumber Kings have a strong defense with Thain and Cully Simon being a tough combination to penetrate. On the attack, the Kings starry first line of Roy Giesebrecht, Fred Giesebrecht and Don Selkirk paces the way. Their third brother combination, Erwin and Edwin Duncan, formerly of Inkerman Rockets, are also steaming on the offense.After a slow start the North Bay Black Hawks have suddenly transformed into a mighty tough aggregation. Ever since Regis (Pep) Kelly, a one-time Toronto Maple Leafs smoothie, took over the mentor&rsquo;s role from Pete Palangio, the team has started to click.The Bay Braves have added a brilliant young goalie in Phil Hughes from Port Arthur. Other additions are Bob Fero from Port Arthur; Ralph Orlando, leading&rsquo; scorer, from Timmins; Jack Leckie, a standout with Barrie Flyers last year; and Hugh Christie, hard-skating winger from Sundridge.At the bottom of the heap but nevertheless giving the other squads a run for their money are Bob Guertin&rsquo;s Hull Volants, who recently returned from a long tour of Europe. Boasting a young, inexperienced team, the Volants are having trouble winning games<h2>Plucky Flyers</h2>St. Louis Flyers of the American Hockey League are reminding sports followers of the injury riddled Yankees of the last baseball season. Despite the handicap of broken legs to their two ace scorers, plus minor mishaps to practically every other skater, Ebbie Goodfellow&rsquo;s never-say-die club is up In second place in the Western Division. &#9632;

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Ex-Pros Dot Eastern Loop — Rated Dark Horse In Cup Hunt

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04107/1435686-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg"></div>Mrs. Barber was working upstairs in her farm home near Ottawa when she smelled smoke. Running down, she found the main floor a mass of flames. Racing upstairs again she grasped her 18-months-old baby girl &mdash; but even in that short time the fire had spread and the entire staircase was ablaze! Mrs. Barber and her little girl were trapped! But the gallant mother kept her head. Quickly she opened an upstairs window &hellip; and, clutching her baby in her arms, she leaped to the ground. The child was unhurt and her mother escaped with minor burns and bruises.We are proud to present THE DOW AWARD to heroic Mrs. Edward Barber of North Gower, Ont.THE DOW AWARD is a citation presented for acts of outstanding heroism and includes a $100 Canada Savings Bond. The Dow Award Committee, a group of editors of leading Canadian daily newspapers, selects winners from recommendations made by a nationally known news organization.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0590/1435679-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="699" height="390"></div>DOW BREWERY = MONTREAL &#9632;

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Mother leaps two floors to save baby from flames

<div class="byline">By CARL GROTHMANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0020-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01140/1435717-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">See! Two Coes Into OneHarry Watson, giant sized forward of the Toronto Maple Leafs, finds the boards pretty tough, especially when one of the players heaving him into them is Battlin Kenny Reardon.The action took place in a recent Leaf-Canadiens game in Toronto and the score ended up 1-1.Elmer Lach is number 16 and is backing up Reardon who is in there with just about everything he&rsquo;s got.</figcaption></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;Although the Rangers are perched high in the National League standings and though, when compared to recent New York teams, they are literally sitting on top of the world, there is nothing but pessimism emanating from the office of Lynn Patrick. The Rangers&rsquo; coach is as blue as one of the club&rsquo;s famed jerseys.Not even a recital of the team&rsquo;s record over the past six weeks, a period in which they climbed from last place to second, will chase the gloom.&ldquo;Sure, we won a lot of games and I&rsquo;m happy that we did,&rdquo; he replies, &ldquo;but take a look at our schedule during that time. We played 12 of 19 games in Madison Square Carden. It&rsquo;s only natural that we should win a big share of them if we have a good team. But just look at what&rsquo;s ahead of us, nine games games in three weeks and eight of them on the road. That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m worried.<h2>Settle for 3 Wins</h2>&ldquo;We will play four straight away from home, come back to the Garden for a game with the Canadlens on the 29th of the month, and then take out again for four road games. Right now I&rsquo;ll settle for three wins and a tie out of those eight games. That will leave us just about at the .500 mark and in good position for the last third of the season. But I wish those road games were over and we had the three wins and a draw on the credit side of the league standings.&ldquo;This has been a good club in recent games but they still can&rsquo;t score goals. We have been winning games while averaging just barely over two goals. We have been winning games while averaging just barely over two goals a game. If we expect to win any on the road we will have to do a lot better than that.&rdquo;Coaches in any sport are inclined to look always at the darkest side of a picture but in this case, Lynn&rsquo;s aprehension is probably well founded. Figures prove that no team plays as well on the road as it does at home and the Rangers are no exception. There is something about playing in a home rink in front of a hometown crowd that perks up a team individually and collectively. Consequently the Blue Shirts&rsquo; mentor is concerned over the twin, series of four games on foreign ice with only a single Garden scrap to break the monotony.<h2>Out of 16</h2>If the Blues perform as well during the dark period as they did in earlier away games Lynn&rsquo;s hope for three victories and a tie will probably come true. Of their first 18 road games the Rangers won five, tied five and lost eight, for a percentage close to the one he&rsquo;s asking for in the next eight. But several of the eight loses out of town came early in the season, before the Rangers started flashing the form of recent weeks. But if there is solace in that, Lynn isn&rsquo;t having any. All he asks is seven points out of a possible 16. Anything beyond that he regards as a pipe dream. &#9632;

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Patrick Gloomy About Coming Road Games

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0020-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0280/1435748-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg"></div>Fighting was brisk in the National League recently with the daddy of them all taking place in the Montreal Forum between Maurice Richard and Tony Leswick.It looked like that picture on the left. Richard is number 9, Mosdell is number 18, that&rsquo;s Glen Harmon bending down to pick up his stick, number 21 is Roger Leger number 12 is Normie Dussault and Butch Bouchard is standing in the middle of it all. Gerry Plamondon is behind him. The Rangers in the picture are, number 12, Dune Fisher with Reardon holding him off. Behind Bouchard is Jack Lanclen, Fred SUero and partly obscur&rsquo;ed is Alan Stanley. Don Raleigh is behind Plamondon. Caught between Leger and Dussault is Wally Stanowski.Oh, you want to know what happened to Tony Leswick. Well he had to catch a train. You see all this took place after the game was over and the Rangers had won. Tony was quite satisfied to leave it at that.The picture on the right shows Red Kelly, the Irishman with the flaming red hair of the Detroit Red Wings, about to mix it with Gus Mortson of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Mortson looks as though he&rsquo;d rather talk it over and Ray Getliffe, the referee, is holding out to Kelly just in case he doesn&rsquo;t want to talk. That&rsquo;s Vic Lynn number 14 of the Leafs and little Mush Marsh another official is also trying to get into the thick of things. Joe Carveth is directly behind Getliffe and Pete Rabando number 14 and George Gee on the far left are quite prepared to just watch. Oh yes, Detroit won the game, we don&rsquo;t know who won the fight. &#9632;

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January 21, 1950

Sam Pollock Of Habs Tells Of West Riot

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