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October 21, 1950

The Hockey News October 21, 1950

MONTREAL, QueThere is a possibility that the sportswriters will select the N.H.L. All-Starts this season. This was the practice tor years but in 1946-47 the six N.H.L. coaches did the selecting and have done so since that time.On the over-all picture their selections were good and they named the best men to the different positions but there was the odd case when a coach tried to do a little jockeying for one of his own players and in order to boost the chances of his own player making the AllStar team, he picked an inferior player to the position.The short-sport coaches guilty of offense were actually only feeling themselves and the hockey public at large the fans, who were being duped into believing this was the best team that the coach could pick. There have been players named positions on the All-Star team who had absolutely no business on such a team.These errors have come to light and the N.H.L. Governors discussed the point at great length at the semi-annual meeting in New York in September, and there is a movement afoot right now to have the selection of the All-Stars returned to the sportswriters. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Scribes May Choose Stars Again

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01253/1440436-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="398" height="678"><figcaption class="caption-body">Woody Dumart</figcaption></div>The advance assay of talent was higher than it was a year ago as the revamped Boston Bruins prepared to open their season under a new coach.The consensus here is that the Bruins are better-manned for their debut under Lynn Patrick than they were for their start a season back under George &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Boucher.Patrick had a more experienced, better balanced team for his opening home-and-home series with the Montreal Canadiens than Boucher had on a corresponding date a year ago, although this Bruins team figures to be still a good bit short of the jelling point.Patrick&rsquo;s squad breaks down to three groups, namely:The well-seasoned contingent of Capt. Milt Schmidt, Woody Dumart, Ken Smith, Pete Horeck, Bill Quackenbush and Murray Henderson.The should-get-better squad of Paul Rontv. Phil Maloney, Eddie Sandford, John Peirson, Dave Creighton, Eddie Harrison, Fernie Flaman, Ed Kryzanowski and goalie Jack Gelineau.<h2>Three Newcomers</h2>The &ldquo;new faces&rdquo; trio of Steve Kraftcheck, Ed Reigle and Lorne Ferguson. Potential improvement of the Bruins over their fifth place showing of last year probably rests with the second group, making up the bulk of Patrick&rsquo;s team.That&rsquo;s the question mark division, composed of players who have now been around long enough to capitalize on their youth, size, speed and experience. The big question is, will they improve?Ronty and Peirson from that category, together with little Smith, make up the Bruins&rsquo; first line. This will be their third season as a unit. They have been through the first-year shakes, the second-year staggers; now they know the tricks of the trade and how to apply them.Last year their combination play was disrupted by injuries to Peirson, the dashing right wing, and Smith, the foxy left wing. They produced only 60 goals, 27 of them by the reckless Peirson.The first line is Patrick&rsquo;s only holdover unit from last season; his other two are newly-assembled.The makeup of the new coach&rsquo;s second wave hinges on the condition of Sandford&rsquo;s foot, the same one which was badly cut in November a year ago. Sandford, the nominal center for Schmidt and Creighton, has been handicapped by it this fall.<h2>Improved</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02222/1440429-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="576" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Kryzanowski</figcaption></div>If the Bruins first line has been dubbed &ldquo;The Muscles&rdquo; facetiously, there is nothing farfetched to such a tag for Sandford, Schmidt and Creighton.Sandford and Creighton are both rugged youngsters, 190-pounders, and so is the veteran Boston captain. They figure to be a power outfit, with Schmidt as the ice-burner and Sandford and Creighton as driving goalgetters. Patrick&rsquo;s third line probably won&rsquo;t have the stability of the other two, providing Sandford&rsquo;s leg comes along, with the exception of the smooth Maloney at center. Ferguson, the tall recruit from Tulsa, and the scrappy Horeck are available tight wings, and Harrison and Dumart are capable left wings. Dumart may be reserved for penalty-killing chores, at which he is expert.The Boston defense promises more dash, more splash, than it did a year ago. The streamlined Quackenbush and the underrated Henderson figure to have more early-season effectiveness than they did last fall, and Flaman has better support in the rough-&rsquo;em-up department.Kryzanowski was Boston&rsquo;s most improved player for the last half of the 1949-50 campaign, and the well-stacked Toronto U. alumnus should continue to get better. Krafcheck and Reigle, up from Cleveland together, know how to bump.That leaves Gelineau, with more poise, self-assurance, than he had for his difficult freshman season. Gelineau didn&rsquo;t make Boston forget the hey-days of Frankie Brimsek, but he established himself with his goaltending. He didn&rsquo;t have the best record in the league but he didn&rsquo;t have the worst, either, and he didn&rsquo;t get the best protection.Patrick has indicated that he will use three defense pairs, Kryzanowski with Quackenbush, Kraftcheck with Henderson and Flaman with Reigle. He has also indicated that when the Bruins have a manpower advantage, he will play five forwards, with Schmidt and Dumart backing up a line.The Bruins cut down to 18 players last week by sending two wings to the minors. Slambo Sambo Bettio was tagged for Hershey, where he will play under Jack Crawford, the former Bruin. Norman &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Poile has moved his bullet shots to Tulsa of the United States league, where he will be player-coach. Thus the Bruins were better co-ordinated, better organized for their &ldquo;comeback&rdquo;&mdash;and a fifth place finish here calls for a comeback &mdash; than they were when Boucher sat on the bench for the first time. It looks like Patrick has improved personnel; now the proof of the pie lies in the eating. &#9632;

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Three New Bruins Are Set To Shoot Club Up

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1. 1947Published byHockey News Company, 608A Son Life Building. Montreal. Que.Yearly Subscription Price $2.50 in Canada &mdash; $2.50 in U.S.A.Authorized as second class mall. Post Office Department, Ottawa. Printed in CanadaVol. 4 October 21, 1950 No. 3<h2>TOUGHER TO BREAK IN NOW</h2>Professional hockey is getting harder and harder to crash, and by the same token it seems as though the day of the &ldquo;child prodigy&rdquo; under the National Hockey League tent is past. At least, that&rsquo;s the way it appears by scanning the lists of the rookies coming up to the N.H.L. &lsquo;the past few seasons.The tendency now is more toward signing up promising junior or senior amateurs and letting them cut their teeth with other professional teams before moving up to the big money ranks. With hockey talent becoming more plentiful, the case of a youngster breaking into the N.H.L. directly from the amateurs is becoming a rare one.Even if a comer seems to have everything it takes right now to become a star, the club operators prefer to farm him out for a year or two of seasoning, rather than forcing him directly into the speediest company and possibly running the risk of burning out a fine prospect.This year is a case in point. Although there are 17 rookies seeking to win their spurs with the different N.H.L. clubs, only one of them is attempting the big step directly from junior ranks. That&rsquo;s Paul Masnick of Montreal Canadiens, flashy star from Regina Pats who still is eligible for another season of junior hockey if he desires to stay in that rank.Of the others, nine besides Masnick are playing their first N.H.L. game this season. However, outside of Masnick all 10 tyros have had experience in either the American, United States or Pacific Coast Hockey League after turning pro. The remaining seven have all played a few games previously in N.H.L. company &mdash; under the tryout rule which allows an amateur to play not more than three games in any one season with an N.H.L. squad before losing his amateur status.Last season 10 rookies skated out on N.H.L. ice for the first time out of a total of 13 being given the test. In the 1948-49 season, 11 out of 14 rookies made their N.H.L. debut, but in the two preceding years the discrepancy was even more noticeable.In 1947-48, when there weren&rsquo;t sufficient good players coming up to satisfy all the teams, 17 out of 18 rookies had never skated with an N.H.L. six before starting their first full season. One lone rookie had played two games with an N.H.L. club previously. Similarly in 1946-47, out of the 17 hopefuls only one had any previous experience &mdash; again just two N.H.L games.It all marks a definite trend being followed by N.H.L. clubs, of giving their stars of the future a thorough testing and grooming in other pro leagues before giving them the important call. In fact, in most cases the boy is given the three-game amateur tryout wherever possible to see how he can mix it with the rough and bruising National Leaguers before he even makes the decision to sign a pro contract.That way, it&rsquo;s possible to get a mighty good line on the player in question rather than gambling in the dark. Proof that it pays off is seen in the calibre of the rookie prospects coming up this year. By and large, it&rsquo;s about the most promising group to come up the ladder since pre-war days when the woods were full of good players.Before the war when the woods were full of good hockey players, seldom did a player make the jump direct from a junior or senior team into the National Hockey League. The competition was too tough for a player to be able to do this. He had to serve first with a minor pro aggregation and then if he had the stuff to make hockey&rsquo;s major loop he would graduate after a year in the minors. However, there were numerous cases when excellent players needed longer than one season before being ready to answer the call to the N.H.L.During the war years good hockey players were almost impossible to find in this emergency young fellows just out of junior hockey were pressed into service with N.H.L. teams. This practice also carried over for a few seasons after the war but this season seems to be the first one when the situation had disappeared entirely.From now on, with the odd exception as was always the case, a player breaking into the roster of a National League club will have to serve his apprentice as a member of a minor pro team. &#9632;

The Hockey News

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Chicago Black Hawks 1950-51 Roster

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01147/1441355-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="262" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Reise</figcaption></div>PETERBORO, Ont.&mdash;Out of the lopsided 7-1 shellacking the 1949-50 All - Stars took from the Detroit Red Wings in the Olympia a few weeks ago may hatch a new system for Leo Reise future games. Ideas are being kicked around the six N.H.L. cities at the moment, but ing official has been a stumbling block. Five of the All Star team were Wings. The Leafs in games before, except for Broda had failed to post a player on the club. So when game time rolled around the Stars were intact and so were the Leafs.But this season was different. No fewer than five of the first and second All-Star club&rsquo;s players were from the Wings. In the game itself they lined up with their own club and the shift left the original All-Star sextet looking like a skeleton of the real McCoy. Abel Lindsay, Howe, Reise and Kelly were chosen on either the first or second club. With Durnan and Reardon out of the picture only Richard and Gus Mortson were left to play from the original team as chosen by the six N.H.L. coaches.&ldquo;There will have to be a change made,&rdquo; said Boston Bruins&rsquo; vicepresident Art Ross. &ldquo;With the original All-Star team the score would have been much different. There are many ideas being put forward now, some of them may be all right, on the other hand they may not.&ldquo;First of all, and this is my own opinion, I think the game should be played later on in the season. The American Thanksgiving Day, that&rsquo;s the fourth Thursday in November, w0ould be a good day. As is is now we are running up against competition from baseball and football. There would be league of that if the game was play it a later date.&rdquo;<h2>Complications Set In</h2>Authorities do believe should be shoved second month of the schedule. Players, they say would be in better shape and could provide a better game. But then the complications of who should play who comes into the running.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02104/1441348-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="472" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art Ross</figcaption></div>Stan Saplin, publicity director of the New York Rangers has the idea of playing the East versus the West. In such case the best players from the Rangers, Bruins and Canadiens, representing the East, would be pitted against the best from the Leafs, Wings and Black Hawks.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s o.k.,&rdquo; said Ross, &ldquo;but there&rsquo;s no appeal for the public in a game like that. If the game is played in Chicago they want to see their own team or a good representation of their own club on the ice. It gives them something to cheer for.&ldquo;I have some of my own ideas about the game but before I make them known I would like to think them over. A better idea than the East and West would be an International game bptween the United States and Canada. Pick two teams, one from the four American clubs and one from the Canadian teams, then play a game. The appeal is there for the public and it becomes an International spectacle; what&rsquo;s better than that.&rdquo;As far as awards go Ross says the choice of the Canadians and American teams would have nothing to do with original all-star choices. Choose the original team just as is done at present and give them the award they receive now but instead of playing the game against the Stanley Cup Champs just make up the International teams.&rdquo;<h2>leave Champs Out</h2>Another idea now being shoved around is the choosing of the dream team. If half of the Cup champs are chosen on the All-Star team then the game immediately becSmes just a game. So some say theAll-Star team shouldn&rsquo;t be picked until the Stanley Cup champs have been declared. Then choose the team leaving the Stanley Cup players off of it. In that way the All-Stars are made up from five teams against the champions. Both are then guaranteed their original squads. But of course the trouble of the $1000 pops up. If the Stanley Cup champs are left off the All-Star team then players would lose the money they would receive if they were chosen.Also getting much though is the Idea of stretching the Stanley Cup finals to nine games, and splitting the extra gates &ldquo;between the players and pension fund.So far nothing regarding future games has been mentioned around NHL headquarters in Montreal. Just what will be done remains to be seen. But it&rsquo;s unanimously agreed that therk should be a change made.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0345/1441341-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="2972" height="1108"><figcaption class="caption-body">Always A First Time &hellip; By Kavetski</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Later Date Will Give Players A Better Change

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;There the guy stood as though he&rsquo;d never been away and if you didn&rsquo;t know for a fact that his name was Bill Ezinicki and that the Maple Leafs management had, for the past month, conducted one of the most exhaustive man hunts in the history of hockeyfor him you might have thought that he was in Cann Smythe&rsquo;s office at Maple Leaf Gardens to ask for subscriber&rsquo;s seats or sell brushes.He looked that ordinary. Like anybody on the street. But his sudden arrival on the Toronto scene carried as much impact as if he&rsquo;d carried a bomb under the dark sharply-draped coat and dropped it right in the anteroom. It even raised the eyebrows of the Leaf boss who doesn&rsquo;t go around raising his eyebrows at anything.Ezzie, who for weeks refused to answer telephone calls or wires on which the Garden and newspapers must have collectively spent a small fortune, came back under his own steam. The first local tipoff that he was in town came from the public relations office of Trans Canada Airlines when a quiet voice told the press over the telephone that &ldquo;Mr. William Ezinicki had arrived on Flight such and such from Winnipeg.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01210/1439979-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="269" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Conn Smythe</figcaption></div><h2>Lost On The Links!</h2>A call to the Gardens netted nothing. For all the Leaf management knew Ez was still hitting golf balls off the tee in Winnipeg which, from all appearances, is what he had been doing for the past month.Ezinicki called Smythe and made his own appointment. Four hours and eighteen thousand words later he signed a contract In General Manager Happy Day&rsquo;s office. Ten minutes after the ink was dry he was out picking up a pair of skates. Three hours later he reported for a medical with club doctor Norman DeLarue. Three hours after that he was on a train in the company of Day bound for Pittsburgh to play with the farmhand Hornets.It&rsquo;s not likely that Ez thought that he could come to Toronto and step right back into his old job on right wing. There had been too much talk of suspension and fines to warrant that. He couldn&rsquo;t get away with a month&rsquo;s AWOL with just a slap on the wrist. He&rsquo;ll have to pay for it.The payment will come from the Hornet farm club where he&rsquo;ll operate under a minor league salary until he can prove Himself ready and in shape to come back to the Leafs. Smythe doesn&rsquo;t think that it will be too long. He also points out that the Leafs could use that extra man so it&rsquo;s likely that Ez, when he skates himself back into shape, will have first call on the recall list.<h2>In Rare Shape Now</h2>He says he feels fine and he looks it. Maybe the shirt collar was fitting a little loosely but the handshake was just as crunching as ever and the half grin that&rsquo;s almost angelic was still playing around his mouth. And the halo is a little tarnished too.&ldquo;I lost about 20 pounds, &ldquo;he grinned, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ve got most of it back now. I weigh 168 stripped now and that&rsquo;s only about three or four pounds under my regular playing weight. I feelgood too.I first started to feel bad when I was playing golf in the Canadien Open in Montreal this summer. After that I just lost weight and I felt awful.&rdquo;How did he explain it?&ldquo;I guess I just wasn&rsquo;t eating that&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;Smythe had his own explanation.&lsquo;Personal problems have worried him,&rsquo; said Smythe. &ldquo;He came here mentally in shape to play hockey forthe Maple Leaf Gardens but the conditioning period he&rsquo;ll have to undergo is going to cost him the difference between a major and a minor league salary.&rdquo;Smythe pointed out to Ezinicki that the deal he was getting wasn&rsquo;t to be sneezed at in view of the fact that he had before on him on his desk during the interview papers? which he could have easily have submitted and would have brought the right winger&rsquo;ssuspension from the league. Smythe had hesitated to bring about that step.<h2>Spikes Trade Talk</h2>The suddeness of the settlement of the Ezinicki deal cut off all rumours that he had been placed on the trading block. That he would have been was always considered most unlikely anyway in the trade because Smythe had said many time before when criticism had been loud of the right winger&rsquo;s play that he would hate to have him with any other club in the league.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s liable to put people in the hospital anytime,&rdquo; said the Leaf GM. Maple Leaf players are also people despite rumours around Montreal to the contrary.This is Ezincki&rsquo;s second trip to the Smoky City. After a stormy tour of Army duty in the &rsquo;44-&rsquo;45 season he was sent to the Hornets after having played eight games with the Toronto club. He played 27 games with the Hornets that year and spent 23 minutes in the penaltybox, not a very outstanding length of time for him as he proved later. In the same year he finished, out the season with the Leafs and he&rsquo;s stuck with them since. In &rsquo;48-&rsquo;49, he achieved a record hight of 145 minutes in the penalty box. That was a sentence he tried to beat last season but of which he fell three minutes short over the season&rsquo;s play. It is generally accepted that he didn&rsquo;t have a good year last season. Playing along-side his old feuding mate Cal Gardner and with Harry Watson on the other wing he sometimes operated as thought he didn&rsquo;t care too much if he was skating in the right direction.Howie Meeker now holds down that right wing job and is doing such a good chore that it will be a long hard climb for our Willie to get back up to the par.But don&rsquo;t bet that he won&rsquo;t do it once he gets straightened away. The guy with the bone-crushing bodycheck could be on the way back.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to me,&rdquo; he said. I&rsquo;ll just have to work at it.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02194/1439972-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1056" height="1378"><figcaption class="caption-body">Will Sting For HornetsBILL EZINICKI</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03178/1439965-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="480" height="488"><figcaption class="caption-body">Convoys EzHAP DAY</figcaption></div>I first started to feel bad when I was playing golf in the Canadien Open in Montreal this summer. After that I just lost weight and I felt awful.How did he explain it?&ldquo;I guess I just wasn&rsquo;t eating that&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;Smythe had his own explanation.&lsquo;Personal problems have worried him,&rsquo; said Smythe. &ldquo;He came here mentally in shape to play hockey for the Maple Leaf Gardens but the conditioning period he&rsquo;ll have to undergo is going to cost him the difference between a major and a minor league salary.&rdquo;Smythe pointed out to Ezinicki that the deal he was getting wasn&rsquo;t to be sneezed at in view of the fact that he had before on him on his desk during the interview papers which he could have easily have submitted and would have brought the right winger&rsquo;s suspension from the league. Smythe had hesitated to bring about that step.<h2>Spikes Trade Talk</h2>The suddeness of the settlement of the Ezinicki deal cut off all rumours that he had been placed on the trading block. That he would have been was always considered most unlikely anyway in the trade because Smythe had said many time before when criticism had been loud of the right winger&rsquo;s play that he would hate to have him with any other club in the league.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s liable to put people in the hospital anytime,&rdquo; said the Leaf GM.Maple Leaf players are also people despite rumours around Montreal to the contrary.This is Ezincki&rsquo;s second trip to the Smoky City. After a stormy tour of Army duty in the &rsquo;44-&rsquo;45 season he was sent to the Hornets after having played eight games with the Toronto club. He played 27 games with the Hornets that year and spent 23 minutes inthe penalty box, not a very outstanding length of time for him as he proved later. In the same year he finished, out the season with the Leafs and he&rsquo;s stuck with them since. In &rsquo;48-&rsquo;49, he achieved a record hight of 145 minutes in the penalty box. That was a sentence he tried to beat last season but of which he fell three minutes short over the season&rsquo;s play. It is generally accepted that he didn&rsquo;t have a good year last season. Playing alongside his old feuding mate Cal Gardner and with. Harry Watson on. the other wing he sometimes operated as thought he didn&rsquo;t care too much if he was skating in the right direction.Howie Meeker now holds down that right wing job and is doing such a good chore that it will be a long hard climb for our Willie to get back up to the par.But don&rsquo;t bet that he won&rsquo;t do it once he gets straightened away. The guy with the bone-crushing bodycheck could be on the way back.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to me,&rdquo; he said. I&rsquo;ll Just have to work at it.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Minus 20 Pounds Ezzy Turns Up And Away

<div class="byline">By FRANK SELKE Jr.</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Professor, some slow music if you please. Dip into your repertoire and find the dreariest, most heart rending ode ever set to music. The Montreal Cana&rsquo; diens are dead ducks and with that be; jng the case, let us give them a buria fitting a major league team, with all th&lt; trimmings including of course the doleful strains of the funeral march or something similarly becoming an occasion of this nature. Yes, the Canadiens are dead and gone. You ask for proof? Al wavs the helnful little cuss, it will be a privilege to furnish same, at no extra charge. If proof of Canadiens departure from the scene is needed, heed the circuit-wide mutterings of those who claim Canadiens are not only going to finish last, but also might be forced to drop out of the League before Christmas. Of course if you don&rsquo;t wish to believe what the experts say that is perfectly alright. Who ever heard of experts (especially self appointed ones) even coming close to the truth? As Mr. William Northey, the Executive vice president of the Canadian Arena Company said a day or two ago with a smile on his beaming countenance, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been relegated to last place and the only possible way we can now go is up!!!&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04147/1440010-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="294" height="502"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Masnick</figcaption></div>Not trusting the word of the experts in question, we set forth to visit the dressing room of Les Canadiens on the eve of Thursday&rsquo;s opening game. Arriving at the portal we were astounded, in fact completely bamboozled when no sounds as of the weeping and knashing of twenty sets of uppers and lowers were heard. Perhaps, we thought to ourselves, the boys haven&rsquo;t heard the news yet. This appeared to be the only possible answer for sounds were coming through the heavy door indicating that either Mr. Irvin had just told a funny joke or Paul Masnick&rsquo;s new crew hair cut was getting the undivided attention of the rest of the squad. Being somewhat disturbed to realize that we would have to break the horrible truth to Irvin and his cohorts within a matter of minutes, the thought of hurriedly vacating the premises entered our mind, giving someone else the task of breaking the sad tidings to the coach and his men.However, being somewhat of a student of human nature, we felt it necessary to-tell the boys the whole story even if only to observe the facial expressions of said people when the stunning news was set before them.Therefore, with a copy of The Hockey News under one arm and three dozen towels under the other (crying towels of course) we entered the sanctuary of Mons. Irvin to find ourselves in the midst of a laughing, joking and carefree group of men. It was obvious that they hadn&rsquo;t heard. So we pulled Mr. Irvin behind the stick rack, broke the sad news as gently as possible and watched a sly, mirth-filled grin fill &lsquo;his face. Apparently he had misunderstood us. We repeated slowly and concisely the following, &ldquo;Dick, they&rsquo;ve picked us for last.&rdquo; Never one to mince words, or cast in superfluous phrases, Mr. Irvin boomed forth &ldquo;so what?.&rsquo; This being a typical Irvin statement we felt it our duty to hear more and began coaxing, prodding and searching for more information. Finally he admitted he&rsquo;d seen the paper* and they&rsquo;d decided that just for the laughs they&rsquo;d forget what they saw. Said Mr. Irvin, &ldquo;Bad news always gives me a headache, since I&rsquo;ve no reason to have a headache, I&rsquo;ve just disregarded the whole thing. My team won&rsquo;t be last, it won&rsquo;t be fifth. We&rsquo;ll be in the play-offs and we&rsquo;ll give &rsquo;em all plently to worry about. The only reason we&rsquo;ve been picked for last is because everyone is sick and tired of Canadiens leading the pack. They hate us all over the League, they want to see us out of the money and so they Indulge in wishful thinking.&rdquo; Not being finished, he added, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be there when the chips are down and there&rsquo;ll be so many fed faces around the League that it will look like tomato picking time.&rdquo; Here Mr. Irvin lapsed into silence, surveyed his warriors with an expert eye and looked like the cat who swallowed the canary. Thinking our presence unwanted and feeling that it was just as well to leave this booby hatch where the expert&rsquo;s words were so carelessly cast aside, we sidled out the door with Mr. Irvin&rsquo;s mutterings following. We can&rsquo;t be sure but it sounded very much as though he was repeating himself. &#9632;

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Irvin Laughs At Experts Who Pick His Lads To End Last; ‘They’re Sick Of Us Leading’

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que,&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01209/1440069-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="291" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Irvin</figcaption></div>For three seasons Doug Harvey has been overshadowed by the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; great defensemen of the past few years, but to-day he finds himself in a very particular position. All of a sudden he has become the guy who could spell big or little dough to his club. He finds himself as the number one rearguard on the club that has produced some of the greatest defensemen the game has ever known. He finds himself being nominated as the player most likely to put the Habs into the extra cash circle at the end of the season &hellip; if, and this is where Dick Irvin came in.Last week as the Canadians got set to open the 1950-51 season against the Chicago Black Hawks the club threw a luncheon for the sport scribes and members of the club. When the gathering was over Harvey found himself on that old familiar spot, with only one way to get off and that to play his way off. During the gathering Irvin took the floor and put his ace rearguard on that spot. During a short speech he outlined the club to those in front of him and casually mentioned that the Habs could even win the Stanley Cup this season if one player came through 100%. The player he had in mind of course, was Harvey.&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll have to shed a tendency to hot and cold performances,&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;If he had the necessary &ldquo;desire&rdquo; and gave everything he had, then Canadians could make it.&rdquo;It wasn&rsquo;t a blast that the old Regina Warrior was handing Harvey, anything but. He was just showing the likeable defenseman that he has confidence in him. Whether it was premeditated to give Harvey that &ldquo;desire&rdquo; is not known and just how Harvey will react to his new found position won&rsquo;t be known for some time. There is no doubt that Irvin&rsquo;s words penetrated deeply into Harveys&rsquo;s crew cut head. Outwardly the effects can&rsquo;t be seen but inwardly it&rsquo;s a different story. Harvey would like nothing more than to win the Stanley Cup and he&rsquo;d like nothing more than to lead his club to the old battered mug.Trying to explain his hot and cold efforts Harvey merely shugged his shoulders. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just my manner of play, I guess,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;I admit I let down a bit now and then but don&rsquo;t think when I let down that I&rsquo;m not out there giving my best. The fans like to see a defenseman rushing up and down the ice all night. That Is all very well, but you can&rsquo;t do that against every club. It all depends on how the game&rsquo;s going. If we get a two goal lead on a team like Chicago then&rsquo; I like to play it close to to the vest. They&rsquo;re a fast breakiing club and you&rsquo;ve got to be on your toes all the time.&rdquo;<h2>A Smile From His Better Half</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02176/1440062-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1633" height="1414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Showing no after effects of the first game Doug gets a big smite from hi$ pretty wife Ursula. She is confident that her hubby will show everything expected of him this season.</figcaption></div><h2>Laycoe Explains</h2>Still, we like Hal Laycoe&rsquo;g explanation for Harvey&rsquo;s let downs every now and then. &ldquo;For my books he&rsquo;s the best defenseman in the league. You can&rsquo;t name me a defense-man anywhere who can do anything Doug can&rsquo;t do. He&rsquo;s a good skater, a good puck carrier and a very good blocker. He has a habit of pacing himself but I think he got it when he was playing for the senior Royals. They played him to death the year they won the Allan Cup and he had to pace himself. He just hasn&rsquo;t got out of the habit yet.&ldquo;Perhaps he has a little to learn, but then I&rsquo;d say he is still two years away from the peak of his career. There&rsquo;s no getting away from it, the guy&rsquo;s a great player. He&rsquo;s a student of the i game. Often he stays out after I practice and skates and practices shooting from different angles and shooting from the point. When a game&rsquo;s over he loves talking about it, there&rsquo;s nothing he&rsquo;d rather do than talk hockey.&rdquo;What Laycoe says makes good sense. When the Royals won the Senior championship in 1946-47 Harvey was a one man team, rated the greatest amateur defenseman in the country and his present habit of pacing himself stems from the great amount of playing he did when he was an amateur. Yet the statement that Harvey is in the game every minute cannot be questioned. He loves to win, perhaps more than anyone else on the club. He&rsquo;s a hard loser, and that was clearly shown after the Rangers knocked the Canadiens out of the playoffs last season. When it was all over the players swarmed on the ice to congratulate the winners &mdash; everybody but Harvey that is. He made a bee-line for the dressing roon without so much as a &ldquo;nice game&rdquo; for the victors.&ldquo;They beat us,&rdquo; said Doug, &ldquo;I had nothing against them by not shaking hands with them, but they beat us and I didn&rsquo;t want anything to do with them.&rdquo; In other words the Rangers beat each Individual player of the Habs out of $1,500 and Harvey could find no reason to shake hands with them for that. It&rsquo;s doubtful that Doug will ever change his attitude.In those same playoffs Harvey slammed Raleigh into the boards and the latter was all but scraped off the railings. &ldquo;The guy was going terrific against us, I figured I&rsquo;d better get him out of there. I guess it didn&rsquo;t work,&rdquo; he laughed, &ldquo;he went better after I hit him.&rdquo;Whether Harvey can raise to the great heights that Irvin thinks he can, can&rsquo;t be said as yet. There&rsquo;s no doubt that he has the qualities and ability but he must first shake loose the habit of pacing himself.<h2>Dressing Room Shots With A Little Action</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03118/1440055-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1080" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Harvey, left, caught in the shower after playing the 1950-51 opener against Chicago. Rookie Vern Kaiser is between Harvey and Butch Bouchard.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0472/1440048-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="440" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harvey rounds his own nets to make one of his smooth rushes.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0550/1440041-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="1238" height="902"><figcaption class="caption-body">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a nice looking thick lip&rdquo;, Harvey tells mate Hal Laycoe after big Hal took six stitches following the first game. Laycoe didn&rsquo;t know it then but he also had a busted rib.</figcaption></div>Irvin&rsquo;s confidence in Harvey is sincere. Dick thinks he has the talent to become a really outstanding star In fact he thinks Doug can replace the great Reardon as the Habs leader. &ldquo;I think Harvey had an inferiority complex with Reardon around,&rdquo; said the Grey Haired Coach. &ldquo;But Reardon isn&rsquo;t there any more and Doug has the capacity to be a real leader. He has more incentive now. He has an extra mouth to feed and has just built himself a house.&rdquo;There is a very good possibility that Harvey can become the leader of his club but he&rsquo;d be a totally different type than Reardon. Being a holler guy just isn&rsquo;t in Doug&rsquo;s makeup and it&rsquo;s doubtful if anybody is going to inject it into him. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think Dick meant that I could become the leader of the club the same way Reardon was,&rdquo; said Harvey. &ldquo;But a few good rushes by a defenseman can do a lot for a team that&rsquo;s down and I think that&rsquo;s what he meant.<h2>Not Many Like Reardon</h2>&ldquo;There aren&rsquo;t many guys around like Reardon. He could build himself up to a game and that&rsquo;s a hard thing to do when you&rsquo;re playing two and three times a week. Take the college football players, they play on Saturday afternoon, than they practice a bit on Monday and Tuesday and through the week and by the time the next Saturday comes around they&rsquo;re ready to. cut their opposition apart. That&rsquo;s hard to do when you&rsquo;re playing 70 games. I know when I was playing high school football, by the time our one game a week rolled around I was ready to tear the other guys to ribbons. If you told me to charge through a brick wall I&rsquo;d try it. But now it&rsquo;s different.&rdquo;.And Doug wasn&rsquo;t kidding about his football days. He was. once rated one of the best passers, pass receivers and kickers in Canada. Carrying a ball he could run like a deer. The only thing wrong was that he wasn&rsquo;t getting paid for It.&ldquo;I loved football,&rdquo; said Doug, &ldquo;I played for the Montreal Hornets before they became the Alouettes. I didn&rsquo;t know I was supposed to get paid until some guy edged up and slipped me $15. Just imagine 15 bucks for playing against guys like Krol and Copeland. If we won he gave me $20.&ldquo;Then I got Injured. There was only two games left in the season when I was ready to go again but we didn&rsquo;t have a chance to make the playoffs so I told the manager I didn&rsquo;t want to play. I was going to play senior hockey Instead. He offered me 100 bucks a game then. I still didn&rsquo;t take it.&rdquo;It seems that whatever Doug takes up he becomes an expert at. As a baseball player he rates pretty high. Playing for the Ottawa Nationals In the Border League two seasons ago he belted the ball at well over a 300 clip. He turned down numerous offers by major league clubs. The Boston Red Sox asked him to join their system and the Braves showed so much interest in him at one time that he was drafted to a higher club in their organization. It was then that he decided to just play for the fun of it and to keep in shape.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a little sorry now that I didn&rsquo;t give it a better fling,&rdquo; said Doug. But I didn&rsquo;t have time. I just finished playing hockey and the very next day I received a phone call to report to a training camp, I didn&rsquo;t go. Sometimes I Wished I had.&ldquo;I never had to train when I was with Ottawa. I just finished playing hockey and I&rsquo;d start playing ball. I was always in good shape.&rdquo;If Doug sets his mind to becoming the new leader of the Canadiens there is little doubt that he would be an excellent one. He plays the game every second he has those skates on and often for long periods after he takes them off. His rushes are as smooth as any rearguard&rsquo;s In the league and he&rsquo;s as deceptive as most forwards. His decisions to rush come only after seconds of looking over the positions of his opposition and the circumstances at that particular moment. Each rush is worked out with reason and that to benefit his club.As a defensive defenseman there is none better. His split second timing when taking out a player has been worked to a science. But it&rsquo;s successful only because he takes those extra hours after practice to develop it. He&rsquo;s a very dangerous man in the corners. If he can&rsquo;t reach the puck first then he&rsquo;ll make sure an opposing player won&rsquo;t come up with it.There is only one thing hindering Harvey from becoming a great all-star defenseman. Irvin calls it hot and cold performances, while others call it pacing himself. Whatever It Is if Doug can shake the habit then watch out! &#9632;

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Pacing Habit Hindering Doug From All-Stardom

<div class="byline">By ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01280/1440156-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="295" height="476"></div>THE HOCKEY NEWS pre-season poll on how the N.H.L. teams would finish the season has been the most discussed subject among hockey people this past week. Dick Irvin, coach of Montreal Canadiens, the team picked to finish last, figures the poll will do his team good. &lsquo;I can&rsquo;t see the judgment of these so-called experts in dropping a club from second place a year ago to sixth position this season, before the season even opens. I don&rsquo;t say we&rsquo;ll win the Stanley Cup but we&rsquo;ll make the playoffs,&rdquo; Irvin stated at a luncheon given by Canadiens at the start of the new season&hellip;Joe Nichols, hockey writer for the New York Times who had the best record of any of the experts a year ago, was a little late in getting his selections in this year but we believe they are worth recording right now. Here&rsquo;s how Joe picks &rsquo;em to finish: 1. Detroit; 2. Toronto; 3. Boston; 4. New York; 5. Montreal; 6. Chicago. Wonder if Joe&rsquo;s record will be as good this year? &hellip; Herbie Cain, who holds the N.H.L. record of most points in a single season &hellip; 82 &hellip; is now coaching the Aurora Junior C team in Ontario &hellip; Lynn Patrick figures if Jack Gelineau can just cut his goals-against average by one goal a game he would come mighty close to winning the Vezina Trophy. It would give him a 2.28 average, compared&rsquo; with Durnan&rsquo;s winning average of 2.20 last season. Patrick has high hopes that Gelineau will have a great sophomore year &hellip; Ron Cook, president of the United States Hockey League, attended the N.H.L. All-Star game, and dinner the previous evening. The ex-hockey broadcaster is certainly enthusiastic about his new job&hellip;Bob Phipps, sports) editor of the Omaha World Herald, attended the All-Star game in Detroit along with Harry Fowler, general manager of the Omaha Knights &hellip; Dick Miller, G.M. of the Indianapolis Caps, was also on hand for the All-Star clash along with Al Bloemker, Caps&rsquo; publicist and three Indianapolis hockey writers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02252/1440149-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="281" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">B. Kraftcheck</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03179/1440142-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="275" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Conacher</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04133/1440135-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="277" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05117/1440128-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="268" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorne Ferguson</figcaption></div>GEORGE HAINSWORTH, one of hockey&rsquo;s all-time great goalkeepers who was killed the other day, bore a striking resemblance to Mitchell Hepburn, ex-premier of Ontario. Hainsworth was often mistaken for the colorful Ontario politician &hellip; Art Ross says that this year&rsquo;s edition of the Boston Bruins is the youngest he&rsquo;s ever Been. Uncle Arthur is very high on Steve Kraftcheck, rugged checking defenseman the Bruins bought from Cleveland and Lorne Ferguson, 20-year-old left winger up from Tulsa&hellip; Turk Broda, venerable Toronto goaltender, won the annual Maple Leaf golf tournament with a three-over-par 75 at the Leafs&rsquo; St. Catharines, Ont. training camp the other day. This was the second time Turk had won this event. Coach Joe Primeau and Captain Ted Kennedy tied for second low gross with 78&rsquo;s&hellip; Hugh Coflin, 21-year-old defenseman pressed into service by Chicago when regular rearguards Doug McCaig and Al Dewsbury were sidelined with injuries, is expected to stick with the Hawks. Coach Ebbie Goodfellow thinks the big fellow will develop into one of the best defensemen in the league once he gets a little experience&hellip; One of the surprises in the Hawk camp this season has been the fine play of Adam Brown. The 30-year-old winger has been a ball of fire in games to date&hellip;. Lou Trudel, longtime Chicago and Canadien wingman, is playing coach of Grand Rapids in the International League this year &hellip; Leo Lamoureux, former Canadien defenseman, is lining up with Hettche&rsquo;s In the International loop this season.&hellip; A great roar went up from the crowd at the Montreal Forum when Clarence Campbell presented Kenny Reardon and Bill Durnan with gold pucks for being members of last year&rsquo;s First All-Star Team. Reardon and Durnan both retired this season and it was the end of a wonderful era for the Montreal Canadiens &hellip; When Roy Conacher scored Chicago&rsquo;s first goal of the 1950-51 season, it marked his 198th, N.H.L. tally &hellip; Ott Heller, coach of the Indianapolis Caps, rates this year&rsquo;s team even better that last year&rsquo;s Calder Cup champions.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0699/1440121-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="245" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Durnan</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0789/1440114-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="256" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug McCaig</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0881/1440107-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="281" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Irvin</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0980/1440100-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="259" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div>BOSTON BRUINS were playing an exhibition game in Peterborough Ont. the other night and in an effort to liven up the game and make it more exciting for the fans, Art Ross told Milt Schmidt to get a penalty. Milt nodded his assent and went out to get himself a penalty. But try as he did Milt just couldn&rsquo;t get himself thumbed off. &lsquo;I tried all game to get a penalty but couldn&rsquo;t for the life of me get one,&rdquo; Schmidt laughed. &lsquo;However, if it was an N.H.L. game it would be just the other way around,&rdquo; he added &hellip; Scotty Cameron will play for Regina Caps this season. Cameron played for St. Paul Saints the past two years. When he first turned pro he was regarded as one of the best prospects to ever enter professional ranks. He never did fulfill his promise &hellip; Bobby Kirk has replaced Mickey Buckna as coach at Trail, while Lyle Swaney succeeds Ken McAuley at Kimberley, Eddie Wares succeeds Joe Benoit at Nelson and Bill Mackenzie takes over from Ken Stewart at Kelowna. Other coaching changes in the Okanagan-Mainline League have Dave McKay replacing Laurel Harney in Vernon, Chuck Millman handling Kerrisdale in place of Paul Runge and Eddie Shamlock succeeding Alex Watt as mentor of Nanaimo. &#9632;

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Passing the Puck

<div class="byline">By CARL GROTHMANN</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1073/1440215-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="253" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alex Kaleta</figcaption></div>New York City is hardly a sentimental town. Few of its citizens are dewy-eyed softies who take stock in such things as fairy tales. Yet there is one fable, brought up to date with a modem turn, that has captured the imagination of Gotham&rsquo;s sports fans.Last spring sportswriters here and elsewhere around the ice circuit labeled the New York Rangers the &ldquo;Cinderella&rdquo; team, and a more fitting description couldn&rsquo;t have been made. The Blue Shirts were up and down all through the 194 9-50 campaign and they were very much down when the regular season ended, having lost seven of their last eight games. However, they finished fourth in the league race and won a berth, in the Stanley Cup playoffs.<h2>Babando Ended Dream</h2>It was in the first round of the playoffs that the Blues won the Cinderella tag by knocking off the Monteral Canadians in five games. They made the story even better in the finals, forcing the Detroit Red Wings to seven games. It was just about midnight, as in the Cinderella yarn, when Pete Babando, caged a goal for Detroit late in the second overtime period of the seventh game and the Rangers saw their dreams come to an end.The legend was more or less forgotten during the summer months but now with the new season under way, hockey fans in New York are again talking about the Cinderella team. They are hoping, and believing, that the tale will pick up where it left off and continue to the happy climax.If you remember the story you&rsquo;ll know that, though the beautiful stagecoach turned into a pumpkin at the stroke of 12 and little Cinderella&rsquo;s gown turned to rags, the good prince came along in a couple of days, fitted the glass slipper to her foot and they lived happily ever after.Ranger fans expect just that to happen this year, that the modernized script calls for the prince (in the form of NHL prexy Clarence S. Campbell) to present the Blue Shirts with the slipper (in the form of the Stanley Cup) at the conclusion of the 1951 playoffs.That&rsquo;s what New York fans are hoping for at least, and early season performances indicate that they may well have their wish fulfilled. As far as personnel goes, the 19 50-51 edition of the Rangers is essentially the same as the one that last year finished fourth. Only Reg Sinclair, a right wing out of McGill University and Eddie Kullman, reacquired from Providence last summer, will be new to the lineup.<h2>Gained Confidence</h2>However, the Blues gained something in the playoffs last year that has been lacking in New York since before the war, a very important commodity called confidence. Also they have the advantage of an extra year of experience. The youngsters on the club, in particular, have benefitted from the experience gained last year and this fall are playing with more poise than ever before. And with the possible exception of Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, the veterans on the team have not yet reached the point where an extra year means reduced effectiveness.In addition to Sinclair, the Rangers have another rookie in Neil Colville who moved up from New Haven this year to take the coaching reins left empty when Lynn Patrick departed for Boston via Victoria. The 36-year-old Colville, who starred for the Rangers for 12 campaigns, quit active duty as a player In mid season of 1948-49 to take over as pilot of the Ramblers when Lynn moved from New Haven to New York. The grey-thatched Colville is off to a good start, having sincere confidence in the ability and prospects of his new charges. That confidence, by the way, is reciprocated by the players.In goal for the Rangers is Bonnie Prince Charlie Rayner, last year&rsquo;s Hart Trophy winner and this season&rsquo;s best bet for the Vezina Trophy. Last year Chuck compiled the best record of his career, with six shutouts, 16 one goal games and a 2.62 goals against average.<h2>Uncertain</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1150/1440208-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="595" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">EDDIE KULMIAN</figcaption></div>With a stronger defensive array in front of him Chuck should better those marks this year.The defense is composed of familiar faces, Frank Eddolls, Allan Stanley, Gus Kyle, Pat Egan, Wally Stanowski and Jack Lancien are back again to patrol the Blues back line. Kyle and Lancien were among last year&rsquo;s crop ot rookies who should show improved form this year. Stanowski, who played brilliantly for the first half of the 1949-50 campaign and then missed the second half with a torn cartillage, was sidelined when the season opened with a sprained ankle but he will soon be ready for full time duty.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1225/1440201-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg" title="f0004-12" width="266" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buddy O&rsquo;Connor</figcaption></div>To a large extent the key to the Rangers fortune lies with the forward lines and the third line in particular. The first two front line units will be intact from last year. Edgar Laprade, yast year&rsquo;s Lady Byng Trophy winner will center one, with scrappy little Tony Leswick at left wing and a much improved Duncan Fisher at right. The other has Don Raleigh at the center post with Pentti Lund and Ed Slowlnski at the wings. This was the line that fared so well In the playoffs last spring. Lund finished first in the playoff scoring race while Raleigh, who scored two successive winning overtime goals against the Wings, finished second.<h2>Oogling at the All-Stars</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01263/1440194-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="1058" height="1088"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02228/1440187-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1035" height="1024"><figcaption class="caption-body">Shown above are some of the press and radio contingent on hand for the fourth N.H.L. All-Star game in Detroit on October 8. In the panel on the left. Bill King, veteran sports editor of the Associated Press in Boston, is intently watching the game. Sitting alongside Bill i$ Frank Ryan, publicity director of the Boston Bruins and play-by-play broadcaster of all Boston home games. Ron Cook, newly-elected president of the United States Hockey League and an old broadcaster himself, can be seen sitting next to Ryan. Ed Fitkin, publicity director of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Wes McKnight, impressario of the weekly Imperial Gil Hot Stove League broadcasts, are shown on the right. Must be a Toronto player that&rsquo;s holding Fitkin&rsquo;s interest.</figcaption></div><h2>Third Line Worries</h2>Colville isn&rsquo;t too concerned about these two lines, figuring they should at least do as well, and most likely better, than last season. It&rsquo;s the third trio that will largely determine the Rangers chances. At present it lines up with Nick Mickoski at center, Jackie McLeod at left wing and Reg Sinclair, the club&rsquo;s only rookie player, at right. Mickoski, switched to his natural position at center ice. looks much, more at home-than he has the past two years when he was playing wing. McLeod, eight pounds heavier and considerably more aggressive, seems to be twice the player he was a year ago. Sinclair, who played at McGill with Jack Gelineau and Johnny Peirson and last season with the Sherbrooke Saints, is a rugged performer who plays in the Murph Chamberlain style.A trio who will soon be reduced to a duo, will be used as alternates on the forward posts. At present Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, who&rsquo;s beginning to slow down a little, Alex Kaleta and Ed Kullman will be used as utility men. Neil will have to farm one of them out soon to get the squad down to the playing limits but he says the choice is and will be a tough one. He will delay making the selection as long as possible.There you have the Rangers for 1950-51. On paper the club looks excellent. How they will look on ice can only be learned from a 70 game schedule.<h2>The Hockey News</h2>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September, by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 803A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Entered as second class matter June 1, 1048, at the Post Office in Buffalo, N.Y., under the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription price $2.50 in Canada, $3.50 in J.S.A. &#9632;

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O’Connor, Kullman And Kaleta - - One Will Co

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01230/1440281-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lots of hockey talk is going on at the above table. Visible in the picture from left to right are Sid Abel, Detroit captain; Jack Adams, Detroit manager; Harry Fowler, G. M. of the Omaha Knights; Johnny Gottselig of the Chicago Black Hawks and Bud Booth, Chicago correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS.</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;<h2>Chinning At The All-Star Dinner</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02206/1440274-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="756" height="742"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Cook, president of the United States Hockey League, is on the left of Joe Farrell, publicity director of Chicago Bleck Hawks, while Frank Selke, managing director of the Montreal Canadiens is on Farrell&rsquo;s right.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03163/1440267-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1036" height="714"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Fallon, Boston sportscaster and Bill Grimes, Boston hockey writer are the look-alikes on the left of Tommy Lockhart, business manager of the New York Rangers. Stan Saplin. New York publicist and the one doing the talking, is next to Lockhart and Lynn Patrick, Boston coach, is next to Saplin.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04129/1440260-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="264" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>To say that Ted Lindsay was out to stage a comeback this season would seem to be a most inappropriate remark.After all, where was Lindsay last year that he needs to make a comeback now?Didn&rsquo;t the flashy Red Wing forward lead the National Hockey League scoring race?Wasn&rsquo;t the little speedster picked unanimously as the AllStar left wing?And, don&rsquo;t all hockey fans know the valuable role he filled as Detroit took the NHL title and Won the Stanley Cup?Yes, every bit of that is true.Then, what&rsquo;s all this talk about a &ldquo;comeback&rdquo;?Well, that&rsquo;s the way Lindsay is looking at the forthcoming season. You have to know how Lindsay regards hockey and recognize the fierce, fighting determination he puts into it to realize that.<h2>Too Long On Ice</h2>There isn&rsquo;t a player in the business who wouldn&rsquo;t accept with great pride the excellent record Lindsay posted in 1949-50. But it doesn&rsquo;t satisfy Lindsay. He thinks it should have been better. And, he intends to make it better this season. Possibly he will.As a matter of fact, Lindsay wasn&rsquo;t physically capable of playing at his best level last season. Under the most unique circumstances, Lindsay developed a back ailment which troubled him through the. last halt of the campaign.One day after practice he stayed out on the ice two extra hours posing for pictures for a national magazine. A back muscle stiffened during that long session on the ice after working up a sweat, and then it defied the best medical treatment available.Just before the end of the season, Lindsay underwent a deluxe cure for his ailing back. He was sent on a novel week&rsquo;s paid holiday to a luxurious mineral-springs resort. But even that did no good.Despite this trouble, Lindsay continued to add to his point total and eventually finished with 78 points, nine more than his nearest rival.Lindsay, however, wasn&rsquo;t satisfied with those statistics. They showed him to have 23 goals and 55 assists. Playing on the Production Line with Gordie Howe (35 goals) and Sid Abel (34 goals), the number of assists wasn&rsquo;t out of line in the least.<h2>First In Goals</h2>Only, Lindsay believes he should have had more goals. With 23, he tied for eighth in the league. The year before, his 26 tied for second, while the season before that he was first in the NHL with 33.<h2>Five Came Home</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0589/1440253-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="1638" height="790"><figcaption class="caption-body">Five Jubilant Wings are shown above with Coach Tommy Ivan in the Detroit dressing room following the Wings 7-1 pasting of the N.H.L. All-Stars. Beaming broadly from left to right are Jimmy Peters, Metro Prystai, Ted Lindsay, Marty Pavetich and Gordie Howe. These five worthies accounted for all seven Detroit goals with Lindsay notching three himself.</figcaption></div>First in goals is where Lindsay wants to finish this time. He&rsquo;s the type of player who can, too. One of the finest shots in the game today, rival goalies class him right along with Maurice Richard when it comes to picking the most dangerous marksmen, Playing with Abel and Howe virtually guarantees that shooting opportunities will come.This fall Lindsay reported to the Detroit training camp primed to bid for the No. 1 spot in goal getting. A summer of relaxation, first on Florida beaches and then back home at Kirkland Lake, Ont., had erased all traces of the back ailment. He also was packing an extra 10 pounds that looked all muscle and didn&rsquo;t detract from his speed.Throughout the training session word filtered out that Lindsay was faster than ever, in perfect physical condition and firing pucks with brilliant accuracy.That set the stage for the All-Star Game at Detroit, with the Wings matched against the best players the five other clubs could muster.<h2>No. 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0655/1440246-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="562" height="864"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED LINDSAY</figcaption></div>What Lindsay did in his first appearance in the &ldquo;comeback role&rdquo; already is known to the hockey world. But, just for review purposes, he scored Detroit&rsquo;s first two goals to start a full-fledged rout, and then climaxed the show by collecting his third and Detroit&rsquo;s last tally In that 7-1 slaughter.By unanimous agreement, Lindsay was No. 1 player on the ice where hockey&rsquo;s best were assembled. His &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; was the first ever recorded in All-Star Game history.<h2>Starts Off Well</h2>Just to show this wasn&rsquo;t a one-night flurry, Lindsay also got the first goal to send the Wings off to a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in the opening game of the season a few night later. He also added a timely assist on Capt. Sid Abel&rsquo;s winning goal in that game.Today, Lindsay appears to have reached the midway point in his major-league career. Ha has played six full seasons in the NHL, and is just 25 years old. By the usual standards, he should haveat least six more seasons ahead. &#9632;

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Bad Back Ailed Him Through Part Off The Season; Better Now!

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Art Ross Trophy&mdash;newest of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s individual trophies&mdash;already is a battered old mug.The Trophy bounced off the Olympia ice during presentation ceremonies to Ted Lindsay, the 1949-50 winner, between periods of the opening Detroit Red Wing game of the season.Clarence Campbell, NHL president, made the presentation. Lindsay accepted it, but when he reached out to shake Campbell&rsquo;s hand, the big silver cup slipped from his arms and clattered to the ice.The fall made a big dent in one side &mdash; right where it reads &ldquo;Max Bentley, Chicago, 1946-47.&rdquo;Lindsay stated afterwards that while he might have dropped the trophy, he doesn&rsquo;t intend to drop the title it represents. &#9632;

Lindsay Drops Art Ross Cup But Won’t Drop Title

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02192/1440360-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="267" height="229"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01302/1440367-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="236" height="236"></div><h2>JUNIOR FAN</h2>Dear Sir,I have been a regular subscriber to your paper in the past years.I would like to see an article on Bob Dawson, who played for the Montreal Canadiens juniors last season. Would you please tell me who he is playing for this season. Thanking you in advance.J. Stacey. Verdun, Que.(Bob Is now playing for the Saint PauJ Saints of the United States Hockey League).<h2>SHOWER OF COMMENT</h2>Dear Sir,I&rsquo;m sure Robert Caleo&rsquo;g letter in the September 15 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS will invoke a shower of comment. And I&rsquo;ll wager that Montreal fans will contribute a big part of that comment. The Canucks in the cellar? Never! I&rsquo;m a Hawk fan (and didn&rsquo;t appreciate my team in fifth) but I surely don&rsquo;t think Les Canadiens will be on the bottom of the heap. Nor would I bank on Toronto to cop top honors either.As far as picking the trophy winners&mdash;if he could, he would make a fortune. And the all-stars too!!! Oh no&mdash;this is too much!Bob Westenberg Chicago, Ill.<h2>ALL WRONG</h2>Dear Sir,I must disagree with those 18 writers who think they know what&rsquo;s going on in the hockey world. Half of them haven&rsquo;t even seen a game this year, they&rsquo;re all too busy covering baseball and football.Not one writer has the right standing. Yet it isn&rsquo;t too hard to pick them.Why, they&rsquo;ll end up this season exactly the same way they did last. Detroit will be first, Montreal second, Toronto third, New York fourth, Boston fifth and Chicago sixth.If you or any readers have other ideas then tell me just why they won&rsquo;t end up that way.Henry Zimmet Winnipeg, Man.<h2>WHAT A LAUGH</h2>Dear Sir,What a laugh? Eighteen sportswriters and not one picked them right last season.How do you have the nerve to ask them again? That Carmichael is in the wrong business. He should be shining crystal balls. He can&rsquo;t see into the one he has now.Roland Chatrand Boston, Mass.<h2>LES HABS SONT LA</h2>Dear Sir,There seems to be plenty of hatred towards the Montreal Canadiens this year. What&rsquo;s the reason is everybody afraid of them?Conn Smythe, a man who knows better than most everybody else in the country, chooses the Hahs as a second place team, yet 18 sportswriters have relegated them to bottom spot. It&rsquo;s amazing.Have those many fans forgotton last season when the Canadiens finished second. Since then they, have lost only Real den, Durnan, Fillion, Riopelle, and Leger. The last three will make little difference to the club. Reardon was a good man to make the trnstiles click but he made more mistakes than a ten year old kid trying to pass a high school exam. Durnan was terrific but watch McNeil. He&rsquo;s doing pretty good right now. Richard has already started to make the sportswriters look like second raters. And so will many more of Les Canadiens. Mark my words. Conn Smythe knows what he&rsquo;s talking about. Les Habs will end second.Guy Lefebvre. Montreal. Que.<h2>ANOTHER FEUD</h2>Dear Sir,As I was reading the September 15th edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS I ran across a letter written by a Mr. Jim O&rsquo;Hearn. I do not see how he can say that the &ldquo;Hawks won&rsquo;t make it.&rdquo; This year the Hawks have a team. With their much improved defensive power, with Al. Dewsbury and Jack Stewart. Also they have a fine goaler now in Harry Lumley. And also Jim O&rsquo;Hearn can&rsquo;t say we don&rsquo;t have any scorers what with Roy Conacher (with 198 goals) and Doug Bentley with 204 and we also have Jim Conacher, a very high goal scorer. I am not going to mention any more right now. I&rsquo;ll wait until after the Hawks&rsquo; first game.I think the sportswriters are daffy. I would predict: Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, New York and Montreal.Herman Bruce. Hamilton, Ont.<h2>CALEO STICKS</h2>Dear Sir,I would appreciate it if you would publish the following letter in the Fan Forum:Dear Mr. John Barton;In answer to your letter in the October 7 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS I would like to say that one does not have to know much about hockey to see that you are quite wrong when you state that the Montreal Canadiens will finish in second place this year. The 19 50-51 edition of the &ldquo;Flying Frfenchmen&rdquo; is going to be grounded. In other words it will be lucky to gain fifth place. All I can say about your rejection of my other predictions is that I will stick to all of them &mdash; that is all that have not been made impossible by player changes and retirements &mdash; until April. At that time we will be able to judge the veracity of them without a single doubt. Robert Caleo.Bayonne, N.J.<h2>MORE ON ROOKIES</h2>Dear Sir,I am regular readers of your splendid paper and enjoy the articles very much but I would like to see more stories on the younger players breaking into the different pro leagues. I know nearly all there is to know about the secscuerl veterans and sometimes get a little tired of reading the same old guff about the same old crop of players.Some snappy stories about some of the younger players along with some clear pictures would really be appreciated by myself and I am sure there are a lot of readers who feel the same way as I do.James O&rsquo;Connell. Hamilton, Ont.(We agree with you James old boy and we are trying to run as many features on younger players this season as possible. We have notified our correspondents about this and we should start running stories on some of the rookies real soon.).<h2>N.H.L. RECORD BOOK</h2>Dear Sir,Last year THE HOCKEY NEWS published the N.H.L. Record Book. It sold for a $1.00 and was the best book on hockey statistics that I ever looked at. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it occupies an important position in my hockey library today.I was wondering if you are planning on publishing a similar book again this season and if so how much will it cost and when will it be for sale.Miss Penny Fairmount. New York, N.Y.(THE HOCKEY NEWS will publish an up-to-date statistical book on records again this season and it will also sell for a $1.00 a copy. This book should be off the press early next month. We will call attention to it in THE HOCKEY NEWS when it is for sale. Glad you liked last book so much.)<h2>PAPER IS TERRIFIC</h2>Dear Sir,I think the editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS should be congratulated this year for the swell paper they&rsquo;re turning out. I have always liked the paper and have read it regularly since the first issue but these first couple of issues this year top everything of the past. The layout is terrific and the writers are better this year.Jim Watters.Toronto, Ont.<h2>HOCKEY IN SO. CAL.</h2>Dear Sir,Is it true that with the withdrawl of teams Los Angeles, Fresno, San Diego and San Francisco there will be no hockey in Southern California this season. I&rsquo;m a fellow that travels all across the country watching my hockey whenever and wherever I can I always looked forward to catching some games in Southern Cal. It is indeed too bad if the rumour that I heard of no more hockey in California is true.What gives?Hymie Shapiro. Cleveland, O.(That&rsquo;s no rumour Hymie, that&rsquo;s the real McCoy. The southers division of the Pacific Coast Hockey League has suspended operations this season. The northern section will be composed of Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland and they will function again in what should be the best year since the P.C.H.L. turned pro.) &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03115/1440398-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="600" height="284"></div><h2>October 18 to October 24</h2>21&mdash;Sandalack, Alex, St. Paul, defense, 1921.22&mdash;Currie, Hugh, Buffalo, defense, 1925.23&mdash;Wilson, Lawrence, Detroit, forward, 19 30; Henry, Sugar Jim, Omaha, goaler, 1920; Shero, Fred, New York, defense, 1925.24&mdash;Rozzini, Gino, Tacoma, forward, 1918; Wason. Phil, N.Y. Rovers, coach, 1914. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO. Ill &mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03169/1440474-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="308" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ralph Nattrass</figcaption></div>The Chicago Black Hawks front office has clarified the status of two of the team&rsquo;s question-ables, Forward Jim Conacher and Defenseman Ralph Nattrass.Conacher, who came to Chicago in a trade shortly after the start of the 1948-49 schedule is undergoing lengthy treatments for a shoulder injury. He&rsquo;s not expected to be ready for action for at least another week.At right wing last year, Conacher could garner only 13 goals and 20 assists for 33 points. The season before he scored 26 goals and 29 assists. The Hawks&rsquo; new coach, Ebbie Goodfellow, explains that Jim&rsquo;s poor showing last year was mainly because he was playing at a strange position, right wing. He won&rsquo;t have to play that spot again, Goodfellow said.<h2>Nattrass To Mohawks</h2>Nattrass has been given his unconditional release by the Black Hawks after he declined to report to the team&rsquo;s Mil-waukee farm squad.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04135/1440467-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="267" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Conacher</figcaption></div>He at first announced he would go into business, but later reconsidered when he was offered a contract with the Cincinnati Mohawks of the American league. The Mohawks are affiliated with the Canadiens and are coached by King Clancy.He played in 225 games in his three and a half seasons at Chicago. His scoring output consisted of 18 goals and 38 assists. He spent 306 minutes in the penalty box. &#9632;

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Jim Conacher Is Still With Hawks But Nattrass Goes

<div class="byline">By VERN DEGEER</div>(Montreal Gazette)MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01286/1440512-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="556" height="792"><figcaption class="caption-body">LEO DANDURAND</figcaption></div>Probably it was because I wrote stories of George Hains-worth&rsquo;s first and final professional hockey games, and was a close personal friend of this cool customer from Kitchener, down through the years, that I always regarded him as one of the greatest netminders of all time.Hainsworth was killed Monday night, October 9, near Gravenhurst, Ont., when his automobile was in collision with a light truck. His wife Alma, who was almost as well-known in hockey circles as her husband, was also injured.Leo Dandurand, president of the Montreal Alouettes and former head man with the celebrated Canadiens, steered Hainsworth into professional company with Saskatoon Sheiks in the winter of 1923-24; purchased him for $5,000 from Saskatoon in the fall of 1926 as successor to the late George Vezina&rsquo;s old Montreal Job; and traded him to Toronto Leafs for Lorne Chabot in 193233 where George finished out his eventful career.<h2>13 Years in Games</h2>Hainsworth&rsquo;s pro record extended over 13 seasons, three with Saskatoon, six with the Canadiens and four with Toronto Leafs and he was a broken-hearted athlete when Conn Smythe gave him his release in November 1936. The previous Spring Detroit Red Wings had knocked Leafs out of the Stanley Cup final and Conn decided the doughty little custodian had out-lived his usefulness as a big-timer. He persuaded Frank &ldquo;King&rdquo; Clancy, a Toronto teammate of George&rsquo;s, to hang up his war club at the same time. Turk Broda was purchased from Detroit to replace Hainsworth.Hainsworth was offered half a dozen net minding Jobs in the minors. He was 41 years old at the time, a ripe hockey age in the vigorous campaigning of this era, and he decided to put his pads away for all time. He left retirement five years later to share net chores with Roy Worters in a benefit hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens.&ldquo;George&rsquo;s goal-tending record when he was with the Canadiens,&rdquo; Leo Dandurand said after the accident, &ldquo;will never be equalled. He won the Vezina Trophy three straight years, and I&rsquo;ll never forget his performances in 1928-29. He was scored against only 43 times in 44 games, and had 22 shutouts.&rdquo;In his first season with the Canadiens, Hainsworth was hailed as a worthy successor to Vezina, who had died in March, 1924. For the next two winters the Habitants had struggled along with mediocre goal-tending. Then when the old Western Canada League broke up Dandurand was quick to bid for Hainsworth. That first year, 1926-27, Hainsworth had 14 shutouts with the Habitants.<h2>Two In A Row</h2>George contributed to two successive Stanley Cup victories with Canadiens, 1929-30 and 1930-31. Oddly enough his Vezina Trophy wins were prior to the cup marches. He was the first goalie to earn the prize struck in memory of the famous Chicoutimi Cucumber (Vezina), and was a worthy successor to the old headliner, even down to Vezina&rsquo;s cool operation under puck fire.Newsy Lalonde recalled Hainsworth&rsquo;s pro debut with Saskatoon Sheiks of the Western Canada League in the Winter of 1923-24. The previous season Saskatoon had experienced severe goal-tending miseries. Newsy appealed to Dandurand for assistance. &ldquo;Our man,&rdquo; said Newsy, &ldquo;was a human sieve. Edmonton scored 13 goals on him one night and we finished the season with a veteran goaler who had an artificial arm.&rdquo;Dandurand recommended either Jack Cameron, then at McGill or Hainsworth, then with Kitchener Greenshirts of the O.H.A. and Allan Cup champions of 1918. Leo suggested Hainsworth as the most likely one of the two to accept a pro bid. Lalonde hiked to Kitchener and signed George to a two-year contract at $1,600 a season, which was big money in those days. Few N.H.L. stars were making it.&ldquo;In George&rsquo;s first game,&rdquo; Newsy said, &ldquo;we were beaten 7-1 by Vancouver. He figured his pro career was short and wondered if he hadn&rsquo;t made a mistake quitting amateur ranks.<h2>Tries New Style</h2>Newsy assured Hainsworth there Was nothing wrong with his goal-tending except that he didn&rsquo;t hug the goal-posts enough. George changed his style. For three seasons he was one of the top Western goalies, and the company was tough. It included Hughie Lehman, Hap Holmes, Baldy Winkler, Red McCusker, Bill Laird and Hec Fowler.Although he campaigned In illustrious company with Canadiens and with Toronto Leafs, Hainsworth always had a soft spot for Saskatoon and his Sheik teammates. Newsy was playing-coach and he developed some outstanding recruits for the N.H.L George&rsquo;s Saskatoon pals included Bill and Bunny Cook, Laurie Scott, Leo Bourgault, Leo Reise, Phil Stevens, Harry Cameron, Fred Gordon, Corbett Deanenay, Rusty Crawford and Ronnie Moffatt.Bill Cook, who was to become the greatest right winger in modern hockey; Bunny, Bourgault, Scott, Gordon and Moffatt joined Hainsworth in a shift to the National League when the western clubs sold out to Eastern inter, ests in the summer of 19 26.<h2>Hero Of Old Canucks</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02227/1440505-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1147" height="1912"><figcaption class="caption-body">GEORGE HAINSWORTH, goaltending great and one of the game&rsquo;s immortals, is shown as he appeared while wearing the bleu-blanc-rouge of the old Montreal Canadiens.</figcaption></div>With Canadiens. Hainsworth became a bosom pal of the late Howie Morenz. They travelled together for years as teammates and as social companions off the ice. Marty Burke and Battleship Leduc were among his other friends. He didn&rsquo;t make many in those days, for like many goaltenders he was a worry-wart and a moody individual. So much so he was frequently misunderstood and his last years with Canadiens weren&rsquo;t happy ones.Although generally referred to as a Kitchener boy, George Hainsworth was born in the suburban Kew Beach area of Toronto, a district that gave Hooley Smith, Nels Stewart and other athletio stars to pro hockey.Through the years after retirement George fondly hoped his only son, Billie, would follow in his goal-tending footsteps. Young Bill appeared with several O.H.A. Junior clubs, including Oshawa Generals and also with University of Western Ontario. But the lad finally decided a pro hockey career wasn&rsquo;t meant for him. &#9632;

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Hainsworth Loss Is Deeply Felt In Qame Where He Qave So Much; Oldtimers Recall His First Days

<h2>Curry Explains</h2>Floyd Curry, who missed a goal In the Stanley Cup playoffs because he took his eyes off the puck, explained hov he notched the goal that tied Chicago 3-3 in Canadiens&rsquo; opener. &ldquo;Baldy (MacKay) couldn&rsquo;t see enough of the net, so he passed to me and this time I didn&rsquo;t take my eyes oft the puck like I did last year.&rdquo; Curry took the relay and beat goalie Harry Lumley.<h2>Three In Seven</h2>Three of the first seven league games have ended In deadlocks. Canadiens figured in two of these, knotting Chicago and Boston in both their tilts to date. Detroit and Toronto figured in the other. Because there is no overtime during the league schedule, the teams seemed satisfied to break even and played defensively.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02251/1440557-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="572" height="221"></div><h2>RESULTS OF GAMES</h2>Oct. 11 &mdash; Rangers 2, Detroit 3.Oct. 12 &mdash; Chicago 3, Canadiens 8.Oct. 14 &mdash; Boston 1, Canadiens 1Oct. 14 &mdash; Chicago 2, Toronto 1Oct. 15 &mdash; Canadiens 2, Boston 1Oct. 15 &mdash; Toronto 4, Detroit 4Oct. 15 &mdash; Rangers 3, Chicago 2<h2>NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMES</h2>Oct. 22 &mdash; Canadiens at DetroitOct. 22 &mdash; Toronto at ChicagoOct. 22 &mdash; Rangers at BostonOct. 25 &mdash; Detroit at TorontoOct. 25 &mdash; Boston at RangersOct. 26 &mdash; Canadiens at ChicagoOct. 28 &mdash; Rangers at CanadiensOct. 28 &mdash; Boston at TorontoOct. 28 &mdash; Chicago at DetroitOct. 29 &mdash; Canadiens at RangersOct. 29 &mdash; Toronto at ChicagoOct. 29 &mdash; Boston at Detroit.<h2>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11</h2>DETROIT. &mdash; Sid Abel&rsquo;s late goal gave the Red Wings a 3-2 win over New York.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise. Kelly; centre, Abel; wings, Howe Lindsay; subs.: Goldham, Gee, Peters, G. Stewart, Prystai, Pavelich, McFadden, Carveth, Couture, Black, Fogolin, Pronovost, McQueston.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Eddolls, Kyle; centre. Raleigh; wings, Slowlnski, Lund; subs.: O&rsquo;Connor, Egan, Stanley. Laprade, Mickoski, Fisher, McLeod, Lancien, Kaleta, Leswick, Kullman, Sinclair.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay (Howe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:212&mdash;Detroit: G. Stewart (Couture) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:563&mdash;New York: Kyla (Mickoski) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13:284&mdash;New York: O&rsquo;Connor (Eddolls, Kaleta) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:54Penalties: Fogolin, Kelly, Reise, Lindsay.<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Eddolls, Stanley (2), Kyle.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Detroit: Abel (Lindsay, Howe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:25Penalty: Fogolin.<h2>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18</h2>MONTREAL. &mdash; A late drive by canadiens gave them a 3-3 tie with Chicago here before more than 14,000 fans.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Stewart, Coflin; centre, Bentley; wings, Mosienko, Babando; subs.: Dickens, Gadsby, R. Conacher, Fashoway, Bodnar, Olmstead, Morrison, Stasiuk, Lundy, Brown.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, Laycoe; centre, Lach; wings, Richard, Dussault; subs.: Bouchard, Hirschfeld, Curry, Harmon, Johnson, MacKay, Reay, Gravelie, Mosdell, Kaiser, King, Masnick.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Chicago: R. Conacher &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:352&mdash;Canadiens: Lach (Harmon, Harvey) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11:09Penalties: Johnson. Stewart, Stasiuk.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Chicago: Mosienko (Gadsby, Bentley) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:00Penalties: None.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Chicago: Bodnar (Stasiuk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:155&mdash;Canadiens: Mosdell (Richard, Harmon) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13:236&mdash;Canadiens: Curry (MacKay, Mosdell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:38Penalties: Lach, Bentley, Gadsby, Richard (2), Dickens, Stewart.<h2>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14</h2>MONTREAL. &mdash; Denied the thrill of scoring his first goal In professional hockey Last Thursday night, Vern Kaiser, a chunky rookie from the West, fired home the goal that gave Canadiens their second tie in as many games, when they held Boston Bruins to a 1-1 stalemate.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, Quackenbush, Kryzanowski; centre, Ronty; wings. Smith, Peirson; subs.: Kraftcheck, Reigie, Sandford, Henderson, Flaman, Dumart, Schmidt, Harrison, Creighton, Maloney, Horeck, Ferguson.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil: defence, Harmon, Bouchard; centre, Mosdell; wings, Curry, MacKay; subs.: Harvey, Hirschfeld, Johnson, Laycoe, Reay, Gravelle, Lach, Kaiser, King, Dussault, Masnick, Richard.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Boston: Smith (Peirson) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:43Penalties: Smith, Mosdell, Flaman Richard.<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Harrison, Harmon (major), Horeck (major), Richard.<h3>Third Period</h3>2&mdash;Canadiens: Kaiser (Bouchard) 12?56 Penalties: Johnson, Maloney.TORONTO. &mdash; Adam Brown fired two goals to give Chicago an upset 2-1 win at the Maple Leaf Gardens.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Stewart, Coflin; centre, Bentley; wings,Mosienko, Babando; subs.: Dickens, Gadsby, Dewsbury, Conacher, Fashoway, Bodnar, Olmstead, Morrison, Guidolin, Stasiuk, Lundy, Brown.Toronto: Goal, Broda; defence. Mortson, Thomson; centre, Kennedy; wings, Sloan, Smith; subs.: Watson, Barilko, Bentley, Klukay, Meeker, Mackell, Gardner, Juzda, McCormack, Lewickl, Timgren, Rollins.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Toronto: Sloan (Kennedy, Bentley) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13:13Penalties: Gadsby, McCormack, Dewsbury.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Chicago: Brown (R. Conacher, Morrison) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4:08Penalties: Babando, Mortson (2).<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Chicago: Brown (R. Conacher, Gadsby) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:16Penalties: Barilko, Gadsby.<h2>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15</h2>CHICAGO. &mdash; Black Hawks lost their home opener to New York Rangers. 3-2, before a crowd of 13,776. The issue was decided Late in the third period on a disputed goal that gave the Rangers their first victory of the young season.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Egan, Stanley; centre, Laprade; wings, Fisher, Leswick; subs.: Eddolls, O&rsquo;Connor, Raleigh, Lund, Mickoskl, McLeod, Kyle, Lancien, Kaleta, Kullman, Slowinski, Sinclair.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Stewart, Coflin; centre, Bentley; wings, Mosienko, Babando; subs.: Dickens, Gadsby, Dewsbury, Conacher, Fashoway, Bodnar, Olmstead, Morrison, Guidolin, Stasiuk, Lundy, Brown.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Chicago: Stasiuk (Lundy, Coflin) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:11Penalties: Coflin, Gadsby, Egan, Dickens, Leswick, Brown.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;New York: McLeod. (Kaleta, O&rsquo;Connor) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:57Penalties: None.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Chicago: Babando (Bentley) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2:054&mdash;New York: Slowinski (Eddolls, Raleigh) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:165&mdash;New York: Raleigh (Lund) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:01Penalties: None.DETROIT. &mdash; Toronto Maple Leafs roared from behind with three goals within four minutes In the final period to tie the Detroit Red Wings, 4-4, in a bruising battle here.Toronto: Goal, Broda; defence, Mortson, Thomson; centre, Kennedy; wings, Sloan, Smith; subs.:. Watson, Barilko, Bentley, Klukay, Meeker, Mackall, Gardner, Juzda, McCormack, Lewickl, Timgren, Rollins.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre, Prystai; wings, Peters, Pavelich; sabs.: Martin, Lindsay, Gee, Howe, G. Stewart, Abel, McFadden, Carveth, Couture, B-lack, Fogolin, Pronovost.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Pronovost, Lindsay) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3:18Penalties: Stewart, Mortson (2-).<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Toronto: Mortson (Gardner, Meeker) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:443&mdash;Detroit: Reise (Pavelich, Peters) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:044&mdash;Detroit: Abel (Howe, Lindsay) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:445&mdash;Detroit: Pavelich &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19:14Penalties: Barilko, Lindsay, Mortson. Reise.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Toronto: Klukay (Bentley) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:147&mdash;Toronto; Mackell (Timgren) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:318&mdash;Toronto: Bentley (Mortson) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:31BOSTON. &mdash; The wildest battle in Boston&rsquo;s National Hockey League history broke out during the third period as Montreal Canadiens scored a 2-1 victory over Boston. Bruins before a crowd of 10,894.Maurice (The Rocket) Richard settled matters by scoring both of Montreal&rsquo;s tallies, one in the second period and one in the third.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, Quackenbush, Kryzanowski; centre, Ronty wings, Smith, Peirson; subs.: Kraftcheck Reigle, Sandford, Henderson, Flaman. Dumart, Schmidt, Harrison, Creighton, Maloney, Horeck, Ferguson.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Harmon, Bouchard; centre, Mosdell; wingsv Curry, MacKay; subs.: Harvey, Hirschfeld, Johnson, Laycoe, Reay, Gravelly Lach, Kaiser, King, Dussault, Masnick, Richard.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Mosdell, Sandford, Richard.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Canadians: Richard &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:31Penalties: Harvey, Johnson.<h3>Third Period</h3>2&mdash;Boston: Peirson (Schmidt) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2:003&mdash;Canadiens: Richard (Lach) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5:21Penalties: Peirson (major), Smith. (major), Flaman (major), MacKay (major), Laycoe (major), Curry (major), Reigle (misc.), Bouchard (match misc.). kMOF, Dt. pGhzc, mah,<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03207/1440550-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="580" height="847"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04172/1440543-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="580" height="182"></div><h2>Penalties In Minutes By Clubs</h2>DETROIT &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14RANGERS &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14TORONTO &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16CHICAGO &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 28BOSTON &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 40CANADIENS &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 66 &#9632;

f0009-02

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01271/1440588-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="265" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption></div>Montreal Canadiens are on top of the N.H.L. with four points at the end of the first week&rsquo;s play. The Canadiens have played three games and have yet to be defeated. Two ties and a win make up their four point total. Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks are tied for second place with three points each. The Stanley Cup champions have played two games, winning one and drawing one. Chicago have played three games and have won one. lost one and tied one.New York Rangers broke even in their two games to date. The Broadway Blues won one and dropped one for two points. Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins follow the Rangers in the standings with one point apiece. Toronto played a draw with Detroit and Boston did likewise with CanadiensGordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, Detroit&rsquo;s two high-scoring wingmen, started off the new season in much the same fashion they finished the last one. Each has one goal and three assists for four points and head the scoring parade by one point over Maurice Richard, Canadiens; Max Bentley, Toronto; and Roy Conacher, Chicago who have three points each.The three assists of Howe and Lindsay places them ahead in securing assists in the League, while the top goal-getters are Richard, Sid Abel and Adam Brown with two tallies apiece. Both Richard and Brown scored two goals in one game.Jack Gelineau, Boston Bruins&rsquo; sophomore goaltender, has the best record among the loop&rsquo;s goalies. In two games he&rsquo;s allowed three goals to be scored against him for an average of 1.50. Gerry McNeil of Canadiens is next with five goals against in three games for a 1.66 average.Montreal Canadiens are the most penalized team with 66 minutes and Butch Bouchard, Montreal defensemen, is the most penalized player with 20 minutes. &#9632;

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Habs, Howe And Lindsay Start New Season On Top

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05130/1440619-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="280" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vern Kaiser</figcaption></div>Apparently Vernon Charles Kaiser, the oldest looking 24 year old rookie in the National Hockey League, hasn&rsquo;t heard that the experts have picked his team, the Montreal Canadiens, to end in last place in the 1950-51 roce. If he knows it he doesn&rsquo;t seem to care a devil of a lot.This week we are chosing Kaiser as the &lsquo;Player-Of-The-Week&rsquo; and he becomes the first to win the Schaefer Award in the 1950-51 season.Kaiser wasn&rsquo;t the outstanding player in the N.H.L. last week nor was he the leading scorer. In fact he only scored one goal. But his all round play merits the &lsquo;Player-Of-The-Week&rsquo; distinction. In his first game against the Chicago Black Hawks, his first game in the N.H.L. mind you, he stepped onto the ice for the first time and found himself in the clear with the puck at the tip of his stick. He didn&rsquo;t score the goal but he showed that if he ever gets a chance like that again he&rsquo;ll know what to do.The fact that he missed the goal worried coach Dick Irvin a little.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen so many rookies miss chances like that on their first night and they just don&rsquo;t come around after that. I hope this Is an exception to the rule&rdquo;, said Irvin.Well it was an exception to the rule. Before the second game was over Kaiser had scored his first goal and it gave the Canadiens a 1-1 tie against the Boston Bruins. He showed class in netting the puck after he took a pass from Bouchard. He picked the far side of the net after Gelineau gave him little to shoot at. He became the first rookie in the 1950-51 season to score a goal.But just two nights before Kaiser had seen old man fate play a terrific game against him. Not only did he miss a breakaway against Lumley but he also had a goal called back on him in the same game. This kid looks like a sure fire bet to stay around for quite a while. He&rsquo;s got plenty of moxey and know how.The Hobs got Kaiser on a trade from Springfield last season. They sent Bus Gagnon and George Robertson to the Indians for him. Last season he had 19 goals and 19 assists for 38 points. &#9632;

f0009-05

Player-Of-The-Week

<div class="byline">By GEORGE JOHNSON</div>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01284/1440657-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="257" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Mitchell</figcaption></div>In contrast to most of the other entrants in the American League, the rebuilt St. Louis Flyers began their long march toward playoff land Oct. 10 with a just-about-set lineup.Little John Mitchell, taking over as manager-coach for the promoted Ebbie Goodfellow, had his mind made up about his defense and two of his three lines as he sent the Flyers to work against the defending champions from Cleveland.There never was any doubt about goal, where Ralph Almas is starting his third season as a Flyer, sound of body after a series of injuries last winter.On defense, Mitchell teamed holdovers Eddie Nicholson and George Milligan to form probably the smallest defense twosome in the league. When Nick and George come off the ice, Vig Grigg and Steve Hrymnak go on. Hrymnak came out of the New York organization with Sherm, White and Jean Lamirande in the big fall deal which at one stroke made St. Louis look better than the crew which ran third in the Western Division last spring.In the beginning, Mitchell will call Billy McComb, Cliff Simpson and Al Baccari his No&rsquo;. 1 line. These three poured a Niagara of points over the AL in the stretch of the 1949-50 race.The No. 2 line is a new formation. Fast Paul Gladu, out with a broken leg most of last season, will be on left wing. His accident was the most damaging of the many bumps and bruises that made the Flyers the arnica league leaders a year ago. White and Lamirande will play center and light wing with Gladu.Of the top six forwards of the moment, only Baccari and White are certain back-checkers. Mitchell may have to induce the others to skate more aggressively on defense if his top lines aren&rsquo;t to give more goals than they get.Five men will scramble for jobs on the third line, which might become the Flyers&rsquo; best defensive weapon. At this time, the 3rd line includes Henry (Pop) Backor at left wing, Lloyd Doran or Rookie Gordon (Butch) Pearson at center, and Barry Sullivan at right wing. Utilityman Eddie Olson won&rsquo;t get into the free-for-all for regular duty until late October, for he is nursing a bad skate cut on the left shin, acquired in training camp.<h2>Smallest</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02228/1440650-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="562" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Milligan</figcaption></div>With Olson, Lamirande and Hrymnak, the new coach is well-fixed for men who can go at forward hr defense, and this type of player is bound to be in greater demand with the player limit reduced to 15 men dressing for games.Mitchell thinks the numerically smaller teams will produce better hockey. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll see better hockey this year,&rdquo; the little guy claimed the other day.&ldquo;You know when we used to carry eighteen men, we didn&rsquo;t have eighteen American Leaguers. We had maybe fourteen and the rest were just so-so. I think cutting the limit is bound to cut these so-so players out, and if we don&rsquo;t run into a flock of injuries, we&rsquo;ll have better hockey.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Player Limit Will Make Better Game, Says Mitch

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;There are 17 young players entering the National Hockey League this season determined to become regulars. Every one of these 17 players is a candidate for the Calder Memorial Trophy awarded each year to the outstanding first year performer.Montreal Canadiens top the entry list in the youth parade. The bleu-blanc-rouge boys have six rookies on their squad this season. Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks each have three fresmen on their roster, while Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings have two newcomers apiece and New York Rangers a solitary rookie.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03196/1440709-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="278" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Kraftcheck</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04153/1440702-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="278" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Reigle</figcaption></div>Of the 17 new players, two are goalkeepers, six are defensemen and nine are forwards. Following is a thumbnail sketch of the 17 rookies by teams.<h2>Montreal Canadiens</h2>GERRY McNEIL is a 5&rsquo; 7&rdquo;, 155 lbs. goalkeeper who has taken over the netminding duties of the team from Bill Durnan. He was born in Quebec, Que. on April 17, 1926. Played six games for Canadiens last season and only allowed nine goals to be scored against him. Played the last two games of the Stanley Cup semifinals against Rangers. In 55 games at Cincinnati in the American League last season he was beaten 201 times. He played two games for Canadiens in 1947-48 under the three-game amateur tryout rule.TOM JOHNSON played for Buffalo Bisons of the A.H.L. last season where he scored seven goals and had 19 assists for 26 points. He is a six-foot, 180 lbs. defenseman who revels in the heavy going. Born at Baldur, Man. on February 18, 1928, he played the final game of the playoffs for Canadiens last spring.BERT HIRSCHFELD is a versatile young forward who plays center or either wing. He is one of the best skaters in hockey and an excellent puck carrier. Bert is the only player in the N.H.L. born in the Maritime Provinces. He was born in Halifax, N.S. on March 1, 192 9. He stands 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo; in height and weighs 165 lbs. Played the last 13 games of regular season and all playoff games for Canadiens last year. He had 22 goals and 12 assists for 34 points playing for Cincinnati before being brought up by Canadiens.FRANK KING is a six-foot, 180 pound center who played for Minneapolis Millers in the U.S.H.L. last season where he had 34 goals and 30 assists for 64 points. Born in Toronto, Ont. on March 7, 1929 he was bought by Canadiens at the end of last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05123/1440695-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="259" height="422"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hugh Bolton</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06110/1440688-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="261" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gord Fashoway</figcaption></div>VERN KAISER is a rangy, blond left winger who tallied 19 times and had 19 assists for 38 points with Springfield Indians of the A.H.L. last season. He is an even six feet and weighs 180 lbs. He was born at Preston, Ont. on September 28, 1928 and was traded to Canadiens during the summer.PAUL MASNICK is the youngest players in the National Hockey League. The 5&rsquo; 9&rdquo;, 165 lbs. center is still eligible for another year of junior hockey. Paul starred for Regina Pats, Memorial Cup finalists last season, and racked up 43 goals and 44 assists for 87 points. He was born in Regina, Sask, on April 14, 1931 and is regarded by Dick Irvin as a youngster with terrific potentialities.<h2>Boston Bruins</h2>STEVE KRAFTCHECK is a 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo;, 195 lbs. rugged defenseman who Boston purchased from Cleveland Barons of the A.H.L. He was born in Tinturn, Ont. on March 3, 1929 but learned his hockey in Hamilton, Ont. He had seven goals and 37 assists at Cleveland last year. A hard hitting defenseman, it is figured his style of play will do a lot for the Bruins this season,EDDIE REIGLE came to the Bruins from Cleveland the same time that Kraftcheck did and he is also a defenseman. Eddie is a fast breaking rearguard and completely fearless. He stands 5&rsquo; 9&rdquo; and weighs 185. He was born in Winnipeg, Man. on March 3, 1920 and had 25 points with Cleveland last season.LORNE FERGUSON is a clever 20-year-old left wing who scored 35 goals and had as many assists at Tulsa last year in his first pro season. Lorne is six feet and weighs 185. He played the last three games for Boston last year and had one goal and one assist. Reputed to be a great prospect.<h2>Chicago Black Hawks</h2>GORD FASH OWAY was the fourth highest scorer in the U.S.H.L. last season. He is a 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo;, 180 lbs. left wing who was born at Portage La Prairie, Man. on June 16, 1926. Fashoway had 52 goals and 32 assists for 84 points while toiling for Kansas City last term.VIC STASIUK is a 6&rsquo;, 185 lbs. right winger who could easily; develop into one of the best wingers in the N.H.L. Vic played the last 17 games of the season for; Chicago last year and before that played with Kansas City. He had 23 points with K.C. He was born at Lethbridge, Alta, on May 23. 1929.HUGH COFLIN is a 21-year-old defenseman fresh from the Calgary Stampeders of the Western Canada Senior League. He is a six-foot, 190 pounder who knows how to take care both of himself and opposing players. Hugh is tabbed very highly by Coach Ebbie Goodfellow. He was born at Blaine Lake, Sask, on December 15, 1928.<h2>Toronto Maple Leafs</h2>HUGH BOLTON is a 6&rsquo; 3&rdquo;, 186 lbs. defenseman who was born at Toronto, Ont. on April 15, 1929. He was an outstanding palyer with Toronto Marlboros, Allan Cup winners last year. Besides being a tower of strength defensively he is also a good rusher. He had nine golas and 31 assists for 40 points last seasson. Hugh is a top-notch two-way player and great things are expected of him by the Leafs this campaign.DANNY LEWICKI has been one of the most publicized amateur; players in Canada the last two years. He enters the N.H.L. with a terrific record. Last year he had 36 goals and 38 assists for 74 points while playing with Toronto. Marlboro Juniors. After the juniors were eliminated he joined the seniors and aided them in winning the Allan Cup. Danny was born on March 12, 1931 and is one month older than Masnick. Forth William, Ont. is his birthplace. He stands 5&rsquo; 6&rdquo; and weighs 156.<h2>Detroit Red Wings</h2>TERRY SAWCHUK was selected as the outstanding rookie in the A.H.L. in 1948-49 and the year before won similar honors in the U.S.H.L. Last season he was selected as the All-Star goaltender in the A.H.L. The husky 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo;, 190 lbs. puck-blocker let 188 pucks get&rsquo; past him in 61 games last season &ldquo;at Tndianapolis, He was born in Winnipeg, Man. on December 28, 1929 and pit A ed seven games for Detroit last year and allowed 16 goals to be scored on him.MARCEL PRONOVOST is a colorful French-Canadian defenseman who might easily develop into one of the biggest drawing cards in the League. He stands 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo; and weighs 180 lbs. He was born on June 15, 1930 at Lac a la Tortue, Que. At Omaha last season in his first year of pro hockey he scored 13 goals and assisted in 39 others for 52 points. He played nine games for Detroit in the playoffs.<h2>New York Rangers</h2>REG SINCLAIR is the lone rookie on the Rangers this term. Reg is a right wing and an exceptionally fine goal scorer. Last year he played for Sherbrooke. Saints in the Quebec Senior Hockey League and had 15 goals and 34 assists for 49 points. He was born at Lachine, Que. on March 6, 1925, stands 6 and weighs 165 lbs. &#9632;

f0010-03

Habs Corner Rookie Market — Ice 6 Of Loop’s 17 Hopefuls

<div class="byline">By AL BLOEMKER</div>INDIANAPOLIS Ind.&mdash;With the addition of one veteran from Detroit and four rookies from Omaha, the Calder Cup champions from Indianapolis have launched their 1950-51 American Hockey League schedule with a well balanced squad rated as even faster than last season&rsquo;s talented aggregation. That&rsquo;s the considered opinion of Coach Ott Heller, who led the hustling Hoosiers to eight straight play-off victories last spring.Max McNab, a lanky center with two years of experience as a member of the Red Wings, is the lone veteran added to the roster&rsquo; this season. The rookies are Bill Brennan, goalie; Bill Folk, defenseman; and the Wilson brothers &mdash; John and Larry &mdash; at left wing and center, respectively.Playing on a line with Rod Morrison and Enio Sclisizzi, McNab replaces the clever Don Morrison who has earned a trial with the Chicago Black Hawks. The Wilson brothers have been teamed with the accurate shooting Gordon Haidy, who is fully recovered from the injuries which handicapped, his performance last season, and the third Indianapolis forward line is unchanged from last year. It consists of Jerry Reid, Fred Glover and Doug McKay.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01284/1440761-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="265" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ott Heller</figcaption></div><h2>Relief While Mending</h2>Nelson Podolsky, always a favorite with Cap fans, will be used for relief work as soon as he is ready for action. Podolsky&rsquo;s leg was broken at the start of pre-season training, but he expects to be back in uniform before the campaign is many games old.In addition to Folk, the defense corps consists of Clare Raglan, Benny Woit, Max Quackenbush and Heller.Most Hoosier fans believe the success of the Caps this year depends on Brennan&rsquo;s ability in the nets. Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s promotion to the Red Wings left Heller with, a big hole to fill at that important post, but the husky Omaha rookie performed even better than anticipated in exhibition games to gain Heller&rsquo;s confidence.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll admit he isn&rsquo;t as brilliant as Sawchuk at the present time,&rsquo;&rsquo; Heller commented as the squad headed for its first American League test at St. Louis on Oct. 14, &ldquo;But Brennan looks just as capable as Sawchuk did two years ago when he came up from Omaha and I feel sure he&rsquo;ll continue to develop.&ldquo;He is a durable hockey player, too,&rdquo; added Heller. &ldquo;The records show he played in every one of Omaha&rsquo;s 70 regular games and seven play-off contests last season to hold opposing teams to an average of 3.3 goals a game for the best record in the United States League.&rdquo;<h2>Rook Rear&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02243/1440754-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="560" height="1314"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL FOLK</figcaption></div><h2>Brotherly Blasting Act</h2>While teaming with the vetearn Eddie Bruneteau at Omaha last season, the Wilson boys also compiled enviable records and didn&rsquo;t miss a single game. John finished with 41 goals and 39 assists for 80 points in 70 games and Larry was right on his heels with 22 goals and 57 assists. Folk&rsquo;s scoring record on defense consisted of 14 goals and 33 assists in 47 games.<h2>Vet Center&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03191/1440747-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="543" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAX McNAB</figcaption></div>Gone from Indianapolis roster, in addition to Don Morrison and Sawchuk, are: Al Dewsbury and Pat Lundy, now with the Black Hawks; Joe Lund, now with Cleveland; Lyle Wiseman, now at Springfield; and Jim Uniac, at Omaha.Dick Miller, general manager of the Caps, summed up the season&rsquo;s prospects with the statement that &ldquo;Indianapolis hockey fans can be proud of this 195051 combination.&ldquo;All of our returning players have the advantage of another full season of experience and the impetus provided by their eight straight play-off victories last spring,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Usually we start the season with some players fresh from amateur ranks. This year every member of our squad has had at least one full year of professional hockey plus the added advantage of playing under terrific pressure in the post-season cup matches last season.&ldquo;The team has everything it takes to &lsquo;go places&rsquo; again in the American League race, which shapes up as one of the hottest scrambles in recent years.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04148/1440740-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1111" height="1858"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL BRENNAN &hellip;&hellip; Has Heller&rsquo;s Confidence</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Champ Caps Better Than Ever, Threat Says Ott

<div class="byline">By TED RANDOLPH</div>ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;Youth will have its fling in the United States Hockey League this season.The St. Paul and Omaha teams will show the way in the youth movement with the Milwaukee and Tulsa clubs close behind. Kansas City looms as a half-and-half proposition. Denver (last year&rsquo;s Minneapolis team) will present the fewest new faces to the circuit.The USHL has two new entries &mdash; Milwaukee and Denver&mdash;and a new prexy in Ron Cook.Two rookie goalies &mdash; Dome Worsley of the Saints and Milwaukee&rsquo;s Marcel Pelletier will be key men for their teams in the title scrap. Both are colorful Young stoppers destined for the big time. Two goalies &mdash; Sugar Jim Henry and Jackie McGill &mdash; have changed teams. McGill moved from St. Paul to Kansas City and Henry from Kansas City to Omaha. Lou Crowdis will be back with Denver and Freckles Little with Tulsa.<h2>Keen Falcons</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03179/1440799-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="242" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">K. McKenzie</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04135/1440792-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="250" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Warwick</figcaption></div>As the season starts the Denver team must rate the favorites role because of such standout scorers as George Agar, Bill Warwick, Ken McKenzie etc. (Playing under the Minneapolis banner last season the team won playoff, honor after Omaha set the pace during the regular season.) Darkhorse entries are the three teams with the &ldquo;new&rdquo; faces &mdash; Omaha, St. Paul and Milwaukee. &#9632;

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New Clubs, New Faces - USHL Gets “New Look”

<h2>Knights In Omaha</h2>The Knights have three veterans &mdash; Sugar Jim Henry, Jake Forbes and Pete Durham &mdash; to bolster the defense department. Newcomers include Red Eye Hay, Pat Coburn and Llloyd Hinschberger. Up front two of the most highly rated recruits are Glen &ldquo;Skov and Earl Reibel. They will work on a line with the veteran Eddie Bruneteau. Jim Uniac, who was the rookie of the year in the USHL season before last, is back. Other returning veterans include Tim O&rsquo;Grady, Motto McLean, Hartley McLeod and the Giesebrechts &mdash; Bert and Bruce.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01284/1440844-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="250" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Henry</figcaption></div><h2>Vets For Rookie Entry</h2>DENVER&mdash;Veteran hands like George Agar, Billy Warwick, Ken McKenzie and Jack Giesebrecht make Bill Cook&rsquo;s - team an early favorite. The Falcons, a new entry in the league along with Milwaukee, should have about the best scoring punch in the circuit if Agar and Co. perform up to their past. In Lou Crowdis they have one of the steadiest goalies in the league, too. About the only young hands on the Denver team are Bob Chrystal, a defenseman who graduated from the Brandon Wheat Kings, and little Joe Kaise, a center who played in Winnipeg last season. Other members of the team include defensemen Carl Kaiser, Fritz Fraser, Charley Kraiger, Jack Johnson and Joe Crozier; along with front liners Joe McArthur and little Neil Strain. I<h2>Milwaukee&rsquo;s Famous Names</h2>One of the new entries in the USHL this season, Milwaukee will be coached by Red Hamill, veteran National leaguer, who will be able to fill in at either wing or defense. Red has a good balance of youth and veteran material to work with. Old reliables who performed for Kansas City last year include Ray Powell, who won the individual scoring tilt; Harry Groves, Jackie Miller, Bob Goodacre, Hank Blade, Ed Leier and Jim Bedard. Best of the young newcomers are goalie Marcel Pelletier and front liners Glen Smith and Jack Shave. With the exception of Bedard, the Milwaukee blue line department will be new. Candidates are Hugh Coflin, Nick Redmond and Bill Schuetz. John Michaluk another new hand, can play either defense or up front. The Sea Gulls have the-personnel to be one of the league&rsquo;s best.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02220/1440837-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="284" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Hamill</figcaption></div><h2>Saints Are Denuded</h2>ST. PAUL&mdash;Only four members of last year&rsquo;s team will see action for the hockey Saints this season. Defenseman Lloyd Ailsby and front liners Gus Schwartz, Ian Mackintosh and Fred Brown form the nucleus of the young team coach Clint Smith is molding. Probably the top additions to the team are goalie Lorne Worsley and front liners Val DeLory and Stan McClellan. The three were named to the All-Star team in the Eastern Amateur league last year. Operating on a line with DeLory and McClellan will be center Johnny Flynn. The threesome led the Eastern loop in scoring last season. Other new front liners are Clint Albright, Odie Lowe and Don Smith. Newcomers on defense include Ken (Sock) Barlow, Ray Hamilton and Bob Dawson. An extra front liner is Bill McDonagh. The team should be a factor in the title scramble after the first month and a half after the newness wears off.<h2>Tulsa Well Oiled</h2>Like Omaha the Oilers will have considerable experience on defense. Along with! Freckles Little in the nets they have Alvin (Buck) Jones, Eddie Young and Spex Telford as experienced hands. Bill Davidson is the newcomer. Right wings are playing coach Bud Poile, Dickie Butler and Clare Dillon, all veteran hands. Doc Haldorsen and Bobby Schnurr give the team experience at center ice with Barton Bradley the newcomer. At left wing Moe Young, Frank Porteous and Obie O&rsquo;Brien are top hands.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05100/1440830-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="257" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barton Bradley</figcaption></div><h2>Everything Up To Date</h2>KANSAS CITY&mdash; Operating as an &ldquo;independent&rdquo; this season, the Mohawks will have a playing coach in Wilf Field Wilf will take his regular turn on defense with Doug Baldwin, veteran Kansas City performer; Joe Levandowski, former Saint and another blue liner to be named later. Two of the three center icers are youngsters&mdash;Carl Stearns and Bob DiquU&mdash;Lin Bend is the veteran of the play makers. Left wings are Hub Anslow, Rusty Aiken and Johnny, Raynak. At right wing Wilf has competent performers in Ike Hildebrand and Sandy Air. The No. 1 line will include Hildebrand, Stearns and Aiken. Oil the second line are Anslow, Air and Bend. In goal will be the veteran Jackie McGill. Jack is a veteran of five campaigns with the Saints. One of the top first year men on the team is Sandy Air. &#9632;

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The Starters……On Parade

<h2>Big Line</h2>When Buffalo Bisons blasted Indianapolis 8-3 last weekend, the big: line of Ab DeMarco, Paul Meger and Grant Warwick accounted for five goals. AH three are former big leaguers, DeMarco once with New York Rngers, and Meger and Warwick with Canadiens.<h2>Shero Arives</h2>Coach King Clancy of Cincinnati Mohawks, announced that defenceman Fred Shero of New York Hangers will join the A.H.L, Tuesday. He said that Cincinnati has lent veteran centre Wally Stefaniw to New Haven for the remainer of the season to make room for Shero.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01292/1440882-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="598" height="444"></div>Cincinnati Mohawks &mdash; who couldn&rsquo;t get out of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s cellar last year o&mdash;have rolled into a top spot in the infant 1950-51 season. So far, in five starts, coach King Clancy&rsquo;s team hasn&rsquo;t lost a game.The Hawks edged Pittsburgh Hornets 5-4 in overtime to run their string to three victories and two ties. A home-town crowd of 6,600 saw the Hornets threaten several times as penalties endangered the Cincy Victory parade.In second place in the Western Division is Cleveland, one point behind the Mohawks, with five. Springfield tops the Eastern Division, winning two and drawing one for five points. Hershey also has five points, with a record of two wins, one loss and one draw.Jackie Gordon of Cincinnati took an early lead in the point parade, notching six goals and, five assists in five games for 11 points. Second is mate Fern Perreault with three goals and six assists for nine points.Leading goalie is Ralph (Red) Almas of St. Louis who has allowed only two goals in five games for a 2.50 average. Cincinnati again took the lead in the most team penalties department, chalking up 64 minutes in five games for fighting coach King Clancy.Gordon and Ab DeMarco of Buffalo lead the goal production with six, while Paul Meger and Grant Warwick of Buffalo and Perreault share the assists leadership with six.<h2>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8</h2>CINCINNATI. &mdash; The Cincinnati Mohawks, sophomores of the American Hockey League opened the 1950-51 season with a brilliant third period rally that produced a 5 to 3 victory over the Cleveland Barons before a screaming crowd of 7,881 fans.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Samis, Lavitt; centre, MacKay; wings, Wochy, Schultz; subs.: Buller, Williams, W. Hergesheimer, Taylor, Thurier, Sonmor, Pogue, Kelly, Lund.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Nattrass, Irwin; centre, Gordon; wings, Denis, Perreault; subs.: MacPherson, Evans, Roche, Plamondon, Campeau, P. Hergesheimer, Robert, Moore, Dube.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Cleveland: Sonmor (Taylor, W. Hergesheimer) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:252&mdash;Cleveland: Lavitt (Taylor, W. Hergesheimer) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:003&mdash;Cleveland: W. Hergesheimer (Taylor, Sonmor) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19:05Penalties: McPherson, Nattrass, Kelly.<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Lund, Nattrass, Thurier.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Cincinnati: Gordon (Perreault) 6:335&mdash;Cincinnati: P. Hergesheimer (Campeau) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:356&mdash;Cincinnati: Plamondon (Campeau, Nattrass) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:057&mdash;Cincinnati: Dube &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:598&mdash;Cincinnati: Denis(Perreault, Gordon) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19:59Penalties&mdash;None.<h2>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10</h2>ST. LOUIS. &mdash; Pete Backor&rsquo;s late third-period goal gave the St. Louis Flyers a hard-fought 4-4 tie with the Cleveland Barons.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Samis, Lavitt; centre, Douglas; wings, Wochy, Schultz; subs.: Buller, Williams, Hergesheimer, Taylor, Sonmor, MacKay, Pogue, Kelly, Lund.St. Louis: Goal, Almas; defence, Milligan, Nicholson; centre, Simpson; wings, Baccari, McComb; subs.: Hrymnak, Lamlrande, Grigg, Gladu, White, Sullivan, Doran, Pearson, Backor.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;St. Louis: Gladu (Sullivan) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4:272&mdash;St. Louis: Grigg &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:113&mdash;Cleveland: MacKay &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:22Penalties: Lund, Gladu, Milligan.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Cleveland: Douglas (Schultz, Young) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:025&mdash;Cleveland: Wochy (Taylor) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:30Penalties: Schultz, Sullivan, Nicholson, Pogue.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Cleveland: Kelly(Pogue, MacKay) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:217&mdash;St. Louis: Pearson(Backor, Sullivan) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:278&mdash;St. Louis: Backor(Sullivan, McComb) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:54Penalties: Doran, Lund.<h2>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11</h2>PITTSBURGH. &mdash; Hy Buller notched an Insurance goal with 10 seconds left in the tilt to give Cleveland a 3-1 win over the Pittsburgh Hornets.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, samis, Lavitt; centre, Douglas; wings, Wochy, Schultz; subs.: Buller, Williams, Lund, Sonmor, Taylor, Hergesheimer, MacKay, Kelly, Pogue.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Horton, Backor; centre, Migay; wings, Hannigan, Solinger; subs.: Ashley, Mathers, Armstrong, Lynn, Blair, Kobussen, McClellan, Barbe, Langelle.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Pittsburgh: McClellan(Kobussen, Barbe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:452&mdash;Cleveland: Pogue (MacKay) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11:05Penatlies: Backor, Horton.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Cleveland: Pogue (Lund, MacKay) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:51Penalties: Pogue, Hergesheimer, Solinger, Blair, Samis.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Cleveland: Buller (MacKay) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19:50Penalties: Sonmor, Mathers, Solinger, Hannigan, Kobussen (misc.).PROVIDENCE. &mdash; Jimmy Moore and Jack Gordon fired late goals for Cincinnati to earn them a 2-2 tie with Providence Reds.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Evans, Nattrass; centre, Campeau; wings, Plmondon, Hergesheimer; subs.: Irwin, MacPherson, Roche, Robert, Dube, Gordon, Denis, Perreault, Moore.Province: Goal, Bennett; defence, Morris, Michaluk; centre, McGill; wings, Chad, Bedard; subs.: Lavell, Laplante, Hamilton, Davies, Scherza, Deschenes, Sindon, Bloomer, Stoddard.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Providence: McGill(chad, Bedard) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:10Penalties: Irwin, Deschenes, Lavell, Moore, Bloomer (2), Nattrass.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Providence: McGill (Chad) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:211Penalties: None.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Cincinnati: Moore4&mdash;Cincinnati: Gordon (Nattrass) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:52Penalties: MacPherson, Lavell, Campeau.<h3>Overtime Period</h3>Scoring: None.BUFFALO. &mdash; They went on an early season scoring spree here as Buffalo Bisons defeated New Haven 9-5 behind Ab DeMarco&rsquo;s four-goal splurge.New Haven: Goal, Millar; defence, Blake, Jackson; centre, Trigg; wings, Prokop, Mulholland; subs.: Conn, Melong, Kane, Manson, Cooper, Horvath, Summermill, Tomiuk, Kruhlec.Buffalo: Goal, Bell; defence, Currie, Finkbeiner; centre, Demarco; wings, Warwick, Meger; subs.: Archamibault, McLenahan, McNabney, Leswick, Ashbee, Pennell, Atana, Maxwell, Hickey.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;New Haven: Summerhill (Tomiuk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:092&mdash;Buffalo: Finkbeiner (DeMarco, Merger) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:57Penalties: Finkbeiner, Cooper, Jackson.<h3>Second Period</h3>8&mdash;Buffalo: Warwick (Meger, McLenahan) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5:054&mdash;Buffalo: DeMarco (Curry, Warwick) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:035&mdash;New Haven: Summerhill(Horvath, Tomiuk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:306&mdash;Buffalo: Atanas &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18:30Penalties: Conn, Mulholland, Warwick, Manson.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Buffalo: DeMarco (Meger) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; :108&mdash;New Haven: Prokop(Mulholland, Blake) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:279&mdash;Buffalo: DeMarco (Mege) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.2710&mdash;Buffalo: Pennell(Atanas, McLenahan) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:3511&mdash;New Haven: Blake &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12:2012&mdash;Buffalo: Ashbee(Archambault) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:1913&mdash;Buffalo: DeMarco(Meger, Warwick) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:3914&mdash;New Haven: Summerhill(Prokop) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:21Penalties: McLenahan, Curry, DeMarco, Horvath.SPRINGFIELD. &mdash; The Indians ran away with this game in the late stages, racking up four unanswered goals to give them a 6-2 victory over Hershey Bears.Hershey: Goal, Henry; defence, Lowe, Branigan; centre, Mario; wings, Mahaffy, Brown; subs.: Gariepy, Crawford, Sullivan, Kullman, Corcoran, McIntyre, Toppazzinl, Moe, Bettio.Springfield: Goal, McAtee; defence, Hosking, Allen; centre, McMurdy; wings, Ford, Gooden; subs.: Gagnon, Tottle, Davidson, Hayden, Burnett, Casanato, Pidhirny, Bush, Robertson.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Hershey, Kullman (Toppazzinl) 5:472&mdash;Springfield: Bush (Burnett) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:20Penalties: Tottle (minor and misc.), Gariepy, Corcoran.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Springfield: Robertson (Pidhirny, Allen) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5:204&mdash;Hershey: Brown (Bettio, Gariepy) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:555&mdash;Springfield: Pidhirny (Robertson) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:476&mdash;Springfield: Hayden (Burnett, Tottle) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:43Penalties: Corcoran (minor and misc.), Tottle (2), Gariepy, Lowe, Gooden.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Springfield: Bush (McMurdy, Hayden) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:458&mdash;Springfield: Gooden(McMurdy, Ford) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:08Penalties: Casanato, Braigan, Burnett.<h2>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12</h2>NEW HAVEN. &mdash; Cincinnati Mohawks continued to blaze an undefeated path through the infant season here as they spoiled the home debut of the New Haven Eagles, 8-3 before 2,000 fans.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Evans, Nattrass; centre, Gordon; wings, Perreault, Denis; subs.: Irwin, MacPherson, Roche, Robert, Hergesheimer, Dube, Plamondon, Moore, Campeau.New Haven: Goal, Millar; defence, Blake, Jackson; centre, Horvath; wings, Tomiuk, Summerhill; subs.: Conn, Melong, Kane, Manson, Cooper, Trigg, Prokop, Mulholland, Krahulec.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Cincinnati: Robert (Dube) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2:202&mdash;Cincinnati: Perreault (Gordon) 10:28 3&mdash;Cincinnati: Gordon (Perreault) 11:33 Penalties: McPherson, Mulholland.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;New Haven: Summerhill (Prokop, Trigg) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2:475&mdash;New Haven: Tomiuk (Summerhill, Horvath) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:326&mdash;Cincinnati: Gordon(Dube, Perreault) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:007&mdash;Cincinnati: Roche(Denis, Perreault) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:18Penalties: Irwin, Evans, Dube, Tomiuk, Mulholland.<h3>Third Period</h3>8&mdash;Cincinnati: Gordon(Denis, Perreault) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:259&mdash;Cincinnati: Perreault (Gordon) 8.2910&mdash;New Haven: Blake(Tomiuk, Gooden) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11:3511&mdash;Cincinnati: Plamondon(Campeau) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:24Penalty: Evans.HERSHEY. &mdash; Overtime failed to break a 3-3 tie here between Hershey and Springfield as Ken Hayden fired two, for the latter.Springfield: Goal, McAtee; defence, Davidson. Tottle; centre, Robertson; wings. Pidhirny, Casanato; subs.: Allen, Hosking, Gagnon, Hayden, Burnett, Bush, Gooden, McMurdy, Ford.Hershey: Goal, Henley; defence, Lowe, Branigan; centre, Mario; wings, Brown, Mahaffy; subs.: Schertzl, Moe, Sullivan, Kullman, Corcoran, McIntyre, Toppazzini, Bettio, Gariepy.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Hershey: Toppazzini (Kullman) 13:32Penalties: Corcoran, Casanato.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Hershey: Corcoran(Bettio, McIntyre) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:063&mdash;Springfield: Hayden(Burnett, Davidson) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:024&mdash;Spring field: Ford(Allen, Gooden) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:01Penalties: McIntyre, Burnett, Branigan, Lowe, Casanato, Toppazzini, Gagnon, Corcoran.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Hershey: Schertzl (Corcoran) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5:396&mdash;Springfield: Hayden(Allen, Burnett) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:20Penalties: Gagnon, Bettio, Lowe, Bush.Overtime PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Gagnon, Kullman.<h2>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14</h2>PITTSBURGH. &mdash; The unbeaten Cincinnati Mohawks battled Pittsburgh Hornets to a 1-1 tie in an overtime gams before 2,957 fans.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Nattrass, Evans; centre, Gordon; wings, Denis, Perreault; subs.: MacPherson, Irwin, Campeau, Hergesheimer, Plamondon, Moore, Dube, Robert, Roche.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer, defence, Horton, Backor; centre, Armstrong; wings, Blair, Lynn; subs.: Mathers, Ashley, Migay, Hannigan, Solinger, Kobussen, Barbe, McLellan, Langelle.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Moore (2), Horton, Barbe.<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Hergesheimer, Blair, MacPherson, Irwin (2), Denis, McLellan, Bigay.<h3>Third Period</h3>1&mdash;Pittsburgh: Blair (Mathers, Armstrong) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:102&mdash;Cincinnati: Perreault (Gordon, Evans) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:29Penalties: Dube, Mathers.<h3>Overtime Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: None.SPRINGFIELD. &mdash; Springfield&rsquo;s Sammy Casanato smashed homo the game-winning counter with just 15 seconds left to play to give the Indians a 5-4 victory over Cleveland Barons in their first meeting of the season.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, LaSchultz, Wochy; subs.: Buller, Williams, vitt, Samis; centre, Douglas; wings, Lund, Hergesheimer, Taylor, Sonmor, MacKay, Pogue, Kelly.Springfield: Goal, McAtee; defence, Allen, Gagnon; centre, Robertson; wings, Casanato. Pidhirny; subs.: Hosking, TotLie, Davidson, Hayden. Burnett, Bush, Gooden, McMurdy, Ford.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Cleveland: Douglas(Schultz, Wochy) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:47Penalty: Lund.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Cleveland: Taylor (Sonmor) 14:553&mdash;Cleveland: Kelly (Pogue) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:554&mdash;Cleveland: Vocky (Schultz, Douglas) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:435&mdash;Springfield: Burnett (Hay desk) 18:186&mdash;Springfield: Hayden(Burnett, Busch) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.29Penalties: None.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Springfield: Burnett (Hayden) 9:018&mdash;SpnngfieUl: Gooden (McMurdy) 9:479&mdash;Springfield: Casanato (Robertson, Alien) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19:45Penalties: None.HERSHEY. &mdash; Hershey Bears defeated Buffalo Bisons 5-3 before 6,220 fans.Buffalo: Goal, Bell; defence, Currie, McLenahan; centre, DeMarco; wings, Leswick, Merger; subs.: Warwick, Ashbee, McNabney, Hickey, Pennell Dawes, Atanas, Archambeault, Dick, Maxwell.Hershey: Goal, Henry; defence, Gariepy, Moe; centre, Mario; wings, Brown, Mahaffy; subs.: Schertzl, Branigan, Crawford, Sullivan, Kullman, Corcoran, McIntyre, Toppazzinl, Bettio.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Hershey: Brown (Mahaffy, Mario) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:352&mdash;Hershey: Toppazzini(Bettio, Kullman) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19:35Penalties: Gariepy, Scherztl, Archambeault.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Hershey: Kullman &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3:184&mdash;Buffalo: Currie(Maxwell, Atanas) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:495&mdash;Buffalo: McLenahan &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:266&mdash;Hershey: Schertzl(Brown, Mario) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18:18Penalties: Moe, Branigan, Gariepy, McLenahan.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Hershey: Mahaffy (Brown) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 368&mdash;Buffalo: Hickey (Ashbee, McNabney) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:28Penalty:Dick<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02253/1440875-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="588" height="564"></div><h2>THE LEADERS</h2>Most Team Penalties: Cincinnati (64 minutes).Most Goals: Jack Gordon, Cin;Marco. Buff (6).Most Assists: Paul Meger, Buffif-; GrantWarwick, Buff.; Fern Perreault Cin. (6).Most Penalties: Norm Corcoan, Hers.(22 minutes)Best Goalie Average: Ralph Kimas, Louis, 2 goals in 5 games (2.50 aver.). &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div>VICTORIA, B.C.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01292/1440927-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="262" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Evans</figcaption></div>Prior to the start of the 1950-51 Pacific Cost Hockey League season which opened October 6 at Victoria and Vancouver, all six club owners and team managers were firmly convinced that the league is 15 to 25% stronger than last year.Results and brand of hockey dished up in the first eight games played in the 210-game championship schedule has further convinced them the PCHL &mdash; starting its third season as a professional league is plenty good and certainly no place for inferior players who want to take things easy. In fact, many now regard the PCHL next to the AHL and only two steps from NHL calibre of play.Seattle are the &ldquo;Orphans&rdquo; of the league, with no home rink to play in for at least another couple of weeks until their new artificial plant is ready at Seattle Civic Ice Arena. Despite that, in the early stages they&rsquo;ve taken over undisputed leadership of the league and established themselves firmly as the team to beat.Danny Sprout, the Ironmen&rsquo;s new playing-coach, personally led his charges to two wins and a tie for five points, which gave them a one point advantage over second place Portland and a two point lead on third place Vancouver in games played to October 11. Victoria and Tacoma are tied for fourth with two points each, while New Westminster, last season&rsquo;s champs, are in the cellar with two straight defeats, both by one goal. Seattle is the only undefeated club while New Westminster is still looking for its first win.<h2>Leads Club</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02221/1440920-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="556" height="898"><figcaption class="caption-body">DANNY SPROUT</figcaption></div>Ironmen scored 11 goals against five for the opposition in three games, and Sprout, a former Cleveland star of seven years standing, figured in six of those.Danny, a defenceman, who scored seven goals and 39 assists with Cleveland last year, picked up an assist in a 2-all tie at Vancouver, oil October 6, added two more assists on Thanksgiving afternoon at Memorial Arena in Victoria, when his club won 5-2, before over 4,200, and next evening at Tacoma, October 10, Sprout set up the first three goals as Seattle humbled Tacoma 4-1.Other shining lights on Frank Dotten&rsquo;s early season powerhouse include Jerry Cotnoir, veteran PCHL goalie; Doug Lewis, Buffalo recruit who scored four goals in two games, Joe Bell, Gil St. Pierre, Pete Wywrot, Ken Simpson, Pete Tkachuk, who was selected as the outstanding rookie in the Southern division last year while with San Diego.The Ironmen have good goal-keeping, sound defence ably headed by Sprout and three well-balanced forward lines. The club displayed lots of hustle and moxie and if they continue to play heads-up hockey they&rsquo;re going to be plenty tough to beat.<h2>Portland Second</h2>Portland pros, second with two wins and loss, the revamped Portland Eagles (called Penguins last year) dropped their league opener at Tacoma, 6-1, on October 7, but evened matters with Muzz Patrick&rsquo;s Rockets the next night in Portland, winning 4-2. Portland moved into second place with a convincing 7-2 victory highlighted by a five goal outburst in 3rd period, over Coley Hall&rsquo;s Canucks, on October 10 in Vancouver.No less than nine members of last season&rsquo;s Southern division champion San Francisco Shamrocks, including coach Tony Hemmerling, make up 1950-51 edition of the Eagles. The remainder of the club consists of five holdovers from last season&rsquo;s fifth place club and several newcomers.Arguments raged last year as to whether the South, inactive this year, was better than the North or vice-versa. Neither division, naturalry, refused to concede the other better, consequently, how Portland fares this season with a Frisco infested lineup will give the Northwest fans a better idea as to comparative strength.It&rsquo;s galaxy of stars Hemmer-ling brought from San Francisco. Larry Silvestri, the South&rsquo;s AllStar right winger, most valuable player and scoring champ with 79 points; Jim Fairburn, who finished fourth, scoring 62 points and only missed the first All-Star team because teammate Silvestri got the spot; Frank Kubasek, a rookie sensation in his first season in professional hockey, who was selected to Division&rsquo;s first All-Star team at center. He finished tenth in scoring with 54 points.George Homenuke, Walter Samanski, Bill Hartsburg, forwards, and defencemen Danny Nixon and Walter Bak are the ex-Shamrocks. Northern Division All-Star goalie Tommy Karakas leads the returnees who include Hal Tarala, captain Hugh Sutherland, Hal Hopper and Frank Ciuman.Hemmerling&rsquo;s young club is an entirely different type than Portland has ever had before. This year&rsquo;s Eagles will be fast-skating, close-checking and fearless. Fans will enjoy watching them.Vancouver, with Bill Carse back, has practically the same club as last season except for goalie Jim Strachan (pronounced Strawn), Bud Ritchie, a defenceman obtained from Seattle, Mike Narduzzi and Hub Macey, forwards from Springfield of the AHL, Johnny Black and Otto Schmidt, both back in hockey after a year&rsquo;s holiday, and Joe Peterson acquired from Fresno.Canucks tied Seattle, 2-2, in their home opener, October 6, edged New Westminster 2-1 the ensuing evening in the Royal City, thanks to goals by Bob Ballance, the club&rsquo;s leading marksman last year with 86 points, and Narduzzi, their first league loss by Portland was a 7-2 whipping on October 10.Players back from last year are Wiliie Schmidt, Larry Reardon, Vic Lofvendahl on defence; Scotty McPherson, Bill Shill, Wimpy Jones, George Defelice, and Eric Unger, up front.<h2>Cougars&rsquo; New Faces</h2>Patrick&rsquo;s Cougars have lots of new faces. Roger Leger, former Canadien defenseman is the new playing coach. Hec Highton, who played for Los Angeles last season is in from last year, the bad man Joe Lepine, with Cincinnati last year, the bad man of the AHL, with 169 minutes in the cold; Don Webster, the South&rsquo;s bad man, last year with 184 minutes; Morley MacNeill, a junior graduate from the Revina Memorial Cup finalists, make up the defence. Reg Abbott, a Brandon junior, Lorne Davis, another Regina junior, Bob Frampton, Andy Hebenton, from Cincinnati, along with returnees Eddie Dorohoy, Eddie Mazur, Roy McKay, Bernie Strongman and Joe Evans, who scored a hat trick in the Cougars&rsquo; home opener, Jack McIntyre, and defenceman Fioro Goegan.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03163/1440913-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="1144" height="1468"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOMMY KARAKAS</figcaption></div>The Cougars looked good defeating Vancouver 4-3 and 6-3 in pre-season exhibition games and upsetting the Royals.Tacoma got off to a good start with a 6-1 home opener triumph over Portland as Nell Andrews and rookie Dick Warwick each scored twice. However, defeats at the hands of Portland, 4-2 and Seattle, 4-1, put a stop to the Rockets&rsquo; vaunted scoring punch. The Rockets have 11 returnees including the league&rsquo;s top three scorers last year &mdash; Ronnie Rowe, Wingy Johnston and &ldquo;Pee-Wee&rdquo; Read &mdash; and record-breaking goal scorer Doug Adam who scored 53 goals. Others back are goalkeeper Doug Stevenson, defence men Joey Johns, Andy Lambrecht and Norm Gustavsen; forwards Neil Andrews, Doug Toole and Ching Dheere. The new men include Harry Bell and Bill Giokas on defence and Dick Warwick, Chick Webster and Gino Rozzini, up front.New Westminster walked away, with the championship last year. It was figured that the club was good enough to repeat this season but ran into two one-goal defeats in their first two games, losing 4-3 to Victoria and 2-1 to Vancouver. Babe Pratt is back as playing-coach. The Royals have the same roster as 1949-50 except for Lucien Dechene, the goalie, back after one season with Vancouver, and newcomers Jack Taylor, a right winger from Hamilton, Butch Houle, a defenceman from the Quebec Aces. Bob Bergeron and Bob Paul, complete the defence. The remainder of the club are all forwards from last year, Bob Love, Ollie Dorohoy, Amy Dufault, Ken Ullyot, Hermie Gruhn, Clayton Lavell. Norm Kirk, Don Slater and Dutch&rsquo; Evers.All the rinks drew well with capacity houses predominating in most cases. Interest was never higher with booster clubs popping up everywhere. &#9632;

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Sprout Leads Seattle To Top As Loop Opens Fast

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03207/1440958-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="544" height="864"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHUCK GARDINER</figcaption></div>Remember Charlie (Chuck) Gardiner, recognized by many as the greatest goalie of all-time?Born in Scotland, Gardiner died in Winnipeg, Man. on June 13th, 1934, after turning in the best performances of his outstanding career.In the 1933-34 season, Gardiner captained the Chicago Black Hawks to the Stanley Cup. He won the Vezina Trophy as the goalkeeper with the least goals scored against him. He was named to the goaltender&rsquo;s post on the N.H.L. All-Star team and his play in the Stanley Cup playoffs was described as nothing short of miraculous.As an indication of Gardiner&rsquo;s value to the Black Hawks in 193334, it should be pointed out that Chicago finished second in their section, winners of less games than four other teams in the League, and scoring less goals of any team. But Gardiner was scored on least of all. Only 83 pucks got past him in 48 games. &#9632;

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Remember this Famous Name in Hockey …

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01258/1440989-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"></div> &#9632;

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New York Rangers 1950-51 Roster

<h2>OCTOBER</h2>21 Quebec at Sherbrooke Valleyfield at Ottawa Chicoutimi at Shawinigan22 Sherbrooke at Quebec Valleyfield at Montreal Shawinigan at Chicoutimi25 Valleyfield at Quebec26 Sherbrooke at Shawinigan Ottawa at Montreal Valleyfield at Chicoutimi18 Montreal at Ottawa Shawinigan at Sherbrooke29 Ottawa at Shawinigan Quebec at Valleyfield Sherbrooke at Montreal31 Valleyfield at Sherbrooke Chicoutimi at Quebec<h2>NOVEMBER</h2>1 Sherbrooke at Valleyfield Quebec at Chicoutimi2 Quebec at Shawinigan3 Shawinigan at Montreal4 Chicoutimi at Ottawa Montreal at Sherbrooke5 Shawinigan at Quebec Chicoutimi at Valleyfield Ottawa at Montreal7 Ottawa at Chicoutimi8 Ottawa at Quebec Sherbrooke at Valleyfield9 Quebec at Shawinigan Chicoutimi at Sherbrooke Valleyfield at Montreal11 Shawinigan at Ottawa12 Valleyfield at Shawinigan Quebec at Montreal Sherbrooke at Chicoutimi14 Ottawa at Sherbrooke15 Sherbrooke at Ottawa Chicoutimi at Quebec Montreal at Valleyfield16 Valleyfield at Shawinigan17 Shawinigan at Montreal18 Quebec at Ottawa Montreal at Chicoutimi19 Montreal at Quebec Ottawa at Shawinigan Valleyfield at Sherbrooke22 Sherbrooke at Quebec Shawinigan at Valleyfield23 Montreal at Shawinigan Quebec at Chicoutimi25 Valleyfield at Ottawa Chicoutimi at Quebec26 Ottawa at Valleyfield Montreal at Sherbrooke Shawinigan at Chicoutimi29 Montreal at Ottawa Shawinigan at Quebec Chlcdutiml at Valleyfield30 Quebec at Shawinigan Chicoutimi at Sherbrooke<h2>DECEMBER</h2>2 Sherbrooke at Ottawa Valleyfield at Chicoutimi3 Valleyfield at Quebec Shawinigan at Sherbrooke Ottawa at Montreal5 Sherbrooke at Shawinigan Ottawa at Chicoutimi6 Ottawa at Quebec Sherbrooke at Valleyfield7 Valleyfield at Shawlnigan8 Montreal at Valleyfield Shawinigan at Chicoutimi9 Quebec at Ottawa10 Chicoutimi at Shawlnigan Quebec at Valleyfield Sherbrooke at Montreal13 Chicoutimi at Ottawa Shawinigan at Quebec Montreal at Valleyfield14 Quebec at Sherbrooke Chicoutimi at Montreal16 Valley field at Ottawa Montreal at Shawinigan17 Ottawa at Sherbrooke Shawinigan at Montreal Quebec at Chicoutimi20 Montreal at Quebec Chicoutimi at Valleyfield21 Chicoutimi at Montreal23 Sherbrooke at Ottawa Valleyfield at Quebec24 Quebec at Shawinigan Sherbrooke at Montreal Valleyfield at Chicoutimi25 Chicoutimi at Quebec27 Shawinigan at Ottawa Montreal at Valleyfield28 Ottawa at Shawinigan Quebec at Sherbrooke Valleyfield at Montreal30 Montreal at Ottawa Chicoutimi at Valleyfield31 Ottawa at Quebec Sherbrooke at Shawinlgan Chicoutimi at Montreal<h2>JANUARY</h2>2 Shawinigan at Sherbrooke3 Chicoutimi at Quebec Sherbrooke at Valleyfield4 Ottawa at Chicoutimi5 Shawinigan at Montreal6 Shawinigan at Ottawa7 Ottawa at Valleyfield Quebec at Montreal Sherbrooke at Chicoutimi9 Montreal at Chicoutimi11 Chicoutimi at Shawinigan Montreal at Sherbrooke13 Quebec at Ottawa Sherbrooke at Shawinigan Montreal at Shawinigan14 Sherbrooke at Quebec Shawinigan at Valleyfield Ottawa at Montreal17 Shawinigan at Ottawa Chicoutimi at Valleyfield18 Ottawa at Shawinigan Chicoutml at Sherbrooke19 Sherbrooke at Montreal20 Quebec at Ottawa21 Quebec at Sherbrooke Valleyfield at Montreal Shawinigan at Chicoutimi28 Chicoutimi at Shawinigan29 Ottawa at Quebec Montreal at Valleyfield25 Valleyfield at Sherbrooke Shawinigan at Montreal Ottawa at Chicoutimi27 Chicoutimi at Ottawa Sherbrooke at Shawinigan28 Sherbrooke at Quebec Ottawa at Valleyfield Chicoutimi at Montreal30 Chicoutimi at Sherbrooke31 Montreal at Ottawa Quebec at Valleyfield<h2>FEBRUARY</h2>1 Shawinigan at Sherbrooke2 Sherbrooke at Montreal3 Valleyfield at Ottawa Montreal at Quebec4 Quebec at Valleyfield Ottawa at Sherbrooke Montreal at Chicoutimi7 Ottawa at Quebec Shawinigan at Valleyfield8 Montreal at Shawinigan Ottawa at Chicoutimi10 Sherbrooke at Ottawa11 Shawinigan at Quebec Montreal at Sherbrooke Valleyfield at Chicoutimi14 Shawinigan at Ottawa Montreal at Quebec Sherbrooke at Valleyfield15 Ottawa at Shawinigan Valleyfield at Sherbrooke Montreal at Chicoutimi17 Montreal at Ottawa. Sherbrooke at Chicoutimi Shawinigan at Valleyfield18 Sherbrooke at Quebec Valleyfield at Shawinigan Ottawa at Montreal20 Quebec at Valleyfield21 Valleyfield at Quebec22 Ottawa at Sherbrooke Quebec at Montreal Valleyfield at Chicoutimi24 Chicoutimi at Ottawa25 Quebec at Shawinigan Chicoutimi at Sherbrooke Valleyfield at Montreal27 Quebec at Chicoutimi28 Valleyfield at Ottawa Shawinigan at Quebec<h2>MARCH</h2>1 Quebec at Sherbooke Shawinigan at Chicoutimi Ottawa at Valleyfield3 Quebec at Ottawa4 Valleyfield at Sherbrooke Quebec at Montreal Chicoutimi at Shawinigan &#9632;

Quebec Senior Hockey League

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02205/1441051-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="300" height="526"></div>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.Throughout Western Canada and in many parts of Eastern Canada the name of Lloyd Saunders rings a very familiar note. It should, for Saunders is one of the very few, if not the only man, in Canada who has ever broadcast from Foster Hewitt&rsquo;s gondola in Toronto while Hewitt was sitting alongside him. It was the play by play he did of the Memorial Cup finals last season between the Regina Pats and Montreal Canadiens. He calls that and the play by play of the Grey Cup final last season, his greatest thrills in sport.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03168/1441044-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="268" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lloyd Saunders</figcaption></div>Lloyd is the 26 year old sports director of radio station C.K.C.K. in Regina and is a frequent contributor to THE HOCKEY NEWS.Born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, he attended school in Saskatoon where he was a standout high school football and hockey player.Saunders did a three year trick in the Royal Canadian Navy and while stationed in Saskatoon played for the navy team. He has played alongside such stars as Gord Howe, Gerry Couture and Max McNab of the Detroit Red Wings, Tony Leswick of the Rangers and Pat Lundy of the Chicago Black Hawks.At one time Saunders signed a pro tryout with Eddie Shore when the latter was running the Buffalo team. However before he could get to the training camp he suffered a serious knee injury and although he tried to remain active in sports he eventually had to hang up the blades, and his football helmet.It was during the war years that Saunders became interested in radio and in order to be near hockey, the game he once had his mind set on playing, he decided to try his hand at play by play announcing. In 1941-42 he did the Memorial Cup games between the Winnipeg Rangers and Saskatoon Quakers. He was just 16 years of age and thus became one of the youngest announcers in the country.At the end of the war he intended to enter McGill University in Montreal but while waiting he was offered a post with his present station. That was four years ago. He never did get to McGill.Aside from announcing hockey games he also does baseball in the summer months and football in the Fall. He has a daily round the clock coverage of sport. His three programs daily, morning, noon and in the evening is one of the most popular in the west. &#9632;

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’Radiorchids’

<h2>Needed Help</h2>Much-need help from Bnffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League has arrived in the Seattle camp. Consigned to the Ironmen were Pete Tkachuk. Bobby Thorpe, Joe Bell and Dong Lewis. Tkachuk and Thorpe are right wingers, the others are left hand shots.<h2>The Holdouts</h2>Both Tacoma and Seattle are suffering from hold out trouble. Doug Adam and Hal Brown of the Rockets can&rsquo;t see eye to eye with manager Murray Patrick, while George Senick and Rudy Filion have failed to come to terms with owner Frank Dotten of Seattle.<h2>HOW THE RACE OOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01224/1441089-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="602" height="235"></div><h2>RESULTS OF GAMES</h2>Oct. 6 &mdash; New West&rsquo;er 3, Victoria 4Oct. 6 &mdash; Seattle 2, Vancouver 2Oct. 7 &mdash; Portland 1, Tacoma 6Oct. 7 &mdash; Vancouver 2, New West&rsquo;er 1Oct. 8 &mdash; Tacoma 2, Portland 4Oct. 9 &mdash; Seattle 5, Victoria 2Oct. 10 &mdash; Seattle 4, Tacoma 1Oct. 10 &mdash; Portland 7, Vancouver 2Joe Evans, Victoria left winger, scored three goals for the first hat trick of the season and to lead the scoring column after the first week-end of play. Jim Strachan, Vancouver goalkeeper, leads the netminders with a 1.50 average of goals against and a percentage of 9.36 shots stopped. Ronnie Rowe, of Tacoma, leads the &ldquo;bad men&rdquo; with 14 minutes in penalties against him.Doug Stevenson, Tacoma goalie, won the honor of holding his opponents scoreless for the longest length of time in the opening game. He held the Portland Eagles scoreless until 43 minutes and 15 seconds of playing time had lapsed. Jim Strachan, of Vancouver, was second as he stopped all of Seattle shots on goal for the first 36 minutes and 22 seconds of the game.<h2>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6</h2>VANCOUVER. &mdash; Seattle Ironmen, plagued by player-management difficulties, opened the season by gaining a 2-2 tie with Vancouver.Seattle: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Sprout, Boorman; centre, St. Pierre; wings, Weaver, Simpson; subs.: Marineau, Medynski, Ritson, Tkachuk, Taillefer, Kerr.Vancouver: Goal, Strachan: defence, W. Schmidt, Ritchie: centre, McPherson; wings, Narduzzi, Balance; suba: Macey, Shill, Peterson, Lofvendahl, Reardon, Unger, Defelice, O. Schmidt, Black.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: None.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver: Narduzzi (MacPherson Ballance) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:342&mdash;Seattle: St. Pierre (Sprout) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:223&mdash;Vancouver: Peterson (Shill) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:17<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Seattle: Weaver (St. Pierre) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5:05Penalties: None.VICTORIA. &mdash; Scoring an upset 4-3 Victory, the youthful Victoria Cougars came through over New Westminster.N. Westminster: Goal, Duchesne, defence, Bergeron, Paul; centre, Ullyot; wings, Dorohoy, Dufault; subs.: Pratt, Houle, Taylor, Slater, Evers, Love, Kirk, Lavell, Gruhn.Victoria: Goal, Highton; defence, MacNeill, Geogan; centre, Strongman; wings, Evans, McKay; subs.: Leger, Lepine, Davis, Hebenton, McIntyre, Mazur, Frampton Dorohoy, Abbott.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Victoria: Evans (Strongman) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; :402&mdash;New Westminster: Kirk (Gruhn) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13:26Penalties: Evans, Geogan.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Victoria: Evans &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:08Penalties: MacNeill, Dufault, Slater.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;New Westminster; Ullyot &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2:245&mdash;Victoria: Mazur (Davis, Dorohoy) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5:256&mdash;New Westminster: Kirk (Love) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:597&mdash;Victoria: Evans (Strongman, McKay) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18:17Penalties: MacNeill, Highton (served by McIntyre), Dufault, Lepine.<h2>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7</h2>NEW WESTMINSTER. &mdash; The defending champion New Westminster Royals suffered their second straight loss, dropping a 2-1 decision to Vancouver.Vancouver: Goal, Strachan; defence, W. Schmidt, Ritchie; centre, McPherson; Narduzzi, Ballance; subs.: Reardon, Peterson, Shill, Lofvendahl, Unger, Defelice.New Westminster: Goal, Duchesne; defence, Pratt, Houle; centre, Lavell; wings, Evers, Taylor; subs.: Bergeron, Dorohoy, Ullyot, Love, Dufault, Kirk Gruhn, Paul<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties; Bergeron, Defelice, Evers, Narduzzi.<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties; Defelice, Bergeron W Schmidt.<h3>Third Period</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver: Ballance (Narduzzi) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:382&gt;&mdash;Vancouver: Macey 3-00 (Ullyot) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15:203&mdash;New Westminster: DorohoyPenalty; O. Schmidt.TACOMA. &mdash; Portland Eagles were slammed 6-1 by the Tacoma Rockets here.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence Johns, Gustavsen; centre. Read; wings^ Johnston, Rowe; subs.: Bell, Giokas, Toole, Andrews, Warwick, Dheere, Rozzini, Lambrecht.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Nixon, Bak; centre. Hopper; wings, Ciuman, Bailey; subs.: Tarala, Brodeur, Silvestri, Homenuke, Hartsburg, Fairburn, Kubasek, Sutherland, Samanski.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Tacoma: Warwick (Lambrecht) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18:55Penalties: Hopper, Read, Gustavsen.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Tacoma:Johnston (Rowe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:063&mdash;Tacoma: Read &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:174&mdash;Tacoma: Andrews (Lambrecht, Gustaven) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:59Penalties; RoWe, Nixon, Gustavsen.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Portland: Bailey (Hopper) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3:156&mdash;Tacoma: Andrews (Rozzini) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11:157&mdash;Tacoma: Warwick (Bell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:33Penalties: Hopper, Sutherland, Toole. Giokas.<h2>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8</h2>PORTLAND. &mdash; The Portland Eagles opened their home season with a well earned 4-2 victory over the Tacoma Rockets.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Gustavsen, Johns; centre. Read; wings, Rowe, Johnston; subs.: Bell, Giokas, Toole, Andrews, Rozzini, Lambrecht.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Brodeur, Taralar; centre, Samanski; wings, Homenuke, Silvestri; subs.: Hartsburg, Fairburn, Kubasek, Bailey, Hopper, Ciuman, Bak, Nixon, Sutherland.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Portland: Kubasek (Tarala) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:572&mdash;Tacoma: Johnston (Read. Johns) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1457Penalties: Johns, Rowe (2), Sutherland.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Portland: Samanski (Silvestri) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:424&mdash;Tacoma: Bell &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18:57Penalties: Kubasek, Gustavsen, Nixon.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Portland: Brodeur (Ciuman) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:126&mdash;Portland: Ciuman (Tarala) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:21Penalty: Karakas.<h2>MONDAY, OCTOBER 9</h2>VICTORIA. &mdash; Seattle pinned a 5-2 defeat on Victoria here.Seattle: Goal, Cotnoir; defence. Sprout, Medynski; centre, St. Pierre; wings, Weaver, Simpson; suba: Taillefer, Marineau, Ritson, Desbiens, Kerr, Tkachuk, Bell Wywrot, Lewis.Victoria: Goal, Highton; defence, Leger, Strongman; centre, Dorohoy; wings, Mazur, Davis; subs.: MacNeil, Geogan, Hebenton, McKay, McIntyre, Frampton, Abbott, Evans.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Seattle: Bell (Wywrot, Sprout) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11:132&mdash;Seattle: Weaver (Simpson, Sprout) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12:15Penalties; McKay, Leger, Marineau, Taillefer.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Seattle: Lewis &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3:184&mdash;Seattle: Tkachuk (Bell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11:31Penalty: Medynski.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Victoria: Mazur (Dorohoy) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:496&mdash;Victoria: Davis (Dorohoy, Mazur) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:197&mdash;Seattle: Lewis (Kerr) 12:02Penalty: Marineau.<h2>TUESDAY, OCT. 10</h2>TACOMA. &mdash; The Ironmen really hit their stride, whipping Tacoma 4-1 here.Seattle: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Sprout, Taillefer; centre, Simpson; wings, Weaver, St. Pierre; subs.: Marineau, Thorpe, Medynski, Lewis, J. Bell, Ritson, Wywrot, Desbiens, Kerr, Tkachuk.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Gustavson, Johns; centre, Read; wings, Johnston, Rowe; subs.: H. Bell, Giokas, Adam, Andrews, Rozzini, Lambrecht, Warwick.<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Gustavsen (major), Takllefer (2), Tkachuk.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Seattle: J. Bell (Sprout, Tkachuk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:312&mdash;Seattle: Lewis (Desbiens, Sprout) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:293&rsquo;&mdash;Seattle: Lewis (Desbiens, Sprout) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:43Penalties: Kerr, Gustavsen (minor and msc.), H. Bell.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Seattle: Tkachuk (J. Bell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:415&mdash;Tacoma: Johns (Andrews) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11:21Penalties: Rowe (minor and misc.), Rozzini, Weaver.VICTORIA. &mdash; Lightning-fast Portland Eagles scored five uncontested goals in the third period to trample Vancouver Canucks 7-2.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Portland: Brodeur (Samanski, Silvestri) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4:242&mdash;Vancouver: Unger (Reardon) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12:183&mdash;Portland: Silvestri (Samanski) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:38<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Vancouver: W. Schmidt &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:16Penalties: Defelice, Nixon, Sutherland.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Portland: Silvestri &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4:506&mdash;Portland: Hopper (Hartsburg) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:428&mdash;Portland: Ciuman (Hartsburg) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:289&mdash;Portland: Hartsburg (Kubasek) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:19Penalties: Hartsburg, O. Schmidt, Nixon.<h2>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11</h2>NEW WESTMINSTER. &mdash; Portland and New Westminster battled to a 2-2 draw here.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Nixon, Sutherland; centre, Kubasek; wings, Hartsburg, Fairburn; subs.: Tarala, Brodeur, Homenuke. Silvestri, Samanski, Baily, Hopper, Ciuman.New Westminster: Goal Deschene; dePratt, Houle; centre, Ullyot; wings, Dorohoy, Dufault; subs.: Bergeron, Taylor, Slater, Koch, Love, Kirk, Lavell, Milford, Paul, Huddleston.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Portland: Homenuke (Samanski) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:372&mdash;New Westminster: Lavell (Kirk &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11:26Penalties: None.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;New Westminster: Dorohoy (Ullyot, Pratt) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16:26Penalties: None.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Portland: Kabusek &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4:125&mdash;New Westminster: Milford (Paul, Koch) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:46Penalty: Huddleston.<h2>FRIDAY, OCT. 13</h2>VICTORIA &mdash; Faltering after a good opening period, Victoria Cougars went down to their second successive defeat en Memorial Arena Ice.Portland&rsquo;s speedy, young Eagles outplayed in the first period, twice came from behind and then went on to a 7-2 victory before a crowd of 3500.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Tarala, Brodeur; centre. Momenuke; wings, Sylvester, Samanski; subs.: Back, Nixon Hartsburg, Boyes, Raiburn, Sutherland.Victoria: Goal, Highton; defence, McNeil, Goegan; centre, Hebenton; wings, Frampton, Abbott; subs.: Leger, Lepine, Strongman, Davis, McKay, McIntyre, Mazue, Dorohoy, Evans, Webster.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Victoria: Frampton &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:332&mdash;Portland: Homenuke (Samanski) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:533&mdash;Victoria: Abbott (Frampton) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8:02Penalties: None<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Portland: Kubasek, (Fairburn, Bailey) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:015&mdash;Portland: Samanski (Sylvester) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19:18Penalties: None.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Portland: Sylvester, (Samanski, Sutherland) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4:117&mdash;Portland: Samanski (Homenuke) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9:148&mdash;Portland: Ciuman, (Sylvester, Samanski) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:299&mdash;Portland: Homenuke, (Sylvester, Samanski) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19:33VANCOUVER &mdash; Vancouver Canucks defeated Tacoma Rockets 4-3 at the Forum in a game that even the most ardent fan could not class as &ldquo;good.&rdquo;Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence Johns, Gustavsen; centre Read; wings, Rowe, Johnson; subs.: Adam, Warwick. Bell, Giokas. Andrew, Dheere, Rozzini, Lambrecht, Toole.Vancouver: Goal, Strachan; defence. W. Schmidt, Ritchie; centre, Unger: wings, Defelice, O. Schmidt; spbs.: Reardon, Lofvendahl, McPherson, Narduzzi. Ballance, Macey, Shill, Peterson, Black, Jones.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Tacoma: Andrew,(Lambrecht, Johns) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:032&mdash;Tacoma: Andrew (Rowe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12:53Penalties: O. Schmidt, Johns Mc-Person.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Vancouver: O. Schmidt, (Unger, Defelice) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:174&mdash;Vancouver: Reardon (Ballance) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7:10Penalty: Dheere.5&mdash;Vancouver: Ritchie,<h2>Third Period</h2>(Unger, Defelice) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3:436&mdash;Tacoma: Lambrecht, (Warwick, Andrew) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12:037&mdash;Vancouver: Defelice, (Unger, O. Schmidt) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13:23Penalties: O. Schmidt, Johnson, Beer, Rozzini.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02190/1441082-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="589" height="490"></div>Victoria, B.C. &mdash; Eddie Dorohoy that&rsquo;s a familiar name. Well if the name is familiar then so is the little guy himself. He hasn&rsquo;t changed, he&rsquo;s still the brashest youngster that ever set a foot inside a pro training camp or a pair of skates onto a sheet of ice. Dorohoy and Big Eddie Mazur have become fast friends since they have been playing for Lester Patrick&rsquo;s Victoria! Cougars. Fast friends &mdash; they&rsquo;re twins, where one goes there you&rsquo;ll find the other.Mazur is a very good prospect and showed well at the Cincinnati Mohawks training camp. Big and strong he impressed Coach King Clancy very much.&ldquo;I really liked that kid,&rdquo; said King, &ldquo;he has what it takes. Birt what can I do. That Dorohoy must be running hockey on the coast.&ldquo;I met them both before the end of our training camp and took them aside. I like your big friend Mazur very much, I told Dorohoy, I think I&rsquo;ll take him to Cincinnati with me.&ldquo;And what do you think he told me. He says, &lsquo;Nuts to you, where Mazur goes, I go. And he walked away.&rdquo;What the heck could I do. I didn&rsquo;t want to break the kid&rsquo;s heart so I sent them both back to Victoria.&rdquo; &#9632;

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;Halifax Saint Mary&rsquo;s, seeking their third straight Maritime Senior (Big Four) Hockey League title, have added the necessary weight up front but have run into goaltending trouble. Young Ernie Yeadon, who was brought up as a junior, has been expected to take care of this important item. But Ernie suffered a serious injury during the softball season and won&rsquo;t be available for at least a month. With the league opening only a few days off, the Saints may bring in the veteran Angus (Sonny) McDonald&rsquo; who starred with Truro Bearcats, Saint John Beavers and Amherst Ramblers.The team had some cheering news a few days ago. Slick winger George McGregor is returning from Kingston, Ont. to take up his old Spot on the first line. He had asked for his release after four years in these parts but the Santamarians talked him into sticking around.Bill Ford, a high scoring winger, and Danny Wilkes, who was perhaps the best defensive right winger in the Big Four last season, are back in harness. But some of the old favorites are gone. Billy Hannon has retired after 15 starry years in senior hockey. Tommy Brennan, a high scoring but not tempered center, will probably wind up with Saint John Beavers. Joe Schmidt and Ronnie Gaudet, fast skating but lightweight forwards, are not returning.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01231/1441120-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="564" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERT HIRSCHFELD</figcaption></div>Big news from the Saint Mary&rsquo;s club concerns their ambitious plans for junior hockey. The Santamarians started with the teen-agers and placed Bert Hirschfeld in the National League. Now they&rsquo;re going to run a four-team league with a doubleheader each Saturday. They&rsquo;ll bring in playets from all over the Maritimes and four from outside this branch.On the senior front, Marty Barry, the old Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings star, is still in charge and hopeful for another big season. Marty, the quiet, likeable type, has done well since he first came here four years ago. He&rsquo;s well liked by both players and fans and he has had singular success.Sydney Millionaires have finally come up with a coach. The Sydney policy of having a new man each year worked again when Bill Dinning, of Hamilton&rsquo;s tattered Tigers, signed on the dotted line. He intends to retire as a player and direct the club from the bench.Sweeney Schriner is firmly established at North Sydney, but Glace Bay is marking time. For a while it was thought that the Miners wouldn&rsquo;t continue to operate their franchise. After making a late decision the Glace Bay magnates are keeping their plans to themselves.Les Ramsay has replaced veteran Jackie Keating as coach at Saint John. The latter, whose health hasn&rsquo;t been too good the past few years, objected to travelling so much each winter. He is reported interested in the Glace Bay job. In the Cape Breton league the towns are only a few miles apart. &#9632;

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Barry’s Mary’s Seek 3rd In Row, If Nets Don’t Trip Them Up

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div>OTTAWA OntIf their early appearances against the Chicago Black Hawks, Valleyfield Braves and Chicoutimi Sagueneens can be taken as any criterion, Bill Durnan&rsquo;s Ottawa Senators are going to be a thorn in the side of more than one team in the 1950-51 Slater circuit race.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03100/1441189-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="268" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">E. Goodfellow</figcaption></div>For, if there&rsquo;s anything that warms the cockles of a coach&rsquo;s heart &mdash; apart from a fat pay cheque &mdash; it&rsquo;s the sight of a hungry hockey team. Not that puck mentors are any more sadistic than their brethren in the pigskin profession, but rather, the more &ldquo;starved&rdquo; a team looks the happier they feel.At that rate, Durnan should be grinning from ear to ear even in his sleep!<h2>Hawks Get Surprise</h2>The Barber Poles raised the curtain on their new season with an annual Rotary Club exhibition tilt with the Hawks, and after it was all over, Ebbie Goodfellow must have felt it would have been better to pass up the whole thing.To begin with, it was one of the roughest, scrappiest hockey games seen here for a long time, and to add insult to injury, the Senators came back with a great goal by Bill Robinson to grab a 2-2 saw-off.The next day in Valleyfield, the Senators trailed 3-1 in the final frame but staged a great comeback to pull out a tie in another rugged affair.Durnan hasn&rsquo;t settled on his final team yet, but the way Nils Tremblay, Eddie Dartnell and Robinson are going, there&rsquo;s seems no doubt about who&rsquo;s going to get the opening line assignments.Eddie Emberg, looking for another great season, will likely be centering Al Kuntz, formerly of Vancouver and Rangers, and Lude Check, while a third line will probably see Emile Dagenais, Buddy Hellyer and Hughie (Rip) Riopelle together, providing the latter gets his release from Quebec.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0473/1441182-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="544" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body">A Neat Goal BILL ROBINSON</figcaption></div>Bill (Legs) Fraser played sensational hockey in goal for the Barber Poles against the Hawks and appears to be in for another good season, while in front of him will be Bobby Copp, Ray Trainor, Butch Stahan, Conny Tudin, Don Thompson and Tex Hodgson. &#9632;

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Senators Give Hawks Very Rude Awakening; Upsets Mar QSHL Start

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01210/1441220-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Solution Next Week)<h2>ACROSS</h2>1. Pictured N.H.L. goaltender.6. Colour of Nick Metz&rsquo; hair.8. Member of Toronto St. Pats in 1922.10. How Nixon, ex Oakland player, might sign initials.?12. Roy Conacher has a &mdash; brother.13. A.H.L. player known as &ldquo;Sonny&rdquo;.14. Nickname of a former Toronto coach.15. Swedish coin.16. During a penalty players &mdash; the puck.18. Initials of a former line mate k of Wares and Abel.19. Initials of Bisons eoach.21. Initials of a Leaf missing from training camp this season.22. Toronto centre.27. Initials of a veteran Habitant.28. Initials of one of the Bentley brothers.29. Terry Reardon coaches in this State (abbr).30. Short for first name of Kemp. Pittsburgh defenseman.32. Ex Tulsa defenseman, called Nick.35. Joe Shack has been playing hockey in this country (abbr).36. Don Grosso is coach of Sault &mdash; Marie Greyhounds.37. Name given Drillon, former N.H.L. player.<h2>DOWN</h2>1. How fans feel when their favorites lose.2. Birthplace of pictured player.3. Players have guards for this.4. This ex A.H.L. player was born in Czechoslovakia.5. Initials of Dill, ex Ranger.7. Initials of one of the Young&rsquo;s of Tulsa.9. Given name of Springfield Indians manager.11. St. Louis defenseman.12. Though (old form).17. Short for first name of Motter, former N.H.L. player.20. Name often given club for whom Earl Robertson was goalie.21. Given name of the eldest Kilrea brother.23. &ldquo;Snuffy&rdquo; Smithis given name.24. To leave out.25. Initials of a former member of the Kraut line.26. This player was obtained by Canadiens from Minneapolis.31. Red Wings won N.H.L. championship &mdash; the Stanley Cup in 1949-50.33. Old English (abbr).34. Initials of manager of Black Hawks in 1934. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<h2>OCTOBER&mdash;</h2>10&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.13&mdash;Saskatoon at Regina; Calgary at Edmonton.14&mdash;Regina at Saskatooh; Edmonton at Calgary.17&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.18&mdash;Calgary at Regina.20&mdash;Saskatoon at Regina; Edmonton at Calgary.21&mdash;Calgary at Edmonton.24&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.25&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.27&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.28&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary.30&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.311&mdash;Calgam at Saskatoon.<h2>NOVEMBER&mdash;</h2>1&mdash;Calgary at Regina. o3&mdash;Regina at Edmonton.4&mdash;Regina at Calgary.8&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.9&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.10&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.11&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary.13&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.15&mdash;Calgary at Regina.16&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.17&mdash;Saskatoon at Regina; Calgary at Edmonton.18&mdash;Edmonton at Calgary; Regina at Saskatoon.21&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.22&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.24&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.25&mdash;Regina at Calgary; Saskatoon at Edmonton.27&mdash;Regina at Edmonton; Saskatoon at Calgary.29&mdash;Calgary at Regina.30&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.<h2>DECEMBER&mdash;</h2>1&mdash;Calgary at Regina.2&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.4&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary.6&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.7&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.8&mdash;Regina at Calgary.9&mdash;Regina at Edmonton.11&mdash;Regina at Calgary.13&mdash;Calgary at Regina.14&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.15&mdash;Saskatoon at Regina.16&mdash;Regina at Saskatoon; Edmonton at Calgary.18&mdash;Calgary at Edmonton.20&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.21&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.23&mdash;Calgary at Edmonton.26&mdash;Edmonton at Calgary; Regina at Saskatoon.29&mdash;Calgary at Edmonton; Saskatoon at Regina.30&mdash;Regina at Saskatoon; Edmonton at Calgary.<h2>JANUARY&mdash;</h2>1&mdash;Calgary at Edmonton; Saskatoon at Regina.3&mdash;Edmonton at Calgary.4&mdash;Regina at Saskatoon.6&mdash;Regina at Edmonton.6&mdash;Regina at Calgary.8&mdash;Calgary at Edmonton.10&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.11-&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.12&mdash;Regina at Calgary.13&mdash;Regina at Edmonton.15&mdash;Saskatoon at Regina.16&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.17&mdash;Calgary at Regina.19&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary.20&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.22-&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary24&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.25&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.27&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.29&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary.31&mdash;Edmonton at Calgary.<h2>FEBRUARY&mdash;</h2>1&mdash;Regina at Saskatoon.2&mdash;Regina at Edmonton.3&mdash;Regina at Calgary.5&mdash;Regina at Edmonton.6&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.7&mdash;Calgary at Regina.9&mdash;Regina at Saskatoon.10&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.12&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary.14&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.15&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.17&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary.19&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.20&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.21&mdash;Calgary at Regina.23&mdash;Regina at Calgary.24&mdash;Regina at Edmonton.26&mdash;Regina at Calgary.28&mdash;Edmonton at Regina.<h2>MARCH&mdash;</h2>1&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon.2&mdash;Regina at Edmonton.3&mdash;Regina at Calgary.5&mdash;Saskatoon at Regina.6&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon.7&mdash;Calgary at Regina.9&mdash;Edmonton at Calgary; Saskatoon at Regina.10&mdash;Calgary at Edmonton; Regina at Saskatoon.12&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary.13&mdash;Saskatoon at Edmonton.15&mdash;Regina at Saskatoon.16&mdash;Saskatoon at Regina; Calgary at Edmonton.17&mdash;Edmonton at Calgary. &#9632;

Western Canada Senior League

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0165/1441310-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="247" height="298"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0264/1441303-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="310"></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Hugh Coflin, the amateur defenseman signed several months ago by the Chicago Hawks, never thought that injuries would pave his way into the NHL this season. Until last week he expected to start his pro career with the Hawk&rsquo;s new USHL farm club, the Milwaukee Seagulls, but suddenly plans were changed.Chicago&rsquo;s defensive setup, declared the best in the league this year, was crippled when three of the squad&rsquo; five regular rearguards were hurt in a pair of tough exhibition games. Al Dewsbury and Doug McCaig suffered shoulder separations and Bill Gadsby was the victim of a knee injury. Gadsby&rsquo;s injury failed to keep him out of the lineup, but Dewsbury and McCaig were scheduled to be sidelined about 10 days so Coflin was called to&rsquo;the rescue and paired off with Jack Stewart, the exDetroiter who now wears a Hawk uniform.Should he be good enough to replace McCaig as &ldquo;Black&rdquo; Jack&rsquo;s defense partner, Coflin might well progress to greatness. Stewart has been given a good deal of the credit for developing such current stars as Bill Quackenbush, Leo Reise, and several others whom he played with while at Detroit.<h2>GOTTSELIG THINKS HE&rsquo;LL STICK</h2>Coflin, who is 21, has already drawn the praise of Chicago&rsquo;s general manager, Johnny Gottsehg, the National League&rsquo;s former great puck ragger who should know his hockey talent.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a rough, tough type defenseman who knows how to score. 1 think he&rsquo;ll stick,&rdquo; Johnny reports.Discovered by the Hawk&rsquo;s chief scout, &ldquo;Tiny&rdquo; Thompson, two years ago. Coflin was last year named &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rdquo; in the Western Canada Senior league. He starred with the Calgary Staippeders, who won the league championship. He stands slightly over six feet in height and tips the scales at 188 pounds.If he&rsquo;s a real backline scorer, as Gottselig contends, Coflin may help out as much offensively as defensively. The team has now developed and acquired a top grade defense, but in doing so has probably lost some of its scoring power. Metro Prystal and Gaye Stewart, who went to Detroit in order to help secure better Hawk rearguards, scored 53 goals between themselves last year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0614/1441296-1-eng-US/f00c4-062.jpg" title="f00C4-06" width="578" height="572"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paved Way AL DEWSBURY</figcaption></div>Gadsby was Chicago&rsquo;s only real defensive scoring threat in the 19 49-50 schedule. He tallied 10 goals and 25 assists for 35 points which placed him second only to Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly in that department among NHL rearguards.Ralph Nattrass, who is now with Cincinnati (AHL), notched five goals and 11 assists while Dickens and McCaig failed to score any goals, but managed to get 13 and four assists respectively.Stewart and Dewsbury, who were a part of the Chicago package in this summer&rsquo;s big Detroit swap, may also improve the club&rsquo;s defensive scoring. Stewart has been a member of several All-Star teams which should speak for his excellence. Last season at Indianapolis, the Red Wing&rsquo;s AHL farmhands, Dewsbury netted 15 goals and 22 assists.<h2>Eighth New Face</h2>If he&rsquo;s able to stick in Chicago, Coflin will probably be the team&rsquo;s eighth new acquisition for the 1950-51 campaign. The other newcomers, in addition to Stewart and Dewsbury, are Goaler Lumley (fronin Detroit) and Forwards Pete Babando (from Detroit), Don Morrison and Pat Lundy (from Indianapolis) and Gordon Fashoway (from Kansas City).<h2>Collin Prepares For Big Jump</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0361/1441289-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="1291" height="1216"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hugh Coflin is shown in three different settings. He is busily engaged in a writing a letter to the folks back home in Blaine Lake, Sask.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0453/1441282-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="1456" height="1228"><figcaption class="caption-body">He is quite concerned about removing those pesky whiskers. A good looking clean-cut youth Hugh is very particular about keeping himself well-groomed at all times.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0530/1441275-1-eng-US/f00c4-052.jpg" title="f00C4-05" width="1273" height="1815"><figcaption class="caption-body">He is tightening up his skates prior to donning his Chicago sweater. Coflin is slow and meticulous in putting on his hockey equipment. Every little piece has to fit fust so and he doesn&rsquo;t want anything loose or bulky.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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