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January 20, 1951
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New Hink Taaaed Stamnede Corral
The Calgary Stampede is famous throughout the North American continent and Calgary’s new $1,500,000 hockey arena has been tabbed with a name connecting it with the annual July rodeo—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’t matter, that the brand of hockey dished up was what counted. Sports editor Bob Mamini and radio broadcaster Henry Viney merely said: “Give us good hockey and the name doesn’t matter.’ Broadcasters Joe Marks and Ken…
Injury Jinx, Loss Of Stewart Fails To Dim Hawks Hopes For Money Spot
CHICAGO, Ill.— Joseph C. Farrell, Hawk publicist and one of sport’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’t so funny at the time;—in fact it was pretty darned painful for Chicago’s favorite goaltender, Harry Lumley, but now that Lum is back and fit as a fiddle, even he can look at Joe’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, “We thought we’d found the…
Bert Olmstead
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’s a good thing he did or there’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’s crew. He is our choice as Player-Of-The-Week and ‘Schaefer Award’ winner and when you see just what he did last week you’ll agree he’s a good choice. The graduate from the open air rinks…
‘Radiorchids’
KEN FOSS STATION CKXL CALAGARY, Altra Ken Foss is probably Alberta’s youngest, most popular radio sports commentator. At 24, Ken handles all major sporting events either on-the-spot or by recreation—the latter an art in which he is said to be the equal of Toronto’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’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 … the final game of which was…
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