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October 20, 1951

The Hockey News October 20, 1951

Highlighting the opening week&rsquo;s play in the 1951-52 National Hockey League season has been the keen showing of the Chicago Black Hawks. The sixth-place club of last season has won two of its three games played to date and Is deadlocked with Montreal Canadiens for top spot in the loop&rsquo;s standings Canadiens have also played three games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1085/1236860-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="290" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption></div>The Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs won one out of two and are tied with Detroit and Boston with, two points apiece. Toronto and Detroit have played two games, while the Bruins have taken part in three contests. New York Rangers lost their only start of the season by one goal to Chicago.Heading the individual scoring parade is George Gee of Chicago. The Detroit Red Wing of last season has two goals and three assists for five points. Bert Olmstead and Elmer Lach of Canadiens follow with one goal and four assists. Maurice Richard Is next with three goals and one assist. The Canadiens&rsquo; star is tied with. Toronto&rsquo;s Tod Sloan for goal-scoring leadership. Both players have three goals each. Olmstead and Lach are tops in assists with four apiece.Terry Sawchuk of Detroit has the best record among the goaltenders. Terry has allowed three goals to be scored against him in two games for a 1.50 goals-against average. He is the only netminder to chalk up a shutout this season, performing this feat in the Wings&rsquo; first game of the new season, as they blanked Boston 1-0.Boston Bruins art the most penalized team in the circuit with 4 6 minutes, while Bernie Geoffrion of Canadiens is the most penalized player with 18 minutes spent in the sin-bin. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Bert Olmstead, Gee Lach in Deadlock

VOLUME 5 MONTREAL, OCTOBER 20, 1951 NUMBER 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01113/1237241-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="255" height="286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0253/1237234-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="266" height="296"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0339/1237227-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="2864" height="1661"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dreamers Dream of Teams Like TheseThe two All-Star teams who played to a 2-2 draw last week are shown here. Top, the second tem, back row, left to right: Kennedy, Mosdell, Sloan, Sid Smith, Meger, Max Bentley and Trainer Bill Smith. Second row: Irvin, coach, Bill Daly, trainer, Curry, Bouchard, Watson, Harvey, Abel. Front row, left to right: Rayner, Thomson, Reise,&rsquo;Richard, Mortson, McNeil.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0427/1237220-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="2868" height="1669"><figcaption class="caption-body">First team, bottom, back row, left to right: Paice, trainer, Doug Bentiey, Peirson, Lumley, Lindsay, Eddolls. Second row: Gaye Stewart, Bill Quackenbush, Kelly, Primeau, coach, Fogolin, Sandford, Dewsbury. Front row Schmidt, Howe, Sawchuk, Sinclair, Raleigh, Bodnor.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By IAN MacDONALD</div><h2>Junior Canadiens&rsquo; Star Is Highly Rated By Selke As Future Big League Material</h2>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;If the day ever comes when junior hockey moguls decide to award a Lady Byng Trophy to the JAHA one of the few qualifiers among the local crop would be Donnie Marshall, quiet-spoken star with junior Canadiens.Considered by no less an authority than Frank Selke, general manager of the National League Canadiens, to be one of the most reliable players in junior hockey at the present time, Marshall&rsquo;s main forte is his great ability as a team player.&ldquo;I will be very disappointed if Donnie isn&rsquo;t on the roster of the pro Canadiens in three years&rdquo; the Forum GM told THE HOCKEY NEWS. &ldquo;Though he may not be as flashy as some, Donnie is a 100 percent team-player and goe3 brilliantly both ways.&rdquo;<h3>Scored 21 Times</h3>Out to prove wrong the theory that &ldquo;nice guys don&rsquo;t win&rdquo; Marshall stands out like a shining star as he doggedly goes about his business of playing sound clean hockey in a League where tough guys are a dime a dozen and the majority of players are trigger happy with their fists.Playing 37 games last year, Donnie scored 21 goals and earned 34 assists for a 55 point total and really proved his value to the team by spending only 6 minutes in the penalty box. Those three minor penalties were far less than any other of the league&rsquo;s top 25 scorers and less than a fifth as many of any in the top ten. The point total was tops for the Habs and though only ninth in the circuit is better appreciated when it is realised that Marshall spends half his time killing off teammates penalties.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02114/1237151-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="553" height="1377"><figcaption class="caption-body">Reliable LadDON MARSHALL</figcaption></div>Considered an accomplished veteran at 19, Donnie is starting his third year under the close scrutiny of junior Hab coach Sam Polioack, and is expected to be the guiding light to one of the club&rsquo;s best seasons.Donnie learned his hockey at Southwestern YMCA, in Verdun, and first attracted notice a star member of Norman&rsquo;s Spartans when they won the provincial juvenile crown four years ago. After one year with the junior &lsquo;B&rdquo; Canadiens, Marshall graduated to the Varsity, and though it was his first year in the faster company he was one of the big guns in Habs&rsquo; Memorial Cup swep of 49-50.<h2>Spent Only Six Minutes In Penalties Last Season And Led Club Scoring Column</h2>Mr. Selke&rsquo;s desires as to Marshall&rsquo;s future, would seem to ba well justified for if he continues to improve at the same rate ha has for the past few years, thera is little doubt but that he will make the top grade. A smooth, shifty skater with speed to burn., Dipsy-doodling Donnie is one of the fanciest stickhandlers in. tha circuit.Adding a little weight over tha summer months Marshall now tips the Toledos at a respectable 165 pounds which is well distributed over his 5&rsquo;10&rdquo; frame.Attending Sir George William College, after going through 13, years high school at Verdun High, Donnie is studying commerce and plans to acquire a higher education, but he definitely wants to make a carreer of hockey if it is possible.Mr. Sammy Marshall, Don&rsquo;s father, wants to see his son complete the college course but will put nothing in the way that would block his hockey progress. Mr. Marshall a senior athlete of note himself some years ago, says that Donald was always a bright student and that even with all the hockey activity he has undertaken for the past two seasons he has managed to retain his grade,<h3>Neat Ball Player</h3>Though he seems heade for his greatest future down&rsquo; ice lanes, Donnie is also quite adept at other sports. Never one to stand around and watch, he has always got in on every game and loved playing at it. Donnie capped off a brilliant junior baseball career in the summer of 1950 when he was selected on the Royal&rsquo;s all star junior team which played Brooklyn all-stars in a home-and-home series at Delorimier Downs and Ebett&rsquo;s Field. At Flatbush, tha fleet outfielder blasted a scorching triple to deep centerfield for on of the longest blows of the entire series.Though not yet an expert Donnie spends quite a lot of time on the golf links and harbors ambitions of some blasting part. &#9632;

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Marshall Proves Even In Junior ‘Nice Guys Can Play On Winner’

<div class="byline">By GLEN GARRY</div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;As the Cleveland Barons start the 1951-52 season as &ldquo;grand slam&rdquo; champions of the American League every member of the club realizes that it will be a rugged road to another title come next April. But, as Coach Bun Cook of the Barons said recently at training camp in Stratford: &ldquo;The team is ready and we will take each game as it comes along.&rdquo;There will be nine new faces on the Barons this season from the club which led the Western Division of the American League last year, defeated the Buffalo Bisons (Eastern Division leaders) in four straight, and went on to take the Calder Cup in a tough series from the Pittsburgh Hornets.<h2>Rangers Get Two</h2>Gone to the New York Rangers from that team are leading goal scorer Wally Hergesheimer and Baron captain Hy Buller. Glen Sonmor and Harry Taylor were traded to St. Louis; centers Les Douglas and Murdo Mackay were transferred. to the Montreal organization.Holdovers from the great Baton sextette are star goalie Johnny Bower, rated by many the finest goaltender in the league; defensemen Tommy &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Williams, bashing Phil Samis and quiet Sam Lavitt, Steve Wochy, Eddie Olson, Joe Lund, Fred Thurier, Ray Ceresino and Ken Schultz are the forwards who are back with the Barons.Players secured through trades are defensemen Eddie Reigle and Freddy Sliero; centers Jackie Gordon and Gerry Reid and wings Ike Hildebrand, Fern Perreault and Paul Gladu.Up from the Barons&rsquo; farm system is young Bob Chrystal who played with the Denver club last Beason and was with the Brandon Wheat Kings prior to that and Bob Bailey, the pride of Kenora, Ontario, who starred with the Stratford Kroehlers In the OHA Junior A circuit last season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01197/1236342-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="536" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gone!LES DOUGLAS</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02177/1236335-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1089" height="1219"><figcaption class="caption-body">MURDO MacKAY</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03146/1236328-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="541" height="546"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALT HERGESHEIMER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04127/1236321-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="571" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">HY BULLER</figcaption></div>Reigle, Shero, Gordon and Perreault were obtained from the Rangers in the trade which sent Hy Buller and Wally Hergesheimer to the New York club. In addition to the above quartet the Barons also secured &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Delmonte, who has been sent to the Barons&rsquo; affiliate, the Seattle Ironmen; and Pentti Lund who was traded on October 5th to the Boston Bruins for two players to be named at the end of the 1951-52 season.Tearing the Barons apart is nothing new for General Manager Jim Hendy. At the end of the 1948-49 season, after the Barons had finished in a tie for third place in the Western Division and got into the playoffs because they had won one game more than the Pittsburgh Hornets, Hendy brought in ten new players. During the 1949-50 season the Barons made a runaway of the regular schedule finishing 19 points ahead of their nearest rivals in the Western Division, defeating Buffalo 3 out of 5 to go into the finals against the Indianapolis Caps for the Calder Cup. The Caps annihilated the Barons in four straight when Terry Sawchuk played the greatest hockey of his career.At the end of the season Hendy tore the team apart again and came up with eight new faces for the 1950-51 team. It was a tougher, better-balanced club, but at the end of the series when the Barons had captured the League and playoff championships there were signs of wear and tear and another rebuilding job was begun.Whether the 1951-52 team will again deliver remains to be seen but as they go into the new season they appear&mdash;on paper at least&mdash;to be a strong club that will take a lot of beating. &#9632;

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Jim Hendy Digs Out Cleveland’s Deadwood And Builds A Bigger Fire With New Faces

<div class="byline">By SID THOMAS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0130/1237314-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Honeymoon&rsquo;s Over! &hellip;by collins</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;If every-thing turns out the way Carl Voss hopes, the National Hockey League is finally going to beat its longstanding shortage of topnotch referees, thus easing the strain on Bill Chadwick, George Gravel and Red Storey &mdash; the trio who will handle the bulk of the whistletooting chores in th loop this sason.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0224/1237307-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="289" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Chadwick</figcaption></div>Voss, Referee-in-Chief of the circuit, has launched a program designed to groom his linesmen for front-line duties in the future. He has signed to NHL contracts five promising comers whom he terms his &lsquo;trainee-referees&rsquo; and they will be given an intensive course of instruction, with actual referee experience in the American Hockey League as grooming for their big chance later in the season.&ldquo;We need at least four top referees, and I hope we can find One to quality out of this group,&rdquo; Voss said. &ldquo;Then, we will have the others as spares, In case something happens to any of our regular refs. You never can tell, With today&rsquo;s long schedule, and good referees are hard to find.&rdquo;A special arrangement has been worked out with the AHL, whereby the five trainees will take turns going to that loop for a month each to handle actual refereeing chores in approximately 10 games. Voss himself expects to be able to supervise and instruct each one of them in about the half the games they will handle in the AHL.<h2>The Newcomers</h2>The five men signed up under the plan and Bill Morrison of Oshawa, Ont., who has been an NHL linesman the past two years; Frank Udvari of Kitchener, Ont.; Doug Davies of Montreal; Jack Mehl-enbacher of Hagersville, Ont.; and Maurice Walsh of Ajax, Ont. Davies has been a referee in the United States League the past two years, Udvari and Mehlenbacher were the top officials in the Ontario circuit, while Walsh officiated in the Western Canada loop last season.Morrison, because of his previous NHL experience, will draw the AHL assignment the first month, to be followed by the others. The plan is to have the trainees act as NHL linesmen in the early stages of the season, while gaining experience, and then they will get their chances as referees.Gravel, Chadwick and Storey will handle about three-quarters of the league games this year, and the trainees will look after the rest under Voss&rsquo; supervision.<h2>9 On Linesman Duty</h2>The new setup will give the NHL a total of nine linesmen, counting the four others currently on the staff. Two of these, Sammy Babcock and George Hayes, are on permanent contracts, while Jim Primeau and Doug Young have regular &ldquo;civilian&rdquo; jobs and only fill-in as linesmen on occasional games in their home territory.&ldquo;The League wants to get a good staff of referees,&rdquo; Voss pointed out, &ldquo;and I have arranged this plan of training to take care of it. Normally, it wouldn&rsquo;t be fair to take a new referee on, because we couldn&rsquo;t let him work in enough games to make it worthwhile for him, since the officials are paid by the game. This way, the men will work all season as linesmen, and with the games they work as referees here and In the AHL they&rsquo;ll draw a good salary at the end of the year.&rdquo;The plan will help both leagues. The NHL will be able to give its men practical experience in a circuit where the type of play is closest to their standards, and the AHL will have the advantage of extra officials to help handle their heavy schedule, especially since they have changed to the one-referee-per-game system.When the trainee-referees are ready for their NHL debut later on in the year, Voss plans to work them in stretches of at least five consecutive games each. As he explained it, that will give them a chance to get over their stage fright and show their abilities to the best.<h2>Chance To Adapt</h2>&ldquo;Alternating a man as a linesman, then a referee, then a linesman again, just wouldn&rsquo;t work out,&rdquo; Voss said. &ldquo;As linesmen, they are trained to watch the puck and the ice surface for offsides and so on, but the referee is trained to watch higher up for penalty, infractions. Changing them back and forth too often would just be confusing.&rdquo;Voss also expects the plan will give the linesmen a greater interest in watching all points of the game. A rule was adopted last season where the linesmen had the authority to call the referees attention to a major infraction, such as fight behind the nets, which the referee might have missed while following the play down the ice. This didn&rsquo;t work out too successfully last year, since the linesmen apparently were unwilling to interfere in the referee&rsquo;s sphere of operations.Now that the linesmen are themselves building up for a refereeing chance, it&rsquo;s more likely that they will prove a bigger help to the referee in helping him catch offenders he would otherwise miss.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01212/1237300-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="545" height="857"><figcaption class="caption-body">FRANK UDVARI</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02159/1237293-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="540" height="853"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL MORRISON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03122/1237286-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="589" height="857"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACK MEHLENBACHER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0489/1237279-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="560" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG DAVIES</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0560/1237272-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="557" height="845"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAURICE WALSH</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Trainee-Referees Of NHL Will Get Grooming In AHL

<div class="byline">By SYD THOMAS</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;.From now on, the &ldquo;wrestler&rdquo; and the &ldquo;octopus&rdquo; are going to be marked men in the National Hockey League. The player who puts shinny ahead of hockey is going to find that the blast of the referee&rsquo;s whistle means bad news, as a result of an edict instructing the officials to enforce the rules to the letter and throw the book at offenders. NHL Referee-in-Chief Carl Voss issued the instructions, on behalf of the League Governors, and notified all the clubs before the season opened. So, if the players don&rsquo;t take the thing seriously, the hoosegows in the six loop rinks may be busy places this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0315/1237345-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="257" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Carl Voss</figcaption></div>Voss gave orders to the men in white sweaters to &ldquo;enforcn strictly all violations of the rules pertaining to board-chacking, high-sticking, hooking, holding and interference.&rdquo; The new &ldquo;get lough&rdquo; policy has been adopted in a determined effort to cut down, on the risk of injuries and to restore to the game some of the finesse and speed of which it has been robbed in recent year by the bear-hug school of puckchasers.&ldquo;Our main idea is to get rid of that wrestling and grappling type of play which slows up the game and spoils it as a fast, clean, attraction for the fans,&rdquo; said Voss in explanation of the new edict, &ldquo;The way it has been, the better players have been so mauled and grabbed by their checkers that they haven&rsquo;t been able to play the fast, wide-open hockey they are capable of &mdash; and that the fans want to see. Key men like Richard, Howe, the Bentleys, LaPradn would reduce the game to a shamhles of whistle tooting. But Voss thinks that, given a little common sense cooperation by the players and the coaches, the situation will work out all right.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve talked to hockey men and sports writers all over the place,&rdquo; Voss explained.. &ldquo;Many of them thought that this idea would make basketball out of the game, with whistle stops and penalties all over the place. But I honestly believe that it won&rsquo;t be as bad as all that, once the players realize we mean business, and if the coaches restrain some of the more glaring xiffenders.&rdquo; I believe that hooking can be eliminated entirely, and other offences can fce cut down by at least 90 per cent.&rdquo;As Voss pointed out, it&rsquo;s the coach&rsquo;s job to tell his men how to play. As long as the referee was loathe to halt the game to penalize the lesser &ldquo;clutch-and-grab&rdquo; infractions, both coach and player were willing to take a gamble and play it that way. Now, if they know it means a sure penalty, the coach is going to insist that his players use legal methods of checking to halt the attacking side. In any case, fears of an epidemic of penalties weren&rsquo;t borne our in the two games opening night, as a total of only eight were handed out in each.As for its eventual effect on the game, seasoned hockey observers all agree that it will be good in the long run. As an example, the officials were told to keep a close check rein on exuberant players in last Spring&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs. Standard of play throughout was mainly clean, and as a result the fans were treated to some of the fastest and most exciting hockey in some time.Along with the stiffer observance of the rules, Voss is also working on an ambitious plan to build up the NHL referee staff by a program of training which will see five of the loop&rsquo;s linesmen taking a whirl at officiating from time to time, as well as gaining practical experience in the American Hockey League before taking over their main chores.The day when NHL players could expect the referee to take it a little easy with them are definitely over. From now on, the arbiter&rsquo;s word is going to be law$ &#9632;

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NHL Edict Should Halt “Clutch-and-Crab” Play

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div>TORONTO, Ont.-Conn Smythe, the volatile magnate who heads the Toronto Maple Leafs, has often been likened to David Harum, who was originally not an ice cream sundae at all but a gentleman adept at trading off horses and consistently profiting on the deal.Smythe&rsquo;s business, of course, is not horses though there is some similarity. He sells and swaps hockey flesh-on-the-hoof and his brilliance in the perpetration of these transactions has been such as to earn him a reputation for shrewdness which, by comparison would make Mr. Harum look like a wide-eyed rube buying the Brooklyn Bridge. It is entirely likely that if-Smythe tripped and fell into a mud puddle, he would come up with either the Hope Diamond, John D. Rockefeller&rsquo;s wallet-or maybe both.The first in the post war string of these remarkable marketing successes was the one in which he got. Max Bentley from Chicago Black Hawks in exchange for five players, only one of whom the hapless Hawks have seen fit to continue to employ. That would be Gus Bodnar. Of the others Gaye Stewart has wound up in New York, Bob Goldham with Detroit, Ernie Dickens in comparative obscurity and Bud Poile as coach in Glace Bay.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03112/1235710-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="549" height="889"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAL GARDNER</figcaption></div><h2>Cups Follow Max</h2>Marvellous Max, of course, is still with the Leafs, still behaving like a skittish colt and having enjoyed the fruits of four Stanley Cups.People who at first wondered at Smythe&rsquo;s sanity, event usually admitted that he had dealt a good hand but maybe had just fired a lucky shot in the dark.His detractors blew their collective tops at his next move which sent the popular, crowdpleasing Wally Stanowski and Elwin Morris to the Rangers in exchange for a centre Cal Gardner, a presumably washed up defenseman Bill Juzda, Rene Trudell and the rights to an Ottawa defenseman Frank Mathers.Stanowski and Morris aren&rsquo;t in the league. Gardner has risen from the depths of mediocrity which enveloped him in his latter years with the Rangers and Juzda has somewhere found the legs to become a sturdy pillar of punch at the Leaf blueline. Mathers is a key man with the Pittsburgh Hornets, always knocking at the NHL door.Last year they pounced on him again when he sent the prodigal Bill Ezinicki and Vic Lynn to the Boston Bruins and won defenseman Fern Flaman, forwards Ken Smith and Phil Maloney and the rights to another defenseman then 19-year-old Leeo Boivin, a native of Prescott Ontario who was with the Port Arthur West End Bruins.From all appearances it would seem that Ezzie has hung up his hockey stick in favour of a golf wood. Flaman, with the Leafs has become a sturdy policeman, the most pleasing defensive attribute to Smythe during the practice weeks. Maloney and Smith are doing creditable chores with the Hornets and Boivin, if he keeps his present pace, will be on a major league salary before he&rsquo;s old enough to vote.Smythe, who watched him in the annual Blue-White pre-season exhibition game at the new East York Memorial Arena here, described him as the greatest young defense prospect he&rsquo;s seen in years.&ldquo;He looks just like Bill Juzda did when he was breaking into the league,&rdquo; bubbled the Leaf boss.Boivin, though, may have to wait his turn. Smythe selected Toronto&rsquo;s big and silent Hugh Bolton, a graduate of the Marlboro chain, to fill the defense vacancy left by the disappearance of Bill Barilko on an ill-fated fishing expedition into the north. Bolton, who was up last season but was bugged by a recurring knee injury and a banged up shoulder, showed the most to Smythe in the training camp beating out Mathers and young and rugged Tim Horton for the job. Big Yug, though, is going to have to work to hold it with the flashy Boivin hovering in the background.The Leafs themselves had the head man and Joe Primeau, coach, slightly worried after the lackadaisical showing some of them made in the annual All Star game here. Smythe started pounding the condition drum Immediately after it was over and they went wheeling all out in the Blue-White game. &#9632;

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Smythe Deals All His Kings, Watches Aces Develop From Little

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02121/1235679-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Back At The GrindBack at the grind after leaving the Boston Bruins&rsquo; training camp at Hershey, Gelineau is looking forward to a business career.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL,, Que.&mdash;Jack Gelineau, home from the Boston Bruins&rsquo; training camp at Hershey, Pennsylvania has settled down to making a career in the insurance business. The Bruins and Gelineau failed to come to a mutual contract agreement and Gelineau decided rather than play In the N.H.L. for less than what he thinks he&rsquo;s worth, he&rsquo;ll go into retirement. However, Gelineau has not quit the game. If the Bruins should see fit to change their mind and meet Jack&rsquo;s terms then he would return to Boston where he won the Rookie-of-the-Year honors in the 1949-50 season.Gelineau reported that he and the Bruins parted company under friendly conditions.<h2>Ross Talked To Him</h2>&ldquo;Mr. Ross and I had a long talk in Boston before I came home. He told me that I was possibly making the right decision. We failed to see eye to eye and I would not sign for anything less than what I asked for and what was promised me when 1 turned pro two years ago.&ldquo;That season the Bruins made certain promises to me regarding my contract and I asked that they be kept this season. However, they failed to live up to those promises and I decided not to play.&ldquo;I thought about this move all summer, so you see it wasn&rsquo;t made on the spur of the moment. I have given it plenty of thought.&ldquo;It is my own decision. I would love to play hockey this season but not for anything less than I think I&rsquo;m worth. I have spent quite a long time in hockey and what I&rsquo;ve got out of it has not compensated for those years. I never earned any money in junior and certainly never got a nickel at McGill. I told Mr. Ross that I had to save more money to compensate for those years I spent in amateur and college hockey.&rdquo;Although rumors were current that Gelineau left the Bruins because he refused to go to the minors, Gelineau denies them.&ldquo;The Bruins never offered nor even mentioned sending me to the minors. The only time it was ever mentioned was when I first turned pro and it was thought that I might have to spend a year in the lower league to gain experience.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01135/1235672-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="1116" height="1353"><figcaption class="caption-body">Home Sweet HomeJack Gelineau, bag and baggage in hand arrives home in Montreal after failing to reach an agreement with the Boston Bruins.</figcaption></div>They never threatened or even mentioned it at camp or when I talked contract to Mr. Ross.&rdquo;As for Gelineau&rsquo;s career, which rose and fell like a meteor in two seasons, well, it&rsquo;s up to the game itself. If they want him he&rsquo;ll play, but for his price.&ldquo;It is my lite and I must decide for myself,&rdquo; says Gelineau. &ldquo;Only time will tell whether I have made the right decision. I have a good job with better earning potential than hockey. I have weighed both sides of the situation and decided that I cannot take a chance each year waiting until August rolls around to find out if I&rsquo;m going to be offered a 30 week guarantee to play hockey.&ldquo;Many people have often mentioned that I never wanted to play hockey in the first place, they were wrong. I love the game and I&rsquo;ve always wanted to play professional. I had never thought about retiring until last summer and then I wrote Mr. Ross and told him. Two weeks before camp opened, I received a letter and was asked to report to camp to see if the contract details could be worked out.&rdquo;It was at camp where Gelineau first heard that the Bruins had bought their present goaler Sugar Jim Henry.&ldquo;I was eating dinner one day when somebody approached me and asked if Henry had arrived yet.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know what he was talking about so I said: &ldquo;report&rdquo;, where is he supposed to be reporting to. Then I found out that the Bruins had bought him.Mr. Ross had phoned from Boston and told Lynn that they could not meet my terms. Patrick told me. Then I went to Boston and talked over the situation with Ross himself. He told me that I may be making the right decision and that he was sorry it was to be this way. We parted the best of friends.&rdquo;<h2>Cut Down Average</h2>Reports had Gelineau and Coach Lynn Patrick not getting along too well last season.&ldquo;I would&rsquo;t say we didn&rsquo;t get along,&rdquo; Gelineau related, &ldquo;He just didn&rsquo;t seem to find time to talk to me while I was there. But I can&rsquo;t say we didn&rsquo;t get along.&rdquo;Gelineau&rsquo;s career with the Bruins was at times a glittering one and at other moments not quite so glittering. He doesn&rsquo;t think he had a bad year last season and sticks by his statement.&ldquo;I cut 35 goals off my average from the year before. Our team was the lowest scoring team in the league and we didn&rsquo;t have one really hard hitting defenseman. So how can you blame a goaler for the team&rsquo;s losses. I admit I was a little surprised when I was benched in the playoffs last season. I can&rsquo;t see how you can blame a goaler for a team&rsquo;s bad year. In the playoffs we scored five goals in six games &mdash; how can you expect to win games with that kind of scoring, Schmidt was the only player scoring regularly and he carried the team for the whole season.&ldquo;Can you say Lumley had a bad year last season? I can&rsquo;t. Look at the team he had in front of him. The number of shots he had to handle he was sure to let that many in. But I wouldn&rsquo;t say he was a poorer goaler than the year last season. I can&rsquo;t. Look at Stanley Cup.&rdquo;As to his future, Gelineau is uncertain as far as hockey goes. His job with the Sun Life Assurance Company is his future, he says, and unless he can mix hockey with that job and the money is right he will stick by it. He will not leave the job for hockey again unless it&rsquo;s at his price.&ldquo;I feel that a goaler in hockey has the hardest job in any sport. He is the backbone of the club and I don&rsquo;t see any reason why he should play for the same salary as the forwards do,&rdquo; said Jack as a parting shot.Although Patrick never openly admitted it, it was a well known fact in the hockey world that he didn&rsquo;t think too much of Gelineau&rsquo;s goaling ability.Last season during the playoffs against the Toronto Maple Leafs he benched Gelineau and replaced him with Hershey goaler Red Henry.During the off season the Bruins tried to make deals for both Rayner at New York and Lumley at Chicago. Two weeks ago they bought Henry and he became something like the sixth goaler to stand between the pipes for the Bruins in three seasons. &#9632;

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‘Meet My Price And I’ll Play,’ Gel Tells Ross Who Said No-o

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The current new edition of Chicago&rsquo;s Black Hawks is definitely the National Hockey League&rsquo;s most experienced squad his season.A recent careful survey established this fact without a doubt.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0491/1235741-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="257" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Roy Conacher</figcaption></div>The 16 men who are wearing Hawk regalia at present represent a total of 99 years in NHL experience and the closest any other team can come to this impressive lengthy term is Toronto, whose puck pushers have put in a combined 75 years in the big circuit. Following then in order are: Boston. 74; Montreal, 55; Detroit, 54, and New York, 50.Wingman Roy Conacher, who can probably pace himself better than any other hockey player today, is the top Chicagoan in seasons of service in the National League, but his 13 years are closely trailed by the dozen full campaigns that both Capt. Jack Stewart and Doug Bentley have taken part in.Other Hawks&rsquo; playing terms in the NHL run like this: Bep Guidolin, nine seasons; Billy Mosieno and Gus Bodnar, eight each; Harry Lumley, seven; George Gee and Jim Peters, six each; Bill Gadsby and Jim Conacher, five each; Pete Babando and Jim McFadden, four each; Clare Martin, three, and Al Dewsbury and Clare Raglan, one teach.There are those who will point out that the Hawks also have the oldest players in the NHL. That&rsquo;s true, and the five players now over 30, Bentley, Roy Conacher, Stewart, McFadden and Mosienko, last season accounted for a total of 70 goals and 82 assists, despite the fact that they missed an average of 15 of the 70 scheduled games per man.The fact that this quintet won&rsquo;t be able to go on too much longer certainly can&rsquo;t be denied and the Hawks have already begun lining up young amateur replacements. Foremost among those who&rsquo;ve shown they have what it takes to be a National leaguer is scrappy Fred Hucul, a 19-year-old converted rearguard, who&rsquo;s expected to fit in with Gee and Peters on one of Chicago&rsquo;s regular forward units.So, the Hawks seem firmly set at every position and the new, improved working agreement with St. Louis, should be able to provide for any unforeseen occurrences, even another record breaking injury epidemic, parish the thought. &#9632;

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Hawks Will Show Most Experienced Squad In League

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01135/1235786-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Big Butch Out For His One After 30 SeasonButch Bouchard, In the kitchen of his club. Chei Butch Bouchard in Montreal, getting ready to dish up a plate-full of spaghetti.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02114/1235779-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1693" height="2249"><figcaption class="caption-body">On the right, Butch and Elmer Lach, the two veterans of the Habs pas a few comments before taking to the Ice for a practice.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&hellip;Coach Dick Irvin sat in a box seat watching his Canadiens in a training session and seemingly for no reason at all, he started to smile, followed by a curt yell to Defenseman Butch Bouchard sitting on the bench between turns on the ice: &ldquo;Hey Butch, you look younger than the day you came to camp 12 years ago.&rdquo;&ldquo;I feel younger,&rdquo; Bouchard returned.&ldquo;That guy&rsquo;s come a long way since that day when I met him coming to camp with a pair of skates and a helmet slung over the handle bars of his bike,&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;He peddled 25 miles to get here and when I asked him why he just shugged his shoulder and said: &lsquo;I gotta keep in shape,&rsquo; &rdquo;Bouchard kiddingly denies that he reported to Canadiens on his bike. &ldquo;That Irvin&rsquo;s just kidding you,&rdquo; he says.&ldquo;Kidding, like heck I was,&rdquo; said the coach later on. &ldquo;I can remember it quite clearly. Then when he went on the ice I found out he could hardly skate. But he was big and tough. In the first couple of minutes of practice Chamberlain was on against him and the pair went into the corner after the puck. Butch gave tough Murph an awful going over and Murph came flying back to me at center,&rdquo; &lsquo;Gees, coach, get that big guy on our side,&rsquo; he screamed, &lsquo;get him on our side, he&rsquo;ll kill &lsquo;em&rsquo;.&rdquo;And so it was that Butch Bouchard, one of the greatest defensemen of all time came to make the National Hockey League just three seasons after he learned to skate.&ldquo;At one time in his career I would have rated Bouchard one of the greatest of all time,&rdquo; says Irvin.After watching Butch in the Opening game against the Chicago Black Hawks this season Dick is more convinced than ever that his huge rearguard is in for a terrific season.<h2>Played Fine Game</h2>&ldquo;Most every player over 30 has one good year before retiring,&rdquo; said the Grey Haired Mentor. &ldquo;I think Bouchard is in for his this season. He played a fine game against Chicago, the best he&rsquo;s shown in quite some time.&rdquo;Big Butch was keenly eyed by many spectators at the opener. They heard rumors that Bouchard has hit the end of the trail and was being kept around for sympathy&rsquo;s sake. But they were surprised to see the 6&rsquo; 2&rdquo; 190 pound giant speeding around the Forum ice like a rookie trying to prove that he belonged. He carried the puck more in that one game than he did all last season and he was hitting harder than ever before.&ldquo;Yes, I would call him one of greatest of all time,&rdquo; says Irvin. &ldquo;I can honestly say that I&rsquo;ve never seen a man go around him single handedly. He always gets a piece of them.&rdquo;Kenny Reardon, an All-Star in anybody&rsquo;s book when he played for the Canadiens, collorborated Irvin&rsquo;s feelings. Reardon played alongside Butch for many seasons: &ldquo;He made me,&rdquo; says Readron. &ldquo;I did all the skating and he did all the covering up and brain work. Many people used to think he was just a big dumb guy out there who could use his weight. Well, it isn&rsquo;t true. He&rsquo;s one of the smartest guys with the puck in the business. I ought to know, he made me an All-Star. The years I played with him I made the second team and the year Harmon was with him he made the second team. And each year Butch made the first team. He must have something on the ball.&rdquo;Irvin is counting heavily on Bouchard this season and if his first game is any criterion then Butch isn&rsquo;t going to let his coach down. With one of the youngest defense corps in the league this season it will be Bouchard&rsquo;s job to see that they don&rsquo;t go off the deep end&mdash;steady them down.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0378/1235772-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1689" height="1349"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bottom, Butch the businessman. Following the practice Bouchard can usually be found at his club. Above, he is checking the books with his book-keeper, right and private secretary.</figcaption></div>This is Bouchard&rsquo;s 11th season with the Canadiens. Although the record books don&rsquo;t show it Butch signed pro with the Canadiens and then spent a month in Providence before being called back to the big time. That was in 1941-42 and in 44 games he failed to score a goal and collected just six assists. The following season he notched two goals and 16 assists for 18 points. His best season was 1944-45. He scored 11 goals and added 23 assists for 34 points.But Bouchard&rsquo;s goal scoring abilities were never the important part of his career. Offensively he has never been a star&mdash;defensively there are few who could come near him. His ability to block a player or take him into the boards rates with any great defensemen of the past.When he first came to Montreal Bouchard was paired with Red Goupille and later was parnered with Leo Lamoureux. Following Lamoureux he played with Reardon, Harmon and is presently tutoring young Tom Johnson the right and wrongs of how to play the blueline.Bouchard to his teammates is a very humorous man. They call it dry humor. His french accent combined with his quick returns has cause many a laugh around the dressing room.&ldquo;I remember once when I called a practice and Butch phoned and asked to be let off. I asked him why and he said he had to count his bees. I don&rsquo;t know how he did it&mdash;there must have been a million of them,&rdquo; laughs Irvin.On another occasion fans in the Montreal Forum were surprised to see big Butch rush up to Goaler Chuck Rayner of the Rangers and shake his hand after he had scored a goal. Not until the next day did they find out that Bouchard and Reardon had a five dollar bet on who scored the first goal.Butch, In his colorful French accent gives hockey credit for his success as a businessman. For Bouchard is one of the few hockey playing businessmen active today. &#9632;

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Is Not Thinking Of Retiring Just Yet

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01203/1235873-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="256" height="417"></div>TORONTO &mdash; &ldquo;BIGGEST TURNOUT we&rsquo;ve had to an All-Star luncheon,&rdquo; beamed President Clarence Campbell of the National Hockey League &hellip; Approximately 200 attended the noon-day clambake at the Royal York Hotel on the day of the fifth annual All-Star tilt &hellip; Three of the six teams, Toronto, Montreal and New York attended en masse &hellip; Each of the six NHL cities were represented by a host of hockey writers and broadcasters &hellip; Speeches were kept to a minimum and Clarence Campbell turned in a standout job as chairman of the luncheon &hellip; All players taking part in the All-Star game plus the respective trainers, referee and linesmen were recipients of tie clips and cuff links from the NHL. These items were appropriately engraved &hellip; Hockey writers and broadcasters on hand for the occasion received handy pocket knives as souvenirs of the game &hellip; The handing out of the knives was the subject of considerable wisecracks by the scribes &hellip; More sports writers and broadcasters were on hand than at any previous All-Star game &hellip; The game was recorded on a movie camera and the outstanding action will be condensed into a 20-minute film by the NHL for promotional purposes &hellip; Stroh&rsquo;s Brewery of Detroit broadcast the entire game back to the Motor City &hellip; Every one of the four goalies to see action, Terry Sawchuk, Chuck Rayner, Gerry McNeil and Harry Lumley played exceptionally well in the star-studded classic &hellip; Sawchuk had been sensational in pre-season exhibition games of the Red Wings. The sophomore puck janitor is already one of the main cogs in the Detroit team &hellip; Referee Bill Chadwick refereed his third All-Star game on Tuesday. Bill has handled the second, third and fifth games &hellip; King Clancy refereed the first game while George Gravel was in charge of last year&rsquo;s one-sided contest at Detroit.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02183/1235866-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="259" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry McNeil</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03118/1235859-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="257" height="409"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0484/1235852-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="262" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body">Chuck Rayner</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0572/1235845-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="257" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Lumley</figcaption></div>THE N.H.L. PENSIONS Society now has assets of over $600,000. This works out that each player has a stake in it of approximately $6,000 &hellip; The six official All-Stars (first team members) received gold pucks at center ice prior to the start of the game &hellip; Red Burnett of the Toronto Star says Elmer Ferguson&rsquo;s typewriter has been lifted and his press pass confiscated for Elmer&rsquo;s failure in picking one member of the official All-Stars as one of the three stars at the end of the game. Elmer selected Chuch Rayner, Gerry McNeil and Tod Sloan &hellip; There was a lot of technical hockey displayed in the game even if it wasn&rsquo;t too exciting at times. The players didn&rsquo;t tear into each, other the way they have in other games &hellip; Maurice Richard and Gordie Howe collided one time and Richard bumped his rival hard into the boards. When he picked himself up Howe muttered to Richard. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the matter, this is only an exhibition game.&rdquo; &hellip; Richard is supposed to have answered: &ldquo;Every game is the same to me.&rdquo; &hellip; Ted Lindsay was the bad man of the evening with, two penalties. He was soundly booed by the Toronto fans throughout the game &hellip; Max Bentley played a hangup game for the Second All-Stars. Maxie is still the dipsy-doodle champ of the League. Three of his sorties were masterpieces. He had only been on skates three times this season before the All-Star tilt, yet he was one of the best players on the ice &hellip; A reporter asked Lindsay after the game who was the best right winger in hockey. He replied: &ldquo;Maurice Howe! &rdquo; &hellip; American Hockey League bigwigs on hand for the game were Jim Hendy of Cleveland and&rsquo;Dick Miller of Indianapolis. Hendy had one radio man and two reporters in tow &hellip; Ron Cook, ex-prez of the defunct USHL and now doing play-by-play of the Barons games for a Cleveland radio station, attended the All-Star game &hellip; Three former United States League presidents, Jim Hendy, Carl Voss and Cook, were seen huddled together after the luncheon.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0660/1235838-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="261" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Chadwick</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0751/1235831-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="257" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Mosdell</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0845/1235824-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="253" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Max Bentley</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0945/1235817-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="259" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gaye Stewart</figcaption></div>THE FOLLOWING players have taken part in every one of the five All-Star games: Bill Quackenbush, Maurice Richard, Ted Lindsay, Gus Mortson, Jim Thomson, Ted Kennedy, Max Bentley and Doug Bentley &hellip; The Earl of Derby, grandson of Lord Stanley, donor of the battered old mug that bears his name, was in Toronto at the time of the game &hellip; Most of the players and execs on hand were keenly interested in the World&rsquo;s Series&rsquo; game played that day &hellip; Plenty of talk about Bill Barilko, too &hellip; Toronto Leafs figure that there&rsquo;s only about one chance in a hundred that he&rsquo;s still alive &hellip; Tim Daly, irrepressible trainer of the Toronto Maple Leafs who looked after the training duties of the Second All-Star team, spotted a youthful-looking figure sitting on the Second Team&rsquo;s bench at the start of the game. Turning to Coach Dick Irvin, Daly spouted: &ldquo;Say, Dick, what&rsquo;s the idea of bringing that kid along as stick boy. We&rsquo;ve already got a kid to look after the sticks.&rdquo; &hellip; &ldquo;That kid&rdquo;, Irvin said between laughs, &ldquo;happens to be our goalie, Gerry McNeil.&rdquo; &hellip; Gordie Howe was the only authentic All-Star to garner a goal. The others being scored by Johnny Pelrson, Tod Sloan and Ken Mosdell &hellip; Mosdell was one of the best players on the ice &hellip; Gaye Stewart who was pressed into service at the last minute in place of the injured Pete Babando also played well. &#9632;

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Passing The Puck

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Butch Bouchard picked his All-Star team for THE HOCKEY NEWS but did it in an unorthodox manner. He went back 12 years and picked his team from the time he entered the National League.&ldquo;In goal I would pick Durnan and on defense I would put Jack Stewart and Dit Clapper. I played against Clapper for three years and he was terrific.&ldquo;At right wing I would put Richard and at center I think it would be a toss-up between Apps and Schmidt. On left wing I&rsquo;d put Gordie Howe. He&rsquo;s a terrific player and I think he would be just as good on left wing. That would be some line; Apps or Schmidt, Richard and Howe.&rdquo; &#9632;

Butch Picks His All-Star Team for The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1042/1235928-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Butch&rsquo;s Other LeagueButch Bouchard poses for THE HOCKEY NEWS in front of his club.</figcaption></div>There has been talk that Butch has hit the end of the trail. It was especially prevaliant after he injured his knee last season and sat out most of the year.&ldquo;It is all better now,&rdquo; says Butch, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m not even considering retiring. I think I still have a few more seasons left in me.&rdquo;Butch celebrated his 31st. birthday on September 11th last. He was born in Montreal on that day in 1920 but it wasn&rsquo;t until 17 years later that he first put on a pair of skates.&ldquo;I first started when I was 17,&rdquo; said Butch. &ldquo;The first year I played a little with my school team. The next season I played with the school again but I got a chance with Verdun Juniors in the Quebec Junior League just before the end of the season. I played with them all the next year. It was just about then that I decided I wanted to make the game my career. The next season I played with the Senior Canadiens and went to the pros camp. I knew I could make it after I saw some of the players out there.&rdquo;Butch entered the game before the red line came into being. Naturally he prefers the game today. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s better to watch,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;But the other game was a picnic for me. Very seldom do you ever find 10 players inside the blueline today. They wait at the red line for the long pass and then fly. In the old game a player couldn&rsquo;t take a pass outside his own line.A big defenseman like me would wait just inside the line and catch them as they came out. Today the game is opened up, but a lot of the smart players have gone.&rdquo;When he&rsquo;s through playing the game Butch will devote his time to coaching and taking care of his restaurant and night club. He&rsquo;s now the manager of the Montreal Nationale&rsquo;s Hockey Club from whence came Boom Boom Geoffrio, Butch&rsquo;s present teammate.As for his business Butch admits that he doesn&rsquo;t get as much time to take care of it as he&rsquo;d like. But Chez Butch Bouchard is nevertheless a well known spot in the city.Bouchard, in all probability, is the only active hockey player today with a private secretary and book-keeper. They run his business, he says.The first thing Bouchard did when he bought out his partner of was to purchase the three story building and renovate it. It now rates as one of the finest clubs in the city.Bees and hockey get credit for putting Butch on easy street. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll bet he&rsquo;s the only hockey player in the world who goes to Florida to keep in shape,&rdquo; Irvin kids. Butch spent some time down south just before training camp opened and came back to Canada sporting a picture of himself with a 300 pound marlin.&ldquo;Just to make sure we believed him he got the mayor to register the catch,&rdquo; says the coach.Bouchard&rsquo;s value to his club cannot be calculated in goals or dollars and cents. Down through his years in the N.H.L. he has always been a feared rearguard. For his size there is no doubt that he&rsquo;s one of the most effective defensemen ever to come upon the N.H.L. horizon.As one National League campaigner once put it: &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather try going around six other guys that around that big guy. He seldom misses getting a piece of you.&rdquo;Butch may be getting on in years but his teammates still look to him as the guy who can lift a club when it&rsquo;s down. That&rsquo;s why they unanimously voted him captain of their club when a poll was taken some years ago.The All-Star pollers haven&rsquo;t] missed him either. In his years in the N.H.L. he&rsquo;s been placed on three first teams and one second and he&rsquo;s missed but one All-Star games since it&rsquo;s inception five season&rsquo;s ago.As Bert Olmstead and Tom Johnson put it recently: &ldquo;Butch yea, he&rsquo;s a pretty good hockey player and don&rsquo;t think he doesn&rsquo;t command plenty of respect from the rest of the league.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Reardon Credits Bouchard With Making Him An All-Star Player

<div class="byline">By AL NICKLESON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01156/1235966-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">All-Star Power Evenly Balanced In 5th GameGoal scorers in the N.H.L.&rsquo;s fifth annual All-Star game which ended in a 2-2 tie are</figcaption></div>(Toronto Globo and Mail)<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02138/1235959-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1408" height="930"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tod Sloan and Ken Mosdell of the 2nd team. Goardie Howe and Johnny Peirson of the 1st team.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The lobbying loomed large, but nary a deal was uncovered as the pro hockey brass and their players gathered here for the annual NHL luncheon preceding the All-Star game at the Gardens.Amid general opinion that Detroit Red Wings would finish first again and that Boston Bruins would slip into the cellar, the largest turnout of the five AllStar games thus far absorbed food, short speeches and presentations at the tendance were made up of club directors and owners, managers, coaches and players, as well as a strong representation of press and radio, from the six league cities. There also was a sprinkling from the AHL,Conspicuous by their absence among the head-table guests were the James Norrises, father and son, who own Detroit Red Wings and have an interest in the home arena of Chicago Black Hawks. Manager Jack Adams represented Detroit and was observed chatting at length in the Royal York Hotel.Syl Apps, at the request of President Clarence Campbell of the NHL, presented each member of the All-Star teams, as well as coaches Joe Primeau and Dick Irvin, with cufflinks and tie clips. The league also presented silver plates, in commemoration of their Stanley Cup triumph, to the Mapie Leafs. They team attended in a body, coming from their St. Catharines training base.<h2>Leafs Got Gifts</h2>Controller Dave Balfour, representing the City of Toronto, managed to insert some politics into his remarks as he presented the Deafs with cuff-links and cigaret lighters.In facetious reference to absence of Mayor Hiram McCallum, he said he thought the mayor was at home, &ldquo;making up his mind&rdquo; whether or not to run for re-election.In addition to league and civic presentations, the Leafs also received gifts from several firms &mdash; COM, Eaton&rsquo;s, Simpson&rsquo;s, Birks and Presto Lighters &mdash; in a private presentation.Later, in a chat with newsmen, Ken McKenzie, league publicity director and boss of THE HOCKEY NEWS, revealed that a poll of sports writers around the circuit had picked Detroit to win the league title again this season. The Wings had a slight edge on the Leafs, named second in the balloting. &#9632;

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Hockey Brass In Evidence At Luncheon

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03109/1236004-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Huddles and Puddlesshows the piay in which Ted Lindsay of the Detroit Red Wings, playing on the first All-Star team was soundly booed. He is shown dumping Teeder Kennedy after Kennedy had unintentionally elbowed the fiery little left winger. It was one of the few rough incidents of the game. Behind the play is Doug Harvey, defenseman of the Montreal Canadiens, playing for the second team.</figcaption></div>(Toronto Telegram)<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0486/1235997-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="1111" height="1158"><figcaption class="caption-body">three of hockey&rsquo;s all-time greats get together for a chat during the All-Star luncheon which took place before the game. They are left to right: Sid Abel, Detroit, Ted Kennedy, Toronto and Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard of Montreal.</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont-Maurice Richard was magnificent. Gordie Howe was like wise. Ted Lindsay was terrific. Max Bentley was marvellous and Gerry McNeil was sensational. The gate, $25,259.75, was satisfactory.That&rsquo;s the full complement of adjectives that you could use about the fifth annual All-Star game at Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens. A good show but still flavored with the taste of dissatisfaction in that nobody could come away and win any arguments that, for instance, Howe was better than Richard, Ted Kennedy was better than Milt Schmidt, Jim Thomson was greater than Leo Reise, McNeil could make Al Rollins look like a bum or, indeed, that the first AllStar team was any better than the second because they could only manage a 2-2 tie.From a league standpoint it was probably just as well that it didn&rsquo;t develop into a rout like the 7-1 one in Detroit last year when the Stanley Cup Red Wings made the selects look very sad. That is one of the beauties of the new system which pits the first team against the second. It&rsquo;s a definite improvement.But the point still arises that it might make it a better game in the future if it could go to sudden-death 10-minute overtime, which, even though it has been proven by statistics as being no asset during the regular schedule because it would only Bettie about 30 per cent of the arguments, would at least in the case of the All-Star game settle with no hangover a controversy that pre-game publicity builds to a peak.The NHL, feeling its way with this feature, might also be considering the possibility of transferring the date to a little later in the season. Last the gross, though it was $8,000 batter than last year&rsquo;s, could have been augmented by filling the 1,000-odd empty seats and some of the back-of-the-blue aisles, which might have had some people in them if it had been the end of November when people are more used to. ice, goloshes and hockey.<h2>McNeil Proves Irvin&rsquo;s Selection.</h2>Dick Irvin, the coach of the seconds, derived his full share of satisfaction out of it and could have if only in the performance of one player, McNeil, who he picked as a substitute goalie, ignoring Al Rollins, the Vezina Trophy winner, and Turk Broda.McNeil, whose head just clears the crosspipe, had a sensational night to prove worthy of Irvin&rsquo;s selection. They beat him for one goal, scored by Boston&rsquo;s Johnny Peirson, but he slew them for a lot more, including a terrific double stop off Gayo Stewart (this guy is hunting for a good year) and Don Raleigh.Howe, who plays &lsquo;em all the same, be they for fun, players&rsquo; pension fund or Stanley Cup, scored for the Firsts&rsquo; first from Lindsay and Schmidt. Tod Sloan got a goal and an assist on Mosdell&rsquo;s score for the Seconds.There were two openly hostile outbreaks, once when Lindsay retaliated for a mouse under the eye which he got from Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s elbow by slashing at Teeder and once when the roaring Rocket wrestled Howe to the ice. Irvin kept them separated after that.Richard didn&rsquo;t have as much of the puck as he might have had. Maybe everybody is mad at him. Kennedy&rsquo;s passes to him went awry, probably because, as one French writer put it, &ldquo;You &lsquo;ave to know &lsquo;ow to play with ze Rocket.&rdquo;Kennedy seemed to be leading him too much. The Rocket likes to have the puck and do his own leading.From a Leaf standpoint, it pointed out one thing to coach Joe Primeau. If condition counts, he&rsquo;s in the caboose. The Rangers with Don Raleigh and Stewart, the Habs with Mosdell and Curry and Meger, the Wings with Lindsay and Howe and Sid Abel, even though he might be a step slower than he was hindered by a charley horse, and even the Boston Bruins who have been fingered for the cellar by the guessperts thia season, all seemed to have more legs than ths Leafs who, oddly enough, were led in that department not solely by Tireless Teeder but by Max Bentley, who had only taken part in three practices because he was late reporting. The theory has been advanced that Maxie has been skating all summer in one of the lockers in his deep freeze plant in Delisle. He shows a remarkable talent for dodging around hams. &#9632;

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Which Team Was Best Argument Unanswered

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded.October 1, 1947Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. Cote HOCKEY NEWS COMPANYCirculation Room 204, King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Advertising & Editorial 403A Sun Life Bldg., 1155 Metcalfe St., Montreal 2, Que. Average Weekly Circulation 35,000Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada &mdash; $4.00 In U.S.A.Authorized no second class mall. 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 Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company, Room S04, King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal S5, Que. Printed in CanadaVol.5 October 20, 1951 No. 3Best news of the still-young season is the word from the National Hockey League Referee-in-Chief, Carl Voss, that the rules governing all the various forms of interference are going to be strictly enforced this year. It was a long-overdue move, as level-headed hockey observers have been saying for the past few years.Hockey is a bodily-contact sport, certainly, and there will always be clashes between the opposing players. But the rules are liberal enough, they provide enough ways of checking an opponent, without resorting to the clutching and slashing tactics which have become all too prevalent of late years. Hooking, holding, high-sticking and all the other ingenious methods of torturing the puck-carrier have no place in hockey if it is properly played.The only result of the way the game had been developing was to change it into a scrambling variety of shinny, where very few players had the chance to show much skating or stick-handling skill. No matter how good a man was on the ice, he was always handicapped by a check literally hanging around his neck &mdash; grabbing him by the sweater, tripping him, butt-ending or applying a none too scientific wrestling hold. If a player broke away on goal, he was likely as not to be thrown off balance by a slash on the ribs with a stick, or by having the blade hooked into his sweater or his skates.Referees, naturally reluctant to spoil the crowd&rsquo;s enjoyment by excessive whistle blowing, had leaned over backward in the past to let many of the less serious offences go unchallenged. But the old saying of giving an inch came into play as the puckchasers took advantage of this fact to take a mile in illegal play.Things would then just naturally go from bad to worse in a game. The player interfered with was as likely as not to retaliate the next time around, and then a duel in illegal tactics would develop which generally ended in a fight before the evening was over.Aside from the rumpuses thus caused, the interfering tactics also practically wiped out any chance of good, interesting hockey. A player, if skilful enough, always has the chance to elude a legal check, but there&rsquo;s absolutely no escape from an arm around the neck dragging you down to the ice. As a result, the fans &mdash; aside from the moronic minority who thrive on stick battles and bloodshed &mdash; were beginning to get a trifle fed up with it all.Further, the risk of injuries was mounting in direct proportion as play grew dirtier, because a man is far more apt to get hurt when caught off guard by an illegal attack. So, the League Governors, along with Referee-in-Chief Voss who has been studying the matter closely for some time now, decided to take action this year.The order instructing the referees to call them as they see them was the result, and we predict that hockey will benefit from it. Of course, some players who have been brought up on the shinny type of game will have to buckle down and learn just how to deliver a legal check, but that&rsquo;s all to the good.Perhaps now budding hockey stars will pattern their game after the style of some of the great skaters and playmakers in the sport, instead of hanging around the wrestling gymns to get ideas from the gorillas in rehearsal &mdash; as has apparently been the case !<h2>ARGUMENT STILL NOT SETTLED</h2>When the set-up of the Annual All-Star Game was changed this year, pitting the First Team against the Second, everyone thought that would settle the argument over which players actually were better. But the affair wound up in a 2-2 stalemate, so nobody is any wiser yet.In fact, the All-Stars didn&rsquo;t get much of a look-in on their own show, since only one of the four goals was actually scored by any of the 12 men who had been picked to the First and Second Teams. All the rest of the net-blasting was down by players who had been picked from different clubs in the loop to supply the alternate forward lines and the substitute defense combinations.Fans had hoped that the game would give them either a chance to agree with the choice of the official selectors &mdash; or the opportunity to criticize the selections. But the tie score, effectively squelched that hope, at least for all execpt those who could actually be at the game to assess the individual players on their merits for the evening. &#9632;

THE GAME WILL BENEFIT

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01228/1236059-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>Has Solution</h2>Dear Sir,I believe I have the solution to the National Hockey League&rsquo;s AllStar troubles. They have now tried to play the Stanley Cup Champs against the All-Stars and found that it didn&rsquo;t work. From all stories available the idea of putting the first team against the second wasn&rsquo;t too great either.Here is my plan. Do not pick the All-Star teams until the Stanley Cup has been decided. Then pick the teams from the other five clubs and have them play against the champs. In that way the teams would not be broken. The only solution to be fixed there would be the money angle. How would the All-Stars be paid and what if some of the cup teams players were so outstanding that they would be put on the All-Star team if they could be They would lose $1,000. But that is something that could be ironed out someway or another.But I really believe the plan has merit. Of course, we could do as they do in baseball. Play the All-Star game for the honor of it. After all the players are only playing the game for themselves as it is. If all that extra dough for making the team was cut out then the solution would be solved.John D. Grimes Kitchener, Ont.<h2>Just His Opinion</h2>Dear Sir:Looking through your &ldquo;Passing the Puck&rdquo; column on page 4 of your October 6th edition I sure think that you are making a big mistake on stating Jean Beliveau is a &lsquo;flop&rsquo; for 1951-5 2 season and I&rsquo;m sure all Quebec fans, excluding Montreal fans, are behind me when I say you are wrong.This looks like something published and paid for by Frank Selke and Company.Jean Beliveau, at 19 was the talk of hockey not only in Quebec but all across the country.Richard was a star at 24 or 25, Beliveau at 24 or 25 will be so talked about that Richard will be forgotten. This Is the opinion of many people.In two exhibition games this year Beliveau scored four goals and assisted in four others and these two games were scores of 7-3 and 7-2 against Providence and Three Rivers Reds of the J.A.H.A.This is just the opinion of many thousands of people like myself.Des Doyle.Three Rivers, Que.(You are wrong when you say it looks like something Frank Selke and Company published and paid for. Beliveau has no greater rooter that Selke who someday hopes to have him on the Canadiens&rsquo; hockey club.)<h2>Not Satisfied</h2>Dear Sir,I think an All Star game each season is a great thing and as two-thirds of the gate receipts go to the Players Pension Society, I know the guys that play the game are all for It. Why shouldn&rsquo;t they be They&rsquo;re the ones that gain the most from such a game, although the hockey-loving public are always ready to plunk out dough to see a thrilling spectacle and that&rsquo;s exactly what the AllStar game should be. However, up to now there is something lacking. Playing the First Team against the Second Team lacks the appeal to the fans. They can&rsquo;t get excited over anything. This was proven in Toronto when the people for the most part sat on their hands. Granted the hockey dished out was fine from a technical point of view, but who wants to get technical. We want to see a good fast clash with plenty of reefing body checks. The boys didn&rsquo;t hit each other this year and certain smaller players got away with murder from the big bruising defensemen.I would like to see the All-Star game played around November 11th. That is Armistice Day in both the U.S. and Canada and is a holiday for most people. The weather would be more suitable to hockey than early October and the World Series would be completely out of the way. I am not sure myself just what would be the ideal solution in staging a successful All-Star game but I would go along with the system used at the start, the Stanley Cup champs of the previous year playing against the All-Stars. I think all players on a Stanley Cup team who were picked on the All-Star team should play for the All-Stars. This might make a more interesting game. Anyway, this year&rsquo;s game isn&rsquo;t the solution. Let&rsquo;s try something else next year. Maybe if we keep trying something new each year we&rsquo;ll finally get around to the ideal All-Star game.Don Manson Ottawa, Ont.<h2>Agrees With. Dick</h2>Dear Sir,This is my first letter to THE HOCKEY NEWS and I think it is a great paper.I read in the October 13 th issue in the Fan Forum about Miss Marge Cromwell and her comments about Dick Irvin. I think that Mr. Irvin was in his rights in choosing Gerry McNeil over Al Rollins for the All-Star game. The statement about Canadians being just a. good senior team without Maurice Richard was a poor jesture on the part of Mr. Rollins. Maybe Al is a bit jealous of the Canadiens or else he has a personal grudge against Richard.Irvin just chose the better goalie in McNeil.If Mr. Smythe lost the services of either Kennedy or Bentley I doubt if Toronto would make the senior league, as Rollins himself is out of line in the N.H.L. So Miss Cromwell, if Dick Irvin acts like a senior coach he should be giving orders from the Toronto bench, shouldn&rsquo;t he?James Kerr Jr.Sherbrooke, Que.<h2>Watch The Bruins</h2>Dear Sir,So the wise guys, the guys that know it all, picked the Bruins for last place did they? Well, I think there will be a lot of crimson faces among these wisenhelmers as Boston&rsquo;s beloved Bruins are not going to finish last. Anyway on what grounds can these sportswriters pick the Bruins for last place. Not one writer saw them at practice in Hershey. Do these scribes do their prognosticating by long range?I think you&rsquo;ll see the Bruins finish third this year. At worst it will be fourth. They&rsquo;ve got a scrappy aggregation and Sugar Jim Henry will turn out to be one of the best goalie in the league. He never did get a break in other years while playing In the N.H.L. if Kyle and Quackenbush play the defense they&rsquo;re capable of playing, Henry will be the third best netminder in the league this season and this will also be the year that Eddie Sandford finally comes into his own. Poor Ed has been hampered by injuries every year but this season should see him at his best. Also keep a sharp eye on Red Sullivan, the former Hershey star. He&rsquo;ll be a valuable addition to the team.Come on you Bruins! Make those sportswriters look like Bums.A guy that knows everything.Michael ZavitiQuincy, Mass.<h2>All-Star Game</h2>Dear Sir,While the recent All-Star game played in Toronto turned out to be quite a big success, I personally think It would be a much better spectacle from every angle if it was played sometime during the middle of the season. Why not pick the outstanding players on the United States teams and play them against the best on the Canadian teams and have the game played the first week of January or exactly at the half way mark. Then the fans would see a real game. The stars would be picked on their play that season and not on what they did in the previous year. They might be washouts the following year. Let&rsquo;s all get together and make this thing a real genuine All-Star game and not just a so-so affair.Michael CassidyToronto, Ont. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

The other day we received a letter from Miss &ldquo;X&rdquo; in Chicago stating that although her present subscription did not expire until early next year, she had failed to receive the monthly summer issues. A check of our records showed that in May last the Postmaster in Chicago returned one of the subscribers copies with the notation &ldquo;Removed &mdash; Address not known&rdquo;. Consequently we were unable to forward further copies until we had the subscriber&rsquo;s new address.Subscribers are requested to co-operate with the Circulation Department and keep them informed of any chanqe of address. Please indude old address as well as new address. &#9632;

A SAD STORY !

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02121/1236114-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="576" height="270"></div><h2>OCTOBER 17 TO 23</h2>22&mdash;CURRIE, Hugh: Buffalo, defense, 1925.23&mdash;SHERO, Fred: Cleveland, defense, 1925; WILSON, Larry: Detroit, forward, 1930; HENRY, Jim: Boston, goaler, 1920. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday To You

THE HOCKEY NEWS circulation department wants to know if you are receiving your paper in torn fashion or if it is being badly handled before it reaches you.If your paper arrives torn, dirty or in any other way unreadable then please don&rsquo;t hesitate to let our circulation department know.Just drop a line to the: Circulation Manager, The Hockey News, 204 Kings Hall Building, Montreal. We will take immediate steps to see that your paper is received in better fashion.CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT &#9632;

Attention Subscribers

STRATFORD &mdash; The failure of the Cleveland Barons to meet Pentti Lund&rsquo;s terms got him traded to the Boston Bruins. Lund reported to the Barons&rsquo; training camp at Stratford and spent two weeks there but the Cleveland management was unable to sign him, and as they already had their club well set they felt they could let him go without hurting the team.Jim Hendy, General Manager of the Barons stated that he did not want delivery on any players from the Bruins at the present time as it would mean farming out two regulars from his club. Therefore he elected to take delivery at the end of the season. The Barons have the choice of two of three piayers presently in the Bruin organization.Pentti was delighted to Join the Bruins although he was disappointed in having to leave his brother Joo, who Is a member of the Barons. &#9632;

Lund Refused To Sing With Cleveland Barons

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bfuins have started their National League season a much better team than they were a year ago, according to Coach Lynn Patrick.Patrick, in his second season as Bruins&rsquo; coach, rates his present charges at least 40 per cent better than the group he was bossing last year at this time.Off-season additions to the Bruins are responsible for his high estimate, according to Patrick.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re much stronger in goal, on defense and on our lines than we were when we started out last fall,&rdquo; declared the optimistic Lynn. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be disappointed if we&rsquo;re not at least 40 per cent improved over last year.Henry&rsquo; Adds Strength &ldquo;Jim Henry, our new goalie, Is definitely a major leaguer,&rdquo; Patrick continued. &ldquo;I played with him on the Rangers and I had him for two years when I coached New Haven, and I know what he can do. He has strengthened us in goal.&rdquo;Henry, a 30-year-old veteran of 10 professional seasons, was acquired by the Bruins from the Detroit organization to replace Jack Gelineau, the Montreal collegian, who has since retired.&ldquo;1 have no worries about our defense,&rdquo; Patrick went on. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re well set there with Bill Quackenbush, Murray Henderson, Gus Kyle, Hal Laycoe and Ed Kryza-nowski, better off than we were last year.&rdquo;Quackenbush the All-Star and Henderson and Kryzanowski all opened with the Bruins a year ago, and Laycoe was added shortly before the Stanley Cup playoffs. Kyle is a newcomer, a 210-pounder acquired from the Rangers in a deal for Paul Ronty.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0496/1236259-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="328" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body">Carry Bruins&rsquo; LoadMILT SCHMIDT</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0571/1236252-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="334" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY PEIRSON</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0653/1236245-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="321" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body">ADAM BROWN</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Kyle will give us a lot of punch,&rdquo; observed Patrick, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s something we could have used last year. He&rsquo;s big and tough, and he plays the game hard.<h2>Time To Shake Down</h2>&ldquo;I predict that our first line of Milt Schmidt, Adam Brown and Johnny Peirson will be a great one,&rdquo; Patrick continued. &ldquo;Brown is a much better player than he has been rated, and I think he&rsquo;ll prove it this year.&ldquo;We nave the personnel to make up two other strong lines,&rdquo; Patrick added, &ldquo;but it&rsquo;ll take a little time before they shake down into units.&rdquo;As forwards for his other two lines Patrick opened the season with Ed Sandford, Ray Barry, Lome Ferguson, George Sullivan, Woody Dumart, Vic Lynn, Duncan Fisher, Pentti Lund and Dave Creighton all available.Barry, a center, and Lund, a right wing, both former Boston Olympics, were late additions to the squad, Barry coming from an Edmonton amateur team, Lund from Cleveland.Two of the forward contingent were scheduled to depart for other shores to get the Bruins down to the player limit. It was deemed likely that the two would be sent to Cleveland in payment for Lund, who was acquired by the Barons from the New York Rangers but balked at playing minor league hockey.Two Bruins started the campaign handicapped by Injuries, Ferguson recovering from a shoulder separation, Kyle from an ankle injury.Conspicuously missing from Patrick&rsquo;s conversation was the name of Bill Ezinlcki, the golf-minded right wing. Ezlnickl is sticking to his plan to stay with his golf job, but the feeling Is strong that he&rsquo;ll get the hockey urge shortly and join the team.That possibility has increased the competition for the forward jobs to the point where Patrick has no worries about not getting 100 per cent from his players. &#9632;

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Lynn Predicts Great Things For Schmidt, Brown, Peirson

<div class="byline">By RED BURNETT</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Leaf top brass has reached that important stage where they must decide who&rsquo;ll be Leafs and who&rsquo;ll join Pittsburgh Hornets. They&rsquo;ve got so many good ones that Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Jim Balmer is actually drooling. There&rsquo;s so little difference between several that the Hornets will have men good enough for other NHL clubs on their roster.This could be a season in which a few ids start commuting from Toronto to Pittsburgh and vice versa. Certainly it&rsquo;s not a year for forwards to take things easy, what with curtailed squads and starry rookies.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0740/1236290-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="286" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Smith</figcaption></div>One veteran who won&rsquo;t have to worry is Max Bentley, master of the dipsy doodle and one of the best pivot men on the power play in hockey. Max reported late for training but the way he started in made the boys swear he had a little rink in his cold storage locker at Delisle, Sask.Before the All-Star game he moaned to Dick Irvin about lack of condition. Asked the Canadien mentor to remember his aging limbs and lack of condition. So what happens? Max was on of the swiftest on the ice, came up with the two best rushes of the show.Tod Sloan looks like he&rsquo;ll have another great season. He picked up two scoring points &mdash; a goal and an assist &mdash; in the All-Star show and was a threat any time in possession of the puck. It took Sloan a long time to arrive as a major leaguer, but he appears to be up for a long stay.Turk Broda, the likeable dean of goalies, is no longer the fat man. Turk&rsquo;s waist line has receded almost as much as his hair line. The battle-scarred veteran is still capable of playing a bang up game in goal.Al Rollins lost seven teeth and had five more smashed in an Alphonse-Gaston act while playing outfield for New Westminster in the amateur ball loop on the coast. He says the Injury doesn&rsquo;t bother him and there&rsquo;s been na sign of puck shyness with Al in practise and he says the repaired bridge-work doesn&rsquo;t bother him.We look for Sid Smith to give Ted Lindsay a run for the AllStar honors at left wing. Sid Is not as volatile as &ldquo;Terrible Theodore&rdquo; but he has learned to stay on his wing and there never was any question of his ability to put the puck in the net.With one season under their belts that Ted Kennedy, Sloan Smith line should be almost as good as Detroit&rsquo;s great first flight trio of Howe, Abel and Lindsay. &#9632;

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1951 Could Be Year Leafs Use Air-Lift

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Rescued from the minor leagues just before the season opened, Pentti Lund is back &ldquo;home&rdquo; trying to prove that a hockey player can regain stardom with just a smuch speed as he can lose it.Home in this case is Boston for Pentti, who carries the distinction of being the only Finnish-born player in the National Hockey League. He started in Boston as an amateur, with the Boston Olympics, spent a year in the Bruin system and now has come back three years later.In those three seasons that he was away, as a New York Ranger, Lund blossomed into a star. And just as quickly he wilted into a bench warmer. With the careful gardening of Lynn Patrick, Lund once again is on his way up.One of the interesting sidelights of tracing Lund&rdquo;s pro career is examining the deals in which he figured. Here&rsquo;s how they all started:After a year as a pro at the lights of tracing Lund&rsquo;s pro traded by Boston in 1948 in a deal which also sent Billy Taylor on to New York in exchange for Grant Warwick. (Taylor was barred from hockey in the great gambling scandal a few weeks later, and Warwick wandered on to Montreal after a season and a half).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01179/1236190-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="880" height="877"><figcaption class="caption-body">How He DetouredPentti Lund when he started out with the Boston Olympics</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02155/1236183-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="536" height="845"><figcaption class="caption-body">then off to New York</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03116/1236176-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="868" height="889"><figcaption class="caption-body">finally back to Bos: on with the Bruins,</figcaption></div>In the 1948-49 campaign Lund shot to prominence by earning the Calder Cup as the loop&rsquo;s outstanding rookie. He combed rival goalies for 14 goals and 16 assists, and also starred on defense while checking such luminaries as Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe.The sophomore jinx which hampers so many bright rookies failed to touch Lund. He patrolled his right wing with continued efficiency to pile up 18 goals the following year. Then he really sparkled in the playoffs.Pentti was the offensive star as the Rangers bumped out Montreal in the semi-finals. He fired five goals and three assists in the series, and at the same time held Richard goalless (the Rocket got one tally while Lund was off the ice).Against Detroit in the finals he produced another goal and two more assists. His total of 11 points was tops in playoff scoring that year.His future was nothing but bright going into the 1950-51 season, for he had shown signs of developing with every step. What happened was one of the mysteries of the year. Lund never got going. He lost his place on a regular line, and at end of the season wasn&rsquo;t even dressed.Lund can&rsquo;t explain the trouble. &ldquo;When I was warming up for the first game of the season in Detroit, I pulled a back muscle,&rdquo; he relates. &ldquo;That bothered me for a few days. Then in the third game, in Montreal, the Rocket got away from me for two goals.&ldquo;After that I just couldn&rsquo;t do anything right. The harder I tried, the worse I got. How I can spend a whole season without geeting untracked I&rsquo;d like to know myself.&rdquo;The record book tells exactly how bad Lund got. For the entire season he made only four goals.Still, it was something of a surprise last August when he got word that he had been traded, and to a minor-league club. Lund was bundled up with Jackie Gordon and two farm hands, Fern Perreault and Dutch Delmonte, and shipped off to Cleveland for Hy Buller and Wally Hergesheimer.Just so they wouldn&rsquo;t lose contact with Lund entirely, the Rangers retained a repurchase optiton on him.Lund checked into the Cleveland training camp this fall at Stratford, and found one consolation for his minor-league assignment. His brother Joe also had joined the club, and Joe was mover up from defense to play with him on the same line.Just one week before the season opened, Lund received an unexpected reprieve. The Bruins had placed a string on him by getting for rights to Lund in a deal which sent Paul Ronty to New York for Gus Kyle. Those rights, however, were to be in effect at the close of the current campaign.A wave of training camp injuries prompted the Bruins to seek Lund&rsquo;s services at once. Jim Hendy, Cleveland&rsquo;s high mogul, was reluctant to part with Pentti, however, having given him a solid buildup to Baron - fans. Finally HendJ yielded when tempted with Pete Horeck and some cash as bait.Before Lund could be transferred, a new snag developed. Horeck balked at the assignment and decided to quit hockey. Once again the Bruins went into negotiations with Hendy, and this time completed the deal by upping the cash ante and promising delivery of two players at a later date.By such roundabout frontoffice doings, none of which Lund knew about at the time, Pentti found the door open to the big-time again.&ldquo;All I know is that I was called in and told to report to Hershey where the Bruins were training&mdash;it was about the best news I&rsquo;ve ever had,&rdquo; states the chubby-faced, 185-pound forward.For a brief flashback, it was Lynn Patrick who had a big hand in Lund&rsquo;s first rise. He took over the Rangers for the last half of the season in which Lund won the Calder Cup, and also guided him through his sophomore year.A year ago Patrick deserted the Rangers in favor of Boston. Obviously he had a big hand in getting Lund back on his team.That&rsquo;s why Lund now describes his move to the Bruins as &ldquo;a big break to get back with Patrick. I figure he can get me going again like I played for him before.&rdquo;Patriclk has his reasons, too. &ldquo;I like the way Lund played for me with the Rangers, and figure he belongs in the NHL. When the chance came, I was happy to get him tor the Bruins.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04101/1236169-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="1171" height="947"><figcaption class="caption-body">Famous In Signs&hellip;&hellip;No.11OLDEST PUB IN ENGLAND is reportedly at St. Albans-marked by a pair of Fighting Cocks. This traditional inn sign recalls the days when the village tavern was centre of lustier sport than darts and shove-ha&rsquo;penny. In such inns, eighteenth century soldiers back from frontier service first called for a &ldquo;real man&rsquo;s drink&rdquo; &mdash; the India Pale Ale that had been brewed to stand the long sea voyage to India. And today those who want a zestful ale call for Labatt&rsquo;s India Pale Ale, brewed in Canada to the original English recipe by John Labatt Limited.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Lund Took Long Road To Bruins’ Lineup

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>SYRACUSE, N.Y.&mdash;Since clothes are supposed to make the man, it remains to be seen whether the uniform can make the team in the case of the Syracuse Warriors, newest members of the American Hockey League.For the Warriors for all purpose are just last year&rsquo;s Springfield Indians dolled up in new pants and skates.Unless there is considerable individual and team improvement over a year ago when Springfield finished third in the A.H.L. Eastern Division, Syracuse&rsquo;s first year in pro hockey in a decade may be a dismal one.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0691/1236404-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="259" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gard Bell</figcaption></div>However, in fairness to the team and coach Frank Beisler, Springfield was one of the most spirited clubs in the league a year ago, and spirit will cover a multitude of short-end scores with the paying customers.In introducing his players to a welcoming group prior to the season&rsquo;s opener, President Eddie Shore promised &ldquo;a real competitive spirit&rdquo; on the part of his hired hands.&ldquo;I hope that we can give Syracuse the kind of a hockey club it wants,&rdquo; Shore stated. &ldquo;If we can retain our exhibition game percentage (Syracuse won five of six games), it will be satisfactory.&rdquo;Only defenseman Ron Teleford and Center John Horvath of the players Beisler opened the season with did not play with Springfield previously.Gordie Bell, the one-time kid sensation of the Buffalo Bisons, was the first string goaler with Don (Nip) O&rsquo;Hearn, who divided the chores with Bell last year, as spare.Keith Allen, Frank Bergeron, Ralph Hosking, Gordie Tottle and Teleford made up the defense corps, with only that last named short on experience.Beisler&rsquo;s number ohe line was made up of Kel Burnett, Sam Casanato, and Armand Lemieux. While the trio is on the small side, all three boast the ability to score and have plenty of speed. Casanato, the mite of the three, probably engaged In more fist fights than any other player In the A.HL last year.Leo Curick, a crafty stickhandler, veteran Billy Gooden, and Ken Hayden were joined together on another line, while Rookie Johnny Horvath, Mike Narduzzl and Harry Pldhirny formed a third combo.Narduzzl, who has been bouncing In and out of the A.H.L. the past few campaigns, was a sensation in exhibition games, seldom failing to score at least once.Long Bronco Horvath, Johnny&rsquo;s brother, was listed as the spare man. &#9632;

f0009-06

Shore Promises “Spirited” Club

<div class="byline">by Len Bramson</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0781/1236435-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="328" height="512"></div>&bull; BACK SOME 17 SEASONS ago, at the beginning of the 1935-36 season to be exact, the old Montreal Maroons signed slim Bob Gracie to a 2 contract. And so it was that he arrived in Montreal one morning carrying two sticks and a small and well pushed-in suitcaseBob was a brash youngster and he didn&rsquo;t care who knew that he thought he was by far the greatest player that was ever signed to a big league contract. When ha walked into the Maroons&rsquo; dressing room that night to play his first game he announced himself and followed up by telling each of the hard bitten Maroon players that their worries were over when he stepped into the room for he would win them the Stanley Cup, no less.That night the Maroons were playing the Boston Bruins. It was Gracie&rsquo;s first game and it turned out to be a soul-shaki.ig experience for him.The first time he carried the puck over the Boston defense Eddie Shore greeted him with: &ldquo;Listen Gracie, if you cross this blueline again I&rsquo;ll knock the hell out of you.&rdquo;So Gracie decided to play it smart and close to the boards for a while. Once he picked up the puck, crossed his own blueli-ie and before he could go another foot Lionel Conacher, on the Montreal defense screamed. &ldquo;Grade, if you come back over your own blueline again I&rsquo;ll kill you.&rdquo;&bull; GRACIE THEN STOPPED dead in his tracks, skated over to Tommy Gorman on the Montreal bench and yelled:&ldquo;Gees, this is sure a heck of a tough league, Tommy$ I don&rsquo;t kuow which way to go.&rdquo;&ldquo;Go that way,&rdquo; screamed Gorman, pointing to the Boston goal, &ldquo;or don&rsquo;t go at all.&rdquo;&bull; THAT SAME SEASON ALEX Connell played goal for the Maroons and if the game ever had a character he topped them all. There was a cub reporter around Montreal then and he was always on the lookout for a scoop. One night after a game he went into the Maroons&rsquo; dressing room in search of a story on any deals or trades that may be coming along. The players knew that no experienced reporter would look in t.ie dressing room for such copy and so they kidded him along. &ldquo;If you want a real scoop get Connell, he&rsquo;ll give you one like you never had before.&rdquo;&ldquo;Do you know of any new deals, Mr. Connell?&rdquo; said the half scared reporter as tue goaler was taking off his pans.&ldquo;Uh, ya, I do, as a matter of fact,&rdquo; replied Connell, &ldquo;but it&rsquo;s strictly on the Q.T. and very hush-hush for another two weeks or so.&bull; &ldquo;WE HAVE ANOTHER new player coming from the coast who will make Morenz look like a second rater, but we can&rsquo;t reveal ths deal for two weeks, until it&rsquo;s closed tight, you understand.&rdquo;&ldquo;But, I&rsquo;ll keep it under my hat,&rdquo; said the reporter, &ldquo;you can trust me.&rdquo;&ldquo;Well, he&rsquo;s six Toot and weighs about 220 pounds, and skate$. This guy&rsquo;s the fastest thing they ever saw out west. He&rsquo;ll be a sensation with us,&rdquo; whispered Connell.&ldquo;What&rsquo;s his name? asked the reporter anxiously.&ldquo;Well, if I tell you, you&rsquo;ll have to promise to keep it under your hat until you get the o.k., remember that.&rdquo;&ldquo;His name Is Billy Gilmour.&rdquo;&bull; WITH THAT THE cub reporter shot out of the dressing room and off to his office and sure enough the next day the story appeared under a headline sweep with his by-line on it. That day the Canadian Press picked up the story and filed it right across the country.Bright and early the next morning Tommy Gorman had a long distance call from Tom Arnold, one of the club owners, who irately demanded to know just what was going on and who gave Gorman permission to spend over $10,000 without even consulting the owners.&ldquo;What are you talking about?&rdquo; bellowed Gorman.&ldquo;This hockey player you&rsquo;ve bought out west tor $10,000 is what I&rsquo;m talking about,&rdquo; screamed by Arnold.&ldquo;What&rsquo;s his name?&rdquo;&ldquo;Billy Gilmour,&rdquo; said Arnold.&ldquo;Billy Gilmour. Are you kidding. He played for the old Ottawa Silver Seven back some SO years ago,&rdquo; laughed T.P. &#9632;

f0009-07

Ice Chips

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The old adage that the best defense is a good offense held good for the Buffalo Bisons as they captured the Eastern Division Championship of the American Hockey League last year.The charges of Goldy Goldsworthy paced the entire circuit in the fine art of putting the &ldquo;biscuit in the basket.&rdquo;Buffalo scored 309 goals in the 70-game schedule while Indianapolis, the next best club at beating the opposition goaltender, registered 287 times.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05102/1236373-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="331" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">Harry Dick</figcaption></div>Conversely, Buffalo&rsquo;s showing in its own end of the rink resulted in quick elimination in the post-season playoffs by Cleveland&rsquo;s Barons.The Herd was so weak defensively that only hapless Providence was scored upon more often than Buffalo during the regular campaign.This inability to keep the opposition from scoring has resulted in General Manager Art Chapman issuing an edict that the Bisons concentrate on defense this season, or is the offense to be a forgotten matter.At this writing, Coach Goldsworthy has eight defensemen going through their paces in twice a day workouts in Memorial Auditorium here.Three &mdash; Harry Dick, Hugh Currie, and Lloyd Finkbeiner &mdash; are holdovers from last year&rsquo;s sextet. Newcomers include Danny Nixon, Orv Kelly, Stan Long, Ernie Roche, and Carroll Bloom.Goldsworthy has made no statement, as yet, regarding which players will be kept, preferring to let the work of each player decide the issue.Chapman, on the other hand, has stated he expects to obtain even more material for the bumping corps before the AHL season really gets rolling.&ldquo;I have a deal pending with St. Louis which may give us more defensive strength, and I hope to obtain another defenseman from Montreal,&rdquo; Chapman said.Most observers feel that the five rear-liners now in camp most likely to stick are Finkbeiner, Currie, Dick, Long and either Kelly or Nixon.Finkbeiner, the veteran in length of service as a Bison, nas been sporadic in his showings in past seasons. Currie, while often found wanting when a body check would best fill the bill, stands as the best offensive defenseman in the loop.Dick, who picked up more penalties for yapping at referees than most players did for throwing fists last year, figures to keep his job because opposition players think twice before going into the corner in Buffalo&rsquo;s end while he is in the vicinity.Long, who had a one game shot with Buffalo two years Igo, has shown to advantage since coming down from Montreal&rsquo;s training camp. Young and strong, he combines hitting power with a strong degree of finesse.Both Kelly, up from Johnstown in the Eastern Amateur, and Nixon, a Pacific Coast League import, are scrappy, hard hitters who like the going rough. &#9632;

f0009-05

Herds’ Weak Defense To Get Shot In Both Arms

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;Frank (King) Clancy, who has returned as a bearer of the Smythian colors and has been enthroned as ruler of the Pittsburgh Hornets bench, may have a team capable of lowering the boom on the rest of the Western Division of the American Hockey League this year.Clancy&rsquo;s clan has a good balance of veterans and improving youngsters. Only an unforseen talent raid by the parent Toronto Maple Leafs, it would seem, can keep the Hornets from buzzing around first place all season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01211/1236473-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="260" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Hassard</figcaption></div>Gatineau Gil Mayer, who had the lowest goals against average of any A.H.L. netminder last year and was picked on the first team All-Star sextet by the circuit&rsquo;s newspaper men, is back for his third season here.Mayer&rsquo;s average was 2.45, and he had six shut outs, high for the league.Aiding Mayer in keeping the opposition from scoring, Clancy has a fine defensive corps headed by Capt. Pete Backor, only player in AHL history to win All-Star honors four years running.<h2>Ashley, Horton Back</h2>Lonk Johnny Ashley and Tough Tim Horton, who revels in rough going, also are back while Big Frank Mathers may yet return from the parent Toronto team. Two newcomers &mdash; Leo Boivin and Frank Sullivan &mdash; looked good in preseason exhibition games. They roundout the rear-liners.Last year, the Hornets were the second poorest club at scoring. Ironically, Clancy&rsquo;s Cincinnati Mohawks were the only ones more inept at lighting the red &lsquo;bulb.Only Center Rudy Migay, who missed part of the campaign due to injuries, finished among the first twenty scorers. Migay averaged a point per game in 58 clashes, 20 of his total being goals.Migay along with left winger Bob Solinger and right winger Andy Barbe should give Clancy one of the loop&rsquo;s highest scoring trios, if they continue the play like they showed in exhibition games.Solinger, who won tike Red Garrett rookie award as a member of the Cleveland Barons in 1947-48, has been flying with oldtime speed and should improve on last year&rsquo;s scoring mark.In Bobby Hassard, the blond ex-Toronto Marlboro playmaker, the Hornets have a possible roo-kie-of-the-year candidate. He lines up between Big George Armstrong, sophomore convert from center to right wing, and Plucky Gordie Hannigan.A trio of holdovers, Phil Maloney, Dusty Blair, and Ray Hannigan functioned smoothly as a unit in pre-season contests as did the line of Eldy Kobussen, Ken Smith and John McLellan.Kobussen is out to redeem himself for last year&rsquo;s poor season In which he scored only 10 goals In 62 games, the lowest number of his entire pro career.All in all, if Pittsburgh can maintain its fine defensive standard and come up to expectations as an offensive team, the King may get that crown he sought for Cincinnati the past two campaigns.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02171/1236466-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="544" height="1137"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ready AgainELDIE KOBUSSEN</figcaption></div> &#9632;

f0010-01

Clancy Clan Buzzing Dope Pot, May Upset That Western Honey

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Many familiar faces are missing from the 1951-52 edition of the Hershey Bears as Coach Johnny Crawford, beginning his second season at the helm of the Chocolatetown skaters, strives to give Hershey followers another &ldquo;young, scrapping hockey club.&rdquo;Gone are Billy Moe, Mark Marquess, Frank Porteous and Johnny Mahaffy, Bear fixtures for the past several seasons. Two other prominent Bears of the 1950-51 campaign, Jack McIntyre and George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan have also departed, having won berths with the Boston Bruins under the big top.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04114/1236518-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="269" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jack Crawford</figcaption></div>Moe was sold outright to Calgary of the Pacific Coast League and Mahaffy was handed his release. Marquess was sent the Tacoma in the Pacific Coast League and Porteous to Sherbrooke, Quebec, in the Senior Hockey League, both subject to recall.Six likely looking rookies, including a quartet of members from last year&rsquo;s Barrie Flyers, Canadian Junior champions, plus Dave Creighton, Bruin forward, will be wearing Hershey uniforms in place of the departed ice men.&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll have pretty much the same type of hockey club we had last season, with just enough veterans around to steady the youngsters when the going gets rough. That was the way we operated last season and it paid off to the tune of advancing as far as the semi-finals of the Calder Cup play-offs,&rdquo; Crawford said.The reliable Gordie Henry, described by Crawford as &ldquo;the best goalie in the American Hockey League, backed up by such veteran blue line guardians as Joe Schertzl, Ray Gariepy and Andy Branigan. And, augmenting the oldsters, Crawford has come up with a pair of promising rookie defensemen in Bob Armstrong, of last year&rsquo;s Stratford team, and Jim Morrison, All-Star back liner of the Barrie club.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03150/1236511-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="1680" height="1321"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Royal ProsWith the new agreement allowing pros into the Major Series the competition is expected to be plenty fought. Above, six of the vets who will wear the colors of Montreal Royals and all are experienced pros. Left to right: Jacques Locas, Normie Dussault, Tod Campeau, Les Douglass, Gerry Plamondon and Glen Harmon.</figcaption></div>With Eddie Harrison, ace left winger of last year&rsquo;s No. 1 line having been sent to Cincinnati by the New York Rangers, Coach Crawford has replaced him with Obie O&rsquo;Brien, up from the Tulsa Oilers of the defunct United States League. Obie is teamed with Frank Mario and Jerry Brown, who are returning to their familiar posts at center and right wing, respectively.Arnie Kullman and Sam Bettio, who operated at center and left wing of last season&rsquo;s No. 2 line, have a new mate in Jerry Top-pazzini, younger brother of Zellio &ldquo;Topper&rdquo; Toppazzini, a Hershey star several seasons ago. Jerry was the sparkplug of the Barrie champions last year.A brand new forward trio which bids fair to become one of the league&rsquo;s most potent scoring units has Dave Creighton, ertswhile Boston Bruin Inger at center, flanked by Leo LaBine and Real Chevrefils, who were line partners at Barrie in 1950-51. La-Bine looked especially good in pre-season tests with the Bruins, scoring a pair of goals in one of the contests.Norm Corcoran, a right wing of last season&rsquo;s popular &ldquo;Kid&rdquo; line, is the extra forward at the moment, but Crawford pointed out that &ldquo;Corky&rdquo; will see plenty of action as the season progresses. Crawford himself has also been rounding into form, so he will be ready to step into the breach should one of the blue liners be sidelined by injuries.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0594/1236504-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="552" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body">Returning BeerREIk HENRY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

f0010-04

Crawford Gives Vets Walking Tickets In Favor Of Rookies

<h2>October</h2>15&mdash;Moncton at Sydney Halifax at Charlottetown16&mdash;Moncton at Glace Bay Halifax at St. John17&mdash;St. John at Moncton Charlottetown at Sydney18&mdash;St. John at Halifax Charlottetown at Glace Bay19&mdash;Sydney at St. John Glace Bay at Charlottetown20&mdash;Sydney at Halifax Glace Bay at Moncton22&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney St. John at Halifax23&mdash;St. John at Charlottetown Moncton at Glace Bay24&mdash;Sydney at St. John Moncton at Halifax25&mdash;Sydney at Moncton Glace Bay at Charlottetown26&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Charlottetown at St. John27&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Halifax at Glace Bay29&mdash;Sydney at Halifax Glace Bay at St. John30&mdash;Glace Bay at Moncton Sydney at Charlottetown31&mdash;Halifax at St. John Moncton at Sydney<h2>November</h2>1&mdash;Charlottetown at Glace Bay Halifax at Moncton2&mdash;St. John at Sydney Charlottetown at Halifax3&mdash;St. John at Glace Bay Moncton at Charlottetown5&mdash;Charlottetown at Halifax St. John at Sydney6&mdash;Halifax at Moncton St. John at Glace Bay7&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Charlottetown8&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Glace Bay at St. John9&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Moncton at Charlottetown10&mdash;Moncton at St. John Sydney at Glace Bay12&mdash;Halifax at Charlottetown Sydney at Halifax13&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Moncton14&mdash;Charlottetown at Sydney Moncton at St. John15&mdash;St. John at Charlottetown Halifax at Glace Bay16&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney St. John at Moncton17&mdash;Charlottetown at St. John Moncton at Halifax19&mdash;Moncton at Sydney Halifax at Charlottetown20&mdash;Moncton at Glace Bay Halifax at St. John21&mdash;St. John at Moncton Charlottetown at Sydney22&mdash;St. John at Halifax Charlottetown at Glace Bay23&mdash;Sydney at St. John Glace Bay at Charlottetown24&mdash;Sydney at Halifax Glace Bay at* Moncton26&mdash;Charlottetown at Halifax St. John at Sydney27&mdash;Halifax at Moncton St. John at Glace Bay28&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Charlottetown29&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Glace Bay at St. John30&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Moncton at Charlottetown<h2>December</h2>1&mdash;Moncton at St. John Sydney at Glace Bay3&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney St. John at Halifax4&mdash;St. John at Charlottetown Moncton at Glace Bay5&mdash;Sydney at St. John Moncton at Halifax6&mdash;Sydney at Moncton Glace at Charlottetown7&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Charlottetown at St. John8&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Halifax at Glace Bay10&mdash;Sydney at Halifax Galce Bay at St. John11&mdash;Glace Bay at Moncton Sydney at Charlottetown12&mdash;Halifax at St. John Moncton at Sydney13&mdash;Charlottetown at Glace Bay Halifax at Moncton14&mdash;&mdash;St. John at Sydney Charlottetown at Halifax15&mdash;St. John at Glace Bay Moncton at Glace Bay17&mdash;Halifax at Charlottetown Sydney at Glace Bay18&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Moncton19&mdash;Charlottetown at Sydney Moncton at St. John20&mdash;St. John at Charlottetown Halifax at Glace Bay21&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney St. John at Moncton22&mdash;Charlottetown at St. John Moncton at Halifax24&mdash;Moncton at Sydney Halifax at Charlottetown26&mdash;St. John at Moncton Charlottetown at Sydney27&mdash;St. John at Halifax Charlottetown at Glace Bay28&mdash;Sydney at St. John Glace Bay at Charlottetown29&mdash;Sydney at Halifax Glace Bay at Moncton31&mdash;Charlottetown at Halifax St. John at Sydney<h2>January</h2>1&mdash;Halifax at Moncton St. John at Glace Bay2&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Charlottetown3&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Glace Bay at St. John4&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Moncton at Charlottetown5&mdash;Moncton at St. John Sydney at Glace Bay7&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney St. John at Halifax8&mdash;St. John at Charlottetown Moncton at Glace Bay9&mdash;Sydney at St. John Moncton at Halifax10&mdash;Sydney at Moncton Glace Bay at Charlottetown11&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Charlottetown at St. John12&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Halifax at Glace Bay14&mdash;Sydney at Halifax Glace Bay at St. John15&mdash;Glace Bay at Moncton Sydney at Charlottetown16&mdash;Halifax at St. John Moncton at Sydney17&mdash;Charlottetown at Glace Bay Halifax at Moncton18&mdash;St. John at Sydney Charlottetown at Halifax19&mdash;St. John at Glace Bay Moncton at Charlottetown21&mdash;Halifax at Charlottetown Sydney at Glace Bay22&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Moncton23&mdash;Charlottetown at Sydney Moncton at St. John24&mdash;St. John at Charlottetown Halifax at Glace Bay25&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney St. John at Moncton26&mdash;Charlottetown at St. John Moncton at Halifax28&mdash;Moncton at Sydney Halifax at Charlottetown29&mdash;Moncton at Glace Bay Halifax at St. John30&mdash;St. John at Moncton Charlottetown at Sydney31&mdash;St. John at Halifax Charlottetown at Glace Bay<h2>February</h2>1&mdash;Sydney at Saint John Glace Bay at Charlottetown2&mdash;Sydney at Halifax Glace Bay at Moncton4&mdash;Charlottetown at Halifax St. John at Sydney5&mdash;Halifax at Moncton St. John at Glace Bay6&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Charlottetown7&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Glace Bay at St. John8&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Moncton at Charlottetown8&mdash;Moncton at Saint John Sydney at Glace Bay11&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney Saint John at Halifax12&mdash;Saint John at Charlottetown Moncton at Glace Bay13&mdash;Sydney at St. John Moncton at Halifax14&mdash;Sydney at Moncton Glace Bay at Charlottetown15&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Charlottetown at Saint John16&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Halifax at Glace Bay18&mdash;Syney at Halifax Glace Bay at Saint John19&mdash;Glace Bay at Moncton Sydney at Charlottetown20&mdash;Halifax at Saint John Moncton at Sydney21&mdash;Charlottetown at Glace Bay Halifax at Moncton22&mdash;Saint John at Sydney Charlottetown at Halifax23&mdash;Saint John at Glace Bay Moncton at Charlottetown25&mdash;Halifax at Charlottetown Sydney at Glace Bay28&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Moncton27&mdash;Charlottetown at. Sydney Moncton at Saint John28&mdash;Saint John at Sharlottetown Halifax at Glace Bay29&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney Saint John at Moncton<h2>March</h2>1&mdash;Charlottetown at Saint John Moncton at Halifax3&mdash;Moncton at Sydney Halifax at Charlottetown4&mdash;Moncton at Saint John Halifax at Saint John5&mdash;Saint John at Moncton Charlottetown at Sydney6&mdash;Saint John at Halifax Charlottetown at Glace Bay7&mdash;Sydney at Saint-John Glace Bay at Charlottetown8&mdash;Sydney at Halifax Glace Bay at Moncton10&mdash;Charlottetown at Halifax Saint John at Sydney11&mdash;Halifax at Moncton Saint John at Glace Bay12&mdash;Glace Bay at Halifax Sydney at Charlottetown13&mdash;Charlottetown at Moncton Glace Bay at Saint John14&mdash;Halifax at Sydney Moncton at Charlottetowll15&mdash;Moncton at Saint John Sydney at Glace Bay17&mdash;Halifax at Glace Bay Charlottetown at Saint John Sydney at Moncton18&mdash;Glace Bay at Sydney Moncton at Halifax Saint John at Charlottetown19&mdash;Halifax at Saint John Moncton at Glace Bay. &#9632;

1951-52 Maritime Major Series Schedule

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;They said he&rsquo;d never play again. But who started on defense for the Chicago Black Hawks in the opening game of the 1951-52 season. None other than Black Jack Stewart, of course. He&rsquo;s the guy they counted out last season after he was sidelined with a slipped disc in his back after playing only 26 games of the 1950-51 season.After undergoing a delicate operation and suffering excruciating pain for several weeks, Stewart slowly but surely exercised the right muscles, diligently applied the right treatments and when roll call opened at the Hawks&rsquo; North Bay training camp in September, he was one of the first players on hand. As a matter: of fact the Hawks think so much of his chances of having a good year that he was named captain of the team for the 1951-52 season.He was the pick of the Chicago defensemen in the curtain raiser of the new season against Canadiens here and while he failed to display the form that labelled him the &ldquo;toughest defenseman in the National Hockey League&rdquo; for so many years, he was still the old policeman out there on the ice. Partnering at different times Al Dewsbury, Clare Raglan and Clare Martin, Black Jack saemed to look his best while playing alongside big Al Dewsbury. It is felt in the Black Hawk organization that Stewart will play a major role in the development of Dewsbury, one of the better young prospects at the reaguard position.<h2>Same Old Growler!</h2>He still possesses that mean streak that is so essential to a hard-hitting defenseman. He is still one of the best at clearing the puck out of his own end and covering up for other players around the goalmouth. And one thing is certain. Just as long as Black Jack is on the ice, opposing players will hesitate to take any lib erties with the smaller Chicago forwards.The 34-year-old veteran is now starting his fourteenth season in the N.H.L., allowing time for two years spent in the R.C.A.F. A reticent, self assuming athlete, Jack has at no time talked of retiring from the ice wars. He, likes the bodily contact part of the sport too much. Hockey fans have wondered for the last fewseasons if Stewart would retire but no siree, he just takes &lsquo;em one season at a time. And last winter after his operation when everyone was counting him out. Jack became more determined than ever to return again this season. It&rsquo; was a matter of pride with him.<h2>Trains the Hard Way</h2>Stewart spent the summer months pitching hay on his father&rsquo;s farm near Pilot Mound, Man. He pitched it the hard way, too, by throwing the hay upwards over his shoulder into a loft above. This was the best exercise possible to strengthen his injured back. We asked Jack how he felt physically while driving him out to the football game in Ottawa a couple of Saturdays ago. The Hawks had played four exhibition games at that point. &ldquo;Right now I feel fine but I&rsquo;m keeping my fingers crossed,&rdquo; he replied. He didn&rsquo;t elaborate any further but assured us that he would be in there playing exactly the same type of hard checking robust hockey that he&rsquo;s played all his life.Well, he&rsquo;s fooled the experts. He&rsquo;s returned to the game that he loves so much and which has been so good to him. His play this season will be an important factor in Chicago&rsquo;s grim determination to make a playoff spot.It might very well be that as goes Stewart, so go the Hawks. If he can regain the form that earned him All-Star rating in 1947-48 and 1948-49 and tha Hawks make the playoffs for tha first time since 1945-46, it will be a story-book ending to a career that was tabbed as finished less than a year ago. &#9632;

They Never Come Back Well, Black Jack Did, Shows Chi Mates How

<div class="byline">By HERB RALBY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The big complaint in the Eastern Hockey League a year ago was too much of the same teams and same faces.After all in a four team league such as the E.H.L. was in 1950-51, the fans were bound to see too much of one team and get sick of watching the same players.Well, they will have no such complaint this winter. With an eight team setup with the addition of New Haven, Springfield, Washington and Philadelphia to the four club loop of Boston, New York, Johnstown, and Atlantic City, the fans in each rink will see each of the other clubs only four times during the regular schedule.As for new faces, that&rsquo;s for sure. Not only will the four new teams bring in new players but the four older clubs have &ldquo;cleaned house&rdquo;. The Olympics won&rsquo;t have one solitary player back from last year&rsquo;s outfit which tied for first place and lost the championship on the technicality of fewer victories. The only familiar faces in that outfit this winter will be coach Eddie Barry and trainer Eddie Aronson.The three Greater Boston boys on the Pics, Bruse Mather, Ralph Warburton and Mike Thayer have forsaken the game in favor of business careers. Other players have signed with pro clubs or stayed in Canada.Wally Kilrea, at Johnstown, has discarded the oldtimers who cluttered the Jets roster last winter. Even though he won the league title Kilrea decided upon an accent on youth for this season.The only veterans returning are Wilf Gorman, the team&rsquo;s scorer last winter, Johnny Horvath, George Harrison, Arch Richardson, Chirp Brenchley, Wimpy Ste phenson, Ken McNally and possibly &ldquo;Crash&rdquo; Kelly, the league&rsquo;s bad boy.At Atlantic City Herb Foster has one member of his Sea Gulls crew which captured the playoffs. He is center George Hayes. At last reports Foster was still in the process of rounding up a squad. He had several players signed but all are strangers to the Eastern League.In New York fiery Phil Watson will be missing on the Rovers bench this season. In his place Is a veteran Eastern and minor leaguer, Lloyd Ailsby. The latter will be a playing coach, taking a regular turn on defense. The only Rovers&rsquo; holdovers are defenseman Ray Oleksiuk and forwards Leroy Hissop and Arthur Stone.The Rovers, however, will have a familiar face in goal in Lome Anderson. Lome, New York property, was loaned to Atlantic City last season and his scintillating netminding was mainly responsible for the upsurge of the Sea Gulls during the last half of the schedule and in the playoffs.Little Is known of the prospects of the four new teams except that New Haven Tomahawks will have Art Dorrington, the Negro flash, who wore Sea Gulls spangles last Winter. Dorrington was originally discovered by the Tomahawks&rsquo; sponsors. Since they weren&rsquo;t in league competition then, they loaned Dorring to Atlantic City. But upon their entry into the E.H. L. this year they immediately asked for Dorrington&rsquo;s return.Eddie Shore, without a doubt, will have some of his promising amateurs assigned to Springfield for seasoning before he turns them pro with his new Syracuse club. Jack Riley at Washington has had 23 players in camp, 15 forwards, six defensemen and two goalies. &#9632;

EAHL Cleans House From Top To Bottom

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Let&rsquo;s face it, chums. Edmonton Flyers and Calgary Stampeders likely will run one-two in the Pacific Coast Hockey League chase that&rsquo;s only nicely underway.Saskatoon Quakers and the Victoria Cougars, last season&rsquo;s PCHL kingpins, will duel head and head for the third slot. The rest &mdash; New Westminster, Tacoma, Vancouver. and Seattle &mdash; are slated for the second division.All of which means that the three first year teams in president Al Leader&rsquo;s far flung loop &mdash; Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon &mdash; already have indicated in exhibition games that they possess the power they need, and more, to handle whatever the squads from the other side of the Rockies can throw at them.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01222/1236628-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="265" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body">Doug McCoig</figcaption></div>Bill Cook&rsquo;s Quakers manhandled Victoria 2-1 and 9-4 in a pair of play-for-fun meetings. Cougars then moved on to Edmonton, to be unceremoniously thumped 6-0 by the Flyers. It&rsquo;s difficult to laugh off these results, even if nothing was at stake.<h2>Look Good On Paper</h2>Backing up these scores is the undeniable fact that the prairie entries have that solid-on-paper look. Coach Frank Currie&rsquo;s Edmonton squad has a desirable mixture of youth and experience, even if some of the more experienced performers like &lsquo;Pop&rsquo; Backor and Nels Podolsky hardly qualify as greybeards.Backor and Podolsky have been as high as the American League in the past. They met with considerable success, too. As the Flyers whipped Spokane Flyers of the Western International League, 7-1 in a pre-season rumble, Backor chipped in with three goals, first Flyer to turn the hat-trick this season.Forward Jim Uniac, goalie Bill Brennan, defenseman-captain Doug McCaig and more should prove steadying influences as coach Currie works such reformed &lsquo;amateurs&rsquo; as Colin Kilburn and Bill Pettinger, to say nothing of junior graduates Eldor Thomas, &lsquo;Ching&rsquo; Johnson and &lsquo;Addie&rsquo; Joss, into the picture.As Saskatoon Quakers prepped for the season opener against New Westminster, Oct. 11, it was evident that coach Cook wouldn&rsquo;t be getting rid of all of last year&rsquo;s Quakers. A trio of rearguards who helped the Hubtowners advance as far as the Alexander Trophy semi-final last spring &mdash; Bill Heindl, Howie Milford and Murray Parker &mdash; had been signed. Forward George Senick was another of the 1950-51 aggregation asked to ink a form.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02170/1236621-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="565" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body">An InfluenceHANK BACKOR</figcaption></div><h2>Stamps Line-up Impressive</h2>Calgary Stampeders shape up impressively on paper, about the only line there is on them at time of writing. Tommy (Cowboy) Anderson&rsquo;s Stamps knocked off S.pokane 8-3 in their lone outing. But this was to be expected.Steady-going Russ Dertell, who supposedly received something extra special in the way of a contract, will be In the nets. Out front former National Leaguers Ernie Dickens and Jim Bedard are expected to be the mainstays of the defense. Coach Anderson has plenty of forwards from which to choose, including Dick Butler, Norm Larson, Cy Thomas, Archie Scott, &lsquo;Gopher&rsquo; Ashworth, bespectacled Don Anderson and others.With Portland out of the League Tony Hemmerling has moved into Seattle as coach, under owner Frank Dotten. The Ironmen have a hook-up with Cleveland Barons. There was little joy In Seattle most of last season and Hemmerling faces a tough challenge in trying to get the Ironmen moving in high gear again.Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s Vancouver Canucks bowed to Victoria 8-2 in their league opener, the night of October 5, then turned around and drew with New Westminster, 2-2.Walter (The Honest Brakeman) Pratt has moved on from New Westminster, where he coached the past couple of seasons. The colorful Pratt caught on with Murray Patrick, at Tacoma. No one doubts but that he will strengthen the rearguard in front of goalie Doug Stevenson, once-upon-a-time Chicago Black Hawk.Having declared for an Edmonton-Calgary battle on the front end of the PCHL derby, with Saskatoon and Victoria nearest of the others, there seems little reason not to go whole hog and pick the order of finish, from top to bottom. Here it is: Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Victoria, Tacoma, New Westminster, Seattle, Vancouver.P.S.&mdash;Pacific Coast papers need not copy! &#9632;

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Prairie’s Two-Some Early Favorites On Good-on-Paper Look

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Memo to Edmonton Flyers&rsquo; goalie Bill Brennan: Better play real &lsquo;good&rsquo;, Bill, else those wolves in the north end of the Edmonton Gardens will be down your neck.Goalkeepers who sign on to play for Edmonton Flyers immediately start to live dangerously. Not that life can&rsquo;t be beautiful, necessarily, even when decked out in the big pads and modelling a Flyer monkey suit.Al Rollins, for one, spent a thoroughly enjoyable season as watchdog over that Flyer cage. But then that was the year coach Frank Currie&rsquo;s crew won Edmonton its one, and only, Allan cup.Fact that in less than three years Rollins had cracked the National Hockey League, as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs, would seem to indicate that he was something extra special, as Flyer netminders, of the post World War Two era, go.<h2>Woodall, Frederick Failed</h2>Otherwise Ken McAuley, who preceded Rollins, and successors Keith Woodall and Ray Frederick, had it a little rugged at the hands of those Flyer boo-birds.They say McAuley, who had served a wartime hitch with New York Rangers, used to plug his ears with cotton-batting, the better not to hear North-Enders. Woodall&rsquo;s &lsquo;crime&rsquo; was that he came right after Rollins&mdash;a mighty tough act to follow.As for Frederick &mdash; he never quite lived up to advance notices, more particularly as his working on with the Flyers was preceded by considerable copy about what a big salary check he was to draw. The Greek from Fort Frances generally played much sounder goal on the road, proof positive almost that he couldn&rsquo;t take it when the hometown wolf pack was in full cry.All of which brings Bill Brennan to the plate. Brennan, last season with Indianapolis and Omaha, had won the goalkeeping job before the Flyers broke training camp, at Sault Ste. Marie.Following the return of the Curriemen to their home base, the Saskatoon-born puckstopper impressed the railbirds who saw him blank Victoria Cougars 6-0, then turn right around and toy with Spokane Flyers for a 7-1 triumph.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03140/1236666-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="544" height="846"><figcaption class="caption-body">Oh! Those Boo-BirdsBILL BRENNAN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04104/1236659-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="547" height="855"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEN McAULEY</figcaption></div>Fact that these were exhibition games makes no never mind. Brennan looked the part of a steady, capable netminder, which fact is borne out by a scrutiny of the record book. During the 1949-50 season he caught the all-star nod because of his splendid work with Omaha Knights, of the United States circuit.Brennan&rsquo;s excellent showing earned him a shot at Indianapolis, a step up the ladder in the Detroit Red Wing system. The then 25-year-old goalkeeper opened the 1950-51 season in the Indianapolis nets.He failed to stick. &ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t winning many games,&rdquo; Brennan shrugs it off. Returned to &lsquo;Mud&rsquo; Bruneteau, at Omaha, he proved a vital factor in the success story written by the Knights as they roared to the championship.Flyers&rsquo; new goalkeeper is by no means a total stranger hereabouts. He played for Regina, Saskatoon and Lethbridge, following the revival of the Western loop, then popped up at Fresno, in the southern division of the Pacific Coast circuit, for a two season stay.By the autumn of 1949 he was in the Detroit chain, at Omaha, as detailed above. &#9632;

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Flyers’ Wolves At North-End Hit Goalers Like Tough North Wind

VICTORIA, B.C.&mdash;There was a time not so many years ago when the Pacific Coast I eague boasted practically a playing-coach for every club in the league. Today that is not so with the bench coach far outnumbering the hard-working double duty player coach. Last season the league had. a 50-50 split, this season, to start with at any rate, there are only two playing mentors on the eight clubs. They are sophomore Roger Leger of Victoria and freshman John &ldquo;Jake&rdquo; Forbes of New Westminster.Murray &ldquo;Muzz&rdquo; Patrick of Tacoma and Tony Hemmerling ot Seattle are both manager-coaches along with Frank Currie at Edmonton. Bill Cook, Saskatoon; Tommy Anderson, Calgary; and Murph Chamberlain, Vancouver; all former NHL stars of another era do their masterminding from the bench. This might very easily be a sign of the times with the playing-coach soon to be extinct. There are none In the NHL, only three, who play hut parttime, In the nine-club American League.Ornest. &#9632;

Playing Coaches Getting Scarce In PCHL—2 Left

George Gee of the Chicago Black Hawks is out show the Detroit Red Wings that they made a mistake when they traded him back to his (ormer team. George led his club two two victories in their first thre&rsquo;e games and today is tied for the league scoring honors.THE HOCKEY NEWS is proud to salute George for his terrific effort in leading the one time hapless Hawks to the top of the heap. They are now tied with the Canadiens with one loss and two victories. Gee becomes the first player of the 1951-52 season to be named O&rsquo;Keefe&rsquo;s Player-Of-The-Week.The Hawks lost their opening game in Montreal but came back to surprise all by whipping the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 in Toronto on Saturday. Gee collected two assists in that game. The next night the Hawks played host to the New York Rangers and just to make things proper they opened their home stand with a 3-2 victory over the Blues. Gee collected 2 goals and added an assists to figure in ell his team&rsquo;s goals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1175/1236829-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="256" height="413"><figcaption class="caption-body">George Gee</figcaption></div>Gee is playing his seventh season in the N.H.L. He signed with the Hawks after playing part of the 1945-46 season in Kansas City. After, 14 games there he moved to the Hawks then to Detroit and finally back to the Hawks again. He was first traded by Chicago for Doug McCraig. He was sold back to Chicago in the off-season $75,000 deal between the two clubs.Gee&rsquo;s best season in the big time came in 1946-47 when he scored 20 goals and added the same number of assists for 40 points. Since then he has had seasons of 14 goals, seven, and the two last seasons he has scored 17 goals in each. He hopes to top them both this year and it seems he&rsquo;s off to a flying start. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-week

<h2>FIRST GOAT</h2>Lome Ferguson of the Boston Bruins became the first goat of the 1951-52 season in the Bruins opener against the Detroit Red Wings. Ferguson was sitting in the penalty box when young Glen Skov scored the first goal of the game. It turned out to be the winner, too.<h2>NUMBER ONE</h2>When Bud MacPhersQn scored for the Canadiens when they beat the Chicago Black Hawks 4-2 in the 1951-52 league opener, it marked the huge rearguard&rsquo;s first goal in N.H.L. cometition. He played in 62 games for the Hubs last season and failed to connect for a goal.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2>STANDINGS ON WED. AJtf., OCT. 17<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01226/1236798-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="596" height="178"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Oct. 11&mdash;Chicago 2, Canadiens 4Oct. 11&mdash;Boston 0, Detroit 1Oct. 13&mdash;Boston 2, Canadiens 1Oct. 13&mdash;Chicago 3, Toronto 1Oct. 14&mdash;Canadiens 4, Boston 3Oct. 14&mdash;New York 2, Chicago 3Oct. 14&mdash;Toronto 3, Detroit 2<h3>NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMES</h3>Oct. 17&mdash;Boston at TorontoOct. 18&mdash;New York at CanadiensOct. 18&mdash;Detroit at ChicagoOct. 20&mdash;Detroit at CanadiensOct. 20&mdash;New York at TorontoOct. 21&mdash;Canadiens at DetroitOct. 21&mdash;New York at BostonOct. 21&mdash;Toronto at Chicago<h3>THURSDAY, OCT. 11</h3>Boston 0 at Detroit 1DETROIT &mdash; The defending champion Detroit Red Wings pried open the National Hockey League season on the yight note, edging the Boston Bruins 3 to 0 on Glen Skov&rsquo;s first period goal.Flashing a puck-controlling offense, the Wings got their goal when Sid Abel dug the puck out of a corner and fired it to Ted Lindsay in front of the net. Dlndsay&rsquo;s blast was deflected by Skov between goalie Jim Henry&rsquo;s legs. The Bruins had a man in the penalty box at the time.Boston: Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Kyle, Henderson, Laycoe, Kry-ganowski; wings, Peirson, Brown, Fisher, Dumart, Lund, Ferguson; centres, fichmldt, Sandford, Barry, Sullivan.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuck; defence, Kelly, Reise, Goldham, Wolt, Pronovost; wings: Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Pave-Jich, J. Wilson, Glover; centres: Abel, Krystal, Skov, L. Wilson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02189/1236791-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="593" height="289"></div><h3>Chicago 2 at Montreal 4</h3>MONTREAL &mdash; Canadiens opened the H951-52 N.H.L. season by beating the revived Chicago Black Hawks, 4-2, before a crowd of 14,100.There was no fanfare connected with the opener, no opening ceremonies of any kind. But before the game was two minutes old Maurice (the Rocket) Bichard pulled the fans out of their Beats by scoring the first goal for Canadiens. Jim McPherson, towering defenceman, tallied for the Habitants in the Second period and Boom Boom Geoffrion potted the last two in the final 20 minutes.Both Chicago goals were scored in the Jflnal period by Roy Conacher.It was a scrambly game, typical of such early season contests. Both clubs made mistakes, but the Black Hawks made a lot more than Canadiens. Canadiens had a far bigger piece of the puck than the visitors and Harry Lumley had a very busy night in the Chicago nets as the Habitants outshot the Black Hawks 37 to 18. Lumley had 10 shots to handle in the first period, 12 in the second and 15 in the third. Gerry McNeil had only three to handle in the opening period, nine In the second and six in the third.Chicago: Goal, Lumley, defence, Stewart, Dewsbury, Martin, Raglan; wings: Gee, Peters, Guidolin, Bentley, Mosienko, R. Conacher, Babando, J. Conkcher, Bodnar, McFadden.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence; Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, MacPherson; wings: Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Couture, Reay, Mosdell, Meger, Masnlck.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03164/1236784-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="594" height="477"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18</h3>Boston 2, at Canadiens 1MONTREAL&mdash;A third period goaJ by Adam Bro-wn gave Boston Bruins a 2-1 upset victory over Canadiens in a closechecking game before a packed house at the Fo-rum.The Bruins, who have been picked by most of the experts to finish in the cellar in the N.H.L. this year, took the lead in the second period on Dune Fisher&rsquo;s tally. Elmer Lach tied it up before the period was over, but Adam Brown&rsquo;s luck-tinged marker early in the final period proved to be the clincher. It was in off the skate of Gerry Couture.Boston: Goal, Henry; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Henderson, Laycoe, Kryzanowski; forwards: Schmld&gt;t, Peirson, Brown, Sandford, Fisher, Sullivan, Dumart, Lund, Barry, Ferguson.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, McPherson, Bouchard, Johnson; forwards, Mosdehl, Gamble, Couture, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Masnlck, Geoffrion, Meger, Reay, Curry.Officials: Red Storey; linesmen, Frank Udvari and Jim rimeau.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04146/1236777-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="584" height="386"></div><h3>Chicago 8, at Toronto 1</h3>TORONTO&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs played the part of champions for about five minutes but it didn&rsquo;t Impress the rejuvenated Black Hawks who skated to a 3-1 National Hockey League triumph. The display spoiled the 195152 Leaf debut for 13,465 fans.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Stewart, Raglan, Dewsbury, Martin, Fogolin; forwards: D. Bentley, Mosienko, Babando, J. Conacher, Bodnar, Guidolin, Gee, McFadden, Peters, Hucul.Toronto: Goal, Rollins; defence, Thomson, Mortson, Juzda. Boilton, FlamQn; forwards, Kennedy, Soans, Smith, Le-wicki, Klukay, Timgren, Gardner, Meeker, Watson, M. Bentley.Referee: BUI Chadwick, linesmen, George Hayes, Sam Babcock.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05126/1236770-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="584" height="407"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14</h3>Canadiens 4, at Boston 3BOSTON&mdash;Maurice Richard netted two goals and an assist while leading Montreal&rsquo;s Canadiens to a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins as Bruins made their first League home start for their new Boston Garden owners.The victory was Canadiens second in three starts and was Bruins second loss in the same number of starts.Richard&rsquo;s tallies came within the short space of 50 seconds, the first going through Goalie Sugar Jim Henry during the third minute of play while the Bruins were playing short-handedCanadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Lowe, Bouchard, Harvey, MacPherson; forwards, Masnlck, Geoffrion, Meger, Curry, Gamble, Richard, Reay, Couture, Olmstead Lach, Mosdci.Boston: Goal, Henry; defense, Quackenbush, Kyle, Henderson, Laycoe, Kryzanowski; forwards, Schmidt, Pierson, Brown, Sandford, Fisher, Sullivan, Dumart, Lund, Barry, Ferguson.Officials: Red Storey, referee; Frank Uiavari, Doug Davis, linesmen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06108/1236763-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="587" height="104"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01230/1236756-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="591" height="335"></div><h3>Toronto 3, at Detroit 2</h3>DETROIT&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs came from behind to wihlo Detroit Red Wings 3-2 In i game at Olympia. It was Detroit&rsquo;s first loss and Leafs&rsquo; first win of the young season.Tod Sloan scored twice within 56 seconds late in the second period as the Leafs-knotted the counit and went ahead to stay. Both teams had a man in the penalty box on&rsquo; the first Sloan tally, and Larry Wilson still was serving his when Sloan hit again.Detroit scored in the first two minutes of the game, Fred Glover deflecting Marty Pavelich&rsquo;s shot home.The Wings wore without the services I of regular defenceman Leo Reise, who I will be out for at least three weeks after he undergoes surgery for an ankle, injury. Larry Zeidel took Relse&rsquo;s place, and made h.&rsquo;s professional debut.Toronto: Goad, RoHins; defence, Juzda, Flaman, Thomson. Mortson, Bolton; forwards, Bentley. Tlmgren, Klukay, Watson, Kennedy. Meeker, Sloan, Gardner, LewickI, Smith.Detroit: Goal, Sawohuck; defence, Goldham, Keflly, Woit, Pronovost. Zetdol; forwards: Abel, Howe, Lindsay, prystai, Favelich, Glover, L. Wilson, J. Wilson, Lewlck, Skov.Refeiree: George Graved; linesmen, George Hayes and Frank Mehlenbacher.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02167/1236749-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="590" height="440"></div><h3>Rangers 2, at Chicago 3</h3>CHICAGO&mdash;The Cuicago Black Hawks won their second straight National hockey League victory and went into a first place tie with the Montreal Canadiens when they defeated tihe New York Rangers, 3 to 2.It was the league opener for the Rangers and the first of the season at home for the Haws.Fourteen minor penalties were called by Referee Bill Chadwick and two Hawk players were injured. Jack Stewart required three si itches u-nder his left eye in the second period and in the third, when he fell heavily to the Ice ip a collision with teammate Clare Martin, he received a cut lip and a cut on the back of his head.Jimmy McFaddent, struck on the cheek by a puck in the first period, played it out but will be X-rayed because of the possibility of a fracture.New York: Goal: Rayner; defence, Buller, Stanley, EddoMs, Evans; forwards, Raleigh, Ronty, Laprade, Slowinski, Mickoski, MoLeod, Ross, G. Stewart, Hergesheimer, Kullman, Sinclair.Chicago: Goal, Lumley; defence, Dewsbury, J. Stewart, Ragilan, Martin, Fogolin; forwardg: Gee, Bentley, J. Conachex, McFadden, Peters, G.uidolin, Mosienko, Babando, Bodnar, Hucul.Referee: Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Sam Babock and Doug Young.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03123/1236742-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="586" height="396"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0798/1236735-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="585" height="1207"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0892/1236728-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="588" height="179"></div><h3>Penalties In Minutes By Clubs</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0987/1236721-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="538" height="157"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Such high front-office doings as the sale of a club is somewhat out of the scope of hockey players, but the Boston Bruins settled on an enthusiastic reaction to news that they had a new big boss.The Bruins were in Detroit for their opening game against the Red Wings when word came on the sale. They knew it had been in the wind all summer, and anticipated the change after hearing that negotiations had been reopened.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re all for it,&rdquo; declared Coach Lynn Patrick. One of the Bruins advanced the idea that maybe with the rink controlling the team, hockey would get more promotion in Boston.If we can draw in more fans, it means more money &mdash; and maybe we&rsquo;ll get some of it,&rdquo; stated the coach with forthright philosophy. &#9632;

Bruins Put O.K. On Having Club Owned By New Bosses

MONTREAL.&mdash;Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens scored two first in the first game of the 1951-52 season in Montreal in which the Habs whipped the Chicago Black Hawks 4-2.At exactly 1.29 of the opening period, before half the fans could take their seats Rocket flipped a pass, via Lach and Olmstead into the back of Goaler Harry Lumley&rsquo;s cage. It marked the first goal in the N.H.L.&rsquo;s 1951-52 campaign for the season was just one minute and twenty-nine seconds old.Richard&rsquo;s second first came at 11.25 of the final period. Then, Referee George Gravel saw Richard clos his hand on the puck while it was in the air and was forced to give the Montreal right winger a minor penalty. It was the first time this season that the new rule, forbidding a player &lsquo;to catch or close his hand on the puck had been put into force. &#9632;

‘Rocket’ Scores Two Firsts In Opener Of New Season

<h2>Quick One</h2>Rente Pepin of the Providence Reds found out that rookie or veteran there&rsquo;s only one way to score goals and that&rsquo;s by putting the puck into the net. Pepin, playing his first season pro after having graduated from the Three Rivers Reds scored after 4:37 of the first game against the Indianapolis Caps.<h2>O&rsquo;Connor Special</h2>Veteran Buddy O&rsquo;Conner can still put the puck on the stick of any player, be he a rookie or a veteran. O&rsquo;Connor proved that in the opening game of the 951-52 season for the Cincinnati Mohawks. Playing on a line with Rookie Herb Dickenson, O&rsquo;Connor flipped the kid a pass at 16.52 of the last period of a game against Cleveland and the Rookie won the game for his team 2-1.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2>STANDINGS ON WED. A.M., OCT. 14<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01200/1237009-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="586" height="423"></div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The standing of the Eastern Division was all tied up at no points apiece after a drastic opening for the four eastern teams. They failed to win a game on the opening weekend as all six victories went to the western end of the American League. The St. Louis Flyers and Indianapolis Caps put on the best shows for their customers as they played two games apiece over the weekend and came up with double wins. The Flyers and Caps each have four points while the Pittsburgh Hornets and Cincinnati Mohawks opened with victories as well and are standing with two points each. The champion Cleveland Barons found the going a little rugged to start off with when they managed to score Just two goals in that many games and went down to a pair of defeats.In the eastern division all clubs played one game and lost. Her-Bhey was defeated by St. Louis 5-0. Syracuse went down to a 3-2 overtime defeat at the hands of the Indianapolis Caps, Providence also was handed a setback by the Caps hitting the dust by a 5-4 score. The Buffalo Bisons had their home opener spoiled by the seemingly powerful St. Louis Flyers when the latter came from behind to whip them 4-2.Roy Kelly of the St. Louis Flyers leads the scoring race and also the goals scored department. Kelly scored three goals and added an assist in two games over the weekend and leads the race &ldquo;with. four points. Behind him follows Hyrmnak and Lundy of fit. Louis and Ken Davies of Providence and Rookie Matt Delvic-chio of Indianapolis all with three points.<h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13</h3>St. Louis 5, Hershey 0HERSHEY. &mdash; Th. St. Louis Flyers Opened, their 1951-52 season with a rebounding 5-0 win over the Hershey Bears at Hershey. Roy Kelly led the Flyers to victory scoring three goals in the final period. Hrymnak and Black netted the Other two markers.St. Louis: Goal, Almas; defence, Hrym-pak, Nicholson, Milligan, MacNab, Quackenbush; forwards, Don Morrison, Black, Kelly, Hamilton, Baccari, Taylor, Bon mor, impson, Lundy.Hershey: Goal, Henry; defence, Branigan, Morrison, Gariepy, Schertzl, Armstrong; forwards, Mario, Creighton, Kullman, Brown, O&rsquo;Brien, Chevrefils, Top-pazzlnl, Lablne, Bettlo, Creighton, Kullman.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02168/1237002-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="585" height="195"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03149/1236995-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="581" height="174"></div><h3>Cleveland 1, Pittsburgh 1</h3>PITTSBURGH. &mdash; The Pittsburgh Hornets started off the 1951-62 season on the right foot by beating the champion Cleveland Barons 3-1 at home. George Armstrong, Bob Solinger and Rookie Leo Boivin scored for the Hornets and Thurler added the lone marker for the Barons.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Boivin, Backor, Horton, Mathers; forwards, Hassard, Armstrong, G. Hannigan, Mi-gay, Barbe, Solinger, Maloney, Blair, Smith, R. Hannigan.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Samis, Shero, Williams, Reigle, Chrystal; forwards, Gordon, Wochy, Gladu, Reid, Hildebrand, Cereslno, Thurler, Olson, Lund.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04114/1236988-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="584" height="474"></div><h3>Indianapolis 3, Syracuse 2 (overtime)</h3>SYRACUSE. &mdash; The Syracuse Warriors took a 3-2 overtime defeat in their home opener as the Indianapolis Caps whipped them. A goal by Rookie Alex Delvicchio at 2:36 of the overtime stanza spelled end to the game. The Warriors took a goal lead on Gooden&rsquo;s marker at 10:08 of the opener and went ahead 2-0 at 17:54 on Pidhirny&rsquo;s unassisted counter. Sclisizzi macle It 2-1 at 18:31. Veteran Eddie Bruneteau tied the count at 9:52 of the second frame with an unassisted goal and the final regular period was scoreless before Delvicchio came through for the winner.Indianapolis: Goal, Hall; defence, Hay, Durham, Coflin, Folk; forwards, O&rsquo;Grady, Sclisizzi, Delvicchio, Hirschfeld, Relbel, Bruneteau. McKay, McComb, Heller.Syracuse: Goal, Bell; defence, Bergeron, Allen, Hosklng, Taillefer; forwards, Curick, Hayden, Gooden, Burnett, Casanato, Lemieux, Pidhirny, Narduzzl, Horvath.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0593/1236981-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="586" height="509"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14</h3>Indianapolis 5, Providence 4PROVIDENCE. &mdash; The Indianapolis Caps won their second straight game as they downed the Providence Reds 5-4. The Reds gave the Caps a tough battle before going down to defeat. Folk, Heller, Delvicchio, McKay and O&rsquo;Grady scored for the Caps and Pepin, Davies, Stoddard and Scherza netted for the Reds.Indianapolis: Goal, Hall; defence, Hay, Durham, Coflin, Folk; forwards, O&rsquo;Grady, Sclisizzi, Delvicchio, Hirschfeld, Relbel, E. Bruneteau, McKay, McComb, Heller.Providence: Goal, Perreault; defence, A. Michaluk, Laveil, Morris, McCallum; forwards, Powell, Bedard, Kapusta, Davies, Pepin, Deschenes, J, Michaluk, Sullivan, Stoddard, Scherza.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0677/1236974-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="578" height="102"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0770/1236967-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="593" height="515"></div><h3>St. Louis 4, Buffalo 2</h3>BUFFALO. &mdash; Cliff Simpson and Pat Lundy each scored two goals apiece to take care of the Buffalo Bisons 4-2 in the latter&rsquo;s seasonal opener. Ab DeMarco and Grant Warwick scored for the Bisons. The Flyers had to come from behind with two goals In the last half of the last period to get the win.St. Louis: Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Nicholson, Milligan, McNab, Quackenbush; forwards, Don Morrison, Black, Kelly, Hamilton, Baccari, Sonmor, Simpson, Lundy.Buffalo: Goal, Crowdis; defence, Long, Dick, Bloom, Roche; forwards, McNabney, Hickey, Ashbee, Kaiser, Warwick, DeMarco, Pargeter, Pennell, Davis, Mazur.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0860/1236960-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="577" height="80"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0956/1236953-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="583" height="387"></div><h3>Cleveland 1, Cincinnati 3</h3>CINCINNATI. &mdash; The Cincinnati Mohawks got a win in their opening game when they downed the Cleveland Barons 2-1 on Rookie Herb Dickenson&rsquo;s last period goal.Steve Wochy put the Barons up at 15:32 of the first period and not until 4:42 of the middle frame aid the Mohawks get into the act. Then Denis scampered through the whole Baron&rsquo;s club to knot the count. Dickenson&rsquo;s goal came at 16:52 of the last period on an assist from Buddy O&rsquo;Connor.Cleveland: Goal, Bower; defence, Samis, Shero, Williams,. Reigle, Chrystal; forwards, Gordon, Wochy, Glady, Reid, Hildebrand, Cereslno, Thurler, Olson, Lund.Cincinnati: Goal, Francis, defense, Stanowski, Irwin, Egan, Lanclen, Barlow; forwards, Schwartz, Brown, McIntosh, O&rsquo;Connor, Smith, Denis, Wylie, Dickenson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1050/1236946-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="589" height="401"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1145/1236939-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="584" height="500"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<h2>First Goal</h2>The veteran Bill Shill of Vanconver hal the honor of scoring the first goal of the season when he fired the puck past Jim Shirley of Victoria at the 8:45 minute mark of the first period during: the opening: game in Vancouver. The lead was short lived as Bob Frampton came back and scored three goals for Victoria.<h2>New Faces</h2>Hockey fans all over the circuit are not going to recognize the Tacoma Rockets this year. Only three of last years club are bark. Goalie Doug Stevenson, and forwards, Wingy Johnston and Doug. Adam. Coach Muzz Patrick has assembled a youthful hockey club which will prove very colorful and pleasing to the fans to watch.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>STANDINGS ON TUE A.M., OCT. 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01166/1237089-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="593" height="230"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Oct. 5&mdash;Victoria 8, Vancouver 2Oct. 6&mdash;Seattle 4, Tacoma 8Oct. 6&mdash;Vancouver 2, New West&rsquo;er 2Oct. 7&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 5, Seattle 2Oct. 8&mdash;Vancouver at VictoriaPosponedThe New Westminster Royals moved into first place in the first week end of play. Held to a two two tie by Vancouver Canucks in their opening game at home the Royals bounced back and defeated the Seattle Ironmen 5-2 in Seattle to give them a win and a tie in the two games played. The Royals will be well tested this week when they invade the prairies. Victoria and Tacoma showed scoring stength In their opening games. The Champion Cougars downed the Vancouver Canucks 8-2 in Vancouver and the Tacoma Rockets measured the Seattle Ironmen 8-4 in Tacoma.Twelve games are scheduled, the coming week. New Westminster and Vancouver will each play four games. Tacoma, Seattle and Calgary each play three while Victoria, Edmonton and Saskatoon play two each.Eob. Frampton, Victoria forward served notice that he will be a contender for scoring honors this coming season when he picked up six points in the first game of the season to take the individual scoring lead. Reg. Abbott the youthful center of the Victoria &lsquo;kid line&rsquo; of Abbott, Frampton and Hebenton, took over seconc place with one goal and four assists. Frampton and Doug. Adam of Tacoma lead in goals scored with three each. Reg. Abbott&rsquo;s four assists top this department. Frampton, Norm. Kirk of New Westminster and Norm. Gustavsen of Tacoma each spent six minutes in the penalty box to lead in this department.<h3>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5</h3>Victoria 8, Vancouver 2VANCOUVER. &mdash; Capitalizing on most of their scoring chances, the defending champion Victoria Cougars opened the 1951-52 Pacific Coast Hockey League season here with a 8-2 triumph over an extremely ragged and lack-lustre Vancouver team.A crowd of 4,000 at Vancouver Forum greeted the Canucks with boos as they came on the Ice at the start of the seccond and third periods.Although they had an edge territorially, Canucks were soundly trounced. Their forwards lacked cohesion and their defense was very bad, particularly Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s personally touted combination of Wayne Stephenson knd Crusher Conway. Missing from the defense were Vic Lofvendahl, a holdout under suspension; Hal Tarala, out with an Injury, and George Hunchuk, still enroute from the East.Victoria: Goal, Shirley; defence, Goegan, Strongman; centre, McIntyre; wings, Evans, Medynski; subs.: Leger, Bouchard, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, Bowness, Dcfrohoy, Hildebrand.Vancouver: Goal, McAtee; defence, Gustavsen, Sehmidt; centre, Bathgate; wings, Gordon, Popein; subs.: Reardon, Conway, Ballance, Unger, Shill, Manson, Rusk, Rowe, Stephenson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02136/1237082-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="587" height="577"></div><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6</h3>Vancouver 2, New Westminster 2NEW WESTMINSTER. &mdash; New Westminster Royals made their debut at home under coach Jake Forbes, but had to settle for a 2-2 tie with Vancouver Canucks after running up a 2-0 lead In the first period.Smarting from the 8-2 trouncing handed out by Cougars in the opening game, Coley Hall and coach Murph Chamberlain had the Canucks In fighting form against Royals.Royals took a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Bob Bergeron and Ollie Dorohoy, but highly-touted rookie Larry Popein notched a pair of Canucks in the second period to even the count.The third period was hard fought and turned out to be a goalie&rsquo;s battle, with both netmlnders stopping a barrage of shots.Royals fired a total of 51 shots against Phil McAtee in the Vancouver goal and Lucien Deschene stopped 30 of 32 shots at the other end.Vancouver: Goal, McAtte; defence, Conway, Gustavsen; centre, Bathgate; wings, Popein, Gordon; subs.: Reardon, Rusk, Unger, Shill, Manson, Berry, Stephenson, Lofvendahl.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Forbes, Houle; centre, Love; wings, Gruhn, Fashoway; subs.: Bergeron, Slater, Ullyot, Dufault, Laval, Boyce, Paul, Cabana, Dorohoy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03105/1237075-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="585" height="319"></div><h3>Seattle 4, Tacoma 8</h3>TACOMA. &mdash; Tacoma Rockets, rated a definite contender for Pacific Coast Hockey League honors this season, moved Into a first-place deadlock with the defending Victoria Cougars by routing Seattle Ironmen 8-4 In the season opener at Tacoma.A crowd of 3,500 at Tacoma saw the Rockets run up a 7-1 lead befope the Ironmen could get untracked. Doug Adam, who set the P.C.H.L. scoring reccord two years ago, paced the Rockets with a hat trick In the second period.Seattle: Goal, Little; defence, Sprout, Conn; centre, Samanski; wings, Tomluk, Silvestri; subs.: Drainvllle, Jackson, Homenuke, Kubasek, Bell, Fairburn, Del-Monte, Stearns.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Pratt, Godfrey; centre, Haldorsen; wings, Brown, Marquess; subs.: Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Bradley, Johnston, Kerr, Adam, Young, MacDonald.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0478/1237068-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="579" height="651"></div><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7</h3>New Westminster 5, Seattle 2SEATTLE. &mdash; The Seattle Ironmen have just about all the talent they need to settle down Into a first-rate hockey club. But they haven&rsquo;t shaken down yet.The New Westminster Royals, quick as always to make the most of an Opening, proved that at the Ice Arena. They spoiled Seaitle&rsquo;s hockey homecoming by handing the Ironmen a 5-2 licking that didn&rsquo;t lack much of being a shutout.Some 3,000 customers who turned out for the opener saw Coach Tony Hemmerling&rsquo;s men skate even-up with the visitors through a whirlwind first period, sag badly in the second to let the Royals whip in three goals In less than four minutes, then come back to outscore their rivals, 2-1, in the final 20 minutes.Seattle: Goal, Little; defence, Drainville, Jackson; centre, Stearns; wings, Tomluk, DelMonte; subs.: Sprout, Conn, Homenuke, Kubasek, Bell, Fairburn, Sylvestri, Samanski.New Westminster: Goal, Deschene; defence, Houle, Forbes; centre, Ullyot; wings, Boyce, Dorohoy; subs.: Roberge, Bergeron, Love, Fashoway, Lavell, Gruhn, Paul, Cabana, Robertson, Kirk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0553/1237061-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="583" height="541"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(Including Games of Sunday, Oct. 7)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0635/1237054-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="588" height="503"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0731/1237047-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="588" height="151"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3>Most Goals: Bob Frampton, Vic; Doug. Adam, Tac (3)Most Assists: Reg. Abbott, Vic (4)Most Hat Tricks: Doug. Adam, Tac; Bob Frampton, Vic (1)Most Penalties: Norm Gustavsen, Vane; Norm. Kirk, New West&rsquo;er; Bob Frampton, Vic (6 minutes).<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0819/1237040-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="576" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">Opens UpBILL SHILL of the Vancouver Canucks, above, goal of the new 1951-52 season the Pacific Coast Hockey League.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01174/1237120-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Play In Wilf&rsquo;s FieldWilf Field, left, playing coach of the Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s of the Maritime Senior Hockey League looks over four new prospects for his club. They are, left to right, Field, George McAvoy, last season with the Junior Canadiens, Les Keating from Winnipeg, Skippy Burchell, Quebec Junior League&rsquo;s top scorer last season and Morley McNeil who played for the Montreal Senior Royals.</figcaption></div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;In six Maritime centres there is a feeling of great expectancy. These six centres make up the biggest organization in hockey history in these parts, of professional proportions lacking only the professional tag.It is the next thing to topflight pro competition, and in many cases the salaries will eclipse those in the minor leagues. The Maritimes are going whole hog on one Wild sports spree.If it clicks, tliere will be another version next. year. If it doesn&rsquo;t hockey will go into the doldrums for a while, just as it did at the end of another era in the mid-30&rsquo;s when the original Maritime Big Four folded after winning the Allan Cup three years in a row.It takes a lot of money to keep the new Maritime League rolling. And it took a lot of organization. Pre-season camps out of town kept that fans agog with interest. Tales of player trades and player tryouts had the customers excited as they have been excited before.Judged from a long distance, pre-season viewpoint, it looked like a big success. But the one essential &mdash; balance &mdash; could not be gauged at this early date. If the teams are evenly matched, or if there are no actually weak teams, the 1951-52 setup may be on the books for a long time to come.Last season there were seven Maritime teams in two major leagues. This season there is six major teams in one organization. But so extensive has been the preparation, so glamorous the approach that there is more noise from the six teams than there ever were from the seven.Player deals, player tryouts and the eager-beaver approach, of the hockey dollar has been the order of the day. Tales of pre-season interest seeped in from the tryout camps. Writers from the home bases kept the telephone wires hot as they maintained a daily contact with the coaches.This feverish period of preparation made business at the preseason box office, where the early sale of tickets was given an enthusiastic response. In some centres the pre-sesaon ticket sale had opened in mid-summer. Other spots needed a bit of hockey camp fever for stimulation.The teams will play the longest season in hockey history, each club taking to the ice 90 times. The league will present new faces all around the circuit, for the new setup has wreaked havoc with the fading stars of other years.There is still another professional accent this year &mdash; much of the travel will be by air. So hectic is the schedule that buses and trains are outmoded in many instances.Four of the six coaches are newcomers. They are Wilf Field in Halifax; Peanuts O&rsquo;Flaherty Saint John; Norman (Bud) Poile Glace Bay and Johnny Horeck, Moncton. But the two holdover mentors &mdash; Bill Dinning and Leo (The Lion) Lamoureux &mdash; are the fellows who gunned their teams into the Maritime finals a year ago. &#9632;

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Maritimers Use Pro Accent Through Air

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01153/1237189-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="968" height="1613"></div><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02116/1237182-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="519" height="872"></div><h3>ACROSS</h3>1&mdash;Detroit player pictured in center.5&mdash;Nickname of a former coach of St. Louis Flyers.7&mdash;Given name of Kullman of Hershey.8&mdash;Initials of a Leaf hailing from Vinton, P.Q.9&mdash;This is what Davies, PCHL referee, is called.12&mdash;Comparative ending.14&mdash;Nickname of Saskatoon entry in Western League in 1926.16&mdash;What doctors do to players&rsquo; cuts.18&mdash;Cerium (Sym.).19&mdash;Time of season teams sometimes have a slump.20&mdash;Name given Strobel, with Portland in 1949-50.22&mdash;Short for first name of Leafs&rsquo; publicity director.24&mdash;Nick Mickoski celebrates his birthday in this month (abbr.).25&mdash;Red Horner once scored one over Eddie Shore (abbr.).26&mdash;Goalie recently purchased by Boston Bruins.28&mdash;Full Initials of Elwyn MorIns.30&mdash;One of the Black Hawks is called this.32&mdash;Initials of Aitkenhead, ex Ranger goaltender.33&mdash;League in which Harry Broadbent once played (abbr.).34&mdash;Grant Warwick&rsquo;s brother.35&mdash;This player called Bill, was recently sent to Saskatoon by Rangers.37&mdash;Initials of Dartnell, member of Ottawa Senators in 1948-49.39&mdash;Short for first name of Brennan, former Springfield player.<h3>DOWN</h3>1&mdash;This is what Stanowskl and Mortson are during the summer2&mdash;Initials of a Montreal defenseman in 1949-50.3&mdash;Native province of John Ross Roach, ex-NHL goalie (abbr.).4&mdash;This NHL official is a native of Chelses, Mass.5&mdash;First name of Powers, a PCHL referee.6&mdash;This player was recently sent to Edmonton by St. Louis.10&mdash;That is.11&mdash;initials of a Pittsburgh forward.13&mdash;Player voted most popular member of Indianapolis Caps last season.15&mdash;Initials of Cox, member of Montreal Royals in 1948-49.17&mdash;Initials of a Bruin veteran.20&mdash;First name of Corriveau, last season with Valleyfield Braves.21&mdash;Babe Pratt is the new player on this club.23&mdash;Short for first name to O&rsquo;Hearn, goalie.25&mdash;Highest scoring defenseman in the history of the Detroit Red Wings.26&mdash;Short for given name of 6 down.27&mdash;A requisite for boxers.29&mdash;First name of player traded to Rangers for Leswick.31&mdash;One of the colours in the Canadiens&rsquo; uniforms.36&mdash;Initials of 25 down.38&mdash;Initials of Brennan, Ranger defenseman from 1931 to 1934. &#9632;

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