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December 15, 1951

The Hockey News December 15, 1951

<p><b>VOLUME 5 MONTREAL, DECEMBER 15, 1951 NUMBER 11</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01123/1300368-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="259" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0263/1300361-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="266" height="300"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0349/1300354-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="2964" height="1661"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Flem Mackell of the Leafs tries to get his stick on a rolling puck while three Hawks look on at the open net. Mackell missed the goal much to the delight of Goaler Harry Lumley on the right and Martin and Gadsby with A on sweater. Chadwick is the official.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photos by Turotsky)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0436/1300347-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="2976" height="1981"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Smith of the Leafs makes sure this one goes in. Lumley is facing the wrong way as Mosienko gazes into the open cage at the disc. Rejoicing in the back is Tod Sloan.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02157/1298896-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Jack Goes To Work On Gravel</b></p><p><b>General Manager Jack Adams gives Referee Georges Gravel a verbal berating after the wild brawl for not giving Mortson a stiffer penalty.</b></p> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Kilpatrick)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Gus Claims Glover Lashed Out First, Would Have Cut Off Leg But For Shin Pads</b></h2><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Please pass the aspirin.</p><p>All the headaches which can result from Detroit vs. Toronto games are back with us again. No season ever goes along without their bitter standing feud breaking out anew. This latest explosion seemed to come a bit earlier than usual.</p><p>Like many wild events, the hangover lasted longer than the party. From a wild brawling squabble among players which consumed some 20 minutes grew the &ldquo;Mortson Incident&rdquo; to involve brass hats around mahogany tables.</p><p>The developments which took place here Sunday night, Dec. 2, had their aftermaths in the Olympia front office, in Toronto&rsquo;s throne room, and in Montreal&rsquo;s National Hockey League headquarters.</p><p>Protests and counter-protests were Issued. The technical procedures of the League&rsquo;s upper stratosphere were involved.</p><p>Let&rsquo;s look at it in chronological sequence:</p><p>The Red Wings and Maple Leafs were proceeding along at their normal merry clip, only four fights or lesser brushes having developed in the first 30 minutes of play. Toronto had scored twice, Detroit once.</p><p>On a Detroit rush Right Wing Fred Glover was checked into the boards by Defenseman Gus Mortson. Glover fell to the ice, and Mortson was sprawled over him, hanging onto the boards.</p><h3><b>Many Versions Disagree</b></h3><p>That&rsquo;s where versions of what happened begin to disagree. But this much is known &mdash; a general brawl broke out involving eight players, and Referee George Gravel finally handed out seven assorted penalties to five of them.</p><p>The next day Jack Adams, Detroit&rsquo;s general manager filed a formal protest and request for official investigation over the &ldquo;Mortson incident and ineptitude of officials&rdquo;.</p><p>Always ready to go to bat for his players, Adams issued the following communique:</p><p>&ldquo;The vicious and cowardly attack of Mortson on Glover when flat on the ice was one of the worst I&rsquo;ve witnessed in all my association with the NHL.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03120/1298889-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1143" height="1446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Meek Meeker Mixes Merrily</b></p><p><b>Linsemen Doug Davies, left and George Hayes right, try to break up a fight between Glover and Meeker. Glover is underneath and Meeker has his sweater pulled over his head.</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;In our dressing room after the game Tony Leswick reported that other Toronto players seated with him in the penalty box following the incident expressed their contempt for teammate Mortson for kicking.&rdquo;</p><p>After the game Mortson was quoted as saying &ldquo;Glover kicked at me, so I kicked back lightly with the toe of my skate.&rdquo;</p><p>The next day in Toronto, Mortson had more to say according to a wire-service story. The rugged rear guard stated that Glover han cross-checked him, and that his neck was &ldquo;still sore&rdquo; where he caught that check.</p><p>Mortson added that Glover then lashed out with his skates &ldquo;and would have cut my leg off if I hadn&rsquo;t had pads on.&rdquo; He declared that he had not kicked Glover, but had only &ldquo;gone through the motions.&rdquo;</p><p>From the press box It couldn&rsquo;t be seen whether either player had kicked with his skates. The rink boards hid that part of the act.</p><p>Gravel was not available for comment, although one spokesman stated that at the time of the fray, Gravel stated he hadn&rsquo;t seen the incident.</p><p>Adams, seated on the opposite side of the rink, had a clear view of proceedings, and he didn&rsquo;t wait long to express them. He hurried out of seat, around the rink and down the aisle to the penalty box where officials were huddled with the players.</p><h2><b>Adams Hits Olympia Roof Then Forgets Procedure In Filing Game Protest</b></h2><p>There he spoke heatedly and at length with Gravel and players. Later Adams stated &ldquo;I asked Gravel if he wasn&rsquo;t going to do anything about Mortson.&rdquo;</p><p>From the original clash between Glover and Mortson, ill feelings spread rapidly. Fleming Mackell tangled with Leswick, and then chose Marty Pavelich as a new partner. Leo Reise and Bill Juzda wrestled a bit. Howie Meeker worked four brief rounds despite the linesmen&rsquo;s efforts to keep them apart.</p><h3><b>Forgot Mr. Mortson</b></h3><p>Gravel finally tolled off his penalties&mdash;fighting majors to Meeker and Glover, roughing minors to Mackell, Leswick and Glover, and a misconduct to Leswick who used the wrong words in the debate.</p><p>Only after the players finally lined up for a faceoff did Gravel remember Mortson, who had beat a strategic retreat to the Toronto bench. Gus, who was in on the start of it all was fingered hurriedly to the penalty box to serve a roughing minor.</p><p>The announcement of that light penalty brought a thunder of boos from the season record house of 14,338 fans, and apparently stimulated the part of Adams&rsquo; protest about &ldquo;inept&rdquo; officiating. He had expected Mortson to draw an automatic match misconduct for kicking.</p><p>In Toronto, Coach Joe Primeau of the Leafs took a dim view of Adams&rsquo; protest, calling it &ldquo;a losers squawk.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What does he want to de &hellip; referee the game himself?&rdquo; Primeau was reported as saying. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a little excited because he got beat.&rdquo;</p><p>As for the protest Itself, that hit a snag as soon as it landed on President Clarence Campbell&rsquo;s desk. He promptly called it &ldquo;null and void&rdquo; because it wasn&rsquo;t lodged in the proper way,</p><p>Campbell stated that Adams had failed to comply with League rules which stipulate that formal protests of that nature must be made through the governors.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Mortson Kicked, Didn’t Kick Him But Just Went Through Motions

<div class="byline">(Sports Editor Montreal Gazette)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1054/1298796-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="262" height="387"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hat on earth&mdash;or maybe we should say ice&mdash;is happening to Jack Adams? Those squawks emanting from Detroit after the Red Wings were beaten by the Toronto Leafs there recently don&rsquo;t sound much like him.</p><p>It&rsquo;s only a couple of weeks ago that Jack was making that extremely quotable speech about hockey going soft; they were taking the bang out of it and substituting Byng. But there was so much bang in that 2-1 defeat the Red Wings suffered that Jack made a formal protest to Clarence Campbell, the League prexy.</p><p>The Red Wings&rsquo; general manager was warned by the medicoes a few years ago to take things easy, as too much excitment would not be good for him. Jack listened to the warnings and moved off his seat on the Red Wings&rsquo; bench to take a more distant view of proceedings. That night he became so aroused that he leaped out of his seat, raced through an aisle to the other side of the building, hurried down to the rink-side and roared at Referee George Gravel for not penalizing Gus Mortson. For good measure, he gave the Toronto players within hearing distance a tongue lashing.</p><p>What had Mortson done to steam him up like that? Jack said, he deliberately kicked Fred Glover when the latter was lying on the ice. Mortson denied the charge, saying that Glover had crosschecked him and racked him into the boards.</p><p>&ldquo;When Glover went down on the ice he was kicking at me with, his skates,&rdquo; said Mortson. &ldquo;I kicked him back a few times, lightly though, and with the toe of my boot, not the blade.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Our view was blocked,&rdquo; George Gravel told the heated Adams, meaning his own and the linesmen&rsquo;s. &ldquo;We couldn&rsquo;t tell if Mortson was kicking Glover or not.&rdquo;</p><p>The Mortson-Glover incident touched off a number of other brawls, though the going had been rough from the beginning. Fernie Flaman had ripped into Gordie Howe and had been given a major for fighting. When Glover and Mortson clashed their teammates raced to the scene and the skirmishing became general. The two linesmen, George Hayes and Doug Davies, strove valiantly to separate the battlers, a feat they finally accomplished, though they didn&rsquo;t escape unscathed themselves. Davies came out of the melee with a broken nose.</p><p>It is well known around the League that If you aren&rsquo;t firm with, the Leafs they&rsquo;ll walk all over you; they simply play it that way. If you cuff them back, you put them in their place. Thinking about these things, we asked Dick Irvin what his reaction was to Jack Adams&rsquo; protest.</p><p>&ldquo;That doesn&rsquo;t sound like Adams to me at all,&rdquo; said the Canadien coach. &ldquo;That sounds more like Tommy &lsquo;van. It was Ivan who took Ted Lindsay off the ice in Boston when Ezinicki was trying to get a piece of him. He said he wasn&rsquo;t going to expose a $75,000 hockey player to a guy like Ezinicki.</p><p>&ldquo;You never heard Adams making any speeches like that when he was coaching the Red Wings. They were rugged guys who traded bump for bump with you and never made any complaints. You never came out of Detroit looking quite the same as when you went in.&rdquo;</p><p>Dick went on to say that Maurice (The Rocket) Richard was one of the few &ldquo;color guys&rdquo; left In hockey. Nobody has been able to cool out The Rocket; he makes sure that opposing players take no liberties with him. Ted Lindsay has been cooled out to the point where the Red Wings won&rsquo;t play their Production Line when Bill Ezinicki is on the ice in order to protect Lindsay. Gordie Howe has been forced to steer clear of all imbroglios since his serious accident two seasons ago, but he continues to get socked by accident. The playoff came a few games back when he Was belted, though he wasn&rsquo;t even on the ice. Bob Goldham charged Don Raleigh into the fence and Raleigh&rsquo;s stick parted Howe&rsquo;s hair.</p><p>Jack Adams, incidentally, said before the season started that the Red Wings would be lucky if they finished third, there were so many question marks on the club. But there they are on the top rung and Jack says he is astonished at their performance.</p><p>&ldquo;I never in my best dreams thought we&rsquo;d get away this season as we have,&rdquo; he told Paul Chandler, a Detroit hockey writer. &ldquo;I really thought we&rsquo;d be feeling our way around in this early part, and if we did get hot it would be after the first of the year. But I think we&rsquo;ve smoothed out our team and completed most of the experimenting.&rdquo;</p><p>Most of the question marks were supposed to be on the forward lines, more specifically on the second and third lines. But the Red Wings came up with a smart rookie in Alex Delvecchio, who la pivoting Fred Glover and Tony Leswick. The last-named is now the fellow the Red Wings turn loose on a rough, rough guy like Bill Ezinicki while, wrapping Ted Lindsay in ceib&rdquo;. bane.</p><p>The third line is made up of Metro Glen Skov and Marty Pavelich. The play of Glover, Delvecchio and Skov has been cause for satisfaction in the Red Wings camp and they have a 10th forward, Vic Stasiuk, who is used as a &ldquo;swing&rdquo; man, filling in on any line.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk last season&rsquo;s prize rookie, has been more than fulfilling the promise of his freshman year. Sawchuk Is another of those feMows who tends to fatten up and always has to fight his weight. He never dropped below 200 last winter, but this season he is down to 193. He thinks he is faster and more alert at this weight and credits the dieting to his improved play.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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DINK CARROLL

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT &mdash; The Detroit Red Wings time how long they take to play a period of hockey in the Olympia. Over the years they have found that it takes them on an average of between 28 and 30 minutes to play one 20 minute period.</p><p>But publicist Fred Huber Jr.. of the Wings had to look twice at his time clock the end of the second period of the game in which&rsquo;the Leafs and Wings went to town and staged a pier brawl. Huber reported that it took no less than 55 minutes to play that rough and tough middle frame of the game in which the Leafs won 2-1.</p><p>Huber reported that it was probably the longest period of hockey over played in the Olympia between two NHL clubs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Wings-Leafs Second Frame Took 55 Minutes To Play

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0135/1300406-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Hit and Miss Proposition</b></p><p><b>Max Bentley of the Leafs has just scored his 200th goal of his National Hockey League career in the top picture. Max can be see swerving behind Hy Buller (4) of the Rangers. Hergesheimer is on the right and Rayner is on his way to the ice after missing Bentley&rsquo;s shot.</b></p> <span class="photo-credit">(photo by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0229/1300399-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="2298" height="1539"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>bottom picture, Gordie Howe of the Red Wings tries to fight his way past the Chicago defense as the puck, arrow, lingers at his feet. Lumley goes down to block it while Bodnar puts on the brakes in front of Howe.</b><span class="photo-credit">(photo by Paul Jackson, Chicago)</span></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Players have aired their complaints from time to time over the rugged 90-game schedule being played this season in the six-team Maritime Major Hockey League. But nobody has been as hard hit as the referees, who work six nights each week while each team plays only four.</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t the actual refereeing as much as the travelling that is keeping the whistle-tooters on the go. By plane, train, bus and car they maintain the rugged schedule and if a regular referee has missed a playing date it is a secret well-kept within league circles, One substitute referee did miss a playing date when his car engine froze but all the regulars have been on the scene on time night after night.</p><p>There have been some beefs about the refereeing, of course. When did you hear of a league that didn&rsquo;t have them? But for the most part the officiating has been better than average, and a definite improvement over the past few years.</p><p>The league did, however, get a body blow a few days ago when Hugh McLean announced he was returning to his construction job in Ontario and would no longer be available for work in the Big Six. At this stage of the season it is just about impossible to replace him.</p><p>For McLean&rsquo;s work had been highly successful. Pleasing is another word that could be used without stirring up a rumpus among the hockey fans who make the referees their favorite targets for abuse. McLean, who worked in the National League last winter, has been adjudged one of the best officials ever to officiate in these parts, and that includes a long line of distinguished arbiters, even NHL president Clarence Campbell who refereed the 1935 Allan Cup finals in Halifax.</p><p>McLean also held the post of referee-in-chief. He was partly responsible for the assignment of officials. Thus his departure is a double blow that will be keenly felt.</p><p>The early days of December were hectic ones, for at least four of the six competing clubs. Aiming at the December 15 deadline, these clubs were making trades and keeping the wires open in tha quest for new players.</p><p>Naturally the front-running Saint John Beavers are satisfied with what they have, as well might they be. They have been in the van since the season opened, a polished aggregation that has yet to lose a game on their home ice. They have also won the majority away from home. Once in the past week they lost two games in a row on the road, and this could be regarded as a &lsquo;slump&rsquo;. Only in such a case could the loss of two games in a row be regarded as a losing streak.</p><p>Charlottetown Islanders are just about set, too, although they are in the market for a relief goalie. The Islanders, who lost their first seven games, have the second best team in the league right now, a well balanced squad that is playing consistent hockey both at home and abroad.</p><p>And at long last the slumbering giants are coming alive. Sydney Millionaires are beginning to look like their old selves after a long sojourn in the basement. Fines and suspensions have put new enthusiasm into the ranks. Whitey Procop one of the players fined, left f na huff for his home, but the others are standing by and showing improved form.</p><p>Bud Poile&rsquo;s Glace Bay Miners, in and out of third and fourth places and seldom off the consistent form of a good, well-balanced team, are satisfied with what they have if they can&rsquo;t get the right winger they would like to have in exchange for second string goalie Bob Arneil.</p><p>Moncton Hawks, who have been shuffled so much coach Pohnny Horeck is regarded as the greatest trader in Maritime history, are still in the market. They could use a little more speed, have been forced to play a style of semi-defensive hocky that brings results fairly well but isn&rsquo;t too popular in some centres.</p><p>Halifax Saint Mary&rsquo;s have been the most active of all clubs. They have had more than their share of injuries. They have tried more players than any other club. They even got Wilf Field out of retirement to help out when five of the regulars were sidelined.</p><p>Goalie troubles have plagued the Santamarians. Larry Frechette has been tried and found wanting. He will be shipped away as soon as Don O&rsquo;Hearn comes in. Jim Matson, who came here from Ottawa Senators, may be retained as understudy for O&rsquo;Hearn. The short, stubby custodian just out of junior ranks has shown ability but lack of experience.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hugh McLean Quits Job As Chief Arbiter

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01159/1298506-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="322" height="531"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;</p><p>Put Dick Irvin, coach of the Montreal Canadiens, on the opposite of the fence from Tommy Ivan, coach of the Detroit Red Wings, on the subject of Bad Bill Ezinicki.</p><p>Irvin has announced his membership in the &ldquo;I Admire Ezinicki&rdquo; club, for which Ivan vehemently disqualified himself the last Time the Red Wings were here.</p><p>At that time Ivan called Ezinicki &ldquo;a detriment to the Bruins&rdquo; and declined to play Ted Lindsay, &ldquo;a $75,000 hockey player&rdquo;, while Bad Bill was on the ice.</p><p>Irvin, by contrast, admires the Boston Strong Boy so much that he would like to have him on his Canadiens if he could talk the Bruins into parting with him. He has made at least two attempts to get him in the last two years.</p><p>A year ago Irvin offered the Bruins defenseman Glen Harmon, since retired, for Bad Bill. This year he replaced Harmon with Gerry Couture and repeated the offer.</p><p>The Bruins turned down both Indignantly, for they have no intention of parting with hockey&rsquo;s most controversial figure.</p><p>Irvin, in contrast to his&rsquo; nearnamesake from Detroit, utilized Montreal&rsquo;s last visit here to sing Ezinicki&rsquo;s praises. Among the things he said were:</p><p>1 &mdash; That he would like to have Bad Bill playing for him.</p><p>2 &mdash; That he is one of the National League&rsquo;s greatest assets.</p><p>3 &mdash; That Lindsay isn&rsquo;t worth $75,000 because Ivan has ruined him.</p><h2><b>Would Win Cup With Ezzie</b></h2><p>&ldquo;If I had Ezinicki on the Canadiens,&rdquo; declared Montreal&rsquo;s master of the snappy retort, &ldquo;I would win the Stanley Cup. I would put him on a line with Ken Mosdell and Calum Mackay, then sit back and watch the other teams suffer.</p><p>&ldquo;Ezinicki is one of three colorful players in our League today.&rdquo; continued Irvin. &ldquo;The other two are Rocket Richard and Ted Lindsay, but the way Ezinicki and Lindsay are shackled, they might as well not have color.</p><p>&ldquo;They should let Ezinicki go when he&rsquo;s on the ice. He gives the Bruins a knockout punch, gives them the stuff that the fans like to see. He and Lindsay should be turned loose, like The Rocket.</p><p>&ldquo;Players like Ezinicki and Gus Kyle (Bruins defenseman) can raise heck with a team,&rdquo; Dour Dick continued. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re always hitting someone, and the other fellows have to keep their heads up. They&rsquo;ll win games for you and they&rsquo;ll win customers, too.</p><p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s this tripe about Ivan saying he wouldn&rsquo;t waste a $75,000 player against Ezinicki?&rdquo; demanded Irvin. &ldquo;That Lindsay might have been a $75,000 player once, but Ivan has made a $75 player out of him now.</p><p>&ldquo;I remember the days when It was worth your life to go into Detroit, but not now. It&rsquo;s a breeze now. Guys like Howe and Lindsay just skate around and never lay a finger on anyone. No wonder the fans are hollering.</p><p>&ldquo;I say take the shackles off those fellows&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know who has put them on but I know it wasn&rsquo;t Clarence Campbell (National League president).&mdash;and let them go. We need color and they have it.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin, whose Canadiens are Boston&rsquo;s best box office attraction regardless of their position in the standings&mdash;as they have been since the days of Howie Morenz &mdash; teed off on Ivan and the anti-Ezinicki group the day after Bad Billxhad teed off on Richard.</p><p>The last time the Canadiens were in they collaborated with the Bruins to put on the most spectacular game of the season, with Ezinicki delivering the heartiest thump for the Boston cause.</p><p>In the third period the Boston Strong Boy caught Richard stickhandling in the center zone and got a &ldquo;piece&rdquo; of him, just enough to send The Rocket catapulting to the ice. The collision touched off a general exchange of checks which had the crowd daffy.</p><p>After the game there were no complaints from either Irvin, or Richard, the master showman, as there were the last time Detroit was here and Ezinicki took off after Lindsay. On that occasion Ivan took Lindsay off the ice and didn&rsquo;t let him out again unless Bad Bill was on the bench.</p><p>Thus Irvin has tossed his hat into the controversy centering around Ezinicki. Pro-Bad Bill at the moment are Connie Smythe of Toronto, Irvin and &mdash; definitely &mdash; Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins. Anti-Ezinickis are headed by Ivan and General Manager Frank Boucher of the Rangers, an advocate of scientific&mdash;or nonbijl paying&mdash;hockey.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bears Turn Thumbs Down On Offers By Habs For Ezinicki

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON &mdash; Bill Ezinicki may be a detriment to his club in the eyes of Coach Tommy Ivan of the Detroit Red Wings but to a writer in Detroit he&rsquo;s a tough guy.</p><p>Marshall Dann, hockey writer of the Detroit Free Press and THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; correspondent in the Motor City came out with a story last week claiming that most NHL players, as fighters are poor risks.</p><p>In a signed article in the Detroit Free Press Dann wrote that most fights during games are &ldquo;phoney&rdquo; staged strictly for the public.</p><p>Dann listed 11 players in the National Hockey League whom. figures are real tough guys. Among them was a guy named Ezinicki.</p><p>He listed Maurice Richard, Torn Johnson and Boom Boom Geoffrion of the Canadiens; Flaman and Harry Watson of the Leafs; Howe, Kelly, Lindsay and Stasiuk of. Detroit; Lee Fogolin of the Hawks and Ezinicki of the Bruins.</p><p>But most of the others, said Dann, &ldquo;save their menacing gestures until after the fights have broken up.&rdquo; For hockey players who wish to appear &ldquo;warlike,&rdquo; he listed three rules:</p><p>1. Make threatening gestures, shove, push and jostle and act thoroughly tough until the linemen wander over to interfere.</p><p>2. Then, and only then, when the restrainers are nearby, drop your stick and start throwing punches. Chances are you won&rsquo;t hit anyone except an official and he can&rsquo;t swing back.</p><p>3. When play has been stopped and all the fans are watching, make your motto &ldquo;Hold me back.&rdquo; Tug and strain as though trying to break away from officials holding you. Carry on this way right up to the point where you might escape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Detroit Scribe Lists Ezinicki As One Of 11 NHL Tough Guys

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The man on the PA said it in the stereotyped style: &ldquo;Leafs goal scored by Bentley, assist Mackell, time 8.28&rdquo;.</p><p>But it was an announcement that was greeted with as as much peremptory enthusiasm, hat-throwing and back-slapping among the 13,163 who came to the Gardens that Saturday night (Dec. 1) as you might have heard when a Stanley Cup went one way or the other.</p><p>&ldquo;Ladies and gentlemen,&rdquo; said the PA man with a tone of an officious afterthought, &ldquo;that was Bentley&rsquo;s 200th goal.&rdquo;</p><p>He probably knew that he was telling nobody anything, including the unhappy New York Rangers who were guesting at the Gardens and were eventually treated royally to an 8-2 defeat. There wasn&rsquo;t a person present who wasn&rsquo;t conscious of the fact that when Maxwell loosed that long, low Specialty shot of his at Prince Charlie Rayner that he put everything into it including his skate blades because an ambition was riding along with it. And when it slipped between the post and Rayner&rsquo;s big pads, Bentley joined a lodge which, boasts such exclusive company as Maurice Richard (although he&rsquo;s started on another century) Charlie and Roy Conacher, Howie Morenz, Aurel Joliat, Cy Denneny, Busher Jackson, Syd Howe, Toe Blake, Bill Cook, Aubrey Dit Clapper, Lorne Carr, Herbie Cain, Babe Dye, Sweeney Schriner, Syl Apps, Hooley Smith and his own elder brother Doug who, up until the time he had to go home to Delisle for a rest cure a few Weeks ago had compiled 217 goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02144/1298561-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="571" height="582"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX BENTLEY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Second Active Player In 200 Goal Circle</b></h2><p>That shot carried with it an added distinction. With Doug&rsquo;s semi-retirement (Max claims that his brother won&rsquo;t be back in action till after the New Year if then) Bentley becomes, along with Richard, the only active player in the NHL who has scored 200 goals or more.</p><p>Actually Max almost crept up on the 200 mark Indian style. He approached the turn of the century with such stealth that Conn Smythe, when the total reached 196, had to admit that he didn&rsquo;t think it was that close. He added, that if the team had been at full strength, with Bentley&rsquo;s total at 199, he might consider keeping Bentley home from a road trip to Montreal to save the great moment for local consumption, a suggestion which was greeted with great fanfare in the Montreal papers who considered it not only an already accomplished move, but a most selfish one too.</p><p>Bentley had little comment on the &lsquo;goal, smothered as it was among eight others and a total of 22 scoring points, the Leafs picked up that night. He made a dive for the puck in the net and now he&rsquo;s got it he doesn&rsquo;t know exactly what to do with it. It&rsquo;s likely that the Leaf management will have it suitably inscribed and if so it should have some mention on it of Felmlng Sukey Mackell.</p><p>Sukey, playing left wing with Bentley, broke away from the backtracking Rangers and was all in the clear himself for a shot on the net but elected instead to feed the puck to Bentley who was right with him. It was a fortuitous thought because the unexpected pass caught Rayner on the wrong side of the net anu before he could make a move, Bentley had rapped it home, a good clean shot.</p><p>He&rsquo;s scored the other kind in his time. As the point man on the Leaf power play Max has fattened his average considerably over the last two years with some of those bouncy, ricocheting unpredictable scorchers that hit knees, arms and elbows before they find a corner of the net. Bentley hasn&rsquo;t the constitution for the rugged hooking, holding, slashing and tripping that goes on in some of those in-front-of-the-net traffic jams. He&rsquo;s got the speed and decpetiveness but he has to have room to operate and movies of even that particular game against the Rangers prove that nobody on the opposition is too anxious to give it to him.</p><p>But he&rsquo;s inclined to accept things as they are. And if they let him cut loose like he did that night too often, he&rsquo;ll be passing 300 before he finally decides that wheat farming and family raising are the only duties to which a fellow who is approaching the mid-thirties should confine himself.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-02

Max Vaults Into 200 Circle On Special Delivery From Flem

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL &mdash; Although Jim Morrison never belonged to the Montreal Canadiens he nevertheless did start out with one of their farm clubs. He played with the Verdun Maple Leafs of the Quebec Junior Hockey League while he was on the negotiation list of the Bruins.</p><p>General Manager Frank Selke, in order that he could play in the Bruins&rsquo; organization, gave Morrison his release from then Verdun club and allowed him to&rdquo; go to Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Junior League.</p><p>Had Selke wanted to he could have refused to let Morrison go. There is a good chance that he wouldn&rsquo;t be playing for the Bruins today had Selke said no. The Maple Leafs were a bottom place club with little prospect and the Flyers won the Memorial Cup last season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Selke Gave Morrison His Release To Play In Barrie

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins are showing a lot of confidence in the ability of Jim Morrison to play defense in major league fashion with extremely limited experience.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03134/1298592-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="308" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Morrison</b></figcaption></div><p>Morrison is the 20-year old defenseman who was summoned to Boston from Hershey last month when the veteran Murray Henderson suffered severe Injuries in practice.</p><p>He has been given steady employment by Coach Lynn Patrick in spite of the fact that his background as a defenseman extends back only two winters.</p><p>The stocky youngster from Montreal, who acquired his wellmuscled physique by canoeing, was a left wing exclusively until two years ago, when he was playing with the Verdun Maple Leafs of the Quebec Junior League.</p><p>Morrison was visualized as a prospective Bruin as a forward by Red McKenzie, then the Bruin&rsquo;S Quebec scout, when he saw him playing with Verdun. McKenzie hastened to place him on the Bruins&rsquo; list.</p><p>But before the Maple Leafs finished their season, Morrison&rsquo;s future was altered&mdash;by an injury to a teammate. One of Verdun&rsquo;s regular defensemen broke his leg.</p><p>&ldquo;There was no one else to fill in there,&rdquo; related Morrison, &ldquo;so I was selected. For the rest of the season I alternated between left wing and defense.</p><p>&ldquo;Then at the end of the season I was signed by Harold Cottou (Bruins&rsquo; chief scout) aud assigned to the Barrie Flyers, coached by Happy Emms.</p><p>&ldquo;When I reported to Emms at Barrie a year ago this fall I was still a combination wing and defenseman,&rdquo; Morrison continued, &ldquo;but he made up my mind for me once and for all. He looked me over for a few days, then advised me to concentrate on playing defense. He told me that defense was my best bet to make the Bruins, that he didn&rsquo;t think would be a major leaguer as a forward.</p><p>&ldquo;I took his advice,&rdquo; the youngster added, and I was strictly a defenseman with Barrie last year.&rdquo;</p><p>Morrison left Verdun for Barrie as the leading scorer of the Quebec Junior League, and he left Barrie for Hershey as the highest scoring defenseman in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association, as whose representative Barrie won the Memorial Cup.</p><p>&ldquo;He was more than just a scorer at Barrie,&rdquo; reports the Toronto Star&rsquo;s Gordon Campbell, one of the first to tout Morrison as a future major leaguer. &ldquo;I rated him the team&rsquo;s leader. He was the steady, poised type, something like Jim Thompson of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was the big man on Barrie&rsquo;s power plays and the steadying influence when the team was short-handed.&rdquo;</p><p>Morrison carried his scoring touch with him to Hershey. During his stay with the Bears he was credited with 13 assists. In his first game with the Bruins, against Toronto, he was credited with another.</p><p>Not the cocky type, young Jim has a cool confidence in his own ability that supports Campbell&rsquo;s analysis of him 100 per cent.</p><p>Asked his reaction to the National Hockey League after he had been with the Bruins a short time, he replied:</p><p>&ldquo;I was a little nervous at first, but that has worn off. Except for that, it&rsquo;s about the same as playing in the American League. The problem seems to be getting acclimatized, getting to know the other players and what they do.&rdquo;</p><p>Morrison wouldn&rsquo;t have been elevated from Hershey as soon as he was if it hadn&rsquo;t been for Henderson&rsquo;s tough luck, just as he would still have been a forward if it hadn&rsquo;t been for the misfortune of his Verdun teammate of two years ago.</p><p>But the young man&rsquo;s great knack of being able to rise to the competition indicates that now that he&rsquo;s here, he&rsquo;ll probably stay for a while.</p><p>An all-round athlete, Morrison lives in Montreal. Besides hockey he also plays rugby, baseball and tennis and dabbles in canoeing. Two years ago he and a chum were runners-up in tandems competition in the Dominion canoeing championships at Ottawa.</p><h2><b>The Hockey News</b></h2><p><b>Publiced Weekly, excep. monday May through September, HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 603A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Entered as second class Matter December 6, 1951, at the Post Office in Ogdenburgh, N.Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $3.00 in Canada, $4.00 in U.S.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-03

Morrison’s Work Gets Him B’s Job

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01158/1298647-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b><i>Looking For A Record</i></b></p><p><b>ELMER LACH &hellip; &hellip; Goes Both Ways</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>32 Points To Go To Bypass Boston Bill</i></b></h2><p><b>Wasn&rsquo;t Counted On To Carry Such Big Load This Season: Replaced At Training Camp</b></p><p>Montreal, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The early season spurt by veteran Elmer Lach of the Montreal Canadiens came as a surprise to everyone but Lach himself.</p><p>Although it was a pleasant surprise it could also be admitted that Lach was not being counted on to carry the heavy load this season, at least not the load he has tugged along the first one third of the season.</p><p>In fact Elmer had been tagged to more or less do odd chores, such as leading the Habs&rsquo; power play and tutoring some youngster the fundamentals of centering a line with Maurice Richard. Since that lad didn&rsquo;t appear Lach himself had to step back into the breach. And now he must be credited with a goodly percentage of any success the Canadiens have enjoyed this season.</p><h3><b>Was Question Mark</b></h3><p>Lach was the biggest question mark at the Montreal training camp. Proof of that came when Dick Irvin failed to place him at his usual center spot between Richard and Bert Olmstead. In his place was Doug Anderson, a rookie Who played in Edmonton last season. Lach was used at center between Geoffrion and Paul Meger. It was not a demotion for Elmer. He just wasn&rsquo;t figured to have the legs to keep up with the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; and Olmstead. Besides, his general knowledge would help Geoffrion and Gamble on the second line.</p><p>Yet, it came as no surprise when the Canadiens opened their season against the Chicago Black Hawks On the night of Thursday, October 11 to see Lach back at his familiar haunt between his former linemates. And, just one minute and twenty-nine seconds after the season was underway Lach carried the puck down center, flipped it to Olmstead on the left boards who in turn whipped a pass to Richard standing in front of the goal who scored on Lumley. In the second period Defenseman Bud MacPherson scored his first goal of his NHL career when he took a Lach speciality and drifted a 40 footer past Lumley. It was the start of what may turn out to be Lach&rsquo;s greatest season.</p><p>Since then he has been coming fast. In his first 12 games he scored two and 10 assists for 12 points.</p><p>You can credit many points for Lach&rsquo;s fine play, Firstly, it&rsquo;s his amazing stickhandling ability. He is probably the finest in the League. Secondly, it&rsquo;s guts, thirdly it&rsquo;s spirit and will to win and lastly it&rsquo;s &ldquo;a battle to the last whistle&rdquo; and &ldquo;never give up until you&rsquo;re in the showers&rdquo; feeling. Not that Elmer is a rah rah collegiate candidate. He&rsquo;s far from It. He&rsquo;s not a glory boy, and probably never majored in economics or sandpiling in school, but if there&rsquo;s a degree to be had for blood and guts then Lach should get it. They are positive in Montreal that Churchill stole his famous words &ldquo;I have nothing to offer but blood, sweat and toil&rdquo; from one Elmer Lach.</p><p>Elmer credits his legs to bis success so far this season. &ldquo;I feel better than I have in years,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;My jaw feels great (he&rsquo;s had it smashed twice) and my legs haven&rsquo;t been giving out on me.&rdquo;</p><p>What ever it is that is keeping Elmer going it has been welcomed by the rather unpredictable Habs.</p><p>Lach&rsquo;s fast start from the gate this season should come as a bit of a surprise to even Elmer. This is the first time in the last five seasons that he had broken away with such power.</p><p>Going back to the 1946-47 season statistics show that he has never led the entire NHL in scoring at the one third pole in the race. Yet he has always ended quite near the top.</p><p>In 1946-47, in a 60 games schedule, at the 19 game mark he had scored 11 goals and seven assists and was 31st in the scoring. He finished the season in 31st position after playing only 31 games. He had 14 goals and 16 assist 30 points and a fractured skull.</p><p>The following season, 1947-48 was a remarkable one for Elmer and for hockey in general. The game got its biggest boost when Lach, rumored as retiring, came back and battled tooth and nail with Buddy O&rsquo;Connor for the NHL scoring title. In the last game of the season Lach picked up two points and eked out his former teammate with 30 goals and 31 assists for 61 points. O&rsquo;Connor ended the season one point behind.</p><p>Yet, at the one third mark of the season Lach was riding sixth in the scoring. In 20 games he had scored nine goals and 10 assists.</p><p>1948-49 was a season when the statistics indicated Lach&rsquo;s worth to his club. Sidelined with a broken jaw, he played in only 36 games. He was 23rd in scoring at the one third mark, with an ordinary seven and seven total. He finished 33rd with 11-18. But the indicator came when Richard had his worst NHL season in years. Without Lach for most of the season the &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; only connected for 20 goals, about half his usual amount and finished 17th in the scoring.</p><h2><b><i>Led League At Third Post Of NHL Race</i></b></h2><p><b>Irvin, Goodfellow Agree He&rsquo;s One Of Hockey&rsquo;s Greatest: Will To Win Biggest Asset</b></p><p>1949-50 was the same for Elmer. He finished the season in 12th spot. After being 17th in scoring at the one third mark. Last season at that time he was lingering in 25th position and finished 13th. He was the only Hab player other than Richard to hit the 20 goal column.</p><p>Early season statistics can usually indicate just how a player will finish, the season, unless the injury bug should happen to connect. This season at the one third mark of the schedule Lach led the League with six goals and 18 assists for 24 points in 23 games.</p><h3><b>Has 516 points</b></h3><p>Lach&rsquo;s goal in hockey is to pass Bill Cowley&rsquo;s all time scoring record of 548 points. His total at this writing stand at 516, running second behind Doug Bentley&rsquo;s 526 total. He needs 32 points to become the leader. If he continues to go at his present pace he should make it with ease.</p><p>Lach&rsquo;s future in hockey is one which only Elmer himself knows. A good season this year would undoubtedly bring him back for another one. He&rsquo;s shown few signs of slowing down, in fact he&rsquo;s done just the opposite, he&rsquo;s picked up as compared with the last few seasons. The Habs will probably go on offering him contracts until he feels he can no longer be of use to the club. Besides, trying to find a man to fill his spot would entail a huge man hunt. Jean Marc Beliveau has been nominated as the man to take his place in years to come. But, whether he will eventually become a Hab remains to be seen. So far he has rejected all Montreal offers. And even it Beliveau does sign a contract with the Canadiens there has been talk of using him on a line with Geoffrion and Dickie Moore.</p><p>Lach will, go down in hockey history as one of the greats to ever play the game, in fact Coach Dick Irvin calls him the greatest two way player to ever enter the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;They can talk all they like about Morenz, Apps and Cowley,&rdquo; says Dick, &ldquo;But the greatest of them all is Lach. He can skate, stickhandle, check, score goals, set up plays and backcheck. He&rsquo;s the greatest. I just wish he was 22 years old today.&rdquo;</p><p>To which Chicago coach Ebbie Goodfellow added: &ldquo;He is certainly one of the greatest and a great guy to have around. The team&rsquo;s in trouble, Irvin looks down his bench and there he is. Get him out there.</p><p>&ldquo;Elmer&rsquo;s mean as a player,&rdquo; says Goodfellow. &ldquo;I like mean guys. I say a good hockey player has to have a bit of a mean streak in him. They get out on. the road and it makes no difference to them Size means nothing.</p><p>&ldquo;Players like Elmer are worth their weight in gold in my book,&rdquo; said Ebbie going on to compare him with Morenz. &ldquo;He can&rsquo;t stack up offensively but taking Lach&rsquo;s combined assets in the argument, he&rsquo;s got plenty to offer.&rdquo;</p><p>To which Irvin will add: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s still the greatest. He was great when I had him at training camp when I coached Toronto and he was great the very first day he turned up at the Canadiens training camp in St. Hyacinthe in 1940. There will never be another like him.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-01

Fast Getaway This Season Indicates Elmer Will Top Ex-Bruin

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02130/1298678-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p><b>Born, Nokomis, Sask., January 22, 1918</b></p><p><b>Center, Shoots left. 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;, 170 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club : Moose Jaw Millers.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-02

Elmer’s Year By Year Record

<div class="byline">ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01229/1298765-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="328" height="417"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>M</span>AIALRICE RICHARD</b> and Gordie Howe co-operated beautifully with us on the Simon Sports Club of the Air last Sunday. The two great right wingers were the recipients of THE HOCKEY NEWS annual awards as the outstanding players for 1950-51. The presentations were made on a coast-to-coast broadcast &hellip; More players answer to the name of Jim in the National Hockey League than to any other monicker. There&rsquo;s Jim Henry and Jim Morrison of Boston; Jim Ross and Jim Conacher of New York; Jim MacPherson of Canadiens; Jim McFadden and Jim Peters of Chicago and Jim Thomson of Toronto&hellip; The Bills are next with six&hellip;There&rsquo;s Bill Juzda of Toronto; Bill Ezinicki and Bill Quackenbush of Boston; Bill Gadsby and Bill Mosienko of Chicago, and Bill Reay of Canadiens &hellip; Latest Bill to join the N.H.L. is Bill Cook, new coach of the Rangers &hellip; Art Chapman, G.M. of the Buffalo Bisons, suffered a broken wrist the other day when he slipped on one of the roller skates belonging to his son. Domestic life is tough all right&hellip; Rookie Fred Hucul of the Chicago Black Hawks suffers from a mysterious malady that causes his legs to go dead on him. He has been undergoing various checkups to determine the cause but so far the trouble hasn&rsquo;t been located &hellip; Herb Dickenson scored in each of the first three games he played In Madison Square Garden. Said he liked New York and intended to stick around for awhile &hellip; Jackie McLeod made his first trip to the A.H.L. when Frank Boucher sent him to Cincinnati&hellip; Max Bentley will get a saddle from Charlie Hemstead, Toronto sportsman, for scoring his 200th NHL goal &hellip; Charlie gave Bentley a yearling for an important goal a couple of years ago &hellip; One of the most courageous players to every play in the National Hockey League is Toronto&rsquo;s Hugh Bolton. The lanky rearguard required 20 stitches to close a gaping wound in his head and had his jawbone chipped from a rising shot in a recent Toronto-Canadiens game. Two nights later he was taking his regular turn on defense for the Leafs. What a constitution !</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02206/1298758-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="325" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03138/1298751-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="286" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack McLeod</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04101/1298744-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="274" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0588/1298737-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="310" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Thomson</b></figcaption></div><p><b>CHARLIE GEHRINGER,</b> new general manager of the Detroit Tigers, attends all home games of the Red Wings &hellip; Referee Red Storey has lost 10 pounds since the hockey season started &hellip; Jim Henry, Boston goalie, allowed less than two goals a game to be scored against him and was still unable to win one out of 11 games during the Bruins recent winless streak &hellip; The race in the International Hockey League this season is the closest its been for years &hellip; Toledo Mercurys are the highest scoring team in the International loop &hellip; Conn Smythe feels the Leafs are set at center in the future with Tod Sloan and Danny Lewicki both adaptable to that position &hellip; Murph Chamberlain telephoned Dick Irvin all the way from Vancouver at midnight the other night. After asking Irvin for player help and being turned down, Chamberlain talked to Dick for almost 20 minutes telling him how his Canucks were going to finish first in the PCHL this season &hellip; Another pro puckster born in Scotland is Chuck Blair of Pittsburgh &hellip; Max Kaminsky, who was around the AHL for years as a player and later as a coach, Is manager-coach this season of the Philadelphia Falcons of the Eastern Hockey League &hellip; Bruce Stewart of the Wichita Amateur Hockey Association writes us to the effect that he is looking for hockey players. Those interested should write to Stewart at Boeing Alrplance Company, Wichita, Kansas. It is an amateur league but good jobs are provided for the players selected &hellip; There were 30,000 players registered with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association before the war. Today there are over 6 7,000 players registered with hockey&rsquo;s top amateur body &hellip; Maurice Richard has led the National League In scoring goals In three different seasons but he has yet to top the League in total points. At the one-third mark of the current campaign he had scored 307 goals in the NHL. He needs 18 to shatter Nels Stewart&rsquo;s record of 324 and if he can continue anywhere near his present pace should fracture the 324 mark sometime near the end of January.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0675/1298730-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="304" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Peters</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0766/1298723-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="271" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Mosienko</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0860/1298716-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="277" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Cook</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0960/1298709-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="277" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hugh Bolton</b></figcaption></div><p><b>IT TAKES BETWEEN</b> 29 and 31 minutes to play a regulation 20minute period in Detroit Olympia this season according to Fred Huber who has been checking the actual playing time of each period at Olympia this season. Fred informs that 28 minutes is the fastest time it took to play a period and that the second period of the Toronto-Detroit game on December 2 took the longest. The second period on December 2 took 55 minutes to complete. This is probably a record for the longest single period in hockey&hellip; Conn Smythe credits Fern Flaman with being greatly responsible for the success so far this season of Hugh Bolton &hellip; Smythe, incidentally, figures there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with hockey in Boston, New York or Chicago that the addition of one or more good hockey players couldn&rsquo;t cure &hellip; Over the years the Toronto Maple Leafs have been the best drawing card In Boston &hellip; Bill Mosienko is enjoying one of his finest seasons with the Black Hawks. He picked up seven scoring points in one week and is the only player in the circuit to accumulate five points In one game this season, which he did against New York on December 2.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-01

PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01179/1298834-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="318" height="477"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ontreal Canadiens, always bitter rivals of the Toronto Maple Leafs since the advent of dour Dick Irvin as their coach, have gradually been taking a back seat on the Toronto hate parade over the past few seasons to the Detroit Red Wings and more recently the feudin&rsquo;, fussin&rsquo; and fightin&rsquo; has been heated to such a fever pitch by various off-color incidents that the Habs must, indeed, almost seem like long lost buddies to the Stanley Cup champions.</p><p>It shouldn&rsquo;t be construed that the Canadiens and Leafs have reached the lovey-dovey stage. Although the retirement of Karefree Kenneth Reardon has done much to take the steam out of their feud, Maurice Richard the puckish Rocket of the Canadiens, has done much to rip it wide open again aided (and in some circles they&rsquo;ll insist egged on) by individuals like Bill Juzda and Fern Flaman of the Leafs. The Rocket&rsquo;s most recent excursions into open hostilities occurred a couple of weeks ago when he made threatening gestures with his stick at a spectator and a club doctor and was followed up by the famous-free-for-all in Montreal in which he dealt the aformentioned Juzda a stunning blow to the left optic.</p><h2><b>No Actual Outbreak</b></h2><p>But such incidents are almost peaceful and serene to the most recent ones involving the Leafs and the Wings exemplified most forcefully by the shooting war they held in Detroit a couple of Sundays ago which gave rise to the now-famous Mortson-Glover kicking incident. This one was followed up by the one in Toronto in which, though there was no open outbreak on the ice battle ran over into the corridor which both teams use to get to their respective dressing rooms and which, involved some very uncomplimentary mouthings and shoving from both sides. The hassle was finally broken up by cooler heads aided and abetted by the strong arm of the law in the person of one Sergeant Murray Henderson who, in more summery clime, has gained some repute for his ability to toss cabers, throw hammers and other heavy objects In the annual Police Games. Henderson emerged from the affair which, had as its main bout participants Ted Kennedy of the Leafs and Sid Abel and Terry Sawchuk of the Wings, as the only casualty. Somebody stepped on his special duty brogans inflicting a sizeable cut. Being busy holding six hockey players at once, Henderson was unable to determine the culprit&rsquo;s identity.</p><p>Actually though the sergeant&rsquo;s discomfiture was the only amusing side of the affair which promises to fester and blow off some night in a first class stick swinging, kicking, punching, hey-rube which could cause serious harm. The memory of that bloody feud in Detroit&mdash;two seasons ago &mdash; when Kennedy, who the Detroit players blamed for serious injury to Gordie Howe although league President Clarence Campbell had already cleared him of any responsibility for the Wing right winger&rsquo;s crash into the boards, was the object of a notorious attack by Ted Lindsay, Leo Reise, Lee Fogolin and Sid Abel and as many Leafs as were on the ice.</p><p>Sunday (Dec. 2) night&rsquo;s hassle in Detroit, which established some sort of a record for playing time in the second period was the tip-off for RW manager Jack Adams. He established some sort of a dash record making it from his box seat clean around the Olympia to the penalty box where he harangued referee George Gravel, to register a more-or-less official complaint with president Campbell that the refereeing was incompetent to say the least.</p><h2><b>Of Blood and Thunder</b></h2><p>It involved among many supporting bouts in which the Marquis of Queensbury was completely snubbed, one of which had Fern Flaman sweater blindfolding Gordie Howe and an engagement in three parts between Howie Meeker, the Leaf Member of Parliament and Fred Glover the Red Wing rookie also an unsavoury accusation that Gus Mortson of the Leafs had kicked at the same Glover earlier while he lay on the ice. It was an incident of conflicting reports. The actual scene, because of the boards, could not be seen from the press box but the Detroit version was that Mortson had booted the RW rookie with the toe of his skate more than once.</p><p>Said Mortson: &ldquo;He cross-checked me across the throat as I took him out of the play, and then he kicked at me. If it hadn&rsquo;t been for my leg pad he would have cut me.&rdquo;</p><p>Mortson admitted that he had gone through the motions of kicking at Glover but hadn&rsquo;t connected.</p><p>Said Adams: &ldquo;One of the most vicious and cowardly attacks I have ever witnessed during my years in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>Said Leaf coach Joe Primeau: &ldquo;A loser&rsquo;s squawk.&rdquo;</p><p>Said Conn Smythe, Leaf boss: &ldquo;I would be willing to bet that 98 per cent of the rows the Wings get themselves into happen on their own ice. We&rsquo;ve had our fights in Montreal, Boston. Chicago, New York, everywhere. When was the last time you saw them start something in Toronto?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You wouldn&rsquo;t be insinuating that they&rsquo;re homers?&rdquo; asked a scribe who has to ask these things for a living.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t say that,&rdquo; said Smythe, &ldquo;It just seems odd to me.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually save for the odd perfunctory flareup, the Wings in their midweek visit to Toronto didn&rsquo;t do anything to make it any less odd. There was the usual high sticking, the elbowing, the tripping and slashing that is always evident when these two clubs sniff the air and smell battle &mdash; or each other. Once Glover tangled with Mortson and fell right ai his feet and looked up at him with what might have been a touch of awe as Gusty Gus merely stood still and waited for him to arise.</p><h2><b>Otherwise Quite Tame</b></h2><p>It wasn&rsquo;t indeed, till that sudden and unexpected ooutburst in the hallway that there was actually any sign that there was a shooting war. And that incident in itself has its roots in the second period when the Wing goalie held Kennedy&rsquo;s stick and they exchanged some hot words. Sawchuk invited Ted to meet with ham after the game and the invite was accepted and promptly forgotten till they met in the corridor.</p><p>And that affair in turn has been promptly forgotten except by Sergeant Henderson who is looking for new boot. But there will be others so things can never get dull and tickets for these meetings at least will always be scarce.</p><p>The Leafs lost the services of Howie Meeker in this one when he spranged into a goalpost in a headlong rush. Torn knee ligaments which will likely necessitate an operation will keep him out about two months. Bill Juzda has been lost for a month to undergo an operation on his foot. He should have been hospitalized earlier in the week actually but wanted to hang around long enough for another belt at the Wings.</p><p>Danny Lewicki, though, was due back anytime from a knee injury to take up some of the slack and Smythe was casting an appraising eye at defenseman Tim Horton, who he says has improved immeasurably under King Clancy&rsquo;s management with the Pittsburgh Hornets and at George Armstrong, leading AHL goal-getter at this sitting who will undoubtedly find his way up to the big team before the season is over.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02196/1298827-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="565" height="876"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HOWIE MEEKER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Sawchuk Invites Kennedy To Meet Him In Alleyway

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded.. October 1, 1947</b></p><p><b>Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. Cotn HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY Circulation</b></p><p><b>Room 204, King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Advertising & Editorial 403A Sun Life Bldg., 1155 Metcalfe St., Montreal 2, Que. Average Weekly Circulation 35,000</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 In Canada &mdash; $4.00 In U.S.A.</b></p><p><b>Authorised as second mail. Post Office firpertment. Ottawa. Entered ae second class mall at the Poet Office In Obdensburg. N.Y.</b></p><p><b>Return all U.S. underverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey New. Company Room 204. King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal Z5. Qua. Printed In Canada</b></p><p><b>Number 11 December 15, 1951 Volume 5</b></p><p>Big Bill Cook, for the second time in his career, has made the long trek in from Saskatoon in Canada&rsquo;s West to the bright lights of New York. Only difference is that this time he comes to the Broadway Blue shirts as the new coach, replacing the ailing Neil Colville.</p><p>Some twenty-five years ago, when Cook made that first journey, it was as a player, and for the next ten years he blazed a brilliant trail in the hockey firmament to win a firm place as one of the greatest forwards of all time. Only future events will tell whether he can rival that record in his new role as a coach, but all who know him are betting he will make a fight of it no matter what.</p><p>Announcement last week that Bill Cook was taking over the helm of the faltering, stumbilng Rangers thus brought the hockey wheel full circle and completed a chain of coincidence which has few equals.</p><p>Because it was from the ancient Saskatoon Sheiks that Cook came east to win fame with that roistering, scrapping early New York Rangers crew which rode high in the National Hockey League for many years. And it was from the present-day edition of Saskatoon Quakers in the Pacific Coast Hockey League that the burly Bill heeded the call to take over his new job.</p><p>Cook back in the early 1920&rsquo;s was one of the stars in professional hockey ranks in Western Canada &mdash; in the old Coast League and Western League which at one time had equal status with the NHL as the foremost pro puck setups. When the Saskatoon stalwarts were called on to form the nucleus of the New York entry in the up-and-coming National loop, Cook was the core of the brilliant scoring machine.</p><p>In the stimulating air of Gotham, Cook found the goal nets just as easy to locate as they had been in the West, and along with brother Bun Cook and present Ranger General Manager Frank Boucher formed one of hockey&rsquo;s alltime great scoring trios.</p><p>One of the most durable players the game has ever produced, Cook played ten years in the NHL &mdash; although he was a well-seasoned 30 years old when he started &mdash; and racked up 228 goals in his dazzling career. That total today ranks him well down the list of all-time scorers, but is actually phenomenal under the circumstances. In his career in Western Canada Cook hammered more than 80 goals behind opposing netminders, and those should legitimately be counted in his lifetime total since the calibre of hockey in those loops was fully the equal of the NHL.</p><p>If those were counted, Cook today would be credited with well over 300 goals, which would place him at least third in the lists, behind Nels Stewart and Maurice Richard, who seems due to wind up the season as the most prolific goal-counter of hockey history.</p><p>Cook comes to the Rangers at a time when they are wallowing in darkest despair, but it&rsquo;s the hope of Cook&rsquo;s supporters that he can stimulate them to greater efforts by the very magic of his name and his vast fund of hockey knowledge. This is Cook&rsquo;s first venture at major league coaching, but he has already won his spurs capably as mentor of Minneapolis Millers and Denver Falcons in the dormant United States League, where he enjoyed marked success until disbandment of the loop moved him along to the Ranger farm at Saskatoon &mdash; his starting point on the road to hockey fame.</p><h2><b>HE SCORES &mdash; WITH AN UPPERCUT !</b></h2><p>Casual or confirmed readers of the sports pages these days might well be a trifle confused about just what kind of sport is being played this year in the National Hockey League! Accounts of games are usually devoted to blow-byblow descriptions of boxing set-tos, wrestling tug-overs and just general pile-on-the beans technique. To cap it all off, one Detroit sports writer has even gone through the League, comparing the various players for their fisticuffing ability!</p><p>Occasionally, some accounts of hockey playing emerge through the fog but normally there&rsquo;s more interest in the results of the latest clashes in the &ldquo;blade-weight&rdquo; division, with prophecies and speculations as to what will happen when such-and-such a team next meets so-and-so.</p><p>Of course, the weather may have something to do with it all &mdash; since this winter in most localities has been more like an early Spring. Then, too, sport seasons of late years have become competely tangled, with baseball getting underway while hockey teams are battling for the championship Cups; football swinging into action and the rest.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WHEEL TURNS FULL CIRCLE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01251/1298951-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Overtime Situation</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>First, let me congratulate you on the fine job you are doing with your publication. It Is undoubtedly one of the best sports papers issued.</p><p>I am enclosing an article from the New York Journal American which might be of interest to you on that very old subject, tie games.</p><p>When is Mr. Campbell going to get wise to the fact that his thoughts or the thoughts of the NHL club owners mean nothing as regards tie games, it is strictly up to the fans.</p><p>Because the fans express their disgust by staying away, there will be no NHL, nor Mr. Campbell, no nothing. Another thing that keeps me and quite a few others away from hockey games is the refereeing.</p><p>After all the talk at the beginning of the season about how tough the referees were going to get, the refereeing this year is worse than ever. Checking into the boards is ignored, there is more holding than ever before, in fact the rules are generally ignored.</p><p>Last Sunday, I saw Lumley, the Chicago goalie skate out from his nets and calmly bat the puck into the crowd. In my rule book that calls for a penalty, did he get one? No. The ref just got a new puck and ordered a faceoff. If they are going to ignore the rules why not through the rule book out altogether.</p><p>Rough hockey is good. Dirty hockey is no good. Get the linesmen out of the players&rsquo; way and let them start calling penalties on holding and needless banging into the boards.</p><p>A friend just came up with a good idea. Why don&rsquo;t you have a poll in your paper on the subject of overtime? Also change the rule to read no points for a tie game. That would end a lot of them, I think.</p><p>F. Nelson. New York, N.Y.</p><p><b>(Gee, whiz, Mr. Nelson, do you really hate everybody that much? The NHL has set down rules and regulations and the overtime subject will be dealt with as set down. But we won&rsquo;t understand how you saw Lumley bat the puck into the crowd if you&rsquo;ve been staying away from games.)</b></p><h2><b>No Runaway</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Please advise Miss Sutherland that &ldquo;her boy&rdquo; Glen Skov will definitely not make a runaway of the rookie award. In my opinion he will be lucky if he finishes in the top three for the trophy. The top three rookies, I believe, will be as follows:</p><p>1&mdash;Geoffrion, Montreal.</p><p>2&mdash;Buller, New York.</p><p>3&mdash;Delvecchio, Detroit.</p><p>Please note that she also writes that Skov is the finest player to come into the NHL since Gordie Howe.</p><p>I wonder if she has ever heard of Tod Sloan of the Stanley Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>A. McPherson. Toronto, Ont.</p><h2><b>Transplanted Fan</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I think your paper Is priceless. I read every inch of it every week and there is no other paper like it.</p><p>I am from the Maritimes and just recently moved to Montreal. I would appreciate it if you would give me some Information about Buck Whitlock of last year&rsquo;s Saint John Beavers. Where is he playing this season?</p><p>Also, why do you waste so much ink on Sydney if you think they are so poor.</p><p>I think the Saint John Fans are acting childish now that they have a team they can brag about. They are ignoring them.</p><p>What do they want for a team?</p><p>Janet Doucet. Montreal, Que.</p><p><b>(Whitlock is playing for Charlottetown this season. Our Maritime correspondent writes what he thinks will interest hockey fans the most. We do not specify that he writes about Sydney all the time).</b></p><h2><b>Not Phoney</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>The other day I listened to a broadcast quoting Marshall Dann as saying &ldquo;N.H.L. fights are phoney and are staged for the fans&rsquo; enjoyment.&rdquo; He also named a couple of tough players like Richard and Flamon as mixers.</p><p>Fights in N.H.L. aren&rsquo;t phoney as Mr. Dann states because for example Juzda and Richard brawl showed plenty of blood, so did the Lindsay-Ezinicki fight. I could name ten more if you want. So Mr. Dann, I just don&rsquo;t agree with you and many fans will all agree with me.</p><p>We all know these fights are part of hockey, also it doesn&rsquo;t delight the fans, but they are not phoney!</p><p>Yours truly, Montreal, Qne. Alfred Cantier</p><h2><b>Likes The Columns</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I like this Idea of running columns by Dink Carroll, Milt Dunnell and Elmer Ferguson. These are the biggest names in hockey sportswritlng and so your readers are at least getting it straight from the men who know. I particularly like Dunnell for he can write and be serious and humorous at the same time.</p><p>It&rsquo;s about time your paper began to takes sides on different opinions. I&rsquo;m glad to see you chose the right men to do it.</p><p>Ronald Gilmore Winnipeg, Man.</p><h2><b>Orlando Looks Young</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Looking through last week&rsquo;s issue I came across the picture of Jimmy Orlando and Jack Stewart. Gosh, Orlando looks young enough to start all over again. What&rsquo;s he doing now?</p><p>William Thompson Windsor, Ont.</p><p><b>(Jimmy referees wrestling bouts in Montreal and vicinity and also works for Eddie Quinn, sports promoter in Montreal. Besides that he owns a night club there.)</b></p><h2><b>Nuts To Ferguson</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Since when has Sports Editor Elmer Ferguson of the Montreal Herald had the good of our game at heart. And since when does it make any difference to him whether Frank Boucher openly speaks the truth, which seldom do we get in this game.</p><p>Neil Colville didn&rsquo;t think his club was much good when they beat the Canadiens and neither did Boucher. Why should they tell a pack of lies just to satisfy Ferguson. The game was terrible since I saw it. Perhaps Mr. Ferguson should buy a pair of glasses if he though the Canadiens should have won. He&rsquo;s certainly the most convincing second guesser I&rsquo;ve ever read.</p><p>Gordon Mallory New York, N.Y.</p><h2><b>Are The Habs Scared?</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>Your publication is a wonderful way to keep up with the hockey world. Thanks and keep it coming.</p><p>When will the Montreal Canadiens stop being afraid to deal with the other clubs in the League. If they really wanted somebody bad enough they would certainly give up some of the deadwood they have been carrying for so long.</p><p>Jack Stoddard belongs in the NHL and right now he belongs an independent club. How come the Habs haven&rsquo;t made efforts to buy him?</p><p>Brian Maxon Montreal, Que.</p><h2>A Delvecchio Fan</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>That was a fine piece written by Marshall Dann on Alex Delvecchio of the Red Wings. We used to see Alex play in the Ontario Junior League and he was always great. It seemed he was destined to become a tine National Leaguer the minute he was spotted.</p><p>He is a fine young man and a tribute to Canadian youth. I hope he does well in the National League for that&rsquo;s where belongs.</p><p>Jean Carter Toronto, Ont.</p><h2><b>Just As Opinion</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>The pros and con of overtime have been thrashed out from both side in your magnificent paper. You have taken the right attitude by staying neutral but hoping that what is best for the game comes to be.</p><p>Personally I believe overtime will help but not to the extent of returning the huge crowds to Chicago, Boston and New York, I am convinced that only good hockey and winning teams will do that.</p><p>I have been following hockey in the States for many years. I used to go more often than I do now but prices have got to the point where I can&rsquo;t afford to go more than once a week &mdash; usually Sunday night.</p><p>The game hasn&rsquo;t changed any. It&rsquo;s just that three teams in the League are better than the other three. It&rsquo;s the same in baseball. The Browns couldn&rsquo;t draw flys because they weren&rsquo;t winning. Yet, the Cleveland Indians, who have always been La the pennant race, fill their huge stadium quite regularly. When the Browns start win then their fans will return, that was proven by the Chicago White Sox last season.</p><p>I would suggest, as Smythe did, try and sell the game as a 60 minute one before a 70 minute one.</p><p>That&rsquo;s my opinion and I hope you don&rsquo;t throw it in the waste&rsquo; paper basket.</p><p>Alec Kamaris Stamford, Conn.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<p><b>It Is our policy to notify all subscribers well in advance of the expiration of their subscriptions.</b></p><p><b>The ever-increasing demand for THE HOCKEY NEWS means that most issues are practically sold out before the printing is completed; and that copies are seldom available for mailing to subscribers who are even one Issue in arrears.</b></p><p><b>Subscribers receiving &ldquo;expiration&rdquo; notification are reminded that, to make certain of continued receipt of THE HOCKEY NEWS It is necessary to send us their renewal orders promptly.</b></p><p><b>if you have renewed your subscription then disregard our notice.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

DID YOU RECEIVE A NOTICE !

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02142/1299006-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="606" height="287"></div><h2><b>DECEMBER 19 to 25</b></h2><p>19&mdash;HARVEY: Doug, Montreal, defense, 1924; PODOLSKY; Nels, Edmonton, forward, 1925.</p><p>22&mdash;MILLIGAN: George, St. Louis, defense, 1925; ATAN-AS: Walt, forward. Buffalo, 1922</p><p>23&mdash;DUMART: woody, Boston, forward, 1916; SOLINGER: Fob, Toronto, forward, 1925.</p><p>24&mdash;SULLIVAN: George, Boston, forward, 1929.</p><p>25&mdash;WOCHY: Steve, Cleveland, forward, 1922.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL - SPORTS EDITOR (Toronto Star)</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01203/1299044-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>image caption</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Just Call Him The Lonely Ranger</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>HERE&rsquo;S no more desperate character in death row than the baseball hitter who&rsquo;s in a slump and can&rsquo;t hit, or the hockey player who can&rsquo;t seem to put the puck in the net. Gaye Stewart, who never has been under 18 goals in seven seasons of big league hockey, went through his 21st game of the season In Toronto &mdash; Btill looking for his first counter. He went scoreless again in Chicago the next night. The irony of it is that Stewart is one of the new Rangers Whom Frankie Boucher acquired to give the club some scoring punch. They had 21 tie games last season. If they had won just two of them, they&rsquo;d have been in the playoffs. At their present gait, the Blues promise to have almost as many dead heats this season. And they&rsquo;re no bargain as a bet to make the spring playoffs.</p><p>Failure of Stewart to get the puck in the strings is a big factor in the New York power shortage. It also has been one of the season&rsquo;s hard-luck mysteries. Gaye got 18 goals for Detroit in the 1950-51 campaign. That was such a poor output for him that the Red Wings sent him down the creek to Gotham. With the dismal start he&rsquo;s had this term, even 18 goals are beginning to look like an impossible cluster.</p><p>A guy who&rsquo;s going in tough luck like that is the victim of the goalies&rsquo; best saves. And the goal posts look as wide as the mouth of the Detroit tunnel. Stewart came to town still shaking his head over a play which Harry Lumley of the Black Hawks made against him in Madison Square Garden. Stewart got the puck on a breakaway, and had big Lum like a sitting duck. He had his first goal of the season already counted &mdash; in his noggin. He picked an upper corner and let fly. Lumley got his shoulder in front of the puck, and deflected it.</p><p>&ldquo;On another play, in the same game, I got the puck into the net, but Linesman Sammy Babcock ruled it was offside,&rdquo; Stewart gloomed. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t make a practice of second-guessing the officials, but I figured he was wrong on that one.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02176/1299037-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1150" height="654"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gaye Stewart Misses A Goal Against Rollins As Harry Watson Covers Up.</b></figcaption></div><p>Gaye started out the game here with a goal against the Leafs. But he was offside. Al Rollins, in the Toronto net, made some catquick moves to turn him back on several later efforts. Howie Meeker came in fast to pick the puck off Stewart&rsquo;s stick and ruin another try, during a third-period Ranger power play. The whammy seemed to be on Mr. Stewart.</p><h2><b>His Work Is O.K. &mdash; But He Can&rsquo;t Prove It</b></h2><p>VETERAN observers of the hockey scene, like Carson Cooper, the old shovel shot artist, couldn&rsquo;t recall a high scorer of Stewart&rsquo;s calibre going so long without a goal. Stewart, himself, said he simply seemed to be zigging when he should have been zagging. When he fired the puck low, the opposing goalies were low. When he put the puck high, they were playing that way.</p><p>Rangers&rsquo; ex-coach, Neil Colville, whose thatch was gray, got a few snow-white hairs out of the debacle. But Colville didn&rsquo;t criticized Stewart for his failure to score. Gaye&rsquo;s performance has looked pretty good for the Rangers. He&rsquo;s noticed the free-wheeling winger has done more checking this term. That&rsquo;s a department in which he&rsquo;s been marked absent in past seasons. But Colville was puzzled over his failures around the pay station. Ability to finish off a play has been one of Stewart&rsquo;s strong points.</p><p>&ldquo;Edgar Laprade had a doozer of a slump last year,&rdquo; Colville mused, but he nevert went 20 games without scoring. Gaye has become so anxious, he&rsquo;s presstags. That will hurt his timing. I notice now he&rsquo;s getting a little ahead of the puck-carrier at the blue line. That makes it difficult, to put the puck on his stick.&rdquo;</p><p>People keep telling Stewart, a big goal-getter like he always has been just can&rsquo;t go 20 games without getting one. All Gaye that he&rsquo;s done a pretty convincing job of proving he can. Maybe the hex of Conn Smythe and Jack Adams is just catching up to him. They&rsquo;ve got a reputation of never giving away anyone who&rsquo;ll come back and haunt them. Both have traded off Stewart.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03132/1299075-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="553" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON RALEIGH</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>ne of the few bright spots in an otherwise drab start for the New York Rangers has been the consistency of Don (Bones) Raleigh&rsquo;s attacking strength. Bonesy not only hits the spot on ice but he retains a faithful following out of action. It is the hope here that he blossoms out into a &ldquo;Dixie Walker of hockey,&rdquo; a sort of people&rsquo;s choice.</p><p>Raleigh finds this role a natural. He runs the gamut from Rotary Club luncheons to father-and-son nights without interrupting his point-gathering activities for the Rangers, and it is a toss-up as to where Raleigh performs a greater service. As goodwill ambassador, the Thin Man is quite a salesman.</p><p>As this is written, Raleigh is 10th ranking scorer in the League. It is a long time since the Rangers finished with any individual in the top ten, but Bonesy is rankled by his present status.</p><h2><b>Montreal Judge Robbed Him Of A Goal</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I should be in the first five,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be disappointed if I don&rsquo;t finish up there. I see by the League records that I have six goals and nine assists, but I know of one goal that was taken away from me. That was in Montreal. I scored from fully two to three seconds before the end of the period, but the goal judge refused to put the red light on until the period ended. That&rsquo;s what you can expect of goal judges in Montreal. They think they&rsquo;re employed by the Canadiens instead of the League.&rdquo;</p><p>At all of the Rangers&rsquo; promotional gatherings, Raleigh gives his audience an eloquent exposition of how a kid in Canada develops into a hockey player. Since he weighs only 150 to 155 pounds on a 5:11 frame, he makes a fairly curious illustration.</p><p>&ldquo;I tell &rsquo;em,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;that when I was a kid of 10 or 11, I skated six nights a week. I did my homework after four, and then it was automatic for me to go out on the rink in Winnipeg. I did that from the end of November until the middle of March. Hockey was my life. I went from bantams to midgets to juniors to the NHL. I skipped the juveniles and the senior leagues and all pro leagues except the NHL.&rdquo;</p><p>Raleigh elaborated by saying he is always asked how a fragile looking scarecrow can keep from getting knocked flat in the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s only one answer,&rdquo; Raleigh said. &ldquo;I tell &rsquo;em a guy like big Ed Slowinskl can plow through defenses, but I&rsquo;ve got to be elusive. I&rsquo;ve got no muscles. Maybe I get hurt in the tendons or the ligaments, but it&rsquo;s never the muscles. I don&rsquo;t have any.&rdquo;</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t easy to explain, Raleigh said, that big league hockey clubs have farm systems and scouts, same as baseball, but he does the best he can to put over that fact.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a bit of an oddity,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I believe I&rsquo;m the only player in the big League who went back to junior amateur ranks and then came back to the NHL.&rdquo;</p><p>It started in 1943. Raleigh was discovered by Bill Kochen and reported immediately to the Rangers from out of juniors. That season his jaw was broken. He went back to Winnipeg after finishing the season with the Brooklyn Crescents and, because he was 18 and anticipating an army call, he could not get back across the border. Reinstated to junior service, two years elapsed before he could rejoin the Rangers. The second time it was Jack Wells who negotiated the reunion.</p><p>Something of a streak player, Raleigh holds the Ranger record for three fastest assists. The skinny playmaker set up three goals in one minute and 21 seconds of a game with Montreal on Nov. 16, 1947.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t had my streak this year,&rdquo; Raleigh says. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;ve got a hunch it&rsquo;s about due. They&rsquo;ve got Gaye Stewart on my line with big Slowinski, and he&rsquo;s Just about ready to bust out. Only time I played on a same line with Gaye was in the last All-Star game. I&rsquo;m glad I&rsquo;m playing with him. He&rsquo;ll be scoring soon from all angles.&rdquo;</p><p>A unique character, this Raleigh. Watch him before a game. He insists on taking the first practice shot at goalie Chuck Rayner, and after he has had that out of the way, he&rsquo;ll drape himself over the right boards. No special reason. Just a superstition.</p><p>Recently, Raleigh made a 10minute record on hockey for the Voice of America.</p><p>&ldquo;This one,&rdquo; said Raleigh, &ldquo;was aimed at Japan where hockey is developing into a real popular sport. I gave the people of Japan my idea of how the game was played, the equipment, what it looks like, ancLso forth. In Japan, I&rsquo;m told, the goalie has to get rid of the puck the instant he catches it. If he holds it as much as a second, the goal counts.&rdquo;</p><p>Bonesy is adding this record to his voluminous collection. He has long-player disks of long-hair classics by what he calls the Big Four &mdash; Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert; and he also collects dixieland compositions.</p><p>&ldquo;One night I went from Metropolitan Opera,&rdquo; confesses the odd Thin Man, &ldquo;to a jive concert in Greenwich Village. Nobody can accuse me of being in a musical rut.&rdquo;</p><p>Or in any other kind of rut, for that matter.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-03

Bonesy Eyes Top Five Scorers With Goal Set To Finish There

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL &mdash; &ldquo;You guys are dealing off all the players you don&rsquo;t like on my team,&rdquo; says Dick Irvin. The statement was meant for the newspapermen who had mentioned via their medias that the Habs would pull of deals with Detroit and maybe Chicago shortly.</p><p>The first mentions of a deal cooking came from the Montreal Herald. It was said that Adams and Selke had their heads together and out of is might possibly come a deal. Baz O&rsquo;Meara of The Montreal Star mentioned that the Habs had offered Couture for statement since it was reported in Ezinicki and it was na false print in Boston and it also said Walter Brown turned the offer down. Dink Carroll of the Montreal Gazette had the trade to Chicago mapped out via his column. It include McNeil, McPherson, MacKay and Couture.</p><p>But no English newspapermen have come out with a hate campaign against any of the Habs. The fans have shown particular dislike for Bud McPherson of late and before they get on his neck they took it out on Cal MacKay.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

“You’re Dealing Players You Don’t Like.” Dick Tells Scribes

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02182/1299161-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="274" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Jack Adams, th jovial manager of the Detroit Red Wings, paid he was dead set against the revival of overtime hockey in the Nationa Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;It won&rsquo;t solve a single, solitary thing,&rdquo; the Red Wings boss said in answer to recent requests by the Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers that the N.H.L. return to its old overtime game system to decide tie games. The requests were issued as a possible means of checking an attendance decline at both Boston and New York.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll approach the subject with an open mind,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;And I sincerely feel that nothing other than a winning team can ease lack of attendance.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams pointed out that Boston won its first home game in nine tries recently.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t expect fans to turn out in droves when the home team is losing consistently,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>&ldquo;Mr. Hockey,&rdquo; as Adams is commonly known, advocates a vast rebuilding of the farm systems at Boston and New York and also in the Chicago Black Hawk organization.</p><p>&ldquo;They might better go after good talent,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;rather than exhaust the present supply with added work, which would happen if overtime games were brought back.&rdquo;</p><p>He said the hockey season is long enough now as it is, having been extended from 60 to 70 games, especially with the playerlimit slashed from 18 to 16 players this year.</p><p>&ldquo;Man for man, they&rsquo;re playing more hockey now than ever before,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Why further burden the players with additional work? I think it would just slow the teams down. And slower games would In turn reduce the interest for the fans.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams said, &ldquo;It only stands to reason that the strong teams would benefit most by overtime hockey and the weaker teams would be even worse off than before.&rdquo;</p><p>Productive farm systems are the only means of solving the old attendance evil, according to Adams.</p><p>Adams said Detroit would like to help the lesser clubs, but the Red Wings are facing a manpower shortage themselves. The Detroit recruiting system is at a low ebb and a rebuilding problem lies ahead.</p><p>As for Boston, Adams thinks the Bruins have a sound, young team which will hold its own in the future. New York and Chicago appear to be in the worst trouble.</p><p>&ldquo;They need players, not longer games,&rdquo; Adams said. &ldquo;If I thought overtime would help I&rsquo;d go along, but it wouldn&rsquo;t accomplish anything.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-02

Overtime Would Burden Players, Says Jolly Jack

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Ol&rsquo; Doc Patrick seems to have come up with the right prescription for his ailing Boston Bruins, season-long sufferers from anemia in the scoring department.</p><p>The prescription is a thorough shaking up of his forward lines, spiced by a couple of promotions and demotions.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03137/1299192-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="286" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption></div><p>The shaking up, which cost Center Ray Barry and Left Wing Vic Lynn their jobs with the Bruins and elevated Center David Creighton and Left Wing Jack McIntyre from Hershey to the varsity, finally produced a home victory after nine previous failures this season.</p><p>When the Bruins knocked off the Montreal Canadiens early this month, they made a good medicine man of their coach because all three of his line combinations figured in the scoring.</p><p>In the offensive improvement &mdash; and especially in the notable victory over the Canadiens &mdash; Creighton and McIntyre both figured prominently.</p><p>Creighton, the big blond who warmed the Bruins&rsquo; bench for three years as a left wing, has developed into an aggressive center, and McIntyre, his equally big sidekick, shapes up as a formidable left wing.</p><p>Patrick, delighted by the spark they have given his attack, unloaded superlatives on both soon after they checked in as Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;Creighton is a natural center,&rdquo; he observed, &ldquo;and I had an idea that he was when he went to Hershey this fall to become one. He always had the knack of scoring, but he couldn&rsquo;t seem to get the knack of playing wing.</p><p>&ldquo;He has amazed me with the progress he has made and I just hope he can keep up his fine play, because he&rsquo;s just what we need.&rdquo;</p><p>On the subject of McIntyre the Bruins&rsquo; coach was a little more reserved, but he spoke in glowing terms of the Moose&rsquo;s speed, power and snappy shot.</p><p>In the general shakeup which followed the arrival of Creighton and McIntyre and continued until the triumph over Montreal, Patrick broke up his &ldquo;big&rdquo; line of Capt. Milt Schmidt, Adam Brown and Johnny Peirson for the first time this season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-03

Patrick Shakes Up Lines, Pulls Club Out Of Slump

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Imaginary deals which seldom, if ever, come off between the Canadiens and other clubs in the League have drawn the ire of coach Dick Irvin.</p><p>&ldquo;Everybody is trading off my players,&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know who started it but all I&rsquo;ve been reading lately is about a deal cooking between Detroit and us.&rdquo;</p><p>It was pointed out that the rumors started when General Manager Jack Adams of the Wings was seen in the vicinity of Frank Selke&rsquo;s office and later Adams went into conference with Selke.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01236/1299106-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="331" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOM JOHNSON</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Can&rsquo;t the man come here and talk without a deal being cooked up,&rdquo; said Irvin. The newspaperman don&rsquo;t seem to think about the players involved How would you like it if every morning when you went to the dressing room you found you were being traded for some hackle outside.</p><p>It was pointed out to Irvin that these dreamed up deals don&rsquo;t hurt the game, in fact they stir up speculation. And they certainly shouldn&rsquo;t hurt the players. It was also pointed out that in baseball Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox has been traded to every ball club in the country. That happens every year. Yet the Splendid Splinter hasn&rsquo;t let it worry him. He still hits over .300 every season. It&rsquo;s the same in many cases in baseball. Often the real stars of the game are reported being traded and the deals backfire. At least it stirs up speculation and talk. Something hockey needs in the worst way right now.</p><p>Although Irvin may have a legitimate beef with Montreal&rsquo;s newspapermen for these dreamed up trades they also have a beef with him that is just as legitimate. For instance, they had to pick up a Boston newspaper to find out the Canadiens had offered Gerry Couture for Bill Ezinicki and that last season they offered Glen Harmon for &lsquo;Wild Bill&rsquo;.</p><p>Irvin, who knows the value of publicity, perhaps better than any actual publicity man in the business is doing more to bolster the sagging hockey situation in the States than any other three managers or coaches. But, in doing so he has also neglected to think about his home scribes, just as they have neglected to worry about his players In cooking up deals. Irvin has become Boston&rsquo;s best means of publicity. Recently he gave newspapermen there one of the best hockey stories of the season. He called Lindsay a $75 hockey player when Ivan of Detroit had put a $75,000 tag on his winger. Irvin blamed Ivan for putting the shackles on one of the most colorful little guys in the game. The story made good reading in Boston and that&rsquo;s where Montreal newspapermen had to read about it.</p><p>The deal which Irvin charges has been made up is one that has been on an off the fire for quite some time. It was one that would send Defenseman Tom Johnson to Detroit for all-around utility man Metro Prystai. It&rsquo;s a logical deal since Irvin has long rated Prystai one of the best players in the National League. Likewise, Adams has always rated Johnson one of the better prospects in the League.</p><p>Actually Adams offered to trade a defenseman.</p><p>Another trade had four players going to Chicago for Lumley. The players the Habs were supposed to be sending included McNeil and Harvey. That deal is one that is really just a dream&rsquo; since the Montreal management claims Bill Tobin wants to deal but he also wants an eye for an eyelash. &ldquo;Tobin wants your whole team for one player,&rdquo; said one Montreal official.&rdquo;</p><p>Neverthless, the Habs may deal shortly. If any trades are going to some off they will certainly come before Christmas. The defense is the main worry of the club and it is expected that Dollard St. Laurent will turn professional to give the rearguard corps added strength.</p><p>Selke believes the Habs could use another good skating left winger to fit Into the Lach, Richard pattern of play. He is satisfied with Bert Olmstead but doesn&rsquo;t think he skates will enough to be playing with Lach and Richard. He was reported as saying Richard would score 75 goals a year if he had a left winger who could skate with him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

Scribes Draw Irvin’s Ire For Trading His Players-But On Paper

<div class="byline">By WHITNEY TOWER (Cincinnati Enquirer)</div><p>CINCINNATI, O.&mdash;</p><p>Regardless of whether or not the New York Rangers wind up in the Stanley Cup playoffs, nobody is of going to be able to accuse them of neglecting their farm club, the Cincinnati Mohawks, of the American Hockey League. One of the reasons the Mohawks, for the first time since they joined the AHL three seasons ago, are making a strong bid for a playoff oerth in the western division is the fine mutual aid program set up at the start of he season by Ranger General Manager Frank Boucher and Mohawk Coach Clint Smith.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01220/1299223-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="535" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUDDDY O&rsquo;CONNOR</b></figcaption></div><p>One gets the impression while watching the Molawks, both in defeat and a victory, that they are gang giving their &ldquo;all&rdquo; to bring Cincinnati a muchleeded winner. There is a earn spirit that spreads spontaneously among the placets, velerans and rockies alike, and such a spirit usually means but one thing in any well-coached team &mdash; more success is ahead, and nothing is going to get in the way.</p><h2><b>Boucher Keeps Promise Made To Smith</b></h2><p>At the start of the season the Rangers instilled fresh life into the Mohawk organization. First, they sent a coach of acknowledged ability, Clint Smith, and tnen followed up this move by shipping him a roster of players willing to learn and do their best to earn a cnance for promotion to the National League. The latter list of players included just enough veterans, like Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Pat Egan and Wally Stanowski, to give Spiith adequate assistance as he began to mold rookies and young professionals into material that will eventually find its way to Madison Square Garden and the big time.</p><p>Boucher made smith a promise in October, &ldquo;For&rsquo;* every Mohawk I have to recall for duty with the Rangers,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;1 11 replace him with a player direct from New York, not a minor leaguer or untested amateur.&rdquo; So far Boucher has lived up to his word perfectly.</p><p>When the Mohawks were in the western division cellar a month ago, the Rangers sent down Eddie Kullman, who immediately won a game that lifted Cincinnati up a notch in the standings. Suddenly the Rangers themselves were in the coal hole. They needed help badly, so recalled Kullman, and also Cincinnati&rsquo;s star scorer, Herb Dickenson. But immediately down came Zellio Toppazzini and rookie Jim Ross.</p><p>The latter pair were instrumental, in their seven games for Cincinnati, in leading the Mohawks in the tight race for second place, where Cincinnati, St. Louis and Cleveland are all fighting tooth and nail to gain ground on league-leading Pittsburgh.</p><p>But last week the Rangers ran into bad luck of their own again, and The Topper and Ross have been recalled to fill in for Jack Evans and Wally Hergesheimer who were Injured over the recent weekend. As a replacement for Toppazzini, who clicked for two goals and four assists in his stint for Smith, New York sent winger Jackie McLeod, who is currently, on the first line with O&rsquo;Connor and Jean Denis.</p><p>&ldquo;Mind you,&rdquo; says Smith. &ldquo;The Rangers are doing all they can for us as if they were sitting pretty in first place in the NHL. They are hard hit by injuries &mdash; they are last in the standings &mdash; but they are unselfish enough up there to be, thinking of their farm teams as well as of themselves.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-01

Boucher Refuses To Neglect Cincy Club

<div class="byline">By GEORGE CARSON</div><h2><b>First Hard Hitter To Come Along Since Mariucci Left St. Louis Club After 1948-49</b></h2><p>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;</p><p>Brent MacNab, the best rookie defense prospect the St. Louis Flyers have ever had, is belting opposing forwards around and has started to have a great season just because he is 16 pounds lighter.</p><p>The first to admit he had a bad season last year with the Calgary seniors, MacNab said he let his weight rise to 196 pounds and &ldquo;I just couldn&rsquo;t take off a pound. I played at that weight all season. I guess I ate too much.&rdquo;</p><p>Brent isn&rsquo;t getting a chance to put on weight this season. Coach Mud Bruneteau worked him hard in training camp and got his weight down to 180. Now MacNab keeps it there by hustling and bodychecking his opponents.</p><p>The 20-year-old rearguard from Vermillion, Alberta, earned a shot with the Flyers in training and quickly cinched a regular job. He&rsquo;s just what the Flyers have needed for years since big Johnny Mariucci left &mdash; a defenseman who&rsquo;ll hit hard and won&rsquo;t back down from anyone. Off the first games he&rsquo;s played, MacNab will be a mighty important addition to the Flyers&rsquo; lineup.</p><p>Like any rookie, MacNab has made his mistakes, but Bruneteau doesn&rsquo;t mind that. &ldquo;If a player doesn&rsquo;t make mistakes, he isn&rsquo;t trying,&rdquo; says Bruneteau. &ldquo;I like the way he hustles and he keeps learning.&rdquo;</p><h3><b>Was Eyed 2 Years Ago</b></h3><p>MacNab attracted attention two years ago in training camp when he kept busting everyone on the ice, bodychecking every player within reach. At that time, observers said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be terrific if he doesn&rsquo;t get killed before he gets more experience.&rdquo;</p><p>Brent survived and he was a terrific favorite with the St. Louis fans in his first game before them. Cracking rookies and veterans with impartial favor, he had the crowd roaring for him as the Flyers beat the Hershey Bears, 4-2.</p><p>He plays just as hard on road games and while it Is difficult for a defenseman to rate such an honor, he has a good start toward the rookie of the year award in the American Hockey League. He has been a crowd pleaser in every game and if he continues to improve as he has so far, he&rsquo;ll get important consideration for that honor.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03166/1299292-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="529" height="1335"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Tough Kid</b></p><p><b>BRENT MacNAB</b></p></figcaption></div><p>This is MacNab&rsquo;s first pro season. He hasn&rsquo;t had too much organized hockey experience. He entered the intermediates in Vermillion under Art Wiebe. He then played three years of junior, two with Edmonton and one with Calgary. He spent one year with Fred Hergert as coach. Hergert was a star with the Flyers when they were in the old American Association.</p><p>Since joining the Flyers, MacNab credits Bruneteau with teaching him several important things about the game. Most important, he says, is that Bruneteau taught him how to take opponents out of the play. Of course, when MacNab hits them, they&rsquo;re out of the play and sometimes out of the rink, too.</p><h2><b>Calgary Graduate Puts Poor &lsquo;50 Season Down To Excess Weight And Too Much Food</b></h2><p>Bruneteau also taught Brent how to shoot a slap shot and the rookie will probably-come up with some goals this season for he has a powerful shot.</p><p>MacNab, while listed from Vermillion, actually lives 18 miles out of that ton n of approximately 1,500 population. He didn&rsquo;t play in a covered rink until he was in the intermediates.</p><p>While his father has a large farm, MacNab has his own, too. It, according to Brent, is a small one, only 160 acres. About 60 acres of that are in grains.</p><p>MacNab&rsquo;s chief occupation after the hockey season is over la hunting.</p><p>The Flyers only hope that MacNab keeps that weight at 180<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-03

Young MacNab Hustles, Gets Tagged As Best Of All Flyers’ Prospects

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02200/1299261-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="346" height="480"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sam Lavitt</b></figcaption></div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>It took the Buffalo Bisons from mid-summer until shortly after the start of the current American Hockey League season to wrangle Defenseman Sammy Lavitt from the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>Nevertheless, Buffalo General Manager Art Chapman has no regrets over the large telephone bill he tolled while negotiating with Jim Hendy, the Barons&rsquo; major domo. Lavitt has proven well worth the purchase price I &mdash; and then some.</p><p>&ldquo;Lavitt always hurt us when he was with Cleveland,&rdquo; Chapman began. &ldquo;Of all the defensemen on the Cleveland club, I liked him as well as anyone. Now that he&rsquo;s with our club, I believe he&rsquo;s the soundest defenseman we have.&rdquo;</p><p>Coach LeRoy (Goldy) Goldsworthy also was high on Lavitt&rsquo;s performance since he donned a Buffalo uniform.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been a great help,&rdquo; Goldy commented. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t forget, our club started to move up the night he played his first game with us.</p><p>&ldquo;Sam&rsquo;s a thinker. When the other follow has the puck, he seldom makes a mistake. He may not belt very much but he&rsquo;ll ride the right man out of the play.&rdquo;</p><p>Goldsworthy and Lavitt, incidentally, first met ten years ago when the highly-regarded Buffalo bench boss was coaching Dallas in the defunct U.S. League.</p><p>&ldquo;Dallas was operating independently that year,&rdquo; Goldy recalled. &ldquo;The night before the season opened, I had only nine men could dress &mdash; and that included the trainer and myself. Well, luckily. Jack Adams of the Detroit club called me and said he had two young fellows he&rsquo;d send me. At the time, I didn&rsquo;t care if they could do anything more than stand on skates.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01234/1299254-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="1138" height="1428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>It Was This Way &lsquo;Roc&rsquo;</b></p><p><b>TWO OF THE TOPS:Bobby Thompson, right, star outfielder of the New York Giants of the National League, strikes a pose with Maurice Richard&rsquo;s stick showing lust how he connected with Brooklyn&rsquo;s Ralph Broca&rsquo;s pitch in that dramatic last game. Bobby socked the ball into the stands and won a pennant for the Giants. Bobby faced off the puck In a recent Montreal-New York game in Madison Square Garden.</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;One of the players was Tony Licari, who later performed with Indianapolis and St. Louis in the American League, and the other one was Sammy.</p><p>&ldquo;He was a left winger. Both of them played very well for us that year. I often wished I had him last year while he was with Cleveland because he caused us a lot of trouble, particularly in the playoffs last spring. Yeah, it&rsquo;s good to have Sammy on my Side again.&rdquo;</p><p>Hockey isn&rsquo;t the only sport the 19-year-old Jewish lad, who orignally hailed from Winnipeg Man., has made his mark in.</p><p>Sammy once was the first-string quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.</p><p>Not the type to alibi, Lavitt, perhaps, had his chances of reaching the National League with the Detroit Red Wings cut short by four years in the Royal Canaidan Air Force following that first year of pro hockey at Dallas.</p><p>Lavitt picked up the thread of his ice career at Omaha, a Detroit farm, following his discharge in 1946. For three reasons he was a fixture In the Nebraska City, where he made his off-season home.</p><p>He was an important cog In Minneapolis&rsquo; drive to the U.S. playoff championship in 1949-50 after moving to that city in an off-season deal.</p><p>Las&rsquo;t year, he was promoted to the parent Cleveland club &mdash; and as mentioned before &mdash; had no little to do with the Barons copping the Western Division and playoff championships.</p><p>It&rsquo;s his hope now that he&rsquo;ll get a chance to meet his old mates in the playoffs this spring, and show that Hendy should have had a busy line when Chapman called.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-02

Past Performances Against Bisons Made Chapman Buy Lavitt For Buffalo

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Moe Roberts, Chicago&rsquo;s substitute netminder, will never be named to the International Hockey Hall of Fame, but he may well go down in history as the oldest man to ever play in the National Hockey League. Now 46 years young, Moe replaced an Injured Harry Lumley in the Black Hawks&rsquo; net for the third period against Detroit November 25.</p><p>As he skated onto Chicago Stadium ice, Moe, who was received by many a &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s he?&rdquo; comment, seemed to sort of shake his head in wonderment and With some reason. He&rsquo;d knocked around in the-minor leagues for a number of years, finally retiring after the 1941-42 season with Cleveland&rsquo;s Barons in the AHL. Now, over 10 years later, here he was in the NHL, the big time that he&rsquo;d tried so hard to hit as a younger athlete.</p><p>As the third stanza began, with the Red Wings on top, 5 to 2, even the most ardent Hawk followers were wondering just how big a score the Detroiters would now ring up. As the play progressed, however, the Chicago rooters quickly saw that this old-timer was old in years only.</p><p>He showed more pep than many players 20 years younger as the Wings really tried to rubberize the Hawk cage. Bob Goldham, Ted Lindsay and Marty Pavellch, followed by Tony Leswlck, Leo Reise and Vic Stasiuk, sent about every type shot at Moe, but he was equal to them all. Then, Goldham and Pavelich came back for Becond tries and Glen Skov, Metro Prystai and Alex Delvecchio, however, the graying veteran was again unbeatable. The score thus ended, 5 to 2, and the Roberts&rsquo; goals against average was a perfect zero.</p><p>After the game, Moe revealed that his turn in the Chicago net had brought about quite a coincidence. It seems that the first time he ever appeared in a regular game was in 1924 under similar circumstances.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01234/1299323-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="568" height="581"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I was a stick boy with the Boston Bruins at the time,&rdquo; he relates, &ldquo;and had been working out with them as spare goaltender. One night against the Montreal Maroons our regular goalie, &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Stewart, was hurt and since no one else was around, I went in as a replacement midway in the second period. I held the Maroons scoreless and we went on to win, 3-2.</p><p>&ldquo;Art Ross really gave me my start in hockey and it was partly due to him that I was able to win the netminders job a few years later with Philadelphia in the American League,&rdquo; Moe went on.</p><p>After a couple of seasons In the Pennsylvania city, the New York Americans took an interest in Roberts&rsquo; future. He played with their New Haven farm club in the AHL the next three years. Moe was then purchased by Cleveland and he supposedly wound up his playing days there in 1941.</p><p>He served with the U.S. Army during most of World War II and then settled down with his family in Milwaukee, but he couldn&rsquo;t stay out of hockey for long. When Bill Tobin announced plans for an entry in the United States League from that city early last year, Moe was one of the first to take an interest. He secured the job ice-maker at the beautiful, new Milwaukee Arena and later was hired as assistant trainer and skate sharpener for the team.</p><p>&ldquo;Mr. Tobin has been the first person to give me a break so I could get back into hockey,&rdquo; Moe reports. &ldquo;When the U.S. League folded after last season, he offered me the job as assistant trainer for the Black Hawks. Naturally I took it and there I was, actually able to play with the team. I&rsquo;ll always remember it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-01

At 46, Roberts In Race As Oldest To Perform In League

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Johnny Crawford&rsquo;s Hershey Bears, who have led the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Eastern Division pack since the season got under way, embarked on their first extended road jaunt boasting a five-point lead over the Buffalo Bisons, last season&rsquo;s division champions.</p><p>Paradoxically, the Bears are leading the Bisons, in spite of the fact they haven&rsquo;t been able to tumble the New York staters In three tries to date. Last season, when the Bisons led most of the way, the Buffalo skaters couldn&rsquo;t beat the Bears with any degree of consistency. In fact, at the season&rsquo;s close, Hershey owned seven wins against three-losses and a tie in competition with Lery Golds worthy&rsquo;s athletes.</p><p>Hershey&rsquo;s first test on their seven - game road schedule, which found the Bears dropping a 4-3 overtime decision to the Cincinnati Mohawks, saw goalie Gordie Henry&rsquo;s gallant attempt to set a new AHL net-minding mark end at 190.15 goal free minutes. The big redhead launched his effort against the Providence Reds on Saturday, November 24, when he blanked Terry Reardon&rsquo;s boys after they scored their lone goal at the 7minute mark of the opening period. He continued his sensational goal-tending in two games with the Indianapolis Caps, handing them a pair of 4-0 whitewashings.</p><p>The Mohawks finally broke through his stout defense at 17.15 of the opening period on Sunday, December 2, to keep Nick Damore&rsquo;s old mark of 221.02 scoreless minutes Intact. Nick set the mark while playing goal for the Bears in 1939-40.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02187/1299354-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="544" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b><i>Still Sizzling</i></b></p><p><b>REAL CHEVREFILS</b></p></figcaption></div><p>As the Bears left Hershey for 18 days of action on foreign ice during the engagement of Ice Follies of 19 52, Ray Barry, just down from the Boston Bruins, was making fans forget the early season play of Dave Creighton, who was called up by the Bruins. The 23-year-old center ice man, who turned pro only this fall, stepped into Creighton&rsquo;s big shoes and immediately established himself as a favorite. In his first three games in Bear livery, Ray got a pair of goals and set up a trio of other scores for his linemates, Real Chevrefils and Leo Labine.</p><p>Chevrefils, star of last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup Champions, the Barrie Flyers, continues to set a sizzling pace for AHL individual scorers, with 15 goals and 18-assists for a total of 33 points in his first 22 games.</p><p>In addition to losing Creighton, the Bears also temporarily gave up Jim Morrison, prize rookie defenseman. Jim was rushed to Boston when Murray Henderson was forced out of the Bruin lineup with a couple of cracked ribs, but is expected back as soon as the latter is able to return to the lineup. Jack McIntyre, left winger of last season&rsquo;s popular &ldquo;Kid&rdquo; line, who was sent to Hershey to skate himself into condition, was also called up by Lynn Patrick.</p><p>The manpower losses, however, worked no hardship on the Bears, since Barry has proved an able replacement for Creighton, and Crawford has four stalwart blue liners in Joe Schertzl, Ray Gariepy, Andy Branigan and rookie Bob Armstrong. And, just in case, Squire Jack himself can step in and do a mighty competent job on defense if called upon to don a uniform.</p><p>The Bears, with 12 wins, seven Josses and a trio of ties to their credit as they left Cincinnati for Pittsburgh and the second game of their away from home schedule, had scored eight of their victories at the expense of the Indianapolis Caps and Syracuse Warriors. Five of the eight triumphs were over Ott Heller&rsquo;s Hoosiers. They also owned a pair of wins over the Providence Reds, plus single victories over St. Louis and&rsquo; Cincinnati.</p><p>Buffalo had dumped the Bears twice, plus a tie; St. Louis owns a pair of triumphs, and the Hornets scored one win and tied the Bears on another meeting.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-02

Seven Games Road Test May Tell Bears’ Future

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03163/1299385-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>O</span>LDEST PUB IN ENGLAND</b> is reportedly at St. Albans &mdash; 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.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-03

Famous Inn Signs No. 11

<p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;What a difference a year makes! Now we have the strange case of Johnny Iloreck turning on his former coach.</p><p>Leo (The Lion) Lamoureux, coach of the Charlottetown Islanders, couldn&rsquo;t count on a more loval employee last season than Johnny Horeck. The Fiery veteran was in there pitching for his mentor all the way, and especially in the playoffs when the Islanders came close to the upset of the century against Sydney Millionaires.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01243/1299416-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="268" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Lamoureux</b></figcaption></div><p>This season Horeck is coaching the Moncton Hawks, and the other day he let go with a blast against his former boss. Lamoureux, charges Horeck, is trying to run the Maritime Major Hockey League&mdash;referees and all. The [slanders&rsquo; coach is trying to &ldquo;dictate&rdquo; to the referee, says Horeck.</p><p>&ldquo;Leo ran all the way across the ice and tried to intimidate the referees after we scored our tying goal&rdquo; says Horeck. &ldquo;This shouldn&rsquo;t be allowed.</p><p>&ldquo;Why he even had the gall to complain to me about the way our team played in a recent game in Charlottetown. He protested against the closechecking man-for-man game we played to bottle his team up in their own end most of the night.&rdquo;.</p><p>What a difference a year makes!</p><p>&mdash;FOLEY<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-01

Ex-PalHoreck Combs Down Leo

<div class="byline">By IAN MacDONALD</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>For a club with an 11-point lead atop their league, Montreal Canadiens of the Quebec Junior Amateur Hockey Association are a frantic bunch of young hockeyists. Every outing is a &ldquo;must win&rdquo; for the Habs who have led their circuit since the opening whistle for the first game of the year. And the reason for this all-out effort by the Habs isn&rsquo;t too hard to understand when one studies the schedule.</p><p>Quebec Citadels picking up steam in second place, have five games in hand over, the high-flying Habs and the manner in which they have been roaring along of late assures that they are a good bet to win those extra five games.</p><p>Sad Sam Pollock, planning to take his Habs on a three week tour out west at Christmas, wants his charges to pour it on now in an effort to clinch a first place rating when they return from their trip on January 6th.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02186/1299447-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="271" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jean Beliveau</b></figcaption></div><p>Citadels, riding on the crest of a recent nine-game winning streak and winners oi 12 in 13 games, jumped by St. Jerome Eagles and Three Rivers Reds and now have a one-point edge over the fast starting Nationale squad.</p><p>At this reckoning, Canadiens and Quebec would seem certain to be battling for the lead themselves come the end of February, with the other two playoff positions a three-way battle between St. Jerome, Nationale and Three Rivers.</p><p>Pete Morin&rsquo;s Nationale squad are the most unpredictable crew of the lot as they look horrible in blowing games they are supposed to win, and then turn around and whip the front-running Canadiens and Quebec squads. In fact, Nats have had their best success against the pennant-bound Canucks, having beaten them twice and tied them once in four bitterly fought games.</p><p>Three Rivers, noted as late starters, are beginning to find their form and though still not winning too many games the Reds are giving every club an all out battle and should start to move up the ladder shortly.</p><h2>Eagles Battle Every Inch</h2><p>At St. Jerome, Sylvio Mantha is getting the most mileage possible out of his speedy, rugged Eagles. Counted on as league doormats before the season started the Eagles battle every inch of the way and will cause plenty of surprises before the year is out.</p><p>The luckless, Granby Royals are destined to complete the season cellar but they too are improving and may cause plenty of upsets as the other clubs jockey for playoff berths.</p><p>Phil Watson is doing a fine job at Qeuebc where he was given a difficult task. Faced with the loss of the highly popular and very brilliant young giant centerman Jean Marc Beliveau, Watson&rsquo;s task was figured as unenviable, as he had to win the hearts of the rabid anicent capital hockey fans all over again.</p><p>After a slow start Watson seems to have molded a fine high scoring unit which though a little weak on defense and unpredictable in goals will go a long way.</p><p>Bernie Guay and Rainer Makila, the two lads who skirted the wings for the great Jean Marc last season, have found a new mate, and a fine one too, in curlytopped hard-driving Camille Henri. Henri has had two years experience in the &lsquo;A&rsquo; loop and is really finding himself this outing as he already leads the loops scorers, though he has five games in hand over most of them.</p><p>Michel Labadie, a youngster brought up from the Citadel&rsquo;s &lsquo;B&rsquo; squad, has been an early season sensation averaging a goal-a-game in the club&rsquo;s first 20 games.</p><p>Big Aggie Kukulowitz the 6&rsquo; 1&rdquo;Manitoba product, who, coach Phil Watson personally signed from the Brandon Wheat Kings, for a reputed $6,500 salary in a desperate effort to find someone to fill the boots of the graduating Beliveau, started slowly but he too is beginning to make his presence felt and scoring those important payoff goals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-02

Watson’s Cits Have Hot Breath, Junior Habs Don’t Dare Loaf

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Too good for their own good. That&rsquo;s the turnstile story of the Saint John Beavers, currently making a runaway race of the Maritime Major (Big Six) Hockey League. Saint John operators finessed this team right out of Toronto during the summer months. When the OHA folded as a major circuit, Saint John moved right in. Not only did the Beavers get the team but also the coach and a tiein with the future.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03153/1299478-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="540" height="849"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b><i>Too Good Tutor</i></b></p><p><b>PEANUTS O&rsquo;FLAHEXTY</b></p></figcaption></div><p>It is said that several Maritime centers had the same idea as soon as news of the OHA fold ing leaked out. But the Beavers beat them all to the punch. With the team went John (Peanuts) O&rsquo;Flaherty as coach. In one quick move the Beavers bought themselves a hockey championship.</p><p>The Beavers, however, overlooked one point. They were too good for their own good in that they hadn&rsquo;t reckoned on their opposition. The opposition to date hasn&rsquo;t been good enough to keep the home fans interested in a home team that wins all the time.</p><p>Not only have the Beavers won all their home games but it&rsquo;s seldom indeed that there is even a close score. Everybody likes a winner but the Saint John fans also wants to see a contest now and then. How can they when the opposition isn&rsquo;t good enough?</p><h2>&lsquo;Tis Sweet Revenge</h2><p>The Beavers have taken special delight in humbling the Hawks from nearby Moncton. One unexpected evening the Havtks bounced up with a 5-0 victory over their tormentors, but it was only a flash in the pan insofar as the two teams were concerned. The Beavers settled right back into their winning groove and the Hawks stumbled once more against the league leaders.</p><p>Beavers are knee-deep in financial troubles. They have the best team in Saint John hockey history but then can&rsquo;t fill their rink. For the players are still goal-hungry even after such sustained saccess. They still go all out all the time, playing cat and mouse with the opposition.</p><p>Undoubtedly things will change. The other teams, still bolstering from week to week, are slowly catching up. The thing is that the confidence of the other teams has been shaken by the consistent and often overwhelming victory march of the Beavers, and the Beavers in turn have so much confidence in themselves they just can&rsquo;t slow down.</p><p>The Hawks have been having financial troubles too. They have entered Into a new agreement with the Moncton Stadium to tide them over until after the Christmas season, when they hope the attendance will pick up. Hawks have been in-and-outers. They have turned in some of the best games of the season; also some of the worst. Unpredictable, they have soured their fans with two bad games in a row, then rebound for a brilliant victory before an almost empty house.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-03

Move East Of Full OHA Team Artistic But Not Yet A Financial Success For Puzzled Beavers

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Player-of-the-Week and winner of the beautiful O&rsquo;Keefe&rsquo;s stein Is Gaye Stewart of the New York Rangers. Stewart broke out with four goals and one assist for five scoring points in two games this week and was a tower off strength for the Rangers in both tilts.</b></p><p><b>Stewart, always a high scorer before being traded to New York, couldn&rsquo;t buy a goal up until this past week. Try as he might and he did all of that, he would be outlucked at the last minute. The tougher it became to tally that initial goal the harder Gaye tried and soon he began to press. Everyone seemed to agree that once he notched his first ont the rest would follow.</b></p><p><b>That proved correct as once Stewart potted his No. 1 of the season, three more followed in rapid order. The New York-Boston game on December 5 was only 3:40 minutes old before Rangers took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Gaye Stewart. He came to the fore again in the second session when he scored his second and Rangers second at the 12:28 mark. Rangers lost the contest to the Bruins, 3-2, but Stewart was terrific.</b></p><p><b>The Port Arthur grad tallied twice and assisted on one other on Saturday, December 9, as Rangers walloped Toronto Maple Leafs, 7-2. Gaye was the only New York player to score more than once in Rangers rout of the Stanley Cup holders.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07108/1299603-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="286" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gaye Stewart</b></figcaption></div><p><b>The handsome 28-year-old left winger was born in Fort William, Ont. and was a standout junior with Port Arthur before moving east to line up with Toronto Marlboros Juniors. In one season Gaye went from junior to the Stanley Cup winners, the Toronto Maple Leafs. He jumped from junior Marlboros to the seniors, then went from the seniors to Hershey in the A.H.L. and finally to the Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup finals.</b></p><p><b>Always a prolific goal scorer, Gaye led the National Hockey League In goal-getting in 1945-46 when he scored 37 times for Toronto. He was traded by the Leafs to Chicago during the early stages of the 1947-48 campaign. Then he was traded to Detroit from Chicago during the summer of 1950 and played the 1950-51 season with the Red Wings. He was swapped, even-up, for Tony Leswick by the Wings at the start of the current season.</b></p><p><b>Now that he&rsquo;s finally broken the ice, the goals should start to come for this week&rsquo;s outstanding player.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0013-07

Player-of-the-Week

<h2><b>Fastest Two Goals</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>els Stewart, of the old Montreal Maroons scored two goals in four seconds and holds the record for the player scoring the quickest two goals in NHL history. Stewart performed his amazing feat against the Boston Bruins on January 3, 1931 in Montreal.</p><h2><b>Most Points by Center</b></h2><p>Lach, veteran centerman of the Montreal Canadiens holds the record for scoring the most points by a player In that position. Lach totaled 80 points while playing on a line with Richard and Toe Blake in the 1944-41 season. He scored 26 goals and had 54 assists in 50 games.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p>STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M., DEC. 11</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01248/1299572-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="618" height="211"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p>Dec. 4&mdash;Chicago 1 at Boston 3</p><p>Dec. 5&mdash;Detroit 2 at Toronto 2 Boston 3 at Rangers 2</p><p>Dec. 8&mdash;Detroit 3 at Canadiens 0 Chicago 1 at Toronto 3</p><p>Dec. 9&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Detroit 3 Toronto 2 at Rangers 7 Boston 3 at Chicago 4</p><p>With two wins and a tie during the week Detroit Red Wings strengthened their hold on first place in the National Hockey League over the runner-up Toronto Maple Leafs. The Wings have 35 points, the Leafs have 31. Boston Bruins won two out of three games during the week and as a result went ahead of Montreal Canadiens. The Bruins have 24 points while the Canadiens are in the fourth slot with 21. Chicago Black Hawks are fifth with 20 and New York are last with 19.</p><p>Ted Kennedy, Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; star center and captain, took over the individual scoring parade with 10 goals and 16 assists for 26 points. Kenedy scored one goal and assisted in four others during the past week to move ahead of Canadiens&rsquo; Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard who both stood still. Lach six goals and 18 assists for 24 points while Richard has 15 goals and eight assists for 23 points. Richard is the leading goal scorer with 15 and Lach is head man in the assists department with 18.</p><p>Sid Smith of Toronto is tied with Richard with 23 points. Gordie Howe of Detroit has 21, and Howe and Mosienko are the second highest goal-getters with 11 apiece. Mosienko has nine assists to go with his 11 goals and follows Howe with 20 points. Don Raleigh of Rangers also has 20 points.</p><p>Terry Sawchuck racked up his fifth shutout of the season on December 8 as Detroit blanked Canadiens, 3-0. Sawchuk has allowed 44 goals to be scored against him in 25 games for a 1.76 average. He leads the loop&rsquo;s netminders.</p><p>Most penalized player is Gus Kyle of Boston with 55 minutes spent in the &ldquo;pokey.&rdquo; Most penalized team is the Toronto Maple leafs with 260 minutes.</p><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4</b></h3><p><b>Chicago 1 at Boston 3</b></p><p>BOSTON. &mdash; The Boston Bruins came from behind to defeat the Chicago Black Hawks 3-1 and climb into sole possession of third place In the NHL race.</p><p>Dave Creighton, Johnny Peirson and Bill Eztnicki scored for the Bruins after Pete Babando had put the Hawks one goal up in the first period.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Kyle, Laycoe, Morrison, Kryzanowski; forwards, Schmidt, Ezinicki, Ferguson, Sandford, Fisher, Sullivan, Brown, Peirson, Creighton, McIntyre.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Martin, Gadsby, Stewart, Fogolin, Dewsbury; forwards. Gee, Peters, Guidolin, McFadden. Witiuk, Bodnar, Horeck, Babando, Mosienko.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02210/1299565-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="601" height="357"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5</b></h3><p><b>Detroit 2 at Toronto 2</b></p><p>TORONTO. &mdash; The Detroit Red Wings held their two-point NHL lead over the second place Maple Leafs as the two club draw played to a 2-2 before a crowd of 13,579. Wings came from behind twice to gain the tie.</p><p>The game played at a fast pace throughout most of the 60 minutes but Detroit, playing it cozy late In the game and with the score tied 2-2, was content to let the Leafs set the pace. The always dangerous Red Wings stepped into high-gear only when they trapped Leaf snipers well inside the Detroit area.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence Relse, Goldham, Pronovost, Folk; forwards, Abel, Howe, Lindsay, Prystai, Skov, Pavetich, Leswick, Delvecchio, Glover, Stasiuk, Kelly.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Thomson, Mortson, Flaman, Juzda, Bolton; forwards, Bentley, Sollnger, Mackell, Watson, Klukay, Kennedy, Meeker, Sloan, Gardner, Smith.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03185/1299558-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="613" height="393"></div><h3><b>Boston 3 at New York 2</b></h3><p>NEW YORK. &mdash; Led by winger Johnny Pefrson&rsquo;s two-goal game, the Bostor Bruins defeated New York Rangers 3-1 in a NHL game.</p><p>The victory strengthened Boston&rsquo;s hole on third place and denied the Ranger; a chance to pull out of last place.</p><p>Peirson got the tie-breaker in the third period after the teams had kept ever throughout. The score at the end of the first period was 1-1 and at the enc of the Recond 2-2.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry: defence, Kyle Quackenbush, Laycoe, Morrison, Kryzanowski; forwards, Schmidt, Ezinicki Ferguson, Sandford, Fisher. Sullivan Brown, Creighton. McIntyre, Peirson.</p><p><b>Rangers:</b> Goal, Rayner; defence, Kraftcheck, Stanley, Eddolls, Buller. Ross forwards, Laprade, Mlckoski, Sinclair Raleigh, Ronty, Stewart, Dickenson Kullman, Slowinski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04164/1299551-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="600" height="348"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8</b></h3><p><b>Chicago 1 at Toronto 3</b></p><p>TORONTO. &mdash; The Toronto Maple Leafs, aided by a lucky third period whipped the Chicago Black Hawks 3-1 here before 13,042 NHL fans.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Gads-by, Stewart, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Martin; forwards, Gee, Guidolin, Peters, McFadden, Babando, Mosienko, Bodnar, Horeck, Taylor.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Mortson, Thomson, Flaman, Bolton, Horton: forwards, Kennedy, Sloan, Smith, Bentley, Mackell, Klukay, Gardner, Watson, Sollnger.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05140/1299544-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="618" height="429"></div><h3><b>Detroit 3 at Canadiens 0</b></h3><p>MONTREAL. &mdash; The way things are going the Detroit Red Wings might not lose a game all season if they could play them all on the road. They beat Canadiens before 14,547 at the Forum, 3-0, to run their skein of unbeaten games away from home to an even dozen, eight of which have been victories and four ties.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Relse, Pronovost, Folk, Kelly; forwards, Abel, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Prystal, Pavelich, Skov, Delvecchio, Glover, Stasiuk.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence</p><p>Harvey, Lowe, St. Laurent, Johnson; forwards, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Reay, Geoffrion, Gamble, Meger, Couture.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02185/1299537-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="612" height="369"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens 2 at Detroit 3</b></p><p>DETROIT. &mdash; Two goals by Defenceman Marcel Pronovost within 33 seconds capped a Detroit Red Wing rally which netted a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens before 13,593 NHL fans.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, Lowe. St. Laurent, Johnson; forwards, Lach. Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Curry, MacKay, Reay, Geoffrion, Gamble, Meger, Couture.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham. Relse, Pronovost, Folk, Kelly; forwards, Abel, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Prystal, Pavelich, Skov, Delvecchio, Glover, Stasiuk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03134/1299530-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="612" height="417"></div><h3><b>Toronto 2 at New York 7</b></h3><p>NEW YORK. &mdash; New York Rangers, playing under Coach Bill Cook for the first time, looked like a new team an they defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 7-2, In a free-scoring NHL game at Madison Square Garden.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Hollins; defence, Flaman, Bolton. Thomson. Mortson, Hortonf forwards, Bentley, Mackell, Bolinger, Watson. Klukay, Kennedy, Sloan, Gardner, smith.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Rayner; defence, Ross. Stanley, Evans, Buller, Kraftchecks forwards, Raleigh, Slowlnski Stewart, Ronty, Laprade, Mlckoski, Toppazzini Hergeshelmer, Sinclair, Kullman.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04112/1299523-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="608" height="545"></div><h3><b>Boston 3 at Chicago 4</b></h3><p>CHICAGO. &mdash; Chicago Black Hawks took and protected an early lead all the way to beat Boston Bruins 4-3 in a NHL game before 10,208 fans.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Kyle, Laycoe, Kryzanowski; forwards, Ezinicki, Schmidt, Dumart Brown, Creighton, McIntyre, Pelrson, Ferguson, Morrison, Sandford, Sullivan.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Gadssby, Stewart, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Martin, Hrymnak; forwards, Mosienko, Babando, McFadden, Horeck, Bodnar, Peters, Gul-dolin, Gee, P. Conacher, Taylor.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0592/1299516-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="608" height="489"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday, Dec. 9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06118/1299509-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="612" height="1791"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>image caption</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Sports Photos!</b></h2><p>3,000 different 8 x 10 glossy photos of all your favorites of the SPORTS world, past and present. Ideal for your television den, tavern, clubroom or album. Price in Canada:</p><p><b>60 cents each &mdash; 5 for $2.20</b> Send for FREE list and additional money-saving rates.</p><p><b>ALL SPORTS PHOTOS STUDIO</b></p><p><b>Box 763, Grand Cent. Sta, New York 17, N.Y.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>When F. J. (Big Pat) Paterson took over the reins of the Hettche club this season it marked his third association with an International League team. The one-time Wingham, Ontario, defenseman previously handled Metal Mouldings and latterly Auto Club.</p><p>As the big fellow puts it, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve often been a bridesmaid in this league and it&rsquo;s about time to change.&rdquo; To that end, he has assembled what is probably the best team to represent Detroit in the International League in three years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01251/1299634-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="277" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Liscombe</b></figcaption></div><p>Paterson, his playing coach Johnny Calanan, and the players, have no championship illusions. However, they do believe that they can build a nucleus which will provide a team that will definitely make a bid for a playoff berth.</p><p>The first step was the retention of Callanan, a 29-year-old Torontonian, as playing coach. The quiet-spoken Irishman who captained the Louisville Blades four years ago, and has since played and coached in the Maritimes and in England.</p><p>Working on the defense with Callanan are two holdovers, Ross Smith and Bob Fleming, and a newcomer, Gordon Sten-back. Smith and Fleming are both, ex-University of Michigan stars.</p><h2><b>That Professional Touch</b></h2><p>Up front the top line includes left wing Carl Liscombe, center Ed Cinor, and right wing Ed Loutti. Both Liscombe and Cinor are reinstated professionals, and Liscombe still rates as one of the great names of hockey. He spent 10 years with the Detroit Red Wings from the mid 1930&rsquo;s until after the war, and still holds several major and minor league scoring records. He is one of the hardest shots in organized hockey. Cinor played in the Pacific Coast, League and more recently at Hamilton. Louttit is a brilliant junior from Manitoba.</p><p>The second line has Gil Burford, captain of the University of Michigan&rsquo;s championship sextet last season centering between two holdovers, Don (Casey) Jones at right wing, and Stanley Palmer at the left flank.</p><p>To date Paterson and Callanan have been experimenting in an effort to create a suitable third line. They have a host of players who have been tried and rejected, or who are comprising the combination on a temporary basis. These include holdovers Art Skov and Carl Evon; newcomer Melvin Mullins; Connie Stewart, one-time Muncie Flyer and Gene Boudreau from Glace Bay.</p><p>The goalkeeping is in the hands of young Bill Tibbs. Last, season Tibbs was selected by the coaches as the league&rsquo;s All Star netminder despite a losing season with the Hettche club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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No Rosy Title Dreams, But Hettche Squad Figures To Give Int’l Crews Sharp Run

<div class="byline">By HERB RALBY</div><p>While it hasn&rsquo;t received any headlines there is another Johnstown &ldquo;flood&rdquo;.</p><p>This time it is a flood of victories by the Johnstown Jets in the Eastern Hockey League. As this was written, the Jets had put together a seven-game unbeaten string, with six straight victories and a tie.</p><p>The Johnstown club, at the start of the season, was regarded as the real powerhouse in the eight team Eastern loop, but injuries, uncertainties on the status of a few players retarded their progress in the early games.</p><p>It took the Jets a while to get started but now they are walking away from their Southern Division rivals and rapidly climbing up to even terms with the top point collectors, New Haven and Springfield, in the Northern Division.</p><p>Pacing the Jets&rsquo; surge is little Skippy Burchell, the talented Canadiens farmhand. The pint-sized center tops his team in scoring with 12 goals and 15 assists. Right behind him is veteran Johnny Horvath who has only three goals but 23 assists. In third place on the team are Reggie Grigg, ex-Olympic and Don Hall. Grigg bagged 15 goals and 10 assists while Hall&rsquo;s total was gained by reverse figures</p><h2><b>Chief Goal Pourers</b></h2><p>Burchell, Grigg and Hall form one line and it certainly is close to being the top scoring unit in the league, if not the top. This is the trio which has belabored the opposition attempting to close the &ldquo;flood&rdquo; gates in the tide of victories scored the past few weeks by Johnstown.</p><p>Since the Baby arrived Atlantic City has been hale and hearty. The husky Baby is John Baby, a 220-pound defenseman with service in the Pacific Coast and United States Leagues. He plugged a gap in the Sea Gulls defense and since he joined the club, Atlantic City has been on the move in pursuit of the Jets.</p><p>The strengthened defense gave a &ldquo;lift&rdquo; to the mighty Mites of the front line &mdash; Johnny Flynn, Stan McClellan and Mauno Kauppi. McClellan, Southern Division scoring leader, collected a pair of goals in one game and assisted Flynn on his four goals the following night as the Beach City puck-chasers chalked up a big weekend double victory.</p><p>The other &ldquo;hot&rdquo; team in the loop is the Boston Olympics which put together four straight wins to climb to within a few points of first place with four games in hand on the Springfield Indians and five in hand on New Haven which immediately precede them in the Northern Division standing.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

1951 Version Of Johnstown Flood Sees Coals Flow

<h2><b>Rough On Coaches</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>K</span>ing Clancy, Coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets In the AHL, recently received a cut on his chin, requiring six stitches, which he suffered while refereeing a Hornet practice game, when hit with a puck.</p><h2><b>Welcome Return</b></h2><p>When Lon Jankowski, rookie of the Indianapolis Capitals of the AHL, returned to action, it was a welcome sight. Jankowski received a severe &ldquo;head injury in the opening game jof the season in Syracuse, hist first game as a professional.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p>STANDINGS ON TUBS. A.M., DEC. 11</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01222/1299801-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="616" height="381"></div><p>Those two pace-setters, the Pittsburgh Hornets and, Hershey Bears, are still rolling along in winning fashion in the American Hockey League heading their respective sections. The Hornets top the western sector with 4 0 points, composed of 19 wins and two draws in 25 games, while the Chocolateers from Pennsylvania head the Eastern Division with 12 wins and three ties for 27 points.</p><p>St. Louis Flyers are second in the power-packed Western Division with 31 points. Cleveland Barons are third with 28, Cincinnati Mohawks are next with 25 and Ott Heller&rsquo;s Indianapolis Caps are last with 15 points.</p><p>Buffalo Bisons are starting to give Hershey a little competition in the east. The Bisons have collected a total of 22 points. Terry Reardon&rsquo;s Providence Reds are third with 17 and Eddie Shore&rsquo;s Syracuse Warriors are unable to go on the warpath often enough and as a result are in the cellar with a flimsy 16 points in 25 Starts.</p><p>Jack Stoddard, pride and joy of the Providence Reds is the top point-getter in the league with 36 points. Stoddard has 15 goals and 21 assists. Real Chevrefils of Hershey is two points back. The standout rookie has 15 goals and 19 assists for 34 points. George Armstrong of Pittsburgh is third with 21 points. Armstrong has 18 goals and 13 assists. His 18 goals is the most scored by any player in the loop. Clif Simpson of St. Louis is fourth with 30 points, while two players are deadlocked with 29 points each. They are Steve Wochy of Cleveland and Ray Powell of Providence.</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5</h3><p>Hershey 2 at Pittsburgh 5</p><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; Chuck Blair&rsquo;s goal from 26 feet out in the third period gave Pittsburgh Hornets, Western Division leaders of the AHL, a 3 to 2 victory over Hershey Bears before a crowd of 2,744.</p><p>Blair&rsquo;s&rsquo; goal broke a tie created when each team scored twice in the second period.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defense, Gariepy, Schertzl, Armstrong, Branigan; forwards, Corcoran, Chevrefils, Toppaszlni, Brown, Labine, O&rsquo;Brien, Bettio, C. Mario, Barry, Kullman.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense, Sullivan, Mathers, Horton, Backor; forwards, Barbe, R. Hannigan, Armstrong, G. Hannigan, Timgren, C. Maloney, Hassard, McLellan, Kobussen.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02189/1299794-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="1742" height="1311"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b><i>The Cat&rsquo;s On The Bit</i></b></p><p><b>Francis O&rsquo;Grady (7). of Indianapolis, trying to got loose from a Cincinnati defenseman and grab the puck which Goalie Emile Francis has just kicked tway.</b></p> <span class="photo-credit">(photo by Levelle)</span></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03169/1299787-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="602" height="523"></div><p>Cincinnati 2 at St. Louis 10</p><p>ST. LOUIS MO&mdash;The second-place St. Louis Flyers became the first team in the American Hockey League to pass the 100-goal mark for the season when they handed Cincinnati Mohawks a 10-2 shellacking and ran their goal total to 103.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04126/1299780-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="596" height="733"></div><p>Indianapolis 2 at Syracuse</p><p>SYRACUSE. N.Y.&mdash;Veteran Bill Gooden became the 11th player of American Hockey League history to hit the 200-goal mark as the Syracuse Warriors scored a 5-2 triumph over Indianapolis Capitols before a crowd of 1,500.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05103/1299773-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="602" height="477"></div><h3>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4</h3><p>Buffalo 2 at Cleveland 5</p><p>CLEVELAND &mdash; The Cleveland Barons took a 3-0 by the end of first period and went on to whip the Buffalo Bisons 5-2 In Cleveland. The game, originally scheduled for Wednesday, December 3 was set ahead a day to allow a boxing show to go on.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Coal, Bower; defence, Samis, Chrystal, Relgie, Williams; forwards, Thurier, Olson, Perreault, Reid, Carveth, Lund, Schultz, Stearns, Gladu, Wochy.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Crowdfs; defense, Long, Dick, Flnkbeiner, Lavitt; forwards, Mc-Nabney, Hickey, Mazur, Ashbee, McCormack, DeMarco, Pennell, Masnick, Pargeter.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0687/1299766-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="602" height="447"></div><h3>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7</h3><p>Indianapolis 5 at Providence 2</p><p>PROVIDENCE. &mdash; The Indianapolis Caps scored a 5-2 victory over the Providence Reds here. Earl Reibel led the Caps to victory with two goals.</p><p><b>Indianapolis:</b> Goal, Hall; defence. Hay, Zeidel, Coflin, Heller; forwards, L. Wilson, Bruneteau, J. Wilson, O&rsquo;Grady, Sclislzzl, Hirschfeld, Jankowski, Reibel, McComb, Durham.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, McCalum, Morris, Michaluk, La veil; forwards. McGill, Smith, Stoddard, Lynn, Powell, Sullivan, Palante, Kapusta, Davies, Scehrza.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0779/1299759-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="596" height="555"></div><h3>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8</h3><p>Buffalo 1 at Pittsburgh 9</p><p>PITTSBURGH. &mdash; Pittsburgh Hornets swamped the injury-riddled Buffalo Bisons 9-1 before a crowd of 3,974.</p><p>It was Pittsburgh&rsquo;s 18th win in 24 AHL starts. Ray Timgren and Ray Hannigan were the only multiple scorers for Pittsburgh, getting two goals each.</p><p>Paul Masnick got Buffalo&rsquo;s only counter, toward the end of the first period. It tied the count at 1-1 but Hornets scored again before the end of the frame and Bisons never caught up.</p><p>Masnick suffered a cut on the forehead in the last period.</p><p>Other Pittsburgh scorers were John McLellan, Peter Backor, Gordon Hannigan, Andy Barbe and Ray Hassard.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Sullivan, Mathers, Ashley, Backor; forwards, Armstrong, G. Hannigan, McLellan, Barbe, Timgren, Maloney, Blair, R. Hannigan, Kobussen.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Crowdis; defence. Long, Dick, Lavitt; forwards, McNabney, Hickey, Pargeter, DeMarco, Atanas, McCormack, Pennell, Masnick, Finkbelner,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0869/1299752-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="600" height="721"></div><p>Indianapolis 3 at Syracuse 5</p><p>SYRACUSE. &mdash; Dominating a rough game for two periods and fighting off a threatening rally in the final, Syracuse Warriors downed Indianapolis Capitols 5 to 3 In an AHL game before 3,250 fans.</p><p>Harry Pldhlrny, led the Warriors&rsquo; attack, getting a pair of goals in the first period and contributing an assist.</p><p>Defenceman Dan Summers slapped In Warriors&rsquo; opening goal after only 30 seconds of action and Leo Curick came through with the fifth tally for the home team, an Important one late in the game when the Caps had fought back from a 4-0 deficit with three lastperiod scores.</p><p>All three Indianapolis goals were scored In the third period by Billy McComb, Earl Reibel and Eddie Bruneteau.</p><p><b>Indianapolis:</b> Goal, Hall; defence. Hay, Zeidel, Coflln, Durham, Heller; forwards, Reibel, Htrscnfela, Sclisizzt, McComb, Jankowski, Bruneteau, Glesebrecht, L. Wilson, J. Wilson.</p><p><b>Syracuse,</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Summers, Tottle, Allen, Hosking, Bergeron; forwards, Horvath, Hayden, Narduzzi, Burnett. Pidhirny, Lemieux, Curlck, Gooden, Casanato.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01220/1299745-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="606" height="577"></div><p>Hershey 2 at St. Louis 3</p><p>ST. LOHIS. &mdash; Rookie Sid Finney&rsquo;s goal late in the third period gave St. Louis Flyer their sixth straight AHL victory a 3-2 triumph ofer Hershey Bears before 6,163 spectators.</p><p>The Flyers now hold a five-point edge over Cleveland Barons in third place in the Western Division. Barons took over third from Cincinnati by beating the Mohawks 3-1.</p><p>Finney also scored St. Louis&rsquo; opening goal early in the first period. Pogue scored for Flyers in the second.</p><p>Barry scored Hershey&rsquo;s pair.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Branigan, Schertz!, Armstrong. Crawford; forwards, Mario. Brown. O&rsquo;Brien, Barry. Lablne, Chevrefils, Kullman, Toppazzlni, Bettio. Corcoran.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas: defence, Raglan, Quackenbush, McNab, Nicholson, Milligan: forwards, Simnson, Pogue, Hamilton, Morrison, Sonmor, Kelly, Lundy, Hrymnak, Kinney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02169/1299738-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="610" height="355"></div><p>Cincinnati 1 at Cleveland 3</p><p>CLEVELAND. &mdash; Cleveland Barons regained third place in the Western Division of the AHL by defeating Cincinnati Mohawks 3-1 before 6.889 fans.</p><p>Barons took a 2-0 lead the first period on goals by Eddie Olson and Cal Stearns-Ed Harrison scored Cincinnati&rsquo;s lone goal unassisted in the second period. Fred Thurler, all-time top scorer of the league, drove Cleveland&rsquo;s third goal that clinched the game at 7:38 of the last period.</p><p>The game was marred by 16 penalties. Three times in the third period Barons had to defend with only three men in front of goaltender Johnny Bower, who made 33 saves, 14 of them in the last period.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower: defence, Samis, Chrystal, Williams, Reigle: forwards, Stears, Gladu, Wochy, Thurler, Hildebrand, Olson, Carveth, Lund, Perrault, Bush.</p><p><b>Cincinnati:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Irwin, Barlow, Egan, Stanowski, Landen; forwards, O&rsquo;Connor, Denis, Dickenson, Schwartz, McIntosh, Harrison, Wyjle, McLeod, Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03135/1299731-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="606" height="255"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04110/1299724-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="598" height="155"></div><h3>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9</h3><p>Cleveland 7 at Providence 1</p><p>PROVIDENCE. &mdash; The Cleveland Indians ran wild-over the Providence Reds to the tune of 7-1 with Cal Stearns scoring twice and Hildebrand, Thurler, Perreault and Wochy each getting singles.</p><p>Barry Sullivan got the lone Red&rsquo;s goal on assist from Vic Lynn and Ray Powell.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Samis, Reigle, Williams, Chrystal; forwards, Hildebrand. Thurler, Gladu, Perreault, Wochy, Olson, Stearns, Lund, Carveth.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, McCallum, Morris, Michaluk, La veil; forwards, McGill, Smith. Stoddard, LaPlante, Scherza, Kapusta, Powell, Lynn, Sullivan, Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0568/1299717-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="602" height="529"></div><p>Pittsburgh 5 at Cincinnati 3</p><p>CINCINNATI. &mdash; Phil Maloney led the Pittsburgh Hornets to a 5-3 victory over the Cincinnati Mohawks when he scored one goal and assisted on the other four. Blair scored the hat trick for the Hornets and Ray Hannigan got the other one.</p><p>Egan, Denis and Wylie got the Cincinnati goals.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Ashley, Backor, Mathers, Sullivan; forwards, McClellan, Barbe, Timgren, Armstrong, Hassard, G. Hannigan, Blair, R. Hannigan, Maloney, Kobussen.</p><p><b>Cincinnati:</b> Goal, Francis, defence Stanowski, Egan, Irwin, Lancien, Barlow; forwards, O&rsquo;Connor, Denis, Dickenson, Schwartz, Harrison, McIntosh, Wylie, Brown, McLeod.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0646/1299710-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="592" height="111"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0738/1299703-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="606" height="591"></div><p>Indianapolis 3 at Buffalo 3</p><p>BUFFALO. &mdash; Defenseman Stan Long scored at 9:49 of the last period to give the Buffalo Bisons a 3-3 tie with the Indianapolis Caps. There was no scoring in the overtime session.</p><p>Both the Caps and Bisons had to come from behind at one time or anothar. Mazur gave the Bisons a 1-0 lead in the first period and then Reibel and Sclisizzi made it 2-1 for the Caps before Lome Davis got one back to even the score. In the last period each team scored with Sclisizzi getting another and Long getting the one that tied the game.</p><p><b>Indianapolis</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Hay, Durham, Heller, Coflin; forwards, Reibel. Hlrschfeld, Sclisizzi, O&rsquo;Grady, J. Wilson. L. Wilson, Jankowski, Bruneteau, McKay, McComb.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Crowdls; defence, Lavitt, Finkbeiner, Long, Dick; forwards, Pennell. Masnick, Pargeter, Mazur, McCormack, McNabney, DeMarco, Hickey, Atanas, Davis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0834/1299696-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="608" height="601"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>Including Games of Sunday, Dec. 9</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0965/1299689-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="590" height="481"></div><h2><b>THE LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>Most Goal.</b> Geo. Armstrong, Pitts. (18)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Frank Mathers, Pitts. (24)</p><p><b>Best Goalie:</b> Gil Mayer, Pitts. (25 games, 61 goals-agalnst, 2.44 average)</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Henry, Hershey: Almas, St. Louis; Francis, Cincinnati (2)</p><p><b>Most Penalties, Player:</b> Pete Durham, Indianapolis(99 minutes)</p><p><b>Most Penalties, Team:</b> Indianapolis (343 minutes)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BUNNY MORGANSON</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>After a weekend trial with St. Louis Flyers of the American League, Eddie Stankiewicz celebrated his return to Kitchener Dutchmen with a three-goal scoring spread that helped beat Hamilton Tigers in the Mountain City. Stankie&rsquo;s hat trick also put him back neck-and-neck with Stratford&rsquo;s Mickey Roth, with both sharing 38 points for the OHA senior A scoring lead. With Roth, Billy Flick and Jack White showing the way in points.</p><p>Stratford Indians have replaced Hamilton Tigers as pace-setters in the OHA senior circuit. Kitchener is crowding the second place Tigers, while Owen Sound and Sarnia continue to slug it out for fourth and fifth positions. Brantford Redmen got a lift in their campaign to vacate the cellar, when Donnie Oberholtzer wrapped up four goals in an overtime home win over Owen Sound.</p><p>Guelph Biltmores finally moved Into first place in the OHA junior A group on Dec. 5 after downing the champion Barrie Flyers 6-4 while their Toronto Marlboro rivals were idle. Marlies ran into a stopper, losing to their city rivals St. Michael&rsquo;s, a few days previous but still have three games in hand over the Biltmores.</p><h2><b>Top Mans Laufman</b></h2><p>Kenny Laufman continues as the man of the hour for Guelph with his sensational scoring. He personally downed Barrie with a pair of tallies and heads the group&rsquo;s sooring parade with 18 goals, 38 assists for 56 points in 22 games.</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s maintain their steady pace and have nosed ahead of Galt to take down third place. The new Kitchener entry and their Waterloo neighbors are running close behind St. Michael&rsquo;s with St. Catharines Teepees, Oshawa Generals and Barrie Flyers following a few points in the rear. Windsor Spitfires a strong contender in former seasons, trail in last place.</p><p>Riding high in the Junior OHA charmed scoring circle are Gait&rsquo;s Kenny Wharram with 51 points; Ron Murphy of Guelph with 48; Johnny Poland and Eric Nesterenko of Marlboros with 44 and 41, while Pete Conacher of Galt is sandwiched between with 42 points; Chuck Henderson and Andy Bathgate of Guelph with 37 and 35; Parker McDonald of Marlies with 30 and Carl Boone of-St. Catharines with 26 points.</p><p>Despite the clubs&rsquo; demand they live by the book at last fall&rsquo;s annual meeting, the Ontario Hockey Association has several juicy player squabbles te settle. Port Hope and Cobourg are feuding over residential rights to Kenny Medhurst and Bernie Fiesch. A subcommittee ruled Fiesch O.K. for Port Hope, but Medhurst was out of bounds. They&rsquo;ve appealed to the OHA Executive committee for a final ruling. Stouffville Clippers lost Ross Hochberg because he lived outside the Toronto metropolitan area but they lost their appeal and the player signed with Newmarket.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Trip To AHL Real Tonic For Stankie; Comes Back With Bang For Dutchmen

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Ontario Minor Hockey Association jammed over 300 delegates into the Yellow Room at Toronto&rsquo;s King Edward Hotel for their 18th annual meeting. Herbie Parker of Stratford was re-elected as president with Mike Wiechel of Elmira, Fred Norman of Simcoe and Bert Hick of Lindsay as vice-presidents. Jack Christie aside from receiving the OHA gold-stick pin, started his eight season as OMHA secietary. Life member DrLeon Hipwell continues as treasurer.</p><p>Five of last year&rsquo;s executive committee were re-elected including Sam Curry of Tweed, Frank Doherty of Thorold, Ted Elmes of Galt, Jack Oakes of Strathroy, and Gary Simmons of Graven-hurst. New elected executive memoers are Fred Cudmore of Wallaceburgh and Albert Watkins of Peterboro. Merv. Duke of Elmira won the OMHA honor award, and past president ABh Morrison of St. Catharines was made a lifemember.</p><p>OMHA registration of teams reached 153 at the annual meeting which went on record as against high-sticking and tourine hockey players who live in one town and play their hockey in another.</p><p>Toronto Hockey League for teams of all ages in Greater Toronto, celebrated it 40th year with a rousing annual session, where New York Rangers&rsquo; Frank Boucher thrilled the lads with his down to earth hockey comments.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ontario Minor Puck Body Now Rules 153 Kid Teams

<h2><b>Scoring Records</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>here are four, one hundred goal, men in the PCHL. Two of them are still active, Doug Adam, the leader with 125 and Ken Ullyot with 104. Bill Shill, ex-Vancouver forward had 116 goals to his credit and Ronnie Rowe who played with Tacoma for three seasons scored 111 goals. Another player nearing the century mark is Bobbie Love of Royals.</p><h2><b>Records</b></h2><p>Bobby Lore of New Westminster Is the only player to have played in every professional game of hockey his club has participated in since the league turned pro over three years ago. Love has played in 239 consecutive games to date, not including playoff games. During this time he has amassed a total of 271 points which give him a commanding lead.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p>STANDINGS ON TUES., A.M. DEC. 4</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01185/1299999-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="616" height="229"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p>Nov. 27&mdash;Victoria 2 at Vancouver 10 New West&rsquo;er 4 at Calgary 1</p><p>Nov. 28&mdash;Vancouver 5 at Seattle 6 New West&rsquo;er 4 at Edmonton 2</p><p>Nov. 29&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 2 at Saskatoon 2</p><p>Nov. 30&mdash;Tacoma 1 at Victoria 3 Seattle 1 at Vancouver 3 Calgary 3 at Edmonton 4</p><p>Dec. 1&mdash;Victoria 1 at Tacoma 4 Vancouver 2 at New West&rsquo;er 3 Calgary 4 at Saskatoon 3</p><p>Dec. 2&mdash;Tacoma 3 at Seattle 7</p><p>The New Westminster Royals Increased their lead to five points over the second place Seattle Ironmen, and now have a total of 36 points. The ironmen have a to&rsquo;al of 33 points which is six better than third place Saskatoc n. Tacoma follows in fourth place with Victoria in fifth with 22, Edmonton sixth with 20, Vancouver seventh with 18 points and Calgary in last place with 14. The Stampeders made their second Rtrip of the season to the Coast last week, playing five games and had a good opportunity to better their standings. Tacoma, and Victoria played but two games last Seattle, New Westminster, Vanconver, Edmonton, and Saskatoon each played three times. Saskatoon and Edmonton met each other in all three games, two at Saskatoon and one in Edmonton. The game of the week owas in Seattle, Wednesday night when the Ironmen tried to reduce the New Westminster Royals lead.</p><p>Ollie Dorohoy of New Westminster took over first place in the Individual scoring the past week, picking up four points to run his totals to 20 goals and 18 assists for 38 points. Four more than brother Eddie of Victoria, who was inactive due to an eye injury fc.nd Joe Bell of Seattle who moved into a second place tie with 34 points. Ollie Dorohoy&rsquo;s 20 goals is one more than Joe Bell of Seattle has scored and gives Ollie the lead in that department. Rudy Filion of Seattle has taken over the play-making honors with a total 23 assists.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02154/1299992-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1734" height="1488"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b><i>Unwelcome Royal Visitors</i></b></p><p><b>(Courtesy Victoria Daily Times)</b></p><p><b>Although a good many hockey fans left the Victoria arena feeling none too happy over the showing of the Victoria Cougars, there were no complaints over the tremendous game played by Jim Shirley. The quiet curlyheaded netminder who is doing such a capable job of taking over Jerry Cotnoir&rsquo;s job forestalled the inevitable 5-3 defeat hung on the Cougars by New Westminster Royals with stops like this. Aimie Dufault and Ollie Dorohoy (No. 5) were all alone on Shirley&rsquo;s crease here but were unable to slip the puck past his agile legs.</b></p></figcaption></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27</b></h3><p><b>New Westminster 4 at Calgary 1</b></p><p>CALGARY. &mdash; Playing their best hockey of the season &mdash; for the first period that is &mdash; Stampeders posted their 13th defeat of the year, and six of them in home surroundings at the Corral, when New Westminster Royals gained a 4-1 decision in Pacific Coast (Prairie) Hockey League combat. It was the third success for Royals over Stampeders in as many meetings but the margin has been declining from 7-1 to 7-3 and the difference was only three goals for a crowd about 3,000 in their last session.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Deschene; defence, Roberge, Bergeron, Forbes, Houle; forwards Dorohoy, Love, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Boyce, Fielder, Paul, Cabana.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Dertell; defence, Dickens, Moe, Gilhooley, Schvetz, Larson, Blade, Ashworth, Pechet, Miller, Agar, Goodacre, Pogue, Scott Thomas.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03121/1299985-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="606" height="449"></div><h3><b>Victoria 2 at Vancouver 10</b></h3><p>VANCOUVER. &mdash; A high stick cost Victoria Cougars their most powerfull PCHL warhead, high scoring Eddie Dorohoy.</p><p>I&rsquo;ll fortune trailed Cougars over to Vancouver as the rejuvenated Canucks slammed them 10-2, their worst drubbing so far this season.</p><p>The high stick caught the Victoria scoring ace in the left eye early in the first period. Dr. Walter Brewster diagnosed the wound as a hemorrhage of the eye.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Shirley; defense, Leger, Bouchard, Roche, Strongman; forwards, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, McIntyre, Bowness, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Medynski.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, McAtee; defence, Gustavsen, Lofvendahl, Tarala, Currie; forwards, Hagen, Groves, Gordon, Smith, Popeln, Leier, Hartsburg, Manson, Davis, Plumb.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0487/1299978-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="602" height="257"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0561/1299971-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="590" height="469"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 5 at Seattle 6</b></p><p>SEATTLE.&mdash;Seattle Ironmen, the team behind the New Westminster Royals, fell into the danger zone after getting off to a blazing start but managed a 6-5 win over the Canucks in a give-and-take clash at Seattle on Don Maxwell&rsquo;s third period goal.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, McAtee; defence. Tarala, Currie, Gustavsen, Lofvendahl; forwards, Leier, Manson, Davis, Hagen, Groves, Gordon, Smith, Popein, Hartsburg, Plumb.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Little; defence, Sprout, Taillefer, Shero, Conn; forwards, Samanski, Homenuke, Delmonte, Jackson, Maxwell, Ceresino, Filion, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0643/1299964-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="602" height="79"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0739/1299957-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="598" height="295"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0822/1299950-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="610" height="181"></div><p>Penalties: Hagen, Smith, Lofvendahl, Ceresino.</p><h3><b>New Westminster 4 at Edmonton 2</b></h3><p>EDMONTON. &mdash; Edmonton&rsquo;s slumping Flyers and the recently brilliant Vancouver Canucks both met the same fate as the PCHL&rsquo;s cream of the crop turned on the pressure.</p><p>New Westminster Royals, the team at the top, handed the sixth-place Flyers their sixth straight loss by drubbing them 4-2 at Edmonton.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Deschene; defence, Roberge, Bergeron, Forbes, Houle; forwards, Dorohoy, Love, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Boyce, Fielder, Paul, Cabana.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, McCaig, Pettinger, Coburn, Cox; forwards, McLeod, Johnson, Thomas, Uniac, Podolsky, McLean, Kubasek, Backor, Raynak, Kilburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03101/1299943-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="607" height="412"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29</b></h3><p><b>New Westminster 2 at Saskatoon 2</b></p><p>SASKATOON. &mdash; Still refusing to quake in the face of the mighty, the third-place prairie squad Saskatoon Quakers fought to a 2-2 deadlock with New Westminster to remain the only team Royals haven&rsquo;t been able to conquer this season.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Deschene: defence, Roberge, Bergeron, Forbes, Houle: forwards, Dorohoy, Love, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Boyce, Fielder, Paul, Cabana.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal. Worsley: defence, Parker, Kaiser, Heindl, Milford; forwards, McCulough, Chad, Strain. Hunter, Rouse, Manson, Senick, Fowler, Kuzma, Kaleta.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0487/1299936-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="610" height="333"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30</b></h3><p><b>Tacoma 1 at Victoria 3</b></p><p>VICTORIA. &mdash; Playing on a new line with Doug Anderson at centre and Bob Bowness on the opposite wing. Bob Bair lance scored the winning goal and set up the clincher as the Victoria Cougars bested Tacoma Rockets 3-1 before over 4,500 fans.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Shirley; defence, Goegan, Strongman, Leger, Roche; forwards, Frampton, Hebenton, Bouchard, McIntyre. Bowness, Hildebrand, Anderson, Evans, Medynski. Ballance.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Pratt. Godfrey, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor; forwards, Johnson, Adam, Bradley, Young, Haldorsen, Marquess, Brown, MacDonald, Kerr.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0570/1299929-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="610" height="381"></div><h3><b>Seattle 1 at Vancouver 3</b></h3><p>VANCOUVER. &mdash; Vancouver Canucks bolstered their margin over the trailing Calgary Stampeders in the PCHL to six points by defeating Seattle Ironmen, 3-1, at Vancouver.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, McAtee; defence, Gustavsen, Lofvendahl, Tarala. Currie; forwards, Groves, Gordon, Popein, Unger, Leier, Hartsburg, Manson, Davis, Plumb.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Little; defence, Sprout, Conn, Shero, Jackson, Taillefer; forwards, Filion, Bell, Fairburn, Tomiuk, Delmonte, Homenuke, Maxwell, Ceresino, Samanski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0655/1299922-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="610" height="425"></div><h3><b>Calgary 3 at Edmontoe 4</b></h3><p>EDMONTON. &mdash; Edmonton Flyers remained two points ahead of the seventh-place Vancouver Canucks by edging Calgary Stampeders, 4-3, In a lack-lustre game before 3,500 fans at Edmonton. The victory snapped a six-game Edmonton losing streak.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, McCaig, Coburn, Cox, Pettinger; forwards, Kilburn, Backor, Raynak, Podolsky, Uniac, McLean, Thomas, Johnson, McLeod, Kubasek.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Dertell; defence, Dickens, Moe, Gilhooley, Schvetz, Larson, Blade, Ashworth, Pechet, Miller, Agar.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0752/1299915-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="614" height="541"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1</b></h3><p><b>Victoria 1 at Tacoma 4</b></p><p>Tacoma. &mdash; The Tacoma Rockets won themselves another hockey game, thumping the., Victoria Cougars, 4-1, to tg.ke over undisputed possession of fourth place in the hectic PCHL scramble.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal. Shirley: defence, Leger, Bouchard, Roche, Strongman: forwards, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, McIntyre, Bowness, Anderson, Evans, Medynski, Ballance.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal. Stevenson; defence, Pratt. Jones, Davidson, Godfrey, O&rsquo;Connor; forwards. Bradley. Johnston. Adam, Brown, Kerr, MacDonald, Marquess, Haldorsen, Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0848/1299908-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="612" height="431"></div><h3><b>Vancouver 2 at New Westminster 3</b></h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTE. &mdash; The NevF Westminster Royals beat off a late rally by Vancouver Canucks to score a 3-2 PCHL victory. Royals had all their goals before Vancouver got rolling in the last frame.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, McAtee: defence, Gustavsen, Lofvendahl, Tarala, Currie; forwards, Hagen, Groves, Gordon, Smith, Popein, Unger, Leier, Manson, Davis, Plumb.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Deschene; defence, Roberge, Bergeron, Cabana; forwards. Slater, Faehoway, Forbes, Dorohoy, Ullyot, Love, Dufault, Boyce, Paul, Houle, Fielder, Lavell, Leek.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0940/1299901-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="608" height="335"></div><h3><b>Calgary 4 at Saskatoon 3</b></h3><p>SASKATOON. &mdash; George Agar&rsquo;s third-period goal gave the last-place Calgary Stampeders a 4-3 victory over Saskatoon Quakers in a PCHL game here.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Heindl, Parker, Kaiser, Brklacich; forwards, Rouse, Kuzma, Strain, Hunter, Senick, Fowler, McCullough, Manson, Chad, Kaleta.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Dertell: defence, Dickens. Wilder,. Bedard, Schvetz: forwards, Thomas, Larson, Ashworth, Pechet, Miller, Agar, Goodacre, Pogue. Scott.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1033/1299894-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="614" height="527"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2</b></h3><p><b>Tacoma 3 at Seattle 7</b></p><p>SEATTLE. &mdash; The Tacoma Rockets lost a hockey game as they were dropped a 7-3 by the Seattle Ironmen.</p><p>The Ironmen took advantage of several Tacoma defensive lapses. The Seattle sextet jumped into a 3-0 lead in the first period, and had the situation fairly well under control the rest of the way.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal. Stevenson: defense, Pratt. Godfrey, Jones. Davidspn, O&rsquo;Connor; forwards. Kerr. MacDonald, Brown, Haldorsen. Young, Marquess, Bradley, Adam. Johnston.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal. Little: defence, Sprout, Conn, Jackson. Shero: forwards, Tomiuk. Maxwell, Ceresino, Samanski, Homenuke. Delmonte, Filion, Bell, Fairburn, Richardson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1131/1299887-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="616" height="537"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0916/1299880-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="602" height="1463"></div><h3><b>THE LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Ollie Dorohoy, N.W. (20)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Rudy Filion, Sea. (23)</p><p><b>Most Winning Goals Scored:</b> Ollie Dorohoy, N.W. (5)</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks:</b> Ollie Dorohoy, N.W.; Bob Frampton, Vic. (2)</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Lome Worsley, Sask.; Lucien Deschene, N.W. (2)</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks Scored Against:</b> Doug Stevenson, Tac. (5)</p><p><b>Most Penalties:</b> Norm Gustavsen, Van. (93 minutes).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON &mdash; There is a chance Fentti Lund of the Boston Bruin&rsquo;s may never play hockey again. It&rsquo;s doubtful anyway that he will play again this season. The Bruins&rsquo; left winger suffered an injured eye when accidentally struck by defenseman Clair Martin&rsquo;s stick in a game against the Hawks five weeks ago.</p><p>Lund disclosed that Dr. Thomas Cavanaugh, eye specialist has asked him to retire from this year.</p><p>&ldquo;Dr. Cavanaugh asked me to quit playing hockey this year &mdash; at least, and the way he sounded he wanted me to quit for good,&rdquo; said Lund. &ldquo;But I want to get back if I can. It&rsquo;s too tough just Bitting and watching. The doctor doesn&rsquo;t want me to skate for at least a month and then if my eye isn&rsquo;t alright to lay off for another month. Right now I&rsquo;m taking drops six times a day and it helps a great deal.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lund’s Hockey Future May Be in Danger Over Eye Injury

<h2><b>QUEBEC MAJOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01193/1300278-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="612" height="229"></div><p><b>TOP TEN SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02127/1300271-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="612" height="295"></div><h2><b>MARITIME MAJOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON MONDAY. DEC. 10</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0379/1300264-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="600" height="163"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON MONDAY, DEC. 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0458/1300257-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="614" height="189"></div><p><b>TOP TEN SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0544/1300250-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="612" height="299"></div><h2><b>NORTHERN ONTARIO SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON TUESDAY, DEC. 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0639/1300243-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="610" height="139"></div><p><b>TOP TEN SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0736/1300236-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="616" height="289"></div><h2><b>EASTERN CANADA LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0830/1300229-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="610" height="209"></div><h2><b>THUNDER BAY JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON THURSDAY, DEC. 0</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0927/1300222-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="618" height="129"></div><p><b>TOP FIVE SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1023/1300215-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="606" height="153"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON THURSDAY, DEC. 6</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1120/1300208-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="612" height="181"></div><h2><b>OKANAGAN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON SUNDAY, DEC. 2</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1220/1300201-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="602" height="138"></div><p><b>TOP TEN SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1320/1300194-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="607" height="279"></div><h2><b>EASTERN AMATEUR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS OX MONDAY, DEC. 3</b></p><p>Northern Division</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1419/1300187-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="607" height="143"></div><p>Southern Division</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1519/1300180-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="609" height="132"></div><h2><b>OHA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON MONDAY, DEC. 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1618/1300173-1-eng-US/f0018-162.jpg" title="f0018-16" width="611" height="276"></div><p><b>TOP TEN SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1716/1300166-1-eng-US/f0018-172.jpg" title="f0018-17" width="609" height="281"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON TUESDAY, DEC. 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1816/1300159-1-eng-US/f0018-182.jpg" title="f0018-18" width="609" height="146"></div><p><b>TOP NINE SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1915/1300152-1-eng-US/f0018-192.jpg" title="f0018-19" width="613" height="261"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2015/1300145-1-eng-US/f0018-202.jpg" title="f0018-20" width="607" height="125"></div><p><b>TOP FIVE SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2115/1300138-1-eng-US/f0018-212.jpg" title="f0018-21" width="599" height="154"></div><h2><b>QUE. LAKE ST. JOHN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON MONDAY. DEC. 10</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2214/1300131-1-eng-US/f0018-222.jpg" title="f0018-22" width="606" height="133"></div><h2><b>WESTERN CANADA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON MONDAY, DEC. 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2313/1300124-1-eng-US/f0018-232.jpg" title="f0018-23" width="607" height="228"></div><p><b>TOP NINE SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2412/1300117-1-eng-US/f0018-242.jpg" title="f0018-24" width="611" height="257"></div><h2><b>WESTERN INTERNATIONAL</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON MONDAY, DEC. 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2512/1300110-1-eng-US/f0018-252.jpg" title="f0018-25" width="613" height="143"></div><p>(Includes Inter-league games: Standings figured In percentages as teams da not play the same number of games.)</p><h2><b>PACIFIC COAST SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON MONDAY, DEC.3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2611/1300103-1-eng-US/f0018-262.jpg" title="f0018-26" width="605" height="99"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-2710/1300096-1-eng-US/f0018-272.jpg" title="f0018-27" width="604" height="164"></div><h2><b>OTTAWA CITY JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-286/1300089-1-eng-US/f0018-282.jpg" title="f0018-28" width="603" height="178"></div><h2><b>QUE.-ONT., INTERCOLLEGflCTE</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON THURSDAY, DEC. 6</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-294/1300082-1-eng-US/f0018-292.jpg" title="f0018-29" width="609" height="138"></div><h2><b>ENGLISH LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON SATURDAY, DEC. 1</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-304/1300075-1-eng-US/f0018-302.jpg" title="f0018-30" width="609" height="190"></div><h2><b>CAPE BRETON JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON MONDAY, DEC. 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-314/1300068-1-eng-US/f0018-312.jpg" title="f0018-31" width="601" height="107"></div><p><b>TOP SEVEN SCORERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-324/1300061-1-eng-US/f0018-322.jpg" title="f0018-32" width="601" height="209"></div><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR</b></h2><p>STANDINGS ON WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-334/1300054-1-eng-US/f0018-332.jpg" title="f0018-33" width="604" height="165"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Minor League Parade At A Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01172/1300316-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured rookie who tried out with Boston this season.</p><p>4&mdash;Name given a Cincinnati defenseman.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of Tony Licari who once played for Detroit.</p><p>7&mdash;Initials of Reid, new member of the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>8&mdash;Nickname of Armand Dufault.</p><p>9&mdash;Nickname of Sherritt, member of Indianapolis in 194344, 1944-45.</p><p>11&mdash;NHL linesman, first name Maurice.</p><p>12&mdash;Johnny Wilson&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>16&mdash;First name of a Black Hawk who recently retired.</p><p>18&mdash;First name of Boivin, with Pittsburgh early this season.</p><p>19&mdash;Crown of India (abbr).</p><p>20&mdash;Nickname sometimes given Kenny Mosdell.</p><p>21&mdash;NHL club with whom Mike McMahon turned pro. (abbr.).</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of Benedict, old time player.</p><p>23&mdash;Buzz Boll, ex-Leaf player, is a native of this province (abbr.).</p><p>26&mdash;One of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of Riopelle of Ottawa.</p><p>28&mdash;Any well known deity.</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of Davies, NHL linesman.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of Ashley of Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>31&mdash;Nickname given an AHL coach</p><p>33&mdash;Ray Hannigan&rsquo;s brother is called this.</p><p>35&mdash;Birthplace of Johnny Mari ucci.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02135/1300309-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="532" height="821"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Nickname of Saint John team coached by &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty.</p><p>2&mdash;Short for given name of pictured player.</p><p>3&mdash;Initials of coach of 1950-51 PCIIL champions.</p><p>4&mdash;All NHL players are this.</p><p>5&mdash;Coaches sometimes wear the same &mdash; for luck.</p><p>7&mdash;One of the colours of the Boston uniform.</p><p>9&mdash;Bud MacPherson will be 25 years old in this month (abbr.).</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of Howe, obtained by Detroit from St. Louis in 1934-35.</p><p>11&mdash;Initials of Allum who played two seasons with Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>13&mdash;To perform.</p><p>14&mdash;Mohawk forward, called Bill.</p><p>15&mdash;Captain of the Cincinnati Mohawks.</p><p>17&mdash;This member of the St. Louis Flyers once played for De troit.</p><p>19&mdash;Francis O&rsquo;Grady was born here.</p><p>20&mdash;Star forward with Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>23&mdash;Name given Finney, rookie member of St. Louis Flyers</p><p>24&mdash;In 1947-48 Buddy O&rsquo;Connor won the Hart &mdash; Byng Trophies.</p><p>25&mdash;Selenium (Sym.).</p><p>27&mdash;Manager of Canadiens in 1930-31.</p><p>30&mdash;Jerwa, ex-NHL player, is called this.</p><p>32&mdash;Tellurium (Sym.).</p><p>33&mdash;Initials of Labrie, former NHL player.</p><p>34&mdash;Initials of one of the Cana diens.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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December 15, 1951

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