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February 10, 1951

The Hockey News February 10, 1951

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IN THIS ISSUE

Amateur Parade At Quick Glance

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;Hockey&rsquo;s &ldquo;bad men&rdquo; have this warning: If they get into serious scrapes, their penalty-time record is going to count against them in the evidence.That warning came from Clarence S. Campbell, president of the National Hockey League. It probably was the most significant feature of his ruling in the Ted Lindsay vs. Bill Ezinicki &ldquo;incident.&rdquo;When Campbell boosted their fines to a total of $300 and suspended each without pay for three games for their brawl of Jan. 25 in Detroit, he went on record on this subject.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0169/911317-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="424" height="542"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0249/911310-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="345" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Exinicki</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The league owners decided two years ago that the previous records of players should be taken into consideration when ruling on match penalties,&rdquo; Campbell explained.Records Hard To Beat&ldquo;The previous records of Ezinicki and Lindsay would be hard to exceed in penalties, both this season and over a series of seasons.&rdquo;Had other men&mdash;those without such a record&mdash;been involved, the penalty might have been lighter, Campbell stated under questioning.To go back to the Lindsay-Ezinicki fracas, here&rsquo;s what happened from the time the fight started in Detroit until the case was reviewed and the final decision handed down by Campbell in Boston:If They Pocket Pride Pair May Be Able To Get RefundBOSTON&mdash;Ted Lindsay and Bill Ezinicki may get back some of the money they were fined for their fight in Detroit.President Campbell stated &ldquo;the door never is closed on discretionary fines. If they behave themselves and are not too proud to ask when the season is over, they may get the $200 back. But not the automatic $100 fine for a match penalty.&rdquo;It was early in the third period of the Detroit-Boston game at Olympia, and the Wings were leading, 3 to 2. Play had not been rough, although two previous outbreaks had involved other players. Lindsay, on left wing, and Ezinicki, on right wing, were each other&rsquo;s checks, but they had been on peaceful terms, until&hellip;Now to quote the official report of Referee George Gravel, who worked the game:&ldquo;I had stopped play for a faceoff in another part of the ice. I saw Lindsay and Ezinicki, who weren&rsquo;t involved in playing the puck at the time, start pushing. Suddenly they were swinging sticks viciously at each other&rsquo;s head three or four times. Lindsay was cut first, and then Ezin-icki. After both were cut, they dropped sticks and started trading punches.&rdquo;That closed Gravel&rsquo;s report, and covered the part of the brawl which Campbell stated &ldquo;I&rsquo;m most concerned about.&rdquo; The fist fighting which followed, both Gravel and Campbell affirmed, was only the sort of thing which would have involved major penalties for fighting, at worst.The fist fighting, however, was the big feature as far as the fans were concerned. The stick swinging was no worse than that seen a dozen times before this year, with the one exception&mdash;both were landing.Some exaggerated reports published by those who did not see the fray claim the players were trying to decapitate each other. That is false. There were no two-handed swings. There were no wide, wild wind-up slashes. These were short, jab punches with the toe of the blade, not the kind which could cause serious injury, but efficient for cutting.But, the fist fighting was free style and lasted well over a minute. Teammates on both sides stood back and let them go to it. The linesmen, who are charged with keeping peace, were Mush March and Bill Knott, and they were slow to enter. March made some efforts to separate them, but Knott seemed to be chasing a loose puck at the time.Both Lindsay and Ezinicki were upset and spilled on the ice in the early stages, and the punching was even. Then Lindsay began to land a series of telling hard rights to Ezinicki&rsquo;s face. March intervened at this point, grabbing Ezinicki while Lindsay continued to pound.They finally were broken apart, and began picking up their equipment. Then they spotted each other, and sailed in again. Lindsay landed three hard rights, the last dropping Ezinicki. Lindsay leaped on top and shot a couple more punches before noticing that Ezinicki was out cold.Ezinicki was knocked unconscious when his head struck the ice, and had to be revived before being helped from the rink. Lindsay was waived to the dressing room, and Gravel announced the both players were assessed match penalties for &ldquo;deliberately injuring an opponent.&rdquo;The next scene took place in the first-aid room. Lindsay needed one stitch to close a stick cut above his eye, and also needed treatment to the badly scarred and swollen knuckles on his right hand.Ezinicki needed 11 stitches to close a stick cut in his forehead, four stitches to close the wound where his head hit the ice, four more stitches inside his mouth where his lips were cut, and he lost one tooth. (An X-ray five days later in Boston also showed his nose was broken).One sidelight which shows Ezinicki&rsquo;s ruggedness was his insistence that he shouldn&rsquo;t be stitched until after the game was over. He wanted the Boston trainer just to tape up his cuts so he could get back into play. He didn&rsquo;t realize yet that he had been given a match penalty.The third session took place two days later in Campbell&rsquo;s suite at the Hotel Statler in Boston. Both clubs were notified to present their coaches and the battlers to Campbell for a hearing. This session was delayed when both the Detroit and Boston trains arrived late, and once underway, lasted about a half-hour.Present at the secret hearing were Campbell, Ezinicki, Lindsay, Gravel, Tommy Ivan, Lynn Patrick, and Carl Voss, referee-in-chief in the NHL, About a dozen reporters were waiting outside, but weren&rsquo;t admitted until players and coaches were excused.Campbell later told the press the procedure in the meeting went like this: &ldquo;I explained what was involved, read the referee&rsquo;s report and asked for comment. Both agreed that was what had happened. Doth said neither was the aggressor&mdash;they just agreed that they teed off on one another, started pushing and then swinging sticks. The coaches spoke briefly, but didn&rsquo;t have much to say. Then I told them my decision, and excused them.&rdquo;Campbell then called in the press and read them the decision. Both players were to be suspended for the next three Boston-Detroit games, Jan. 27 and Feb. 11 in Boston, and Feb. 19 in Detroit. The players were not to be paid for the games in which they were suspended, and if the clubs did so, they would be subject to heavy fine. Each player also was fined $200 in addition to the automatic $100 fine which goes with a match penalty.Campbell then opened the meeting to questions, and these were the answers given in return:&ldquo;These are the stiffest given in my five years as president.&ldquo;In the spring of 1949 after the league had seen three match penalties in a short time, the owners discussed what steps should be taken. It was agreed that three factors should be recognized&mdash;(a), extent of injury caused to players involved; (b), degree of provocation, and (c), previous records of players.&ldquo;In this case the stitches do not constitute incapacitating and will not prevent either from playing. There was no provocation on either side; it was wholly willful. The previous records would, be hard to exceed for one season or a series of seasons. Ezinicki is second in penalty time this season, was first last year, and first the year before. Lindsay ranks third this season, was third last year and sixth the year before,&ldquo;Yes, all the penalties are for the stick swinging and not for their fist fighting. Fighting is tolerated as a normal outlet for those in a sport which has violent physical contact. Fighting is not condoned, but it is recognized as unescapable in hockey. Stick swinging can mean the potential end of a career&mdash;and that means the career for the man on either end of the stick.&ldquo;Yes, stiffer penalties may be in store for players charged with the same offense. And they would have been stiffer in this case had either player suffered serious injury.&ldquo;I handled this case in accordance with instructions from the Board of Governors to stiffen up punishment.&ldquo;Yes, there were indications that the linesmen had not followed their instructions as fully as might have been expected, They are under orders that when a fight threatens or breaks out, it is their duty to intervene immediately and to restrain players until peace is restored.&ldquo;Yes, linesmen will get instructions to tighten up on this.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Better Records Might Have Got Ez, Ted Off Lighter

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div>Windsor Spitfires have taken over the OHA Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series lead after long uphill climb. Despite 4-2 loss to Marlboros in Toronto, Jimmy Skinner&rsquo;s lads ran up three straight wins, two of them an their home ice with 6-0 decision over Stratford and 5-2 triumph over Galt. Travelling to Waterloo, Windsor downed the last place Hurricanes 7-4. They were finally stopped but not defeated when held to a 3-all tie in Guelph by Alfie Pike&rsquo;s Biltmores.Marlboros who led the group for many weeks fell into a slump, finding themselves able to snatch but one point after a home and home se games with the eighth place Stratford Kroehlers. Barrie Flyers kept riding along in second place with a 5-1 win over Waterloo at home and an impressive 7-4 decision over Laurie Aurie&rsquo;s Generals in Oshawa. Barrie held a one-point margin over the slipping Marlies in the overall junior picture.Fighting IrishSt. Michael&rsquo;s Majors, determined to get into the first eight team playoff bracket, started to crowd Stratford who are the current eighth place occupants. Father Flanagan&rsquo;s battling Irishers upset Oshawa 4-3 at the Gardens but dropped games to Guelph 6-4 and St. Catharines 5-2. The Fighting Irish hit back a wild affair at St. Catharines with a 6-2 win over Rudy Pilous&rsquo; Teepees. &ldquo;Pop&rdquo; Stimers, loyal St. Catharines radio rooter could be heard moaning all the way to Montreal over that upset.Guelph Biltmores have shaken themselves loose from injuries to key players and are coasting along in fourth spot with 4 4 points, three below Marlies. St. Catharines, Galt and Oshawa remain bunched in the lower positions with Startford fighting to protect their two-point margin over St. Michael&rsquo;s and elimination.With Stouffville Clippers and Owen Sound Mercurys running neck and neck for the Big Seven group leadership, interest quickened over the OHA senior setup and possible Allan Cup material. One point separated the Big Seven contenders with Stouffville in front as the two clubs made ready for a final scheduled home and home showdown.Peterboro Petes, Peterboro Eagles, Belleville Redmen were closely bunched in the Eastern Ontario group. Brantford, Port Colborne and Woodstock were in a close fit to decide final position in the western group. Chatham Maroons and Sarnia Sailors are battling each other in the other western section for the right to hit the Allan Cup elimination trail. &#9632;

Long Pull Finally Pays Off As Spits Hit Junior OHA Top

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01119/911248-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div>INFORMATION REQUIREDDear Sir,Could you please tell me where George Armstrong was born, what month, and what date? I would like to know all about him because he is my favorite Hornet.I noticed that in one of the American League summaries you mentioned that Phil Maloney and Steve Hannigan had hat tricks. For goodness sake, Hannigan&rsquo;s first name is Ray not Steve.Jacqueline Pocosky Pittsburgh, Pa.,(Armstrong has Indian blood, was born in Skead, Ont. on July 6, 1930. He is a center, shoots right, stands six feet, one inch and weighs 170 pounds. His last club was Toronto Marlboros, Allan Cup champs. It&rsquo;s Ray Hannigan, all right.)MALONEY BOOSTERDear Sir,I can&rsquo;t see how Connie Smythe of the Toronto Leafs keeps young Phil Maloney down in Pittsburgh where his talents are wasted. His record of his first years in pro hockey is hard to overlook.As a rookie with Hershey two years ago, he was his team&rsquo;s leading point-getter with 79. Last year with Boston Bruins, his first year in the N.H.L., he was third on his team&rsquo;s scoring list which proves he is definitely pro calibre.At present, although playing in only about a third of the total Pittsburgh games, he is up with the leading scorers of his club. What else must a player do to rate a &lsquo;Big League&rsquo; tag?Stan King Ottawa, Ont.ON THE COASTDear Sir,Could you tell me where Roger Leger is. He was formerly with the pro Canadiens.Kenneth Walker. Grand Falls, N.B.(Leger is player-coach with the Victoria Cougars of the Pacific Coast League, and is the loop&rsquo;s highest scoring defenseman.)ALL STAR CHOICESDear Sir,We have followed hockey for nearly three years, and we decided that we would try our luck al guessing this year&rsquo;s All-Star teams. We picked what we considered the best players&mdash;not our favorites.First Team: Goal, Terry Sawchuk, Detroit: defense, Frank Eddolls, New York, Red Kelly, Detroit; centre, Max Bentley, Toronto; right wing&mdash;Cordie Howe, Detroit; left wing, Ted Lindsay, Detroit.Second Team: Goal, Chuck Rayner, New York; defense, Bill Juzda, Toronto, Gus Mortson, Toronto; centre, Elmer Lach, Canadiens; left wing, Tony Leswick, New York; right wing, Maurice Richard, Canadiens.Dorothy Tucker and Sally Cook. Huntington Woods, Mich.MACNEIL&rsquo;S HEREDear Sir,I read in your paper at the start of the season that Morley MacNeil, who played for Regina junior Pats last year, was going to Victoria to play for the Cougars. I haven&rsquo;t seen his name in the lineup, what happened to him?Doug Smith is my favorite announcer. Where was he brought up?As yet I haven&rsquo;t seen anything in THE HOCKEY NEWS about Dickie Moore. He is still rated an NHL prospect?Bruce A. MacLeod. High Bank, P.E.I.(Morley is now a regular with the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Senior League, replacing Walter Clune, and the departed Stan Long, the latter with the Cougars. Doug Smith is from Calgary, Alberta. Moore is nearly over the effects of an appendectomy, and is regarded, along with Jean Beliveau of Quebec, and Bernie Geoffrion of Nationale, as definite pro material.)KNOCKS TORONTODear Sir,I have lived in Toronto for the past five years, and there is only one thing wrong with the &lsquo;Queen City&rsquo; and that&rsquo;s the train that brought me here. How about a story on the greatest player in the NHL&mdash;Rocket Richard. I have never missed a Canadiens-Leafs game in five years.Ronald O&rsquo;Connor. Toronto, Ont.GOALIES&rsquo; AVERAGESDear Sir,Your Fan Forum has proven to be be the settler of many personal disagreements about hockey.What are the goals against averages of Harry Lumley and Emile Francis?Bob Ganger. Chicago, Ill.(From the 1943-44 season to the 1949-50 season inclusive, Lumley showed records of 2.84, 6.50, 2.19, 3.22, 3.18, 3.05, 2.45, 2.42 and 2.35. The first and third figures are Indianapolis, the rest are all Detroit-As for Francis, ho played pro from 1946-47 on for Chicago, Kansas City, Chicago, New Haven, New York, New York and New Haven, for 5.47, 3.4S, 3.39, 4.14, 2.00, 8.00 and 3.62.)BLAKE&rsquo;S RECORDDear Sir,I would appreciate it if you would give me Toe Blake&rsquo;s record for his last five years with Canadiens.Sandy Rae. Pasadena, Cal.(Blake played 13 seasons with Canadiens, one with Providence and one with the old Montreal Maroons, during which time he won the Hart Trophy (1938-39) and the Lady Byng Trophy (194546.) In his last five years with the Canadiens (1943-44 to 194748,) Blake scored 130 goals and 162 assists in league and playoff games.)BRIMMIE&rsquo;S SHUTOUTSDear Sir,How many shutouts did Frank Brimsek have in his first year in the N.H.L.? And what was his goals-against average that year.Hebert Fall. Moncton, N.B.(Brimsek broke in with Boston in 1938-39 and won the Georges Vezina and Calder Trophies that season. He racked up 10 shutouts and allowed 68 goals in 43 games for a 1.58 average, the best of his career.)BROTHERSDear Sir,Is Vic Howe a brother of Gord Howe of the Detroit Red Wings?Rudolph Robichaud. Richibucto, N.B.(Yes, Vic and Gordie are brothers and recently Vic was brought up for a game by the New York Rangers, and he played briefly against his brother Gord.)PRAISE AND CRITICISMDear Sir,I looked through all the issues of your paper in one complete year and find many improvements. The action photos are now without a doubt the best pictures of ice hockey anywhere. Your articles on the different players around the loops are excellent and tell exactly what readers want to read.The only objection I have is that the smaller pictures you insert in the paper are always the same, and the ardent followers soon become tired of the same pictures all the time.I would like a long story on the best defenseman in the league, Red Kelly.George Allen Fowlkes Deerfield, Mass.GUM CARDSDear Sir,Would appreciate it if you could put mo in touch with Mr. Edward J. Teally, as I believe I have what he is looking for. I started collecting in 1930, and have a fair amount of the gum cards he mentions, and also some autographed pictures.Just one observation. I wonder why Conny Smythe of the Leafs doesn&rsquo;t give Pete Backor a chance with Toronto. He&rsquo;s been playing fine hockey for Pittsburgh for quite a while now.Norman Sproule.59 6 Durie St., Toronto, Ont.LIKES ROYDear Sir,I think it is about time that Roy Conacher was given the praise that he is due, and I think it would be nice if you would run an article about him.Roy isn&rsquo;t the type to be spectacular&mdash;doesn&rsquo;t go dashing down the ice like mad, only to come to naught when he gets there. He&rsquo;s about the smartest player in the entire League, to my way of looking at it. He has a position to play and plays it&mdash;nine times out of ten when the pass is sent to where Roy is supposed to be, he is there to get it. Just because he isn&rsquo;t the spectacular, showy type, is the reason he doesn&rsquo;t get the consideration due him.Roy has a terrific shot and a true one and he doesn&rsquo;t often let the other side out-smart him.I&rsquo;ve been attending games since the &ldquo;good old days&rdquo; and have seen the best of them and Roy is right up with the best in my books. Saw my first game in 193 2 and have missed few since.H.I. Smith. Chicago, 111.IT&rsquo;S SETTLEDDear Sir,To settle an argument, could you tell me whether Maurice Richard of Canadiens shoots left or right?Wallace Russell. Trail, B.C.(Richard shoots left, plays right wing.)<div class="sidebar"><h2>DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE?</h2>It is our policy to notify all subscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptions.The ever-increasing demand for THE HOCKEY NEWS means that most issues are practically sold out before the printing is completed; and that copies are seldom available for mailing to subscribers who are even one issue in arrears.Subscribers receiving &ldquo;expiration&rdquo; notification ore reminded that, to make certain of continued receipt of THE HOCKEY NEWS it is necessary to send us their renewal orders promptly.If you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice. &#9632;</div>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">by Kavetski</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0117/912208-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick &hellip; BUt HE JUST STAY COULDN&rsquo;T STAY AWAY. NOW HE HAS THE ERUINS SHOWING THAT SAME OLD TRY!</figcaption></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYVOL. 4&mdash;No. 19 MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 10, 1951 PRICE: TEN CENTS(15 CENTS IN U.S.A)(Story on page 7)<h2>The Boston Bounce&hellip; &#9632;</h2>

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0218/910898-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM&hellip;&hellip; Worth the $500.</figcaption></div>MONREAL, Que.&mdash;Coach Dick Irvin of the Montreal Canadiens tilted his chair back, produced a half smile, thought for a moment and then blurted, &ldquo;Tom Johnson is the steadiest defenseman in the league today and he&rsquo;s one of the main reasons why we&rsquo;re still in the battle. And what&rsquo;s more he&rsquo;s a future all-star.&rdquo;That is quite a statement from a coach who has played with and coached some of the greatest names the game has ever known. That is quite a statement about a lad who only played one year of indoor hockey before turning pro. But if Irvin says so, then you can be sure that at least part of his statement is true. Johnson is one of the main reasons why the Habs are still in the N.H.L. playoff battle.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0124/910905-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="236" height="378"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dick Irvix</figcaption></div>Johnson, like the late George Gershwin, has never had time for flops. Yet, just a few seasons ago he was on the edge of becoming one himself.Tom&rsquo;s sudden rise to potential stardom in the N.H.L. has surprised many fans and observers who, three seasons ago, remember him as a much publicized lad who came to Montreal from Winnipeg bound in a bundle of press clippings about his coming greatness. When they took one look at him they laughed. &ldquo;He can&rsquo;t skate&rdquo;, they said.That greatness is still coming but just a little faster than it was then.&ldquo;Johnson is a long way away from being an all-star,&rdquo; says Frank Selke, Montreal G.M. &ldquo;But he does have the ability, guts and spirit. He&rsquo;s got a heck of a lot to learn, and he&rsquo;s far from polished right now. I&rsquo;d say it&rsquo;ll take him nearly five years, but he&rsquo;ll improve in each of those years. He&rsquo;s got that old college spirit.&rdquo;That Johnson has the fighting spirit and ability to become a terrific defenseman goes without saying, It doesn&rsquo;t show in the scoring records but if penalty records mean anything it shows there. As we write this story he has spent 108 minutes in the sin bin and it doesn&rsquo;t look as though he&rsquo;ll stop at that figure.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d better take it easy, after all I don&rsquo;t want to take that pen alty record away from Ezinicki,&rdquo; is what Johnson says when you talk about his hour and 48 minutes in the cooler.He is a VillainIn the short time Tom has been in the N.H.L. he has caused quite a stir in two cities where only hometown players make the headlines. He dumped Toronto and Detroit fandom back on their heels when he twice put on an exhibition of real rough, tough old fashioned hockey. He was so impressive that one observer was forced to write:<h2>As A Royal</h2>&ldquo;Looking back today at their strange weekend, the Detroit Reh Wings should be using their choicest curses on a young man from Montreal by the name of Thomas Christian Johnson.&ldquo;Tom Johnson is a villain. He&rsquo;s a new defenseman in the league this season whom such a calloused veteran as John Ross Roach describes as one of the cruder wood-choppers to appear here in some time.&ldquo;Johnson nicked, hooked, baited and belted the Red Wings as Montreal defeated Detroit 4-1 and it seemed as if Referee Bill Knott was blind to everything. Their tormentor drew only one penalty.&ldquo;He was a heel, too, to 12,616 Red Wing fans. They hooted Tom Johnson louder than any player has been given it here since Ted Kennedy took his jeers during last spring&rsquo;s playoffs.&ldquo;Imagine the Red Wings&rsquo; distress when this awkward youth bounced a long shot off Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s big mitt into the net for a goal that broke up the game. Johnson&rsquo;s drive was high and would have cleared the net had not Sawchuck reached to protect his face. It was sloppy. It was the first score of his big league life. Johnson, the lucky stiff made the big one.&rdquo;In Toronto, after Johnson and Kennedy had tangled and Tom was given major and misconduct penalties he was called a second string player who tried to put Kennedy out of the game.According to the Detroit and Toronto papers Johnson is not long for the big league.Yet the fans and perhaps the newspapermen in those cities, would be surprised to learn that both the Wings and Lears have made overtures to the Montreal front office with regard to securing Johnson for their respective blueline brigades.&ldquo;Toronto tried to make a deal three years ago.&rdquo; says Selke, &ldquo;and Detroit tried last year, but we have never, thought about parting with him.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s hard to gather an opinion on a kid like Johnson. His cockiness on the ice leaves him when he takes off his hockey uniform. After his figpt with Kennedy he made no alibis nor did he boast that he kicked the living daylights out of the Toronto star, He merely rubbed His nose and muttered: &ldquo;Geez, that Kennedy really caught me a good one. He&rsquo;s sure a terrific player. he&rsquo;s that whole Toronto team.&rdquo;If you can form an opinion on a kid hike that then you are quite welcome to do so.Johnson was fined $75 for his fracus in Toronto, but what angered him more than anything was the pictures that crashed the sports pages the next day.&ldquo;They must have some pretty good artists in Toronto, They really painted those pictures up,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I had a little bit of blood dribbling down my nose in one paper and in another paper which had exactly the same picture, Some guy had painted blood all over my chin. All I had was a little bit under my nose.&rdquo;Johnson is one of the greatest crowd pleasers to come along in a long time, for even in Toronto there are those who like him. After the game a stranger approached Coach Dick Irvin and asked:&ldquo;Johnson will bo fined for that, won&rsquo;t he Dick?&ldquo;He sure will,&rdquo; said Irvin, &ldquo;he&rsquo;ll have a paycheck that&rsquo;ll be $75/lighter when the league gets through collecting.&rdquo;With that the fellow brought out a two-dollar bill.&ldquo;Here&rsquo;s a dirty duece,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;it is&rsquo;t much but it&rsquo;ll help pay his fine.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s obvious that the stranger liked Johnson and the way ho went at Kennedy. In Montreal he is often mentioned as a number one candidate for the rookie award. Fans like him there, he gives them their money&rsquo;s worth. Irvin, too, is high on him.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the best puck carrying defenseman to come into the league in years,&rdquo; says Irvin. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got plenty of heart and never stops trying. I think he&rsquo;ll make the all-star team next year.&rdquo;Irvin likens Johnson to another great Canadiens defenseman. He thinks his new rearguard is a player after Kenny Reardon&rsquo;s heart. &ldquo;He reminds me of Kenny a lot,&rdquo; says Dick, &ldquo;he has the same spirit.&rdquo;Johnson is a rugged individualist on the ice. He&rsquo;s an awkward skater and looks like he&rsquo;s going to fall flat on his face every time he makes a rush. He looks slow, as though he won&rsquo;t be able to go many feet before an opponent will catch him.&ldquo;He just looks slow,&rdquo; says teammate Ken Mosdell. &ldquo;Just try catching him. I&rsquo;ve tried in practice&hellip; he can really skate.&rdquo;One reason for Johnson&rsquo;s success is his ability to get the puck of of his own zone rapidly. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s the best defenseman to come into this league in a long time,&rdquo; says Irvin, &ldquo;he can get that puck up to the forwards litre a veteran.&rdquo;<h2>He Shows &rsquo;Em</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0314/910891-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1189" height="2013"><figcaption class="caption-body">MR. JOHNSON &hellip;&hellip; Geez, he caught me</figcaption></div>Most opposing coaches feel the same way to a degree about Johnson. We sat beside Lynn Patrick of the Bruins when the Habs were playing Chicago and asked him what he thought of Tom.&ldquo;He looks awkward and slow, but he gets there,&rdquo; said Lynn, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a pretty good boy.&rdquo;Johnson finds his biggest fault today is playing the point.&ldquo;Getting that shot away is a big thing in the game,&rdquo; he says, a guy has to get it away fast, and it takes a lot of practice, It&rsquo;s hard to get that puck through a maze of legs. I think that&rsquo;s our main fault right now, we&rsquo;re just not getting the shots away fast, enough.&rdquo;Other than that Johnson finds playing in the major league is not much different than playing anywhere else. &ldquo;There is only one way to play defence no matter what league you&rsquo;re in,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s the right way. I take a player out in the N.H.L. exactly the same way I did when I was with Buffalo. The only difference is they are much smarter here. A guy has to be on his toes all the time or they&rsquo;ll make a monkey out of him.&rdquo;Tom admits he never expects to win the league scoring championship. So far he has netted one goal and eight assists for nine points.His many minutes in the penalty box usually has him winding up by saying &ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;ll never win the scoring championship, I might as well win something.&rdquo;Johnson says Toe Blake and Walter Monson are the coaches who have given him his biggest breaks. Monson tutored him as a member of the Winnipeg Monarchs and Blake was his first coach as a professional with the Buffalo Bisons.&ldquo;Monson gave me my first break as a junior,&rdquo; says Tom. He really helped me. Blake also gave me a good break when he took me in Buffalo.&rdquo;To which Blake answers:&ldquo;To tell you the truth be never looked like a major leaguer to me. He couldn&rsquo;t skate, but he sure had a lot of heart and guts and he was willing to learn. Those kind of kids improve all the time. Wait and see, he&rsquo;ll be terrific in the N.H.L. in a couple of seasons.&rdquo;Johnson hails from Baldur, Manitoba, a hamlet of but 500 people. His father operated an agency for farm implements there. It wasn&rsquo;t too long ago that the family, business and all moved to Winnipeg.&ldquo;I never thought about hockey as a career,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;I was going to university, taking a commerce course. Playing in the National Hockey League was farthest from my mind.When he moved to Winnipeg he joined the Winnipeg Monarchs in the Manitoba Junior League and it was there that Frank Selke got his first look at him. The Monarchs are a Leaf&rsquo;s sponsored team but Selke managed to sneak him from them by paying $500. &ldquo;I have never been sorry for that move,&rdquo; says Selke.It was the following season, after playing just one year of organized hockey, that he was brought to Montreal where he was expected to play for the junior Royals. He sat around all that season doing nothing. The Monarchs refused to give him his release so he just played a fewgames while attending McGill University.When he finally did get his release he played for the Senior Royals, but not to any great degree. He wasn&rsquo;t too good a skater and every time he was put on the ice the fans gave him a neat razz-berry. They even took to throwing insults at Selke, for they knew he was a protege of the likeable little Manager. It got so bad that one night a fan actually had to run from Selke who was going after him with fists cocked. Irvin had to restrain him.The following season Johnson was sent to Buffalo and it was there that he started showing that he had what it takes.He so impressed Boston Bruins&rsquo; scout Baldy Cotton that the Canadiens were again asked to part with him.During the summer months the 5&rsquo;11&frac12;&rdquo; 175 pound rearguard spends his time as a surveyer with road building gangs in Manitoba. However, he is also a noted flood fighter. The overflowing waters of the Red River have twice demanded his services but that is something he doesn&rsquo;t like to talk about.This young man, who is addicted to cigars and bow-ties, knows that the difference between a good hockey player and an outstanding one is the difference between talent and genius and the way he&rsquo;s going he is certainly going to be outstanding some day. &#9632;

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Enter Tom Johnson, New NHL Color Guy

<div class="byline">By VERN DeGEER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0124/910957-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Six of the greatest names in the game gathered in Madison Square Gordens just few years ago and they looked as though they could go 60 minutes of hockey then. They are shown of center ice, from left to right Bun Cook, Ching Johnson, Bill Cook, Lester Patrick, Taffy Abel and Frank Boucher. Boucher will be honored by N.Y. Fons on February 14.</figcaption></div>(Sports News Dir., Montreal Gazette)MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;A little bit of heaven fell out the sky one day, and they not only called it Ireland, but delegated Francois &ldquo;Frank&rdquo; Boucher as it&rsquo;s stand-bearer.With a lilt and a tilt this doughty son of a proud Ottawa, Ontario newspaper compositor and a genial Irish mother, has been hitting all the high notes in the hockey symphony ever since.It&rsquo;s appropriate that the National Hockey League in general, New York in particular, should select February 14, St. Valentine&rsquo;s Day, to pay tribute to one of professional puckchasing&rsquo;s smoothest artists and most forthright managercoach.Around the major hockey wheel and out into the hinterlands there are dozens of sports writers and radio commentators, who, having come under the magic spell of this Mountain, Ontario apple grower, are proud to be able to count him as a friend&mdash;and ask him to be their Valentine.No character has ever danced through the pages of hockey history with a more infectious smile on his lips, nor a merrier song in his heart than our New York Rangers&rsquo; Valentine. That&rsquo;s why he is probably the game&rsquo;s most popular executive figure today, a man the typewriter boys love to quote.<h2>Frank Started with Dept. of Munitions</h2>Frank has been making news for the scribes and building up a romantic biography ever since a Summer&rsquo;s day just after the First World War.Frank and a &rsquo;teen-aged companion had finished a length stretch as workers with the department of munitions in Ottawa. The chum was a husky butcher boy who figured he knew all there was to know about horses and wanted to prove it.The boys decided to join th eromantic Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police. The butcher-wagon jockey qualified On all physical counts. But Frank was under age and small.The pal handled the situation like a seasoned politician. He persuaded mountie authorities that Frank was growing fast and bound to develop into a 200-pound, six-footer, like Pere Boucher.Impressed by the butcher-orator, the authorities said both lads could join the force if they obtained their parents&rsquo; consent.That &ldquo;consent&rdquo; was the work of a few hours. The boys simply got busy with pen and paper and forged the necessary parental documents.They were shipped off to a training school at Regina, Saskatchewan. Although Frank had never been astride a horse he learned fast in a hard-fisted college.Hockey&rsquo;s Mr. Valentine spent two years in the mountie service, attained a detective ranking and $90 a month and dug his teeth into the ice sport at Lethbridge, Alberta.Tommy Gorman flushed him out of the prairie country for Ottawa Senators in 1921-22. Frank Patrick lured him to Vancouver and the Coast League for four years before the sale of the entire western personnel to Eastern interests in the Summer of 1926.Frank was lassoed by Boston Bruins in the wholesale player deal, biggest on record but before he could learn to handle a Boston oyster knife Conn Smythe had purchased him for the New York Rangers, on the recommendation of Bill Cook. He&rsquo;s never been away from Madison Square Gardens since.When Victor Hugo wrote of the Three Musketeers, he might have been crystal-gazing, for Boucher formed a Rangers&rsquo; partnership with Bill and Bunny Cook in a manner similar to the novelist&rsquo;s swashbuckling trio.It became one of the greatest major hockey combinations of all time. Some claim it was the greatest. Certainly it was the most during and most colorful, marching to a pattern-play tempo that was the delight of thousands of National League fans, and the dispair of opponents-who tried to fathom the intricate manoeuvres.<h2>These Topped The Field</h2><h2>In Prime</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0220/910950-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="494" height="1261"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bouncher&hellip; &hellip;The Musketeer</figcaption></div>Off the ice the three were inseparable in one of hockey&rsquo;s finest sport-inspired friendships. It was so deep that Frank, city-born and city-raised, decided he would become a farmer like his hockey partners.Although he didn&rsquo;t know a plow from an axe handle he bought an ancient farm-house near Mountain, Ontario and between hockey seasons steeped himself in the lore of cattle, chicken and apple orchards.It took Frank and his equally enthusiastic wife, Ag, 11 years to develop the farm and buildings into one of the finest establishments in the community. Typically, they presented the entire layout to their only son, Earl a year ago.Now they&rsquo;re building and creating another farm and a new home a mile away. To augment the music in their hearts, the Bouchers put in calls to Ottawa and brother Joe comes racing out with an inexhaustible memory of piano notes that he rools out for endless social gatherings.Beneath a carefree exterior, there beats in Frank Boucher&rsquo;s heart, deep devotion to the world&rsquo;s fastest sport. No former player or executive has given the game closer study. Few have made more important rule-change contributions in recent years.<h2>Boucher Has Contributed Much To Game</h2>The red-line is his brain child. He startled the hockey world a few years back by employing two goal-tenders, Chuck Rayner and Sugar Jim Henry. First he used them in alternate games. He went a step further one night at Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens. He subbed the two netminders the same way he switched defenseman and forwards.Before the 1947-48 season opened he delivered the first of several remarkable crystal-ball predictions. He forecast a playoff spot for his Rangers, mired deep in the N.H.L. cellar the previous year. He announced that Montreal Canadiens would fail to make the charmed circle. Friends and foe thought he was daft. But he wasn&rsquo;t. He even predicted correctly the exact order of finish of the circuit.Frank&rsquo;s rollicking days with the Lester Patrick-guided Rangers were doubtless his happiest. He can talk engagingly for hours on exciting league and Stanley Cup games the team experienced. His favorite off-the-ice yarn concerns defenseman Ching Johnson, who showed up for pre-season training in Toronto one Fall with a five-gallon tin of alcohol.&ldquo;For medicinal purposes only,&rdquo; Ching explained.After a generous application of the snake-bite cure one evening, Ching boarded a Toronto street car in the suburb area. The car was deserted. The motorman-conductor was interested in an investigation into the medicine.Inspired by the life-giving fluid the motorman insisted on piloting the street car to Ching&rsquo;s destination, which was a hotel in downtown Toronto. The tour took the merry pair far from the regular tramway route. Though some miracle the street car made the trip safely, with Ching being deposited right in front of the hostelry.Life with Frank Boucher has never been dull. He&rsquo;s given much to hockey as a player and as a coach. He&rsquo;s made life a merrier one for the newspapermen on the hockey beat.It&rsquo;s nice to know folks are doing something to salute this Happy Warrior after all those hectic, romantic years. It couldn&rsquo;t happened to a grander hockey disciple.<h2>As manager</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0313/910943-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="594" height="555"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank&hellip; &hellip;Astride A Horse</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-043/910936-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="592" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Boucher &hellip;&hellip; His Red Line</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Boucher Danced Through Pages Of Ice Hisstory

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>NEW YORK&mdash;It was in 192 6 that Conn Smythe signed the Cook brothers to play for the New York Rangers and they turned up for training in the Fall of that season.But to round out the club a good centerman was needed to pivot Bill and Bun. The decision to find the man needed was left up to Bill Cook.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s only one center in the business as far as I&rsquo;m concerned and that&rsquo;s Frank Boucher. Get him and we&rsquo;ll have one of the best lines in the league,&rdquo; said Bill.So the Rangers signed Boucher and he became the pivot man for the Cooks. But Bill&rsquo;s statement that with Boucher on a line with him and his brother would be one of the best trios in the league, was a vast understatement. As it turned out they were not only the best in the league but many rate them the greatest of all times.That was in 1926, yet strangely enough just five years before Boucher was a sub with the Ottawa Senators. &rsquo;Picture a warm dressing room with three young players sitting around playing cards. One was Frank Boucher, a slender youngster of 20 who had learned to play hockey under the lights of the Minto bridge spanning Ottawa&rsquo;s Rideau river. The other two youngsters were King Clancy and Billy Bell. They were. playing their usual game of &ldquo;500&rdquo;.Outside it was cold-so that the three substitutes, Boucher, Clancy and Bell, knew it was little use watching from the bench as the Ottawa regulars skated out an accustomed 60-minute performance. Men like Clint Benedict, Frank Nighbor, Cy Denneny and Punch Broadbent didn&rsquo;t need substitutes often.And if replacements were needed, the substitutes knew they would be summoned by an ingenious system of bells they had rigged from the bench to the dressing room. Instead of sitting on the cold bench in the open air, they stayed in the dressing room some distance away, playing cards until the bell tolled.For Boucher, there was little hope of action. He was a center and the Senators had the great poke-checking Nighbor at that position. As a boy Boucher had saved cigarette cards of great hockey players and the one he had cherished most was that of the great Nighboor. Now he was Nighbor&rsquo;s understudy.But one night that season, in Hamilton, Ontario, the summons came. Nervously, the substitute skated out to face off against Bullet Joe Malone, a great hockey player approaching the end of the trail. Hockey was rugged then as now, and players wasted little time on courtly gestures. But Malone took of his glove and shook hands with the rookie.Boucher, encouraged by this treatment, scored three goals that night in his professional debut. He was on his way to stardom.<div class="sidebar"><h2>PHOTOS!!</h2>The only photograph the Chicago Black Hawks have for distribution is one of the entire team. Pictures of individual players are NOT available.Send 10c in United States coin&mdash;r.o stamps please&mdash;to cover cost of mailing and you will receive a 10 x 12 colored picture of the Black Hawks.Send toNestor Johnson, 1900 N. Springfield, Chicago 47, III. &#9632;</div>

Boucher Waited Long Time For Chance

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0195/911068-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="268" height="423"></div>KEN MOSDELL has had his nose broken 10 times playing hockey.The tall center of the Montreal Canadiens is still behind the mark set by Eddie Shore in the battle of the bashed beak. The former Boston Bruins&rsquo; great had his schnozzle busted no fewer than 14 times&hellip; Mosdell, incidentally, is one of the four players in the National Hockey League who were members of the colorful New York Americans. The other three are Chuck Rayner and Pat Egan of New York Rangers and Harry Watson of Toronto. Mosdell, Rayner and Watson played for the team in the 1941-42 season, last year the Amerks operated. Egan is the real veteran having joined the club the year before. The team was known officially as the Brooklyn Americans during that last season &hellip; Buzz Beaver, the mythical Leaf mascot, says: &ldquo;Cal Gardner hasn&rsquo;t had a good laugh since Kenny Reardon left the league. Kenny used to always keep Cal in stitches&rdquo; &hellip; Five members of the Winnipeg Monarchs power-packed Memorial Cup champions of 1946 are now playing for the Sydney Millionaires of the Cape Breton League. They are Goalie Jackie Gibson, Defensemen Laurie May and Tom Rockey, and Forwards Don (Red) McRae and George Robertson &hellip; Rockey is having a good year on defense for the Millionaires&hellip; Gus Bodnar of Chicago and Gordie Howe of Detroit should become members of the N.H.L. Century Club this season. On Feb. 5, Bodnar had scored 99 goals in regular N.H.L. play, Howe had tallied 9 3 times&hellip; Every team has a work-horse, a reliable guy who goes through his movements without fuss or fanfare, but seldom if ever makes the headlines. Just such a warrior is Bill Juzda of Toronto. The rugged Leaf defenseman is one of the most underrated defenders in hockey &hellip; and one of the best.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0289/911061-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="272" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gus Bodnar</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0336/911054-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="272" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cal Gardner</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0416/911047-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="271" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Mosdell</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0512/911040-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="268" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vic Lynn</figcaption></div>SASKATOON, Sask, has sent more players to professional hockey teams during the last few years than has any other city of its size in the world. Of all the players who were born in or near Saskatoon and learned their hockey in that city, the following team could be iced from players currently campaigning in pro ranks: Goal, Chuck Rayner (Rangers); Defense, Hal Laycoe (Canadiens), Hy Buller (Cleveland), Keith Allen (Springfield) and Bob Dawes (Cincinnati); Forwards, Harry Watson (Toronto), Max Bentley (Chicago), Gordie Howe (Detroit), Tony Leswick (Rangers), Gerry Couture (Detroit), Vic Lynn (Boston), Pat Lundy (Chicago), Don Morrison (Chicago), Max McNab (Indianapolis), Eldie Kobussen (Pittsburgh), George Agar (Denver) and Kenny Ullyot (New Westminster). Saskatoon could also supply a coach in Clint (Snuffy) Smith, presently masterminding the St. Paul Saints of the U.S.H.L. This mythical squad could strengthen the defense if it was found necessary by putting Vic Lynn back at the blueline with Hy Buller. Both teamed together on defense for the Saskatoon Quakers Juniors in 1941-42. Bob Dawes is listed as a defenseman, but he could play either defense or forward, a stunt he has done regularly since turning pro&hellip; Ralph Almas (St. Louis) and Bill Brennan (Omaha), two very capable cage custodians, would be available for goaltending duties if needed&hellip; Sktn. could also supply a top hockey writer in Vern DeGeer and a cracker-jack hockey announcer in Jack Wells &hellip; There is a former Chicago Black Hawks player on every one of the five other N.H.L. teams this season. There&rsquo;s Bert Olmstead of Canadians; Max Bentley of Toronto; Alex Kaleta of Rangers; Pete Horeck of Boston; and Bob Goldham, Metro Prystai, Leo Reise, Gaye Stewart, George Gee and Vic Stasiuk of Detroit&hellip; Jack Giesbrecht of the Denver Falcons of the U.S.H.L. is the only player in his league who has taken part in all his team&rsquo;s games. In addition he has yet to serve a penalty this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-067/911033-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="284" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Raleigh</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-077/911026-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="266" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ralph Almas</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-087/911019-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="274" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body">Max McNab</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-097/911012-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="289" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Juzda</figcaption></div>BALLOTING for THE HOCKEY NEWS annual N.H.L. All-Star team starts this week. Be sure to take part in this interesting pastime. This is the only N.H.L. All-Star team selected solely by the fans&hellip; Chuck Scherza of Providence has played all positions including goaltender in his lengthy puck career&hellip; Every one of the American Hockey League teams has been shut out at least once this season. Three clubs, Buffalo, Springfield and Indianapolis, have yet to register a blanking over an opponent&hellip; Don Raleigh, of Rangers is playing the best hockey of his career at the moment. The slender pivotman has done his utmost to pick up the slack caused by Edgar Laprade&rsquo;s broken ankle&hellip; Pentti Lund has also been playing well for the New Yorkers. He was a big disappointment earlier this season but seems to have found himself again&hellip; Pat Egan, New York defenseman, still boasts the hardest shot in the league&hellip; Denver Falcons suffered a blow when Neil Strain suffered a broken arm recently. He will be lost for the balance of the season &hellip; Tom Johnson, Montreal&rsquo;s outstanding rookie defenseman, is the only player of Icelandic origin playing in the N.H.L. today&hellip; Frank Frederickson, former Boston Bruins&rsquo; star, was also Icelandic. &#9632;

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Passing the Puck

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-106/911099-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="586" height="888"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOBEY BAKER</figcaption></div>Remember Hobey Baker&mdash;regarded by oldtimers as the finest hockey player developed in the United States and although he never played professional hockey, was rated by many who observed his play as a cinch to make good in the pro game.Baker is a legendary figure at Princeton University. He was on outstanding all-around athlete. Blond, handsome and a gentleman in every sense of the word, Hobey did more to advance the popularity of hockey in the United States than any man before him. The late George Kennedy, once owner of the Montreal Canadiens, was so impressed with Baker&rsquo;s play that he offered him a $1,000 to sign a pro contract. But Baker, a true amateur, laughingly declined.A member of the International Hockey Hall of Fame, Baker was killed in France on December 21, 1918. A captain in the United States when his plane crashed.<h2>Remember this Famous Name in Banking&hellip;</h2>The Canadian Bank of Commerce&ldquo;The Commerce&rdquo; &#9632;

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Remember this Famous Name in Hockey…

<div class="byline">By PAUL CHANDLER</div>(Detroit New)<h2>Girls, If It Were Leap Year You Could Look And Leap</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0147/911193-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="430" height="1014"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE 5 years to think</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0239/911186-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="661" height="1012"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARTY PAVELICH Cooks and Looks</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0327/911179-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="619" height="1014"><figcaption class="caption-body">LEN KELLY No Redhead</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0421/911172-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="561" height="1014"><figcaption class="caption-body">TERRY SAWCHUK 9 long years.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0515/911165-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="478" height="1014"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED LINDSAY &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not fair&rdquo;</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0611/911158-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="512" height="999"><figcaption class="caption-body">GERRY COUTURE Ring giver</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-075/911151-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="579" height="999"><figcaption class="caption-body">VIC STASIUK Still looking</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-083/911144-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="552" height="996"><figcaption class="caption-body">METRO PRYSTAI Money in bank</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-092/911137-1-eng-US/f0005-092.jpg" title="f0005-09" width="558" height="999"><figcaption class="caption-body">CLARE RAGLAN To be happy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-102/911130-1-eng-US/f0005-102.jpg" title="f0005-10" width="532" height="999"><figcaption class="caption-body">JIM McFADDEN He&rsquo;ll wait</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.It has been published that there are 10 Red Wing bachelors but not why.All 10 were in the Olympia dressing room. &ldquo;Fellows,&rdquo; said the one who wanted to write the story, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got to find out if you are womenhaters or whether the &lsquo;right one&rsquo; just hasn&rsquo;t come along.&rdquo;Laughter, somewhat embarrassed &hellip; Wisecracks &hellip; Blushes &hellip; &ldquo;Only been in love once in my life&mdash;that was with my first car, a &rsquo;34 Chewy.&rdquo; said Gordon Howe &hellip; Some one whistled: &ldquo;I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad&rdquo; &hellip; Another chanted: &ldquo;Some Sunday morning when the weather is&mdash;.&rdquo;Altogether the early moments were not comfortable, though it was curious that half the club thus far had escaped the vows and odd that the Detroit club had 35 per cent more unmarried players than any other team in the National League. As a group, it was plain the 10 &lsquo;had everything&rsquo;&mdash;rugged good looks, substantial income, modesty, manners, character and good habits.They had to be interviewed individually. This is no boast&mdash;they were.In summation, only two admitted having &ldquo;a best girl.&rdquo; They were Jerry Couture, who said he was engaged, and Marty Pavelich, who was flushed to confessing, &ldquo;there is a girl in Windsor.&rdquo; There was grave suspicion that the interviews did not provide the whole truth, for when Ted Lindsay, who drives a Cadillac, denied he had a girl, his buddy, Howe, interrupted: &ldquo;Come on, Ted, you don&rsquo;t think you can get away with that?&rdquo; All were chary about declaring for or against Canadian and American girls as preferred types.There could be only one conclusion: They&rsquo;re all lonely hearts. Each bachelor was asked the same questions&mdash;Why are you waiting? Do you prefer Canadian girls or American? Brunets or blondes or red-heads? Is a good cook more important than good looks?Here are the answers:Leonard Patrick Kelly (red-headed, age 23, 5 feet 11, 180 pounds, plus a bewitching smile): &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll marry any time now, I&rsquo;m just waiting for the right girl. On the average, there&rsquo;s no difference between Canadian and American girls. Brunets or blondes are fine but I can&rsquo;t get along with another red-head. We always clash. I want a wife who&rsquo;s a good cook, but I hope she&rsquo;s good-looking, too.&rdquo;Terry Sawchuk (charming grin, age 21, 5 feet 11, 195 pounds): &ldquo;I&rsquo;m too young to get married. I&rsquo;m going to wait until I&rsquo;m 30, no matter who comes along. No comment on Canadian girls compared to Americans. I&rsquo;ll want a good looking wife. You can always hire a cook. Brunets for me.&rdquo;Marty Pavelich (great good humor, age 23, 5 feet 11, 170 pounds): &ldquo;I&rsquo;m too young to be married. I thought the right girl came along a couple of times but I caught myself. Don&rsquo;t care about those chemistry blondes. I&rsquo;ll find a girl who can cook and look good&mdash;both.&rdquo;Ted Lindsay (perfect manners, age 25, 5 feet 8, 165 pounds): &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not fair to marry a girl when you&rsquo;re playing hockey. We&rsquo;re on the road half the time, out to banquets, and otherwise unable to keep up home life. I&rsquo;ll wait until my hockey days are ended. Hair color doesn&rsquo;t matter. I want personality in a girl, I can teach her how to cook.&rdquo;Gordon Howe (quiet and modest, age 22, 6 feet 1, 185 pounds): &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be married five years from the time I first think about the big step. I like Canadian girls. My mother is Canadian. When the right girl comes along I guess she&rsquo;ll make the decision. I want a pleasant girl who can cook a steak. Otherwise all she needs is a good can opener.&rdquo;Jerry Couture (College student, age 25, 6 feet 2, 185 lbs.): &ldquo;A girl in Toronto has the ring. Met her at the University of Saskatchewan when she was studying to be a nurse and I was in pre-med. Don&rsquo;t know when we&rsquo;ll be married. I think she can cook.&rdquo;Jim McFadden (Irish-born, age 29, 5 feet 7, 180): &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll wait till I&rsquo;m through with hockey. Give me the Canuck girls, good looking brunets. I want a cook with looks, if I can get one.&rdquo;Metro Prystai (strong and silent, age 23, 5 feet 9, 170 lbs.): &ldquo;Give me a chance, I&rsquo;ll marry the right girl. I&rsquo;ve wanted to get a little money in the bank. American girls seem a little more forward than Canadians. How about a pretty brunet who can cook spaghetti?&rdquo;Clare Raglan (big and blond, age 23, 6 feet 1, 190 lbs.): &ldquo;Haven&rsquo;t found her yet. Detroit girls seem a little nicer than the ones in Chicago. Brunets for me.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s the story, anyway, and any maiden fair who doubts it will have to do further research on her own. &#9632;

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Blondes, Brunets, Yanks, Canucks—Who Cares—We Want Good Lookers Who Know How To Cook

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded.October 1, 1947 Published byHockey News Company, 603A Sun Life Building, Montreal, Que.Yearly Subscription Price $2.50 in Canada $3.50 in U.S.A.Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Entered as second class mail at the Povt Office in Utica, N.Y. Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company, 60 Sun Life Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Printed in CanadaVol. 4 February 10, 1951 No. 19BALANCE IS A PRECARIOUS THING!Although he isn&rsquo;t even playing&mdash;in fact, may never play again &mdash; it would seem on the surface that Black Jack Stewart deserves to be named the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player in Absentia, if such an award existed!The Most Valuable banner, of course, is given to the man whose play over the season has been of most benefit to his club, and whose inspirational value has been greatest. A man who isn&rsquo;t even playing naturally doesn&rsquo;t qualify, but if they ever put a reverse switch on this award, Stewart by all odds should be the most logical choice. The way Chicago Black Hawks sagged and came apart at the seams after the rugged defenseman left the lineup seems to indicate he was quite an important factor in the scheme of things.Of course, there&rsquo;s more to it than just that. While Stewart&rsquo;s loss was undoubtedly a hard blow to the Hawks, disrupting their morale and their entire defensive concept at one and the same time, there were other factors entering into it. After equalling the all-time record for non-winning efforts, the Chicagoans finally pulled themselves up by the bootstraps for a resounding win over Boston, even without the impetus of the Stewart inspiration.While all the above doesn&rsquo;t necessarily prove that the Hawks without Stewart were a mere shadow of their former self, it does point up the delicate state of balance which exists in such a complex machine as a modern hockey team. Let just one or two little things go wrong and a whole team can be thrown out of gear.That can be a serious thing for a team like the Hawks, one of the four tail-end clubs who must battle it out for the third and fourth place playoff positions. During their slump the Hawks slid from an active contender deep into the cellar depths, from where they can climb only by catching fire and putting on some winning streaks to match their late lamented losing skeins.But more serious than that &mdash; particularly from a magnate&rsquo;s point of view&mdash;is the financial loss such a disruption of the league balance can cause. Gate receipts, already hard hit by the shrinking sports dollar, took it on the chin during the Hawks unhappy plight as the fans began staying away from the rink in droves. Only a few more than 5,000 turned out for the game in Chicago February 1st.Ironically, the night the bottom was reached &mdash; a low point in attendance for the past twenty years &mdash; was the night the Chicagoans finally snapped their losing streak. So only a handful of the faithful were on hand to see their team come up off the floor.This business of trying to maintain a proper balance is thus one problem which hockey is going to find more and more difficult if the world emergency cuts off any of the flow of young players coming up. Since the majority of N.H.L. players are Canadian citizens, they are immune to the icy winds of the draft &mdash; temporarily at least &mdash; so hockey probably won&rsquo;t be quite as hard hit as other major sports at the present time.Despite that, it looks as though now might be a good time for all the clubs to do some long-range planning, to make sure that they have balanced teams and a balanced league, playing hockey the fans will pay to see. It may be one answer to the problem of slumping gate receipts, which this year have been quite closely connected with slumping performances on the part of the home teams affected.SHARE THE WEALTH MAYBE?One plan which has been suggested at intervals, and which is revived again this winter, is that the teams share the gates they draw with the visiting squads. One proposal is to assess a levy of twenty-five cents against each ticket sold, and apply this as the visiting team&rsquo;s share of the gate.This idea has worked out well in baseball, making it possible for teams in cities where only a small park is available to hold their own with the large centers. Also, it provides a margin of safety when one particular team is in a slump and failing to draw the customers.With their share of the gates in other cities, a weak sister in the loop can carry on instead of having to drop by the wayside. That probably isn&rsquo;t too much of a threat in the N.H.L. so far, since there probably isn&rsquo;t anything wrong with the attendance in any city which a good team couldn&rsquo;t remedy. But it might become a problem in the future as revenues are undoubtedly due to shrink&mdash;barring the bonanza of an all-out war such as the last one which brought club owners a large measure of prosperity.A system of sharing the gate might allow other cities to enter the N.H.L. and broaden the scope of the competition, which according to many observers fails to supply sufficient variety for the fans with only six teams meeting one another again and again in the extended 70-game schedule. &#9632;

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0237/911279-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="614" height="279"></div>February 10 to February 2218&mdash;JOHNSON, Tom, defense, Canadiens. 1928.19&mdash;CROZIER, Joe defense, Vancouver, 1929.21&mdash;FORBES, Jake, defense, Omaha 1925.22&mdash;REARDON, Larry, defense, Vancouver 1925; ABEL, Sid, forward, Detroit, 1918; ARCHAMBAULT, Larry, forward, Buffalo, 1921; BAK, Walter, defense, Milwaukee, 1925. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;Bruins&rsquo; opponents will probably never think well of Bad Bill Ezinicki, but one of his bosses placed the little right wing at the top of his list for courage after his epic battle with Ted Lindsay of Detroit last month.The executive was Art Ross, general manager of the Bruins, and one of the most rugged characters of any era as a player.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen some courageous guys in this game,&rdquo; declared Ross, &ldquo;but this Ezinicki beats them all.&rdquo;Ezinicki came out of the Detroit fracas wearing 19 stitches, 11 of them in his forehead, four in his lip, four more on the back of his head. He also acquired two black eyes and lost a tooth.His Knee HurtFour days after the fight X-rays revealed that he also had a broken nose&mdash;a nasal bone fracture with an obstruction on one side.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s really tough,&rdquo; said Dr. Tom Kelly, the Bruins&rsquo; physician. &ldquo;It was a bad break, but he wouldn&rsquo;t think of not playing.&rdquo;Neither Ezinicki nor Lindsay could play in the return engagement between the Bruins and Red Wings here two nights after the fight because of their suspensions by President Clarence Campbell, but Bad Bill was on deck for his regular turn a night later against Montreal. He played regularly and received two penalties. He hasn&rsquo;t missed any playing or practice time since.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll say he&rsquo;s tough,&rdquo; echoed Coach Lynn Patrick. &ldquo;Know the only thing about which he complained? His knee! He said it hurt him a little.&rdquo;The Ezinicki-Lindsay fight resulted in the year&rsquo;s biggest crowd for the game two nights after it occurred. A crowd of 12,887 people turned out, the second-largest of the winter season at the Garden. &#9632;

Battered, Bloody, Ez Runs Back For More

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Pete Babando, the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; 25-year-old left winger, will probably gain the unenvied distinction of becoming the first NHL player to be drafted into the armed forces because of the Korean war. He took his physical examination in Chicago on January 26 and was told he&rsquo;d be notified what his classification was 10 days later. He&rsquo;s unmarried and is a United States citizen.&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll probably be with us for another 40 days,&rdquo; Hawk President William Tobin said, the day Pete was receiving his physical.The question of who&rsquo;ll be next of course now arises almost automatically. Only time and the result of the conflict in the Orient will probably supply the final answer to this query, but numerous observations concerning possibilities can be made relatively easily.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0326/911348-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="598" height="615"><figcaption class="caption-body">PETE BABANDO</figcaption></div>Ken McKenzie, the NHL publicity director and co-publisher of THE HOCKEY NEW&rsquo;S, made a study on marital status among the NHL players only a few weeks ago.His report revealed that Detroit Red Wings are the most bachelor-like squad with ten members still unmarried. Toronto, New York and Boston each have six single men on their rosters while the Black Hawks have five and the Montreal Canadiens only four.The nine Detroiters are: Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay, Gordie Howe, Marty Pavelich, Metro Prystai, Gerry Couture, Jimmy McFadden, Vic Stasiuk and Glare Raglan. The single Habs are: Tom Johnson, Paul Masnick, Calum MacKay and Bert Olmstead. Chicago&rsquo;s men without wives are Hugh Coflin, Bill Gadsby, Al Dewsbury, Harry Lumley and Babando.Off the marital status matter alone, the Red Wings seem to be in the most serious shape, but a lot of other factors have to be contended with besides this one and Jack Adams and Tommy Ivan probably aren&rsquo;t too concerned yet.During the last war Montreal came off almost intouched by enlistments or drafts into the armed forces. Of their current lineup only Billy Reay missed any play due to the hostilities. He was out of pro hockey for two years.The Red Wings served the most time in World War II, the study reveals. Seven Detroiters were out a total of 22 years or better than three years a piece.Six New York Rangers were absent 14 years all together during the hostilities and three Boston Bruins missed about seven years in all. This means that each of these men were out an average of approximately two and a third years of play.Eight of the current Black Hawks did their share too and had to miss an aggregate total of 18 years in NHL hockey. This figures out to about two and a quarter years per man.Next to the Habs, the Toronto Maple Leafs were hit for the shortest time. Six of the Leafs were out of action for 12 years for an average of two years a man. &#9632;

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Draft Catches Pet Babando, Who’s Next?

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;One of the most surprising bombshells that has been thrown this season was the banishment of Long John McCormack, the Leafs&rsquo; lanky penalty killing centre, to the salt mines at Pittsburgh one day after his marriage to Margaret Anne Gordon of Weston, a suburb(?) of Toronto.McCormack&rsquo;s long struggle to get to the top with the Leafs was clouded by the sudden order of the Leaf management that he be sent to the Hornets and it followed Conn Smythe too closely on his marriage to leave much more than the impression that one was the result of the other.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01103/911410-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="316" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">Conn Smythe</figcaption></div>There were extenuating circumstances in the move in that Jim Balmer, Hornet boss, had been asking for a life-saver for his club which at the time were in third place, well back of the western division leading Cleveland Barons, and most anxious to leave Cincinnati holding one of the lesser bags in the race for the playoffs.He&rsquo;ll Aid HornetsMcCormack will certainly be of aid to the Hornets who can stand generous quantities of his forechecking and penalty killing.The Goose, as he was nicknamed by his junior clubmates with the St. Michael&rsquo;s from whence he sprung, got to be one of the most frustrating checkers in the NHL. There aren&rsquo;t many around today who can say that they halted him with a good solid body check. He was too elusive to be caught by one and his long armed sweeping check usually put too much distance between him and anybody who lad designs on shaking him loose from his skates.While there was speculation that McCormack&rsquo;s demotion at Conn Smythe&rsquo;s order came as a result of his quick marriage at a time when some hockey men would have considered it more beneficial to the club to wait till the end of the schedule, it was also rife that John would be back on the Leaf scene before too long.February 15 marks the deadline date for naming players to be called up from the minors. If was pointed out by some of the Leafs who felt lower than a beaver&rsquo;s belt buckle at McCormack&rsquo;s departure, that as he has to stay with the minor league club for a minimum of fourteen days he would not have been able to be named if he had been sent to the Hornets later. He got his ticket on January 31 and joined the Hornets that night.<h2>To Salt Mines</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0263/911403-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="556" height="891"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY McCORMACK</figcaption></div>McCormack, after years of almost making pro, finally signed a pro contract that transformed him from a well paid amateur (Marlboro seniors) to a full fledged Leaf on January 13, 1950. He turned pro at a time when the Leafs were minus centre strength with Cal Gardner still nursing a broken jaw he suffered when it came into contact with Kenny Reardon&rsquo;s elbow one November night in Montreal.Though he&rsquo;s only 25 the tall Edmontonian has a colorful career behind him. In 1945 and &rsquo;46, after a year with Tulsa, he entered the priesthood decided that it wasn&rsquo;t his calling and returned for action with the Marlboro seniors.He made an unsensational start in three pro games in the following year and garnered one assist. The following season he started one with no results.It was felt the following season that the Leafs had given up on him as a pro prospect when he wasn&rsquo;t invited to the fall training camp at St. Catharines. He was studying law at the time and it appeared that hockey was doomed to be a part time job with him.But the injury to Gardner gave him his break. He threw away the books and concentrated on hockey with the result that he played 34 games with the Leafs that season. He only counted for 11 points&mdash;six goals and five assists&mdash;but hockey experts were quick to determine that his amazing checking would fill the gap left by the retirement of the penalty killing farmer from Wilcox, Saskatchewan, Nick Metz.He made the leap from Marlboro seniors of the OHA (top point getter when he made it) to the Leafs without too much trouble when he finally did stick. Hap Day put him between Bill Ezinicki and Vic Lynn first off and the combination seemed to catch hold right away. He demonstrated the happy faculty of being able to work with anybody or any combination of bodies and though he soon found that the tricks he used to score in the amateurs didn&rsquo;t work with the big league goaltenders too well he was a valuable asset for any coach to have on his bench.He&rsquo;ll be likewise at Pittsburgh. And don&rsquo;t bet that he won&rsquo;t once again be with the Leafs. &#9632;

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Smythe Orders Goose To Hornets Following Marrage

It seems like yesterday that we were writing about a problem child named Danny Lewicki who had refused to play in the Toronto organization. We would never have believed that in such a short time he would be chosen by us as Player-Of-The-Week and &rsquo;Schaefer&rsquo; Award winner. But he has, and we are proud to do so.&ldquo;I never thought he would turn out as good as he has&rdquo; General Manager Hap Day of the Leafs freely admits. &ldquo;I always knew he had what it takes but I was worried lest he had a bad season and got down in the dumps. He is sure playing well right now.&rdquo;To say he is playing well is a vast understatement and it may rate as the biggest understatement in hockey this season. Not only is the former problem child performing well for the Leafs but he is also well up in the running for the Calder Memorial Trophy, better known as the rookie award.Few rookies ever hit the 20 goal mark, but it&rsquo;s obvious Lewicki will do just that this season. Playing on a line with Max Bentley at center and Joe Klukay at right wing Danny has been able to score 16 goals so far this season. Many of those 16 have been gems. He scores them from all angles and his versatility in netting the disc seems to be his earmark to stardom. He can think and play the game, &ldquo;said one veteran&rdquo;, and when you can do that then your in this game to stay.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0427/911486-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="272" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Danny Lewicki</figcaption></div>Last week, mainly through Lewicki&rsquo;s effort, the Leafs stayed right on the Wings&rsquo; tail for the N.H.L. leadership. Lewicki scored just three goals, but they were all important ones. Besides his three counters he added two assists for a total of five points. His 33 points puts him well up in the scoring.Danny started on his five point week on February 1st against the Canadiens. The Leafs scored a 3-1 victory over their rivals and Lewicki netted the second and what turned out to be the winner. Two nights later the Leafs continued on their winning streak by whipping the lowly Hawks 6-3. This time the Leafs&rsquo; new left winger netted a goal and two assists. One night later in Boston the Leafs came from behind a 3-0 deficit. Lewicki played a major role in the tie game nd added a goal as the Torontonians left with one point.Yes sir, this kid Lewicki may well turn out to be another Richard or Howe. He knows his way around, his shift has been rated one of the best in the league and the Leafs are counting on him to bring the Stanley Cup back to the house that Conn Smythe built. &#9632;

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Player-Of-The-Week

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>Rugged GuyArt Ross, a rugged character himself when he played professional hockey, placed Bill Ezinicki of the Boston Bruins at the top of his list. Ross, now Bruins* general manager, said &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen courageous guys in this game but this Ezinicki beats them all.&rdquo;Every GameOnly 35 players have taken part in every one of their club&rsquo;s games this season. The others have missed games through injuries or being benched. Ten players on the Detroit roster have been action in every Red Wing game; seven Boston players have taken part in all the Bruins&rsquo; clashes; Toronto and Montreal have six players apiece.MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs moved closer to the league-leading Detroit Red Wings last week and are now just three points back of the Motor City six. The Wings have played 50 games and have 68 points. The Leafs have played one game less and have 65 points. Montreal Canadiens are third with 47 points, and are followed in turn by Boston Bruins with 44, New York Rangers with 42, and Chicago Black Hawks with 34.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0186/911455-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="288" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rocket Richard</figcaption></div>Montreal&rsquo;s Maurice Richard racked up his second &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; of the season on February 3. The brilliant right winger has a total of 31 goals for the season and is six ahead of Gordie Howe of Detroit, who is the second highest goal-getter in the National circuit. Howe, however, is the top man in amassing scoring points. The rugged Detroiter has a mark of 25-33-58, which is 11 higher than Toronto&rsquo;s Max Bentley, second top point collector in the League. Bentley has 16 goals and 31 assists for 47 points. Howe&rsquo;s 33 assists places him ahead of all other players in that department, too.Richard with 4 6 points is third among the point-makers, and is trailed by Sid Abel of Detroit with 44, Ted Lindsay, also of Detroit, with 43, and Tod Sloan, Toronto and Milt Schmidt, Boston, with 41 points apiece.Rookie Al Rollins of the Maple Leafs played three games during the week and still boasts the best goals-against average of any net-minder in the loop. In 23 games Al has allowed 43 goals to be scored against him tor a 1.87 average. Terry Sawchuk of Detroit with 106 goals, against in 50 games has the second best average with 2.12. Sawchuk leads in number of shutouts with seven. Gerry McNeil of Canadiens is second with six &ldquo;horse-collars&rsquo; to his credit.Bill Ezinicki of Boston is the most penalized player in the League with 111 minutes spent in the sin-bin. Toronto Maple Leafs are the most penalized team with a total of 609 penalty minutes.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>STANDINGS ON TLE. A.M., FEB. 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0267/911448-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="590" height="255"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESFeb. 1&mdash;Toronto 3, Canadiens 1Feb. 1&mdash;Rangers 2, Detroit 3Feb. 1&mdash;Boston 2, Chicago 5Feb. 3&mdash;Boston 1, Canadiens 4Feb. 3&mdash;Chicago 3, Toronto 6Feb. 4&mdash;Canadiens 3, Detroit 3Feb. 4&mdash;Toronto 3, Boston 3Feb. 4&mdash;Rangers 4, Chicago 4NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMESFeb. 7&mdash;Canadiens at TorontoFeb. 7&mdash;Rangers at BostonFeb. 7&mdash;Chicago at DetroitFeb. 8&mdash;Detroit at ChicagoFeb. 10&mdash;Canadiens at BostonFeb. 10&mdash;Detroit at TorontoFeb. 11&mdash;Canadiens at RangersFeb. 11&mdash;Toronto at ChicagoFeb. 11&mdash;Detroit at BostonTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1DETROIT.&mdash;Gordie Howe, leading scorer of the National Hockey League, slammed home a pair of goals to give the pace-setting Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 triumph over the stubborn New York Rangers&hellip;New York: Goal, Rayner: defence, Egan, Stanley; centre. McLeod; wings, Kullman. Leswick; subs.: Eddolls, Evans, Stanowski, O&rsquo;Connor, Raleigh. Lund, Mickoski. Toppazzini, Kyle, Kaleta, Slowinski, Sinclair.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk: defence. Reise, Kelly; centre, Abel; wings. Lindsay, Howe: subs.: Goldham. Martin. Gee, Peters, G. Stewart. Pavelich. McFadden, Prystai, Couture, Stasiuk, Gravelle, Raglan.First Period1&mdash;Detroit: Howe (Abel) &hellip;&hellip; 7:52Penalties: None.Second Period2&mdash;New York: O&rsquo;Connor (Lund). 7:063&mdash;Detroit: Howe &hellip;&hellip; 15:28Penalty: Evans.Third Period4&mdash;Detroit: McFadden (Kelly) &hellip;&hellip; 3:085&mdash;New York: McLeod (Eddolls). 12:38Penalties: Egan, Evans.MONTREAL.&mdash;Canadiens were back in the familiar role of &ldquo;cousins&rdquo; to the Toronto Maple Leafs again. The visitors pumped in three fast goals in the opening period, and coasted home from there to a 3-1 victory. It was a depressing night in the Forum for the 14,317 who braved the elements to sit in on the proceedings.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence. Juz-da, Flaman; centre, Kennedy; wings, Sloan, Smith: subs.: Thomson, Mortson, Watson, Barilko. Bentley, Klukay, Meeker, Mackell, Gardner, Lewicki, Timgren.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil: defence, Harmon, MacPherson; centre, Mosdell; wings, Curry. MacKay; subs.: Harvey, Bouchard, Robert, Johnson, Laycoe, Reay, Olmstead, Lach, Kaiser, Dussault. Masnick.First Period1&mdash;Toronto: Timgren (Klukay).. 3.042&mdash;Toronto: Lewicki(Meeker, Bentley)&hellip;&hellip;5:423&mdash;Toronto: Gardner (Watson) &hellip;6:33Penalties: Flaman, Barilko, Robert.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Meeker, MacKay, Barilko.Third Period4&mdash;Canadiens: MacKay(MacPherson, Curry) &hellip;&hellip;3:57Penalties: Barilko (2), Bentley (minor and misc.), Harvey.CHICAGO,&mdash;Chicago Black Hawks, who hadn&rsquo;t a game in 21 previous starts, broke their non-winning streak by defeating Boston Bruins 5-2 before 5,204 fans, the smallest crowd of the last 20 years.Borton: Goal, Gelineau; defence, W. Quackenbush, M. Quackenbush; centre, Schmidt; wings, Ezinicki, Dumart; subs.: Ronty, Fisher, Lynn, Henderson, Kryzanowski, Lowe, Sandford, Horeck, Ferguson, Creighton, Person.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, Fogolin: centre. J. Conacher; wings, Guidolin, R. Conacher; subs.: Bentley, Mosienko, Babando, Coflin, Dickons. McCaig, Morrison, Brown, Lundy, Black.First Period1&mdash;Chicago: R. Conacher(J. Conacher, Dewsbury) &hellip;&hellip;292&mdash;Boston: Schmidt(Dumart, W. Quackenbush)&hellip; 493&mdash;Chicago: Mosicnko(Powell, Brown)&hellip;&hellip; 4:48Second Period4&mdash;Chicago: J. Conacher(R. Conacher, Gadsby) &hellip;&hellip;14Penalties: Peirson, Guidolin, McCaig.Third Period5&mdash;Boston: Schmidt(Henderson, Ezinicki) &hellip;&hellip; 8:166&mdash;Chicago: Bodnar (Morrison).. 13:327&mdash;Chicago: R. Conacher(J. Conacher, Guidolin) &hellip;&hellip; 16:41Penalties: Lynn, Babando.SATURDAY, JANUARY 3MONTREAL.&mdash;Rocket Richard came back to action in dramatic fashion; with his second 3-goal feat of the season, as Habs whopped Boston Bruins by a 3-goal margin, 4-1.Boston: Goal, Gelineau; defence, B. Quackenbush, M. Quackenbush; centre, Schmidt; wings, Ezinicki, Dumart; subs.: Lynn, Sandford, Henderson, Fisher, Ronty, Kryzanowski, Peirson, Lowe, Horeck, Ferguson.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Johnson, Bouchard; centre, Mosdell; wings, Curry, MacKay; subs.: Harvey. Robert, Harmon, Richard, Laycoe, Reay, Olmstead, Lach, Kaiser, MacPherson, Dussault, Masnick.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Olmstead, Lach) &hellip;&hellip; 14:242&mdash;Canadiens: Richard(Harmon, Lach) &hellip;&hellip;17:523&mdash;Canadiens: Richard (Olmstead) 19:20 Penalties: Curry, Ronty, Lynn, Lach, Henderson (major).Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Johnson (minor and major), Schmidt (minor and major), Bouchard.Third Period4&mdash;Canadiens: Olmstead(Lach, Richard) &hellip;&hellip;4:035&mdash;Boston: Sandford (Peirson) &hellip; 5:44Penalty: Mosdell.TORONTO.&mdash;The Leafs dropped Chicago 6-3 here.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Gadsby, Dewsbury; centre, J. Conacher; wings, R. Conacher, Guidolin; subs.; Coflin, Dickens, McCaig, Mosienko, Babando, Bodnar, Morrison, Leier, Powell, Brown, Pelletier.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Barilko, Thomson; centre, M. Bentley; wings, Klukay, Lewicki; subs.: Juzca, Flaman, Mortson, Watson, Kennedy, Meeker, Sloan, Mackell. Gardner, Timgren, Smith.First Period1&mdash;Toronto: Sloan(Kennedy, Smith) &hellip;&hellip;2:652&mdash;Toronto: Smith (Kennedy) &hellip;15:133&mdash;Toronto: Meeker(Gardner, Watson) &hellip;&hellip;17:084&mdash;Chicago: J. Conacher(R. Conacher, Guidolin) &hellip;&hellip;17:31Penalty: Dewsbury.Second Period5.&mdash;Toronto: Gardner(Meeker, Lewicki) &hellip;&hellip;6:086&mdash;Chicago: Bodnar &hellip;&hellip;11:23 Penalty: Barilko.Third Period7&mdash;Chicago: R. Conachor(J. Conacher) &hellip;&hellip;17:038&mdash;Toronto: Lewicki(Bentley, Thomson) &hellip;&hellip;17:419&mdash;Toronto: Bentley(Meeker, Lewicki)&hellip;&hellip;18:02Penalties: Barilko, Morrison, Sloan, Babando, J, Conacher, Leier, R. Conacher (game misc.).<h2>SUNDAY, JANUARY 4</h2>DETROIT.&mdash;Taking fair warning, Detroit Red. Wings provided a perpetual escort for the Rocket and kept him off the score-sheet. But Richard saw enough of the puck to set up two Montreal tallies as the clubs played to a 3-3 tie.Canadiens: Goat, McNeil; defence, Harmon, MacPherson; centre, Lach; MacKal, Laycoe, Reay, Mosdell, Kaiser, vey, Bouchard, Robert, Curry, Johnson, MacKay, Laycoe, Reay, Mosdell, Kaiser, Dussault, Masnick.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Kelly, Reise; centre. McFadden; wings, Pavelich, Peters; subs.: Goldham, Martin, Lindsay, Gee, Howe, Stewart, Abel, Prystai. Couture, Stasiuk, Gravelie, Raglan.First Period1&mdash;Canadiens: Lach (Harmon)&hellip;&hellip;6:09Penalties: Olmstead, Reise.Second Period3&mdash;Detroit: Lindsay (Abel)&hellip;&hellip;5:104&mdash;Detroit: Prystai(Abe), Lindsay)&hellip;&hellip;14:174&mdash;Canadiens: Lach(Richard, Harvey)&hellip;&hellip;18:235&mdash;Detroit: Abel(Lindsay. Howe)&hellip;&hellip;19:12Penalties: Richard (2).Third Period6&mdash;Canadiens: Olmstead(Richard, MacPherson)&hellip;&hellip;6:52Penalties: Reise, Abel, Richard.BOSTON.&mdash;Apparently unnerved by their Saturday night experience. the Bruins blew a three-goal lead and settled for a 3-3 tie against Toronto Maple Leafs.Boston: Goal, Gelineau: defence, W. Quackenbush, M. Quackenbush; centre, Sandford; wings, Peirson, Ferguson; subs.: Schmidt, Dumart, Ezinicki. Henderson, Lowe, Kryzanowski, Ronty, Lynn, Horeck, Ferguson.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Flaman, Juzda; centre, Gardner; wings, Mackell, Watson; subs.: Bentley, Lewicki, Meeker, Thomson, Montson, Barilko, Klukay, Kennedy, Sloan, Timgren, Smith.First Period1&mdash;Boston: Ronty (Schmidt)&hellip;&hellip;2:472&mdash;Boston: Sandford(Schmidt, Peirson)&hellip;&hellip;17:413&mdash;Boston: Kryzanowski (Ezinicki) 19:39Penalties: Flaman (2), Ezinicki, Mortson, Klukay, Ferguson.Second Period4&mdash;Toronto: Lewicki(Bentley, Klukay)&hellip;&hellip;16:455&mdash;Toronto: Smith(Sloan, Mortson)&hellip;&hellip;18:33Penalties: Sandford, Thomson, Ezinicki, Ronty, Mackell, M. Quackenbush, Lynn (misc.).Third Period6&mdash;Toronto: Klukay&hellip;&hellip;16:11Penalties: None.CHICAGO.&mdash;The Leafs moved three points of the pace-setting Red Wings while the Hawks consoled a slim hometown crowd of 7,877 by tying New York Rangers 4-4.New York: Goal, Rayner; defence, Stanowski. Evans; centre, Raleigh; wings, Slowinski, Mickoski; subs.: Eddolls, O&rsquo;Connor, Egan, Stanley, Lund, Toppazzini, McLeod, Kyle, Kaleta, Leswick, Kullman, Sinclair.Chicago: Goal, Lumley: defence, Dewsbury, McCeig; centre, J. Conacher; wings, Guidolin, R. Conacher: subs.: Coflin, Dickens, Bentley. Mosienko, Morrison, Brown, Leier, Powell.First Period1&mdash;Chicago: Powell (Bentley)&hellip;&hellip;2:362&mdash;Chicago: McCaig (Brown)&hellip;&hellip;5:563&mdash;Chicago: Mosienko(Dewsbury, Powell)&hellip;&hellip;8:201&mdash;New York: Lund(Sinclair. O&rsquo;Connor)&hellip;&hellip;19:305&mdash;New York: Sinclair(Lund, O&rsquo;Connor)&hellip;&hellip;19:43Penalties: Evans, Dewsbury (2), Eddolls.Second Period6&mdash;New York: Sinclair (Stanley). 10:067&mdash;Chicago: Morrison(Dewsbury, Mosienko)&hellip;&hellip;13:57Penalties: Lund. Leswick.Third Period8&mdash;New York: Raleigh(Slowinski, Stanley)&hellip;&hellip;13:35Penalties: Stanley, Sinclair, Coflin.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(Including Games of Sunday, Feb. 4)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0337/911441-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="598" height="2509"></div>&bull; Broda replaced Rollins after 26 mts. 50 sec. of play on December 2nd.&bull; Pelletier replaced Lumley after 4 nits 48 sec. of play on February 1st.Penalties In Minutes By ClubsDETROIT &hellip;&hellip; 417CHICAGO &hellip;&hellip; 485BOSTON &hellip;&hellip; 508CANADIENS &hellip;&hellip; 595RANGERS &hellip;&hellip; 599TORONTO &hellip;&hellip; 609 &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Fidgety Frankie Christie, a Runyonesque little man with an unabridged vocabulary, has been trying to aleviate the mental and physical sufferings of hockey players since he was knee-high to a dasher-board.Christie, currently trainer of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Buffalo Bisons, began his skateless ice career back in 1934.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01101/911531-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="268" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Art chapman</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I was born just two blocks from Madison Square Garden,&rdquo; Christie began, running a meaty right hand across his sweaty brow.&ldquo;I used to hang around the Garden asking players to take me in. One night Red Dutton, a very fine gentleman, took me in with him. He let me go into the Americans (New York) dressing room&mdash;and from then on I&rsquo;m around all the time cause the fellas took a liking to me.&rdquo;Christie&rsquo;s official title was stick-boy. It was a nonpaying proposition as far as the club management was concerned but Frankie didn&rsquo;t mind.&ldquo;Each payday the players would each give me $3 and there was always plenty of tips in between,&rdquo; Christie recalled.Since Christie knew the sidewalks of New York like a bad breath knows garlic, he was the players&rsquo; favorite contact with neighborhood horse bet takers.&ldquo;I just used to take the odd bets for the odd players to the odd bookies,&rdquo; Frankie admits with disarming frankness.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0268/911524-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="1084" height="972"><figcaption class="caption-body">HOW&rsquo;S THAT THING WORK? Bison Trainer Frankie Christie (left) puzzles over the club&rsquo;s inhalator, along with the team nurse, Mrs. E. McCabe, and publicity mon Charley Barton of the Buffalo organization.</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Once I carried a few bucks to a bookie, and the fellas made a strike. But before I could collect, the bookie took a sneak. I was ribbed unmercifully until the players found out for themselves I was telling the truth. They was a great bunch. Chappie (Art Chapman, Buffalo General Manager) was one of the best of them.&rdquo;The last three years the Americans were in the National Hockey League, Christie held the position of assistant trainer.&ldquo;I was actually on the payroll and drawing money,&rdquo; he stated.Just about the time the Americans, then called after the borough of Brooklyn, folded, Christie got greetings from his Uncle Sam.After completing a physical education course at Miami, Florida, Christie was assigned to manage a Women&rsquo;s Army Corps softball baseball team at Hobbs, New Mexico.&ldquo;We had a pretty good team&mdash;and I didn&rsquo;t have any trouble handling them women, either,&rdquo; he offered.It was back to the hockey wars for Christie upon his discharge from the Army.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s at them pre-season training camps that a trainer has his troubles,&rdquo; Christie explained. &ldquo;You have about ninety kids around all fighting for jobs and they make you jumpy. A couple of times I&rsquo;ve come close to getting in fights but one of us always talked our way out of it.&ldquo;Actually, the players are always kidding me &rsquo;cause they know I&rsquo;m the exciteable type. They&rsquo;re always getting my dandruff up by hiding my cigarette lighter or something. Don Ashbee, our left winger, especially likes to go after me. You might say that most of the time, he gets the benefit of the doubt.&rdquo;<h2>&rsquo;What Next, Coach?&rsquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0353/911517-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="1118" height="713"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHRISTIE TALKS IT OVER with Buffalo Coach LeRoy Goldsworthy (right) for the benefit of the cameraman.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Patching Others Easier Than Being Patched Up!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0268/911673-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg"></div>OLDEST PUB IN ENGLAND is reportedly at St. Albans&mdash;marked by a pair of Fighting Cocks. This traditional inn sign recalls the days when the village tavern was centre of lustier sport than darts and shove-ha&rsquo;penny. In such inns, eighteenth century soldiers back from frontier service first called for a &ldquo;real man&rsquo;s drink&rdquo;&mdash;the India Pale Ale that had been brewed to stand the long sea voyage to India. And today those who want a zestful ale call for Labatt&rsquo;s India Pale Ale, brewed in Canada to the original English recipe by John Labatt Limited.The Swing is DEFINITELY to Labatt&rsquo;s<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0349/911666-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="292" height="449"></div><h2>Contest Rules</h2>1&mdash;Anyone can cast ballots naming his selections for the National Hockey League All-Star Team, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming one complete team, in each League.2&mdash;N.H.L. ballots commence in this issue and will run one each week, with the last one appearing March 17.3&mdash;Ballots for the choice of three players at each position (six in the case of defensement) must be filled in as indicated, with the names of the players and their clubs, the blanks provided each week, or on a reasonable facsimile or tracing thereof if you do not wish to elaface your copy of THE HOCKEY NEWS. Space will be provided on the sixth and final ballot to fill in your own name and address.4&mdash;Ballots must be held until all have appeared, and selections for all six positions, plus coach, must be submitted at the same time.5&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to&mdash;All-Starr Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, 603A Sun Life Building, Montreal, Canada.6&mdash;N.H.L. All-Star ballots must be POSTMARKED NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT MARCH 22. &#9632;

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Famous Inn Signs No. 11

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Blond Paul Ronty, who had one foot in the door and the other an a banana peel a couple of months ago, seems to have regained solid footing with the revitalized Boston Bruins.The tall youngster from Toronto, who once centered the celebrated &ldquo;Muscles&rdquo; line; has been playing an able part in the Bruins&rsquo; pursuit of third place, a much more prominent one than his early-season performances indicated that he would.As the center for Vic Lynn and Duncan Fisher, two newcomers to the Bruins, Ronty has regained a large measure of the passing effectiveness that made him a strong contender for the all-star team last year and two years ago.That&rsquo;s a notable comeback for a fellow whose days with the Bruins appeared numbered in early November, when the team was puting up a strenuous fight for last place.At that time the &ldquo;Muscles&rdquo;&mdash;Johnny Peirson, Ken Smith and Ronty&mdash;were given a goodly portion of the blame for the Bruins&rsquo; poor start. The number one line of the last two years was not scoring, and the Bruins were losing games because of offensive shortcomings.Coach Lynn Patrick stayed with the combination for the first month of the season, then he broke it up. When he made his move Patrick did a thorough job. First he traded Smith, then he separated Ronty and Peirson.<h2>Kept Plugging</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01100/911562-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="520" height="1287"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL RONTY</figcaption></div>Writers Got Brush-offFor a couple of more weeks Ronty&rsquo;s slump continued. Its effect on him was apparent. Uncertain on the ice, he became reticent off it. He even stopped talking to some of the hockey writers, although a couple of them were largely responsible for his coming up to the Bruins from Hershey in the first place.He kept plugging on the ice, however, and with Lynn and Fisher giving him solid wing support, he finally snapped out of it.Now Patrick says: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s playing well; he&rsquo;s making some nice passing plays for Vic and Dunc. They have been helping him, sure, but he&rsquo;s helping them, too.&ldquo;He was always a slow starter,&rdquo; Patrick pointed out, &ldquo;and the records show that. Now he has hit his stride.&rdquo;When Patrick signed to coach the Bruins last summer, he smacked his lips at the prospect of inheriting a capable all-round line like the &ldquo;Muscles&rdquo;. He hasn&rsquo;t been able to figure out the resulting circumstances yet.&ldquo;They always looked great when they played against the Rangers,&rdquo; observed the big coach. &ldquo;That Ronty&mdash;he always looked wonderful. I thought he was a great center.&ldquo;I figured they&rsquo;d be my first line, the big one,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;and then they couldn&rsquo;t get started. They were ineffective all through our training period and for the first 12 or 14 regular games, or until I had to do something. I was sick over the way they were going.&ldquo;Then after Smith went Ronty and Peirson still couldn&rsquo;t get started. Ronty, I noticed, played better on the road for that stretch than he did at home, where the crowds got &ldquo;on&rdquo; hint. Now he seems to be straightened out, because he is playing well.&rdquo;The regaining of his lost touch probably saved Ronty his job with the Bruins, because for one period in November he was available for acquisition by other teams, and at least one was deeply interested in getting him. At the moment, however, the Bruins would probably give any offers for his services the stalling treatment, if not a point-blank &ldquo;No&rdquo;.Ronty has had a large coterie of admirers in Boston since he came down to play for the amateur Boston Olympics in 1945. The slender 16-year old&rsquo;s potential skill was evident even in the rough games which the Olympics of that vintage used to have.He was assigned to Hershey the following year, and the Bruins called him up to the Varsity during the 1947-48 season. On March 11, 1948 Dit Clapper, then the Bruins&rsquo; coach, put him between Peirson, also a rookie, and little Smith for a game with the Rangers. They combined for four goals and the &ldquo;Muscles&rdquo; line was born.Two years ago Ronty collected 49 points, and last year he led the Bruins in scoring with 59 points. His playmaking was his strongpoint, just as his inability to set up scoring plays&mdash;and his sidekicks&rsquo; inability to finish off the one he did set up&mdash;was his weak point last October and November. &#9632;

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Ronty Hits Stride Before Lynn Buys Ticket To Minors

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0428/911635-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="284" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry McNeil</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0520/911628-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="288" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Turk Broda</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0618/911621-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="260" height="390"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chuck Rayner</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0713/911614-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="268" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0812/911607-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="270" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Lumley</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0912/911600-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="258" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Gelineau</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1011/911593-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="288" height="392"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Rollins</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Now is the time for all good fans to come to the aid of their favorite! Tn other words, it&rsquo;s time now to start thinking about your All-Star choices, to look over the material in the National Hockey League and decide just which ones you&rsquo;d pick as the best in the business if you were operating a team could get all the super-stars under one roof.This week THE HOCKEY NEWS launches the Fourth Annual All Star balloting, with you, the fans, getting your chance to make your voices heard in the picking of the dream team of the year, starting in this issue with the goaltenders.Procedure for the voting is the same as that followed last year, but for the benefit of new readers or those who may not have taken part in the balloting in other years, here&rsquo;s a brief summary of how to go about it.Ballots will appear in THE HOCKEY NEWS, starting this issue and for the next five weeks&mdash;six weeks in all. Voting will be by positions, with goaltenders first, followed by defensemen, centers, right wingers, left wingers and finally coaches.Space will be allowed on each ballot for three choices&mdash;except in the case of defensemen, where you will be asked to name six men, two for the first team, two for the second team and two alternates. The teams will then be selected on a point basis after all votes are tabulated. Five points will be allowed for every first choice vote each player gets, three for a second choice and one for a third choice, and the &rsquo;player with the highest total in each position gets the call for the First Team, with the runner-up qualifying for the Second Team.BALLOTS MUST BE HELD UNTIL ALL SIX HAVE APPEARED. In order to make sure of selecting the best possible team over the entire schedule, you must hold your ballots until the final week before mailing them in. That way, you know you have chosen the players whose work over the full season merits their selection to All Star rating. If you were to pick them now, your choices might be outmoded by the time March 17 rolls around.So, hang onto your ballots until you can send all six in together. Any sent in before March 17 issue appears will not be counted. You will have plenty of time to write down your choices then, since the only stipulation is that your letters must be POSTMARKED NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT, MONDAY, MARCH 22.After all entries are in, we will allow about two weeks for counting and tabulating the ballots, and your N.H.L. All Star Team will be announced in the April 14 issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS.Each week, a few of the leading candidates at each position will be spotlighted, as a guide in making your selection. However remember that you don&rsquo;t have to vote for the ones we point out. You are free to vote for any player you wish, and not necessarily for those the Editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS pick out at being in their estimation the best at their particular position.Of course, there&rsquo;s no problem in the case of the goaltenders this week, because we show you them all!Although there are only six teams in the N.H.L., we picture seven goaltenders because of the odd situation at Toronto, where the Leafs have two candidates in the nets. Veteran Turk Broda, the patriarch of the league, started off as the regular twine tender, but recently rookie Al Rollins has been handling the job in capable fashion, with Turk standing by.It seems that the venerable Broda has finally been shunted aside in favor of youth, but there&rsquo;s no telling what will happen as the season rolls on. By deadline time you&rsquo;ll have a better idea.Besides Rollins, two other rookie netminders are in contention this season&mdash;Gerry McNeil with Montreal Canadiens and Terry Sawchuk with the Detroit Red Wings. Rounding out the slate of candidates are Boston Bruins&rsquo; sophomore keeper, Jack Gelineau; veteran Chuck Rayner with the New York Rangers, and Harry-Lumley, former Wing backstopper who now does his puck corraling for the Chicago Black Hawks.Those are your eligibles. Now all you have to do is watch them as the season progresses, and get ready to make your choice on or before March 22. &#9632;

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Goalies First At Post In All Star Selection

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01114/911711-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="286" height="523"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0272/911704-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="272" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jerry Regan</figcaption></div>Jerry Regan, who airs the broadcasts of hockey games on Nova Scotia&rsquo;s South Shore over CKBW in Bridgewater, has been doing play by play of hockey games for more than five of his twenty-two years.The CKBW broadcasts serve all four towns in the South Shore League, Bridgewater, Lunenburg, Liverpool, and Chester. Rivalry between these teams is very strong so Jerry must be constantly on his guard, lest it seem that he is being partial to any one team.Jerry, who is a law student at Dalhousie University, with one year left before graduation, travels from Halifax to Bridgewater or Lunenburg for the games, returning to Halifax in time for classes the next morning.Regan got his start in radio with CFAB in Windsor, while still in High School. When the Windsor Station first went on the air, Jerry undertook the task of doing their sports. He broadcast Valley Senior Hockey that winter, and continued on as staff sports announcer, until he started college the next Fall. Since then, he has been doing the South Shore games for CKBW. Last winter, he also broadcast the games of the Amherst Ramblers of the Maritime Big Four Hockey league, over CJRW in Summerside.Recently, when Doug Smith of Montreal was taken sick, Danny Gallivan of CJCH, Halifax, was called upon to do play by play of a series of week-end Montreal Canadiens games from the Forum, and Jerry was engaged to fill for Gallivan, by airing two Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s games from CJCH Halifax.Besides broadcasting hockey, Regan regularly does the Liverpool Larruper&rsquo;s baseball games over CKBW, in Bridgewater. Also, during the summer, he broadcasts a description of the horse-racing under the lights at Truro every Saturday night. Jerry has also broadcast tennis, curling, basketball, boxing and track meets. Last summer he did one of the final events of the Canadian Junior Tennis tournaments from Ottawa over CKCL in Truro.As to the greatest thrill in broadcasting, Regan says, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s strange how some small things stick with you. Although I&rsquo;ve seen lots of dramatic situations, for my money, my biggest thrill in radio was the first hockey game I broadcast, which was a high school game.&rdquo; &#9632;

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‘Radiorchids’

<div class="byline">By ARTHUR MORRISON</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;During the past fortnight the race for the top spot in the Manitoba Junior League has created more than ordinary interest, as the two leading teams fought gallantly for the honors. Never more than two points apart, the Brandon Wheat Kings and the Monarchs have kept the issue at fever heat, so with both teams tied for first place with 41 points, the game scheduled for the night of Saturday the 27 th was of more than passing interest.Before one of the largest crowds of the season the Monarchs eeked out a close 3-2 triumph to give them the leadership. The Monarchs had beaten the Black Hawks twice by scores of 10-5 and 3-1, and had taken the Canadiens into camp by a margin of 7-3, but they lost 8-5 to the Wheaties at Brandon. The Canadiens broke a nine game losing streak with an impressive 6-4 victory over Brandon, but the Wheaties kicked back with 7-3 win at the expense of the Hawks.In the individual scoring column the Wheat Kings have six of their players in the first ten. Ron Rohmer of Brandon leads the pack in both divisions having scored 2 9goals and assisted in 27 for a total of 56 points. Rohmer is on Denver&rsquo;s reserved list.On Pro ListsTwo of his teammates Adolph Kukulowicz and Vic Love are in the runner-up position with 48, the former is on the New York Rangers, negotiation list. Elliott Chorley of the Monarchs who is on the Pittsburgh sponsored list, has shown the most improvement as he has jumped into third place, as the result of three hat-tricks in a row. Love is the bad man of the circuit, he has spent a total of 56 minutes in the &ldquo;sinbin.&rdquo;In the writers&rsquo; opinion Don Dawson is still the best goal keeping prospect in the loop, this opinion is shared by the Chicago Black Hawks who are understood to have claims on him. &#9632;

Kings, M’archs Keep Race At Red-Hot Pitch

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">Andy O&#x2019;Brien</div>Henceforth in hockey history, February 17 must be regarded as significant date&mdash;the holding of Maurice Richard Night in his home town Montreal, to shower gifts upon the Canadien idol at the Forum. Read Andy O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s column to discover how the famed &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; compares favorably with hockey&rsquo;s all-time greats.In the February 17th issueThe StandardCOMICS-PHOTONEWS-MAGAZINE-NOVELOn sale at all newsdealers on Monday, February 12th. &#9632;

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High TributeOmaha Coach Mud Bruneteau paid St. Paul Captain Lloyd Ailsby the highest kind of tribute the night referee Doug Davies was injured when he said that he would accept Ailsby as linesman. Bruneteau said he had known Ailsby for years and was quite confident that any decisions Ailsby was called upon to make would be absolutely fair.Broken WristObie O&rsquo;Brien, Tulsa&rsquo;s high-scoring rookie forward, suffered a broken bone in his wrist in the game at Denver last Tuesday night. He played the entire game and the break was not discovered until X-rays were taken the next day. He is expected to be out of action for several weeks.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0194/911880-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="600" height="249"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESJan. 23&mdash;Tulsa 4. Denver 3Jan. 23&mdash;Milwaukee 3, Omaha 7Jan. 24&mdash;St. Paul 4, Milwaukee 1Jan. 25&mdash;Omaha 2, St. Paul 0Jan. 25&mdash;Tulsa 3, Denver 3Jan. 27&mdash;St. Piaui 3, Omaha 6Jan. 27&mdash;Milwaukee 4, Tulsa 1Jan. 28&mdash;Denver 4, Kansas City 6Jan. 28&mdash;Milwaukee 2, St. Paul 8Just like Ol&rsquo; Man River, the young Omaha Knights continue to roll along at the head of the USHL and seem to be improving with the advance of the schedule. They have played two less games than have second-place Tulsa and yet they lead the pack with a comfortable 11-point cushion. They meet Tulsa in a home-and-home series this week that could almost assure them of finishing in first place should they manage to cop both tilts.The only change recorded in the standing in the past week saw St. Paul push ahead of Denver by one point into third place. Denver, now in fourth spot, has played two less games than St. Paul. Ten games are scheduled for this week With Omaha, Milwaukee and Tulsa all seeing action four times; Denver and St. Paul three times each and Kansas City twice.Captain Doc Haldorsen of the Tulsa Oilers forged one point in front of Kansas City&rsquo;s Cal Stearns in the individual scoring race. Haldorsen has 61 points and Stearns has 60. Haldorsen leads the league in assists with 43; Stearns trails him in this department with 40. George Agar of Denver had a four-point week to bypass St. Paul&rsquo;s Ian Mackintosh and go into fourth spot four points behind Kansas City&rsquo;s Ike Hildebrand who is in third with 58 points. Mackintosh is still the goal-getting leader with 31.TUESDAY, JANUARY 23OMAHA&mdash;Rookie defenseman Jim Hay gave Omaha the scoring punch needed to beat Milwaukee. 7-3, in a league game here.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Bak, Bedard; centre. Blade; wings. Black, Goodacre; subs: Shvetz, Hamill, Shave, Miller, Groves, Lundy, Michaluk, Smith. Mulholland.Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Coburn, Forbes; centre O&rsquo;Grady; wings, Uniac, McLean; subs: Hay, Durham, Bert Glesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod, Taylor, Skov, Bruneteau.First Period1&mdash;Milwaukee: Shave&hellip;&hellip;4.13<h2>The Case Of The Open Mouths</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0268/911873-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1656" height="1299"><figcaption class="caption-body">Get a load of all the wide open mouths in the above picture. St. Paul&rsquo;s goaler Lome Worsley tells Referee Doug Davies just what he thinks after he allowed a goal which the Saints disputed. Davis has his mouth open equally as wide as Worsley&rsquo;s while Ray Manson, left and Odie Lowe, right also get into the act. ((Photo by Engler))</figcaption></div>2&mdash;Milwaukee: Lundy(Shave, Michaluk)&hellip;&hellip;13.403-Omaha: Durham (McLeod).. 14.52 Penalties: Mulholland, Miller, Pelletier.Second Period4-Omaha: Bert Giesebrecht(Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod) 9.005-Omaha: Hay (Bruneteau).. 12.15 Penailties: Bruce Giesebrecht, Hamill,Groves.Third Period6-Omaha: Taylor(Skov, Forbes)&hellip;&hellip;1.117-Omaha: McLean(Bert Giesebrecht, Forbes).. 8.478-Ohama: Hay (McLean)&hellip;&hellip;1.229-Milwaukee: Black(Blade, Goodacre)&hellip;&hellip;12.4010&mdash;Omaha: Hay (Durham)&hellip;&hellip;14.53Penalties: McLean, Shvetz.DENVER&mdash;Tulsa fought off a last-minute drive by Denver to win 4-3, before 3,000 fans and lengthen its second-place margin over the Falcons.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Bloomer, Telford; centre, Halldorsen; wings, Gronsdahl, O&rsquo;Brien; subs: Jones, Dillon, Davidson, Poile, Bradley, Macey, Butler, Young, Porteous.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Fraser, Chrystal; centre, Agar; wings, Richardson, Warwick; subs: Jackson, C. Kaiser, Brown, Kopper, Mackenzie, J. Kaiser, Giesebrecht, Juckes.First Period1&mdash;Tulsa: Poile (Macey, Young). 12.00Second Period2&mdash;Denver: Warwick(Agar, Richardson)&hellip;&hellip;453&mdash;Denver: Agar(Richardson, Warwick)&hellip;&hellip;8.554&mdash;Tulsa: Poile(O&rsquo;Brien, Halldorsen)&hellip;&hellip;9.265&mdash;Tulsa:(Porteous Macey)&hellip;&hellip;19.17Penalities: C. Kaiser, Crowdis, Halldorsen, Mackenzie, Davidson.Third Period6&mdash;Tulsa: Gronsdahl(Halldorsen, O&rsquo;Brien)&hellip;&hellip;3.257&mdash;Denver: Brown (Richardson)&hellip;&hellip;7.45Penalties: None.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24MILWAUKEE&mdash;Ray Manson, sharpshooting wing, led St. Paul to a 4&mdash;1 decision over the bedraggled Milwaukee Sea Gulls in a game that wound up in a series of fights here.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Ariucci, Brklacich; centre Plumb; wings, D. Smith. Albrighit; subs: Schwartz, Macintosh, Lowe, Barlow, McDonagh, Manson, Dawson.Milwaukee: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Bak, Schvetz; centre, Blade; wings Goodacre. Black; subs: Bedard. Miller Groves, Michaluk Shave, G. Smith, Hamill, Lundy, Mulholland.First Period1&mdash;Black (Blade)&hellip;&hellip;8.422&mdash;St. Paul: McDonagh(Lowe, Manson)&hellip;&hellip;12.173&mdash;Manson (McDonagh, Mariucci) 13.50 Penalties: Dawson, Schvetz.Second Period4&mdash;St. Paul: Manson (Lowe)&hellip;&hellip;13.27Penalities: Bedard, Brown Brklacich,Schvetz, Miller (major, misconduct).Third Period5&mdash;St. Paul: Albright (D. Smith). 16.15 Penalties: G. Smith (minor and major), Plumb. Barlow (major), Black (major), Schvetz.THURSDAY, JANUARY 25ST PAUL&mdash;The fans who turned up a the Auditorium might well have seen one of hockey&rsquo;s oddities&mdash;a double shutout&mdash;but for two costly defense mistakes by the St. Paul team.League leading Omaha parlayed those errors and some nifty goal tending by Bill Brennan into a 2&mdash;0 triumph.Omaha: Goal, Brennan: defence, Forbes, Coburn; centre, O&rsquo;Grady; wings, Uniac, McLean; subs: Hay, Bruneteau, Taylor, Skov, McLeod, Durham, Bert Giesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence, Mariucci, Brkilacich; centre, Plumb; wings. Smith, Albright; subs: Barlow, Dawson, Schwartz, Mackintosh, Lowe, McDonagh, Mansion.First Period1&mdash;Omaha: Hay(O&rsquo;Grady, McLean)&hellip;&hellip;8.55Penalties: Mariucci, Albright, Mackintosh, Bruce Giesebrecht.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalty: Dawson.Third Period2&mdash;Omaha: Bruneteau(Skov, Forbes)&hellip;&hellip;4.48Penalties: None,SATAUKDAY, JANUARY 27OMAHA&mdash;St. Paul bowed 6&mdash;3 to the league&mdash;leading Omaha Knights at Omaha.Omaha: Goal, Brennan; defence, Hay. Durham; centre, O&rsquo;Grady; wings, Uniac, McLean; subs; Coburn, Bert Giesebrecht, Bruce Giesebrecht, McLeod, Taylor, Skov, Bruneteau.St. Paul: Goal Worsley; defence, Mariucci, Brklacich; centre, Schwartz; wings, F. Brown, Mackintosh; subs: Lowe, Plumb, Smith, Barlow, McDonagh, Albright, Manson, Dawson.First Period1&mdash;Omaha; Bert Giesebrecht&hellip;&hellip;10.492&mdash;Omaha: Bruneteau(Taylor, Skov)&hellip;&hellip;13.18Penalties: None.Second Period3&mdash;St. Paul: Schwartz(Mackintosh)&hellip;&hellip;2.164&mdash;Omaha: Durham(Bruneteau)&hellip;&hellip;14.095&mdash;St. Paul: Mackintosh(C. Smith)&hellip;&hellip;14.14Penalties: O&rsquo;Grady, McDonagh, Brklacich, Hay, Schwartz, Skov, (minor and 5 fighting), Durham.Third Period6&mdash;St Paul Plumb (Albright).. 4.397&mdash;Omaha: McLean(O&rsquo;Grady, Uniac)&hellip;&hellip;5.928&mdash;Omaha: Skov (Durham)&hellip;&hellip;7.169&mdash;Omaha: Taylor (Hay, Skov).. 7.44Penalties: Skov, Barlow, Durham, Coburn. Hay.SUNDAY, JANUARY 28KANSAS CITY&mdash;The Kansas City Royals outplayed Denver. 6&mdash;1, for their second victory in a row over the Falcons here.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0355/911866-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="592" height="863"></div>THE LEADERSMost Points: Doc Haldorsen, Tulsa (61)Most Goals: Ian Mackintosh, St. Paul (31)Most Assists: Doc Haldorsen, Tulsa (43)Most Penalites: Pete Durham, Omaha (185 minutes)Most Goals, One Game: Obie O&rsquo;Brien, Tulsa; Bill McDonagh, St. Paul (4)Most Hat Tricks: Bert Giesebrecht. Omaha; Frank Porteous, Tulsa; Ian Mackintosh St. Paul; George Agar. Denver; Ike Hildebrand, K.C.; Ed Bruneteau, Omaha (2)Most Shutouts: Lou Crowdis, Denver (3)Kansas City: Goal, McGill; defence, Field, Byer; centre, MacArthur; wings, Delmonte, Delroy; subs.: Drainville, Le&mdash;vandoski, Hildebrand. Tomiuk, Raynak, Stearns, A. Brown, Schnurr.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Fraser, Chrystal; centre Agar; wings Richardson, Warwick; subs.: Jackson, C. Kaiser, H. Brown. Mackenzie, J. Kaiser, Giesebrecht, Jukes, Bailey Hopper.First Period1&mdash;Kansas City: Stearns(Tomiuk. Levandoski)&hellip;&hellip;3.182&mdash;Kansas City: Hildebrand(Levandoski. Tomiuk)&hellip;&hellip;10.533&mdash;Denver: Giesebrecht(Agar, Jackson)&hellip;&hellip;13.234&mdash;Kansas City: Delmonte(Drainville, Macarthur)&hellip;&hellip;15.545&mdash;Denver: Warwick(Agar, C. Kaiser)&hellip;&hellip;18.54Penalties: Jackson.Second Period6&mdash;Kansas City: Delory(Drainville)&hellip;&hellip;1.287&mdash;Denver: Giesebrecht(Mackenzie)&hellip;&hellip;18.12Penalties: Richardson, Warwick.Third Period8&mdash;Kansas City: Drainville(MacArthur, Delmonte)&hellip;&hellip;1.129&mdash;Denver: Mackenzie(Giesebrecht, Agar)&hellip;&hellip;5.3410&mdash;Kansas City: Tomiuk (Hildebrand, Drainville)&hellip;&hellip;10.14Penalties: Crowdis, Del monte.ST. PAUL&mdash;The sharpshooting St. Pau. Saints enjoyed one of their hottest nights to bury the Milwaukee hockey team under an 8&mdash;2 goal avalanche, and the 2,217 fans who braved 25&mdash;below zero weather enjoyed everything, particularly the nifty goal tending by little Lome Worsley.Milwaukee: Goal. Karakas; defence. Bedard. Schvetz; centre Blade; wings, Goodacre, Black; subs.: Milder, Groves. Michaluk, Shave, G. Smith, Hamill. Bak, Lundy.St. Paul: Goal, Worsley; defence. Ailsby, Brklacich; centre, Schwartz; wings, Mackintosh. Brown; subs.: Ma&mdash;riucci, Dawson, Barlow, Lowe Manson, McDonagh, Plumb. Albright, D. Smith.First Period1&mdash;St. Paul: D. Smith (Albright)&hellip;&hellip;2.352&mdash;St. Paul: Manson(Lowe, McDonald)&hellip;&hellip;11.55Penalties: Bedard.Second Period3&mdash;St. Paul: Albright(D. Smith, Plumb)&hellip;&hellip;2.154&mdash;St. Paul: Barlow&hellip;&hellip;3.595&mdash;St. Paul: Plumb(D. Smith, Albright)&hellip;&hellip;9.076&mdash;St. Paul: Brown(Mackintosh, Schwartz)&hellip;&hellip;13.43 Penalties: Dawson, Goodacre, McDonagh.Third Period7&mdash;St. Paul: Albright(D. Smith)&hellip;&hellip;3.228&mdash;Milwaukee: Bedard (Shave).. 11.399&mdash;St. Paul: McDonagh (Lowe).. 12.4010&mdash;Milwaukee: Black(Hamill. Bedard)&hellip;&hellip;15.53Penalties: Plumb, Schvetz, Brown and Bak. &#9632;

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UNITED STATES LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HEC MacLEAN</div>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;Boston Bruins have a Wild Bill and so do Saskatoon Quakers &hellip; He is Bill Zeidel, hard charging and fearless one-man wrecking crew of Riley Mullen&rsquo;s third place club of the Western Major Hockey League &hellip; Zeidel&rsquo;s rough and ready tactics&mdash;he backs up from no man and probably doesn&rsquo;t from any beast&mdash;have made Western puck fans forget about pugnacious Pug Young, former Edmonton Flyers rearguard.Undoubtedly Zeidel. a former Quebec Leaguer, is public enemy number one in the four-team circuit &hellip; Red Staley and Ken Hunter are playing bang-up hockey for Saskatoon club and Mike Shabaga has improved a good deal over his early season form &hellip; Edmonton Flyers and Calgary Stampeders are still waging a bitter duel for the loop lead and it has changed hands several time in the past few weeks &hellip;The clubs are hitting the homestretch of the schedule and it won&rsquo;t be long before the 12-game round robin gets under way. A lot of rugged hockey can be expected and the eventual winner will have to be sharp.Riley&rsquo;s Irish TemperRiley Mullen, Saskatoon Quaker coach, was recently ejected from the game during the third period in a recent encounter in Calgary &hellip; Apparently referee Maurice Welsh didn&rsquo;t like some remarks the pilot made and Mullen watched the rest of the game from the aisle &hellip;Stampeders ended a nine-game winning streak recently when Quakers came from behind a 6-2 deficit to gain an 8-8 deadlock in one of the most bitterly fought games of this year &hellip; Zeidel had the Cowboys hanging on the ropes all night &hellip;In the junior picture it looks like a race between Murray Armstrong&rsquo;s Regina Pats and Pete Slobodian&rsquo;s Lethbridge Native Sons, although Scotty Munro&rsquo;s Crowsnest Pass Lions will be tough &hellip; &#9632;

Western Quakers Have Own Wildman Bad Bill Zeidel

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0254/912032-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="556" height="1251"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Dorohoy</figcaption></div>Victoria, B.C.&mdash;&mdash;Two good reasons why the Victoria Cougars have jumped into contention for the P.C.H.L. championship are Eddie (Pistol) Doro-hoy left and big Eddie Mazur, right.This pair have been going great guns for Roger Leger&rsquo;s club and between them have made the Cougars the hottest team on the coast.Dorohoy, in particular has been a big noise for the once lowly Cougars. In 46 games this season he has averaged a little over one point a game. He has 19 goals and 28 assists for 47 points and is leading his club in that department.Mazur is also high on the scoring list and in 48 games he has netted 22 goals and 21 assists for 43 points.Big Ed and Little Ed are called the goal dust twins on the coast. They stick together like glue and even share an apartment together on the coast.Dorohoy is well known throughout the hockey world as the cockiest kid to come along in a long time. His short stint in the National League with the Montreal Canadiens wasn&rsquo;t exactly tinged with goals but it was with laughs. Now it seems he is combining goals and laughs and producing a winner for Leger.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0336/912025-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="559" height="1257"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Mazur</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Here They Come Again

Hat TricksThree hat tricks were turned in the past week. Jack McIntyre, of Victoria. and Joe Bell, of Seattle, got their second of the season to tie for top honors in this department with Bob Love, of New Westminster, Norm Kirk, of Vancouver and Ronnie Rowe, of Tacoma. Jim Fairburn, of Portland. got the other.Winning StreaksNew Westminster was finally stopped in Portland after tiring the League record of 11 straight games without a loss. The Royals have won nine and tied two without a defeat before running into the Eagles at Portland. The Portlanders turned them back 6-2. Victoria has won their last eight games at home.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0182/911994-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="612" height="247"></div>RESULTS OF GAMESJan. 23&mdash;Victoria 8, Vancouver 3Jan. 24&mdash;Portland 6, Seattle 5Jan. 24&mdash;Tacoma 2, New. West&rsquo;er 2Jan. 26&mdash;Portland 1, Victoria 2Jan. 26&mdash;Seattle 3, Vancouver 4Jan. 27&mdash;Vancouver 2, Tacoma 4Jan. 27&mdash;Portland 3, New West&rsquo;er 8Jan. 28&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 2, Portland 6Jan. 28&mdash;Victoria 2, Seattle 1The New Westminster Royals broke even last week, winning, losing and tieing a game and continue to lead the League with 62 points. Second place Victoria won all three games they played and are now within eight points of the Royals and have a game in hand. Tacoma won and tied in their two games the past week to hang onto third place with 46 points, just one more than the Portland Eagles who consolidated their fourth place spot with two victories the past week.Vancouver won one game and now have a three point lead over last place Seattle. The Ironmen have one game in hand over the Canucks.With the schedule just past the two-thirds mark each game will have an important bearing on the play-off spots. New Westminster and Portland have 21 games left to play. Victoria has 22, Vancouver and Tacoma each 23 and Seattle 24. 14 of the Ironmen&rsquo;s games are at home which gives them a break in the schedule from here on.Ken Ullyot, of New Westminster, added four points the past week and continues to lead the individual scorers with 59 points on 30 goals and 29 assists. Second place Joe Bell, of Seattle, picked up five points and has a three point lead over third place Walt Samanski, of Portland. Four of Bell&rsquo;s five points were goals and he leads the goal getters With 3 5. Bobby Love, of New Westminster, added two assists to his collection and continues to lead in the playmaking department with 3 4 to his credit.WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Doug Toole flipped in a goal with less than a minute remaining to give the Tacoma Rockets a 2-2 tie with New Westminster Royals.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Gustavsen, Webster; Centre, Johns; wings, Lambrecht, Adams; subs: Bell, Giokas, Toole, Read, Johnston, Andrews, Rozzini, Rowe.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; de fence, Pratt, Bergeron; centre Ullyot; wings, Fashoway, Gruhn; subs: Koch, Dorohoy, Slater, Love, Du fault, Lavell, Huddleston, Paul, Houle, Peterson.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: None.Second Period1&mdash;Tacoma: Read,(Johnston, Lowe)&hellip;&hellip;4.082&mdash;New Westminster: Koch(Peterson, Lavelle)&hellip;&hellip;10.29Penalty; Adams.Third Period3&mdash;New Westminster; Du fault(Love, Houle)&hellip;&hellip;7.164&mdash;Tacoma: Toole(Webster, Gustavsen)&hellip;&hellip;19.11Penalty; Bergeron.SEATTLE&mdash;Despite joe Bens second three&mdash;goal hart trick of the season Seattle&rsquo;s Ironmen lost a 6&mdash;5 decision to the Portland Eagles.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Taille&mdash;fer, Bloom; centre, Kerr; wings. Maxwell, Tkachuk; subs: Nixon, Boorman, Weaver, Bell, Filion, Jones Lewis, Lea&mdash;wick, Thorpe.Portland: Goal, Miller; defence, Sprout, Sutherland; centre Kubasek; wings, Hartsburg, Fairburn; subs: Tarala, Krai&mdash;ger, Brodeur, Conn, Homenuke. Silvestri, Samanski, Summerhill, Boyce, Holota.First Period1&mdash;Portland: Boyce(Summerhill)&hellip;&hellip;10.012&mdash;Seattle: Bell(Filion, Boorman)&hellip;&hellip;10.60Penalty: MaxwellSecond Period3&mdash;Seattle: Bell (Filion)&hellip;&hellip;2.184&mdash;Seattle: Thorpe(Bell, Filion)&hellip;&hellip;2.325&mdash;Portland: Hartsburg(Kubasek, Fair&mdash;burn)&hellip;&hellip;10.156&mdash;Portland: Summerhill(Holota)&hellip;&hellip;14.06Penalty: Nixon.Third Period7&mdash;Portland: Silvestri(Samanski)&hellip;&hellip;2.538&mdash;Portland: Hartsburg(Kubasek, Fairburn)&hellip;&hellip;3.549&mdash;Seattle: Bell (Thorpe)&hellip;&hellip;10.0110&mdash;Seattle.: Leswick (Weaver).. 12.3011&mdash;Portland: Kubasek (Fairburn) 19.38 Penalty: Sprout.DENVER&mdash;Denver tied Tulsa 3&mdash;3, in a league game before 2,867 fans, the first tie Denver has played all season. The game left Tulsa four points ahead of Denver in second.Tulsa: Goal, Little; defence, Jones Davidson; centre, Bradley; wings, Por&mdash;teous, Dillon; subs: Gronsdahl, Young, Haldorsen, Butler, Macey, Poile, Telford, Bloomer.Denver: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Chrystal, Fraser; centre Agar; wings, Richardson, Warwick; subs: Giesebrecht. j. Kaiser, MacKenzie, Brown, Hopper, Jukes, Bailey, C. Kaiser, Jackson.First Period1&mdash;Tulsa: Porteous (Bradley)&hellip;&hellip;1.00Penalties: None.Second Period2&mdash;Tulsa: Macey (Telford)&hellip;&hellip;4.263&mdash;Denver: Bailey (Fraser)&hellip;&hellip;7.464&mdash;Denver: J. Kaiser(Bailey, Giesebrecht)&hellip;&hellip;11.59Penalty; Warwick.Third Period5&mdash;Tulsa: Young(Halldorsen, Bloomer)&hellip;&hellip;3.166&mdash;Denver: Giesebrecht(MacKenzie)&hellip;&hellip;16.41FRIDAY, JANUARY 26VANCOUVER&mdash;The Canucks poured in two goals in the final period to earn a narrow 4&mdash;3 win over the Ironmen. Mike Narduzzi, who always seems to get in the act, hit the winner.Seattle: Goal, McAttee; defence, Bloom, Tallefer; centre, Stefaniw, wings, Leswick, Lewis; subs: Filion, Bell Jones, Maxwell, Tkachuk, Thorne, Nixon, Kerr, Boorman, Weaver.Vancouver: Goal, Highton; defence, Schmidt, Reardon; centre, Ungen&mdash;; wings, DeFelice, Jackson; subs; Conway, Crozier, McPherson, Shill, Kirk, Russell, Ballance, Narduzzi.First Period1&mdash;Seattle: Bell(Jones, Filion)&hellip;&hellip;3.142&mdash;Vancouver: Shill (Kirk)&hellip;&hellip;13.473&mdash;Seatlle: Kerr(Weaver, Maxwell)&hellip;&hellip;17.46Penalties: Bloom, Conway.Second Period4&mdash;Vancouver: Shill(Kirk, Reardon)&hellip;&hellip;14.255&mdash;Seattle: Maxwell&hellip;&hellip;16.59 Penalties: None.Third Period6&mdash;Vancouver: Kirk&hellip;&hellip;6.057&mdash;Vancouver: Narduzzi(Ballance, Russell)&hellip;&hellip;13.08Penalties: Bloom, McPherson,VICTORIA&mdash;The Eagles dropped a 2-1 decision to Victoria to snap a four game winning streak.Portland: Goal, Miiler; defence, Kraiger, Conn; centre, Samanski; wings, Silvesrtri, Homenuke; subs: Tarala, Brodeur. Hartsburg, Fairburn, Kubasek. Summerhill, Holota, Sutherland, Sprout, Busch.Victoria: Goal, Cot&mdash;noir; defence, Leger, Webster; centre, Burman; wings, Evans, Medynski; subs: Lepine, Goegan Long Strongman, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, Dorohoy, McIntyre, Mazur.First Period1&mdash;Victoria: Burman(Medynski, Leger)&hellip;&hellip;1.12Penalties: Sprout, Kraiger, Mazur, Webster.Second Period2&mdash;Victoria: Evans(Burman, Leger)&hellip;&hellip;7.29Penalties: Sprout, Miller (served by Kraiger), Tarala, McIntyre.Third Period3&mdash;Portland: Kubasek&hellip;&hellip;16.45Penalties: Sutherland, Tarala (major), Goegan (major).SATURDAY, JANUARY 27TACOMA&mdash;By the relatively simple process of outscoring the Vancouver Canucks, 4&mdash;2, the Tacoma icemen managed to cling to third place in the loop.Vancouver: Goal, Highton; defence. Schmidt, Reardon; centre, Unger; wings, DeFelice. Jackson: subs: Crozier, Nar&mdash;duzzi, McPherson. Russell, Ballance. Con&mdash;way. Shill, Kirk.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Johns, Gustavsen; centre Webster; wings, Adam, Lambrecht; subs: Bell, Giokas, Tooie, Read, Johnston, Andrews, Rozzini, Rowe.First Period1&mdash;Vancouver: Narduzzi(Russell)&hellip;&hellip;7.012&mdash;Vancouver: McPherson(Crozier)&hellip;&hellip;8.543&mdash;Tacoma: Rowe(Read, Johnston)&hellip;&hellip;10.27Penalties: Johns 2, NarduzziSecond Period4&mdash;Tacoma: Andrews(Rozzini, Toole)&hellip;&hellip;6.185&mdash;Tacoma: Webster(Adam, Lambrecht)&hellip;&hellip;9.10Penalties: Gustavsen 2.Third Period6&mdash;Tacoma: Adam (Webster)&hellip;&hellip;16.50 Penalties: none.NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;The leading Royals slapped down Portland Eagles, 8&mdash;3, in another of their free&mdash;wheeling hockey displays.Portland: Goal, Miller; defence, Sprout, Sutherland; centre, Holota; wings Summerhill, Busch; subs: Tarala, Kraiger, Brodeur, Conn, Homenuke, Silvestri, Samanski, Hartsburg, Fairburn, Kubasek.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Ullyot;, centre, Fashoway; wings Gruhn, Koch; subs: Dorohoy. Slater, Du fault, Lavelle, Hudleston, Paul, Houle, Peterson.First Period1&mdash;New Westminster, Dufault (Love)&hellip;&hellip;19.21Penalties: Conn, Sprout.Second Period2&mdash;New Westminster: Lavelle&hellip;&hellip;3.203&mdash;Portland: Homenuke(Silvestri)&hellip;&hellip;3.474&mdash;New Westminster: Ullyot(Fashoway)&hellip;&hellip;5.435&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway(Gruhn, Ullyot)&hellip;&hellip;12.086&mdash;New Westminster: Koch(Lavelle, Peterson)&hellip;&hellip;12.517&mdash;New Westminster: Peterson(Koch, Lavelle)&hellip;&hellip;13.208&mdash;Portland: Samanski(Brodeur)&hellip;&hellip;17.209&mdash;New Westminster: Koch(Lavelle)&hellip;&hellip;17.36Third Period10&mdash;New Westminster: Dorohoy(Koch)&hellip;&hellip;5.4011&mdash;Portland: Fairburn(Conn, Kubasek)&hellip;&hellip;10.42Penalties: Huddleston, Paul.PORTLAND.&mdash;The upstart Portland Eagles knocked the Royals over by a 6-2 count in Oregon.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; Bergeron, Pratt; centre, Ullyot; wings, Fashoway, Gruhn; subs.: Dorohoy, Slater, Love, Dufault, Lavell, Huddleston, Paul, Houle, Peterson.Portland: Goal. Miller; defence, Brodeur, Tanala; centre, Holota; wings, Boyce, Summerhill; subs.: Kraiger, Conn, Homenuke, Silvestri, Samanski, Hartsburg, Kubasek, Sprout, Sutherland, Fairburn.First Period1&mdash;Portland: Hartsburg(Kubasek, Fairburn)&hellip;&hellip;10:562&mdash;Portland: Fairburn (Holota).. 14:59Penalties: Surtheland, Fashoway, Huddleston, Pratt (misc.).Second Period3&mdash;New Westminster: Gruhn(Fashoway, Ullyot)&hellip;&hellip;2:364&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway(Ullyot, Paul)&hellip;&hellip;4:285&mdash;Portland: Fair&mdash;burn(Tarala, Kubasek)&hellip;&hellip;17:33Penalties: Fashoway, Dorohoy (misc.).Third Period6&mdash;Portland: Fairburn(Hartsburg, Kraiger)&hellip;&hellip;5:517&mdash;Portland: Kubasek(Hartsburg, Fairburn)&hellip;&hellip;10:168&mdash;Portland: Sammanski(Brodeur, Silvestri)&hellip;&hellip;11:52Penalties: Houle, Conn, Gruhn (misc.).SEATTLE.&mdash;Over at Seattle, the Victoria Cougars and the Ironmen packed all their scoring punch into the third period with the Cougars having the biggest wallop to win 2&mdash;1.Seattle: Goal, McAtee; defence, Weaver, Taillefer; centre, Fillion; wings, Bell, Thorpe; subs.: Nixon, Boorman, Bloom, Kerr, Jones, Lewis, Tkuchuk, Leswick, Maxwell. Stefaniw.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence. Long. Lepine; centre, Abbott; wings, Frampton, Hebenton; subs.: Leger, Webster, Goegan. Strongman, Burman, McIntyre, Mazur, Dorohoy, Evans, Medynski.First PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: Weaver, Nixon, Abbott.Second PeriodScoring: None.Penalties: McIntyre, Nixon.Third Period1&mdash;Seattle: Thorpe (Fillion)&hellip;&hellip;5:442&mdash;Victoria: Frampton (Leger) &hellip; 14:493&mdash;Victoria: Hebenton(Goegan, Leger)&hellip;&hellip;19:06Penalties: None.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0424/911987-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="612" height="1683"></div>THE LEADERSMost Goals: Joe Bell, Sea. (35)Most Assists: Bob Love, N.W. (34)Most Hat Tricks: Bob Love, N.W.; Norm Kirk, N.W.: Ron Rowe, Tae.; Jack McIntyre. Vic.; Joe Bell, Sea. (2)Most Hat Tricks Against: Tom Kara&mdash;kas, Port. (6)Most Winning Goals Scored: Ken Ullyot, N.W.; Doug Adam, Tac. (5)Most Shutouts: Lucien Deschene, N.W. (5)Most Shots Stopped: Lucien Deschene, N.W. (1350)Most Penalties: Norm Gustavsen, Tac. (116 minutes). &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0192/912063-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"></div><h2>First Stanley Cup Champions, 1894</h2>Originally the emblem of amateur hockey supremacy, the Stanley Cup&mdash;donated by Lord Stanley, Governor-Generalof Canada&mdash;was won for the first time, in 1894, by the Montreal AAA, playing seven men side with no substitutions.The cup became professional trophy in 1912, when it was won by the Quebec Bulldogs.molson&rsquo;s ESTABLISHED 1786 &#9632;

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MOLSON’S REMEMBERS…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0168/912101-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Solution Next Week)</figcaption></div>ACROSS1&mdash;Pictured Canadien player.5&mdash;Initials of Hawk player.7&mdash;Initials of a player traded to Chicago by Detroit this season.8&mdash;Gordie Howe&rsquo;s is 9 (abbr).9&mdash;Nothing.11&mdash;Member of St. Louis Flyers.12&mdash;Traded to Canadiens in 1938&mdash;39 season by Chicago.14&mdash;Initials of an ex-Bruin, now with Hawks.15&mdash;Former NHL player known as &ldquo;Doc&rdquo;.16&mdash;Initials of a Bruin who was recently traded to Rangers.17&mdash;Half an em.18&mdash;Rookies often view veterans with&mdash;.19&mdash;Friend (Fr.).21&mdash;In 1929&mdash;39 Cooney Weiland&mdash;the N.H.L. in scoring.23&mdash;Negative answer.24&mdash;Last season Ted Lindsay amassed 7 8 points&mdash;Detroit.27&mdash;Birthplace of Reg Sinclair.31&mdash;Initials of Brown of Kansas City.33&mdash;Former Bruin, known as Herbie.34&mdash;Jim Primeau is one.36&mdash;Initials of one of the Rangers.37&mdash;A Cleveland forward is called this.38&mdash;A defenseman often&mdash;a forward into the boards.39&mdash;Initials of centre on line with Lamirande and Gladu.DOWN1&mdash;Stanley Cup winners of 1930&mdash;31.2&mdash;Given name of pictured star.3&mdash;Initials of Doraty, ex&mdash;Leaf.4&mdash;These are often heard from the players bench.5&mdash;Given name of Blair, once with Toronto.6&mdash;An N.H.L. manager.10&mdash;Nickname of Seattle team in the PCHL.11&mdash;This Red Wing is called George.13&mdash;Initials of Newcombe, Brooklyn baseball player.18&mdash;Initials of Rangers captain in 1938&mdash;39.20&mdash;Charlie Conacher was one to Ted Kennedy.22&mdash;Short for given name of player known as &ldquo;Bones&rdquo;.24&mdash;Rangers got into these last season.25&mdash;Nickname sometimes given Cal Gardner.26&mdash;Country in which Jack Evans was born.28&mdash;Tennis term.29&mdash;Gadsby and Brown were wearing these.30&mdash;Pronoun.32&mdash;Thoms, former Leaf, answers to this.35&mdash;Bill Knott is a&mdash;NHL referee.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0325/912094-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="562" height="863"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s have come a long way in their junior development project&mdash;farther than they expected. They thought that In their second year they might be able to ice a strong Memorial Cup contender. Now they think they might have one this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0243/912132-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="288" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Kennedy</figcaption></div>When the Santamarians went into the matter they went whole hog. The idea started to jell in the late spring of 1950, when Toronto&rsquo;s Teeder Kennedy was brought here to conduct a hockey clinic. Teen-aged players from all over the Maritimes attended. Those who attracted attention were invited back to join the the 1950-51 organization.Saturday afternoon games were used to weed out the players. After two months of strenuous work coach Marty Barry announced his junior A aggregation. Since the team was named it has had marked success in topflight competition. It involved so much work that Marty Barry quit as senior coach to devote full attention to the juniors. They have been his pride and joy.Early in the season they captured top honors in the pre-sea-son series of the Valley Hockey League, a senior organization. Other senior clubs have been beaten, some by overwhelming scores. This team is a far cry from the squad that was badly beaten in Ottawa by Inkerman Rockets in 1949, and by Montreal Canadiens in Halifax last season. It is rated on a par with the teams of a few years ago that gave the top Quebec League clubs great opposition. The teams that sent Bert Hirschfeld to the NHL Canadiens; Hugh Campbell to New York Rangers; Dugger McNeill to Montreal Royals and Butter Duggan to Washington Lions.Halifax fans are high on the new edition. On occasions the juniors have been sent up to the Big Four ranks to fill in for casualties, and the results have been highly satisfactory.Col. Vic Oland is the big man behind the project. Associated with him are manager Jim McDonald and coach Barry. They have been untiring in their efforts to produce a Memorial Cup contender and at the same time provide the seniors with a farm club. They see senior dividends in the years to come.Moncton Hawks are showing steady improvement in Big Four play and are adding to their ranks from week to week. One of the newcomers is Marcel Bessette, a fugitive from Valleyfield. He has been a steady producer in the three weeks he has been here. Lome Smith, who saw action with Dartmouth Arrows and Saint John Beavers in other years, has been a stalwart defense addition. The Hawks are doing much better against Saint John and Halifax but the Islanders have their number.Saint John Beavers had a hot two-week streak but were chilled by Halifax Saint Mary&rsquo;s 6-2 after whipping the Santamarians 11-4 earlier in the week. The Beavers now boast nine victories over the Islanders. This is far and away the best record against the runaway league leaders. The Halifax team has also cut into the Charlottetown record but not enough to cause much comment.Success of the Islanders against Sydney Millionaires in exhibition play provided the other Cape Breton contenders renewed hope. Since the Islanders took the lead in their &ldquo;friendly&rdquo; series with the Maritime champions, the Millionaires have seen a stiffening on the home front. In the early days of the season the Dollarmen had only to skate out on the ice to assure success. Now they have to fight all the way for their victories, which aren&rsquo;t as frequent as they once were.The feeling of Maritimes sports fans, with the exception of those in Sydney proper, is that the team of the year comes from Charlottetown. Murph Chamber-lain assembled this gang on short notice. Leo Lamoureux has kept it going in high gear. As a matter of fact the Islanders had a deficit against Sydney until Leo took over.It can safely be said now: the Maritime teams have weathered the financial storm. All are running with red ink but there is no talk of withdrawal. In many instances new backers have been found to keep the pot boiling. &#9632;

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Long Range St. Mary’s Plan May Pay off In First Year

VOLUME 4 MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 10, 1951 NUMBER 19<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0114/912177-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="274" height="305"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0213/912170-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="268" height="319"></div><h2>Watch The Birdie, Kiddies</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0313/912163-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="2928" height="2049"><figcaption class="caption-body">It looks like Cameraman Kilpatrick stopped the game to take this shot. The Boston Bruins and Wings were hat at it when the camera bulb went off and just when it did Defenseman Bill Quackenbush, center, looked up as did Eddie Sandford right, seconds after the three came close to colliding. But Vic Stasiuk of the Wings, on the right, kept on going, so did the puck which can be seen in mid-air in the center of the picture. ((Photo by Kilpatrick))</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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February 10, 1951

Amateur Parade At Quick Glance

Better Records Might Have Got Ez, Ted Off Lighter

Long Pull Finally Pays Off As Spits Hit Junior OHA Top

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