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April 15, 1950
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Caps Counting On Up-Front Balance Air-tight Coaling
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.— The same balanced scoring attack and consistent defensive play which carried the Indianapolis Caps into the Calder Cup finals on the crest of a four-game winning streak, had Hoosier hockey fans predicting a duplication of the only previous Indianapolis play-off triumph in 1942 Coach Ott Heller’s “trigger line,” consisting of two Sophomores and a rookie, accounted for seven of the Caps’ 20 goals in their four-game sweep through St. Louis and Providence. Jerry Reid, Fred Glover and Doug McKay, who made the jump to the American League this season direct from amateur ranks, are the members of this trio. Rod Morrison, Nelson Podolsky and Captain Don Morrison — three veterans who form the starting forward line—have contributed five goals. Pat Lundy. Gordon Haidy and EnioSclisizzi,—another veteran threesome—have flashed the red light…
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Lundy Leads Indianapolis’ Tat Lundy leads all players in the scoring race after three games of the Calder Cup finals between the Caps and Cleveland Barons. In three games he scored no fewer than seven goals and added three assists for 10 points. Warwick Called Up Billy Warwick was called up from Minneapolis Millers to play with the Cleveland Barons in their playoff series against the Indianapolis Caps. In his first game Warwick assisted on two goals as the Barons lost both encounters to the younger Caps. HOW THE RACE GOES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 Indianapolis 4, at Cleveland 1 (Indianapolis leads best of seven series 1-0) CLEVELAND. — Goaler Terry Sawchuk turned in a terrific effort as the Youthful Indianapolis Caps turned back the powerful Cleveland Barons 4-1. Chunky Sawchuk was bhe star of the game, turning back the…
Cops, Kids Hit It Off Well In Hamilton Loop
HAMILTON, Ont.— Back in the fall of 1948 the Hamilton Minor-Athletic Association which conducted all the organized minor league baseball and hockey in this city found itself in a condition of bankruptcy, and decided to terminate activities. When this became known to the Hamilton Police Amateur Athletic Association they held a speedy Executive meeting and decided to take over the Minor Association lock, stock and barrel. They not only refinanced the Association, but also actively administered it. Constable Bill Friday and Ernie Jackson of the Hamilton Police Force took over reins of the newly-named Hamilton Police Minor Athletic Association and the results were startling. The 1948-49 hockey season was one of the biggest successes in the Association’s history. Since that time the Association’s activities, its membership and its finances have been developed…
Reunion In Vancouver
SHAVE A FEW DECADES off their oges and you’d have quite a hockey team, as represented by this gathering of oldtime stars. The photo was snapped in Vancouver at the opening of the new Kerrisdaie rink there last November. Among these chipper looking youngsters are puckchasers whose names were household words in hockey just a few fleeting years ago. Shown, left to right, are Lester Patrick, Art Jefford, Freddie Orchard, John Wickson, Ron Irving, Barney Quinn, E. A. Burnett, Paul Runge, Si Griffis, Paul Thompson, Frank Frederickson and Fred Taylor, the old Cyclone himself. They would have made a fearsome team some 25 years ago. Txmie Ferguson, Tulsa Oilers classy rookie, got into the last game of the National Hockey League season with the Boston Bruins. Lome handled himself like a veteran and…
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