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July 15, 1951
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Maritimers Get Together; May Be Big Six From Big Four and Cape Breton Three
HALIFAX, N.S.— The eagerly-awaited meeting of the seven Maritime major hockey teams wasn’t the exciting thing the fans expected. For one of the seven teams has dropped out. Two others can’t make up their minds whether they want to play or not. To date four teams have chosen to play, They are Halifax, Moncton and Charlottetown of the old Big Four, and the Sydney Millionaires of the Cape Breton League. Still to declare themselves are Saint John Beavers, charter members of the Big Four and Glace Bay. North Sydney has decided not to operate next season. The Beavers are regarded in many quarters as sure starters’. The North Sydney Victorias held an executive meeting and decided once and for all not to ice a team. Glace Bay hockey leaders, taking long looks at…
Quick Wit Left them Laughing After Peirson, Kyle Donnybrook
BOSTON, Mass.— Despite the fact that Bill Ezinicki is eccentric in many ways, he is much admired by his Boston teammates. He is quick-witted, and in the wisecrack department helped compensate for the loss of John Crawford, the needle-tongued defenseman. When Johnny Peirson pulled Gus Kyle’s jersey off during a wrestling interlude last winter, leaving Kyle’s torso clad only in the heavy underwear hockey players prefer, it was Ezinicki who said: “That fight proved only one thing. The Bruins’ underwear is cleaner than the Rangers’.” He has spent as much as ten hours a day on the practice tee trying to knock some sense of direction into a dumb golf ball. Bill has learned a lot since ho opposed Frank Stranahan, son of a multimilionaire Toledo sparkplug manufacturer, in the Canadian amateur final in 1947. In…
Western Canada Loop Seeks Variety By P.C.H.L. Hookup
CALGARY, Alta.— Possibility of interlocking games between the Western Canada Major League and the Pacific pro setup was seen following an announcement by Chas. Yule, Calgary Stampede manager and on the executive of the Stampede hockey club. “I want it made quite clear that we won’t know for another ten days,” said Mr. Yule, “but we are attempting to bring more variety to hockey this winter.” Al Leader, president of the Pacific Coast league, and officials of the Alberta clubs in the Western setting, discussed posabilities at a recent meeting. The coast hockey prexy will take the Western league plans to his own organization since the matter is of chief concern to those clubs, and will let the prairie loop know the score in about ten days. Up to Leader Now In making the…
Passing The Puck
GALGARY — THIS CITY can still put on the best show of any city in Canada, and the Stampede this year is bigger and better than ever. One of the busiest men connected with the Stampede this year is Red Dutton, former N.H.L. president and one of hockey’s most colorful personalities. It’s Red’s job to look after the out-of-town dignitaries and he’s doing a first-class job in hia own inimitable fashion, Dutton was recently elected a director of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Association and also was named chairman of the hockey committee… The Exhibition board operate the beautiful new arena here called the Stampede Corral and it is the most modern hockey building in Canada. J. Charlie Yule and Lloyd Turner can be mighty proud of this magnificent edifice…
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