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January 20, 1951

The Hockey News January 20, 1951

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded.October. 1, 1947Published by Hockey News Company, 603A 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 20, 1951 No. 16<h2>FAR FIELDS ARE GREENER!</h2>Things always look better over the back fence, and almost without exception that has proved to be absolutely right in the realm of traded hockey players. Whether it&rsquo;s the psychological effect of a move to another spot, or whether there&rsquo;s purely an element of luck in the whole thing, the fact remains that&mdash;this season at least&mdash;the lot of the transferred player has proved to be much happier.That is calculated not only to make the player himself feel happier, but also to gladden the heart of the lucky club owner who gets his services. Just how the owner who let that said improved player go can&rsquo;t be recorded in any censorable manner!This current 1950-51 season will go down as one of the most &ldquo;tradingest&rdquo; in the annals of the sport. Almost without exception the men making the moves have perked up their ears and started playing the type of hockey their previous owners had always hoped they were capable of, but never actually delivered. A change, in these cases, has been much more effective than a rest or any other kind of therapy you might dream up.For proof you only have to look at the records. Men like Zellio Toppozzini, Dunc Fisher and Bert Olmstead come readily to mind. Likewise puckchasers like Wild Bill Ezinicki, always mainly known for his bull-in-the-china-shop tactics but who has settled down to play real hockey for Boston, and a host of others to whom a trade has proved a real tonic.Olmstead in particular comes to mind mainly because he was the object of a pair of trades which finally landed him in the spot where he could really shine. The promising Olmstead, who in the United States Hockey League but didn&rsquo;t quite measure up to National League requirements at first, was traded by Chicago to the Detroit Red Wings along with Vic Stasiuk. Then, another deal sent him along to Montreal Canadiens in exchange for Leo (The Gazelle) Gravelle.In Montreal he fitted right into the scheme of things, teaming up on left wing with Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard for a potent combo. In fact, he has been given quite a bit of credit for the resurgence of Richard to the rapid-fire scorer the fiery Habitant was a few years ago when he was toppling records right and left.Even Gravelle, a speed ball skater who never delivered quite what was expected of him during his tenure with the Canucks, for a while gave the Red Wings quite a lift. But Olmstead was definitely the class of that dicker, and the Canadiens top brass at last report were said to be smiling quite smugly about the whole thing.Taking a fast look at some of the other trades, it&rsquo;s readily evident that for the most part the tradees have given their all in their new habitat, to the great satisfaction of their new employers.Boston Bruins have got quite a bit of mileage out of Bill Ezinicki and Vic Lynn since that pair went to the Hub in exchange for Fernie Flaman, Kenny Smith and Phil Maloney, while the latter two have come in handy for Leafs and their Pittsburgh affilite in the American loop, and Flaman has played remarkably well for the Leafs.Other trades saw Ed Harrison and Zellio Toppazzini cross over to New York while the Rangers sent Dunc Fisher to the Bruins in exchange, and at last reports both clubs were quite happy. Then, in the &ldquo;small&rdquo; Chicago-Detroit trade of the year, Stasiuk and Olmstead went to the wings as barter bait for Lee Fogolin and Steve Black, both of whom have proved very nice to have around for the Black Hawks.The big trade of the campaign, of course, was the monster, nine-man coming and going between the Wings and Hawks. In that flip-over, Harry Lumley, Jack Stewart, Pete Babando, Al Dewsbury and Don Morrison went to the Windy City, while Metro Prystai, Gaye Stewart, Bob Goldham and Jim Henry reported to Detroit. Since then Jack Stewart has been forced to hang up his skates, but Lumley has gone far to plug up the gaping hole in the Hawk nets, while Babando has been steaming along well up in the scoring lists to make the Chicago front office happy.On the other side of the ledger, Prystai has been proving a useful man around the nets for the Detroiters, with Gold-ham doing all right on the rearguard and Stewart taking care of his share of the goal getting. Goal was well filled by Terry Sawchuk, which left Sugar Jim Henry out in the cold but his work at Indianapolis the A.H.L. has helped keep that Wing team in the American League race and kept the fans there pretty happy about the whole thing.Analysing the overall picture, it seems as though in man? cases a trade is just what the doctor ordered for certain players. &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03221/1671404-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"></div>First Stanley Cup Champions, 1894Originally the emblem of amateur hockey supremacy, the Stanley Cup&mdash;donated by Lord Stanley, Governor-General of Canada&mdash;was won for the first time, in 1894, by the Montreal AAA, playing seven men a side with no substitutions.The cup became a professional trophy in 1912, when it was won by the Quebec Bulldogs.molson&rsquo;sESTABLISHED 1786 &#9632;

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MOLSON’S REMEMBERS…

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02270/1671490-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="614" height="279"></div>January 25 to January 3125&mdash;FLAMON, Fern, defense, Toronto, 1927.26&mdash;LYNN, Vic, forward, Boston, 1925; SKOV, Glen, forward, Omaha, 1931.29&mdash;PRIMEAU, Joe, coach, Toronto, 1906; KUBASEK, Frank, forward Portland, 1929; THORPE, Bob, forward, Seattle, 1925.31&mdash;IVAN, Tommy, coach, Detroit, 1911. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">by RON McALLISTER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01370/1671942-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="648" height="879"></div>These two drama-packed books contain personality sketches and life stories of the hockey greats, action-filled stories of individual games which have made hockey history&hellip; skilfully presented by Ron McAllister, ace radio sportscaster and star of the CBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Canadian Sports Album&rdquo;.Every hockey fan will want both for his library<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02309/1671935-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="715" height="885"></div>Read the exciting exploits of&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03262/1671928-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="269" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shore</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04204/1671921-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="266" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Reardon</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05162/1671914-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="254" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06136/1671907-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="264" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Kennedy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07103/1671900-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="261" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0881/1671893-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="288" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Turk Broda</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0964/1671886-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="286" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Cook</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1051/1671879-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="269" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chuck Conacher</figcaption></div>WONDERFUL GIFTS FOR HOCKEY FANS OF ALL AGES&ldquo;HOCKEY HEROES&rdquo;, most recent book in the &ldquo;Canadian Sports Album&rdquo; series, tells the exciting stories of George Hainsworth, Chuck Gardiner, Syl Apps, Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, King Clancy, Ace Bailey, Babe Siebert, Dit Clapper, Howie Morenz, Happy Day, Max Bentley and Mil&dagger; Schmidt. Handsomely bound, illustrated with full-page photos of each player&hellip; $2.25.&ldquo;HOCKEY STARS &hellip; TODAY AND YESTERDAY&ldquo; traces the thrilling and inspiring life stories of Turk Broda, Charlie Conacher, Bill Cook, Ted Kennedy, Ken Reardon, Bill Durnan, Babe Dye, Flash Hollett, Red Horner, Dick Irvin, Aurel Joliat, Maurice Richard, Eddie Shore, Nels Stewart, Georges Vezina. Full-page photos of each player&hellip; $1.50.SPECIAL OFFERto readers of The Hockey News. Total value of these two great books, ordered separately, is $3.75. Use this coupon to order now and get both for$3.50<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1145/1671872-1-eng-US/f0010-112.jpg" title="f0010-11" width="734" height="567"></div> &#9632;

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NOW! Two Thrilling Books That Record The Great Names and Great Games of N.H.L. Hockey

<div class="byline">BY KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01214/1672395-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Gee of Detroit soils through the air with the greatest of ease and the help of defenseman Ed Kryzanowski. The huge Bruin rearguard hands out a mean check, and if you don&rsquo;t believe us ask Mr. Gee. Kryzanowski, who jumped right into pro hockey from the University of Toronto, is said to hand out one of the stiffest checks in the N.H.L. (Kilpatrick, Detroit)</figcaption></div><h2>Gee, Look At Gee Go!</h2>MONTREAL, Que&rdquo;National Hockey League referees and linesmen will wear numbers in future. Clarence Campbell, president of the N.H.L., said that by February 1, every referee and linesmen in the league will be numbered.Bill Chadwick, George Gravel, Hugh McLean, Red Storey and Bill Knott are the five N.H.L. referees and the refs will be numbered from one to five. The linesmen will be numbered from 11 t22 with the exception of No. 13. No arbiter will wear that number it is no doubt figured that the linesmen come in for enough trouble during the course of a season without pressing their luck by having the so-called unlucky &ldquo;13&rdquo; adorning the middle of their back.On Back OnlyThe numbers will be black on a white base and they will appear on the backs of tha officials&rsquo; sweaters only. Surmounted on the black numerals will be a thin white lina to bring life to the digit and to make it easier to discern for the spectators. The numbers of the referees and linesmen will be listed in all the programs sold at the different rinks, just like the lineups of the players on tha different teams.This is not the first time that N.H.L. officials have worn numbers. They wore them some years ago and oddly enough no one seems to remember just when they went out of existence and the reasons for their disappearance. It must have been in the late twenties or early thirties, as President Campbell first came into the National Hockey League as a referee in 1936 and the numbers had been abandoned by that time.&ldquo;Boston, Toronto and New York were the clubs most anxious to have the officials numbered,&rdquo; Campbell told THE HOCKEY NEWS.&rdquo; We then had a vote by mail and it was unanimous with all clubs,&rdquo; the president added. It took close to a month to complete the vote as Campbell first started feeling the clubs out about whether they wanted the officials numbered or not back in early December.The Pacific Coast Hockey League doesn&rsquo;t use numbers for its referees and linesmen but uses letters instead. Referees wear a large &ldquo;R&rdquo; on the sleeves of their sweater, while the linesmen has a large &ldquo;L&rdquo; adorn his jersey. &#9632;

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System Returns As Mail Vote By Owners Decides

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;The Good Old Days&mdash;when hockey players went a full 60 minutes and didn&rsquo;t have to draw a deep breath&mdash;when action was all bristling, speed was all pulsating, contact was all rugged&mdash;The Days When!Modern hockey doesn&rsquo;t compare to that played in the era that is dead and gone, and modem players are softies compared to the fellows who played in that era, cry the graybeards.They ruined hockey when they put in the red line, chor-used others.But among those who do not support that side of what is always a first class argument is Lynn Patrick, coach of the Boston Bruins and a qualified commentator on the subject.Well Schooled In GameThe 38-year old Patrick was brought up in a hockey atmosphere, where hockey talk accompanied the bread and butter at all meals. Lester, his father, coached the New York Rangers. Frank Patrick, his uncle, coached the Bruins. Lynn and his brother Murray played for the Rangers, and Lynn&rsquo;s playing career spanned the paint job, before and after the red line. Most of his playing was done in the preperd line days.<h2>Short Stretches O&pound; Ice Action Speed Things Up</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03254/1671103-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="553" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Quackenbush</figcaption></div>So when Patrick disagrees with the advocates of The Good Old Days who also debunk the ones we&rsquo;re living now, he speaks from an unprejudiced point of view.Patrick says:1&mdash;&ldquo;I think that the old-style hockey would put the customers to sleep today.&rdquo;2&mdash;&ldquo;I think that the modern player is just as durable as his old-time counterpart.&rdquo;&ldquo;Frankly, I think that the old game was rather dull,&rdquo; continued the former captain of the Rangers of The Days When. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think people would go for it today.&ldquo;The red line has opened u.p the game a lot, to my way of thinking,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;and I say that even though I ran afoul of it after I came back from the service.&ldquo;I had never seen a red line which was put in during the war,&rdquo; Patrick went on, &ldquo;until the first game I played when I got out of the army. I remember I got the puck and shot it into the other end. Someone blew a whistle.Changed His Mind&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t do that, you shot it over the red line, Ott Heller told me. I asked, what the heck is the red line? So Ott explained it to me. At that moment I didn&rsquo;t care much for it, but I&rsquo;ve changed my mind since. I say it makes for a more crowd-pleasing game.&rdquo;Patrick maintains that lack of stamina in the present-day player is a myth created by the larger squad, a misinterpretation of the current method of making frequent substitutions.&ldquo;Do you mean to tell me that the fellows on my team, conditioned the way they are, couldn&rsquo;t play more if they had to?&rdquo; he demanded. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe it.&ldquo;In the days of smaller squads players were on the ice more because they had to be,&rdquo; he maintained. &ldquo;When a team can carry 18 men as it can now, what&rsquo;s the use of leaving a man on the ice until he is tired, until he becomes a handicap.&ldquo;Those old-timers used to pace themselves,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;Now a man doesn&rsquo;t have to do that. He knows that he can go fullspeed for three minutes or so because he&rsquo;ll have a chance to get his breath at the end of that time.&rdquo;Then Patrick called In Bill Quackenbush, his veteran defenseman, to add support to his contentions.&ldquo;Bill, if you were to go out there and pace yourself, do you think that you could play most of a game without being replaced?&rdquo; he asked. Quackenbush pondered the question for a moment, &lsquo;Sure I think I could,&rdquo; he replied, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;d have to pace myself. I couldn&rsquo;t go chasing ail over the ice all the time I was out there, but I think I could.&rsquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04198/1671096-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="592" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div>Quackie Tried It&ldquo;There!&rdquo; declared Patrick, &ldquo;A lot of other fellows could, too, just like the players used to do, by pacing themselves.&rdquo;&ldquo;I remember an occasion several years ago when I was with Detroit,&rdquo; related Quackenbush. &ldquo;We had three games coming up in three days, and because of injuries we had only three defensemen. I must have averaged at least 45 minutes per game, but by, pacing myself I didn&rsquo;t feel toebad after the third game.&rdquo;&ldquo;He played the last 10 minutes of a game we had in New York a little while ago,&rdquo; Patrick, added, &ldquo;and it was a 10 minutes when we were putting the pressure on. Look at Schmiddty (Capt. Milt Schmidt); he has played as much as nine or 10 minutes at a stretch.&rdquo;&ldquo;The fellows today are just as durable as players ever were,&rdquo; concluded Lynn. &ldquo;They just don&rsquo;t have as many opportunities to prove it. And that in itself helps make this one a better game to watch.&rdquo;And to the &ldquo;QED&rsquo;&rsquo; which should follow, add an &ldquo;RIP&rdquo; &mdash; for The Good Old Days! &#9632;

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Boston Trio Say Today’s Game Faster, Better, For Fan Dough

<div class="byline">By JEANNETTE SOMERS</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05153/1671141-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="292" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Farrell</figcaption></div>Joseph C. Farrell, Hawk publicist and one of sport&rsquo;s most fabulous characters. is seldom at a loss for words, words in verse, that is. Even when the team is losing and its players are being knocked from the line-up at the rate of two per week, good-natured Joe Farrell makes the best of it. It wasn&rsquo;t so funny at the time;&mdash;in fact it was pretty darned painful for Chicago&rsquo;s favorite goaltender, Harry Lumley, but now that Lum is back and fit as a fiddle, even he can look at Joe&rsquo;s Christmas card with classical verse and get a kick out of it. The cartoon card shows a goalie in Hawk regalia with his sniffer in a sling. On the other side a verse reads, &ldquo;We thought we&rsquo;d found the jinx, that kept us in the cellar,But everything has gone to&mdash;since Lumley lost his smeller.&rdquo;&ldquo;Yaw&rdquo; yelped Lum, &ldquo;Goalies always get blamed when the team is losing, even goalies with broken noses.&rdquo;Six Were Out At OnceIt wasn&rsquo;t Lum who caused the team to slip from the secure hold they had on third-place to the spot they are in at present, but innumerable injuries to the Hawk defensive corp. At one time six Hawks were out of the line-up, but Harry and the remaining Hawk regulars were able to hold on and win against some of the stiffest competition In the league. Then on December 14 th, against the Leafs (four Hawks have suffered serious injuries against Toronto), Jack Stewart was injured and dropped from the line-up. Black Jack, team captain, and most certainly a Hart Trophy candidate from the Windy City took a routine checking into the boards. That &ldquo;routine&rdquo; check has in all probability ended Jack&rsquo;s brilliant career. Ten days ago in Illinois Masonic Hospital, here in Chicago, Dr. Wm J. Schaffer operated on Jack for a slipped spinal disc and several days later Hawk doctor, Myron J. Tremaine, stated that Stewart&rsquo;s services are lost to the team for the remainder of the sesason and perhaps forever. This announcement was the hardest blow suffered by the Hawks since the death of Charlie Gardiner in the summer of 1934.If the Hawks could obtain defensemen (Milwaukee has only three) it wouldn&rsquo;t solve their problems. A man like Jack Stewart can&rsquo;t be replaced. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s to the defence what Richard is to the offense&rdquo; commented the Hawk office. &ldquo;He isn&rsquo;t as young and fast as he used to be, but he certainly gave our team a lift and a lot of fight. Everyone liked and admired Jack and the boys played great hockey for him. We&rsquo;ll miss him greatly.&rdquo;But Jack Stewart isn&rsquo;t lost to the Hawks forever, in fact we&rsquo;ll be seeing quite a lot of Jack in the seasons to come. Go back a few months and look over your clippings about the famous nine player deal in which Stewart was involved. At that time Hawk prexy, Bill Tobin, stated. &ldquo;We had a hard time getting Stewart to sign. He had played his entire career with the Wings and wanted to end his playing days with them. I guess we really clinched the deal when we promised him a job as an assistant coach when his playing days were over.&rdquo; In this capacity Jack might eventually become more valuable to his newly adopted team. The rugged rearguard has been given credit for the development of Bill Quackenbush, Doug McCaig, Leo Reise and Red Kelly, the latter two being allstar defensemen last season on the second all-star team. Here we have two young defensemen with prospects galore for Jack Stewart to work with. Jack doesn&rsquo;t pretend to be a promoter of better goaltending, and as far as we know he&rsquo;s never played that position, but his aggressiveness and heady brand of defensive hockey have become a part of the Lumley trade-mark.Big Harry and Jack have been team-mates since Jack rejoined the team after his discharge from the Canadian Armed Forces in 1945. Lum was just a kid and Black Jack a hardened Wing veteran of 29. Harry, Jack and Bill Quackenbush all lived together in Ma Shaw&rsquo;s boarding house until Jack married and Bill was traded to the Boston Bruins the season before last. &ldquo;We got along so well too,&rdquo; Lum says, &ldquo;and then they made an orphan out of me. All I had then was my cowboy boots.&rdquo;&ldquo;And speaking of cowboy boots,&rdquo; piped Jack and Quackle, &ldquo;we roomed with that guy for years and never saw them.&rdquo;In Detroit Jack was tremendously popular with the Motor City fans, but elsewhere he and Lum were hated with equal ardour. Jack liked it. He knew he wasn&rsquo;t slipping. On the other hand Harry wasn&rsquo;t nearly as enthused. &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s the way I look at it. A guy pays his dough and is entitled to see a hockey game and yell to his heart&rsquo;s content. He can yell at me all he wants just as long as he doesn&rsquo;t get personal.&rdquo;Ever since their initial appearance with the Hawks here, both Jack and Harry have been tops with the Chicago fans. Harry is the more popular of the two, possibly because he is in the fighting a full 60 minutes whereas Jack is visible to the crowds for only 35 minutes of the game. Lumley has given the fans here something to shout about. He has displayed some great goaling and the crowds have rewarded him with their full support. Even when the team is losing and the club is unimpressive, Lum is still the No. 1 favorite. Fans here never boo him when he makes a mistake, but bring the house down when he turns in a brilliant performance. The old feud between Johnny Mariucci and Black Jack never was a threat to Stewart&rsquo;s popularity and the rhubarb has all but been forgotten.To say that the Hawks have missed Black Jack Stewart is putting it mildly. In a little more than three weeks without his services they have only been able to gain a single win and that was against the Leafs. We&rsquo;ll miss Jack Stewart greatly as a player, but we&rsquo;ll welcome him warmly as an assistant coach in the near future.&ldquo;Until then we won&rsquo;t blame anyone, not even Lumley&rsquo;s smeller.&rdquo;<h2>This Is The Card</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06104/1671134-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="1152" height="1157"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHICAGO BLACK HAUJK5,050</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Injury Jinx, Loss Of Stewart Fails To Dim Hawks Hopes For Money Spot

<div class="byline">BY BOB HESKETH</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01296/1671065-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="592" height="625"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02280/1671058-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="276" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Lewicki</figcaption></div>One half of the season is gone and it won&rsquo;t be long before the blowers and drum beaters start their preparatory propaganda for the trophies and accompanying gelt which go to individual players when peace comes again. The Hart, Lady Byng, Calder and All-Star raters are already looking over the field BO that they won&rsquo;t be caught with their opinions down when it comes time to mark a ballot.The Leafs, In spite of the fact that they&rsquo;ve won three Stanley Cups in four seasons, have never been replete with prize winners and the attitude that All-Stars are picked from the other five teams is becoming predominant. In those four years of comparative prosperity they&rsquo;ve only placed one player on an All-Star team and that in the year they didn&rsquo;t win the cup. Gus Mortson, the blustery defenseman, made it last season. Ted Kennedy has been ignored.Pratt Last With HartThe Hart too for the most valuable player has seldom found it&rsquo;s way to the shelves of Maple Leaf Gardens. Big Babe Pratt was the last to win it and that was in &lsquo;43&rsquo; 44 season. Max Bentley won it in &lsquo;45-&rsquo; 46 but he was a Black Hawk at the time.Conn Smythe has often claimed that he didn&rsquo;t want Lady Byng winners on his club so the absence of that trophy from the Leaf loot list isn&rsquo;t too seriously felt. Syl Apps won it last in 41.&rsquo;42 for his gentlemanly conduct.The Art Ross, for leading scorer and Vezina for the goalkeeper of the club with least goals against are determined by cold hard statistics. It&rsquo;s in the Calder Cup class that one of the Leafs chances for fame lies.Before this Season started the Leafs seemed to be strong in candidates. They could never figure to have as many rookies as the Canadiens who are having such a terrific turnover of players that it must be hard to even tell the players with a program. They had two or three good contenders who figured to snatch gome of the votes from the Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s. Gerry McNeils ROSS Lowes and others who were breaking in with a bang.George Armstrong, the much touted centre who burned up the junior ranks as a Marlboro and slew them as a senior, figured to be one of the greatest finds since the square wheel was abolished. Then there was large, rangy Hugh Bolton, a defenseman up from the ranks who plays a strong heady game, looks like Abe Lincoln off the ice and a bit like Babe Pratt on it. Add Danny Lawicki the Lakehead problem child who put the C form on the map in the long hard battle which preceded his becoming a part of the Leaf organization. And Al Rollins, the rangy goaltender who alternates spasmodically with the veteran Turk Broda but whose inability to play regularly has cut down his chances in the light of Sawchuk and McNeil.Those, then, were the main hopes to bring the Calder silver to the Leafs for the first time since Howie Meeker picked up the thread set in consecutive years by Gaye Stewart, Gus Bodnar and Frank McCool starting in 1942-43. Meeker broke in with a splash down right wing to capture the prize in 1946-47.But Big Army didn&rsquo;t make the grade at training camp. He was held up a bit by an off season sickness and sent to the Pittsburgh Hornet farm where he is beginning to show signs of justifying the faith that was first placed in him. Bolton came a cropper too when a knee injury at training camp put him out for the start of the season and another one later on so that he&rsquo;s only been dressed for 13 games so far.That leaves only Dashin&rsquo; Dav&rsquo;l, the flashy lightweight left winger who dove into the unenviable task of left winging for the unpredictable Max Bentley. Rooks have tried to the job before and many of them found the dipsy-do of the Delisle Dandy enough, for a psychiatrist&rsquo;s coucn. But Dan, like the dependable Joe Klukay who right wings from Bentley, fitted in quite well in the spot formerly occupied by Ray Timgren who now toils as a utility man and penalty killer.Lewicki, like Max, is a lightweight. And again like Max he has one of the most deceptive shifts in the game.If the Calder selectors, the sportswriters who are designated by the League, check the scoring statistics very closely this season in determining their choice it&rsquo;s likely that they&rsquo;ll put Lewicki high in the bracket if he holds his present pace.With 38 games played he had scored 10 goals and added 14 assists to rank as the highest scoring rookie on the list. Two of those goals he scored against the tough league leading Detroit Red Wings in that 3-3 tie with the Leafs which, momentarily at least, held them down from increasing their margin in the league standings.During the post mortem of that game the fast skating winger with the loose deke and deadly shot came in for discussion by Coach Joe Primeau, Lewicki who runs hot and cold has one strategy to learn, according to Primeau. And he has to learn it himself because Joe has tried to teach him.Bentley is a man of many moves. When he gets the puck at centre ice, he might have two or three men bothering him and he has to get control of it before he can get away a pass. It&rsquo;s been during the periods while Bentley has been doing that when Lewicki makes his wrong move. He breaks like a thunderbolt for the enemy zone and most times finds himself on the seat of his pants before he sees the puck. If he&rsquo;d wait, according to Joe, he&rsquo;d have a better chance. If he&rsquo;d circle until Bentley has completed his last dipsy and then break with him he&rsquo;d score a hatful of goals.And don&rsquo;t bet he won&rsquo;t. &#9632;

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Lewicki Leafs Main Hope In Calder Battle

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;When the time comes for bestowing the American Hockey League&rsquo;s &ldquo;rookie of the year&rdquo; award upon the fevered brow of one of the circuit&rsquo;s fledging puck flaggers, the name of Diggin&rsquo; Don Ashbee figures to be prominently mentioned.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01295/1671172-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="268" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art Chapman</figcaption></div>The b1ack-thatched Buffalo left winger, who graduated to the pro ranks last year from the Barrie Flyers of the OHA along with Center Sid McNabney, Left Wing Paul Meger, and Center Gordie Pennell, has been the surprise of the year.While his three amateur teammates made the Dig jump to the AHL last year, Ashbee was found wanting and spent the 1949-50 campaign with the defunct Louisville club of the U.S. league. He did dress for nine Buffalo games at various times&mdash;but never took a regular turn on the ice.<h2>Canadiens Will Make Deal For Ashbee At Season&rsquo;s End</h2>MONTREAL&mdash;Don Ashbee will get his chance to play in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens.General Manager Frank Selke, after watching Ashbee in action in Buffalo recently, said he was more than pleased to see him work.&ldquo;I hope to make a deal for him at the end of the season,&rdquo; said Selke. &lsquo;&lsquo;We have first call on him of all the N.H.L. clubs and I certainly would like to get him.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a good big boy, a good scorer, a fine skater and a good all around useful hockey player. I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll do well in the National League.&rdquo;This year, the story has been different. Ashbee has been a regular since the first faceoff of the year.&lsquo;&lsquo;A Natural,&rdquo; Says Chapman&ldquo;He&rsquo;s developed into one helluva hockey player for us,&rdquo; General Manager Art Chapman offered recently. &ldquo;The kid has size, drive, can score, and is a good back checker. In my book, he&rsquo;s definite National League material and I had a couple of offers for him already. &#9632;

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Don Failed To Make Buffalo Last Season

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02244/1671203-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><h2>This Bison Not Bull</h2><h2>DON ASHBEE&hellip; &hellip; A burning desire</h2>&ldquo;Ashbee isn&rsquo;t one of those blue line flashes, who just looks good going in for a shot on goal&mdash;he delivers both, ways, on offense and defense.&rdquo;In Buffalo&rsquo;s first 33 games, Ashbee has come through for 12 goals and 28 assists for 40 points. That average of 1.21 points-per-game is about as good as any first year man in the league can boast of.Ashbee has developed defensively to the point where Coach LeRoy Goldsworthy now uses him when Buffalo is shorthanded due to a penalty. Not many freshmen are entrusted with that assignment.The 21-year-old, 5 foot, 10 inch, 175 pound native of Weston, Ontario, sees his development as a reflection of teachings of his Barrie coach&mdash;Hap Emms.&ldquo;Hap always tried to impress upon his players that a fellow who tries every minute he&rsquo;s on the ice, will beat the other fellow with his hustle&mdash;even if the other fellow has superior talent,&rdquo; Ashbee said.&ldquo;I was quite downhearted when I failed to make the Buffalo squad last year as I wanted to be with Sid. Paul and Gordie. But I kept trying&mdash;and here I am.&rdquo;Meger, incidentally, went on to win the &ldquo;rookie&rdquo; award and thereby gave Ashbee a goal to shoot at.Leswick, DeMarco Helped MostCulling his many experiences, Ashbee credits Ageless Ab DeMarco and Pete Les-wick, who is now with Seattle of the Pacific Coast League, with helping him the most.&ldquo;Usually you find that some of the older players on a squad are inclined to look down up-on the younger players but not so with DeMarco and Les-wick,&rdquo; Ashbee began.&ldquo;Ab, who probably can do more things with a hockey stick than any man in the game today, is always willing to spend his time giving younger players tips. And Leswick, while he was with the club gave me a lot of confidence with his pep talks.&rdquo;While Ashbee terms hockey &ldquo;my livelihood,&rdquo; he&rsquo;s a two-sport man.Last summer he starred on the highest scoring forward line in Canadian lacrosse. Teamed with Arnold Dugan, Emmett Creighton, and Bobby Thorpe, another Buffalo hockey chattel. Ashbee scored 88 points for the Peterborough Petes Seniors in the Ontario Lacrosse Association.That output placed Ashbee fourth in scoring in Canada&mdash;a eat of which he is justly proud.&ldquo;I love playing lacrosse but here just isn&rsquo;t the money to be made in it that there is in hockey,&rdquo; Ashbee stated.Playing with the Petes also gave Ashbee plenty of time to devote to his favorite form of elaxation&mdash;fishing.&ldquo;My wife, Dorothy, and I had, cottage right near the Kamarha Lakes&mdash;and boy it&rsquo;s good fishing territory,&rdquo; he recalled.The Ashbees have a future slap shot artist named Peter, who has eached the ripe old age of two months.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s got large hands just like his Dad,&rdquo; Ashbee said, proferring a fist of outsize dimensions.But before Peter Ashbee is of age to go puck chasing, his uncle Barry, Don&rsquo;s 12-year old brother, may have added some glory to the family name.&ldquo;Barry looks like he might be quite a prospect for both hockey and lacrosse,&rdquo; Don announced with a trace of pride in his words.Don, himself, only began his organized hockey career with the Toronto Young Rangers in the Junior O.H.A. back in 1944-45.&ldquo;After two years I was traded to Barrie for Ted Williams&mdash;but not the ball player,&rdquo; he grinned.In his second year with Barrie, Ashbee scored 33 goals to take runnerup team honors to Meger.Ashbee&rsquo;s showing at Barrie set him on the road to Buffalo, which he considers &ldquo;as fine a hockey town as there is.&rdquo;So far Ashbee&rsquo;s biggest thrill in the ice sport has been the winning goal he scored against Springfield in the Massachusetts city earlier this season.But he has one burning desire that would give him an even greater kick.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d sure like to skate on the ice at the Maple Leaf Gardens in a National League uniform and play before my neighborhood friends,&rdquo; Ashbee offered. Although he now makes his off-season home in Barrie, Weston is still the Ashbee &ldquo;family&rdquo; stamping grounds.When his playing days are a thing of the past, Ashbee hopes to &ldquo;get set up in real estate&rdquo; and is currently saving with that goal in mind.&ldquo;That seems to be a good business to me,&rdquo; Ashbee stated, &ldquo;but right now hockey is my dish.&rdquo;And a very tasty dish he is making of it, too. &#9632;

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Also Rates As Country’s Best Lacrosse Man

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01363/1671290-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="268" height="423"></div>TALK ABOUT tough luck&hellip; Bill Gadsby, out of the Chicago lineup since November 22 with a broken leg, started to skate for the first time last week&hellip; and what happens&hellip; he severly bruises the injured gam&hellip; and has to be rushed to Chicago for further examination Bill was skating at Galt, Ont., at the time&hellip; Milt Schmidt and Bill have been carrying the Boston Bruins lately&hellip; The veteran center and defenseman respectively are paying standout hockey for the Beantowners&hellip; Schmidt although playing in his 11th complete N.H.L. season, has yet to score three goals in one game&hellip; He&rsquo;s scored two goals in a game on numerous occasions but thus far hasn&rsquo;t been able to tally that elusive third counter&hellip; There has been a tremendous turnover of players in the N.H.L. this season. No less than 144 have taken part in one or more league encounters&hellip; New York Rangers have two excellent Lady Byng candidates in Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and Edgar Laprade. Neither of them has visited the penalty box this season. Both are former Lady Byng winners&hellip; The injured Pete Horeck of Boston did a little skating with the Ice Capettes recently. famed girls line of the Ice Capades were having a rehearsal at the same time Pete was skating himself into shape, so he just joined in the show&hellip;. Frankie Mario, captain of the Hershey Bears is undergoing medical treatment to his injured left eye Ebbie Goodfellow of Chicago is the last of the N.H.L. coaches to sit on the players bench during a game. The rest of the masterminds walk nervously up and down the back of the bench during a game &hellip; THE HOCKEY NEWS now has a weekly circulation of over 40 000.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02328/1671283-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="272" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03252/1671276-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="260" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">B. Quackenbush</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04199/1671269-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="261" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05176/1671262-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="285" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Samis</figcaption></div>MAURICE RICHARD scored 13 goals in nine games up to the morning of January 13. He was the first player to tally 20 goals this season and the first to score 25&hellip; Bert Olmstead playing left wing with Elmer Lach and Richard on Montreal&rsquo;s Big Line has fitted into the unit very well. He&rsquo;s assisted Richard on his last six goals. Olmstead has picked up three goals and nine assists, while Lach has four goals and five assists since the tall left winger came to the Canadiens in a trade with Detroit for Leo Gravelle&hellip; Average number of penalty minutes in a National Hockey League game this season is 20.5. For the entire season a year ago the average was 19 minutes per game. Average minutes per game in 1946-47 was 15.5, in 1947-48 it was 20.2, and in 1948-49 it was 20.3&hellip; Howies Lee, rookie defenseman with Toronto Marlboros in the Ontario Senior League, is said to be a pocket-size edition of Flash Hollett, former Boston and Detroit star now coaching the Marlboros. Lee is an effective two-way performer for the Dukes&hellip; St. Paul Saints of the United States Hockey League have completed arrangements to broadcast all their games, both at home and on the road. They are also working on a deal that may find them televising their home tilts&hellip; If the deal goes through the Saints will be the second team in the U.S.H.L. televising their games&hellip; Omaha has been televising since the first of the season&hellip; Phil Samis, powerful belting defenseman of the Cleveland Barons, has no doubt loosened many an opposing players teeth with his body checks. Now he&rsquo;s learning to fix them, being a dental student at Western Reserve University&hellip; Harry Stuhldreher Jr., son of one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame football renown, is playing hockey at the University of Michigan. He worked out with the Pittsburgh Hornets while at home in Pittsburgh recently&hellip; Gordie Fashoway, the player who got himself into the doghouse with Chicago Black Hawks, has been traded to New Westminster of the P.C.H.L. for cash and option on a player at the end of the current season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-06144/1671255-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="294" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vern Kaiser</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07120/1671248-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="281" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Boucher</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08103/1671241-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="268" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gord Fashoway</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0999/1671234-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="269" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ebbie Goodfellow</figcaption></div>FRANK BOUCHER, most gentlemanly player in hockey (7-time winner of the Lady Byng Trophy) and last of the original New York Rangers still connected with the team, will be honored in his 25th year as a Ranger on Wednesday, February 14, when &ldquo;Frank Boucher Night&rdquo; will be staged at Madison Square Garden. It&rsquo;s expected that Bill and Bun Cook linemates of Frank&rsquo;s on the famed Cook-Boucher-Cook line, will be in attendance. An automobile from the fans is planned as the main gift to Boucher&hellip; Doug Bentley, top scorer of the Chicago Black Hawks, has been named captain of the team replacing the permanently injured Jack Stewart. Bentley was captain of the Hawks last season and an alternate captain this season&hellip; The Hawks&rsquo; Roy Conacher has been nicknamed &ldquo;Muscles&rdquo; by his teammates&hellip; Vern Kaiser of Canadiens is the best player in hockey scoring goals in practices&hellip; but somehow or other he can&rsquo;t do the same thing in a game&hellip; Herbie Carnegie, center of the Quebec Accs, is having ore of his best seasons. Herbie is the best colored player ever developed. &#9632;

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Passing the Puck

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Getting a good defense is a difficult task, but getting one and keeping it intact throughout the season is impossible, the Chicago Black Hawks have come to believe this year.As early as last summer the team&rsquo;s president, Bill Tobin, and new coach, Ebbie Goodfellow, went all out to improve the Haks&rsquo; rearguard corps which had been so spongy; in recent season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1084/1671335-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="584" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEVE BLACK</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1157/1671328-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="646" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL GADSBY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1231/1671321-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg" title="f0004-12" width="592" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">LEE FOGOLIN</figcaption></div>A big trade with Detroit brought Harry Lumley, one of the NHL&rsquo;s best netminders for several years, into the Chicago fold. Two defenseman and an excellent back and fore checking center were also included in the swap. The new Hawk rearguards were the veteran, great &ldquo;Black Jack&rdquo; Stewart and Al Dewsbury while the center was young Don Morrison, the captain of the Red Wing&rsquo;s Indianapolis (AHL) farm club the previous season.When training camp opened at North Bay in September feelings were running high on the team&rsquo;s chances. The old-time forwards like Doug Bentley, Roy Conacher and Billy Mosienko knew that at last they&rsquo;d have a capable defense behind them.The Hawks were just about ready for their first NHL game with Montreal in mid-October when a hint of the bad luck to come reared its ugly head.Three of the Hawks&rsquo; five regular rearguards were put out of action in a pair of rugged exhibition contests. Doug McCaig and Dewsbury, it was announced, would be out of action for 10 days with shoulder separations Bill Gadsby had suffered a knee injury, but this was reported less serious.This left only Stewart and Ernie Dickens to patrol the back line. When Stewart had to depart for the annual All-Star game in Detroit, Goodfellow was forced to push forwards Bert Olmstead and Vic Stasiuk back to defense for the Hawks&rsquo; final pre-season games.A couple of days before the season began Tobin and Goodfellow huddled and came up witl. the decision to sign a promising amateur defense star to help fi. in for Dewsbury and McCaig. He was 21-year-old Hugh Coflin who had been named the Player-of-the-Year the previous season while with Calgary in the Western Canada Senior loop.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a real prospect who likes to rock and sock &lsquo;em,&rsquo;&rdquo; Goodfellow admitted.Coflin played with the Hawks for their first four games, but then was dispatched to Milwaukee when Dewsbury and McCaig returned to action. He was a welcome addition to the new Sea Gull team which was striving to make a good first impression in its initial games before the home town fans.With their full complement of defensive talent available the Chicago puck chasers proved hard to beat and by Nov. 15 they had moved to third place only half a game behind Detroit. The team&rsquo;s record was an impressive seven wins, three losses and two ties.The Black Hawks were still in third place a week later when the first of the real bad breaks befell the squad. Gadsby, who was leading the team&rsquo;s defensemen in scoring with eight points, suffered a broken left leg in a tangle with Cal Gardner at Toronto. Doctors reported that he would be sidelined for at least two months.Another bad blow hit Chicago in a Toronto game 10 days later when Lumley caught a puck on the nose from the stick of Harry Watson. &ldquo;Lum&rdquo; finished the game and also played the next night, but he had to miss an important game at Boston a few nights later. Red Almas, from St. Louis (AHL), proved an inadequate substitute as the Hawks were blanked, 5 to 0. In this game Morrison and another Chicago center, Gus Bodnar, were hurt. Don&rsquo;s injury put him out of commission for a month.In order to help make up for Gadsby&rsquo;s loss, the Hawks completed a four player trade with the Red Wings. Lee Fogolin, a rugged rearguard who hadn&rsquo;t seen much action with Detroit this season, and winger Steve Black, were Chicago&rsquo;s acquisitions. The Wings got forwards Vic Stasiuk and Bert Olmstead, the latter being traded almost immediately to Montreal for Leo Gravelle.Fogolin proved a definite asset once he had gotten into shape and the team was able to hold onto third place by the slightest of margins.It seemed that the Hawks had now had their share of bad breaks and would pick up a little as they had at the start of the campaign, but unfortunately this isn&rsquo;t the way things happened.Early in a game with Toronto on December 16, Jack Stewart noticed an unusual, sort of dead feeling, in the middle of his back, after he sat down on the bench following his regular turn on the ice.After the game he said, &ldquo;The Hoc reports that I&rsquo;ll just have to get a lot of rest.&rdquo;It wasn&rsquo;t until after Christmas that the real news of the tragedy became known. Jack&rsquo;s back had failed to respond to treatment and so a difficult operation was completed, but his playing days had ended!His loss was the worst the Black Hawks had sustained since the late Charlie Gardiner passed on in 1934. Doctors now say that he will have to wear a special back brace well into nexl summer.When Stewart dropped from the Chicago lineup it appeared to break the squad&rsquo;s back. The team fell to pieces and failed to win in its next 10 games.The team is now pretty wort and doubtful concerning the out come of the season, but Joe Farrell, the genial publicitor. points out that it took a long time to drop the Hawks from the third spot.&ldquo;We held it for 25 games while sustaining more injuries than most teams receive in a couple of years.&rdquo;The squad&rsquo;s future doesn&rsquo;t seem too bright at the present, but there seems to be a brighter spot approaching. Coflin has been brought back for good and Gadsby is now on skates.Perhaps the Hawks&rsquo; poor luck is now all behind, at least that&rsquo;s the fervent hope of the team and its fans. &#9632;

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After Trades Goodfellow Still Finds It Hard To Keep Defense Intact—Bill Gadsby Readying

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01316/1671373-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The above picture shows how you feel after you score 270 National Hockey League goals. Maurice Richard (9) throws his stick in the air while Elmer Lach skates over the emrace him. Boston player on the right is Bill Ezinicki. Rocket has scored eight goals since then. ((Photo by Roger St. Jean))</figcaption></div><h2>This Goal Tied Rocket With Morenz And Joliat</h2>MONTREAL, Que&mdash;If and when the Canadiens make the playoffs they will owe a large vote of thanks to both Bill Tobin of Chicago and Jack Adams of the Detroit Red Wings for sending them Left Winger Bert Olmstead.Olmstead, whom the Wings traded Fogolin and Black for and in return also got Stasiuk, parted with Lanky Bert for Leo Gravelie before the former even had a chance to report to Detroit.&ldquo;When Chicago sent me to Milwaukee I went there on condition I stayed just two weeks. The only reason I stayed any longer was because of Red Hamill. He was such a good guy I just couldn&rsquo;t pull out on him,&rdquo; said Bert.&ldquo;I had my fill of the minor leagues and if the deal hadn&rsquo;t been made I was going home. I told Red and I guess that&rsquo;s when the trade was made. I knew something was up but I didn&rsquo;t know what.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02286/1671366-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="282" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Olmstead</figcaption></div>Wouldn&rsquo;t Go To CapsFinally I heard I might be going to Detroit. I didn&rsquo;t mind that but I was determined not to go to Indianapolis. I was set to go home before I would report there. Too many guys never get a chance in that outfit. I didn&rsquo;t mind going to the American League but I told them to make a deal so I could play with some other A.H.L. club other than the Caps.&rsquo;When the Habs took Olmstead they had no idea he would work in so well with Richard and Lach. &ldquo;We were always ready to make a deal,&rdquo; said Frank Selke, Montreal general manager, &ldquo;but we never thought of trying to get Olmstead until he was sent to the minors. He had a pretty good season last year.&rdquo;That Olmstead fits into the left wing slot with Lach and Richard is a tribute to the greatness of none other than Lach himself.Last season was an exceptionally good one for Olmstead. He scored 20 goals and added 29 assists. He was the highest scoring rookie in the league and even now there are many who say he was by far the outstanding 1st. year man.So it was hard to figure out why the Hawks sent Bert away. Actually the story is behind the calibre of the centerman he plays with. That&rsquo;s obvious by his play this season.Last year playing on a line with Prystai at center and Guidolin at right wing Olmstead was an outstanding performer. The line became known as the &ldquo;Boilermaker Line&rdquo; and was being hailed as one of the best ever seen in Chicago. Prystai was the main cog &ldquo;in the brilliant performances of both Guidolin and Olmstead. Rated an outstanding passer, both wingmen found little trouble in gaining goals and assists as long as Prystai was at center. He passed to their liking, they repayed him by nicking goals.Bodnar Wrong ChoiceBut when in the off season the Hawks parted with Prystai to the Wings it became the task of Coach Ebbie Goodfellow to remake the club that had failed to notch a spot in the playoffs for a good number of years. His first job was to find a capable centerman for his &ldquo;Boilermaker Line&rdquo; wingmen. The task was tough inasmuch as Prystai was sensational last season.Gus Bodnar was Goodfellow&rsquo;s choice, but for Olmstead and Guidolin it wasn&rsquo;t a good one.&ldquo;Gus is a good little hockey player but it just wasn&rsquo;t the same as having Metro with you. Prystai passed the puck to you but Gus used to shoot it and it never stayed on the stick.&rdquo; said Bert.&ldquo;But one of the main reason&rsquo;s for our success was the way we got along together. Metro, Bep and I were always together. We&rsquo;d eat together, go to shows together on the road. We&rsquo;d stay out and practice after the rest of the team had gone in. We got to know each other, the way each was thinking, we figured out plays and different things. That&rsquo;s why we went so well.&rdquo;When Leo Gravelle was, was traded to Detroit for Olmstead Montreal fans looked upon General Manager Selke with an air of suspicion. Although there were many qualities Leo lacked he nevertheless was a 19 goal scorer who could skate, and when he wasn&rsquo;t getting shoved around too much, could show some pretty good hockey. Since then that air of suspicion has changed. They now regard the trade as a master stroke since it is Olmstead who has set Maurice Richard on fire.To date Bert has played 11 games with his new club and he&rsquo;s scored three goals and nine assists. But the most Important part of his play is that he&rsquo;s taken a big load form Richard&rsquo;s shoulders. In those 11 games Richard scored more goals than he did all the rest of the season. He netted 14 with Olmstead gaining assists on most of them. Probably the best example of his value came recently when the Habs won two games in as many nights. They whipped the Rangers 3-0 with Richard getting all the goals. The next night the Habs beat Chicago 4-1 and Richard got two goals and Lach one. Olmstead drew assists on all six goals. &#9632;

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Olmstead Shows Hab Fans 49 Points Last Year No Fluke With Good Center

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01386/1671459-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>UNDER RATED PLAYER</h2>Dear Sir,Recently there was a story in your paper about Milt Schmidt and Porky Dumart of Boston marvelling at the passing ability of Bill Ezinicki, In that trade which sent Ezzy and Vic Lynn to Boston, there wasn&rsquo;t much said about Lynn. I think he is one of the most underrated players in the league. How about a story on him?Please try and print some Q.S.H.L. items.Irving Daigle Richibucto, N. B.<h2>LARSON BOOSTER</h2>Dear Sir,On the subject of these tie games and what should be done. First of all, that was a good letter written by Jerry Larson of Brooklyn. I heartily agree with his argument that overtime should be restored.Why don&rsquo;t you poll all the writers in the N.H.L. cities and see what they think?Just because Jack Adams is against the idea of overtime, it&rsquo;s no reason why the paying fans can&rsquo;t tell the Fan Forum what they want.John Condon Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.<h2>HEIGHT AND WEIGHT</h2>Dear Sir,Would you please give me the height, weight, and where the following players were born: Tod Sloan, Garth Boesch, Gerry Plamondon, Bill Durnan, Kenny Reardon and Wally Stanowski.Jim Curtis St. Thomas, Ont.(Sloan is 5&rsquo;, 7&rdquo;, 152 pounds and was born in Vinton, Que; Boesch is 6&rsquo;, 1&rdquo;, 193 pounds, born in Mileston, Sask.; Plamon-don is 5&rsquo;, 7&frac12;&rdquo;, 170 pounds, born in Sherbrooke, Que.; Durnan is 6&rsquo;, 185 pounds, born in Toronto, Ont.; Reardon is 5&rsquo;, 11&rdquo;, 180 pounds, born in Winnipeg, Man.; and Stanowski is 6&rsquo;, 180 pounds and born in Winnipeg also.)<h2>WHERE&rsquo;S REARDON?</h2>Dear Sir,I would like to know if we can have pictures of the Detroit Red Wings and where can we obtain them. Also could you tell me what Kenny Reardon is doing now?(Write the Wings in Detroit, Mich. for pictures. Reardon is a good-will ambassador for the Montreal Canadiens now.)<h2>CORRECTION HERE</h2>Dear Sir,I would like to correct you or your answer to a letter which appeared here recently. The letter was written by John Ford of Montreal and he wanted to know What deal brought Bob Dawes and Murdo MacKay for Pete Leswick and Joe MacArthur.In the first place, Murdo Mac Kay was owned by Buffalo while Leswick was Cleveland property Furthermore the deal for Dawes didn&rsquo;t involve MacKay or Les wick. Bob Dawes was traded by Cleveland to Buffalo for Joe Mac Arthur and an undisclosed am ount of cash. MacKay was traded! by Buffalo to Cleveland for Les wick at the close of last season Leswick has since retired from A.H.L. competition and is nov &rsquo; playing for Seattle of the P.C &ldquo;H.L. Dawes is also at Seattle on loan from Buffalo.Doretta Maitland-Buffalo, N.Y.<h2>YES AND NO</h2>Dear Sir,Is Tom Karakas, goalie for Portland of the P.C.H.L. any relation to Mike, former Chicago netminder? Also is the Schmid playing for Valleyfield Brave any relation to Milt of Boston?Edward Oshawa, Ont.(Tom and Mike are brother: born in Eveleth, Minn. The Set midts aren&rsquo;t related.)<h2>A SELKIRK MAN</h2>Dear Sir,Could you please tell me where Hartley McLeod was born and for which team he played before lining up with Omaha?And how about a story on Jack Stewart?Heartley Lundell Revelstoke, B.C.(McLeod was bom in Selkirk, Man., in October 1927. His last amateur club was the Windsor Hettche Spitfires. Last week&rsquo;s issue carried a story on Jack Stewart, who unfortunately is out of hockey for good because of a spinal injury).<h2>BENTLEY TOTALS</h2>Dear Sir,Could you please tell me how many goals and assists Max and Doug Bentley have.Doug Greenough Kelowna, B.C.(Up to Jan. 7, 1951, Max had 15 goals and 23 assists for this season. Prior to that he had totalled 174 goals and 212 assists in eight seasons. Brother Doug has nine goals and 19 assists this year so far, and had 206 goals and 288 assists in 10 seasons.)<h2>COLLEGE GUYS</h2>Dear Sir,I would like to know why Gordie Knutson, Lou Appleby and Bob Marchessault left the Q.S.H.L. Royals to play for McGill in the Intercollegiate loop.Also where are Gordie Callaghan and Ernie Laforce playing? Would you please tell me which teams in the Q.S.H.L. are farm clubs of the pro Canadiens?R. Derbridge Montreal, Que.(These three play college hockey because they would have to leave their studies at McGill University to travel out of town if they played for Royals. Knutson is a dental student Callaghan is playing hockey in England, while Laforce plays and coaches for a team that plays the Montreal League.)<h2>HE&rsquo;S SATISFIED NOW</h2>Dear Sir,How about a story on my favorite player, Emile (The Cat) Francis of the Cincinnati Mohawks He&rsquo;s the best goalie in the A.H.L.I enjoy the column &lsquo;Radior-chids&rsquo; very much. How about more western sportscasters, especially Johnny Esaw who is doing a swell job for CKRN Regina.Leonard Douglas North Battleford, Sask.(Our recent issue should have made you very happy. We had a story and picture of Francis, and our Radiorchids saluted Johnny Esaw!)&bull; &bull; &bull;<h2>200 CLUB</h2>Dear Sir,Could you please tell me how close Woody Dumart was to getting 200 N.H.L. goals at the beginning of this season?Bill Kennedy Ottawa, Ont.(Dumart had 177 goals in 11 seasons with Boston at the start of this season.)<h2>WOWIE!</h2>Dear Sir,I think THE HOCKEY NEWS is splendid, enjoyable, distinctive, superb, unsurpassed, unique, flawless, matchless, wonderful, marvelous, perfect, rare, choice, treasured, incomparable, unequalled and unrivalled.How about a story on Winni-peg&rsquo;s Cal Gardner, and pictures of Danny Lewicki and Al Rollins?Buddy Horner Winnipeg, Man.<h2>HERE&rsquo;S HOWE</h2>Dear Sir,Could you please tell me how many goals Gordie Howe has scored in his N.H.L. career, and his best season so far. Also how long has he played for the Detroit Red WingsgHoward Andrews Gander, Nfld.(Howe, bom in Floral, Sask, is in his fifth season with the Wings and he is only 22 years old now. He has scored 86 goals up to January 7, 1951, when he was leading the league on points with 16 goals and 24 assists. Last season was his best. He scored 35 goals and 33 assists.)<h2>ABEL&rsquo;S AGE</h2>Dear Sir,A friend and I are having an argument in regards to the proper age of Sid Abel of the Detroit Red Wings. Would you please publish his age, and tell us how long he has been playing for Detroit?Louis Delflno Ottawa, Ont.(Sid Abel is 32 years old, was born in Melville, Sask., February 22, 1916. This is his 11th season wi the Wings, his 13th in professional hockey. His last amateur club was the Flin Flon Bombers.)<h2>NOT ITALIAN</h2>Dear Sir,I think you mentioned that Pete Babando was an Italian. He was born in Braeburn, Pa., May 10,1925 and moved to Italy when he was one year old, therefore making him an American.Frank J. Walker Hansport, N.S.Babando was mentioned here as being of Italian descent and one of the few American-born players in the N.H.L. Yon are entirely correct about his birthplace.)<h2>DID YOU RECEIVEA NOTICE?</h2>It is our policy to notify all subscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptions.The ever-increasing demand for THE HOCKEY NEWS means that most issues are practically sold out before the printing is completed; and that copies are seldom available for mailing to subscribers who are even one issue in arrears.Subscribers receiving &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;

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<div class="byline">By RON MCALLISTER</div>Published by Jefferson Press, Toronto, Ont.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01338/1671521-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="529" height="336"></div>Hockey Heroes, a new book written by Ron McAllister, is one of the finest collection of personality skteches on the greats of today and yesterday ever published. McAllister has written thrilling and dramatic profiles on 12 of hockey&rsquo;s greatest performers. The epic moments in the careers of such National Hockey League luminaries as Syl Apps, Ace Bailey, Max Bentley, King Clancy, Dit Clapper, Happy Day, Charlie Gardiner, George Hains-worth, Howie Morenz, Buddy O&rsquo;Ccnnor, Milt Schmidt and Babe Siebert are documented in this 107-page book.This is a one hundred per cent Canadian book which will be read with keen enjoyment by Canadians of every age and from every walk of life. Ron McAllister has adapted Hockey Heroes from his CBC broadcasts, Canadian Sports Album, maintaining his crisp, colorful radio style and personality in the text which is admirably illustrated with full-page shots of each player.The stories McAllister relates in Hockey Heroes are something more than tales of success. They give in complete detail the obstacles that these hockey greats had to overcome in their battle to reach the top in the fastest sport in the world. It shows the pluck: determination, hard work and sportsmanship that goes into the making of the greatest names in Canada&rsquo;s greatest sport.One important item that makes this book such a pleasure to read is the accuracy of the text and of the players records. Hockey Heroes is a well-written book about 12 of the greatest players in the annals of the sport and will bring enjoyment and pleasure to any hockey fan who reads it. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By GEORGE PATRICK DUFFY</div>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;It was Christmas Day, 1950, and Elwyn &ldquo;Mae&rdquo; Morris sat at his home here, watching his three sons across the table. At the same time, he and the four boys watched Ma Morrois putting the finishing touches on the holiday turkey.With a zestful motion, Mrs. Morris pulled the turkey from the oven. The youngsters shouted with glee. Daddy Morris smiled and as he did, an open space could be seen in what was otherwise a solid set of white teeth.The space, always the cause for the three Morris boys&mdash;Elwyn, Glenn and John&mdash;to chant &ldquo;All Daddy wants for Chrdistmas is his two front teeth&rdquo; is the result of a hockey incident. Like many hockey players of this day and others, Morris plays hard all the while and at times, injuries result.That&rsquo;s what happened to the two front teeth but it has not slowed down "Moe&rdquo;. In fact at the moment, Morris is playing the finest hockey of his entire career which started with Toronto in 1943. Already, Morris is being hailed as an All-Star prospect in the American Hockey League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02305/1671552-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="542" height="1001"><figcaption class="caption-body">ELWIN MORRIS</figcaption></div>At training camp in Three Rivers last September, Morris vowed he was going to have a good year. He trained hard, skated fast. Now, as the R.I. Reds battle for supremacy in the Eastern Division, Elwyn is helping out immensely.Surprising as it may seem, Morris is looking more and more like a winger in each passing game. He is carrrying the puck from one end of the rink to the other and is setting up scoring plays. And on the defensive, Morris is a poke-checking fiend. &ldquo;Moe&rdquo; does not crush the foe, he just outfoxes &rsquo;em and it is paying off handsomely.A native of Toronto, where he was born on January 3, 1921, Morris has been in many a hockey duel. Besides Toronto and Providence, he has played with Pittsburgh and the New York Rangers. He has always been an unheralded puckster but a willing worker.Things are different now. Possessing a boyish look and a crop of thick black hair, Morris is no longer just an ordinary hockey player. He&rsquo;s a star in the American Hockey League.Which of course makes Mrs. Morris, a Toronto native and the three boys, feel very good about &ldquo;Daddy&rdquo;, so much so, that at times, the &ldquo;Big Three&rdquo; is glad to break out with &ldquo;all daddy wants,&rdquo; etc. Naturally, the song would never have been applicable in the Morris situation had Father taken up another trade. &#9632;

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Cap In Grin No Worry To Morris; You Don’t Play With Your Teeth!

HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;Syl Apps, former centre ice star with Toronto Maple Leafs, is coming to Halifax to aid in the YMCA building program. He&rsquo;ll hold several clinics with the kids and address a few service clubs. It will mark his first appearance in these parts. Teeder Kennedy made a big hit as chief of the hockey school conducted by St. Mary&rsquo;s juniors late last spring&hellip; St. Mary&rsquo;s junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team is shaping up nicely and coach Marty Earry thinks it will do well in Memorial Cup play. Some of the local fans think the juniors play rougher than the seniors. Several of them have stepped into senior ranks for the odd game and did all right for themselves.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01371/1671607-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="276" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Syl Apps</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Syl Follows Teeder In Bluenose Clinic

<div class="byline">By HEC MocLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Regina Caps, bottom spot club of the Western Canada Hockey League, pulled something unique recently when the club disbanded its payroll and went on a play-for-fun-instead-of-pay basis.Reason for the switch was lagging gates at home and heavy financial losses. First two games the club played after the change it won them.Club prexy Cliff Ehrle said the players would share in a pool&mdash;if any&mdash;at the end of the season. The move wasn&rsquo;t as radical as first believed. The publicity Caps drew bucked up their gates away from home as well as in their own rink, and they get 20 per cent of all gates away from home.You often wonder how much hockey fans can take. Recently in Calgary the Stampeders loaned defenseman Jack Taggart to Caps to help the faltering Regina club. Now, this certainly isn&rsquo;t helping the game.Sure, Taggart was a replacement for an injured Regina defenseman but the fans started hollering &ldquo;exhibition hockey&rsquo;&rsquo; as soon as he stepped on the ice in a Regina uniform. Edmonton Flyers recently performed in Calgary with only 12 men, finished the game with 11 when Doug Anderson was injured but on that occasion the Edmonton club didn&rsquo;t help.Nobody likes to see a club take continual lickings as Caps have but it certainly isn&rsquo;t helping things when clubs start &ldquo;loaning&rdquo; players to each other &#9632;

This Will Gladden Owner’s Heart; These Boys Play Without Cheques!

<div class="byline">&#x2014;MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Frank Curry, cagey manager-coach of Edmonton Flyers of the Western Canada Hockey League already has made quite a name for himself as a pilot and now he seems to be the best publicity agent the four-team circuit had.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02307/1671662-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="292" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Currie</figcaption></div>Recently Calgary Stampeder and Edmonton Flyers hooked up In a series that saw the clubs play eight consecutive times with out meeting the other entries in the circuit. The fans started to howl but Currie rose to the occasion and gave them something to talk about besides the eight games in a row.During the series Julian Saw-chuk, Calgary rearguard, slammed Doug Anderson into the board and injured the Edmonton centre&rsquo;s shoulder, forcing him to the sidelines for a 10-day period. Immediately Coach Currie howled for a suspension and claimed the referees were allowing other players to butcher his boys.It drew a lot of pro and con beefs from the fans and newspapers and sidetracked the question of the poor schedule making. Whether Currie did it lntentionaly or not it got the loop a lot of publicity and he can probably make a living as a tub thumper any time. &#9632;

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Tub Thump Takes Heat Off Loop

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;It&rsquo;s just a sign of the times&mdash;still another Maritime hockey team is in financial straits. Now it&rsquo;s the Glace Bay Miners who are currently $10,000 in the red and wondering if they can keep going. Remember, the Miners are the reluctant dragons. They weren&rsquo;t even fussy about starting this season but. were finally talked into it.Two weeks earlier the Sydney Millionaires were forced to reorganize with new capital. Weeks before that North Sydney Victorias threatened to quit. The picture has brightened a bit, but not enough to satisfy the backers.One cheery note is that Glace Bay and North Sydney are catching up a bit on the Millionaires in the league race. This has helped the box office a bit. But the figures are still disheartening. Last year the Miners averaged 2053 at home; this year the figure is 1587.Gates Need OilingThe Sydney figures are 2435 for last year, 1888 for 1951. In north Sydney the tab shows 1952 in 1950, and 1392 this year. Broken down we find they&rsquo;re running behind last year&rsquo;s figures as follows: Millionaires down 587, Glace Bay 466 and North Sydney 5 60. Most of the business is done with red ink.Big Four clubs are also feeling the pinch. Moncton Hawks have reorganized twice since the season opened. Charlottetown Islanders, a new entry and a potent one, have a small rink and consequently are running behind operating expenses. Halifax Saint Mary&rsquo;s are well behind and the Saint John Beavers have felt the pinch here and there. So the Ontario Hockey Association and the Western Canada League aren&rsquo;t the only major groups to feel the sign of the times.Millionaires maintain a comfortable cushion atop the Cape Breton League standings while the Charlottetown Islanders are almost out of sight of the other clubs in the Big Four. One heartening sign is the improvement of the Moncton Hawks. They have really picked up, are drawing better crowds and hope to do much better financially the rest of the way.Short Notes and StuffHalifax had heartening news when Johnny Myketyn, injured in the opening game of the season, returned to action the night of January 4. Furthermore, he played as if he hadn&rsquo;t been away. Myketyn, known as the Glace Bay Nightstick because he&rsquo;s been a potent policeman for many years, played most of his senior hockey with Sydney Millionaires until he came to Halifax late last fall to re-enter college&hellip;Little Rock Sullivan, one of the fanciest playmakers in these parts, is expected back soon after a three-months lapse with a broken wrist. Wally Black, who suffered a shoulder separation, Is also due back soon. So St. Mary&rsquo;s are looking better with th&raquo; big games ahead and coach Sweeney Schriner hopes to see a definite improvement the rest of the way&hellip;When the Big Four leaders decided to cut down on the rough stuff and levied automatics fines on misconduct and match misconduct penalties, the players tamed down. But they&rsquo;re boiling up again. Charlottetown&rsquo;s McLaglan was the first to be tapped for ten bucks, then came Halifax&rsquo;s Muckle Hollett. Then Charlotte-town&rsquo;s burly Phil Vitale picked up a misconduct and match misconduct on the same night for the total cost of $35&hellip;Lou Milani, traded to Shawinigan Falls for defenseman Metcalfe and forward Burgess, is back with Moncton Hawks. Metcalfe refused to report, so the deal fell through. Milani may do better now with his old Dartmouth Arrows coach, Doggie Kuhn, in charge of the team&hellip; &#9632;

Maritime Clubs Use Lots Of Red Ink As Gates Down, Miners Latest Feel Pinch

The long hunt for a left winger to fit in with Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard is over. The guy who has cinched the job is Bert Olmstead who came to the Hobs not too long ago tn a deal for Leo Gravelie. The trade was made with the Wings but it was a three cornered affair and Olmstead reported directly to Montreal from Chicago. And it&rsquo;s a good thing he did or there&rsquo;s no telling where the Conucks would have been without him during the last eight games.Olmstead has been outstanding since ne joinea Dick Irvin&rsquo;s crew. He is our choice as Player-Of-The-Week and &lsquo;Schaefer Award&rsquo; winner and when you see just what he did last week you&rsquo;ll agree he&rsquo;s a good choice.The graduate from the open air rinks of Sceptre, Saskatchewan netted himself no fewer than nine points in four games for his new club during the week. He scored two goals and added seven assists and his all around play was pretty to watch.In the short space of time Olmstead has been with the Hobs he has already become a favorite of the sometimes hard to get along with Montreal fans. They love his&rsquo;never say die spirit&rsquo;, his smart passing and all around play. They are hailing, what many thouaht a poor deal, as a master stroke.They&rsquo;ll give away ten Gravelle&rsquo;s for that number of Olmstead s any day.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05188/1671745-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="274" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Olmstead</figcaption></div>Bert didn&rsquo;t set any goals scoring records last week but his assists were directly responsible for a four game winning streak the Hobs went on.On January 10th playing in New York where they have always had trouble with the elixir drinking Rangers, the Habs whipped the Blues 3-0. Richard scored all three goals and Olmstead drew three assists.After an all night trip back to Montreal the Habs took the ice against Chicago on the 11th and whipped them 4-1. Olmstead was outstanding as he drew two assists.On the 13th against the Boston Bruins the Habs whipped them for the first time this season in Montreal. The score was 4-0. Olmstead scored a goal and drew an assist.The streak was finally broken in Detroit. The Wings whipped the Habs 3-2 in the Olympia on the night of the 14th but not before Olmstead had scored another goal and added another assist.The Habs played four games in five days last week and took six of a possible eight points. Much credit must go to Olmstead who has given both Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard new incentive. Since Bert joined them Elmer and The Rocket have been flying like old. Richard&rsquo;s goal output hos nearly doubled.If one man ever made a difference to a club his name is Olmstead, but you&rsquo;d have a hard job convincing him that it&rsquo;s all his fault. He&rsquo;s a real team man. &#9632;

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Fan SuesA hockey who was pelted for heckling goalie Harry Lumley last December 20 tiled a $15,000 assault-and-battery suit in Superior Court. Edward Stevenson, 32, said a corps of ushers, led by head usher Andy train, removed him from the Stadium. Stevenson is suing Frain, Lumley, the Chicago stadium and President William Tobin of the Hawks.Off To CinoyTommy Manastersky left the Montreal Canadiens for Cincinnati Mohawks and King Clancy, couch of the Mohawks, is hard up for defencemen at this point. Ralph Nattrass has been out with injuries. Then New York recently recalled Jack Evans, leaving Clancy short of manpower. Clancy says Manastersky will get all the time on the ice he wants.MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;Detroit Red Wings won two games and tied one during the week, while Toronto Ma pleLoafs tied two and dropped one, and as a result the League-leading Red Wings pulled further ahead of the Leafs in the N.H.L. Standings. The Wings now have 57 points to the Leafs&rsquo; 4 9. Montreal Canadiens took over undisputed possession of third place with 38 points, two more than the fourthplace Boston Bruins. New York Rangers are fifth with 3 5 points and Chicago Black Hawks are sixth and last with 31 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01356/1671714-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="254" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>Maurice Richard, Montreal&rsquo;s great right winger, scored no less than seven goals during the week to boost his goal-getting total to 28. This is 10 more goals than his closest rival. Richard has 12 assists to go along with the 28 goals for a total of 40 scoring points. This is five back of Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe who has 10 goals and 29 assists for 45 points. Richard leads in goals, while Howe leads in assists with 29. Max Bentley of Toronto shares with Richard the runner-up post to Howe in the individual scoring parade. Maxie has 15 goals and 25 assists. Tod Sloan of Toronto is third with 31 points. Ted Lindsay of Detroit is next with 33, and Sid Abel, Detroit and Cal Gardner, Toronto follow with 32 points apiece.Gerry McNeil, Canadiens rookie twinetender, had a great week recording two shutouts. This brought his total of &ldquo;goose-eggs&rdquo; to six and he&rsquo;s tied with Sawchuk of Detroit for most shutouts. Another rookie goalkeeper, Terry Sawchuk, still leads the goalies with 84 goals-against in 41 games.TUESDAY. JANUARY 9CHICAGO&mdash;Milt Schmidt, though Crowding 33 years score! two goals&mdash;one the winner&mdash;as the Bruins scalped Slack Hawks 5-4 in Chicago.A crowd of 8,108 saw Hawks take tihe lead three times.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, FogoUin; centre, J. Conacher; Tvlngs, GuidolLn, R. Conacher; subs.: Dickens, McCaig, D. Bentley. Moslenko, Babsndo, M-Kiler, Black, Lundy, Powell, Hamill.Boston: Goal, Geflineau; defence, W. Quackenbush, M: Quackenbush: centre, Ronty; wings, Fisher, Lynn: subs.: Schmidt, Kryzanowskl, Creighton, Person, HorcCk, Ferguson.First Period1&mdash;Chicago: Black(Fogolin, Morrison) &hellip;&hellip; 8:593&mdash;Boston: Schmidt(W. Quackenbush, M. Quackenbuhc) &hellip;&hellip; 10:413&mdash;Boston: M. Quackenbush(Lynn) &hellip;&hellip; 16:35Penalties: Bodnar, EzinlckLSecond Period4&mdash;Chicago: Fogolin &hellip;&hellip; 1:365&mdash;Chicago: R. Conacher(Fogolin. J. Conacher) &hellip;&hellip; 2:436&mdash;Boston: Ferguson (Sandford), 4:157&mdash;Chicago: Dewsbury (Black) &hellip; 11:028&mdash;Bost on: Ronty(Lynn, Fisher) &hellip;&hellip; 17:26Penalties: Black, Coflin.Third Period9&mdash;Boston: Sohmidit (Fisher)&hellip;&hellip; 15:56 Penalties: Lowe, Black.DETROIT&mdash;Toronto Leafs and Detroit Red Wings played a 3-al draw, so Wings retain their 5-point lead.Toronto: Goal, Broda; defence, Thomson, Mortson; centre, McCormack; wings, Mackell, Watson; stibs.: BairUiko, Juzda, Flaman. Bentley, Klukay, Lewickl, Timgren, Sloan, Smith, Blair.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuck; defence. Raise, Kelly; centre, Abel; wings, Howe, Lindsay; subs.: Gold-ham, Martin, Gee, Peters, Prystai, PaveMch, McFadden. Couture, Fogolin, Stewant.First Period1&mdash;Toronto: Maloney(Sloan, TLmgren) &hellip;&hellip; 16:012&mdash;Detroit: Prystai(Stasiuk, G. Stewart) &hellip;&hellip; 19:21Penalties: Mortson, Pavellch, Lindsay, G. Stewart, Sloan, Peters, BarLlko, Gold-ham.Second Period3&mdash;Toronto: Lewjoki(Bentley, Klukay) &hellip;&hellip; 1:234&mdash;Detroit: Raglan (McFadden) &hellip; 5:145&mdash;Detroit: Gee(Stasiuk, Howe) &hellip;&hellip; 8:026&mdash;Toronto: Lewlcki(Bentley, Klukay) &hellip;&hellip; 16:31Penalties: Barilko, Broda.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: None.NEW YORK&mdash;The Canadiena handed the New York Rangers a surprise whitewash in the game at Madison Square Garden. Considered a soft touch for the ram, pageous focal sextet, the Flying Frenchmen upset the dope by setting down Neil Colville&rsquo;s crew 3 to 0.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Harmon, Harvey; centre, Lach: wings, Richard. Olmstead; subs.: Bouchard. Curry, Johnson, Mackay, Mosdell, Kaser, Macpherson, Dussault, Masnlcflc, Robert, Laycoe.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Stanowski, Evans: centre, Laprade; wings, Kullman. Lesxvick: subs.: EddoBls, O&rsquo;Connor, Regan. Raleigh. Stanley, Lund, Mic-koski. Toppazzinl, Kyle, Kaleta, Slow inski, Sinclair.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Richard (Harvey) . 9:52Penalties: Stanowski, Masnlok, Evans, Lach, Kyle.Second reriodScoring: Non?.Penalties: Egan (2), Masnick, Lest-wick, Harvey.Third Period2&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Olmstead, Lach) &hellip;&hellip;17:383&mdash;Canadiens: Richard (Olmstead) 18:06 Penailties: Kullman, Bouchard, Sinclair.THURSDAY, JANUARY 11MONTREAL.&mdash;Paced by Maurice (Rocket) Richard, who bagged two goats and an assist, Canadiens won their second game on successive nights by beating the cellar-dwelling Chicago Hawks, 4-1, before 14,04 2 at the Forum.Chicago: Goal, aumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin: centre, Morrison; wings, Bodnar*, Black; subs.: Cofiin, Dickens, Bentley. Moslenko, R. Conacher, Babando, J. Conacher, Guidolin, Lundy, Brown.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence. Jhonson, Bouchard: centre, Lach; wings, Richard, Olmstead; subs.: Harvey, Robert, Curry, Harmon, MacKay, Laycoe, Mosdell, Kaiser, MacPherson, Dussault, Masnick.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Moslenko (minor and major), MacKay (major), J. Conacher.Second Period&mdash;Canadiens: Harmon &hellip;&hellip; 5:46&mdash;Canadiens: Lach(Olmstead, Richard) 13:10Penalties: Kaiser, Johnson.Third Period3&mdash;Chicago: R. Conacher(J. Conacher, Guidolin) &hellip;&hellip;4:044&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Olstead, MacPherson) &hellip;&hellip;7:575&mdash;Canadiens: Richard (Olmstead) 19:45 Penalties: Coflin (minor and major), Bouchard (major).SATURDAY, JANUARY 13MONTREAL&mdash;Canadiens had an easy time stretching their consecutive win-streak to four games by defeating tie Boston Bruins in the Forum, 4-0 before 14,438.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence. Bill Quackenbush, Max Quackenbus i; centre, Schmidt; wings, Duinart, Ezinicki; subs.:Lynn, Sandford, Henderson, Fisher, Creighton, Ronty, Lowe, Kryzanowski, Peirson Ferguson.Canadians: Goal, McNeil; defence, Johnson, Bouchard; centre, Mosdell; wings, Curry, MacKay; subs.: Harvey, Harmon, Richard Laycoe, Reay, Robert, Olmstead, Lach, Kaiser, MacPherson, Dussault, Masnick.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Curry(Mosdell, MacKay)&hellip;&hellip;3:00Penalties: Lach, Gelineau (served by Ronty), Masnick, Lowe, Lynn, Ferguson.Second Period2&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Lach, Harmon)&hellip;&hellip;4:52Penalties: Peirson, Johnson (2), Ronty, Richard.Third Period3&mdash;Canadiens: Harmon(Olmstead, Lach)&hellip;&hellip;2:434&mdash;Canadiens: Olmstead (Richard) 9:14Penalties: Lowe, Bouchard.TORONTO.&mdash;Veteran Adam Brown, one of the League&rsquo;s dependable campaigners, scored in the third period to give Chicago Black Hawks a 3-3 tie with Toronto Maple Leafs before 13,524 fans.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin; centre, J. Conacher; wings, Guidolin, R. Conacher; subs.: Co-filln, Dickens, D. Bentley, Mosienko, Ba-bando, Bodnar, Morrison, Black, Lundy, Brown.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Thomson, Mortson; centre, Gardner; wings, Mackell, Watson; subs.: Barilko, Flaman, Kennedy, Sloan, Smith, D. Bentley, Klukay, Lewicki. McCormack, Timgren.First Period1&mdash;Toronto: Watson(Gardner, Mortson)&hellip;&hellip;262&mdash;Chicago: J. Conacher(Dewsbury, R. Conacher)&hellip;&hellip;1:423&mdash;Toronto: Thomson(Sloan, Kennedy)&hellip;&hellip;11:10Penalties: Thomson, Flaman.Second Period4&mdash;Toronto: Smith (Barilko)&hellip;&hellip;8:125&mdash;Chicago: Babando&hellip;&hellip;17:39Penalties: D. Bentley, Thomson, Coflin, Barilko, Mortson.Third Period6&mdash;Chicago: Brown(Bodnar, Morrison)&hellip;&hellip;10:23 Penalty: Sloan.DETROIT.&mdash;Detroit Red Wings maintained their home-ice jinx over New York defeating the Rangers 4-2 before 13.186 fans.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Egan, Stanley; centre, Laprade; wings, Kullman, Leswick; subs.: Eddolls. Evans, Stanowskl, Raleigh, Lund, Toppazzlni, Mickoski, Kyle, Kaleta, Slowinski, Sinclair, Gordon.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre, McFadden: wings, Peters, Pavelich; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Lindsay Gee, Howe, Stewart, Prystal, Abel, Couture, Stasluk, Gravelle, Raglan.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Kelly(Howe, Prystai)&hellip;&hellip;8:092&mdash;New York: Sinclair (Gordon). 15:213&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay, (Howe)&hellip;&hellip;18:02Penalties: Leswick, Abel, Evans, Prystai, Kyle.Second Period4&mdash;Detroit: Prystai&hellip;&hellip;5:455&mdash;New York Leswick(Laprade, Kullman)&hellip;&hellip;15:06Penalties: Lindsay (2). Kyle, Evans, Eddolls, Gravelle. Leswick.Third Period6&mdash;Detroit: Prystal(Stasluk, Goldham)&hellip;&hellip;5:04Penalty: Stanley.<h2>SUNDAY, JANUARY 14</h2>NEW YORK&mdash;Tony Leswick&rsquo;s third-period goal gave New York Rangers a 2-1 victory over Toronto Maple Leafs before 12,836 fans.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Thomson, Mortson; centre, Gardner; wings Mackell, Watson; subs.: Barilko, Bentley, Klukay, Kennedy, Sloan, McCormack, Lewicki, Timgren, Smith, FlamanNew York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Sta-nowskl, Evans: centre, Raleigh; wings, Slowinski, Mickoski; subs.: Eddolls; Egan, Stanley, Lund, Laprade, Toppaz-zinl, Kyle, Kaleta, Leswick, KullmanSinclair, Gordon.First Period1&mdash;New York: Slowinski (Raleigh) 1:38 Penalties: Flaman (2). Mortson, Kullman, Sinclair (minor and anise.), Leswick.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Thomson.Third Period2&mdash;Toronto: Gardner (Watson)&hellip;&hellip;7:143&mdash;New York: Leswick(Laprade, Egan)&hellip;&hellip;18:00 Penalty: Evans.DETROIT.&mdash;Ted Lindsay cooled the Montreal Canadiens off with a pair of goals as he paced the leading Detroit Red Wings to a 3-2 victory before 11,915.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, Harmon; centre. Lach; wings, Richard, Olmstead; subs.: Bouchard, Curry, Johnson, MacKay, Laycoe, Reay, Mosdell, Kaiser, MacPherson, Dussault, Masnick, Robert.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Reise, Kelly; centre, McFadden; wings, Peters, Pavelich; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Lindsay, Gee Stweart, Abel, Prystai, Couture, Stasiuk, Gravelie, Raglan.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Abel (Howe)&hellip;&hellip;4:192&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay (Howe. Reise) 15:06Penalties: Kaiser, Pavelich, Lindsay, Curry.Second Period3&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Olmstead, Harmon)&hellip;&hellip;11:164&mdash;Canadiens: Olmstead(Johnson, Reay)&hellip;&hellip;18:04Penalties: Johnson (2), Masnick, Lindsay.Third Period5&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay(Abel, Goldham)&hellip;&hellip;10:21Penalties: Richard (3), Howe, Lindsay, Johnson.BOSTON.&mdash;Veteran Milt Schmidt and Rookie Lome Ferguson each scored twice as Boston Bruins packed four goals in the final period to defeat Chicago Black Hawks 5-1.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin; centre, J. Conacher; wings. Guidolin, R. Conacher; subs.: Bentley, Mosienko. Babando, Coflln. Dickens McCaig, Morrison, Brown, Lundy. Black.Boston: Goal, Gelineau: defence. W. Quackenbush. M. Quackenbush: centre, Schmidt; wings, Ezinickl, Dumart; subs.: Ronty, Fisher, Lynn. Henderson, Kryzanowski, Lowe, (Sandford, Horeck, Ferguson, Creighton, Peirson.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Dewsbury, Henderson, Babando.Second Period1&mdash;Boston: Dumart(Schmidt, Ezinickl)&hellip;&hellip;372&mdash;Chicago: Brown (Morrison)&hellip;&hellip;16:07Penalties: Dewsbury (2), Ronty,Dickens, Brown (major), Sandford (major).Third Period3&mdash;Boston: Schmidt(Dumart, Fisher)&hellip;&hellip;1:494&mdash;Boston: Lynn (Ronty)&hellip;&hellip;3:295&mdash;Boston: Ferguson (Sandford)&hellip;&hellip;6:376&mdash;Boston: Ferguson(Sandford, Peirson)&hellip;&hellip;13:32<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>STANDINGS ON TUE. A.M., JAN. 16<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02334/1671707-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="596" height="239"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESJan. 9&mdash;Toronto 3, Detroit 3Jan. 9&mdash;Boston 5, Chicago 4Jan. 10&mdash;Canadiens 3. Rangers 0Jan. 11&mdash;Chicago 1, Canadiens 4Jan. 13&mdash;Boston 0, Can&rsquo;adiens 4Jan. 13&mdash;Chicago 3, Toronto 3Jan. 13&mdash;Rangers 2, Detroit 4Jan. 14&mdash;Canadiens 2, Detroit 3Jan. 14&mdash;Toronto 1, Rangers 2Jan. 14&mdash;Chicago 1, Boston 5NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMESJan. 16&mdash;Detroit at ChicagoJan. 17&mdash;Boston at RangersJan. 18&mdash;Toronto at CanadiensJan. 18&mdash;Chicago at DetroitJan. 20&mdash;Rangers at CanadiensJan. 20&mdash;Boston at TorontoJan. 21&mdash;Canadiens at ChicagoJan. 21&mdash;Toronto at DetroitJan. 21&mdash;Rangers at Boston<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03287/1671700-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="600" height="2611"></div>(Including Gaines of Sunday, Jan. 14)GOALKEEPERS RECORDS<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04246/1671693-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="594" height="476"></div>&bull; Broda replaced Rolling after 26 mts. 50 sec. of play on Dec. 2nd.Penalties In Minutes By ClubsDETROIT &hellip;&hellip; 347BOSTON &hellip;&hellip; 371CHICAGO &hellip;&hellip; 397TORONTO &hellip;&hellip; 462CANADIENS &hellip;&hellip; 474RANGERS &hellip;&hellip; 498 &#9632;

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Wings, Hab Gain In Fast NHL Race

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;It&rsquo;s Toronto they want to see. Or, to be precise about it, the Detroit Red Wings vs. the Toronto Maple Leafs.Nothing seems quite so satisfying to appreciative Detroit hockey fans as the sight of these ancient and bitter rivals clashing again.In these days when attendance is dropping at National Hockey League games in the United States cities, one solution in this city is obvious: Just schedule the Leafs in here a few more times each season.For several years Toronto has outdrawn the four other NHL opponents at the box office, and it&rsquo;s true again this semester.Actually, the crowd count hasn&rsquo;t dropped off much at the local Olympia&mdash;nothing like the losses in Chicago, Boston and New York. The high ranking of the Red Wings may be one answer, but Manager Jack Adams also believes Detroit to be a good hockey town.Detroit figures show a decrease of about 5 per cent&mdash;a total loss of 11,000 in the first 18 games, which drew 208,370.That is an average of 11,57 6 at each game. The Leafs have appeared four times and have drawn an average of 13,366. They have attracted the three largest crowds this season, including the top figure of 14,094. (The Detroit Olympia seats about 12,600, smallest in the NHL.)Leafs Are Cordially Hated!The Leafs&rsquo; popularity as a drawing card is due to their unpopularity as a team. Not only do the fans come out hoping to see Toronto humbled, but they also know from memory that they&rsquo;ll probably get hockey at its local best.Reason for this isn&rsquo;t hard to understand. Detroit and Toronto become playoff rivals almost everj r spring&mdash;it&rsquo;s happened nine times in 12 years, including the last four in a row. Those repeated crucial meetings have bred a natural rivalry.Their clashes during the regular season have a custom of being thrilling. Both are hardplaying clubs that seem to reach a peak against each other. This has been especially true this season when they are the giants of the NHL.Finally, some of the wildest and bloodiest games in Detroit history (and these always are the best-remembered and most-discussed) have found the Leafs in the villain roles.Attendance worries would vanish immediately if only a few more Toronto games could be placed on the Olympia menu. &#9632;

No Attendance Drop When Leafs Call On Wings—Fans Flock

PAWTUCKET, R.I.&mdash;A couple of French-Canadiens who play pro hockey for the Rhode Island Reds ran into quite a situation here, three miles north of R.I. Auditorium where the Reds play their games. The two hockeyists involved were Paul Saindon and Donat Deschenes, a pair of youngsters who were with the Three Rivers Reds in the QJHL last season.Since joining the Providence sextet, the Two French lads have purchased a car for themselves. It is not a nice new one at any rate. In fact, it just about passes the tests given it by the motors vehicle outfit in &ldquo;Little Rhody.&rdquo; Saindon and Deschenes live on Walcott Street, located near the shopping district of Pawtucket. A funeral parlor is nearby. Unknown to Deschenes and Saindon, a very important person was slated to be buried a few days ago. The Pawtucket Police had orders to get every car off of Walcott Street.The street was cleared completely, that is excepet for the car owned by the two hockey players. Unable to find Saindon and Deschenes, the Pawtucket Police called a tow car and pulled the &ldquo;old buggy&rdquo; off to the station.Later, Saindon and Deschenes claimed their car at a cost of $5.00. Since then, they have found a parking lot where the car is safe&mdash;from the police at least. &#9632;

Funeral Shunts Puck Car Aside

<div class="byline">&#x2014;LEAH.</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;Sixty small boys under 14 years of age play organized hockey in this city&rsquo;s newest league because Frank Selke, boss man of Montreal Canadiens refused to see them kept out of their favorite game.When an overflow mob of 300 lads turned out for preseason trials of Winnipeg&rsquo;s now-famous Bantam National league, somebody was bound to be left aside. But Seiko heard of their plight, as a result four more bantam &ldquo;C&rdquo; teams were organized and outfitted in the Tom Thumb classification. The new group, known as the Red, White and Blue league as a tribute to Montreal Canadiens, has named its teams after Canadien farm clubs, Mohawks, Royals, Nationales and Pats. &#9632;

’Peg Tykes Can Thank Selke For Chance To Play

<div class="byline">By HEC MocLEAN</div>The Calgary Stampede is famous throughout the North American continent and Calgary&rsquo;s new $1,500,000 hockey arena has been tabbed with a name connecting it with the annual July rodeo&mdash;the Stampede Corral.A poll was conducted by the fans and Stampede Garden was favored. Some of the Stampede directors, favored The Corral, so they brought the two names together and came up with the present combination.Fans, sports casters and snorts writers in the Foothills City cast pros and cons about the new name. Some thought it stamped Calgary as a hick town while others felt the name didn&rsquo;t matter, that the brand of hockey dished up was what counted.Sports editor Bob Mamini and radio broadcaster Henry Viney merely said: &ldquo;Give us good hockey and the name doesn&rsquo;t matter.&rsquo;Broadcasters Joe Marks and Ken Foss fell in line with the fans who thought it was a hick town name.The &lsquo;new name was announced during a game between Stampeders and Edmonton Flyers and one member of the Flyers quipped: &ldquo;Shoot it up the shute, boys.&rdquo; &#9632;

New Hink Taaaed Stamnede Corral

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01369/1671987-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="260" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body">Paul Meger</figcaption></div>Grant (Nobby) Warwick, lion-hearted little Buffalo right winger, was counted out of the hockey picture on Christmas Eve 1943.But he refused to call it quits because of a &ldquo;mere&rdquo; fractured skull and now is having his best scoring season since he entered the pro game with the New York Rangers in 1941-42.The Rangers were playing in Detroit on the night before Christmas, 1943, when Lady Luck saw fit to frown on Warwick.&ldquo;I was hit along the boards,&rdquo; Nobby began. &ldquo;As I went down both Pat Egan and Cully Simon fell on my head. It was an accident, something neither fellow could help. I was unconscious for 78 hours. As I lay in the hospital, I thought &lsquo;Brother, you had it, your playing days are over.&rsquo;&rdquo;But Warwick was back in harness with the Broadway Blueshirts again the next season.The skull fracture was only a bad memory as he finished second to his present line-mate Ab DeMarco in scoring with 19 goals, 18 assists for 37 points in 45 games.Started Together In 1943&ldquo;Ab and I first played together in that 1943-44 season,&rdquo; Warwick said. &ldquo;Funny thing happened that night I got my skull fractured. DeMarco got four toes broken but played three more games before he had x-rays taken&mdash;this hockey can get rough at times.&rdquo;The DeMarco-Warwick duo was together with the Rangers for four years until Ab was shuttled to Cleveland of the American League at the end of the 1946-47 season.An idea of how deep the feeling one holds for the other, can be learned from a story DeMarco tells about his sidekick.&ldquo;Frank Boucher of the Rangers told me during the 1946-47 season that I was going to be sent to New Haven for two weeks,&rdquo; DeMarco stated. &ldquo;Nobby heard about it.&ldquo;Without saying anything to me, he headed for the Rangers office and Boucher. He told him if I went, he had to go to. I wasn&rsquo;t sent down,&rdquo; he finished in a low chuckle.DeMarco&rsquo;s presence on the Buffalo roster made Warwick&rsquo;s being sent down to the AHL from the Montreal Canadiens last year less of a bad break than it otherwise might have been.When he joined Buffalo on New Year&rsquo;s Eve 1949, Warwick was just 11 points from a 300 total for his NHL career. During his tenure with New York, Boston and Montreal, he netted 147 goals and 142 assists.&ldquo;Sure I would still like to hit that 300 mark in the National League but I like it here playing with Ab and Paulie Meger,&rdquo; Warwick injected. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather be on a good minor league club than a poor big league team.&rdquo;That the Buffalo clubs of the past two campaigns have qualified as &ldquo;good&rdquo; minor league sextets has been in no small way due to the offensive punch supplied by Warwick.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02326/1671980-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="498" height="1087"><figcaption class="caption-body">Play PalAb Demarco &hellip; sidekick</figcaption></div>In 37 games last year, Warwick scored 19 goals and 28 assits for 47 points before he was hospitalized with a separation of his left knee in the third game of the playoffs with Cleveland.&ldquo;Playing baseball at home in Regina last summer got the knee back in shape and it&rsquo;s as good as ever now,&rdquo; Warwick offered.While the knee is okay, this year Warwick injured his right hand in training and missed a few early season games. Nevertheless, only DeMarco is ahead of him in total points in the AHL. Warwick has averaged 1.52 points per game on 12 goals and 40 assists in 34 games.Unless Lady Luck should once again put Warwick out of the lineup for an extended period, he is a cinch for All Star honors at right wing.Speaking of honors, Warwick got one of the biggest thrills of his career when he won the Calder Cup as the rookie of the year for 1941-42 in the NHL.&ldquo;I was given two beautiful trophies and a $3 00 war bond for being selected,&rdquo; Warwick grinned. &ldquo;Now the award is worth $1,000. Maybe I started playing too soon.&rdquo;If Warwick had taken the advice of Art Ross, General Manager of the Boston Bruins, he never would have begun his pro career.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03264/1671973-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1140" height="2317"><figcaption class="caption-body">NOBBY WARWICK</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I was on the Bruins&rsquo; negotiation list back in 1940 and was invited to their training camp,&rdquo; he began. &ldquo;Ross told me I was too small and should give up the idea of playing hockey. But I told him, I&rsquo;d fool him some day.&rdquo;Warwick was as good as his word, for during the 1947-48 season Ross gave up Billy Taylor and Pentti Lund to regain Warwick&rsquo;s contract from the Rangers. Warwick led the Bruins in scoring that year, and was their leading goal getter the following campaign.However, a contract wrangle over $500 led to Warwick being sold to Montreal at the start of the 1949-50 season, which set the stage for his appearance on the Buffalo scene.Regina Produced HimThe Warwick amateur hockey career began with the Regina Peewees and progressed through the Regina Midgets to the Regina Wares, juvenile champions of Saskatchewan for 1937-38, and the Regina Abbott Generals, to the Regina Rangers.It was with the Rangers that Warwick experienced a thrill he will never forget.&ldquo;We had six fellows of junior age on the Rangers, a senior outfit, but we won the Allan Cup, the championship of all Canada,&rdquo; Warwick pointed out.Among his teammates on that club, which was called the &ldquo;Destiny Kids&rdquo;, were Goalie Sugar Jim Henry, Center Frank Mario, and Defensemen Gordie Davidson and Garth Boesch.While he has round both New York and Buffalo to his liking as cities, Warwick still calls Regina home. Last summer he managed and caught for the Regina Caps in the Saskatchewan Baseball League.&ldquo;Gus Kyle and his brother Bill were two of our players and we had a pretty good team. In fact, we finished in first place in a nine team league by eleven games. Cliff Ehrle, owner of the Regina Caps hockey club, also was our sponsor. To my way of thinking, he&rsquo;s the greatest sportsman in Regina.&rdquo;The Warwick clan includes son, Grant Warren, now 7, and Patricia Gail, 6. Little Grant Is proving himself a chip off the old block as he is already playing in a bantam league. Patricia, her father avows, will some day be a skater or dancer.Rayner His GreatestLooking back on his National League career, the 5 foot, 5 inch, 170 pound Warwick says that Chuck Rayner of the Rangers &ldquo;is the greatest goalie I&rsquo;ve ever player for or against.&rdquo; The best defensemen Warwick played against were Johnny Crawford, ex-Boston rear-liner and present Hershey coach, and Black Jack Stewart, the recently injured Chicago Black Hawks bruiser.As for a forward line, Warwick picks the Bruins famed &ldquo;Kraut Line&rdquo; of Woody Dumart. Bobby Bauer, and Milt Schmidt as being &ldquo;without equal.&rdquo;While the 29-year-old forward doesn&rsquo;t hold out much hope for returning to the big time himself, he&rsquo;ll be greatly disappointed if his younger brother, Billy, now with Denver of the United States League, doesn&rsquo;t.&ldquo;I know I sound like a press agent but Bill has everything necessary to make the grade, and I think he still will,&rdquo; Nobby declared.As for himself, Warwick has no regrets. He&rsquo;s had his share of honors&mdash;and more than his share of bad breaks, including the skull fracture, a broken foot, a busted thumb, a shoulder separation, a knee separation, numerous Charley horses, a serious gastric ulcer operation, a double nose fracture, and nearly 300 stitches taken in his body.&ldquo;But there&rsquo;s no sport like it,&rdquo; Warwick concluded. &#9632;

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Nobby Boosts Brother Billy, He Just Loves Playing With Ab

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01365/1672077-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="593" height="2257"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02282/1672070-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="589" height="4020"></div> &#9632;

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American League Monthly Records (including games of sunday, January 7)

Attendance Is GoodAttendance at U.S.H.L. games this season has held up very well throughout the circuit. Most teams are ahead of last season and the new clubs are gaining larger audience all the time.Oxygen HelpedCoach Bill Cook came up with a new wrinkle at Denver on January 3rd. He had an oxygen cylinder Installed In the players&rsquo; box tor the use of his club between line changes to help combat the high altitude. It apparently had its effect for the Falcons turned back the Kansans handily.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2>STANDINGS ON TUE. A.M., JAN. 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01341/1672122-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="607" height="237"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESJan. 3&mdash;Tulsa 5, Milwaukee 2Jan. 3&mdash;Kansas City 1, Denver 5Jan. 4&mdash;St. Paul 2, Omaha 4Jan. 6&mdash;Milwaukee 5, Omaha 4Jan. 6&mdash;St. Paul 3, Tulsa 5Jan. 6&mdash;Denver 0, Kansas City 5Jan. 7&mdash;Omaha 5, St. Paul 4Jan. 7&mdash;Milwaukee 3, Denver 5The second-place Tulsa Oilers produced the best won-and-lost record of the week when they chalked up two victories against no defeats. Meanwhile, the league-leading Omaha Knights, whose ranks are badly depleted because of injuries, managed two wins against one loss; Denver also had a two and one record; Milwaukee won one game and lost two; Kansas City split with a win and a loss; and the injury-riddled St. Paul Saints dropped three straight and thus slipped down to fourth spot.Highlights of the week&rsquo;s play were the 5-0 shutout that Kan City Royals scored over ever at Kansas City, and the 5-4 win the Milwaukee Sea Gulls marked up over the league-leading Omaha Knights right at Omaha. It was only the Knights second loss at home this season. Two &ldquo;hat-tricks&rdquo; were marked up last week&mdash;the first by Denver&rsquo;s high scoring pivotman, George Agar, and the second by Tulsa&rsquo;s young Obie O&rsquo;Brien.With all clubs having reached or passed the halfway mark in their schedule of games, only the Omaha Knights (who still have one game to play to reach the halfway point) have had less than 100 goals scored against them. The same Knights also boast of the best offensive record with 142 goals scored, which is ample reason for their being eight points in front of the pack at this point. There was little or change in the scoring race. Cal Stearns of Kansas City continues on top and now has 51 points. He also leads assists with 3 4. Ian Macin of St. Paul still leads in goals scored with 27. Pete Durham is well out in front in the parade to the penalty box with 142 minutes Omaha&rsquo;s Bill Brennan has edged in front of St. Paul&rsquo;s Lome Worsley for the best goaltending average. Brennan has now allowed 3.08 goals per game and Worsley 3.11 goals per game. Eleven games are scheduled for this week with top-place Omaha, second-place Tulsa and last-place City due to play four games each.<h2>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30</h2>OMAHA&mdash;The Omaha Knights had to one out of the fire to defeat Kansas City 4-3 in a game before 4,024 fans.Kansas City: Goad. McGill; defence, Marineau, Lewandowski; centre, Steams; wings, Hildebrand, Tomiuk; subs.: Delory, McArthur, Byers, Drainville, Del-Monte, Bend, Raynack, Brown,Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Hinchberger, Forbes; centre, O&rsquo;Grady; wings, Uniac, Coburn; subs.: Durham, Bert Giesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod, Taylor, Skov, Hay.First Period1&mdash;Omaha: Skov (Hinchberger, Taylor)&hellip;&hellip;4:272&mdash;Kansas City: Tomiuk(Stearns)&hellip;&hellip;6:358&mdash;Kansas City: Tomiuk(Stearns, Levandowski)&hellip;&hellip;9:13Penality: Durham.Second Period4&mdash;Kansas City: Bend(Kearns, Hildebrand)&hellip;&hellip;14:215&mdash;Omaha: Dunham (McLeod)&hellip;&hellip;16:53 Penalties: Brennan, Field, Bend, Levandowski.Third Period5&mdash;Omaha, UniacHinchberger, Forbes)&hellip;&hellip;1:17.Omaha: McLeod (Forbes)&hellip;&hellip;17:59 penalties: Byers, Durham, Levandow, Bend.SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31ST. PAUL&mdash;St. Paul&rsquo;s Saints dropped a 4-1 decision to the Gulls at the St. i Paul auditorium and also lost another man&mdash;odie Lowe, who went out with an injured instep in the first period.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Bedard, Schveitz; centre, Powell; wings, Groves, Milder; sub.: Leler, Blade, Hamill, Michaluk, Smith, Shave, Mulholland, Goodacre.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Mariucci, Barlow; centre, Schwartz; wings, F. Brown, Macintosh; subs.: Lowe, Plumb, Smith, McDonagh, Albright, Manson Dawson, Brklacich.First Period1&mdash;Milwaukee: Groves(Powell, Miller)&hellip;&hellip;7:082&mdash;Milwaukee: Hamill(Blade. Goodacre)&hellip;&hellip;8:00Penalties: Mariucci, Miller, Bedard, Michaluk.Second Period3&mdash;St. Paul: Mariucci&hellip;&hellip;8:574&mdash;&rsquo;Milwaukee: Leler(Goodacre, Blade-.&hellip;&hellip;9:34Penalties: Mariucci, Brklacich, Schvetz.Third Period5&mdash;Milwaukee: Michaluk (G. Smith, Shave)&hellip;&hellip;12:45Penalties: None.<h2>Rattling The Rafters</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02302/1672115-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1627" height="2052"><figcaption class="caption-body">THIS JOLT almost cracked the ice, as Frank Porteous of Tulsa Oilers come flying the length of the ice only to run into o brick wall as St. Paul&rsquo;s Johnny Mariucci stepped into him. ((Photo by Engler))</figcaption></div><h2>MONDAY, JANUARY 1</h2>MILWAUKEE&mdash;The St. Paul Saints, shorthanded by injuries, paced themselves expertly and scored skillfully to defeat the Milwaukee hockey team, 6-1, and move into second place here.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Barlaw, Mariucci; centre, Schwartz; wings, McDonagh, Macintosh; subs.: Brklacich, Plumb, Albrignt, C. Smith, Dawson, Wylie, Manson.Milwaukee: Goal, Pellotier; defence, Bedard, Schvetz; centre, Power; wings, Groves, Miller; sub.: Leler, Blade, Hamill, Michaluk, Smith, Shave, Mulholland, Goodacre.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul, Macintosh(McDonagh, Schwartz)&hellip;&hellip;9:152&mdash;Milwaukee: Powell(Blade, Miller)&hellip;&hellip;14:02Penalties: Powell, Brklacich, Barlow, Miller, Schwartz.Second Period3&mdash;St. Pawl: Manson(Plum, Smith)&hellip;&hellip;16:044&mdash;St. Paul: Macintosh(McDonagh, Schwartz)&hellip;&hellip;17:41 Penalties Brklacich. Groves.Third Period5&mdash;St. Paul: Abbright (Plumb)&hellip;&hellip;2:446&mdash;St. Paul: White (Albright)&hellip;&hellip;8:207&mdash;St. Paul: Uacintosh(Schwartz, Mcdonagh)&hellip;&hellip;11:25 Penalties; Miller.<h2>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3</h2>MILWAUKEE&mdash;Tulsa made it five in a row over the Milwaukee Sea Gulls by winning, 5-2, in a game before 1,229.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Telford Sheldon; centre, Gronsdahl; wings, O&rsquo;Brien, Haldorsen; subs.: Jones, Dillon, Davidson, Bradley, Porteous, Podle, Schnurr, M. Young, Butler.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Bedard, Schvetz; centre, Powell; wings, Groves, Miller; sub.: Leier, Blade, Hamill, Michaluk, Smith, Shave, Mulholland, Goodacre.First Period1&mdash;Milwaukee: Powell(Groves, Hamill)&hellip;&hellip;3:232&mdash;Milwaukee: Blade&hellip;&hellip;9:553&mdash;Tulsa: Butler (Schnurr)&hellip;&hellip;10:05Penalties: Goodacre, Bedard.Second Period4&mdash;Tulsa: Butler(Schnurr, Young)&hellip;&hellip;12:175&mdash;Tulsa: Hall dorsen&hellip;&hellip;14:326&mdash;Tulsa: Davidson (Bradlley)&hellip;&hellip;17:01 Penalty: SheldonThird Period7&mdash;Tulsa: Porteons(Bradley, Dillon)&hellip;&hellip;11:11Penalties: Jones 2.DENVER&mdash;The Denver Failcons broke a three-game losing streak with a 5-1 league victory over the Kansas City Royals before 1,799 fans.Kansas City: Goad, McGill; defence, Marineau. Lewandowski; centre, Steams; wings, Hildebrand, Tomiuk; subs.: Delory, McArthur, Byers, Drainville, DelMonte, Bend, Raynack, Brown.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Jackson, C. Kaiser; centre, Agar; wings, Richardson, Warwick: sub3.: Crystal, Fraser, H. Brown, Strain, MacKenzie, J. Kaiser, Giesebrecht, Juckes.First Period1&mdash;Denver: Agar (Warwick. Richardson)&hellip;&hellip;16:21Penalties: None.Second Period2&mdash;Denver: Warwick(Agar, C. Kaiser)&hellip;&hellip;1:133&mdash;Denver: Agar(Warwick. Fraser)&hellip;&hellip;6:514&mdash;Kansas City: Air(McArthur)&hellip;&hellip;15:425&mdash;Denver: Agar(MacKenzie, Jackson)&hellip;&hellip;16:166&mdash;Denver: Gissobrccht(MacKenzie. Strain)&hellip;&hellip;17:00Penalties: None.Third PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: C. Kaiser, Drainvine, Fraser.<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/f0015-03274/1672108-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="590" height="572"></div>THE LEADERSMost Points: Cal Stearns, K.C. (51)Most Goals: Ian Macintosh, St. Paul (27)Most Assists: Cal Stearns. K.C. (34) Most Penalties: Pete Durham, Omaha (142)..Most Goals. One Game: Obie O&rsquo;Brien, Tulsa; Bill McDonagh, St. Paul (4)Most Hat Tricks: Bert Giesebrecht, Omaha; Frank Porteous, Tulsa: Ian Macintosh, St. Paul; George Agar, Denver (2).Most Shutouts: Lou Crowdis, Denver (3).<h2>THURSDAY, JANUARY 4</h2>OMAHA&mdash;The leading Knights are still tough to beat at home this year. They scratched out a 4-2 victory over the St. Paul hockey team here before 2,361. fans despite stellar work in the nets by goalie Lorne Worsey.St. Paul; Goal, Worsley; defence, Brklalioh, Dawson; centre Schwartz; wings, Macintosh, Brown. Subs.: Mariucci, Barlow, Lowe Manson, McDonagh, Plumb, Albright, Smith. &lsquo;Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Hinchberger, Forbes; centre, O&rsquo;Grady;, wings, Uniac, Coburn; subs.: Durham, Bent Glesebreoht, Bruce Glesebrecht, MeLeod, Taylor, Skov, Hay.First Period1&mdash;Omaha: Coburn (O&rsquo;Grady)&hellip;&hellip;18:18 Penalties: Durham, Brklaolch.Second Period2&mdash;Omaha: Durham&hellip;&hellip;4:413&mdash;St. Paul: Plumb (Lowe)&hellip;&hellip;8:07Penalities: Durham 2, Mackintosh, Albright.Third Period4&mdash;St. Paul: Plumb(Smith, Mariucci)&hellip;&hellip;2:125&mdash;Omaha: McLean(uniac, Durham)&hellip;&hellip;8:326&mdash;Omaha: O&rsquo;Grady (McLean)&hellip;&hellip;14:50 Penalties: None.<h2>SATURDAY, JANUARY 8</h2>OMAHA&mdash;Eddie Leder&rsquo;s goal gave Milwaukee a 5-4 win over Omaha.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Bedard, Schvetz; centre, Powell; wings, Groves, Miller; sub.: Leier, Blade, Hamilil, Michaluk, Smith, Shave, Mulholland, Goodacre.Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Hinchberger, Forbes; centre, O&rsquo;Grady; wings, Uniac, Coburn; subs.: Durham, Bert Glesebreoht, Bruce Glesebrecht, McLeod, Taylor, Skov, Hay.First Period1&mdash;Omaha: Skov&hellip;&hellip;5:222&mdash;Milwaukee: Miller(Blade, McCaig)&hellip;&hellip;16:573&mdash;Milwaukee: Mulholland(Leier, Hamill)&hellip;&hellip;18:26Penalties: McCaigSecond Period4&mdash;Omaha: Durham(Bert Giesebrecht, McLeod)&hellip;&hellip;3:275&mdash;&mdash;Milwaukee: Power(Groves, Blade)&hellip;&hellip;13:166&mdash;Omaha: McLean(Uniac, Forbes)&hellip;&hellip;17:337&mdash;Milwaukee: Miller (Powell)&hellip;&hellip;19:32Penalties: O&rsquo;Grady, Shvetz, Miller, Hay.Third Period8&mdash;Omaha: McLeod(Bruce Glesebrecht)&hellip;&hellip;4:299&mdash;Milwaukee: Leier(MulhoWand, Blade)&hellip;&hellip;9:44Penalties: Bedard, Blade.TULSA&mdash;The Otters downed fighting St. Paul 5-3 here.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Jones, Davidson; centre, Haldorsen; wings, O&rsquo;Brien, Gronsdahl; subs.: Bloomer, Telford, Bradley, Porteous, Butler, Polls, Schnurr, Dillon.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Mariucci, Barlow; centre, Schwartz; wings, F. Brown, Macintosh; subs.: Lowe, Plub, Smith, McDonagh, Albright, Manson, Dawson, Brlacich.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul: Plumb (Albright, Barlow)&hellip;&hellip;8:402&mdash;Tulsa: Butler(Young, Pole)&hellip;&hellip;10:423&mdash;Tulsa: Bradley&hellip;&hellip;18:02Penalties: Dillon, Dawson, Davidson.Second Period4&mdash;St. Paul: Smith (Albright)&hellip;&hellip;3:385&mdash;Tulsa: O&rsquo;Brien Pole, Young)&hellip;&hellip;9:30Penalties: Dillon, Davidson, Dawson.Third Period6&mdash;Tulsa: O&rsquo;Brien (Haldorsen)&hellip;&hellip;3:557&mdash;St. Paul: Macintosh&hellip;&hellip;17:488&mdash;Tulsa: O&rsquo;Brien (Haldorsen)&hellip;&hellip;19:57 Penalties; Davidson, Brklacich.DENVER&mdash;The Falcons were blanked 5-0 here by the Kansas City Royals.Kansas City: Goal, McGill; defence, Marineau, Levandoski; centre, Stearns; wings, Hildebrand, Tomiuk; subs.: Dedory, McArthur, Byers, Drainville, DeMorite, Bend, Raynak, Brown.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Chryatal, Fraser; centre, Agar; wings, Strain, Richardson; subs.: Jackson, J. Kaiser, Doran, C. Kaiser, Juckes.First Period1&mdash;Kansas City: Raynak(Stearn, Brown)&hellip;&hellip;2:26Penalties: MacArthur, C. Kaiser, Byers.Second Period2&mdash;Kansas City: Delory(MacArthur, Air)&hellip;&hellip;1:463&mdash;Kansas City: Brown(Raynak, Levandowski)&hellip;&hellip;9:064&mdash;Kansas City: Brown (Field)&hellip;&hellip;9:15Penalties: Byers, C. Kaiser, Fraser.Third Period5&mdash;Kansas City&mdash;Hildebrand(Levandowski)&hellip;&hellip;5:54Penalties: Agar, Chrystal, MacArthurSUNDAY, JANUARY 7STPAUL&mdash;A lot happened to the St. Paul hockey team in 15 seconds at the Auditorium. In that short space of time, Omaha got a brace of goals for a 5-4 overtime victory.Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, bes, Coburn; centre, O&rsquo;Grady; wing Uniac, McLean; subs.: Taylor, Durham Hay, Bert Giesebraoht, Bruce Glesebrecht McLeod, Skov.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Mariucci, Dawson; centre C. Smith; wings, Schwartz, McIntosh; subs.: Brklacich, Lowe, Plumb, D. Smith, Barlow, McDonagh, Albright, Manson.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul: Macintosh (C. Smith) 9:402&mdash;Omaha: Durham (Skov)&hellip;&hellip;11:35Penalties: Brklacich, Schwartz, Barlow 2, Bert Giesebrecht.Second Period3&mdash;Omaha: Bruce Giesebracht(McLeod, Bert Giesebracht). 2:004&mdash;Omaha: Uniac (McLean)&hellip;&hellip;12:595&mdash;St. Paul: D. Smith(Mackintosh)&hellip;&hellip;17:22Penalties: Forbes, Brennan, Albright 2, Durham 2.Third Period6&mdash;St. Paul: Plumb (McDonagh)&hellip;&hellip;15:59Penalties: Mariucei, Dawson.Overtime Period7&mdash;St. Paul: Schwartz(Mackintosh, C. Smith)&hellip;&hellip;3:248&mdash;Omaha: TaylorCoburn, Skov)&hellip;&hellip;5:159&mdash;Omaha: Skov&hellip;&hellip;5:30Penalties: None.DENVER&mdash;The Denver Falcons, nursing a one-goal lead through most of the second and third d the Milwaukee Sea Gulls, 5-3, in a league contest before 2.310.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Bedard, Sohvetz; centre, Powell; wings. Groves, Miller; sub.: Leier, Blade, Hamill, Michaluk, Smith, Shave, Mulholland, Goodacre.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Chrya. tai, Fraser; centre, Agar; wings. Strain, Richardson; subs.: Jackson, J. Kaiser, Doran, C. Kaiser, Juckes.First Period1&mdash;Denver: Strain(Agar, C. Kaiser)&hellip;&hellip;13:342&mdash;Milwaukee: Blade (Schvetz). 15:552 Penalties: Fraser, Blade, Strain, Bedard.Second Period3&mdash;Denver: Richardson(Agar, Strain)&hellip;&hellip;8:434&mdash;Denver: Brown&hellip;&hellip;9:345&mdash;Milwaukee: McCaig (Smith)&hellip;&hellip;19:43 Penalty; J. Kaiser.Third Period6&mdash;Denver: Juckes(Jackson, Hopper)&hellip;&hellip;9.497&mdash;Milwaukee: Michaluk(Shave, Smith)&hellip;&hellip;9.568&mdash;Denver: MacKenzie(C. Kaiser, Giesebrecht)&hellip;&hellip;18:23Penalties: Schvetz. C. Kadser. &#9632;

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UNITED STATES LEAGUE

<h2>KEN FOSS STATION CKXL CALAGARY, Altra</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01308/1672160-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="286" height="523"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02248/1672153-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="264" height="410"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Foss</figcaption></div>Ken Foss is probably Alberta&rsquo;s youngest, most popular radio sports commentator. At 24, Ken handles all major sporting events either on-the-spot or by recreation&mdash;the latter an art in which he is said to be the equal of Toronto&rsquo;s Joe Crysdale.Ken Foss was born February 25, 1925 in Calgary and has been broad-casting sport activities for over three years with phenomenal success, the credit for which Ken largely gives to Calgary&rsquo;s Mayor Don MacKay from whom he learned the business.Among other things, Ken has worked on two Grey Cup finals (only missing the 1950 broadcast because of illness while in Toronto for the game); he broadcast the Allan Cup Finals when Edmonton won the cup from Ottawa Senators, 1947-48 &hellip; the final game of which was played in Calgary.In his job as sports editor and sportscaster for CKXL, Ken Foss has daily broadcasts at 12.45 pm., daily (&ldquo;Sportscope&rdquo;) and 6.15 pm. (&ldquo;Sports Mirror&rdquo;) followed by a long spiel at 8.30 pm. until approximately 10 pm. nightly on his &ldquo;Sportsparade&rdquo; in which Ken covers every evening one major sporting activity in its entirely from N.H.L. hockey to boxing or wrestling; every sport in its season.&ldquo;Unbiased, accurate and highly entertaining&rdquo; is the consensus of opinion on Ken Foss and broadcast sports. It is said he is one of the best in Canada. And to judge by the fact that all his activities are sponsored, we&rsquo;d agree. &#9632;

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‘Radiorchids’

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03190/1672205-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="595" height="2259"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04159/1672198-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="601" height="3018"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05111/1672191-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="604" height="3021"></div> &#9632;

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Amateur Parade At Quick Glance

First TimeVictoria&rsquo;s victory over Seattle In the Seattle Ironmen&rsquo;s rink Sunday night was the first time the Cougars had defeated Seattle In Seattle since Joining the League. They had previously played two tie games In Seattle, one this and one last season.New RecordJerry Cotnoir, of Victoria, turned in two shutouts the past week and established a new Pacific Coast record for the longest time without being scored upon. He has gone 103 minutes and 50 seconds without allowing a goal and will have the opportunity to add to this time when Portland plays in Victoria.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01274/1672250-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="597" height="241"></div><h2>RESULTS OF GAMES</h2>Jan. 3&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 2, Seattle 1Jan. 4&mdash;Seattle 8, Portland 6Jan. 5&mdash;Tacoma 0, Victoria 6Jan. 5&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 6, Vancouver 5Jan. 6&mdash;Vancouver 0, Tacoma 8Jan. 6&mdash;Seattle 3. New West&rsquo;er 5Jan. 7&mdash;Vancouver 5, Portland 4Jan. 7&mdash;Victoria 3, Seattle 0The New Westminster Royals picked up six points the past week to increase their first place lead to seven points over second place Tacoma. Tacoma, in second place with 41 points, is being pressed by the surging Cougars of Victoria who have won their last three games and trail the Rockets by only two points. Portland, though they have lost their last six games, remain in fourth place with 35 points, just one more than Vancouver who have 3 4 and Seattle following with 33.Ken Ullyot, New Westminster center, continues to set the pace tin the Pacific Coast League scoring with 47 points, five points ahead of his closest rival, the same margin he had last week. Joe Bell, of Seattle, has moved into a tie for second place with Normie Kirk, of Vancouver, each have 42 points. Bell leads the goal scorers with 27 goals. Bobby Love, of New Westminster, leads the playmakers with 26 assists.Ullyot also leads in game winning goals having scored the winner in five games. Eddie Mazur, of Victoria, was player of the week picking up six points on one goal and five assists. Norm Gustavsen, of Tacoma, added four minutes in penalties to his total and now has spent 102 minutes in the cooler to lead in that department.Lucien Deschene moved back into the leading spot for goal-keepers with a goals against average of 2.90 per game. He has made 1072 saves for a percentage of 902. Phil McAtee, of Seattle, is in second place with a 3.03 goals against average.Four hat tricks were turned in the past week. Pete Leswick, of Seattle, Bill Shill, of Vancouver, and Jack McIntyre, of Victoria, each scored three goals in one game for their first hat trick of Ronnie Rowe, of Tacoma, picked up his second when he scored three goals against Vancouver Saturday night. Tom Karakas, of Portland, has had six hat tricks scored against him this season.<h2>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29</h2>VICTORIA.&mdash;Short-handed but long on the old college Victoria Cougars reached the halfway mark of the 1950-51 schedule at Memorial Arena with a fighting display which earned them a 3-0 shutout over the Seattle Ironmen.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Taillefer. Bloom; centre. Fillion; wings. Bell, Thorpe; subs.: Boorman, Weaver, Kerr, Tkachuk, Leswick, Dawes, Archambeault.Victoria: Goal. Cotnoir; defence, Lepine. Long: centre, Burman; wings. Medynski; subs.: Goegan. Dorohoy, Mazur, Mcintyre, Abbott, Hebenton.First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Medynski(Evans, Burman)&hellip;&hellip;15:22Penalties: None.Second Period2&mdash;Victoria: Evans (Lepine)&hellip;&hellip;7:303&mdash;Victoria: Mazur(Burman, Goegan)&hellip;&hellip;13:15Penalties: Burman, Taillefer.Third PeriodScoring: None. Penalties: Dawes, Lepine.<h2>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30</h2>TACOMA.&mdash;Tacoma Rockets, trounrced the slipping Portland Eagles, 10-3Portland: Goal, Karakas: defence, Brodeur. Tarala; centre, Fairburn; wings, Hartsburg, Boyce; subs.: Bak, Nixon, Homenuke, Silvestri, Samanski. Kubask, Summerhill, Bailey, Sutherland.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Johns, Gustavsen; centre, Read; wings, Rowe, Johnston; subs.: Giokas, Toole, Adam, Andrews, Webster, Rozzinl, Lambrecht, Bell.First Period1&mdash;Tacoma: Toole(Rozzinl, Andrews)&hellip;&hellip;3:372&mdash;Pctland: Hartsburg(Boyce, Fairburn)&hellip;&hellip;7:573&mdash;Tacoma: Gustavsen (Johnston) 8:264&mdash;Portland: Nixon (Bailey)&hellip;&hellip;12:185&mdash;Tacoma: Read (Johnston)&hellip;&hellip;15:59 Penalty: Johns.Second Period6&mdash;Tacoma: Adam(Webster, Giokas)&hellip;&hellip;2:367&mdash;Tacoma: Adam(Lambrecht, Webster)&hellip;&hellip;3:288&mdash;Tacoma: Andrews(Toole, Rozzini)&hellip;&hellip;4:299&mdash;Tacoma: Rozzini(Andrews, Toole)&hellip;&hellip;18:2410&mdash;Tacoma: Rowe(Read, Johnston)&hellip;&hellip;19:53Penalties: Bailey, Rozzini, Bak.Third Period11Portland: Homenuke(Nixon, Boyce)&hellip;&hellip;9:3412&mdash;Tacoma: Rowe&hellip;&hellip;10:0313&mdash;Tacoma: Bell&hellip;&hellip;10:39<h2>The Vanishing Cougars</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02233/1672243-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1736" height="1329"><figcaption class="caption-body">PLAYING ALL BY THEMSELVES? It loo ks that way, but New Westminster Royals opponents that night were the Victoria Cougars, all of whom have prowled out of the picture. Royals Goalie Lucien Deschene is sprawled on the ice just after stopping a sizzler from Eddie Mazur of Victoria. His defenseman, Bob Bergeron, is picking up the rebound to get it out of danger, while Babe Pratt in the foreground and Ken Ullyot way out back help get things rolling back toward the Cougar end. ((Courtesy of the Victoria Daily Times))</figcaption></div>NEW WESTMINSTER.&mdash;New Westminster Royals snapped their Victoria hex and won their first game of the month on home Ice, beating the Cougar 7-2.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Burman, Lepine; centre, Evans; wings, Webster, Medynski; subs.: Goegan, Long, Hebenton, McIntyre, Mazur, Dorohoy, Abbott.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Huddleston, Howe; centre, Lavell: wings, &rsquo; Dorothy, Dufault; wings, Pratt, Bergeron, Koch, Slater, Ullyot. Love, Fashoway, Grchn, Houle, Peter son.First Period1&mdash;New Westminster: Koch(Fashoway)&hellip;&hellip;3:33Penaltles: Dufault, Huddleston (2), Mazur (2), Bergeron (2), Lepine, Webster.Second Period2&mdash;New Westminster: Gruhn(Slater)&hellip;&hellip;3:323&mdash;New Westminster: Dorohoy&hellip;&hellip;17:004&mdash;Victoria: Evans (Medynski)&hellip;&hellip;17:52Penalties: Fashoway (2), Webster (2)Third Period5&mdash;New Westminster: Dorohoy&hellip;&hellip;8:406&mdash;New Westminster: Dufault(Ullyot. Pratt)&hellip;&hellip;15:097&mdash;New Westminster: Love (Slater)&hellip;&hellip;17:388&mdash;Victoria: Lepine(Hebenton, Abbott)&hellip;&hellip;17:459&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway(Ullyot, Koch)&hellip;&hellip;18:44Penalties: Dorohoy, Goegan. Huddleston (major), Lepine (major), Long.<h2>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31</h2>SEATTLE.&mdash;The Ironmen, following the trail blazed by their No. 1 hot-shot, Joe Bell, overwhelmed the Portland Eagles by an 8-1 count. A delighted New Year Eve crowd of some 2,700 sat in on the festive proceedings, which hoisted Seattle back into fourth place.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Taillefer, Bloom; centre, Fillion; wings, Bell, Thorpe; subs.: Sprout. Boorman, Weave, Kerr, Tkachuk, Leswick, Dawes, Archambeault.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Nixon, Sutherland; centre, Samanski; wings, Homenuke, Summerhill; subs.: Tarala, Bak, Brodeur, Silvestri, Hartsburg, Fairburn, Kubasek, Bailey, Boyce.First Period1&mdash;Seattle: Bell (Fillion Sprout). 6:352&mdash;Portland: Summerhill(Samanski)&hellip;&hellip;6:493&mdash;Seattle: Leswick (Dawes)&hellip;&hellip;15:59Penalties: Summerhill, Sprout, Nixon.Second Period4&mdash;Seattle: Thorpe (Fillion, Bell). 1:385&mdash;Seattle: Fillion (Bell, Thorpe). 9:116&mdash;Seattle: Leswick(Dawes, Sprout)&hellip;&hellip;9:257&mdash;&rsquo;Seattle. Kerr(Archambeault, Tkachuk)&hellip;&hellip;13:05 Penalty: Taillefer.Third Period8&mdash;Seattle: Fillion (Thorpe)&hellip;&hellip;:549&mdash;&rsquo;Seattle: Fillion (Thorpe)&hellip;&hellip;1:16Penalties: None.VANCOUVER.&mdash;The Canucks and Seattle battled to a 2-2 draw here.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Taililefer, Boorman; centre, Dawes; wings, Weaver, Leswick; subs.: Kerr, Bell, Fillion, Senick, Tkachuk, Thorpe, Archam-beault.Vancouver: Goal, Highton; defence, Crozier, Reardon; centre, Unger; wings, Kirk, Shill; subs.: McPherson, Narduzzi, Ballance, Jackson, Conway, Jones, DeFelice, Russell, Lofvendahl, Schmidt.First Period1&mdash;Vancouver: Ballance(McPherson, Lofvendahl)&hellip;&hellip;17:37 Penalty: Spout.Second Period2&mdash;Vancouver: Narduzzi&hellip;&hellip;7:07Penalties: Sprout, Lofvendahl, Dawes,DeFelice (2), Bloom, Boorman.Third Period3&mdash;(Seattle: Fillion (Dawes)&hellip;&hellip;3:224&mdash;Seattle: Sprout (Fillion)&hellip;&hellip;4:13Penalties: Shill, Reardon.VICTORIA.&mdash;The Cougars dropped New Westminster 3-1.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Pratt, Bergeron; centre, Ullyot; wings, Cook, Peterson; subs.: O. Dorohoy, Slater, Love, Dufault, Kirk, Laveil, Huddleston, Gruhn, Paul, Houle.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoil; defence, Lepine, Long; centre, Abbott; wings, Frampton, Burman; subs.: Webster, Goegan, Strongman, McIntyre, E. Dorohoy, Evans, Medynski, Leger, Mazur.First Period1&mdash;New Westminster: O. Dorohoy. 16:10 Penalties: Pratt, Cotnoir, Huddleston, Abbott.Second Period2&mdash;Victoria: Mazur: (Webster)&hellip;&hellip;18:453&mdash;Victoria: Medynski (Evans)&hellip;&hellip;19:27 Penalties: Long, Lavell (2), Lepine, Webster.Third Period4&mdash;Victoria: Medynski&hellip;&hellip;9:39Penalties: Goegan.<h2>THURSDAY, JANUARY 4</h2>PORTLAND.&mdash;Seattle dropped Portland 8-6 in a high scoring tussle.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Taillefer. Bloom; centre, Fillion; wings, Bell, Thorpe; subs.: Weaver, Kerr, Tkachuk, Leswick, Dawes, ArchambeauK.Portland: Goal, Karakas; defence, Brodeur, Tarala; centre, Samanski; wings, Homenuke, Summerhill; subs.: Nixon, Silvestri, Hartsburg. Fairburn, Kubasek, Bailey, Sutherland, Holota, Kraiger.First Period1&mdash;Seattle: Tkachuk (Kerr)&hellip;&hellip;4:332&mdash;Portland: Silvestri (Holota). 5:083&mdash;Portland: Kubasek&hellip;&hellip;9:554&mdash;Portland: Samanski(Homenuke, Summerhill)&hellip;&hellip;10:585&mdash;Seattle. Leswick(Dawes, Weaver)&hellip;&hellip;14:07Penalty: Nixon.Second Period6&mdash;Seattle: Weaver(Dawes, Leswick)&hellip;&hellip;4:537&mdash;Portland: Tarala (Summerhill)&hellip;&hellip;12:138&mdash;Seattle: Bell (Fillion)&hellip;&hellip;17:099&mdash;Seattle: Leswick (Dawes)&hellip;&hellip;19:44 Penalties: Nixon, Kraiger (10-minute miso.).Third Period10&mdash;Seattle: Leswick&hellip;&hellip;2:3511&mdash;Seattle: Thorpe (Bell, Fillion) 9:5912&mdash;Portland: Holota(Silvestri, Boyce)&hellip;&hellip;11:3713&mdash;Seattle: Fillion (Bell, Thorpe) 12:0114&mdash;Portland: Samanski(Homenuke)&hellip;&hellip;13:09Penalties: None.<h2>FRIDAY, JANUARY 5</h2>VICTORIA.&mdash;The Tacoma Rockets&rsquo; nine-game unbeaten skein came to an about and screeching halt in Victoria.The improving Cougars were the spoilers taking a 6-0 shutout from the Tacomans.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Gustavsen, Johns; centre, Read; wings, Rowe, Johnston; subs.: Bell, Giokas. Toole, Andrews, C. Webster, Dheere, Rozzinl, Lambrecht.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Lepine. Long; centre, Burman; wings, Evans, Medynski: subs.: Leger, D. Webster, Goegan, Dorohoy, McIntyre, Mazur, Abbott, Frampton, Hebenton.First Period1&mdash;Victoria: McIntyre(Mazur, Webster)&hellip;&hellip;3:252&mdash;Victoria: McIntyre (Mazur)&hellip;&hellip;18:46 Penalties: Gustavsen Dorohoy, Rowe.Second Period3&mdash;Victoria: Frampton(Abbott, Hebenton)&hellip;&hellip;6:37Penalties: Medynski, Frampton, Giokas, Abbott, Goegan.Third Period4&mdash;Victoria: Dorohoy (D. Webster)&hellip;&hellip;4:065&mdash;Victoria: McIntyre&rsquo; (Mazur, Dorohoy)&hellip;&hellip;11:186&mdash;Victoria: Medynski(Frampton, Goegan&hellip;&hellip;15:11Penalty: Frampton.VANCOUVER.&mdash;The league-leading New Westminster Royals nipped th. Canucks 6-5. despite the fact that Ca nuck Bill Shill scored the hat trick The victory moved the Royals seven points out in front of the Rockets.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene defence, Pratt, Bergeron; centre, Ullyot wings, Fashoway, Cook: subs.: Gruhn Paul, Houle, Slater, Huddleston, Dufault Peterson, Lavell, Love.Vancouver: Goal, Highton; defence Conway, Schmidt: centre, McPherson wings, Jackson, Ballance; subs.: Kirk Unger, Shill, Reardon, Crozier, Jones Narduzzi, DeFelice, Russell, LofvendahlFirst Period1&mdash;Vancouver: Shill(Unger, Conway)&hellip;&hellip;11:062&mdash;New Westminster: Huddleston(Slater)&hellip;&hellip;17:54Penalties: Conway. Huddleston, Rear don, Pratt, Ullyot, DeFelice, Lavell, Nar duzzl, Houle.Second Period3&mdash;Vancouver: Shill(Kirk, Unger)&hellip;&hellip;9:464&mdash;New Westminster: Pratt(Gruhn, Slater)&hellip;&hellip;12:45(Bergeron, Gruhn)&hellip;&hellip;15:156&mdash;Vancouver: Shill(Kirk, Unger)&hellip;&hellip;16:50Penalties: Conway (2), Schmidt,Fashoway, McPherson, Dufault.Third Period7&mdash;New Westminster: Gruhn(Ullyot)&hellip;&hellip;10:298&mdash;New Westminster: Bergeron(Love)&hellip;&hellip;12:159&mdash;Vancouver: Unger(Shill, Reardon)&hellip;&hellip;16:4010&mdash;New Westminster: Ullyot(Gruhn)&hellip;&hellip;19:1711&mdash;Vancouver: Reardon(DeFelice, Narduzzi)&hellip;&hellip;19:51Penalties: Pratt (2), Conway (2), Lavell.<h2>SATURDAY, JANUARY 6</h2>SEATTLE.&mdash;Scoring both their goals in the second period, New Westminster Royals added to their first place lead, stopping Seattle 2-1.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Pratt, Bergeron centre, Ullyot; wings, Cook, Peterson; subs.: Dorohoy, Slater, Love, Dufault, Kirk. Lavell, Huddleston, Gruhn, Paul, Houle.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Tail-lefer, Boorman; centre, Dawes; wings, Weaver, Leswick; subs.: Kerr, Bell, Fillion, Senick, Tkachuk, Thorpe, Archam-beault.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: None.Second Period1&mdash;New Westminster: Dorohoy(Dufault, Love)&hellip;&hellip;11:152&mdash;New Westminster: Lavell(Koch)&hellip;&hellip;19:38Penalties: None.Third Period3&mdash;Seattle: Bell&hellip;&hellip;19:36Penalties: Bloom, Huddleston.VANCOUVER.&mdash;The Tacoma Rockets did everything but chase the visiting Vancouver Canucks out of the local Arena.Coach Muzz Patrick&rsquo;s crew of puck-chasers outplayed, outhustled and out-skated the Canadian club as It rolled up an 8 to 0 shutout victory.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Johns, Gustavsen; centre, Rozzini; wings, Andrews, Toole; subs.: Ball, Giokas, Adam, Read, Johnston, Webster, Rowe, Lambrecht.Vancouver: Goal, Highton; defence, Lofvendahl, Reardon; centre, Unger; wings, Kirk, Shill; subs.: Schmidt, Narduzzi. McPherson, Russell, Ballance, Jackson, Conway, DeFelice.First Period1&mdash;Tacoma: Rowe(Gustavsen, Johnson)&hellip;&hellip;4:532&mdash;Tacoma: Andrews&hellip;&hellip;16:40Penalties: Rozzini, Narduzzi, Schmidt, Johns.Second Period3&mdash;Tacoma: Rowe(Jobnson, Read)&hellip;&hellip;15:57Penalties: Conway, Gustavsen, Johnston, Johns, Narduzzi.Third Period4&mdash;Tacoma: Adam&hellip;&hellip;:305&mdash;Tacoma: Webster (Adam)&hellip;&hellip;2:076&mdash;Tacoma: Johnston(Read, Rowe)&hellip;&hellip;5:227&mdash;Tacoma: Toole(Andrews, Rozzini)&hellip;&hellip;11:188&mdash;Tacoma: Rowe (Johns)&hellip;&hellip;16:09Penalties: Lofvendahl, Read.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>(Including Games of Sunday, Jan. 7)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03176/1672236-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="594" height="1761"></div>THE LEADERSMost Goals: Loe Bell, Sen. (27)Most Assists: Bob Love, N.W. (26)Most Hat Tricks: Bob Love. N.W.; Norm Kirk, N.W.; Ron Rowe, Tac. (2)Most Hat Tricks Against: Tom Karakas. Port (6)Most Winning Goals Scored: Ken Ullyot. N.W. (5)Most Shutouts: Lucien Deschene, N.W. (4).Most Shots Stopped: Lucien Deschene, N.W. (1072)Most Penalties: Norm Gustavsen, Tae. (102 minutes) &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01259/1672288-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Solution Next Week)</figcaption></div>ACROSS1&mdash;Pictured Black Hawk player.6&mdash;Short for first name of Chapman, ex-NHL player.7&mdash;In 1933-34 Cooney Weiland was&mdash;to Detroit by Ottawa.11&mdash;Defenseman for Ottawa Senators of the QSHL.12&mdash;Cecil Dillon is a native of this state.14&mdash;What Hopper of Portland is called.15&mdash;Native province of Cy Went-worth (abbr.)16&mdash;Cerium (Sym.).17&mdash;Initials of Black Hawks&rsquo; coach in 1933-34.18&mdash;Deague in which Tommy Anderson coached last season (abbr.).19&mdash;Initials of Egan who helps broadcast Bruins&rsquo; games.20&mdash;Normie Mann was born in this country (abbr.).22&mdash;Initials of a new member of the Red Wings.24&mdash;This hockey coach is known as &ldquo;Punch&rdquo;.29&mdash;Given name of a Chicago defenseman.30&mdash;Nickname of coach of 19414 2 Stanley Cup champions.32&mdash;Roly McLenahan shoots this way (abbr.).33&mdash;Dune Fisher&rsquo;s second name.35&mdash;Initials of an AHL coach.36&mdash;Vezina Trophy winner of 1929-40.37&mdash;Hickey of Buffalo answers to this.38&mdash;One is sometimes given to competitors in tennis tournament.DOWN1&mdash;Nickname given Reibel of Omaha.2&mdash;Birthplace of Floyd Curry.3&mdash;Before.4&mdash;Initials of Red Wings&rsquo; captain.5&mdash;Ezinicki is considered this.8&mdash;Goalie on 1932-33 All-Star team.9&mdash;Initials of a former coach of Hershey Bears.10&mdash;Ashbee of Buffalo is called this.13&mdash;Buddy O&rsquo;Connor is 5&rsquo;7&rdquo; in&mdash;(abbr.).17&mdash;Number of seasons Bun Cook played for the Rangers.18&mdash;First name of Kelly who played for Buffalo this season.19&mdash;What Chisholm, ex-Leaf, is called.21&mdash;Initials of 1942-43 Calder Trophy winner.23&mdash;Once a member of the &ldquo;S&rdquo; line.25&mdash;Initials of a Cleveland forward.26&mdash;Member of Kansas City Royals.27&mdash;These brothers were on the 1930-31 All-Star teams.28&mdash;Name given Broadbent of 1922-23 Ottawa Senators.30&mdash;What Lewis, ex-Red Wing, is called.31&mdash;Initials of coach of 1939-40 All-Star team.34&mdash;To exist.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;SEX-WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02212/1672281-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="574" height="828"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div>TORONT, Ont.&mdash;Ontario&rsquo;s major and junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey lads greeted the New Year with several rousiner contests and a few Upsets.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re on the gun for 51,&rdquo; proved to be the winning slogan for Waterloo&rsquo;s junior Hurricanes, who finally broke their maiden with their first win in 30 starts. And who do you think they defeated? None other than Happy Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers.Despite their lack of success in the matter of winning games, Waterloo Hurricanes have&mdash;in the main&mdash;played several rousing games, but finally chased their jinx into the next county with a 5-4 overtime win at the expense of the second place Barrie Flyers much to the utter joy of their home fans.Adding insult to injury to the Barrie cause, it was a former Barrie player, Murray Dunnette, who popped in Waterloo&rsquo;s fifth and winning goal after seven minutes of overtime. The real star of the game was Goalie Bobby Shropshire, a former Toronto lad who performed puck stopping miracles throughout the 70-minute grind.Waterloo were always in the contention as they took the lead on Gordon Warner&rsquo;s 12 minute effort of the first period. However, Rick Hogg tied it up for Barrie a minute later and the Flyers made the count 3-1 on goals by Danny Connor and Dougie Towers.Paul Oliver and Dunnette combined for two Waterloo goals that sent them into overtime with a 3-all tie. Reggie Campbell counted ahead of Dunnette&rsquo;s winning overtime goal as Barrie hit back with Jimmy Morrison counting before the extra 10 minutes were completed.&ldquo;We softened Barrie up for the Waterloo triumph,&rdquo; claims Guelph&rsquo;s Roy Mason. Before their Waterloo appearance, Barrie too on Guelph in two rousing home and home games and won both of them by scores of 5-3 and 7-3, the next night they moved into Waterloo and the rest&rsquo; is history.All-Star GoalieThanks to Don Lockhart&rsquo;s professional goaltending Marlboros were still in front of the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; campaign, but Windsor Spitfires and Barrie Flyers were only three points behind locked in second place. Windsor came up from fourth place with three straight wins to welcome in the New Year. They downed St. Michael&rsquo;s in Toronto 3-1 and on their home ice scored an impressive 2-0 decision over Marlboros and, also at home, repeated their previous triumph over St. Michael&rsquo;s, this time the score being 6-2.Despite a 5-3 defeat to Oshawa, Galt Black Hawks hit back with wins over St. Catharines and Stratford to move into sole possession of third place. Oshawa, Guelph and St. Catharines were still in a heap around fifth, sixth and seventh positions, all sharing 30 points. Stratford held eighth position, three points below the above threesome, but St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors loomed as a threat, having cut the margin between them and Stratford to seven points.Heavy Scoring PunchOshawa&rsquo;s pair of fast-skating wingers, Alex Delvechio and Lou Jankowski, continued to set the scoring pace in the Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series with 58 and 57 points, respectively, while Guelph&rsquo;s Kenny Laufman was 11 points behind in third place. Windsor&rsquo;s Grosse and Wharran of Galt were locked in a fourth place tie with 45 points each. Barrie had Chevrefills and Toppazzini also well up with 44 and 43 points while Jimmy Conacher of Galt, son of the famous bomber, Charles Conacher, was next in line with 42 points.Marlboros, the junior leaders, didn&rsquo;t have a top scorer in the charmed circles, but the tip off as to their strength is shown in the goaltending averages with Lockhart well in front with a 2.73 average for 22 games. He yielded by 60 goals over that stretch of action and has had one shutout.St. Michael&rsquo;s Monarchs moved three points ahead of their Toronto rivals&mdash;Marlboros&mdash;to highlight the OHA Major Series action during the first two weeks of the new year. The Irish tied Kitchener Dutchmen 3-all in Waterloo and then ran wild against Hamilton Tigers at the Gardens to win a 9-4 game. &#9632;

Upsets, Spurts, Feature Play As Ontario Juniors Open 1951; Waterloo Finally Chases Jinx

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0191/1672364-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="250" height="280"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0290/1672357-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="238" height="301"></div>VOLUME 4 MONTREAL, JANUARY 20, 1951 NUMBER 16<h2>Elixir Blues Sap Leafs</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0385/1672350-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="2956" height="1897"><figcaption class="caption-body">((Photos by Michael Burns, Toronto))</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0474/1672343-1-eng-US/f00c4-042.jpg" title="f00C4-04" width="2868" height="1634"><figcaption class="caption-body">It was an all-out contest as the Rangers and Leafs battled. The Rangers won 4-2 and they credited it to a bottle of Elixir. The Leafs meanwhile, are trying to catch the Wings who are threatening to make a runaway with the race.Top picture shows Rayner clearing the puck as Eddolls lays prostrate in front of his cage. Joe Klukay is the Leaf crossing in front of Rayner. The Ranger player in the background is Leswick.The bottom picture shows Nick Mickoski as he gets ready to blast the puck at Turk Broda. Broda goes into his pose while Leaf Defenseman Jim TRomson tries to stop the puck by making a weird face. It didn&rsquo;t go in.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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January 20, 1951

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