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March 03, 1951
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Cook Forgets To Move, Goes To Hospital With Fracture
DENVER, Colo.— “I’ve had my share of stitches and I’ve fallen down stairs, but never anything like this”. When Bill Cook stops laughing long enough to explain his first broken leg in the long years he’s been associated with hockey, that’s how he explains it. A busted leg, no matter who gets it, is no laughing matter, but the more Bill talks about it, the more he chuckles over the incident. It happened to him on Saturday, Feb. 24, and naturally, on a hockey rink. The affable Cook, coach of the Denver Falcons in the U.S. Hockey League, was sending his lads through a practice session at the Broadmoor Hotel rink in Colorado Springs when the accident occurred. The Falcons were forced to make the trip to Colorado Springs when practice ice was not available…
Harvey’s New Hustle Has Fandom Agasi--No More Boos For Him
MONTREAL, Que. For four years every Peel and St. Catherine Street hanger-on, every railbird who was ever clever enough to form an opinion and many of the experts who form them but have no right to, have been saying that Doug Harvey has what it takes. The story that Defenseman Doug had the ability to be great was so used up that the worst run down recording of Rag-Mop sounded better. But now it seems that Harvey does have the ability. He has fooled many hockey brains during the past two weeks with his scintillating showings night after night. The once loud chorus of boos from the rafters of the Montreal Forum have now changed to cheers for Doug, proof that whichever way you look at it, the memories of the sporting…
Hawks’ Jinx Hits Players, Writers, Also
CHICAGO, Ill.— Chicago players apparently walk under ladders, while black cats cross their paths on the way to the games. Every day seems like Friday the 13th for the because their Black Hawks only luck is bad. They have suffered 190 injuries since the start of the season and cost president William Tobin more than $10,000 for hospital bills. Chicago fans hold their team in such low esteem that they stay away in droves to set a new alltime low in attendance almost every other day. Sports editors of Chicago newspapers claim that interest in the team has fallen to such depths they can’t even give away their free passes. Writers who once followed the team have pleaded for other assignments. Ten men from three of the city’s newspapers have asked for other work…
Bears’ Success Goes To Players-Crawford
ST. LOUIS, Mo.— “If you asked me why we’re going good, I’d have to give you 16 or 17 reasons,” Johnny Crawford said. In the midst of Hershey’s final grand tour of the prairies, an inquisitive soul was trying to learn how the ragtag Bears of 1949-50 became the muscular Bears of the very next season. From a solid last in the Eastern Division to a solid second. “I couldn’t single out any one man,” the freshman coach said, stretching on a hotel bed and fingering a recently-broken wrist bone. “They’ve all pulled together, everybody’s given it all he’s got.” At the time, Hershey was a dozen points behind the goal-a-minute Buffalo Bisons and a dozen ahead of Providence, Nothing less than an act of Congress can keep the old Boston Bruin from putting…
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