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April 21, 1951

The Hockey News April 21, 1951

BARRIE, Ont.&mdash;Sites of the Eastern Canada junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; finals brought mild objection from Barrie coach Hap Emms after the Flyers had won the OHA title with a 4-2 win over Toronto Marlboros.The series opened in Toronto last Saturday afternoon, with two games in the Maple Leaf Gardens before the third and fourth games in Quebec City. Emms feels it unfair that the Citadels should play on home ice while his Flyers have to play at Maple Leaf Gardens. The CAHA sets the playoff sites and dates.The Barrie coach suggests two possible alternatives. 1. That the Quebec home games be played at the Forum in Montreal, or 2. That the Flyers&rsquo; home games be played in Barrie. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Emms Questions CAHA Decision On Playoff Sites

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DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE?

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01189/1196661-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="260" height="418"></div>&lsquo;TORONTO&mdash;MAURICE RICHARD is the outstanding player of the 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs. His overtime goal in the second game of the series was a masterpiece. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been watching him play here for four years In anticipation of seeing him score a goal like that,&rdquo; remarked one Toronto sports writer&hellip; His timing was perfect. He picked up a perfect pass from Doug Harvey, another star of the series, went around Gus Mortson, forced Broda to make the first move, and backhanded the puck into the net. Just as soon as Richard picked up the puck and bore in on Broda some fans started to head for the exits, saying, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all over now.&rdquo; &hellip; Richard received a big hand from the Toronto fans when he left the ice at the end of the game. He got a good hand In Detroit in the semi-finals, too &hellip; This is the first year that he has been cheered away from the Montreal Forum &hellip; Richard&rsquo;s only comment after the game was, &ldquo;Broda should have stayed In his goal.&rdquo; &hellip; There wasn&rsquo;t too much hilarity in the Habitants dressing room after the second game. Dick Irvin said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got just as good a team as they have. We only made one mistake all night and that was when Harvey got caught up the ice when we were shorthanded and Toronto scored their second goal.&rdquo;&hellip; Canadlens players sang &ldquo;Alouette&rdquo; in their dressing room after the game&hellip; Ted Kennedy was the star of the Toronto team once again. Conn Smythe keeps repeating that Kennedy is the best playoff player of all-time&hellip; Toronto fans couldn&rsquo;t figure out why Fleming Mackell wasn&rsquo;t used more and started to chant, &ldquo;We Want Mackell!&rdquo; throughout the third period &hellip; Mackell looked mighty good in the short sessions he was on the Ice. He has plenty of speed and puts a lot of pep into the Leafs. &mdash; Gus Mortson was a standout for Toronto In the first game. Gus isn&rsquo;t being used quite as much lately by the Leafs. He has a low blood count&hellip; Ted Kennedy was credited with the second Toronto goal on Saturday after Tod Sloan was originally awarded it&hellip; Gerry McNeil claims the puck was kicked Into the net by Sloan. Bill Tobin, acting as supervisor of the series, says that It went into the net after bouncing off Kennedy&rsquo;s knee.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02170/1196654-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="282" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03107/1196647-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="274" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Barilko</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0475/1196640-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="253" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Kennedy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0565/1196633-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="256" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug Harvey</figcaption></div>SLD SMITH, hero of the first game with his winning tally, has been one of Leafs best players in the series. Highly exuberant after firing the winning goal, Smith said, &ldquo;I got the puck back of the net. I was going to pass it out to Teeder. Then I decided to swing around and try a pot shot. I&rsquo;m sure glad I did, too.&rdquo; &hellip; Smith has scored three of Toronto&rsquo;s five goals. He scored two of their three goals In the first game and notched their first goal In Saturday&rsquo;s game&hellip; Paul Masnlck has been a surprising sensation for the Montrealers. The 19-year-old Regina lad has been forechecking brilliantly and he scored the first Canadiens goal on Saturday&hellip; Paul Meger has also shown lots of gallop for the Habs. Meger is a fast scrappy player and once he finds the range will score plenty of goals for the Canadiens. Paul suffered a five stitch cut in his neck when he was accidentally cut by Joe Klukay&rsquo;s skate in the first game. They both fell down at the same time and Klukay&rsquo;s skate nicked his neck. Meger has been getting plenty of sleep in this series. One night he was in bed at 7:30 and didn&rsquo;t wake up until 10 the next morning. &ldquo;I play better when I get lots of sleep,&rdquo; he told us over breakfast&hellip; Sid Smith&rsquo;s goal after 15 seconds from the Initial faceoff in the opening game was a new N.H.L. record for the fastest goal In a Sanley Cup playoff&hellip; Doug Harvey has been playing throughout the series with a very painful knee &hellip; It&rsquo;s been the play of two of Montreal&rsquo;s veterans, Butch Bouchard and Billy Reay, that has had a lot to do with the club&rsquo;s great showing in the playoffs. Neither Bouchard or Reay showed much all season, but in the last couple of weeks of the regular campaign and right through the playoffs these two &ldquo;kids&rdquo; have been terrific&hellip; Bill Barilko has been, a tower of strength to the Leafs. He&rsquo;s thrown himself in front of several hard shots that might have slipped into the Toronto goal. It was Barilko who stopped Richard&rsquo;s blazing drive in the overtime of the first game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0655/1196626-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="262" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Smith</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0747/1196619-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="274" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Turk Broda</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0841/1196612-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="262" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fleming Mackell</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0941/1196605-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="267" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gus Mortson</figcaption></div>&ldquo;THERE ARE lots of hockey personalities In attendance at the finals this year. Some of the hockey names you&rsquo;ll recobnize who have been here for the games are Jack Adams, Bill Tobin, Ebble Goodfellow, Frank Boucher, Carson Cooper. Bob Wilson, Baldy Cotton, Dit Clapper, Lynn Patrick, Art Ross, Don Penniston, Pete Babando, Max Silverman, Reg Hamilton, King Clancy Bob Goldham, Rudy Pilous, Art Chapman and Eddie Shore&hellip; Bill Juzda has been trying mighty hard to hit a Montreal player in this series but so far he hasn&rsquo;t done much damage. Masnlck is the only player to be on the receiving end of one of &ldquo;The Beast&rsquo;s&rdquo; lunges&hellip; Juzda is a tough hombre at any time, and he and Barilko hand out the hardest body checks of any defensemen in the league &hellip; Detroit minor officials worked the first game, with Chicago officials handling the second game &hellip; Gerry McNeil is second only to Richard as Montreal&rsquo;s shining star in the 1951 playoffs. The kid continues to play phenomenal goal in every game&hellip; 14,567 watched the Leafs play Saturday. &#9632;

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Along The Cup Trail

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Whatever the outcome of the current Stanley Cup final may be, it will be hard to find a better coach this year than James Dickinson Irvin, sometimes known as the Pigeon fancier, Gloomy Dick or the Mastermind, to name just a few synonyms.Gloomy, he may be at times. Sad, he quite often is, yet, no matter which mood he happens to feel like assuming, you can&rsquo;t take it away from the guy &mdash; he is the ice game&rsquo;s number one mastermind. His parallel in football is the late Knute Rockne, in baseball, John McGraw.Extremely popular with the press, Irvin shows little emotion in victory or defeat. This season he led his mixed band of veterans and kids in a restrained, firm manner, restoring to friendly dressing room talks with his boys during the critical stages of the race. His technique has paid off handsomely.But Irvin, above all else, has one other quality which is rare in the game of hockey today. He is good copy &mdash; in fact he is the best copy the game has ever known. On political points of the game he perhaps is not as outspoken as Toronto&rsquo;s Conn Smythe but he can make a reporter hop for a phone as fast&mdash;if not faster.Newspapermen love to talk to Irvin for they know that sooner or later he is going to utter a few words that will give them the basis for a story. This season, is as good as any to use as a sample.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01165/1197043-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="512" height="832"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK IRVIN</figcaption></div>Just recently, after the Canadiens had lost the first game of the Stanley Cup final to the Leafs a Toronto reporter entered the Habs&rsquo; room and asked Dick how he thought the series would go.&ldquo;You answer that one,&rdquo; Irvin blurted. &ldquo;You newspapermen are supposed to be the experts. You&rsquo;ve been calling the turns all season, you picked us to end last, you said the Wings would mop us up. Now you tell me how this series is going to go.&rdquo; Irvin saved that answer for a long time and used it at the right time &mdash; just as he invariably uses all his answers at the right time.<h2>Conacher Calls Him Best</h2>To balance Irvin&rsquo;s ingenious mind for publicity is his coaching ability.&ldquo;When I was traded to Canadiens from Chicago I met Charlie Conacher just before I got here and told him about the deal,&rdquo; said Bert Olmstead. &ldquo;Conacher just patted me on the back and said, &lsquo;fellow, you are now going to play for the greatest coach the game has ever known.&rsquo;&rdquo;That is a statement of one of the greatest players that ever lived.Each of Irvin&rsquo;s players wholeheartedly agrees with Conacher. Of course any player will tell you his coach is the best In the business. But the Canadiens&rsquo; players will give you a dozen reasons just why they think Irvin Is tops:He&rsquo;s years ahead of every other coach in the business, they&rsquo;ll tell you, and he&rsquo;s at least two plays ahead of them during every game. He seems to know just what&rsquo;s ahead.Irvin&rsquo;s handling of the Canadiens this season has been nothing short of sensational. The spirit which he injected into his team moving into the 1950-51 home stretch was miraculous. Even when his club was lazing around in fifth piece, just two weeks before the end of the season he expressed confidence his boys would be in the playofrs.At the beginning of the season ths Canadiens were picked by a poll of newspapermen to end last. Yet, to the face of the very reporters who chose them to finish in the Cellar he confidently told them that his club would finish no worse than third. Whether It was just another means to get his name in the paper we don&rsquo;t know &mdash; we do know that the Canadiens finished third, just as Irvin said they would.It was not Irvin&rsquo;s coaching technique against the Red Wings that earned him support as hockey&rsquo;s top coach for 1950-51, rather it was the end of the schedule drive. However, in that Detroit series he did establish himself beyond all doubt as a genius at the art of leading a club over the hill.When word got around that he made his players change their underwear between the second and third overtime periods of the first marathon game most of the railbirds as well as newspapermen laughed at him. But to Irvin it made practical sense. In a game that had lasted so long, speed was sure to be the deciding factor. And to lessen a player&rsquo;s weight by three or four pounds was certain to make a difference. It did, for Maurice Richard stole the puck from Kelly and netted the winner. It was reported that the Wings changed their underwear during the next overtime game.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02141/1197036-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1720" height="1180"><figcaption class="caption-body">A Great Team ManDICK IRVIN &hellip; &hellip; A BRILLIANT MIND</figcaption></div>Many of the close to the ice viewers are of the opinion that Irvin outcoached Ivan during the series. Of that Dick will make no comment.&ldquo;All I know,&rdquo; said Dick, &ldquo;is that a coach cannot break up his lines like the Wings were doing and expect to win tough games. That, to me, shows lack of confidence in his players.&rdquo;Irvin did plenty of spadework before deciding how he would play the Wings. He looked over each player&rsquo;s record and only then decided how he would pit his boys against a club that was rated one of the most powerful ever to come along.Irvin remembered Gordie Howe once said that MacKay was the hardest man for him to get by. Since Howe was the man Irvin had to stop he put MacKay against him. Although the great right winger played fine hockey he was far from the outstanding player he was during the season. Everytime he took the puck MacKay was on his neck or knocking him down. It was the way Irvin had planned it. He didn&rsquo;t care whether MacKay scored any goals just so long as Howe was taped.On two more occasions during the series Irvin showed that it takes a good man to beat him to the punch. In the first two games that went into four and three overtime periods he noticed that the Wings were weakening as the game went farther into the night.In that fourth overtime session he started his big line of Richard, Lach and Olmstead. He made the Wings play it according to his book and he made them like it. To check the Habs&rsquo; big line Ivan threw out Pavelich, Gee and Peters. Irvin had a purpose for deviating from his usual routine of starting his checking line of MacKay, Curry and Mosdell. Realizing that Richard is probably in better shape than any player in the game and noticing that he was beginning to get in for more shots during the third extra session he was sure that if the goal was going to come it would come at the very start of a period. He was right, not only in the first game but also in the second when Richard duplicated his feat within minutes of the opening whistle.So much for Irvin&rsquo;s ability as a coach. What&rsquo;s he like as just plain Dick Irvin, citizen?We don&rsquo;t know. We do know that he&rsquo;s a great baseball fan and he&rsquo;s proud of the fact that he once told the late Judge Mountain Landis, commissioner of baseball just what was the matter with the National Sport of the United States.He&rsquo;s a great needier, a man who stresses teamwork and a meticulous guy who likes to work out every detail to the last point. He&rsquo;s a figure fiend and a coach who stresses good physical shape &mdash; in fact demands it from his players. He also loves western movies.Irvin is a mild manner, a philosopher. He was so intriqued with a moving picture called Twelve O&rsquo;clock High that he took his whole club to see it one bright and early morning. It was his way of showing the players just what part teamwork plays in the game. Then he segragated the he is quick-witted. When he went overweight players from the rest and put them on the ice for an extra practice session. He then labelled them his &ldquo;Leper Colony.&rdquo;Irvin is probably tne wittiest coach in the business. To top that to Detroit for the semi-final series he complained that he didn&rsquo;t have enough room to walk behind the bench. When a Detroit heckler went to work on him during the second game with such, remarks as:&ldquo;What&rsquo;s your strategy now. Mastermind?&rdquo;Irvin casually turned around and remarked:&ldquo;Mr. my strategy right now Is to score one more goal that ths Red Wings.&rdquo;As a worrier they don&rsquo;t coms any bigger that Irvin. When his club wins one game he immediately starts to worry about the next. Yet, even In his worst moods hs Is never too busy to talk to the press, be they young newspapermen or the veterans of the business,In the mind, of most fans who watch Irvin parade behind his players&rsquo; bench during each game, there usually forms the opinion that he eats ugly pills for breakfast, dinner and supper every day of the week. He looks as though, he cracks the whip at every opportunity. Actually he&rsquo;s the very opposite from his looks. True, he demands discipline from his players, but he plays no favourites. He has been known to dress down the stars of his club and praise a young rookie. But let another talk in a discrediting manner about any one of his players and it&rsquo;s asking for trouble. Irvin is the greatest backer his players have.There are dozens of stories about Irvin in the hockey anecdot* books. He ruled the roost in Chicago, led the Toronto Maple Leafs along their brightest road and built a Canadiens hockey club so potent that one season they never lost a game at home.He&rsquo;s a bitter loser and a hearty; winner and everybody knows it. Two years ago when the Canadiens were playing the Wings in the semi-final series and wer behind by one game Jack Adams made a crack that will be told in the hockey world for years to come.As he and the Wings were making an exit from the Detroit dressing room a pigeon flew by. Adams bellowed;&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t say a word, you guys, Irvin&rsquo;s got his pigeons spying on us now.&rdquo;Yes that Irvin is quite a man. We haven&rsquo;t known him as long as most of those covering the NHL beat but you can&rsquo;t help but admire him. &#9632;

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Colorful Hab Leader Confident All Along

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0124/1198387-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">From A Leaf Point Of ViewTop picture shows the pileup around the Montreal net on a Toronto goal by Tod Sloan. Sid Smith skates in front of Referee Bill Chadwick while Ted Kennedy just flashes a smile of happiness.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0218/1198380-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="2312" height="1444"><figcaption class="caption-body">And showing looks of unhappiness are Floyd Curry, Bud MacPherson and Cal MacKay in the background. Doug Harvey is the player on the right. Below, Sid Smith swerves into Gerry McNeil to score the winning goal in the first overtime session of the first Stanley Cup game between Leafs and Canadiens. Harvey is No. 2 while MacPherson holds Sloan out of the play. (Photo by Turofsky)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Tobin Orders Hawks’ Housecleaning for 1951-52

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0312/1198418-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="301" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Conacher</figcaption></div>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;Doug Bentley, Roy Conacher, Harry Lumley and Jack Stewart are expected to form the backbone of the 1951-52 edition of the Chicago Black Hawks: This was revealed by Bill lobin, the team&rsquo;s president, just before he boarded a plane for the final Stanley Cup games over which he acted as supervisor.&ldquo;Doug signed his contract for next season before he left for home about a month ago,&rdquo; Tobin disclosed. &ldquo;Roy hasn&rsquo;t put his name on the dotted line yet, but If he plays it will certainly be with the Hawks. He just had one of his best years.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had numerous offers for Lumley, who is still the best there is for my money, but he&rsquo;s not for sale for any amount of players or cash.&ldquo;Jack Stewart should be good for another two years. His &lsquo;slipped disc&rsquo; was apparently just some sort of nerve condition. He feels fine and really wants to get in there again. He&rsquo;s that rare kind of defenseman who has both brains and brawn.&rdquo;The Chicago forward wall will probably undergo the most radical changes next season. Tobin say that in addition to Bentley and Roy Conacher it will probably also have about three more Hawk veterans plus two or three rookies and, most important, three established NHL campaigners who are expected in the Windy City via the trade route.&ldquo;Naturally no one is willing to talk bargains while the playoffs are still in progress, but after that wo expect to do some swapping or buying or both. I&rsquo;ve got plenty of cash for good, prove National League forwards.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want anything mor to do with these guys that set the minor leagues afire and tabbed as cinches to set record in the NHL too. Black, Lundy and Morrison were all disappointing.&rdquo;Tobin revealed that any player the Black Hawks acquire will probably come from Toronto and&mdash;or Detroit. Montreal, Boston and New York haven&rsquo;t much to offer and they&rsquo;ll probably be looking toward the Leafs and Wings for some help too, he says.Billy Mosienko, Jim Conacher and Bep Guldolin are the other veteran Hawk forwards that Tobla feels will most likely fit into their uniforms again next fall at the team&rsquo;s North Bay, Ontario training camp.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll definitely work out at North Bay,&rdquo; he said, squelching the rumors that the Chicago camp would move a short distance north to Sudbury for the 1951-52 conditioning period.Tobin was very disappointed over the support the Hawks didn&rsquo;t get at North Bay last September, but he&rsquo;s evidently decided to give the usually hockey-rabid town another chance.The amateurs that are rated most likely to succeed with Chicago next year are Guyle Fielder and Fred Hucul, who had three-game trials with the team at the end of the past season, and Sid Finney.Fielder, a 19-year-old center from Lethbridge of the Western Canada Junior circuit, and Hucul, 19, a defenseman from Moose Jaw of the same league, have already signed their first pro contracts, Tobin revealed. Hucul was used as a wingman for Fielder in his Hawk tryout and notched an unassisted goal against Toronto. He may see duty as both rearguard and forward in 1951-52.Finney. 22, paced the Calgary Stampeders to the Western Canada Senior loop title this year. He won the league scoring title with 81 points, unseating last season&rsquo;s champ, the much publicized Colin Kilburn of the Edmonton Flyers, who wound up with 81.Sid, regarded as a surprise because of his size (built about like Mosienko), won the center post on&rsquo; the league&rsquo;s all-star squad. Russ Dertell, goalie, and Byron &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; McDonald, coach, were the other Calgary representatives on the all-circuit team. Chicagoans will remember McDonald as a center with the Black Hawks in 1944-45.Tobin doesn&rsquo;t feel there will be too much change in the Windy City team&rsquo;s blue line corps, providing Stewart does play as expected. Bill Gadsby, Al Dewsbury, Lee Fogolin and Hugh Coflin are expected to form the Hawks&rsquo; brigade of blue line bashers.Gadsby said, before he went home, that the main thing he expected to do this summer was get his badly battered left leg back into shape. Bill broke the limb in a Toronto game last December. When he returned to action two months later the leg was bruised and it gave him trouble the rest of the season.Dewsbury and Fogolin, who were the Hawks&rsquo; roughest, toughest back liners last year, should be welcome additions for the next campaign. Both can take care of themselves against any of the NHL&rsquo;S badmen and they&rsquo;re the kind of defensemen that Coach Ebbie Goodfellow likes.Coflin, who was one of Finney&rsquo;s teammates at Calgary before turning pro with Chicago at the start of the 1950-51 schedule, was a hot-&rsquo;n-cold item all season. As a result, he got to know the highway to Milwaukee, where the Hawks&rsquo; USHL farmhands, the Sea Gulls are at home. Hugh played his best alongside Jack Stewart in the early games of last season and it may be that he&rsquo;ll be teamed with the veteran all-star again.With this lineup, minus the injury epidemic that struck the team last year, Chicago should be able to give a pretty good account of itself in the NHL hockey wars next fall. A long-ranged prediction of fourth or better would certainly not be out of order and with breaks going for Instead of against them, the Hawks should at last give their patient fans something to yell about. &#9632;

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Says Only Six Forwards To Return Again

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03101/1196498-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="706" height="1170"><figcaption class="caption-body">Three $64 QuestionsGORDON (RED) HENRY of the Hershey Bears is being talked about as Jack Gelineau&rsquo;s successor &mdash; if Gelineau is to have a successor. But among the comments that have been put forth by various hockey authorities there are those who say he won&rsquo;t do, in that category are Conn Smyth of Toronto and Eddie Shore of Springfield. Hap Day and Johnny Crawford take the opposite view.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0480/1196491-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="709" height="1164"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK GELINEAU the Bruins&rsquo; regular goaler, whose record was not the worst in the league this season. However, there seems to be a lack of confidence in the 1949-50 Rookie-of-the-Year by his teammates. Gelineau has returned to his insurance job, in Montreal, a bitterly disappointed young man who had high hopes of missing the second year jinx at the beginning of the season.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0562/1196484-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="706" height="1164"><figcaption class="caption-body">HARRY LUMLEY of the Chicago Black Hawks, rated by many as one of the all time great goalers. The Bruins may be eyeing him with thoughts of a big deal involving players who could strengthen the Hawks. However, the speculation is all from the Boston angle and nothing has come out of Chicago. Most observers believe that whoever else the Hawks would trade, it wouldn&rsquo;t be Lumley.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0645/1196477-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="298" height="492"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The new deck from which the Boston Bruins are going to deal to their customers next season will presumably contain an ace, one who can do a superlative job of goal-tending.The Bruins seemingly tipped their hands during their recent playoff series with the Toronto Maple Leafs that there is a &ldquo;Position Open&rdquo; sign hanging from the pipes once guarded by Tiny Thompson and Frank Brimsek, and more recently Jack Gelineau.They Indicated lack of confidence in Gelineau&rsquo;s ability by replacing him with Gordon &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Henry, a minor leaguer, in the midst of their efforts to win the Stanley Cup.Guessing is rampant here that Gelineau, two years out of McGill University, has played hie last game as a Bruin. The question of the moment is, who will his successor be?The Bruins won only one game, the first one, in losing their six-game set to the Maple Leafs. The teams played to a eurfew-conculded tie in Toronto in the second game.Gelineau turned his post over to Henry, summoned from Hershey, at the end of four games, at which point the Bruins trailed in the series, one victory to two. Henry played the last two games, both of which Toronto won handily.Coach Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s switch to Henry, unprecedented in Boston playoff history, didn&rsquo;t give the second-guessers anything on which to work because Patrick had everything to gain and nothing to lose at the time.When he announced his change of plans Patrick added with his customary willingness to put himself on the spot. &ldquo;This is strictly a gamble. If it works I&rsquo;ll be a good coach. If It doesn&rsquo;t, I&rsquo;ll be a bum.&rdquo;.And after the final game he was justified in saying, &ldquo;Goaltending didn&rsquo;t lose for us. Lack of scoring did. We wouldn&rsquo;t have won if Bill Durnan had been our goalie.&rdquo;The benching of Gelineau, perhaps for good, after 74 games was a surprise, because the tall ex-collegian wasn&rsquo;t the worst goalie in the league, certainly not the worst in the playoffs.For the 70-game regular schedule he finished in the goals-against column right where the Bruins finished in the points column &mdash; fourth. Like all goalies past, present and future, he was as good as his team. His average of 2.81 goals allowed per game was better than the figures compiled by Harry Lumley of Chicago and Chuck Rayner of New York.The National League&rsquo;s outstanding rookie of a year ago also had a good record for his four playoff games, allowing only seven goals. That was better than Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk did against Montreal.In the eight other playoff series in which the Bruins have played Toronto, only one Boston goalie has ever done better than Gelineau did this year. That was Brimsek, who allowed only 1.2 goals per game for the Boston powerhouse of 1939.So much for Gelineau, a bitterly disappointed young man when he left for Montreal and his summertime insurance business: What of his successor?It may be Henry, the 25-year-old ex-Boston Olympic from Owen Sound, Ontario, who joined Hershey seven seasons ago. The big redhead has strong supporters, but there are also those who don&rsquo;t think he is the right man.Of Henry Hershey&rsquo;s Coach Jack Crawford said, &ldquo;He played great for us this year. It wasn&rsquo;t his fault that Pittsburgh beat us in. the playoffs.&rdquo;&ldquo;He was the outstanding goalie in the American league, better than either Gerry McNeil (Montreal) or Gelineau,&rdquo; opined Assistant Manager Happy Day of Toronto.But President Connie Smythe of the Maple Leafs said. &ldquo;The night after Day first told me that someone beat Henry for 10 goals. If he&rsquo;s so good, why didn&rsquo;t Hershey win at least one of the three games with Pittsburgh.&rdquo;&ldquo;He&rsquo;s an average geal-tender,&rdquo; observed Eddie Shore, owner of the Springfield team, &ldquo;not the worst one in the world.&rdquo;Henry was the first one mentioned to replace Gelineau &mdash; in the event that Jack is replaced &mdash; but that was probably because he was also the nearest one. Speculative eyes were shortly turned toward Chicago, where a fellow who has always been spectacular in Boston wasted his talents with the Black Hawks last winter.The 24-year-old Lumley played for a team which needed player help badly, and will need it just as badly next season. With the present skating contingent the Black Hawks will probably finish last again, in spite of Lumley.The Bruins, with a host of promising youngsters due to come in from the farm clubs next fall, have enough suitable personnel to swing a deal with Chicago, for Lumley. They have expendable players who could bolster the Hawks, including a goal-tender. The stage may be set for one of those big mid-season &ldquo;package&rdquo; deals, or so the guessing goes here. &#9632;

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Will It Be Henry Or Gelineau For ’51-52 Bruins, Or Maybe Lumley?

BOSTON &mdash; Only four goalers have ever stayed with the Boston Bruins for any length of time since they came Into the National Hockey League way back in the 1924-25 season. But plenty of goalers, or so called goalers, dot the list of men who have at one time of another played between the pipes for the Bostonians. The four regulars start with Hal Winkler who was their goaler for the seasons of 1924-25 until the end of 1927-28. Tiny Thompson took over from Winkler In the 1928-29 season and was the B&rsquo;s goaler through to the end of the 1937-38 season.The beginning of the 1938-39 season saw the great Frankie Brimsek called up from Providence to replace Thompson. He goaled for the Beantowners until called into the U.S. Coast Guard in 1942-43.Jack Gelineau, who replaced Brimsek in the Boston goals after Friged Frankie was sold to the Chicago Black Hawks, started with the Bruins in the 1949-50 season and was voted the outstanding Rookie-of-the-Year. Gelineau also goaled four games for the Bruins in the 1948-49 season when Brimsek was rushed home after his child died.But plenty of other goalers have dotted the Bruins lineup in their history. Bert Gardner George Abbott, Maurice Courteau, Jimmy Franks, Benny Grant, Paul Bibeault, Harvey Bennett, Les Colvin and Gord Henry not to list more whose records are not recorded in the history books. &#9632;

Bruins’ Netminding A Steady Position

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH (Toronto Telegram)</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Mons. Frank Selke spoke with touching timbre. He was not happy. Affable maybe, but not happy.&ldquo;I do not know why it is,&rdquo; he complained, &ldquo;that every time we play in Toronto, we look like something the cat drugged in.&rdquo;Selke&rsquo;s wild flight to the vernacular was not habitual with him. There must be trying circumstances There were.&ldquo;We have won two games in 14 against the Leafs all season,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That figures out to one in seven. That is not a happy situation.&rdquo;Selke was reminded that the prints hereabouts have been mentioning these Montreal Canadiens, who are playing the Leafs for the Stanley Basin are not the same Montreal Canadiens who muddled through 70 games and managed to finish with a drive that put them in third place. He was reminded that you could have knocked most people here over with a cigarette ash (them as could afford cigarettes) when the Canadlens hauled off and ellm-inated the Detroit Red Wings four games to two in the semifinal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01121/1196446-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="540" height="548"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK SELKE</figcaption></div><h2>Slight Difference</h2>&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; Selke explained, &ldquo;you must remember that we did pretty well against Detroit all season (here Selke showed keen discemment of the lesser of two evils. The Leafs won ten, tied two and lost two to Montreal while the Wings won nine, tied one and lost four).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02107/1196439-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="572" height="580"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAURICE RICHARD</figcaption></div>&ldquo;That is why,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;we went all out for third place and won it. Because we wanted to play Detroit.&rdquo;But Toronto?Through all the gloom, real or smoke screen, Selke could see one glimmer of happiness. Maurice Richard.He is by far the best player in the league today. Some people pick Gordie Howe of Detrolt and I will say that if Howe ever went on the trading block this club would go into hock for everything to get him. But I still insist Richard is the greatest!&rdquo;So there you All Star guys. You&rsquo;d better have picked him.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want Primeau or Smythe to know this,&rdquo; he whispered. &ldquo;But he&rsquo;s skating so fast his skates aren&rsquo;t even touching the ice. All I hope is he comes out of his shell in Toronto, never seems to be at his best there.&rdquo;This introduces a moot question. Checking Richard when his skates are on the ice is tough enough. Checking him when he&rsquo;s airborne will be a problem indeed. Now a few years ago Hap Day could have chucked Rugged Robert Davidson over the dasher and Bob would have tied his shoelaces to the Rocket&rsquo;s and stayed ther till they went to the dressing room.Who gets the chore this time?Well, the Leaf strategy in that respect has altered over the past few seasons. Joe Primeau was talking about it a few weeks ago in training camp in St. Catharines while waiting for a result from the first Detroit-Montreal playoff.&ldquo;Who would check Richard or Howe?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Just who ever happened to be his check on the line that was on the ice, that&rsquo;s who. If you go messing around trying to put one man on another to check him, pretty soon you&rsquo;ll have the other coach running your bench. If the player who&rsquo;s on tlie ice can&rsquo;t handle his check no matter who it is, he doesn&rsquo;t belong out there in the first place. &#9632;

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“Toronto No Queen City For Canucks Says Gloomy Selke

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01121/1196574-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Skyrocketing RocketMAURICE RICHARD &hellip; &hellip; It&rsquo;sGoals That Count</figcaption></div><h2>Wings&rsquo; Boss Named For Amazing Job Of Building Farm System</h2>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;A seasoned old campaigner whose name is almost a byword in hockey; a quiet, soft-spoken leader of men who knows how to get the best out of his men without the whiplash, hockey&rsquo;s greatest scorer; and a plucky young player who came back from a near knockout-punch to reach his greatest heights, have been selected this year by THE HOCKEY NEWS as the outstanding personalities in the game for the 1950-51 season.Those winning the nominations were: &mdash;Jolly Jawn Adams, manager of Detroit Red Wings, as the outstanding executive of the current season.Bun Cook, coach of Cleveland Barons, as the outstanding coach.Maurice Richard and Gord Howe, two of the greatest players tlie game has ever known as the outstanding players.These awards&mdash;inaugurated last year for the first time by the publishers of THE HOCKEY NEWS &mdash; are based on a number of factors, including the contributions made to the game by the men involved and the actual news value of their exploits during the year under review. They aren&rsquo;t reserved in any way for the manager, coaches or players of winning teams&mdash;for those are the individuals who capture the honors and the accolades of the fans for their post-season feats&mdash;but rather are decided upon the events of the entire season after a thorough review of what made hockey &ldquo;tick&rdquo; in 1950-51.As such, they are intended by THE HOCKEY NEWS as a mark of recognition for services rendered to the great game of hockey by the men chosen.<h3>Services To Hockey</h3>From this viewpoint, the men garnering the nominations for this season pass the test with no difficulty. All through the campaign now drawing to a spectacular close, these personalities were the ones who captured the spotlight, who drew the imagination, who worked the hardest for hockey.First, there&rsquo;s Jack Adams, the jovial, ruddy-cheecked boss of the NHL Red Wings and entrepreneur extraordinary of the talent producing Detroit farm chain. Adam&rsquo;s selection is based on his untiring efforts in developing young players at a fast clip to keep all his teams running in high gear, as well as a well-merited recognition of his manifold services and inspirations to hockey during the 24 years he has been with the Detroit organization.Along with men like Art Ross and Lester Patrick, Adams was one of the prime movers in the hugely successful campaign to promote hockey in the United States. His suggestions and advice are always listened to with respect, and much of hockey today owes its success to the Detroit boss.His hockey talent development program is a tribute to his farsightedness and his astuteness in judging up-and-coming players. Ranging from the Red Wings down, his farm organization embraces Indianapolis Capitols of the American Hockey League, Omaha Knights of the United States loop and Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario junior group&mdash;teams which are always in the thick of things&mdash;as well as numerous other sponsored teams.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02102/1196567-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1116" height="1674"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eyes The FutureJACK ADAMS&hellip; &hellip;A Long Supply</figcaption></div>Omaha, runners-up for the Loudon Trophy last season, came through with a rush to capture the USHL championship and the Cup this year, bringing great satisfaction to Jack as he eyes the future prospects for his Red Wings pastiming out in Nebraska. Indianapolis, winners of the Calder Cup in the AHL last year as they upset the powerful Cleveland Barons, dropped out in the early stages of the Cup hunt this year, but the future Wings on the club gained another year&rsquo;s experience in Adams&rsquo; careful grooming of his youngsters for bigger things.Although his Red Wings were knocked out of the Cup hunt in the semi-final round this year, Adams has no discernible reason for worry about the future. His hockey empire should continue to supply reinforcements for a good few years to come&mdash;in the same way it came through for him before the start of the current season when he broke up his Cup winners of the previous season by trading away seven players. The Wings were able to draw on their resources with such effect they made a virtual runaway of the regular NHL race before being upset in the playoffs.<h3>He&rsquo;s a &lsquo;Players&rsquo; Coach&rsquo;</h3>Turning now to the coaching personality of the year, the spotlight catches the affable, easy-going Fred (Bun) Cook, who has become almost a fixture in the years he. has been guiding the destinies of the mighty Cleveland Barons.Cook, one-time member of the potent New York Rangers threesome which included his brother Bill and Frankie Boucher, is a real &ldquo;players&rsquo; coach&rdquo;&mdash;one who commands the utmost respect and liking of his charges. Cook is a living answer to Lippy Leo Durocher&rsquo;s motto that &ldquo;Nice guys always finish last.&rdquo;Never the driving, martinet type of coach, Cook nevertheless has been hugely successful in his ventures with the Cleveland men. His clubs can always be counted upon to give their best and finish somewhere near the top of the heap.<h2>Choices Based a On News Value, Overall Record</h2>Last season the BarOns made a walkaway of the AHL race &mdash; much as Detroit did in the NHL this semester&mdash;chalking up records and beating others established by a previous Baron squad of three seasons before. They came a cropper in the Cup finals against Indianapolis, but bounced right back to cop the championship again this season and drive. right down into the final round which is still being fought.Much of Cook&rsquo;s success, of course, can be laid at the door of the topnotch players his boss Jim Hendy has supplied him with. But players and stars alone don&rsquo;t make a team&mdash;you also need the driving force and inspiration behind them. And that is exactly what Bun Cook gives his boys. They play their hearts out for him as they never would for a rough and ready coach who delights in applying the sand blast every time one of his charges make a mistake.Cook&rsquo;s players usually feel worse about a mistake than Cook cause they have let him down. He&rsquo;s the type of coach who can bring young players along, get the most out of his veterans, and contribute largely to the betterment of hockey. For all those reasons, he won the nomination this year.<h3>Top Players In Game</h3>Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens and Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings did more for the active part of hockey this season than any other 50 players combined. They provided fans with a rivalry hitherto unread of or un seen before in the game. And because of that rivalry they made the turnstiles click in every NHL city in the circuit and that, after all, is what our games lives on.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0370/1196560-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1135" height="1578"><figcaption class="caption-body">An Amazing ComebackGORD HOWE &hellip; &hellip; It Was Nearly Fatal</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0336/1196553-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="1047" height="1206"><figcaption class="caption-body">A Player&rsquo;s CoachTo try to choose between them is something we would never do. We will leave that to the officials who choose the N.H.L. All-Star team. So great are this pair that THE HOCKEY NEWS had to choose two outstanding players instead of one as has been done in past years.BUN BOOK &hellip; &hellip; Has no whip</figcaption></div>Maurice Richard has long been rated the outstanding player in the game. It was a one man race until this season when Howe hit his peak and actually outscored the great Frenchman. But do not take anything away from Richard for it is qnite conceivable that it he had been playing for a powerful club like the Wings he might hove broken his old goals-per-year record of 50.The Rocket&rsquo;s greatness was clearly shown in the 1950-51 playoff season. In the first two games against the Detroit Red Wings he stole the show by scoring two sudden death overtime goals after the games had entered into long periods of overtime. To show it was no fluke he broke up another game in Toronto last Saturday and for the first time in his career he hand the steadfast Leaf fans clapping him.Maurice Richard, for hockey, is essential. Regardless of his frequent temper outbursts he has, as an individual, given the ice game more publicity, not only in his own hometown of Montreal but in all other N.H.L. cities as well. Even when he does lose his temper it becomes headlines news. His $500 fine by President Campbell for assaulting Referee Hugh MacLean in New York this year, actually replaced the Korean war on the headlines of many newspapers. What better place, even though his actions could not be sanctioned, could the game&rsquo;s publicity be found.When he bopped Ted Lindsay on the eye in the playoffs he once again sent the hockey world into a turmoil and once again that all important publicity was given the game, not only in Canada but also inthe United States.Lester Patrick once told us that no matter how greaat a player is, if he doesn&rsquo;t have gate appeal then he will never become immortal. Richard has that appeal and combined with his scoring ability he is certain to go into the hockey books not only as a great hockey player, but a great sports figure alongside names like Ruth, Dempsey, Morenz to name a few.<h3>Howe&rsquo;s Amazing Comeback</h3>Howe won the nomination not only because of the fact that he shattered the NHL point mark this season, but because of the way he did it&mdash;coming back after a nearly-fatal skull fracture to play the best season of his career.Howe very nearly wasn&rsquo;t around to play hockey this season. Injured in the semi-finals against Toronto last Spring, the starry winger missed death only by a thin margin as prompt surgical attention was the only thing that staved off complications.But by Fail he was in his stride, and promptly began showing his old, familiar speed and finesse. In the latter stages of the season Howe was bothered by dizziness and headaches, a result of his injury, but kept right in the fight although forced to wear a protective helmet by Jack Adams&rsquo; orders.That he was able to soar to the heights, even with that handicap, is a true tribute to Howe as the outstanding personality. He not only led the loop in points, but in goals as well, thus showing even more remarkably his all-round abilities. Usually, the point king is a player with a hefty total of assists and not so many goals.So, tne masterly director of the destinies of a widespread farm chain&mdash;the likeable coach of a powerful AHL team&mdash;and the kid who came back with a bang&mdash;arc Hockey&rsquo;s Outstanding Personalities of 1950-51. &#9632;

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Adams, Bun Cook, Richard, Howe Picked As Puck Personalities In ’51

VICTORIA,&mdash;Hec Highton, the Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; goalie who finished out the season as a playoff standout for Portland Eagles against Victoria Cougars, has announced that he had played his last hockey game.Following Portland&rsquo;s 3-0 defeat at Victoria, Highton said he was returning immediately to Los Angeles to find year-round employment.&ldquo;I think my wife will shoot me in the head if I play another season,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;She wants me to quit. She&rsquo;s afraid I&rsquo;m going to get badly hurt one of these days.&rdquo;Highton, who learned his hockey in Vancouver, played professionally for Chicago, Providence, St. Louis and Los Angeles before coming to Vancouver this year.He&rsquo;s 27. &#9632;

Hec Highton Says He’s Through With Hochey

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1126/1196747-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="264" height="431"></div>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:Did not select a favorite. Enjoys them all.TWO BEST ACTORS:Gary Cooper and Danny Kaye.TWO BEST ACTRESSES:Betty Grable and Lana Turner.PREFERS TO WEAR:Conservative clothes, occasionally diamond socks.FAVORITE HOBBY:Golf.BEST GIRL VOCALIST:Doris Day.BEST MALE VOCALIST:Bing Crosby.FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC:Popular.BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSITION:Anything by Johann Strauss.BEST POPULAR COMPOSITION:If.FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:Guy Lombardo.FAVORITE COMPOSER:Rodgers and Hammerstein.LIKES TO READ:Straight fiction.TWO BEST RADIO PROGRAMS:&ldquo;20 Questions&rdquo; and Bob Hope.WHEN RETIRED FROM PLAYING, WOULD LIKE TO:Remain in hockey as a coach, then establish a business.FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:Would like to visit England.SHOOTS GOLF:In the low eighties.IN THE SI MMER:Is employed by Wheatley and Wilson Ltd. Montreal stationery. firm.BEST COMIC STRIP:Joe Palooka.FAVORITE PLACE TO LIVE:Montreal. &#9632;

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INSIDE STUFF ABOUT

<div class="byline">By AL NICKLESON(Toronto Globe and Mail)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1038/1196692-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="287" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">C. Campbell</figcaption></div>In &ldquo;creased&rdquo; protection for oftharassed goalies and more penalties for those nastyplayers who hook and charge into the boards, probably will represent main changes in National Hockey League play next season. In addition, there&rsquo;s a possibility that the centre red line may be eliminated so as to allow legal forward passing anywhere up to the opposing defensive blue line.These were main points discussed at an informal meeting of NHL representatives here recently at which seven officials representing five of the six clubs in the league staged a 4&frac12;-hour discussion as to possible changes and improvements in the rules.There was no unanimity as to necessity of changes, but the subjects discussed will come up for official attention at a meeting of the NHL rules committee next month. From that, an official draft of recommendations passed will be forwarded to the general league meeting in late May.&ldquo;This has been one of the most useful sessions, as regards rules discussions, that I&rsquo;ve ever been In,&rdquo; said President Clarence Campbell, who presided. With him as another league representative was Referee-in-Chief Carl Voss, along with four referees, George Gravel, Bill Chadwick, Hugh McLean and Red Storey.Campbell, in revealing major topics of the closed meeting, stressed it had no power to adopt any changes, only discuss them. Among other &ldquo;problems&rdquo; up for attention, he said, was that of &ldquo;excess shooting&rdquo; of the puck into a corner as a means of attack, something that many fans deride in the modern game.There also was a lengthy discourse, complete with statistics, on the theme of tie games. Unofficially, it&rsquo;s not likely that overtime will be introduced into the expected continuation of the 7 flgame schedule for next season.As to more protection for goalies, both from the standpoint of interference and freedom of movement, it was suggested that the crease in front of the net be Increased one foot overall from three feet by seven feet, to four feet by eight feet. The crease is private property and, if Infringed, no goal can result.&ldquo;Two other matters &mdash; boarding and hooking &mdash; are largely a matter of rule enforcement,&rdquo; said Campbell, who said that the rules were there and that it would be just a matter of the referees putting more teeth in them. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s the question of the degree of force which should be permitted in boarding. A stiffer standard would call for an increased number of penalties, including major penalties.&ldquo;There is a feeling of too much charging into the fence, that it has gone too far,&rdquo; said Campbell, adding he was rererrlng specifically to players being &ldquo;creamed&rdquo; after they had rid themselves of the puck and thus weren&rsquo;t puck carriers. He noted injuries had resulted from the practice this season.Campbell referred to hooking, roughly defined as &ldquo;impeding the progress of a player by hooking with a stick,&rdquo; as &ldquo;a lazy man&rsquo;s habit,&rdquo; Hooking usually results in a player being spun around and a miss frequently results in a player being &ldquo;speared&rdquo; by the point of the stick.&ldquo;Hooking curtails the scoring possibility, especially in the end zone,&rdquo; Campbell added.The question also had been raised at the meeting as to elimination of the red line across centre ice to permit forward passing up to the attacking blue line. Another suggestion was that while the foregoing be adopted, some type of centre line be retained so that a team &ldquo;icing&rdquo; the puck would have to carry it over that line before shooting. The latter is not likely to pass. &#9632;

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Rer Line, Hooking Boarding Discussed At N.H.L. Meeting

TORONTO &mdash; Every player, coach and manager, with the exception of the Toronto Maple Leafs themselves, are crossing their fingers and hoping the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup.According to General Manager Jack Adams of Detroit Red Wings that&rsquo;s the way the hockey world feels about the Leafs. Adams told Elmer Ferguson, sports editor of the Montreal Herald that: &ldquo;Every other club hates those Leafs personally, and in a hockey sense. They&rsquo;re all pulling for the Canadiens.Ferguson quoted Adams after the Habs had lost the first game as saying the Canadiens played below their best form. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether it was a mental let-down, which is almost inevitable after a tough series like ours was, or wether it was physical, but they didn&rsquo;t have the same fire and drive they showed against us.&rdquo; &#9632;

Adams Says Hockey World Wants Canadiens To Win

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01142/1196826-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="478" height="475"><figcaption class="caption-body">May Still TradeJACK ADAMS</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;That the Detroit Red Wings will make a few changes next season is a known fact but just who they will be has not been revealed by General Manager Jack Adams.He did say however, that Captain Sid Abel would be back for another season. Adams said Abel had too good a season to hang up his blades.Adams also announced that somewhere along the line room would have to be made for the Wilson brothers, Larry and Johnny. Both played in Indianapolis last season. Johnny is listed as a left winger and Larry plays center. &#9632;

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Adams Says Room Must Be Made For Wilson Freres

<div class="byline">By BOBBY HEWITSON (Sports Editor, Toronto Telegram)</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0398/1196895-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The only time the Leafs and Habs ever clashed in the Stanley Cup finals was in the 1946-47 season with Toronto emerging victorious. Pictured above is that Stanley Cup Club. Front row left to right: Gaye Stewart, Ted Kennedy, Conn Smythe, manager: Hap Day, coach; Syl Apps, captain; Ed Bickle, president; Col. W. McBrien, vice-president; Nick Metz and Don Metz.Second row, left to right, Harry Smith, trainer, Bill Eziniki, Wally Stanowski, Harry Watson, Turk Broda, Bob Goldham, Bud Poile, Gus Bodnar, and Tim Daly, trainer.Back row, left to right: Howie Meeker, Vic Lynn, Jim Thomson, Garth Boesch, Gus Mortson, Joe Klukay and Bill Barilko.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Maple Leaf-Montreal Canadien Stanley Cup playoffs &mdash; though only three in 20 years &mdash; have been marked by excitement and surprises.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0476/1196888-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="322" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Kennedy</figcaption></div>Canadiens have been a force in NHL and NHA play for many years. Leafs, under that name, entered in the late twenties.When the NHL was split into two sections &mdash; Canadian and American &mdash; the teams never managed to hook up in a series.Then came the war and they did. Three years they met &mdash; 1943-44, 1944-45 and 1946-47 &mdash; but only once in those three &mdash;1946-47 did they clash in the final. Leafs won in six games just as they had won the semi-final round in 1944-45 in six games. They lost in 1943-44 in the semi-final, in five games.One new angle to their present meeting is that this is the first in which Leafs have had the first two games at home.<h2>Champion Year</h2>In that 1946-47 race, Canadiens, as champions from the previous year, the one in which Leafs failed to make the playoffs, led the league with 78 points as against 72 for the second-place Leafs. Max Bentley, with Chicago, was the leading scorer with 72 points, one more than Rocket Richard of Canadiens, though Richard led in goals with 45.In the playoffs Leafs disposed of Detroit in five games, their only loss to the Red Wings being a 9-1 count on Toronto ice. They won three in a row after that. Canadiens needed five games to dispose of Boston, losing their third game.In the finals, with the first two at Montreal, Canadiens beat Leafs 6-0 in the opener. But Leafs swept back in the Forum in the second game to shut-out Canadiens 4-0. After those two shut-outs the teams settled to tighter hockey and in the first at Toronto Leafs won 4-2, Leafs getting the first three goals. Canadiens coming back to make it 3-2, and Kennedy counting a fourth to cinch it. In the second game at Toronto and fourth in the series. Leafs won 2-1. The victory came in overtime at 16.36 on a goal by Syl Apps. In Montreal Canadiens won 3-1. Leafs ended it at Toronto in the sixth game after O&rsquo;Connor scored for Montreal 25 seconds after the game started. Lynn tied it in the second and Kennedy settled it at 14.39 of the third.Highlight of that series, besides the victory of Leafs, was the wild doings In Montreal in the second game. Richard went wild, cut Lynn badly with his stick, was given a match penalty and missed the third game in Toronto on a suspension. In that series Richard produced three goals, all in games won by Canadiens.In 1944-45, Canadiens were again league leaders with 80 points in 50 games. Detroit was second with 67, Leafs third with 52, and Boston fourth with 3 6. Lach led in points with 80, Richard was second with 73, and Toe Blake third with 67. Richard had his goal-a-game year &mdash; 50 in all.So Leafs were under-dogs in the semi-final. The team had McCool in goal, Morris and Pratt on defense, Kennedy, Hill and Davidson on the forward lines, and extra men, Hamilton, Stanowski, Carr, Schriner, Nick Metz, Bodnar, McCready and Art Jackson.But Leafs went into Montreal, held the Montrealers through the first and second periods without a score, got one by Kennedy at 19.38 of the third, and gave Canadiens no chance to catch them. That stunned Canadiens and they were further rocked in the second game at Montreal when Leafs won 3-2 on goals from Kennedy, Carr and Metz and responses only from Bouchard and Lach.In Toronto for the third game it was Canadiens who hit stride and beat Leafs 4-1, yet Leafs came back to rack up their third win 4-3 on Toronto ice, an overtime affair in which Gus Bodnar got the winning tally at 12.36 of extra play.The roof fell at Montreal in the fifth game. Canadiens rattled 10 goals behind Frank McCool and Leafs came back with only three. This, made series 3-2 for Leafs. In the sixth game at Toronto Leafs won 3-2 on goals from Morris which Richard matched, a second-period counter from Schriner and a third period goal from Bddnar which Canadiens matched with one from Bouchard. Leafs topped the great club and went on to win the Stanley Cup in the final round with Detroit in seven games. In three of the four Leaf wins McCool had shutouts.First meeting of Leafs and Canadiens came in the 1943-44 campaign when the strong Montrealers swept everything before them in the league race for 83 points while Red Wings were second with 58. Leafs third with 50 and Chicago fourth with 49. The first two games of the semi-final were in Montreal and Canadiens, who had gone undefeated on home ice&mdash;though tied&mdash;were favored to sweep the round without any difficulty. But Leafs&mdash;made up of Bibeault in goal, Reg. Hamilton, Pratt, Johnstone, Boothman, Bodnar, Carr, Davidson, Morris, Kennedy, Jackie Hamilton, O&rsquo;Neil and&rsquo; Webster created a sensation at &ldquo;Montreal 3-1. They dropped the second at Montreal 5-1, that being the night when Richard scored five goals.Back in Toronto Canadiens won 2-1 in the first affair, took the second 4-1 and then wound it up in Montreal with that sensational 11-0 victory when Leafs simply fell apart and Canadiens filled the het behind Bibeault. Chicago in the meantime, beat Detroit and then bowed out in the final to Canadiens in four straight, the fourth needing overtime before Toe Blake scored. &#9632;

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Only Second Time Leafs, Habs Have Met in Finals

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;If major changes are going to be made for 1951-52 in the Detroit Red Wings squad, only Manager Jack Adams knows what they are.And, he isn&rsquo;t talking. At least, not right now.Within 24 hours after Detroit was eliminated by Montreal in the semi-finals Adams was hinting at changes in the Detroit squad makeup. But, they always remained hints for he refuses to list a single player who is on his way out. Instead, he takes a constructive view to be quoted on.&ldquo;We have a lot of good young prospects in the minors who won&rsquo;t ba held back. However, maybe we won&rsquo;t even know until after training camp opens who won&rsquo;t be with us again,&rdquo; declared Adams in vague reference to his changes.That sort of speech might have come from any hockey coach. Adams presumably would have said the same thing if the team had won the Stanley Cup.<h2>Won&rsquo;t Shy Away Now</h2>Many will bet that some shakeup will take place. Adams didn&rsquo;t take the surprise tailspin of his team in the first round of the playoffs in a generous mood. He called the upset &ldquo;my greatest disappointment in hockey&rdquo; when Detroit was dunked in a six-game set.If Adams was willing to get rid of almost half the team which won the Stanley Cup only the year before, some point out he will not shy away from trades now. Detroit took the Cup in 1950, but seven men from that squad weren&rsquo;t around a year later. Most of them disappeared in the five-for-four trade With Chicago in midsummer.Before five other hockey magnates start drooling on the Detroit doorstep, probably It should be mentioned that there&rsquo;s a good chance that not so many trades will be made as first believed.The Wings have a young club, one that has been in the building process for a couple of years. Furthermore, it was good enough to lose only 13 of 70 games during the regular season while winning the National Hockey League title for the third year in a row.Its only fault was that it flopped when it came down to a short series with third-place Montreal. And then the flop was no stlnkeroo. Play in five of the six games was fairly even&mdash;yet Montreal won four of those five. The Canadiewn were hustling, performing much better than at any time during the season and deserving of victory. But, this was a series of breaks, and Montreal got the most. &#9632;

Adams Says Ousting Of Wings By Hubs Biggest Disappointment Of Career

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;It&rsquo;s not feasible to presume that the Leaf team which is currently trying for its fourth Stanley Cup in four years was the same Leaf team which started the semi-finals against the Boston Bruins a few weeks ago. If it were they would be getting out the bottles of brasso in the Montreal Forum waiting for the Canadiens to come home bearing the battered basin for the first time since 1946.Just what their transformation has been is more a case for a psychiatrist than a hockey coach but one theory which has been advanced and which seems pretty well founded in fact is that the Leaf team which dropped the opening game to the Bruins, managed a tie in the second curfew curtailed game in Toronto and didn&rsquo;t get wound up till it won a decisive 6-0 game in Boston to win the series, was beset by a mysterious malady known as the &ldquo;Vezina shakes.&rdquo;<h2>Forgot About Scoring</h2>It was almost impossible to believe that a team which finished with five men in the top 11 scorers could become so hopelessly inadept at putting the puck in the net that in two and a half games not a forward could beat Jack Gelineau in the Bruin cage.Joe Primeau, during the Boston series, was asked if he thought the fact that the Leafs had won the Vezina for Al Rollins had anything to do with it.&ldquo;Why certainly it has,&rdquo; said Primeau. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re still backchecking so hard they&rsquo;ve forgotten about scoring.&rdquo;Fortunately the effect was shortlived. Against Boston in that last game they broke out and against Canadiens in the opening of the final series, the front liners from whom you&rsquo;d expect goals started to produce.Foremost among those was Sir Sidney Smith, the only native-born Torontonian on the roster who will be remembered insofar as playoffs are concerned as being the same Smith who two years ago scored two goals against the Bruins In one game in the first round and three against the Red Wings in the finals in the second game after which the Leafs went on to win the Cup for the third straight year in four consecutive games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02125/1196857-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="531" height="544"><figcaption class="caption-body">Full Of PepSID SMITH</figcaption></div>Smitty&rsquo;s accomplish ments against the Habs in the first game was important for two reasons. Pertinent question preceding this series evolved about who would draw the unenviable task of checking Rocket Richard without calling Bob Davidson out of retirement. Primeau asserted that no particular player would be assigned to the task.&ldquo;If whoever happens to be out there when Richard Is on the ice isn&rsquo;t good enough to check him, he shouldn&rsquo;t be there in the first place,&rdquo; said Joe.As fate would have it the task fell to Smith when Primeau played the Kennedys against the Lachs. Smitty performed the task admirably. The Rocket was held to one goal. Smith scored twice and Richard was on the Ice for both of them.This, you might say, was a farery from the day they first called Smith up from the minors for a trail with the Leafs. They were playing in Montreal and Smith was told before it started that he was starting off at the top. He was going to check Richard.&ldquo;You&rsquo;re going to check the greatest player in the world,&rdquo; Conn smythe pep-talked him.Smitty jumped over the boards full of ambition to perform this argantuan task and when he had stopped revolving from the breeze the Rocket stirred up, the puck wag in the net.That was the end of Smitty&rsquo;s excursion into the upper brackets. Temporarily at least. But that was four years ago and now he&rsquo;s back, checking the Rocket close enough to count the hairs on the back of his neck and still breaking out to score some of those opportunist goals which have made him famous.Led by Smith&rsquo;s goal scoring, the return to form of Max Bentley, the tireless work of Ted Kennedy, the checking of Ray Timgren and Howie Meeker, the dash of Fleming Mackell who has been subbing for a benched Dan Lewicki with Bentley and Joe Klukay (four goals in two games against the Bruins) and with Barilko bashing, Gus Mortson carrying the puck and Jim Thomson, Fern Flaman and Bill Juzda completing a well rounded rearguard and incidentally with a chap named Turk Broda in the nets, the stock in the Leafs is going as high as the cost of living index.People around here think they&rsquo;re going to win another Cup. in fact the only ones who don&rsquo;t agree get paid by Frank Selke. Argumentative types too. &#9632;

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Vezina Shakes Gave Leaftians Bad Start

The INTERNATlONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded.October 1, 1947Published byHockey News Company, 603A Sun Life Building, Montreal, Que.Yearly Subscription Price $2.50 in Canada &mdash; $3.50 in U.S.A.Aatherised as second class small, Post Office Department, Ottawa. Entered as second class mall at the Post Office in Buffalo, N.Y., and Saint Albans, Vt.Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Ferm 3579 to the Hockey News Company, 603A Sun life Bide., Montreal, Quebec. Canada.Printed In CanadaVol. 4 April 21. 1951 No. 29Time and time again we&rsquo;ve said that hockey CAN be played without the rough stuff, the dirty digs and underhanded action that serves only to fill the penalty box and increases the hazards of injury to the players. We have repeatedly said that such hockey can be as interesting and thrilling as the type of shinny where sticks and elbows are swung all over the place, and blood and gore is the order of the day.That point was amply proved, to our mind, during the semi-final playoffs between Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League Looking back on it, the tussle was one of the cleanest ever staged in the post-season Cup battling &mdash; and it would be a mighty hard-to-please fan who wouldn&rsquo;t admit that it certainly was thrilling enough to hold the interest of everyone in the rink.With the execption of a few scattered instances where tempers got a little out of hand and minor squabbles broke out, the entire series was cleanly and well played. Penalties were few and far between, compared with the bloody early stages of the Boston-Toronto bracket, and in one game in fact the two clubs played penalty-free hockey as they attended strictly to their knitting.The result was a beautifully played senes featured by clean and sharp passing plays, speed and action &mdash; lots of action, too, as shown in the hard, bumping bodychecks which were handed out in plentiful fashion, but in legal fashion.The players showed that good hockey, interesting hockey, can still be played even while well within the letter of the rules as they exist now. Legal bodychecks and pokechecks are just as effective in stopping an attacking player as the variety of grabs, slashes and wrestling holds so frequently employed to slow down an opponent.The fans liked it the legal way, too, with the possible exception of the bloodthirsty minority who never are content unless the ice surface carries more red coloring than is provided in the center line and the other markings.The one possible difficulty which prevents more players from doing it the clean way, is that it&rsquo;s a little more difficult than by the slash-and-stab, clutch-and-grab method. It requires more proficiency to stop a man the way the early originators of hockey intended it &mdash; by strict bodily contact and ice-level sweeps of the stick &mdash; and many players are just too lazy to do it that way as long as they can avoid it.It&rsquo;s refreshing to note that the National loop plans to tighten up a bit of enforcement of the rules against boarding and other illegal tactics next winter. It will, in the long run, mean better and faster hockey for the fans, and bring back some of the long-lost skill and finesse which has been forgotten.It won&rsquo;t &ldquo;sissify&rdquo; or weaken the game either, as some proponents of the blood-producing school would have you believe. In fact, it will make the game even more of a he-man&rsquo;s pastime. An assault on another player with a hockey stick doesn&rsquo;t require any great amount of courage, but a stiff, bruising bodycheck of legal calibre takes a little moxie to deliver, and provides just as thrilling a sight for the fans as you could ask for.<h2>HOCKEY NOTABLES OF THE YEAR</h2>Inaugurated on an experimental basis last year, THE HOCKEY NEWS nominations for the Outstanding Hockey Personalities of the Year met with such favorable and friendly reception that it was decided to maintain them as a regular annual feature.Thus, in this issue we again present our selections of the men we considered most worthy of recognition for the place they occupied in the sport during the current season.The nominations, of course, bear no official stamp, bring no monetary reward like those going to the players selected for All-Star posts and the trophies for merit given out in organized hockey&rsquo;s various professional leagues. But they do offer a mark of recognition for men like executives and coaches who normally are forgotten men.Coaches of Cup-winning teams, naturally, get the applause and plaudits of the fans for their triumphant efforts, but the rest are apt to be over looked. For that reason, THE HOCKEY NEWS feels that its nominations perform a useful function in critically and carefully analysing the events of the season and publishing its choices on that basis.Jack Adams, Bun Cook, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard&mdash;selected as 1950-51&rsquo;s Outstanding Executive, Coach and Player respectively&mdash;merit the congratulations of THE HOCKEY NEWS and its readers for best fulfilling the requirements on which these annual awards are based. &#9632;

FANS LIKE IT THAT WAY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01214/1196950-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>PLAYOFF RECORDS</h2>Dear Sir,This is my first letter to the Fan Forum. I enjoy your paper very much and read it each week. I would like to know if the goals which are scored in the playoffs by a player are counted in his life record. Has Maurice Richard ever won the scoring championship? If so, when?R. WilsonHalifax, N.S.(Goals scored in the playoffs by a player are listed in a separate section. They are not included In a player&rsquo;s lifetime record. The lifetime records usually Just show the figure the player racked up during regular scheduled play. No, Maurice Richard has never won the N.H.L. scoring &mdash; that is, point total &mdash; championship.)<h2>FREE SPENDERS</h2>Dear Sir,I receive your paper every week and enjoy it very much. It certainly keeps us posted on everything that happens in hockey.Here&rsquo;s my beef and that of several other Canadiens fans. If those wonderful guys on the Detroit team can afford to round up $1,000 for Goalie Terry Sawchuk, the Canadiens can do the same thing for McNeil. We don&rsquo;t see why they don&rsquo;t. McNeil is just as good as Sawchuk and he certainly proved It In those first two playoff games. Don&rsquo;t you think he&rsquo;d deserve it even if we were put out of the Stanley Cup playoffs?S. CaseMontreal, Que.(It&rsquo;s not our money you&rsquo;re spending so we couldn&rsquo;t say. We would say that Sawchuk&rsquo;s case was more deserving than McNeil&rsquo;s during the regular season. It was Jim Norris Jr. who dished out the $1,000 for Sawchuk).<h2>A BET SETTLER</h2>Dear Sir,I have a bet on a little argument we had at the taxi stand. We wanted to know who Bill Durnan played for before he played for Canadiens. Also what teams did Frankie Brimsek play for in the N.H.L.?Ian MeeleyLennoxville, Que.(Durnan played for Montreal Royals Seniors before turning pro with Canadiens. Before coming to the Royals he guarded the nets of the Kirkland Lake Blue Devils, Allan Cup winners in 1940. Brimsek played for Boston Bruins and Chicago Black Hawks in the N.H.L. He played nine seasons for Boston and one for Chicago.)<h2>A GOOD MARITIMER</h2>Dear Sir,I enjoy your paper very much and have been reading it for three years. I think it is one of the finest publications on hockey and does a great job in helping to promote the game we call our national sport.My favorite team is the Montreal Canadiens and I think they will win the Stanley Cup. My favorite player is Maurice Richard, one of the greatest players who ever laced on a pair of skates.For the Hart Trophy I would pick Richard. Without him the Canadiens would have finished out of the money. I think the Lady Byng should go to Milt Schmidt of Boston. He deserves it. The Calder Memorial Trophy should go to either Al Rollins or Terry Sawchuk.In closing I would like to tell you to keep up the good work.Frank M. StertKentvllle, N.S.<h2>SAWCHUK BIRTHDATE</h2>Dear Sir,Would it be possible for you to give me the day and date on which Terry Sawchuk was born. Thanks a lot.Terry HewlettToronto, Ont.(Sawchuk was bom in Winnipeg, Man., on December 28, 1929)<h2>GOALS ON ROLLINS</h2>Dear Sir,Would you please tell me how many goals were scored on Al Rollins in 1950-51? I would like to see an article on Ted Kennedy.Leonard A. CooperGilbert Plains, Man.(Rollins allowed 70 goals to be scored against him in 40 games for a 1.75 average In 1950-51).<h2>WANTS PROGRAMS ETC.</h2>Dear Sir,I read your paper every week and enjoy it very much. I can&rsquo;t wait till the next Issue comes on the newsstands.I haven&rsquo;t been able to play hockey this year because of pains In my back. I have taken up collecting autographed photos of hockey players, programs, papers, etc. I am thirteen and a great hockey fan. If any fan In any city has programs, photos, papers, etc. I would appreciate It a lot If they would send them to me.George AllenSaint John, N.B.<h2>A B.C. ROOTER</h2>Dear Sir,Detroit lost the first two games of their series with Canadiens in overtime. Will you please ask Dr. Lloyd Percival what was wrong with the Detroit diet. Please recommend to Detroit fans, re their slogans, that they delete therefrom. &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s Howe&rdquo; and Insert: &ldquo;Open the door Richard. Les Canadiens sont la.&rdquo; No matter what what happens for the balance of the series the Detroit bandwagon has lost a wheel.T. C. McKayNorth Bend, B.C.<h2>WANTS A PEN PAL</h2>Dear Sir,I would like a pen pal from Montreal (or thereabouts) who likes hockey very well. I follow all of the teams, especially Detroit and Montreal, and my favorite players are Gordie Howe, Teddy Lindsay and Gerry McNeil. I am 14 years old and I want a pen pal very badly. Could you please help me out? Thanks very much.Miss Hester Zilllken Highland Park, Mich.<h2>AGE</h2>Dear Sir,I would like to know how old Harry Lumley was when he first started to play in the N.H.L.Jack Kltsko.Edmonton, Alta.(Lumley played two games for Detroit in 1944 when he waa only 18 years old.)<h2>TOO DIFFICULT</h2>Dear Sir,May I make one suggestion which I think would improve your paper. Why not run a weekly column which would report all trades (major and minor), and movement of players from one club to another. Also this column should Include the name of amateur players who have been put on professional clubs negotiation lists.William BowdlerN. Tonawanda, Que.(Your suggestion has a lot of merit, it is true, but the way players&rsquo; names are changed around etc. it would thee too difficult for us to follow accurately. Instead of being a service to you, we think it would only confuse you.)<h2>BIRTHPLACES</h2>Dear Sir,Could you tell me where Tim Horton of Pittsburgh Hornets, Gerry Reid and Johnny Wilson of Indianapolis, Pete Tkachuk of Milwaukee and Bobby Dawes of Montreal pro Canadiens were born?Pete Boscin.St. Louis, Mo.(Horton was bom in Cochrane, Ont., Reid in Owen Sound, Ont., Wilson in Kincardine, Ont., Tkachuck in Winnipeg, Mnitoba, and Dawes in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.)<h2>HE&rsquo;S TOPS</h2>Dear Sir,I enjoy reading your paper very much and have only one suggestion to make. How about a nice big article and picture of Ray Hannigan in a near future issue? He&rsquo;s tops!Could you give me the birthdates of the following: Ray Hannigan, Rudy Migay and Thd Campeau.Margaret Leander.St. Louis, Mo.(Hannigan was bora in Schumacher, Ont. on July 14, 1927, Migay was born in Fort William, Ont. on November 18, 1928; and Tod Campeau was born in St. Jerome, Que., on June 4, 1923.)<h2>TRADES</h2>Dear Sir,I am very interested in finding out how durable Joe Carveth was used as &lsquo;trade bait&rsquo; by the N.H.L. clubs. In other words for whom was he traded, and by which pro clubs? Also, how long has he been in the N.H.L. before he was sent to the A.H.L. Indianapolis Caps?Gerry Trudeau.Montreal, Que.(Carveth was traded to Boston for Roy Conacher in 1940-47. Then he was traded off to the Montreal Canadiens for Jimmy Peters, who was later to become a mate. That was in 1947-48. Then in 1940-50, the Habs dealt him back to the Red Wings for Calum MacKay) &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02109/1196981-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="578" height="272"></div>APRIL 20 to MAY 3<h2>APRIL</h2>26&mdash;ALMAS, Ralph, St. Louis, goaler, 1924.27&mdash;NARDUZZI, Mike, Vancouver, forward, 1924; PETERSON, John, New Westminster, forward, 1924.28&mdash;BLADE, Hank, Milwaukee, forward, 1921; STANGWSKI, Wally, New York, defense, 1919.29&mdash;BACKOR, Pete Pittsburgh, defense, 1919.30&mdash;MACKELL, Fleming, Toronto, forward, 1929; McDO-NAGH, Bill, St. Paul, forward, 1928; McLEOD, Jack, New York, forward, 1930.<h2>MAY</h2>1&mdash;MOORE, Jim, Cincinnati, forward, 1928; BRENNAN, Bill, Omaha, goaler, 1925.3&mdash;AGAR, George, Denver, forward, 1919; JACKSON, Jack, Denver, defense, 1925. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By DINK CARROLL</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;If Dick Irvin hadn&rsquo;t been fond of baseball, he might never have become a hockey coach. But he had managed amateur baseball teams around Winnipeg while he was still active as a hockey player, and he enjoyed the experience so much that he became ambitions to try coaching when his playing career was over. His chance came in the 1929-30 season when he was offered the coaching job with the Chicago Black Hawks.&ldquo;Tom Shaughnessy was manager of the Black Hawks that year, which was a break for me,&rdquo; Dick will tell you today. &ldquo;Tom was a big likeable fellow and a graduate of Notre Dame University. He was also a friend of Knute Rockne, the great football coach, and he arranged wit &mdash; Rockne to let us do our pre-season training on the Notre-Dame campus at South Bend.&ldquo;We did our calisthenics and running on a corner of the campus before football practice. Then I&rsquo;d wait around to see the practice, which gave me a chance to watch and study Rockne&rsquo;s methods.&ldquo;Rockne was suffering from a leg Infection that fall. He was so crippled by phlebitis that he couldn&rsquo;t walk, and he sat in a motor car near one of the sidelines directing the practice through a loud speaker. He had a brusque and commanding voice and was a great believer in discipline. He was also a stickler for perfection and was a man of infinite patience, but he could laugh too.&ldquo;I remember one occasion when he was watching the first team in a practice game against the freshman team. At one point he stopped the game and called over Hunk Anderson, his line coach, and told him to give the ball to the first team and run off certain plays. The freshman team stopped the first team cold. At first Rockne was mystified, then worried, and finally he called over both teams and began to bawl out the first team with fine sarcasm. One of the freshmen laughed and Rockne broke off and demanded to know what he was laughing about.&ldquo;You forget that you were sitting right there before the amplifier when you told Hunk Anderson what plays to use, sir,&rsquo; the freshman explained. &lsquo;We knew what was coming every time.&rsquo;&ldquo;Rockne himself led the laugh that followed. It was a relief to him to know that the fault wasn&rsquo;t with plays or with the first team, as he must have suspected.&rdquo;That early exposure to the Rockne methods explains a lot of things about Dick Irvin. Whether he did it consciously or not, he has patterned himself after the great Rockne and has acquired many of his characteristics. When he, criticizes his team in the dressing room, he uses the same barbed sarcasm. But he makes good use of psychology and studies his players as In dividuals, believing that you have to drive some and baby others.Rockne had the ability to catch up a general truth in a brief phrase, and Dick can do the same thing. Thus he once expressed his whole theory of hockey by saying, &ldquo;As long as they play this game on skates, you have to be able to skate to win.&rdquo; When the new so-called &ldquo;pressure&rdquo; hockey became the vogue, Dick immediately noticed the extra premium on speed.&ldquo;The way they&rsquo;re playing this game today,&rdquo; he observed, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll take a young pair of legs over and old head every time,&rdquo; which was his way of saying that age and experience has given way to youth and speed.He had his own peculiar expressions, which may seem quaint but are unusually apt and so individualistic that you remember them. Other coaches talk about being beaten by the breaks; Dick never does.&ldquo;We were beaten by the unseen hand,&rdquo; he will say.He is quick on the comeback and usually sharp along with it. Once Jack Adams told a sports writer: &ldquo;That Irvin has the first nickel he ever made In hockey. He even washes his own socks on the road.&rdquo; The sports writer relayed this to Dick, who calmly commented: &ldquo;At least I wash mine. Adams wears his until they drop off.&rdquo;Much has been made of the fact that he is a pigeon fancier. But you won&rsquo;t talk to him long before you begin to wonder if he learns about people from pigeons or abut pigeons from people.&ldquo;Every pigeon I own reminds me of a certain hockey player,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;One will fly a little way and come back huffing and puffing. Another will fly a long way, straight and fast, and will arrive without causing a stir. Others you can&rsquo;t even get to move. They&rsquo;re more human than humans.&rdquo;Dick doesn&rsquo;t smoke or drink, but he is unlike most teetotalers. They eat candy, or most of them do; he eats walnuts: He carries a bag of them in his over coat pocket and when the clutch comes up in a game, you can see him reach for his pocket and pop one into his mouth. It relieves the tension.He manages a junior amateur baseball team in Regina during the summer months and gets a great deal of fun out of it. He makes an annual pilgrimage to Chicago to see the big leaguers and takes his son, Young Dickie, along with him. Hockey is his business, baseball his relaxation. He knew the late Judge Landis and, in reply to a question by the judge, once proceeded to tell him what was wrong with baseball. The judge died soon after and you can needle Dick by telling him that conversation must have hastened his death.The things Dick learned from Knute Rockne over 22 years ago have stood him in good stead. Over that long period of time he has won more than his share of N.H.L. championships and Stanley Cups. &#9632;

Irvin Learned From Rockne

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div>PITTSBURGH, P,&mdash;Although their hopes of equalling and setting a playoff record for consecutive victories were shattered, the Pittsburgh Hornets bounced right back after losing their first game of the Calder Cup playoff finals, with a sound trouncing of the Cleveland Barons by a 9-2 score. When the Hornets swept through two preliminary rounds and the first game of the finals, for their seventh straight victory, they were only one game shy of the league record of eight, set by last season&rsquo;s champions, Indianapolis. However, Cleveland won the second encounter of the championship round from Pittsburgh and ended their unbeaten skein. When the Hornets regained their winning ways, and by such a convincing margin after their initial loss of the Spring Classic, it was a tremendous boost for their morale, and showed they could shake off a defeat and come roaring back in Just one game. Of such things are championship teams made.Another sell out standing room only crowd was in Pittsburgh for the third game of the series, which was the largest gathering of the season in the Smokey City. Pittsburgh has gone wild over its potiential title holders and are supporting the team in the manner it deserves. The other two games scheduled for Pittsburgh, on Saturday, April 14 and Tuesday, April 17 are also sellouts. The sixth and seventh games if necessary will be back in Cleveland on the 19th and 21st.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01198/1197147-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="261" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bobby Solinger</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02147/1197140-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="272" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body">John McCormack</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03112/1197133-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="264" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">Phil Maloney</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0481/1197126-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="256" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Smith</figcaption></div>Bobby Solinger who has been a thorn in the side of his former Baron teammates, started the Pittsburgh ball rolling with the first tally. Johnny McCormack registered the next two, followed by Ray Hannigan, (his ninth of the playoffs), &ldquo;Handy Andy&rdquo; Barbe, Chuck Blair, Phil Maloney, Kenny Smith and Blair again. The two Baron tallies came from their rookie pair, Glen Sonmor and the sensational Wally Hergesheimer. The score was 2-1 for Pittsburgh at the end of the first period, 4-2 for them at the second buzzer and the Hornets poured in five more without a return in the final session.Pittsburgh seems to be strong in the final periods, as in most games, they enter the closing chapter in a close battle but the game beyond redemption for their opponents with last period surges. In the final Springfield preliminary game, they held a slight 3-2 edge at the end of the second and it wound up 7-2. Against Hershey in the last game of the semi-finals they increased a 2-1 lead into a 5-1 victory, in the final period. This combination of piling up the score and also holding the opposition scorelss in the last session has worked marvels with the Hornets. Oddly enough, the only bad final period they had, was in their only loss, in the first nine games, when Cleveland overcame a 3-1 deficit with a last ditch rally.The Pittsburgh front office directive staff wants it known that the Hornets have not changed their style in the playoffs from that of regular season play. Many think that their high scoring efforts in post season games is due to a built up offense, but the figures and statistics compiled by the able Baz Bastien disprove this, as they show that in most games, the Hornets had a steady drive and outshot their opponents all season. Bastien and his figures point out that in the playoffs, the Hornets have just been taking better advantage of their chances and scoring on them. As Bastien puts it, the system is the same, but the results are improved, and there was no reason to improve the system, but just capitalize on the chances it provided. Nothing succeeds like success, so with the Hornets making a shambles out of the playoffs to prove it, the system must be good.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0552/1197119-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="284" height="332"><figcaption class="caption-body">Steve Wochy</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0640/1197112-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="288" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Taylor</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0727/1197105-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="268" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">W. Hergesheimer</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0822/1197098-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="301" height="318"><figcaption class="caption-body">Baz Bastien</figcaption></div>An incident which no true sportsman likes to see, a player injured, happened in the third game in Pittsburgh, when Harry Taylor, attempting to take Andy Barbe out of the play, missed target and crashed headlong into the fence and glass as Barbe skated aside. Taylor suffered a fractured nose, severe lacerations and concussion. This forced Cleveland to Invoke the emergency clause in league regulations, which permits a team to draw on the USHL, PCHL or amateurs, signed to contracts if they go below ten forwards, five defensemen and a goaltender. As the Barons only had nine able bodied front line men, they added Nick Tomiuk to their roster, recalled from Denver. Under no conditions can a player be added to the AHL from the National League after February 15th. The injury jinx has hurt Cleveland in the late stages of the season, for Inaddition to Taylor, who has played superb hockey in the playoffs, Steve Wochy and Kenny Schultz are also sidelined.In the first game of the final series, Solinger got sweet revenge on his old time buddies. Bobby supplied the winning tally at 5:31 of overtime, his second of the game, to provide for a 3-2 Hornet victory, Solinger also had a pair in the second game and his score in the third game him five in three. Al against his good friend, Johnny Bower too, which proves that friendship ceases between the opening whistle and the final buzzer when the pals are on opposite sides.Although Solinger&rsquo;s goal came at 5:31, the complete ten minute overtime period had to be finished under AHL rules. After this Initial ten minute session, twenty minute &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; periods are played in AHL playoff hockey. &#9632;

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A.H.L. Playoff Highlights

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0918/1197185-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="272" height="390"><figcaption class="caption-body">Frank Mario</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-1010/1197178-1-eng-US/f0008-102.jpg" title="f0008-10" width="272" height="388"><figcaption class="caption-body">Arnie Kullman</figcaption></div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Coach Johnny Crawford and his Hershey Bears, their hockey chores for the 1950-51 season completed, are turning their attention to picking up their summer jobs.While most of the players have left for their homes and a short rest before going to work, Coach Crawford plans to stick around Hershey until about May 1. Then, accompanied by his wife and the four Crawford children, he&rsquo;ll spend the summer at West Yarmouth, Mass. He&rsquo;ll keep the wolf away from the door by selling paper products.Captain Frank Mario has gone home to Cornwall, Ontario, to resume his clerkship, while Andy Branigan, a construction carpenter, has rejoined his wife and two children at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bill Moe and John Mahaffy, the travelling salesmen, will resume their summer vocations in Mound, Minnesota, and Montreal, Quebec, respectively.Big Joe Schertzl, will assist his father in operating a large dairy farm at Norval, Ontario, and Ed Reigle, a resident of Toronto, has returned to his roofing job.<h2>Gariepy Goes Back To Painting</h2>Ray Gariepy, a painter, will spend the summer free-lancing around Barrie, Ontario, where he expects to do a lot of work with his spray gun about the various beach establishments.Arnie Kullman will desert the ranks of the Benedicts shortly, taking a wife in Waterloo, Ontario.Members of the &ldquo;kid&rdquo; line, Red Sullivan, Jake McIntyre and Norm Corcoran, expect to do a lot of golfing together in the vicinity of Peterboro, Ontario, Sullivan&rsquo;s home. Jerry Brown will also spend a busy summer on the golf course at Cornwall, Ontario, where he&rsquo;ll defend his Class &ldquo;C&rdquo; Club championship.Gordie Henry, who closed out his season by playing two games in the nets for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs, expects to keep in trim by farming and playing softball in and around Owen Sound, Ontario. &#9632;

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Bears Head Home For Summer

<h2>THIRD LONGEST</h2>When the Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wing played 121 minutes and nine aeronda of hockey on Tuesday. March 27 in the first game of their Stanley Cup semi-final aeries It was still a long way off the record. Maurice Richard broke up the game at 1:09 of the fourth overtime period but It went into the record book as the third longest.<h2>LONGEST GAMS</h2>When the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Montreal Maroons 1-0 in Montreal on March 24 and 25. 1986 with the winning goal being scored after 110 minutes and 80 seconds of overtime play it became the longest game played in the I league&rsquo;s history. That record still exists.The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs, perennial rivals over the hockey years, are at it again. The two clubs are battling, for only their second time in N.H.L. history in the finals for the Stanley Cup. The series, a humdinger to date, is all tied up a one game apiece thanks to a couple of guys named Smith and Richard.The Leafs took the opener on Smith&rsquo;s overtime goal at 5:51 of the first overtime period and it look as though the jinx that has been at the Habs&rsquo; throat throughout the season was to continue. They hadn&rsquo;t won a game on Toronto ice all season. It was a big game to win, the first one always is, and it stamped the Leafs as favourites to take Lord Stanley&rsquo;s nickelware.As in Montreal the fans lined up all day and all night before obtaining tickets for both Toronto games. But to them it was worth it. Both were close, although the second was more thrilling. The Habs took the second game on Richard&rsquo;s typical playoff goal at 2:55 of the opening overtime session. It was the third time in the 1950-51 playoffs that the great Richard had broken up games and he did it in the same manner each time.In the second game the Canadiens got off to a good start and actually had the Leafs 2-0. Then penalties changed the story. In the second period the Leafs scored on their powerplay to make it 2-1. Then in the second period Referee Georges Gravel called another penalty on the Habs and on went the great powerplayers of the Leafs, Kennedy, Sloan, Smith, Bentley and Thomson and bang went another goal. This time the Habs complained that Kennedy kicked the puck past little Gerry McNeil in the cage. But Gravel refused to change his decision after conferring with Linesman Sam Babcock.The overtime period was just underway when Harvey spotted Richard all alone on the Leafs&rsquo; blueline. With deadly accuracy he took aim and landed the puck square on Richard&rsquo;s stick. Richard swept in on Broda who came out about 10 feet to try to get to the disc before Richard who had pushed it in front of him. Everybody knows what happened and now the series is tied 1-1 in games.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01183/1197272-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="584" height="79"></div><h3>Canadiens win best-of-seven series 4-2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02163/1197265-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="586" height="726"></div><h3>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03132/1197258-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="593" height="80"></div><h3>(Toronto wine best-of-seven series 4-1)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04115/1197251-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="594" height="680"></div><h3>SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0593/1197244-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="598" height="76"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0683/1197237-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="598" height="294"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11</h3>Canadiens 2, Toronto 8 (Overtime)(Toronto leads best-of-seven series 1-0)The law of averages caught up with Canadiens. They won two thrilling overtime games as they pushed the league champion Detroit Red Wings out of the play-off picture, but were bowled over by a third strike.For in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals, Canadiens were beaten by their mortal hockey enemies, the Toronto Leafs, in just less than six minutes of overtime play. The final count was 3-2 and the winning goal was scored by hawk-faced Sid Smith, a kid with a crew hair-cut, who blasted home the first goal and the last one, with Tod Sloan scoring one and assisting on both the others.Sloan has been the personal scourge of Canadiens all season. He scored ten goals for Leafs against the Habs in regular league play, added another last night, and barely missed two more, foiled by one through a miracle-save by Gerry McNeil, and hitting the post on the other.So far as Canadiens go, even in defeat, McNeil was the hero of the game. The Leafs, carrying the play, and curiously enough being stymied only when Canadiens had a penalty, out-shot the Habs 33-19 in the regular time and made it 39 shots against 22 in the brief but torrid overtime period which ended a Glean hockey battle, a game by no means so thriilling as the first, or the last game of the Detroit series.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil&rsquo;; defence, Bouchard, Johnson; centre, Lach; wings, Richard, Olmstead; subs.; Harvey, Lowe, Geoffrion, Curry, Harmon, MacKay, Reay, Dawes, Mosdell, Aleger, MacPherson, Masnick.Toronto: Goal, Broda; defence, Fla-man, Barilko; cemtre, Kennedy; wings, Sloan, Smith; subs.: Thomson, Mortson, Watson," Bentley, Klukay, Juzda, Lewlcki, Tlmgren, Hassard, Gardner, Meeker, Mackell.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0867/1197230-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="584" height="566"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 14</h3>Canadiens 3, Toronto 2 (overtime)(Best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series tied 1-1)TORONTO. &mdash; It was Maurice Richard night again, his third of the 1950-51 playoffs. The Great Rocket took a pass from Doug Harvey at 2:55 of the first overtime period and sped in to flip the puck past Broda. The goal gave the Canadiens a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs and tied their best-of-seven final series at one game apiece.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, MacPherson; centre, Mosdell; wings, Curry, MacKay; subs.: Bouchard, Johnson, Lowe, Harmon, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Reay, Masnick, Meger, Geoffrion, DawesToronto: Goal, Broda; defence, Flaman, Barilko; centre, Kennedy: wings, Sloan, Smith; subs.: Thomson, Mortson, Juzda, Bentley, Klukay, Mackell, Gardner, Meeker, Watson, Timgren, Lewiclct, Hassard.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0967/1197223-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="592" height="570"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>Scoring up to Tuesday A.M., April 16<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0773/1197216-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="583" height="1394"></div>* Includes one 10-minute misconduct.* * Includes 2 10-minute misconducts. &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1060/1197303-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="304" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption></div>Picking the Player-Of-The-Week for the seven days just concluded was one of the easiest tasks that ever confronted the editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS. There was nothing to It. Who else could it have been bat the one and only Maurice &ldquo;The Rocket&rdquo; Richard, sharpest goal scorer to come down the pike in many a moon.The Toronto Maple Leafs-Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup final has been going two games when this went to press and the teams are all even, one game apiece. Canadiens have scored six goals during those two games and Richard has accounted for two of them. It was his second goal, the one after two minutes and fifty-five seconds of overtime that broke up the ball game and sent the Canadiens home to Montreal on even terms with the favored Leafs that gave Toronto hockey fans something to talk about in future years. It was a gem of a goal and one that Richard has been in the habit of doing on Montreal ice but something he had&rsquo;nt been able to do before on Toronto ice.Going into overtime tied up with two goals apiece. Defenseman Doug Harvey picked up the rubber, carried it a short distance, stickhandled nicely over the Toronto blueline and slipped the puck over to Richard on the right. The Rocket gobbled up the puck in one motion, whipped around Gus Mortson, the lone Toronto defenseman standing between himself and Goalie Turk Broda, and sped in on Broda with Mortson chasing him from behind. He forced Broda to make the first move and that was all he needed. The Toronto net was entirely empty and he just nonchalantly backhanded the puck into the cage. Broda may or may not have made a mistake in coming out of his net but it did&rsquo;nt matter who the goalie was, when Richard comes in all alone. It usually means one thing. It&rsquo;s a psychological effect that comes over a goalie. It&rsquo;s the same things that affects a pitcher in baseball when a noted home run slugger steps up to the plate.Richard&rsquo;s other goal in the series wasn&rsquo;t anything to write home about. It was Montreal&rsquo;s first goal of the series and came after 15 minutes and 27 seconds of play in the opening session. Richard was credited with the goal after it left him and trickled along the ice into rhe goal. It was anything but a sharp goal, but brother, his overtime tally on Saturday, was one for the books.Richard has now scored three overtime goals in the 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs. He won the first two games of the semi-final series against Detroit when he scored in overtime. &#9632;

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Player-Of-The-Week

TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;JGeneral Manager James C. Handy of the Cleveland Barong has denied that his club was planning to apply for admission to the National Hockey League next season.Ha was commenting on a story in the Boston Globe, which said the Barons would ask for NHL membership in June, when the governors of hockey&rsquo;s major circuit meet in New York.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not so,&rdquo; Hendy said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s far from the truth. No application has been made to anyone. No director or stockholder has even discussed such a move.&rdquo; &#9632;

Denies Cleveland Wants Into NHL

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03138/1197396-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="254" height="398"><figcaption class="caption-body">Joe Farrell</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Just before he left for his off-season home at Rockford, Michigan, recently, Joe Farrell leaned back in his well-used swivel chair at the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; front office to take stock of his 25 years with the puck team.&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; he said, locking his fingers firmly over his vest, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been publicity director for the Hawks since they broke into the National league in 1926 and during that time I have never missed a home game. And I also saw quite a few crucial &lsquo;away&rsquo; games too.&rdquo;<h2>Has Witnessed More Than 700 Games</h2>Farrell&rsquo;s perfect attendance record includes 634 regular season and 27 playoff home games. He&rsquo;s probably witnessed over 700 games all told.&ldquo;A lot of them were pretty bad, especially this year,&rdquo;Joe admits, &ldquo;but then again there were a good number of great games too. The Black Hawks that won the Stanley Cup in 1933-34 are my choice for the best of all Chicago teams.&rdquo;&ldquo;We had the memorable Chuck Gardiner in the nets and he allowed only 12 goals in his eight playoff performances against the Montreal Maroons, the Canadiens and Detroit.His defense included the memorable &lsquo;Big Train,&rsquo; Lionel Conacher and Taffy Abel and Art Coulter. Up front there were PaulThompson, Johnny Gottselig, Doc Romnes, Mush March and Donny McFadyen. Gottselig is today of course assistant to President Bill Tobin while March is an NHL linesman.&rdquo;Farrell rates the 1929-30 edition of the Boston Bruins as the best visiting team to ever lace on skates in Chicago. &ldquo;They had a record of 38 wins, five losses and a single tie. Our present chief scout, Tiny Thompson, a four time Vezina trophy winner, was their goalie and the Bruin rearguards were led by the all-time star, Eddie Shore. The forwards included smaeo gtcag ETAOIN SHRLDU CMFWYP VBGKQJ vbgkq cm and also Dit Clapper, Marty Barry, Dutch Gainor and Harry Oliver.&rdquo;Joe makes no bones about the fact that this was one of the hardest hockey seasons for him to sit through, but when not indulged in making excuses for the badly sagging Hawks, he did have a few enjoyable moments.They are recorded for posterity in the little brown book which he carries next to has heart. The book carries an accurate record of the gin rummy series between Farrell and Tobin and this was my year, Joe chuckles. &#9632;

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Old Joe Farrell Finds 1950-51 Rough Season

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;A young U.S. Air Corps dischargee was strolling around downtown Chicago late in December, 1946 just killing time until a train shoved off for his hometown of New York City. He wasn&rsquo;t thinking much about anything except getting home when he suddenly spotted Eddie Froelich, trainer for the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Yankees.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01198/1197365-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="964" height="831"><figcaption class="caption-body">Nick Gives Babando WorksNick Gurenovich, trainer of the Chicago Black Hawks is shown giving Pete Babando, Hawk forward, the benefit of his vast knowledge. Babando was in Chicago finishing last minute business prior to joining the U.S. Army.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02159/1197358-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="675" height="1047"></div>&ldquo;Say aren&rsquo;t you Ed Froelich?&rdquo; he said, running up to the veteran trainer who was obviously flattered that anyone would recognize him.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s right, what can I do for you?&rdquo; Froelich replied.&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;m Nick Gurenovich. I know you&rsquo;ve never heard of me, but I&rsquo;ve heard a lot about you and it&rsquo;s all been good. I know you&rsquo;re one of the best in the business. I used to see you at Yankee Stadium.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve sort of done some training myself with some service teams. It&rsquo;s the kind of job I&rsquo;d like to work at permanently someday, but I know you have to be good to stick in your kind of business.&rdquo;Nick went on explaining just what training he had with the Service teams at Keesler Field, Mississippi, and Chanute Field, Illinois. Froelich was an interested listener since he had just lost his assistant with the Hawks and was on the lookout for a new man.&ldquo;Tell you what, Gurenovich,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;when you get home drop me a line on your qualifications as a trainer. I might be able to do something for you.&rdquo;When he got back to New York, Nick wrote the letter, but wasn&rsquo;t too sure that anything would ever come of it. To his surprise, a reply reached him return mail and it included a liberal contract as assistant trainer for the Black Hawks.He joined the team a few weeks later and under Froelich&rsquo;s tutoring learned fast. The following year at the Chicago training camp Nick became the team&rsquo;s temporary head trainer since Froelich was still with the Yankees. This became the practice each spring and fall until the 1948-49 season when Nick took over the Hawks&rsquo; training department for good.Since that time he has become recognized as one of the best in his profession in the sporting world. Besides his hockey chores he&rsquo;s also been a trainer for several other professional teams, including football&rsquo;s Chicago Bears.A licensed masseur and graduate of a New York physical therapy institute, Nick still feels a need for more education along the medical vein of the training business. That&rsquo;s why he plans to attend the National College of Chlropractice in Chicago this summer. By going to the school regularly during the hockey offseasons, he expects to obtain a doctor&rsquo;s degree in chiropractory in eight years.Nick was kept pretty busy taping, rubbing and repairing the badly battered Black Hawks this season and he even aided the team physicians by making some 30 stitches in punctured Chicago players, but there&rsquo;s a lot more to a training job than just this bit of first aid activity, he reports.<h2>Keep Them Happy</h2>&ldquo;I have to keep all the men satisfied with their equipment and this always means get ting to the Stadium hours before the game. When we&rsquo;re on the road I distribute the players&rsquo; cab and food money and have to make sure that the uniforms and skates get to the arenas okay, just to mention a few duties.&rdquo;After the end of the regular season, Nick still has several more weeks of work. He gathers, classifies and stores the thousand and one items of team equipment and then makes a lengthy itemized report of what he&rsquo;s done.His expense account, which hit an average $2,500 this year, is also a painstaking matter and involves several hours of work every week. The purchasing of medical supplies and equipment make up the bulk of his expense reports, which are also Itemized.Nick married the former Ann Ciosek, also of New York City, on December 4, 1949, after he was firmly established as the Hawk trainer. They had known each other for five years. Although Nick never was in Chicago before his opportune meeting with, Froelich, he and Ann are now flrmiy settled residents in a comfortable apartment on the Windy City&rsquo;s west side. &#9632;

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Gurenovich Passed Through Chi, Picked Up Hawks’ Post

<div class="byline">By LLOYD McGOWAN (Montreal Star)</div>QUEBEC CITY, Que.&mdash;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01197/1197462-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="257" height="386"><figcaption class="caption-body">Punch Imlach</figcaption></div>George (Punch) Imlach, the old hockey troubadour from Toronto, has only once answer to the question about the success of the Quebec Acemen, a team operated out of the Anglo-Canadian Paper Company.&ldquo;Gamble&rdquo; says The Puncher, &ldquo;Dick Gamble.&rdquo;Gamble is a big kid who roams along left wing. He&rsquo;s got a real sharp shot and plenty of bite when you give him a play going in on the goal.Dick Gamble is one of the Players picked up by the talent wise Imlach in his scouting travels for the well-togged, richly-financed Quebec Club.<h2>A Close Race</h2>Dick ran Andre Corriveau of Toe Blake&rsquo;s Valleyfield Braves a tight race for the Quebec League scoring championship. Coriveau is a real whiz, but an opportunist, not the artisan type like Gamble. They are good boys, and you guess if they had a little more beef they would figure with the National Hockey League teams.Gamble is gaunt, but strong. Corriveau is a frail lad, not too tall, either, but the fastest skater in the Slater Society. It&rsquo;s too bad he can&rsquo;t stand the gaff or he Would be drawing one of the juiciest salaries in the business, you imagine.Toe Blake proved himself a master mentor by bringing the Valleyfield Club to the top this Season. For many years the Braves were just so-so. At the start the Old Lamplighter said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;re deep enough,&rdquo; At the middle of the campaign he said, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ve got a chance.&rdquo; Near the finish, he said, &ldquo;we&rsquo;re the best of them all.&rdquo;Quebec led for quite a time, but the Acemen weakened in mid-season and Imiach said that he was lucky to &ldquo;put a team on the ice.&rdquo; His club was hampered with injuries of all sorts, some minor, gome major.One of his players is Don Menies, a kid from Calgary. Larry (China Clipper) Kwong brought Menzies East last fall. When the Braves took a 3-2 shade over the Acemen in Quebec to tie the league final playoffs 4-4, Men-Sles shot the winner. He had been ohelved for much of the season with an eye injury.Kwong is no relation to Norman Kwong, the good running back of the Calgary Stampeders in football. In fact, although they have spent much time in Calgary, they have never met. Larry was born in Vernon, B.C.The Imlach and Blake teams were the steadiest all through the Quebec League season. They ran one-two, so it seemed only proper that they should go into the finals, a long, tough series in Which each team won three games at home, one on the other&rsquo;s ice. That&rsquo;s just how level they were all through the season.Imlach had a pretty good nucleus of players, and he chose his new players well. He brought back Johnny Marois, a very good goal janitor and all-round athle previous year with Shawinigan Falls. Jim Ross, an angular defenseman, proved a defensive asset and Imlach was wise enough to who had spent most of the to land some men who have professional experience, such as Armand Gaudreault, whom Don Penniston called &ldquo;The Nagger&rdquo; when he had him on Quebec and Hershey teams in the past.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02161/1197455-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="542" height="826"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ageless WonderKITOUTE JOANNETTE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04105/1197448-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="540" height="916"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eye Memorial MugJEAN PLANTE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0589/1197441-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="552" height="900"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARCEL FAILLE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0681/1197434-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="536" height="916"><figcaption class="caption-body">BERNIE LAMON</figcaption></div>Phil Renaud, Bill Leblanc from Moncton, Roger Roberge, Roger Gagne, Conny Poitras from Quebec, Eddie Redmond from Swastika, Ontario; the perengrinating Joe Fitzpatrick, George Scholes from Oshawa, Ontario, and the others have served Imlach very well. He wag able to create a firm esprit-de-corps which pays off so often, especially in hockey. Gamble was the hotshot of the club right through and one of the most popular players ever to perform at the Ancient Capital.Blake took over the Valleyfield Club in 1950 and it began delivering for him. The Old Lamplighter revived Kitoute Joannette, home-town favorite, now 35 years old. He landed Bert Bourassa, kept Old Pros Jimmy Orlando and Jackie Schmidt. He got Paul Leclerc, a good goal janitor from Sherbrooke in a swap for Roger Bessette, and he was all set to go.He already had Jack Irvine, the best player in the league although a castoff from Ottawa. Irvine plays defense and right wing and scores goals in abundance.The Valleyfield Club drew a loyal following at home because of its home town players such as Joannette, Andre Corriveau, Jean-Paul Bis-alllon, the merchant prince of the place, and one or two others. Players are well treated, well paid at Bravetown where Arthur Vinet, the genial Boniface of Bellerive has operated the team for several years at a loss. They presented Joannette with a new Nash car, 1951 model.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03136/1197427-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="276" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toe Bloke</figcaption></div>For Instance Lloyd (Bingo) Ernst, the blond defenseman from Halifax, has remained there for four seasons. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great town,&rdquo; says Bingo who picked up the tag from Bingo Kampman. Valleyfield&rsquo;s population is roughly 22,000.&ldquo;It costs us $105,000 to operate the team for a year,&rdquo; says Prez Vinet,&rdquo; and this season we&rsquo;ll show a profit for the first time.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Braves, Aces Talented Teams, Worthy Loop Representatives

<div class="byline">By CHARLIE BOIRE (Montreal Star)</div>QUEBEC CITY, Que.&mdash;Barrie Flyers and the winner of the Regina Pats-Winnipeg Monarchs Western final is all that stands in the way of Quebec winning its third straight Memorial Cup championship.The job of removing these obstacles and making it a &ldquo;Cup Hattrick&rdquo; for the first Province of Canada rests on the capable shoulders of the power-laden Quebec Citadels.Montreal Royals gave Quebec their first Memorial title in 30 years when they beat Brandon Wheat Kings in an unprecedented eight game series in 1949. Last year Montreal Canadiens successfully defended the honors against the invading Regina Pats. And now this year the Citadels representing the Ancient Capital itself have set their sights on making it a sweep. The Cits are in their first Memorial Cup playdown and judging from their season&rsquo;s performance in the JAHAA schedule, playoffs and Eastern semi-finals, they shouldn&rsquo;t have too much trouble realizing their ambition.The Citadels are a well moulded squad that should give Barrie the same kind of treatment in the Eastern final they afforded Three Rivers Reds to win the JAHA crown. And of disposing of Inkerman Rockets to gain the finals.Citadels, practically after their first five games of the regular 46 game schedule, were earmarked to win all the marbles in the Quebec loop. They started off in first place and were not displaced the entire season.They provided some high class hockey with their polished and powerful performance against the local opposition. Cits hit a bit of a slump during the League playoffs when they were extended the full nine games by Montreal Canadiens to win the semi-final round.However, right from the start of the playoff there was little doubt that the Cits would make live grade. They had that extra something that stamps a good team that its titled bound and despite the terrific fight put up by the Canadiens, Cits won out with a dazzling display.Following their triumph over Canadiens, Cits went on to sweep the best-of-seven final from Three Rivers te win their first title in four years. They followed up the Quebec title cup by whipping Inkerman Rockets in three straight games, scoring a total of 38 goals.Cits beat the hard trying Rockets 9-0 in the first game at Quebec, walloped them 16-4 at Inkerman and finished up with a 13-0 shellacking at Quebec.The Quebecers won 33 games during the season and lost 13. They scored a total of 265 goals and had 136 scored against them. Most potent factor in the Citadels scoring punch centres around their classy centre Star Jean Beliveau.Beliveau a sure fire bet to make the big time, is rated the most promising pro prospect in the Province, and by many who have seen the best in the country, Beliveau rates tops.The big star who is earmarked for the NHL Canadiens pivots the first stringline with Rainer Makila and Bernie Guay on the wings. Between them this trio accounted for half the team&rsquo;s scoring production with 130 goals over the season and added 141 assists for a total of 271 points.Beliveau personally tallied 61 goals and picked up 64 assists. He won the scoring championship with a total of 125 points. In addition to Beliveau at centre the Citadels boast two other playmakers who don&rsquo;t have to taka a back seat for anyone. Gordia Hayworth and Copper Leyte pivot the other lines. Leyte hails from Newfoundland and for a first year man he has been sensational.Marcel Paille a second year man holds down the goaling chore and patrolling the blue line in front of him are Gord Hudson an Ottawa lad who belongs to the Toronto Maple Leafs, Jean Plante a rugged hard hitting lad, Bernie Lemonde, Nils Amadio and Roddy Roy who played with Toronto St. Mikes last year.Camille Henri, Jean Paul Legault, Jules Tremblay, Rollie Dubeau, Jean Gervais, Bruce Clino and Norm Devinney make up the balance of the club. Devinney who played with New York Metropolitan League is the only American on the club.Coach Pete Martin has put together a smooth working squad and there is no doubt they will give Happy Emms&rsquo; Flyers a time of it. The Citadels can play it rough and clean whatever way; the opposition wants.They have a set of smooth, functioning plays that will givo Flyers plenty of trouble and Coach Martin who plays no favorites, gives every player his reg ular turn on the ice.The Citadels placed three men on the Junior All Star Team. Hudson and Lemonde made it an all Quebee defense combination while Beliveau won the centre spot in a waltz. On the second team Marcel Paille won the goaling honors while Jean Planta won one of the defense berths.Citadels are not the greatest team to ever represent Quebec ia the Memorial Cup, but they certainly are a well balanced club, with plenty of class and their chances of completing the &ldquo;Cup Hattrick&rdquo; are better than ever. At least that&rsquo;s the way the Quebecers feel about it and its going to take a lot of good hockey; to sidetrack Pete Martin&rsquo;s lads. &#9632;

Powerful Citadels Hopeful For Quebec’s 3rd Memorial

<div class="byline">By HARRY CANTLON</div>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;Saskatoon&rsquo;s Western Canada Major Hockey League Quakers recently ended a western championship hockey famine here that had lasted since 1942. Quakers pounded out six convincing wins against two losses in the eight-game round-robin playoff for western Canada major hockey supremacy.The last senior hockey title Quakers won carried little glory with it. It came on a Saturday night in March &lsquo;42 when Jimmy Arnott&rsquo;s boys eliminated Art Somer&rsquo;s Moose Jaw Canucks for the crown and a berth in the Allan Cup playdowns. Canada was at war then and most of the young, brilliant hockey were in the services.However, the rags to riches story of the Saskatoon Quakers since the team&rsquo;s formation and entry in the present Western Canada Hockey League in 1947 goes something like this:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01208/1197531-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="512" height="836"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tough&hellip;LARRY ZEIDEL</figcaption></div>In the first season of operation, Quakers failed to make the charmed league playoff circle by their goal average, the next year, new tactics backfired so, the locals ended the league dead last with 18 points. They managed a playoff berth in the four-team loop last season, but were quickly eliminated by Calgary Stampeders who went on to the Allan Cup final.After a fair start in the 195051 season in quest of the new Alexander Cup the Saskatoon squad faltered and almost failed in January, but coach Riley Mullen injected the know-how into the fast fading team and watched them lap up the opposition. The crowning point came when his team dropped its first playoff game and then went on to sweep five consecutive wins, take time out to drop a close one to Edmonton Flyers and then paste the Al-berta squad 6-1 in the eighth game and win the western championship.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02156/1197524-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="508" height="856"><figcaption class="caption-body">Good CagerJACKIE GIBSON</figcaption></div>In the last 26 games played by Quakers, including playoffs, the locals won 19 and dropped seven. The road record of the team was on the same par as the home game contests.The record spehks for itself.Such standouts as George Senick, former Pacifio Coast League star, who was born in Saskatoon Larry Zeidel and Bill Heindl, much-publicized former Quebec Major Hockey League defencemen, the three top pivotmen in western league play. Chuck McCullough, Ken Hunter and Bob Wiest, rightwingers Alex Kuzma and Al Staley along with every other player on the team down to rookie Murray Parker, could not be deprived of the west title this year.Senick, in eight playoff starts with the champions, scored 10 goals and contributed eight assists. Wiest assisted 12 times and picked up three goals in the playoff route. Kuzma, third man on the Wiest-Senick line pulled the trigger for five goals in the round-robin series. Senick and Wiest lead the playoft point parade in that order with Kuzma picking up fifth place.Quaker goalkeeper. Jack Gibson, who came to the Saskatoon team via Sydney Millionaires of the Maritime Major Hockey League allowed and averaga of 2.50 goals past him per game in the playoffs to outshine Ray Fredrick of Edmonton, and highly touted Russ Dertell of Calgary.Gibson&rsquo;s average was assisted by Heindl, Parker, Howie Milford and Zeidel, the champions&rsquo; air tight defence combinations.Cy Rouse, Kuzma, Mike Shabaga, Senick and Grant Ferguson, Quakers&rsquo; latest rookie addition who played with Saskatoon&rsquo;s junior Wesleys this year, were all born or raised in this district. Reg Bentley, famous Delisle farmer, was weened just 29 miles south of here and Parker hails from Humboldt Saskatchewan. This is as many hometown regulars the local senior squad has had on its roster since way back when.At the present time the Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s are playing an Alexander Cup semi-final series with Quakers and although the western champions dropped the first two games the fans know the red and white Saskatoon team will be doing its best at every turn.The fans are solidly behind Quakers. When the team wins citizens go about their business in a most happy way and every body feels good the next day. However, the fans&rsquo; countenance is shadowed when the locals drop a game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03128/1197517-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="520" height="860"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; DefensemanBILL HEINDL</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Started Just Fair, Flopped, Then Won Out

<h2>HANNIGAN AHEAD</h2>Ray Hannigan of the Pittsburgh Hornets leads in the scoring department of the A.H.L. playoff race. Hannigan, a star for the Hornets since they ran wild In eliminating Springfield, Hershey and now in the midst of battle with Cleveland, has scored 10 goals and 6 assists for 16 points.<h2>HERGY, RAY LEAD</h2>Wally Hergesheimer of the Cleveland Barons and Ray Hannigan of the Pittsburgh Hornets are tied in goals scored during the playoffs of 1950-51. Hergesheimer. in his rookies year has scored 10 goals so far and Hannigan has netted a like amount.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01214/1197611-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="597" height="699"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 7</h3>PITTSBURGH 3, CLEVELAND 2 (Overtime)(Pittsburgh leads Calder Cup Final Series 1-0)CLEVELAND &mdash; The Pittsburgh Hornets won their seventh playoff game in a row as they defeated the Cleveland Barons 3-2 In overtime to take a one game hold in their best of seven Calder Cup final series. Bob Solinger was the star of the game with two goals, the second the winner at five minutes and 81 seconds of overtime. Doran gave the Barons a one goal lead in the first period but Solinger tied it up in the second. In the third period Buller put the Barons up but 14 seconds before the end of the game Armstrong evened the count. Solinger&rsquo;s sudden death goal came on passes from Barbe and Migay.Cleveland: Goal, Pennas; defence, Samis, Lavitt; centre, Douglas; wings, MacKay, Ceresdno; subs.: Buller, Williams, Hergesheimer, Taylor, Thurler, Olson, Lund, Busch.Cleveland: Goal, Mayer; defence, Horton, Mathers; centre, Migay; wings, Barbe. Solinger; subs.: Backor, Biair, Hannigan, Armstrong, Langelle, Kobussen, Bod-ton, Smith, McCormack.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02178/1197604-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="592" height="457"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 10</h3>PITTSBURGH 4, CLEVELAND 5(Best of Seven Calder cup series tied 1-1)CLEVELAND &mdash; Cleveland&rsquo;s Barons scored four goals In the third period to whip the Pittsburgh Hornets, 5 to 4, before 7,679 hockey fans. That tied the teams at one game each in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s four-out-of-even Calder Cup playoffs.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03154/1197597-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1740" height="1590"><figcaption class="caption-body">Split Second TimingLittle Gil Mayer of the Pittsburgh Hornets shows what split second timing means in hockey. Playing sensationally against the Cleveland Barons in the Calder Cup finals Mayer foiled the Barons during the second game completely as the Hornets ran wild to the tune of 9-2.</figcaption></div>Rookie Wally Hergesheimer, Cleveland&rsquo;s sensational rookie, batted the winning goal at 19.47. wlrtlh only 13 seconds to play. Phil Samis of Cleveland and Rudy Migay of the Hornets were out on penalties at the time after a bloody high sticking affair.Cleveland: Goal, Perms; defence, Samis, Lavitt; centre, Douglas; wings, MacKay, Ceresdno; subs.: Buller, Williams, Hergesheimer, Taylor, Thurler, Olson, Lund, Busch.Cleveland: Goal, Mayer; defence, Horton, Mathers; centre, Migay; wings, Barbe, Solinger; subs.: Backor, Blair, Hannigan, Armstrong, Langelle, Kobussen, Bolton, Smith, McCormack.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04136/1197590-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="587" height="530"></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 12</h3>Cleveland 2, Pittsburgh 9(Pittsburgh leads best-of-seven final series 2-1)PITTSBURGH. &mdash; Pittsburgh Hornets walloped the Cleveland Barons 9-2 In an American Hockey League Calder Cup game at the Pittsburgh Gardens. The win gave the Hornets a 2-1 edge in the best of seven game series.A crowd of about 5,194 saw left wing Bob Solinger put the Hornets in front in less than five minutes with a 10-foot shot.Cleveland tied it up at 14:21 of the first period when Glen Sonmor took a pass from Fred Thurier.Less than two minutes later, Johnny McCormack put the Hornets back into the lead with a shot from the left corner.McCormack added another to give the Hornets a 3-1 lead at 4:40 in the second period.Harry Taylor, a former Hornet playing for Cleveland, suffered a broken nose in the second period when he crashed into the wall. He was detained at Mercy Hospital overnight.Ray Hannigan scored his ninth goal of the playoff series for Pittsburgh at 18:05 of the second period.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Samis, Lavitt; centre, Douglas; wings, Ceresino. Taylor; subs.: Buller, Williams, Hergesheimer, Thurler, Sonmor, MacKay, Olson, Lund, Doran.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Horton, Mathers; centre, Migay; wings, Barbe, Solinger; subs.: Backor, Blair, Hannigan, Armstrong, Kobussen, Bolton, Smith, Maloney, McCormack.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05116/1197583-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="570" height="319"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0698/1197576-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="585" height="328"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 14</h3>Cleveland 4, Pittsburgh 1(Best-of-seven final series tied 2-2)PITTSBURGH. &mdash; Cleveland Barons evened the count at 2-2 in the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Calder Cup best-of-seven playoff series by downing Pittsburgh Hornets 4-1.A crowd of 5,205 saw a completely different Baron team from the one which wilted 9-2 before a furious Hornet attack.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence. Samis, &ldquo;Lavitt; centre, MacKay; wings, Lund, Olson; subs.: Buller, Williams, Thurier, Hergesheimer, Sonmor, Douglas, Tomiuk, Cereslno, Busch.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Horton, Mathers; centre. Migay; wings, Barbe. Solinger; subs.: Backor, Bolton, Maloney. Blair, Smith, McCormack, Armstrong, Hannigan, Kobussen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0788/1197569-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="593" height="552"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>THE POINT PARADE<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0882/1197562-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="586" height="779"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01219/1197642-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="301" height="517"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leo Labine</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Some fifty-five miles north of Ontario&rsquo;s I capital city of Toronto, as the crow flys, one finds the summer vacation conscious and sportminded city of Barrie.Gateway to the lovely Muskoka summer paradise, Barrie greets the weary traveller with the warmth of an inn-keeper and spreads her hospitality like a picnic feast i before his weary eyes.Before the arrival of &ldquo;that man&rdquo; Barrie, like her many counterparts, securely closed their houses with the falling of the leaves and nestled near the fire place during the long winter, working out new enjoyments for the arrival of springtime and the resumption of the tourist trade.&ldquo;That man&rdquo; who turned Barrie&rsquo;s winter season from rest and reflection to energetic &mdash; if not wild-enthusiasm for hockey is none other than Leighton Happy Emms, a native son who after carving out for himself a place in hockey&rsquo;s vast empire as a performer, returned home to conquer new fields as a promoter of junior A hockey and a coach of championship teams.Yes Uncle Harry, &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms has done it again. His Barrie Flyers have captured another OHA Junior A championship, their third such triumph in the last four seasons.Few indeed are the color guys left in hockey, and thankful is all Ontario that Leighton Happy Emms is still going strong on all fours.Not only has Emms given Barrie new life and excitement during their nomally dull winter season, but he has made Barrie one of Canada&rsquo;s leading junior hockey centres.In succeeding Guelph Biltmores as OHA junior A champions this season, Barrie Flyers were obliged to start from scratch. Overage and professional contracts took most of their previous playing strength, but they still had Coach Happy Emms plus a couple of key players including Real Chevrefils, the 19-year-old leftwinger from Timmins.Goalie Lorne Howes, along with rightwinger Leo Labine, George Stanutz, a defenseman, after a term of indifferent hockey the year previous with Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s, blossomed into star players until Hap Emms&rsquo; coaching magicBoston Bruins&rsquo; switch of junior affiliation from St. Catharines to Barrie gave Emms the sensational Jerry Toppazzini and others, who along with graduates from the Barrie junior B club, plus a few trades that Emms managed to swing, were in time moulded into another championship crew.Always right up near the top throughout the regular season Barrie Flyers jockeyed for the top three positions with Windsor Spitfires and Toronto Marlboro along most of the way. Barrie&rsquo;s unfailing knack of winning their home games, or at least gaining a tie, kept Emms and his kids right in the thick of the contention. regardless of the disappointments they suffered on the road.Came the playoffs and Barrie finished second, behind the leading Marlboros. They took Galt Black Hawks into camp very smartly during the first round then startled the entire hockey structure with three straight wins over Windsor to win their place in the final round. St. Catharines Teepees caught fire during the closing weeks of the season and maintained their terrific pace to eliminate last year&rsquo;s champions, Guelph Biltmores. Marlboros after putting Stratford out won the right to meet Barrie for the title after stopping St. Catharines, but only after several hair-raising contests.It took Barrie six of the seven required games to overcome Toronto Marlboros in a series that produced all kinds of hockey. The rival teams kept winning their home games until Barrie broke the jinx with a 4-2 overtime win at Maple Leaf Gardens in the sixth and final game.The review of the figures for the six final games in the OHA junior A series show that Barrie outscored Marlboros 24 to 21. They outshot the Dukes 191 to 141 took 40 of the 99 minutes in penalties handed out. Marlboros lead in only the penalty department with 59 minutes. There were several near riots but nothing more than what six majors, four misconducts and two match penalties couldn&rsquo;t control.Although Barrie Flyers have won three of the last four OHA junior A championships, they have not reached a Memorial Cup final. However, Emms and his kids are confident that this is their year, despite the fact they are matched against the power-packed Quebec Citadels in the Eastern Canadian final round.Outstanding for the Barrie Flyers throughout the season and playoffs has been the scoring punch of Captain Real Chevrefils and his linemate Leo Labine. This pair of future professional stars practically defeated Marlboros singlehanded over the six game series. Chevrefils topped an outstanding OHA season with two goals, including the clincher, in the final game against Bobby Davidson&rsquo;s Dukes.Goalie Lorne Howes is rated one of the best angle-blokers in junior ranks while the defensive team of Jim Morrison and George Stanutz save stood up under pressure. Jack White is the play making centre for Chevrefils and Labine, while the Flyers display plenty of balance down the middle and are loaded in reserves with, such fine players as Dougie Towers, Jack Woods, Eric Barber, the one and only Jerry Toppazzini, Don Emms, son of the coach, Danny O&rsquo;Conner. Jack McKnight and the effective blueliner Billy Hagan. &#9632;

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Despite Tales About Cits Emms Sure His Flyers Will Triumph

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.&mdash;The USHL All Star Teams for the 1950-51 season, as selected by the sportswriters and sportscasters around the circuit with the assistance of the six coaches, were dominated by the St. Paul Saints and the double championshipwinning Omaha Knights. St. Paul placed three men on the first team while Omaha named one man to the first team and three to the second. Competition was keen all the way through with two players gaining their first team margins by but a single point. The chosen players were most worthy of the honor and a tribute to those who made the selections. Also named were the winners of the Herman Peterson Award (the most valuable player to his team) and the season&rsquo;s &ldquo;Outstanding Rookie.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02156/1197708-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="537" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">Right DefenseJAKE FORBES</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03114/1197701-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="534" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body">Right WingIKE HILDEBRAND</figcaption></div>To St. Paul&rsquo;s brilliant young rookie goaltender goes the honor of being selected to guard the cage for the first All Star Team which automatically gives him the Charles Gardiner Memorial Trophy. In taking down first team honors, young Worsley registered twenty-nine points out of a possible thirty-six, the most points totaled by any player for any position. Worsley gets $200 for being selected to the first team plus a further $2 00 for winning the Gardiner Trophy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0494/1197694-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="535" height="547"><figcaption class="caption-body">In GoalLORNE WORSLEY</figcaption></div>To the same St. Paul youngster goes the award for the league&rsquo;s Outstanding Rookie. The selectors saw fit to give him twenty-eight of a possible thirty-six points, ten more than his nearest rival, &ldquo;Obie&rdquo; O&rsquo;Brien, of the Tulsa Oilers. It is the second time that a goalkeeper has won the honor and the second time that a St. Paul player has been named in the five years the award has been made. Other rookies who got good support from the selectors were Denver&rsquo;s fine young defenseman, Bob Chrystal, and Omaha&rsquo;s hard working left winger, Glen Skov, who was called up to the parent Detroit Red Wings the middle of February and who appears to be ready for a permanent spot in the &ldquo;big show.&rdquo; Worsley will get another $200 for being named as the league&rsquo;s &ldquo;Outstanding Rookie&rdquo; thus giving him a total of $600 in league bonuses and the biggest sweep ever mado by a rookie in this league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0582/1197687-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="529" height="541"><figcaption class="caption-body">CenterDOC HALDORSEN</figcaption></div>Voted as the most valuable player to his team in the USHL this season was the veteran Hank Blade of the Milwaukee Sea Gulls, Hank just nipped Omaha&rsquo;s Captain Jake Forbes by one point. Blade got eighteen points to Forbes&rsquo; seventeen. Doc Haldorsen of Tulsa, who won the league scoring crown, was also well up in the voting, registering fourteen points. Blade will receive a league bonus of $200.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0672/1197680-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="532" height="547"><figcaption class="caption-body">Left DefenseLLOYJ AILSBY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0756/1197673-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="535" height="550"><figcaption class="caption-body">Left WingIAN MACKINTOSH</figcaption></div>As his blue line defenders on the first All Star Team, Worsley will have two of the finest defensemen in the league in Lloyd Ailsby, also of St. Paul, and Jake Forbes of the Omaha Knights. Ailsby totaled twenty-three points for the first team left defense berth, thirteen more than Bob Chrystal of Denver and Jim Hay of Oinaha who tied for the position on the second team. Forbes got twenty-four points in winning the right defense spot, ten more than did Joe Levandoskl of the Kansas City Royals who was named to the second team.Doc Haldorsen of Tulsa nosed out Cal Stearns or Kansas City for first team honors at center just as he nosed the same Stearns out for the league scoring championship. Haldorsen was given twenty points by the selectors and Stearns nineteen. Left wing was another &ldquo;dog fight&rdquo; with Ian Mackintosh of St. Paul barely nosing out &ldquo;Obie&rdquo; O&rsquo;Brien of Tulsa. Mackintosh got twenty points to O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s nineteen.At right wing Ike Hildebrand of Kansas City wasn&rsquo;t pushed for All Star honors. He received twenty-seven points to place second to Worsley in the matter of points received. Eddie Bruneteau of Omaha registered sixteen points for second team honors. &#9632;

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St. Paul Players Dominate Dream Team As Ailsby, Ian Mackintosh Also Make It

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01188/1197739-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">KING RICHARD II used as his sporting emblem, a white hart with golden collar and the WHITE HART became yet another traditional English inn sign. Later in English history, eighteenth century soldiers returned from the Indian frontier to demand India Pale Ale&mdash;the &ldquo;real man&rsquo;s drink&rdquo; they had known there. Brewed to stand the long sea voyage to India, it had a special zest and character to it. And today those who still want a &ldquo;man&rsquo;s drink&rsquo; ask for Labatt&rsquo;s India Pale Ale&mdash;brewed to the original English recipe by John Labatt.&mdash;John Labatt Limited.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Famous Inn Signs … …. No. 10

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02156/1197770-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="562" height="1317"><figcaption class="caption-body">DIT CLAPPER</figcaption></div>Remember Aubrey Victor (D.t) Clapper &mdash; first living player to ba elected to the International Hockey Hall of Fame and the only player to play 20 seasons in the National Hockey League.Dit Clapper had a long and honourable career in the National Hockey League. Born at Newmarket, Ontario, on February 9, 1907, he broke into the N.H.L. with Boston Bruins in 1927 and played right through for 20 consecutive seasons with that team. He hung up his skates for good on February 13, 1947, when he was formally inducted into Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame.Originally a right wing, Dit was later transformed into a defenceman, and won All-Star recognition at both positions. He was named to the second All-Star team as a right wing in 1934-35, and for three straight seasons, 1938-39, 1939-40 and 1940-41, Clapper held down an All-Star defence post on the N.H.L First All-Star team. Dit scored 228 goals and assisted in 246 others during his lengthy N.H.L. career for a total of 474 scoring points.Clapper coached the Bruins from 1945-46 until the close of the 194849 season at which time he announced his retirement. He was made a Director of the Boston Bruins but spends his time now running &ldquo;Dit Clapper&rsquo;s Sports Store&rdquo; in Peter borough, Ont.Remember this Famous Name in Banking&hellip;The Canadian Bank of Commerce&ldquo;The Commerce&rdquo; &#9632;

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Remember this Famous Name in Hockey…

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01192/1197808-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"></div><h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured Chicago rearguard.7&mdash;Initials of coach of Barrie Flyers.8&mdash;Number of goals scored by Doug Bentley this season.10&mdash;Given name of Dutch Del-Monte.11&mdash;Initials of an N.H.L. linesman.12&mdash;Initials of Locke, golfer.13&mdash;Joe Benoit was once one (abbr).14&mdash;Name given a Leaf forward.16&mdash;Scored 30 goals for Rangers in 1934-35, called Harold.17&mdash;Anger.18&mdash;Lawrie May was born in &mdash; Boniface, Man.19&mdash;Member of the Milwaukee Sea Gulls.21&mdash;Initials of a Bruin who was born in Sutherland, Sask.23&mdash;Number of N.H.L. teams Bill Moe played with.24&mdash;Short for first name of Fielder, Hawk prospect.25&mdash;Second name of recent Vezina Trophy winner.26&mdash;Nickname of 22 down.29&mdash;Nickname of Washington team once in A.H.L. (sing).30&mdash;Plays for Denver Falcons.32&mdash;Comparative ending.34&mdash;Ebbie Goodfellow was captain of this N.H L. team in 1938-39.36&mdash;In an effort to score, players often use a &mdash; shot.37&mdash;Initials of Cupolo, former Bruin player.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Given name of Vezina and Calder Trophy winner of 1938-39.2&mdash;Plays for Quebec Aces, called Dick.3&mdash;Jimmy Peter&rsquo;s birthstone.4&mdash;Home state of team with whom Max McNab played this season (abbr).5&mdash;Northern Island (abbr).6&mdash;Ontario birthplace of &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; Raglan.9&mdash;Close to.13&mdash;Leroy Goldsworthy was born in Two &mdash; Minn.15&mdash;Gordie Drillon&rsquo;s second name.20&mdash;Indefinite article.22&mdash;Given name of Wiseman, last season with Indianapolis.24&mdash;Gil Mayer&rsquo;s real name.26&mdash;Last season Rangers won nine games on the &mdash;.27&mdash;Member of the Vancouver Canucks, called Eric.28&mdash;N.H L. team with whom Jack Forsey once played (abbr).31&mdash;Fred Thurier&rsquo;s initials.33&mdash;Initials of a Providence forward.35&mdash;Initials of Cook, president of U.S.H.L.<h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X-WORD PUZZLE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02142/1197801-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="543" height="883"></div> &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div>REGINA, Sask.&mdash; Centreman Sid Finney and goalie Russ Dertell of the Calgary Stampeders finished in a dead-heat in votes for most valuable player honors in the Western Major Hockey league.As a result, they will share the Gordon Efficiency medal and McSherry trophy, emblematic of the award, for the coming year.Dertell, however, will hold one trophy outright. League president Al Pickard announced that he was the unanimous choice for the Dave Dryburgh Memorial trophy which goes to the goalie adjudged best in the league. He was named on all 15 ballots cast by sports writers and broadcasters in the four league cities.It marks the second straight year he has held the trophy.Mr. Pickard said Finney and Dertell each obtained a total of 10 points in the balloting for the most valuable player award. Fifteen votes were cast, with two points allowed for a first choice and one for a second choice, making 30 points the maximum any player could receive.<h2>Based on Schedule Play</h2>The voting was based on a player&rsquo;s performance during the 60-game schedule when Calgary marched to the league pennant.Finney, the league scoring champion and all-star centre, was given five first choices. Dertell received four first choices and two second choices for 10 points.Chuck McCullough, the hardworking forward of the league champion Saskatoon Quakers, finished in the runner-up spot with eight points on one first choice and six second choices. Edmonton&rsquo;s Colin Kilburn, last year&rsquo;s winner of the award, was next in line with seven points on two first choices and three second choices.<h2>Barry Next</h2>Other first choices went to Ray Barry of Edmonton, who was next in the voting with three points; and Calgary veterans, Dune Grant and Julian Sawchuk.Three other players were mentioned in the balloting, Bill Heindl and Ken (Red) Hunter of Saskatoon and Bev Bentley of Regina Caps each gaining one second choice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0637/1197891-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="559" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body">Finish Dead EvenSID FINNEY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0729/1197884-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="523" height="843"><figcaption class="caption-body">RUSS DERTELL</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Sid Finney, Dertell Finish In Dead Heat For West’s M.V.P.

<div class="byline">By DON PILLING</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03112/1197853-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="492" height="816"><figcaption class="caption-body">EDDIE LITZENBERGER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0493/1197846-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="526" height="810"><figcaption class="caption-body">GUYLE FIELDER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0557/1197839-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="475" height="798"><figcaption class="caption-body">BUN SMITH</figcaption></div>LETHBRIDGE, Alta.&mdash; There&rsquo;s a strong possibility that 11 Western Canada junior hockey teams will be given a new deal when the 1951-52 campaign opens.J. Harper Parry of Moose Jaw, boss of the six-team Western Junior League, has proposed a new 11-team league, comprised of the six teams In his circuit, the four In the Saskatchewan League and the Edmonton Oil Kings.Hockey men representing the 11 squads win meet later this month to discuss the possibilities of forming the new league. And with the exception of Calgary Buffaloes, who&rsquo;have battled low attendances for two years now, the rest of the group Is eager to get the ball rolling towards the formation stage.Parry&rsquo;s plan provides that each team would play 40 games apiece during the regular league schedule, two games at home and two away against the other 10 outfits. The league would be divided into two sections, the present WCJHL forming the southern section would arrange its own playoffs with the two winners colliding for the right to continue along the Memorial Cup trail.Manager Ed Bruchet of the Lethbridge Native Sons, and one of the men responsible for the formation of the six-team western league three years ago, figures such a loop would be a solid success with the paying public. &ldquo;It would provide plenty of variety and give the fans a chance to see the best junior hockey players in Western Canada,&rdquo; he claimsTeams concerned are the Native Sons, Regina Pats, Moose Jaw Canucks, Crow&rsquo;s Nest Pass Lions, Medicine Hat Tigers and Calgary in the western league. Prince Albert Mintos, Saskatoon Wesleys, Flin Flon Bombers and Humboldt Indians of the Saskatchewan league and Edmonton.Meanwhile, Regina Pats are threatening to repeat as Western Canada&rsquo;s representatives this year in the Memorial Cup final.Murray Armstrong&rsquo;s speedy crew finished second in league play, behind Lethbridge, but went on in the playoffs to oust Medicine Hat and then Crow&rsquo;s Nest They were forced to the limit against Prince Albert but came through in five games to win and are now heavy favorites to polish off Winnipeg Monarchs and reach the final for the second year in a row. They bowed last year in the final run for the junior silverware to Montreal&rsquo;s Canadiens.Crow&rsquo;s Nest, despite losing to Regina, was the surprise pack of this year&rsquo;s playoffs. Sparked by Gene Achtymichuk, a husky centre who will likely turn pro with Montreal Canadiens next fall, the Lions beat out the favored Native Sons in the semi-finals and carried Regina seven thrilling battles before going down to final defeat. Lions hail from a small community in Albsrta&rsquo;s great coal producing area of approximately 1,500 people.The series between Regina and Crow&rsquo;s Nest was a definite hit with the fans. Over 12,000 jammed Regina Stadium for the final two games.This year&rsquo;s league all-star team saw Henry Bassen of Calgary grab the goatlending job with Fred Hucul, who played three games with Chicago Black Hawks, and towering Don Fletcher of Moose Jaw being named to the two defense berths. Guyle Fielder, Lethbridge&rsquo;s fancy-dan centre who made an impressive three game showing with Chicago after the Sons were bounced from the playoffs, was picked as the centre with Ed Litzenberger of Regina and Bun Smith of Regina taking the wing spots.Murray Armstrong of the Pats was the choice for first-team coach. &#9632;

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All-Star Forward Line

<h2>Leger Comes Through</h2>In his first season as a coach Roger Leger has proven himself one of the best. Not only did he lead the Victoria Cougars to the league title on I the last day of the schedule but he made a clean sweep of things by winning the playoffs. He was also voted the most valuable player to his team and made the all-star team.<h2>Friday, 13th Lucky</h2>Friday the 13th of April was a lucky day for the Victoria Cougars of the PCHL. They blanked the New Westminster Royals 3-0 to win the championship and make it a clean sweep. They won the series four games to one. That&rsquo;s quite a feat for the young Cougars for it is only their second year in the league.<h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><h3>FINAL STANDINGS OF FIRST PLAYOFF SERIES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01157/1197985-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="596" height="428"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>April 5&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 0, Victoria 4April 7&mdash;Victoria 3. New West&rsquo;er 2April 9&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 2, Victoria 5April 11&mdash;Victoria 3, New West&rsquo;er 7April 13&mdash;Victoria 3, New West&rsquo;er 0Roger Leger, in his first seaeon as coach, and Victoria Cougars, in their second season In the Pacific Coast Hockey League, were the right formula for winning the P.C.H.L. championship playoffs, as the Cougars and the Phil Henderson Memorial Trophy, wasted little time In eliminating the New Westminster Royals In the Coast finals by polishing off Babe Pratt&rsquo;s uninspired crew four games to one.Leger, the former Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; defenseman, handled the club in masterful style. He has fortunate in having many good players on his club but he was able to get the most out of these players. The Cougars, leaders at the box office as well as on the ice, shut out New Westminster 4-0 in the first game of the series played in the new Victoria Arena. The Cougars went two games up on New Westminster in the second tilt when they battled from behind twice to eke out a 3-2 victory over the team that has won the Pacific Coast Hockey League playoffs the last two years.Victoria went three games up on April nine when they downed the Royals 5-2. Kenny MacKen-zie gave his team the old pep talk before the fourth contest and his club skated off the ice at the conclusion as winners. The score Was 7-3. The Royals firing squad was all set for this tilt and they really bombarded the Victoria goal. This was the highest scoring game in the series. However, the classy Cougars bounced right back in the next game played in Victoria on April 13 to blank their opposition by a score of 3-0 and win the coveted crown.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02127/1197978-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1645" height="1104"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cotnoir Stops A Hot One(Courtesy Victoria Daily Times)Victoria Cougars&rsquo; Goaler Jerry Cotnoir is pictured robbing Portland&rsquo;s Joe Ciuman of an almost sure goal in their semi-final round whic&rsquo;i Victoria won four games to two. Joe Lepine is about to retrieve the puck and Stan Long is the other Cougar defense man in the photo.</figcaption></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL. 5</h3>Victoria 4, New Westminster 0(Victoria leads best-of-seven final series 1-0)VICTORIA &mdash; Victoria&rsquo;s Cougars did a thorough, workmanlike job on New Westminster Royals, clawing them, 4-0, In the first game of the Pacific Coast Hockey league championship final.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Pratt, Bergeron; centre, Ullyot; wings, Dorohoy, Koch; subs.: Huddleston, Paul, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Slater, Love, Gruhn, Houle, Peterson.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Lepine, Long: conitre, E. Dorohoy; wings, Mazur, McIntyre; subs.: Leger Webster, Goegan, Strongman, Hebenton,, Burman, Frampton, Abbott, Evans, Medynsiki.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0398/1197971-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="581" height="439"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 7</h3>VICTORIA 8, NEW WESTMINSTER 2(Victoria leads best-of-seven final series 2-0)NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; Eddie Mazur scored the deciding goal with less than five minutes left to give the Victoria Cougars a 3-2 victory over the New Westminster Royals in their Pacific Coast Hockey league final.Victoria leads the best-of-seven series 2-0.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Pratt, Bergeron; centre, Ullyot; wings, Dorohoy, Koch; subs.: Huddleston, Paul, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Slater, Love, Gruhn, Houle, Peterson.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Lepine, Long; centre, E. Dorohoy; wings, Mazur, McIntyre; subs.: Leger Webster, Goegan, Strongman, Hebenton,, Burman, Frampton, Abbott, Evans, Medynoki,<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0473/1197964-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="583" height="468"></div><h3>MONDAY, APRIL 9</h3>New Westminster 2, Victoria 5(Victoria leads best-of-seven series 3-0)VICTORIA.&mdash;Unless New Westminster Royals can show a complete form reversal on their home ice, Victoria Cougars will add the Phil Henderson Trophy to their league championship with an unexpected sweep of the P.C.H.L. playoff final.Playing without Coach Babe Pratt and Winger Aime Dufault, tne Royals caught the Cougars at their playoff worst at Memorial Arena yet beaten 5-2 in what was the dullest often Victoria playoff games.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Webster; centre, Abbott; wings, Frampton, Hebenton; subs.: Lepine, Goegan, Strongman. Long, Burman, McIntyre, Mazur, E. Dorohoy, Evans, Medynski.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene: defence, Houle, Paul; centre, Ullyot; wings. O. Dorohoy, Koch; subs.: Pratt, Bergeron, Slater, Love, Fashoway, Lavell, Huddleston, Gruhn, Peterson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0550/1197957-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="585" height="480"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11</h3>Victoria 3, New Westminster 7(Victoria leads best-of-seven series 3-1)NEW WESTMINSTER. &mdash; The New Westminster Royals handed Victoria a 7-3 druobing to preserve for at least another day their hope of retaining the Pacific Coast Hockey crown they won in 1260.It was the Royal&rsquo;s first win in the besof-seven championship series. Victoria won the first three games and could cinch the 1951 title by beating the Royals in the fifth playoff clash at Victoria.The Cougars couldn&rsquo;t match the pace set by the Royals. New Westminster scored twice in the first period, three times in the second and pushed home two more goals in the final frame.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Webster; centre, E. Dorohoy; wings, Mazur, McIntyre; subs.: Lepine, Goegan, Strongman, Long, Hebenton, Burman, Frampton, Abbott, Evans, Medynski.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Paul, Houle; centre, Lavell; wings, Slater, Gruhn; Bubs.: Bergeron, Koch, O. Dorohoy, Ullyot, Love, Fashoway, Huddleston, Peterson, Pratt.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0632/1197950-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="588" height="656"></div><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 13</h3>New Westminster 0, Victoria 3(Victoria wins best-or-seven final series 4-1)VICTORIA. &mdash; Victoria Cougars proved beyond all doubt that their league championship was no fluke as they skated to a soul-satisflying 3-0 triumph over New Westminster Royals to wind up P.C.H.L. action for this season.The usual 5,000 or so hockey-mad Victorians, long starved for a winning team of any kind, deliriously watched their darlings end the playoff final in the fifth game to add the Phil Henderson Memorial Trophy to the Johnson & Shipstad Trophy won when the Cougars edged the Royals out by ont point by defeating Seattle Ironmen, 7-4, in the last league game.Both trophies will be officially presented to the Victoria club before next season&rsquo;s opening game.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene: defence, Houle, Paul; centre, Lavell; wings. Slater, Gruhn; subs.: Peterson, Koch, Love, Ullyot, Fashoway, O. Dorohoy, Bergeron, Pratt, Huddleston.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Webster; centre, E. Dorohoy; wings, Mazur, McIntyre; subs.; Abbott, Frampton, Hebenton, Burman. Evans, Medynski, Long, Lepine, Goegan, Strongman.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0728/1197943-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="590" height="254"></div><h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><h3>SCORING</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0816/1197936-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="586" height="547"></div><h3>TEAM SCORING</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0912/1197929-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="584" height="80"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1012/1197922-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="584" height="89"></div> &#9632;

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

<h2>IN THE WEST</h2><h3>MAN.-THUNDER BAY JUNIOR</h3>FINALSTHURSDAY, APRIL 5Port Arthur 4, Winnipeg 6Best-of-seven series tied 2-2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01165/1198107-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="587" height="569"></div>SATURDAY, APRIL 7Port Arthur 0, Winnipeg 1Winnipeg leads best-of-seven series 3-2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02105/1198100-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="592" height="417"></div>MONDAY, APRIL 9Port Arthur 1, Winnipeg 0Best-of-seven series tied 3-3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0367/1198093-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="591" height="328"></div>TUESDAY, APRIL 10Port Arthur 2, Winnipeg 3Winnipeg wins best-of-seven series 4-3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0449/1198086-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="585" height="209"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0536/1198079-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="586" height="154"></div><h3>WESTERN CANADA JUNIOR</h3>QUARTER FINALSWEDNESDAY, APRIL 4Regina 6, Edmonton 2Regina leads best-of-seven series 3-0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0632/1198072-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="590" height="431"></div>FRIDAY, APRIL 6Edmonton 0, Regina 2Regina wins best-of-seven series 4-9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0729/1198065-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="579" height="322"></div><h3>WESTERN CANADA FINALS</h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 12Winnipeg 1, Regina 3Regina leads best-of-seven series 1-0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0823/1198058-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="581" height="300"></div>SATURDAY, APRIL 14Winnipeg 5, Regina 5 (tie game)Regina leads best-of-seven series 1-0,one game tied<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0920/1198051-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="579" height="569"></div><h2>IN THE EAST</h2><h3>O.H.A. JUNIOR</h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 7Marlboros 5, Barrie 2Best-of-seven series tied 2-2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1114/1198044-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="588" height="599"></div>TUESDAY, APRIL 10Marlboros 2, Barrie 5Barrie leads best-of-seven final series 3-2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1214/1198037-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="588" height="625"></div>TUESDAY, APRIL 10Barrie 4, Marlboros 2Barrie wins best-of-seven series 4-2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1314/1198030-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="590" height="551"></div><h3>EASTERN CANADA JUNIOR</h3>SEMI-FINALSTUESDAY, APRIL 10Inkerman 0, Quebec 13Quebec wins semi-final series 3-0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1413/1198023-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="592" height="547"></div>FINALSSATURDAY, APRIL 14Quebec 2, Barrie 6Barrie leads best-of-seven series 1-0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1513/1198016-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="586" height="476"></div> &#9632;

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Road To The Memorial Cup

QUEBEC CITY, Que.&mdash;Long Jean, Marc Beliveau hockeys outstanding professional prospect of ! the Quebec Citadels, has been feted with a night in the same manner as many big league stars.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1016/1198138-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="262" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption></div>Fans in this hockey-mad city presented the high-scoring centre with a 1951 model (Nash) sedan for leading Quebec Citadels to the Quebec junior hockey championship.Now, Jean, who has but rudimentary driving knowledge, will have to do some quick brushing up to obtain a driver&rsquo;s permit.But he needs little brushing up on his hockey. He proved as much by leading the Citadels to a 13-0 rout of Inker-man Rockets for Quebec&rsquo;s third straight win in the best-of-five Eastern Canada Memorial Cup semi-finals.A crowd of more than 8,000 onlookers saw Beliveau thank the fans with a couple of sparkling unasssitcd goals in the third period after assisting on four others.Citadels showed a big edge in play, outshooting Rockets 37-20. Inkerman rallied in the third period in an attempt to escape a whitewash but Quebec Goalie Marcel Paille turned aside 14 shots in the last 20 minutes to keep the slate clean.Francis Boudreau, member of the provincial legislature for Quebec-St. Sauveur and treasurer of the &ldquo;Beliveau Night&rdquo; committee, made the presentation. Chairman Gerry Martineau, member of the legislative council and prominent Quebec City sportsman, could not attend. &#9632;

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Quebec Fans Give Beliveau New Car In Appreciation

<h2>QUEBEC MAJOR</h2><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Quebec 6, Valley field 5Quebec leads best-of-nine final series 4-3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01144/1198256-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="597" height="806"></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 12</h3>Valleyfield 3, Quebec 2Best-of-nine final series tied 4-4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02107/1198249-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="590" height="476"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 15</h3>Quebec 3, Valleyfield 4Valley field wins best of nine serieo 5-4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0382/1198242-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="590" height="596"></div><h2>MARITIME MAJOR</h2><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 0</h3>Sydney 2, Charlottetown 3Best-of-seven series tied 2-2one game tied<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0468/1198235-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="596" height="370"></div><h3>MONDAY, APRIL 9</h3>Charlottetown 1, Sydney 2Sydney leads best-of-seven series 3-2one game tied<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0552/1198228-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="590" height="427"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Sydney 3, Charlottetown 3 (no contest)(sydney leads best-of-seven series 3-2 one game tied, one game declared no contest by referee.)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0638/1198221-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="592" height="518"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 14</h3>Charlottetown 2, Sydney 7Sydney wins best-of-seven series 4-2,one game tied, one game no contest<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0735/1198214-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="582" height="264"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0832/1198207-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="589" height="388"></div><h2>ONTARIO SASKATCHEWAN</h2>SEMI-FINALS<h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 10</h3>St. Michael&rsquo;s 8, Saskatoon 5St. Michael&rsquo;s lead best-of-seven series 1-0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0927/1198200-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="584" height="754"></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 12</h3>St. Michael&rsquo;s 4, Saskatoon 1St. Michael&rsquo;s lead best-of-seven series 2-0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1021/1198193-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="594" height="484"></div> &#9632;

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On The Alexander Cup Trail

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-11" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1121/1198287-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg"></div>You know right well that you&rsquo;ll want to know what your favorite hockey star is doing during the summer months; what players are being traded; what players are being given their unconditional release. You&rsquo;ll also be eager to find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.The Only Way To Know All This is by becoming a Year-Round Subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS. You see, THE HOCKEY NEWS is not sold at arenas during the summer months or on the newsstands and the only possible way you can get a copy is by becoming a regular subscriber. This way you will be sure of receiving the five snappy monthly summer issues just as soon as they&rsquo;re off the press.THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favorite puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless others. We at THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (Moy to September).A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.Canadian Remittances &mdash; $2.50 Payable by Postol, Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U. S. A. Remittances &mdash; $3.50 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque in U.S. funds. Postol Money Orders must be drown on the Postmaster ot New York In U.S. funds.Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order &#9632;

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YOU’LL BE SORRY!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01110/1198325-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="245" height="286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0250/1198318-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="248" height="298"></div>Your April 28 issue may not reach you just on time, or It may not be on the news stand the day it should be &mdash; but there will be a reason. Since this Is the last weekly issue of the season, we must hold up publication until the Stanley Cup finals are finished, so you will get the very latest news.That means we will be late hitting the street if the series goes beyond five games. Normally, the presses would roll April 24, but the sixth game of the Montreal-Toronto series Is scheduled for that night, with a seventh, if needed on April 24.So, If your HOCKEY NEWS doesn&rsquo;t arrive on time next week, you&rsquo;ll know why &mdash; and please be patient I &#9632;

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If Your Next Copy Is a Bit Late …

MONTREAL &mdash; Coach Dick Irvin of the Montreal Canadiens has been offered a new two year contract to run the club that is now in the heat of the Stanley Cup finals against the Toronto Maple Leafs.General Manager Frank Selk of the Habs announced that Irvin has been offered a new contract for two more seasons. Irvin&rsquo;s current two year contract runs out at the end of this season.Selke, in announcing the offer, said that Irvin is the man they want to run the club for the next two seasons and he had been offered the contract.Irvin, In reply, said that he would have to wait to see how his health was before either accepting or refusing the contract. He will return home to Regina for the summer months and is expected to make his announcement from there. &#9632;

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