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March 17, 1951
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Mental Lapse Costs Mortson 500 Greenbacks
(Toronto Globe And Mail) TORONTO, Ont.— Leaf’s Gus Mortson has been fined $200 and suspended for two NHL games, for striking Adam Brown of Chicago Black Hawks with his stick during a game in Maple Leaf Gardens. Clarence Campbell, league president, said in making the announcement here, that defensemen Mortson is not to be paid by his club for the two games he sits out. On the basis of the 70-game schedule, that pay thus represents 2/70th of his annual salary, approximately, and unofficially, $350. Campbell’s statement followed a two-hour meeting in his Royal York Hotel suite with Mortson, game officials, managing director Conn Smythe of the Leafs and Carl Voss, NHL referee-in-chief. The incident occurred early in the third period of a game won by Leafs, 3-0, and Brown was struck high on the…
BOOKS
Published by Copp-Clark Ltd. Toronto, Ont. A must for every hockey player, coach, manager, referee and ardent fan is a copy of THE HOCKEY HANDBOOK, the finest all-around instructional book on the world’s fastest sport ever published. One thing that hockey has lacked for a long time is a good authoritative book dealing with the instructional end of the sport. Lloyd Percival, author of this outstanding book, has done a tremendous job in compiling and explaining the many points about the game and hockey now has a manual second to none. It would be next to impossible to improve upon this book. This 160,000 word handbook is the first really comprehensive book ever written about ice hockey. Intended as much for ready reference as for detailed study, The Hockey Handbook deals with every…
Hockey Crossword
ACROSS 1—Pictured Cauadien rookie. 7—Initials of Black Hawk born in Goderich, Ont. 8—Company (abbr). 9—initials of a Cincinnati forward. 10—Given name of Howe of New York Rovers. 11—Number of points amassed by Couture in 1949-50 playoffs. 12—Initials of One of the Rangers. 13—Old English (abbr). 14—One of the Leafs answers to this. 17—Short for given name of Springer, ex-NHL official. 19—initials of Andrews of Tacoma. 20—Initials of a Canadien who once played for Leafs. 21—Eddie Wiseman played for this NHL team in 1931 (abbr). 23—Number worn by referee George Gravel. 25—Bill Thomson, ex-NHL player, was born in—Scotland. 29—Short for first name of Kullman of Boston. 30—Name given Scherza of Providence. 31—Gus Schwartz of St. Paul was born in—Boniface, Man. 32—The line of Lindsay, Abel and Howe is considered a dangerous —. 35—Initials of 5 dbwn. 36—Upon. 37—Indianapolis forward. DOWN 1—Springfield player known as “Bus”. 2—Name given Cutts who once tried out with Leafs. 3—Number of seasons…
THE FAN FORUM
TAKES ISSUE Dear Sir, I strongly urge you to print this letter. You give a report of the Springfield-Buffalo and Buffalo-Pittsburgh incidents which have been written so as to cast a discolored light on defenseman Harry Dick of the Bisons. In Springfield, Dick was unjustly attacked, injured slightly and then fined $100. Six nights later Harry Dick accidently clipped Frank (Mathers on a follow through from a shot on goal, a thing that often happens. Mathers then deliberately went after Dick like a wildman and the unsuspecting Dick was painfully injured. It was the most disgusting thing ever witnessed in Buffalo. Then that American League president, who never sees a hockey game, fined Dick another $100. However, it was announced the other day that Podoloff is reconsidering the fine in the Pittsburgh incident.…
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