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October 14, 1950

The Hockey News October 14, 1950

<div class="byline">By KOGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01214/1325466-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE BRAINS TRUSTJOHNNY CRAWFORD, new playing coach of the Hershey Bears, explains a few pointers to the front-office wheels of the&rsquo; Boston system at a practice session in the Hershey Arena. Front row are, Sam Avey, owner of the Tulsa Oilers; Harold Cotton, Boston chief scout; Lloyd Blinco, Hershey team manager; standing, Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; coach; and Jack MacDonald, general manager of Tulsa.</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02187/1325459-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="276" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div>Milton Schmidt, the 32-year - old captain of the Boston Bruins, is on the move again.The battle-scarred veteran, who may have lost all claim to being a hockey specialist because of his versatility, is being tried at right wing by Coach Lynn Patrick.When Patrick issued his lineup for the exhibition games with which the Bruins led into their regular season, he listed Schmidt as a right wing.Captain Milt was installed on a line with two big youngsters, Eddie Sandford at center and Dave Creighton at left wing.Patrick&rsquo;s experiment with Schmidt, the announcement of which was made while the Bruins were still at their Hershey, Pa., training base, created little stir here.<h2>Like Bill Goodman</h2>In the last two years, not happy ones for the Bruins, Schmidt developed into Boston&rsquo;s wintertime version of Billy Goodman, who played every place and well for the Red Sox this summer.Schmidt was a center by profession before the war and after he returned from the service, an all-star and league-leading scorer.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03140/1325452-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="565" height="1378"><figcaption class="caption-body">With MiltDAVE CREIGHTON</figcaption></div>But emergencies and player shortages forced Patrick&rsquo;s predecessors, Aubrey &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper and George &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Boucher, to take advantage of the erstwhile Kitchener kid&rsquo;s tremendous all-round ability.While the Bruins were training a year ago, Boucher announced that Schmidt would start the season as a defenseman, which he did. The theories behind that move were two.One was that as a defenseman Schmidt, the heart, liver and lungs of the Bruins, would be on the ice more than if he were playing center The other was that he would have more opportunities to dish out punishment to the opposition, less for taking it, for Schmidt has always been a leading target for foes with malice aforethought.Schmidt&rsquo;s tenure as a defenseman, full-time, lasted only until young Sandford received the severed Achilles tendon which made him a spectator for most of the season.From that point on Milt played every place, every position but goal, and there were a couple of times when it seemed that he might wind up there.Thus the consensus here was that if Patrick wanted to play his &ldquo;Old Pro&rdquo; at right wing, Capt. Milt would probably be able to fill the job better than anyone else on the squad.Patrick has put into effect the system which Lester, his father, introduced with the New York Rangers, one under wihch Lynn played himself, and which he continued while he was coaching the Blueshirts. That is the system of playing wings on the &ldquo;wrong&rdquo; side. Schmidt is a lefthanded shot, so is young Lorne Ferguson, but the Bruins&rsquo; coach has placed both on the right side of the ice.&ldquo;The theory is obvious,&rdquo; said the elder Patrick. &ldquo;A left-handed shot playing right wing has a better angle from which to shoot his stick &ldquo;sees&rdquo; more of the cage. The same thing applies to a righthanded shot playing left wing.&rsquo;<h2>Short of Rights</h2>The Bruins were never right wing-wealthy at any time last winter, and they tried a number of players at that position. The only one able to score consistently was Johnny Peirson, who made 27 goals and finished with 52 pionts as the starboard member of the firm of Ronty, Smith and Peirson.Next in line among the right wingers was Norman &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Poile, the curly-haired ex-Ranger who joined the Bruins in mid-season. Poile, who was sold by Patrick a year ago because he didn&rsquo;t fit into Lynn&rsquo;s New York plans, apparently didn&rsquo;t fit into his Boston plans, either. He was signed to coach the Tulsa Oilers of the U.S.H.L.Patrick is planning to keep, Paul Ronty, Ken Smith and Peirson, his &ldquo;Muscles&rdquo; line, intact. Besides the Sandford-Creighton-Schmidt combination, he has been; using a third trio of Phil Maloney at center, Woody Dumart left wing and Ferguson, the Tulsa alumnus, at right wing.Patrick&rsquo;s defense pairings have been Ed Kryzanowski and Bill Quackenbush, Steve Kraftcheck and Murrey Henderson, and Fernie Flaman and Ed Reigle.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0572/1325445-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="1716" height="1351"></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Patrick Switches Schmidt To Right Using Lester’s System

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02153/1325376-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="258" height="234"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01263/1325383-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="216" height="254"></div><h2>100% BETTER</h2>Dear Sir:Congratulations on your first issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS. It was good to see it on the news stands once more. Now we know the hockey season is upon us.I particularly like the coverage and layout. It has improved 100%. Keep up the good work.Howard E. Mainder Toronto, Ont.<h2>DEAR BOB</h2>Dear Sir,I would say Bob Goldham went out of his way to brand the Black Hawks with a defeatist complex. He never did too much to help them win.It&rsquo;s funny but players always find something wrong with the club when they leave it. The Chicago Black Hawks were the best club in the league when he was with, them. Now they have a defeatist attitude. I wonder what Goldham did to curb that attitude.So the Wings act like champions. Well they should by now. They&rsquo;ve been acting like champions for the last eight years yet they&rsquo;ve only managed to win one Stanley Cup and I&rsquo;d say that was their last one for another eight years.Watch those Hawks rip the Wings to pieces this year.Herbert Roberts Chicago, Ill.<h2>HARSH ON MOORE</h2>Dear Sir,I think Len Bramson and Ken McKenzie were a little harsh on Dickie Moore last week. The kid had too much publicity and therefore didn&rsquo;t have a chance to get going. Even before he was on the ice he was supposed to walk through the Canadiens. He&rsquo;s only young yet, so give him a chance.If he was a westerner then he&rsquo;d have a better chance to make the Canadiens. It seems like Irvin loves those boys from the west and so many of them have been flops.Jacques Mailloux Montreal, Que.<h2>ALL-STAR GAME</h2>Dear Sir,For many years now I &lsquo;have heard that the American Hockey League is as good as the National Hockey League. Now I&rsquo;d like to know, is it?The best way to find out I&rsquo;d say is to put the best players from both leagues on the same ice and let them go at it. That is, instead of having the all-star game against the team that wins the Stanley Cup why not have the N.H.L. all-stars against the A.H.L. all-stars. Then we would find our answer. 1 think it would make for more interest for the fans as well.I for one will never be interested in the N.H.L. all-star game as long as the all-stars play against the Stanley Cup champs and as long as the Stanley Cup champs have most of the stars on their team. It isn&rsquo;t an all-star game if the all-stars aren&rsquo;t with the all-stars is it?Mabel Sifter Winnipeg, Man.<h2>HIS PREDICTIONS</h2>Dear Sir,Here are my predictions of the 1950-51 season. I will pick the all-star team later. Want to bet I don&rsquo;t come close?Team standing: Detroit, Rangers, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, Boston.Stanley Cup winners: New York Rangers.Lady Byng Trophy: Bert Hirschfeld, Montreal.Hart Trophy: Maurice Richard. Montreal.Calder Trophy: George Armstrong, Toronto.Vezina Trophy: Chuck Rayners, Rangers.Leading Scorer: Maurice Richard, Montreal.Frank Mac Isaac Halifax, N.S.<h2>WHERE&rsquo;S KAVETSKI?</h2>Dear Sir,Can you please tell what has happened to Lee Kavetski, the best cartoonist I have ever seen. He is still with THE HOCKEY NEWS I know that but he also used to be with the Montreal Standard. I don&rsquo;t see his work in that paper any more. What has happened to him? By the way where does he come from and how old is he?Joyce Gosswell Vancouver, B.C.(Lee is now working for the Detroit News. He progressed so rapidly that the News offered him a job and he up and took it. It was a sad loss for the city of Montreal for we agree with you that he is the best in the business. Lee is just 20 years old and hails from a little coal town called Kingston, Pennsylvania.)<h2>ANOTHER McVEIGH MAN</h2>Dear Sir,I agree with Clifford C. Williamson of Cleveland that a story on the great Rabbit McVeigh should be done for THE HOCKEY NEWS. He certainly deserves a few good word as well as a piece on his past. From what I hear he was a terrific player.Roger Matheson Regina, Sask.<h2>P.C.H.L. NEWS</h2>Dear Sir,I didn&rsquo;t read anything about the Pacific Coast Hockey League in the first issue. What happened?Maybe you can give me a little information on the league. Who is in and who is out. Is San Ber-nadino going to have hockey there this year. What happened to Hec Highton?You see I used to live in Loa Angeles and I followed the Monarchs quite faithfully.Bill McChance Decateur, Ill.(The southern division of the P.C.H.L. has folded up. San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angel and Fresno have all gone out business as far as hockey is concerned. The Northern Division will operate of course. San Bernadino will not have a hockey club this winter. Heighten has gone to play goat for Victoria of the Northern Division.)<h2>POOR HABS</h2>Dear Sir,After reading the roundups on the different teams at training camp I more convinced than ever that the Detroit Red Wings will walk away with the N.H.L. race and once again will win the Stanley Cup.I am just as convinced that the Montreal Canadiens will not make the playoffs and the reason after looking at their lineup is quite obvious. Irvin still has the same, old faces around. Most of the9 have been useless for the past two or three seasons but he still continues to have them around. Irvin is still living in the past. Players like Reay, Lach, Gravelle, Riopelle and Bouchard are over the hump. They couldn&rsquo;t keep up with the crowd last season, how. are they going to do it this season. We&rsquo;ve heard so darn much about the wonderful Canadiens&rsquo; farm system but I don&rsquo;t see it producing many players. Instead of giving kids like Ivan Irwin a chance the club brings McLenahan from Hershey. He&rsquo;s only 28. If he was any good he&rsquo;d have been in the N.H.L. long ago. Masnick is a step in the right direction but there are rookies better than him around.So let&rsquo;s smarten up eh, Les Canadiens.Rene Boilean St. Lambert, Que. W<h2>FAIRWEATHER FAN</h2>Dear SirI would like to direct this letter to one Miss Rosemary Wallesten of Chicago, Ill. She seems to have switched her allegiance to Detroit Red Wings. Is she just a Prystai fan or a Chicago Black Hawk&rsquo;s fan?At any rate sne seems very unhappy over the thought of the Hawks losing Metro in order to get a playoff berth finally. She seems very worried, too over the very fact that Prystai isn&rsquo;t go to play on a line with Lindsay and Howe. Poor Rosemary.Now, since when did Harry Lumley not work for his money. Any game I ever saw him in he was terrific. He always gave his best at all times. He&rsquo;ll work no harder in the Hawk&rsquo;s nets than he did in the Wings&rsquo; goal and I&rsquo;ll give good odds that he fares just as well.To Miss Wallsten, hello fairweather fan.Henry Cantuzzi Springfield, Ill.<h2>OVERDOING IT</h2>Dear Sir,The first issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS was terrific but don&rsquo;t you think you were overdoing the coverage of the Wings and Hawks a little too much? They were outdone two to one over the rest of the league.I didn&rsquo;t see much on my fvourite club, the New York Rangers.What about it?Ira Morrison Calgary, Alta.<h2>DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE?</h2>It is our policy to notify oil subscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptions.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.Subscribers receiving &ldquo;expiration&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.If you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice.<h2>TELL YOUR FRIENDS</h2>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 news stands throughout Canada.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 on to the end of the hockey season, THE HOCKEY NEWS can be found at all news dealers. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;When Calgary Stampeders traveled to Kamloops last April to meet Paul Thompson&rsquo;s Elks in the Allan Cup hockey playdowns, there was a lot of Western good will between the two cities and apparently it wasn&rsquo;t artificial.This year Stampeders obtained four players from the Kamloops sextet and in turn four Calgarians will do their puckchasing in Kamloops this year. Buzz Mellor, Bill Hryciuk and Don Campbell, speedy Kamloops trio last year, and defenseman Don Clark came to Calgary via Kamloops. This year Paul Thompson signed Bob Carlson, Eldon Willock, Bob Kromm and Neil Winchester&mdash;all from the Foothills City &mdash; for his 1950-51 Elks.Steve Whitiuk, another Kamloops player last year, will also perform in the Western Canada League this year. He&rsquo;s signed with&rsquo; Frank Currie&rsquo;s Edmonton Flyers. Another newcomer to Flyers is Roy Heximer, who worked on the wing for Stampeders last year.Calgary will open the season in its new arena but officials expect the palatial rink to be ready after a few league games. It will seat about 7.800 and will be able to handle a crowd of about 10,000 fans. Calgary could certainly have used the extra seats last year when they were going down the Allan Cup trail.With the new Kamloops players and holdovers from last year Calgary should again make a strong bid for top laurels.Paul Thompson saw Edmonton work out and commented &ldquo;they&rsquo;re big and rough and the forwards hand out plenty of checks.&rdquo;Spokane Flyers made a swing through the West again this year and the clubs had an exhibition game to sharpen up with before starting the lengthy 6 O-game schedule, an increase of 10 over last year. &#9632;

Spokane Junket Player Switches Cement Goodwill

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Pacific Coast Hockey League

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01120/1326443-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0283/1326436-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="288" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Adams</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Mindful of the limb they sawed out from under themselves last season &mdash; I but still unwilling to write off the Stanley Cup champions &mdash; hockey writer experts in the six National Hockey League cities have proclaimed themselves as overwhelming backers of Detroit Red Wings to capture the N.H.L. gonfalon in the 1950-51 campaign.Polled by THE HOCKEY NEWS, the puck authors hopped on the Adams bandwagon with a will as 13 out of the 18 replying laid it on the line for the Wings to wind up in first place. There was no doubt whatsoever in the ballotting for Detroit, who were picked in a walk &mdash; and Toronto Maple Leafs had a commanding edge in voting points for second &lsquo;place.<h2>Then The Rest</h2>Behind them strung along Boston Bruins. New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks and Montreal Canadiens, in that order. Only other teams besides Wings to get the nod for first place were the Rangers with two votes and Boston, Chicago and Toronto with one each.The Montreal Canadiens were the only club to go without at least one first place vote.The luckless Habitants &mdash; in the opinion of the writers &mdash; rate only one second place vote and five fours, while the other 12 experts picked them to finish out of the playoff money.Last fall, the writers were polled in the same fashion by THE HOCKEY NEWS, but they went far astray of the mark when the final standings were racked up in the spring. They had picked Toronto for first and Detrojt for second, with Montreal, Chicago, Boston and New York traling in that fashion.Yet, as it turned out, it was the Wings who walked away with the race and the coveted Stanley Cup in the post-season set-to. Canadiens finished second last year, Toronto third and New York fourth &mdash; with Boston and Chicago out the running.Rangers &mdash; picked to end last in 1949-50 &mdash; further upset the applecart by not only getting into the playoffs, but knocking out Canadiens as well and giving Wings a bad scare before finally bowing out.All those factors have obviously been taken into consideration by the experts in making their selections.The feeling seems to be that the Detroit star is still on the rise and that they are due to dominate the race once again in spite of the off-season trades which lost them All-Star defenseman Jack Stewart and puckstopper deluxe Harry Lumley.Toronto, still with many of the youngsters who helped the Queen City shatter all traditions by winning the Cup three years in a row, has been picked as runner-up to Wings after the Detroiters finally cracked the playoff jinx the Smythe men had held over them for some years.The close fight between Boston and New York for the third and fourth playoff positions apparently reflects the quandary the writers are in over the question of just what made the Rangers click last year. Some think that perhaps the team has finally found Itself after floundering for many years &mdash; so they give the Blueshirts a slight edge In the balloting in the expectation they&rsquo;ll be able to repeat that performance.<h2>Coach &mdash; or Team?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01171/1326429-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="262" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div>Others are more inclined to credit the team&rsquo;s success with the coaching of Lynn Patrick &mdash; who during the summer severed his connections with the Gothamites and hooked up with Boston Bruins. Those who hold the story that it&rsquo;s the coach and not the players which tells in the long run, have been inclined to look a little more favorably on the prospects of the Beantown Boys for getting into the money split-up after the marathon 70-game schedule grinds to a close.Relegation of Chicago Black Hawks to the playoff no-man&rsquo;s land wasn&rsquo;t too surprising, since they have been out of the picture so long that even the most intrepid forecaster hesitates to place them too high. All, that is, with the exeception of veteran John Carmichael of the Chicago Daily News who picked them to take the blue ribbon with the waggish comment, &ldquo;That&rsquo;ll teach you to ask me!&rdquo;Downfall of Montreal Canadiens to an ignoble sixth place choice was the most prominent aspect of the vote after New York&rsquo;s rise from a forecast sixth last season to a much-watched fourth this year in the writers&rsquo; public prophesies. With Durnan and Reardon gone, and their upcoming rookies not yet clicking, Canadiens have been sold short by the pickers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02155/1326422-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="272" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Reardon</figcaption></div>Vezina Bill Durnan was the backbone of the team for years, and his loss certainly will be felt. Rushing Kenny Reardon is &ldquo;By A Mile&rdquo;, Say Scribes out of the picture now, too, and with these and other factors the Habs are judged to be off the track &mdash; although they could still surprise.Proof that Toronto and Detroit loom as the big threats in the minds of the forecasters is seen in the strong support they got for the top spots.Wings picked up 13 first, three second-place votes and one third &mdash; the lowest they received. Leafs took one first place vote and got strong backing with seven votes for second place and seven to finish in the number three slot.Voting for the other four positions was confused, so a weighting system had to be adopted. Six points were allowed for every first place vote, five for a second, four for third three for fourth, two for fifth and one for sixth.On that &ldquo;basis, Boston just nudged out the Rangers to take over the third position, with Chicago not too far behind the fourth-place New Yorkers.All in all, the sports writers contributing turned in an interesting selection. It&rsquo;s going to be interesting to see just&rsquo; how they fare when the teams hit the wire at the end of March next year.<h2>NHL Race Preview</h2>Here&rsquo;s the way sports writers in the N.H.L. cities pick the teams to finish. Table show&rsquo;s how many picked each team for the various finishing positions, and total points earned &mdash; based on six points for first choice, five for second, four for third, etc. (Individual selections on Page 2.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0341/1326415-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="1122" height="420"></div><h2>It&rsquo;s A Strike! No &mdash; A Goal!</h2>If you see where the hockey writers have picked Boston Red Sox to finish first in the National Hockey League race &mdash; or that Maurice Richard skated 60 yards for a touchdown &mdash; just blame it on the intermingling of the sports seasons.While polling the writers for their N.H.L. selections, we found some of the boys in such unlikely locations as. &mdash; Herb Ralby just setting out to cover a football game; John Carmichael and Barney Kremenko in the press box of Shibe Park in Philadelphia covering the World Series, and Ed Burns in the Yankee Stadium press box, ditto.<h2>HOW WRITERS VOTED</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03142/1326408-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1696" height="2076"></div><h2>Call the Wagon!</h2>Two hockey writers who picked New York Rangers to finish first in their winter&rsquo;s scramble were Jim Burchard and Barney Kremenko, both typewriter toilers in Gotham. But only Burchard had any qualms about his selections.When presenting his ballot, he added a note:&ldquo;In my opinion, the Rangers came within one goal of the Stanley Cup last year with a good many youngsters in the lineup. Those youngsters will be more experienced and confident, I offer this explanation before you contact any N.Y. psychiatrists and order the wagon sent after me!&rdquo; &#9632;

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18 Writers Give Detroit Top Spot And Canucks Last

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04115/1325061-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Detroit Red Wings, although they won't look quite the same this campaign as they do in the above picture. taken last season, are lopsided favorites to top the N.H.L. according to 18 big league hockey writers.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que. &mdash; One year ago, in October 15 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, 17 hockey writers from the N.H.L. contributed to this paper's first annual poll to find out how they thought the race would end up before it even started. Not one of the 17 were correct in their predictions.The 17 writers chose the teams like this: Toronto, Detroit, Montreal, Chicago, Boston. New York.However, things didn't work out that way. Detroit took top spot and the Montreal Canadiens upset the applecart by ending second. The favoured Leafs managed to eke into third position with the Rangers in fourth. The Boston Bruins ended the way writers said they would, in fifth place. The Hawks who were supposed to end in fourth wound up last.Of the 17 writers who were polled only one was anywhere near the correct standing.Joe Nichols, veteran writer of the New York Times chose Toronto, Detroit, Montreal, New York, Boston, Chicago. His last three spots were correct but his first three were out of kilter.<h2>&ldquo;By A Mile&rdquo;, Say Scribes &#9632;</h2>

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Wings, Habs Upset Applecart 1st Time

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01170/1325099-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="268" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Len Bramson</figcaption></div>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;To listen to the veterans of the hockey wars chat about the &lsquo;characters&rsquo; they met in the roaring 20&rsquo;s and 30&rsquo;s is something every sportswriter loves to do. If you&rsquo;re a good listener then you&rsquo;ll get a lot of laughs, for believe it or not the ice game has produced an amazing number of those characters.Lester Patrick, now owner and operator of the Victoria Cougars of the P.C.H.L. and former coach, manager and vice-president of the New York Rangers is, without a doubt, the dean of all story tellers.We asked Patrick recently whom he rates as the all-time character in the game.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s hard to say,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s been plenty of them. But I guess Ching Johnson? who played for the Rangers and Americans was one of the biggest.&ldquo;You could never tell just what he was going to do next. On road trips you had to keep your eyes and ears open all the time. You&rsquo;d be reading a book and Ching? would sneak up behind and blow some itching powder off the back of his hand and then you&rsquo;d start scratching. He also used sneezing powder the same way. And if you ever caught him at it he&rsquo;d give you that big smile of his. You couldn&rsquo;t help but like the guy.&rdquo;<h2>Pusie Rates High</h2>Possibly hockey&rsquo;s all time character was the ever playful Frenchman, Jean Pusie. In his day Pusie played for the Canadiens,&rsquo;Rangers and in the Pacific Coast League. It was while he was on the coast that one of the most unforgettable incidents of the game happened.Pusie, the gallant Gaul, performed in Vancouver livery, indulged in impromptu fistic bouts in all cities, and boosted attendance enormously.But when, just before the end of the season, Bobby Rowe took a poke at Referee Proudlock during a Vancouver-Portland game, and Monsieur Pusie, assuming the role of avenger, slugged Rowe, then Pusie to his astonishment heard his own team manager, Watterson Patrick, order him to leave the ice. Chagrinned, but &ldquo;toujours le gentilhomme&rdquo;. Monsieur Pusie broke his stick in twain and tossed the pieces at Patrick&rsquo;s head.Then, masking a bleeding heart with a smile of cold contempt, the proud Pusie waited not to hear that League President &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor had suspended him, but boarded an eastbound train. He tarried in Winnipeg only long enough to read a telegram from his father, the sage of Chambly, Quebec. The telegram, which deserves to be preserved in hockey&rsquo;s archives along with the first double-runner skates and the first all-metal athletic supporter, read as follows:&ldquo;Jean. Most of the time you are crazy, but this time you are right. Come home at once.&rdquo;That Pusie was colorful on the ice goes without saying. His antics topped anything ever seen along the great ice way. He pulled so many unusual tricks and screwy jokes that many a hot stove league was kept in stitches just talking about him.<h2>Kept Hot Stove Leagues On Fire</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02141/1325092-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="2379" height="2466"><figcaption class="caption-body">These eight men were constantly in the hockey news in the 20&lsquo;s and 30&lsquo;s. Jean Pusie, Eddie Shore, King Clancy and Chuck Conacher. Bottom left to right: Tommy Gorman, Pat Egan, Rabbit McVeigh and Lionel Conacher.</figcaption></div><h2>Paste&rsquo;s Private Braw</h2>Many years ago Pusie was farmed to London, Ontario, by the Montreal Canadiens. Clem Loughlin was coaching the club when the big Frenchman arrived, and no sooner was he there when he suggested to his coach that he put on a show to revive interest when the team went to Buffalo to play.&ldquo;Okay&rdquo;, said Clem, &ldquo;but don&rsquo;t do anything that will get you 20 minutes in penalties.&rdquo;&ldquo;Certainly not,&rdquo; promised Pusie.In the first period a Buffalo forward came down the ice with the puck. Pusie ran into him, bounced back as though he were the one hit, and made a perfect four point landing. He got up and, holding his stick as a rifle, with the blade tucked under his left shoulder, let loose a roar.&ldquo;You knock Pusie down&hellip; I get you,&rdquo; and he charged the Buffalo player into the corner. Then the Frenchman dropped his stick and loosed punches on his opponent which looked good but which weren&rsquo;t connecting. When the rest of the Buffalo players saw what was going on they made ready to fight. One player skated in, dropped his gloves and threw a left hook to Pusie&rsquo;s nose, drawing blood and flooring him.In a matter of moments Pusie got roaring mad and in no time at all 400 fans were on the ice in a battle royal that ranks as one of the classics of its kind in hockey.When order was restored, Pusie and his adversary were thumbed to the penalty box, but before the Buffalo player was properly seated Jean had laid aside his stick, taken off his gloves and belted his opponent square in the mouth. The panic was on again. A fan got a strangle hold on him but Jean resorted to an old wrestling trick and catapulted himself out to center ice.Returning to his bench, Loughlin motioned to him.&ldquo;Better go and get that blood wiped off your face,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;Blood on Pusie&rsquo;s face.&rdquo; howled Jean as he touched his cheek and gazed upon a smeared finger.&ldquo;Those peegs,&rdquo; he yelled in his best broken English and he dashed back on the ice, stood in front of the Buffalo bench and challenged the whole team to step over the boards and fight it out like men.This time Pusie was removed to the basement of the arena and the game was finished.<h2>Egan Also Quick Lipper</h2>When Pat Egan, the lovable Irishman of the Rangers, was a rookie with the old Americans, manager Red Dutton, in a fit of anger, imposed a 12:30 curfew on his players. The same night he called Egan at 2:20 and Pat wasn&rsquo;t in.The next afternoon Egan was on the carpet in front of Dutton, who was ready to fine the stocky Irishman $200.&ldquo;You think you can do as you please, eh?&rdquo; barked Red.&ldquo;No sir,&rdquo; replied Egan.&ldquo;Do you think you&rsquo;re having a good year,&rdquo; asked Red.&ldquo;No sir,&rdquo; said Egan.&ldquo;But you think you&rsquo;re a big shot hockey player don&rsquo;t you?&rdquo; yelled Red.&ldquo;If I did,&rdquo; said Egan, &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be playing for you for a puny $3,500 a year.&rdquo;Then he put the bite on Dutton for a $100 advance on his pay, which so flabbergasted big Red that he gave Egan the money. Pat walked out and Dutton sat back talking to himself.<h2>Clancy + Smythe = Laughs</h2>When the day came that Conn Smythe bought King Clancy for his Toronto Maple Loafs for the fabulous sum of $35,000., anybody who was anybody in the hockey world branded him as off his rocker. But Smythe failed to see it that way. He called Clancy the greatest tonic that hockey in Toronto had ever known.To this day Clancy has changed little. He still hates to lose as much as ever, but no one ever recovers from a loss as quickly. It so happened that at the time of the deal the Leafs had some bad losers on the club and none took defeat as hard as Smythe. To chase away his blues after defeat Smythe would have Clancy yanked from his berth, brought to the smoker, then engage him in an argument about the old Ottawa Senators. Soon everybody would be in high spirits as the two Irishmen of opposite views fought it out in strident tones.&ldquo;I started more fights than anybody in the league, but never won one,&rdquo; Clancy will tell you.One night he and Harold Starr, the tough Ottawa football player and wrestler, then playing with the Montreal Maroons, tangled. The Maroons were not noted as a tough squad and in a general mix-up Clancy chose Starr with whom to get tough. Starr tossed little Clancy high into the air, hurled him to the ice and straddled him in professional wrestling style. King was all but out for the count, but he kept tugging away and then from under Starr came the challenge.&ldquo;You big stiff. There never was a day I couldn&rsquo;t lick you.&rdquo;That was enough to break up the fight. Starr just rolled over and laughed.There was never a more colorful man in any sport than Clancy and what a combination he and Smythe made.One night in Boston, Smythe wanted to enrage Art Ross of the Bruins, so he and Clancy put their heads together.After the National Anthem had been played, Clancy reached back on the Leafs&rsquo; bench and grabbed a huge bouquet of flowers. Then with 15,000 pairs of eyes rivetted on him, he skated gracefully over the ice to the Bruins&rsquo; bench and extended the bouquet to Ross with a deep bow. In pig latin, he had written on a card some injunctions to Ross which indicated the contempt of the Leafs for him, his coaching and his Bruins.The crowd roared as Clancy skated away backwards doing a dying swan bow like Sonja Henle.<h2>McVeigh Knew How</h2>Back in the roaring 20&rsquo;s, when Big Bill Dwyer owned the old New York Americans and Tommy Gorman managed them, some great and funny experiences took place with the players. Characters like Rabbit McVeigh, Roy Worters and Billy Burch were always doing something unorthodox. However, nobody could come close to McVeigh for pranks and jokes.One year when the Americans were training in New Haven, most of the players on the club wanted a raise in pay. So Dwyer had each player appear before him to state his reason for an increase. Sitting beside Dwyer when the players entered was Gorman.When Rabbit McVeigh walked in, Dwyer turned to Gorman with a puzzled look on his face and asked.&ldquo;Who is this guy? Does he play for us?&rdquo;Quite Indignant, McVeigh gave an account of his stewardship.&ldquo;What&rsquo;s your name?&rdquo; asked Dwyer.&ldquo;Rabbit McVeigh, the best in the East,&rdquo; replied the diminutive player.&ldquo;Are you married?&rdquo; continued Dwyer.&ldquo;Yah, and I&rsquo;ve got two little rabbits at home. That&rsquo;s why I need the increase,&rdquo; finished McVeigh and he walked out.<h2>Hockey&rsquo;s Gashouse Gang</h2>The Leafs of 1933 were reputed to be the closest thing to baseball&rsquo;s famous Gashouse Gang. With such pranksters as Clancy, Hal Cotton, Chuck Conacher and Busher Jackson in their line-up, nobody ever knew just what was going to happen next. In fact not even the players themselves were ever quite sure. &#9632;

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Pusie, McVeigh Rate High As All-Time Jokers

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01241/1325130-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="298" height="490"></div>DETROIT&mdash;DAPPER LITTLE Tommy Ivan, coach of the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings, has kept his record intact. Ivan holds the unique record of never having lost an All-Star game in which he acted as coach &hellip; and he has played the role of a coach in three of the four annual National League All-Star games. For the last two years Tommy has piloted the N.H.L. All-Stars to 3-1 victories over Toronto Maple Leafs, but this season he switched over to the other side of the rink and coached his own champion Red Wings to a decisive 7-1 win over the All-Stars &hellip; This year&rsquo;s All Star tilt marked the first time that the Stanley Cup holders were able to defeat the stars of the loop&hellip;Many reasons have been advanced why the Wings trounced the Stars in such simple fashion, but the No. 1 reason is that seven of the 12 actual All-Stars, players named to positions on either the first or second teams by the six League coaches last spring, were not on the roster of the team that was trounced 7-1 &hellip; and five of these 12 players were members of the Detroit Red &ldquo;Wingfc and wore the raiment of the Motor City six in this year&rsquo;s tussle &hellip; The other two are Bill Durnan and Kenny Reardon, both retired since last spring&hellip;Therefore, the. team that carried the colors of the League&rsquo;s best against hockey&rsquo;s most powerful team today, was a far cry from the actual stars picked by the coaches last spring &hellip; The All-Stars lacked the drive and spirit of former years and couldn&rsquo;t seem to get started all evening. There wasn&rsquo;t a Milt Schmidt or a player of his like around to get the team aroused and as a result the Stars badly lacked leadership &hellip; Lynn Patrick, coach of the losing All-Stars, did the best he could with the talent on hand but he didn&rsquo;t have as good material as did Tommy Ivan the last two years.IN PREVIOUS All-Star games complete lines have been used on the Stars. For example in the 1947 game the New York line of Tony Leswick, Edgar Laprade and Grant Warwick played a major role in the Stars win, and last year at Toronto the All-Stars featured as their ace attacking unit the Detroit trio of Gordie Howe, Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay &hellip; This year the All-Stars didn&rsquo;t have one complete line from any one team &hellip; This year&rsquo;s Stars were the youngest and least experienced team to represent the pick of the League &hellip; Detroit impressed the 11,058 onlookers who contributed approximately $22,000 to the Players&rsquo; Pension Society as a power-laden, well conditioned and thoroughly-coached club. The Wings were far superior to the Stars in every department&hellip;Their big line of Lindsay, Abel and Howe, who finished the 1949-50 season in that order as the circuit&rsquo;s top scorers, accounted for four of their seven goals. Ted Lindsay, the authentic All-Star left winger last season, scored three of the four goals and he also became the first player to rack up a hat trick in an All-Star game &hellip; Howe tallied the fourth goal by this terrific threesome, and this goal marked his first tally in the N.H.L. since he was sidelined with injuries last spring&hellip; Metro Prystai, playing his first game in a Red Wing uniform, scored his first goal for the Wings when he converted Marty Pavelich&rsquo;s pass for the Wings&rsquo; sixth goal &hellip; Terry Sawchuk, playing his first game as the regular Detroit goalkeeper, was sensational. Everyone marvelled at his speed in moving from one side of the net to the other. He has a crowd-pleasing style and when he has trouble seeing the puck through a maze of players practically has his chin on the ice in an attempt to get a clear view of the rubber. &ldquo;Never before have I seen a goalie get so low to the ice&rsquo;, was an utterance heard frequently in the press box during the game &hellip; Sawchuk should have had a shutout. The All-Stars notched their only goal of the contest with just 92 seconds of playing time remaining. Toronto&rsquo;s Sid Smith tapped in Johnny Peirson&rsquo;s rebound on the Stars 26th and final shot of the game&hellip; Turk Broda, hockey&rsquo;s oldest player at 36, replaced Chuck Rayner in the All-Star nets at 9.24 of the second period and received a big hand from the crowd. Turk allowed five of the seven Detroit goals to be scored against him. He looked rather bad on Jimmy Peters goal near the end of the second session. He wandered far out of his net and Peters slipped the biscuit under him. This prompted Harold (Baldy) Cotton, chief scout for the Boston Bruins to remark: &ldquo;Looks like Broda has turned into a rover.&rdquo; &hellip; Jack Stewart received the noisiest hand of the evening when his name was announced over the public address system. It was a mixture of cheers and boos &hellip; Referee George Gravel received less boos than usual when he was announced as referee of the game.JACK STEWART played a standout game on defense for the All-Stars and made it very plain that he still can hand out one of the best checks in hockey. He tore into Kis old teammates, Sid Abel and L&hellip;James Norris, owner of the Wings, attended both the dinner at the Book-Cadillac Hotel on Saturday and the game the following night. It was the first time he&rsquo;d seen the Wings play in two years. His doctor won&rsquo;t allow him to watch the Wings in regular competition &hellip; Gaye Stewart was flying for the Wings and looks to be in for a great season&hellip;Clarence Campbell, N.H.L. president, presented Maurice Richard, Gus Mortson, Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay with diamond-studded gold pucks at center ice prior to the start of the game. These players were members of the 19 49-50 N.H.L. First All-Star Team &hellip; Mayor Albert E. Cobo of Detroit faced-off the puck to start the game. He also appeared on Fred Huber&rsquo;s television show with Clarence Campbell between periods&hellip; Over 140 attended the All-Star dinner. It looked like give-away night on a quizz show as the champion Red Wings received their gifts for winning both the Stanley Cup and Prince of Wales Trophy last season. Each player received a sterling silver tray for winning the Stanley Cup and a sterling rose bowl for capturing the Prince of Wales Trophy&hellip;Players on both Detroit and the All-Stars received travelling clocks. The officials handling the game also were the recipients of travelling clocks. Hockey writers and broadcasters attending the dinner were presented with attractive gold-plated money clips&hellip;Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens had the biggest representation among the press and radio&hellip;Some of the players and writers attended the Detroit Lions&mdash;San Francisco pro football game on the Sunday afternoon. &#9632;

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All-Star Notes

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div>(Toronto Telegram)St. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02216/1325168-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="268" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hugh Bolton</figcaption></div>Maple Leaf craniums must be resting easier these nights now that the four atomic bombs on skates who had the purported potential to blast some of them to the salt mines of Pittsburgh have either fizzled temporarily or fitted into the makeup so that hardly anybody, except maybe Vic Lynn, has suffered.George Armstrong, Tim Horton, Hugh Bolton and Danny Lewicki were the four aces which could have batted in the skulls of some of the regulars and of these only two are still in circulation in the upper bracket. Bolton is temporarily out of circulation with a bad knee and with Armstrong and Horton contributing their new blood to the Hornets that leaves only Danny Lewicki.Bolton&rsquo;s presence isn&rsquo;t going to hurt anyone&rsquo;s feelings or pay check because there had to be another defenseman anyway after Garth Boesch threw in the sponge.<h2>Maxie&rsquo;s Fault?</h2>And Lewicki&rsquo;s status, as of this week, remained uncertain because in the last few days he hasn&rsquo;t accomplished anything to send people around screaming.Lewicki&rsquo;s seeming ineptitude has been noted by the Leaf brass and has likewise been noted by Lewicki who can&rsquo;t put his pinkie exactly on the trouble.He admits that Max Bentley, his centre, is a mite hard to keep up with. Ray Timgren admitted as much last season. Maxie&rsquo;s habit of taking one more dipsy before the last doodle has thrown his linemates off stride as well as the gents who are trying to check him.Lewicki says that his main trouble is that he&rsquo;s not taking enough shots at the nets.<h2>Worries About Check</h2>&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;m worrying about my check too much,&rdquo; he says.&ldquo;When I should be making a play on the net I&rsquo;m thinking about the guy I&rsquo;m checking. Especially that Howie Meeker, you can&rsquo;t let him get away from you at all. You have to stay right with him because he just skates in circles and all of a sudden he&rsquo;s gone.&rdquo;Lewicki feels that he should start shooting at the net which mightn&rsquo;t be a bad idea because he&rsquo;s proven that he can score goals.<h2>Back To Hornets</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03147/1325161-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="1165" height="1788"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tim Holton&hellip;&hellip;No Battered Skulls</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Leafs’ Four Atomic Kids Find Going Tougher; Two Out, Two Still In As Yet

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><h2>In Trade &hellip; Him Too &hellip; And Him &hellip; Same Way &hellip; With Others&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01191/1325297-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="568" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body">HARRY LUMLEY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02168/1325290-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="559" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK STEWART</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03129/1325283-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="578" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL DEWSBURY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04103/1325276-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="577" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body">DON MORRISON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0569/1325269-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="575" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETE BABANDO</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0642/1325262-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="285" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bep Guidolin</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, III. &mdash;A good number of the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; followers may catch themselves feeling like Detroit rooters before the 1950-51 NHL season is many games old. No less than 11 former Red Wings may be among the 18 Windy City players who&rsquo;ll take the ice in the team&rsquo;s home opener against New York&rsquo;s I Rangers this Sunday, Oct. 15th. at the Chicago Stadium.Three quarters of the Hawks&rsquo; defensive I corps are ex-Motor City battlers. Goalie Harry Lumley and Defensemen Jack Stewart, &rsquo;Al Dewsbury and Doug McCaig make up this group.On the attack, Chicago&rsquo;s entire tentative third line consists of former Wing puck chasers with Don Morrison splitting Roy Conacher and Adam Brown. Pete Babando, Jim Conacher, Pat Lundy and Bep Guidolin are other former Detroit stars who are now fixtures in the Hawk organization.Many Chicago fans don&rsquo;t particularly like the high amount of Red Wing representation on their team and the deals between the teams often irk them even more.In some cases their ire may be well justified, but in others the record books lean toward con-tridicting their contentions.To illustrate both sides of the matter here are the details in each of the deals which involved the team&rsquo;s current personnels.<h2>ADAM BROWN FOR PETE HORECK</h2>Brown came to Chicago in exchange for Horeck in December, 1947, and the swap was turned out fairly even, except for the fact that the Hawks also tossed in Leo Reise who has since gained AllStar recognition. A fourth player, Ray Powell, was also involved. He has been a fixture with Chicago&rsquo;s Kansas City (USHL) farm team for three seasons. Horeck is now with Boston while Brown has just regained a regular spot with the Hawks after spending a part of last season with the St. Louis Flyers (AHL) with whom Chicago now has a working agreement.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0722/1325255-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="596" height="200"></div><h2>ROY CONACHER FOR CASH</h2>Conacher was sold to the Hawks shortly after the start of the 1947-48 season after he refused to report to New York in a deal that would have given &lsquo;the Red Wings Ed Slowinski. His three seasons in Chicago have placed him among the ice sport&rsquo;s all-time high scorers. He is expected to go over the 200 goal mark with ease this year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0815/1325248-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="590" height="156"></div><h2>For Horeck &hellip; For Cash &hellip; In Deal &hellip; A Trade &hellip; Just Dough&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0911/1325241-1-eng-US/f0005-092.jpg" title="f0005-09" width="582" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">ADAM BROWN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-107/1325234-1-eng-US/f0005-102.jpg" title="f0005-10" width="578" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROY CONACHER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-115/1325227-1-eng-US/f0005-112.jpg" title="f0005-11" width="574" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM CONACHER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-124/1325220-1-eng-US/f0005-122.jpg" title="f0005-12" width="576" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG McCAIG</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-134/1325213-1-eng-US/f0005-132.jpg" title="f0005-13" width="582" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT LUNDY</figcaption></div><h2>GUIDOLIN, CONACHER, McCAIG &mdash; POILE, GEE</h2>Only four games had been played in the 1948-49 season when Chicago parted with forwards George Gee and Bud Poile for three Wings, Bep Guidolin, Jim Conacher and Doug McCaig. This trade seems to have gone slightly in the favor of the Hawks. Conacher and Guidolin have displayed better scoring prowess than Gee and Poile and the latter has left the NHL. That leaves McCaig to add a little more to the Hawks&rsquo; side of the swap.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-144/1325206-1-eng-US/f0005-142.jpg" title="f0005-14" width="598" height="368"></div><h2>NINE MAN TRADE</h2>As for July&rsquo;s big deal which sent Lumley, Stewart, Babando, Dewsbury and Morrison to Chicago for Metro Prystai, Gaye Stewart, Bob Goldham and Jim Henry, the guesses are still flying thick and fast. This season will have to be a good bit of the way along before any real advantages on one side or the other are noticeable. Chicago obtained a great netminder in Lumley and a veteran and tough rearguard in Stewart. The Wings got the young and excellent center which they needed, Prystai.<h2>Nearly Wing</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-154/1325199-1-eng-US/f0005-152.jpg" title="f0005-15" width="488" height="832"><figcaption class="caption-body">EDDIE SLOWINSKI</figcaption></div><h2>PAT LUNDY FOR CASH</h2>This transaction was announced a couple of weeks ago and as yet it&rsquo;s not even certain just where Lundy will fit into the Chicago organization. If he doesn&rsquo;t win a spot with the Hawks he&rsquo;ll probably end up with either St. Louis (AHL) or Milwaukee (USHL). He had been traveling between Detroit and its Indianapolis (AHL) affiliate for the past four seasons. He was with the Wings for the entire 1946-47 campaign and netted 17, goals and 17 assists in 59 regular season games.That completes the facts on how the Black Hawks have come to be so Red Wing in appearance. In the overall picture the deals have seemed to come out about even.The possibility of as many more deals in the future years now seems unlikely since, with the signing of the St. Louis agreement, Chicago&rsquo;s farm system is now just as complete as most of the others in the NHL. Future Hawk teams will probably gradually lose that &ldquo;secured by trade&rdquo; look. &#9632;

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Eleven Former Wings Now With Windy City

ST. LOUIS. Mo.&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks, who reached an agreement with the St. Louis Flyers of the American Hockey League last summer, aren&rsquo;t tho only club outside of the Detroit organization who have reaped the harvest via Detroit and Indianapolis.The Flyers have no fewer than seven former Detroit members wearing their livery. Last season they had nine ex-Wings&rsquo; chatels performing for them. Since then one has drifted to New Haven and the other has found Ids way back to the National Hockey League.The Flyers this season will have Red Almas in goal. He played for the Wings, at least performed in one game for them in 1946-47 and played 64 games for Indianapolis that season. He was traded to St. Louis in 1948-49.Ed Nicholson was in the Detroit organization until he was traded to St. Louis following the 1948-49 season. He also performed in one game for the Wings 1947-48.Red Doran, until 1948-49 was a member of the Norris organization and then he was shuffled off to the Mound City. Doran played 24 games for the Wings in 1946-47 but only scored three goals and added two assists in that time.Handsome Barry Sullivan also found his way to St. Louis in 1948-49. Until that time he had performed for Omaha in the United States League and Indianapolis. He too had a one game show in the N.H.L. with the Wings.Cliff Simpson was moved from Indianapolis to St. Louis last season. He had two flings in the N.H.L., one in 1946-47 and one the following season. He failed to impress the Detroit brass and was shifted to the Flyers.Fern Gauthier got the axe from the Wings at the same time as Simpson. A former member of the Montreal Canadiens the Flying Frenchman was given four tries with the Adamsmen but failed to stick and last season he was sent to St. Louis.Gunner Melong was a former member of the Wing&rsquo;s organization. This season he was sent to the New Haven Eagles but prior to that was a member of the St. Louis Flyers. And last season Adam Brown was a member of the Mound City corps as well. He was once a member of the Wings but was sent to the Flyers via Chicago. The Hawks got Brown in a trade for Pete Horeck. &#9632;

Flyers Also Have Share Of Winos

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1. 1947Published byHockey News Company, 603A Sun Life Building.Montreal. Que.Yearly Subscription Price $2.50 in Canada &mdash; $3.50 tn U.S.A.Authorised as second class mall. Post Office Department, Ottawa.Printed in CanadaVol. 4 October 14, 1950 No. 2<h2>STARS&rsquo; REIGN ENDED</h2>The three-year domination of the All-Star classic by the star-spangled League sextet has finally been broken &mdash; but it took a powerhouse squad of Detroit Red Wings, themselves loaded with talent of All-Star calibre, to turn the trick.When the walloping flyers from Jack Adams&rsquo; bailiwick tripped up the Stars Sunday night, October 8th, in Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia Stadium, they not only ended the winning streak of the hand-picked team from the other five N.H L. squads, but did it in truly decisive fashion. When the smoke and haze lifted off the Motor City ice sheet, the All-Stars were retired to the sidelines to lick their wounds and scars of a 7-1 defeat plastered on them by the irresistible Ivanmen.Leading the victorious Wings, Stanley Cup champions of last Spring and monarchs of all they survey in the hockey world, was scrappy Ted Lindsay&mdash;himself one of the brightest All-Stars of all in the League today.Under the rules the annual All-Star Classic, played for the benefit of the players&rsquo; pension fund which gets two-thirds of the gross receipts, any members of the Stanley Cupners who has been picked for the All-Stars is allowed to line up with his own team for the night&rsquo;s battling. And that was a mighty lucky break for the Detroiters, because Lindsay&rsquo;s three goals spelled exactly the difference between a decisive win for the Cuppers and a 4-4 stalemate if his goals had been marked on the other side of the ledger.Wings, icing five players, including Lindsay, who would have been a most welcome addition to the All-Stars, had little trouble in disposing of the League&rsquo;s best&mdash;taking command of the play with Lindsay&rsquo;s first sparkling counter just nineteen seconds after the first faceoff. They never relinquished their mastery until the dying moments of the game when the Stars finally clicked for their first and only counter.Rookie Terry Sawchuk, 21-year-old successor to the almost as youthful Harry Lumley&mdash;now wearing Chicago Black Hawk livery&mdash;turned in a masterful display in the Detroit cage to hamstring the best efforts of the veteran All-Star puckchasers opposing him.Sawchuck had a shutout within his grasp until Sid Smith, Toronto speedster on the All-Star crew, finally broke through to dent the twine on Boston Johnny Peirson&rsquo;s assist.Thus the Wings, newly-crowned Cup champions in the 1949-50 season, were able to accomplish what the three-in-a-row Toronto Maple Leafs were unable to do in their three attempts. The League All-Stars downed the Leafs in the 1947, 1948 and 1949 Fall classics&mdash;the first three played since the annual games for the Pension Fund were inaugurated.That gave strong support to those proponents of the theory that a team of stars will beat a regular team any time. But now the strategists must revise their opinions, as a result of the Detroit victory. For the Wings, icing the combination which they hope will sweep them to the N.H.L. championship and the Stanley Cup next Spring, showed decisively that a well planned and coordinated attack can best the finest efforts of a squad of individual aces.Granted that Wings had some of the players who should have lined up with All-Stars if the League six was actually to include all the best players in the circuit, that still doesn&rsquo;t take anything away from the fighting Wings. With the spirit Coach Tommy Ivan has instilled into them, there&rsquo;s a distinct possibility they still might have pulled out a win even without Lindsay and the others.And, speaking of Coach Ivan, an orchid is due him as well. As coach of the All-Stars in the two previous classics, and now as leader of the Wings, Tommy Ivan can proudly point to a record of three straight victories against no losses in the big Fall extravaganza. Among the records of the newly inaugurated All-Star Game, that&rsquo;s a feat that may take some beating.Congratulations are in order for both the Wings and their mastermind, Tommy Ivan.<h2>MADE EXPERTS LOOK GOOD</h2>By their win, the Detroit Red Wings made the predictions of sportswriters around the N.H.L. loop look pretty good. In selections made before the All-Star Game in the annual poll conducted by THE HOCKEY NEWS, newspaper and news service writers in the six National League cities made Detroit an overwhelming favorite to finish on top of the current N.H.L. race.Basing their call on the youth, spirit and drive of the Wings, the writers made the squad their unanimous choice. As a matter of fact, all the votes&mdash;four in number&mdash;cast for other teams to win the championship, probably can be attributed to sentimental reasons, writers naming the hometown six to win the kudoes because they&rsquo;d like to see the local boys make good. &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0388/1325414-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="592" height="296"></div>October 11 to October 1711&mdash;Warwick, Grant, Buffalo, forward, 1921.13&mdash;Reid, Gerry, Detroit, forward, 1928; Larson, Norm, Tulsa, forward, 1918; Ubriaco, John Tulsa, forward, 1924; MacDonald, Don, St. Louis, goaler, 1926.14&mdash;Fraser, Harvey, Providence, forward, 1918; Tottle, Gordon, Springfield, defense, 1925.16&mdash;Ashv.orth, Frank, Tulsa, forward, 1927. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By LOIS FEGAN</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;The icemen have cometh from all directions to converge on Chocolatetown, as Boston Bruins, Hershey Bears and Tulsa Oilers went into their second week of pre-season training.With the arrival in late September of the front office powers-that-be, including head men Art Ross and Weston Adams, the camp was beginning to take more shape. While to date specific allocations of who goes where have not been announced, Ross has indicated he has a pretty good idea.Both in quality and quantity this year&rsquo;s crop of 3 O-odd rookies from all parts of Canada, appears superior to last year&rsquo;s. This, of course, means a brighter outlook for the three teams concerned.<h2>Patrick, Crawford Together</h2>Lynn Patrick, new coach of the Bruins, and Johnny Crawofrd, new playing coach of the Bears, have been working closely in an effort to find the balance, speed and weight they want. Until Bud Poile was named coach of the Tulsa Oilers Jack MacDonald was handling the squad. Two scrimmages daily for each club are the order in Hershey.Among the rookies who have caught the eye of the three club officials are Gordon Byers, defenseman from St. Catharines; Joe Ripku, former defenseman from Port Arthur Bruins shifted to left wing In recent sessions; Mex Sandalac, defenseman; Bob Reightsell, centerman who led the Port Arthur club in scoring; Obs O&rsquo;Brien, St. Catharines left winger; John McIntyre, left winger and Norm Corcoran, right winger, both of St. Catharine&rsquo;s; Ray Barry, center, of the Sherbrooke Saints; John Johnston, Port Arthur Bruins; Conrad Bonhomme, St. Michael&rsquo;s College; Marcel Clements, Oshawa Generals; Mickey Lynch, Maurice Levesque, also of Port Arthur.<h2>Vets Hitting Hard</h2>Both Patrick and Crawford have noted that the old-timers, the veterans who have served with the Boston system for several years, are really hitting hard, and showing they realize they&rsquo;ll have a battle for positions with the up-and-coming youngsters. &ldquo;This is all to the good&rdquo;, said Patrick, &ldquo;for it means we&rsquo;ll have that fighting spirit every coach wants&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04114/1325497-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="577" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRECKLES LITTLE</figcaption></div>In the nets for Boston is Jack Gelineau, winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy last year, while for Hershey Redheaded Gordie Henry is back, and Freckles Little for Tulsa. The odds for the Hershey-Tulsa outfits to be on the receiving end of some top material look mighty fair at this sitting, for Patrick is well overstaffed in practically all departments. &#9632;

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Hershey Camp Shows Fine Looking Crop Of Rookies For Bruins And Bears

<div class="byline">By BRITT JESSUP</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03143/1325535-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="250" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Tobin</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04106/1325528-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="266" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Farrell</figcaption></div>(North Bay Daily Nugget)NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;One of the most entertaining pastimes at any Chicago Slack Hawk training camp is sitting around listening to Bill Tobin and Joe Farrell exchange insults.After 25 years they are masters of the art. They can insult each other subtly or brutally, as the occasion demands.The stranger would swear there was the bitterest enmity between them. But he&rsquo;d be wrong. These are the kind of insults which can only be exchanged by men who have been together in the same business through bad times and good, for 25 years. Men who have a sense of humor which to many persons outside the realm of hockey and sport, seems entirely un-funny.&ldquo;Ive been with Tobin 25 years and I&rsquo;ve never done anything to suit him yet,&rdquo; is a typical Farrell remark. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been fired more times than I can count. I&rsquo;d quit if I had a another million.&rdquo;Farrell is the amazing old guy who started in the publicity racket about 1902 as a song-plugger. The song was &ldquo;In The Good Old Summer Time.&rdquo; Since then he&rsquo;s done publicity for several big league baseball teams, but he finally settled on hockey.<h2>Claims a Record</h2>Farrell claims he holds the record for giving away free tickets for hockey games. He has given away as many as 3,000 for a single game, back in the days when he and Tobin were trying to sell the game of hockey to a skeptical Chicago fandom.Tobin, the little guy who wears the wide-brimmed hats cocked on one side of his head, has a favourite method of insulting Farrell.He waits until Joe is right in the middle of expounding some tale about the good old days, or telling his theory on why Honus Wagner was a better baseball player than Ty Cobb&mdash;and Tobin suddenly gets to his feet and walks out without so much as an &ldquo;excuse me.&rdquo;This never fails to get a rise out of Joe, and he has been known to follow Tobin down the floor of the dining room, shouting the rest of his story at the top of his voice! Tobin blithely walks on, ignoring him.The other night Farrell was interviewed on a radio program. Afterward we accompanied him to Tobin&rsquo;s hotel suite, where Bill was in a bitter gin rummy duel with Bucko McDonald.Joe sidled up, expecting a pat looked up from his cards.&ldquo;Not a blankety-blank one of you guys mentioned the time the game starts Saturday night,&rdquo; he snarled out the side of his mouth.Farrell glared his anger.&ldquo;And thanks for mentioning my name so often,&rdquo; Tobin continued. &ldquo;The least you might have said was that I was with the team.&rdquo;Joe decided to give Bill the silent treatment on that one. When we left, he was sitting motionless, saying nothing, and Tobin was engrossed in his card game.<h2>Some High Finance</h2>The other day Joe who had been doing some heavy shopping for, souvenirs and presents, ran out of cash and borrowed $100 from Tobin.Bill wrote him a cheque on an American bank and said: &ldquo;Now: remember there&rsquo;s exchange on this. I want $110 back from you.&rdquo;Farrell pondered this for two days. He finally came to the conclusion that he owed Tobin only, $100 even in American dollars.He borrowed $100 in American funds from Bob Wilson, and chortled with glee.&ldquo;Wait until I get an opportunity,&rdquo; he chuckled. &ldquo;I&rdquo; throw thia hundred bucks right at Tobin. I&rsquo;ll throw it right in his face, so help me! He&rsquo;ll fire me again, buig it&rsquo;ll be worth it.&rdquo;And Joe did, too, and Tobinfired him, and then Joe had to borrow the $100 back again, because he was short again.And so it goes, year after year, training camp after training camp. It&rsquo;s hard to figure who&rsquo;s in the lead in the rib department.But it&rsquo;s easy to figure one thing. The friendshrip of Tobin and Farrell is one of the finest things in hockey and in sport, on the back. Tobin never even &#9632;

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25 Years Of Insults, Gags; Tobin, Farrell Still At It

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01248/1325573-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TERRY SAWCHUK, sparkling young rookie who will handle the goaltending chore for the Detroit Red Wings this semester, got off to a sparkling start last Sunday night, October 8th, as he threw back the National Hockey League&rsquo;s most vaunte puckchasers while Wings clipped the All-Stars 7-1 in the fourth annual All-Star Game at Detroit Olympia.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;The All-Stars were stars in name only, as a youthful veteran and an eager young rookie grabbed the leading roles for themselves while Detroit Red Wings whipped the National Hockey League&rsquo;s greatest by a decisive 7-1 margin here last Sunday night, October 8th.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02191/1325566-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="280" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>Sharp-eyed Ted Lindsay, one of the game&rsquo;s greatest left wingers, sniped three goals to sink the Stars almost single-handed, while 21-year-old Terry Sawchuk gave a stonewall display in the Red Wing net to hold off the League&rsquo;s ace puckchasers and make a brilliant debut in his first full season of National Hockey League play.It was the first defeat for the All-Stars in the four games that have been played since the Fall classic got underway in 1947 at Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Gardens. After three straight victories at the expense of Toronto Maple Leafs&mdash;Stanley Cup winners three years in a row until Detroit snapped their victory skein last Spring&mdash;the Stars were confident they could do it again, but Red Wings had a different ending planned for the show.<h2>Sweep Board Clean</h2>It was a sweet moment for Detroit Coach Tommy Ivan. He saw his charges complete hockey&rsquo;s first &ldquo;Grand Slam&rdquo; &mdash; the N.H.L. championship, the Stanley Cup and the AllStar Game. And, too, it left him with a record of three wins In succession in the annual classic. As Coach of the All-Stars in 1948-49, Ivan racked up marks on the winning side of the ledger, and now he has marked on the other side for a unique record that may not be surpassed for quite some time.Lindsay, who led the League in scoring during the 1949-50 campaign, got off to a fast start Sunday night as he racked up his first Scoring effort just 19 seconds after the game began. Sweeping down the ice with linemate Gordie Howe, he blasted one past Ghuck Rayner, New York Rangers&rsquo; goalie who started the game in the All-Star cage, and got the Wings off to a flying start.They were never headed after that, and Lindsay&rsquo;s lightning thrust may have had a lot to do with the fact the All-Stars never seemed to regain their balance, or become more than a passing threat as Sawchuk foiled them brilliantly whenever they had scoring chances.<h2>Proves He Belongs</h2>Sawchuk, up from Indianapolis to replace Harry Lumley after the latter was traded to Chicago Black Hawks, made 25 saves at his end of the rink. At every stage he showed he had the hex on the N.H.L. snipers, as if that needed any proof after his sparkling relief effort last winter.Sawchuk saw action then In the Wings nets In 1949-50 as he filled in for the injured Lumley for a few games. He not only kept Harry&rsquo;s shoes well filled, but actually turned back to the regular goalie a better goals-agalnst average than he had inherited when he first went into the breach.<h2>WINGS 7, STARS 1</h2>All-Stars: Goal, Rayner; defence, Mortson, J. Stewart; center, Kennedy; wings, Richard, Leswick; subs.; Broda, Thomson, Harmon, Bouchard, D. Bentley, Mosienko, Laprade, Quackenbush, Ronty, Peirson, Smith.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defense, Kelly, Reise; center, Abel; wings: Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Gee, Peters, G. Stewart, Prystai, Pavelich, McFadden, Carveth, Couture, Black, McKay, Fogolin, Raglan, Pronovost, McQueston.Officials: oReferee: George Gravel; linesmen, Doug Young and George Hayes.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay (Howe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 192&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay (Abel) 17.12 Penalties: Richard, Leswick (2), Abel, Pronovost, Bentley.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Lindsay, Kelly) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11.124&mdash;Detroit: Peters (Prystai, Kelly) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.365&mdash;Detroit Pavelich(Prystai, Peters) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.44Penalty: Couture<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Detroit: Prystai(Pavelich) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.367&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14.288&mdash;All-Stars: Smith (Peirson)&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.27Penalties: Peters, Ronty.Lindsay was the sparkplug ot the Wings through the piece, adding a second goal near the end of the first period and assisting on Howe&rsquo;s scoring effort in the second before winding up his big night&rsquo;s work with goal number three at 14:28 of the final stanza.Another star of the piece who helped send the Detroit fans home happy was Metro Prystai&mdash;tagged the Marvellous when he first broke in with Chicago Black Hawks three-years back. Obtained in the trade which sent Lumley and defenseman Black Jack Stewart to the Hawks, the youthful center showed he has the stuff to match strides with a championship squad by racking up a goal and a pair of assists to trail Lindsay In the summary count.<h2>Smith Snaps Zero</h2>The All-Stars were blanked throughout the game, and Sawchuk seemed to have a shutout within his grasp until the last two minutes. With just a minute and 33 seconds to go, Sid Smith of the Stars swooped down the ice sheet with Johnny Peirson and put the puck In the Detroit twines to salvage at least some &ldquo;face&rdquo; for the super-stars of the game.Chuck Rayner of the Rangers, who opposed Wings in the 1950 Cup finals, shared the puckblocking duties for the All-Stars with the Toronto Fat Man, Turk Broda. Rayner played the first 30 minutes of the game and Broda finished it off, but neither seemed to have much success in. halting the rampaging Wings, who beat Chuck for three goals and banged four past Broda.Lynn Patrick, who led the Rangers in the Cup final but now is coaching Boston Bruins, didn&rsquo;t have much to cheer about throughout the night ag every combination he threw across the boards came to grief against the determined young rookie at the far end of the rink. &#9632;

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Rook, Vet, Nix All-Star Search For 4th In Row

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01232/1325618-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="553" height="1495"><figcaption class="caption-body">CARL VOSS</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Genial Carl Voss, the referee in chief of the National Hockey League, says that if there are any young referees in Canada with the talent to step into the big league, then he&rsquo;ll know about them.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be scouting referees in all the different amateur leagues this winter,&rdquo; said Voss, &ldquo;and if any young fellow shows ability and wants to make a career of refereeing, then we&rsquo;ll give him every chance.&ldquo;Of course there isn&rsquo;t enough room for them all in the N.H.L. but I will try to work out an agreement with the other professional leagues whereby I can recommend a talented boy and have him placed in one of three loops. He will be watched constantly and will move, up the ladder step by step, just like a hockey player.&rdquo;If this system is started then it will be run along the same lines as that of baseball umpires, except that they will not be classified. This is the way it will work. If a youngster shows ambitions to take up a career as a referee then he would be placed in one of the lesser leagues. But he must also show talent. If he is placed in the P.C.H.L. and progresses then the next season he may find himself in the U.S.H.L. Following that he would make the jump to the A.H.L. and it he can be used by the N.H.L. then his contract would be bought. This, of course will be done only if an agreement can be worked between the leagues.<h2>A Fine Career</h2>&ldquo;I believe that refereeing is a fine career for a young man,&rdquo; said Voss. &ldquo;It is a job that can last many years and can be very beneficial in a financial way.&rdquo;What kind of a man does one have to be to become an N.H.L. referee?&ldquo;Well, he doesn&rsquo;t need to have a college degree,&rdquo; said Voss, &ldquo;but a fellow has to be bright and above all have a good background and character. Refereeing is a business now and just like any other job, we must choose the right men.&rdquo;One thing Voss did emphasize was the fact that refereeing pays well to any man who can make the jump, in fact it pays well in any of the four pro loops.&ldquo;Many of the young referees who are working in the U.S.H.L. are far better off than baseball umpires in class AAA ball,&rdquo; said Voss, &ldquo;and the N.H.L. officials compare very favourably and in many case are paid far and above major league baseball umpires. A referee under contract is a well paid man and with what he makes in the playoffs and Stanley Cup finals he does very well.&rdquo;Voss succeeds Bill Stewart as Referee in Chief of the N.H.L. Former Referees-In-Chief include Cooper Smeaton, Stewart and Mickey Ton. This is the second time Voss has succeeded Stewart in his career. Last time he took over as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks after Stewart had left that post.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be in charge of referees from now on,&rdquo; said Voss. &ldquo;That&rsquo;S my department just like publicity or any other department of the league. If there is a rhubarb involving the referees then they will have to report to me and I in turn will report to the president.&ldquo;It is my job to hand out the assignments to all refs and linesmen for all games and generally supervise their work.&rdquo;<h2>Will Keep On Move</h2>Asked just how he intended to keep an eye on all refs he told us that, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be able to see them all work by catching Chadwick in Boston onenight and then hopping over to New York to see Gravel work the next night or the next game. In that way I hope to arrive at a uniform interpretation and application of the rules, and that is the league&rsquo;s aim. The only way that can be done is to watch all the officials work and bring them all into line.&rdquo;Voss also revealed that the league hopes to have all Its officials on a full time basis this year.&ldquo;There are a few officials now who work games only on a part time basis. We&rsquo;re doing our best to get away from that, so we&rsquo;ll find new men. We think we&rsquo;re paying the officials enough to make it a full time job.&rdquo;As part of the new deal for refs Voss has signed Bill Knott of the P.C.H.L. and big Red Storey of the Quebec Senior League to contract. They will work in the N.H.L. this season.Voss steps into the N.H.L. as referee-in-chief with experience from both sides of the fence. He&rsquo;s been a player in the league and a referee and linesmen in the P.C.H.L. and A.H.L.In the 19 32-33 season while a forward with the Detroit Red Wings he was the Rookie-of-the-Year, later symbolized by the Calder Memorial Trophy for the most proficient player in his first year in the N.H.L.Voss, during his active hockey career signed contracts with no fewer than nine teams, but only played for eight of them.Prior to taking his present N.H.L. post he was President of the U.S.H.L.. He will make his headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y.<h2>A Full Time Job</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02212/1325611-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1662" height="733"><figcaption class="caption-body">CARL VOSS, new chief referee of the National Hockey League, gathered his officials together for a pre-season blackboard chat in Montreal. The new rules were talked over and Voss was satisfied that the N.H.L. will once again be well handled as perusual. Seated from left to right are: Bill Knott, new referee. Bill Morrison, Hugh McLean, Bill Chadwick, Sammy Babcock, Carl Voss, standing, George Hayes, Georges Gravel, Jim Primeau and Red Storey, new referee.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03174/1325604-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="1638" height="1071"><figcaption class="caption-body">THIS IS WHAT they look like in their street clothes. It was all over when they posed for the picture for THE HOCKEY NEWS. They don&rsquo;t look very tough and official here, do they.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Voss Calls On Youngsters To Take Up Refereeing As Career; “It’s Profitable,” He Says

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div>SEATTLE. Wash.&mdash;The Revamped P.C.H.L. opened the 1950-51 season with a new look With the Southern Division out of operation this is what the loop shapes up to.Coach Tony Hemmerling, of Portland, will start with the following lineup: Tom Karakas, the League&rsquo;s AllStar goalie last year, will be back in the nets. Hold overs Hal Tarala and Captain and all-star Hugh Sutherland together with Danny Nixon and Walter Bak from last year&rsquo;s San Francisco Club and Rudy Brodeur will comprise the defense. Only three of last year&rsquo;s forwards will be back, Joe Ciuman, Nick Bangay and the fiery Hal Hopper. New additions to the front lines are; George Homenuke, Larry Silvestri, last year&rsquo;s leading scorer in the Southern Division and member of the South&rsquo;s all-star team, Walt Samanski, Bill Hartsburg, Jim Fairburn and Frank Kubasek, all members of last year&rsquo;s San Francisco club finished in first place in the Southern Division. Only newcomer to pro hockey is John Bailey an outstanding junior from Brandon who weighs 19 0 lbs. and stands 6 ft. Hemmerling thinks the speedy left winger is a cinch to be the &ldquo;rookie of the year&rdquo;.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01246/1325694-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="284" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roger Leger</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02198/1325687-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="286" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joey Johns</figcaption></div><h2>Royals Made Few Changes</h2>The champion New Westminster Royals have made the fewest changes of any club. After a year with Vancouver Lucien Dechene returns to the Royals&rsquo; net. Coach Babe Pratt will have himself, Bob Bergeron and Bob Paul back at the defense posts along with Butch Houle a graduate of the Quebec League. Jack Taylor, a good looking prospect, is the only new forward. Holdovers are Ollie Dorohoy, Don Slater, Ken Ullyot, Dutch Evers, Bobby Love, Amy Dufault, Normie Kirk, Clayton Lavell and Hermie Gruhn.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03170/1325680-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="556" height="1286"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHICK WEBSTER</figcaption></div>Only seven of last years Victoria Cougars are back. In goal the Cougars have secured the services of Hec Highton, who has played with the Los Angeles Club the past two years. Highton, although only 26 years old has had a wealth of experience playing with Chicago in the National League, Providence and St. Louis iri the American League and owner Charlie Cord of the Los Angeles Club paid St. Louis four thousand dollars for his contract. Fiori Goegan is the only holdover defenseman. To team with him the Cougars have Coach Roger Leger, who played 55 games with the Montreal Canacliens last year, Joe Lepine, who was with Cincinnati last year, and Morley McNeill, a good-looking junior from Regina. Denny Huddlestone, the Lacrosse player is also trying to land a berth with the club. Holdover forwards are Bernie Strongman, Roy McKay, Jack McIntyre, Eddie Mazur, &ldquo;Pistol&rdquo; Eddie Dorohoy and Joe Evans. Other forwards are Lorne Davis, Andy Hebenton, Bob Frampton and Reg Abbott, all outstanding juniors who are destined to become Montreal Canadiens in the near future. Fred Hildebrand is another forward who may make the team. He played with Sydney, Nova Scotia in the Cape Breton League during the 1949-50 hockey wars Down East.<h2>Canucks Return</h2>Vancouver have several of last year&rsquo;s club back. Coach Bill Carse has been experimenting in goal and it looks like he will open the season with Jim Strachan a 22-year old youngster. Strachan played goal for the Eastern Champion Barrie Club three years ago, turned pro and played a few games with San Diego, Louisville and Springfield the past two seasons. The youngster is a good prospect and may develop into an outstanding goalkeeper. Willie Schmidt, Larry Reardon and Vic Lofvendahi and holdover defensemen along with Bud Ritchie who was purchased from Seattle. Holdover forwards are Scotty McPherson, Bob Ballance, George DeFelice, Bill Shill, Wimpy Jones and Eric Unger. New additions are Hub Macey and Mike Narduzzi, from Springfield, Otto Schmidt, brother of Willie and a big hard driving right winger, Johnny Black, a member of the Champion Edmonton Allan Cup winners two years ago and Joe Peterson who performed for Fresno the past two years and was one of the Southern Division&rsquo;s best players.Coach Muzz Patrick, of Tacoma, has the majority of his best players back. Doug Stevenson will be in goal. Andy Lambrecht, Norm Gustavsen and Joey Johns are holdovers on defense. He has added Harry Bell from St. Paul who is a stocky hard hitting defenseman and Bill Giokas, who was with the club two years ago, has returned. His high scoring forward line of Mel Read, Wingy Johnston and Rounie Rowe are back. This line finished one-two-three in the Northern Division scoring race last year with Rowe winning the crown. Other holdover forwards are Neil Andrews, Dick Milford and Doug Toole. Ching Dheere, who left the club the later part of the season for St. Paul, has returned. Newcomers are Gino Rozzini, Chick Webster, Hal Brown and Don Berry. Dick Warwick is another forward who may make the club. Doug Adam is a hold out but may capitulate before the season starts.The Seattle Ironmen will have the majority of their last year&rsquo;s club back. Jerry Cotnoir will ba in goal. Pete Taillefer and Bill Boorman will be back at defense with newcomer Eddie Marineau, who played with Victoria last season. Coach Danny Sprout will also play defense. Buffalo has promised two other defensemen w&rsquo;ho should report in time for the first game. Returning forwards are Rudy Filion, who appears to be O.K. after his back operation, George Senick, Pete Wywrot, Ken Simpson, Alex Ritson and Joe Medynski. New additions are Freddie Weaver, who also plays defense, Pete Tkachuck, who was chosen &ldquo;rookie of the year&rdquo; in the Southern Division last season, both are from San Diego and Hilles St. Pierre who played with Louisville in the United States League last year. Several other forwards are expected from Buffalo shortly. &#9632;

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Minus South, 6 Squads Get PCHL Wheel Going

<h2>OCTOBER</h2>14 St. Paul at Kansae City Omaha at Tulsa15 St. Paul at Denver Kansas City at Milwaukee17 Omaha at Kansas City18 St. Paul at Denver Tulsa at Milwaukee21 St. Paul at Tulsa Milwaukee at Kansas City25 Milwaukee at Denver Omaha at St. Paul25 Wllwaukee at Denver28 Omaha at Kansas City29 Omaha at Milwaukee Kansas City at St. Paul Tulsa at Denver<h2>NOVEMBER</h2>1 Tulsa at Denver2 Milwaukee at Omaha4 St. Paul at Tulsa Milwaukee at Kansas City5 Omaha at Denver Tulsa at St. Paul Kansas City at Milwaukee7 Tulsa at Kansas City8 St. Paul at Milwaukee9 Denver at Tulsa Omaha at St. Paul11 Omaha at Tulsa Denver at Kansas City12 Denver at Milwaukee Kansas City at St. Paul14 Tulsa at Kansas City16 Kansas City at Omaha Denver at St. Paul Milwaukee at Tulsa18 St. Paul at Tulsa Denver at Omaha19 Kansas City at Denver Omaha at Milwaukee Tulsa at St. Paul21 Kansas City at Denver22 St. Paul at Milwaukee23 Denver at Tulsa Milwaukee at St. Paul24 Omaha at Kansas City25 Denver at Tulsa St. Paul at Omaha26 Denver at St. Paul Kansas Oity at Milwaukee29 Omaha at Tulsa Denver at Milwaukee30 Tulsa at Omaha Milwaukee at St. Paul<h2>DECEMBER</h2>1 Denver at Kansas City2 Milwaukee at Omaha Kansas City at Tulsa3 Omaha at Milwaukee Kansas City at St. Paul5 St. Paul at Kansas City6 Omaha at Denver Kansas City at Milwaukee7 Kansas City at St. Paul8 Milwaukee at Tulsa9 Kansas City at Omaha10 Tulsa at Denver Omaha at Kansas City St. Paul at Milwaukee13 Tulsa at Denver14 St. Paul at Omaha15 Denver at Kansas City16 St. Paul at Omaha Kansas City at Tulsa17 Denver at Milwaukee Omaha at St. Paul Tulsa at Kansas City20 Denver at Tulsa St. Paul at Milwaukee21 Tulsa at Omaha Denver at St. Paul22 Milwaukee at Kansas City23 Milwaukee at Tulsa Denver at Omaha15 Kansas City at St. Paul Tulsa at Denver27 Kansas City at Milwaukee28 Tulsa at Omaha Denver at St. Paul29 St. Paul at Kansas City20 Kansas City at Omaha Milwaukee at Tulsa31 Milwaukee at St. Paul Kansas City at Denver<h2>JANUARY</h2>1 St. Paul at Milwaukee3 Tulsa at Milwaukee Kansas City at Denver4 St. Paul at Omaha6 Milwaukee at Omaha St. Paul at Tulsa Denver at Kansas City7 Omaha at St. Paul Milwaukee at Denver9 St. Paul at Kansas City Milwaukee at Denver10 Tulsa at Omaha11 Denver at St. Paul Omaha at Tulsa12 Milwaukee at Kansas City13 Kansas City at Tulsa Denver at Omaha14 Omaha at Kansas City Tulsa at St. Paul Denver at Milwaukee17 Tulsa at Milwaukee Omaha at Denver18 Kansas City at St. Paul20 Denver at Tulsa Kansas City at Omaha21 Omaha at Milwaukee Tulsa at Kansas City Denver at St. Paul23 Tulsa at Denver Milwaukee at Omaha24 St. Paul at Milwaukee25 Omaha at St. Paul Tulsa at Denver27 St. Paul at Omaha Milwaukee at Tulsa28 Denver et Kansas City Milwaukee at St. Paul30 St. Paul at Kansas City Milwaukee at Denver31 Omaha at Tulsa<h2>FEBRUARY</h2>1 Milwaukee at Denver Tulsa at Omaha2 St. Paul at Tulsa Milwaukee at Omaha4 Denver at Milwaukee Omaha at Kansas City Tulsa at St. Paul6 Omaha at Tulsa7 Denver at Milwaukee8 Milwaukee at St. Paul Kansas City at Omaha10 St. Paul at Kansas City Denver at Omaha11 Tulsa at Milwaukee Omaha at St. Paul Kansas City at Denver13 Tulsa at Milwaukee14 Kansas City at Denver15 Milwaukee at St. Paul Omaha at Tulsa16 Denver at Omaha17 Tulsa at Kansas City18 Tulsa at St. Paul Kansas City at Milwaukee Omaha at Denver21 Milwaukee at Kansas City22 St. Paul at Denver Milwaukee at Tulsa24 Milwaukee at Omaha Kansas City at Tulsa25 Omaha at Milwaukee Tulsa at Kansas City St. Paul at Denver27 Tulsa at Omaha<h2>MARCH</h2>1 Denver at Tulsa2 Milwaukee at Kansas City3 Denver at Omaha Kansas City at TulSa4 St. Paul at Milwaukee Omaha at Denver6 St. Paul at Kansas City Omaha at Denver7 Milwaukee at St. Paul8 Denver at Tulsa Kansas City at Omaha9 Denver at Kansas City10 Kansas City at Tulsa St. Paul at Omaha11 St. Paul at Denver Omaha at Milwaukee13 Tulsa at Omaha St. Paul at Denver14 Tulsa at Milwaukee15 Kansas City at St. Pau!17 St. Paul at Tulsa Milwaukee at Kansas City Denver at Omaha18 Omaha at Denver Tulsa at St. Paul Kansas City at Milwaukee &#9632;

United States Hockey League

<div class="byline">By TED RANDOLPH</div>ST. PAUL, Minn&mdash;Oftentimes when people refer to vice presidents the references aren&rsquo;t always printable. However, this is the story about a vice-president who rates raves but seldom gets them.The gentleman in question is Harry Fowler, general manager of the Omaha team and vice-president of the United States league. Harry has been vice-president of the USHL for two campaigns, now, but he probably hasn&rsquo;t told his best friends about it.That is typical of Harry, who is interested only in seeing that a good job gets done&mdash;and not as is the case with a great many, seeing how much personal publicity he can get out of the job at hand.Harry hag come a long way in hockey since his first job in the game as a $40 a week bookkeeper in Omaha. On the basis of his work with the Omaha club and the USHL league he will go considerably farther in the game that has become so great a part of him.<h2>Date Juggling Expert</h2>For the past two seasons Harry has been the USHL&rsquo;s schedule troubleshooter. So far this summer he has drawn up about nine schedules. Probably any one of them would have been good enough to stand, but a gripe here and there by Harry&rsquo;s associates has driven him to starting over again to work out a better one.What makes Harry&rsquo;s schedule drawing job tougher than ordinary is that practically all clubs in the USHL are using arenas in competition with other enterprises. It is not unusual therefore for Harry to get a list of 38 dates from a city and have to fit in a 35-game schedule. Multiply that by five and you have an idea of the magnitude of the job.In addition to carrying the league&rsquo;s schedule load Harry has plenty of worries at Omaha. The two jobs usually mean an 18-hour day from one end of the hockey campaign to another. But where the job would wear out sturdier fellows, Harry seems to thrive on it. At any rate his druggist hasn&rsquo;t reported his aspirin bill has gone up noticeably.The Joe Blow customers who make Omaha one of the best hockey towns in this country or Canada have grown to appreciate Harry more and more with each passing day. They see in him as a courteous and dependable fellow&mdash;a guy they can talk to easily and usually work out a reasonable deal with. Harry&rsquo;s ability to deal with the paying customer has meant more and more out-of-town patronage for hockey and ice shows in Omaha. For the last few seasons Omaha has been the attendance leader in the USHL without a real close second.<h2>Jack of Trades</h2>Before Harry first got the hockey &ldquo;bug&rdquo; he held a variety of jobs. One of the first jobs was as a wheat field worker. After the usual run of hard labor jobs he became a manager of a music store in Kentucky. While serving in this capacity he saw a lot of the bloody coal mine strikes of the early 1920s around Harlan, Ky.The job that held Harry longer than any was one with the Western Union. Harry served them in various capacities for 20 years. Before leaving the WU to come into hockey he served as an auditor.As far as other sports are concerned Harry&rsquo;s first love was basketball. The race horse era in the sport changed all that though.Now it is hockey&mdash;first, last and always.That brings us up to date on Harry Fowler&mdash;the vice-president&mdash;a vice-president who could make you ask, &ldquo;who is the president?&rdquo; if he cared a whit for personal tub thumping. &#9632;

Getting Clubs Date-Happy Proves Headache: 9 Tries!

<div class="byline">By TED RANDOLPH</div>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn&mdash;According to the new USHL President, Ron Cook, his officials are going to lay down the law right from the opening whistle this year. Cook feels that many of the headaches and rhubarbs which develop later in the season can be traced to a laxness on the part of the ice referees in the first few weeks. Going further he explains that it is in those first couple of weeks that the pattern or standard of officiating is set up for the whole league so far as the coaches, players and fans are concerned, and that if the officials are strict at the start then the chances of trouble in mid or late season, when the race gets tight and feelings are running high, are much less.This season referees in the USHL will be sent out with strict instructions to call the plays according to the book with particular emphasis to be given to high sticking, boarding and charging! Also, officials will be told to strictly enforce the rule barring anyone but the captain, or the acting captain if the captain is off the ice, from questioning the officials or asking for interpretations of the rules.<h2>Hand Signals Handy</h2>In addition to the new &ldquo;get tough&rdquo; order, several other changes are being made which are all calculated to improve the game for the fans. Both referees and linesmen will make use of &ldquo;hand signals&rdquo; to a much greater extent than in former years thus keeping the fans posted on each and every interpretation by the officials. Cook explains that most of the hand signals to be used are similar to those used in both football and basketball, and points out that the idea for the. use of a red handkerchief by the referee in the case of a delayed penalty stemmed directly from his having observed that officials in football use a similar system which seems to work out very well. In the case of hockey the official will not drop the handkerchief as is done in football but will hold it in his hand for all to see.Referees all reported to League Headquarters in Minneapolis October 12th for a two-day&rsquo; meeting prior to the League openers at Kansas City and Tulsa on October 14th. Kansas City and Tulsa open at home against St. Paul and Omaha respectively. Denver and Milwaukee get their inaugurals the following night when they entertain St. Paul and Kansas City. &#9632;

USHL Looters Ordered To Lay Down Law Early

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The revamped Cincinnati Mohawks may give the famous &lsquo;Cincinnati Dancing Pig&rsquo; good reason to whip into his light fantastic this season. At any rate it will be hard to recognize Clancy&rsquo;s new clan. Comparing them with his last season&rsquo;s crew they look like an all around stronger club. Defensively they have improved 100% while on the forward lines they have strengthened considerably.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01250/1325818-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="258" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">King Clancy</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ll have a good contender,&rdquo; said the Genial Mr. Clancy. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got some good tough lads on the club so they won&rsquo;t be able to kick us around.If he&rsquo;s got a good tough squad now then what did he have last season. His Mohawks didn&rsquo;t win the league title but they did have the dubious honor of leading the other nine clubs in penalties.Gone from last season&rsquo;s squad are Gerry McNeil, who has moved. up to the Montreal Canadians to replace Bill Durnan in goal. Joe Lepine shifted to Victoria of the P.C.H.L. while Jacques Deslauriers will be playing in other quarters. Bob Blake moved his bag to New Haven.<h2>Defense Strong</h2>The new defense will be one of the strongest in either loop Ralph Nattrass, secured by the Mohawks from the Chicago Black Hawks last week, will partner tough Ivan Irwin. Jack Evens, sent to Cincy by the Rangers will work alongside huge Bud McPherson while stringy Ernie Roche, a good competitor who graduated from the Montreal Junior Canadiens this season, will be the fifth rearguard. Mohawk fans should find Roche a tonic, for. he is one of the best big league prospects to come out of Montreal in many years. Standing over six foot and weighing close to 170 pounds Ernie was a standout last season as he captained the young Habs to the Canadian championship.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02191/1325811-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="532" height="1176"><figcaption class="caption-body">Needs SmoothingIVAN IRWIN</figcaption></div>The forward lines or tne Mohawks are totally different from those that graced the Red, White and Blue of the club last season.Bob Frampton and Andy Hebenton have shifted their allegiance to the Victoria Cougars of the Pacific Coast Hockey League while Jacques Locas has already located his usual foot injury and will not play for a while. It&rsquo;s very doubtful that he will return to Cincinnati at any rate. Bus Gagnon has been traded to Springfield and in return the Canadiens of the N.H.L. received Vern Kaiser.The Mohawks top line will consist of Fern Perreault on left wing, Jackie Gordon at center and Jean Denis at right. All three are Ranger chatels with a wealth of pro experience. Gordon in particular will be a favourite of the Mohawk fans. He was close to the leading scorer in the loop last season and is expected to set a pretty hot pace again this year. Both Perreault and Denis are smart, shifty players who can dump the disc into the twine when necessary.The Mohawks second line will consist of Tod Campeau and Gerry Plamondon flanking veteran Phil Hergesheimer. Neither Campeau nor Plam &lsquo;on had signed when this was written but there is every reason to believe that the pair will be with the club. Both Plamondon and Campeau have had numerous flings in the N.H.L. and both were high scorers for the Mohawks last season. Hergy, likewise, is always good for 20 to 25 goals a season.<h2>Clancy Likes Robert</h2>The third line of the Mohawks will see Wally Stefaniw pivoting tough little Jimmy Moore and Gilles Dube. Also along with the team is Claude Robert, a hard skating right winger who caught the fancy of Clancy in training camp. Robert played last season for Chicoutimi in the Quebec Senior League. Of interest to ball fans in Cincinnati is the fact that Robert was also offered a contract by the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League this past summer but he decided to stick to hockey.A big tough rugged boy Mohawk. fans will find Robert a likeable kid with lots of moxey. He may well be one of the top rookies of the A.H.L. this season.Emil (the Cat) Francis has replaced McNeil in the Mohawks&rsquo; cage and the ex-Chicago netminder has already proven himself an excellent replacement. In his first exhibition game against the Montreal Canadiens Francis had nine thousand Montreal fans cheering him aS he stood the N.H.L.&rsquo;ers on their ears.Still to come from the Rangers in one more defenseman. Under an agreement with the Mohawks the Rangers are bound to send six players to Cincinnati. The six are from the New Haven Ramblers whom the Rangers cut adrift as a farm club recently. Francis, Gordon, Evans, Perreault and Denis are five and Clancy isn&rsquo;t quite sure that he wants the other player.<h2>Detroit Red Wings 1950-51 Roster</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03156/1325804-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="1812" height="1238"></div>Also at the Cincinnati training camp in Monteral was a clean cut young lad, Whitney Towers, by name, who covers the hockey beat for the Cincinnati Enquirer. This studious looking young gentleman who seems to know just what this game of hockey is all about assured us that the ice game is all but sold to Cincinnati fans.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04114/1325797-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="1144" height="1617"><figcaption class="caption-body">BACK TO CINCYBud McPherson &hellip; &hellip; Set to go</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The first few games will tell,&rdquo; said Towers. &ldquo;If the Mohawks can get off to a good start on the road and return home on top of the league then I think it will make a big difference to the gate. If they beat the Cleveland Barons then that too will mean a lot for the Barons and Mohawks have quite a rivalry going on.&rdquo;Towers, who to Cincy fans, has been known to be quite critical at times&rsquo;, and not without reason, sees a much stronger club in his home town this season.&ldquo;Our defense in particular has improved,&rdquo; said Towers. &ldquo;This kid Irwin is terrific. He packed them into the Gardens last season. He gives that old college try every minute of the game and he&rsquo;s really become a favourite down there.&rdquo;&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be in the National League in another year,&rdquo; said Clancy. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve just got to polish him up a wee bit.&rdquo;Whitney Towers is a young man who seems to have taken to hockey 100%. Although he used a funny twang in his speech ha showed that he wouldn&rsquo;t be lost around any hot stove league.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say that Cincinnati is one of the best sporting cities on the continent right now,&rdquo; said Towers. &ldquo;The fans have been following the Reds in droves yet they have been floundering around in bottom place for years.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure hockey has sold itself. We had an average of eight thousand to our last five games of the season and we didn&rsquo;t have a chance to get into the playoffs. We won all five and the fans loved it.&rdquo;We asked Towers if the fans knew the rules of the game yet.&ldquo;I guess when they start booing the referee they&rsquo;re pretty close to knowing which is a right call and which is a bad one,&rdquo; he laughed. &ldquo;Yes, they know the rules pretty well.&rsquo;And so another year is underway for the Cincinnati Mohawks and don&rsquo;t be surprised if they set the league on fire. &#9632;

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Buy Nattrass From Hawks Following House Cleaning

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N. S.&mdash;Gordie Drillon, the old scoring specialist of the National Hockey League, has shown more enthusiasm as a coach than he never did as a player. A few months ago Drillon took over as mentor of the Moncton Hawks of the Maritime Senior (Big Four) Hockey League. Since then he has been a veritable League. Since then he has been a veritable ball of fire in the search for talent.Drillon started his hockey career in Moncton at a time when the senior Hawks were sweeping the country in Allan Cup play.Since his retirement from the National League he has served as player and coach in many Maritime communities, but never in Moncton.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01255/1325863-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="258" height="372"><figcaption class="caption-body">M. Chamberlain</figcaption></div>Finally he got the chance. The fans and management decided not to bring Harvey (Busher) Jackson back. Into the breach went Drillon. And right into action.The other day Drillon posted his player personnel for the 1950-51 season. On paper it looks good.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02217/1325856-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="1128" height="2640"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mentor MediatesGORDIE DRILLON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03191/1325849-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1744" height="1617"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lays It Behind LineJACKIE MORROW, formerly with Los Angeles Monarchs in the PCHL, has joined Drillon&rsquo;s Moncton Hawks this semester to help add a little heft behind the blueline.</figcaption></div>What Drillon does with it remains to be seen, but there are a lot of people who say big Gord has the temperament and experience to be tops at his new trade.For goal Drillon will have Les Colvin, a minor league star before the war and last season the All-Star custodian in the Big Four. In reserve he has young Sonier, an up-and-coming goalie who is being groomed for the big job.<h2>Strong Rearguard Crew</h2>For defense there are Larry Dunville, a standout with Dartmouth Arrows two years and last year starring in Britain; Joe DelMonte, who also played in the old Country last winter; Larry Blackburn of the 1949-50 Amherst Ramblers and John Drury, a graduate of the Windsor (Ont.) Spitfires. Drury is the only stranger in these parts.In the center ice spot are Dalton Barkwell and Roddy MacKenzie, who had good seasons with the club last season; and Whit Mousseau of the defunct Amherst team. Mousseau, with professional experience, was highly regarded by all four clubs last season.At left wing will be Mike Demchuck, a former Moncton star back from the Saint John Beavers; Lou Milani, who finished second in the scoring race and Trent Anderson, who did his playing with Glace Bay Miners of the Cape Breton League last year.<h2>Battle For Right</h2>There are two holdovers and three newcomers striving for right wing positions. The holdovers are Frank Imontl, a high scorer for the past three years, and Don Larlee, one of the league&rsquo;s best defensive wings. Newcomers are Jackie Morrow, last year with Los Angeles Monarchs of the P.C.H.L.; Fred Denny, who played in Britain last season and Ross Flanche of Toronto.That&rsquo;s the team Drillon will start with. He&rsquo;ll have to cut two or three loose and maybe add a man here and there, but he has what Moncton fans feel is the strongest aggregation since the days of the original Hawks, the team the Hub fans can&rsquo;t forget. Now it&rsquo;s up to the big boy himself.Otherwise there isn&rsquo;t too much news from any other Big Four center or from the Cape Breton league. Apart from Moncton there hasn&rsquo;t been a starting team posted. But the others haven&rsquo;t been idle, and all clubs expect to be a bit stronger than they were a year ago.There is much finagling for the services of big Joe Fitzpatrick, the past two years &ldquo;with Moncton. Hottest rumor is that he&rsquo;ll go to Halifax Saint Mary&rsquo;s if he returns this way from the training camp of the Quebec Aces.The Halifax team, champions the past two seasons, will trot out two former professional stars who started their careers in the Saint Mary&rsquo;s organization. They are wingers Hugh Campbell and Gordon (Butter) Duggan. Campbell played with New York Rovers and New Haven, then a brief spell with New York Rangers and last season was with Ottawa RCAF. Duggan played at Washington and Oakland.The Halifax Forum, owned and operated by the city, will have many improvements for the opening game October 14. There will be a new ice-making plant, replacing the unit bought in 1928, first of its type in the Maritimes. There will be better ventilation, the Forum has been completely repainted and the sideboards have been completely replaced. &#9632;

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More Lively As Coach Than Player — Drillon Has Hawks Steamed

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Boston Bruins 1950-51 Roster

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div>OTTAWA, Ont&mdash;Those sounds of mayhem you may have heard around the local rink earlier this month, weren&rsquo;t too serious&mdash;just the Senators brushing up on their bashing for the 1950-51 season which got off from the barrier on Sunday, October 8.The same seven teams, including Sherbrooke, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal, Valleyfield, Chicoutimi and Shawinigan Falls, paraded to the post in the Slater circuit race this season. Something new, however, has been added to the old familiar picture. Not only will the senior sextets be shooting for the league honors and the Thomas O&rsquo;Connell Trophy (and the accompanying dough) but also the Alexander Trophy Which goes to the winner of the &ldquo;Super Series.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02191/1325925-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="252" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bin Durnan</figcaption></div>The new series will bring together the champions from the five major senior leagues in Canada, including the QSHL, Western, OHA, Maritime and Cape Breton circuit.But to get back to the QSHL, here&rsquo;s a brief roundup of the teams as they stand to date as the early season gets underway.<h2>Senators Rebuilding</h2>Honest, It&rsquo;s amazing what Bill Durnan, former Canadiens goalie and new Senator coach, has done to those poor Senators.Durnan has a number of last year&rsquo;s team back in the persons of Legs Fraser, Bill Robinson, Eddie Dartnell, Nils Tremblay, Emile Dagenais, Bobby Copp, Butch Stahan and Eddie Emberg, while newcomers in the camp are Pat Wilson, St. Louis rearguard, Al Kuntz, former Ranger star and last year with Vancouver, Gordie Bruce, down from Hershey, and Don Thompson of Wembley.Ivan Dugre will have another strong entry in the senior circuit if reports are any criterion. Dugre has Norm McAtee, Adjutor Cote and Marcel Bessette back for the pivot posts, and in addition has Bobby Fillion and Jim Planche.Ray Barry has moved to Edmonton despite the fact he has failed to be released. Reg Sinclair has signed a two year contract with the N.Y. Rangers.Punch Imlach had some 34 players on hand when he called the initial Quebec Aces drill. Included among the aspirants were Johnny Marois, Phil Renaud, Armand Gaudreault, Ludger Tremblay, Rollie Rossignol, Herb Carnegie and Rip Riopelle of last year&rsquo;s team, while other regulars, including Dinck Gamble, Bill Wylie, Martial Pruneau and George Scholes are still at pro camps.At Valleyfield, coach Toe Blake already has one exhibition game under his belt, and would appear to have a strong entry this season. Blake has Jack Irvine, Bingo Ernst, Jack Schmidt, Larry Kwong Bill Franklin, Jim Orlando and Paul Courteau back, not to mention a number of fine prospects which will be covered at a later date.Rollie Hebert will again be in charge of the Chicoutimi sextet, while Bucky Buchanan will coach the Cataracts. Frank Carlin, the inveterate moaner of the QSHL, will mastermind the Royals again. Little is known to date of these teams as they are in the process of formation. &#9632;

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Barberpoles Stepping Pretty Under New Coach Bill Durnan; Other QSHL Squads Look Good

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;A heavily-attended clinic, believed to be the first of its kind ever held in this country, launched the 1950-51 hockey season here.The clinic was held at the Boston Arena on the evenings of September 26 and 27. It consisted of two three-hour sessions.Virtually every high school and prep school hockey squad in New England was present, and among the college squads attending were those of Boston University, Brown, Northeastern, Boston College, Suffolk and Dartmouth.The demonstration attracted coaches, amateur officials and fans from as far away as New Brunswick.The &ldquo;faculty&rdquo; for the clinic consisted of Coach Tommy Ivan and Ted Lindsay of Detroit&rsquo;s champion Red Wings. Chuck Rayner of the New York Rangers, Ken Reardon of the Montreal Canadiens, Capt. Milt Schmidt of the Boston Bruins, Coach Eddie Barry of the Boston Olympics and George Gravel, National Hockey League referee.Lindsay and Schmidt talked about and demonstrated the proper techniques of skating, shooting and checking, while Reardon demonstrated defensive play and Rayner Illustrated the goal-tending tricks which have ranked him with the all-time stars. Ivan and Barry provided the commentaries. Gravel, the colorful Montreal official, explained and answered questions about the new rules and clarified some of the more complicated regulations.The clinic was sponsored by the Boston Globe, with the cooperation of President Walter Brown of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, President Clarence Campbell of the National league and the clubs who were represented on the faculty. The enterprise, expected to become an annual affair. was the brainchild of Herb Ralby, Boston Globe sportswriter There was no admission charged.The programs for the clinic were set up by Lynn Patrick, coach of the Bruins, whose duties with his own squad at its Hershey training quarters prevented his participating in it. &#9632;

Boston Site Of Unique Schoolboy Hockey Clinic

<div class="byline">JOE CRYSDALE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01229/1325987-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="286" height="526"></div>STATION C.K.E.Y., Toronto, Ont.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.Joe Crysdale has been sports director of radio station C.K.E.Y. in Toronto for six years and it&rsquo;s doubtful if there is a better qualified man for the job.Crysdale started in radio some 11 years ago. Born in Toronto he started at station C.K.O.C. in Hamilton, Ontario and was tutored much of the time by Pere LeSuer, former goaler of the famous Ottawa Silver Seven.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02196/1325980-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="282" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Crysdale</figcaption></div>Before entering the radio field,Crysdale studied at St. Michael&rsquo;s College, the same St. Mike&rsquo;s that has produced such top flight players as Fleming Mackell, Eddie Sandford, Eddie Harrison and Red Kelly just to mention a few.Not only does Joe take an interest in hockey from the radio point of view but he also coaches the Balmy Beach Canoe Club team and last season his team was the Toronto Hockey League&rsquo;s intermediate and King Clancy champions as well as O.H.A. Senior B semi-finalists.For thrills Crysdale calls each and every broadcast his most thrilling. He loves hockey, baseball and golf and handles the exclusive broadcasts of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball games.In hockey, Joe has one of the most popular programs on the air. On Sunday nights he dramatizes the N.H.L. games and his thousands of fans still find it hard to believe that these broadcasts originate in Toronto regardless of where it actually is taking place. &#9632;

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“Radiorchids”

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03175/1326039-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg"></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Just when everybody gave up OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series hockey as a lost cause for the 1950-51 season, organization came out of the summer-long confusion with the announcement that St. Michael&rsquo;s College Old Boys would sponsor the second Toronto team &mdash; thus assuring the operation of a four-team group.Kitchener&rsquo;s Dutchmen, Hamilton Tigers and Toronto Marlboros with the St. Michael&rsquo;s entry make up the big money section of the Ontario Hockey Association, which will join with Quebec&rsquo;s Senior League, the Cape Breton League and the Western Canada Senior League in a major series playoff for the Alexander Cup.Playing roster of the two Toronto clubs was left on the uncertain side until the many professional clubs break up their fall training camps and turn loose the players not desired in the money ranks this winter.<h2>Flash in Charge</h2>Marlboros perked right up after the official appointment of William &ldquo;Flash&rdquo; Hollett as their coach to succeed Joe Primeau, now directing the Toronto Maple Leafs. Already he has landed Phil Hughes, former North Bay goalie, as one of the six candidates trying out for the regular nomination of guarding the nets.With a circus holding forth at Maple Leaf Gardens, Marlboro senior and junior clubs and also St. Michael&rsquo;s Old Boys worked out nightly at the Weston Arena during the first week of October.Finally straightened away after a hectic off season of being in and out of the senior hockey picture several times, Kitchener&rsquo;s reorganized Dutchmen have Walter &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Scherer back in his old role as coach and most of last season&rsquo;s Flying Dutchmen were also out seeking to win back their old hockey playing jobs.<h2>Kitchener Bosses Happy</h2>Players from last year&rsquo;s crew already working out with the Dutchmen include Jack Shewchuk. Art Hurst, Billy Flick, Mickey Roth. Mike Dzuire, Harvey Jacklin, Billy Walsh, and Butch Martin. o&ldquo;Boat&rdquo; Hurley, former junior goalie with Stratford, has graduated to senior ranks and heads the list of goaltending possibilities for the Dutchmen. Also from Stratford juniors comes Dinny Flanagan, slated for future professional consideration by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Kenny Stemmler from last year Brantford senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; champions, along with Kenny Kesselring up from Kitchener&rsquo;s junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club and Buddy Heximer who player for Crowland Bisons last winter, are seeking regular spots with the Dutchmen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04133/1326032-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="286" height="554"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05108/1326025-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="286" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body">Front Office And Front LineThis well-known trio is playing big part in Ontario hockey life this winter from an executive and coaching angle. Left to right are BOBBY BAUER, ex-Bruin who has taken over the management of Kitchener&rsquo;s reorganized Dutchmen; Punch Scherer, who coaches the Kitchener crew again; and Clare Shillington, one of Hamilton&rsquo;s Old Men who has retired to coach West Toronto Motors in the flourishing Toronto Hockey League.</figcaption></div>Other candidates include Eddie Boland, who played a lot of solid hockey for Guelph juniors before making his senior debut last season in Glace Bay; Bob Henry of Toronto Varsity and the rugged Vic DiMarco who caused no end of rousing action during Guelph&rsquo;s successful junior campaign last season.When they get finished with their current ball assignments. Don Oberholtzer of Guelph, Brantford Tommy McGratten, an outstanding goalie and Harry Psutka, former Marlboro defense star in his second professional baseball year, are expected to join the Kitchener Dutchmen in their new hockey campaign.<h2>Shilly To Coach</h2>From Hamilton comes word that Clare Shillington, veteran centre player, has definitely retired after several seasons of centerice play for the Hamilton Tigers. However, &ldquo;Shilly,&rdquo; is not forsaking the winter game as he has signed to coach the West Toronto Motors teams in the Toronto Hockey League&rsquo;s Major Series playing Wednesday and Saturday nights at Varsity Arena.Waterloo Hurricanes, the new OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; entry under Coach Bob Kinnear are getting down to cases after looking over something like 60 prospects during their pre-season training at the Waterloo Arena. Jimmy Olinski from last year&rsquo;s Kitchener junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club and a defenseman of promise has been signed by the Waterloo officials.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0691/1326018-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="296" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body">IN MARSE JOE&rsquo;S SHOESFLASH HOLLETT, former NHL star and later amateur battler in the OHA, has taken over the Toronto Marlies&rsquo; coaching spot left vacant when Gentleman Joe Primeau stepped up the ladder to mastermind Toronto Maple Leafs.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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St. Mike’s 6 To Rescue Saves OHA 4-Ciub Setup

<div class="byline">By LOIS FEGAN</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Tulsa Oilers hockey fans this year will see a &ldquo;hustling, aggressive, young club&rdquo; according to new coach Bud Poile, who has been handling the reins during pre-season training here.Poile pointed out in advance of the club&rsquo;s return to Tulsa:&ldquo;While we might not have the experience of our competition, we have a bunch of willing youngsters, and that&rsquo;s half the game.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02174/1326077-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="256" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barton Bradley</figcaption></div>For instance, there&rsquo;s rookie Ellard &ldquo;Obie&rdquo; O&rsquo;Brien, first of the quartet of 20-year-old icemen. Obie, born in St. Catharines, Ontario, on May 27,1930, weighs 185 pounds and stands six feet three inches tall.Obie played for three years with the junior club in St. Catharines, and last season in 48 games scored 100 points with 57 goals and 43 assists. He had 10 hat tricks. Prior to last season he alternated between defense and the forward line.A hard-hitting defenseman is prophesied in Gordon Byers. Born May 11, 1930 in Ont. Gordie is five feet ten inches tall and weighs 195 pounds. He, too, played for St. Catharines for two seasons, prior to that with the Copper Cliff Redmen. Byers&rsquo; principal attribute is his ability to use his size to the best advantage.Bill Davidson, a native of Souris, Manitoba, first saw the light of day November 17, 1929. Standing five foot ten, he weighs 170. Davidson, also a smart defenseman, played for a year with St. Catharines juniors, and for two years with the Port Arthur junior club. He was captain last year, and although holding down the blue line scored 17 goals and 23 assists.Tulsa&rsquo;s new centerman, Barton Bradley, who turned pro last year with the Hershey Bears, is a shifty centerman who needs only a little more weight to make him one of the classiest prospects in young hockey today. Member of a Memorial Cup winner two years ago while with the Port Arthur Bruins, he turned pro when only 19, with the Bears after training camp last season.This quartet is the first to be definitely assigned to Tulsa, although several others are expected to make the trek to Oklahoma when the club breaks camp after Saturday night&rsquo;s game with the Hershey Bears here.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01225/1326070-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="1641" height="1162"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gone Are The DaysJUST A FEW days after this picture was taken Bill Ezinicki, right and Maurice Richard, left were hammering away at each other on the ice. But their friendship has ended, thanks to &ldquo;Wild Bill&rdquo;. So far Ezinicki hasn&rsquo;t shown his face at the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; camp and it isn&rsquo;t likely he&rsquo;d stay with the squad if he did. So Richard will have to cast about elsewhere now for a pal to mix it with. The picture was taken at the 1949-50 all-star game. It was different at this all-star game. Only Richard was there.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Oilers Have Plenty Hustle; Rooks Promise Fast Action

<div class="byline">By LOIS FEGAN</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Norman Robert Rone, commonly known as &ldquo;Bud&rdquo;, intends to put to good advantage in his new coaching job with the Tulsa Oilers &ldquo;a combination of all the coaching I&rsquo;ve had.&rdquo;And he&rsquo;s had plenty, the 26-year-old right winger who has what&rsquo;s been called the hardest shot in hockey under five or six National League mentors. He&rsquo;s missed 5nly the Montreal Canadiens, and there&rsquo;s little doubt that if he hadn&rsquo;t accented the coachiner iob with the Tulsa Oilers eventually he would have gotten around to the Habs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03140/1326108-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="265" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bud Poile</figcaption></div>Bud, who will play as well as coach the United States League entry, calls Happy Day &ldquo;the master of them all.&rsquo;&rsquo; He intends to stick to Day&rsquo;s method of coaching which demands rigorous training, tiptop physical condition and expert knowledge of hockey fundamentals. &ldquo;With this I&rsquo;m going to try to combine all the coaching I&rsquo;ve had to some degree to plan futures for these kids. I want to take the best ideas from all the men I&rsquo;ve worked under.&rdquo;The forward who was one of the famed &ldquo;Flying Forts&rdquo; of Poile, Stewart and Bodnar, for the Toronto Maple Leafs, has another distinction. He went directly from amateur hockey into the National League, with the leafs, turning pro in 1942. He played 1942-43 with Toronto, then served with the Signal division of the Army for two years in Italy and Germany. In 1945-4 6 he played nine games with Toronto on his return, as well as the following season&mdash;going on to win the Stanley Cup that Spring.The following year he went to the Chicago Black Hawks, and that was the season he was named on the Second AllStar team.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mind being second to Richard in the right wing spot, believe me,&rdquo; he laughed.With Detroit the next year the Wings went on to the Stanley Cup finals, being beaten out by the Leafs, and in 1949-50 Poile was traded to New York Rangers, then at Christmas time to the Boston Bruins. His appointment as Tulsa coach came as quite a surprise to hockey wiseacres.While Bud has starred at right wing he has had plenty of experience on the other branches of a sextet. He started for the Leafs at center, and in 1946 he played several games at defense. Incidentally while playing at the blue line he scored three goals in one game, and was promptly moved forward again.Poile&rsquo;s most exciting night, aside from his Stanley Cup series, was scoring four goals against Boston one night while with Toronto. He&rsquo;s been lucky as far as injuries are concerned, being content with a broken wrist and thumb.A native of Fort Wayne, Ontario, he has lived much of his life in Toronto. Married, he and his pretty wife, Margaret, have a 19-months-old son, David Robert. Bud describes the son and heir as &ldquo;a rugged little guy.&rdquo; Both of the Poiles are looking forward to living in Tulsa, about which they&rsquo;ve heard so many nice things, he added.Bud thinks the Oilers will have a &ldquo;hustling, aggressive club even though we haven&rsquo;t the experience of some of our competition. These kids are willing, and that&rsquo;s half the game.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Poile, Puck Ulysses, Tries New Role As Tulsa Oilers Coach

<div class="byline">By JOHNNY ESAW</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02159/1326170-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Again Stamp MainstayRUSS DERTELL, perennial net-minding star of the Calgary Stampeders, will carry the load again this winter in the wild western cage. He was rated by many observers as the most valuable man on the squad in the 1949-50 campaign.</figcaption></div>REGINA, Sask&mdash;The rapid rise in popularity of the Western Canada Junior Hockey League could be brought to an abrupt halt, before the circuit has a chance to settle down for another year &hellip; The 1950-51 season would be the year to determine whether or not the league could carry on, in spite of the rapidly increasing cost of operation.With the travelling expenses taking a bigger bite out of each club treasury as year roll by, plus the added general skyrocketing of club budgets that make financial director turn and toss in bed, this would be the real guinea pig winter for the league that could be the outstanding one in Canadian Junior-circles.The juniors have reached the peak in their modern era and should they find that they could &lsquo;get by without red balance sheets in every city this year then the circuit will be here to stay.<h2>Long Hops Hurt</h2>Long distances between extremities of the league, has been the major problem to face executive members, but with sound managerial judgment, everything has worked out quite comfortably so far. Comfortably, doesn&rsquo;t mean that every club has made stacks of money, because, where is there a league that hasn&rsquo;t someone finishing in the cellar. Naturally then, these clubs will take a beating at the box office. But in the final analysis, the entire setup has proven to be a sound one, especially for the two Saskatchewan clubs.Regina and Moose Jaw are the only cities in the province, capable of producing teams of Memorial Cup caliber, as the record shows, and they can only continue to do this with the type of competition produced by the W.C.J.H.L.The attempted eruption by Edmonton interests, who feel as though they are being discriminated against, may throw junior hockey, in Sask back to the stone age, where it was not too many years ago&hellip; Some Alberta officials, with the shorter distances between their cities as the basis for their reasoning, want to make it an All-Alberta affair, freezing out Regina and Moose Jaw&hellip;Such an arrangement would be detrimental to Alberta as well as Saskatchewan, because it&rsquo;s a proven fact that over the years, the best hockey has been dished up by or against the Saskatchewan entries. It would have the same effect, as If the Toronto Argonauts stepped out of the Big Four and played in the O.R.F.U.<h2>Perish the Thought!</h2>Such a measure would force the Pats and the Canucks to enter an all Saskatchewan hook-up, amalgamating the north and south, and the north has been able to produce only a good Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; league. What. a thought that would be, to see the stately Memorial Cup finalists, the Regina Pats, booked against Humbolt, Prince Albert Saskatoon or Flin Finn. Such a pill would cause monstrous lumps in the throat junior hockey rans who areused to that southern exposure.After all, this is not considered a professional junior loop. Well not yet anyway. And it would appear that the eruptive critics are losing sight of one of the most important factors, that of the kids missing too much school by the added four hundred mile jaunt to Edmonton and back. Until such time as this wheel is run on a strict contract, play-for-pay basis, then they must remember, that hockey men are trying to uphold the finest of ethics, that of &ldquo;Education First&rdquo; Who will disagree?Complete disregard of this aim, would be disastrous. Helping the kids in later life, is after all, the reason why most people work with kids, unless it&rsquo;s on a professional basis where only money counts and here, supposedly, it doesn&rsquo;t. &#9632;

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Big Test Faces Juniors To Stem Red Ink Onset

<div class="byline">Bv HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;With a heavy 60-game schedule and a new president, the Western Canada Hockey League got its 1950-51 schedule under way Oct. 10 and the circuit will not conclude until March 17.This year&rsquo;s loop will see only one new coach. Edmonton Flyers will have Frank Currie again; Calgary Stampeders will go with youthful Butch McDonald for a second year; Riley Mullen will again be at the helm in Saskatoon; Ken Doraty, the only new mentor in the circuit, takes over Regina Caps from Art Somers.Stampeders this year will have a British Columbia flavor. No less than four members of Paul Thompson&rsquo;s Kamloops team have Signed contracts to play in Calgary.<h2>Gives &rsquo;Em Hustle</h2>The addition of the former B. C. players will give Stampeders, winners of the loop last year and Allan Cup finalists with Toronto Marlboros, plenty of speed and hustle. The Calgary club picked up a complete line from the Kamloops sextet in Buzz Mellor, Bill Hyrciuk and Don Campbell.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01190/1326139-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="532" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">New Cap CoachKEN DORATY</figcaption></div>This trio played against Calgary last year in the Allan Cup playdowns. Mellor stamped himself an able playmaker while Bill Hryciuk showed he can pot goals consistently Campbell is the back checker on the line, although he too can score goals when the occasion requires.The other B.C. player to ink a contract with manager Lloyd Turner is defenseman Don Clark. A youngster with a hard shot, Clark likes to mix it and many believe he will make fans forget Hugh Cbflin, who turned pro with the Chicago Black Hawks after one season with Stampeders.<h2>Good Nucleus Left</h2>Majority of the rest are holdovers from last year&rsquo;s club. Stampeders will again go with veteran custodian Russ Dertell while they also have picked up Stew Hendry to unsturdy the puck blocker, who was rated by many as the most valuable player to his team in the loop last term.In Doraty, Regina will have a coach who plays to win. He gained a coaching name for himself as a boss of Moose Jaw junior Canucks and he played in the N.H.L. with Toronto Maple Leafs.Both Saskatoon and Edmonton are confident that this is their year. Flyers last year were favored to eliminate Calgary while Quakers are said to have gone all out this year. The Hub City last term came up with a solid contender.At any rate the new schedule is a long pull for the four clubs, 30 at home and the same number away and it will take a club that can win consistently to stay up at the top.Puck Patter: The Western Junior Hockey League, which embraces six teams and will play a 40-game schedule this year, rejected an offer by Edmonton interests to enter a club in the loop &hellip; Jim Christianson, who was the angel of the world champion Edmonton Mercurys last year, was one of the main boosters of the Alberta Capital sextet &hellip; Bob Schmied, who played last year with Kerrisdale, will be in Trail this season with Smoke Eaters&hellip; Bob Gilhooly, defenseman last year with Toronto Marlboros, will be on the blueline for Calgary this year&hellip; &#9632;

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Get 4 Good Men And True Out Of Kamloops Sextet

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01198/1326225-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">These six players of the old Toronto Maple Leafs who were probably the biggest of all characters. Ace Bailey, Joe Primeau, King Clancy, Hap Day, Red Horner and Hal Cotton. The picture was taken at Hap Day&rsquo;s wedding.</figcaption></div>During those years, Cotton and Conacher roomed together on the road and Hal always had some sort of beef to present to his large roommate.One night during a game, Conacher was in all alone two or three times. He could have scored easily but nobody passed him the puck. He was fit to be tied when he left the rink that night, and he was still complaining the next day when the Leafs went to New York.In Manhattan, Cotton and Conacher were given a room on the 20th floor of the hotel and Joe Primeau and Busher Jackson were directly underneath on the 19 th floor.We might as well tell you now that Cotton suffered from claustropobia. High places made him jittery and he went all to pieces whenever he looked out of the hotel window to the ground below.Jackson and Primeau settled down in their room relaxing with the Sunday papers. But they weren&rsquo;t relaxed for long. They were startled by loud screams from above.Both raced to the window, fearing the worst. What they saw was Hal Cotton dangling out of the window above and screaming:&ldquo;Pull me in, please pull me in Chuck. I&rsquo;ll never complain to you again. I&rsquo;ll pass to anybody, but please pull me in.&rdquo;<h2>Gorman Had Them</h2>If you want to hear about hockey characters, just spend a few hours listening to Tommy Gorman, ex-general manager of the Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Maroons, Montreal Canadiens and New York Americans.More than likely Gorman will tell you about the Ottawa Senators of 1919-20. It was a team of characters. Gorman was managing the club then and between Clint Bendict, the goaler and Cozy Dolan, the trainer, he had more to do than just operate a hockey club. It was more like operating a vaudeville show.However, Dolan and Benedict didn&rsquo;t confine their many hilarious and side-splitting episodes to him alone&mdash;indeed they didn&rsquo;t.The big hero on the club that season was Sprague Cleghorn. During the club&rsquo;s home games he and his wife stayed at the old St. Charles Hotel.One day Cleghorn took sick and upon hearing of the illness the Governor General, Viscount Byng of Vimy, who had become a great hockey fan, decided to pay the ailing Cleghorn a visit. But first of all he phoned Sprague of his intended visit.Although he was sick, Cleghorn in his excitement over the coming of the important visitor, went all out to prepare his hotel suite for his royal guest and even went to some expense for some flowers and necessary refreshments. The hour finally came and all was in readiness.A loud knock hailed the approach of aristocracy, and, although fever-ridden, Cleghorn struggled out of his sickbed, took a final look at everything in the apartment and then flung open the door to welcome the Governor General.But alas! as he opened the door, there stood before him in tails and silk topper &hellip; a smirking Clint Benedict!<h2>Maroons Were Colorful</h2>The old Montreal Maroons were a colorful crew. They gambled and drank, so the story goes, and played better hockey when they did. But in their own way they were a tough bunch and when they went &ldquo;looking&rdquo; for somebody on the ice they seldom failed in their search.One night in Montreal they decided to go &ldquo;looking&rdquo; for Eddie Shore. Perhaps they were influenced by the news that George Owen, former Harvard Star, was injured, leaving Shore and Lionel Hitchman to play the full 60 minutes on defense.During the game Hitchman suffered a badly cut eye but managed to stay in the game. Not so Shore, who weakened under the relentless pounding. At one stage of his stubborn refusal to quit, they held up the game until his head cleared.When Shore was finally helped off the ice after 58 minutes of play he was taken directly to the hospital. There doctors set his broken nose, cauterized a spot where four teeth had been knocked out and treated him for concussion of the brain. But he played the next night.Yes, those Maroons were a hefty lot. Sometimes they fought like kings and other times they, acted like angels but Lionel Conacher always acted the same. He was a tough hombre who feared no man. He was a noted wrestler, a fine boxer, a terrific lacrosse player and an outstanding football player as well as an allstar hockey player.The old adage that &ldquo;blood la thicker than water&rdquo; was seldom recited in the Conacher family. Some of the biggest brawls on ice were between Chuck and his older, brother of the Maroons.One night when the pair clashed, a fan sitting alongside the boards grabbed at Lionel&rsquo;s stick as the latter went to skate after, his brother. &ldquo;The Big Train&rdquo;, as Lionel was called, pulled and tugged the stick three or four time but the fan refused to let go. Finally he skated to the fan, pried his stick loose, stepped back a few feet and brought it down over the fan&rsquo;s head. Nobody ever attempted to hold his stick again,<h2>Our Favorite</h2>As a parting story we&rsquo;d like to tell you the one which Lester Patrick told us, and which we like best of all.The Chicago Black Hawks were scheduled to play the New York Rangers in New York and before the game Patrick, then coach of the Blue Shirts, called his players around him in the dressing room. After giving them a general lecture he pointed to a cherub-faced rookie sitting in the corner and softly said:&ldquo;Son, tonight I&rsquo;m going to give you your big break. Go out there and do nothing but watch Mickey McKay.&rdquo;&ldquo;Gee thanks Mr. Patrick,&rdquo; said the youngster.But at the end of the first period the Hawks were leading 3-0 and McKay had netted all three goals.Patrick was fuming as he stormed into the dressing room. &ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t I tell you to do nothing but watch McKay,&rdquo; he bellowed at the kid.The youngster stood for a moment, then his face lit up and he answered, &ldquo;Gee, I did Mr. Patrick, I watched him all through the period &hellip; wasn&rsquo;t he terrific!&rdquo;<h2>Hockey&rsquo;s Gashouse Gang &#9632;</h2>

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Conacher Brothers Were Toast Of Hockeydom

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01177/1326263-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Solution Next Week)<h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Pictured N.H.L. goalie.6. Played with Barry and Aurie.8. Short for second name of Doug Harvey.10. Nattrium (Sym).11. Denotes numeral worn by Jimmy Thomson.12. First name of 28 down.13. Player sold by Leafs to Boston in 1934-35.15. Initials of a Toronto centre.16. Baccari of St. Louis answers to this.17. Initials of O&rsquo;Hearn, PCHL goalie.19. Native province of Stan Kemp, (abbr).21. Initials of Burke, former N.H.L. player.22. Short for first name of Conn of Cleveland.23. Initials of &ldquo;Onions&rdquo; Uniac.24. Initials of Larson, Hershey? forward.25, Name given Anslow of St. Paul.28. Initials of Costello, former Hornet player.29. &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Bouchard&rsquo;s second name.30. Nickname of Schmidt, former Springfield player.32. Initials of Nicholson. M.H.L linesman.33. A Cleveland forward.34. Short for given name of Podolsky of Detroit.37. Half an em.38. Ranger rearguard.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. Birthplace of Leafs coach.2. Gnce played with O&rsquo;Connor and Heffernan for Canadiens.3. Initials of a New York, centre.4. Gelineau of Bruins was selected as the rookie of the&mdash;.5. &ldquo;Bing&rdquo; Juckes&rsquo; real name.7. Native province or Hal Laycoe. (abbr).9. Teams often have a &mdash; season slump.14. Short for given name of &ldquo;Bat tieship&rdquo; Leduc.17. This Morrison brother was recently traded to Black Hawks.18. Member of 1928 Rangers.20. &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Horner was once - known as &mdash; man of the N.H.L.21. Gordie Drillon&rsquo;s birthplace.25. Initials of Oliver, member of 1928-29 Bruins.26. Cecil Dillon was born in this country (abbr).27. Former Leaf goalie, Grant, is called this.28. Hershey forward.29. Given name of &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty.31. Campeau&rsquo;s initials.35. Initials of a Sask born member of Canadiens.36. The (Fr.).<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02139/1326256-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="525" height="795"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash;Springfield Indians found themselves minus a goaltender when it was announced by Tribe owner Eddie Shore that popular Jimmy Strachan had been sent to Vancouver Canucks of the Pacific Coast League.Owner Coley Hall of the West Coast club has been shopping for a first-rate puckstopper ever since the various training camps opened. Among his overtures was a fantastic offer to former NHL star Frankie Brimsek but the Minnesota gent turned it down, preferring to stick to his retirement.Hall then appealed to the Indians, who had three top men in camp. Young Jimmy, who came to the Indians last year straight from junior hockey, was happy to make the move for it means regular action. He should be a valuable asset to the Vancouver club.The departure of Strachan leaves veteran Phil (Red) McAtee and Nipper O&rsquo;Hearn to carry on. McAtee, the wise carrot-top, has been outstanding to date in practice sessions and exhibition games and it&rsquo;s likely he&rsquo;ll again be the regular netminder with O&rsquo;Hearn held in reserve. &#9632;

AHL Indians Drop Goalie—Strachan Goes To Canucks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03105/1326318-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Makes Breathing EasierBEV BENTLEY</figcaption></div>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;Bev: Bentley, one of the best amateur goalkeepers of the present era, will be between the Regina pipes again this winter. He&rsquo;s been training with Chicago Black Hawks at their North Bay, Ont., camp since early September.What with the retirement of Frank Brimsek, who tended goal for the Hawks last season, Cap officials were fearful in case the Hawks would force Bev to ink a pro contract this term! But the acquisition of Detroit&rsquo;s Harry Lumley by the Hawks set that worry at rest.Cap officials had been told earlier that Bev would be allowed to remain in amateur ranks for another season, but they weren&rsquo;t entirely satisfied until they received news that Bentley was on his way back to Regina.<h2>One of the Best</h2>Bev has one of the most illustrious amateur careers on record. During the past six seasons, Bev. has led various teams to Canadian finals on four occasions.His first year in junior hockey, Bev was the main reason for Trail reaching the Memorial cup final. Trail beat Regina Commandos in the western final, but the team lost out to Oshawa Generals in the cup final.The next two seasons he sparked Moose Jaw Canucks to Memorial cup finals against Toronto St. Mikes, the latter winning both. After missing out on the classic his last year with Canucks he moved over to Regina Caps and was one of the main reasons for the team reaching the Allan cup final against Ottawa Senators. The Senators won that one.Last season, Bev. tended goal for Kitchener-Waterloo of the Ontario Senior league.In this one season with Caps, Bev was nominated to the first Western Senior League All-Star team, the only goalie ever to succeed in displacing Russ Dertell of Calgary Stampeders from that spot since Russ first played in the league. In addition, Bentley established a league record of eight shutouts.It&rsquo;s quite a boost for the Caps who have been rebuilding from the bottom up since running last in the standing last season. &#9632;

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Cap Fears Set At Rest As Bev Bentley Returns

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0154/1326377-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="256" height="307"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0253/1326370-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="271" height="295"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0350/1326363-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="2868" height="1869"><figcaption class="caption-body">WILL STRUT FOR FLYING FRENCHMENFRANK KING TOM JOHNSON VERN KAISER PAUL MASNICK</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;At least five new faces will be in the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; lineup when they open their 1950-51 home season against the Chicago Black Hawks. But it&rsquo;s doubtful&rsquo;that among them there is a Lindsay, a Howe or a Richard. Still one never knows. The newcomers, for the first game at least, will be goaler Gerry McNeil, defenseman Tom Johnson and forwards Frank King, Vern Kaiser and Paul Masnick. If there is a Lindsay, Howe or Richard among them-then Dick Irvin will be the most surprised guy in the world.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0444/1326356-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="292" height="496"><figcaption class="caption-body">M. Richard</figcaption></div>McNeil, of course, is up from Cincinnati. Johnson came to Montreal via Buffalo where he was quite a sensation in two seasons there. Kaiser is an Eddie Shore product. He&rsquo;S a lad who holds his wing well, skates both ways an can, when the occasion presents itself, dump the puck into the twine. Last season with the Springfield Indians he scored 19 goals and the same number of assists for 3 8 points. King was bought from the Minneapolis Millers of the United States league, early last summer. A big lad, he has shown signs of greatness, but only occasionally, yet has shown pretty well in the rough going. Last season at Minneapolis in 70 games he netted 30 goals and 34 assists for 64 points. Masnick is the young junior who reported to Canadiens&rsquo; camp with thoughts of returning to Regina to finish, his final year in junior. Although he is far from a sensation he has shown promise and with a little patience by the Habs he may turn out to be a real find.<h2>Third Line To Go</h2>Although defensively, the Habs are set very well, a third forward line with a little punch is now Dick Irvin&rsquo;s main aim. His first line of Richard, Lach and Dussault is as potent as ever, at least in exhibition games. Richard has averaged two goals per game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0524/1326349-1-eng-US/f00c4-052.jpg" title="f00C4-05" width="477" height="1270"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROLY MCLENAHAN</figcaption></div>The second line will be MacKay, Mosdell and Curry and with a few more goals this could well be the trio that will spell the difference between winning and losing many games, and maybe even winning a playoff berth. Between them this threesome could only muster 31 goals last season. Mosdell had 15, Curry and MacKay had eight each. In exhibition games they have shown pretty well, skating both ways and checking continuously.The third line will be centered by Billy Reay. But who will flank him is unknown. At the moment it&rsquo;s Riopelle, Gravelle and Kaiser with King centering Masnick and Bert Hirschfeld. The second trio in particular have been doing things in rather a big way of late. Until Hirschfeld pulled a groin muscle he was a going concern, showing lots of determination. In&rsquo; one game against Shawinigan of the Quebec Senior League he scored four goals and added two assists.Whether Irvin will continue to keep those lines together won&rsquo;t be known for sometime yet. Ha has said that he only plans to keep three lines and two extra forwards as well as five defensemen. Someone will go.Also with the team are Staa. Maxwell, left in Montreal by; Buffalo recently and Roly MeLelahan, received in a trade with the Hershey Bears. It was a round about trade. The Canadiens bought Ray Gariepy from Buffalo and before he could report to Montreal he was traded to the Hershey Bears for McLenahan. Ths latter is in Montreal now and will line up with the Habs in their remaining exhibition games. Whether he will stay with the Habs is also unknown.McLenahan is rather on the small side for an N.H.L. defenseman. However offensively he may be what the Habs need. His only N.H.L experience to date is nine games with the Detroit Red Wings in 1945-46. At 28 Roly has played with three A.H.L. clubs and believe it or not was the high scorer for Hershey Bears last season. In 67 games the 5&rsquo; 7&rdquo; 170 pound rearguard scored 23 goals and 35 assists. &#9632;

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