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December 23, 1950

The Hockey News December 23, 1950

Fashoway FinedIn addition to the $25 fine and suspension Gord Fashoway, a left winger with Milwaukee will be fined the remainder of his current two weeks pay cheque by the parent Chicago Black Hawks.Good BalanceProof of the balance in the Omaha Knights. who lead the loop with 14 wins, four losses and two ties, is the fact that they do not dominate the individual records. In the scoring, the Omaha leader is in fifth spot, while among department marks, they lead only in penalties.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01219/1292342-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="592" height="196"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESDec. 5&mdash;St. Paul 4, Kansas City 1Dec. 6&mdash;Omaha 4, Denver 3Dec. 6&mdash;Kansas City 4, Milwaukee 8Dec. 7&mdash;Kansas City 4, St. Paul 4Dec. 8&mdash;Milwaukee 3, Tulsa 5Dec. 9&mdash;Kansas City 1, Omaha 4Dec. 9&mdash;St. Paul 3, Milwaukee 1Dec. 10&mdash;Tulsa 3, Denver 6The Omaha Knights forged farther in front in the race for the Director&rsquo;s Cup and the USHL championship last week when they put together three wins to increase their lead to seven points. Meanwhile, St. Paul jumped from away back right into second spot by chalking up two wins and a tie to go a point in front of third-place Tulsa.Denver and Milwaukee remained tied for fourth spot, each marking up but a single win, and Kansas City slipped well into the bottom following a disastrous road trip which saw them get. but a single point in five games. Their one consolation is that they now have the worst part of their schedule behind thorn so far as Toad games are concerned, and they are expecting to add some new faces very shortly. They have been shorthanded for almost two weeks.Despite Kansas City&rsquo;s lowly position in the standings, they continue to have a good representation in the scoring statistics with no less than three of their players amongst the top ten. Ike Hildebrand scored three goals and six assists last week to take over first place in the scoring race with 35 points. Cal Stearns, also of Kansas City, continued to hold down second spot and leads in assists while Len Haldorsen of Tulsa, last week&rsquo;s leader, slipped the third.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5KANSAS CITY.&mdash;Heroes were plentiful as the St. Paul hockey team defeated Kansas City, 4-1, here for a share of second place in the league before the season&rsquo;s smallest crowd.Kansas City: Goal, McGill; defence, Drainville, Byers; centre, Stearns; wings, Bend, Hildebrand; subs.: Field, Levandoski&rsquo;, DelMonte, Anslow, A. Brown, Air, Marineau, St. Pierre.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Ails-by, Dawson; centre, Schwartz; wings, Mackintosh, F. Brown; subs.: Mariucci, Hamilton, Lowe, Plumb, D. Smith, Bar-low, Albright, Delory, C. Smith, McDonagh.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul: Mackintosh (Maciucci) 8:532&mdash;St. Paul: Delory (McDonagh, Lowe) &hellip; 14:36Penalties: None.Second Period3&mdash;St. Paul: Mackintosh (Schwartz, F. Brown)) &hellip;&hellip; 9:59Penalties: Stearns, Dawson, Barlow, Anslow.Third Period4&mdash;Kansas City: Bend (Hildebrand) &hellip;&hellip; 8:125&mdash;St. Paul: McDonagh (Mariucci) &hellip; 15:35Penalties: Plumb, Worsley (misc.).WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6MILWAUKEE.&mdash;The Milwaukee Sea Gulls hit their high point production of the season to outclass Kansas City, 8-4, in a league game before 1,840.Kansas City: Goal, McGill; defence, Levandoski, Marineau; centre, Stearns; wings, Hildebrand, DelMonte; subs.: Drainville, Byers, Field, Bend, Anslow, St. Pierre, A. Brown, Air.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Coflin, Schvetz: centre, Blade; wings, wings, Leier, Olmstead; subs.: Bedard, Powell, Conacher, Groves, Redmond, Miller. Michaluk, Shave, G. Smith, Goodacre.First Period1&mdash;Kansas City: DelMonte (Hildebrand) &hellip;&hellip; 1:502&mdash;Kansas City: Bend (Air, Brown) &hellip;&hellip; 4:363&mdash;Milwaukee: Hamill (Leier) &hellip; 13:054&mdash;Milwaukee: Groves (Powell, Hamill) &hellip;&hellip; 17:25Penalties: Levandoski.Second Period5&mdash;Milwaukee: Michaluk (Smith, Shave) &hellip;&hellip; 12:31Penalty: Hildebrand.Third Period6&mdash;Milwaukee: Olmstead (Blade) 3:287&mdash;Milwaukee: Fashoway (Powell) 4:178&mdash;Kansas City: Bend (Air, Brown) &hellip;&hellip; 5:489&mdash;Milwaukee: Powell (Groves, Fashoway) &hellip;&hellip; 6:2710&mdash;Milwaukee: Groves (Powell, Schvetz) &hellip;&hellip; 13:1011&mdash;Milwaukee: Powell (Fashoway, Blade) &hellip;&hellip; 14:0612&mdash;Kansas City: Hildebrand (Field) &hellip;&hellip; 17:38Penalties: Field, Hildebrand.DENVER.&mdash;Omaha shaded Denver 4-3 here.Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Coburn, Forbes; centre, O&rsquo;Grady; wings, Uniac, McLean; subs.: Hay, Hinchberger, Reibel, Skov, Bert Giesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod, Bruneteau.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Fraser, Chrystal; centre, Agar; wings. Strain, Richardson; subs.: Bak, Kraiger, H. Brown, Doran, McArthur, Mackenzie, Kaiser, J. Giesebrecht.First Period1&mdash;Omaha: Forbes (Bert and Bruce Giesebrecht) &hellip;&hellip; 8:452&mdash;Omaha: McLean (O&rsquo;Grady, Coburn) &hellip;&hellip; 13:093&mdash;Omaha: Bert Giesebrecht (Bruce Giesebrecht) &hellip;&hellip; 13:20Penalties: Skov, Bak, Fraser.Second Period4&mdash;Denver: MacKenzie (McArthur, J. Giesebrecht) &hellip;&hellip; 15:15Penalties: Hay, Fraser, McLeod, Chrystal, Bert Giesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht.Third Period5&mdash;Omaha: Bert Giesebrecht &hellip;&hellip; 1:296:&mdash;Denver: Agar (Richardson, Strain) &hellip;&hellip; 12:367&mdash;Denver: Juckes (Agar, J. Giesebrecht) &hellip;&hellip; 19:54Penalties: Fraser, McLeod, Crowdis (served by Richardson), O&rsquo;Grady, Forbes, Durham (misc.).THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7ST. PAUL.&mdash;It was streaks end for both the Kansas City and St. Paul hockey teams at the Auditorium.The 4-4 overtime deadlock the two clubs played before 2,117 fans put a temporary halt to a St. Paul victory run and a Kansas City losing streak.Kansas City: Goal, McGill; defence, Drainville, Byers; centre, Stearns; wings, DelMonte, Hildebrand; subs.: Field, Levandoski, Bend, Anslow, St. Pierre, A. Brown, Air, Marineau.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Mariucci, Barlow; centre, Schwartz; wings, Brown, Mackintosh; subs.: Ailsby, Dawson, Albright, Plumb, D. Smith, Delory, McDonagh, Lowe, C. Smith.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul: Schwartz (Mariucci, Mackintosh) &hellip;&hellip; :212&mdash;Kansas City: Stearns (Levandoski, Hildebrand) &hellip;&hellip; 11:59Penalties: Barlow, Marineau, McDonagh.Second Period3&mdash;Kansas City: Hildebrand (Stearns, DelMonte) &hellip;&hellip; 1:184&mdash;St. Paul: Mackintosh (Schwartz, Albright) &hellip;&hellip; 6:415&mdash;St. Paul: Mackintosh &hellip;&hellip; 14:55Penalties: Anslow, Schwarts.Third Period6&mdash;St. Paul: Plumb (D. Smith) &hellip; 4:377&mdash;Kansas City: Air (Bend, Drainville) &hellip;&hellip; 11:178&mdash;Kansas City: DelMonte (Anslow, Hildebrand) &hellip;&hellip; 19:39Penalty: Levandoski.Overtime PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: None.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9OMAHA.&mdash;The Omaha Knights pinned down first place with a decisive 4-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals.Kansas City: Goal, McGill; defence, Levandoski, Marineau; centre, Stearns; wings, DelMonte, Hildebrand; subs.: Drainville, Byers, Bend, Anslow, Raynak, Aiken, Brown, Air.Omaha: Goal, Henry; defence, Forbes, Coburn; centre, Reibel; wings, Skov, Bruneteau; subs.: Durham, Hay, Hinchberger, Uniac, O'Gradey, McLean, Bert Giesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod.First Period1&mdash;Omaha: Bert Giesebrecht (Bruce Giesebrecht) &hellip;&hellip; 2:332&mdash;Omaha: Skov (Bruneteau) &hellip;&hellip; 6:353&mdash;Kanasas City: Stearns (Hilebrand, DelMonte) &hellip;&hellip; 15:324&mdash;Omaha: Bruneteau (Skov) &hellip;&hellip; 19:30Penalties: None.Second Period5&mdash;Omaha: McLean (Uniac, Bert Giesebrecht) &hellip;&hellip; 7:54Penalties: Bruce Giesebrecht, Hinchberger, Hildebrand, Reibel.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: St. Pierre, McLeod.MILWAUKEE.&mdash;St. Paul skated back into second place in the league by outspeeding the Milwaukee Sea Gulls 3-1 before 4,000 spectators.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Mariucci, Barlow; centre, Lowe; wings, Delory, D. Smith; subs.; Ailsby, Hamilton, Brown, Schwartz, Mackintosh, McDonagh, Albright, Dawson, Plumb.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Bedard, Schvetz; centre, Powell; wings, Conacher, Groves; subs.: Redmond, Miller, Leier, Michaluk, Shave, G. Smith, Goodacre, Blade.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul: Schwartz (Brown, D. Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 4:052&mdash;Milwaukee: Goodacre (Leier, Olmstead) &hellip;&hellip; 14:44Penalties: Coflin, Hamill, Mackintosh.Second Period3&mdash;St. Paul: Schwartz (Plumb, Brown) &hellip;&hellip; 3:17Penalties: Pelletier (served by Shave), Mariucci (2), Schvetz.Third Period4&mdash;St. Paul: Mackintosh (Brown) &hellip;&hellip; 19:58Penalties: Barlow, Bedard, D. Smith, Pelletier (served by Goodacre).SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10KANSAS CITY.&mdash;The Omaha Knights blasted three goals in two minutes and three seconds of the second period and went on to a 5-8 victory over Kansas City.Kansas City: Goal, McGill; defence, Levandoski, Marineau; centre, Stearns; wings, Hildebrand. DelMonte; subs.: Field, Drainville, Byers, Bend, Anslow, Brown, Air, St. Pierre.Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Forbes, Coburn; centre, O&rsquo;Grady; wings, Uniac, McLean; sub.: Durham, Hay, Hinchberger, Bert Giesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod, Reibel, Skov Bruneteau.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: None.Second Period1&mdash;Omaha: Bert Giesebrecht (McLeod, Bruce Glesebrecht) &hellip;&hellip; 3:132&mdash;Omaha: Reibel (Bruneteau) &hellip;&hellip; 4:243&mdash;Omaha: Skov (Forbes, Reibel) &hellip;&hellip; 5:164&mdash;Kansas City: Hildebrand (Stearns, Drainville) &hellip;&hellip; 13:135&mdash;Omaha: Bruneteau (Skov) &hellip; 17:016&mdash;Kansas City: Levandoski (DelMonte, Stearns) &hellip;&hellip; 18:417&mdash;Kansas City: Levandoski (Stearns) &hellip;&hellip; 19:03Penalties: McLeod, Hildebrand, Uniac, Durham,Third Period8&mdash;Omaha: Reibel (Coburn) &hellip;&hellip; 16:24Penalties: Bert Giesebrecht.DENVER.&mdash;George Agar paced the Denver Falcons to a 6-3 league victory over the Tulsa Oilers before 2,855.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Bloomer, Davidson; centre, Macey; wings, Young, Butler; subs.: Jones, Dillon, Bradley, O&rsquo;Brien, Gronsdahl, Haldorsen, Porteous, Polle.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Fraser, Chrystal; centre, Agar; wings, Strain, Richardson; subs.: Bak, Kraiger, Brown, Doran, McArthur, MacKenzie, Kaiser, Giesebrecht, Juckes.First Period1&mdash;Denyer: Agar (Richardson) &hellip;&hellip; 2:322&mdash;Denver: MacKenzie (Giesebrecht, McArthur) &hellip;&hellip; 5:003&mdash;Denver: Giesebrecht (MacKenzie, McArthur)&hellip;&hellip; 11:54Penalties: Davidson (2), Fraser, Juckes.Second Period4&mdash;Tulsa: Young (Macey, Butler) &hellip;&hellip; 1:475&mdash;Tulsa: Gronsdahl (Poile) &hellip;&hellip; 8:266&mdash;Denver: Agar (Richardson) &hellip;&hellip; 17:42Penalties: Juckes (minor and misc.), Fraser, Bloomer.Third Period7&mdash;Denver: Agar (Richardson, Strain) &hellip;&hellip; 1:028&mdash;Denver: MacKenzie (Agar) &hellip; 12:249&mdash;Tulsa: Butler &hellip;&hellip; 17:24Penalty: Crowdis (served by Agar).<h2>Sorry, Ref Ol&rsquo; Boy!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02186/1292335-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1708" height="1263"><figcaption class="caption-body">REFEREE CLARENCE ASHWORTH nursed sore chin for few days after this USHL game. The unhappy official is shown here taking stiff elbow uppercut to the button from Frank Porteous of Tulsa Oilers as he tried to break up high-sticking duel between Denver&rsquo;s Bob Chrystal (left) and Tulsa winger Clare Dillon. Porteous was looking the other way, and just naturally thought that was Falcon beneath his elbow! ((Photo by Engler))</figcaption></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03166/1292328-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="592" height="600"></div>THE LEADERSMost Points: Ike Hildebrand, K.C. (35)Most Goals: Lan MacKintosh, St, Paul (18)Most Assists: Cal Stearns, K.C. (24)Most Penalties: Pete Durham, Omaha (98 minutes).Most Hat Tricks: Bert Giesebrecht, Omaha (2). &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

UNITED STATES LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The epidemic of injuries which has recently affected almost half of the Chicago Black Hawks is believed to be the main reason why the team has been slowed in its drive toward second place in the National league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02154/1291735-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="266" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ebbie Goodfellow</figcaption></div>Despite the shortage of personnel, which saw as many as six regulars missing from the lineup in one game, Coach Ebbie Goodfellow says, &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t complain, there hasn&rsquo;t been a single game in which I didn&rsquo;t have to do some sort of shuffling, because of injuries. Our recent record hasn&rsquo;t been bad at all. all things considered.&rdquo;Here are the Chicagoans that have been hurt and when, where and how:Bill Gadsby, defenseman, received a fracture below his left knee in a game at Toronto on November 22 when he checked Cal Gardner.Adam Brown, right wing, suffered a chipped bone in his left ankle when slashed by Bill Baril-ko in the same game.Billy Mosienko, right wing, received torn ligaments in his left knee in the November 29 game at New York.Harry Lumley, goalie, sustained a broken nose from a flying puck off the stick of Harry Watson in the game at Toronto on December 2.Lowe Put Morrison OutGus Bodnar and Don Morrison, both centers, were hurt in the game at Boston, December 6. Bodnar suffered pulled groin muscles while Morrison wrenched his back after a hard check by Ross Lowe, Bruin rearguard.Jack Stewart, defenseman, came up with a serious infection in his left elbow just before the game with the Canadiens, at Montreal, December 9.Doug Bentley, center, received a groin injury in that Montreal game following a hard check.Of this long list, Only Stewart and Bentley failed to miss any games, but they couldn&rsquo;t operate at peak efficiency, because of their injuries.Lumley missed one game, a loss to Boston, which saw Ralph Almas, St. Louis Flyers&rsquo; (AHL) netminder, in the Chicago cage.Mosienko returned to action after missing three games, but his damaged knee still forces him to limp when off the ice.Morrison, Bodnar and Brown should have returned to active play by the time this reaches print. Morrison&rsquo;s back responded to treatment and he was absent for only about a week Bodnar was out of uniform for two weeks while Brown&rsquo;s bad ankle sidelined him for about a month.Gadsby, who still leads the Hawks&rsquo; defensive scorers with eight points, will miss about two months of play, or about one third of the season.The trade with Detroit which brought the Hawks Lee Fogolin, a defenseman. and winger Steve Black, was partially brought on by all the injuries.&ldquo;We had to do something,&rdquo; Goodfellow said, &ldquo;Milwaukee was also injury riddled so we couldn&rsquo;t ask for much help from that direction.&rdquo;When the Sea Gulls are at home and idle the Hawks plan to bring down as many players as are needed. In the New York game at the Chicago Stadium, December 10, Coach Red Hamill of the Milwaukee team turned to the Hawks to help out. He brought along rookie winger Glen Smith and tough back liner Jim Bedard. Hamill, Inc. took their regular turn of duty and Red was voted one of the game&rsquo;s standouts. &#9632;

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Goodfellow Happy At Hawks Record Despite Slow Up From Injuries

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02193/1292183-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg"></div>ESCAPING FROM the Roundheads, King Charles II hid in an oak tree and thereby originated the name &ldquo;Royal Oak&rdquo; for pubs and battleships. Many an inn perpetuated the Royal Oak story after the Restoration. And in such inns, eighteenth century soldiers first called for India Pale Ale. &ldquo;Give us a real man&rsquo;s drink&mdash;give us India Pale,&rdquo; they cried, remembering the zestful ale brewed to withstand a long sea trip to India. And today those who want a &ldquo;real man&rsquo;s drink&rdquo; demand Labatt&rsquo;s India Pale&mdash;brewed to the original English recipe by John Labatt.&mdash;John Labatt Limited.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03160/1292176-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="268" height="425"></div>The swing is DEFINITELY to Labatt&rsquo;s &#9632;

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famous Inn Signs …… No. 8

(Including games of Sunday, Dec. 10)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01217/1292380-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="604" height="3504"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02166/1292373-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="601" height="3996"></div> &#9632;

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American League Monthly Records

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>Entered as second class matter June 1948, at ths Post Office In Buffalo, N.Y.THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVOL. 4&mdash;No. 12 MONTREAL. DECEMBER 23, 1950 PRICE: TEN CENTS (15 CENTS IN U.S.A.)MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;General Manager Frank Selke has threatened to trade any player on his club, with the exception of Maurice Richard, in an effort to strengthen it.The first of what may be a long string of trades and buys took place when Leo Gravelle often called &ldquo;Gazel&rdquo; among other things, was sent to the Detroit Red Wings for Left Winger Bert Olmstead. The Wings secured Olmstead in a trade with the Chicago Black Hawks just a few weeks ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01110/1292705-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg" title="Cover-01" width="256" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Gravelle</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll trade anyone for someone I think will strengthen the club, reported Selke.Right now I&rsquo;m trying to secure a French Canadian right Winger, but after that I don&rsquo;t know what deals will be made.&rdquo;The recent trade which brought Olinstead to Montreal came as a Burprise to most of the city&rsquo;s experts. Although they knew that Gravelie was going somewhere or other the player coming to Montreal was a mystery.The Wings had been after Gravellie for some time. At the beginning of the season they offered Max McNab for him. Although Selke was willing to part with his blond right winger he wanted something more than McNab in return. He asked for-Pat Lundy then with Indianapolis and was refused. Lately it was Gerry Couture whom the Habs had been trying to get In the deal. That apparently blew up as well.Who Is NextNow it remains to be seen just who the next will be to go. Doug Harvey&rsquo;s name is being mentioned but Floyd Curry is the man the Wings would most like to get if the two clubs should do business again. As far as that goes, the Wings are the only club in the league who are deep enough in reserves to do business in a big way,However it&rsquo;s doubtful that Selke would part with Curry unless he was getting a very good deal. To date Floyd has been one of the few big noises on the club.Just who Selke is after for his right side is not known. He now finds himself with four left wingers and two rights. On the port side he has Dussault, MacKay, Olmstead and Kaiser. On the other wing there are only Richard and Curry. It is logical to assume he will trade away a defenseman if anybody, if it comes to parting with a player. The Habs are carrying seven blueliners, three of whom are injured. Bouchard has been out for sometime as has Laycoe and Harmon. To add strength to the defense corps Tommy Manastersky was signed to a pro contract. Also travelling with the club is Ernie Roche, defensemen up from Cincinnati. Manastersky and Roche along with Harvey, Johnson and Macpherson make up the defence Roache will probably be returned to Cincinnati but that will still leave Dick Irvin with seven rearguards.Slump Stalled DeadThe most recent deal stems from the slump which Cana-diens hit in their last few weeks of play. They went six games with just a tie and then finally hit the win column when they beat Chicago 7-3. Oddly enough Gravelie drew two assists from the seven goals and then after the game Irvin told him of the deal.Selke had been trying to make deals with other clubs as well as the Wings. He was rumored in a huddle with the Cleveland Barons, another with Chicago and still another with Toronto. He admitted trying to make one with the Leafs, probably for Fleming MacKell.Any chances of Canadiens getting Paul Meger up from Buffalo this season seem remote. The Canadiens bought Meger from the Bisons last season on condition they would leave him in the American League for another season. Although they could use him for his goal scoring right now it&rsquo;s doubtful that General Manager Art Chapman of the Bisons would let him go.Just recently Selke had been criticised by a French sportswriter for not spending money to develop players. The fact that he has spent the best part of his services in Montreal building up the greatest farm system in the history of hockey had been overlooked by the writer. To make matters worse the writer was president of one of the many Canadiens&rsquo; junior farm teams last season. To his criticism Selke bellowed for all to hear after the Bruins had whipped the Habs 3-0.&ldquo;We spent $50,000 on his club last season just to develop players, if you look around the Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room tonight you won&rsquo;t see one player from that team.Players KnowStill, around Montreal the question is, who will be the next to go? The best way to find out, most experts agree, is to find the players who aren&rsquo;t doing the job their capable of. And the players themselves know that Selke isn&rsquo;t fooling when he says, he&rsquo;ll part with anybody.<h2>A Split In Time</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0277/1292698-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2872" height="2113"></div>Carry McNeil of the Canadiens does the splits to block a shot from Detroit&rsquo;s Gaye Stewart (11). The puck can be seen on McNeil&rsquo;s right while Rookie Tom Johnson stands surprised. 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I’ll Part With Anyone To Strengthen Club-Selke

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;A 27-year old refugee from the operating table is justifying his confidence in his own ability with his performances for the perksd-up p Bruins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01156/1291375-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="278" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Sandford</figcaption></div>Little Pete Horeck, who didn&rsquo;t figure to make the team in September, not only has made it, he is also helping make it a playoff contender.Horeck, a pepperpot forward who has been around with Detroit and Chicago, was injured so badly so often a year ago that his part in the Bruins&rsquo; pre-season plans &rsquo;was small to the point of being invisible.The Bruins&rsquo; &ldquo;brass&rdquo;, for reasons completely logical, didn&rsquo;t think ho could make their squad. Horeck thought so, however, and he did.Horeck&rsquo;s questionable status stemmed from the fact that he missed more than half of last season with injuries, three of them in all. and all serious.Because he missed so many games a year ago, the Bruins&rsquo; Lynn Patrick, then coaching the Rangers, knew virtually nothing about him from personal observ-atios. That situation worried Horeck but didn&rsquo;t discourage him.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d never gone into training camp feeling more uncertain about my future,&rdquo; the little man. admitted. &ldquo;Here wo had a new coach who knew next to nothing about me, and I hadn&rsquo;t had any chance last year to prove to the club that I was entitled to my job.&ldquo;The thing that worried me,&rsquo; Horeck added, &ldquo;was whether or not I&rsquo;d get a chance to show what I could do. I knew I could help the team if only I got the chance.&rdquo;Hustle Impressed PatrickHoreck impressed Patrick with his speed and hustle, qualities of which the Bruins coach is a firm admirer, so he started the season with a job&mdash;as a spare forward.<h2>Was Confident</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02141/1291368-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="584" height="607"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pete Horeck</figcaption></div>When young Eddie Sandford injured his knee in November, Patrick converted Horeck and big Dave Creighton, his other spare forward, to center, alternating them on his third line. Sandford was injured again, hurting the same knee, almost as quickly as he returned to action, so Horeck has been a center ever since.The small citizen of Sudbury, Ontario, had never played center before the Bruins&rsquo; emergency arose, but he attacked his new chore with the enthusiasm which has made him a prime favorite with Boston fans.At no time this season has he shown any ill-effects from the epidemic of injuries he suffered a year ago.In rapid succession last winter Pete received a severe skate cut on his heel which required hours on the operating table for repairs; a broken foot, and finally a shoulder separation. After he hurt his shoulder the Bruins told him to go home and forget hockey for the season.Horeck went back to Sudbury, but he didn&rsquo;t forget hockey. He started getting ready for this year.&ldquo;I played golf nearly every day with Jimmy Conacher of the Black Hawks,&rdquo; he revealed; &ldquo;and I did all the walking I could.&ldquo;Then about two weeks before we were scheduled to report at Hershey for training, I dug up a bicycle and went to work on that. Every day I rodo from Sudbury to Capreol, about 20 miles round trip. When it came time to go to Hershey. I knew I was ready.Horeck&rsquo;s dauntless comeback probably reached its peak the night he scored a goal and made an assist as the Bruins beat the Canadiens here. In the voting of the fans that night for points toward the C.F. Adams trophy, the new third line center was placed first on every ballot. He was the first unanimous choice of the year.Oddly enough, other than the bumps which he received in his first year with the Bruins, Horeck has been handicapped only slightly by injuries during his seven-year major league career.The only other ailment of note which he can recall is a broken cheek bone which he received while playing with Chicago. That one wasn&rsquo;t significant enough&mdash;to him&mdash;to keep him out of the lineup.The Bruins have definitely straightened out after their rocky start, a surge of five victories in seven games bringing them into the sunlight after a long stay in the depths. Their Improvement was reflected immediately in an increase of traffic through the Garden gates.Among the reasons for their pickup were the steady wing play of Vic Lynn and Duncan Fisher, acquisitions from Toronto and New York respectively, and the regaining of his lost touch by Paul Ronty, the blond center.While the offense was developing muscles, the defense, anchored by Goalie Jack Gelineau, pursued its steady pace. The brothers Quackenbush, Bill and Max, and Murray Henderson and Lowe, doing most of the work, have been consistency personified&mdash;consistently good.Weston Adams Buys More Stock In Boston GardenBOSTON&mdash;The Bruins are now playing their National League games here on &ldquo;home ice&rdquo;, speaking literally.Weston W. Adams, president of the Bruins, has purchased 20 per cent of the stock in the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation. The Bruins play their home games at the Garden.Adams, a five per cent stockholder, formerly, purchased the stock held by Raymond W. Lapham. Both participants in the transaction acquired their original holdings from their late fathers, C. F. Adams and Henry G. Lapham.The Bruins have been tenants of the Garden-Arena Corporation since their founding first at the Arena, then at the Garden since its opening in 1927.Adams&rsquo; purchase does not make him the corporation&rsquo;s majority stockholder, but it does give him the largest block. &#9632;

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Horeck Perks Up Bruins With Speed And Bustle; Nearly Didn’t Make It

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, 111.&mdash;.Bep Guidolin and Jim Conacher have developed into a real surprise line with the Chicago Black Hawks this season. They&rsquo;re currently, without a doubt, the NHL&rsquo;s hottest attacking line.They started out as a unit on November 22 and in the Hawks&rsquo; next 10 games they accounted for 15 of the team&rsquo;s 28 goals.During this period, Bep hit for seven goals and five assists, Roy scored six goals and six assists and Jimmy notched two markers and received eight assists.Their real value to Chicago can be more readily realized by reviewing the individual games.On November 22, Guidolin tallied one of the squad&rsquo;s two goals against Toronto and on the next night, the trio accounted for all but one of the Hawks&rsquo; goals in a 4 to 1 conquest of Boston.Jimmy Conacher, with an assist from Roy, scored the only Chicago goal in a tie with New York on the 2 9th. On December 3, Roy and Bep knocked in two of the team&rsquo;s scores in a 3-3 tie with the Leafs.Act Of FateAt Montreal, on the Sth, the line figured in three of the Hawks&rsquo; five counters in a shutout win over the Canadiens. On the following night, they scored all of the Chicago markers to give the team a tie with the Rangers.The assembling of the hot line might actually be termed as more an act of fate than anything else, since there had been no thought of putting the three on the ice together until the Hawks were hit by the injury bug.The necessary reshuffling of personnel started after a rough game in Toronto in which winger Adam Brown and rearguard Bill Gadsby suffered broken legs. Doctors said that Brown&rsquo;s chipped left ankle bone Would take about a month to mend while Gadsby was scheduled to be out of competition for about twice as long with his fracture below the knee.Brown&rsquo;s injury broke up the impressive &ldquo;Comeback&rdquo; line which had also included Roy Conacher and Don Morrison. In order to help offset his losses, Coach Ebbie Goodfellow, of the Hawks, called Jim Conacher and Jack Miller, a left wing, down from Chicago&rsquo;s Milwaukee farm club (USHL). Jimmy had been sent to the Sea Gulls at the start of the season to get in better shape. A shoulder separation had forced him from action at the Chicago training camp last fall.Conacher&rsquo;s record hadn&rsquo;t been any too good at Milwaukee. In a dozen games he had collected only two goals and four assists for six points.In his first game with the Hawks however, he looked like a different player. &ldquo;I guess it depends a lot on who you play with,&rdquo; he said afterwards.&ldquo;Jimmy and Roy are good friends on and off the ice, and that may have something to do with it,&rdquo; William Tobin, the Chicago president, commented.Roy, who&rsquo;s now in his 13th season in the big league, seems set for another big year. In his first 25 games this campaign he ranked fifth in National league scoring with 11 goals and the same number of assists for 22 points. Last year, in his first 26 contests, he had tallied 10 goals and 12 assists for an identical number of points.The 34-year-old veteran joined the honored 200 goal club eary last month and has now increased his total goal output in the NHL to 208. At the close of the 194950 schedule, Roy announced he&rsquo;dretire, but he later reconsidered with some prodding from the Chicago front office.Bep, like Roy, seems to do well with any line partners. Last year he was a member of the popular Hawk line dubbed the &ldquo;Boilermakers.&rdquo; They scored 66 goals and 85 assists.But the &ldquo;"Boilermakers&rdquo; are now an unfortunate part of the past since the other boilers, Metro Prystai and Bert Olmstead, are now Detroit property.Bep was a member of the Red Wings before he came to the Hawks in a swap just after the 1948-49 campaign began. Detroit&rsquo;s general manager, Jack Adams, would probably give any thing now to get Guidolin back, but he&rsquo;s sitting pretty solid with both the Chicago front office and fans.<h2>Hawks&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03131/1291420-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="558" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bep Guidolin</figcaption></div><h2>Hottests&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04107/1291413-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="601" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Conacher</figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;Line</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0584/1291406-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="592" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Conacher</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Newest Line Hottest For Hawks, Conachers And Guidolin Flying

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Conn Smythe&rsquo;s ever-present obsession about strength down the center has a great deal to do with making Leaf clubs over the past few years winners of three straight Stanley Cups and getting them off in a whirlwind with the NHL lead in the early callover.It also probably had a great deal to do with shaping the future of one William Juzda, a Winnipeg fireman, who, before he joined the Leafs seemed destined to end his hockey career in the comparative obscurity which has, except for last season, surrounded the New York Rangers.Juzda, a rough visaged railway fireman would probably never have made a Stanley Cup team if it hadn&rsquo;t been for the retirement of Syl Apps from the Leafs and the ensuing necessity to find a replacement that could hold down the centre slot to Smythe&rsquo;s satisfaction. That pivot turned out to be Cal Gardner, the red headed centre of the Rangers&rsquo; number one line. Gardner appeared to be all that Smythe wanted in the deal. But included were Rene Trudell, Juzda and Frank Mathers, then with the Ottawa Senators. Mathers figured to be next in potential importance to Gardner. The Leaf management had been impressed with the way h e handled defense chores for the Senators and had visions of making him a Leaf regular.Paradoxically enough it was Mathers who was destined for minor League duty and 01&rsquo; Man Juzda who was to hit the top notes with the Leafs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01155/1291507-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="422" height="1013"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAL GARDNER</figcaption></div>Juzda was at home in Winnipeg when he learned of the deal which had sent Leafs Wally Stanowski and Elwyn Morris to the Rangers and himself to the Leafs. Therein, incidentally, lays a strange quirk of fate. Juzda and Stanowski, both Winnipeg boys, had played on RCAF teams during the war when Bill was a Canso pilot on coastal command. Juzda had always looked forward to the possibility of playing on the same team with his buddy. So finally made it to New York but Juzda went to the Toronto Club.Juzda went to the Pittsburgh Hornet farm club on joining the Leaf organization and the talk around T.O. was that he was being put to pasture to play out his hockey career in the minor leagues.But Smythe had other plans for him. Garth Boesch, the mustached Saskatchewan wheat farmer, was being held back by a recurring groin injury. The Leafs needed six defensemen under those circumstances. Boesch might not be able to start. They had Gus Mortson, Jim Thomson, Bill Barilko and Mathers. The expendable player was Bob Dawes who had been called up as an extra centre. Dawes went down to the salt mines, Juzda got his comeuppance and played his first game with the Leafs on Oct. 30. Except for an eight game absence in &rsquo;49-&rsquo;50 he&rsquo;s been going ever since.The Beast, a nickname he picked up from teammates because he has the most embroidered and battered visage in the league, started his hockey with the Kenora Thistles a club which made the Memorial Cup finals in 1940. It was while he was with them he was spotted by the Rangers. His next stop was Philadelphia, then a Ranger farm club, and his first nights in a regular Ranger uniform he spent on the bench while the Red Wings defeated the Blueshirts in &rsquo;40-&rsquo;41, in the B series, two games to one.William Joined the RCAF then and didn&rsquo;t get back to pro hockey till &rsquo;45-&rsquo;48 when he was sent to Providence to shed excess poundage. He finally broke back in with the Rangers in &rsquo;46-&rsquo;47 when he played defence beside Neil Colville, present coach of the Rangers.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of the greatest competitors I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; Hap Day, erstwhile Leaf coach remarked. &ldquo;If you sit him on the bench he just Stays there. Never has a beef or anything to say. He&rsquo;s a very valuable guy to have on your club.&rdquo;Juzda&rsquo;s value can be attested by the enemy forwards who have tried to get past his chunky rocklike frame and by those who have tried to get in his way when he gets up a head of steam and lights out of his own zone with the puck. Will played some right wing when he was younger and has evein filled in there for the Leafs in pinches.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02129/1291500-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="294" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mathers</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0390/1291493-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="269" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Conn Smythe</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0455/1291486-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="985" height="1296"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill &ldquo;The Beast&rdquo; Juzda has become a valuable man to Conn Smythe&rsquo;s Toronto Maple Leafs. When he was traded from the Rangers most experts predicted he would finish out his career with the Pittsburgh Hornets But Juzda fooled them and is now a good candidate for the All-Star team.</figcaption></div><h2>Figured In Deal</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0537/1291479-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="544" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body">RENE TRUDELL</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0624/1291472-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="552" height="851"><figcaption class="caption-body">ELWYN MORRIS</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0716/1291465-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="409" height="966"><figcaption class="caption-body">SYL APRS</figcaption></div>Hockey wasn&rsquo;t Juzda&rsquo;s only opportunity to make a name in the athletic world. He could have a chance at football when Winnipeg Blue Bombers&rsquo; officials noted that he might be of use when he was playing high school football under Les Lear, now coach of the Calgary Stampeders.But money was a problem with Will then and as football was not as yet on the cash and carry basis that hockey was, he took the latter road. At 3 0 years of age he still has a couple of seasons left. To see him operate sometimes you&rsquo;d wonder if he&rsquo;d ever quit. His only difficulty is getting leave of absence from the railroad. At his present clip he&rsquo;ll need a lot more of them.Bill is not at all reticent in telling people that he is really hungry this year. &ldquo;I had a terrible summer&hellip; my home was badly affected by the Winnipeg flood and I was off work for a while due to the railway strike. I&rsquo;m out to make all the money I can this season, and If I have anything to say or do about it the Leafs are going to win everything in sight this year,&rdquo; burly Bill stated. The way he&rsquo;s played so far this year is an indication that he&rsquo;s hungry all right. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s All-Star material right now,&rdquo; Conn Smythe was heard remarking to a reporter at a Leafs&rsquo; practice the other day. &ldquo;The way he&rsquo;s played this season, Juzda is as good as any defenseman in the National Hockey League,&rdquo; Smythe added.Juzda is one of the best hockey checkers in the league and he likes it best and is at his best when the going is at its heaviest. &ldquo;I get most of my kicks out of body checking and I&rsquo;ve laid out a few in my time, too,&rdquo; Bill says with a grin. &ldquo;One night Doug Bentley decides he&rsquo;ll sail around me. I stick out my behind and do I nail Doug Bentley? Yes, siree, I sure do. He was about 20 feet from the boards when I let him have it and he lands into the boards with a loud thud, and is out of action for two weeks.&rdquo; Gill was getting wermed up as he started thinking of his bodychecking displays of the past. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a little sorry about my second best body check because it was the one that ended Toe Blake&rsquo;s career, but I&rsquo;m compelled to say it was a good check and 100 per cent legal. Unfortunately, Toe skids along the ice after I nail him and crashed into the boards with his leg twisted under him.&rdquo; Juzda explained.What a lot of people in hockey can&rsquo;t understand is the way Juzda has improved as a player since joining the Leafs. There is no comparison between the player the Leafs&rsquo; acquired from the Rangers and the Juzda of today. The rugged fireman from Winnipeg is a pretty valuable piece of hockey machinery and a good man to have on your side when the going gets tough. His spirit is marvellous. He has the all requisites of any great athlete&hellip; ability and heart. When it comes to heart, Juzda really shines. There isn&rsquo;t a player in the N.H.L. who has more moxie that Willyam.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0812/1291458-1-eng-US/f0003-082.jpg" title="f0003-08" width="261" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walt Stanowski</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-098/1291451-1-eng-US/f0003-092.jpg" title="f0003-09" width="259" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Garth Boesch</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Leaf Defenseman Came Up Winding Road

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01226/1291594-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="304" height="513"></div>WHEN RED HAMILL, coach of the Milwaukee Sea Gulls, helped put the injury-riddled Cehicago Black Hawks on December 10, he was able to don his old Chicago uniform again&hellip; No. 15. This number now belongs to Don Morrison, but the ex-Indianapolis Cap was sidelined with a wrenched back&hellip; Tommy Manastersky, the huge defenseman just signed to a pro contract by the Montreal Canadiens, was recently selected as the top amateur athlete in Montreal. Manastersky was a star halfback with Montreal Alouettes in the Big Four this fall&hellip; Crowds in Milwaukee have not been too good so far this season. The magnificent new arena has approximately 9,000 seats hut up to now the crowds haven&rsquo;t equalled a third of this&hellip; The Detroit-Chicago postponed game of October 19 will be played in Chicago on January 23&hellip; The game scheduled for Chicago on January 16 will be played on January 17 instead&hellip; Louis &ldquo;Napolean&rdquo; Trudel, long-time Chicago and Canadiens&rsquo; forward, is now playing coach of the Grand Rapids Rockets in the U.S. International League&hellip; The Cincinnati Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring hockey among the youngsters of the Queen City. Over 10 0 attended a practice session at the Cincinnati Gardens recently&hellip; Hy Buller of the Cleveland Barons has established a new scoring record for defensemen in the American Hockey League. As of December 3, Buller had 68 goals and 17 6 assists for 24 4 points for his A.H.L. career. The former record was 237 points and was set by another Cleveland defenseman, Danny Sprout, now playing coach of the Seattle Ironmen in the P.C.H.L&hellip;. Buller, incidentally, is one of the few Jewish hockey players&hellip; Johnny Crawford has been doing a splendid job as playing coach for Hershey Bears of the A.H.L. His own playing and his teaching of defense tactics to his players has been a big factor in the rise of the Bears. The Hershey defense average has been reduced a full goal per game over last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02203/1291587-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="274" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buller</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03135/1291580-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="280" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Hamill</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0498/1291573-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="258" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pete Horeck</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0585/1291566-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="247" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Daman</figcaption></div>CLINT BENEDICT, the old Montreal Maroon and Ottawa Senator goalie, likes present day hockey. He isn&rsquo;t like some of the old timers who keep living in the past and go around regretful for the good old days, which probably weren&rsquo;t so good as some of them like to imagine&hellip; Newsy Lalonde, like Benedict, also likes today&rsquo;s hockey and seldom misses a Canadiens game&hellip; The English National League is enjoying one its most successful seasons. Red Stapleford writes that only five points separate the first and last place clubs. The race has never been closer than this year&hellip; Jackie Miller, new winger with Chicago Black Hawks, is the third player in the N.H.L. who was born and raised in Delisle, Sask. The other two are the Bentley brothers of course, the people that put Delisle on the map. Like Max and Doug, Miller is a wheat farmer in the summer&hellip; Eight of the 14 top goal scorers in the N.H.L. on December 15, notched the majority of their goals playing away from their home ice. Jimmy McFadden of Detroit scored seven of nine goals on the road. Tod Sloan, the league&rsquo;s top marksman, was an exception, however. Sloan tallied 11 of his 16 goals at Maple Leaf Gardens&hellip; Jack Stewart is one of hockey&rsquo;s most courageous players. He never missed a game all the taime he had an infected boil on his arm. &ldquo;If I had an arm like that I&rsquo;d be in the hospital,&rdquo; Dr Tom Kelley, Boston Bruins&rsquo; club doctor, said when he had a look at the Chicago defenseman&rsquo;s infected arm&hellip; Moncton Hawks of the Maritime Big Four League have been the graveyard for more coaches than any other team. It&rsquo;s a slow season when the Hawks fail to have three different coaches in a year&hellip; There have been six major trades between Chicago and Detroit since December, 1947&hellip; Regina&rsquo;s Stubby Mason, star goaltender of the Wembley Lions of the English League, is drawing people through the turnstiles to watch his acrobatic antics in the nets. He has been credited with attracting as many as 2,000 fans in any game he appears. He is by far the most colorful player to ever perform in English hockey&hellip; Pete Horeck, whom everyone figured was washed up at the start, of the season, is the new toast of Boston. The hustling Bruin winger is presently having his best N.H.L. year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0672/1291559-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="238" height="366"><figcaption class="caption-body">John Crawford</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0763/1291552-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="264" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry McNeil</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0857/1291545-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="266" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Kelly</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0957/1291538-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="276" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gus Mortson</figcaption></div>GERRY McNEIL, Canadiens&rsquo; rookie goalie, might lose all his front teeth. He stopped Vern Kaiser&rsquo;s pre-game practice shot flush on the face in Boston the other night. It was the first shot of the pre-game warmup and McNeil was knocked unconscious. He was being carried from the ice at the same time fans were arriving for the game&hellip; Manager Cliff Ehrle of the Regina Caps fined three of his players $50 each for indifferent play. &ldquo;There will be plenty of changes made if the Caps don&rsquo;t start winning soon.&rdquo; Ehrle warned&hellip; Gus Mortson has been playing with his wrist in a heavy leather casing. The speedy Toronto defenseman has found It difficult controlling the puck&hellip; Bill Durnan will tell you how fast McNeil, received a letter from a fan praising his work. It concluded fame flees. Recently his successor in the Mnotreal nets, Gerry with, &ldquo;I think you have been doing a grand job replacing Frankie Brimsek.&rdquo;&hellip; Red Kelly has been playing great hockey for the Detroit Red Wings and is just about the most valuable player in the league. &#9632;

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Passing the Puck

<div class="byline">By RED BURNETT</div>(Toronto Daily Star)TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Hockey followers who moan about the ills of modern hockey and long for the &ldquo;good old days&rdquo; would have been shocked had they been permitted to sit at the screening of past and present hockey games at the Maple Leaf Gardens recently.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1052/1291649-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="278" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Cook</figcaption></div>With General-manager Conn Smythe, of the Leafs, supplying the commentary, the scribes were shown pictures of the hectic Montreal Canadien-New York Ranger N.H.L. playoff in Madison Square Garden back in 1935. Then a shot of a modern Leaf-Boston game.The turbulent Ranger-Canadian duel had more stick swinging blood-letting than we&rsquo;ve seen in five seasons. However, the tempo was much slower, the stickhandling no better if as good and the goalkeeping not nearly as good.It was also noticeable that the referees (they used two in those days) had more control over the players. Not once during the wild game did a player natter or clutch at an official. They knew better. Such action in those days brought an additional five or 10 minute sentence and your team played short handed.Now of course, they have the misconduct penalty and accompanying $25 fine. This would be much better if the fine was $50 or even $100. Then they&rsquo;d really think twice before storming at officials.No More Hey-RubesWatching the donnybrook between Canadiens and Rangers (that was the night Nels Crutchfield, of Canadiens, cut Bill Cook for 15 stitches) Smythe said; &ldquo;We (the Leafs) had one of those in nearly every rink on the circuit in those days. You never see those hey-rubes now.&rdquo;There was a twinkle in his eyes and a longing note in his voice as he recalled a few Leafian battles that featured Red Horner and others. No doubt he was thinking of the night he attended the Boston hockey party in silk topper and tails, or the night he leaped the dasher in New York or a 100 other stormy incidents as he, Lester Patrick, Art Ross, Red Dutton, Jack Adams and the others worked overtime to make hockey&rsquo; big time.That Garden brawl showed Crutchfield shashing Cook across the head and then throwing him. to the ice. Bun Cook rushed to his brother&rsquo;s assistance swinging his stick at Crutchfield&rsquo;s noggin. Three Canadiens rushed in with sticks held club fashion. Then the players spilled from the benches and went at it with fists. Lester Patrick came out and helped the police and referees quell the riot.Cook Had an EdgeBill Cook was the only player out there who appeared to have it on Max Bentley, Ted Kennedy, Gord Howe, Joe Klukay, Bill Reay or any other of the top stickhandlers in the league at present. They also appeared to have far more time to make plays in those day of the three zone hockey.As for the strife on the ice, it was worse than last season&rsquo;s playoff hey-rube between Leafs and Detroit, simply because the players left the bench. If they leave the bench now it costs them money. plus an additional penalty.However, Crutchfield didn&rsquo;t swing his stick with any more authority than did Leo Reise on Jim Thomson and the fighting was not any better than the Boston brawl that saw Harry Watson flatten Murray Henderson&rsquo;s nose.<h2>Hockey</h2>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September, by HOOKEY NEWS COMPANY, 608A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebe Canada. Entered as second dale matter June 1, 1948, at the Port Office in Buffalo, N.Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price $2.80 in Canada, $3.50 in U.S.A. &#9632;

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THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS WERE NOT SO GOOD OLD PUCK FILM SHOWS

<div class="byline">By VICTOR SERVICE</div>MONCTON, N.B.&mdash;Moncton, N.B., has become a cemetery for hockey coaches, since a team representing that railway centre won the Allan Cup, in 1933 and repeated in 1934. Moncton, the first community in the maritime provinces, to take the Canadian title, and only one to repeat, has been aiming at another Canadian championship ever since 1934. but the results have been very unsatisfactory for the Moncton-ians.For instance, the Moncton Hawks, using the same title as when the Moncton entry was in its winning ways, has been in the basement of the Maritime League from the outset of the 19 50-51 season. Which Isn&rsquo;t box office in any league.Amid plenty of ballyhoo, the coach for the 1950-51 season was signed up during the summer. He was a home product, Gordie (Lefty) Drillon, who couldn&rsquo;t make the Allan Cuppers of Moncton, but went to Toronto, and there, graduated into the leafs. Becoming a scoring leader one season, thanks to the team play of Sy] Apps.Back home, with his contacts with the Leafs and later, the Montreal Canadiens behind him, Drillon still couldn&rsquo;t catch on with the Hawks, either as a coach or player. He was a playing coach at Charlottetown, P.E.I. for a season, lasted about a month as ditto with North Sydney Vics in the Cape Breton League, and finished the season at Grand Falls, Nfld. For the 1949-50 season, ho was a player with the Saint John, N.B. Beavers in the Maritime or &ldquo;Big Four&rdquo; hookup.Then, at last, camo a chance to be a Hawk. Only to get the bird, by mid-November.Drillon Also FailedBefore the Hawks went into action, Drillon doubled as a honeymooner and talent quester, on a tour of Ontario and Quebec, assembling players. The prediction was made that he would have a machine that would roll out a carpet that would connect his home town with the Allan Cup again. But, alas and alack, the dream quickly proved a nightmare that drove Drillon buggy. Finally, he was taken for a ride. The most tear jerking phase for the Hawks sponsors, was that most of the few games the Drillon mentored Hawks won, were on the road. Which left the box office at the Moncton Stadium redder than the Kremlin. Monc-tonians got to jeering instead of cheering.When the Hawk backers whistled out Drillon, they turned to a Bell, They let George do it. A former Hawk player, he had been club secretary. Doggie Kuhn, of Bedford, N.S. followed Bell.The expulsion of Drillon started a civil war In the Moncton district. One faction disapproved the action, and were so put out about him being ejected, they threatened a boycott of the box office. The repercussions penetrated business. Job O&rsquo;Brien, a Moncton businessman, didn&rsquo;t have the patience of Job. He tossed in the towel as a vice-president of the maritime hockey setup, because he took offence at Drillon being given the gate.So, Drillon was consigned to the Ousted Hawk Coaches Club. Fellow members are:Harvey (Busher) Jackson, of Toronto, who used to gang up on National Hockey League goalies, with his mates, Joe Primeau, current coaches of the Leafs, and Charlie Conacher, ex-Black Hawk pilot, when they comprised the Leaf kid line. Jackson was Dril-lon&rsquo;s immediate predecessor. Two Leafs fell by the way side in succession.Jack McKinnon, of Toronto, who had been a veteran minor league player and coach, preceded Jackson and was thumbed out when the Hawks failed to click into a winning mood.Les Ramsay, of Montreal, who had been a player in the outright pro and amateur ranks for many seasons on both sides of the border. He&rsquo;s been coaching Saint John Beavers, league opponents of the Hawks along with Halifax St. Marys and Charlottetown Islanders..Clarence (Windy) Steele, of Summerside, P.E.I. claims he wasn&rsquo;t fired but that he quit on his own. He had done some playing in the minors as a defenseman, and this season has been coaching the Fredericton, N.B. Capitals.Harold (Dud) James, who was a centre for the Hawks of championships seasons, 1933 and 1934, coached their successors for several seasons, and now is manager of the Stadium, which is city owned. James lives at Sunny Brae, a Moncton suburb, and was the only member of the championship Hawks hailing from the Moncton district.The coach of the champion Hawks was Percy Nicklin, of Fort Frances, Ont. He had been coaching at Winnipeg, before heading for Moncton. The Hawks were imported from Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and with three from New Brunswsk, but only one from the Moncton district. After his successful two seasons at Moncton, and the collapse of the team machine through financing troubles and raiding of players, Nicklin moved across the brimy to England. He&rsquo;s been piloting teams in the English National Hockey League. &#9632;

Moncton Runs 1st As Graveyard For Mgrs, Coaches

<div class="byline">By VERN De GEER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01176/1291680-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"></div>(Montreal Gazette)MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;When National Hockey League players have finished off the Stanley Cup games next Spring and settle into a corner to run through their fingers the gold they&rsquo;ve accumulated as post-season playoff bonuses, they could do worse than offer up a silent prayer for the late Billy Burch, versatile campaigner with Hamilton Tigers, New York Americans and Chicago Black Hawks, who died recently.It was an unprecedented strike of the Hamilton entry in the N.H.L. in the Spring of that eventually led to improved player contracts and an increase in playoff splits, untiltoday the average &ldquo;cut&rdquo; compares favorably with playoff bonusing in other professional sports.Percy Thompson, still major domo of Hamilton&rsquo;s now ancient Barton street arena, was manager of the Hamilton Strike-breakers. Burch was one of the outstanding performers. It was the season he was awarded the Hart Trophy. Teammates included Jakle Forbes. Leo Reise, Red and Shorty Green, Mickey Roach, Ken Crandall. Clarence Bouchard, Charlie Langlois, Jess ring and Alex McKinnon.The &ldquo;strike&rdquo; was fomented after the Tigers, firmly established a first place club, played their last game of the regular schedule against Canadiens at the Forum.Already assured of first place the Hamilton management cautioned its players to take it easy in the Montreal contest, save them selves for the playoffs. But Ottawa, which could make the playoffs if Tigers won, quietly approached them and promised a bonus of 100 to each player if they beat the Canadiens. They tried but failed.<h2>He Had His Troubles!</h2>LATE FRANK CALDER, President of the National Hockey League when Billy Burch was in his heyday, had problems galore with the antics of hockey&rsquo;s colorful stormy petrel.After the game the Hamilton players went into war council and decided they wouldn&rsquo;t take part the N.H.L. or Stanley Cup playoffs against the Pacific Coast unless they were guaranteed &ldquo;playoff pay&rdquo; on the same basis as their regular season salary. They argued their contracts ended at the of the regular schedule. They wanted additional pay for the playoffs, regardless of playoff splits, which weren&rsquo;t too healthy in those days.On the train ride from Montreal to Hamilton, Shorty Green acted as spokesman for the players in an interview with Thompson. He told Percy the players wanted $200 apiece bonus or wouldn&rsquo;t lace on another skate.When the Hamilton party reached home, Thompson immediately communicated with the late Frank Calder, then N.H.L. president and told him of the situation. Frank threatened the players with fines, suspensions and even a damage suit for failure to fulfill contracts.Burch and Green, joining in the &ldquo;strike&rdquo;, warned their mates they all had to solemnly agree to rise or fall on their demands, or they would have no part of the deal.Pressure came from all sides and some of the players wanted to forget the whole thing, but Burch and Green held the fort. Hamilton was left out of the playoffs, which Canadiens won and then went down to defeat before Lester Patrick&rsquo;s Cougars in a series at Victoria, B.C.Percy Thompson doubtless breathed a sigh of relief, for Hamilton had gone through a poor financial season, and it was apparent on all sides the Mountain City wasn&rsquo;t big enough to support N.H.L. competition. A few months later he sold the Hamilton players and franchise to Tex Rickard for approximately $100,000&mdash;bringing into hockey for 19252 6 the New York Americans.One of Rickard&rsquo;s first moves was to have a huge sign erected in the main lobby of Madison Square Garden. At one end was a life-size picture of Babe Ruth&mdash;at the other a similar likeness of Billy Burch. The sign read: &ldquo;You know baseball&rsquo;s Babe Ruth-&mdash;now you&rsquo;ve got to meet the Babe Ruth of hockey.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Late Billy Burch Termed Hockey’s Babe Ruth Once

<div class="byline">By TED RANDOLPH</div>ST. PAUL, Minn.&mdash;A check of the All-Star rosters the five years the United States Hockey league has been in operation provide quite a story of consistency as far as defensemen Lloyd Ailsby of St. Paul and Omaha&rsquo;s Jake Forbes are concerned.The two blue liners have been on either the first or second AllStar teams for all but one of the five years. Lloyd missed one season&mdash;1946-47&mdash;because he was with New Haven in the American league. Jake missed the boat that campaign, too, because the selectors figured four other gents ranked him.One campaign&mdash;1948-&rsquo;49&mdash;Jake and Lloyd wound up as a teammates on the No. 1 All-Star unit. Last season they were together again&mdash;only on the second squad. In the two other seasons he made the All-Star team Jake gained top ranking while Lloyd wound up on the second squad.The two &ldquo;old reliables&rdquo; richly deserve every honor that has been tossed their way. In the years they have been with Omaha and St. Paul they have given unselfishly of their services&mdash;always ready to do things for the good of their respective clubs rather than their own. Both have served as team captains for the last couple of campaigns.Neither is the blustering, headline grabbing type of defenseman. However, both make their presence felt with heady play at all times. &#9632;

Forbes, Ailsby Consistant All-Star Choices

Founded October 1. 1947Publlehed by Hockey News Company, 60SA Sun Life Building. Montreal, Que.Yearly Subscription Price $2.60 in Canada&mdash;$3.60 in U.S.A.Authorized as second clast man, Poet once Department, Ottawa. Printed in CanadaVol. 4 December 23 1950 No. 12(The following is a Christmas message prepared by DOUG GRIMSTON, President of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. Mr. Grimston sees hockey as being in a healthy state, and playing an exceedingly important part in molding the minds and bodies of our Citizens of Tomorrow.)May I extend Christmas Greetings to all. By all, I mean those who play and those who officiate&mdash;both professional and amateur, and those who enjoy Canada&rsquo;s National Game of Hockey.During the past few years hockey has enjoyed its greatest popularity.There are two reasons responsible for this prosperity. First, the game has been streamlined and rules changed to give it the greatest customer appeal. Secondly, the coaching and management of the teams has had men of the highest calibre. The coaching of our midgets, juveniles and juniors is a most important work in our organization as a good coach contributes so much to the building of character up to and during adolescence.When a hockey player has been efficiently coached in both the game and character, he has been given a foundation to develop a career depending on his own ability. In all probability it will give him an opportunity to travel and become an ambassador of goodwill and I can think of no finer contribution to the youth of Canada.It has been frequently observed that visiting statesmen, regardless of their ability, do not draw the audience of a visiting hockey team. It is reasonable to assume that twenty players would make many more contacts than one individual. Again, they would bring back to us their impressions of the difficulties and handicaps of those they had visited and thereby create a better understanding with other nations. This was particularly true with our last Olympic winners, the R.C.A.F. Flyers and the Edmonton Mercurys&rsquo; trip of last year.As hockey is organized provincially from pee-wee to juvenile and nationally from junior to major, there are bound to be many differences of opinion, due to the diversified operations.It is fitting, therefore, to look back and judge each incident on its importance and ascertain that all officers and officials are co-operating to achieve the same &ldquo;goal&rdquo;; that no one is &ldquo;off side&rdquo;; and that our grand game of hockey will continue to skate to even greater heights.A Merry Christmas to you all! &#9632;

The Hockey News

Once again, it&rsquo;s Christmas&mdash;the time of merrymaking, goodwill and friendship.At this Yuletide, it&rsquo;s as good a time as any to look back over the achievements of hockey in the past twelve months, and conjure up what the future may hold in store.All in all, balancing the many factors, the picture is encouraging. True, attendances have been falling off in some places. True, also, New Haven has had to drop out the American Hockey League because of lack of interest among the fans.But in those centers where strong, contending teams are located, the turnout at the ticket windows leaves little to be desired&mdash;even though not as heavy as the abnormally high attendances during the lush boom years immediately following the war.At a time when the threat of war and disaster is hanging over the world, it&rsquo;s a tribute to hockey that it has been able to draw such a following in so many places. It&rsquo;s a tribute to the great hold hockey has on the sports fan&rsquo;s imagination. And, just so long as hockey can offer the public the thrills, speed and action&mdash;just so long as the owners see to it that the hometown fans are offered good players and a good team, so long will the game flourish.Hockey has survived wars and depressions, lasted through its many ups and downs, and will come out on top this time, too.So, to hockey fans everywhere; to club executives, managers, coaches, trainers, players and all the many others who make possible the great spectacle which is hockey&mdash;we extend the Season&rsquo;s Greetings and best wishes for many more successful years. &#9632;

Our Christmas Message

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01248/1291814-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div>WHERE&rsquo;S WARECKI?Dear Sir,You sure cover the different leagues real well, and I enjoy watching the players move up and down the ladder of success each year.I would like to find out where Stan Warecki is playing now. He was once with Buffalo and Houston and he originally turned pro with the San Diego Skyhawks where I became friendly with him.I would like to know how I could get in touch with him by mail. I look each, week but can&rsquo;t find his name in the lineups. I met him when I was in the U.S. Navy in San Diego.Walter R. Jones IIWollaston, Mass.(Stan Warecki is now playing hockey with the Ottawa Senators of the Quebec Senior Hockey League. Write to him in care of the club.)AGE-OLD PROBLEMDear Sir,I would like to find out how old Maurice Richard is&mdash;what year and month he was born in. A friend and I are having an argument, so please answer in the next edition.E. Belle Alexandria, Ont.(According to the official records, Maurice Richard was born in Montreal, Que. on August 4, 1921, which makes him 29 years old.)WANTS COPYDear Sir,Would you please give the Cornwall hockey fans a writeup on the Cornwall Calumets? All I have ever noticed in your paper is the Eastern Canada Senior schedule and standings. I have been a subscriber since you first started in 1947, and not once have I seen anything written about the Calumets.A Calumet Fan Cornwall, Ont.INFORMATION PLEASEDear Sir,I would like to know Maurice Richard&rsquo;s complete record in the N.H.L. Also what were Bill Dur-nan&rsquo;s best and worst goals against averages?How about a good story on Maurice Richard, the greatest hockey player of all time?Raymond Hachey Bathurst, N.B.(Joseph Henri Maurice (Rocket) Richard joined the Canadiens in 1942-43, and this is his ninth consecutive season with the Habs. in order, he scored 11 points in 16 games his first year, then 54, 73, 48, 71, 53, 38 and 65 points in each successive year. His 12 goals in the 1943-44 playoffs is a record for Stanley Cup play. His 50 goals in 50 games in 1944-45 is also an N.H.L. record. He won the Hart. Trophy in 1946-47. Bill Durnan&rsquo;s best goals-against average was in 1948-49 when he allowed only 126 goals in 60 games for a 2.10 average. His lowest average came in 1947-48&mdash;2.74&mdash;the only year in seven seasons with the Habs that he did not win the Georges Vezina Memorial Trophy.)HERE&rsquo;S ORCHIDSDear Sir,If I could afford them, I&rsquo;d send you orchids because you are doing a splendid job on your articles in the column &rsquo;Radiorchids&rsquo;. How about some Maritime sportscasters in your column like Danny Gallivan at CJCH in Halifax, Earle Ross at CKCW in Moncton, Bill Brown at CFCY in Charlottetown and Gord Smith at CFBC in Saint John?It&rsquo;s grand to have your paper publishing about our sportscasters who bring us most of our local games over the air.Clarence Smith Saint John, N.B.(We&rsquo;ve already had Danny Gallivan of Halifax in Radiorchids, as you may have noticed, and it will only be a matter of time until we get around to the others).WHOSE SHUTOUT?Dear Sir,I was listening to a game in Toronto recently, and Al Rollins, goalie with the Leafs was injured. His place was taken by Turk Broda and the game finished in a scoreless draw.Who gets credit for the shutout? Rollins or Broda?Donald Lofuergey Summerside, P.E.I.(As it happened, Broda got credit for the shutout, as he played more minutes of the 60 than Rollins.)WELCOME NEWSDear Sir,I noticed a slight error in one of your issues recently which stated that Tom Rockey was reinstated and was playing in the Western Canada Senior League. Well, Tom is here in Cape Breton, doing a fine job on defense for the Sydney Millionaires.One of your readers was asking the whereabouts of some of the former Fresno Falcons of the P.C.H.L. We have quite a few on the Cape Breton Senior League here. The Northside Victorias have Sam Robertson, Charlie Knox, Roy Glover and Laurie Peterson. The Sydney Millionaires have Eddie Marchant, and the Glace Bay Miners have Stan Robertson. Other players who performed here last year were Laurie May, Bill Cupolo, Phil Dagleish and Les Vickery.Daniel A. MacDonald. Bras d&rsquo;Or, Cape Breton.(Thanks for the welcome information Dan, we&rsquo;re sure other readers will be glad to hear where these men are).GOALS APLENTYDear Sir,Can you please tell me how many goals Maurice Richard has scored so far in the N.H.L.?Samuel Malumud Montreal, Que.(Richard has scored 250 goals in 404 games in his pro career. This does not include the present season.)AGREEMENT HEREDear Sir,I have just read a fan letter by John Hammond of Innisfall, Alta. I agree perfectly with his predictions for the 1950-51 season, except I think Tod Sloan will be the leading scorer.I would like to see something on Cal Gardner, Harry Watson and Howie Meeker of Toronto. They are three of my favourite players.Dorothy Stumpf. Waterloo, Ont.HUNTING WARWICKDear Sir,Please tell me where Grant Warwick, late of Boston Bruins, is now playing. Has Frank Brim-sek retired?Jerry Feirn Kirkfield, Ont.(Grant Warwick is with the Buffalo Bisons, leaders of their section in the American Hockey League. At this writing, Warwick is second in the league scoring to mate Ab DeMarco. Brimsek has hung up his skates for good.)ALL-STAR CHOOSING DearSir,There has been a question in the back of my mind for some time now and that is the question of the annual choosing of the all-star team. It appears to me that in choosing the forwards the scoring race is all too often the deciding factor.It is my contention that when these all-star teams are made up, men like Johnny McCormack, Kenny Mosdell, Tony Leswick, Bill Ezinicki, Marty Pavelich and. even the great Milt Schmidt are neglected, because they are so far down the scoring ladder they can hardly be seen.A few years ago, I remember utility men were put on the allstars, but today, despite the great work of these men, they are not considered.Alan Travoges Montreal, Que.MORE AMATEUR PICS Dear Sir,How about a little more detail on amateur players? Here in Quebec we have two fine teams, the Aces and the Citadels and each, are leading their leagues.I believe the Q.S.H.L. is as strong if not stronger than the American League and I don&rsquo;t see why it doesn&rsquo;t get as much space as the A.H.L.Dick Gamble of Quebec Aces (senior), and Jean Beliveau of Quebec Citadels (junior), are surgery to make the grade in profession ranks. Each leads the scoring in his respective league.I doubt if this letter will result in any pictures or stories on the Quebec senior or junior fronts, but here&rsquo;s hoping.Bruce Morton. Sillery, Que.LUCKY SEVENDear Sir,I enjoy the Fan Forum in particular, so I have chosen my team which I shall name &lsquo;The Lucky Seven&rsquo; because each player&rsquo;s last name has seven letters in it.Goal-Terry Sawchuk; defense-Gus Mortson, Jim Thomson, Frank Eddolls and Jack Stewart;, centers-Max Bentley, Ted Kennedy, Edgar Laprade; left wings-Tel Lindsay, Tony Leswick, Pete Babando; right wings-Maurice Richard, Johnny Peirson, Do Couture.Subs-Goal-Al Rollins; defense-Bob Goldham, Lee Fogo-lin Bill Barilko, Allan Stanley, Jack Lancien, Tom Johnson, Ernie Dickens; centers-Metro Prystai, Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Cal Gardner, Milt Schmidt, Ken Mosdell; left wings-Danny Lewicki, Fleming Mackell; right wings-Joe Car-veth, Arnie Kullman, Paul Mas-nick, Vic Stasiuk.P.S.-I lost a good defenseman in Ken Reardon!Anonymous Montreal, Que.(We never noticed that the were so many players with seven letters in their last name. There&rsquo;s some great hockey material, especially in that first team of yours. You could almost get an all-star club, maybe an official one, out of it.)<div class="sidebar"><h2>DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE?</h2>It is our policy to notify all subscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptions.The ever-increasing demand for THE HOCKEY NEWS means that most issues are practically sold out before the printing is completed; and that copies are seldom available for mailing to subscribers who are even one issue in arrears.Subscribers receiving "expiration" notification are reminded that, to make certain of confirmed receipt of THE HOCKEY NEWS it is necessary to send us their renewal orders promptly.If you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice. &#9632;</div>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02139/1291845-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="614" height="279"></div>December 24 to December 3124&mdash;SULLIVAN, George, forward, Hershey, 1929.25&mdash;WOCHY, Steve, forward, Cleveland, 1922.26&mdash;McLEAN, Motto, forward. Omaha, 1925.28&mdash;SAMIS, Phil, defense, Cleveland, 1927.; SAWCHUK, Terry, goalie, Detroit, 1929. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="byline">By GEORGE CARSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01200/1291876-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"></div>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;Handsome Cliff Simpson, St. Louis Flyer wingman regarded as one of the greatest play-makers and stick-handlers in the American Hockey League, is only 27 but he has his own ideas about how far a player can go in this rugged sport. In fact, he has set his goal and if he reaches it this season, he may hang up his skates and call it a career come next April. As the summer of 1950 rolled into autumn and Cliff reported for training at North Bay, Ontario, he let it be known that he has one remaining ambition in hockey and that is to become a member of the American League&rsquo;s 200 Club. With a total of 167 goals for his five seasons in the circuit, Cliff could join this select circle of all-time hockey greats by combing 33 shots past enemy goalies this winter. This latter feat he has accomplished twice, racking up 42 goals during the 1946-47 season and coming back with 48 the following campaign.&ldquo;I want to become a member of the 200 Club before I retire,&rdquo; Simpson said recently as he looked over the list that includes only six names&mdash;Les Cunningham, Lou Trudell, Fred Thurier, Phil Hergesheimer, Murdo MacKay and Pete Leswick. &ldquo;I love hockey, but the game is becoming too exacting. It&rsquo;s a young man&rsquo;s game, a rough and rugged sport, and unless I can keep up with the kids, I don&rsquo;t want to stick around. What will I do when I quit? Well, I&rsquo;d like to become a coach and work with youngsters. That would keep me in contact with the only profession. I know.&rdquo;Don&rsquo;t Quit, Say MatesBut, oddly enough, his Flyer teammates don&rsquo;t agree with Cliff. They look upon him as a tower of strength in their lineup and they hope he&rsquo;ll change his mind when he hits the 200 mark and then set his sight on 300. For, as some of his teammates have expressed themselves, Simpson is a heady player who knows how to conserve himself and yet give his all at the right moments and, under such conditions, he might well go on for another five seasons.And even while he&rsquo;s talking about future retirement, representatives of National League teams have &lsquo;been looking him over, seriously considering his purchase some time In the near future.A trip to the National League, of course, would be nothing new for this shrewd Flyer lineman for, during his several seasons with the Indianapolis Capitals, he ferried back and forth between the Indiana club and the parent Detroit Red Wings and was on hand for three Stanley Cup playoffs and took part in two of them.Probably the most remarkable feature of Simpson&rsquo;s current make-up is his exceptionally fine condition. Whereas he carried 205 pounds on his 5 foot 11 frame last season, Cliff followed a definite conditioning program during the summer and fall months and is now lown to a streamlined 175 and says he never felt better in his life.And, believe it or not, those old hockey injuries that only two years ago threatened to put him on the shelf forever, have cleared up entirely, thanks to a fine piece of surgery performed in the summer of 1949 by Dr. Galley, the famous Toronto hockey surgeon who removed a muscle out of the player&rsquo;s left leg and transplanted in into his left shoulder.&ldquo;Altogether,&rdquo; Simpson explains, &ldquo;I have suffered six dislocations during my hockey career. But that injury I came up with while playing with Indianapolis in 1948 almost counted me out. I had to play through the 1948-49 season with a chain attached to my left shoulder to prevent my arm from falling out of joint But I&rsquo;m okay today, thanks to Dr. Galley.&rdquo;And the fact that he led the St. Louis team in scoring last season with 31 goals and 52 as sists for 83 points bears out his contention. Actually, he missed 15 games, due to a broken fibula in his left leg, but managed to get back into action within four weeks and finished up with a goal-per-game average of 1.48, just a fraction of a point behind Cleveland&rsquo;s Les Douglas, who took down scoring honors for the season in the American Hockey League with 1.49.His Eighth YearSimpson turned pro in 1942 with Indianapolis, after playing amateur hockey as a youngster with the Young Rangers, a junior O.H.A. club, and started up the ladder by spending a season with the Brantford Juniors, coached by Tommy Ivan, now pilot of the Detroit Red Wings. But his hockey play was interrupted abruptly late in December, 1942, when he joined the Canadian army. He spent nine months over seas, seeing duty in England, Belgium, (Holland and Germany, After his discharge, he joined Indianapolis in October 1945.It was while playing with the Caps that he scored his 100th goal, on February 22, 1948, at Cleveland, and the fans there presented him with a &ldquo;100 goal trophy&rdquo;. His biggest thrill, he says, came while playing with the Caps against Pittsburgh in the final game of the season. &ldquo;It was a rugged battle, a do-or-die affair, for the winner went into the playoffs, the loser was eliminated,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;Well, in that tense struggle, we won, 2-1. It was a game I&rsquo;ll never forget.&rdquo;Always regarded as a high scorer, Simpson shattered the old scoring record held by Wallie Kilrea when be registered 48 goals and 62 assists for 110 points during the 194 6-47 season. But, oddly enough, that wasn&rsquo;t good enough to give him the American Hockey League scoring title, for Carl Liscombe had an exceptionally fine year and romped home with 118 points for the league lead.Altogether, Simpson has played for eight coaches&mdash;Ivan, Herbie Lewis, Earl Siebert, Johnny Mowers, Ott Heller, Johnny Sorrell, Ebbie Goodfellow and his current boss, fiery Johnny Mitchell. Of the lot, he says, Sorrell probably taught him most, working hours with him after the regular practice sessions were over to teach him the know-how of becoming a great center.&ldquo;He was terrific on face-offs, taught me how to make openings for the wingmen and generally made a scorer out of me,&rdquo; Cliff revealed. &ldquo;You know I wasn&rsquo;t always a lineman. Originally, I was a defenseman, but the Detroit organization moved me up to the forward line to smarten me up on handling the puck&mdash;and I&rsquo;ve been there ever since. That is, except one string of eight games at Indianapolis when I dropped back on defense back in the 1946-47 season. That cost me the scoring title, I&rsquo;m sure.&rdquo;FLYING CLIFF SIMPSON, younthful ace of Johnny Mitchell&rsquo;s crew, has lots of hockey ahead of him, but he&rsquo;d like to pack it up when he hits that charmed circle. The Double Century Circle, that is. &#9632;

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Simpson, Only 27, Has Itch To Try His Hand At Coaching

<div class="byline">By GEORGES JOHNSON</div>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;It&rsquo;s about time to form a committee and investigate the dining rooms and restaurants that feed the visiting teams of the American League. These places must be serving our boys appetizers of wild moose milk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01233/1291907-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="402" height="671"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Crawford</figcaption></div>As the fellow said when the phonograph sounded scratchy, look at the record. For the season through Nov. 30, there had been 109 games, not counting five blown away in the Great Blizzard of &rsquo;50. Home teams had won 54. Visitors had won 45. No one won 10. That&rsquo;s a.545 percentage for the home sides, leading the alert segment of the hockey population to inquire, &ldquo;Where&rsquo;s that home-ice advantage they&rsquo;re always yowling about?&rdquo;For all of 1949-50, home teams won 204 and lost only 97 games, a.677 average. If the home clubs don&rsquo;t haul up their socks, they&rsquo;ll do good to bat.600 this winter and.600 is ordinary homework in hockey.Many are to blame&mdash;or should get the credit&mdash;for this situation, but the lads who started the shift are Hershey&rsquo;s Bears generally and Johnny Crawford in particular.Last year, home clubs merely threw their sticks on the ice against Hershey. The Bears won only three times in 35 games away from Chocolatetown.Crawford, the old Boston Bruin making his debut as Hershey&rsquo;s mastermind, evidently brought along his claw-sharpener. His boys snatched seven of their first nine road games, and only Cleveland, with a 9-2-2 won-lost-tied road record, had been meaner abroad.The Crawfords haven&rsquo;t sailed the inland oceans of the Western Division yet, a voyage they&rsquo;ll soon begin, but no one&rsquo;s expecting them to back oft has from the generally-stronger Western opposition.Cincinnati, the next-to-worst road club in its first hockey season last year, also had turned about. King Clancy&rsquo;s ciouters were 7-3-4 on the road, third best in the league, and 6-3-0 at home, a tie for third in home performance. The Mohawks held up the league in home percentage last time around.Buffalo, always brilliant on its own ice, went past the end of November with an 8-1-1 home mark, best in the AL, but needed that success to offset below&mdash;500 standing elsewhere.Everyone hasn&rsquo;t gotten better, natch. Pittsburgh&rsquo;s blessings have been mixed, and things have been mostly grim for Indianapolis, two usual contenders.Pittsburgh, the third best road team of 1949-50, has lost the combination. Of their first 10 away matches, Tommy Anderson&rsquo;s Hornets won only two and tied one. After New Haven dropped out, the Hornets became the worst roadsters.At home, it&rsquo;s the other way around. Pittsburgh won seven and tied one of its 10 goes in Duquesne Gardens, second only to Buffalo for home appreciation.Stripped of most of the scrappers who swept the 1950 playoffs, Indianapolis had to play 10 games to win one, which means Ott Heller&rsquo;s Caps are going to have to run scared to get back into the Western Division race after their shaky start. &#9632;

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Hospitality Can Be Overdone, AHL Home Clubs Start Thinking

<div class="byline">By TED RANDOLPH</div>ST. PAUL, Minn&mdash;That old line, &ldquo;you can&rsquo;t tell the players without a program,&rdquo; is true in St. Paul this season.late in October the &ldquo;faithful&rdquo; could tell only four playersWhen the Saints made their first home appearance Schwartz, Ian Mackintosh and Fred Brown&mdash;without&mdash;defenseman Lloyd Ailsby and front liners Gus consulting the programs. All the rest were. new. Most of the new faces are playing their first campaign in pro hockey.The blend of rookie and veteran Saints hasn&rsquo;t set the U.S.H.L. on fire yet, but they have been showing signs of coming along and coach Clint Smith still feels he has the makings of a title contender. In addition to the inexperience of a lot of the new hands Clint has had to contend with injuries to a couple of his key players.When the campaign started Clint had nine rookies, the four veterans from last year&rsquo;s club, and a couple of players&mdash;Clint Albright and Bill McDonagh&mdash;with only a year in the pro ranks. Now the rookie crew is down to six and Clint has added the veteran defenseman, John Mariucci, to give Lloyd Ailsby a hand with rookie defensemen Ken Barlow and Bob Dawson. Besides the rookie blue liners, Clint has a first year man in the nets in Lorne Worsley and four front liners&mdash;Don Smith, Ron Plumb, Odie Lowe and Vai DeLory&mdash;making their debut in the pro ranks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02179/1291938-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="610" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lloyd Ailsby</figcaption></div>The &lsquo;meat and potatoes line of Gus Schwartz-Fred Brown an Mackintosh proved the backbone of the Saints&rsquo; offense through a Dec. 3 victory over Kansas City which saw the team move from the U.S.H.L. cellar to a tie for third place. In addition to providing a good bit of the scoring punch the line has been strong on defense. Through the early stages Clint used members of the trio to &lsquo;kill off&rsquo; penalties.The Saints&rsquo; No. 2 line of rookies Don Smith and Ron Plumb and Clint Albright, veteran of one campaign with the New York Rangers, is making its presence felt more every game&mdash;from both an offensive and defensive standpoint. Young Smith and Plumb have played so well themselves that fans and players all around the league are talking about them. One coach even went so far as to tell Clint that if he ever wanted to deal young Smith to let him know. He offered at least three players of Clint&rsquo;s choice for the blond youngster.Lack of a goal scoring third line has been one of the Saints&rsquo; big troubles. Now Cint feels that he has that problem licked with Odie Lowe centering Bill McDonagh and Vai DeLory. The &lsquo;kids&rsquo; have been improving from game to game and in Clint&rsquo;s own words, &ldquo;should start giving goalies a lot of trouble now.&rdquo;The veteran blue liners&mdash;Lloyd Ailsby and John Mariucci&mdash;have been doing their share on two fronts&mdash;bringing their rookie partners along and turning in game after game of steay hockey.Clint himself hasn&rsquo;t exactly been bench warmer since the campaign started. When Gus Schwartz was put out of action with bad ankle for three weeks Clint stepped Into his place on the &rsquo;meat and potatoes&rsquo; line and kept them functioning at about peak efficiency.Last but not least of the Saints is goalie Worsley, one of flock of small guys in the U.S.H.L. tending business this season. Lorne has one shutout and has been rolling along at strong pace. He has the best goals against average of goalies who have played &lsquo;em all since the start this season.At least report even though the Saints haven&rsquo;t been able to storm the top of the league the fans have been happy enough with the &lsquo;house cleaning&rsquo;. Like Clint, they feel they have potential champ. &#9632;

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Fans Need Scorecard To Pick Out Saints!

19th Annual Edition&mdash;Founded 1932The 19th annual edition of Jim Hendy&rsquo;s Hockey Guide and Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey (both books combined in one) is one of the most complete Guides on hockey ever published. Its 224, pages contain complete records on the NHL, AHL, USHL and PCHL; Directories; League and Scoring Champions; Features; Schedules and Photographs of all play-off and regular season championship Clubs&hellip; It also contains the LIFETIME RECORDS of EVERY PROFESSIONAL active last season&hellip; Send TODAY for your copy. Only 50c. in the USA; 65c in Canada. Coin or Money Order.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03164/1292045-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="404" height="573"></div>CAN-AM SPORTS PUBLICATIONSc/o The Arena. Cleveland 15, Ohio. &#9632;

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HOCKEY GUIDE and WHO’S WHO IN HOCKEY

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>Good ComboRookie Jean Beliveau and Maurice Richard combined well and had 17 of Canadiens 31 shots between them, Beliveau firing nine and the Rocket eight in a weekend tie game against Rangers.Denies ReportFrank Boucher, manager of the Rangers, declared recently that there was no truth to the report that the Blueshirt&rsquo;s coach, Nell Colville, had been let out and would soon be replaced.MONTREAL, Que&mdash;Detroit Red Wings with three wins and a tie during the past week are now only three points back of the first-place Toronto Maple Leafs who played.500 hockey during the week, winning two and dropping a pair. Leafs have 42 points, Detroit has 39. Chicago Black Hawks are in the third slot with 28 points; Montreal Canadiens are fourth with 26 points; Boston Bruins are fifth with 21 and New York Rangers are sixth with 20 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01217/1291983-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="258" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>The top five point-getters in the National Hockey Leaerue are members of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Max Bentley heads the list with 32 points and is followed by Ted Kennedy, 29; Tod Sloan, 27; Sid Smith. 26; and Cal Gardner, 26. Cardie Howe of Detroit is next with 24 and Maurice Richard of Canadiens and Roy Conacher of Chicago follow with 22 points apiece.Sloan&rsquo;s 16 goals makes him the foremost goal scorer in the League and Max Bentley&rsquo;s 21 assists, One more than garnered by his teammate, Kennedy, gives him the honor of assisting in the greatest number of goals.Terry Sawchuk of Detroit has let the least goals be scored on him. In 28 games he&rsquo;s allowed 55 pucks to get past him. This gives him an average of 1.96. Toronto with 62 goals against in 31 games has the best team record with Turk Broda and Al Rollins, the two Toronto netminders, having averages of 2.05 and 1.7 5 respectively. Rollins has only played 12 games, however. Broda leads in number of shutouts with five.Two players share &ldquo;bad man&rdquo; honors at the present time. They are Ted Lindsay of Detroit and Gus Mortson of Toronto. Both players have spent 58 minutes in the sin-bin. Toronto Maple Leafs are the most penalized team with 361 minutes in penalties.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02197/1291976-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="604" height="258"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESDoc. 13&mdash;Cana.dieng 2, Rangers 3Dec. 13&mdash;Detroit 4, Toronto 3Dec. 14&mdash;Toronto 7, Chicago 1Dec. 14&mdash;Boston 2, Detroit 4Dec. 16&mdash;Rangers 1, Canadiens 1Dec. 16&mdash;Chicago 3, Toronto 2Dec. 16&mdash;Detroit 4, Boston 1Dec. 17&mdash;Canadiens 7. Chicago 3Dec. 17&mdash;Toronto 4, Boston 2Doc. 17&mdash;Detroit 3, Rangers 3NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMESDec. 19&mdash;Chicago at DetroitDec. 20&mdash;Canadians at TorontoDec. 20&mdash;Boston at RangersDec. 21&mdash;Boston at ChicagoDeo. 23&mdash;Detroit at CanadiensDec. 23&mdash;Boston at TorontoDec. 24&mdash;Chicago at RangersDec. 25&mdash;Rangers at DetroitDec. 25&mdash;Chicago at BostorWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13TORONTO.&mdash;Ted Lindsay&rsquo;s goal proved to be the winner as Detroit edged Toronto 4-3.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Thomson, Bolton; centre, Kennedy; wings, Sloan, Smith; subs.: Watson. Barilko, Klukay, MackelL Gardner, Juzda, McCormack, Lewicki, Timgren.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Kelly, Reise; centre, Gee; wings, G. Stewart, Couture; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Lindsay, Howe, Peters, Abel, Prystai, Pave-lich, McFadden, Carveth, Fogolin.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Kelly (Gee) &hellip;&hellip; 3:54Penalties: Kennedy. Lindsay.Second Period2&mdash;Toronto: Watson (Maekell)&hellip; 7:313&mdash;Detroit: Kelly (Peters) &hellip;&hellip; 11:254&mdash;Detroit: Prystai (Kelly) &hellip;&hellip; 11:55Penalties: Howe, Watson, Bolton, Mortson, Mackell, Prystai.Third Period5&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay (Howe Abel) 12:426&mdash;Toronto: Bentley &hellip;&hellip; 14:107&mdash;Toronto: Kennedy(Sloan, Smith) &hellip;&hellip; 19:35Penalties: Mortson, McFadden.NEW YORK.&mdash;Little Tony Leswick got the goal that shaded Canadiens 3-2 here.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, Johnson; centre, Lach; wings, Dussault, Richard; subs.: Curry, MacKay, Reay, Gravelle, Mosdell, Kaiser, McPherson Man astersky, Roche.New York: Goal, Francis; defence, Eddolls, Kyle; centre, Mickoskt; wings, Toppazzini, Kullman; subs.: Evans, O&rsquo;Connor, Egan, Stanley, Lund, La prade, Lancien, Harrison, Leswick, Slowinski, Sinclair.First Period1&mdash;New York: Leswick (Kullman) :172&mdash;New York: Toppazzini (Sinclair) 3:27 Penalties: Kaleta, Sinclair, McPherson,Leswick, Johnson.Second Period3&mdash;Canadiens: Dussault (Lach).. 9:504&mdash;Canadiens: MacKay(Richard, Masnick) &hellip;&hellip; 12:42 Penalty: Egan.Third Period5&mdash;New York: Leswick(Laprade, Kullman) &hellip;&hellip; 1:00Penalties; Kaiser, Curry, Stanley,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14DETROIT.&mdash;The Red Wings, in second place just four points behind the Leafs, scored early, and then coasted to a 4-2 victory over the fifth-place Boston Bruins in a dull game at Detroit before a comparatively small crowd of 10,193.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, W. Quackenbush, M. Quackenbush; centre, Ronty; wings, Fisher, Lynn; subs.: Schmidt, Dumart, Eziuicki, Henderson, Lowe, Kryzanowski, Creighton, Peirson, Horeck, Ferguson.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Keliy; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay; subs.: McFadden, Pavelich, Peters, Goldham, Martin, Raglan, Gee, Stewart, Prystai, Carveth, Couture, Stasiuk.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay(Abel. Gold ham) &hellip;&hellip; 6:362&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Goldham)&hellip;. 7:363&mdash;Detroit: Kelly (Abel) &hellip;&hellip; 18:21Penalties: Lindsay, Henderson.Second Period4&mdash;Detroit: Ragla(McFadden, Reise) &hellip;&hellip; 4:355&mdash;Boston: Peirson(Schmidt, Ezinicki) &hellip;&hellip; 8:58Penalties: Goldham, Ezinicki.Third Period6&mdash;Boston: Horeck(Peirson, Ferguson) &hellip;&hellip; 19:32Penalty; Howe.CHICAGO.&mdash;The Leafs routed the third-place Black Hawks 7-1 &rsquo;before a slim crowd of 9,224.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Thomson, Mortson; centre, Kennedy; wings, Sloan, Smith; subs.; Watson, Barilko, M. Bentley, Klukay, Mackell, Gardner, Juzda, Bolton, McCormack, Lewicki, Timgren.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin; centre, J. Conacher; wings, Guidolin, R. Conacher; subs.: Dickens, Stewart, McCaig, D. Bentley. Mosienko, Babando, Miller, Black, Lundy, Powell, Hamill.First Period1&mdash;Toronto: Smith (Kennedy)&hellip;. 1:482&mdash;Toronto: Watson(Gardner, Thomson) &hellip;&hellip; 5:363&mdash;Toronto: Lewicki &hellip;&hellip; 16:334&mdash;Toronto: Mackell(Watson, Gardner) &hellip;&hellip; 17:28Penalty: Thomson.Second Period5&mdash;Toronto: Klukay(Gardner, Lewicki) &hellip;&hellip; 15:59Penalties: Lewicki, Fogolin.Third Period6&mdash;Chicago: Mosienko(Fogolin, Powell) &hellip;&hellip; 8:317&mdash;Toronto: Lewicki(Juzda, Kulkay) &hellip;&hellip; 9:298&mdash;Toronto: Bentley &hellip;&hellip; 9:45Penalties: Juzda, Black, Timgren, Miller, Fogolin, Sloan, Lumley (served by J. Conacher), Dickens.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16TORONTO.&mdash;The injury-riddled Chicago Black Hawks, sparked by fine goaltending and the aggressive play of five rookie replacements, defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 here before 12,961 fans.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence Dewsbury, Fogolin; centre, J. Conacher; wings, R. Conacher, Guidotln; subs.: Diokens Coflln, McCalg, G. Smith, Ba bando, Powell, Leier, Michaluk, Black, Lundy.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Mortson, Thomson; centre, Kennedy; wings, Sloan, S. Smith; subs.: Barilko, Bolton, Juzda, Watson, Bentley, Klukay, Mack-ell, Gardner, McCormack, Lewicki, Timgren.First Period1&mdash;Chicago: J. Conacher(Guidoiin, Dewsbury) &hellip;&hellip; 8:412&mdash;Toronto: S. Smith (Thomson). 15:23Penalties; Bolton, Juzda, McCaig, Dickens.Second Period3&mdash;Chicago: Leier(Fogolin, Babando) &hellip;&hellip; 9:144&mdash;Toronto: Gardner(Lewicki, Thomson) &hellip;&hellip; 17:02Penalty: Powell.Third Period5&mdash;Chicago: Powell (Guidolin)&hellip;. 16:18 Penalty: Mortson.BOSTON.&mdash;The high-flying De-trolt Red Wings clicked off their sixth straight victory by out-skating Boston Bruins by a 4-1 margin before 8,254 fans at Boston Garden.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre. Abel; wings, Howe. Lindsay; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Gee, Peters, Prystai, Pavellch, McFadden, Carveth Couture, Fogolin, Pronovost, Stewart.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, B. Quackenbush, Kryzanowski; centre, Ronty; wings, Peirson, Ferguson; subs.: Creighton, Horeck, Henderson, Lowe, Dumart, Quackenbush, Ezinicki, Lynn, Fisher.First Period1&mdash;Boston: Schmidt (Dumart) &hellip; 3:18Penalty: Ezinicki.Second Period2&mdash;Detroit: Reise (Abel, Lindsay) &hellip;&hellip; 1:023&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Lindsay, Prystai) &hellip;&hellip; 5:574&mdash;Detroit: Kelly &hellip;&hellip; 15:05Penalties: Schmidt, McFadden, M. Quackenbush, Kelly.Third Period5&mdash;Detroit: Goldham (Stasiuk) &hellip; 17:57Penalty: Raglan.MONTREAL.&mdash;Canadiens, their lineup studded with newcomers, ended a five-game losing streak by playing a one-all tie with the New York Rangers at the Forum. The 14,158 in attendance seemed content with the draw.New York: Goal, Rayner: defence, Egan, Stanley; centre, Laprade; wings, Kullman, Leswick; subs.: Eddolls, Evans, Stanowski, O'Connor, Raleigh, Lund, Mickoski, Toppazzini, Kyle, Kaleta, Slowinski, Sinclair.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Johnson. McPherson; centre, Mosdell; wings, Curry. MacKay; subs.: Harvey, Geoffrion. Richard, Reay, Lach, Beliveau, Kaiser, Manastersky, Dussault, Masnick, Currie, Gamble.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Sinclair, Stanley, Leswick, Richard, Dussault.Second Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Geoffrion (Johnson, Reay) &hellip;&hellip; 4:512&mdash;Rangers: Sinclair (O&rsquo;Connor) &hellip; 10:26Penalties: Harvey, Geoffrion, Kullman.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Egan, Lach, Kyle, Stanley, Johnson.SUNDAY. DECEMBER 17NEW YORK.&mdash;Veteran Sid Abel gave Detroit a 3-3 tie here with the New York Rangers.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Gee, Peters, Stewart, Prystai, Pavelich, McFadden, Carveth. Couture, Stasiuk, Raglan.New York: Goal. Rayner; defence, Egan, Stanley; centre. Laprade; wings, Kullman. Leswick: subs.: Eddolls, Evans, Stanowski, O'Connor, Raleigh, Lund, Mickoski. Toppazzini, Kyle, Kaleta, Slowinski, Sinclair.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Howe &hellip; 6:242&mdash;New York: Sinclair, (Egan. O&rsquo;Connor) &hellip;&hellip; 7:20Penalties: Howe, Leswick, Kyle, Gold-ham.Second Period3&mdash;New York: Mickoski (Reigh) &hellip; 10:214&mdash;New York: O&rsquo;Connor (Sinclair) &hellip; 12:215&mdash;Detroit: Prystai (Stasiuk, Kelly) &hellip;&hellip; 19:58Penalties: Kullman, Sinclair.Third Period6&mdash;Detroit: Abel (Howe, Reise) &hellip; :48Penalties: None.BOSTON.&mdash;Harry Watson of Toronto got credit for three assists as the Leafs downed Boston 4-2.Toronto: Goal, Broda; defence, Baril-ko, Juzda; centre, Gardner; wings, Meeker, Watson; subs.: Thomson, Bentley, Klukay, Kennedy, Sloan, Mackell, Bolton, McCormack, Lewicki, Timgren, Smith.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence; Kryzanowski, B. Quackenbush; centre, Ronty; wings, Fisher, Lynn; subs.: Henderson, Dumart, Schmidt, Creighton, Ezinicki, Peirson, Lowe, Horeck, Ferguson, M. Quackenbush.First Period1&mdash;Toronto: Mackell (Gardner, Bentley) &hellip;&hellip; :0362&mdash;Toronto:. Bentley (Klukay, Lewicki) &hellip;&hellip; 2:223&mdash;Boston: Creighton (Peirson, B. Quackenbush) &hellip; 12:164&mdash;Toronto: Mortson (Watson) &hellip; 19:03Penalty: Thomson.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Thomson, Fisher, Lowe, Bentley, Ezinicki, Sloan, SchmidtThird Period5&mdash;Boston: Lowe &hellip;&hellip; 7:566&mdash;Toronto: Gardner (MacKell, Watson) &hellip;&hellip; 9:01Penalties: None.CHICAGO.&mdash;Canadiens came out of their losing, and low-scoring streak with a bang, here as the Habs went on their highest scoring spree of the season.They banged seven goals past Harry Lumley to win 7-3 over Hawks.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Manastersky, Harvey; centre, Lach; wings, Richard. Dussault; subs.: Bouchard, Curry, Johnson, MacKay, Reay, Gravelle, Mosdell, Kaiser, McPherson, Masnick, Roche.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin; centre, J. Conacher; wings, Guidolin, R. Conacher; subs.: Dickens, McCaig, Babando. Bodnar, Black, Lundy, Brown, Powell, Leier.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Mosdell (McPherson, MacKay) &hellip;&hellip; 4:262&mdash;Chicago: Bodnar (Babando, Fogolin) &hellip;&hellip; 8:513&mdash;Canadiens: Kaiser (Reay, Gravelle) &hellip;&hellip; 17:40Penalties: Harvey, Manastersky, Black;Second Period4&mdash;Chicago: Fogolin &hellip;&hellip; 4:275&mdash;Chicago: J. Conacher &hellip;&hellip; 13:256&mdash;Canadiens: Richard (Reay) &hellip; 19:19Penalties: Harvey, Brown.Third Period7&mdash;Canadiens: Curry (Mosdell) &hellip; 9:078&mdash;Canadiens: MacKay (Mosdell, Curry) &hellip;&hellip; 12:059&mdash;Canadiens: Curry (Mosdell) &hellip; 12:3010&mdash;Canadiens: Kaiser (Reay, Gravelle) &hellip;&hellip; 19:53Penalties: MacKay, Reay.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04141/1291969-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="586" height="3048"></div>Broda replaced Rollins after 26 mts 50 sec. of play on December 2nd.Penalties In Minutes By ClubsrBOSTON &hellip;&hellip; 249DETROIT &hellip;&hellip; 258RANGERS &hellip;&hellip; 274CHICAGO &hellip;&hellip; 277CANADIENS &hellip;&hellip; 322TORONTO &hellip;&hellip; 361 &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Doff your hot to Buddy O&rsquo;Connor for they said he would never make it but he did. They said he wouldn&rsquo;t last another year with the New York Rangers but he is and not only is he making a few experts eat their words, he&rsquo;s making them do it the hard way. Ta show he still has what it takes O&rsquo;Connor has taken over where he left off two seasons ago and is once again the leader of the New York club.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05111/1292014-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="264" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buddy O&rsquo;Connor</figcaption></div>We choose Buddy as the Player-Of-The-Week and &rsquo;Schaefer Award&rsquo; winner not because he broke any scoring records or displayed any feats of magic but because he played good enough hockey to lead his team to two ties and a victory last week in three games. In the last four games the Rangers have played they have won one and tied three.This season O&rsquo;Connor, who was originally scheduled to kill penalties for his club, has been the main reason why the Blues haven&rsquo;t dropped completely out of the league. His six goals and nine assists wouldn&rsquo;t be called a threat to the scoring leaders but to the down at the mouth Blues it&rsquo;s a great lift. He wasn&rsquo;t expected to come through the way he has.He only scored a goal and two assists last week but they were important points. One assists came on the only goal his club scored as the Rangers tied the Canadiens I-I. One night later the were in a 3-3 tie with the Wings and O&rsquo;Connor scored a goal and an assist to lead his club.Right now the Rangers are leaning heavily on the efforts of three players. O&rsquo;Connor, flanked by Toppazzini and Sinclair. When the Blues win this trio scores goals and O&rsquo;Connor is the man who makes the plays. Against Montreal in the 1-1 tie he tied his former teammates in knots at times. Once he skipped around Harvey on defense and threw a pass to Sinclair and in the puck went.Although he&rsquo;s over the 30 mark Buddy shows no signs of faltering. He&rsquo;s still the smoothest on ice and the shiftiest in the league. &#9632;

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Player-Of-The-Week

<div class="byline">By PAT THOMPSON</div>KANSAS CITY. Mo.&mdash;&ldquo;Hustle!&rdquo;This is a one-word summary of the hockey philosophy of Wilf Field, coach of the Kansas City Royals.&ldquo;The team that can outhustle the other crew will win. Anyone can make a mistake, but so long as the fellow is out there trying and hustling at all times, I&rsquo;m willing to forgive his error,&rdquo; philosophizes Wilf, who is a &ldquo;rookie&rdquo; himself in the coaching end of the game, now serving his first season as playing coach of the Kansas City icemen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01231/1292076-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="408" height="635"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wilf Field</figcaption></div>Wilf (actually it&rsquo;s Wilfred, but he doesn&rsquo;t like it) leaves one with* the impression he has just met a most personable guy with a lot of hockey knowledge and know-how filed away in the &ldquo;ole (really 35 years young) noggin.&rdquo; He seems to have all the necessary requirements for a hockey coach, having a firm foundation of the port from personal experience, as well as the knack for getting along with his boys; plus a likeable personality.The main handicap here for a hockey coach to overcome is the lack of information about the ramp. so. as Wilf believes the thing to do is teach the public something of its finer points. It is his idea to hold a session open to the public in which the boys will have a scrimmage, and demonstrate the meanings of various terms used in hockey, as offside and icing the puck&mdash;explaining these things over the public address system. Wilf said the management in Buffalo tried it and proved the idea worthy of the effort.War Interrupted CareerWilf broke into pro hockey in 1935 when the New York Americans signed him up. He did not play with the Americans, themselves, however, until 1938, staying with them until &rsquo;41-42 season when he switched to the Brooklyn Americans. The Canadian Army found his services necessary for the next two seasons. Post-war play found him with Montreal for short time before being loaned to Chicago. From there ho spent the longest consecutive time with Buffalo, with one stretch at Houston in &rsquo;48-49.Back to Buffalo last year and presently player-coaching the Royals.&mdash;-Incidentally, Wilf&rsquo;s forte is defense.In his book, compiled through experiences and observation, the coach who plays cannot fulfill his coaching duties to their utmost, because he is unable to solely devote himself to watching others, and administering good advice in regard to their weaknesses, etc., but must also tend to his &ldquo;own knitting&rdquo; when on the ice. &ldquo;The coach who sits on the bench has his finger on everything,&rdquo; states Wilf. &ldquo;It is a definito disadvantage to be a playing coach.&rdquo;Harboring such a belief, why does Wilf&rsquo;s name appear in the lineup? Necessity. With a roster of 13 players, and unable to get any help at present, he, himself, is forced to play in order to bolster a still crippled team. Wilf is doing a fine job, as a playing coach, proving his worries to be in vain, when after suffering a broken wrist early in the season, he wondered whether or not he would be able to make the team, the boys having made such a steady improvement at the time.Wilf is a popular man among hockey followers. He has appeared on television twice, but has only one interest at heart, and that is hockey. He wants to see some enthusiasm shown for the game in this city, and is going to try to do something about it.Finding the mid-western part of the country to his liking, and the quail especially so, the Field family, husband Wilf, wife Marge, and children. Teddy and Terryl Ann, are looking for a house in which to settle down for a stay. Wilf certainly is treating this city all right, so here&rsquo;s hoping the city returns the favor.An intelligent coach, facing the problems presented by difficulties for which he personally cannot be blamed&mdash;such as the loss of two key players to their home clubs had loaned them to us (same loss slightly lowering the morale of the team as a whole)&mdash;and meeting these problems with every facility he has at hand, it is an almost certain bet Wilf will make the grade and bring the Royals through&mdash;to the throne from which they should, by all rights of name, reign over the kingdom of the United States Hockey League. &#9632;

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Kansas City’s Peppery Mentor Doing Big Job In Rookie Year

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSQN</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Bobby Hassard of Marlboro seniors and Oshawa&rsquo;s junior, Generals have one thing in common. They both have moved up in their respective puck-chasing fields of activity.In his dual capacity as team captain and center-ice player, Hassard leaped from fith to second place in the Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s Major series scoring race within the space of 10 days. In 13 games, Hassard ran up a total of nine goals to tie the leading Johnny Ubriaco of St. Michael&rsquo;s in that particular department, but Hassard has 11 assists against 13 credited to Ubriaco for a 20-point tie. Adding to. his recent scoring success, Hassard not only paced his Marlboro mates to a string of five straight victories, but he also enjoyed a week-end tryout with the Toronto Maple Leafs, dressing for their Saturday night affair against Boston and the Sunday game in Detroit.After weeks of indifferent success in the OHA junior A series competition, Coach Laurie Aurie found a winning combination for Oshawa Generals. In their sweep of victories that included an impressive win over Spitfires in Windsor, Generals leaped from a fifth place jam to third place, two points below the leading Toronto Marlboros and one point behind the second place Barrie Flyers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02185/1292107-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="265" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Hassard</figcaption></div>In fact the entire junior A picture drew up into one scramble for play-off berths with eight points covering the top eight clubs.Oshawa&rsquo;s run of three straight wins started with a 3-2 home decision over Galt after overtime. Two days later, they moved into Windsor and handed Spitfires a terrific 9-2 drubbing with Tommy Ivan of the Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings as coach. Ivan was subbing for Jimmy Skinner, regular coach, sitting out an OHA suspension. Despite a long train ride back to the home rink Oshawa Generals carried their goals to Newcastle with a hard hitting 3-2 win over the second place Barrie Flyers.High Scorers HelpThe high scoring success of Delvechio and Jankowski who are well ahead of the junior A point race with 47 and 46 credits, respectively, played a big part in Oshawa Generals&rsquo; climb up the ladder. Return of Teddy O&rsquo;Conner to active front line duty after being out for several weeks because of an early season injury, gave the Generals additional front line drive. O&rsquo;Connor is also a playmaker and his value to the team was emphasised in their recent winning spurt.Duke Holds LeadBobby Davidson&rsquo;s Marlboros did all right for themselves to hold their slim lead over the entire field. Junior Dukes picked up an easy 6-2 win over Waterloo and then outbattled St. Catherines Teepees 3-2 in a hectic affair at the Garden City Arena. The Toronto Sunday sports surfew held Dukes to a 2-all tie against Stratford in regulation time.Barrie Flyers, nudged into second place by Marlboros during the past week kept in stride winning two of their three games. They blanked St. Catharines 3-0! at home and also took Galt into camp 4-2 before the home fans before losing to the Generals Id Oshawa.The amazing Stratford Kroehler under the skilled coaching of &ldquo;Pinky&rdquo; Lewis continue to. hold their own as the best fourth place club in the junior A campaign They are one point ahead of St Catharines and two ahead of Galt, Windsor and Guelph who are all claiming 21 points.Five Best GoaliesSimmons of St. Catharines Marlboro&rsquo;s Lockhart, Howes of Barrie, Hicks of Guelph and Sommerville of Galt, continue) to set the pace as the junior A loop&rsquo;s top goalies. Simmons has the best goal average so far with a 2.55 mark. In 20. games, he has allowed the opposition 51 goals and blanked the opposition twice to lead his rivals in the total shutouts.Despite the fact they are leading the OHA Major Series, St, Michael&rsquo;s Monarchs have failed to stir up any fan action for their home games on Saturday afternoons at Maple Leaf Gardens. So far they have failed to draw more than 600 fans, except for the one Saturday afternoon they were pitted against their rival Toronto team, Marlboros.A double win for Hamilton over St. Michael&rsquo;s caused a ripple of enthusiasm but back in the regular swing against Kitchener at home, the Irish raced to a 9-1 victory with exactly 507 paid customers on hand.Hold The BagSt. Michael&rsquo;s were a last minute fourth team entry to keep the OHA Majors alive with Connie Smythe of the Maple Leaf Gardens holding the financial bag. Just how long the situation is going to last remains to be seen.Marlboros have not done too well with their Friday night following, going over the 2,500 mark once, with about 1,500 the average. Kitchener&rsquo;s Dutchmen are also singing the blues over lack of a home following for their games at the Waterloo Arena. They have been averaging about 1,500. Hamilton Tigers in the Barton Street Arena are struggling along with about the same fan interest, but they are in the more fortunate position of not haying any special contract players on hand.Dale&rsquo;s Accident&ldquo;We were doing o.k. until Goalie Bruce Dale ran into a serious leg injury&rdquo;, said an official of the Hamilton Tigers. &ldquo;It was a nasty skate cut and the goalie has been hospitalized ever since. He&rsquo;ll have to receive special treatment to restore normal strength to the severed muscles&rdquo;.Several reasons have been advanced for the lack of fan interest in the OHA Major series including;&mdash;boost in admission prices; too many games scheduled, and lack of play color.Last spring&rsquo;s round robin series after the regular schedule sickened a lot of regular fans, who are saying, &ldquo;Why bother paying to see the league games, when there will be another round robin to settle the playoff berths.&rdquo;Needless to say OHA officials and the Major Series clubs executives are greatly concerned over the situation. &#9632;

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Hassard Flying For Marlies But OHA Gates Nosediving

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01231/1292145-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">LES HICKEY &hellip;&hellip; MR. CLUTCH</figcaption></div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Neither points nor praise have punctuated the hockey career of Les Hickey, crouch-skating Buffalo right winger, with any degree of regularity until this year.Now, at last, Hickey is getting his fair share of both.Always a hard-working, two-way player best known for his defensive work and clutch scoring, Hickey is currently enjoying his best of five seasons in pro hockey.&ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t a right winger on any other club in the American League that I would trade Hickey for,&rdquo; General Manager Art Chapman of the Bisons commented recently. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s what you call a real &lsquo;honest&rsquo; hockey player, he works hard both on offense and defense, and does as much scoring on the road as he does at home.&rdquo;The latter part of Chapman&rsquo;s statement was verified by the records.Four of Hickey&rsquo;s first six goals registered this year came while Buffalo was skating on foreign ice.Proof that Hickey gets his points when they count most also can be found by a study of the records.On Oct. 18 he assisted on Center Sid McNabney&rsquo;s winning goal against Providence. Three nights later, he tallied the deciding marker himself against Earl Seibert&rsquo;s Springfield Indians.Left winger George Pargeter netted the game clinching score against the Hershey Bears on Nov. 2&mdash;but Mr. Clutch was the fellow who helped setup the play.It wasn&rsquo;t until Nov. 15 that Hickey lit the red light in Buffalo&rsquo;s Memorial Auditorium. But when he did, he gaae the fans something to really cheer about. He scored twice to give the Bisons a 4-4 standoff with Cincinnati&rsquo;s Mohawks.In Buffalo&rsquo;s first 25 games Hickey was just one point shy of being a &ldquo;Point-a-game man.&rdquo; He had 13 goals and 11 assists.Last year Hickey beat opposition goalies on 16 occasions and assisted on 21 other scores for 37 points. That total was compiled in 71 games&mdash;one more than was played by any other A.H.L. player.&ldquo;I began the season with Cincinnati but after ten games I returned to Buffalo, which had played one less game at the time,&rdquo; Hickey explained. &ldquo;In other words, I played 61 games with Buffalo.&rdquo;Hickey must qualify as one of the ice sports most durable competitors despite the fact he stands only 5 feet, 9 inches in height and tips the scales at 160 pounds.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never missed one game of any club I&rsquo;ve belonged to due to an injury,&rdquo; Les stated. &ldquo;The only serious injury I&rsquo;ve had in hockey was a broken wrist which I sustained when I was about 16-years-old.&rdquo;Hickey credits his unique style of skating for much of his good luck in avoiding the &ldquo;cripples list.&rdquo;&ldquo;When I came out of the Canadian Army in 1916, I decided I&rsquo;d be a harder target for defenseman if I skated in a crouch,&rdquo; Hickey explained. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the way I&rsquo;ve been skating ever since&mdash;and it&rsquo;s seemed to work out alright.&rdquo;Hickey&rsquo;s habit of skating with his nose close to the ice led to him being christened &ldquo;The Mole&rdquo; by former teammate Paul Mundrick.&ldquo;Paul started that Mole business when we were playing together in Houston and it has stuck with me ever since,&rdquo; he grinned.Another unique part of Hickey&rsquo;s character is his desire to keep clear of the penalty box.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never had more than three penalties in any one season, and I never have been given a major penalty,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;A fellow my size hurts himself and the club more by trying to belt the bigger fellows around. Besides you can&rsquo;t backcheck or score a goal sitting in the penalty box and that&rsquo;s what a player is paid for.&rdquo;Despite his sportsman. like conduct, Hickey is not timid when it comes to going into the corners for the puck.&ldquo;Les never pulls up short when there&rsquo;s a loose puck near the boards,&rdquo; Chapman inserted. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s all hockey player and tries every second he&rsquo;s on the ice.&rdquo;If his play should continue on a part with that of the first third of the campaign, Hickey undoubtedly will receive serious consideration for the Jack Pox Memorial award, annually given to the A.H.L. player who best combines clean play with efficiency.Hickey first took to the ice sport when he was a boy of 10 in his native Winnipeg.&ldquo;I was a goalie in a playground league for 12 year-olds and under,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;I decided that I should try some other position after a few games though&mdash;I caught too many of the pucks with my face.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01240/1292138-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="268" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim McFadden</figcaption></div>He began his organized hockey career with the Brandon Elks in 1939-40. The next season he played with the Winnipeg Rangers, Memorial Cup champions. &ldquo;Glen Harmon of Montreal and Hugh Millar, who formerly played with Indianapolis in this league, were teammates of mine that year,&rdquo; Hickey said.The 1941-42 season found Hickey crossing the border to play with Washington of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League. Roily McLanahan, Buffalo defenseman, also was a member of that squad.Hickey&rsquo;s second sojourn into the United States during the 1946-47 season created quite a furor.Les, fresh from four years service in the Canadian Army, started the season with the Ottawa Senators in the Quebec Senior loop.Hap Emms, then a Buffalo scout, enticed Hickey and Center Jimmy McFadden into coming south of the border.While the Ottawa and Buffalo clubs wrangled over the pair, they were held up at the International border linking Fort Erie, Ont. and Buffalo for eight days.McFadden eventually was traded to the Detroit Red Wings but Hickey has remained Buffalo property ever since.The 1947-48 season he began with Houston but was recalled by Buffalo after seven games.In the A.H.L playoffs that year, Hickey got his biggest thrill as a hockey player.Buffalo and New Haven were opponents in the first round of the post-season competition. Buffalo won the first game and needed only one more win to move into the semi-finals against Pittsburgh.The regulation time ran out with the score tied and sudden death overtime began. Then Mr. Clutch took over.Picking up a loose puck in Buffalo territory, Hickey streaked across center ice and over the New Haven blueline, and then let loose with a long shot that was partially screened on Goalie Doug Stevenson. The puck zoomed into the cage&mdash;and Buffalo won the series. It was one goal that Hickey will never forget.Another occasion that Hickey recalls with delight was when he was voted Houston&rsquo;s Most Valuable player for the 1948-49 season. He led the Huskies in scoring that year.The 29-year-old winger is married and the father of a boy, George, 7, and a daughter, Carol, 8.He hasn&rsquo;t any definite plans for when his hockey days are over as he hasn&rsquo;t given the matter much consideration. Right now Hickey and Hockey go well together. &#9632;

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Hickey's At His Best In The Clutch

Big NightCliff Simpson of the St. Louis Flyers had one of the biggest nights of his fine career on December 5 against Providence. Simpson scored four-goals, his third tying the contest at 18:47 of the third period and number four being the game winner in overtime as the Flyers won 7-6.Three In A RowGoalie Gil Mayer of the Pittsburgh Hornets, who has a fine goal-against record of 2.00, last week scored three shutouts in a row in a phenomenal feat. First he blanked Hershey 3-0, then he stopped the Cleveland Barons 6-0. One day later he whitewashed St. Louis 4-0 for a perfect week.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01245/1292235-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="610" height="633"></div>A newcomer to the heights has arrived&mdash;the Hershey Bears last week took over first place in the Eastern Division. The Bears at long last realized their dreams of topping Buffalo, who are now in second spot with 36 points, one less than the Bears. Each club has played 28 games.Providence is in third place with 25 points, one better than fourth-place Springfield.In the Western Division, the Cleveland Barons have a tighter hold than ever before this season on first place. In 28 games they have compiled a total of 39 points, while the Cincinnati Mohawks are in second position, taking 29 games to grab 35 points.Third place goes to Pittsburg, who has 30 points.Ab DeMarco of Buffalo is the big shot in the individual scoring race. He leads in points, goals, and assists, with 53, 22, and 31 respectively.Mate Grant Warwick continues to hold second spot with only eight goals and 30 assists.Ivan Irwin of Cincinnati leads the penalty parade with 83 minutes, which gives his club top &lsquo;honors&rsquo; in that department also with 407 minutes.Goalie Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh has an enviable record, allowing 54 goals in 27 games for an average of 2.00. He also leads in shutouts with three.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9PITTSBURGH.&mdash;Goalie Gil Mayer scored a well-deserved shutout as the Pittsburgh Hornets blanked Hershey 3-0.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defense, Backor, Flaman; centre, Kobussen; wings, Smith, Blair; subs.: Mathers. Horton, Hannigan, Armstrong, Migay, Colinger, McLellan, Barbe, Maloney.Hershey, Goal, Henry; defence, Reigle, Branigan; centre, Mario; wings, Brown, Harrison; subs.: Schertzl, Crawford, Moe, Sullivan, Kullman, Corcoran, McIntyre, Mahaffy, Bettio.First Period1&mdash;Pittsburgh: McLellan (Maloney, Armtrong) &hellip;&hellip; 10:062&mdash;Pittsburgh: Barbe (Migay, Solinger) &hellip;&hellip; 13:16Penalties: Backor, Horton, Schertzl, Brown, Kullman, Smith, Kobussen.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Reigle, Barbe, Flaman, Maloney, Hannigan, Branigan, Corcoran (2).Third Period3&mdash;Pittsburgh: Maloney (Smith, Armstrong) &hellip;&hellip; 19:55Penalties: Moe, Solinger (major), Sullivan (major).CLEVELAND.&mdash;Paul Meger fired a brace for Buffalo as the Bisons dropped Cleveland 5-2.Buffalo: Goal, Dion; defence, Finkbeiner, McLenahan; centre, McNabney; wings, Ashbee, Hickey; subs.: Archambeault, DeMarco, Warwick, Atanas, Pennell, Pargeter, Dick, Currie.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Lavitt, Samis; centre, Douglas; wings, Taylor, Kelly; subs.: Buller, Williams, Ceresino, Thurier, Sonmor, MacKay, Wochy, Lund, Hergesheimer.First Period1&mdash;Buffalo: Meger (DeMarco, Warwick) &hellip;&hellip; 1:342&mdash;Cleveland: Hergesheimer (Sonmor, Thurier) &hellip;&hellip; 7:37Penalties: McLenahan, Bower.Second Period3&mdash;Buffalo: Ashbee (McNabney, Finkbeiner) &hellip;&hellip; 5:444&mdash;Buffalo: Meger (Warwick, DeMarco) &hellip;&hellip; 10:585&mdash;Cleveland: Hergesheimer (Sonmor, Lavitt) &hellip;&hellip; 19:46Penalties: Lund, Taylor.Third Period6&mdash;Buffalo: Pargeter (Maxwell, Penne11) &hellip;&hellip; 1:037&mdash;Buffalo: Hickey (Ashbee, McNabney) &hellip;&hellip; 15:47ST. LOUIS.&mdash;Cliff Simpson and Nicholson notched a pair of markers apiece to lead St. Louis to a 6-2 win over Providence.Providence: Goal, Bennett: defence, Morris, Michaluk: centre, Davies; wings, Kapusta, Deschenes: subs.: Lavell, Summers, Laplante, Hamilton, McGill, Stoddard, Scherza. Saindon, Bedard.St. Louis: Goal, Almas; defence, Nicholson, Milligan; centre, Simpson; wings, Pearson, Baccari; subs.: Doran, Olson, Backor, Grigg, Hrymnak, Gladu, White, Lamirande.First Period1&mdash;Providence: Stoddard &hellip;&hellip; 11:382&mdash;St. Louis: Simpson (Grigg, Olson) &hellip;&hellip; 15:25Penalty: Deschenes.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Bedard, Milligan.AHL. TEAM TOTALSThird Period3&mdash;St. Louis: Grigg (Simpson) &hellip; 3:204&mdash;St. Louis: Olson (Nicholson, Simpson) &hellip;&hellip; 8:065&mdash;St. Louis: Nicholson (Raynak, Pearson) &hellip;&hellip; 10:416&mdash;St. Louis: Simpson (Olson) &hellip;&hellip; 14:437&mdash;St. Louis: Nicholson (White) &hellip; 16:488&mdash;Providence: Davies (Deschenes, Kapusta) &hellip;&hellip; 19:39Penalties: Lavell, Milligan.SPRINGFIELD.&mdash;Bill Gooden came through with a hat-trick as his Springfield Indians trounced Indianapolis 9-3.Indianapolis: Goal, Henry; defence, Woit, Folk; centre, Reid; wings. Glover, Black; subs.: Raglan, McNab, Morrison, Sclisizzi, J. Wilson, L. Wilson, Haidy, Taylor.Springfield: Goal, Bell; defence, Gagnon, Allen; centre, Burnett; wings, Hayden, Busch; subs.: Casanato, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Gooden, Curick, Horvath, Hosking, Tottle, Bergeron.First Period1&mdash;Spring field: Gordon (Tottle.) &hellip; 6:352&mdash;Springfield: Pidhirny (Gordon, Burnett) &hellip;&hellip; 10:053&mdash;Springfield: Tottle (Currick, Hosking) &hellip;&hellip; 11:104&mdash;Springfield: Currick (Allen, Lemieux) &hellip;&hellip; 16:125&mdash;Springfield: Gordon (Gooden, Horvath) &hellip;&hellip; 18:476&mdash;Springfield: Gooden (Horvath, Ford) &hellip;&hellip; 19:42Penalties: Kraftcheck, Folk.Second Period7&mdash;Springfield: Gooden (Ford, Horvath) &hellip;&hellip; 16:06Penalties: Casanato, Wolt, Kraftcheck, Gagnon, Heller, Horvath.Third Period8&mdash;Indianapolis: McNab (Pronovost, Sclisizzi) &hellip;&hellip; 3:499&mdash;Indianapolis: Haidy (McNab, Sclisizzi) &hellip;&hellip; 4:1310&mdash;Springfield: Gooden (Gagnon, Horvath) &hellip;&hellip; 6:4411&mdash;Indianapolis: McNab (Haidy) &hellip; 17:4112&mdash;Springfield: Casanato (Curick, Lemieux) &hellip;&hellip; 18:47Penalties: Taylor, Pronovost.SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10BUFFALO.&mdash;Ab DeMarco and Paul Meger garnered two goals apiece as the section-leading Bisong handed Providence an 8-3 defeat.Providence: Goal, Bennett; defence, Morris, Michaluk; centre, Laplante; wings, Saindon, Bedard; subs.; Lavell, Summers, Hamilton, Davies, McGill, Stoddard, Scherza, Kapusta, Deschenes.Buffalo: Goal, Dion; defence, Currie, Dick; centre, DeMarco; wings, Warwick, Maxwell; subs.: Finkbeiner, McLenahan, Archambeault, Pennell, Atanas,-Pargeter, McNabney, Ashbee, Hickey.First Period1&mdash;Buffalo: Meger (Demarco, Currie) &hellip;&hellip;13:292&mdash;Buffalo: Meger (Demarco, Warwick) &hellip;&hellip; 18:00Penalties: None.Second Period3&mdash;Providence: Stoddard (McGill, Hamilton) &hellip;&hellip; 13:59Penalties: Dick, Finkbeiner, McGill.Third Period4&mdash;Buffalo: Hickey (Ashbee, McNabney) &hellip;&hellip; 1:585&mdash;Buffalo: Maxwell (Pennell, Pargeter) &hellip;&hellip; 4:106&mdash;Buffalo: Pennell (Pargeter, Maxwell) &hellip;&hellip; 6:227&mdash;Buffalo: DeMarco (Meger, Warwick) &hellip;&hellip; 12:508&mdash;Providence: Davies (Kapusta) &hellip;&hellip; 13:019&mdash;Buffalo: Ashbee (McNabney, Dick) &hellip;&hellip; 14:2210&mdash;Buffalo: DeMarco (Meger, Warwick) &hellip;&hellip; 17:0011&mdash;Providence: Kapusta (Davies, Deschenes) &hellip;&hellip; 18:00Penalties: None.CINCINNATI.&mdash;Big Boy Branigan&rsquo;s last-period goal gave Hershey a 5-4 verdiet over the strong Cincinnati Mohawks.Hershey: Goal, Henry; defence, Moe, Branigan; centre, Mario; wings, Brown, Harrison; subs.: Schertzl, Crawford, George, Sullivan, Kullman, Marquess. Corcoran, McIntyre, Mahaffy, Gariepy.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Roche, Shero; centre, Campeau; wings, Plamondon, Dube; subs.: King, Irwin, Robert, Hergesheimer, Gordon, Perreault, Nattrass, Moore, Stanowski.First Period1&mdash;Cincinnati: Plamondon (Campeau, Nattrass) &hellip;&hellip; 8:572&mdash;Cincinnati: Gordon (Denis, Perreault) &hellip;&hellip; 10:493&mdash;Cincinnati: Moore (Shero, Robert) &hellip;&hellip; 14:33Penalties: Branigan, Perreault.Second Period4&mdash;Cincinnati: Perreault (Gordon) &hellip; :515&mdash;Hershey: Kullman (Bettio, Marquess) &hellip;&hellip; 11:456&mdash;Hershey: Schertzl (Mario, Brown) &hellip;&hellip; 13:567&mdash;Hershey: Harrison (Moe, Mario) 13:19 Penalties: McIntyre, Shero, Robert, Denis.Third Period8&mdash;Hershey: Bettio (Mario, Schertzl) &hellip;&hellip; :279&mdash;Hershey: Branigan (Marquess, Bettio) &hellip;&hellip; 5:17Penalties: Irwin, Denis (major), Mario (major).ST. LOUIS.&mdash;Murdo MacKay&rsquo;s two goals helped Cleveland sink St. Louis 6-0 here.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Lavitt, Samis; centre, Douglas; wings, Kelly, Schultz; subs.: Buller, Williams, Hergesheimer, Taylor, Ceresino, Thurier, Sonmor, MacKay, Lund.St. louis: Goal, Almas: defence, Milligan, Nicholson; centre, Simpson; wings, Baccari, Olson; Hrymnak, Lamirande, Grigg, Gladu, White, Pearson, Backor, Raynak, Pogue.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: None.Second Period1&mdash;Cleveland: Sonmor (Lund) &hellip;&hellip; 3:572&mdash;Cleveland: Lund (Donglas) &hellip;&hellip; 7:513&mdash;Cleveland: MacKay (Ceresino) &hellip;&hellip; 16:44 Penalty: Pearson.Third Period4&mdash;Cleveland: Thurier (Hergesheimer, Sonmor) &hellip;&hellip; 1:575&mdash;Cleveland: MacKay (Ceresino, Wochy) &hellip;&hellip; 3:246&mdash;Cleveland: Wocrhy (Ceresino, MacKak) &hellip;&hellip; 16:42Penalty: Samis.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12CLEVELAND. Gil Mayer, 130-pound Pittsburgh goalie, scored his second consecutive shutout as the Hornets lambasted the Cleveland Barons 6-0, before 4,731 here.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Backor, Flaman; centre, Kobussen; wings, Smith, Blair; subs.: Horton, Mathers, Migay, Barbe, Solinger, Armstrong, McLellan, Maloney, Hannigan.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Lavitt, Samis; centre, Douglas; wings, Schultz, Kelly; subs.: Buller, Williams, Lund, Thurier, Hergesheimer, Sonmor, MacKay, Ceresino. Taylor.First Period1&mdash;Pittsburgh: Blair (Kobussen, Backor) &hellip;&hellip; 2:052&mdash;Pittsburgh: Backor2&mdash;Pittsburgh: Backor (Armstrong) &hellip;&hellip; 7:51Penalty: Smith.Second Period3&mdash;Pittsburgh: Kobussen (Flaman) 1:12 Penalties: Ceresino, Flaman.Third Period4&mdash;Pittsburgh: Migay (Horton) &hellip;&hellip; 3:145&mdash;Pittsburgh: Barbe (Flaman, Migay) &hellip;&hellip; 8:546&mdash;Pittsburgh: Smith (Blair, Mathers) &hellip;&hellip; 15:19Penalties: None.WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13BUFFALO&mdash;The Hershey Bears cracked the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; unbeaten streak at eight games and climbed to within one point of the eastern division leaders with a 6-to-3 triumph.Hershey: Goal, Henry; defence Branigan, Reigle; centre, Mario; wings, Brown, Harrison; subs.: Schertzl, Crawford, Gariepy, Sullivan, Kullman, Marquess, Corcoran. McIntyre, Bettio.Buffalo: Goal, Dion; defence, Currie, Dick; centre, Hickey; wings, McNabney, Ashbee; subs.: Finkbeiner, McLenahan, DeMarco, Warwick, Meger, Pennell, Maxwell, Atanas, Pargeter.First Period1&mdash;Hershey: Bettio (Crawford, Marquess) &hellip;&hellip; 12:522&mdash;Hershey: Mario &hellip; 14:023&mdash;Buffalo: Meger (DeMarco, Warwick) &hellip;&hellip; 16:03Penalties: Ashbee, Gariepy (3), Kullman.Second Period4&mdash;Hershey: Sullivan &hellip;&hellip; 4:305&mdash;Hershey: Kullman (Marquess, Branigan) &hellip;&hellip; 15:286&mdash;Buffalo: McNabney (Ashbee, Currie) &hellip;&hellip; 19:007&mdash;Buffalo: McNabney (Ashbee, Currie) &hellip;&hellip; 19:34Penalty: Warwick.Third Period8&mdash;Hershey: McIntyre (Sullivan) &hellip;&hellip; 19:169&mdash;Hershey: Sullivan &hellip;&hellip; 19:57Penalties: Reigle 2, Dick, Bettio, Maxwell, Gariepy, Branigan.CINCINNATI&mdash;The Cincinnati Mohawks came larruping back from a two-goal deficit to defeat the Providence Reds 6-to-4 before a crowd of 1984.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis; defence, Nattrass, Irwin; centre, Gordon; wings, Denis, Perreault; subs.: Plamondon,; Campeau, Hergesheimer, Robert, Moore, Hirschfeld, King, Shero, Lancien, chaluk,.. 3 cmProvidence: O-Bad, Gentley; defence, Michaluk, Morris; centre LaPlante; wings, Bedard, Saindon; subs.: Lavell, Summers, Hamilton, Davies, McGill, Stoddard, Scherza, Deschenes, Kapusta.First Period1&mdash;Providence: LaPlante (Saindon) &hellip;&hellip; 1:192&mdash;Providence: Davies (Deschenes, Morris) &hellip;&hellip; 4:053&mdash;Cincinnati: Perreault (Gordon, Denis) &hellip;&hellip; 15:42Penality: Shero.Second Period4&mdash;Providence: Stoddard (McGill) &hellip; 1:095&mdash;Cincinnati: Hirschfeld (King, Moore) &hellip;&hellip; 9:346&mdash;Cincinnati: Denis (Gordon, Irwin) &hellip;&hellip; 11:53Penalties: None.Third Period7&mdash;Cincinnati: Irwin Denis, Gordon) &hellip;&hellip; 11:238&mdash;Cincinnati: Plamondon (Campeau, Shero) &hellip;&hellip; 12:039&mdash;Cincinnati: Campeau (Lancien) 18:0410&mdash;Providence: Stoddard (McGill, Hamilton) &hellip;&hellip; 19:24Penalties: King 2, Morris, Laplante.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Goalie Gil Mayer scored his third consecutive shutout as the Pittsburgh. Hornets defeated the St. Louis Flyers, 4-0, before 1893 at the Gardens.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Flaman, P. Backor; centre, Kobussen; wings, Blair, Smith; subs.: Horton, Mathers, Migay, Barbe, Salinger, Maloney, Armstrong, McLellan, Hannigan, gan, Nicholson; wingsSt. Louis: Goal, Almas; defence, Milligan, Nicholson; centre, Pearson; wings, Sullivan, Backor; subs.: Hrymnak, Grigg, Simpson, Baccari, Olson, Trigg, Pogue, Gladu, White.First Period1&mdash;Pittsburgh: Smith (Kobussen) &hellip; 17:09 Penalty: Horton.Second Period2&mdash;Pittsburgh: Mathers (Maloney, Horton) &hellip;&hellip; 10:303&mdash;Pittsburgh: McLellan (Flamon, P. Backor) &hellip;&hellip; 14:094&mdash;Pittsburgh: McLellan (Horton, Armstrong) &hellip;&hellip; 19:58Penalties: Kobussen, Nicholson.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Mathers.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14INDIANAPOLIS&mdash;The Indianapolis Capitals scored five goals in a third period, surge to beat the Providence Rede in a game 6-2, before 2426 fane.Indianapolis: Goal, Henry; defence, Kraftcheck, Pronovost; centre, McNab; wings, Haidy, Sclisizzi; subs.: Folk, Wolt, Morrison, MacKay, Reid, Glover, J. Wilson, Taylor.Providence: Goal, Bentley; defence, Summers, Lavell; centre, McGill; wings, Morris, Michaluk, Saindon, LaPlante, Davies, Bedard, Soherza, Deschenes, Kapusta.First Period1&mdash;Providence: Michailuk (McGill) &hellip; 2:292&mdash;Providence: Hamilton &hellip;&hellip; 11:44Penalties: Michaluk, Deschenes.Second Period3&mdash;Indianapolis. Slisizzi (Pronovost, Kraftcheck) &hellip;&hellip; 1:30Penalties: None.Third Period4&mdash;Indianapolis: J. Wilson (Pronovost, Morrison) &hellip;&hellip; 3:455&mdash;Indianapolis: Morrison (Pronovost, L. Willson) &hellip;&hellip; 4:156&mdash;Indianapolis: Pronovost &hellip;&hellip; 8:457&mdash;Indianapolis: McKay (Reid) &hellip; 15:458&mdash;Indianapolis: McNab (Sclisizzi, Taylor) &hellip;&hellip; 19:38Penalties; Michaluk, Hamilton, Pronovost.<h2>A.H.L TEAM TOTALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02207/1292228-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="1168" height="587"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04161/1292221-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="595" height="717"></div>THE LEADERSMost Goals: Ab DeMarco, Buff. (22)Most Assists: Ab DeMarco, Buff. (31)Most Penalties: Ivan Irwin, Cin, (83 minutes)Best Goalie Ave: Gil Mayer, Pitts. 54 goals in 27 games (2.00 aver.)Most Shutouts: Gill Mayer, Pitts. (3)Most Team Penalties: Cincinnati (407 minutes).<h2>Close-Up For Gordie</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03182/1292214-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1714" height="1326"><figcaption class="caption-body">SPRINGFIELD GOALIE Gordie Bell gets real close look at the disc as it bounds into the air as Steve Black of the Indianapolis crew gets set to swing at it. Jerry Reid (11) is standing by to get piece of the puck if it comes his way ((Photo by Lavelle))</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01248/1292273-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="286" height="523"></div>KEN MILTONSTATION CKX, Brandon, Man.Although there was no opening for a sports announcer on the staff of Station CKX, Brandon, Ken Milton took an intense interest in sports when he joined the staff as announcer in 1944.After a stint in the Canadian Navy in 1945-1947, Milton returned to the station as a fill-in for sportscasters who were ill or absent.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02182/1292266-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="274" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEN MILTON</figcaption></div>His break came when the night sports man moaed to the States, and he was assigned to the nightly-sponsored &lsquo;Sport Report&rsquo;. He also did hockey commentary on Junior and Intermediate games for play by play announcer, Jim Keilback.In the summer of 1950, things began to really hum for Milton. Keilback moved to a Winnipeg station, and Milton fell in line for three sponsored sportscasts daily, plus remote coverage of sports events and a daily 10-minute &ldquo;Morning Sports Digest&rdquo;.It was at this point that he was relieved of other duties in order that he could devote full time to sports work.In the fall of this year, he started play by play accounts of junior hockey, featuring the Brandon Wheat Kings who are gunning for their third consecutive provincial championship. He also co-announced baseball from Kinsmen Stadium in home games of the Brandon Greys of the Manitoba Senior Baseball League.Says Milton, &ldquo;Although one of the happiest days of my life came this fall when I started broadcasting play by play accounts of junior hockey, I guess my greatest thrill in sports casting dates back to June, 1948. The Manassa Mauler, Jack Dempsey, visited Brandon to referee a wrestling match at the Wheat City Arena.&rdquo;&ldquo;When I was introduced to Jack, he stretched out a big friendly hand, and put me at ease as no other person could do. Our radio interview was to last 15 minutes, but smack in the middle of our chat, an unexpected summer storm blew up and knocked the electricity out of commission. There we sat in our blacked-out little studio. Dempsey broke into laughter and willingly consented to wait until the elements permitted us to record the interview for broadcasts later that evening.&rdquo;&ldquo;That night&rdquo;, continued Milton, &ldquo;I introduced Dempsey from the ring at the wrestling match. He ambled towards me, noticed I was nervous nudged me aside, and put his hand on my shoulder. &lsquo;How are you, Ken?&rsquo; he said, &lsquo;You&rsquo;re doing fine&rsquo;. I knew I wasn&rsquo;t but he made me feel like I&rsquo;d known him from school days. As we stood in the centre of the ring, chatting on the P.A. for the fans in the Arena, things came easy from then on.&rdquo; &#9632;

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‘Radiorchids’

<div class="byline">By Hec MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;The new Calgary hockey palace, which as yet hasn&rsquo;t been dubbed with a name, will not have to take a back seat to any arena in the country. When the home of the Stampeders was finally completed it ran into a figure close to $1,500,000.Originally, the new 6,600-seat home of the Stampeders was to cost one and one-quarter million dollars but the figure had soared past this week before completion. The new Arena seats better than 2,000 more fans than the old Victoria Arena and when crowds really get large there is enough room for 2,500 to stand.The new rink is 100 per cent fireproof and of cement construction. It was designed by John Stevenson, Calgary architect and constructed by Bird Construction Co., a Regina firm.The ice surface is 85 feet wide and 200 feet long, the same as Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. Actually the Calgary rink is quite similar to the home of Leafs.The heating, lighting and refigeration is considered exceptional while the terrazzio type floor will enable the rink to quickly change over to non-ice attractions.The sound equipment is the most up to date obtainable, as is the new time clock. Lending a note of class to the rink is a Hammond Organ. The rink is equipped with all the special lighting necessary for ice shows and carnivals.One major feature of the new arena is the fact that tickets may be purchased inside the rink. The entrance is so constructed thatfans do not have to stand outside in the cold as in the past.There are two main entrances in the front with six doors to each entrance. There also are two entrances in the rear of the rink if they are needed.The swanky looking building has a bucking horse with a cowboy aboard engraved on the front. This also is the symbol of Stampeders and the players wear the crest on their sweaters.Lloyd Turner, veteran hockey man and manager of the old Arena, will fill the same job in the new rink. The former Minneapolis and Seattle arena manager was pleased with the finished product and said:&ldquo;There will be bigger rinks in North America but we don&rsquo;t think there will be any better. As far as I can see this is the best rink I&rsquo;ve ever been tn and it will take a long time to touch it.&rdquo;The old Victoria Arena was turned over to the Buffalo Athletic Association, a Calgary Brewery sponsored body which promotes, pee wee, midget, juvenile and junior hokey. Jack Arbour was named manager of the old rink.One of the toughest problems in the construction of the new rink has been the naming of the palatial layout. To go along with the Calgary Stampede, many thought it should have a Western name, others wanted something different while a few just wanted to call it an Arena.The public was approached on the matter and hundreds of suggestions were received.Some of the names, western style, suggested included The Fort, The Stockade, The Corral and others.Whatever they call it doesn&rsquo;t matter. It will still be a neat place to play hockey and also a swell spot to watch a hockey game in. &#9632;

HEW HOME OF STAMPS IS ONE OF CLASSIEST; FANS PICKING NAME

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03132/1292425-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="590" height="4083"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04107/1292418-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="592" height="2455"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0566/1292411-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="608" height="2429"></div> &#9632;

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Amateur Parade At Quick Glance

Red Face!Some time ago one of the New Westminster Royals drew a misconduct penalty for too much talk to a referee. In the dressing room Coach Babe Pratt said that whenever a New Westminster player received misconduct penalty, the club would impose a like fine of $10.00 on the player. Guess who got the next misconduct&mdash;Babe Pratt!Big CrowdTo the little city of New Westminster, smallest town in the point of population in professional hockey, goes the honor of having the largest turnout for a hockey game in the present Pacific Coast League. Saturday, Dec. 2nd. 5.666 people paid admission to witness the hockey game between the Royals and their arch rivals the Vancouver Canucks.HOW THE RACE GOES<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01182/1292470-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="604" height="244"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESDec. 5&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 4, Tacoma 2Dec. 5&mdash;Victoria 1, Vancouver 2Dec. 6&mdash;Tacoma 1, Seattle 7Dec. 7&mdash;Seattle 2, Portland 7Dec. 8&mdash;Tacoma 4, Victoria 1Dec. 8&mdash;Vancouver 4, Seattle 4Dec. 9&mdash;Vancouver 5, Tacoma 5Dec. 9&mdash;Victoria 4, New West&rsquo;er 1Dec. 10&mdash;Vancouver 8, Portland 8Dec. 10&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 2, Seattle 7On a point basis New Westminster Royals continue to lead the League with a three-point margin over the Portland Eagles. However, the Eagles have played three games less than the Royals and on a percentage basis have the advantage. Tacoma trail Portland by four points and Victoria is just two points back of the Rockets.Vancouver, which with Seattle had the best point gain of the week, five points each, are just one point behind the fourth place Victoria Cougars. The last place Seattle Ironmen have played seven less games than the fifth place Vancouver Canucks so their position is not as bad as it looks.Norm Kirk, the shifty left winger of New Westminster Royals, continues to lead the scoring race with 19 goals and 18 assits for a total of 37 points. Team mate Ken Ullyot and Walt Samanski, of Portland, are closing in with 35 points each. Samanski has three games in hand over Kirk and stands a good chance of overtaking him when he has caught up in games played.Ullyot has scored the most goals. 22, while team mate Bob Love has the most assists, 23. Rudy Filion, of Seattle, was player of the week with three goals and five assists for a total of eight points. Four players. Bob Koch and Ken Ullyot, of New Westminster, Eddie Mazur, of Victoria, and Walt Samanski, of Portland, are tied for scoring game-winning goals with three each.Lucien Deschene, New Westminster goalkeeper, continues to lead the netminders with a 2.93 average of goals against per game and has kicked back 801 shots for a .901 percentage of shots stopped. Tom Karakas, of Portland, is second with an average of 3.30 goals against.To Hec Highton, Vancouver goalkeeper, goes the unusual honor of receiving an assist in a game at Seattle, the first for a goalkeeper in the League this year.Norm Gustavsen, of Tacoma, has spent 88 minutes in the penalty box to date. Don Webster, of Victoria, is second with 78 minutes against him.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1VANCOUVER.&mdash;Vancouver Canucks and the Tacoma Rockets battled to a 2-all tie at the Forum. It was the first point Tacoma has made on Vancouver ice in two seasons and 4,400 fans were on hand to see a clean hard fought game.Vancouver: Goal, Highton; defence, Crozier, Reardon; centre, DeFelice; wings, Narduzzi, Jones; subs.: Carse, Ballance, Jackson, Unger, Russell, Shill, Lofvendahl, Schmidt.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Lambrecht; centre, Webster; wings, Adam, Dheere; subs.: Gustavsen, Johns, Johnston, Andrews, Read, Rozzini, Rowe, Toole.First Period1&mdash;Vancouver: Ballance &hellip;&hellip; 5:40Penalty: Rozzini.Second Period2&mdash;Tacoma: Andrews (Rozzini) &hellip; 12:013&mdash;Tacoma: Andrews (Toole) &hellip; 13:23Penalties: None.Third Period4&mdash;Vancouver: Narduzzi &hellip;&hellip; 8:59Penalty: Gustavsen (game misc.).SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2SEATTLE.&mdash;Two third-period goals by Freddie Weaver and Doug Louis gaveSeattle Ironmen a 4-2 victory over Portland Eagles.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Sprout, Boorman; centre, Fillion; wings, Senick, Kerr; subs.: Taillefer, Bell, Lewis, Tkadhuk, Thorpe, Wywrot, Bloom.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Brodeur, Tarala; centre, Samanski; wings, Homenuke, Silvestri; subs.: Bak, Nixon, Hartsburg, Fairburn, Kubasek, Bailey, Hooper, Boyce, Ciuman, Sutherland.First PeriodScoring: None.Second Period1&mdash;Seattle: Fillion (Leswick, Taillefer) &hellip;&hellip; :232&mdash;Portland: Ciuman (Boyce) &hellip;&hellip; 3:183&mdash;Portland: Fairburn (Brodeur) &hellip; 14:344&mdash;Seattle: Fillion (Leswick) &hellip;&hellip; 17:20Penalties: Bloom, Silvestri.Third Period5&mdash;Seattle: Weaver (Taillefer) &hellip;&hellip; 1:326&mdash;Seattle: Lewis (Thorpe) &hellip;&hellip; 14:47Penalties: Homenuke, Kerr.SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3NEW WESTMINSTER.&mdash;The Portland Eagles defeated the New Westminster Royals 8-4 here before a full house. It was the first victory for the Eagles over the Royals this season.Frank Kubasek was the hero of the night with three goals and two assists.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Brodeur, Tarala; centre, Hopper; wings, Homenuke, Silvestri; subs.: Bak, Nixon, Samanski, Hartsburg, Fairburn, Kubasek, Bailey, Boyce, Ciuman, Sutherland.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Bergeron, Pratt; centre, Ullyot; wings, Dorohoy, Dufault; subs.: Slater, Love, Kirk, Lavell, Gruhn, Paul, Houle, Peterson.First Period1&mdash;Portland: Brodeur (Silvestri) &hellip;&hellip; :162&mdash;Portland: Hartsburg (Brodeur) &hellip;&hellip; 4:233&mdash;Portland: Silvestri (Homenuke, Hopper) &hellip;&hellip; 6:244&mdash;'Portland: Fairburn (Kubasek, Sutherland) &hellip;&hellip; 10:255&mdash;New Westminster: Kirk (Pratt) &hellip;&hellip; 11:46Penalty: Houle.Second Period6&mdash;New Westminster: Dorohoy (Dufault) &hellip;&hellip; 2:277&mdash;Portland: Kubasek (Fairburn) &hellip; 4:338&mdash;New Westminster: Ullyot (Dorohoy) &hellip;&hellip; 8:159&mdash;Portland: Kubasek (Hartsburg) &hellip;&hellip; 14:2810&mdash;New Westminster: Paul (Love, Kirk) &hellip;&hellip; 16:32Penalties: Pratt, Hopper (2), Slater.Third Period11&mdash;Portland: Homenuke (Brodeur, Silvestri) &hellip;&hellip; 1:5412&mdash;Portland: Kubasek (Hartsburg, Fairburn) &hellip;&hellip; 9:33Penalties: None.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5VANCOUVER.&mdash;Goalie Jerry Cotnoir was a star in defeat as Victoria Cougars dropped a 2-1 decision to the unrecognizable Vancouver Canucks.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Lepine, Long; centre, Abbott; wings, Frampton, Burman; subs.: Webster, Goegan, Strongman, McIntyre, Dorohoy, Evans, Medynski, Leger, Mazur.Vancouver: Goal, Highton; defence, Schmidt, Lofvendahl; centre, Unger; wings, Russell, Shill; subs.: Milford, Narduzzi, Jones, DeFelice, Ballance, Jack-son, Crozier, Reardon.First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Dorohoy (McIntyre) &hellip; 17:02Penalties: Mazur, Crozier, Geogan (2), Reardon, Lofvendahl, Dorohoy.Second Period2&mdash;Vancouver: Reardon (Milford) &hellip; 9:223&mdash;Vancouver: Shill (Russell, Crozier.) &hellip;&hellip; 14:22Penalties: Shill, Goegan, Lepine, Jackson.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Webster (2), Long, DeFelice (major), Mazur (major), Goegan.TACOMA.&mdash;New Westminster Royals spotted Tacoma Rockets a two-goal lead and then roared back to take a 4-2 decision at Tacoma to bolster their league lead.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Huddleston, Pratt; centre, Love; wings, Kirk, Gruhn; subs.: Slater, Dufault, Lavell, Ullyot, Paul, Houle, Peterson.Tacoma: Goal. Stevenson; defence, Johns, Lambrecht; centre, Read; wings, Rowe, Johnston; subs.: Bell, Giokas, Toole, Adam, Andrews, Webster, Dheere, Rozzini.First Period1&mdash;Tacoma: Adam (Dheere) &hellip; 7:33Penalty: Slater.Second Period2&mdash;Tacoma: Johnston (Read, Rowe) &hellip; 2:303&mdash;New Westminster: Ullyot (Huddleston, Dufault) &hellip;&hellip; 11:174&mdash;New Westminster: Gruhn &hellip;&hellip; 12:43Penalties: Huddleston, Andrews, Pratt (ten-minute misc.).Third Period5&mdash;New Westminster: Paul &hellip; 3:206&mdash;New Westminster: Ullyot (Gruhn, Kirk) &hellip;&hellip; 10:44WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6TACOMA.&mdash;The Seattle Ironmen, for whom goals haven&rsquo;t come easily this season, finally struck pay dirt at the Civic Ice Arena when they ran up a 5-0 lead, then coasted to a 7-1 rout of the Tacoma Rockets.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Bloom, Taillefer: centre, Kerr; wings, Lewis, Tkachuk: subs.: Sprout, Boorman, Weaver, J. Bell, Fillion, Leswick, Thorpe, Dawes, Archambeault.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Johns, Lambrecht; centre, Webster; wings, Adams, Dheere; subs.: H. Bell, Giokas, Toole, Read, Johnston, Andrews, Rozzini, Rowe.First Period1&mdash;Seattle: Boorman (Fillion, Leswick) &hellip;&hellip; 2:472&mdash;Seattle: J. Bell (Fillion, Leswick) &hellip;&hellip; 12:53Penalties: Rozzini, Johns, J. Bell, Boorman.Second Period3&mdash;Seattle: Lewis (Kerr) &hellip;&hellip; 1:174&mdash;Seattle: J. Bell (Fillion) &hellip;&hellip; 16:255&mdash;Seattle: Thorpe (Dawes, Archambeault) &hellip;&hellip; 17:086&mdash;Tacoma: Adam (Johnston, Read) &hellip;&hellip; 19:35Penalties: Weaver (10-minute misc.).Third Period7&mdash;Seattle: Bloom &hellip;&hellip; 9:018&mdash;Seattle: Fillion (Leswick) &hellip;&hellip; 9:53Penalty: Taillefer.<h2>War In The Making!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02151/1292463-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1639" height="1458"><figcaption class="caption-body">YUKON ERIC AND TOGO had nothing on this pair, who got all tangled up in recent PCHL encounter. Rubbing one another&rsquo;s noses in the ice at the bottom of the pile are Fiori Goegan and Pete Taillefer, who has half-choke on the fiery one&rsquo;s Adam&rsquo;s apple. Next on the pile is Reg Abbott, just being wrestled to the ice by George Senick, while Carrol Bloom and Joe Lepine at left, await developments. Referee Dick Davis is doing his best to bring order out of chaos. ((Courtesy Victoria Daily Times))</figcaption></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03118/1292456-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="595" height="1182"></div>THE LEADERSMost Goals: Ken Ullyot, N.W. (22)Most Assists: Bob Love, N.W. (23)Most Hat Tricks: Bob Love, N.W.; Norm Kirk, N.W. (2)Most Hat Tricks Against: Tom Karakas, Port. (3)Most Winning Goals Scored: Walt Samanski. Port.: Ken Ullyot, N.W.: Bob Koch, N.W.; Eddie Mazur, Vic. (3)Most Shutouts: Lucien Deschene, N.W. (3)Most Shots Stopped: Lucien Deschene, N.W. (801)Most Penalties: Norm Gustavsen, Tac. (88 minutes) &#9632;

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By ROLLY ETHIER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01190/1292501-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"></div>NORTH BAY,. Ont.&mdash;Hockey addicts in the Gateway City have special reason to cheer loudly whenever Al Murray&rsquo;s Galt Black Hawks come up with a victory in the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop this season.For North Bay has seven native pucksters performing for the Galt squad, something that not many other cities with a population of 20,000 can boast of. So enthused was the city&rsquo;s hockey populace they got right behind a local Black Hawk Booster Club move to organize a recent excursion to Barrie to honor the youngsters with gifts.The players wearing the Galt uniforms are forwards Ken Wharram, Tony Poeta, George Gosselin, Pete Aubry, Don Hogan, Garth Boyce and defenseman Harold (Butch) Empie. All are playing prominent roles in Galt&rsquo;s stouthearted bid to capture the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Laurels.Hawks Get CreamChicago Black Hawks reaped the cream of the North Bay junior crop mainly because they had established their fall training base here and because scout R. D. (Bob) Wilson had been keeping a keen eye on the progress of these youngsters for many seasons. All the Galt kids belong to the Chicago NHL club, who sponsor the Galt junior OHA entry.Wharram, Poeta, Gosselin and Aubry, all members of the North Bay ONR Indians last semester, were selected by coach Al Murray among those performing at the week-long Chicago-sponsored hockey school here in October. So was Don Hogan, who now makes his home in North Bay.<h2>3 Milk&mdash;All Pat</h2>YOU DON&rsquo;T HAVE TO LOOK very far to discover some of the reasons why Toronto St. Michael's Seniors got away to such a fast start in the OHA Major Series. Three of them are shown above. From left to right, the high-stepping trio of St. Mike&rsquo;s laddies shown here are Sam Kennedy, Tommy Fowler and Jack Meldrum. All three have been around the hockey wars in classy company for quite some time, and have given the Irish a lift just when they needed it. &#9632;

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North Bay Fans Proud Of Seven Local Products

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;The judges handing out votes for the outstanding rookie of the year in the Western Canada Senior Hockey League will have to be sharp this season. Last year the award went to Hugh Coflin of Calgary Stampeders and the selection wasn&rsquo;t so tough as the colorful defenseman stood out like a lighthouse.This year it will be different. All four clubs in the circuit have a candidate who could qualify for the coveted award.Probably holding the inside spot is Lloyd Ferguson, former Winnipegger who is starring with Frank Currie&rsquo;s front running Edmonton Flyers.Ferguson didn't see any action until the veteran campaigner, Bing Merluk, broke his wrist. Then the fast skating Manitoba product surprised all and sundry by going on a wild scoring rampage. And his early show wasn&rsquo;t a flash in the pan as he has been a consistent scorer for Flyers.Calgary&rsquo;s hope will be blueline bumper Brent MacNab. This hard hitting youngster&mdash;who can still qualify for junior hockey&mdash;has plenty of color and is one of the most feared defenseman in the circuit.Another rookie who is attracting plenty of attention is Jack Shupe of Saskatoon Quakers. A defenceman with Medicine Hat junior Tigers last campaign, Shupe started on the blueline for Quakers this year but since has been switched to the wing position. He&rsquo;s as game as they come and has plenty of drive.<h2>Goalies Hold Stage In West</h2>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Ray Frederick, highly publicized Edmonton Flyer goalie who last year couldn&rsquo;t beg, borrow or steal a shutout, already has two this campaign and is top puck blocker in the four-team circuit.The former Brandon Wheat King star, who had bids from a lot of clubs when he graduated out of junior two seasons ago and signed with Flyers at a reported seven grand, boasts goose eggs against both Saskatoon Quakers and Regina Capitals.Despite playing on the top club last year, Frederick failed to come through with a single shutout while Russ Dertell, at that time with the third place Calgary Stampeders, set a league record of seven.Frederick&rsquo;s shutouts don&rsquo;t come easy. In aiding his mates to blank Saskatoon Quakers Frederick kicked out no less than 34 drives while Jackie Gibson, in the other end of the rink, was called upon to handle only 22 shots.Goaltending this year is one of the highlights of action in the 60-game Western Canada Senior League so far. All clubs in the circuit are strong in the nets and the goals come tough for the snipers. Bev Bentley, playing with the bottom spot Regina Caps, has been spectacular at times.Incidentally Caps haven&rsquo;t received too many breaks this year. The first night after Coach Ken Doraty resigned the club held Flyers scoreless for 40 minutes only to lose 2-0 in the third. In their next game, with club prexy Cliff Erhle doing the directing, Stampeders edged them 4-3. &#9632;

Tough Job Is Seen Picking Top Rookie

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01169/1292563-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Solubon Next Week)</figcaption></div>ACROSS1&mdash;Pictured Detroit player.6&mdash;Exclamation!7&mdash;Initials of coach of 1942-43 Stanley Cup winners.8&mdash;Edgar Laprade was born in&mdash;Centre, Ont.10&mdash;First name of Worters, former N.H.L. goalie.11&mdash;Defenseman for Vancouver Canucks.14&mdash;Initials of Dube, now with Cincinnati.15&mdash;Team in U.S.H.L.&mdash;Falcons.17&mdash;Initials of a Bruin centre.18&mdash;Month in which Reg. Sinclair celebrates birthday (abbr).21&mdash;In 1946-47 Gord Fashoway played in this country (abbr).22&mdash;What Byng Trophy winner of 1941-42 is called.23&mdash;Coach of Pittsburgh Hornets.27&mdash;Initials of a Ranger rearguard.28&mdash;Name given Skinner, ex member of Toronto Arenas.29&mdash;In Toronto the penalty box is on the west&mdash;of the rink.31&mdash;Initials of a Toronto rookie.32&mdash;Initials of Pidhirny of Springfield.34&mdash;Dennenny, old time player, is called this.35&mdash;Given name of Bourquault of 1927-28 Rangers.36&mdash;Initials of Tustin, ex New York player.37&mdash;What Perrault of Cincinnati is called.DOWN1&mdash;Dabcock, N.H.L. linesman, is called this.2&mdash;Position Cord Howe ended in the scoring race last season.3&mdash;Ont. birthplace of George Armstrong.4&mdash;Country in which Armand Raymond, ex Canadien, was born (abbr).5&mdash;Month in which pictured player celebrates birthday.7&mdash;Player known as &ldquo;Buck&rdquo;.9&mdash;North. East (abbr).10&mdash;Cal Gardner once played for N.Y.&mdash;.12&mdash;Musical note.13&mdash;Initials of Newcombe, member of Brooklyn's baseball club.14&mdash;Joe Klukay played 67 of these last season.16&mdash;Al Melgard plays one for Hawks home games.19&mdash;Indefinite article.20&mdash;Syd Abel played amateurhockey with-Bombers,(two words).23&mdash;Bentley, spare goalie for Providence, is called this.24&mdash;Short for given name of Prokop of Springfield Indians.25&mdash;Initials of 1948-49 Hart Trophy winner.26&mdash;Charlie Conacher is&mdash;than Roy.27&mdash;Given name of Gordon of Rangers.30&mdash;Playing surface.33&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Tiny&rdquo; Thompson&rsquo;s brother.35&mdash;The (Fr.).<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02132/1292556-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="570" height="829"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Determined to wipe out foul and abusive language that had marred recent games, the Ontario Hockey Association in executive session has cracked down on future offenders with an automatic three-game suspension.&ldquo;We must stamp out this wave of disrespect for clean play and of our officials,&rdquo; declared Jack Roxburgh, OHA president.&ldquo;Several fans have written to the OHA office complaining of the foul language used by players in the penalty box&rdquo;, added George Panter, OHA business manager.&rdquo; I&rsquo;ve had one referee flatly refusing to take further games because of this condition&rdquo;.<h2>Leaders Feted</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0399/1292608-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="325" height="638"><figcaption class="caption-body">THREE PROMINENT hockey men who were honored at the recent OHA meet are shown above. From left to right, they are John Bromley, Toronto Hockey League President; George Dudley, CAHA Manager, and W. A. (Billy) Hewitt, secretary of the OHA. These men have played a large part in hockey in Ontario and throughout Canada over the years.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0485/1292601-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="342" height="633"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0568/1292594-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="364" height="632"></div>The OHA has made it official that an automatic three-game suspension follows any action taken by referees in future games to curb foul language and unsportsman like conduct. After the three-game suspension the OHA Executive reserves the right to review the case should any further punishment be necessary.As an added warning, OHA clubs were informed that severe penalties would be handed out to one and all who try to cut loose with excessive vocal steam before the deadline of the new regulation, which went into effect on Dec. 15.Reaffirm Special ConcessionsDespite a few kickbacks from the old guard, the OHA Executive re-affirmed their previous motion allowing major and junior A series clubs certain operational concessions. In future clubs desiring to enter major or junior A competition must have 75 per cent consent of the operating clubs before their application can be considered by the OHA. The exception being where the OHA has made previous commitments to such centres as Kitchener and London for future junior A hockey.Ontario Hockey Association officials honored George Dudley, treasurer and past president and also CAHA secretary-manager for 26 years of service to hockey in Ontario. President Jack Roxburgh on behalf of the OHA presented the Midland lawyer with a sterling silver tea service.John Bromley, retiring president of the Toronto Hockey League who has been an associate member of the OHA for the past two season was also honored by the OHA officials for his excellent leadership.United States Amateur Hockey Association cited W. A. Hewitt, veteran OHA secretary and CAHA registrar, for his outstanding contribution to the success of hockey both in Canada and the United States. &#9632;

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Cuss Words Under Fire In OHA; Draw 3 Game Ban

<div class="byline">By FRANK DEAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0148/1292667-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="274" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0247/1292660-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="319"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0344/1292653-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="276" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Selke</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens have been threatening for some time to make some drastic changes and last week they finally did, using three amateurs on the lend lease basis in one game. The amateurs who answered the Habs&rsquo; S.O.S. are Jean Beliveau, Dick Gamble and Bernie Geoffrion. All three were playing their first game in the N.H.L. and Geoffrion celebrated the occasion in fine style by slapping home a shot which gave the Canucks a one all draw with the New York Rangers.All this took place in Montreal last Saturday night! Other new faces in the Canadiens&rsquo; red, white and blue were Hugh Currie, called up from Buffalo on loan, and Tommy Manastersky who earlier in the day turned professional with the Montrealers after playing a Wednesday game in New York on the lend lease.Of the five &ldquo;newcomers&rdquo;, Beliveau was by far the most impressive. He was teamed up with Rocket Richard and Normie Dussault and despite the close checking style of the Rangers, Beliveau managed to make his presence felt. The highly touted junior prospect, who earlier in the season refused a fabulous offer to turn pro with the Canucks, gave such a masterful display of puck talent that observers were declaring him ready to take his place in the N.H.L. whenever he felt like it.The Habs outshot the Rangers 31 to 24 on the game and to give you an idea of just how well Beliveau played, he had nine of those shots on Charlie Rayner. Maurice Richard, showed a new lease on life and pelted eight shots at Rayner, so between the two they blasted more then half of the Habs&rsquo; entire total of shots at the Ranger net. That they didn&rsquo;t score at least once is a tribute to the net minding of Rayner who did everything but eat the puck to keep the two from scoring.Beliveau is presently with the Quebec Citadels and is expected to remain with them for the rest of the season although it is quite likely that at some future date he&rsquo;ll play the remaining two games he Is allowed under the lend lease system. He&rsquo;s tied to the Citadels by a contract which so far the Habs have been unable to buy from the Quebec team owner, Frank Byrne.Gamble, the highest scorer of the Quebec Senior League, turned in a workmanlike chore and will undoubtedly be asked again to take his place with the Habs. Gamble performs with the Quebec Aces and is running away with the League scoring race. To date he has 28 goals and 22 assists in 29 games.Geoffrion, who follows Beliveau in the Junior League scoring while not as steady as his amateur mates, scored the goal which gave the Canucks their first point in their last six games and he will be given further chances to show his wares, probably at the end of this week. Both he and Beliveau have tremendous shots, Bernie having scored 25 goals in 20 games and the tall Beliveau 22 in the same number of games in Quebec junior ranks.Manastersky&rsquo;s DebutTom Manastersky, who just finished being voted Montreal&rsquo;s &ldquo;Athlete of the Year&rdquo; for his standout performance with the local football Alouettes this season, jumped to the N.H.L. after only six practices and NO games. At the time of his being called up to the Habs Tommy was with the Royal Seniors and had not taken part in a game due to the late finish of the local football season. Taking into consideration the fact that he had not played a game, Tommy&rsquo;s performance in the N.H.L. (he&rsquo;s had one year of senior) was little short of sensational and he worked like a man who felt he belonged. There was no trace of nervousness in his game and Hab officials feel he&rsquo;ll be a big help in the days and months to come.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0439/1292646-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="540" height="1103"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN BELIVEAU The Most Impressive</figcaption></div>Hugh Currie, the fifth and last of the &ldquo;new&rdquo; Habs, was called up from Buffalo for the one game only when it was learned that Butch Bouchard, Glen Harmon and Hal Laycoe would be unable to take part in the game.The Habs have been hit almost unmercifully by the injury bug this season, one reason why the &ldquo;Help Wanted&rdquo; call had to be sent out. Another was the floundering play of the Montrealers who had lost five in row and at no time in that stretch looked as though they were going to snap out of it. Hab officials blamed it partly on the injuries but a goodly portion of the blame was laid at the Habs&rsquo; inability to score any goals. Without Geoffrion&rsquo;s goal the Habs would have been beaten so apparently the move paid oft.Asked to comment on the play of Beliveau, Geoffrion, Gambia and Manastersky, Canadiens&rsquo; General Manager had this to stay.&ldquo;I think Beliveau was the classiest looking hockey player on the ice. He&rsquo;d help us and I wish I knew how to get him from Byrne, He&rsquo;s definitely a National Leaguer right now. Geoffrion hustled enough to show that he has the drive. We know he has the scoring ability. He needs experience though tor he has relied a little too much on his shot to get him by in junior. I hope to have hit with us if not this, then next season. Gamble has the makings but not being a natural hockey player like Beliveau or Geoffrion he seemed out of place for a while. He&rsquo;d improve enough to help us I think but we&rsquo;ll have to wait for another year to discuss plans for him.&rdquo;Seiko Likes TommySelke felt good about Man astersky&rsquo;s showing and said of the husky rearguard, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always felt he had the stuff for pro hockey. It looks to me that he has proven himself under the most difficult circumstances. Of course he&rsquo;s not established as yet but I have every hope that he&rsquo;ll come through with more of the kind of hockey he&rsquo;s shown us already. If he does we&rsquo;ll not be far off the pace in Spring.&rdquo;<h2>When the Lights Go Out</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0521/1292639-1-eng-US/f00c4-052.jpg" title="f00C4-05" width="2900" height="1589"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROGER ST. JEAN, Montreal photographer turned out the above picture. When he went to take the picture he found his flash out of order but at the second he clicked it another cameraman on the other side of the rink did likewise. His flash supplied St. Jean with just enough to reproduce the above. Terry Sawchuk is the goaler and Elmer Lach is poised behind the goal. Leo Reise and two unidentified players are also silhouetted.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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December 23, 1950

UNITED STATES LEAGUE

Goodfellow Happy At Hawks Record Despite Slow Up From Injuries

famous Inn Signs …… No. 8

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