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January 13, 1951

The Hockey News January 13, 1951

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IN THIS ISSUE

Anateur Parade At Quick Glance

<div class="byline">By GEORGE CARSON</div>ST. LOUIS, Mo&mdash;Unlike most trainers of athletic teams, who go about their work unnoticed and possibly even unknown by the general public, Alex (Shrimp) McPherson of the St. Louis Flyers of the American Hockey League is probably one of the best known and most popular members of the Mound City hockey organization.Why? Because he&rsquo;s a hockey hero of old, a gay blade of the &rsquo;30&rsquo;s with the Flyers who were pioneering in the ice sport in those days. Compared to baseball, McPherson ranks right along with such popular diamond heroes of the past as Pepper Martin, Dizzy Dean, Frankie Frisch, Rogers Hornsby, Chick Hafey, Jim Bottomley and such Cardinal immortals, with the St. Louis public.Naturally, such popularity had to be deserved. And that&rsquo;s exactly where Shrimp comes in. For his feats in the early days of hockey in St. Louis are legendary, accomplishments that Flyer fans are still talking about almost 20 years later. As a member &rsquo;of the very first team to play hockey in St. Louis&rsquo;s fabulous $3,000,000 Arena, one of the city&rsquo;s foremost show-places, it became McPherson&rsquo;s good fortune to score the first Flyer goal in the new structure. That was on December 28, 1931.<h2>As They Look Today</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0171/916013-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="526" height="813"><figcaption class="caption-body">SHRIMP McPHERSON</figcaption></div>As the team&rsquo;s ace center. Shrimp was a great play-maker and took a hand at scoring himself. Twice he led the club in scoring, banging in 21 goals and adding 5 assists for 26 points in 48 games. By so doing, he became one of three Flyer players to gain the unique honor of leading the St. Louis team in scoring two years, Pete Palangio (1932-33, 1935-36) and Fred Hergert (1939-40, 1940-41) being the others.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0250/916006-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="524" height="827"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY MITCHELL</figcaption></div>More important, however, was the fact that Shrimp&rsquo;s magic stick that fired shots past all opposing goal-tenders during the 1934-35 campaign, carried him to the American Hockey Association&rsquo;s scoring championship that season.This, of course, fits in beautifully with his new job, as playing-coach of the Flyers. For the aggressive center&rsquo;s brilliant play and heavy scoring proved a dominating factor in landing his club in the playoffs, the first time a St. Louis hockey club managed to reach the goal. But Shrimp didn&rsquo;t stop there. He piloted the Flyers to the league championship again the following season, then went on to win the playoffs, another &ldquo;first&rdquo; for St. Louis in icehockey.Today, as the busiest man in the St. Louis club&rsquo;s dressing room, Alex still finds time, now and then, to entertain the players&mdash;particularly the rookies just breaking into professional hockey&mdash;and even Coach Johnny Mitchell, with some of his early experiences with the Flyers.&ldquo;Hockey has come a long way since I first broke in, &rsquo;way back in 1930 with the Tulsa Oilers,&rdquo; he usually begins. &ldquo;Why, times were so tough that they couldn&rsquo;t pay my salary that first year and I drew my release. As a free agent, I signed with the Detroit Olympics. St. Louis needed some players and I was sent to the Flyers, never realizing, of course, the poor shape hockey was in at that time in St. Louis. We were promised $60 a week, some times we got it, most of the time we didn&rsquo;t.&ldquo;But in those days, the boys who played hockey, played it for the love of the game. The various clubs were continually in financial trouble and often we&rsquo;d arrive at a rink to play a game only to find the sheriff, armed with a writ of attachment, in possession of our playing uniforms. Most of the time the boys carried their skates with them to prevent legal seizure, along with club equipment, for we felt we&rsquo;d be able to play a game if we had our skates.&rdquo;Altogether, Shrimp figures, he lost $5,800 in back salary&mdash;but he never missed a game. Finally, when hockey began to click in St. Louis and he was elevated to coach, his salary was raised to 100 bucks a week, a fabulous sum in those days!&ldquo;Hockey players today ask for that amount to start,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;Imagine a playing coach in hockey today drawing only $100 a week! Still, I was happy and considered myself independently wealthy in those early days.&rdquo;McPherson, now in his fourth year as trainer for the team he used to lead to victory, got his job quite by accident. He was at the rink one day, watching the Flyers practice when Ebbie Goodfellow, then coach and an old acquaintance from his hickey pleying days in Detroit, spotted the ex-player and asked him if he&rsquo;d be interested in the job as trainer.<h2>He&rsquo;s Still Tops</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0327/915999-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1048" height="1407"><figcaption class="caption-body">Shrimp gives a St. Louis player treatment after a crack on the hand.</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I told Ebbie I didn&rsquo;t know anything about sewing up players&rsquo; wounds or feeding them pills or medicines for their ills,&rdquo; Alex explained. &ldquo;But Ebbie told me that hockey clubs today have doctors in attendance at all games to handle such things. My job would be to look after the equipment, provide players with diathermy (heat) treatments and generally look after the back-stage routine of the club. Doc Wilson, who had been trainer, was ill at the time and after that be became trainer for the St. Louis Bomber basketball club.&ldquo;I played for three Flyer coaches, Dick Carroll, Babe Dye and Ab Hughes, and now I&rsquo;ve been trainer for two more&mdash;Ebbie Goodfellow and Johnny Mitchell. I&rsquo;ve seen hundreds of players come and go, but somehow, I never grow tired of greeting the newcomers and telling them how lucky they are to be playing with the St. Louis Flyers, though I didn&rsquo;t have a picnic myself playing for this team years ago.&rdquo;Emory Jones, President of the Flyers, who signs Shrimp&rsquo;s paychecks, realizes how popular his trainer is and throws a little light behind the scenes on how his trainer gained some of his current popularity.&ldquo;Back in the &rsquo;30&rsquo;s when he was coaching and playing for the Flyers,&rdquo; Jones said, &ldquo;he spent the summer months working at Forest Park Highlands, a nearby St. Louis summer-resort, as an attendant on the kiddie rides. Mothers and fathers would impress their youngsters that the man who was helping them on and off the rides was the great hockey star, Shrimp McPherson. And hundreds of those youngsters now grownups, often tell us, while attending the hockey games, that they still remember Shrimp McPherson, our trainer, from those bygone days when he lifted them on and off the miniature merry-go-rounds or circle swings.&rdquo;McPherson has proven himself a jack-of-all-trades during the summer months. At various times, he served as a sports radio announcer, furnace tender in a brass foundry, beer bottler and inspector at Anheuser-Busch Brewery and, during the New York World&rsquo;s Fair in 1939 checked 8 60 tires daily on 130 pieces of equipment belonging to the Greyhound Bus Lines.Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Alex came to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with his parents at the age of 4. Always a center, he played amateur hockey with such greats of the game as the two Conachers, Rollie and Charley, Harvey (Busher) Jackson and Red Horner, on the Marlboro, Toronto club.Now a year-round resident of St. Louis, McPherson gets a big kick out of his annual return trip to Canada with the Flyers for their fall training. On those occasions, he looks up a lot of old teammates from St. Louis clubs of the past and only the past fall ran across such, old pals as George Massacre, Pete Palangio, Roy Burmeister, Rollie Huard and many others. &#9632;

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Once Ace Center, Shrimp Now Ace Trainer

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0318/915968-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="588" height="275"></div>January 17 to January 2420&mdash;FRAMPTON, Bob, forward, Victoria, 1929.22-&mdash;LACH, Elmer, forward, Canadiens, 191824&mdash;MORTSON, Gus, defense, Toronto, 1925. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By DINK CARROLL</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0126/915419-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">ONCE THE MOST feared pair of performers in the N.H.L. they are now just memories. With the retirement of Black Jack Stewart from active play because of a spine injury the once powerful defense duo of Orlando and Stewart became a thing of the past. When they were with the Wings it was sure death to cross their blueline with your head down. &ldquo;He was the greatest there ever was&rdquo;, said Orlando. The above picture shows Orlando, left, now playing for the Valleyfield Braves of the Q.S.H.L., and Stewart, when the Hawks played an exhibition game in Valleyfield recently.</figcaption></div>Sports Editor Montreal Gazette<h2>They Were Feared</h2>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;If Jolly Jack Adams isn&rsquo;t careful, one of these days somebody is going to start calling him &ldquo;The Branch Rickey of Hockey.&rdquo; The Mahatma was a great guy to sell or trade ball players when they were all washed up, usually getting the top price for them. Eventually the fellows he was dealing with grew extremely cagy, sifting everything he said several times for hidden meanings. They frankly didn&rsquo;t trust him.This distrust on the part of the baseball magnates helped him to put over one of his biggest deals. This was the sale of Dizzy Dean to the Chicago Cubs for close to a quarter of a million dollars. The Mahatma said at the time that Dean had an ailing arm but Phil Wrigley, owner of the Cubs, closed the deal anyway, figuring that if Dean actually did have a bad arm Rickey would try to conceal the fact instead of publicizing it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0220/915412-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="252" height="400"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Tobin</figcaption></div>But it turned out that The Mahatma was levelling this time. Dean&rsquo;s arm was gone and while he won some games for the Cubs, he won them with his head and not his flipper.Injury Wasn&rsquo;t A SecretWhat Jack Adams did was to trade Jack Stewart to the Chicago Black Hawks when Black Jack was already beginning to come apart at the seams. The report you hear is that he had that popping disc in his spine last season and that everybody knew it except Bill Tobin, Ebbie Goodfellow, and a few more guys in Chicago. He had only a few more games left in him, by which is meant very few indeed.He played them at the start of the present campaign and he did help the Black Hawks, but not for long. If you hear any eerie sounds when the west wind blows these nights, that will be Tobin and Goodfellow baying at the moon in &ldquo;the city with, the big shoulders.&rdquo;Black Jack was a good thing while he lasted and he lasted fairly long in a league where life is short. He was the best blue line belter in the history of the Detroit Red Wings, according to Jack Adams, over the nine seasons he played for them.For a fellow who could hit such a terrific body check he wasn&rsquo;t very big; his best playing weight was 185 pounds. But he was all bone and muscle. Jack Adams, to whom superlatives come so readily, called him &ldquo;one of the strongest guys I have ever seen in a hockey uniform.&rdquo; He owns a wheat farm near Pilot Mound, Man., lives outdoors most of the time and is used to hard manual work, which probably accounts for his fine physique.Jack had another fellow with the Red Wings in Stewart&rsquo;s time whose strength was also legendary. This was Pat (The Great Eag) Egan, now with the New York Rangers. One day when Pat was with the Red Wings he was eating his lunch in a restaurant near the Olympia on Grand River Avenue. With him was Fred Huber, the Red Wings&rsquo; publicity director. Pat finished eating and was looking out on the avenue, which was covered with glare ice. Suddenly he muttered an exclamation, jumped up from the table and rushed outside. Huber went to the window to watch.A team of horses had slipped and fallen on the ice and were making futile attempts to get up. Pat went to work, lifting one horse up and then the other. Huber was impressed. He told the story to several sports writers, and one of them finally sought Pat out.&ldquo;I heard you lifted a horse on Grand River Avenue the other &ldquo;Now, it was a team of horses,&rdquo; Egan grunted.&ldquo;The Strong, Silent Type&rdquo;But to get back to the other muscle man, Black Jack Stewart, it&rsquo;s amazing how little material there is in the files on him. That&rsquo;s because he is so quiet and unobtrusive off the ice.He is supposed to possess a rather wry sense of humor, but this bureau never discerned it because Black Jack always seemed to be more of a listener than a talker. In those hotel lobby sessions he would lend an ear but never a voice. Even Ken McKenzie, the public relations man for the N.H.L., wasn&rsquo;t much help when it came to filling out the profile on Stewart.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the strong, silent type, said Ken. &ldquo;All I know about him is that he&rsquo;s an avid curler.&rdquo;Curler? When did Stewart get time to curl? Maybe it was a bad pun and the &ldquo;curling&rdquo; he did was when he curled his stick around some guy&rsquo;s head or feet.He did plenty of that, and he took plenty in return. One of his distinctions is that he is the most stitched-up of modern hockey players. Among the souvenirs he will carry away from the N.H.L. are the 201 stitches required to close the 48 wounds in his physiognomy. He is as marked up as an old fighter with scars over both eyes, a large semi-circular one under his right eye and another big one down his right cheek.Oddly enough for a fellow who spends only half the year in the city, he is a nifty dresser. Sport magazine, noting his penchant for clothes, once did a pictorial feature on him, showing him arrayed in various items from his extensive wardrobe.But Black Jack could play hockey. He was a good blocking defenceman, could clear the puck out of his own defence zone, rarely made a bad pass and he could skate faster than most spectators realized. He was a good ice general and was respected all around the league. He put plenty of gimp in that weak Chicago defence and pepped up the whole team. It was noticeable when he appeared here early in the season with the Black Hawks that their forwards were checking back, but they returned to their old careless methods the minute he was out of there.Those percentage-minded fellows who make the odds paid him an unconscious tribute these last few days. Last week Detroit was 8-to-5 to win the Stanley Cup; Toronto 12-to-5; Rangers 8-to-l; Canadiens and Chicago 10-to-l; and Boston 12-to-l. When it became known that Stewart was all through as a hockey player the odds on the Black Hawks went to 15-to-l. &#9632;

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Jack Stewart Payoff May Entitle Adams To Branch Rickey Title

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0119/916724-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">((Photo by Lavelle))</figcaption></div>Entered as second class matter at the post Office Union N.Y.Marcel Pronovost of the Indianapolis Caps throws his fist into Sugar Jim Henry&rsquo;s face as Ray LaPlante of the Providence Reds gets sandwiched between the two. Pronovost was recently sent to the Caps from Detroit and Henry was brought up from the Omaha Knights. The top of the puck can be seen in the center on the bottom of the picture. Bedard didn&rsquo;t score on the play. &#9632;

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A Fist For Henry, A Sandwich For Ray

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing wrong with attendance at &lsquo;Super League&rsquo; games in Canada which some real stiff competition wouldn&rsquo;t cure.&rdquo; To back that up, you can quote the Presidents of four of the five circuits across Canada which will compete in the newly organized &ldquo;Major Series&rdquo; for the Lord Alexander Trophy next Spring. To a man, they express optimism that there&rsquo;ll be no trouble to get the turnstiles clicking for the playoffs, even though the glamour of the historic Allan Cup will be missing from the scene for the first time in 43 years.They all feel strongly that any troubles being encountered in member leagues can be traced directly to local conditions, and that the splitting away of the country&rsquo;s five top circuits to form a super, select group of their own has had no bearing on the interest displayed by the fans.The chief officials were asked to comment on the article in last week&rsquo;s HOCKEY NEWS. In that front page story, Bunny Morgan-son of Toronto pointed out that attendance has been very disappointing at the Ontario Hockey Association &ldquo;super-senior&rdquo; games this year. He added that a CAHA official, who preferred to remain anonymous, expressed concern over the course of events and that the CAHA was worried over the way things were going.By Way Of ContrastFurthermore, added our correspondent, while attendance was hitting rock-bottom at most &ldquo;Major&rdquo; games, the fans were turning out in large numbers for the four other Ontario senior groups playing in the less favored bracket which leads up to the Allan Cup playoffs.The inference obviously was that the spectators weren&rsquo;t too interested in the semi-professional class teams of the Super Series, but that there was still enthusiasm for the play dished out by clubs on the Allan Cup Trail. The presidents polled all disagreed with that reasoning, preferring rather to &ldquo;wait and see&rdquo; what develops When playoff time rolls around.Answering the request for comments were George Slater, head of the Quebec Senior League; J. M. Roxburgh of the O.H.A. group; Al Pickard of the Western Canada Senior League; and Judge J. Elliott Hudson of the Maritime Senior loop. The Cape Breton circuit, fifth league in the set-up, could not be reached for comment.Since the O.H.A. Major Series entry was the one most directly affected, President Roxburgh was asked to give his version of the problem. He pointed out that attendance generally was down throughout Ontario, even in the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit, which is providing &ldquo;one of the most keenly contested series ever played in OHA competition.&rdquo;He went on:&ldquo;The very fact that three of the four teams in our Major setup are playing their games in ths same arenas as the Junior A group, and also that during the early half of the Major schedule the teams were far from evenly matched was bound to have an effect on attendance.&ldquo;There is also little doubt that teams like our Majors playing in the extra-early hockey schedules now in vogue received plenty of competition from counter attractions such as rugby and soccer. However, there is not enough wrong but what a keen, evenly contested series will go a long way to rectify&hellip;&ldquo;It is therefore my feeling that if the four OHA Major teams which are now providing much better competition continue to do so, and with real hockey weather in the air, attendance records should definitely rise and be back to near normal figures before the playoff fever hits &hellip;&ldquo;&hellip; Naturally the final judgment &hellip; cannot be made until inter-branch playoffs take place &hellip; (and they should be) as keen or even keener than under the old set-up &hellip; Any attendance troubles in the Major Series are caused by conditions within the groups or the branches, rather than by the Series itself.&rdquo;No Problem In QuebecFrom the QSHL, where fan turnouts and competition have been consistently good, President Slater reported that he could notice no difference in his league.&ldquo;The league has operated this season just the same as it has long in the past &hellip; The changing of the name of the series does not change the calibre of the hockey. If attendance has dropped off in some localities it must be due to conditions existing in these localities. As far as the QSHL is concerned, we can report an over-all increase in attendance so far this season &hellip;&ldquo;The league has been fairly well balanced, the games have been close and exciting &hellip; and 65% of our &ldquo;tied&rdquo; games have been settled in ten minutes overtime.&rdquo;Judge Hudson of the Maritime group expressed much the same thought, pointing out that attendance is down in the circuit but this has two obvious reasons:&ldquo;Inflation has lessened the value of the dollar and increased the cost of living, with the result the fans must pick the games they will attend. The games they pick are well attended. Second, the MSHL standing is not at all close this season &hellip; it doesn&rsquo;t make for the appeal that a down the stretch, neck and neck battle does.&rdquo;Conditions No DifferentFinally, Al Pickard gave these observations from his western post.&mdash;&lsquo;The leagues and clubs now competing as Major Series (entries) would have been competing under the same conditions if a Major Series had not been arranged for &hellip; It must be remembered that competition in the CAHA national Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; playdowns has, during the past few years, been unbalanced, with the national winner consistently emerging from a league now rated as Major.&ldquo;One of the main reasons for the formation of the Major Series was to more evenly balance competition in national playdowns. There is no reason to believe that this objective will not be achieved.&rdquo; &#9632;

Prexies Of Five Super Loops See No Reason Alarm

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Just before the Year 1950 was rung out, the National Hockey League took on a familiar look&mdash;the Detroit Red Wings were at the top of the standings again.That was the way 1950 opened, and that&rsquo;s the way it stayed through the last half of the 1949-50 campaign. Detroit had an 11-point lead on Jan. 1, and won by 11 points in March.Before the current campaign opened, the experts favored Detroit to repeat in similar fashion. Only, the Wings didn&rsquo;t find it that easy an assignment to fill. This was due, particularly, to the Toronto Maple Leafs and a hot streak enjoyed by the Ontarioans in the early stages.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0410/915481-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="267" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Kelly</figcaption></div>True, first place beckoned Detroit early. By winning the first game&mdash;before any other teams played&mdash;the Wings enjoyed the lead for a couple of days. But then Montreal took &rsquo;over briefly before the Leafs pulled out in front with a drive which carried them 11 games without defeat.Started In DecemberDespite the fact that the Wings flew at a faster clip than the year before, it still wasn&rsquo;t enough to overtake Toronto for a long time. Detroit had one hot streak of its own&mdash;10 games without a loss&mdash;but still was eight points behind Toronto on Dec. 6.It was on that date the Coach Tommy Ivan&rsquo;s warriors started a blistering drive which finally rewarded them with the lead. Detroit wasn&rsquo;t beaten in 12 games, winning 10 and tying two for 22 of a possible 24 points. Toronto matched this for a brief spell, and still held an eightpoint edge on Dec. 10.But, in a space or 20 days, Detroit gained a total of 11 points on Toronto. That did it. While the Wings were winning eight and tying two, Toronto was winning three, losing five and tying one. From eight points back, Detroit climbed to a three-point lead.On the last day of 1950, Toronto gained some of the lost ground with a 4-2 victory on local ice snapping off the Wings&rsquo; long streak. The lead, however, still belonged to Detroit by a one-point edge as 1951 rolled in.No one single player can be singled out as most responsible for the blistering battle that brought the Wings from behind. The foremost heroes in the surge were Gordie Howe. Terry Sawchuk, Leo Reise, Red Kelly, Metro Prystai, Ted Lindsay and Jim McFadden, is some must be named.Howe has become the key man in the Production Line. While Sid Abel and Lindsay have set the pace for that great forward combination in recent seasons, Howe now is THE man. All three rank among the NHL&rsquo;s top scorers, and Howe has taken over the lead by passing Max Bentley.Always a feared scorer, Howe is doubling as a playmaker. He ran up 10 straight assists in one stretch, and had 14 goals and 23 assists when he went into first place.Manager Jack Adams honestly believes Howe is the greatest player to come along since Howie Morenz. The way the rugged right winger from Saskatoon is performing other less partial observers are going to be convinced of that before long.Sawchuk&rsquo;s great goal tending would have been sensational for a veteran. The fact that he is a fresh rookie, barely turned 21, makes it doubly so. He has&rsquo; amazed everyone with his speed and agility in the nets, and his record tells the real story: An average of less than two goals a game have been sneaked past him in the first 34 starts.Reise and Kelly have been giving Sawchuk great protection on the defense, the kind &rsquo;of work which is stirring All-Star talk. It wasn&rsquo;t long ago that the Wings had an All-Star pair in Jack Stewart and Bill Quackenbush. The Reise-Kelly hasn&rsquo;t achieved the prominence of that, duo as yet, but their ability is reaching the state where such acclaim shouldn&rsquo;t be far away.Prystai has filled an unusual role. He became the No. 1 troubleshooter used to replace injured men on various lines. This value was multiplied when every line he went in on immediately became the top offensive threat for that period.McFadden centers the so-called &ldquo;defensive platoon&rdquo; which is the line with Jimmy Peters and Marty Pavelich that is used to check the rival&rsquo;s top line. There has been a rich payoff from this assignment.Add to the above Bob Gold-ham&rsquo;s terrific improvement on defense in recent weeks, and Gaye Stewart&rsquo;s sharp goal-getting before he was injured, and you have the background of Detroit&rsquo;s drive into first place.Whether the Wings can hold that spot and repeat as NHL champions is a question, of course, which won&rsquo;t be decided for at least two months. The injury factor may prove decisive, for Detroit has been lucky in that respect and none of the key men have been seriously hurt. Adams and Ivan have their fingers crossed there.But, it now has become a certainty that this crop of Wings which head into 1951 are no weaker, and probably stronger, than the Detroit outfit which went into 1950 and wound up with the Stanley Cup as a souvenir. &#9632;

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Twenty Day Streak Last Month Pushed Wings Up To Leafs

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;A drastic change of tactics may be extending the hockey life of Milton Schmidt captain and center of the Bruins, to the benefit of his team.Schmidt, who once exercised his muscles more than any other center in the National League, is now exercising restraint.In his 11th season with the Bruins, Schmidt is now employing a style of play vastly different from that which he played in the preceding 10.He isn&rsquo;t throwing his weight around recklessly any more.Instead, he is working on a planned program, the object of which is to avoid unnecessary lumps, bumps and dumps, with resulting injuries.Schmidt is probably the Bruins&rsquo; most valuable player. He is certainly the team&rsquo;s sparkplug, as anyone who has seen it play without him will attest.It is imperative to the Bruins&rsquo; playoff cause that the 33-year old veteran be ready, willing&mdash;and able. Hence his new tactics.Instead of stopping an opposing forward with a body check, Schmidt is now using his stick. Instead of challenging a board-checking foe, Schmidt now rides out the check. Instead of tossing his 190 pounds around at the slightest provocation as he used to, Milt now substitutes guile&mdash;and unimpaired speed.He is striving to stay in the lineup, and since an early-season shoulder injury he (every Bruin knocks on wood) has done so.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m concentrating on taking only what I have to take,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;because I hope to duck those minor injuries I have had in the past, pesky things like muscle bruises and pulls, the small things that slowed me down.<h2>Value Plus</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-059/915512-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="544" height="545"><figcaption class="caption-body">MILT SCHMIDT</figcaption></div>&ldquo;At the start of the year I tried bumping,&rdquo; he confessed, but I found out that I just can&rsquo;t do it any more. There&rsquo;s no use kidding, I&rsquo;m not getting any younger, so this way looks like the best one to me,&rdquo;Schmidt&rsquo;s self-made decision to expend his energy in less violent ways than he used to has received enthusiastic support from Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; coach.&ldquo;Milt looks faster and stronger to me than he has for the last five years,&rdquo; observed Patrick, &ldquo;and I think it is because he isn&rsquo;t using his body as much as he used to. He isn&rsquo;t trying to hit all those fellows who used to like to have him hit them. I&rsquo;m just keeping my fingers crossed that his good fortune continues.&rdquo;Pesky injuries to Schmidt have been most costly to the Bruins in the past few years. Counting the six games he missed earlier this season after a collision with Ernie Dickens in Chicago, Schmidt has been an involuntary spectator at a total of 4 5 Bruins&rsquo; games in the last three years.There is no way of determining how many of those his team might have won had the brilliant center been available, but there is no doubt that his absence hurt.Schmidt in his long term of service with the Bruins has had some sizzling encounters with National league rivals, guys like Jack Stewart of Chicago and Butch Bouchard of Montreal. Few forwards in history have dished out and received the punishement he has.And that he has made slam-bang stuff on secondary importance, he hasn&rsquo;t become eligible for pushing around. He is still taking drastic actions, whenever the situation calls for them.But in the main, he is sticking to his knitting, to the advantage of the Bruins.What does a healthy Schmidt mean to the Bruins? Here are a few examples, based on recent performances.On at least three occasions he has skated three-quarters or more of the rink to score goals.In a game with the Rangers he assisted on all four goals scored by the Bruins. In another he beat the New Yorkers with a third-period long shot.In a game with Chicago he set up two third-period goals which produced a tie, playing the last 10 minutes of the game with only a 20-second breather during a change of lines.Patrick has taken advantage of Schmidt&rsquo;s availability to use him as the regular center for Woody Dumart and Bill Ezinicki, as a killer of penalties, and as an offensive defenseman when the Bruins have had an. edge in manpower.Under that setup, the Dumart-Schmidt-Ezinicki line has become Boston&rsquo;s most productive, few goals have been scored on the Bruins when they have been shorthanded, and he and young Eddie Kryzanowski have developed into an effective &ldquo;power play&rdquo; combination.A firm advocate of Milt&rsquo;s new policy is Dumart, the fellow who has played with him for every one of those 11 years.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s doing the smart thing,&rdquo; declared the big wing. &ldquo;It means too much to us to have him out there to have him take unnecessary chances. He&rsquo;s playing it smart, the way he&rsquo;s playing now.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Schmidt Nixes Rough Stuff, Accent Now On Restraint If It Will Extend Puck Career

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;For much traveled Joe Carveth a National Hockey League career that started 11 years ago apparently has come to an end.Without any fanfare, Carveth has been sent down to the American League at Indianapolis by the Detroit Red Wings, and there seems little chance that he&rsquo;ll ever be back.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0316/915450-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="278" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Carveth</figcaption></div>Father Time appears to have caught up with Carveth. Now 32 years old, he was fighting a losing battle with increasing weight, and his legs were showing the pace of 12 straight years in pro hockey.It may be that the Wings will bring him back at playoff time, to cash in again on his smartness and coolness with the puck in those crucial games. But, as a regular campaigner in the bigtime, it seems he has reached the end of the string.Known familiarly to his teammates as Dad, since he&rsquo;s the father of four children, Carveth was one of the most popular of the Wings. His closest friend is Capt. Sid Abel, who said Carveth really was broken up over his departure to the minors.&ldquo;He took it kind of hard&mdash;not because he was headed for the minors, but because he realized that he was nearing the end in hockey,&rdquo; stated Abel, who knows he too must face the same thing all too soon.By a coincidence, Carveth now is playing for the same team with which he broke into pro hockey in the 1939-40 season. He was picked up from the amateur Detroit Pontiacs, of the old M-O league, and sent by the Wings to Indianapolis for grooming.The next season he came up to the Wings for a six-year stay. When Detroit won the Stanley Cup in 1943, Carveth topped the club in goal scoring with six.In 1946 he started his travels around the NHL. Traded to Boston for Roy&rsquo; Conacher, he remained there over a year. Then he was sent to Montreal in a deal for Jimmy Peters.Last year he became one of the few players ever to be traded back to a former club when Detroit gave up Cal McKay to regain his services. Manager Jack Adams wanted Carveth for his experience to balance up a club which was destined to win the Cup.So it was that Carveth became one of the three men to play on Detroit&rsquo;s last two Stanley Cup championship outfits. Abel and Jack Stewart are the others.This season Carveth was ranked No. 4 right winger on the squad. He saw limited action at first on a line, but at the end was being used only at the point on power plays.Hockey NewsPublished Weekly, except monthly Moy through September, by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 603A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office in Utica, N.Y., under the oct of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $2.50 in Canada, $3.50 in U.S.A. &#9632;

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Wings Send Carveth To A.H.L. Caps

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0126/915557-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAURICE RICHARD, destined to become the highest goal scorer in professional hockey&rsquo;s history. But Jack Adams says his sweet hunk of right winger named Gordie Howe is better. Richard last week passed Aurel Joliat and Howe Morenz in goal scoring.</figcaption></div><h2>Is He Best&hellip;</h2><h2>Or Him&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0222/915550-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="488" height="1425"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOWIE MORENZ voted top player in Canadian Press poll of last fifty-years.</figcaption></div><h2>Or Him&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0314/915543-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1104" height="1548"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE the nonchalant Red Wing who says very little but does plenty on the ice. He just keeps rolling along, but it&rsquo;s a long way to Richard&rsquo;s record.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Howe As Good As Morenz, Better Than Richard--Adams: Not By Records--Irvin

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;It wasn&rsquo;t too long ago that I wrote a story on Ted Lindsay, calling him the best player in the game at that time. Lindsay had just finished making a pile of dough&mdash;over $20,000 some say&mdash;he was driving a Cadillac and was getting to the point where instead of paying income tax he merely called up the U.S. and Canadian Governments and asked them how much they needed.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-044/915588-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="232" height="371"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Irvin</figcaption></div>Ted had led the league in scoring, made the first All-Star team broke, the loop record for assists and finished the season as the outstanding player on a team that won the Stanley Cup. That, we were sure, was enough to make him the outstanding player, at least it was in our book. But a few months later when the story was first published we were hauled over the coals to such a point that I&rsquo;m still being treated for third degree burns.Few hockey players have had a rougher going over than the one I took for the next few weeks following publication of the article. Even now in Montreal, my own home town, hockey fans still point to me and laugh in the same manner in which they laughed at the lad who played the part of Crazy in the movie The City Across The River, Any normal person would have quit, but I&rsquo;m not normal.So when I read Paul Chandler&rsquo;s story quoting Jack Adams of the Red Wings as saying Gord Howe is the greatest player to come along in the last 25 years, that he is as good as Morenz ever was and better than Richard I just couldn&rsquo;t help but wonder what the stout hearted leaders of the Montreal Canadiens would think about it all. This is what they think, I remember what happened last time.To them it was a typical Adams statement. It didn&rsquo;t surprise anybody too much for they generally agreed that he comes up with at least one such statement annually. This just happened to be Howe&rsquo;s turn.Everybody Does It&ldquo;Every coach and manager likes to boost his own players,&rdquo; said Dick Irvin, &ldquo;especially when they&rsquo;re going good. But it&rsquo;s a long way to the end of the season.&rdquo;&ldquo;Is Howe as good as Morenz was?&rdquo; we asked. There was no comment.&ldquo;Is he better than Richard ever was?&rdquo; we queried.&ldquo;When Howe scores as many goals as Richard has then I&rsquo;ll answer that,&rdquo; came the reply. &ldquo;Just look up the records.&ldquo;Richard scored 43 goals playing on a weak team last season and Howe could only get 34 on a strong club like the Wings. On a weak scoring team like ours Richard has to worry about playing a defensive game. If he was playing on a high scoring club this season he&rsquo;d have 3 0 goals right now instead of 19.&ldquo;Of course Howe is an exceptionally good hockey player but I wouldn&rsquo;t trade Richard for him at any time. Look up the records to find out who&rsquo;s the greatest.&rdquo; No. one was too hasty to jump down Adams&rsquo; throat for they all agreed that Howe is a terrific hunk of player. Said one bystander, &ldquo;that Howe is good but how long will he keep it up, how long will he continue to play like he is. You can&rsquo;t compare him with Richard for another five or six years. If he continues to lead the league then, you can compare the two.&rdquo;Adams&rsquo; statement came on the heels of the Canadian Press half-century poll for Canada&rsquo;s greatest individual athletes during the first 50 years of the 20th century. Morenz was the unanimous choice as the top man and Richard was second. There was no mention of Howe anywhere down the list.&ldquo;In the first three games the Wings played in Montreal this season,&rdquo; said Frank Selke Jr. Habs&rsquo; Publicity man, &ldquo;we won one, tied one and lost one. In the first game we won 2-0 and Cal MacKay scored a goal, he&rsquo;s Howe&rsquo;s check. The next game we were beaten 7-1 and MacKay got our only goal, once again he was Howe&rsquo;s check, but Howe never got a point. The next game was a 4-4 tie, MacKay got the tieinggoal and guess who was checking him. All Howe got was two assists. In the three games Howe was on for five of our seven goals and Adams calls him the greatest player in the last 25 years. He Can&rsquo;t be with a road record like that.&ldquo;And here&rsquo;s some more interest-ng figures,&rdquo; said Junior. &ldquo;In four and a half seasons in the N.H.L. Howe has an average of 16.4 goals per season while Richard has 33.6 in seven and a half years.&ldquo;Howe is good, sure, but check his record. The Wings were beat-on twice recently, once by Toronto 4-2 and by Rangers 5-3 and Howe was on for all nine goals against. That doesn&rsquo;t say much for him does it.&rdquo;Whether Howe is greater than Richard we care not to argue but to say he is the greatest in the ast 25 years and is actually as good as Morenz was. is a big statement. His record Isn&rsquo;t as good as Richard&rsquo;s. Last season Rocket scored more winning and tieing goals than Lindsay, Abel and Howe put together, if that means anything. In 35 home games only our of his checks were able to score on him and they not more than once.As Andy O&rsquo;Brien, sports editor of the Montreal Standard put it after he read our Ted Lindsay article: &ldquo;When are characters such as Bramson going to realize that right here in Montreal is the greatest player ever to lace on a pair of skates. His name is Maurice Richard.&rdquo;And brother we&rsquo;re fed up with arguing. &#9632;

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Just Jawn’s Annual Statement Deciare Unimpressed Habitants

<div class="byline">By PAUL CHANDLER</div>(Detroit News)DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;One of the curious things about the greatest single player in hockey today is that he&rsquo;s never made the National League All-Star team.Another is that he has bounded back from near death on an operating table into the most splendid season of his career.Still another is that he&rsquo;s so genuinely modest and unassuming that when Barbara Ann Scott asked him for his autograph he blushed and asked if he could have hers instead.Gordon Howe of the Detroit Red Wings is the man.&ldquo;Plain and simply, he&rsquo;s the greatest thing that has appeared in hockey in 25 years,&rdquo; said Jack Adams, Detroit manager and a pioneer in the sport who&rsquo;s seen all the good ones.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-052/915619-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="268" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Adams</figcaption></div>He&rsquo;s as good as Howie Morenz, every bit as good, and I think you know I don&rsquo;t go around trying to find a way to take credit from the &lsquo;good old days.&rsquo;&ldquo;And, in my opinion, Howe hasn&rsquo;t reached his peak yet.&rdquo;Greatest In LeagueGreatest in the league today?&rdquo; asked Adams, &ldquo;could he be traded for Maurice Richard or any other player you know? There&rsquo;s your answer. There&rsquo;s nobody like him anywhere.&rdquo;In a little different vein, Howe drew a compliment from a teammate after he had rolled up five assists against Montreal.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sending Max Bentley a telegram in Toronto,&rdquo; gagged Jimmy Peters, &ldquo;and it will say, &lsquo;Howe&rsquo;s Coming, Look Out!&rsquo; &rdquo;Howe probably will win the scoring race with considerable ease, but a discussion of his work around the nets is only a part of any inventory of the things that make him &ldquo;great.&rdquo;Said Adams: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s great because he&rsquo;s big, because he&rsquo;s the cleverest stick-handler in the game, because he shoots with either hand, because he&rsquo;s aggressive so nobody rides him off a play, because he&rsquo;s one of the surest skaters on ice.&ldquo;There have been little players who could do some of those things, and big men who could do some of them, but here&rsquo;s a big guy who can do everything.&ldquo;Incidentally, he&rsquo;s improved this year because he&rsquo;s steadier, fewer bad games. Likewise, he&rsquo;s finishing better at the net. His poise is improved. He&rsquo;ll continue to get better.&rdquo;For all of his ability, Howe has played his whole N.H.L. career on the heels of another great right-winger. The Rocket Richard, who has held the All-Star position for six straight seasons.This monopoly will end this season. Howe&rsquo;s improvement has been accompanied by a general slump in The Rocket&rsquo;s efficiency due in part to Montreal&rsquo;s poor season. Richard is a different type, given to moods and sharp dips in quality of performance.Howe&rsquo;s return to hockey from the hospital is well known. He underwent critical brain surgery lust last spring after an accident in a playoff game.His modesty is best known in the dressing room, where his Saskatoon drawl and dry wit have been a leveling influence since he first arrived in 1946. That autograph incident with Miss Scott, the skating queen, happened this season at Montreal.It reminded his old friends of the days when Howe sneaked outer the rink from a side door as to avoid, the pretty young girls Waiting in front to meet him. &#9632;

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Greatest To Appear On Scene In 25 Years Says Wings’ Boss

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0197/915706-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="260" height="415"></div>WHEN NEW YORK Rangers brought 20-year-old Vic Howe up from the New York Rovers for a three-game trial, it brought the number of brother acts in the National Hockey League up to three. Besides the Howe brothers, there are the Bentleys, Doug of Chicago and Max of Toronto, and the Quackenbushes of Boston, Bill and Max &hellip; Vic Howe is a right winger like big Gordie of Detroit &hellip; Three veteran N.H.L. players should crash the century scoring club this season without too much trouble. Edgar Laprade of Rangers, Adam Brown of Chicago and Pete Horeck of Boston all had 91 goals on the morning of January 6. Laprade started the current campaign with 83 goals, Brown started with 86 and Horeck started with 87 &hellip; New York Rangers are starting to play like Manager Frank Boucher and Coach Neil Colville figured they were capable of playing. In their last 11 games the Rangers have won five, tied four and lost two for a total of 14 points out of a perfect 22. Edgar Laprade, Tony Leswick, Nick Mickoski, Pat Egan and Jack Evans have been playing standout hockey of late for the Broadway Blue Shirts &hellip; Evans, rookie defenseman from Cincinnati, has put a lot of gimp into (the New York defense &hellip; Bud Booth&rsquo; Chicago correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS, is now assisting Johnny Gottselig with the TV and radio broadcasts of the Black Hawks home games &hellip; Coach Tommy Ivan of Detroit has a new nickname for his third line. He calls the trio of George Gee, Metro Prystai and Gaye Stewart, the &ldquo;Reproduction Line&rdquo;, an adaptation of the &ldquo;Production Line&rdquo; label carried by Sid Abel, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay &hellip; Referee Bill Chadwick and Linesman Sam Babcock, the veteran N.H.L. officials, are both United States citizens. Both were born and raised in the States and learned all their hockey there.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0291/915699-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="245" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pete Horeck</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0338/915692-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="247" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body">Edgar Laprade</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0418/915685-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="259" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tommy Ivan</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0514/915678-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="279" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Gottselig</figcaption></div>THERE HAS BEEN 21 &ldquo;hat tricks&rdquo; recorded in the United States Hockey League this season. Five were registered in one week recently. There&rsquo;s been only one &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; in the N.H.L. to date &hellip; &ldquo;Pistol Pete&rdquo; Durham, rugged Omaha defenseman, had spent 121 minutes in the penalty box and the half-way mark of the U.S.H.L. schedule hadn&rsquo;t been reached yet &hellip; Joe Farrell, Chicago publicitor born on the day that General Custer made his last stand, once gave away 100,000 free seats to Chicago White Sox baseball games in the space of a couple of weeks. That was when Joe was handling publicity for the Sox. &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t even give away tickets to Black Hawk games when hockey was first introduced in Chicago,&rdquo; Joe will tell you with a wry smile &hellip; Wayne Service, who played with Boston Olympics and Toledo Mercurys, is now in the United States Army-stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky &hellip; It isn&rsquo;t often that two teams score a goal in the first 45 seconds of a game. That happened on Christmas Night, however, when Detroit Red Wings scored after 25 seconds of play and New York Rangers did the same thing at the 45 second mark &hellip; The Ontario Minor Hockey Association is the largest minor hockey association in the world. Each year sees more teams added to this splendid organization &hellip; Lethbridge Maple Leafs will play 60 games in Europe culminating with the World Championships in Paris in March. The City of Lethbridge has taken up a public subscription to compensate the wives and dependants of the players while they are away from work &hellip; Red Kelly, now in his fourth season with Detroit, has so much stamina that Tommy Ivan works him harder than any other Red Wing. He takes his regular turn on the ice, kills off penalties when his team is short-handed, and plays one of the points on the power play when the Wings have a man advantage. Everything he&rsquo;s asked to do he does well, and Red will be a strong candidate for the Hart Trophy as the National League&rsquo;s most valuable player &hellip; Any fan wanting a copy of the 1950 Official Guide of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States should send a $1.00 to Phil Thompson, secretary-treasurer of the A.H.A. of U.S. at 2309 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-069/915671-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="269" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Gallivan</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-079/915664-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="264" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Kelly</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-089/915657-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="260" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dune Fisher</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-099/915650-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="282" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pete Durham</figcaption></div>FOUR TIMES this season goals have been scored in the N.H.L. while the goalkeeper was off the ice. Boston players slid the puck along the ice into the empty net on three occasions, with Dune Fisher, Boston forward, performing honors twice himself. Fisher tallied for Boston against Chicago with Harry Lumley out of the nets at 19.48 on December 21, and on January 4 against Canadiens Fisher slapped the puck into the yawning goals from a lying position at 19.55. Gerry McNeil had been yanked by the Habs just before that. Lorne Ferguson fired the disc into the New York goa. with Chuck Rayner off the ice at 19.18 mark on November 15. Johnny McCormack scored for Toronto with Terry Sawchuk restint&rsquo; on the Detroit players bench with one second to play on New Year&rsquo;s Eve &hellip; Doug Smith, play-by-play announcer of Montreal Cana diens games, missed, his first broadcast since he started to air Canadiens&rsquo; games in the playoffs of 1944, on Saturday, January 6. He was hospitalized with a sudden illness &hellip; Danny Gallivan was flown in from Halifax to replace him. &#9632;

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Passing the Puck

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-108/915744-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg"></div>THE ROMANS marked their taverns with a bush, or clump of greenery, symbolizing the wine god Bacchus, and old English inns adopted this symbol for their signs, too. At such inns as The Bush, The Holly Bush and &ldquo;the old Bull and Bush,&rdquo; eighteenth century soldiers back from Indian service first called for India Pale Ale. Brewed to withstand the long voyage to India, this zestful ale was a &ldquo;real man&rsquo;s drink.&rdquo; Today in Canada, those who still want a &ldquo;real man&rsquo;s drink,&rdquo; call for Labatt&rsquo;s India Pale Ale, brewed to the original English recipe by John Labatt&mdash;John Labatt Limited.swing is&nbsp;DEFINITELY&nbsp;to Labatt&rsquo;s<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-116/915737-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="541" height="855"></div> &#9632;

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Famous Inn Signs. No: 9

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-122/915775-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg" title="f0004-12" width="252" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">MEL HILL</figcaption></div>Remember Mel Hill&mdash;but do you remember the night he was nicknamed &ldquo;Sudden Death&rdquo; Hill?The Boston Bruins were playing the New York Rangers in the 1938-39 Stanley Cup playoffs. Hill, playing for the Bruins, was peeved at the Rangers. They had once refused his services as a player, saying he was too small. It was a serious mistake.The Bruins won the series and three of their four victories came after gruelling overtime periods. It was revenge for Hill, for each time a game went into overtime, he broke the deadlock by scoring the winning goal.Remember this Famous Name in Banking&hellip;The Canadian Bank of Commerce &#9632;

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Remember this Famous Name in Hockey…

<div class="byline">DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0149/915806-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The above picture shows Terry Sawchuk waiting and waiting for the shot that didn&rsquo;t come for 25 minutes. &ldquo;Gee, it was lonely,&rdquo; he said.</figcaption></div><h2>Life Can Be Lonely</h2>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;The way Terry Sawchuk has been keeping shots out of the Detroit nets this season, you can&rsquo;t blame rivals for wondering how wide his goalie pads really are.But, no one ever did anything about it until Dick Irvin began brooding on the subject.It was on Sawchuk&rsquo;s 21st birthday, and he was having quite a party. After two periods Detroit had a 6-0 lead and had outshot the Montreal Canadiens, 35 to 12, at that stage.Irvin, the genial silver-thatched Montreal coach, had his own ideas about why some of the Canadien shots hadn&rsquo;t reached home. So, he asked Referee Red Storey to check the width of Sawchuk&rsquo;s pads.Thus, the third period was delayed when Storey, somewhat sheepishly, and huge George Hayes, carrying a tape measure, stalked into the Detroit dressing room.While the astounded Red Wings looked on, Storey and Hayes went to measuring. They found that one pad was 9&frac12; inches wide, the other almost 10. The official limit for the bulky pads is 10 inches, so Sawchuk&rsquo;s attire receiveed an OK.Queried about his request, Irvin stated &ldquo;they looked awfully big to me, and I can remember what used to happen in the old days.&rdquo;P.S. Final score: Detroit 8, Montreal 1. &#9632;

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Sawchuk Stops Way Too Many, Ref Brings Out Tape Measure

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;What easier a life could a goalie ask for than to spend almost 24 consecutive minutes at his post without a single shot to handle?That sounds like a cinch question. No saves, and thus no work. And, no goals against his record.But, first, listen to what Terrance Gordon Sawchuk has to say on the subject. Sawchuk is a first-hand expert. He experienced exactly that on Christmas Night when the Detroit Red Wing defense was so effective that the visiting New York Rangers were unable to give him a solitary shot to handle for a stretch of 24 minutes and 41 seconds, which included the entire second period.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0422/915875-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="979" height="849"></div>Terry didn&rsquo;t like it one bit.&ldquo;Every guy on the club was giving me the razz afterwards about getting me a rocking chair so I&rsquo;d be real comfortable,&rdquo; he laughed. &ldquo;Funny thing, though, I was more nervous and scared as those 24 minutes ticked off than in any other game this season.&rdquo;Since it didn&rsquo;t sound right to complain about doing nothing, Sawchuk kept going.&ldquo;You get a feeling in a time like that that things aren&rsquo;t going right. You get the nervous heebie-jeebies expecting some guy to break in on you. And, when no one does, then you get more nervous.&ldquo;You begin to wonder if someone is going to fool you with an easy shot on the first try. You do everything possible to work off the tenseness, and then get even tenser than ever.&ldquo;Another thing, standing still for 24 minutes isn&rsquo;t so hot, either. Try it yourself. Go stand on a chunk of ice that long without moving around. You get cold, no matter what you&rsquo;re wearing.&rdquo;,Terry wanted it known that he wasn&rsquo;t complaining about the defense being so air-tight. Only that it wasn&rsquo;t as easy for a goalie to do nothing as you might think. &#9632;

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Goaling May Be Easy

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0240/915844-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="258" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">J. McCormack</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Joe Primeau withstood the acid test last week.There have been many who claimed that Gentle-man Joe, coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, was presented with a tailor made club when he took over from Hap Day this year, that all he had to do was open the gate and the Leafs would do the rest.Hypothetically that might have been true. Nothing had happened to make it obvious that anything else was true until fate finally caught up with the fast-breaking Leafs and they succumbed to the injury nemesis. Not being a club to do anything in halves they really succumbed too.First off they were missing Hevie Meeker, right winger and H Bolton the rookie defense-man who has had nothing but bad luck since he first donned the Maple Leaf jersey. In quick succession Cal Gardner, Bill Juzda and Joe Klukay fell heir to sundry hurts in New York and captain Ted Kennedy added to the misery by falling downstairs and injuring his ankle. Max Bentley was bounced about quite some when the Red Wings visited Toronto on the following Saturday and at about that time Primeau started making for the aspirin bottle. The Leafs had been bounced off first place for the first time since they had taken over on October 25th and on the strength of what they had to offer against the Wings the following night there didn&rsquo;t seem to be much to stop them from joining the Rangers at the bottom.<h2>What Gate?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0328/915837-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="469" height="1011"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE PRIMEAU</figcaption></div>But one of those surprising things that sometimes happen in sports hit them. They went to Detroit with a makeshift crew and when nobody expected them to do much but go through the motions they beat the Red Wings on their home ice.Primeau is reticent to consider this as auguring well for the future. When you ask him if the fact that his Leafs at 50 percent strength or thereabouts, could beat the powerful Wings now, what they would do in the playoffs if they should happen to meet, he merely shrugs and says:&ldquo;We are not in the playoffs yet.&rdquo;However, the shorthanded manner in which the Leafs had to meet the Wings and won, certainly provides some ray of optimism for the time if and when they should meet in the playoffs.The Leafs got performance out of some players that was more or less hidden gold. John McCormack survived the heavy going against the Wings and stood out as did Fleming Mitchell, the strong legged right winger whose duties had been considered as merely fill-in up to that time. Harry Watson came through with one of his best performances as did Jim Thomson the Leaf defenseman who is a strong candidate for All-Star honors. And the terrific performance of the venerable Turk Broda in the nets and the Leafs became a formidable combination. &#9632;

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Leafs Not So Tailor Made But Primeau Comes Through Big Test

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1, 1947Published byHockey News Company, SOSA Sun Life Building.Montreal. Que.Yearly Subscription Price $2.50 in Canada&mdash;$3.50 in U.S.A.Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Utica, N.Y.Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company, 603A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Printed in CanadaVol. 4 January 13, 1951 No. 15ANOTHER HASSLE DEVELOPS!The suggestion that the falling off of attendance in the Ontario Hockey Association &ldquo;Major Series&rdquo; set-up was due to the abandoning of the Allan Cup as Canada&rsquo;s top amateur prize has met with a united front on the part of officials of the leagues directly concerned in the new semi-professional &ldquo;Major&rdquo; arrangement.Whatever the merits of the suggestion may be, the presidents of the various leagues seem to be on solid ground when they assert that any grief the OHA or other leagues are encountering may be blamed more on present-day conditions than to the &ldquo;Major Series&rdquo; deal which is in effect for the first time this season.While the sentimentalists among us can well weep over the fact that the historic Allan Cup has been relegated to the status, virtually, of an intermediate trophy, there&rsquo;s no use pretending that this alone has caused any falling off of interest.Experience has shown that, in times of plenty, hockey fans will gladly pay almost any sums to see a game, no matter how indifferently it may be played. When they have the money they flock to the rinks, even though the show offered is top professional or hammiest, low-grade variety of shinny.But when the purse strings draw a little tighter, the fans tend to become much fussier. They demand&mdash;and with good reason, it must be admitted&mdash;that the entertainment provided be of the highest calibre, and they won&rsquo;t pay top prices just for the sake of going to a hockey game.The absence of turnstile jingle presently being experienced in certain centres where &ldquo;Major Series&rdquo; teams are pastiming is a common affliction which is being felt these days by hockey teams from the highest to the lowest.Today&rsquo;s longer schedules also aren&rsquo;t conducive to ton box office figures throughout the entire year. With the cost of living at an all-time high and still rocketing upward, Mr. Average Sport Fan just doesn&rsquo;t have the jingle to attend every single game. Instead, he prefers to sit out some of the early-season contests, conserving his fiscal strength until the stretch races and the playoffs.So, it&rsquo;s probably a safe prediction to say that&mdash;Major Series or no&mdash;the crowds will turn out in gratifying numbers come playoff time, after all the season-long sparring and jockeying for positions has been completed.SEE WHAT FUTURE BRINGSIt seems that every time a player clips off a record or reaches a milestone of some kind, the rabid observers immediately dig into their memory kitsacks and come up with an array of arguments to fan the oldtimer vs present-day feud.Such was the case when Maurice Richard scored his 271st goal in National Hockey League play last week. By so doing, he passed the mark held jointly by two former greats with Montreal Canadiens&mdash;the late Howie Morenz and little, becapped Aurel Joliat who had 270 goals each. And that was the signal for a prolonged cracker-barrel discussion that&rsquo;s still going on around hockey circles.The advocates of present-day greatness are quick to point out that The Rocket collected his 271 goals in just under eight seasons, while Morenz got his in fourteen seasons and Joliat took sixteen campaigns to run up the same number.The oldtimers refute that promptly by reminding all who will listen that it may have taken the former greats nearly twice as long to get their quota of red light blinkers, but they didn&rsquo;t play in campaigns ranging from 48 right up to the currently popular 70 games per winter, Morenz and Joliat started out in the days of 24 game campaigns and never played more than 48 in any one regular schedule. So, actually they&rsquo;ve all played about the same number.Team limits were smaller in those days, so the players spent more time on the ice&mdash;a gruelling procedure which couldn&rsquo;t have been too conducive to brilliant play in the last stages of the game. So, whether they might have done better with frequent rests to freshen them up, as the puck-chasers enjoy now&mdash;or if Richard might have fattened his average with a fifty minute trick on the ice&mdash;all are questions which never can be answered.Despite the impasse created, such arguments at any rate are a good thing for the game, since they indicate a keen interest on the part of the fans and official observers, which after all means bread and butter to those running the game.Let&rsquo;s have lots more of those oldtimer&mdash;newtimer hassles! &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0238/915930-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="251" height="231"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01121/915937-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="200" height="223"></div>LOCATION PLEASEDear Sir,Would you tell me where Jacques Locas, Bernie Quesnel and Tom Rockey are playing this year?Z. Paradis Albertville, Sask.(Jacques Locas, presently sidelined with an injury, performs for the senior Royals of the Quebec S.H.L. Rockey is in the Maritime Senior League, and Quesnel is playing collegiate hockey in Montreal.)WANTS PROGRAMSDear Sir,Would someone in each N.H.L. city please send me a hockey program, for which I would gladly pay. I&rsquo;ve been in bed a year now with heart trouble and enjoy your paper very much.Billy Wilson 541 McKay Ave.,Windsor, Ontario.PLENTY OF SWAPSDear Sir,I have quite a few Toronto Maple Leaf programmes, both from this year and last, and would be glad to trade them for those of other professional teams and some amateur teams.I also have pictures of Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadians, also autographs, and am willing to trade them.Don Fraser 28 Ashford Blvd.,Hamilton, Ont.BRUIN FANDear Sir,Here in Boston, we get so little hockey news in our newspapers that it is a real pleasure to know just what is going on in other hockey cities. Your paper provides what is missing.Our Boston Bruins have not been doing so well, the attendance has been poor, but I&rsquo;m sure a few wins will fix that. Defenseman Bill Quackenbush deserves a word of praise for his fine work, and I hope to see an artide on him soon.I&rsquo;m in agreement about broadcasting the Canadiens and Maple Leafs games on week-days. Saturday nights isn&rsquo;t enough. New York has all their games aired, and I enjoy listening to all of them even though. I am a Bruin fan.Lillian Delorey South Weymouth, Mass.ANY RELATION?Dear Sir,I would like you to publish the story of Rocket Richard, who is the greatest player in hockey today and my favorite. I&rsquo;m very confident that the Canadiens will be in the playoffs.Could you tell me the first name of Houle playing with New Westminster?Guy Houle Bellenne, Sask.(He is Butch Houle, a defenseman, formerly with Quebec Citadels of the Junior A.H.A.)WITH ST. LOUISDear Sir,Would you please write a story on Frank (Gunner) Melong, and tell me what team he is playing for now.Dennis King Val D&rsquo;or, Que.(Melong is with the St. Louis Flyers of the A.H.L.)ADMIRES KYLEDear Sir,There is one player I really admire. He is Gus Kyle of the New York Rangers. How about a story on him?Could you tell me where he came from and where he played before joining the Rangers.Gaetan D&rsquo;Aoust Hawkesbury, Ont.(Kyle was born in Dysart, Sask., and his last amateur club was the senior Regina Caps in Western Canada.)SEVENTH SEASONDear Sir,How long has George Homenuke played pro hockey and how many goals has he scored playing pro? What was his last amateur club?Bill Chorney Sheho, Sask.(Homenuke is in his seventh year of pro, and has played with Omaha, Dallas, Minneapolis and San Francisco in his career. Inclusive of last year, he has scored 112 goals. His last amateur club was the Flin Flon Bombers.)ANOTHER KELLYDear Sir,Could you please tell me what N.H.L. club Pete Kelly played for? He is now Physical Training Instructor at the University of New Brunswick and coaches their hockey team.Roy Kitchen Fredericton, N.B.(Pete Kelly played for the Detroit Red Wings.)MORE AMATEURDear Sir,Most of your paper is taken up by professional leagues, but few are the stories on the QSHL, whose representatives have won the Allan Cup many times.So how about a few stories and pictures on such stars as Bill Goold of Royals, Al Buchanan of Shawinigan, and Larry Regan of Ottawa.Charles MacDougall Carleton Place, Ont.LIKES ROLLIEDear Sir,Every time I open your paper to the Amateur Parade, I never see anything on the Montreal Senior Royals. How about a story on Howie Cox and Rollie Rousseau, the best defensemen they have.Joan Leonard Montreal, Que.LITTLE LINEDear Sir,Would you please tell me the name of the line Max and Doug Bentley and Bill Mosienko played on? How about a story on Gaye Stewart of the Detroit Red Wings?Don Charlton Toronto, Ont.(They called it the Pony Line when they played with the Chicago Black Hawks because they were so light in weight.)SERIOUS ARGUMENTDear Sir,A friend and I are having a very serious argument. He says Howie Morenz died as a result of an automobile accident and I say he died as a result of an accident in a hockey game.Bob Tindall Toronto, Ont.(Howie died of a heart attack while in the hospital recuperating from a broken leg received in a hockey game.)NAME OF BILLDear Sir,Could you please tell me the name of the goaler for Regina Pats juniors during the 1949-50 season and where he is playing now?Also who do you think the fastest skater is, Bill Mosienko of Chicago Black Hawks, or Leo Gravelle, now with Detroit Red Wings? How about a story on Norm Dussault of Canadiens, only American-born player in the N.H. L. and George Gee, the man you hear nothing about?Norman Ring. Saint John, N.B.(Regina&rsquo;s goalie was Bob Tyler and he is again playing with the Pats this year. Gravelle is supposed to be a faster skater than Mosienko, but in a puck-carrying contest in Montreal prior to a Memorial Night for the late Tag Millar, coach of the Memorial Cup-winning junior Montreal Royals, Mosienko emerged the victor over Gravelle and others. Dussault is not the only American-born player in the N.H.L., Pete Babando was also born in the States.)CANUCK FANDear Sir,Your paper wasn&rsquo;t available at the Cincinnati Gardens every week, but I finally got a subscription for which I am thankful.I may live in Cincinnati, but. at heart I&rsquo;m a Canadien fan. Saw them play in Chicago November 19. My favorites are Gerry McNeil and Bert Hirschfeld, both of whom played for the Cincinnati Mohawks last season. Hirschfeld has since been sent down again to the A.H L.Would appreciate it if you would print this as I would like to hear from other hockey fans in Canada and the United States. Here&rsquo;s hoping the Mohawks are in the playoffs, they&rsquo;re in second place now. Mary Naegel.1952 Sterling Ave.,Cincinnati, O.HE&rsquo;S REINSTATEDDear Sir,What happened to Les Costello? I don&rsquo;t see his name in the Pittsburgh Hornets lineup any more.Newfie Fan St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld.(Costello is now in a seminary studying to bo a priest.)<div class="sidebar">DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE?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 &ldquo;expiration&rdquo; notification are reminded that, to make certain of continued receipt of THE HOCKEY NEWS it is necessary to send us their renewal orders promptly.If you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice. &#9632;</div>

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THE FAN FORUM

STANDINGS ON TUE. A.M., JAN. 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0269/916089-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="565" height="918"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESJan. 3&mdash;Detroit 3, Rangers 5Jan. 4&mdash;Boston 4, Canadiens 2Jan. 4&mdash;Chicago 0, DetroitJan. 6&mdash;Detroit 2, Canadlens 5Jan. 6&mdash;Rangers 4, Toronto 2Jan. 6&mdash;Chicago 2, Rangers 8Jan. 7&mdash;Boston 0, Detroit 3NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMESJan. 9&mdash;Toronto at DetroitJan. 9&mdash;Boston at ChicagoJan. 10&mdash;Canadiens at RangersJan. 11&mdash;Chicago at CanadiensJan. 13&mdash;Boston at CanadiensJan. 13&mdash;Chicago at TorontoJan. 13&mdash;Rangers at DetroitJan. 14&mdash;Canadiens at DetroitJan. 14&mdash;Toronto at RangersJan. 14&mdash;Chicago at Boston<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(Including Games of Sunday, Jan. 7)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0339/916082-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="595" height="186"></div>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0429/916075-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="602" height="1591"></div>Broda replaced Rollins after 25 mts. 50 sec. of play on December 2nd.Penalties In Minutes By ClubsDETROIT &hellip;&hellip;319BOSTON &hellip;&hellip;42CHICAGO &hellip;&hellip;354CANADIENS &hellip;&hellip;422TORONTO &hellip;&hellip;22RANGERS &hellip;&hellip;48 &#9632;

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HOW THE RACE GOES

It was a one man race for Player-Of-The-Week and Schaefer Award&rdquo; honors this week&mdash;Maurice Richard.Lost week Richard accomplished what many, just a few seasons ago, said was impossible. He scored the 270th and 271st goals of his career and became the second ranking scorer in the N.H.L. Only Nels Stewart is ahead of him when it comes to flicking the red light. Stewart finished his career with 323 goals.Last week Richard continued to pace the league in goals scored. He netted five in four games and flashed past Toronto&rsquo;s Tod Sloan as this season&rsquo;s top scorer. At the time of writing he had scored 21 goals. He&rsquo;s just a couple off his last season pace when he netted 43 goals.Our last issue showed Richard as needing five goals to pass Joliat and Morenz. That was written before the New Year&rsquo;s weekend. That weekend Richard came out of what had been a long scoring slump. Hobs whipped Chicago 4-3 in Montreal on December 30th and Rocket scored a pair. Two nights later in Chicago the clubs played a 4-4 tie. Richard netted a single and he needed one to 270 record. The Boston Bruins then hit Montreal and they left town with two points out of a 4-2 win over the Habs. The only happiness out of the evenings work for the Canucks was Richard&rsquo;s 270th goal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0522/916120-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="261" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption></div>The crowd that filled the Montreal Forum in anticipation that night were not denied and when he swung around and blasted the puck through Gelineau&rsquo;s defense the roar that went up could be heard well down St. Catherine street.Richard&rsquo;s 271st goal came at the expense of the league leading Detroit Red Wings. Oddly enough he didn&rsquo;t know he had scored and while the red light was glowing brightly the Rocket had his back turned and was banging his stick on the ice, no doubt using some powerful language, for he thought the puck had gone over Sawchuck&rsquo;s net. Only when Bert Olmstead and Elmer Lach had bear hugged him in Hollywood fashion did he realize that he was professional hockey&rsquo;s second high scorer and with 52 more goals he would be alongside Stewart for all honors.It took Richard just a few games over seven and a half seasons to accomplish what it took Morenz, Joliat and Stewart from 10 to 15 years to do. At his present pace Maurice will pass Stewart next season.Last week Frank Selke, general manager of the Canadiens reckoned his ace right winger has about five more good seasons left in him. At his present clip Richard will be so far in front of the rest that it really will be impossible to top his scoring feats. &#9632;

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Maurice Richard

Les &eacute;diteurs de &ldquo;HOCKEY NEWS&rdquo; aimeraient connaitre I&rsquo;opinion de leurs lecteurs de langue francaise sur la publication d&rsquo;une &eacute;dition de ce journal en francais sous le nom de &ldquo;HOCKEY JOURNAL&rdquo;.Ce nouveau journal seta publi&eacute; sous m&ecirc;me format et contiendra 16 pages pour couvrir ligues Nationale, Am&eacute;ricaine, Qu&eacute;bec Senior, Qu&eacute;bec Junior et Provinciale. II parairtra cheque semaine en autant qu&rsquo;il sera favorablement accueilli de nos lecteurs Canadiens-francais, son premier num&eacute;ro devant &ecirc;tre publi&eacute; le 6 octobre 1951. Le prix de I&rsquo;abonnement est fix&eacute; &agrave; $2.00 au Canada et $3.00 aux Etats-Unis pour 30 copies cons&eacute;cutives durant la saison.Aux fins d&rsquo;enqu&ecirc;te seulement tous nos lecteurs d&eacute;sireux de recevoir cette &eacute;dition francaise de &ldquo;HOCKEY JOURNAL&rdquo; sont pri&eacute;s de remplir le coupon ci-dessous et nous le retourner sans d&eacute;lai. Si quelqu&rsquo;un de vos amis aimerait recevoir ce journal dites-lui de nous en informer par lettre pour que nous puissions inscrire son nom sur nos listes d&rsquo;abonn&eacute;s.<h2>Important Notice</h2>To Our French-Speaking ReadersThe publishers of THE HOCKEY NEWS are now conducting a survey among its French-speaking readers to find out whether or not they would like to have a French Edition entitled &ldquo;HOCKEY JOURNAL&rdquo;.The new publication will contain 16 pages and will give coverage to the National, American, Qu&eacute;bec Senior, Qu&eacute;bec Junior and Provincial Hockey Leagues. It will be published weekly and providing there is a spontaneous response from our French-speaking readers, we expect to publish the first issue on October 6th, 1951. The subscription rate will be $2.00 in Canada, $3.00 in the U.S.A. for 30 consecutive issues during the season.For the purpose of our survey readers desirous of receiving the French edition &ldquo;HOCKEY JOURNAL&rdquo; are requested to fill in the coupon and mail it to us without delay. If you have any interested friends have them drop us a line so that we may keep &rsquo;heir names on file. &#9632;

Avis important

Rangers New &ldquo;Bad Men&rdquo;New York Rangers became the National Hockey league&rsquo;s most penalized team last week. The New York players had spent a total of 448 min-lead in the box. It&rsquo;s seldom Rangers lead in this department.Boucher NightFrank Boucher, popular General Manager of the New York Hangers will be honored with a &ldquo;Frank Boucher Night&rdquo; nt Madison Square Garden, February 14.Boucher, one of hockey&rsquo;s all-time greats, is serving his 25th year with the Hanger organization.MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;New York Rangers sprung from last place in the standings a week ago to third place. The Broadway Blue Shirts have lost only two games in their last 13 starts. They won three in a row this past week. The Rangers have 33 points apiece. Chicago Black Hawks moved into the cellar with 30 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0188/916044-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="252" height="393"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption></div>Detroit Red Wings remain in first place in the standings with a five-point edge over Toronto. The Wings have 52 points to the Leafs&rsquo; 47.Gordie Howe of Detroit added two goals and an assist during the week to bring his totals to 16 goals and 24 assists for 40 points. This is two more points than Toronto&rsquo;s Max Bentley. Bentley has 15 goals and 23 assists. Third highest scorer is Tod Sloan of Toronto with 32 points. One point back of Sloan is Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard. Richard, top goal-getter among the players with 21 tallies this season, also holds the record among players active in the N.H.L. today. He tallied his 271st National Hockey League goal on January 6. Howe has assisted in the greatest number of goals&mdash;24.Terry Sawchuk, Detroit&rsquo;s rookie goaltender, still heads the loop&rsquo;s goalies. In 38 games he&rsquo;s allowed 77 goals to be scored against him. He had two shutouts in his last three games to make his total six for the season. He is also the leader in shutouts. Tireless Turk Broda of Toronto is next with five.New York Rangers have supplanted Toronto Maple Leafs as the League&rsquo;s &ldquo;Bad Men&rdquo;. The Rangers have spent a total of 448 minutes in the penalty box. Gus Morison, Toronto defenseman, is the most penalized player with 88 minutes.MONDAY, JANUARY 1CHICAGO&mdash;Chicago Black Hawks and Montreal Canadiens settled with a 3-3 draw in a game played before 12,330 fans.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson; centre, Lach; wings, Olmstead, Richard; subs.: Harvey, Curry, Harmon, Mackay, Mossdell, Kaiser, MacPherson, Dussault, Masnick.Chicago; Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin; centre, Bentley; wings. Mosienko, Babando; subs.: Dickens, R. Conacher, J. Conacher, Coflin, Bodnar, Morrison, Guidolin, Black, Lundy, Brown.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Lach(Richsurd, Harmon) &hellip;&hellip; 7:592&mdash;Chicago: Bodnar(Lundy, Brown) &hellip;&hellip; 17:32Penalties: Dewsbury. Dussault, Bentley, McKay.Second Period3&mdash;Canadiens: Richard &hellip;&hellip; 10:524&mdash;Chicago: Guidolin(R. Conacher, J. Conacher) .. 14:265&mdash;Canadiens: Harvey (Dussault) 17:34Penalties: Johnson, Guidolin, Brown, Richard, Bentley.Third Period6&mdash;Chicago: FogolinMosienko, Bentley) &hellip;&hellip; 1:27Penalties: Kaiser, Johnson, R. Conacher.BOSTON&mdash;Boston&rsquo;s 3-2 verdict over New York Rangers, forced a three-way tie for third spot. Chicago, Bruins and Canadiens have 30 points each.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin; centre, J. Conacher; wings, Guidolin, R. Conacher; subs.: Dickens, Stewart. McCadg, D. Bentley, Mosienko, Babando, Miller, Black, Lundy, Powell, Hamill.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, W. Quackenbush. M. Quackenbush; centre, Ronty; wings, Fisher, Lynn; subs.: Schmidt, Dumart, Ezindcki, Henderson, Lowe, Kryzanowski, Creighton, Peirson, Horeck, Ferguson.First Period1&mdash;Now York: Egan &hellip;&hellip; 7:13Penalties: Raleigh, Rayner, Lynn.Second Period2&mdash;Boston: Lynn(Fisher, Ronty) &hellip;&hellip; 3:293&mdash;New York: Mickoski &hellip;&hellip; 15:19Penalties: Mickoski, Quackenbush, Fisher.Third Period4&mdash;Boston: M. Quackenbush(B. Quackenbush) &hellip;&hellip; 2:265&mdash;Boston: Schmidt(M. Quackenbush) &hellip;&hellip; 4:29Penalties: Eddolls, Ferguson, Kullman.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3NEW YORK.&mdash;Led by Edgar Lapradre with one goal, and two assists the lowly New York Rangere defeated the league-leading Detroit Wings 5-3 before 8,265 fans.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre, Abel; wings, G. Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Gee, Peters, Pavelich, McFadden, Prystal Couture, Stasiuk, Gravelle, Raglan.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Stanowski, Evans; centre. Lapeade; wings, Kullman, Leswick; subs.: Eddolls, O&rsquo;Connor, Egan, Raleigh, Stanley, Lund, Mickoski, Toppazzini, Kyle, Slowinski, Sinclair, V. Howe.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Leswick, Reise, Raleigh, Lindsay, Egan.Second Period1&mdash;New York: Laprade (Kullman) :202&mdash;New York: Kullman (Leswick, Laprade)&hellip;&hellip;1:223&mdash;New York: Stanley&hellip;&hellip;14:334&mdash;Detroit: McFadden (Goldham)&hellip;&hellip;17:265&mdash;Detroit: Peters(Pavellch, Goldham)&hellip;&hellip;19:02Penalty: Kyle.Third Period6&mdash;Detroit: Pavelich(Peters, McFadden)&hellip;&hellip;4:127&mdash;New York: Eddolls (Laprade)&hellip;&hellip;6:488&mdash;New York: Leswick (Kullman). 17:47 Penalty: Martin.THURSDAY, JANUARY 4DETROIT. &mdash;Chicago Black Hawks put up a gallant fight here, but lost to Wings, 1-0. Wings thus establised a 3-point lead over Toronto Leafs in the race for the NHL title.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin; centre, J. Conacher; wings, Guidoilin, R. Conacher; wings, Dickens, Stewart, McCaig, D. Bentley, Mosienko, Rabando Miller, Black, Lundy, Powell, Hamill. &rsquo;Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre Abel; wings, Howe. Lindsay,; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Gee, Peters, Prystai, Pavellch, McFadden, Couture, Fogolin, Pronovost, Stewart.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Dewsbury (2), Stasluk.Second PeriodScoring:.. one.Penalties: None.Third Period1&mdash;Detroit: Gee (Prystai. Martin). 4:08Penalties: Lindsay, Dewsbury, Fogolin, McFadden, Coflin, Kelly.MONTREAL.&mdash;Milt Schmidt, fired two goals as Boston downed Canadiens 4-2.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defense, M. Quackenbush, B. Quackenbush; centre, Schmidt: wings, Dumart, Ezinicki: subs.: Lynn, Sandford, Henderson, Fisher, Creighton, Ronty, Kryzanowski, Peirson, Lowe Ferguson.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence. Johnson, Bouchard; centre, Mosdell; wings, Curry, MacKay; subs.: Harvey, Harmon, Richard, Olmstead, Lach, Kaiser, Manastersky, MacPherson, Dussault, Masnick.First Period1&mdash;Boston: Ezinicki(Dumart, B. Quackenbush)&hellip;&hellip;4:4 9Penalties: Richard. M. Quackenbush, Ezinicki, Johnson, Harvey, Peirson, B. Quackenbush, Fisher.Second Period2&mdash;Boston: Schmidt (Ezinicki)&hellip;&hellip;18:193&mdash;Boston: Scnmidt&hellip;&hellip;18:58 Penalties: Bouchard, Johnson.Third Period4&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Olmstead. MacPherson)&hellip;&hellip;7:595&mdash;Canadiens: Masnick(Dussault, Kaiso)&hellip;&hellip;15:266&mdash;Boston: Fisher (Schmidt)&hellip;&hellip;19:59 Penalty: Harmon.SATURDAY, JANUARY 6MONTREAL.&mdash;Canadiens got some help from an unexpected source when they scored a 5-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. They were paced by Paul Masnick, who scored two goals, and it&rsquo;s doubtful who was the more surprised, the rookie centre or the crowd of 14,4 39 in attendance.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre, Abel; wings, Howe Lindsays; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Gee, Peters, Prystai, Pavelich, McFadden, Couture, Stasluk, Gravelle, Raglan.Canadiens, Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, Harmon; centre, Lach; wings, Richard, Olmstead; subs.: Bouchard, Curry, Johnson, MacKay, MacPherson, Dussault, Masnick.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Prystai (Howe)&hellip;&hellip;2:33Penalties: Harvey, Lindsay, Bouchard, Richard, Stasiuk.Second Period2&mdash;Canadiens: Masnick(Johnson, Dussault)&hellip;&hellip;11:373&mdash;Canadiens: Masnick (Dussault) 12:30 Penalties: None.Third Period4&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Bouchard, Olmstead)&hellip;&hellip;8:315&mdash;Canadiens: MacKay (Bouchard) 10:276&mdash;Detroit: Howe(Abel, Goldham)&hellip;&hellip;14:207&mdash;Canadiens: MacKay(Curry, Mosdell)&hellip;&hellip;15:45Penalties: Dussault, Harmon.TORONTO.&mdash;New York Rangers got both the goals and the penalties as they fashioned a 4-2 victory over the second-place Toronto Maple Leafs in a League game before 13,686 fans.New York: Goal, Rayner, defence, Stanowski. Evans; centre, Laprade; wings, Kullman, Leswick; subs.: Eddolls, O&rsquo;Connor, Egan. Raleigh, Stanley, Lund, Mickoski, Toppazzini, Kaleta, Slowinski, Sinclair.Toronto: Goal, Broda; defence, Thomson, Mortson; centre. McCormack; wings, Mackell, Watson; subs.: Barilko, Juzda, Flaman, Bentley, Klukay, Lewicki, Tim-gren, Sloan. Smith, Blair.First Period1&mdash;New York: O&rsquo;Connor(Lund, Egan)&hellip;&hellip;3:202&mdash;New York: Slowinski(Raleigh, Mickoskl)&hellip;&hellip;5:583&mdash;New York: Raleigh&hellip;&hellip;6:16Penalties: Thomson, Evans, Mortson, Stanley. Stanowski (minor and misc).Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Mortson, Stanley, Thomson, Evans.Third Period4&mdash;Toronto: Barilko (Bentley)&hellip;&hellip;3:005&mdash;New York: Leswick&hellip;&hellip;9:136&mdash;Toronton: Bentley(Sloan, Lewicki)&hellip;&hellip;18:10Penalties: Toppazzini (major and misc.), Mortson (major and misc.), Klu-kay, Lund, Evans.SUNDAY, JANUARY 7DETROIT.&mdash;The Detroit Red Wingo fattened their league lead as they blanked the Boston Bruins 3-0 for goalie Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;a sixth shutout of the season.The Wings thus maintained their jinx over the Bruins who have dropped all four games played on Detroit ice, A. crowd of 10,522 saw Sawchuk take over the No. 1 goalie rating in the N.H.L as his half dozen shutouts put him out in front in that department.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, W. Quackenbush. Mt Quackenbush; centre, Schmidt; wings, Ezinicki, Dumart; subs. Lynn, Sanford, Henderson, Fisher, Creighton, Ronty, Peirson, Kryzanowski, Lowe, Ferguson.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Gee, pedters, Pavelich, McFadden, Prystal, Couture, Stasiuk, Gravelle, Raglan.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Ezinickl (2), Abel,Second Period1&mdash;Detroit: Prystai(Stasiuk, Gee)&hellip;&hellip;18:30Penalties: Ferguson. Raglan.Third Period2&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Abel)&hellip;&hellip;8:353&mdash;Detroit: Peters (McFadden)&hellip;17:40 Penalties: None.NEW YORK.&mdash;The New York Rangers moved into third place In the League standings as they edged the Chicago Black Hawks, 3-2, before 10,968 fans.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogoiin; centre, J. Conacheri wings, Guidolin, R. Conacher: subs.: Coflin, Dickens. Bentley, Mosienko, Babando. Bodnar, Morrison, Lundy, Brown.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Sta-nowski, Evans: centre, O&rsquo;Connor; wings, Toppazzini, Lund: subs.: Egan, Eddolls, Raleigh, Stanley, Laprade, Mickoski, Kuleta, Leswick, Kullman. Slowinski, Sinclair.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Evans (2), Dewsbury.Second Period1&mdash;New York: Slowinski(Raleigh, Mickoski)&hellip;&hellip;8:312&mdash;New York: Laprade (Kullman)&hellip;&hellip;10:483&mdash;Chicago: Babando&hellip;&hellip;19:18Penalties: Evans (2), Bentley, Dewsbury, Kullman, Conacher.Third Period4&mdash;New York: O&rsquo;Connor(Stanowski)&hellip;&hellip;12:395&mdash;Chicago: Babando(Bentley, Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip;13:11Penalties: Lumley (served by J. Conacher), Fogoiin, Kullman, Leswlck, Brown. &#9632;

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Sawchuk Keeps Wings On Top, Rangers Moving

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>MILWAUKEE, Wis.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01103/916175-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="349" height="636"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Bedard</figcaption></div>The citizens of Milwaukee are only seeing their first season of United States Hockey League play, but they&rsquo;ve already seen enough to agree that big Jim Bedard is one of their favourites. Jim, whose rugged 195-pound frame patrols the back line for the Milwaukee Sea Gulls, is being watched closely by the Chicago Black Hawks who own his contract. The rough, tough rearguard has seen action in four of the NHL squad&rsquo;s games so far this season and might have been used more had he not been needed back in Milwaukee where injuries were taking their toll.In one of these games, against the New York Rangers, Bedard proved that he&rsquo;s another Kenny Reardon at checking when he took to the air and smashed Pentti Lund against the boards much in the fashion of the retired Canadien great. Lund staggered from the ice obviously well shaken up.Although he&rsquo;s plenty big and knows how to sock and rock &rsquo;em, Jim is not what could be called a dirty player. In the Sea Gulls&rsquo; first 24 games this season he sat out only 31 minutes in penalties, a relatively mild figure for his type of play.He Can Find NetDuring this time he proved that he knew where the rival net was by notching three goals and assisting on 11 others. This ranked him in the top half dozen Milwaukee point getters.Bedard was born in Admiral. Sask, on November 19, 1927. He&rsquo;s one of nine brothers and has three sisters, but he&rsquo;s the only organized hockey player in the family. In the off season he&rsquo;s a better than averag 3 baseball player.Ha began and finished his amateur puck career with the Moose Jaw Canucks of the Saskatchewan Junior league. Under the guidance of Eddy Wiseman and Ken Doraty he won the outstanding rookie award and was named to the league&rsquo;s all-star squad at the close of the 1947-48 campaign.The following season he started his pro career as a member of the Black Hawks farm team, the Kansas City Pla-mors. He moved up to Chicago at the start of the next year, but after a few games the Hawk management decided to return him to Kansas City for more experience.Jim moved to the new Milwau kee team at the start of the current schedule with six other Kansas City veterans, Jackio Miller, Ray Powell, Harry Groves, Ed Leier, Bob Goodacre and Hank Blade.President William Tobin of the Kansas City team, who also owns Chicago, moved his USHL franchise to Milwaukee so that the farm team could ba closer to the parent club.At 23, Bedard still has most of his playing days before him and it seems certain that a good part of this future will be with the Black Hawks. &#9632;

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Big Jim BedardWins Heart Of Milwaukee From First Day On

<div class="byline">By GEORGE P. DUFFY</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;Back in 1926&mdash;September 26 to be exact&mdash;a long and lean baby was born in Stoney Creek, Ontario, to the Stoddards, The newborn, a boy, was later to bear the name of Jack Stoddard through life.That he was long and lean at birth was a bit of a prediction of how he was to develop physically in later years. Now 24 years of age, Jack stands six feet, three inches tall and looks more like a pivot man in basketball than. a talented right winger for the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League.When Jack Stoddard joined the Rhode Island sextet back in 1947, the galleryites looked on the big fellow as sort of a string bean that would never ripen. &ldquo;Stoddard,&rdquo; the bleacherites insisted, &ldquo;was too tall, too slow and too often got in the way of his own elbows.&rdquo;Now, four years after joining the Reds, Stoddard is no longer looked upon as being too tall or too slow. Instead, the likeablo big boy is developing into ono of the top wingmen in all the American Hockey League. In fact, Stoddard is currently being eyed by at least two National Hockey League clubs.Valuable Weapon NowIt&rsquo;s funny that his elbows, once a reason for insults tossed by the fans, now are Stoddard&rsquo;s most potent weapon. He&rsquo;s like an octopus inasmuch as it&rsquo;s tough to keep away from his flailing arms and elbows.Being almost stratospheric in height, Stoddard is much taller than most of his hockey foes. So, when there is a duel for a puck Stoddard usually gets his elbows right into an opponent&rsquo;s puss by just being natural. As one rival said recently: &ldquo;No matter where you hit Stoddard, you wind up getting his elbows right in the eye.&rdquo;Except for his first season with Reds in 1947-48, Stoddard has been a consistent goal scorer. In 1948-49, when Providence began-to become a hockey power under Terry Reardon, Stoddard punched in 25 goals and 28 assists in 61 games. The following season, &ldquo;Big Jack&rdquo; tallied 32 goals, added 29, assists in 69 games. And this campaign, Jack is setting a good scoring pace with the Reds, having 27 points in his first 17 games.<h2>The Octopus</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0270/916206-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="528" height="531"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK STODDARD</figcaption></div>Stoddard plays on a line with. Jack McGill and Jackie Hamilton, a lino that has been dubbed the &ldquo;Three Jacks&rdquo;. McGill is a veteran with plenty of hockey savvy. Hamilton is a stick handler of note.That leaves, Stoddard. Jack has long legs which carry him down the rink faster than any of the Reds. His long arms enable him to be a demon as a poke-checker. And those elbows&mdash;don&rsquo;t take my word for it but I&rsquo;m looking for Jack &ldquo;Elbows&rdquo; Stoddard to be playing in the National League before too many seasons have passed.The Hockey NewsPublished Weekly, except monthly May through September, by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 603A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office in Utica, N.Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $2.50 in Canada, $3.50 in U.S.A &#9632;

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No Wonder They Call Him “Elbows” Those Lunch Hook Extensions Sure Prominent When Stoddard Bumps!

<div class="byline">MORGANSON</div><h2>Wins Freedom</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0269/916275-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="496" height="849"><figcaption class="caption-body">HAPPY EMMS</figcaption></div>Indeftnite suspensions of Coach Leighton &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms and player Leo Labine of Barrie Flyers in the OHA junior A series were lifted on Jan. 3 by Douglas Grimston, Canadian Hockey Association president in New Westminster, Leo B.C.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0350/916268-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="291" height="510"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Labine</figcaption></div>The two were suspended during the CAHA semi-annual meeting held in Toronto at the year-end, after the Thunder Bay Association reported to the convention that Emms and Labine were guilty of gross misconduct during their exhibition game played in Port Arthur on Dec. 27.&ldquo;There are two sides to every case. The OHA got Emms to make a report and in turn it was rushed out west to the CAHA president for final settlement,&rdquo; said George Panter, business manager for the Ontario Hockey Association. &#9632;

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Emms Eloquence Pulls Pair Out Of Hot Water

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div><h2>Amateur Body Picks Frank Sargent As Spokesman For World Talks In Paris; Restore Wartime Replacements Rule; Settle Arguments</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01102/916237-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="250" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Grimston</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;&ldquo;Relations between the CAHA and the professionals have a brighter future today than six months ago,&rdquo; said Douglas Grimston, president, during the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association&rsquo;s semi-annual convention here.Both sides have made worthy suggestions that will clarify the players&rsquo; contract problem in our major and junior A series and other matters of mutual benefit to both organizations are under discussion,&rdquo; Grimston said. He added that nothing official in the way of the new CAHA-NHL agreement would be given out until all concerned had ratified the pact at their respective annual meetings.Convention gossip disclosed that the CAHA-NHL new deal had set draft prices for players selected by the professionals with $5,000 for the NHL, $3,500 for the American League and $2,500 for the United States and Pacific Coast Leagues. Players drafted would be 22 years of age or near by May 1. Junior A players, it is hoped, in the future would be placed under a $20 per game salary limit.Sargent To EuropeFrank Sargent, CAHA past president of Fort William was selected to represent CAHA at the International Ice Hockey Federation&rsquo;s semi-annual meeting in Paris, France, next March. Sargent will also act as spokesman for Lethbridge Maple Leafs, who are Canada&rsquo;s official representative slated for Paris.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll not let us down&rdquo; said Harold Brendreth. president of the Alberta branch in reporting on the Lethbridge Maple Leafs to the CAHA delegates. &ldquo;Dr. Hardy, Al Pickard, and myself aided in the team selection and briefing them concerning their responsibilities overseas, before the team left the west.&rdquo;Smoke Peace PipeGetting back to CAHA business, Quebec Branch and the CAHA kissed and made up to close the Bill Heindl and Larry Ziedel case. Saskatoon had spirited these players away from the Quebec Senior League last fall without benefit of transfer. CAHA upheld the west in Quebec&rsquo;s appeal but Grimston told the convention &ldquo;Mistakes were made on both sides, I can assure Quebec and other branches that it will not happen again and our regulations as in the CAHA book will be carried out.&rdquo;Dates for the next CAHA annual meeting, slated for Halifax, were set for May 22 to 25 inclusive and Pryce M. Love, president of the Maritimes branch, said his Association was honored to act as host for the CAHA on this occasion. CAHA meeting will be held in the Nova Scotia Hotel in Halifax.Northern Ontario, Ottawa and District and the Maritimes were allowed three additional players for junior Memorial Cup interbranch competition, providing none of the professional clubs are pro sponsored and that none of the three extra players are branch to branch transfers with another club in their organization.Although a player may be afree agent in his resident branch, he has to get a CAHA branch to branch transfer before taking up his hockey career in another part of the country.Ontario Hockey Association won their point is having native players who return from United States and the British Isles on or after Dec. 15, listed the same as majors and juniors which gives them the right to select their new club affiliations.Back On War FootingWith the military situation developing, the CAHA went back to their wartime military replacement rule in allowing a club the right to appeal for replacement should they lose any player, or players by enlistment or draft to the Canadian or American armed forces.Ottawa and Maritimes branches were ordered to settle their dif ferences of players Hugh Cam-pell and Bill Watson. Both lads, formerly with N.Y. Rovers, were reinstated last year and played for the Ottawa RCAF club. This year they are in the Maritimes and they failed to get either release or branch to branch transfers.Manitoba and Saskatchewan branches were advised to clear up the Flin Flon tangle over players. The town is on the border line yet Flin Flon uses Manitoba players and signs them to Saskatchewan cards to beat the import rules. CAHA granted Arnold Fol-loitt permission to move from Brandon to Winnipeg junior Canadiens despite the fact he played in Brandon on Dec, 16 due to a misunderstanding by Manitoba branch officials. Mickey McDonald in the middle of the Flin Flon business was given the CAHA o.k. to resume his hockey in his native Winnipeg, where he has returned after being released by the Flin Flon club and without the hindrance of being classified as an import.Quebec Branch gave notice of a motion they intend to present the Halifax annual meeting concerning players desiring to play in the United States. &ldquo;We ask that the last date for players to leave Canada to play in the States be moved from Oct. 20 to Sept. 15,&rdquo; said George Slater of Montreal. &ldquo;With artificial rinks and clubs getting started much earlier, it is essential that our American associates make their decision as to what players they want from us much earlier than in the past.&rdquo; &#9632;

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C.A.H.A Annual Meet Says All Serene

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;There will be no official air travel for Western Canada and OHA Major Series winners when they get around to the business of playing off for the Lord Alexander Trophy next Spring.Delegates attending the semi-annual meeting of the CAHA upheld the rule book in the matter of providing transportation costs for championship teams.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0429/916306-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="289" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL Pickard</figcaption></div>Montreal&rsquo;s George Slater, the Quebec Senior League, told the CAHA convention that all eastern teams travel first class and not as tourists. &ldquo;Tourist travel in the east is not the same as in the west and we want no part of it,&rdquo; Slater declaredAl Pickard, CAHA past president now prexy of the Western Canada League, said ample time for train travel was provided for in the list of playoff dates.When OHA Major winners meet Western Canada, first two games are slated for the west. If points are split, the third game is also in the west with the remaining games in the best-of-seven series in OHA territory. They are slated to start April 10.Quebec Senior League winners move into the Maritimes under the same arrangement starting April 13.Finals Open April 26The final round for the CAHA Major Series title starts on April 26. If Western Canada is included, the first two or three games will be played in the east, and the rest out west. Should the Maritime winner make the final round against the west, all games will be played in Montreal and Toronto. If it&rsquo;s Maritimes and OHA in the final round all games will be played in OHA. However, if Quebec and OHA sawoff for the title OHA gets first two games, Quebec the next two with the remainder alternating.Ontario and Quebec tangled over the junior Memorial Cup playdown dates but finally settled with a sawoff. The CAHA draft was tossed out and the OHA won their point in having the NOHA meet Ottawa and District in a best of three games. The winner takes on the Maritimes in a best-of-five with the survivors meeting the Quebec winners in a best of five. Ontario Junior A champs step into the final Eastern round for a best of seven series. Dates and location of games will be settled later.Allan Cup playoffs in the west will be finished by April 15, but eastern playoffs are not expected to finish before April 2 4. Out west, Saskatchewan was drawn against Alberta with, British Columbia meeting the winners. Thunder Bay and Manitoba tangle with their winner moving into the western finals on April 3.The Maritimes won their argument for. the first two home games against Quebec, while Ontario meets the winner in the eastern final starting April 13 or 14. &#9632;

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East, West To Split Major Series Final Unless WCHL Toppled

The following completely revised schedule includes all changes created by withdrawal of New Haven and also storm postponed games of November 25 and 20.JANUARY9&mdash;Cleveland at St. Louis10&mdash;Buffalo at Providence Pittsburgh at Springfield St. Louis at Cleveland Indianapolis at Cincinnati11&mdash;Pittsburgh at Hershey Cincinnati at Indianapolis13&mdash;Buffalo at Springfield Hershey at Cleveland Providence at Pittsburgh Indianapolis at St. Louis14&mdash;Cleveland at Buffalo Springfield at Providence St. Louis at Cincinnati16&mdash;Cincinnati at St. Louis17&mdash;Providence at Buffalo Hershey at Springfield Cleveland at Pittsburgh18&mdash;Providence at Hershey St. Louis at Indianapolis Buffalo at Cincinnati20&mdash;Cincinnati at Hershey Cleveland at Springfield Indianapolis at Pittsburgh Buffalo at St. Louis21&mdash;Springfield at Buffalo Cleveland at Providence Pittsburgh at Indianapolis Hershey at Cincinnati23&mdash;Springfield at Cincinnati Provindence at Pittsburgh24&mdash;Providence at Buffalo Cleveland at Hershey Cincinnati at Pittsburgh Springfield at St. Louis25&mdash;Hershey at Providence Springfield at Indianapolis27&mdash;Buffalo at Hershey Providence at Springfield Cleveland at Pittsburgh Indianapolis at St. Louis28&mdash;Hershey at Buffalo Springfield at Providence St Louis at Indianapolis Cleveland at Cincinnati30&mdash;Pittsburgh at Cleveland31&mdash;Pittsburgh at Buffalo Indianapolit at Providenco Cincinnati at Springfield Cleveland at St. LouisFEBRUARY1&mdash;Indianapolis at Hershey3&mdash;Providence at Springfield Indianapolis at Cleveland Buffalo at Pittsburgh Cincinnati at St. Louis4&mdash;Hershey at Buffalo Springfield at Providence Pittsburgh at Indianapolis St. Louis at Cincinnati6&mdash;Pittsburgh at Cleveland Indianapolis at St. Louis7&mdash;Providence at Buffalo Hershey at Springfield Cleveland at Cincinnati8&mdash;Buffalo at Providenco Cincinnati at Indianapolis10&mdash;Buffalo at Springfield Providence at Cleveland Cincinnati at Pittsburgh Hershey at St Louis11&mdash;St. Louis at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Providence Cleveland at Indianapolis Hershey at Cincinnati13&mdash;Cincinnati at Cleveland14&mdash;St. Louis at Buffalo Springfield at Providence Indianapolis at Cincinnati Hershey at Pittsburgh15&mdash;Buffalo at Springfield Hershey at Indianapolis17&mdash;Providence at Springfield Buffalo at Cleveland Cincinnati at Pittsburgh Hershey at St. Louis18&mdash;Cleveland at Buffalo Pittsburgh at Providence Hershey at Indianapolis St. Louis at Cincinnati20&mdash;Providence at Hershey21&mdash;Pittsburgh at Buffalo22&mdash;Springfield at Hershey Buffalo at Providence Pittsburgh at Cleveland24&mdash;Buffalo at Hershey Cincinnati at Springfield Indianapolis at Cleveland St. Louis at Pittsburgh25&mdash;Hershey at Buffalo Cincinnati at Providence Cleveland at Indianapolis Pittsburgh at St. Louis.27&mdash;Providence at St. Louis28&mdash;Cincinnati at Buffalo Hershey at Springfield Cleveland at PittsburghMARCH1&mdash;St. Louis at Hershey. Providence at Indianapolis Cincinnati at Pittsburgh3&mdash;Cincinnati at Hershey St. Louis at Springfield Indianapolis at Cleveland Provindence at Pittsburgh4&mdash;Springfield at Buffalo *Hershey at Cleveland Pittsburgh at Indianapolis Providence at Cincinnati6&mdash;Buffalo at Hershey Providence at Cleveland7&mdash;St. Louis at Providence Buffalo at Cincinnati Springfield at Pittsburgh8&mdash;Springfield at Hershey Cincinnati at Indianapolis10&mdash;St. Louis at Hershey Providence at Springfield Cincinnati at Cleveland Indianapolis at Pittsburgh11&mdash;Springfield at Providence Buffalo at Indianapolis Cleveland at Cincinnati Pittsburgh at St. Louis13&mdash;Buffalo at St. Louis14&mdash;Indianapolis at Buffalo Hershey at Providenco Pittsburgh at Springfield St. Louis at Cleveland15&mdash;Pittsburgh at Hershey St. Louis at Cincinnati17&mdash;Providence at Hershey Indianapolis at Springfield Pittsburgh at Cleveland Cincinnati at St. Louis18&mdash;Pittsburgh at Buffalo Springfield at Providence Cleveland at Indianapolis St. Louis at Cincinnati*Afternoon Game &#9632;

AHL Revised Schedule SEASON 1950-51

Three From BarrieThe Junior Barrie Flyers have contributed three players who are up there in the scoring; for the Buffalo Bisons. They are Paul Meger, Don Ashbee and Sid McNabney, who have a combined goal total this season of 48.CoincidenceCoincidental with the slow downfall of the Cincinnati Mohawks from the top rung in their division to third place this week, is the fact that they no longer lead the most team penalties department. Fiery coach King Clancy had his charges on top in both for a long time, but now the Hershey Bears have a total of 503 minutes in penalties.HOW THE RACE GOESSTANDINGS ON WED. A.M., JAN. 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01122/916382-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="606" height="421"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESDec. 27&mdash;Cleveland 6. Springfield 5Dec. 27&mdash;St. Louis 2, Pittsburg 1Dec. 27&mdash;Buffalo 7, Cincinnati 5Dec. 28&mdash;Hershey 3, Springfield 1Dec. 28&mdash;Indianapolis 6, Buffalo 1Dec. 31&mdash;Indianapolis 3, Cincinnati 2Dec. 31&mdash;Providence 4, Cleveland 1Dec. 31&mdash;St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 2Dec. 31&mdash;Buffalo 5, Springfield 4Jan. 1&mdash;Cincinnati 2, Indianapolis 1Jan. 1&mdash;Cleveland 9, Hershey 3Buffalo Bisons have a five-point lead in the Eastern Division race, racking up 47 points against second-place Hershey&rsquo;s record of 42. Providence is in third spot with 32 points, only two better than Springfield. However, the former has a full four games in hand.In the Western Division, Cleveland Barons have a stranglehold on the top rung of the ladder, with a total of 55 points in 39 games. They have lost only 10 scuffles, while winning 26 and tying three.Fifteen points behind are the Pittsburgh Hornets, who have three games in hand and a one-point pull over third-place Cincinnati Mohawks, who have 39 points.King Clancy&rsquo;s charges have slipped slowly of late, having led the league at one time earlier in the season.Indianapolis is next, having hoisted themselves out of the cellar with 34 points, one better than the last place St. Louis Flyers.Ab DeMarco of Buffalo Bisons Is still running away with the scoring leadership, scoring 27 goals and 40 assists for 67 points. Second is mate Grant Warwick, who has 12 goals and 40 assists for 52 points, two better-than George Sullivan of Hershey, who has 18 goals and 32 assists.Ivan Irwin of Cincinnati leads the penalty parade with 101 minutes, while Hershey has taken over the most team penalties with a total of 503 minutes spent in the box.Goalie Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh is still the leading goalie with four shutouts and a record of 74 goals allowed in 36 games for a 2.06 average.WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27CINCINNATI.&mdash;The Buffalo Bisons. Scored two-third period goals while Cincinnatl had two men in the penalty box to take a 7-to-5 victory from the Mohawks.Buffalo: Goal, Dion; defence, Currie, Dick; centre, McNabney; wings, Hickey, Ashbee; subs.: Finkbeiner, Blake, Warwick, Meger, DeMarco, Pargeter, Pennell Atanas, Maxwell.Cincannati: Goal, Francis; defence, Landen, Irwin; centre, Gordon; wings, Deni, Plamondon; subs.: Perreault, Campeau, Dube, Robert, King, Hergesheimer, Hirschfeld, Roche, Shero, Bibeault.<h2>A.H.L. TEAM TOTALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0289/916375-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="1162" height="489"></div><h2>Angeless Gets In Ott&rsquo;s Way</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0369/916368-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1696" height="1272"><figcaption class="caption-body">OLD MAN OTT HELLER, reputed to be well over 40 years old goes at the puck like a kid of 20. The Indianapolis Playing Coach makes a move to clear the puck from his zone but Ageless Ab DeMarco of Buffalo decided the only way to stop him was by using his feet, and that&rsquo;s what he&rsquo;s doing. ((Photo by Lavelle))</figcaption></div>First Period1&mdash;Buffalo: Hickey&hellip;&hellip;2:552&mdash;Buffalo: Meger(Warwick, DeMarco)&hellip;&hellip;8:013&mdash;Cincinnati: Shero (Gordon)&hellip;&hellip;11:384&mdash;Buffalo: Dick(Currie, Ashbee)&hellip;&hellip;14:115&mdash;Buffalo: McNabney(Ashbee, Hickey)&hellip;&hellip;15:05Penalites: Finkbeiner, Irwin, Campeau.Second Period6&mdash;Buffalo: Meger(Currie, Warwick)&hellip;&hellip;:297&mdash;Cincinnati: Lancien(Gordon, Denis)&hellip;&hellip;1:118&mdash;Cincinnati: Campeau(Dube, Perreault)&hellip;&hellip;7:019&mdash;Cincinnati: Denis (Gordon)&hellip;&hellip;15:05 Penalties: Atanas, Denis, Campeau.Third Period10&mdash;Cincinnati: Robert(King, Hergeshelmer)&hellip;&hellip;5:1511&mdash;Buffalo: DeMarco(Merger, Currie)&hellip;&hellip;11:5912&mdash;Buffalo: Warwick(DeMarco, Meger)&hellip;&hellip;12:16Penalties: Shero (2), Irwin, Currie.CLEVELAND.&mdash;Leg Douglas&rsquo; third goal of the game with 21 seconds to play remaining brought the Cleveland Barons victory over the Springfield Indians, 6 to 5, before 4,216 here.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Lavitt, Samis; centre, Douglas; wings, Schultz, Kelly; wings, Buhler, Williams, Lund, Thurier, Hergeshelmer, Sonmor, MacKay, Taylor, Wochy.Springfield: Goal, Bell; defence, Davidson, Hosking; centre, Curlck; wings, Casanato, Hayden; subs.: Allen Gagnon, McMurdy. Lemieux, Pidhlrny, Horvath, Gooden, Ford, Kane.First Period1&mdash;Cleveland: Donglas(Taylor, Schultz)&hellip;&hellip;19:43Penalties: Lavitt, Gagnon, Horvath, Buller.Second Period2&mdash;Springfield: Pidhlrny(Gooden, Horvath)&hellip;&hellip;5:383&mdash;Springfield: Gagnon&hellip;&hellip;6:054&mdash;Cleveland: Kelly(Schultz, Lund)&hellip;&hellip;8:025&mdash;Cleveland: Douglas (Schultz)&hellip;&hellip;8:37Penalty: Buller.Third Period6&mdash;Springfield: Haydena(Csanato)&hellip;&hellip;7:197&mdash;Cleveland: Hergesheimer(Thurier)&hellip;&hellip;7:548&mdash;Springfield: Gooden (Horvath) 14:059&mdash;Cleveland: Schultz(Douglas, Buller)&hellip;&hellip;16:2210&mdash;Springfield: Casanato(Hayden, Curick)&hellip;&hellip;18:0111&mdash;Cleveland: Douglas (Buller), 19:39 Penalties: Douglas, Gasanato.ST. LOUIS.&mdash;With all the scoring crammed into a two-minute span of the second period the St. Louis Flyers nosed out the Ptitsburgh Hornets, 2 to 1.St. Louis: Goal, Almas; defence, Melong, Nicholson; centre, Simpson; wings, Olson, Pearson; subs.: Hrymnak, Milligan, Lamirande, Grigg, Gladu, White, Trigg, Sullivan, H. Backor.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Horton, Backor; centre, Migay; wings, Barbe, Solinger; subs.: Mathers, Ashley, Blair. Hannigan, Armstrong, Kobussen, McLellan, Smith, Maloney.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Ashley, McLellan, Olson.Second Period1&mdash;St. Louts: H. Backor(Sullivan, White)&hellip;&hellip;10:262&mdash;Pittsburgh: Kobussen (Blair) 11:253&mdash;St. Louis: Lamirande (Trigg) 12:23Penalties: Gladu (2), P. Backor (2), Mathers.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Sullivan.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28INDIANAPOLIS.&mdash;Scoring four goals in the final period, Indianapolis Capitals defeated Buffalo Bisons, 6 to 1, here.Indianapolis: Goal, Henry; defence, Kraftcheck, Provost; centre, Reid; wings, Glover, MacKay; subs.: Heller, Woit, McNab, Morrison, Sclisizzi, Podolsky. J. Wilson, Haidy, Carveth.Buffalo: Goal, Dion; defence, Currie, Dick; centre, McNabney; wings, Hickey, Ashbee; subs.: Finkbeiner, Warwick, Meger, DeMarco, Pennell, Atanas, Maxwell, Blake.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(Including Games of Sunday, Jan. 7)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0453/916361-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="586" height="531"></div>THE LEADERSMosts Goals: Ab DeMarco, Buff; Wan Hergesheimer, Clev. (27)Most Assists: Ab DeMarco, Buff; Grant Warwick, Buff (40)Most Penalties: Ivan Irwin, Cin. (101 minutes)Best Goalie Ave.: Gil Mayer, Pitts, 74 goals in 36 games (2.06 aver.)Most Shutouts: Gil Mayer, Pitts. (4)Most Team Penalties: Hershey Bears (503 minutes).First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Currie, Heller.Second Period1&mdash;Indianapolis: J. Wilson&hellip;&hellip;4:542&mdash;Indianapolis: McNab&hellip;&hellip;6:02Penalties: None.Third Period3&mdash;Indianapolis: Haidy&hellip;&hellip;1:004&mdash;Buffalo: Pennell(Maxwell. Dick)&hellip;&hellip;10:075&mdash;Indianapolis: Carveth(J. Wilson, Morrison)&hellip;&hellip;14:526&mdash;Indianapolis: Sciisizzl(Podolsky, McNab)&hellip;&hellip;18:017&mdash;&rsquo;Indianapolis: Glover (Reid)&hellip;&hellip;19:03 Penalty: MacKay.HERSHEY.&mdash;The Hershey Bears celebrated their return to home ice by defeating the Springfield Indians, 3-1 before a crowd of 3,334 here.Hershey: Goal, Henry; defence, Bra-nigan, Reigle; centre, Mahaffy; wings, Brown, Harrison; subs.: Schertzl, Moe, Sullivan, Kullman, Marquess, Corcoran, McIntyre, Bettio, Gariepy.Springfield: Goal, Bell; defence, Gagnon, Allen; centre, Horvath; wings Ford, Gooden; subs.: Hosking, Davidson, Hayden, Casanato, Pidhirny, Lemieux, McMurdy, Curick, Kane.First Period1&mdash;Hershey: Moe (Bettio)&hellip;&hellip;14:30Penalties: Kullman, Horvath, BraniganSecond Period2&mdash;Hershey: Sullivan(Corcoran, Bettio)&hellip;&hellip;9:593&mdash;Hershey: McIntyre (Sullivan). 15:06 Penalties: Ford, Reigle.Third Period4&mdash;Springfield: Allen(Gooden, Horvath)&hellip;&hellip;3:17Penalties: Mahaffy (major), Gagnon (minor and major), Branigan.SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31INDIANAPOLIS.&mdash;Freddy Glover&rsquo;s goal at 5:24 in a sudden-death overtime period gave the Indianapolis Capitols a 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Mohawks.First PeriodScaring: None.Penalties: Provost, Plamondon, Kraftcheck, Robert.Second Period1&mdash;Cincinnati: Dube(Plamondon, Campeau)&hellip;&hellip;1:332&mdash;Indianapolis: Kraftcheck(Carveth, Morrison)&hellip;&hellip;18:07Penalties: Glover, Pronovost, Lancien, Shero.Third Period3&mdash;Indianapolis: Glover(Reid. Kraftcheck)&hellip;&hellip;1:184&mdash;Cincinnati: DubePenalties: None.Overtime Period5&mdash;Indianapolis: Glover (Reid)&hellip;&hellip;5:24PROVIDENCE.&mdash;Donat Deschenes, rookie right winger scored two goals in pacing the Rhode Island Reds to a 4-1 victory over the Cleveland Barons before 3.715 fans.Providence: Goal, Bennett; defence, Laveil, Michaluk; centre, Laplante; wings, Saindon, Bedard; subs.: Reardon, Morris, Hamilton, Davies, McGill, Stoddard, Scherza, Kapusta, Deschenes.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, La-vitt, Samis; centre. Douglas; wings, Schultz, Kelly; subs.: Buller, Williams, Hergesheimer, Taylor, Thurier, Sonmor, MacKay, Wochy, Lund.First Period1&mdash;Providence: Deschenes(Davies, Kapusta)&hellip;&hellip;6:42Penalties: Samis, Hamilton.Second Period2&mdash;Cleveland: Kelly(Douglas, Taylor)&hellip;&hellip;1:173&mdash;Providence: Stoddard(Hamilton, McGill)&hellip;&hellip;16:124&mdash;Providence: McGill (Reardon). 17:4 2 Penalties: McGill, Lavitt, Kapusta(major), Samis (minor and major).Third Period5&mdash;Providence: Deschenes (Kapusta. Davies)&hellip;&hellip;15:09Penalty: Samis.ST. LOUIS.&mdash;The St. Louis Flyers wound up the old year with a 4-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Hornets before 4,151 fans.St. Louis: Goal, Almas; defence, Melons, Nicholson; centre, Simpson; wings, Olson, Pearson; subs.: Milligan, Lami-rande, Grigg, Gladu, White, Trigg, Sullivan. H. Backor, Bacoari.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Horton, Backor; centre, Migay; wings, Barbe, Solinger; subs.: Mathers, Ashley, Blair, Hannigan, Armstrong, Kobussen, McLellan, Smith, Maloney.Frrst Period1&mdash;St. Louis: White (Sullivan)&hellip;&hellip;4:192&mdash;St. Louis: Sullivan(White, Backor)&hellip;&hellip;17:22Penalties: Horton, Simpson.Second Period3&mdash;Pittsburgh: Kobussen (Smith). :24Penalties: Horton Milligan.Third Period4&mdash;St. Louis: Trigg(Gladu, Lamirande)&hellip;&hellip;8:345&mdash;St. Louis: Olson(Simpson. Pearson)&hellip;&hellip;11:366&mdash;Pittsburgh: Horton(Barbe, Solinger)&hellip;&hellip;15:20Penalty: Ashley.BUFFALO.&mdash;The Buffalo Bisons observed New Year&rsquo;s Eve by nipping the Springfield Indians, 5 to 4, on Ah DeMarco&rsquo;s goal at 18.01 of the third period. The outcome sent 5,022 holiday enthutiasts off on their later rounds in a jovial mood.Buffalo: Goal, Dion; defence, Currie, Dick; centre, DeMarco; wings, Warwick, Meger; subs.: Finkbeiner, Blake, Mc-Lenahan, McNabney, Hickey, Ashbee, Pennell, Atanas, Maxwell.Springfield: Goal. Bell; defence, Soaking, Davidson; centre, Curick; wings, Casanato, Lemieux; subs.: Kane, Allen, Gagnon, Hayden, Burnett, Pid-tiirny, Gooden. McMurdy, Ford.First Period1&mdash;Springfield: Casanato (Curick, Kane)&hellip;&hellip;6:182&mdash;Buffalo: Warwick(DeMarco, Finkbeiner)&hellip;&hellip;11:203&mdash;Springfield: Curtick(Hosking, Davidson)&hellip;&hellip;16:15Penalties: Dick, Gagnon, Davidson, Pennell, Ashfree.Second Period4&mdash;Springfield: Davidson&hellip;&hellip;:175&mdash;Springfield: Hayden (Burnett). 3:366&mdash;Buffalo: Ashbee(Hickey. McNabney)&hellip;&hellip;5:097&mdash;Buffalo: Ashbee (McLenahan). 8:198&mdash;Buffalo: McLenahan(Warwick, DeMarco)&hellip;&hellip;19:19Penalties: Curick, Finkbeiner, Casana-o (minor and match misc.), Maxwell (mnior and match, misc), Dick, Gagnon.Third Period9&mdash;Buffalo: DeMarco(Warwick, Currie)&hellip;&hellip;18:01Penalties: Lemieux, Dick, Kane.MONDAY, JANUARY 1CINCINNATI.&mdash;The Cincinnati Mo-lawks broke a three-game losing streak here as they defeated Indianapolis 2 to 1. before a crowd of 4,604 to split a New Year&rsquo;s holiday home-and-home series With the Capitols.Cincinnati: Goal, Bibeault; defence, Lancien, Irwin; centre, Campeau; wings, Dube, Plamondon; subs.: Perreault, Gorton. Denis, Hirschfeld, Stefaniw, Hergesheimer, Roche, Shero, Nattrass.Indianapolis: Goal, Henry; defence, defence, Heller, Woit; centre, Reid; Wings, Glover, MacKay; subs.: Pronovost,Kraftcheck. McNab, Morrisrm, Sclisizzi, Wilson, Carveth.First Period1&mdash;Cincinnati: Denis(Roche, Gordon)&hellip;&hellip;3.02Penalties: Nattrass, MacKay Irwin.Second Period2&mdash;Cincinnati: Perreault(Campeau Denis)&hellip;&hellip;18:21Penalties: Carveth, Campeau.Third Period3&mdash;Indianapolis: Glover(MacKay, McNab)&hellip;&hellip;1:26Penalties: None.HERSHEY.&mdash;Fist fights punctuated a hard-fought game as the Cleveland Barons defeated the Hershey Bears 9 to 5 a New Year&rsquo;s night crowd ofCleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Samis, Lavitt; centre, Douglas; wings Kelly. Taylor; subs.: Buller, Williams,&rsquo; Her-gesbeimer, Ceresino, Thurier, Sonmor, MacKay, Wochy, Lund.Hershey: Goal, Henry; defence. Garlepy. Reigle; centre, Mahaffy; wings, Bra-nigan, Harrison; subs.: Schertzl, Craw ford. Moe, Sullivan, Kullman Marquesas Corcoran, McIntyre, Bettio.First Period1&mdash;Hershey: Schertzl(Corcoran, Sullivan)&hellip;&hellip;1:382&mdash;Hershey: Sullivan (McIntyre). 2:423&mdash;Cleveland: Buller(Hergesheimer, Thurier)&hellip;&hellip;12:254&mdash;Cleveland: Thurier (Samis)&hellip;&hellip;16:56 Penalties: Branigan, Corcoran (major),Sullivan (major), Ceresino (major), Lund (major).Second Period5&mdash;Cleveland: MacKay(Taylor, Wochy)&hellip;&hellip;2:296&mdash;Hershey: Schertzl(Reigle, Marquess)&hellip;&hellip;7:047&mdash;Cleveland: Wochy(Taylor, MacKay)&hellip;&hellip;10:558&mdash;Cleveland: Wochy (Lund)&hellip;&hellip;16:57Penalties: Gariepy. Samis, Reigle, Schertzl.Third Period9&mdash;Cleveland: Hergesheimer(Thurier, Sonmor)&hellip;&hellip;3:4110&mdash;Cleveland: Sonmor(Keilly, Douglas)&hellip;&hellip;10:0411&mdash;Cleveland: Hergesheimer(Thurier. Sonmor)&hellip;&hellip;18:2712&mdash;Cleveland: Thurier(Sonmor, Hergesheimer)&hellip;&hellip;13:38 Penalties: Branigan, Saimls. &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01128/916420-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="304" height="513"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0278/916413-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="266" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Johnny Esaw</figcaption></div>What started out merely as a hobby has turned out to be a full time vocation for Johnny Esaw, the sports director at CKRM. In his native North Battleford where every youngster learns to skate and handle a stick along with the A.B.C&rsquo;s, Johnny, like most Canadian kids, set out to be a hockey player. He came along rapidly through the minor hockey system in that northern Saskatchewan City and was soon spotted by Johnny Walker, who was then Eddie Shore&rsquo;s ace ivory hunter. After a year of junior with North Battleford, he was sent at the age of 17 by Shore to the Brantford Lions of the O.H.A. Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; league. After a one year stint with the Lions he returned home and joined the Canadian Army where he served as a P.T. Instructor till the cessation of hostilities. While in the Army, Johnny performed with the Red Deer Army Wheelers in the Alberta circuit and upon distcharge joined the Spokane Spartans of the Western International league.That&rsquo;s where fate stepped in, and as Johnny says, he luckily suffered a broken leg. For it was this injury that forced him to hang up the blades and eventually found him in Regina with his present position.Now in his 25th year, Johnny recalls two incidents in hockey as one&rsquo;s he&rsquo;ll never forget. The first was the resounding crack when his ankle broke and the other was one night in Oshawa. &ldquo;We were playing Oshawa this night and Bill Ezinicki had just nailed one of our forwards and broke his collar bone. George Ainsworth who was coaching at the time, moved up to take over. On the next play, Ezinicki bodychecked me and after regaining my senses, the first thing i did was feel to see if my shoulder was also broken! Fortunately it wasn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;While still on crutches Johnny watched the games at home from the press box where he soon began putting them into typewritten form for the local newspapers.At that time. Radio Station CJNB began operations, and he took over the sports mike, broadcasting the play by play descriptions of the North Battleford Beavers. When the Beavers turned to baseball, Johnny followed them and the Bentley&rsquo;s of Delisle in their play in the Northern Saskatchewan League and the big baseball tournaments.On December 1st, 1949, he moved to Regina to take up his present position.Johnny&rsquo;s play by play emenates from all four cities of the Western Canada Senior Hockey League. He travels with the Regina Caps, the Regina Pats, and the Saskatchewan Rough-riders covering their activities for his station. &#9632;

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‘Radiorchids’ JOHNNY ESAW STATION C.K.R.M. REGINA, Sask.

Not HomersSince the first of December the Denver Falcons have won six of the seven games they played away from home, however, they have only managed one win at home in their last five contests.In OvertimeThe Denver Falcons have participated In three overtime games this season, and have won all three of them. They turned back Tulsa twice in the extra session, and this past week they won an overtime tilt in St. Paul.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0196/916465-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="613" height="198"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESDec. 27&mdash;Kansas City 6, Milwaukee 7Dec. 28&mdash;Tulsa 4, Omaha 9Dec. 28&mdash;Denver 4, St. Paul 1Dec. 29&mdash;St. Paul 8. Kansas City 3Dec. 30&mdash;Kansas City 3, Omaha 4Dec. 30&mdash;Milwaukee 1, Tulsa 3Dec. 31&mdash;Milwaukee 4, St. Paul 1Dec. 31&mdash;Kansas City 6. Denver 2Jan. 1&mdash;St. Paul 6. Milwaukee 1Nearing the midway point in the 1950-51 schedule, Omaha increased its lead to 8 points the past week with a pair of wins, and St. Paul pushed one point ahead of Tulsa to take over second place despite a wave of injuries and illness that saw no less than five players affected.Tulsa, who played but two games, got an even split; Denver did likewise by winning on the road and losing at home; Milwaukee got an even break in the four games they played; and Kansas City got but one win out of their four attempts, losing by one goal to both Milwaukee and Omaha, taking a bad trouncing from St. Paul and then bouncing back to close out the Old Year with a win over the Falcons in Denver.Carl Stearns of Kansas City had an 11-point week to move back into the lead in the scoring race thus dropping Tulsa&rsquo;s Doc Haldorsen back to third spot. Stearns scored 5 points and assisted in 6 others as his linemate Ike &ldquo;The Tyke&rdquo; Hildebrand regained the scoring touch with the assistance of newcomer Nick Tomiuk. Hildebrand marked up 4 goals and 4 assists to take over second spot from Ian Macintosh of St. Paul.MONDAY, DECEMBER 25ST. Paul.&mdash;Little Lome Worsley got about the best Christmas present he could ask for at the Auditorium&mdash;his Second shutout of the season.The little guy with the big stick put the handcuffs on the Kansas City team for the second time this season while his St. Paul mates chalked up a 4-0 decision against Al Millar, a stand-in for Jackie McGill.<h2>A Knight In St. Paul</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0270/916458-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1700" height="1705"><figcaption class="caption-body">LINESMAN SANDY ROSS on the left, holds Patty Coburn&rsquo;s fist lest he let go and pound Ian MacKintosh of the St. Paul Saints some more. Referee Clarence Ashworth on the right also tries to break the boys up. ((Photo by Fred Casotti))</figcaption></div>Kansas City: Goal, Millar; defence, Drainville, Levandoski; centre, McAr-hur; wings, DelMonte, Delory; subs.: ctl Bend, Hildebrand, Stearns, A. Brown Marineau, Raynak, Tomiuk.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Mariucci, Barlow; centre. Plumb; wings, Smith, Albright; Mackintosh, Schwartz, F. Brown, Brklacich, Ailsby, Manson, Lowe, McDonagh.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul: Albright (Plumb)&hellip;&hellip;8:502&mdash;St. Paul: Manson(Lowe, McDonagh)&hellip;&hellip;14:143&mdash;St. Paul: Smith(Plumb, AilSby)&hellip;&hellip;15:48Penalties: Levandoski, Barlow.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Buyers, Barlow (2), Millar (served by DelMonte). Stearns, Mariucci.Third Period4&mdash;St. Paul: Lowe&hellip;&hellip;14:02Penalties: Tomiuk, Mariucci, DelMonte, McDonagh, McArthur.WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27MILWAUKEE.&mdash;The Milwaukee Sea Gulls took the lead early and clung on tenaciously to beat Kansas City, 7-6.Kansas City: Goal, McGill; defence, Marineau, Levandoski; centre, Stearns; wings, Hildebrand, Tomiuk; subs.: Delory, McArthur, Byers, Drainville, DelMonte, Bend, Raynack. Brown.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Bedard, Schvetz; centre, Powell; wings, Groves, Miller; subs.: Leier, Blade, Hamill, Michaluk, Smith, Shave, Mulholland, Goodacre&hellip;First Period1&mdash;Kansas City: McArthur(Byers)&hellip;&hellip;4:562&mdash;Milwaukee: Blade(Leier, Mulholland)&hellip;&hellip;6:443&mdash;Milwaukee: Powell(Miller, Bedard)&hellip;&hellip;7:584&mdash;Kansas City: DelMonte(McArthur, Marineau)&hellip;&hellip;12:165&mdash;Milwaukee: Groves(Powell, Miller)&hellip;&hellip;19:59Penalties: Levandoski, Schvetz (2), lildebrand.Second Period6&mdash;Milwaukee: Smith(Shave, Mlchaluk)&hellip;&hellip;5:107&mdash;Kansas City: DelMonte(Byers, McArhtur)&hellip;&hellip;12:118&mdash;Kansas City: Stearns(Levandoski, Tomiuk)&hellip;&hellip;14:179&mdash;Milwaukee: Powell(Groves, Leier)&hellip;&hellip;16:44Penalties: Levandoski, Schvetz (2), McArthur, Byers.Third Period10&mdash;Milwaukee: Powell (Groves). 1:3211&mdash;Kansas City: Stearns(Tomiuk, Hildebrand)&hellip;&hellip;1:5912&mdash;Milwaukee: Blade(Groves, Powell)&hellip;&hellip;11:3313&mdash;Kansas City: Hildebrand(Stearns)&hellip;&hellip;18:59Penalties: Stearns, McArthur (2).THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28ST. PAUL.&mdash;The Denver Falcons still haven&rsquo;t played a tie this season. It looked like they might have the first one of the campaign on their hands at the Auditorium when the regulation three periods ended all even, 1-1, The Saints lost 4-1 in overtime.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Chrystal, Fraser; centre, Agar; wings, Strain, Richardson; subs.: Jackson, J. Kaiser, Giesebrecht, H. Brown, McKenzie, Doran, C. Kaiser, Juckes.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Ma-riucci, Barlow; centre, Schwartz; wings, F. Brown, Macintosh; subs.: Lowe, Plumb, Smith, McDonagh, Albright. Manson, Dawson, Brklacich.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: J. Kaiser, Schwartz, Chrystal, Jackson, Juckes (major), F. Brown (major).Second Period1&mdash;Denver: Agar&hellip;&hellip;8:532&mdash;St. Paul: Smith (Mariucci)&hellip;&hellip;12:49 Penalties: Richardson, Mariucci, Barlow (2), C. Kaiser. Fraser, Juckes.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Mariucci, Lowe.Overtime Period3&mdash;Denver: Strain(Agar, Richardson)&hellip;&hellip;4:484&mdash;Denver: Agar (Strain)&hellip;&hellip;9:135&mdash;Denver: Richardson (Agar)&hellip;&hellip;9:56Penalty: Dawson.OMAHA.&mdash;A crippled Omaha team using two defense men on the forward lines handed Tulsa a 9-4 beating in a game here.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence. Jones, Davidson; centre, Haldorsen; wings, O&rsquo;Brien, Gronsdahl; subs.: Bloomer. Telford, Bradley, Porteous, Butler, Poile. Schnurr, Dillon.Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Hinchberger, Forbes; centre, O&rsquo;Grady; wings, Uniac. Coburn; subs.: Durham. Bert Glesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod, Taylor, Skov, Hay.First Period1&mdash;Tulsa: Butler (Porteous)&hellip;&hellip;2:452&mdash;Omaha: O&rsquo;GradyForbes, Uniac)&hellip;&hellip;7:053&mdash;Omaha: Forbes(Bruce Giesebrecht)&hellip;&hellip;8:574&mdash;Obama: O&rsquo;Grady(Cobuin, Uniac)&hellip;&hellip;12:22Penalties: Dillon, Durham.Second Period5&mdash;Omaha: Bevt Giesebrecht (Forbes, Bruce Giesebrecht). 2:586&mdash;Omaha: Hay (Skov)&hellip;&hellip;6:267&mdash;Omaha: Bert Giesebrecht (Forbes)&hellip;&hellip;7:54<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0357/916451-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="590" height="483"></div>THE LEADERSMost Points: Cal Stearns, K.C. (49)Most Goals: Ian Macintosh, St. Paul 05)Most Assists: Cal Stearns, K.C. (32)Most Penalties: Pete Durham, Omaha (127 minutes)Most Goals, One Game: Ellard O&rsquo;Brien, Tulsa; Bill McDonagh, St. Paul (4)Most Hat Tricks: Bert Giesebrecht, Omaha; Frank Porteous, Tulsa; Ian Macintosh, St. Paul (2).Most Shutouts: Lou Crowdis, Denver (3).8&mdash;Omaha: Bruce Giesebrecht(Bert Giesebrecht. McLeod). 8:309&mdash;Tulsa: Bradley (Butler)&hellip;&hellip;15:2410&mdash;Omaha: O&rsquo;Grady (Uniac)&hellip;&hellip;18:49 Penalties: Dillon, Bert Giesebrecht.Third Period11&mdash;Tulsa: Haldorsen (Davidson). 1:0712&mdash;Omaha: Taylor (Skov)&hellip;&hellip;15:1213&mdash;Tulsa: O&rsquo;Brien (Poile)&hellip;&hellip;16:28Penalties: None.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29KANSAS CITY.&mdash;Bustling Bill McDonagh became the second player to hit four goals in a game this season as the St. Paul hockey team trounced Kansas City, 8-3, here.Kansas City: Goal. Millar; defence, Drainville, Byers; centre. Bend; wings, Raynak, Brown; subs.: Field, Levandoski, DelMonte, Hildebrand, Steams. Delory, Tomiuk, McArthur. Marineau.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Brklacich, Dawson; centre, Schwartz; wings Macintosh, McDonagh; subs.: Mariucci, Lowe, Plumb, Barlow. Albright, Manson, C. Smith.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul: McDonagh (Mariucci) 10:532&mdash;St. Paul: ScCiwartz&hellip;&hellip;11:583&mdash;St. Paul: McDonagh&hellip;&hellip;12:284&mdash;St, Paul: Schwartz(Macintosh)&hellip;&hellip;17:19Penalties: Dawson, Drainville, McArthur, Brklacich.Second Period5&mdash;Kansas City: Levandoski(Tomiuk)&hellip;&hellip;3:156&mdash;St. Paul: C. Smith (Plumb).. 4:547&mdash;Kansas City: Hildebrand(Tomiuk, Drainville)&hellip;&hellip;14:27Penalties: Barlow (2), Bend, Brown.Third Period8&mdash;St. Paul: McDonagh (Manson)&hellip;&hellip;10:249&mdash;Kansas City: Marineau(Brown)&hellip;&hellip;16:3110&mdash;St. Paul: McDonagh(Manson, Lowe)&hellip;&hellip;17:5911&mdash;St. Paul; Lowe (Manson)&hellip;&hellip;18:40 Penalties: Manson, Mariuccl. &#9632;

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ShutoutsJerry Cotnoir and the Victoria Cougars handed the Seattle Ironmen their fourth shutout of the current season Dec. 31 in Victoria. It was the first time the Cougars have held their opponents scoreless since Joining the League.Rood TripsThe Portland Eagles had a little. taste of what the Seattle Ironmen went through earlier this season, placing games away from home while waiting for ice nt home. An ice show forced the Eagles on the road for two weeks. They played six games on foreign ice and had to be content with one victory.THE POINT PARADESTANDINGS ON TUE. A.M., JAN. 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0184/916555-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="616" height="192"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESDec. 26&mdash;Portland 1, Vancouver 2Dec. 27&mdash;Tacoma 2, Seattle 2Dec. 29&mdash;Seattle 0, Victoria 3Dec. 30&mdash;Portland 3, Tacoma. 10Dec. 30&mdash;Victoria 2, New West&rsquo;er 7Dec. 31&mdash;Portland 1, Seattle 8Jan. 1&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 1, Victoria 8Jan. 1&mdash;Seattle 2, Vancouver 2The New Westminster Royals continue to lead the League but have found a new threat in the Tacoma Rockets who have gone nine games without a defeat, winning five and tieing four, to put them within three points of the Royals and giving them a four point lead over the Portland Eagles and the Victoria Cougars. The Vancouver Canucks are only 3 points behind the Eagles and Cougars. Seattle is in the basement with only 4 points between the Ironmen and third place Portland and Victoria. Seattle, however, has played two games less than Vancouver.Ken Ullyot, of New Westminster, continues to lead the scorers with 44 points, a five point margin over second place Walt Samanski, of Portland. Ullyot and Joe Bell, of Seattle, share the most goals honors with 24 each while Samanski leads the playmakers with 24 assists. Norm Gustavsen, Tacoma defenseman, continues to lead the penalty parade with 98 minutes in penalties against him.Phil McAtee, Seattle netmind-er, too kover the goalkeepers honors with an average of 2.87 goals against per game. Lucien Deche-ne, of New Westminster, is a close second with an average of 2.89 but leads the shots stopped column with 989 saves for a .902 percentage.Rudy Filion, Seattle center, was player of the week scoring goals and assisting in four thers for eight points.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22VICTORIA.&mdash;The Tacoma Rockets defeated Victoria, 3 to 2, to move into a tie for second place in the league.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Johns, Lambrecht; centre. Webster, wings, Adams, Dheere; subs.: H. Mel), Giokas, Toole, Read, Johnston, Andrews, Rozzini, Rowe.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Lepine, Long; centre, Abbott; wings, Frampton, Burman; subs.: Webster, Goe-gan, Strongman. McIntyre, Dorohoy, Evans, Medynski,&rsquo; Leger, Mazur.First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Abbott (Frampton) 14:58 Penalties: None.Second PeriodTacoma: Adam(Glokas, C. Webster)&hellip;&hellip;8:523&mdash;Tacoma: Johnston (Read, Bell)&hellip;&hellip;8:26 Penalties:, None.<h2>Fiery Feori Like Ezzy</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0256/916548-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1728" height="1365"><figcaption class="caption-body">FIERY FIORI GOEGAN of the Victoria Cougars resembles &ldquo;Wild&rdquo; Bill Ezinicki as he sits in the penalty box, cool, calm and collected following his fight with Seattle&rsquo;s Pete Taillefer. Goegan, a scrapper with plenty of go, is the people&rsquo;s choice on the Coast. Number 11 is Doug Lewis of Seattle, it&rsquo;s Referee Dick Davis blowing his whistle. ((Courtesy of the Victoria Daily Times))</figcaption></div>Third Period4&mdash;Tacoma: Adam (Giokas)&hellip;&hellip;14:455&mdash;Victoria: Mazur(Evans, Burman)&hellip;&hellip;18:20Penalties: Long (game misc.), Goegan, Medynski.PORTLAND.&mdash;Seattle&rsquo;s surging Ironmen walloped the Eagles, 3-1, with Bob Dawes banging in two of those goals. The Ironmen had everthing their own way, slamming 33 shots at Eagle Goalie Tom Karakas.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Tail-lefer, Boorman; centre, Dawes; wings, Weaver, Leswick; subs.: Kerr. Bell, Fillion, Senick, Tkachuk, Thorpe, Archam-beault.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Nixon, Sutherland; centre, Samanski; wings, Homenuke, Silvestri; subs.: Tarala, Bak, Brodeur, Hartsburg, Fairburn, Kubasek, Bailey, Boyce. Summerville.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Senick, Boyce.Second Period1&mdash;Seattle: Dawes (Leswick)&hellip;&hellip;1:552&mdash;Seattle: Fillion (Bell, Thorpe). 18:24 Penalties: Karakas (misc.), Boorman.Third Period3&mdash;Seattle: Dawes(Tkachuk, Boorman)&hellip;&hellip;5:064&mdash;Portland: Homenuke(Samanski, Sutherland)&hellip;&hellip;10:09 Penalties: None.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23NEW WESTMINSTER.&mdash;The Eagles snapped out of their biggest slump with a 7-5 victory over New Westminster Royals.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Brodeur, Nixon; centre, Kubasek; wings, Bailey, Summerhill; subs.: Tanala, Bak, Homenuke. Silvestri, Samanski. Hartsburg, Fairburn, Boyce, Sutherland.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Pratt, Bergeron; centre, Ulloyt; wings. Cook, Peterson; subs.: Dorohoy, Slater, Love, Dufault, Kirk, Lavell, Huddleston, Gauhn. Paul, Houle.First Period1&mdash;Portland: Sutherland (Bailey) :292&mdash;Portland: Brodeur (Homenuke) 12:333&mdash;Portland: Boyce (Fairburn).. 12:54 Penalties: Hartsburg, Sutherland.Second Period4&mdash;New Westminster: Peterson(Bergeron)&hellip;&hellip;4:345&mdash;New Westminster: Gruhn&hellip;&hellip;8:376&mdash;New Westminster: Pratt(Dorohoy, Dufault)&hellip;&hellip;8:057&mdash;Portland: Fairburn (Tarala). 9:368&mdash;New Westminster: Love&hellip;&hellip;11:119&mdash;New Westminster: Lavell(Bergeron)&hellip;&hellip;17:58Third Period10&mdash;Portland: Fairburn(Hartsburg, Brodeur)&hellip;&hellip;5:3411&mdash;Portland: Fairburn(Hartsburg, Brodeur)&hellip;&hellip;6:0012&mdash;Portland: Silvestri: (Samanski) 19:14 Penalty: Tarala.SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24TACOMA.&mdash;For a full hour the Tacoma Rockets and Seattle Ironmen, slashed, boarded, roughed and played hockey, and after three action-filled periods they succeeded in accomplishing only a 2-2 tie before 2,100 fans.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Taillefer, Archambeault; centre, Kerr; wings, Senick, Tkachuk; subs.: Boorman, Bloom, Weaver, J. Bell, Fillion, Leswick, Thorpe, Dawes.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Johns, Gustavsen; centre, Read; wings, Rowe, Johnston: subs.: H. Bell, Giokas, Toole, Adam, Andrews, Webster. Dheere, Rozzini, Lambrecht.First Period2&mdash;Tacoma: Webster(Adam, Dheere)&hellip;&hellip;9:022&mdash;Seattle: Thorpe (Weaver, J. Bell)&hellip;&hellip;10:01Penalties: Johns (2), Dawes, Taillefer (2), Archambeault (2), Adam.Second Period3&mdash;Seattle: J. Bell (Fillion, Taillefer)&hellip;&hellip;8:08Penaltties: Thorpe, Giokas.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>(Including Games of Sunday, Jan. 1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0338/916541-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="607" height="1185"></div>THE LEADERSMost Goals: Ken Ullyot, N.W.; Joe Bell, Sea. (24)Most Assists: Walt Samanski, Port (24)Most Hat Tricks: Bob Lobe, N.W.; Norm Kirk, N.W. (2)Most Hat Tricks Against: Tom Kara kas, Port. (5)Most Winning Goals Scored: Joe Bell, Sea.; Ken Ullyot, N.W.; Doug Adam, Tac. (4)Most Shutouts Lucien Deschene, N. W. (4)Most Shots Stopped: Lucien Deschene, N.W. (989)Most Penalties: Norm Gustavsen, Tac. (98 minutes).Third Period4&mdash;Tacoma: Webster&hellip;&hellip;11:25Penalties: Rozzini (2), Gustavsen.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26SATTLE.&mdash;It took Bill Giokas half the season to get his first goal, but his timing couldn&rsquo;t have been better, when he finally managed to find the range.The Tacoma defenseman blazed the puck from about 40 feet on a slap shot in the third period, and that lamplighter gave the Rockets a 2-2 tie with the Seattle Ironmen.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Tail lefer, Archambeault; centre, Fillion; wings, J. Bell, Thorpe; subs.: Boorman, Bloom, Weaver, Kerr, Senick, Tkachuk, Leswick, Dawes.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Lambrecht, Gustavsen; centre. Read; wings, Rowe, Johnston; subs.: H. Bell, Giokas. Toole, Adam, Andrews, Webster, Dheere, Rozzini.First Period1&mdash;Tacoma: Andrews(Rozzini, H. Bell)&hellip;&hellip;16:31Penalty; Gustavsen.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Bloom, Rozzini.Third Period2&mdash;Seattle: Leswick(Boonman, Dawes)&hellip;&hellip;4:283&mdash;(Seattle: Bell (Fillion)&hellip;&hellip;7:354&mdash;Tacoma: Giokas&hellip;&hellip;9:18Penalties: H. Bell, Gustavsen.VANCOUVER.&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks did their bit to help the Rocket cause by nudging Portland, 2-1, in Vancouver. Bill Shill and Norm Kirk scored for Vancouver in the second period, while Jim Fairburn scored for Portland.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence. Back, Nixon; centre, Fairburn; wings, Hartsburg, Boyce; subs.: Tarala, Brodeur, Homenuke, Silvestri. Samanski, Ku-basek, Bailey, Sutherland, Summerhill.Vancouver: Goal, Highton; defence, Crozier, Reardon; centre, Unger; wings, Kirk, Shill; subs.: McPherson, Narduzzl, Ballance, Jackson, Conway, Jones, DeFelice. Russell, Lofvendahl, Schmidt.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Conway.Second Period1&mdash;Vancouver: Kirk (Shill, Unger) 5:102&mdash;Vancouver: Shill(Schmidt, Narduzzi)&hellip;&hellip;9:583&mdash;Portland: Fairbum (Boyce)&hellip;&hellip;15:58Penalties: Tarala, Conway.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: DeFelice. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;A record Western Canada crowd of 8,729 jammed into the new $1,500,000 Calgary Arena for the first Western Canada Hockey League contest in the posh structure. The record attendance was made up of 6,619 fans with seats and the balance in the standing room area.It was a grand opening all around for Calgary&rsquo;s Stamp-eders. Not only did the Cowboys polish off the loop leading Edmonton Flyers 5-0 and provide Russ Dertell with his first shutout but it was the second win in a row for Butch McDonald&rsquo;s club over Frank Currie&rsquo;s Flyers.When this corner hinted at the start of the season that Flyers&rsquo; early show of power might fade as the schedule progressed the suggestion drew many chuckles but possibly that&rsquo;s what is happening.Feel Injury BugFlyers have been hit hard by injuries. In some games Coach Currie has been able to dress only 12 players and on other occasions he has been forced to go with 11. Latest to join the growing list of injured players is centre Doug Anderson. He was sidelined when heavily crashed into the boards by Julio Sawchuk of Stam-peders. Incidentally most of the players in the circuit take a wide berth around the rugged Calgary rearguard.Others on the Flyer injured list are Doug Lane, Bill Pettinger and Mac Colville, all defensemen, and forwards Elmer Kreller and Bing Merluk.Earlier in the season Fred Smitten, Steve Witiuk and Eddie Cutts also sat out some games due to injuries but the three are now back in action. Coach Currie was hit heavily at the blueline and he was forced to play forwards on defence. &#9632;

Stamps Draw Record Crowd For Opening Game In New Rink

<div class="byline">By ARTHUR MORRISON</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;In junior hockey circles at the time of writing the Brandon Wheat Kings are leading the pack with a four point margin over the Winnipeg Monarchs, with the Canadiens in third place and the Black Hawks next. It is interesting to note however that there is a marked improvement in both the Canadien and Black Hawk aggregations, and from now on they may be a thorn in the flesh to one and all.In what was probably the best game of the season, the Canucks for the second time on Winnipeg ice, extended the Brandon Wheat Kings into overtime before the Wheat Kings won out 7 to 6. Both teams gave of their best with the Canadiens setting the pace, but Brandon literally came up from the canvas to win out, the final counter coming with only 35 seconds to go.Two nights later the lowly Winnipeg Black Hawks came through with their third win in 20 starts; with a 3-2 triumph over the Habitants. Tom Hannesson the hero of the contest as the big defenceman scored the Hawks first two counters unassisted.At Brandon the next night the Wheat Kings acted as hosts to the Monarchs and the game ended in a 6-6, overtime stalemate. Tied at one all at the end of the first period, the Monarchs had a 4-3 advantage at the end of the second. At the close of regulation play the score was knotted at 5 all, and as both teams tallied once each, the game ended in a deadlock. Elliott Chorley of the Monarchs led the scoring with three counters, with Ron Rohmer of Brandon picking up a pair.<h2>Farm Puck Boss</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0194/916610-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="536" height="841"></div>HAROLD D. OVENDEN, veteran secretary-treasurer of Ontario&rsquo;s Rural Hockey Association, and one of the founders of the expanding organization. He has contributed much towards the Ontario hockey picture with sound leadership in the rural field. He lives at Wainfleet, Ont., near Welland. &#9632;

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Wheats Still Kings, Altho’ Comp Tough

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0170/916648-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Solution Next Week)</figcaption></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured player.7&mdash;First name of 23 down.9&mdash;Denotes number worn by Cliff Simpson.10&mdash;One (Scot.).11&mdash;What Loughlin, ex-Chicago coach, is called.13&mdash;Nickname of Cliff Goupille, ex-N.H.L. player.14&mdash;N.H.L. linesman called George.15&mdash;part of&ldquo;to be&rdquo;17&mdash;Month in which Kennedy celebrates birthday (abbr).18&mdash;Short for first name of a Detroit defenseman.19&mdash;Maurice Podoloff&mdash;president of the A.H.L.20&mdash;Initials of Summers of Providence.21&mdash;Initials of a Hershey forward.22&mdash;Centre on 1948-49 All-Star team.26&mdash;An N.H.L. linesman.28&mdash;Initials of a new member of Canadiens.29&mdash;Home state of an N.H.L. club (abbr).30&mdash;Bill Gadsby scored this number of goals last season.31&mdash;First name of Sullivan who played for New Haven.33&mdash;This Springfield winger is called Ken.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Birthplace of Phil Watson.2&mdash;In 1943-44 Chamberlain went to&mdash;from Boston.3&mdash;Stanowski injured one early this season.4&mdash;Initials of one of the Dorohoy&rsquo;s.5&mdash;Hy Buller played&mdash;hockey with N.Y. Rovers (abbr).6&mdash;Name given Burnett of Springfield.8&mdash;Sask, birthplace of Jack Church, ex-N.H.L. player.11&mdash;Initials of a St. Paul centre.12&mdash;Ells English (abbr).16&mdash;Omaha forward.17&mdash;Played defense for Rangers in 1944-45, called Bob.21&mdash;This hockey player is called &ldquo;Nakina&rdquo;.22&mdash;Exclamation.23&mdash;Pittsburgh forward.24&mdash;Initials of 26 across.25&mdash;Name given Grabowski, once with Canadiens.27&mdash;After a goal has been scored&mdash;starts at center ice.28&mdash;What 28 across is called.30&mdash;Initials of an A.H.L. coach.32&mdash;Indefinite article.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;s X-WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0244/916641-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="571" height="846"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0115/916693-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="250" height="280"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0214/916686-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="238" height="301"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0314/916679-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="2902" height="3378"><figcaption class="caption-body">((Photo by Lavelle))</figcaption></div>Sugar Jim Henry of the Indianapolis Caps of the American Hockey League finds things sort of tough as the Wings&rsquo; farm clubbers strive desperately ts get into the playoff picture.The Providence Reds are also trying to make themselves a playoff berth so when these two clubs mix it usually turns out to be a humdinger of a game. In the above picture Robert Lavelle, one of the best hockey photographers in the business, catches Henry and Reds&rsquo; Ray LaPlante in action. The picture tells the story. &#9632;

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January 13, 1951

Anateur Parade At Quick Glance

Once Ace Center, Shrimp Now Ace Trainer

Happy Birthday to You

Jack Stewart Payoff May Entitle Adams To Branch Rickey Title