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October 7, 1950

The Hockey News October 7, 1950

<div class="byline">BY JACK PINER</div><p><b>SAULT STE. MARIE, Onr.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>The Detroit Red Wings were heroes to 5,000 kids in the Canadian Soo the day before they broke training camp here. The Wings played before the big crowd of youngsters in this city&rsquo;s magnificent Memorial Gardens on a Saturday afternoon when they tackled Indianapolis Capitols in the fourth game of their exhibition series. The huge throng of kids went wild as the Wings played terrific hockey to whip the Caps soundly, 6-3.</b></p><p><b>The Kiwanis Club engaged the Arena to give the kids a treat and the Wings co-operated. Part of the proceeds of a night game was turned over to the group working to promote junior hockey in this area. The kids were let in free and the city handed over the Gardens free of charge. It was a big day for the wild-eyed kids, the hockey players of tomorrow.</b></p><p><b>Talking about exhibition games, the Wings captured the beautiful Soo Trophy donated by the American Soo Chamber of Commerce as emblematic of training camp supremacy. The Wings whipped the Caps handily in four-straight games. All games for the trophy were played in Pullar Stadium on the American side of St. Mary&rsquo;s River, while two exhibition games were played in the Canadian Soo.</b></p><p><b>But, you can talk about hockey all you want. Ask the Wings what they enjoyed most about the training camp and they&rsquo;ll tell you that that terrific &ldquo;Spaghetti Feed&rdquo; put on by Erxi Giuliani, great Soo Sportsman and driving spirit of the Red Wing junior hockey setup in the Canadian Soo, was tops.</b></p><p>&ldquo;<b>The boys ate spaghetti until 1 though they would never play hockey again,&rdquo; quipped Jack Adams, who packed away a few big dishes himself.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

Wings Heroes To Soo Kids But Spaghetti Is Good Too

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SCHEDULE—AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE—SEASON 1950-1951

<h2><i><b>Four New Faces&hellip;&hellip;Are AHL Coaches</b></i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01188/1168730-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="291" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Beisler</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02149/1168723-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="270" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Mitchell</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03129/1168716-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="274" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ott Heller</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0499/1168709-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="270" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Reardon</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0583/1168702-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="233" height="368"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John Crawford</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0676/1168695-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="271" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bun Cook</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0759/1168688-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="271" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>King Clancy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0851/1168681-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="267" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Karl Seibert</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0944/1168674-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="263" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leroy Goldsworthy</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1038/1168667-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="260" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Anderson</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Four new coaches will be listed in the A.H.L. records this season, but only two of them will be receiving their baptism of fire when the loop opens its 1950-51 season. The new guides are Johnny Crawford at Hershey, Tommy Anderson at Pittsburgh, Frank Beisler at New Haven and little Johnny Mitchell at St. Louis.</p><p>Both Mitchell and Beisler have had a spin as coach in the American League before. In his career Mitchell has coached Springfield and Providence and was business manager of the Pittsburgh Hornets. Last season he finished the season as coach of the Los Angeles Monarchs and took them to the league finals against the New Westminster Canucks. Beisler was formerly the coach of the now defunct Washington Lions club and also coached Baltimore some time ago. He takes over the New Haven Eagles this season after they parted company with the New York Rangers. The Eagles will operate independently.</p><p>Tommy Anderson has had plenty of experience at coaching, particularly juniors. However, he&rsquo;s had&rsquo; so much success as a coach that he was nominated to take over from Baz Bastien as the Hornets&rsquo; helmsman. Anderson, former N.H.L. player, coached the Oshawa Generals of the O.H.A. junior A loop last season.</p><p>Genial Johnny Crawford is the only one of the four coaches who doesn&rsquo;t have any previous experience. He replaces Don Penniston on the Hershey Bears&rsquo; bench and is expected to be a very popular choice in the Chocolate City.</p><p>While Crawford may lack the experience of his opposing coaches he certainly has the savvy and the Boston Bruins are hoping that the former big league defenseman will produce plenty of talent for the Beantowners in years to come.</p><p>The rest of the coaching crop remains the same. In Cleveland it&rsquo;s still Bun Cook while King Clancy will be heading the Cincinnati Mohawks for the second year. Ott Heller, who so capably handled the Indianapolis Caps last season will once again be running things there, Earl Seibert will also be back at Springfield. Terry Reardon has his squad in tip top shape and Providence is hoping for a repeat performance of 19 4849. Leroy Goldsworthy will once again head the Buffalo Bisons.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Crawford Only New Recruit At Coaching Chores

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03100/1168501-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL MOSIENKO</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;With what we got out of the Detroit trade and what we&rsquo;ll have available through the working agreement with the St. Louis Flyers, I think Chicago will have a real Stanley Cup contender.&rdquo;</p><p>Thus spoke Ebbie Goodfellow, coach of the rebuilt and revitalized Chicago Black Hawks when we talked with him recently at the Hawk front office just before he departed for the team&rsquo;s North Bay, Ont., training camp. &lsquo;Contrary to some reports. Jack Stewart will not be an assistant coach, but with his 15 years of defensive experience he&rsquo;ll no doubt he able to teach the younger rearguards a lot. I credit him with developing Bill Quackenbush, Leo Reise and Red Kelly while at Detroit.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Minors Get Chance</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll probably use Jack with Doug McCaig and team Bill Gadsby with Al Dewsbury. McCaig is not the greatest of defensemen, but he played with Stewart when they both were Red Wings and Jack should serve as a steadying influence.&rdquo;</p><p>Among the others who&rsquo;ll attempt to make the Chicago defense corps, Goodfellow reports, are Ernie Dickens, who has been with the Hawks the past two seasons: Jim Bedard, who appeared in five games with them last year, and Ed Nicholson, up from St. Louis.</p><p>&ldquo;They tell me this fella Bedard is big and tough and of course Nicholson, who was probably my best rearguard with the Flyers last season, will also be given every chance to make the grade.</p><p>&ldquo;In Lumley the Hawks will undoubtedly have the best netminder in the business.&rdquo;</p><p>The apple cheeked Lumley has been in the NHL for six seasons and he&rsquo;s not yet 24. After every one of those years at Detroit his goals allowed per game average took a dip. At the close of the 1949-50 season he had played in 63 games and allowed only 148 goals for a per game average of 2.35. He recorded seven shutouts.</p><p>Up front Chicago has plenty of veterans and rookie talent to choose from, Ebbie says.</p><p>&ldquo;Doug Bentley and Billy Mosienko will be centered by either Pete Babando or Jim Conacher. Babando, who was a 20 goal man in his first season with Boston, weighs around 200 pounds and would be an adequate protector for the lighter Bentley and MoSienko.</p><p>&ldquo;Jim Conacher didn&rsquo;t look too good last season and I think the main reason for this was the fact that he was at right wing, a strange position for him. He won&rsquo;t be back at that spot again. If he doesn&rsquo;t center, Jim will work at a left wing position.</p><p>&ldquo;The second line Is fairly well set. Gus Bodnar will replace Metro Prystai as the center for Bert Olmstead and Bep Guldolin. Both of these lines should be pretty equal and constant threats whenever they&rsquo;re on the ice.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Nattrass Contender</b></h2><p>Goodfellow says that the third and fourth lines are yet to be definitely formed, but that one contender for a spot here will be Ralph Nattrass.</p><p>&ldquo;When Ralph came into the office with his signed contract this Fall, he asked me if he could try out at right wing, the position he played for a few games late last season. I understand that he scored several points at this position so he&rsquo;ll get a good trial.&rdquo;</p><p>Roy Conacher, Don Morrison. Adam Brown, Vic Stasiuk, Jackie Miller, Ed Leler, Cliff Simpson, Bill McComb, Alf Baccarl, Ray Powell, Gordon Fashoway and Harry Groves are among the others who&rsquo;ll try for front Une spots on the Hawks, Goodfellow relates.</p><p>&ldquo;Morrison Is an excellent checker and should help our defensive game. He was captain of Detroit&rsquo;s AHL farm team, Indianapolis, last season.&rdquo;</p><p>His brother. Rod, may also make the NHL since he&rsquo;s been asked to report to the Red Wing camp. They both played with Detroit in 1947-48, for half the season.</p><p>Conacher, who announced his retirement at the end of last season, and Brown, who went to St. Louis on loan from the Hawks In 24 games last year, will both get another chance, Ebbie states.</p><p>Stasiuk, Miller and Leier all were up with the Hawks for brief tries last season. Stasiuk got himself a goal and assist and Leier an assist. Miller failed to tally.</p><p>&ldquo;The top lines with St. Louis and Kansas City will also get their chances,&rdquo; Goodfellow revealed.</p><p>The Flyers&rsquo; trio is made up of Simpson, McComb and Baccari. Ebbie is particularly high on Baccari. He came to the Flyers from Fresno of the PCHL midway last season and in 36 games tallied 22 goals and 31 assists.</p><p>Powell, Fashoway and Groves are a highly rated Kansas City threesome. Powell has led all USHL scorers for the past two seasons and just missed winning a berth with the Black Hawk six at the start of last season.</p><h2><b>GETS A NEW CENTER</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Goodfellow Visualizes Playoffs In Chi This Season And Maybe Even Stanley Cup For Change

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0179/1169528-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Big Trip&hellip;&hellip;by Kavetski</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The players&rsquo; pension plan of the National Hockey League not only is providing welcome assurance to puckchasers that they won&rsquo;t be penniless when their playing days are done &mdash; it&rsquo;s also helping to build up hockey as a secure and worthwhile career in the minds of parents whose youngsters have a yen to make the game their life work.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the opinion of NHL President Clarence Campbell, who also acts as President of the National Hockey League Pension Society. He expressed this view in an interview while discussing the steady progress of the pension fund, which after just three years has assets totalling &lsquo; $460,564.85 laid away against the time when payments will commence. By October 1, 1957, the Society expects to have reserves of more than $1,500,000 to taka care of payments to eligible players who have reached 45 and wish to start collecting their benefits. Two-thirds of the gross receipts of the All-Star Game, as in previous years, will go to swell the fund a bit more.</p><h2><b>Enthusiasm Mounts Steadily</b></h2><p>The Plan has created quite a bit of enthusiasm among many parents who formerly thought hockey too risky a venture and wanted their boys to take up another profession instead, the President feels. The sizeable pensions that can be earned by playing two or more years in the NHL &mdash; ranging up to more than $150 monthly; for life in the case of a &ldquo;10-year man&rdquo; &mdash; make quite an impress sion on the fathers and mother! of boys starting their hockey career.</p><p>The game thus takes on ths aspect of a solid profession wich a future for the boy who has what it takes. In fact, your NHL player has quite a bit more security than offered the worked in most other lines of endeavor.Since if he wants to he can start collecting a pension at only 45 years of age &mdash; against 65 or 70 virtually everywhere else!</p><p>That happy attitude toward life of hockey playing being buill &rsquo; up in the minds of the youngsters and their elders is one unexpected, but welcome, side-product of the now flourishing pen sion plan.</p><h2><b>On Solid Footing</b></h2><p>Its primary purpose of provide; ing old age insurance against want for the stars of the present when they hang up their equipment, is well on the way to being fulfilled la as bounteous a fashion as the founders of the plan envisaged.</p><p>Mr. Campbell in his review of the financial standing of the Pension Society revealed a picture of steady growth that fully lives up to the rosiest hopes in 1947 when the plan was launched.</p><p>This year, the players are being fully acquainted with the standing of the Society and their investment in it. Mr. Campbell visited the training camps of the six clubs this Fall, giving the players a report of their plan, and in addition they received a detailed financial report and a booklet just issued this year giving a complete summary otf the regulations, aims and constitution of the group.</p><p>In line with this purpose of creating more and more interest among the players in what actually is an investment in their future, the players&rsquo; representation has been broadened extensively. Up until this year, Glen Harmon and Syl Apps have carried most of the load as players&rsquo; representatives, with Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick of New Yirk and Brig. Ian Johnston of Toronto representing the clubs, and President Campbell the League.</p><h2><b>Players Well Represented</b></h2><p>Now, each club has three men representing the players &mdash; one to speak for former NHL puckmen who have retired since the scheme was organized, and two for the current active players. These 18 representatives meet at intervals, as they did before this year&rsquo;s annual meeting of the Pension Society, and are kept fully informed of all activities at other times.</p><p>In turn, they act as emissaries for the Society, explaining it to their fellow players and drumming up further interest, although this isn&rsquo;t an actual necessity since the enthusiasm of the players is mounting steadily as their share in the pension investment increases rapidly.</p><p>Representatives for the six clubs are: Boston&mdash;Johnny Crawford for Past Service players, with Milt Schmidt and Paul Ronty representing Current Service players; Chicago&mdash;Red Hamill, Past Service, Harry Lumley and Gus Bodnar, Current Service; Detroit &mdash; Past Service representative to be named, Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay, Current Service; Montreal &mdash; Toe Blake, Past Service, Glen Harmon and Maurice Richard, Current Service; New York&mdash;Neil Colville, Past Service, Frank Eddolls and Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Current Service; Toronto&mdash;Syl Apps, Past Service, Ted Kennedy and Gus Mortson. Current Service.</p><p>Players with 10 years or more service in the NHL will draw a pension for life of $75 a month when they reach age 45. Or, if they are not immediately in need of money, they can let their benefits accumulate and begin collecting them at any later date. Under this arrangement, their monthly payments become progressively greater &mdash; ranging up to more than $150 a month starting at 60 years of age!</p><p>For less than 10 years active service, the player receives a pension in portion to the length of time he has contributed.</p><p>To supply the huge sums necessary to make these payments to all NHL players in their later years, both the puckchasers and the clubs contribute. Besides the annual assessment of $900 on every NHL player &mdash; Irrespective of salary &mdash; money comes from two other sources.</p><h2><b>Playoffs Make Contribution</b></h2><p>One is the special assessment of 25 cents on every ticket sold for the annual Stanley Cup playoffs. In last spring&rsquo;s post-season program, for instance, the tidy sum of $50,368 was added to the Fund, as the semi-final and final battling went to 19 games out of a possible 21.</p><p>The other is the Annual AllStar Game. Each year, two-thirds of the gross receipts from this feature are set aside for the Pension Fund. The other third is used to cover rink rental, with the costs of promoting and staging the event being borne by the clubs and the league.</p><p>The 1947 game in Toronto raised $17,243.60 for the Fund, with another $15,345.45 being added from the 1948 contest In Chicago. Last year, again in Toronto, the 3rd Annual Game added $17,280 to the Fund.</p><p>In addition to the retirement pensions which every NHL player is eligible to receive, they also get other important benefits. Each is covered by a $10,000 policy in a group life insurance plan, as well as a further $10,000 permanent disability insurance in case of accident that ends their playing career. Premiums on these insurances are paid by the Society.</p><p>Regardless of salary, each participant pays in $900 a year, which is tax-free in Canada. As President Campbell points out, if the players weren&rsquo;t paying that money in to the Society, about one-third of it would be slashed off in income tax and the balance would soon melt away under today&rsquo;s high prices.</p><p>Individual protection, for life and disability insurance as well as pensions, would cost considerably more If the players bought It for themselves rather than under the group plan.</p><h2><b>Systems Differ</b></h2><p>While players in Canada receive income tax exemption for their $900 contributions, they pay tax on the pensions when they receive them at age 45 or whenever the avail themselves of the money coining to them. In the U.S. the procedure is reversed. NHL puck chasers south of the border pay tax on their contributions, but the pension itself is exempt.</p><p>One most interesting feature ot the plan is the speed at which pension benefits accumulate if not cashed immediately. Based on fa annual payment equal fo 10 peg cent of the player&rsquo;s total control buttons the maximum pefisicn available at age 45 is $900 annully, or $75. a month. A man geta that if he has contributed for Its years.</p><p>If the retired player isn&rsquo;t immediately in need of the pension he can leave it In the Society to accumulate interest. If he wait until he is 50 years old, he wll| receive $94.57 a month. If he let it lie another five years, until he is 55, he can draw $120.05 a month. Finally, if he doesn&rsquo;t choose to take his pension until he it 60 &mdash; the normal retirement age in most business and industry &mdash; his pension will be worth a grana total of $156.60 a month!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Pensions Make Hockey Solid Career - Campbell NHL Plan Assures Parents Boys Get Security In Game

<div class="byline">By LEN B1AMS0N</div><p><b>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>The calibre of play in the National League is rapidly returning to its pre-World War II status, says Clarence Campbell, the league president. Just returned from a tour of the six training camps, the league&rsquo;s Top Man says events which transpired during the summer months will contributed to a better balanced league. The events he mentions are taken to mean the nine-man trade between Detroit and Chicago.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;There aren&rsquo;t as many rookies attempting to break in,&rdquo; said Campbell &ldquo;and those that are seem to be of a better calibre than in years before.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Campbell also revealed that for the first time there is an adequate supply of high-class talent around.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;The excellent supply of hockey players around today stems from the fact that competition seems to be stiffer and rookies are finding it tougher to break in. Whereas in previous years a youngsters could jump from Junior and Senior hockey to the National League they now must have at least one or two seasons in the American League&rdquo;, said the President.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0258/1169559-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="288" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>C. S. Campbell</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Campbell used Fleming Mackell and Tod Sloan of the Toronto Maple Leafs as exemples.</b> In previous tries, when they; tried to make the jump from they amateur ranks, they found it impossible to keep up with the N.H.L. standard of play. After a few season in the A.H.L. the pair have now found spots with tha Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;After two years in the American League, and it tha player has any big league talent, then he should stick in the National League,&rdquo; said Campbell. &ldquo;In the A.H.L., they get a greater amount of play and become seasoned with a wealth of professional experience.</p><h2><b>Best Since Pre-War</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I would say that calibre or play in the N.H.L. this season will be the best since pre-war days,&rdquo; stated the N.H.L. prexy.</p><p>As for attendance Campbell said that he personally felt that Canadian cities were more or less assured good houses. By winning the Stanley Cup the Wings have gathered many new fans. The nine-man trade, which will benefit both Chicago and Detroit, has given the Hawks&rsquo; faithful fans added hope. The courageous stand of the New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup final has made the Blues a host of new followers and the youth and fire of the Bruins is expected to help the Boston gate immensely.</p><p>All in all Campbell believes the National Hockey League is for a very good year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Camp Tour Convinces C.S. Majors Harder To Crack Than Ever Before; Sees Balanced Loop

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01111/1168000-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="258" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Two famed player combinations of other years will be reunited for one evening soon when the National league all-stars attempt to prove that talent can top teamwork.</p><p>The all-stars, coached by Lynn Patrick of Boston, play the Red Wings here October 8.</p><p>Patrick, coaching the Bruins for the first time after piloting the New York Rangers to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup final against the Red Wings last spring, will do the reuniting.</p><p>He will show the Red Wings a line which made hockey history in Chicago, the lightweight trio of Max Bentley, Doug Bentley and Billy Mosienko.</p><p>He will also show the Red Wings a defense combination which made history right on Detroit ice, that of Jack Stewart and Bill Quackenbush.</p><h2><b>They Lacked Size</b></h2><p>The Bentley brothers from Delisle, Sask., and Mosienko from Winnipeg, Man., flitted up and down National league rinks for nearly a decade as the high scoring line for the Black Hawks.</p><p>Cleverness was their characteristic, for they lacked the size to be musclemen, and scoring was their forte. There were years when their goal-getting ability was the only thing that made the Hawks presentable.</p><p>The line was broken up late in 1947 when Max. the younger of the blackhaired brothers, was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs for five players.</p><p>Since then Doug and the curly-haired Mosienko have carried on for the Hawks, but with one-third former color and effectiveness missing.</p><p>Now Patrick is going to hitch the &ldquo;Ponies&rdquo; to the same harness again, if only briefly.</p><p>&ldquo;I have given it some thought since the idea occurred to me,&rdquo; said Patrick, presently occupied with the training routines of his Bruins, &ldquo;and I think we&rsquo;ll be able to have three of them together, if nothing comes up between now and gametime to disrupt matters</p><p>&ldquo;I won&rsquo;t be able to play them as a unit for the whole three periods, however,&rdquo; the Boston coach added, &ldquo;because I expect to have 11 forwards on the squad and I&rsquo;ll have to werk ail of them into the lineup.</p><p>&ldquo;I think that folks who see the game will enjoy watching those three playing together again.&rdquo; Patrick opined. &ldquo;I know that in all the years I have played and. watched games, I haven&rsquo;t seen many lines, if any which could match them for color and ability.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Then there&rsquo;s another thing, he added with a grin, &ldquo;their teamwork certainly won&rsquo;t hurt us any.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Quack and Jack Together</b></h2><p>Stewart, now with Chicago, and Quackenbush, at present a Patrick charge at Boston, put in four years together on the Detroit defense, although not always as a pair.</p><p>Quackenbush was traded to Boston in the summer of 1949, and Stewart was sent to the Black Hawks in that gigantic swap of several months back.</p><p>Black Jack and blond Bill were contrasts as teammates, equally different as opponents, a role in which they participated for the first time last winter.</p><p>Where the crafty Quackenbush won the Lady Byng trophy for his gentlemanly play as a Red Wings, making the record books as the player who participated in the most consecutive games without penalty, Stewart has long had a reputation as a &ldquo;policeman&rdquo; on the ice. He is as tough as he is talented, and he has plenty of talent.</p><p>&ldquo;I have definitely decided that I&rsquo;ll play them together,&rdquo; said Patrick, &ldquo;and I think they&rsquo;ll give us all-star defense work, without any doubt. They were the all-star defense selections two years ago, remember.&rdquo;</p><p>Beyond these two crowd-pleasing items, Patrick said that he had no further lineup plans to reveal. The arrangement of the remainder of his brilliant squad, he said, will come later, perhaps not until hours before gametime.</p><p>&ldquo;To tell you the truth,&rdquo; the young coach declared, &ldquo;I have been so busy trying to get my own squad squared away that I haven&rsquo;t devoted too much thought to the all-star lineup.</p><p>&ldquo;The problem of handling all i that talent is a pleasant one for any coach,&rdquo; he said,&rdquo; and I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;m going to enjoy making up my lines and defense pairings.&rdquo;</p><p>This will be the all-star coaching debut for Patrick, the second of the noted, hockey family to coach the Bruins. He will be matching wits with Tommy Ivan, the man who had the last laugh last spring when the Red Wings beat Patrick&rsquo;s Rangers on Pete Babando&rsquo;s overtime goal In the seventh game of the playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe that&rsquo;s the Idea behind selecting the losing coach to run the all-star team,&rsquo; reflected Patrick, chuckling. &ldquo;It gives him a chance to get even.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;One thing is certain,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure that I&rsquo;ll have a better team with which to try than I had when Babando beat us.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick, forthright and refreshingly frank, was not hesitant about expressing an opinion about the Red Wings. He doesn&rsquo;t believe that they will be as tough a nut for his all-stars to crack as they would have been a year ago.</p><p>&ldquo;The difference, to my way of thinking, is Stewart,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see how they can possibly be as strong defensively without him as they were when they had him in the lineup.</p><p>&ldquo;At least, he&rsquo;s the guy who always gave us trouble when I was with the Rangers,&rdquo; he said, referring to his New York stay as player and coach. &ldquo;They have other good defensemen, but Stewart is a great defenseman.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>All-Star Leading Scorers</b></h2><p>In the complete All-Star team scoring record which follows the players are listed with the regular squads whose uniform they wore when they were nominated to the league team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0297/1167993-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="550" height="516"></div><h2><b>All-Star Penalty Leaders</b></h2><p>Explosive Kenny Reardon, the ex-Canadiens&rsquo; rough tough rearguard, has been the most penalized NHL All-Star squad player so far. He&rsquo;s been in all three of the tilts and has spent some time in the cooler in each of the games except the last one.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0391/1167986-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="552" height="376"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Stewart Will Be Paired With Quack Once Again

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0556/1168045-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="266" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>B. Quackenbush</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Will Sing A Happy Tune</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0472/1168038-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="1642" height="1036"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LYNN PATRICK will re-unite the famous &ldquo;Pony Line&rdquo; of the Chicago Block Hawks for the fourth annual National Hockey League All-Star game. The above picture shows just what Rookie Terry Sawchuk will have to put up with from the threesome of Doug Bentley, left. Max Bentley, center and Billy Mosienko at right. The picture was token before the trio was broken up by the deal that send Max to the Leafs. The goaler deluged by the pucks is Mike Karakas.</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>If Detroit Red Wings can&rsquo;t win an AllStar Game, then who can?</p><p>That&rsquo;s an impertinent way of putting Tommy Ivan, the Detroit coach, on the spot, but it still rings with solid truth in analyzing hockey&rsquo;s 1950 AU Star classic.</p><p>The National Hockey League&rsquo;s &ldquo;dream&rdquo; team will assemble here Oct. 8 to meet Detroit&rsquo;s NHL and Stanley Cup champions in the fourth annual classic. Wings earned the right to be hosts by winning Lord Stanley&rsquo;s historic mug last spring.</p><p>Never has the Cup champion been able to beat the All Stars in this extra-curricular rivalry. Of course, Detroit never has enjoyed the opportunity of trying &lsquo;before.</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs handled that assignment all three times since the All Star Game was conceived. Even though they won three straight Cups plus one NHL title, Toronto didn&rsquo;t have enough to stop the pick of the five other clubs.</p><p>Will Detroit be the first team to defeat the All-Stars?</p><p>There are facts to indicate it may be. The Wings romped through the NHL campaign last year, winning by an 11-point edge. They were the class of the loop throughout, even though affairs became somewhat sticky before they turned Toronto and New York in the playloffs.</p><h2><b>Wings Have Stars</b></h2><p>So far this fall, the Wings appear to becoming even more powerful. The offense which scored 229 goals last season &mdash; 28 more than any other team &mdash; has gained even more punch through a mid-summer trade.</p><p>Another point. The power-packed Detroit club is loaded with those same All-Stars who would be the most feared men in a 100% pure All-Star lineup. Since spectacular forwards like Sid Abel, Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe, and crack defensemen like Red Kelly and Leo Reise will be playing with their Detroit team, it&rsquo;ll be a little puzzling for a stranger to tell WHICH club is the All-Star team.</p><p>All five of them were picked on either the first or second All-Star sextets by the coaches last spring. But, they&rsquo;ll be stacked up against their All-Star brothers for this game.</p><p>Along that reasoning, you find that the All-Star squad should be rated at least 25 to 30% below its true ability. This is a handicap which wasn&rsquo;t noticed much, previously. The Leaf&rsquo;s &ldquo;starless wonders&rdquo; who won three Stanley Cups didn&rsquo;t have players of All Star ranking.</p><h2><b>On To Victory</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0639/1168031-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="566" height="850"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY IVAN</b></figcaption></div><p>Finally, don&rsquo;t overlook Tommy Ivan as a key factor. Tommy is so quiet and modest, and has such, a preference for remaining anonymous that his coaching genius draws little attention. But, his record does.</p><p>In his three seasons in the big leagues, Ivan has piloted Detroit to the NHL crown twice and to runnerup honors once. He has sent all three teams into the Stanley Cup finals, winning once.</p><h2><b>Ivan Has Record</b></h2><p>There&rsquo;s an All Star chapter in Ivan&rsquo;s record, too. The last two years he coached the All Stars, and both times they were 3-1 victors over the Leafs.</p><p>The only possible way for Ivan to cap that mark is to become the first coach to turn in the trick of beating the All Stars.</p><p>What about the rival team &mdash; the All-Stars? Well, as any hockey fan realizes, there'll be enough high-class material on that squad to make the All-Stars strong enough to post a fourth straight victory without anyone yelling &ldquo;Upset!&rdquo;</p><p>As to that hot-stove argument about an all-star aggregation not being capable of clicking due to unfamiliarity among teammates and lack of common practice, well, many of the Red Wings know better. They have played on the earlier All-Star teams, and found no absence of efficient teamwork.</p><p>From the Detroit squad in 1947, the All Stars drew Jack Stewart, Bill Quackenbush and Lindsay. The next two years Detroit had the biggest representation of any club&mdash;Stewart, Lindsay, Quackenbush, Howe and Bud Polle In 1948, and Stewart, Abel, Lindsay and Howe in 1949.</p><p>While Stewart, Quackenbush and Polle since have been traded, there still are enough left to spread the gospel on what the 1950 All Stars intend to do to the Wings.</p><p>Precedent, of course, rides with the All-Stars. They overcame a 3-1 deficit to gain a 4-3 victory in 1947 at Toronto. They led throughout for 1948&rsquo;s 3-1 verdict in Chicago, and then came from behind again last year to make it 3 to 1 back in Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>Ivan will have a respected and feared rival on the opposite bench. After the magic Lynn Patrick worked a year ago&mdash;getting his New York Rangers into fourth place, upsetting Montreal In Cup semi-finals and battling Detroit to the limit in the finals &mdash; no one can sell short any team Patrick coaches.</p><p>Now, for a run down the Detroit roster and a look at who&rsquo;ll be facing the All Stars. &hellip;</p><p>The major changes from a year ago resulted from the trade with Chicago. Detroit dealt away Goalie Harry Lumley, Forward Pete Babando and Defenseman Jack Stewart from the &ldquo;big&rdquo; team, and gained Center Metro Prystai, Left Wing Gaye Stewart and Defenseman Bob Goldham.</p><p>(Also Involved were some minor-leaguo figures, Detroit getting Goalie Jim Henry, Chicago receiving Center Don Morrison and Defenseman Al Dewsbury).</p><p>After those changes were made Detroit could ice an all-veteran team for the All Star game. To illustrate the offensive powei stocked, here&rsquo;s what the llneu would be, with each player&rsquo;: 1949-50 goal total listed after his name:</p><p>A first line of Abel (34), Lind say(23) and Howe (35).</p><p>Next line of Prystai (29) Stewart (24) and Couture (24).</p><p>Third line of George Gee (17) Jim Peters (14) and Marty Pave llch (14).</p><p>The fourth line with Jim Me Fadden (14), Steve Black (7) an: Joe Carveth (14).</p><p>A defense with Red Kelly (14) Leo Reise (4), Bob Goldham (2) Clare Martin (2) and Lee Fogo lin (4).</p><p>Terry Sawchuk, the brillian rookie, would be in goal.</p><p>That adds up to 270 goals scored by that crew last year. The Detroit team actually made 229 the difference being in the goal power gained in the Chicago trade.</p><p>Between now and the date the All-Star game, some change may be made in that lineup&mdash;improving it, if you please.</p><p>The first three lines should stick intact, but Ivan has been toying with his fourth unit. Three centers are trying to out McFaden&mdash;Max McNab, Gerry Reid an Pat Lundy. Two more rookie &rsquo; Glen Skov and John Wilson, are battling Black at left wing.</p><p>Another pair of rookies are eysing the defense berths which Martin and Fogolin held. They are Marcel Pronovost and Clare Raj lan.</p><p>Incidentally, two of the preser Red Wings not mentioned before have All Star experience. Gay &rsquo; Stewart played on the team two years ago, scoring a goal, while Goldham was voted the &ldquo;fire star&rdquo; of the night last season for his great solo rush that produce the tieing goal.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-05

No Sad Songs From Tom Ivan He’s Out To Break Monoply

<h2><i>New and Old&hellip;&hellip; They&rsquo;re Flying</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01111/1168090-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="892" height="793"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB GOLDHAM, left, Gaye Stewart and Metro Prystai, right, in the first pictures taken of the trio in their new colors. The threesome, traded to the Wings by Chicago wore flying at the Soo, Michigan camp. AU three found places on the Wings.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0293/1168083-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="999" height="817"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GENERAL MANAGER Jack Adams of the Detroit Red Wings has reason to be happy in the above photo. He&rsquo;s patting right winger Gordie Howe on the back of the head after Howe showed that there will be no ill affects following his playoff injury last season.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0361/1168076-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="889" height="802"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THREE LADS who have been showing terrific form at the Wings&rsquo; camp are Ted Lindsay, left, Mary Pavelich, center and defenseman Leo Reise, right. Just time out for a little kibitzing as Pavelich wipes the sweat off Reise&rsquo;s brow.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-01

Adams Sees Greater Year Ahead For Wings

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0436/1168121-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="280" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Marty Pavelich</b></figcaption></div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Watch out, fellas, the world-champion Detroit Red Wings are stranger than last season 1 That&rsquo;s going to spell a heap of a lot of trouble for other N.H.L. clubs this coming 70-game sked.</p><p>Who says the Wings are stronger? Listen to big, jovial Jack Adams, general manager, and diminutive, serious-faced Tommy Ivan, hard-driving coach:</p><p>&ldquo;That history-making wholesale trade we made with Chicago Black Hawks has turned out to be one of the smartest swaps we ever made. We are now stronger through the center and on the wings as well as getting extra punch and strength on the defensive.&rdquo;</p><p>Both Jack and Tommy fully agreed on this point.</p><p>They had two big weeks to find out at the fall training camp held at beautiful Pullar Stadium in this Northern Michigan hot-bed of hockey where the Wings have trained the past three seasons.</p><h2><b>100 Attend</b></h2><p>The Norris empire hockey organization not only had the Wings on hand for the gruelling training camp sessions but also had players seeking berths on the Indianapolis Capitols of the A.H.L., Omaha Knights of the U.S.H.L., and Windsor Spitfires of the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop. Close to 100 players in all battled for positions in the most successful fall training program ever conducted by Adams and Co.</p><p>&ldquo;This is the first time since 1946 that we took all our professional prospects to a single preseason camp,&rdquo; Adams explained. &ldquo;The past three years we split our camp into two with one held at Saskatoon and one here in the Soo. Ivan took charge of one and I took over the one here along with Ott Heller.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack, now starting his 24th consecutive year with the Detroit organization, said better results were attained by having a single camp because the high command had the over-all picture of their power on all four teams in better locus. Apart from the main camp here, Jimmy Skinner and the popular Modere &ldquo;Mud&rdquo; Bruneteau held a &ldquo;screening&rdquo; camp for junior prospects at Olympia Stadium in Detroit.</p><p>But, to settle down to the Wings themselves and the prospects of their repeating as world champions let&rsquo;s talk turkey &hellip; what did that trade actually do for the Wings? How can a club let guys like Harry Lumley and Jack Stewart, all-stars like that, go without feeling weaker?</p><p>&ldquo;Well, in the first place,&rdquo; Adams goes on, &ldquo;we were in a position to let them go. And don&rsquo;t forget we always gamble more than any other club. We had plenty of power and strength on the rearguard and a sensational prospect in Terry Sawchuk. In return for Lumley, Stewart, Pete Babando, Al Dewsbury and Don Morrison we got Metro Prystai, who is certainly one of the finest prospects for stardom I have ever seen; then we got Gaye Stewart and Bob Goldham, two boys who are going to burn up the league this season, mark my words.&rdquo; (Ivan thinks Goldham is going to be the &ldquo;surprise package&rdquo; in the deal).</p><p>Well, words like that are fine &hellip; but, how did these players turn out at the training camp?</p><h2><b>New Players Shine</b></h2><p>I can say how they did in one big word &hellip; SENSATIONAL! Brother, how that big Goldham, Stewart and Prystai played. Naturally, young Metro, who is only 23, was the centre of attraction as camp opened because it was no secret that Adams planned to groom him to take over the big spot now held by Captain Sid Abel, one of hockey&rsquo;s all-time greats, who is 34 now and on his last home stretch. &rsquo;</p><p>While Abel showed up well between the incomparable Ted Lindsay and Gordie &ldquo;I can drive that golf ball a mile&rdquo; Howe, it is questionable whether he can keep up the pace set by Adams&rsquo; pride and joy duo very much longer. So here we have Metro.</p><p>With Lindsay, Howe and Abel working on the first line all through training sessions and in the six exhibition games played, Prystai pivoted Stewart and lean, tall Jerry &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Couture. This trio sparkled after the first week after a slow start. In fact, they played so well as a unit that at break-up time, it appeared virtually certain they had captured the coveted No. Two line assignment.</p><p>Prystai and Stewart took on the roles of boring In hard all the time leaving Couture to set them up after they got into close range on the opposition&rsquo;s nets.</p><p>&ldquo;Gaye Stewart is going to play better hockey for us than he did with the Black Hawks,&rdquo; said Adams. &ldquo;He is happy to be with Metro and with the Wings. Couture fits into their play like a glove and don&rsquo;t be surprised to see this line develop into a terrific unit.&rdquo;</p><p>Of course, Ivan and Adams are counting on Lindsay, Abel and Howe for mass goal-production but this trio can&rsquo;t play all 60 minutes. Despite the large number of hungry players playing their hearts out for the few open spots on the squad, the third line was a cut-and-dried proposition.</p><p>Marty Pavdlich of the Canadian Soo appeared at camp weighing 176 and in the best physical shape of any player. The 22-year-old star started right out playing his most dashing hockey and seemed more relaxed and confident than in any other season. He got more of the Lindsay-type hockey into his system. Result: Adams called him one of the most valuable men on the team.</p><p>&ldquo;Marty looked brilliant on the line with Jimmy Peters and George Gee and this line will either start in second slot or third depending on how they finally stack up against the Prystai line,&rdquo; said Adams.</p><p>Going down the line, It was left to the colorful, loquacious Joe Carveth (I just love to quote Shakespeare), who moved back to the Wings in the Canadiens. Wings swap last season, to take over the role of the &ldquo;most surprising guy In camp.&rdquo;</p><p>Carveth knew he would have to fight to beat out such determined players as Jimmy McFadden, Doug McKay, Pat Lundy, John and Larry Wilson, Gordon Haidy, Max McNab and Rod Morrison. And fight he did; he battled hard right from the opening day and the veteran, who is deadly on close-in shots, won a regular spot on the fourth brigade with big Steve Black and either Jerry Reid or Jim McFadden.</p><h2><b>Reid and McFadden Battle</b></h2><p>At the end of camp, the big fight left to be finally settled in Detroit before the season opener was will it be Reid, McFadden or who?</p><p>Adams and Ivan liked the way Jerry Reid battled every second and, above all, his competitive spirit. To win Adams&rsquo; heart, a player has to be a great competitor or else he&rsquo;s sunk. McFadden and the other contenders battled of course, but Reid is young, 21, husky and fast. He&rsquo;S got a lot to learn but he should develop fast.</p><p>&ldquo;Our club gives youngsters a chance. We have patience if we feel it is worthwhile,&rdquo; Adams explained. Banking on this attitude, I feel that Reid is set to start the season but will step down to the Caps for seasoning if he fails to keep up the stiff pace of N.H.L. play. Sawchuk came through for Adams, showed no signs of an injured right arm operated on last June, and starred in all exhibition, games.</p><p>As for the defense corps, Leo Reise, Red Kelly, Goldham, Clare Martin and Marcel Pronovost clicked and appeared certain to hold down the regular berths. Kelly appeared at camp a week late but worked himself into condition speedily after helping his folks harvest a bumper tobacco crop down Simcoe, Ontario, way. Clare Raglan, a young, smart looking prospect gave Pronovost quite a run but is still a year or two away from the big-time.</p><p>Actually, Pronovost was one of the sensations at camp. The &ldquo;kid&rdquo; who jumped to Omaha and Indianapolis like a jack-rabbit after getting his start with Windsor Spits has improved so much and has so much hockey &ldquo;savvy&rdquo; that most observers felt he couldn&rsquo;t miss reaching stardom.</p><p>&ldquo;Marcel is a tremendous player. He can skate like a fiend, hit hard, back-track, break up plays, fore-check and back-check like nobody&rsquo;s business,&rdquo; Coach Ivan remarked. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t see how he can miss staying up in the big time.&rdquo;</p><p>Marcel was going great guns when he suffered a fractured left cheek late in the training sessions. He was flown to Detroit for a checkup but at last report was doing fine and would get back into harness before opening night against New York Rangers. Reise, Kelly, Martin and Goldham shape up as one of the loop&rsquo;s best defense corps with Goldham offering that spark needed to maintain power.</p><p>So, folks, that&rsquo;s the 1950-51 edition of the Wings as it looked when camp broke up. Of course, in this highly-competitive sport of pro-hockey, changes come quick; Injuries rear their ugly heads, attitudes change, plans change with time. But barring injuries, the players mentioned will very likely start for the world champs.</p><p>&ldquo;Summing up our team this season, I would say that we are stronger as far as that all-important depth is concerned mainly because we acquired Prystai and Stewart. But Carveth has come through again and Pavelich is better than ever,&rdquo; Adams said.</p><p>But you can add, subtract, multiply or divide and Adams is still banking on that great line of Lindsay, Abel and Howe to sew up another title for him.</p><p>&ldquo;Ted is heavier this year, around 167, and Gordie has completely recovered from those playoff Injuries. Howe weighs over 180 and is faster than ever. Look at that guy, will you: big, husky, fighting-mad, only 21, beautiful stick-handler and fast as a rabbit. Then, take Lindsay, the leader, and his dashing style of play. He would go through a brick-wall if it meant a goal. Then to balance the temperament of these two greats, there is the dependable Syd Abel.</p><p>On the other hand, Barrie is housing Stanutz, goalie Howse and Labine&mdash;last year with St. Michael&rsquo;s College&mdash;without benefit of release.</p><p>Windsor Spitfires will have Goalie Glen Gall, Elmer Skov and Martin Zorica of last year&rsquo;s team back again and hope for some fine hockey from Johnny Danilovich and Bobby Turner, promoted from their junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club. Spitfires have imported two highly rated players from the west in Larry Thibeault, big Winnipeg defense player, and Elder Thomas a right winger from Medicine Hat.</p><p>Rudy Pilous, as St. Catharines general manager, has effected a new player tie-up with Buffalo of the American League and picked up Lomar, Young and Power as a line from last year&rsquo;s Ottawa St. Patricks team. They also have a new goalie under cover and are counting on at least five of last year&rsquo;s regulars for another whirl.</p><h2><b>Goalie For &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo;</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty, who retired from the playing end of the game after many years of service with Pittsburgh, has come up with a new goalie, Al Finklestein from Winnipeg Monarchs, for his St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors. Pete Cunningham, with Oshawa last winter, is also with the Irish. Mark Reaume from Assumption College and Bobby Schiller, of Windsor&rsquo;s junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club also are attending SMC.</p><p>However, the best catch of the season has Murray Costello, younger brother of Les Costello who retired from hockey to enter priesthood attending St. Michael&rsquo;s College. The lad was a stand-out with South Porcupine and has already been tagged by Chicago Black Hawks. Billy Sexton last winter with Barrie and Art Clune, younger brother of Len Clune starry Guelph defenseman, are also listed as &ldquo;prospects&rdquo; by the Irish. From last year&rsquo;s team they&rsquo;ll have Dineen, Sabourin, Ingoldsby and Plata.</p><p>Guelph Biltmores, as defending OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; champions, have snared Milliard Houghton of Calgary and Johnny Negleduk from Winnipeg Black Hawks. Coach Alfie Pike will have Andy Bathgate and Herbie Dickenson from last year&rsquo;s club as his two key players.</p><p>Al Murray is back in hockey as coach of the junior Black Hawks, and Galt fans are hopeful of better things. Goalie Clark Somerville, Jack Price, Jack Hill and Pete Conacher are the lone holovers from last year&rsquo;s crew. Al Murray came out of retirement to take on the Galt coaching chore, a spot he held with considerable success before leaving to take a Pacific Coast League assignment two years ago.</p><h2><b>Doing O. K.</b></h2><p>Already Larry Aurie at Oshawa has secured Alex Del Vecchio, a fast skating forward from Fort William, and Stanley Mills, left-winger who played senior hockey last season in British Columbia.</p><p>Bobby Kinnear at Waterloo, Marlboro&rsquo;s Bobby Davidson and &ldquo;Pinky&rdquo; Lewis at Stratford are busy looking over many prospects at the big league camps and so far haven&rsquo;t got around to a playable line-up for their respective junior clubs.</p><h2><b>Pavelich Takes To Grease Plank To Sharpen Net Eye</b></h2><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Here&rsquo;s one old-time hockey players will like.</p><p>That ancient story about shooting practice off a greased plank pops up now in 1950. Only with modern refinements it becomes wax instead of bear grease. Marty Pavelich, Red Wing forward, tells the story, but the final chapter won&rsquo;t come until later when Pavelich learns whether no gets a payoff in goals.</p><p>&ldquo;I had just as many chances around the net last season as the other guys,&rdquo; Marty states, &ldquo;And what did I get?&rdquo;</p><p>The record book answers him. Pavelich scored eight goals in 65 games last season, and 10 the year before. Those aren&rsquo;t impressive figures for a National Hockey League forward.</p><p>&ldquo;So, I got to thinking about those hockey legends about players shooting off a greased plank in summertime practice,&rdquo; Pavelich continues.</p><p>&ldquo;I got a four-foot long board, and rubbed it with wax until it was as slick as any ice. Then I painted a target about a foot wide on my garage, and practiced shooting at it every day during the summer.&rdquo;</p><p>Back on the ice in training camp now, Pavelich is sniping away at a real goal with new confidence and accuracy. He&rsquo;s hoping that waxed board will slip him right up among the scoring leaders.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-04

Reid, Pronovost Sparkle To Get Spot With Champs

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01179/1168232-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="306" height="484"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICKIE MOORE</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ICKIE MOORE,</b> most publicized junior player In Canada last year, <i>U</i> was a real flop at Montreal Canadiens training camp this fall. Dick Irvin was very disappointed in the kid that everyone said couldn&rsquo;t miss being a great player. Moore&rsquo;s main trouble seems to be his attitude towards the game. He may play another season of junior hockey &hellip; Jim Hendy, general manager of the Cleveland Barons, has assembled what he thinks is the first all-Jewish defense duo in pro hockey. Hendy has lined up Hy Buller and Sam Lavitt for blueline duties The Boston Globe held a highly successful two-day hockey clinic last week. It was organized by Herb Ralby, the Globe&rsquo;s informative hockey writer &hellip; Reardon announced his retirement recently and will act as a goodwill ambassador for Canadiens. He plans to marry the daughter of the Canadiens&rsquo; owner in the near future &hellip; Ted Lindsay, Detroit&rsquo;s N.H.L. scoring champ, drives a shiny new Cadillac. Ted must be the only player driving such an auto &hellip; Hector Dubois has succeeded Ernie Cook as trainer for Montreal Canadiens &hellip; Detroit Red Wings had a terrific training camp up at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich &hellip; The Red Wings looked at 260 hockey players this fall. Talk about mass production &hellip; the Wings have it &hellip; Bob Goldham and Gaye Stewart, two of the players to come to Detroit in the big Chicago-Detroit trade, have been very impressive in pre-season workouts &hellip; Prystai, the other player involved in the trade, hasn&rsquo;t looked too spectacular in practices to date, but Metro is a notoriously slow starter &hellip; It appears as if Jerry Reid, a star with Indianapolis last season, will be a regular with the Wings this winter. Max McNab and Jimmy McFadden, two members of last year&rsquo;s championship Red Wing club, may not be back with the team this season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02160/1168225-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="280" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jerry Reid</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0399/1168218-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="274" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dickie Moore</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0467/1168211-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="272" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Kenny Reardon</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0558/1168204-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="270" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p><b>SPIRIT IN THE CAMP</b> of the Chicago Black Hawks is the best it&rsquo;s ever been. Ebbie Goodfellow, Chicago&rsquo;s new coach, has done a lot to get his players &ldquo;up&rdquo; and there&rsquo;s a great deal of optimism in the Chicago camp that this is the year for them &hellip; Addition of Goalie Harry Lumley and Defenseman Jack Stewart has been a great boon to the team. The two old pros have been of invaluable assistance with the younger p layers, particularly Stewart who is always willing to assist the rookies &hellip; Brightest prospect at the Chicago camp this fall was Hugh Coflin, 21-year-old defenseman who starred for Calgary Stampeders last year. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t take |25,000 for him right now,&rdquo; Bill Tobin, Chicago prexy told us &hellip; He will start the season with the Milwaukee Seagulls but might be with the Black Hawks before the campaign ends &hellip; Ernie Dickens and Jim Bedard are battling for the fifth defense position &hellip; Eddie Olson of the St. Louis Flyers spent the summer pitching batting practice for the St. Louis Cardinals &hellip; Reno Hahn, enthusiastic hockey writer for the St. Louis Globe Democrat, was at the Flyers camp at North Bay, Ont. Reno is writing a book, &ldquo;How To Appreciate Hockey Better.&rdquo; &hellip; Joe Primeau had things running smoothly in the Toronto camp the day we looked in on proceedings. The Leafs will have another powerful club. Turk Broda&rsquo;s play has been sensational in workouts to date &hellip; The defense combo of Bill Juzda and Bill Barilko has looked good and these two brusiers should hand out plenty of rugged checks this semester &hellip; Howie Meeker has been playing very well on the right wing of the Gardner-Watson line &hellip; We played golf at Soo, Mich, with Gordie Howe and the big winger finished with one over par. Howe looks better than ever &hellip; Ted Lindsay, his linemate and pal, caddied for Gordie &hellip; Detroit had a golf tourney in their camp while we were present and the interest among the players was terrific. Joe Carveth and Max McNab reached the finals and each had their followers among the players &hellip; Capt. Sid Abel caddied fob Carveth &hellip; Len Kelly, Detroit&rsquo;s versatile redhead, kept in shape during the summer by doing lots of dancing. This prompted Fred Huber, Detroit publicist, to remark that he didn&rsquo;t know whether he should call him Len Kelly or Gene Kelly &hellip; Huber&rsquo;s interview with Kelly over the Soo, Mich, radio station was a scream.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0648/1168197-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="272" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Cal Gardner</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0741/1168190-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="266" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>B. Frampton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0835/1168183-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="274" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>J. O&rsquo;Flaherty</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0935/1168176-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="270" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eddie Olson</b></figcaption></div><p><b>CYOLONE TAYLOR,</b> a member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame and rated by many as the greatest hockey player of all-time, is back <b>in</b> hockey again as manager of the Kerrisdale Monarchs in the Okanagan-Mainline League. Taylor recently went on pension from the Government. He was a Government official at the Pacific Coast for years &hellip; Chuck Millman is the coach of the Kerrisdale team &hellip; Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty became a father for the fifth time the other day. O&rsquo;Flaherty, new coach of Toronto St. Mikes Jrs., is said to have planty of promising material on hand this year. There&rsquo;s a goalkeeper trying out for the Irish by the name of Al Finklestein. If he makes the team he will probably be called O&rsquo;Finklestein &hellip; Wilf Field is the new coach of the Kansas City Mohawks in the D.&rsquo;S.H.L &hellip;. Lester Patrick took plenty of high-class hockey talent back to Victoria with him from the Montreal Canadiens camp. Bob Frampton, Andy Hebenton, Joe Lepine, Reg Abbott, Lorne Davis and Morley MacNeil accompanied Lester to the coast. Frampton, Hebenton and Lepine played for Cincinnati last year while Abbott was the ace junior with Brandon and Davis and MacNeil toiled for Regina Pats, western junior kings &hellip; Dick livin figured the rookies at the Canadiens camp this fall were the best since 1940.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Passing the Puck

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1032/1168277-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="292" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Reigle</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1120/1168270-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="292" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>S. Kraftcheck</b></figcaption></div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>The stiffest battle for jobs in the history of the club has featured pre-season practices of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>A squad of 39 players, 27 of them professionals, reported to Coach Lynn Patrick for intensive workouts at the spacious Hershey rink.</p><p>Boston&rsquo;s new regime, personified by Patrick, starting his first season as coach, has insisted on production, and candidates for the team have been working on that basis.</p><p>The only Bruin certain of retaining his status of last year is Goalie Jack Gelineau, the business administration major from McGill University, expected to be better as a sophomore than he was as a freshman. The only other goalie in the Bruins&rsquo; camp is Don Campbell, the youngster from St. Catharine&rsquo;s.</p><p>As for the rest of the squad, Patrick is letting them show him why they should stay with the Bruins.</p><p>Early attention was focused on two players who have recovered from serious injuries which they received last winter, and on two newcomers carrying excellent credential.</p><p>Eddie Sandford, the rugged young center from Mimico, Ontario, who missed most of last season with a severed Achilles tendon, has demonstrated that he has completely recovered. Pete Horeck, hustling little wing, who never got over a severe skate cut on his foot, has also skated well.</p><p>Sandford spent the summer playing lacrosse to strengthen his weak Jeg, then took a week&rsquo;s skating warmup at Barrie, while the Bruins were conducting their tryout camp there last month.</p><p>The two newcomers were Steve Kraftcheck and Ed Reigle, defensemen from Cleveland who carried tine references from Jim Hendy, their former boss. They gave Patrick a total of seven defensemen, all of whom will not be around at the season&rsquo;s opening.</p><p>Patrick wasted no time in starting his conditioning program. For the first couple of days the accent was on skating.</p><p>&ldquo;The legs come first,&rdquo; said the young Boston coach. &ldquo;Once a player&rsquo;s legs are in shape, he is less susceptible to injuries, and we don&rsquo;t want pre-season injuries.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick also introduced off-the-ice meetings, to impart to his squad his offensive and defensive plans for the coming campaign. Patrick&rsquo;s idea was to save actual time through the off-ice briefings.</p><p>The practice schedule for the stay here was for two workouts a day.</p><h2><b>He&rsquo;s Sure</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-127/1168263-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg" title="f0004-12" width="584" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Gelineau</b></figcaption></div><p>The Bruins were scheduled to play six pre-season exhibition games, starting with two here against the Hershey Bears. After their Hershey engagements of September 30 and October 3, they were booked to play the Providence Reds at Providence October 4 and 7, at Waterloo October 10 and at Peterborough October 12.</p><p>Capt. Milt Schmidt was delegated to run the team for the second game at Providence, with Patrick turning his attentions to the Detroit Red Wings&mdash;All star game, for which he will coach the All Stars.</p><p>Here is a list of players who reported at Hershey: Centers, Capt. Milton Schmidt, Paul Ronty, Eddie Sandford, Phil Maloney, Barton Bradley, George Sullivan Wings, John Peirson, Ken Smith, Dave Creighton, Woody Dumart, Ed Harrison, Lorne Ferguson, Bud Poile, John McIntyre, Peta Horeck, Sylvio Bettio, Zellio Toppazzini, Normie Corcoran; Defensemen, Fernie Flaman, Bill Quackenbush, Ed Kryzanowski, Murwray Henderson, Steve Kraftcheck, Ed Reigle, Ross Lowe; Goalie, Jack Gelineau.</p><p>In addition to the professionals, the following amateurs reported: Gordie Byers, Ellard O&rsquo;Brien and Goalie Don Campbell of St. Catherine&rsquo;s; Bill Davidson, Louie Clements, Jim Johnston, Phil Levesque, Mike Lynch, Joe Ripku and Bob Wrightsell of Port Arthur, and Tom McDougall of Three Rivers.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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39 Work Out with Lynn’s Bruins But Only Gelineau Sure Of Staying On Club

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01132/1168308-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>A NEW DAWN for the Chicago Black Hawks as well as a much improved look has Coach Ebbie Goodfellow in high gear and his flock in higher gear. The new look can be seen in action in the above photos. On the left are two defensemen who are expected to give Goaler Harry Lumley a maximum of protection. The pair are Al Dewsbury, left and &ldquo;Black&rdquo; Jack Stewart. They, along with Goaler Harry Lumley, above, went to Chicago in the now very very famous nine man mid-summer deal.</b></figcaption></div><h2><i>Old Faces &hellip; &hellip; In New garb</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0005-01

Hawks Shape Up As Top Contender

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02115/1168339-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="304" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ralph Nattrass</b></figcaption></div><p>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Ebbie Goodfellow, making his initial start as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, is fairly optimistic over his team&rsquo;s chances in the N.H.L. championship race, which gets underway on October 11. Goodfellow has been driving his charges hard through daily workouts at their Northern Ontario training base and thinks the Hawks will be a well-balanced club by the time the new season is in full swing.</p><p>The four new players the Hawks obtained from the Red Wings in the biggest player deal of all time have been fitting into the Chicago lineup wonderfully well and have done much to lift the morale and spirit of the Windy City sextet. &ldquo;Jack Stewart has been wonderful with the kids. He&rsquo;s never too busy to pass on advice to them and he&rsquo;s helpful in every possible way,&rsquo; Goodfellow related. Black Jack, long regarded as one of the game&rsquo;s best all-round defenseman, lias been paired with veteran Doug McCaig, another exDetroiter and the two have looked Very good in practices. McCaig and Stewart are both hard hitters and there won&rsquo;t be any forwards taking liberties with these two tough hombres this season.</p><p>Al Dewsbury, promising-looking defenseman from Indianapolis Caps who also came to the Hawks In the player swap, has been playing with Bill Gadsby on the Chicago blueline and these two appear to be made for each other. They&rsquo;ve teamed up exceptionally well and this twosome could very well be the best defense combination in the N.H.L. this season. Gadsby and Dewsbury are both high scoring defenders. They&rsquo;re speedy skaters and good blockers.</p><p>Ernie Dickens and Jim Bedard are battling it out for the fifth defense post and Dickens appears to have the inside track to date. Diekens has been a Chicago regular since he joined the team early in 1947, while Bedard was a standout with Kansas City in the U.S.H.L. last season. Average weight of the Chicago defensemen is an even 200 pounds.</p><p>Husky Harry Lumley, one of the biggest and cockiest goalkeepers to ever strap on a goal pad, has been terrific in daily workouts and in exhibition games. The Chicago goalkeeping worries are over at last. Lumley, who is only 23 years old now, should be able to &lsquo;protect the Chicago citadel for another seven years at least. Harry is a scrappy netminder and his effervescent spirit is quite contagious and is exepcted to do a lot of good to the Chicago club.</p><h2><b>Lumley The Best</b></h2><p>Coach Ebbie Goodfellow is extremely high on Lumley.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d pick him as the best goalie in the N.H.L. today,&rdquo; Goodfellow stated. &ldquo;Yes, I&rsquo;d even name him over Chuck Rayner,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s big, fast, has a great pair of hands and is a real holler guy and those are the requisites I like in a goalie,&rdquo; Goodfellow told us at lunch here.</p><p>As an example of the seriousness in which the players have been practicing here this fall, Harry Lumley and Ralph Nattrass almost came to blows In the workout we watched one day. Nattrass, the former defenseman who has been working out as a forward, started to shove Lumley around in the goal crease a little more than Harry thought he was allowed to, and It wasn&rsquo;t long be fore the buxom blocker commenced to retaliate. It was soon stopped but sparks were really flying while it lasted.</p><p>Although Goodfellow has not decided definitely on what lines he will use this season he has been working out the following units at camp: Roy Conacher. on left wing with Don Morrison at center and Adam Brown at right wings; Gus Bodnar at center between Bep Guidolin on the right side and Bert Olmstead on the left flank; Doug Bentley centering Pete Babando at left wing and Billy Mosienko on the right; while the other line has had Jimmy Conacher at center, Ralph Nattrass at right wing and Vic Stasiuk at left wing.</p><p>Adam Brown, the 30-year-old winger who spent most of last season with St. Louis Flyers in the American League, has been been given another chance by the Chicago management to make the quad, and the fast-skating Scotslan is making a determined bid to stick with the team. &ldquo;Murph Chamberlain played several years when everyone thought he was washed up and if Chamberlain can do it so can I&rsquo;&rsquo;, Brown confidentially whispered as he took off his sweat-soaked equipment following a one-and-a-half hour workout.</p><p>There is still a question if Bodnar ig the player who can center Guidolin and Olmstead and make the line effective. Metro Prystal did a tremendous job at center between these youthful wingmen last year and Bodnar has a mighty big pair of skates to fill. However, he&rsquo;s giving it everything he&rsquo;s got and might possibly be the answer as a successor to Prystai. The Prystai-Guidolin-Olmstead trio was the second highest scoring line in the National League last season.</p><p>&ldquo;Pete Babando has looked good in practices and exhibition games to date and I&rsquo;m hoping he&rsquo;ll continue to play as well,&rdquo; Goodfellow told us. &ldquo;I like his style and I know he can hand out a nice body check if he wants to,&rdquo; the Chicago mentor continued. This is Babando&rsquo;s third N.H.L. team in as many years so he is more or less on the spot this term. If he falls to deliver this year he may never have another opportunity to show his stuff in hockey&rsquo;s big tent again.</p><p>The most unheralded player to come to Chicago in the big trade was Don Morrison. Not too much was said of him other than he was a pretty fair scorer with Indianapolis Caps and had played a number of games for the Red Wings a couple of seasons back. However, Goodfellow thinks he might be the surprise player in the whole deal. &ldquo;His forechecking should prove mighty valuable, Ebbie stated. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not afraid to go into the corners and he comes up with the puck a lot of the time, too. His forechecking reminds me somewhat of Don Grosso. He&rsquo;s a real mucker and very aggressive and I like his style a lot,&rdquo; Goodfellow added.</p><p>While it&rsquo;s true the Hawks lost 53 goals in trading away scorers like Prystal and Gaye Stewart, it&rsquo;s figured that the defensive strength they acquired in Goalie Lumley and Defensemen Stewart and Dewsbury, has made the team a much better balanced aggregation. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re a great deal stronger this year than we were at the same time a year ago,&rdquo; Owner Bill Tobin remarked midway through the practice session.</p><p>How well the Hawks will do this season or who got the better of the big trade can&rsquo;t be told at this date. However, one thing is certain, the Chicago Black Hawks, cellar occupants for three of the last four seasons, will be trying for a playoff berth as they never have before, as everyone in the Chicago camp realizes the good fans of Chicago can&rsquo;t be disappointed forever.</p><h2><b>Hawks Start 25th Season Against Habs October 12</b></h2><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks will begin their 25th NHL season at Montreal, October 12. The team&rsquo;s 35-game home schedule starts Sunday, Oct. 15, with New York as the first visiting team.</p><p>Of the 35 games, 17 will be played on Sundays, 15 on Wednesdays, two on Tuesdays and one on Monday. The Tuesday games will be on Jan. 9, against Boston, and on Jan, 16, against Detroit. Montreal will be the Monday opponent, Jan. 1.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-02

Stewart And Lumley Big Morale Boosters

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1. 1947</b></p><p><b>Published by</b></p><p><b>Hockey News Company, 608A Sun Life Building. Montreal. Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Price $2.60 in Canada &mdash; $3.60 in U.S.A.</b></p><p><b>Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Printed In Canada</b></p><p><b>Vol. 4 October 7, 1950 No. 1</b></p><h2><b>ANOTHER MOMENT OF GLORY</b></h2><p>With all the glamor and glitter associated with such &lsquo;events, professional hockey&rsquo;s Fourth Annual All-Star Game become&rsquo;s an entry in the game&rsquo;s history books Sunday night, October 8. In Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia Stadium&mdash;home of the world champion Red Wings&mdash;the super-stars of the National Hockey League tangle with the ice whizzers from the city Henry Ford made famous.</p><p>Although only four years old, this annual festival of stars already has achieved a permanent and honored spot in the thoughts of fans and players alike&mdash;and this year&rsquo;s event bids fair to be a worthy successor of the three stirring contests which preceded it.</p><p>A reality at last after many years during which far-looking followers of hockey urged such a step, the All-Star contest gives fans a chance to see the greatest collection of stars from the previous season doing battle with the winners of the coveted Stanley Cup, emblem of hockey&rsquo;s proudest moment.</p><p>This year, the All-Star Game presents a brand new locale and a change in one of the major participants &mdash; the Cup winners. The first three games played since the affair was inaugurated in the Fall of 1947 saw Toronto Maple Leafs playing a leading role as a result of their achievement in capturing the Cup three years in a row. Two of those games were played in Toronto&mdash;home of the Cup holders&mdash;as the custom is, with one staged in Chicago, since that City was actually the birthplace of the All-Star Game idea.</p><p>Now, the scene shifts to Detroit, following the Wings&rsquo; victory in the post-season classic last Spring, ending the rule of the Leafs. And Wing fans are hoping that their favorites will have better luck against the game&rsquo;s greats than the Leafs did.</p><p>For in each of those games the All-Stars came out on top, as perhaps could only be expected from an aggregation which represents the finest players engaged in the game today.</p><p>This year&rsquo;s game will have another new angle lacking in the previous ones, since Toronto in its winning skein was more of a combination club than an all-star crew. The selectors generally passed over the Leafian representatives when selecting the Official All-Star Teams, so as a result it generally turned out to be a straight battle between the stars and the Leafs team. Players on the Cup winners who are picked as All-Stars, by custom play with their own squad in the pre-season classic.</p><p>But with Detroit it&rsquo;s a different matter, since their 191950 club was rich in All-Stars. Sid Abel, Ted Lindsay and Leo Boise, of the Wings made the First Team last Spring, while Gordie Howe and Red Kelly were picked on the Alternate Squad. As a result, five of the best in the 1949-50 season will be lining up with Wings, and will be replaced by substitutes selected from the other five clubs.</p><p>That&rsquo;s one reason why Wing supporters are thinking perhaps this will-be their year. After all, they will be playing against an All-Star organization devoid of five of the 12 to pranking players selected by the League&rsquo;s coaches last year!</p><p>Along with the change in the opposing squads comes a similar change in the masterminding department. Coach Tommy Ivan of the Red Wings groomed the All-Star Six for the big games the past two years, by virtue of his standing as Coach of the Stanley Cup finalists against Leafs.</p><p>This year finds Ivan on the other side of the fence, pitting his coaching genius against Lynn Patrick, who will be sending the All-Stars over the boards. Patrick won the job after leading a &ldquo;Cinderella Crew&rdquo; of New York Rangers into the finals last Spring, bowing out only after giving the Detroiters a real run for their money. Patrick since has switched his allegiance to the Boston Bruins, but will be in there by virtue of his work last season.</p><p>As it stands, somebody&rsquo;s streak will have to be broken. The All-Stars, as pointed out, haven&rsquo;t been defeated yet in three tries. And Ivan hasn&rsquo;t lost out as a Coach yet in these season-launching dramas. He has two victories under his belt after molding groups of individual stars into a one-shot winning combination, and it&rsquo;s a cinch he&rsquo;ll be out to retain that undefeated record by making it three in a row, if his Red Wings can trip up the All-Stars.</p><p>Whichever way it goes, this first big game of the 195051 season shapes up as a terrific contest&mdash;providing conversational ammunition for the fans for the rest of the year, and for years to come as well.</p><p>The All-Star Game is definitely a part of hockey.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0299/1168394-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="270" height="228"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01204/1168401-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="228" height="258"></div><h2><b>THEY&rsquo;VE STOPPED WHIMPERING</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>The aritcle of Pfc Peter J. Caden was really something! &ldquo;Us whimpering Black Hawk fans,&rdquo; eh? Well when your team&rsquo;s a loser you don&rsquo;t just sit back and smile. If we didn&rsquo;t howl for a defense, the Hawks could put just about anyone in the nets and still draw a crowd.</p><p>The Hawks have got some of the best &mdash; if not the best?&mdash; fans In all the league. Take a peek at the attendance figures &mdash; not bad for a cellar team are they?</p><p>But the Hawks have been out of the playoffs for the last four seasons. Don&rsquo;t you think it&rsquo;s about time we stirred the air a little around our fair city. Or would you just let things keep going the same old way? What are fans for, if not to tell the front office what they want? That&rsquo;s what the team is out to do &ldquo;Whimpering Black Hawk fans&rdquo;fooey!</p><p>Bob Westenberg Chicago, 111.&mdash;</p><h2><b>WANTS TO WRITE</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>I hope you do not mind my writing to you like this. I like ice hockey very much and I should very much like to have a pen pal who likes hockey. I prefer a friend around 28 years of age. I often pay a visit to Harringay Arena and also to Wembley, here in England and think hockey is a great game.</p><p>Thanks a million.</p><p>Doris Stace 19 Burchell Rd.,</p><p>Leyton, England.</p><h2><b>MCVEIGH FAN</b></h2><p>Dear Sir;</p><p>I have been a regular subscriber to your hockey paper since it was first published and although I have written to the Fan Forum three times I have failed to see my letters in print.</p><p>So, I am trying once more in hope that this letter will not hit the waste paper basket like the other three did and also maybe you have changed your ways and are turning over a new leaf on the eve of another hockey season. So here goes again.</p><p>I would like to see an article written up on the career of Charles (Rabbit) McVeigh the old time hockey player, also referee in the AHL for the past number of years.</p><p>He was not one of the best on skates, but he was far from the worst and he made the NHL with the New York Americans where he was a very colorful player in the public&rsquo;s opinion.</p><p>He got the nickname of Rabbit because he could jump over sticks and players and still come up with the puck. He played hard, win or lose and he also served with Red Dutton, ex-NHL president in World War I. So I think he deserves a write up in your hockey paper. Therefore I would be very-much obliged if you would look up his record in hockey and write an article on his career.</p><p>Clifford C. Williamson Cleveland, O.&mdash;</p><p><b>(Cliff, my friend, we wish it was, just as easy as you write it. Still we will fill your hope sometime this year.)</b></p><h2><b>NEW LEAF CALENDAR</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>Keep up the good work of THE HOCKEY NEWS. It surely is a great paper. Would you please tell me where to send for a Maple Leaf calendar?</p><p>. Allan Muir Yellowknife, N.W.T.</p><p><b>(You may secure a new calendar by writing to the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. There will be a charge for the calendar so you had better check the price with the Gardens.)</b></p><h2><b>TAKE ME OUT TO THE HOCKEY GAME</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>&ldquo;Take me out to the hockey game. Take me out to the crowd. Buy me a program and hockey stick. Oh, how I hope that the Red Wings (Rangers, Black Hawks, Bruins, Canadiens or Leafs) get licked. Let me root, root, root for Barilko (your choice). If he doesn&rsquo;t get a penalty it&rsquo;s a shame &mdash; for it&rsquo;s one, two three periods and that&rsquo;s all at the old hockey game, but it&rsquo;s worth it, even though the seats have gone up a quarter. Ho, ho, yes sir, at the old hockey game.&rdquo;</p><p>The above song has the same tune as &ldquo;Take me out to the ball game.&rdquo; We are hoping that this song will be suitable material for THE HOCKEY NEWS. I would like to say how much I enjoy THE HOCKEY NEWS and I&rsquo;m looking forward to the next edition.</p><p>Janet Herbert and Joyce McDonald Leaside, Ont.</p><h2><b>WILL LUMLEY WORK?</b></h2><p>Dear Sir: Thanks for the wonderful story on Metro Prystai. We sure would like to see him centering Howe and Lindsay. The Wings will be expecting a lot if they team Prystai with Stewart and Couture. And Abel will certainly do well on any line.</p><p>I, for one, am anxious to see Lumley earn his salary for a change. Now he&rsquo;ll know how it is to work without a defense as Brimsek did. We&rsquo;ll see how great he is.</p><p>Looks like the Wings are headed for a second straight Stanley Cup.</p><p>I enjoy every issue of your paper and wouldn&rsquo;t miss reading it for anything.</p><p>Rosemary Wallsten Chicago, Ill.</p><h2><b>A LITTLE ADVICE</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>I was very interested in a recent letter by Mr. Gil Folka and I would like to advise him that he can avoid all arguements by keeping his own records of all games as I have done for over 20 years. It&rsquo;s lots of fun and you will find that people will come to you and ask you who scored the winning goal in such and such a game and other details which you will be able to supply them with. If the gentleman would care to contact me I should be happy to send him a copy of my diagram and how to use it. My family are crazy about hockey and the tradesmen - who often call for details of a &rsquo; certain game.</p><p>Try it, it&rsquo;s fun.</p><p>Lilian Liscumb 318 Berkeley St.</p><p>Toronto, Ont.</p><h2><b>REPLY TO ATTACK</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>Just a minute! Jim O&rsquo;Hearn can&rsquo;t stick pins in us Hawks fans, like he did and not get a reply.</p><p>&ldquo;No goal scorers&rdquo; ha! It seems I recall gents like Bentley, Mosienko, Olmstead and others who were around last year. Though Babando slipped last season, he netted 18 pucks the year before.</p><p>If Ray Powell and Gordy Fashoway could set records galore in the U.S.H.L. they can sure help the Hawks. Ebbie Goodfellow also mentioned Messrs Bill McComb, (110 goals in the last three sea-4 sons), Cliff Simpson and Al Baccari of St. Louis may be around this year.</p><p>Mr. O&rsquo;Hearn has conceded that we have a good defense. What more could we need?</p><p>None &mdash; don&rsquo;t count our Hawks out.</p><p>Chicago, Ill. Unsigned</p><h2><b>WANTS A DEAL</b></h2><p>Dear Sir:</p><p>Would any hockey fan and reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS be interested in exchanging hockey programmes for hockey photos. Either individual or team photos are needed by me in gloss only. Anyone who is interested in securing hockey programs of the NHL, AHL, USHL and several others, please contact me.</p><p>E. R. Hamlyn 91 Craigmaher Ave.,</p><p>St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld.,</p><p>Canada.</p><h2><b>HE DISAGREES</b></h2><p>Sir,</p><p>I regret that I have to disagree with Robert Caleo of Bayonne, N.J. on his predictions for the coming year. His standings are all messed up. Detroit will top them all and Montreal will be second with Toronto, Boston, Chicago and Rangers in that order.</p><p>The Wings will win the Cup hands down. Paul Meger will not play for Canadiens and Reardon, has retired. I agree that Kyle will likely lead the league in penalties but still think Lindsay will lead the league in scoring.</p><p>Anyway I admire Caleo&rsquo;s courage, even if he doesn&rsquo;t know anything about hockey.</p><p>John B. Barton London, Ont.</p><h2><b>DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE?</b></h2><p><b>It is our policy to notify oil subscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptions.</b></p><p><b>The ever-increasing demand for THE HOCKEY NEWS means that most issues are practically sold out before the printing is completed; and that copies are seldom available for mailing to subscribers who are even one issue in arrears.</b></p><p><b>Subscribers receiving &ldquo;expiraHon&rdquo; notification are reminded that, to make certain of continued receipt of THE HOCKEY NEWS it is necessary to send us their renewal orders promptly.</b></p><p><b>If you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice.</b></p><h2><b>TELL YOUR FRIENDS</b></h2><p><b>If your friends don&rsquo;t subscribe to THE HOCKEY NEWS then what we have written here will be news to them. Tell your friends that they may now buy copies of the paper on just about all the stands throughout Canada.</b></p><p><b>The first weekly edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS will be on sale at the news stands starting Wednesday, October 3. In some communities it will hit the stands later than others, perhaps a day or two. But from now and through the next 30 weeks THE HOCKEY NEWS can be found at all news dealers.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0362/1168432-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="596" height="284"></div><h2><b>OCTOBER 1 to OCTOBER 10</b></h2><p>2&mdash;Peterg, Jim, Detroit, forward, 1922; Moe, Bill, Hershey, defense, 1916; Thibeault, Larry, Victoria, forward, 1918.</p><p>5&mdash;Conacher, Roy, Chicago, forward, 1916.</p><p>6&mdash;Maloney, Phil, Boston, forward, 1927.</p><p>7&mdash;Boucher, Frank, New York, manager, 1901; Morrison, Rod. Indianapolis, forward, 1925.</p><p>8&mdash;Jones, Wimpy, Vancouver, forward, 1926; Cotnoir, Jerry, Seattle, goaler, 1925.</p><p>9&mdash;Rollins, Al, Toronto, goaler, 19 26; Kullman, Arnie, Hershey, forward, 1927.</p><p>10&mdash;Laprade, Edgar, New York, forward, 1919.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">BY MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01155/1168470-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="278" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Bob Goldham is a lean, rugged customer who figures he just got the best break of his hockey career.</p><p>Goldham can be called an expert on breaks in hockey &mdash; at least on bad breaks. A veteran of seven years in the National Hockey League, he got three bad ones in quick succession.</p><p>His third year with the Toronto Maple Leafs, he broke his arm.</p><p>The next summer he was traded to Chicago.</p><p>That winter he broke ms arm again.</p><p>Getting traded to Chicago probably was a worse break for Goldham than breaking his arm. Twice while with the Leafs they won the Stanley Cup, which meant extra money In his pocket. None of that playoff cash came his way in three seasons with the floundering Black Hawks.</p><p>&ldquo;Getting away from a club like Chicago is a big break. And, coming to a team like Detroit is an even bigger one,&rsquo; is Goldham&rsquo;s philosophy.</p><p>&ldquo;I could spot the difference the minute I walked into training camp. This bunch acts like champions&mdash;the Hawks had a defeatist complex.&rsquo;</p><p>By his play in the training days Goldham quickly earned a spot as a regular. It appears like he will be directed by Coach Tommy Ivan to return to the style of play for which he was best known at Toronto.</p><h2><b>Offensive Defenseman</b></h2><p>Goldham got his original chance to break in with the Leafs because of his ability as a rushing, puck-carrying defenseman. He was grabbed out of amateur hockey, and starred as a rusher all the time he was with the Leafs.</p><p>But, in his years with the Hawks he made few ventures up the ice. Goldham relates that early in his career he was ordered to stay back by Chicago strategists who told him &ldquo;we have forwards to do that work.&rdquo;</p><p>Stay back Goldham did. Last season he picked up only two goals. But, in his one venture away from the Hawks &mdash; at the 19 49 All Star Game &mdash; Goldham performed under Ivan&rsquo;s coaching, and turned in what was voted the best play of the game. His solo rush for the tying goal earned him the award as the first star of the night.</p><h2><b>The Breaks</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02132/1168463-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="514" height="854"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB GOLDHAM</b></figcaption></div><p>While it was his work as &ldquo;defensive defenseman&rdquo; with Chicago that caught the eye of the Detroit brass and brought him here in the big summertime trade, Goldham will get his chance again to become an &ldquo;offensive defenseman.&rdquo;</p><p>Ivan, who was one of Goldham&rsquo;s coaches in amateur days, has no rule against defenseman being scoring minded at the proper times. Look at Red Kelly, who led the league&rsquo;s defensemen in scoring last year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Goldham Blames Hawks For Defeatist Complex

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01188/1168567-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>BALANCE SHEET AT 80th APRIL, 1950</b></h2><h3><b>ASSETS</b></h3><h3><b>LIABILITIES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02138/1168560-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1085" height="439"></div><h2><b>STATEMENT OF PAST SERVICE FUND FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30th APRIL, 1950</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03105/1168553-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1085" height="316"></div><h2><b>STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE FOR YEAR ENDED 80th APRIL, 1950</b></h2><h3><b>REVENUE</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0474/1168546-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="1105" height="618"></div><h3><b>EXPENDITURE</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0547/1168539-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="1100" height="740"></div><h2><b>STATEMENT OF CONTINGENT RESERVE FUND FOR THE YEAR ENDED 80th APRIL, 1050</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0635/1168532-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="1108" height="165"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PENSION SOCIETY

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01173/1168605-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="304" height="510"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Masnick</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Irvin dug into the mothballs last week, pulled his peak cap, army jacket and skates (they&rsquo;re reputed to be the same pair in which he scored nine goals many years ago) from within and after shooing the stray pigeons off the Forum ice he shooed his hockey charges on &mdash; 35 to be exact.</p><p>Shooing seems to be the big thing around the camp this season. No Sooner had some of the new faces began to feel like big leaguers then Irvin started shooing, this time with the proverbial axe. When he dropped it many heads rolled to the minors, some even rolled back to junior. Of the 35 players who turned up for the camp 19 of them were newcomers and 12 were amateurs. From the west came Paul Masnick of Regina, Frank King, purchased from Minneapolis, Reg Abbot of Brandon and George Bougie of Victoria. Also attending were Jean Beliveau of the Quebec Citadels, Dickie Moore of the Montreal Junior Canadlens, Gilles Dube of Cincinnati, Duggar McNeil of Montreal Senior Royals, Art Rose, of the Junior Habs, Bernie Geoffrion of Montreal Nationales, Vern Kaiser, received in a trade from Springfield, Gordie Bell from Buffalo and Louisville last season, Dollard St. Laurent from the Senior Royals, Cliff Malone and Jacques Plante of the same club, Tom Johnson from Buffalo, Bud McPherson of Cincinnati, Stan Long from Barrie, Jack Donlevy of Halifax and Jacques Locas of Cincinnati.</p><p>From last season&rsquo;s second place club Irvin has Jerry McNeil, Doug Harvey, Hal Laycoe, Butch Bouchard, Glen Harmon, Maurice Richard, Normie Dussault, Elmer Lach, Billy Reay, Leo Gravelie, Bert Hirschfeld, Floyd Curry, Ken Mosdell, Baldy McKay and Rtp Riopelle. Missing are Roger Leger, appointed coach of Victoria, Bobby Filion, Bill Durnan and Kenny Reardon. The last three have retired.</p><h2><b>Beliveau and Masnick Fly</b></h2><p>The outstanding features of the camp after the first week was the work of Paul Masnick and Jean Beliveau. Both played junior last season and both have another year to go in that rank. General manager Frank Seike has offered both boys contracts but an unusual promise by Beliveau&rsquo;s father to a junior club owner at Quebec has prevented him from signing. Masnick has yet to decide.</p><p>Beliveau, 6&rsquo; 1&frac12;&rdquo; and tipping the scales at 190, had been centering Richard and Dussault on the front line. Elmer Lach has been pivoting Masnick and Gravelie. Tlvs second line is made up with Reay at center and Kaiser and Hirschfeld, Frank King and Riopelle have been alternating as the extra men. Still together, and by far the most Impressive trio In the camp are Mosdell, Curry and MacKay.</p><p>Paired on defense are Harvey and Laycoe, Bouchard and Harmon and McPherson and Johnson. Gordie Bell has been tending goals with McNeil.</p><p>Cut from the ranks after the first week of practice were Moore, Dube, Geoffrion, Local, Abbott, McNeil, St. Laurent, Malone, Long, Bougie, Donlevy, Plante and Rose.</p><p>The Habs played their first exhibition game against Cincinnati Mohawks. It wasn&rsquo;t the usual type of exhibition game. Visiting fans might have thought the Stanley Cup was at stake. They laid the wood on hard and often and there was no letting up. The friendly rivalry between Clancy and Irvin now resembles the unfriendly rivalry of the Leafs and Habs.</p><p>At any rate the Habs won the game 6-4. They by no means out played the Mohawks and at times they looked like anything but a contender. Still it&rsquo;s too early to say. One good feature of the game was MacKay&rsquo;s two goals.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s an omen, I hope,&rdquo; says Baldy. &ldquo;I feel a good season coming on.&rdquo;</p><p>The Habs, as in the years before, look good defensively, but weak in spots on the front lines. Outstanding were laycoe and Harvey. So pleased is Irvin with their work that he is beginning to call them his all-star defense.</p><h2><b>Harvey the Leader</b></h2><p>With Reardon gone Harvey has been called upon to fill the spot as the rugged leader.</p><p>&ldquo;I think Harvey is going to show that he&rsquo;s a terrific player this season and better than that I think he&rsquo;ll replace Reardon as the leader of the club. Both he and Laycoe have shown very well. Bouchard isn&rsquo;t skating too well but Harmon is going great guns. I think Johnson has ths inside track on the job as fifth defenseman but McPherson Is Improving every day. I&rsquo;m very satisfied with the defense,&rdquo; said Irvin.</p><p>Of his forward lines this Is how they will probably shape up for the first game against Chicago. Richard and Dussault will flank either Beliveau or Lach. Curry, Mosdell and MacKay will be another trio and Reay will have Hlrshfeld and either Kaiser, or Gravelie alongside him. Frank King and Riopelle may ba the extra men. There is a very good possibility that Paul Meger may return to the Canadians for the first game. Meger, presently with the Buffalo Blsons, belongs to the Habs and not until an exhibition game between Montreal and Buffalo will his final destination be decided.</p><p>Of the rookies he cut from his squad Irvin showed bitter disappointment in Dickie Moore more than the rest. Moore&rsquo;s Indifference on the ice, his lack of trying mixed with the fact that he just didn&rsquo;t show anything to warrent him a chance with the Canadiens was all the reason Irvin needed for sending him back to the Junior Canadians.</p><p>&ldquo;The days of feeding players with a silver spoon are gone,&rdquo; said Irvin, &ldquo;I like a player who makes me want to play him, and Moore didn&rsquo;t. I&rsquo;m disappointed in Mm, but he&rsquo;s got a lot to learn. I put him with Cincinnati to see what ho could do against us and he didn&rsquo;t touch the puck all night.&rdquo;</p><p>On the brighter side of the picture is Beliveau. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a natural&rdquo; says Dick, &ldquo;he can skate, shoot a puck and score goals and he can think. What more do you want! He&rsquo;s a better prospect than Armstrong of the Leafs.&rdquo;</p><p>However, the big question is &ldquo;What more does Beliveau want If ho doesn&rsquo;t sign a professional contract then ho will return to play junior for the Quebec Citadels at a contract reputed to bo worth $4,500.</p><h2><b>A Natural</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02153/1168598-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="544" height="1090"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau, above, will return to the junior ranks after his father refused to permit him to turn Pro. The boy&rsquo;s father promised Frank Byrne, the aggressive owner of the Quebec Citadels, that as long as Jean is of age to play junior ho would play for Quebec. Byrne refused to let the older Beliveau break his word, even though it means holding the boy&rsquo;s brilliant career back.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Beliveau And Masnick Impress Irvin; So Do Harvey And Laycoe

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03122/1168636-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="307" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Blu Knott</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The National Hockey League has bought the contract of Referee Bill Knott of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and has also signed Red Storey of Montreal to a referee&rsquo;s contract. They will officiate in the major league this season.</p><p>In announcing the signing of the pair f it was also reported from the league i headquarters that Butch Keeling will &rsquo; not return to refereeing but instead will coach a junior club.</p><p>Knott, rated the best in the west, was born in Huntsville, Ontario on September 9, 1905. He moved to Vancouver when he was 15 and then on to Seattle when he reached 23.</p><p>Knott, 5&rsquo;6&frac12;&rdquo; tipping the scales at 175 pounds, refereed his first game in Seattle in the late 20&rsquo;s. In 1930 he then took on senior hockey and in the late 30&rsquo;s he refereed a few games in the old Pacific Coast Pro League.</p><h2><b>Started In 1945</b></h2><p>In 1945 he was signed as official in the present P.C.H.L. and was with the league until he was signed to his N.H.L. contract.</p><p>Last season Knott worked 100 league games, 8 exhibition and 20 playoffs games, which includes the complete seven game series between New Westminster and Los Angeles.</p><p>Red Storey is best known in Quebec where he has been officiating in the Quebec Senior League. His work in the Allan Cup finals between Calgary and Toronto earned him high praise from many westerners.</p><p>To hockey Storey is not new, to pro hockey officiating he is. Standing over 6&rsquo; and weighing close to 200 pounds Storey was a star with the Montreal Royals of the Buddy O&rsquo;Connor days. He was also a star football player with the Toronto Argos and Montreal Bulldogs but had to halt active sports due to a bad knee injury. The likeable &ldquo;Red&rdquo; also handles Big Four football games in the pigskin season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NHL Signs Knott and Storey As Officials

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-12" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1223/1168761-1-eng-US/f0010-122.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THE BEAUTIFUL CINCINNATI GARDENS, home of King Clancy&rsquo;s/Cincinnati Mohawks, where the opening game of the 1950-51 American League season will be staged. The Cleveland Barons, last season&rsquo;s league leaders, will be the visitors at Cincy for the first tilt to be played on Sunday October, 8.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The American Hockey League will inaugurate its 1950-1951 season on Sunday, October 8, with one game scheduled for the getaway-night, when the, two Ohio rivals, Cleveland Barons and Cincinnati Mohawks face each other. The Mohawks, who will be starting their sophomore year in the circuit, will be the host team, as the league opens its 350 game schedule, which will lead to the playoffs next March. Each of the ten clubs will play 70 games, 35 at home and a like number on th? road.</p><p>A single contest is also on the slate for the second night of play, Tuesday, October 10, and again Cleveland will be the visiting attraction as they help St. Louis to open activities. On Wednesday, October 11, four more teams will see action before the home fans, as Buffalo entertains New Haven, Cincinnati journeys to Providence, Hershey to Springfield and Cleveland plays Its third road game in Pittsburgh. Indianapolis, the last club to face the starting whistle will not swing into action until Saturday, October 14, in St. Louis.</p><p>Two more home openers will be staged, on Thursday, October 12, in Hershey, where Springfield will appear, and on the same&rsquo; night, Cincinnati will supply the opposition for New Haven to get started. The remaining pair of clubs to begin their home schedules. Cleveland and Indianapolis, will not get off before the local rooters until the second week of play. St. Louis will be in Cleveland on Wednesday, October 18, while Indianapolis will pry the lid off with Cincinnati on the following night, Thursday, October 19.</p><p>The league will be comprised of the same representative cities as last season, with the divisional arrangements also having a like complement of teams. The Indianapolis Capitals which made new league history by sweeping to the Calder Cup Championship last Spring in eight consecutive victories, will again be in the Western Division along with Cleveland Barons, Cincinnati Mohawks, Pittsburg Hornets and St. Louis Flyers. In the Eastern section, Buffalo, divisional titlists last season will defend its laurels against Providence Reds, Hershey Bears, New Haven Eagles and Springfield Indians.</p><p>The only change in team status is New Haven, where the local entry, formerly known as the Ramblers, will assume the new nickname of Eagles. The club will be operated on an independent basis by the New Haven Arena Corporation.</p><p>Each of the ten clubs will play the members of its own division ten times, five at home and five away, and will engage the other section&rsquo;s teams six times, <b>three</b> home and three away, to arrive at the 70 game schedule for every team.</p><h2><i>Curtain Rises Here</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Barons vs Mohawks Is AHL Opener

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><h2><i><b>Three Former Players &hellip; &hellip; New N.H.L.Coaches</b></i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01187/1168900-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="271" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02152/1168893-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="298" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03127/1168886-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="264" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Joe Primeau</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0497/1168879-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="269" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Neil Colville</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0582/1168872-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="263" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0675/1168865-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="276" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ebbie Goodfellow</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings will pry the lid off the 1950-51 National Hockey League season at Detroit on Wednesday, October 11. These same two clubs closed the 1949-50 season at Detroit on April 23, with Detroit winning the Stanley Cup.</p><p>The opening on October 11 is the earliest in history, beating by one day the opener in Detroit a year ago. The curtain will come down on the 1950-51 championship schedule on Sunday, March 25. Each team Will play 70 games this season, the same as they did last year.</p><p>Hockey will make its 1950-51 debut In Montreal on Thursday, October 12, with Canadians playing hosts to Chicago Black Hawks. On Saturday, October 14, the new season will be ushered into the Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens when the Leafs meet Chicago. The Black Hawks open the new Beason in both Canadian cities this year.</p><p>On Sunday, October 15, two American clubs play their initial Came for 1950-51, with Boston fans getting a preview of the Bruins against Montreal Canadiens and Chicago fans getting their first peek at the reorganized Black Hawks against the New York Rangers.</p><p>New York Rangers, last team to &copy;pen their season at home, will play their first game this season before home town fans on Wednesday, October 25. Their opposition will be the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights appear the most popular playing dates for the six N.H.L. clubs. Montreal plays all their games on Thursdays and Saturdays. Canadiens have 13 Thursday and 22 Saturday contests.</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs play 11 games on Wednesdays and 24 on Saturdays. New York Rangers play 17 times on Wednesday and 18 times on Sunday. Chicago Black Hawks play 17 of their home games on Sunday and 15 on Thursday.</p><h2><i><b>One New Face &hellip;&hellip; In Managerial Ranks</b></i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0959/1168858-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="496" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1051/1168851-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="490" height="482"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Selke</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1142/1168844-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="492" height="487"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hap Day</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1240/1168837-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="488" height="484"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1330/1168830-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="502" height="482"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Art Ross</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1417/1168823-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="502" height="490"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Tobin</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cup Foes Open 50-51 Season At Motor City

f0011-07

1950-51 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE SCHEDULE

<div class="byline">STAN SAPLIN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0865/1168962-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="270" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Buddy O&rsquo;Connor</b></figcaption></div><p>LAKE PLACID. N.Y,&mdash;</p><p>With their opening National Hockey League game in Detroit scheduled for one week from Wednesday, Oct. 4, the New York Rangers broke camp at Lake Placid this week and took to the road for a series of exhibition games in the Province of Quebec.</p><p>Although Manager Frank Boucher and Coach Neil Colville had intended to make their final squad cut before leaving the Placid region, the keen battle for the sixth and final defense post on the club and for the composition of a third forward line has caused them to alter plans. As a result, twenty-two men will be hauled on the tune-up tour and the final slashing to the maximum roster of 18 probably will not come until the team moves on to Detroit for the debut against the Red Wings on October 11th.</p><h2><b>Axe Will Fall</b></h2><p>Seven players are contending for the three spots on the open forward line but only two of these are likely to be dropped next week, for the sextet will carry two utility forwards. The stickhandlers involved are Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Alex Kaleta, Jack McLeod, Nick Mickoski, Eddie Kullaman, Reg Sinclair and Clint Albright. But the last three named were on last year&rsquo;s team. Kullman and Albright played for the Rangers two years ago while Sinclair is an amateur from Sherbrooke and McGill University who has been highly impressive in training.</p><p>Jack Lancien and Fred Shero, veterans of the 1949-50 team, and Norm Gustavsen from the Tacoma Rockets of the Pacific Coast League are the candidates for the open defense job. Set to wear the Ranger blue on defense are Allan Stanley, Frank Eddolls, Pat Egan, Wally Stanowski and Gus Kyle.</p><p>The forward lines of Edgar Laprade-Tony Leswick-Duncan Fisher and Don Raleigh-Pentti Lund Ed Slowinski will be intact. Chuck Rayner, extremely impressive again, will hold down the goaltending assignment.</p><p>The exhibition tour opens in Valleyfield, Quebec. Then the Blues will be in Quebec City to meet the Quebec Aces and next Sunday the club will move into Montreal to take on the Montreal Royals. All three Quebec foes are senior amateur clubs which play fast and aggressive hockey.</p><p>After the Montreal engagement, the Rangers will leave for Detroit and the inaugural of their National Hockey League campaign.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-08

Rangers BreakUp Camp With Four Spots Undecided

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>There will be more new faces in the N.H.L. coaching ranks this season than at any other time in the league&rsquo;s history. There will be three coaches taking over clubs for the first time in the big league and one making a switch to another club. In the managerial ranks there is only one new face in the list.</p><p>The new coaches are Ebbie Goodfellow at Chicago, Neil Colville at New York and Joe Primeau at Toronto. Lynn Patrick has moved from the New York Rangers to the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Only the Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings (they ran one and two in the race, last season) are standing pat on their coaches. Tommy Ivan remains as the Wings&rsquo; boss and veteran Dick Irvin will once again be running the Habs from the bench.</p><p>Goodfellow takes over the luckless Chicago Black Hawks from Charlie Conacher, former big leaguer who has returned to his oil business. Goodfellow, who is expected to show an improved Hawk outfit this season, coached the St. Louis Flyers of the American League last season. A former National Leaguer, he played for the Detroit Red Wings at one time and was actually coach of the club for a short term.</p><p>Joe Primeau succeeds Happy Day as field coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Day, who was so successful with the Leafs, has moved up the ladder into the front office, where he will help take some of the load off Conn Smythe&rsquo;s shoulders, as general manager of the club. Last season Primeau coached the Toronto Senior Marlboros to the Allan Cup and in previous years has proven himself a very able coach by taking the Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s aggregation to the Memorial Cup.</p><p>Neil Colville takes over from Lynn Patrick who has moved over to the Boston Bruins. Colville coached the New Haven Ramblers last season and prior to that played with the Rangers. At one time he was the main part of the famous Colvilles, Shibicky line.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

New Look In Coaches All Set For Race

<div class="byline">By AL NICKLBSON</div><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Toronto Maple Leaf bosses, settled in this Ontario peach-growing district for the NHL training season, have) sown a crop with a prayer form ore scoring acreage. To tend the crop they&rsquo;ve brought up one of amateur hockey&rsquo;s greatest coaches, Gentleman Joe Primeau, Leaf playing star of another day.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03122/1169062-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="296" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>G. Armstrong</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0492/1169055-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="316" height="504"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Howie Meeker</b></figcaption></div><p>Actually, the team that lost to Detroit Red Wings in (the Stanley Cup semi-finals last season after winning the cup for three successive seasons, won&rsquo;t undergo any drastic changes to start this winter. It&rsquo;s hoped, however, that inclusion of one or two pro newcomers will inject goal-getting blood into all hands.</p><p>General manager Conn Smythe, long considered one of hockey&rsquo;s wisest men, figures that the defensive record of the club may suffer somewhat in the hunt for goals. But a team can&rsquo;t win without scoring and the Leafs didn&rsquo;t do much of that against the powerful Wings in the finals.</p><h2><b>Lewlcki Impresses</b></h2><p>Brought up as prospective new punch to offset the depreciation were Danny Lewicki, George Armstrong and Hugh Bolton. The latter was a standout rearguard with Marlboro seniors last season. Lewlcki and Armstrong teamed together on Marlboro Juniors and were a big factor in helping the Marlie seniors win the Allan Cup, emblem of the Canadian championship, after their team was eliminated.</p><p>Armstrong, whose Indian background has brought him the title of &ldquo;Big Chief&rdquo;, was a disappointment in early practises and was shipped to the camp of the farmhand Pittsburgh Hornets at nearby Niagara Falls. A 20-year-old right winger of 183 pounds, he is subject to instant recall.</p><p>Bolton, a rangy edition of a youthful Abe Lincoln, seems a cinch to step into the defensive shoes of the retired Garth Boesch. He has been most impressive in workouts, so much so that he has a chance of breaking up one of the regular rearguard units&mdash;Jim Thomson and Gus Mortson, and the team of BUI Barilko and Bill Juzda. Right now, he could displace Thomson, who so far hasn&rsquo;t come near his true form.</p><p>In addition, as Hap Day pointed out the other day, Bolton looks like the best point man since the Leafian days of that character, Babe Pratt. That could help the Leaf power-play which has sizzled out and sometimes backfired in the last couple of seasons.</p><p>Day, who moved up the ladder into the assistant general manager&rsquo;s chair after the history-making coaching of Leafs to five Stanley Cups in 10 years, has, like Smythe, high regard for Lewicki. He&rsquo;s a fancy-dan who can break in on goal from any angle and has been murder around the net. Inclined to be a little chippy at times, he led all scorers in the last Allan Cup playoffs. In the Eastern Canada final, against Sherbrooke (Que.), he scored five and assisted on three more goals in one game.</p><p>Of late, Lewicki hag been at left wing on a line with Max Bentley at centre and Joe Klukay at right wing, thus taking Ray Timgren&rsquo;s place on that unit. It could be that lightweights Lewicki and Bentley will be the offensive threats and Klukay the workhorse, as was Bob Davidson on that former great Leaf line with Syl Apps and Gordie Drillon.</p><p>In Bolton, Boss Smythe can see the kind of outstanding defenseman &ldquo;who comes along about once in every 10 years.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He can take a look during the heat of battle and size up any situation,&rdquo; Smythe added. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s good both ways.&rdquo;</p><p>Day, in pointing out the need for goal-getters, pointed to last season&rsquo;s playoffs. They show that Harry Watson, a tremendous hockey players at times, failed to get one point in seven games. Neither did Bill Ezinicki, presently on the absentee list and not figured on for this season. Howie Meeker and Cal Gardner, in seven playoff games each, managed a total of two points.</p><p>Replacing the erstwhile hard-rock badman, Bill Ezinicki, on right wing centre Gardner and Watson, is hard-trying Howie Meeker. He has been going well, too, has earned Smythe&rsquo;s &ldquo;A&rdquo; for effort.</p><p>No newcomer, but still somewhat of a rookie, Is Tod Sloan, probably the only player in Leaf history to be re-purchased by the club. He has made an impression, especially since taking over from Armstrong at right wing with centre Ted Kennedy, team captain, and Sid Smith.</p><p>After being on the Toronto lists as a pro since 1946 and playing for Pittsburgh, Sloan last year was sold to Cleveland Barons of the AHL, where he shot 37 goals. Then, he tied a league record of 10 goals in the playoffs. He credits some of the Improvement to the fact he quit smoking and has added nearly 20 pounds for a weight of close to 170.</p><p>Another Leaf line has Long John McCormack between Flem Mackell and Timgren, with Vie Lynn as an extra forward.</p><p>And in goal? Who else but that ageless cherub, the one and only, Turk Broda. To back him up, la case he goes stale or gains leave for a night, there&rsquo;s lanky Al Rolline, being groomed for the Job when the Turkey retires to ths Old Men&rsquo;s Home.</p><p>Turk, at 36 the National Hockey League&rsquo;s oldest performer, has been hot and cold at training camp, but you can&rsquo;t tell much from that. He always has been that way, tightens up like a mister&rsquo;s money-bag strings when It counts the most.</p><p>One of the most popular performers ever to wear the blue and white of the Maple Leafs, Turk is a 99% percent certainty to be in the cage come opening night Oct. 14. Rollins, who had a fine goal average with the Hornets after Joining them midway, through last season, still has a few weaknesses. They can be ironed out with practise, however, and coach Primeau has been working on that.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-03

Leafs Are Stronger Up Front But Will Lose Defensive Strength

<div class="byline">By AL NICKLESON</div><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>L&rsquo;Affaire Ezinicki appears more and more to mean that hockey&rsquo;s hard-hitting bad man has departed the hockey scene forever.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01198/1169024-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="266" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Oonn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><p>At least that&rsquo;s the way some of the experts figure after Sweet William failed to report to the Toronto Maple Leaf training camp here. From a Winnipeg golf course, he gave a reason. He wasn&rsquo;t up to. par in the health department, he said.</p><p>Ezinicki always has been a man of moods. He was one player Leaf bosses, including coach Hap Day, never could figure out. He had his bad games, plenty of them, and there were many, many times Toronto fans booed him for what they called &ldquo;dumb&rdquo; playing.</p><p>But, If the hardrock right-winger has retired, the Leafs will miss him. There&rsquo;s no doubt that his smashing checks won more than one game. Certainly they put some of the stars on the sidelines. Even on his worst night, opposing players were more than wary each time he stepped on the ice. There always was a chance Ezzie would connect.</p><h2><b>A Cigar Smoker</b></h2><p>He was colorful because he was rough and tough&mdash;on the ice. He was the most hated player, probably, in the National Hockey League. Off the ice, he spoke so gently, had such a boyish smile and mien, it was hard to believe he was the same guy. An inveterate cigar-smoker, he once was caught reading a book on etiquette.</p><p>That&rsquo;s Bill Ezinicki, the Leafs&rsquo; problem child of all time. When camp opened here, not one of his mates knew where he was. He finally was dug out of hiding at the home of his parents in Winnipeg. After a newspaperman interviewed him on a golf course, he despatched a wire to Hap Day, now assistant general manager of Leafs, stating only that he was: &ldquo;Not feeling up to standard. Would like to remain at home.&rdquo;</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t determined whether Ezzie meant he would prefer to rest for a while, or that he, at 26 years of age, was retiring.</p><p>General Manager Conn Smythe then sent a telegram asking Ezintcki to report to Winnipeg clinic for a medical check-up. Also, a contract for this season was despatched. Nothing has been heard from the little guy since.</p><p>Ezinicki previously had told newspapermen that he was under-weight and run down. During the summer he played plenty of golf&mdash;he has a tremendous liking for that game&mdash;and was assistant pro at a small course in New York State.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02147/1169017-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="571" height="1443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><i>New Problem Child</i></p><p><b>BILL EZINICKI</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Last time he was seen in the east was at the Ontario Open at Toronto St. George&rsquo;s Golf Club. He competed in that, without success, and Smythe, who saw him at the time, said he appeared to look ill and drawn.</p><h2><b>Only Ezzie Knows</b></h2><p>Ezzie, on the other hand, told newsmen he was feeling fine and actually looking forward to a season with Leafs. He also expressed hope he wouldn&rsquo;t be traded and suggested that if he was the Leafs might come to rue the day.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-01

Ezzie Keeps’ Em Quessing While He Keeps Putting

<div class="byline">By GEORGE JOHNSON</div><p>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;</p><p>The hammering and sawing that&rsquo;s going on in the Western Division of the American League as managers and coaches re-arrange their rosters for the soon-to-start race Is easily matched by Eastern clubs.</p><p>Buffalo&rsquo;s Bisons, who shifted into the eastern sector last winter and got home first, 2 points ahead of Providence, will rely strongly on the men who won that championship, and hope that new blood will make them stronger.</p><p>The Herd has no problem in goal, with veterans Connie Dion and Gordon Bell back to double-team the enemy, if the player limit permits AL clubs the luxury of two goalers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01204/1169093-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="410" height="672"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Crawford</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Plenty Of Vacancies</b></h2><p>There are vacancies on defense in Buffalo, as in most of the leagues&rsquo; 10 rinks. Coach Roy Goldsworthy has his choice among seven men for his fourth, fifth and perhaps sixth rearguards, with returnees Lloyd Fink-beiner, Hugh Currie and Bob Drainville to build on.</p><p>The Bisons look to a couple of ex-Clevelanders, Pete the Pest Les wick and Bob Dawes, to get the 30 goals scored last season by Murdo MacKay, traded to Cleveland for Leswlck. Pete Tkachuk may make the leap all the way from the Pacific Coast League, where he was Rookie of the Year In 1949-50. He&rsquo;ll have to splash some to bow into the A.L. as brilliantly as Paul Meger, another left winger who came from junior to be one of Buffalo&rsquo;s brightest boys last season.</p><p>Providence, hampered by a soggy defense and slowness last winter, hasn&rsquo;t been idle The Reds have picked up Orval Lavell and Sheldon Bloomer for their defense, from New York, giving back Eddie Kullman, who originally came from the Rangers in the Allan Stanley deal two years ago. Lavell and Bloomer played with New Haven last year.</p><p>The entire Chad-Praser-Liscombe line may be absent when Terry Reardon&rsquo;s club goes to work on its league program. Johnny Chad is talking retirement, and waivers have been asked on Liscombe and Fraser.</p><p>The farm system is expected to supply the forward replacements for these three old-timers. With a surplus of defensemen, Providence may deal away one or more of these in an effort to get proven scoring strength before the season opens.</p><p>As is usually the case with Springfield, Eddie Shore has a horde of men squabbling for jobs. To goad the pros into even greater effort. Shore has three or four good amateur prospects. o</p><p>The Indians sold Left Winger Vern Kaiser to Montreal, and traffic in the other direction included Left Wing George Robertson and Defenseman Charles (Bus) Gagnon, with Cincinnati last time around. Bus was the league&rsquo;s second-roughest player, sitting 165 minutes in the penalty boxes. Springfield also obtained another backer-upper, Gordon Davidson, from Buffalo.</p><p>Shore and Coach Earl Seibert consider a new Eddie Bush (a left winger, not the veteran defenseman), Larry Popien, Don Scattalon and George Ford their top amateurs.</p><p>Silence mantles the situation confronting last season&rsquo;s also-rans, New Haven and Hershey. Cut adrift by New York, New Haven will go It alone and is expected to have the usual stormy sailing Independent hockey clubs encounter.</p><p>Boston, Hershey&rsquo;s parent club, seems to be-more than well-stocked, and It&rsquo;s considered a cinch that Johnny Crawford, stepping in as playing coach of the Bears, will be deploying several new skaters, possibly Injecting a large dose of youth.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0013-01

Many Changes Seen In Eastern Division Clubs

<div class="byline">By GEORGE JOHNSON</div><p>ST. LOUIS, Mo&mdash;</p><p>The pads and skates are out in American League training camps and while men fight for jobs, the pencils come out at home and folks try to guess who&rsquo;ll be playing where when the 1950-51 season starts next month.</p><p>Each year since the war it has been predicted that time would overhaul the veterans, and youths in great numbers would spring into the A. L. That prediction is out again, and might get more than an irreverant burial this time.</p><p>It might seem that a runaway champion would be the last club to make wholesale alterations but Cleveland&rsquo;s Barons, who dominated the regular season battling last winter, have many gaps to fill, gaps created by retirements, promotions, and trades.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02168/1169131-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="581" height="575"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>A Flyer?</b></p><p><b>Ray Powell</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>Heller Needs Three Men</b></h2><p>Indianapolis, first club in league history to win the playoffs without losing a single game, doesn&rsquo;t have as many holes to plug as the Barons, but Ott Heller will have to come up with men to fill three mighty big pairs of boots.</p><p>The hopes of last season&rsquo;s four also-rans to move up this time around seem to stand not more than a fifty-fifty chance of fulfillment. As has been the case recently, It seems that the stronger Western Division will become more of a rat race than ever, with Cincinnati a cinch and Pittsburgh a possibility to challenge for high places. Hershey and New Haven, who were left out of the 1950 playoffs, Hershey for the first time in its history, seem to have less chance of giving the Eastern Division&rsquo;s top three an argument.</p><p>There&rsquo;ll be four new coaches, two In each division. Johnny Mitchell has exchanged his job as business manager at Pittsburgh for the dual job of manager-coach at St. Louis, replacing Ebbie Goodfellow, gone to Chicago. Tommy Anderson will come down from Oshawa to coach Pittsburgh, with Aldege Bastien, who finished last season in that job, becoming business manager for the Hornets.</p><p>Johnny Crawford, the old Boston defense star, will give the league a. third playing coach when he goes into action with Hershey&rsquo;s Bears, having taken up the reins dropped by Don Penniston. New Haven, cutting at least part-way loose from an arrangement with New York&rsquo;s Rangers, will have a new coach, for Neil Colville has stepped up to New York.</p><p>From the largest farm system operated solely by an A. E. club, Cleveland will have to locate at least seven new men, if the Barons plan to carry their usual out-sized squad. There is now a league rule calling for 16-men squads, with only 14 to be allowed to dress for a game, But rumors say the league governor will expand this unworkable minimum before or shortly after the race begins.</p><p>Two of Cleveland&rsquo;s most famed stars. Right Wing Bob Carse and Defenseman Danny Sprout, have retired. The once-great Leswick-Holota-Carse line was further scattered when little Pete Leswick was traded to Buffalo for Center Murdo MacKay. Bob Dawes, a utility man who disappointed after coming from Toronto in a midseason deal last winter, also has taken the Cleveland-to-Buffalo ride, with Center Joe McArthur reversing that route.</p><h2><b>Still In The Running</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01155/1169124-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="1144" height="1557"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL DURNAN has stepped out of the National Hockey League, but the Quebec Senior League will find him a very tough competitor as he takes over as coach of the Ottawa Senators. Bill is gathering a potent squad for his first year as a coach. Above, he is seen signing his contract to coach the Ottawa sextet. Standing beside him is Air Commodore Mackell, president of the team and behind is young Joe Gorman, general manager of the club.</b></figcaption></div><p>Defensemen Eddie Reigle and Steve Kraftchek have been sold into the National league, and so has Center Tod Sloan, leaving some large jerseys for Coach Bun Cook to fill.</p><p>The Barons&rsquo; leading new (or slightly-used) prospects for replacements are Defensemen Phil Samis, traded away from Pittsburgh; Joe Conn, in and out of the league the last couple of years; young Hal Tarala, from Portland, and Sam Lavitt, a 28-year-old with Minneapolis last year.</p><h2><b>Center Spot Set</b></h2><p>Center will be a hard spot to crack, with MacKay, a habitual 30-goal man, taking Sloan&rsquo;s place. Glen Sonmor, a star at Minneapolis, and Billy Warwick, who came from the same place to be a stout substitute during the last playoffs, will contend for Leswick&rsquo;s emptied spot at left wing.</p><p>No one can duplicate Carse&rsquo;s poise and wisdom at right wing, but the Barons undoubtedly will get more speed and endurance from one of two youths, Walt Hergesheimer, a 43-goal-getter from Minneapolis, or Eric Pogue, traded from Pittsburgh.</p><p>Indianapolis has been ripped up the middle. The Caps lose Goalie Terry Sawchuk, a once-in-a-lifetime star, to Detroit. They lose their nonstop captain, center Don Morrison, and their spottily-brilliant defense kingpin, Al Dewsbury, to Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Either the veteran Jim Henry or young Brennan will move into the Indianapolis goal. Although there was talk during the last Stanley Cup scuffle that the Wilson brothers would leap directly from Omaha to Detroit, they may not, and in that event Larry Wilson probably will be a Cap center, with brother John pushing aside some returnee left winger.</p><h2><b>Pronovost Good Prospect</b></h2><p>The wise men think defenseman Marcel Pronovost has a better chance of skipping Indianapolis than the Wilsons, for he was sharp-looking in his playoff trail with the Red Wings. He could make Cap fans forget Dewsbury, who made them either cheer him or jeer him. If Pronovost becomes a Wing, the Caps may get either Bob Goldham, who changed employers in the big deal with Chicago, or Clare Martin, both veterans.</p><p>St. Louis&rsquo;s tie-up with Chicago, its first NHL agreement in almost a quarter of a century in hockey, should help both sides. The Flyers should get some of the better men from the Hawks&rsquo; United States League farm&mdash;Ray Powell, the USL scoring champ being most prominently-mentioned&mdash;and like-wise hope to get some of Chicago&rsquo;s surplus.</p><p>The Flyers look for a lift from Gordon Pearson, a lad just turning pro, at center. They think a couple of other juniors have a chance to open the season in the AHL. From Chicago, or through a deal, St. Louis plans to find one or two defensemen, for the Flyers feel it&rsquo;s there they are weakest.</p><p>Toronto is going to have to provide Pittsburgh with a good deal of ammunition if the Hornets are to rebound in Tommy Anderson&rsquo;s debut as coach. Only two rivals scored fewer goals than the stingless Wasps last winter, and only good goaling kept them in the race for playoff places until the bitter end &mdash; bitter for them.</p><p>Cincinnati&rsquo;s plans remain somewhat of a mystery, but it&rsquo;s the same sort of a mystery as what Russia plans to do with the atom bomb. The rest of the league took a fearful pushing-around from the Mohawks last winter, considering it was Cincinnati&rsquo;s first try at pro hockey.</p><p>The rest of the league prays that the Hawks won&rsquo;t be able to improve as rapidly this year as they did last. If they start this year where they left off last March, and improve as much as they did a year ago, nothing can keep Montreal&rsquo;s younger brethren out of the playoffs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0013-02

Close Race Expected In Strong Western Division

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01208/1169162-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY MITCHELL, far right, new coach of the St. Louis Flyers, meets some of his new charges. They are Al Baccari, left, Cliff Simpson, center and Bill McComb, right.</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>With the opening of the American Hockey League 1950-51 season set for Sunday, October 8, less than a week away, a fast look at the lineups is in order. Many of the teams engineered transactions throughout the off season months which will result in quite a few of the established professional stars of past seasons, appearing in different uniforms this coming Fall and Winter. In addition, a wealth of new amateur talent, and graduates of lower classification professional circuits have been in the various training camps showing their ability in an effort to oust the veterans from the lineups. A goodly number of these newcomers have played brilliantly during the tryout period, and are expected to fill the vacancies left by former star performers who have left the American League scene either through retirement or transfer to other leagues.</p><p>Before delving into the playing personnel, a look at the men who will guide the teams in the ice struggles should come first, what with four new coaches taking over the reins in different cities. Two of these new mentors will be making their debut as team leaders in the AHL. They are Johnny Crawford in Hershey and Tommy Anderson in Pittsburgh. The other pair of coaches, while they are a change from last season, are really returnees from other past seasons of experience in directing American League clubs, Johnny Mitchell, who will take over the job vacated by Ebbie Goodfellow in St. Louis, formerly had coaching time in Springfield and Pittsburgh. He was also a front office man for a number of seasons, being business manager in Providence and Pittsburgh. The other ex-coach, coming back to the AHL scene, has long been a familiar sight around the circuit&rsquo;s arenas. He is Frank Beisler, for many seasons rated as one of the best defensemen in the circuit in his playing days, and later the coach of Buffalo Bisons and now defunct Washington Lions. Beisler re-enters the AHL picture as the new headman of the re-organized New Haven Eagles, formerly known as the Ramblers. The two new men, Crawford and Anderson, are well known throughout National League circles and Canadian amateur leagues. The likeable Johnny has been a mainstay of the Boston Bruin defense for many seasons, having, just left the Bruin backline brigade last season, ending a brilliant career as one of the most efficient rearguards in hockey history. Crawford was also noted for his ability to perform the rugged defense chores with a minimum of penalties, which made many friends and admirers in the hockey world for Johnny. Equally well liked, is Anderson, who for the past few years has coached the Oshawa Generals in Ontario. In his playing days, Anderson was a member of the Cleveland, Pittsburgh and New Haven teams in the AHL, and starred for many seasons with New York Americans in the NHL. It was in New York that Anderson gained the familiar nickname of &ldquo;Cowboy Tommy&rdquo;.</p><h2><b>Other Six Holdovers</b></h2><p>The coaching staff of the other six teams remains the same as last season. Ott Heller, leader of the Calder Cup Champion Indianapolis Capitals will be back to defend his title, along with Bun Cook in Cleveland, King Clancy in Cincinnati to round out the Western Division with Anderson and Mitchell. Holdovers in the East, providing competition for newcomers Crawford and Beisler, will be Leroy Goldsworthy in Buffalo, Earl Seibert in Springfield and fiery Terry Reardon in Providence.</p><p>In reviewing the team playing personnel, Buffalo, which took the Eastern section title last Spring will again have a strong contender in an effort to repeat, and perhaps go on to the league title. Although some of last year&rsquo;s stars have been traded away, their replacements from other teams and the amateur ranks is more than adequate. Murdo MacKay has gone to Cleveland, but in return the Bisons obtained the high scoring Pete Leswick, surely no loss there. Also from Cleveland came Bob Dawes, a real valuable performer in the present day hockey, as he can be used as a wing, center or defenseman, having played creditably at all positions. The potent scoring line of Abe De-Marco-Paul Meger-Nobby Warwick is again intact, with the brilliant Meger, league&rsquo;s rookie award winner last season expected to remain with Buffalo another season before moving on to Montreal. Walter &ldquo;Ants&rdquo; Atanas a well seasoned right wing has been procured from the Cleveland organization. Among the many amateurs trying out for Bison jobs, is Ward Brandow, husky 20 year old defenseman from Barrie Flyers last season. Art Chapman, Buffalo General Manager states that Brandow is as fine a prospect as Buffalo has ever signed to a contract.</p><h2><b>All The King&rsquo;s Men</b></h2><p>Continuing the review in alphabetical order, comes Cincinnati, playing its sophomore season in the league. King Clancy had his team playing brilliantly in the late stages of last year&rsquo;s race, and it was a distinct credit to him and his men that the Mohawks had a remarkable record for a first year team, once they got the early season troubles ironed out. In addition to last season&rsquo;s well established stars who will be back, such as Phil Hergesheimer, Walt Stefaniw, Tod Campeau, Ivan Irwin and others, will be five newcomers obtained from last season&rsquo;s New Haven team. These players are Goalie Emile &ldquo;Cat&rdquo; Francis, Fern Perreault, Johnny Denis, Jack Evans and Jackie Gordon. Although losing their goaltender, Gerry McNeil to Montreal, Cincinnati has added a replacement in Francis, who is considered just as efficient, and by many of even greater ability. The only person keeping Francis from NHL play in recent seasons has been Charlie Rayner, great all star netminder of New York Rangers. The new Cincinnati team will provide plenty of competition.</p><p>Cleveland, last season&rsquo;s high powered champions of the west which rolled over the rest of the league during regular season play, has been strengthened by the addition of younger talent, to make up for some of the veterans who have left. In need of a hard hitting rugged defenseman, the Barons obtained one of the best from Pittsburgh, tough Phil Samis. To go with Samis and the other rearguards, the Barons will have an all-Hebrew defense pair in Hy Buller and rookie Sammy Lavitt. Johnny Bower will divide cage duties with Lou Crowdis, former Washington star. Up on the forward lines, Barons have acquired Murdo MacKay, high scoring center ice star of Buffalo. The most brilliant prospect of the new Barons is Walt Hergesheimer, brother of the famous Phil. Cleveland authorities rate him as high as Phil, truly a great recommendation, considering Phil&rsquo;s many years of record-setting hockey play in the AHL. The young Hergy comes from last year&rsquo;s Minneapolis club. All the rest of Cleveland&rsquo;s high scoring aggregation, led by Les Douglas, Roy Kelly, Ray Ceresino, Ken Schultz, Harry Taylor and Fred Thurier will be back.</p><h2><b>Starry Bears Return</b></h2><p>With the exception of veterans Gordie Bruce and Herb Cain who have retired, most of Hershey&rsquo;s stars of last season will be back. The starry Roly McLenahan who set a new goal scoring record for defensemen last season will again top the blueline corps, along with Billy Moe, Andy Branigan and Joe Schertzel from Tulsa. Of course the Bear defense will be greatly strengthened by Coach JohnnyCrawford who expects to play himself. Forwards and centers such as Frank Mario, Jerry Brown, Arnie Kullman, Bart Bradley, Mark Marquess, Norm Larson and Johnny Mahaffy are returning, and a good group of amateurs from which to choose replacements for the expert retired Bruce and Cain have been in camp. Rene Makilla, rightwing looks like the best of these at present.</p><p>All set to defend their Calder Cup Title, the Indianapolis Caps will again have a strong club, what with so many brilliant professionals and amateurs in tha Detroit organization. Although the Caps suffered a hard luck blow when Nellie Podolsky broke his leg in training, an accident which will bench him for two months, they have a wealth of talent left from last year, and new possible additions from Omaha and Detroit. Their brilliant young goaltender, Terry Sawchuk, will be with Detroit this season, but Red Wing boss Jack Adams provided for that when he obtained Jim Henry in a deal with Chicago. Henry is expected to be in Indianapolis, and his reputation and ability as an AHL and NHL netminder is well known, he being one of the best in the twine tending business. Most of last year&rsquo;s championship team will be back on both defense and forward lines, and, if replacements are needed, Detroit is sure to provide adequate one to make the Caps a strong contender once again.</p><h2><b>Eagles Stop Ramblin&rsquo;</b></h2><p>The newly organized New Haven team is one which may provide plenty of surprises this season, due to the efforts of the New Haven Arena Corporation in obtaining seasoned &ldquo;pros&rdquo; and promising amateurs to man their independently operated club. A change in nickname also goes along with the new set up in organization and personnel. The New Haven club this season will be known as the Eagles, instead of Ramblers as in the past four seasons. This is a return to the title under which New Haven players skated prior to World War 11. A nucleous of fine established professional stars are with New Haven at present, t hey being Johnny Holota from Cleveland, Ernie Trigg and Frank &ldquo;Gunner&rdquo; Melong from St. Louis, Bob Blake of Cincinnati and Ed &ldquo;Whitey&rdquo; Prokop of Springfield. A brilliant goalie prospect from the Quebec Sr. League, Franklyn Millar, will be in the nets. Around these players and a few others of experience which New Haven is endeavoring to obtain, will be built the new team. They will be augmented by amateur prospects now in training camp.</p><p>The Pittsburgh Hornets are depending on new players to replace quite a few of their former stars who have retired. Billy Benson, Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty and Bud Kemp are leaving &ldquo;pro&rdquo; ranks for retirement. The rest of the Hornet contingent is expected back, including goalie Gil Mayer, Bob Solinger, Church Russell, Rudy Migay, Ray Hannigan, Eldie Kobussen and the very important Pete Backor. Like Indianapolis, the Pittsburgh team will not be completely established until the weeding out process of Toronto is finished, as is the case with Detroit and Caps. One brilliant rookie expected with Hornets is Johnny McLelland, amateur star of Marlboro last season In the Ontario Hockey Association.</p><p>Providence, which always has a strong offensive team, should be greatly strenghtened in their only spot needing it, the defense. The Reds have acquired a ualr of rough tough defensemen from New Haven, Orval Lavell and Sheldon Bloomer, just what they needed, someone to knock over the oncoming forwards. The Rhode Island entry will be without high scoring Carl Liscombe, Harvey Fraser and Ed Kullman, the former pair retiring and Kullman going back to New York Rangers. However, good as they were in former years. Providence as stated, Lad plenty of potent scoring punch, and should continue that way with the material left up front. Harvey Bennett, spelled off by Al Bentley in the odd game, will be in the cage.</p><p>St. Louis Flyers will, also have some of the ex-New Haven players, via New York Rangers in the lineup. Sherman White, Jean Lamirande and Steve Hrymnak will be the new Flyer trio, to be added to Paul Gladu, Al Baccari, Cliff Simpson, Red Doran, Hank Backor, Johnny Raynak and the defense brigade of Ed Nicholson, Vic Grigg and George Milligan. The brillian Billy McComb will again be back to give his valuable services to new coach Johnny Mitchell. Ralph Almas will man the nets. St. Louis will have a working agreement with Chicago Black Hawks this season and probably will receive some Hawk amateur prospects where needed.</p><p>Springfield had a total of 60. players in training camp when they opened Fall conditioning in Woodstock, Ontario, going through their paces for Eddie Shore and Coach Earl Seibert these, most of last year&rsquo;s profit&rsquo;ional squad were back, plus the best of the amateurs from the far flung Shore farm system. New professionals in Springfield attire this year will be Gordon Davidson, defenseman from Buffalo, Bus Gagnon from Cincinnati. Missing will be the long time veteran Bill Summerhill, a fine AHL player for years who has retired, Hub Macey and Mike Naruzzi who have gone to the PCHL. The pair of goaltenders from last year. Red McAtee and Don &ldquo;Nippy&rdquo; O&rsquo;Hearn are battling it out for the first string job. Back again will be the brilliant rookie sensation of 194950, Kelvin Burnett and Billy Gooden, Sammy Casanato, Gordie Tottle, Ralph Hosking and Doug McMurdy among others.</p><h2><b>MITCH MEETS THE BOYS</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Summer Trades May Loom Large

<div class="byline">By BOB BOWIE</div><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ENVER, Colo. &mdash; Although the season doesn&rsquo;t start in Denver until Oct. 15 when the St. Paul Saints are the opponents, enthusiasm over ice hockey is beginning to show itself here in the Mile High City.</p><p>Denver is a newcomer to the U.S. League this year, getting the 3 Minneapolis franchise that Lyle Wright moved West last June. The folks here in the mountain country haven&rsquo;t seen anything except college hockey and a bit of the professional variety before the war. so the U.S. League style of play will be new and different for them.</p><p>At this writing the season is still two and a half weeks over the horizon, but fans are beating a steady path to the season ticket window.</p><h2><b>SEASON TICKET ORDERS VERY GOOD</b></h2><p>On the first day of September Business Manager Horace Nash of the Denver club reported over. 1,000 season tickets had been sold and orders were pouring in at a steady pace. Club officials are confident of selling out the opening game, while hoping with tongue in cheek that Denver&rsquo;s attendance will rival that of Omaha which is notorious for its full houses at all home games.</p><p>The Denver club got the puck-off the ice midway in the summer when it poined with the Denver Post in sponsoring a contest to select a new nickname for the team.</p><p>Barry Bentel, a 14-year-old Denver junior high school lad, submitted the winning nickname, &ldquo;Falcons&rdquo;. His name was chosen from a list of 277 different nicknames sent in by 483 Denver fans.</p><p>The Hockey club immediately adopted an insigna showing an animated falcon clutching a puck and stick in his claws. The bird will appear on all Denver Hockey Club advertisements, letterheads, passes, etc.</p><p>The Falcons will play all of their home games in the University of Denver arena. Previously it was planned to move to the city&rsquo;s new stock-yard stadium when it was completed, but because of recent building strikes, the stadium will not be finished until late in the season&mdash;if then.</p><p>According to the official Denver schedule, Mile High City fans will see their Falcons play their first seven games at home before the Birds hit the road to play every other team in the loop.</p><p>Visiting teams will play &ldquo;doubleheaders&rdquo; in Denver because of the long travel distance from other cities in the league. The way train schedules are set up, it is impossible to get out of Denver at night after a game.</p><p>Denver will wear the same uniforms it did last year when the team played out of Minneapolis. The uniform will be red white and blue.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fans In Step With Denver Falcons As Tickets Go Fast

<div class="byline">By JIM VIPOND</div><p><b>(Toronto Globe And Mall)</b></p><p>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Bud Poile and the Boston Bruins are having contract trouble. The well-liked and much travelled NHL player was a surprise visitor to the camp of the Toronto Maple Leafs here recently.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01178/1169217-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="275" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bud Poile</b></figcaption></div><p>Asked why he wasn&rsquo;t at the Hershey training camp of the Bruins he said he had not signed the contract offered him, and General-Manager Art Ross told him not to show up at camp until he had done so.</p><h2><b>Received Contract</b></h2><p>Poile received his contract several days ago, but felt he was being asked to accept too great a cut. In addition, there was a minor league clause in his contract.</p><p>The big winger with one of the hardests shots in the league was far from bitter about it all.</p><p>&ldquo;I was all set to report to training camp but I wasn&rsquo;t going to sign until after I had seen Mr. Ross. Then I talked to him on the telephone and he told me to sign or stay at home. So I stayed at home.&rdquo;</p><p>In jocular mood, Bud said he didn&rsquo;t think he should be expected to &ldquo;underwrite the club&rdquo;.</p><p>He refused to reveal how much of a cut he was being asked to take, but aparently it was considerable for a player who last season scored 19 goals and finished with a total of 39 points. Poile has played for every NHL team but Montreal. He turned pro with the Leafs, was traded to Chicago as part of the five-for-two swap which brought Max Bentley to Toronto. His next move was to Detroit and the Red Wings sold him to New York who in turn dealt him off to Boston.</p><p>Poile, married with one small son, is well established in Toronto as an automobile salesman. He has much at stake in Toronto and feels that unless he receives an offer similar to the one he had last year it would not be financially wise to go to Boston.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a holdout,&rdquo; was Poile&rsquo;s parting remark, &ldquo;the terms are too harsh.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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A Dry Pen For Poile, Bruins And Contract

<div class="byline">ERIC BISHOP</div><p><b>STATION C.J.A.T., Trail, B.C.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02146/1169255-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="292" height="518"></div><p><b>Each week THE HOCKEY NEWS would like its readers to meet one of the many Canadian sports announcers connected with hockey. Some are from big cities, others are from small towns but they all have one thing in common &hellip; they are hockey&rsquo;s greatest boosters.</b></p><p>Eric Bishop was born in Lacombe, Alberta in 1922 and attended school in Calgary and Vancouver, British Columbia.</p><p>Bishop first decided to become a radio announcer some five years ago, in 1945 to be exact, and took his first job as sports commentator in Calgary. So rapidly did he progress that in just two years he was on his way to Los Angeles to broadcast the play by play of the Los Angeles Monarchs of the Pacific Coast Hockey League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03128/1169248-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="268" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Bishop</b></figcaption></div><p>After one season in Los Angeles Bishop headed Company sponsor all the playoff games in either Trail B.C. He calls C.J.A.T. his home station but his broadcasts usually go out to his many listeners via a Kootenay network which includes other stations as well as booster stations.</p><p>In Trail the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company sponsors all the playoff games in either Trail or Kimberley and it was while working one of those games that Bishop had his greatest thrill in hockey announcing. It was a couple of years ago when Trail and Kimberley met in a final game for the championship. With one minute to go Kimberley was leading the game by a goal and the game looked like it was in the bag.</p><p>Being a good radio man Bishop wanted to be on the spot as soon as a winner had been decided so his fans could get a first hand interview of the champs. With this in mind Bishop handed the mike to a co-worker and climbed out on a rafter ready to drop to the ice to interview the players &hellip; but it wasn&rsquo;t to be. While he was perched up on the rafter Trail tied up the game with seconds to go and Bishop went back to his booth to do an overtime session. Three goals were scored in the extra session with Trail getting the winner with two men short and seconds remaining in the extra period.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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‘Radiorchids’

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div><p>CALGARY, Alberta.&mdash;</p><p>Al Pickard, the man who headed the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association for the past three years and incidentally directed Canada&rsquo;s hockey governing&rsquo; body of simon pures through prosperous years that will be hard to equal, this season will direct the powerful Western Canada Senior Hockey League.</p><p>At a meeting in Calgary, Pickard was named the man to take, over from D. P. McDonald, Calgary lawyer who was the first president of the circuit when the loon was formed in 1945-46. McDonald was forced to resign as president because of his pressing business requirements. He will however, continue to be active in the four-team circuit.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01182/1169293-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="290" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Pickard</b></figcaption></div><p>Selection of Pickard for the post came as no surprise and a better choice couldn&rsquo;t have been made. It was hinted that he would take the job after he made it public he would decline to run for re-election as C.A.H.A. president at the annual meeting in Banff in June. The meeting in Calgary made it official.</p><p>The W.C.H.L. &mdash; made up of Saskatoon Quakers and Regina Caps in Saskatchewan and Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Flyers in Alberta &mdash; is shooting for more games this year. Last season the loop played a total of 50 contests for each club but this season the ante has been increased to 60 and the fireworks will get under way as early as Oct. 10. Each club will play 30 home games and the same number away.</p><p>No announcement has been made concerning the playoffs. Last year the bottom club dropped out of the race with the third and second teams battling for the right to meet the first place sextet. Calgary won the loop championship in 1949-50 and went on to the Allan Cup final before bowing to Toronto Marlboros in five contests.</p><p>After being elected prexy Mr. Pickard went on record as saying he believed the proposed &ldquo;super series&rdquo; for senior teams in Canada would operate this year. The plan, suggested at the meeting in Banff, drew several protests from senior hockey clubs across the Dominion. The main beef was that the clubs wanted to keep the Allan Cup as the top senior prize because it had the tradition and background worthy of the clubs playing for it. The plan called for only the top five senior circuits in Canada to figure in the &ldquo;major&rdquo; setup.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02132/1169286-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="556" height="1648"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><i>A Quaker!</i></p><p><b>LARRY ZEIDEL</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>Mullen Signs Rearguards</b></h2><p>Riley Mullen, pilot of Saskatoon Quakers, is strengthening from the blueline back this season and already the Hub City hockey boss has signed four defensemen &mdash; three of them newcomers &mdash; and a new netminder for the 1950-51 Western Canada Senior Hockey League campaign.</p><p>The holder on the blueline from last year is Howie Milford, Moose Jaw youngster who played well for Lethbridge Native Sons for a couple of years. The new rearguards include Jack Shupe, hard hitter with Medicine Hat junior Tigers last year, Bill Heindl and Larry Zeidel.</p><p>Heindl last year and for three seasons before that played with Sherbrooke Saints and last term acted as captain. Zeidel also played in the Quebec Senior League last year and handed out checks for Quebec Aces.</p><p>Mullen&rsquo;s best prize is expected to be goalie Jackie Gibson, who booted out rubber last year for Sydney Millionaires. The nets proved one of Quakers&rsquo; major problems last year and duties were handled by Cliff Dobson and Johnny Sofiak.</p><p>Forwards so far signed with the Saskatoon entry include Red Staley, Cy Rouse and Alex Kuzma. Bob Wiest, crafty pivot, man who was reported headed back to his home in the States, also has come to terms with Quakers.</p><p>Two of last year&rsquo;s members definitely will not be back with the club. They are Billy Maher and Cy Thomas. The latter is reported to be headed for Eastern Canada to attend University while Maher has hung up has skates and is in business in his Edmonton hometown.</p><p>Mullen did a bang up job last campaign after hanging up his whistle to take over from Nick Metz midway through the season. When Riley took over the club was in the cellar but he sparked them up and Quakers got in the playoffs.</p><h2><b>Arbour, Ducliak Again</b></h2><p>A combination that directed Calgary Stampeders to two consecutive Allan Cup finals is back in hockey &mdash; but this time the well known duo is connected with junior and not senior hockey.</p><p>Jack Arbour has been appointed coach and Dave Duchak manager of Calgary Buffaloes of the Western Junior Hockey League. The pair held the same positions with the senior Stampeders when the club won the Allan Cup in 1945-46 against Hamilton Tigers and went to the final the following year with Montreal Royals.</p><p>Arbour succeeds Lorne &rsquo; Carr, former N.H.L. ace who resigned because he couldn&rsquo;t devote enough time to coaching while Duchak takes over from Fred Hergert, a former star in the American Hockey League with St. Louis Flyers.</p><p>Smythe several times in the past has noted that he would not trade Ezzie to another NHL club. The Leaf Boss no doubt had the idea in mind that the player might come back with another team and knock the stuffing out of some of his ex-mates.</p><p>For the nonce, what&rsquo;s the matter with Ezinicki is something only Ezinicki knows.</p><p>Last season he scored a mere 10 goals and led the loop in penalties with 144 minutes. The season before he set a penalty record for a forward&mdash;145 minutes&mdash;and also led the N.H.L. sinbin parade. And he a mere 166 pounder. Some of his greatest feuds were with Canadiens&rsquo; Rocket Richard.</p><p>If he&rsquo;s gone for good, there&rsquo;s many a player who&rsquo;ll breathe more easily than one sigh of relief. But the NHL may lose some lustre by his absence. He was a crowd-rouser&mdash;and a good one.</p><h2><b>The Hockey News</b></h2><p><b>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, 1048, at the Post Office in Buffalo, N.Y., tinder the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price $2.50 in Canada, $3.50 in U.S.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Pickard Takes Over Western Loop Then Ups Schedule To 60

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX. N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey talk is beginning to fill the air. The lid will be pried off on two major fronts around the middle of October, and Where is reason for optimism &hellip; Scheduled starting date for the Maritime Senior (Big Four) League is October 14. The Cape Breton League plans to fire the starting gun on October 20, or thereabouts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01147/1169324-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="288" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>M. Chamberlain</b></figcaption></div><p>There are no changes in the Cape Breton setup. Sydney Millionaires, Glace Bay Miners and North Sydney Victorias will again perform in the long-term three-team setup. For a while it looked as if the Miners wouldn&rsquo;t start. They had lost considerable money In the past two seasons and some of the backers were reluctant to part with more of the long green. But new directors were found who would fill in the gaps, and the Miners would return to the fold.</p><p>Sweeney Schriner is going back to the Northside entry. He became very popular last season and many regarded him as the best coach in the Maritimes. His team was too green to win a title but it made a fine showing. This year the people from the Northside expect to see Sweeney fill in the breaches with players of his own choice.</p><h2><b>Two Coaches To Come</b></h2><p>Neither Sydney nor Glace Bay have named coaches to date but both clubs have been quietly signing players. Millionaires will go gunning for the super series with all guns firing. Once the Moneymen reached the Allan Cup finals and on several occasions have been standout contenders for the big prize.</p><p>The Big Four, of course, has several changes. Amherst Ramblers are out and the Prince Edward Islanders are in. Erwin (Murph)Chamberlain has thrown In his lot with the Islanders, who return to senior after an absence of 15 years. This great breeding ground of the Maritimes may feature much home-grown talent. Chamberlain himself is out to prove to Sydney fans that they made a big mistake letting him go as coach.</p><p>The Maritime Amateur Hockey Association retained all but one of its officers in the annual meeting held in Halifax. Charlie Campbell is past president; Bryce Love of New Glasgow is president. Art Yerxa, of Sussex, N.B. replaces Burnie Ralston of Saint John as a vice-president. Other veeps are Walter Lawlor, J. P. MacDougall and Shaun MacDonald. Secretary registrar is Gene Connolly, the workhorse of hockey in these parts. Gene wanted to retire but the others wouldn&rsquo;t buy it. But popular Gene says 1950-51 will be his last term.</p><p>Maritime delegates heard the Super Series outlined and went for it all the way. The Maritimes occupy a notable distinction&mdash;it is the only district in Canada with two representatives in the Super Series. The others are the Western Canada League, Ontario Hockey Association and Quebec League.</p><h2><b>Newfie May Enter</b></h2><p>Newfoundland failed to send a representative to the meeting but the Old Colony officials let it be known that they&rsquo;d like to compete in the senior playoffs this season. If they do It will be in Nova Scotia.</p><p>The Cape Breton League has approved Frank Elliott, of St. Catharines and Bill (Good of Toronto as its referees. Bill Mallinson will be referee in chief of the Big Four, and will recommend one more man. During the season the Cape Breton and Big Four leagues will exchange referees from time to time.</p><p>The Maritime Amateur Hockey Association will hold referees schools during the season, the idea being to encourage natives to take up the game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Down Easters Arming For ‘Super’ Battling

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div><p>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s 10-club junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit starts a 54 game schedule on Friday, October 13, that leads to Memorial Cup fame.</p><p>Waterloo is this winter&rsquo;s new entry with all the old gang back including Windsor Spitfires, Stratford Kroehlers, Galt Black Hawks, St. Catharines Teepees, Guelph Biltmores, Barrie Flyers, St. Michael&rsquo;s College and Marlboros of Toronto and Oshawa Generals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02117/1169355-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="286" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John O&rsquo;Flaherty</b></figcaption></div><p>Six of the ten clubs sport new coaches.</p><p>Robert &ldquo;The Rugged&rdquo; Davidson of Maple Leaf fame, succeeds Syl Apps with Marlboros, while Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty has taken Joe Primeau&rsquo;s spot as bench-director for St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors. Larry Aurie, former Detroit star, replaces Cowboy Anderson at Oshawa and Bobby Kinnear of Winnipeg fame, is breaking into the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; picture as headman for the Waterloo entry.</p><p>Rudy Pilous, St. Catharines native, is back home as general manager of the Garden City Teepees and will assist Art &ldquo;Smokey&rdquo; Jackson In handling the team.</p><h2><b>Stay At Helm</b></h2><p>Holdover coaches include Jimmy Skinner at Windsor, Leighton &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms, the Barrie mastermind, Alfie Pike who won the championship in his first season with Guelph Biltmores, and &ldquo;Pinkey&rdquo; Lewis who stepped into the Stratford situation halfway through last winter.</p><p>With the professional camps breaking up for regular play, the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; crews will soon be jammed with ambitious youths sent down for another season in the teen-age bracket.</p><p>Running true to form there are several player squabbles looming UP for future OHA Executive consideration. Barrie Flyers claim they haven&rsquo;t released Danny Poland, who worked out with the Toronto Leafs at St. Catharines and is booked for future consideration as a member of Marlboros junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; club.</p><p>On the other hand, Barrie is housing Stanutz, goalie Howse and Labine&mdash;last year with St. Michael&rsquo;s College&mdash;without benefit of release.</p><p>Windsor Spitfires will have Goalie Glen Gall, Elmer Skov and Martin Zorica of last year&rsquo;s team back again and hope for some fine hockey from Johnny Danilovich and Bobby Turner, promoted from their junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club. Spitfires have imported two highly rated players from the west in Larry Thibeault, big Winnipeg defense player, and Elder Thomas a right winger from Medicine Hat.</p><p>Rudy Pilous, as St. Catharines general manager, has effected a new player tie-up with Buffalo of the American League and picked up Lomar, Young and Power as a line from last year&rsquo;s Ottawa St. Patricks team. They also have a new goalie under cover and are counting on at least five of last year&rsquo;s regulars for another whirl.</p><h2><b>Goalie For &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo;</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty, who retired from the playing end of the game after many years of service with Pittsburgh, has come up with a new goalie, Al Finklestein from Winnipeg Monarchs, for his St. Michael&rsquo;s College Majors. Pete Cunningham, with Oshawa last winter, is also with the Irish. Mark Reaume from Assumption College and Bobby Schiller, of Windsor&rsquo;s junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club also are attending SMC.</p><p>However, the best catch of the season has Murray Costello, younger brother of Les Costello who retired from hockey to enter priesthood attending St. Michael&rsquo;s College. The lad was a stand-out with South Porcupine and has already been tagged by Chicago Black Hawks. Billy Sexton last winter with Barrie and Art Clune, younger brother of Len Clune starry Guelph defenseman, are also listed as &ldquo;prospects&rdquo; by the Irish. From last year&rsquo;s team they&rsquo;ll have Dineen, Sabourin, Ingoldsby and Plata.</p><p>Guelph Biltmores, as defending OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; champions, have snared Milliard Hougnton of Calgary and Johnny Negleduk from Winnipeg Black Hawks. Coach Alfie Pike will have Andy Bathgate and Herbie Dickenson from last year&rsquo;s club as his two key players.</p><p>Al Murray is back in hockey as coach of the junior Black Hawks, and Galt fans are hopeful of better things. Goalie Clark Somerville, Jack Price, Jack Hill and Pete Conacher are the lone holovers from last year&rsquo;s crew. Al Murray came out of retirement to take on the Galt coaching chore, a spot he held with considerable success before leaving to take a Pacific Coast League assignment two years ago.</p><h2><b>Doing O. K.</b></h2><p>Already Larry Aurie at Oshawa has secured Alex Del Vecchio, a fast skating forward from Fort William, and Stanley Mills, left-winger who played senior hockey last season in British Columbia.</p><p>Bobby Kinnear at Waterloo, Marlboro&rsquo;s Bobby Davidson and &ldquo;Pinky&rdquo; Lewis at Stratford are busy looking over many prospects at the big league camps and so far haven&rsquo;t got around to a playable line-up for their respective junior clubs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Squabbles Start As O.H.A. Junior Clubs Race For Pro Castoffs

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0389/1169386-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="498" height="810"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LESTER PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>emember Lester Patrick&mdash;sure you do, but do you remember the night in April, 1928, when at the age of 44 he donned the pads and stepped into the Rangers&rsquo; goals to win a Stanley Cup game?</p><p>Patrick was coach of the Rangers then and his club was playing the old Montreal Maroons for the Cup. The first two games were played in Montreal. The Rangers lost the first game and midway through the middle period of the second game fate dealt a dirty blow to Goaler Lorne Chabot. He was hit between the eyes by the puck and taken to the hospital.</p><p>After Maroons refused permission for the Rangers to use spare Goalie Alex Connell, Patrick slipped on the pads and went into the goals, himself. That night he was manager, coach and player of the club.</p><p>In that game, he stopped no fewer than 22 shots as the Rangers won 2-1. From there, they went on to win the Stanley Cup.</p><p><b>Remember this Famous Name in Banking&hellip;</b></p><p><b>The Canadian Bank of Commerce</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Remember this Famous Name in Hockey…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01134/1169424-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1. Pictured former N.H.L. coach.</p><p>7. League in which Paul Meger plays (abbr).</p><p>8. Hockey is called this.</p><p>10. The (French).</p><p>11. Bob Goldman had one injured.</p><p>13. Initials of Asmundson, former Ranger.</p><p>14. Member of 1929 Bruins.</p><p>I7. Boston&rsquo;s manager is called this.</p><p>18. Gordie Howe has played for Wings for four of these (abbr).</p><p>19. Initials of one of the Black Hawks.</p><p>20. Initials of Fowler, ex Leaf defenseman.</p><p>23. Initials of 2 down.</p><p>24. First name of Kelly of Cleveland.</p><p>26. Month in which Barilko celebrates birthday (abbr).</p><p>27. Initials of Weibe, former Chicago player.</p><p>28. Johnny MacCormack Is playing his first &mdash; as a pro.</p><p>30. Short for given name of &ldquo;Tiny&rdquo; Thompson.</p><p>33. Initials of Gardiner, goalie for 1934 Black Hawks.</p><p>34. Number worn by Howe.</p><p>35. What Rodden, former N.H.L. referee Is called.</p><p>37. That is.</p><p>38. Medical Officer (abbr).</p><p>39. Initials of player traded by Canadiens for Calum MacKay.</p><p>40. Roman numerals for number worn, by Meeker.</p><p>41. Stannum (Symbol).</p><p>42. Defenseman of 1940-41 Ranger team, first name Alf.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. Birthplace of Herbie Lewis, ex Red Wing.</p><p>2. Plays goal for Springfiled Indians.</p><p>3. Montreal Wanderers once played in this league (abbr).</p><p>4. Member of Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>5. Initials of Trigg, St. Louis, player.</p><p>6. Fans do this for their favorites.</p><p>9. Former Habitant, who went to Rangers in 1943-44.</p><p>11. Initials of Barbe of Pittsburgh.</p><p>12. Month in which Steve Black celebrates birthday (abbr).</p><p>15. Gaye Stewart shoots this way (abbr).</p><p>16. Be.</p><p>21. Traded in 1946-47 by Hawks for Adam Brown.</p><p>22. Manager of Fresno Falcons.</p><p>23. In 1937-38 Leafs obtained Stanowski in exchange for this player.</p><p>25. &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Day was born in &mdash; Sound, Ont.</p><p>29. Milt Sehmidt is 32 years of&mdash;.</p><p>31. Second name of Lloyd Fink-belner.</p><p>32. This Barrie coach once played for Maroons.</p><p>34. What William Earl Knott is called.</p><p>36. Helped referee the Morenz Memorial game.</p><p>39. Initials of lannarelli.</p><h2><b>LAST MONTH&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0297/1169417-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="650" height="880"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0137/1169497-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="283" height="301"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0236/1169490-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="319" height="316"></div><h2><b>ALL-STARS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0334/1169483-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="2972" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Chuck Rayner, Gus Morison, Butch Bouchard, Tony Leswick, Ted Kennedy, Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>&hellip;To Be Staged Here</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0429/1169476-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="1749" height="1080"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THE DETROIT OLYMPIA, WHERE THE FOURTH ANNUAL NHL ALL-STAR GAME WILL BE PLAYED</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Against&hellip;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0515/1169469-1-eng-US/f00c4-052.jpg" title="f00C4-05" width="592" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LYNN PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>&hellip;Each Other</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-067/1169462-1-eng-US/f00c4-062.jpg" title="f00C4-06" width="604" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY IVAN</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>DETROIT RED WINGS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-074/1169455-1-eng-US/f00c4-072.jpg" title="f00C4-07" width="2970" height="859"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk, Leo Reise, Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay, Sid Abel, Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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