The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.

July 15, 1950

The Hockey News July 15, 1950

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02182/1413354-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="272" height="245"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01292/1413361-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="232" height="234"></div><h2>MARINES TAKE NOTE</h2>Dear Sir:If Pfc Peter J. Caden will send along his address and the aiddresses of thp other hockey fans in San Diego, California to me I will see that they receive letters with all sorts of hockey news, clippings programs, etc.Several members of the Red Wing For&rsquo;em Club have offered to write them.Also, you hockey fans from Detroit who write to the For&rsquo;em. How about joining the greatest fan club for the greatest hockey club, The Red Wing For&rsquo;em Club. Our meetings are open and information may be obtained by writing me.Penny Sacco, President.4016 Columbus, Detroit, Mich.<h2>A HAB FAN</h2>Dear Sir:I have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS for quite some time now and I think it is a wonderful paper.As I am a Canadian fan I am interested in their f950-51 team. Have they any pro prospects in their farm system who are counted on to make the club next season? And now that Bill Durnan has retired, haive they any other goaler besides Gerry McNeil who could be counted on to hold his position in case of an emergency.B. A. MacLeod High Bank. P.E.I.(The Canadiens have many good prospects in their system who will report to their training camp on September 18. Canadiens also own Goaler Gordie Bell and have an amateur named Jacques Plante who is very good.)<h2>ENGLAND&rsquo;S GOALER AVERAGE</h2>Dear Sir:I would like to congratulate Norman De Mesquite for explaining to yours readers how we decide a goalers average, on this side of the Atlantic. The goals per game system, as used in the U.S. and Canada is very unfair. As a good goaler with at good defense will have a good average, but a good goaler with a weak defense will have a poor average, regardless of his personal ability, as a goalie can&rsquo;t beat and opposing team will on his own.The shots, per goal system! as used in Great Britain is far superior, as it rates a goalie by the percentage of sawes he makes, and not by the number of times his defense is bamboozled, as in youi method. The Vezina Trophy can only be considered a team award held by the goaler, especially when a sub takes his place for a few games.My only criticism of Mr. De-Mesquita is that he states that a reporter has to count the number of shots handled by each goaler That is one of the duties of the goal judges.George Lee.London. Eng.(Perhaps you&rsquo;re Tight George, but, a goal judge, or anybody else may differ on a shot on goal or a save, but you can&rsquo;t argue when the light goes on.)<h2>WANTS TO BE SCOUTED</h2>Dear Sir:Keep up the great work on THE HOCKEY NEWS as it is truly a great paper and worth waiting for. In your last issue you answered a letter saying that chances on a boy from the States playing hockey are as good as the next guys.I am also very interested in playing hockey 8ind would like to know what to do as chances of waiting for a scout here to spot you are very slim. Isn&rsquo;t there some place where a boy like me could go to show his wares.R. L. Thomesn. Chicago. Ill.(We suggest that you get in touch with the Amateur Hockey Association of the Unitcjl States and find out if their is or will be a pee wee program going on in your area. Sorry, that&rsquo;s all the advice we can give you.)<h2>WHAT ABOUT BERTIE?</h2>Dear Sir:Hearty congrats to the Fan Forum. It&rsquo;s really swell, Uis is the whole HOCKEY NEWS.However, I have a beof on the Calder Trophy winner, Jack Gelineau. How did Olmstead ever lose? He ranked eleventh in scoring while Gelineau played a mediocre goal with the Bruins. And the Hawks were a cellair team. There ain&rsquo;t no justice.Bob Westenberg. Chicago, HLRIGHT MOVEDear Sir.The National Hockey League and the rest of the pro leagues made a good move when they decided to lift the signing age of a hoy to 18. I have a son who is reputed to be good future hockey material but I was worried lest he be signed by a Club when he was just 16 years old. Not knowing anything about the game left me sort of out on the limb. Now that the age limit has been raised I feel sure that when my lad reaches 18 years of age he&rsquo;ll know exactly what he wants to do in the way of a career.Thanks once again.H. M. Bistow. Waterloo, Ont.<h2>WE WAS ROBBED</h2>Dear Sir:As this is my first letter to youf paper, I would like to make sew eral facts clear to all who subscribe and may be interested. We here in New Haven are really avid hockey fans. Besides ouf A.H.L. teagn. the Ramblers, we have about fifteen hockey teams of other classifications including the Pioneer Pee Wee group started a couple of years ago by Lynn Patrick, and which has since grown nation wide.The Rangers halve decided that their Rambler farm club has cost them too much money, so they&rsquo;ve left the team, and sold the player? to Cincinnnati, whose gain is our loss. I&rsquo;ve been a faithful fan of our New Haven team from back in the days of the old Eagles right through to the Ramblers. And I&rsquo;m not alone. New Haven fans will back any club that meets us halfway. The Rangers didn&rsquo;t. They lost money. We lost a team, and a very colorful one at that. They pulled as many as three players at a time and sat them on tha bench at the Garden when wa were already shorthanded. So Mr. Colville asked for reinforcements from St. Paul. So Wes Trainor was sent from the Ramblers to St. Paul!1I?We got two amateurs from tha Rovers the night the league leading Barons were in town. It really used to hurt to watch Emile Francis play his continuous brilliant game night after night, making anywhere from 35 to 45 saves a game and with only three defense men ft seems that all the clubs in the Ranger organization got what they wanted but their biggest one, New Haven. They called the two amateurs back to New York because they were needed in amateur playoffs. And the Rangers wonder why they lost money. They had no publicity, their general admission price was $1.20 and so forth.James P. Munroe. New Haven, Conn.<h2>GOOD COVERAGE</h2>Dear Sir,Keep up the great work In THE HOCKEY NEWS. It is truly a wonderful paper and something. I look forward to very much. hope some day that the pape-. will be a year round one with 52 issues instead of just 35. The fine monthly issues that arrive are very interesting in as much as we don&rsquo;t hear an awful lot about the game in the summer months. The last paper was particularly good as it covered the meetings very closely and that&rsquo;s something we don&rsquo;t get here very often.Cheryl Gilbert. New York, N.Y.&mdash;<h2>THOSE MEETINGS</h2>Dear Sir.Congratulations to THE HOCKEY NEWS in its fine coverage of the summer meeting of the different leagues. It&rsquo;s truly grand to be able to come home and find THE HOCKEY NEWS waiting with all the latest news about the best sport bn earth.Mike Sprought.Detroit, Mich.<h2>NO MINORS</h2>Dear Sir.Since the professional hockey, leagues have decised to raise the signing age to 18, does that mean that I will not be able to go to a pro tryout camp this season?I am only 17 years of age and played junior B hockey last year. I thought that I might get an invitation this season.Jerry Graham. Windsor, Ont.(Unless you were signed to a forn before tho age of signing was raised then you will not bo allowed to attend any camp run by a professional hockey club. Tho new-ruling affects only boys who were not signed to an aggreement before the rule was enforced. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

THE FAN FORUM

Chicago. Ill.&mdash;The biggest deal in the history of the National Hockey League was completed just as we went to press.The Chicago Black Hawks sent Metro Prystai, Gaye Stewart, Bob Goldham and Sugar Jim Henry to the Wings in exchange for Harry Lumley, Jack Stewart, Al Dewsbury, Pete Babando and Don Morrison.The deal, which was rumoured on the fire for quite some time, is the biggest since Max Bentley was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs for five players.The main figure in the deal of course was Metro Prystai. However it proved that Bill Tobin and Ebbie Goodfellow aren&rsquo;t kidding when they said there would be a wholesale shakeup in the Hawks before the new season gets underway.For the Hawks the two figures in the trade are Lumley and Stewart. Goodfellow has announced that he will appoint Stewart assistant coach of the club. &#9632;

Hanks Get Five For Four In Deal

VOLUME 3 MONTREAL, JULY 15, 1950 NUMBER 33<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0163/1413765-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="266" height="298"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0262/1413758-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="264" height="308"></div><h2>Veteran Eddie Bruneteau Voted Best By Omaha Sports casters Association</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0528/1413751-1-eng-US/f00c4-052.jpg" title="f00C4-05" width="1617" height="1470"><figcaption class="caption-body">Each year the Omaha Sportcasters Association presents a trophy to the player on the Omaha Knights whom they think is the most valuable to the team. This season Veteran Eddie Bruneteau, brother of Coach Mud Bruneteau of the Knights, won the award. Bruneteau was one of the main factors in Omaha&rsquo;;s brilliant season. Playing with team of rookies Eddie fitted in well and gave his younger teammates many good tips.Eddie is seen accepting the trophy in the above picture. Also in the shot ore TIP SAGGAU, WOW, BRUNETEAU, JACK SANDLER, KOWH, president, Omaha Sportscasters Association and LYAL BREMSER, KFAB. Front row, left to right: Ed MORGAN, KBON and BOB STEELMAN, KOIL. Bruneteau was given a miniature of the trophy to keep</figcaption></div><h2>Now Listen Here Young Fellow</h2><h2>Day Throws Boquets; Coast Loves Them</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0612/1413744-1-eng-US/f00c4-062.jpg" title="f00C4-06" width="2193" height="972"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Pacific Coast League&rsquo;s greatest fan, grand old Pop Grant is seen on the right telling some young whippersnappers all about this game of hockey. It was a special occasion for Hap Day, then coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs and general manager of the club was a visitor. Seen in the picture, left to right are, Lester Patrick, owner of the Victoria club in the P.C.H.L., Pop Grant, Al Leader, president of the league and Day. The Toronto expert shocked the senior hockey world by saying that the P.C.H.L. is better than any amateur league today. It went over well on the coast but not so well with senior hockey&rsquo;s leaders</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By HERBERT GOREN</div>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;&ldquo;Coaching hockey in the minors,&rdquo; quoth Neil Colville, &ldquo;is no picnic. The coaching part of it is allright. But that&rsquo;s miscellaneous. I&rsquo;m nurse-maid, father-confessor, entertainment director, traveling secretary and a lot of other things all rolled into one.&ldquo;Would you believe it?&rdquo; Neil went on. &ldquo;One of my boys came up to me once and asked me to fix a parking ticket. And pretty near the whole bunch of them expected me to fill out their income tax forms. Just as soon as you become coach, the other boys think you can do everything; and if you can&rsquo;t, you&rsquo;re stupid.&ldquo;When the boys were home In New Haven, they looked to me every now and then for a pass to this or a pass to that. They&rsquo;d say: &lsquo;What&rsquo;s cookin&rsquo; in the Garden in New York?&rsquo;&ldquo;So I&rsquo;m supposed to know. And when I tell&rsquo;em, they say: &lsquo;Can you get me a couple?&rsquo; I hadda try. After all, there&rsquo;s nothing like a happy ball club.&rdquo;Colville&rsquo;s Ramblers were just about the youngest team in the American Hockey League. Seven or eight of the players are not of voting age. But others were married and he had to work with immigration authorities in Canada to help the boys get their wives into the country.&ldquo;Three of the boys,&rdquo; Neil said, &ldquo;owned and operated a &rsquo;32 sedan which was more dead than alive. Well, they lived about ten miles out in the country and sometimes they didn&rsquo;t get in in time for practice, and always it&rsquo;s the car that&rsquo;s at fault. If it&rsquo;s not the battery, then it&rsquo;s the transmitter which won&rsquo;t turn over. I know more about the inside of a car since I became coach than I ever dreamed existed.&rdquo;Colville&rsquo; started out to be a player-coach at New Haven, but found it difficult and sometimes confusing to make the switches every few minutes from the ice or while skating off to the bench.&ldquo;I made the mistake of sending one player on,&rdquo; Neil confessed, &ldquo;who hadn&rsquo;t had more than a minute of rest. You see, the normal routine of line, changes can be thrown out of whack by penalties. It&rsquo;s hard to keep track while you&rsquo;re playing.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04140/1413030-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="550" height="882"></div>&ldquo;And one more thing,&rdquo; Neil added with a wink. &ldquo;As a bench coach, I&rsquo;ve got more lung power between periods. I can bawl the boys out. When I was playing myself, I&rsquo;d be too tired to say my piece.&rdquo;Colville tells one story of disaster which illustrates how a coach&rsquo;s mind works.&ldquo;We had this game with Hershey,&rdquo; Neil said, &ldquo;and there was a scramble in front of our cage. One of the Hershey players had his stick hooked under the armpit of our goalie, Emile Francis, and they were pulling in opposite directions. I could see Francis growing white with rage and punching the Hershey player with his free arm, and finally there was a whistle and Francis skated over to our bench. His arm hung limp and he said to me: Neil, I got a dislocated shoulder.&rsquo;&ldquo;Without thinking&mdash;well, anyway, I couldn&rsquo;t have been thinkirig much&mdash;I said: &lsquo;Well, how does it feel? Are you going to be able to play?&rsquo;&ldquo;Imagine! This poor fellow&rsquo;s arm is out of its socket and all I can think of is the game and how to protect our lead, which is 4-1, with seven minutes to go. Just to rub it in, the referee gives Francis a two-minute penalty for fighting, and I&rsquo;m about to bawl out our goalie for losing his head, as if he hasn&rsquo;t got trouble enough. &#9632;

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Ya Cotta Be Father And Nurse-maid To Coach In The Minors

VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;Silas (Si) Griffis, one of the nine hockey imortals who were recently admitted to the Hockey Hall of Fame, died here on the morning of July 10. Griffis was 66 years of age.Since he left hockey just after the first world war Griffis had been an advertising executive on the coast.When in his prime he was a forward with the Kenora Thistles when they won the Stanley Cup in 1907. Then he travelled to the coast and was a star on the Vancouver Millionares&rsquo; defense. He captained the Millionnaires to the the Stanley Cup in 1915. &#9632;

Si Grims Dies On West Coast

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>KINGSTON, Ont.&mdash;Nine of hockey&rsquo;s all-time greats were admitted to the International Hockey Hall of Fame, it was announced here by James B. Garvin, K. C., president of the Hockey Hall of Fame. The nine new members are Edouard Charles (Newsy) Lalonde, Joe Malone, Frank Patrick, Allan (Scotty) Davidson, Charles Graham Drinkwater, Mike Grant, Silas (Si) Griffis, George Richardson and Harry J. Trihey, K.C.For of the nine, Davidson, Drinkwater, Richardson and Trihey are now deceased. Davidson and Richardson were both killed in action in the First &ldquo;World War. The C.A.H.A. trophy owhich is awarded annually to the Eastern Junior champions was donated as a memorial to Richardson. With the exception of Drinkwater, Grant, Richardson and Trihey, all new Hall of Fame members were professionals.<h2>Lalonde The Great</h2>The 62-year-old Lalonde, now living in Montreal, was without a doubt one of the greatest players to ever lace up a skate. &ldquo;Newsy&rdquo; gained his faime at just obout the time professional hockey was getting established. He played with Cornwall in the Federal League; with Michigan Soo in the Interna tional League; with Berlin (Kitchener) in the Trolley League; with Renferw in the National Hockey Association; with Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey Association and National Hockey League; and with Saskatoon in the Western Canada League and Pacific Coast League.He scored over 400 goals in these leagues, more goals than any other player has scored in professional hockey. He was a member of several N.H.A. and N.H.L. championship teams and Stanley Cup winners. Recognized a;3 one of the most prolific scorers and colorful forwards of all-time, &ldquo;Newsy&rdquo; scored nine goals in one game while playing for Renfrew against Cobalt. Lalonde was also one of Canadai&rsquo;s best lacrosse players, and whether it be hockey or lacrosse, he was always One of the highest paid performers in the business.Joe Malone is reputed to have had one of the hardest shots of any player to ever perform in pro ranks. Malone, who played his early hockey with Waterloo in the Trolley League and later with Que bee Bulldogs in the N.H.A. and N.H.L. and with Montreal Canadiens and Hamilton Tigers, was one of the most productive scorers in history. Playing for Quebec in the N.H.L. in 1918 he scored 44 goals in 24 games. On January 31, 1920 ha scored seven goals for Quebec against Toronto St. Pats for a record that has not been equalled in National League play. On one occasion Re scored nine goals against Sydney in a Stanley Cup game. He captained the Stanley champion Quebec Bulldogs of 1911-12 apd 1912-13.<h2>Patrick&rsquo;s Forward Passing</h2>Frank. Patrick, yojinger brother of Lescer who is also a member of the Hall of Fame, was a great player and referee but his major hockey contributions were his rule changes. He was the instigator of forward passing, unlimited substitution, numbering of players, artificial ice, the playoff system that is in vogue today and was copied by the minor baseball leagues, and several features that make up the modern game. He was an outstonding executive in every way. One time while playing for Vancouver he scored Six goals as a, defenseman. He had the unusual distinction in the Pacific Coast League of being league president, club president, manager, coach and star player all at the same time.Allan (Scotty) Davidson was an upstanding young Canadian who led and examplary life and was a perfect model for younger boys. He was killed in action in France at the age of 24. A naitive of King ston, Ont., Scotty turned professional with Toronto and as captain of that team he was very outstanding in leading the club to the League Championship apd Stanley Cup in 1913-14. He was a star player every time he appeared on the ice. He was sound and brilliant in every department of the game. It is said that Davidson was the first professional player to volunteer for service overseas in World War I.Charles Graham Drinkwater and Mike Grant were two of the amai teur greats of yesteryear. Drink water played all his hockey with the Montreal Victorias. This excellent amateur organization won the Stanley Cup, which was contested for by amateur teams at that time, in 1894-95, 1896-97, 1897-98 and 1898-99 and Drinkwater was a valued member of all these teams.He was a clever stickhandler and spirited leader and it&rsquo;s said that he would be a &ldquo;dream&rdquo; player today.Drinkwater and Mike Grant formed the regular defense of the Victoria Stanley Cup team of 1899. Grant was a durable competitor and wonderful all-round hockeyist. He captained the four Montreal Victorias teams that won the Stanley Cup. Mike played his first hockey with Montreal Crystals Intermediates. Besides the Victorias he also played with Montreal Shamrocks. Grant now lives in St. Lambert, Que. and is 77.<h2>&ldquo;Si&rdquo; Griffis-Super</h2>There are numerous hockey followers of the early 1900&rsquo;s who swear thaft one of the super-stars of all-time was &ldquo;Si&rdquo; Griffis. He started out as a forward with Kenora Thistles when that club won the Stanley Cup in 1906-07. He later journeyed out to the Pacific Coast, and was an outstanding defenseman for a decade with Vancouver. He captained the Stanley Cup champion Vancouver Millionaires of 1914-15. &ldquo;Si&rdquo; was keen, courageous, reliable, a fine team player and a brilliant scorer.<h2>Malone The Creat</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0359/1413817-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="526" height="840"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Malone</figcaption></div>George Richardson and Harry Trihey played all their amateur hockey in Eastern Canada. Richardson was a star with Queens University and Kingston Frontenacs. He was a magnificent stickhandler, a fast skater and hard shot. He was a true gentleman in every way. Trihey&rsquo;s entire career was spent with the Montreal Shamrocks in the period 1897 to 1903. He was captain of the Shamrocks, a clean courageous player who gave everything he had all the time he was on the ice. Harry was a member of the Montreal Shamrocks, Stanley Cup winners of 1899-1900. During the First World War, Trihey, who had the rank of Colonel, organized the 199th Irish Canadian Rangers composed of well-known Irist citizens of Montreal, and went overseas as their Commanding Officer.<h2>So Was Newsy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0451/1413810-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="532" height="834"><figcaption class="caption-body">Newsy Lalonde</figcaption></div><h2>Newsy Still Qets Around</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01143/1413803-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="2181" height="1425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Newsey Lalonde, right, is shown receiving an award from the Montreal Sportsman&rsquo;s Association.</figcaption></div><h2>New Bruins Director</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01220/1413796-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="1707" height="1989"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dil Clapper, former player and coach of the Boston Bruins, has been named a director of the club. President Weston Adams made the announcement some time ago.Clapper, still rated as one of the greatest of all Bruins, was the first and only active player to be elected to the International Hockey Hall Of Fame. He played with the Bruins for 20 seasons, joining them as a rookie in 1927. He ended his playing career in Febbruary 1947 but continued as coach of the club until he resigned after 1948-49 to devote all of his time to his business in Peterboro, Ontario.Now there&rsquo;s talk of Clapper returning to the Bruins to take up where he left off as coach of his old club.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Nine Oldies Voted To Hall Of Fame

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01200/1412968-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"></div>NEW YORK, N. Y.&mdash;Neil Colville, the silver thatched ex-coach of the New Haven Ramblers has been named to succeed Lynn Patrick as coach of the New York Rangers. The 36-year-old ex-Ranger star will take over the Blues at training camp at beautiful Saranac Lake in New York sometime in September.In announcing the appointment of Colville as coach, General John Reed Kilpatrick, Madison Square Garden Corp, president said that Neil was chosen over four other candidates, each of whom received serious consideration for the job.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s done an outstanding job for our organization as a player for many years and as a coach for the past two years. He is familiar with the Ranger pattern and will make an excellent running mate for our manager, Frank Boucher,&rdquo; said General Kilpatrick.<h2>RANGERS FOURTH COACH</h2>In following Lynn Patrick into the New York job it marks the second time that Neil has succeeded him as a coach. He took over the New Haven Ramblers from Patrick in December of 1948 after the latter was appointed coach of the Rangers. Patrick took over from Frank Boucher, who became general manager of the club.Colville is the fourth coach of the Rangers since their inception into the National Hockey League in 1926. Other coaches were Lester Patrick, Frank Boucher and Lynn Patrick.Meanwhile, at home in Edmonton. Alberta, the only comment Colville would made on being notified of his appointment was,&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played with most of the fellows I&rsquo;ll be coaching. I don&rsquo;t know whether that will be good or bad.&rdquo;Colville also said that his first official act as coach of the Rangers will be to confer with Frank Boucher, the Blues manager and chief of the farm system.<h2>COLVILLE, NEIL MAC NEIL</h2>Born, Edmonton, Alta, August 4, 1914.Defense, Shoots right. 5T 1&rdquo;, 185 lbs.Last amateur club: Brooklyn Crescent-Hamilton AC.Most observers believe that in choosing Colville as their coach the Rangers have made a wise and popular choice. Always a favourite When he played with the Rangers Neil was the first choice by many of hockey&rsquo;s experts to take over the post.<h2>PRODUCT OF WINNIPEG</h2>&ldquo;Frosty&rdquo; as Colville is frequently called, is a product of the Rangers&rsquo; school at Winnipeg. The Blue Shirts took an interest in him in the fall of &rsquo;32 when he was playing for the Edmonton Athletic Club juniors. After two seasons with Edmonton he moved up to the Brooklyn Cresents along with brother Mac, Alex Shibicky, Joe Cooper. Muzz Patrick and Bert Gardiner. One season with the Cresents and another with the Philadelphia Ramblers in the American Hockey League and Neil was ready for the majors. He became a, regular with them in 193637 and. starred with them until his enlistment. His first season out of the N.H.L. saw his play with the Ottawa Commandoes and he was one of their big guns in helping them&rsquo; win the Allan Cup. Later with the R.C.A.F., he became a pilot officer.<h2>Back To New York</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02184/1412961-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1146" height="1484"><figcaption class="caption-body">NEIL COLVILLE &hellip; &hellip; Good or Bad</figcaption></div><h2>AVERAGED 35 POINTS</h2>Upon his re-turn to the National Hockey League Neil was converted from a centerman to a defense-man from which&rsquo; post he succeeded in landing a berth on the sec and N.H.L. All-Star team. During his half-dozen seasons on the forward line he average better than 35 points a season. As the pivot man on a line with his brother Mac and Alex Shibicky the threesome burned up the N.H.L., and today are rated second only to the Cooks and Boucher as the greatest line ever to perform in Ranger livery.Neil was born in Edmonton. Alberta on August 4. 1914. He returns to Edmonton after each season. He is single. &#9632;

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Colville Succeeds Lynn Again; Becomes Fourth Coach Of Rangers

<div class="byline">By STAN SAPLIN</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The New York Rangers broke 12 team records and tied another in the 1949-50 hockey campaign which concluded in April. Eight of the new marks, as well as the tied standard, were club records while four were individual achievements.Only one of the records cracked was of the unfavorable variety. This was a playoff mark for most goails against. The Canadiens and Red Wings combined for a total of 29 goals against the Blue Shirts in Stanley Cup play. High mark previously was 27, tallied against the 1931-32 Rangers.Several of the new records, of course, were brought on by the increased schedule. N.H.L. teams played 70 games last year for the first tim&rsquo;e, an increase of ten over the prior season.Penttl Lund, Allan Stanley and Tony Leswiek shared honors in setting individual standards. Scoring 11 points in the playoffs, Lund topped all previous Ranger efforts. The best before the Finnish born left wing ran up his six goals and five assists was Cecil, Dillon&rsquo;s ten-point accumulation in 1933. Stanley set a mark for most points by a defenseman in the playoffs. 7. three better than the old record held jointly by Ott Heller and Babe Pratt. Leswick&rsquo;s three goals in 3:05 were the fastest ever notched by a Ranger. His 85 minutes in penalties were also tops for a Ranger forward.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03170/1412999-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="394" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">PENTTI LUND</figcaption></div><h2>NEW INDIVIDUAL RANGER RECORDS</h2>Most points, playoffs &mdash; 85, Pentti Lund. Old record. 10, Cecil Dillon, 1933.Most points, defenseman, playoffs &mdash; 7, Allan Stanley. Old record, 4, Ott Heller, 1932; Babe Pratt, 1937, 1940 and 1942.Most penalty minutes, forward &mdash; 85, Tony Leswiek. Old record, 76, Leswiek, 1947-48.1949, at Chicago. Old record, 5:30, Fastest three goals &mdash; 3 minutes5 seconds, Tony Leswiek, Nov. 20, Cal Gardner. 1946-47.<h2>NEW CLUB RECORDS</h2>Most victories home &mdash; 19. Old record. 17, 1939-40.Most goal playoffs &mdash; 32. Old record, 29, 1940.Most assists, playoffs &mdash; 50. Old record, 39, 1940.Most points, playoffs &mdash; 82. Old record. 68, 1940. gMost penalty minutes &mdash; 639. Old record, 599, 1932-33.Most game points &mdash; 67. Old record, 64, 1939-40.Most game points, home &mdash; 42. Old record, 37, 1939-40.Most goals against, playoffs &mdash; 29. Old record. 27, 1932.<h2>CLUB RECORD TIED</h2>Most ties, roa.d &mdash; 7. Record set originally in 1937. &#9632;

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’49-50 Memorable One; Blues Set 12 New Club Titles

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0721/1413127-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">EBBIE GOODFELLOW &hellip; &hellip; Signs for three years</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Ebbie Goodfellow, former Detroit Red Wing great who more recently has coached the St. Louis Flyers of the American Hockey league, was scheduled to meet with Chicago Black Hawk officials about July 1 to help map out the team&rsquo;s promised rebuilding program. He became the first new face in the project when he inked a three year contract as manager on June 14, replacing Charlie Conacher who held the post for two seasons. Conacher has relinquished full time interest in hockey to devote more time to his oil business in Alberta.President Bill Tobin of the Black Hawks considers Goodfellow as one of the ice sport&rsquo;s all-time greats, a man who knows all there is to know about hockey. During his 14 years as a player In the NHL Ebbie (short for Ebenezer) never was a trouble-maker, but on the other hand, he never backed away from anyone. He carried this same agressive spirit into his managerial career and always stresses the fighting spirit among his players.<h2>AMBITION COME TRUE</h2>In St. Louis, Goodfellow told reporters that, it had always been his ambition to manage a National League team.The majority of Goodfellow&rsquo;s NHL playing days were spent in Detroit, with the old Olympic team, the Cougars and Falcons, and the present day Wings. He started out as a center and early in his career went right to the top. During one season ha led scorers in the American division (at that time there were two divisions) of the league with 25 goals and 23 assists and he was second only to the great Howie Morenz in the overall scoring.A short time later Goodfellow switched his talents to defense and it was from this position that he earned most of his fame. He was named to two All-Star squads, in 1936-37 and 1939-40. In the latter season he also was awarded the Hart Trophy as the league&rsquo;s most valuable player.<h2>WAS ADAM&rsquo;S ASSISTANT</h2>During his years with the Red Wings, Goodfellow served as assistant to Manager Jack Adams when the team won the Stanley Cup, for two successive seasons, 1935-36 and 1936-37. He wounded up his active playing days in 1941 as a player-coach.Goodfellow, who was born in Ottawa some 44 years ago, rose to prominence as a manager during the 19 48-49 season when he led St. Louis to the AHL Western taken over the club&rsquo;s reins only the year before and brought them into contention from last place so he apparently has what it takes to make a cellar dweller a top rate team.During his spare time and the off season, the new Hawk mentor division championship. He had can usually be found with his family. He has two children, Ebbie Jr., 13, and Douglas, his 10-year-old daughter. The Goodfellow hometown is still Ottawa. &#9632;

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Rebuilding Program Is Promised As Goodfellow Inks For Three Years

St. Louis. Mo.&mdash;Ebbie Goodfellow&rsquo;s record with the St. Louis Flyers has given Chicago Black Hawks fans aidded hope that they may finally make the playoffs in the near future.When he was hired by the Flyers&rsquo; management Goodfellow was told to &ldquo;lift the Flyers out of the celler &mdash; you have two years in which to do it.&rdquo; That was in the 1947-48 season.Not only did Ebbie take the lowly St. Louis club out of the celler but he raised them higher than they&rsquo;d ever been before. Two years after he took over, the Flyers won the A.H.L. championship with one of the best cluba ever to perform in the loop. &#9632;

Ebbie’s Record Renews Hope

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01199/1413096-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="574" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ray Powell</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02168/1413089-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="264" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gord Fashoway</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03115/1413082-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="578" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill McComb</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0470/1413075-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="272" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cliff Simpson</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0548/1413068-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="582" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed. Nicholson</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;One of the quieter, but most important, aspects connected with the signing of Ebbie Goodfellow as the Chicago Black Hawks manager is the new working agreement effected between the Hawks and the St. Louis Flyers of the American Hockey League. In securing this AHL affiliation the Chicago team will now be able to stand on the same ground with other NHL squads insofar as reserve drawing strength goes. The other National League teams have been pulling new talent from the junior circuit for numerous seasons while Chicago&rsquo;s top farm team was Kansas City of the United States Hockey league, generally rated below the American league for player talent.The St. Louis team, although a title contender for the past several years, hasn&rsquo;t placed too many names on All-Star squads. While he was manager Goodfellow concentrated on unit strength rather than individual performances.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0631/1413061-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="1086" height="1332"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL TOBIN&hellip;&hellip;Signs with St. Loo</figcaption></div>Several Flyers may well find their way up to the Hawks however, since the NHL team has promised a wholesale shakeup in its personnel. These could include, Cliff Simpson and Bill McComb, both centers, and Ed Nicholson, a defense-man. Last season, Simpson scored 31 goals and 52 assists for 83 points with McComb close behind with 81 points off 32 goals and 49 assists. Nicholson is on the light side for a defenseman, but penalty records reveal that he isn&rsquo;t on the meek side.<h2>Kansas City To Milwaukee</h2>The Kansas team will still remain an important part in the Black Hawk farm system, although it will now perform out of Milwaukee as a new USHL competitor with &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hamill as manager. Hamill got some manager&rsquo;s training toward the close of last season when he substituted for Conacher who went out of town on a scouting tour.Ray Powell, a center, and Gordon Fashoway, a left winger, lead the Milwaukee candidates for Hawk jobs. Powell, many thought, would make the grade last year, after he wag the leading USHL scorer in the 1948-49 season. The Black Hawk management however kept him out of the big time for further seasoning. This year he&rsquo;ll be back again with even better reasons for success. During the 1949-50 year he not only lead the USHL scoring with 111 points, but was also named the league&rsquo;s most valuable player.Fashoway, in his sophomore year with Kansas City last season, knocked in 52 goals and made 32 assists for an impressive 84 points.With St. Louis of the AHL and Milwaukee of the USHL the Black Hawks should have one of the closest knit primary farm systems in the National League. Chicago fans should no longer have to wonder when and from where they will see new players. &#9632;

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Tobin And St. Louis Sign Agreement; Chi May Tryout Flyers

<div class="byline">By FRED A. HUBER, jr.</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02243/1413237-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wings Will Fly HereThe Sault Ste Marie rink where Wing hopefuls will gather this Fall.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;For the first time since 1946 the Detroit Hockey organization will take all of their professional prospects to a single pre-season training camp, it was announced by General Manager Jack Adams.The past three years the organization, which includes the Detroit Red Wings, Indianapolis, and Omaha, had divided the training camp group into two sections of pros and amateurs alike. The Western camp has been held at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, while the Easterners were at Waterloo, Ontario in 1947, and have been at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan the last two year.<h2>LESS JUNIORS</h2>This year the entire group will assemble at Sault Sainte Marie.Two reasons have been given for the change in plans. First, Adams feels that better training results may be obtained by working the entire group together, rather than having them divided, and assembled at Olympia Stadium just before the season opening. Also, the new National League rule which prohibits boys under age 18 from attending professional camps will limit the number of junior players who way attend the Sault Sainte Marie session.Two other camps will be held, but both will be devoted entirely to screening amateur players, and no professionals will take part. One will be held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, in late August. The other, at Detroit Olympia, will start, as last year, a week before the pro clubs move in from Sault Sainte Marie.<h2>LESS EXHIBITIONS</h2>Adams indicated that more time woud be de-voted to training and practice this season, and that fewer inter-clulb and exhibition games would be played before the Wings open the official schedule as the defending Stanley Cup champions in the Ail Star Game.Actual dates of the Soo junket will be worked out by Adams on a trip to Northern Michigan Soon.<h2>First Since &rsquo;40</h2>Pentti Lund last season became the first Ranger to lead the Stanley Cup individual scoring lists since Neil Colville and Phil Watson tied for the honor in 1940.<h2>Pete Gets His Chance</h2>A hero today, tomorrow a bum. That&rsquo;s how the saying goes and that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s happening to Pete Babando. Last April he was the toast of Detroit, the uncrowned governor of the State of Michigan, after he scored the overtime goal that gave the Detroit Red Wings the Stanley Cup in their gruelling seven games final series against the New York Rangers. Babando took a pass from George Gee to net the winner in the third overtime session.However, stardom doesn&rsquo;t last long and the memories of sporting fans, particularly hockey fans, is short, very short. Pete was traded in the deal that sent Harry Lumley and Jack Stewart along with Al Dewsbury and Don Morrison to the Chicago Black Hawks. The goal that gave the Wings the Stanley Cup last season is forgotton as another one rolls along. Pete, hidden in the crowd on the Detroit bench through most of last season will now get a chance to prove that he&rsquo;s a National Leaguer.<h2>N.H.L. STATISTICS AVAILABLE FOR FANS</h2>National Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handysized record cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the Individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each Clubs.Requests should be mailed to: N.H.L. Information Bureau, 603 Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Que. &#9632;

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Wings, Caps And Knights To Train At Soo; Adams Wants Only One Camp

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01270/1413206-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="295" height="481"></div>EDDIE &ldquo;PISTOL&rdquo; DOKOHOY of Victoria Cougars has been a pro for only two years but during that time managed to play for teams in all four pro leagues. He is spending the summer reading gas meters in his native Medicine Hat, Alta &hellip; Ted Lindsay, Detroit&rsquo;s All-Star left winger and top scorer in the N.H.L. last season, was seen squiring a beautiful blonde around Montreal recently &hellip; Remember Dutch Hiller? The bespectacled forward who starred with New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens is now working in an aircraft plant in California. They say he&rsquo;s slated for a pretty fair job eventually &hellip; Normie Dussault, Bobby Frampton and Gilles Dube, three forwards that Montreal Canadiens hope to hear plenty from next season, were all married last month &hellip; Hec Highton, goalie for the P.C.H.L. finalists Los Angeles Monarchs, is presently visiting his parents in Montreal &hellip; Ronnie Rowe of the Tacoma Rockets has landed himeslf a good job in a Tacoma radio station for the summer &hellip; Jimmy Peters is still the best softball catcher in the Montreal area. Peters has also been busy helping Bill Durnan paint his house in the country. The spirited winger plans to take out United States citizenship papers and settle in Detroit &hellip; Len Mutcheson, who played for Victoria last season and hails from Portage La Prairie, Man., has a Chinese father and a Polish mother &hellip; Eddie Wares, playing coach of Victoria Cougars last season, is a tomato broker in Cleveland during the summer &hellip; Johnny Bower, goaler of the Cleveland Barons, is an assistant golf pro in the summer at Prince Albert, Sask. An interesting item about Bower is that he originally played under the name of Johnny Kiszkan. You see John was adopted by the Kiszkan family as a boy and used that name until he reached maturity when he adopted his family name of Bower.THE CLEVELAND BARONS are doing a real house-cleaning job during the summer and G. M. Jim Hendy is giving the axe to most of the oldsters on the squad &hellip; Chicago have two promising young defensemen coming up in the persons of Hugh Coflin, a star with Calgary Stampeders last season and Bill Shevetz, from Bellevue, Alta. &hellip; Roger Leger and Bobby Fillion will definitely not be back with Montreal Canadiens next term. Both players have passed their days of usefulness to the Flying Frenchmen &hellip; Harry Mc-Queston, who started last season with Minneapolis Millers and ended up as spare goalie for the Detroit Red Wings, is a shoemaker in his native Toronto during the summer. Harry must be the only cobbler in Jiockey &hellip; Sid Seidman, one of the most active boosters of the New York Rovers&rsquo; Blue Line Club, was a recent visitor to Montreal. Sid wears his Blue Line button all summer long &hellip; Tommy Ivan, Detroit coach, and C. Jean Caspar, the fellow that sells all the accident insurance to the pro hockey players and baseball players, returned from a trip they made together through all the cities in the Southern Association. They&rsquo;d play golf in the morning and Ivan would watch the ball games in the afternoon and evenings while Caspar tried to induce the players to take out some insurance &hellip; Hap Day is busy at Conn Smythe&rsquo;s sand and gravel pit these days &hellip; Frank Boucher has a new farm at Mountain, Ont. He turned over his old one to son Earl and purchased some land close by &hellip; Frank Currie, the fellow who has done such a grand job at Edmonton, made a quick trip to Montreal since the season ended. Frank is very optimistic about next season &hellip; Les Vickery, defenseman of the Fresno Falcons who was struck in the eye during a game last season, is reported almost totally mended. Les is spending the summer at Prince Rupert, B.C.DETROIT&rsquo;S GORDIE HOWE has recovered completely from the head injury he suffered in the playoffs, He is currently playing softball in Saskatoon, Sask, and is one of the outstanding hitters in the league. He won a game for his team the other night with a three-run homer &hellip; Bill Cowley is keeping in shape in Ottawa playing handball &hellip; Sid Howe, who held the N.H.L. all-time scoring record before Cowley fractured it, has made such a success of his sporting goods store in Ottawa that he is seeking larger quarters &hellip; Kenny Smith of the Boston Bruins, who played through last season with a thyroid ailment that bothered him considerably, had an operation for it recently &hellip; The Boston Bruins paid all expenses for the operation &hellip; Bill &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hunter, manager of the Saskatoon Quakers in the Western Canada Senior League for the past two seasons, will act as publicity director of the Regina Caps next season &hellip; Did you know that Roger &ldquo;Broadway&rdquo; Jenkins, one-time N.H.L. star with Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Canadiens and New York Americans, flew half-way across the continent to see a Stanley Cup game, and then missed it. It happened this way. Roger, who is located in Seattle where he has done very well in the tire business, took a plane from Seattle for Detroit to see the second last game of the Staley Cup finals. At Minneapolis, as the plane set out for the Great Lakes, one engine conked out, the pilot refused to risk the trip and turned back to Minneapolis. A new plane was chartered but Jenkins reached Detroit at midnight on Saturday, too late for the game. He was all set to attend Sunday&rsquo;s game which was one of the greatest ever played in a Stanley Cup final, but got orders instead to report immediately to Akron for a business conference &hellip; so poor Roger never did see a game &hellip; Fernand Gauthier of St. Louis Flyers is a beer waiter in a Montreal tavern during the summer. Ditto for Joe Lepine of Cincinnati Mohawks &hellip; only Joe is located at Orford Lake, Que &hellip; Floyd curry is working in the mutuels department of Montreal&rsquo;s Blue Bonnets Race Track this summer.THE C.A.H.A. has awarded $3,000 to each of its nine branches to be spent on the development om minor hockey &hellip; Officials of the Western International Hockey League which comprises teams in Trail, Kimberley, Nelson and Spokane are anxious to play an exchange of games with teams from the Okanagan-Mainline League. The O-M loop is composed of teams from Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna, Nanaimo and Kerrisdale. This league had a very successful season last year &hellip; Frank Bernard of the Kerrisdale team is on the lookout for players who are too old for junior competition but who would like to settle in British Columbia. The league desn&rsquo;t pay the players too much in cash but offers plenty of good opportunities for boys wanting to settle down in jobs with a future &hellip; Anton Johanson writes us that in Stockholm, Sweden, there are now 150 natural ice hockey rinks for the schools and small clubs, Anton also advises that crowds of 10 and 12,000 turn out for major hockey matches in Sweden. Stockholm has natural ice for three to four months every winter and it won&rsquo;t be too long before that progressive country starts to make itself heard in the hockey realm&hellip;When New York Rangers open the 1950-51 season in Madison Square Garden it will mark their 600th regular season home game &hellip; Only three members of last spring&rsquo;s Staley Cup finalists New York Rangers were with the team more than three seasons. The three areChuck Rayner, Edgar Laprade and Tony Leswick &hellip; When Tommy Lockhart attended the C.A.H.A.&rsquo;s annual meeting at Banff last month, It was the 15th C.A.H.A. meeting Tom had attended &hellip; Vernon Thomas, assistant to the President of the A.H.A. of the U.S., has attended seven of the C.A.H.A. meetings &hellip; Milwaukee will not ice a team in amateur hockey next season &hellip; There is talk of trying to arrange a playoff this fall between Spokane and Chatham for the United States Senior Open Championship &hellip; 287 teams were regisseason. This is 26 more teams than the previous high &hellip; over 3,842 players were registered with the A.H.A. of U.S. and less than 300 were Canadians &hellip; When the Memorial Auditorium is completed in Baltimore, don&rsquo;t be surpirsed to see Baltimore back in the Eastern League again.N.H.L. CLUBS are moving their training camps for amateurs further west. Last season Chicago heid their camp at Moose Jew, Sask., while this autumn they&rsquo;ll go through their paces at Calgary. New York Rangers have held their hockey school at Winnipeg for years. This fall they&rsquo;ll train at Lethbridge, Alta &hellip; Jack MacAulay has coached the Banff Mountaneers to the Intermediate B finals of Alberta for five of the last si. years. There are only about 12 eligible kids in Banff to play Intermediate hotkey and MacAulay moulds a team from the dozen hopefuls. Stan Thompson and Rudy Waseluk, two members of last season&rsquo;s Mountaneers, will attend the Chicago camp this fall &hellip; Jenticton and Chilliwick, two Living British Columbia towns, would like to enter teams in the Okanagan-Mainline League next season. &hellip; Don Raleigh has scored two of the last four New York hat tricks. Tony Leswick and Pentti Lund notched the others &hellip; Penny Sacco tells us that the Red Wing For&rsquo;em Club is going along at a great pace. The club is holding its first picnic this month. They also plan to form a bowling league #8230; Joe Conn, defenseman of the Cleveland Barons, has boxed professionally as a middleweight and light heavyweight. He appeared in eight bouts and was beaten only once &hellip; The National Hockey League are making a film showing the highlights of last spring&rsquo;s thrilling Stanley Cup playoffs. The film will run for 30 minutes and will feature all the top moments of the series. It will be ready for distribution next hockey season.AFTER MAPLE LEAF GARDENS, the new Calgary Arena will be the best rink in Canada, say Calgary sportswriters and sportscasters The beautiful new $1,500,000 building is expected to be open the first week of December. It will seat 7,000 and will have room to accommodate over 3,000 standees. The seats will be all theatre style. The arena will feature the most up to date lighting system in Canada. They will have a Sportimer the same as that used in Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. So far they havn&rsquo;t decided on a name for the rink but will conduct a contest shortly to decide the name. Some people want to call it the Stampede Gardens &hellip; or the Corral &hellip; or the Coliseum &hellip; Henry Viney. Calgary sportscaster with one of the largest followings in Western Canada, made a flying trip to the Kentucky Derby. Henry left Calgary Friday night, saw the Run for the Roses, enplaned immediately after and was back in Calgary on Sunday. Henry saw Charlie Conacher at the Kentucky Derby &hellip; Conacher, the big oil baron, may do some scouting for Chicago on the side next winter &hellip; He was offered the Boston coaching job but turned it down &hellip; Most people seem to think that Dit Clapper will be back as Boston coach next year &hellip; Harry Ornest, the U.S.H.L. referee, is umpiring baseball again this summer in Edmonton &hellip; AmbySloran. the old-time hockey star, is umpiring in Calgary &hellip; Over 50 new rinks were constructed in Ontario last year &hellip; Johnny Peirson, Boston Bruins&rsquo; ace right winger, is one of Quebec&rsquo;s top amateur golfers. He&rsquo;s already landed a spot on Quebec&rsquo;s Willingdon Cup golf team &hellip;Terry Sawchuk is playing baseball in Winnipeg and is one of the league&rsquo;s top hitters &hellip; Maurice Richard wallops a golf ball close to 300 yards. He doesn&rsquo;t play the game very often but when he does he shows plenty of promise of bing just as adept on the fairwars as he is on the ice lanes &hellip; Bill Ezinicki is a pro at a golf club in up state New York this summer &hellip; Do you remember Dick Lane who played the part of Clay Hopper in The Jackie Robinson Story? Well he&rsquo;s the same Dick Lane who does the Hockey Television Broadcasts in Los Angeles. &#9632;

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Passing the Puck

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Two of hockey&rsquo;s all-time great goalers terminated their careers this season.With the Hawks getting Harry Lumley in their recent four for five trade it leaves Frigid Frankie Brimsek in the deep freeze. Although no mention has been made of his retirement, most observes believe that he will quit the game and return to his business on a full time basis.Meanwhile, in Montreal, Goaler Bill Durnan told General Manager Frank Selke that he&rsquo;s definately through with hockey.Offered a contract tor one more season Big Bill told the Montreal G. M. that his nerves are shot and that he cobldn&rsquo;t stand another season in goal.When he was offered a contract to stand by as sub-goaler to Gerry McNeil he also refused. He said he didn&rsquo;t want to embrrass McNeil.Durnan is now working as a salesman for Labatt&rsquo;s Brewery in Montreal. &#9632;

Frank And Bill End Careers

Toronto, Ont.&mdash;Death of his father has clinched the decision of Garth Boesch, Toronto Maple Leaf defenseman to retire from pro hockey.Before he returned to his home in Riceton, Sask., when Leafs were ousted from the Stanley Cup semi - finals, Boesch was informed that his father had suffered a stroke. He said then h e probably would not be back. In a letter recently Boesch told of the death of his father John Peter Boesch, 58. a master farmer, early last month. The death, plus the fact that the greaer load of work on the wheat farm he shared with his dad now falls on Garth, finalized his decision.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02196/1413299-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="265" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Garth Boesch</figcaption></div>The father had farmed in Saskatchewan for 45 years and was prominent in Riceton business and fraternal affairs. He was presented the master farmer award in 1934 by the Provincial Agriculture Department and was secretary-treasurer of the Riceton wheat pool committee.Garth, 29, was with the Leafs the last four years after spending a season on the Pittsburg farm team. He was signed to a Leafian contract from the Saskatoon senior RCAF team.His retirement leaves the way open for some youngster, such as Hugh Bolton or Tim Horton, to move into the big-time,,<h2>Chuck&rsquo;s Record</h2>Chuck Rayner, the Rangers&rsquo; Hart Trophy winning goalie, had 16 one-goal games in the regular campaign Last season and another four during the playoffs. He scored seven shutouts, six of these in the regular season.<h2>The Hockey News</h2>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September, by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 603A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebec Canada. Entered as second class matter June 1, 1948, at the Post Office in Buffalo, N.Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $2.50 in Canada, $3.50 in U.S.AThere&rsquo;s a good chance that Kenny Reardon may not play any more.General Manager Frank Seike of Montreal said that Reardon&rsquo;s bad shoulder is far from healed and that he&rsquo;s having a hard time manipulating it.Seike said that if he wasn&rsquo;t fully recovered by the time the training camp started then Reardon may retire.Reardon is reported getting married shortly and he may quit to devote his full time to business. He is also reported to have enrolled in a business college.<h2>LAST MONTH&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03154/1413292-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="547" height="882"></div> &#9632;

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Death Of Father Settles Boesch Retirement Plan

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1, 1947Published byHockey News Company, 608A Sun Life Building.Montreal. Que.Yearly Subscription Price $2.50 in Canada &mdash; $3.60 in U.S.A.Authorized as second class mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Printed in CanadaVol. 3 July 15, 1950 No. 33<h2>HOCKEY UPS ITS SIGNING AGE</h2>Professional hockey reverted back to a pre-war rule recently when it announced, through President Clarance Campbell of the National Hockey League, that in future no player under 18 years of age will have overtures made to him with regards to his future in the game. The wartime rule was brought into effect owing to the scarcity of experienced players. In reverting back to its pre-war rule hockey in general has cooled off one of the most controversial issues it has ever had to deal with.Educational authorities have continuously been at odds I with the game&rsquo;s executives. To lead their arguement school board heads have used the age of signing rule, time and time again, as their major weapon, but seldom have they offered to work out a method whereby everybody could or would be satisfied.Now comes the new rule. But, will the school boards throughout the country be satisfied that the issue is finished? Will they now try to promote good will between professional hockey and themselves? It remains to be seen. One of the major points which the educational authorities have brought up many times is that professional hockey has spoiled and is continuing to spoil young men with luring contracts and huge promises. They have beefed that the boys have been hypnotized into signing forms whereby they are stranded and obligated to, one hockey club and even forced into turning professional. They looked no farther to find a reason than that hockey was at fault.But, if those educational experts, who are so intent on sending our young men through school, were to really look into the reasons why so many boys are leaving classes, they would find that as a reason hockey is way down the list.If those educational authorities were to take a census of the young men who left school at the tender age of 16 they would find that over 60 percent do so because they have trouble gaining the necessary marks to continue their studies, and that less than three and a half percent do so to devote their full time to hockey.It is far from impossible for a normal boy to play hockey and gain high marks in his studies. Jack Gelineau and Johnny Peirson of the Boston Bruins are two fine examples of a combined effort of studies and hockey. Their education is at a higher standard that most lads of their age throughout Canada. They have suffered little by their efforts. They are now earning more money per year playing hockey than most college graduates do for many years after they have been handed a degree. The knowledge and experience they have gained and will gain in the years to come from our national game will benefit them when they are ready to make a start in the business world. And to top that off they will have sufficient funds in the bank so that they may start business of their own, should they want to.We&rsquo;ve strayed off the beaten track a little in opinionising on professional hockey&rsquo;s decision to up the signing age of a player to 18. The move to boost the age was not prompted in any way by school authorities. Hockey had been trying to revert to the 18-year limit for several years but not until this season were the four pro loops able to make the move.Hockey authorities have never ceased in their efforts to try to make potential big league material realize that their education comes before all else. Yet educational authorities have failed, or have never tried, to make youngsters realize that in taking up hockey as a career it is as beneficial to them, both financially and educationally, as any business they would choose to enter. It&rsquo;s time they stopped looking down their noses at our game, time they started advising young men to make a career of the sport. Time they stopped telling them it does nothing but wreck their lives.Many great men have graduated from hockey&rsquo;s ranks into the business world and few, if any, have ever regretted playing Canada&rsquo;s national sport.<h2>COLVILLE A POPULAR CHOICE</h2>In signing Neil Colville as their coach the New York Rangers made a very popular choice. A fine student of the game, Colville brings a vast knowledge, both as a player and as a coach, into the National Hockey League.Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Neil played 12 seasons with the Blueshirts, while missing over two season while on active service with the Canadian Army. He first played with the Rangers in 1935-36 but only for one game. The following season he jumped from Philadelphia to the New Yorkers and there he remained until midway through the 1948-49 season when he was appointed coach of the New Haven Ramblers, succeeding Lynn Patrick who took over the Blues from Frank Boucher.In taking over the Rangers he succeeds Lynn Patrick once again, but he will now be leading a team of players whom he has either coached or played with in past years.We wish Neil lots of success as he takes over the reigns of New York&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cinderella&rdquo; team. &#9632;

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03109/1413392-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="592" height="271"></div><h2>JULY 15 TO AUGUST 14</h2><h2>July</h2>18&mdash;John Mahaffy, Hershey, forward, 1919.19&mdash;Dick Irvin, Montreal, coach, 1892; Bob Carse, Cleveland, forward, 1919; Ducky Skinner, San Diego, coach, 1916.20&mdash;Gil St. Pierre, Louisville, forward, 1928.21&mdash;John Peirson, Boston, forward, 1925.23&mdash;Gordon Petrie, San Diego, forward, 1919; Fred Vajenti, New Westminister, forward. 1919; Lyall Wiseman, Indianapolis, forward, 1927.25&mdash;Ed Harrison, Boston, forward, 1927.27&mdash;Andy Barbe, Pittsburgh, forward, 1923; Jerry Fodey, Victoria, goaler, 1924.29&mdash;Bill Benson, Pittsburgh, forward, 1920; Ted Lindsay, Detroit, forward, 1925.30&mdash;Wingy Johnston, Tacoma, forward, 1920.<h2>August</h2>1&mdash;Eddie Bruneteau, Omaha, forward, 1919; Pete Kalapaca, Seattle, forward, 1922; Sanr Lavitt, Minneapolis, defense, 1922; Enio Sclisizzi, Indianapolis, forward, 1925.2&mdash;John McCormack, Toronto, forward, 1925.4&mdash;Meil Colville, New York, coach, 1924; Walter Dorohoy, New Westminister, forward, 1923; Maurice Richard, Montreal, forward, 1921; Harry McQues-ton, Detroit, Sub, goaler. 1916.5&mdash;Gordon Davidson, Buffalo, defense, 1918.6&mdash;Gerry Couture, Detroit, forward, 1925.7&mdash;Lawrence Peterson, Fresno, 1927; Hazen McAndrew, Vancouver, defense, 1917.8&mdash;Bill Gadsby, Chicago, defense, 1927; Ralph Hosking, Spring-filed, defense. 1927; Murdo MacKey, Buffalo, forward, 1917; John Morrow, Tacoma, forward, 1925; Tommy Williams, Cleveland, defense, 1923.9&mdash;Charle&rsquo;S Knox, Fresno, forward, 1926.10&mdash;Ken Davies, Providence, forward, 1922; Clare Dillon, Tul sa. defense, 1925.11&mdash;Harold Bangay, Portland, forward, 1923; Floyd Curry, Montreal, forward, 1925; Connie Dion. Buffalo, goaler. 1918.12&mdash;Edward Redmond, Fresno, defense, 1923. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By LEKI RRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01243/1413437-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Elmer&rsquo;s Greatest MomentThe greatest night in the history of a hockey player is when he pours the champagne into the Stanley Cup. It&rsquo;s the night all hockey players work and sweat for. The above picture shows Lach in his greatest moment&mdash;pouring the bubbly water into Lord Stanley&rsquo;s mug. It happened a fewyears back. On the far left is Murph Chambetlain and the gent with the startled look on his face is Tommy Gormn, ex-general manager of the club.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Five will get you ten that Elmer Lach will be back in harness with the Montreal Canadiens when they open the 1950-51 season sometime in early October, and we&rsquo;ll take the same bet that Elmer will be just as much a star this coming season as he has been for the past ten with the Habs.Lach has threatened to quit the game on many occasions. Injuries which have bogged down his career since he turned pro in 1940 have taken their toll of his once thick head ot hair. in fact with an ms injuries it&rsquo;s a wonder he&rsquo;s not as bald as a billiard ball.No hinging on the 33 year old mark Elmer insists that he still feels like a rookie just making the big jump. Playing golf throughout the summer has kept him in good shape and the fact that he&rsquo;s getting on in years and he may not be able to keep up with the younger laddies in the 70 game haul doesn&rsquo;t worry him one bit.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be back there just as good as ever,&rdquo; said Elmer, &ldquo;I m in. &lsquo;good shape and all ready to go.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s just how he feels as his 11th N.H.L. season shown on the horizon. Just what type of a season Lach thinks he&rsquo;ll have in another question.&ldquo;Hockey players always have a good season &hellip; in the Fall,&rsquo; he laughed.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02213/1413430-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="580" height="597"><figcaption class="caption-body">ELMER TODAY</figcaption></div><h2>THAT OLD FEELING</h2>As he told Trent Fray ne in an article recently;&ldquo;Rockey players always feel they&rsquo;ve had enough when they&rsquo;re hurt, then acquire the fire-horse complex when they&rsquo;re sound.&rdquo;Elmer will go into the new season free from worry, although he was out of action for a time last season with a bad skate gash on his foot, it&rsquo;s well healed and his jaw is in fine shape. Dick Irvin and Frank Seike won&rsquo;t have to wait a a few games to see how their poker-faced center star will come around after a serious injury the season before.He&rsquo;ll be able to step into his position between Richard and Dussault just like he used to. He&rsquo;ll start needling the opposition in his own queer fashion from the opening whistle and he&rsquo;ll start taking a bead on the other players just like he expects them to do to him.Hockey&rsquo;s no game for a softy,&rdquo; he says. Every time they take a puck away from me or beat me to the draw they&rsquo;re taking the bread and butter out of my mouth.&rdquo;Fortunately the Canadiens are lucky to have a player like Elmer returning to their lineup. His spirit and fight on the ice is enough to make a young rookie tear his hair out. He will be one of the few from the old Irvin school remaining on the club next season. When he goes a good hunk of that school will come tumbling down.Since Elmer came West from Moose Jaw at the beginning of the war he&rsquo;s had good years and bad ones. Ironically enought one of his greatest seasons was in 1947-48 when he scored 30 goals and 31 assists for 61 points. He beat out former teammate Buddy O&rsquo;Connor by one point for the N.H.L. scoring honors yet the season before he laid in hospital with, a badly fractured skull. It was touch and go whether he&rsquo;d play hockey again.Probably his greatest season was in 1944-45 when he led the loop in scoring for the first time. In 50 games that year he netted 26 goals and the amazing total of 54 assists for 80 points. His linemates. Maurice Richard and Toe Blake, ran second and third behind him. He climaxed that great season by winning the Dr. David A. Hart Trophy as the player adjudged the most valuable to his team.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03161/1413423-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1080" height="850"><figcaption class="caption-body">ELMER LACH &hellip;&hellip;The Year He Broke In</figcaption></div>Lach&rsquo;s value to the Canadiens can&rsquo;t be judged in goals and assists. Just having him, with his spirit, even if he just sits on tlw bench, is enough to give his mates fight. He hates to lose just a little more than the next guy.You&rsquo;ve often heard that story about separating the men from the boys when the chips are down. Propably the best chance to prove that fable came when the Canadiens met the Rangers in the playoffs last season. The Habs were favoured to whitewash the New Yorkers in straight games but as it turned out the Ranger blew hot at the time and took three before the Habs knew what had happened. The one game the Canadiens did win was the fourth. It went into overtime and while the rest of the younger lads on the club were becoming a little weary from the fast clip when the overtime period started, Lach was not. And just a few minutes after the extra session started Elmer scooted in on Rayner and blasted the puck through a hole in Chuck&rsquo;s guard that was just inches bigger than the disc. It looked impossible to do, but Elmer is one of those guys who always does the impossible, and loves it.When the 1950-51 season rolls around Fank Seike, Dick Irvin and Elmer will watch the camp closely for a lad who can understudy Lach. The lad chosen will be tutored by him throughout the season.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll pick a boy from camp,&rdquo; said Seike, &ldquo;and he&rsquo;ll spell of Elmer. I don&rsquo;t know who the boy will be yet. He could be a junior or another pro player. It might even be that lad King we bought from. Minneapolis.&rdquo;But regardless of who the lad will be he&rsquo;ll still have a long way to go before he can lay claim to Elmer&rsquo;s post on the team.&ldquo;I still regard Elmer as the greatest center in the league,&rdquo; says Seike.Meanwhile, Elmer continues to sell for tthe McGregor Paper Co. &#9632;

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Lach Starts 11th In N.H.L.; Definitely Last

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01276/1413475-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Copped The CupsWHEN BUD MADE-HISTORY</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Buddy O&rsquo;Connor was down on his hands and knees painting the woodwork and putting the finishing touches to his new $15,000 house in beautiful Crawford Park, Verdun when we asked him if he felt a good season coming up.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think a player can feel a good season coming,&rdquo; said Bud. &ldquo;Anything&rsquo;s liable to happen between now and the end of training camp.&ldquo;Look at what happened to me at the start of the &rsquo;48-49 Season. In &rsquo;47-48 I had my best season since turning pro in 1941. I scored 24 goals and had 36 assists and came second to Lach in the scoring. I won the Hart Trophy and the Lady Byng and naturally I felt good. When I went to training camp I felt like I was going to have a good season. But look what happened. First came the accident and I caved in my right side. I was out for the start of the schedule. Then when I got back and started to practice Dune Fisher gave me an elbow in the side and It felt like my ribs had caved in again. Then, when I finally got into playing shape and just before the start of my first game Rayner creased me between the eyes with a puck in the warmup and I took stitches. You see, anything can happen. I finished the season with only 11 goals and 24 assists for 35 points. I thought I&rsquo;d do better than that.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02218/1413468-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1129" height="1437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Started As HabBUDDY O&rsquo;CONNOR&hellip;&hellip;The Rookie</figcaption></div><h2>JUST 34 YEARS</h2>O&rsquo;Connor just, past his 34th birthday on June 21 but you couldn&rsquo;t tell it by looking at him.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to play at least one more season,&rdquo; said the 14 4 pound centerman, &ldquo;of course I&rsquo;d like to go on playing as long as I can but my ambition, and I think the ambition of every hockey player, is to be in the National League 10 years.&rdquo;O&rsquo;Connor doesn&rsquo;t figure to run into much trouble in finding a regular spot in the Rangers&rsquo; line up in 1950-51.&rdquo;&ldquo;Anybody who thinks he&rsquo;s going to get my spot on the club is crazy,&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;Anyway, they&rsquo;ll get a tough fight from me.&rdquo;For a few minutes Bud went back over his nine years in the N. H. L. He thought for a few moments and then slowly told us that he was forever grateful to hockey.&ldquo;It provided me with this new house, it gave me money, made lots of friends for my family and I and it helped me in a business way. It gave me a lot of contacts.&rdquo; When O&rsquo;Connor talks about business he means Wheatley and Wilson, a stationary company in which Bud is one of their ace salesmen.&ldquo;If I had it to do all over again I&rsquo;d do it exactly the same way.&rdquo;&ldquo;Wouldn&rsquo;t you make any changes?&rdquo; we asked.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d make one,&rdquo; he answered, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d go back to the old style of hockey. Take the red line out and go back to the days when hockey was a stickhandlers game.&rdquo;<h2>DUROCHER WRONG</h2>When Leo Durocher made that brash statement, &ldquo;nice guys don&rsquo;t make champions,&rdquo; he didn&rsquo;t know Buddy O&rsquo;Connor. For, being a nice guy has made Buddy a champion in Montreal ever since the days of the famous &ldquo;Razzle Dazzle&rdquo; line. Kids flock to his side when they see him, others who were once staunch Montreal fans are now Ranger rooters because Buddy is their boy. In Verdun he is the uncrowned Mayor, their greatest contribution the Canada&rsquo;s national sport.Buddy is far from convinced that he&rsquo;s through as a hockey player.&ldquo;I feel exactly the same now as when I had that good season three years ago. I never scored the goals last season because I was always on with a couple of rookies. Lynn Patrick told me to stay back and cover them, I realized that it was. in the best interests of the team so that&rsquo;s the way I played it. I was like a batter who was sacrificing the winning run from second to third three times a game.It just doesn&rsquo;t show in your scoring record.&rdquo;As for the coming season, O&rsquo;Connor thinks the Rangers can go all the way this time.&ldquo;During the season we lost a lot of games by one goal. The team wasn&rsquo;t working hard enough, but in the playoffs it was different. We got together and worked.&ldquo;When the schedule was over last season I thanked Chuck Rayner&rsquo;for getting us as far as we went. He carried us in many games which we weren&rsquo;t working. But I think this season will be different. We&rsquo;ve had a taste of those playoffs, now I think the boys will really want that cup and if they played like they did in the Detroit series we&rsquo;ll win it.&rdquo;<h2>SHOULD HAVE DEAKED</h2>While chatting about the playoffs Buddy got on the subject of his breakaway which he had dgainst Canadiens in the fourth game. The Canadiens won the game on Elmer Lach&rsquo;s Overtime goal but the Rangers won the series without so much as taking a really deep breath.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t eat or sleep for two nights after I missed that goal,&rdquo; ha laughed, and then he went on to explain how he hit the post.&ldquo;I had too much time to think. I was going to pick the long side but McNeil moved out and cut off my angle. I remembered that Gerry was bad if you put the puck along the ice on his left side. After he moved I started to think again and I decided to put it into the short side. Then when I was already to fire it into the short side Gerry opened his pads just above the knees and I saw the opening. I flipped it up, trying to get it through the hole but he moved and I dinged the post. I realize now that I should have deaked him and shoved it around him.Just before we left Buddy made two comments. The first was, &ldquo;watch the Boston Bruins next season,&rdquo; and the second was, &ldquo;watch Neil Colville handle those Rangers.&rdquo;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure Neil will do a good job. I played with, him for a year and a half and he knows to handle men and he really knows his hockey.&rdquo;<h2>Will Turn To Coaching When Through, Says Bud</h2>Montreal, Que.&mdash;If and when Buddy O&rsquo;Connor finishes his active career in the National Hockey League he will turn his knowledge to the coaching end of the sport. Bud says he would like to coach when he&rsquo;s through playing the game.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care who I coach, the kids or a pro team, but I would like to stay in the game&rdquo;, said Bud. I love hockey and could watch it seven nights a week. I&rsquo;ll coach in the open air rink if I have to.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Would LikeTo Complete 10 NHL Seasons

Montreal, Que.&mdash;Wilfrid Duranceau assumed the presidency of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association when he was unanimously elected to fill the office upon Azarie Choquets&rsquo; decision not to seek re-election.Martin Conway was elected first vice-president and Robert Le Bel second vice-president. Messrs McCarthy, Fleury and Tremblay were re-elected vicepresidents for the Districts of Three Rivers, Quebec and Saguenay respectively, while Henri Crochetiere was elected vice-president for the Sherbrooke District.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01261/1413506-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="992" height="618"><figcaption class="caption-body">New President Wilfrid Duranceau, left, and ex-Pres. Choquet.</figcaption></div>Several matters had to be placed in abeyance pending the C.A.H.A. meeting of July 22 when the set-up pertaining to the new &ldquo;Super&rdquo; Series will be decided.The Association is in a strong financial condition and registration, especially in the minor categories has increased. W. B. George, first vice-president of the C.A.H.A., presented Retiring President Azarie Choquet with a cheque for $1,000 to be handed over to the Montreal Star Fund for Rimouski and Cabano relief. &#9632;

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Duranceau Takes Over-Choquet Resigns Quebec Presidency

<div class="byline">By TED RANDOLPH</div>MILWAUKEE, Wis.&mdash; United States Hockey league directors had very few spare minutes at their annual meeting in Milwaukee Thursday and Friday (June 15 and 16).In order they dealt with:(a) Transfer of the Minneapolis Franchise to Denver.(b) Activated the Milwaukee Franchise in the USHL.(c) Put the stamp of approval on the sale of the Kansas City Franchise by Bill Tobin to a group of Kansas Citians.(d) Accepted the resignation of president Carl Voss and immediately started the search for a new prexy.(e) Dropped the Louisville club from the league.The busy directors took care of a flock of other matters&mdash;large and small,&mdash;too, but these caught the eye first.<h2>Lyle Wright To Denver</h2>The &ldquo;deal&rdquo; which found the Minneapolis Franchise going to Denver included transfer of player personnel as well as Lyle Wright. Lyle, who was president of the Minneapolis group, will serve Denver as general manager next campaign.Bill Cook, former New York Ranger star, will go along as coach..Bill Tobin, who has had the Kansas City franchise ever since the USHL was founded following the war, will be in business in Milwaukee this season. Tobin will move personel of last year&rsquo;s Kansas City team to Milwaukee. The new owners of the Kansas City franchise are working on a National Hockey League tieup. Morris Fogel heads the Kansas City purchasing group.<h2>Voss Resigns</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02241/1413537-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="535" height="842"><figcaption class="caption-body">ResignsCARL VOSS</figcaption></div>The real bombshell in some respects was the resignation of prexy Carl Voss. Although it had been rumored for about a week before the meeting that he would resign, few, if any, of the direstors believed he would. Voss himself refused to admit he would resign before the meeting. In handing in his resignation Voss said that he had offers from a club in the American Hockey League and one in &lsquo;the National. St. Louis is the American league club bidding for Voss&rsquo; service.The business of dropping Louisville from the league was a mere formality. Before the end of the last playing season directors had made up their mind to cut the Kentucky team.The directors also paid tribute to one of their number &mdash; the late Herman Peterson &mdash; by naming the &ldquo;most valuable&rdquo; player trophy in his honor. Peterson was a former president of the USHL and treasurer of the circuit at the time of his death. &#9632;

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U.S.H.L. Meets; Gets A Surprise As Voss Quits’

Montreal, Que.&mdash;National Hockey League announced that it has re-established the position of referee inchief, with Carl Voss, former N.H.L. star and president of the United States Hockey League, appointed to the post.The job was given a year ago to Frank (King) Clancy, veteran player and referee of the hockey wars, but he gave it up to become coach of Cincinnati Mohawks of the American Hockey League.N.H.L. president Clarence Campbell, who made the announcement, said &ldquo;Voss will be in complete, charge of the officials including both referees and linesmen in the forthcoming season and will be responsible for their selection, training, assignments and general supervision.&rdquo;Former referees-in-chief during the last 25 years include Cooper Smeaton, Frank Patrick, Bill Stewart and Mickey Ion.Voss, U.S.H.L. president last season, played with several N.H.L. clubs during his 10 years in the loop.In the 1932-33 season, while a forward with Detroit Red Wings, he won the rookie award, which later was symbolized by the Calder Memorial Trophy for the player most proficient in his first year of N.H.L. competition.He eventually went with a sporting-goods firm, but returned to hockey, and spent seven years variously as referee ami linesman with the American and California hockey leagues.Tlie N.H.L. calls him &ldquo;one of tlie most travelled personalities in hockey.&rdquo;Voss is expected to make his headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y., where he has lived for many years. &#9632;

Voss Is Named Chief Referee For the N. H. L.

MONTREAL, Que &mdash; The Boston Bruins, who usually go to training camp much later then any either National Hockey League team, will not change their policy this coming season. However, it doesn&rsquo;t worry Soaler Jack Gelineau.&ldquo;Two weeks is about all the training a hockey club needs&rdquo;, says Gelineau. There&rsquo;s no use burning yourself out before the season starts. That 70 game schedule will put a player in shape before the season is very old.Asked whether the short training period affects him, the Bruins&rsquo; goaler replied that it didn&rsquo;t because he&rsquo;s always in good shape by the time the hockey season rolls around.&ldquo;Last season I hurt my hand in training camp and couln&rsquo;t put on the pads until a day or two before J we were scheduled to open the season in Detroit. I don&rsquo;t want that to happen again.&rdquo; &#9632;

Bruins Short Training Program Doesn’t Affect Gelineau; Just Needs Two Weeks

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01275/1413606-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Whether or not the Sophmore Jinx will cast its spel upon Goaler Jack Gelineau of the Boston Bruins, the N.H.L. Rookie of the Year for 1949-50, remains to be seen On thing is certain. The traditional jinx, which plays havoc witl second year men in any sport, isn&rsquo;t causing the McGil College grad any loss of sleep at the moment and it isn&rsquo;1 likely too, even when he reports to the Bruin&rsquo;s training cam] late in September. Not that he hasn&rsquo;t given it any thought.&ldquo;I believe the second year jinx arrives out of the amount of effort a player puts into his first year In the game,&rdquo; says Gelineau. &ldquo;Yet I don&rsquo;t think a player realizes just how much effort he puts into his rookie year to make himself successful.&rdquo;In other words, Jack politely told us that a player who gives as much in his second year as he did in his first can easily avoid the second season downfall that has caused so many players those awful nightmares.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02219/1413599-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="872" height="1856"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Gelineau has joined the Sun Life Assurance Company and someday hopes to become an executive in that business. He&rsquo;s looked into its possibilities as a future and he says he&rsquo;s going to stick to it. Below, Jack is shown with former N.H.L. referee Cooper Smeaton, Gelineau&rsquo;s boss and General Manager of the branch. On the left Jack posed for THE HOCKEY NEWS photographer prior to going into action as first baseman with the Town of Mount Royal club in Montreal&rsquo;s Atwater Baseball League.</figcaption></div>&ldquo;That jinx is partly in the mind and partly the fact that a player lets down in his second year after having a good first season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03187/1413592-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="588" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body">No JinxJACK GELINEAU</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Another thing too, if a player has a good first season then he naturally looks for a raise in salary. It lie gets it then he club will expect more from him.&rdquo;<h2>Dark Caugh It</h2>To prove his point Gelineau cited the case of ball player Alvin Dark. Dark played for the Boston Braves until he was traded to the New YorkGiants at the beginning of the present campaign.&ldquo;I remember Dark always said that the Sophmore Jinx would never work on him, but it did, and he&rsquo;s a college graduate too. So, I guess our outlooks would more or less compare.&rdquo;However, Dark blamed his second year slump on the fact that he worried about the jinx. Would it plague him like it had so many other potential greats before him? He began to worry lest he contact it. In time his worry overcame him to the point that it showed in his play and in his batting average.But with Gelineau it may be different. He believes that if a player gives the same amount of effort In his second year then there is no reason why it shouldn&rsquo;t show as well in the record books as his first one does.&ldquo;A player must first realize just how much effort he gave in his first season so that he can give the same amount in his second year.&rdquo;<h2>Odds Against Him</h2>We mentioned to Jack that the odds were against him in as much as he could not only catch the jinx but he was also the league&rsquo;s top rookie and the performances of past Rookie&rsquo;s of the Year weren&rsquo;t too appealing.We mentioned the showing of Pentti Lund last season, Jimmy McFadden the season before and Howie Meeker In 1947-48. We even went as far back as Frank (Ulcers) McCool In 1944-45. None of these players had performed as capably in their follownig years as they did when they were named Rookie of the Year. In fact McCool would have a hard job carrying Gelineau&rsquo;s skates today and McFadden and Meeker have been very mediocre since they were named the N.H.L.&rsquo;s top rookie. Pentti Lund was hardly the outstanding player in 194950 that he was the season before, although he played up to par in the playoffs.&ldquo;I think a lot depends on the opposition. If the player who was a rookie the year before is really outstanding, and he&rsquo;s a forward then the other team can send out a man to cover him like a tent. He certainly couldn&rsquo;t show much then. If he&rsquo;s a goaler then they have other&rsquo;ways of making things tough for you.To offset our point Gelineau mentioned Syl Apps who won the rookie honors in 1936-37 and his predecessor Frank Brimsek who was named Rookie of the Year in 1938-39, and Mike Karakas in 1935-36. &ldquo;Apps had a few good seasons after he was named the best rookie,&rdquo; laughed Jack, &ldquo;and Brimsek wasn&rsquo;t exactly a flop after he won the honors. Then there was Cully Dahlstrom who won it in 1937-38 with Chicago. He didn&rsquo;t fare too badly. Neither did Karakas.&ldquo;McFadden was quite old when he won the Calder Trophy but Lund wasn&rsquo;t too bad last year. Johnny Pierson says he&rsquo;s the best checker in the league.&rdquo;Although Gelineau was the fourth goaler to be named Rookie of the Year since 1932-33 (others were Karakas, Brimsek and McCool) he is far from satisfied with the way he played last season.&ldquo;I think I could have had a better season,&rdquo; says Jack, &ldquo;I learned a lot and the rest will come with experience.&rdquo;Last season was the first time the Bruins failed to finish in the playoffs since 1943-44 when they ended in fifth place. They finished in the same position in 1949-50.Certainly the blame can&rsquo;t be laid to Gelineau. As a first year man his play was remarkable. Few players have graduated from the college ranks directly to the National League to become the league&rsquo;s number one rookie. In fact the only player who can boast such, a record is Syl Apps. Apps graduated from McMaster University to the Toronto Maple Leafs and was named Rookie of the Year.<h2>February Was Had</h2>&ldquo;If it hadn&rsquo;t been for our bad stretch in February we would have made the playoffs,&rdquo; said Gelineau. &ldquo;We won one game and that was the First of February and we didn&rsquo;t win another until the First of March. If we hadn&rsquo;t hit that slump we certainly would have made the playoffs. As it was we only finished seven points behind the Rangers. Of course we had a young team and we&rsquo;ve gained a lot of experience. I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;ll end less than third next season.&rdquo;And while Jack has started on what many experts call a great career in hockey, he recently started on another promising career. This one in the business world. He has joined the Sun Life Assurance Company and expects to continue in that business after he is finished with hockey. But in the meantime it&rsquo;s hockey first.&ldquo;I guess the insurance busiiness will suffer a little. That is if hockey and selling insurance should ever cross paths. However I&rsquo;ve looked into this business thoroughly and I&rsquo;m certainly going to stick to it.&rdquo;Gelineau&rsquo;s tudor in the insurance business is one of hockey&rsquo;s most respected men. He&rsquo;s none other that Cooper Smeaton, one time hockey great and former N.H.L. referee. Smeaton is now general manager of the Sun Life&rsquo;s St. James branch. He is also a Stanley Cup trustee.And when Jack is not busy learning all about the insurance business you&rsquo;ll probably find him on the golf links or playing first base in Montreal&rsquo;s Atwater Baseball loop.<h2>Three Blues</h2>Three of pro hockey&rsquo;s four playoff winners last season were coached by ex-Ranger players. Ott Heller led Indianapolis to the American League crown, Bill Cook won with Minneapolis in the United States League and Babe Pratt I coached New Westminister to the Pacific Coast League title. &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01274/1413661-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Pictured N.H.L. coach.7. Ex Bison goalie, now with Louisville.8. Initials of coach of Regina Pats, 1949-50.9. Initials of A.H.L. rookie winner, 1948-49.11. Initials of Bend of St. Paul.13. Bob Solinger injured one last season.14. What Lavell of New Haven is called.15. Initials of Rossignal, ex Bruin.16. Position played by &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Jackson (abbr.).17. Initials of Somers, former N.H.L. player.19. Another name for &ldquo;Shrimp&rdquo; Worters.21. Linesman Doug Young celeberties birthday in this month (abbr.).22. Initials of Howe, ex Red Wing k23. Conches often &mdash; trading players.24. Initials of announcer for Detroit home games.26. Initials of White, with Rangers last spring.28. This PCHL club is nicknamed &ldquo;Ironmen&rdquo;.31. Given name of goalie Harry McQuestion.33. Frank Eddolls was once owned by this club.36. New England (abbr.).37. Given name of Buswell, former Montreal Canadien.38. Initials of King, recently aquired by the Habitants.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. Second name of Wally Stanowski.2. Initials of 6 down.3. Short for first name of Read of Tacoma.4. Elmer Dach once fractured one.5. Short for given name of PCHL president.6. Ex Deaf, scoring champion of 1928-29.10. Former Toronto farm club.12. Winger for New Westminster, known as &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo;.18. One of the Black Hawks.20. One across once coached in this league (abbr.).21. Otherwise.25. Eddie-Wares turned pro with this club.27. What Mallen of 1915 Vancouver Millionaires is called.28. Terry Sawchuk did this for Lumley last season.29. Number worn by Quackenbush as Red Wing.30. First name of manager of 1924 Canadiens.32. Rud Poile shoots this waty (abbr.).34. Native province of pictured coach (abbr.)35. Initials of Ashbee of Bisons. &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02233/1413713-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">A line crew of the Great Lakes Power Company was installing new power line conductors, near a line carrying 4600 volts. One conductor had been fastened and another was being pulled to position when something caused it to flip around into the Eve 4600 volt line! Foreman Teare shouted his men a warning.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03183/1413706-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1084" height="672"><figcaption class="caption-body">But one man had already grabbed the line and was instantly paralyzed. Another headed towards him, and Teare, farther away, frantically yelled at him to stop. But he had already grabbed the first victim by the arm &mdash; and received such a severe shock that he couldn&rsquo;t let go! When Teare arrived, the first man had become unconscious, horribly burned.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04142/1413699-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1071" height="663"><figcaption class="caption-body">With a quick blow to the shoulder, Teare knocked the second man free. At the same time he grabbed a dry glove and pulled the first man clear. Although suffering from bad burns himself, he applied artificial respiration until he knew there was no hope. Thanks to the cool coinage of William L. Teare, one life at least was saved. He is fully deserving of The Dow Award.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05117/1413692-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="1096" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE DOW AWARD is a citation presented for acts of outstanding heroism and includes, as a tangible expression of appreciation, a $100 Canada Savings Bond. The Dow Award Committee, a group of editors of leading Canadian daily newspapers, selects Award winners frmn recommendations made by a nationally known news organization.</figcaption></div>DOW BREWERY MONTREAL &#9632;

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