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January 19, 1952
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Cut Teams and Games Only Maritime Salvation -- Oland
MONTREAL, Que.— “Reduce the number of teams and decrease the schedule and you’ll see a much improved Maritime Major League,” says Col. Victor Oland, president of the Halifax St. Mary’s and one of the zealots of sport in the Maritime Provinces. Head of one of Canada’s biggest breweries, Oland was a visitor in Montreal last week and was busy attending a restaurant and hotel convention and clarifying a few hockey problems with Art Chapman of the Buffalo Bisons when we caught up with him. One of the first questions we threw at the Colonel was, “What will remedy hockey in the Maritimes?” Attendance has been falling off for some time now and there have been frequent rumors that certain teams might have to fold up before the present season is finished. “Reduce the number…
Down East Runoff Real Tight Not -- Counting Beavers
HALIFAX, N.S.— With financial troubles apparently adjusted and the teams thinking in terms of playoff berths, the Maritime Major (Big Six) Hockey League is settling down to an even keel. At no time since the season opened has there been such a wide-open scramble for five of the six positions. Johnny O’Flaherty’s Saint John Beavers are off by themselves, thanks to an amazing getaway. But the others are so closely bunched you can hardly see daylight between them. At one time it looked like a two-division league; Saint John and Charlottetown Islanders in one group, and Glace Bay, Moncton, Halifax and Saint Mary’s in the other. But the Islanders have been brought back to the pack with the result that a change in positions is calculated to get the turnstiles clicking again. There…
Sheer Hustle Won Reibel Spurs As Ace Cap Center
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.— A rookie center, who didn’t even figure in the pre-season plans of the Indianapolis Caps, Is developing rapidly into one of Coach Ott Heller’s most consistent point-makers during the current American League campaign. He is Earl (Dutch) Reibel of Kitchener, Ont., one of professional hockey’s shortest players. Although he weighs 160 pounds, the 21-year-old pivot man tops the five-foot mark by only eight Inches. Dutch won a chance in pro hockey by collecting 129 points in 48 games under Coach Jimmy Bklnner’s direction with the Windsor Spitfires during the 1949-50 Beason. Detroit signed him for service with Mud Bruneteau’s Omaha club in the United States League last season and he got away to a fine start as a pro by averaging better than a point-a-game during the early half of the…
Abel Passes Sid Howe as High Man on Wings’ All-Time Scoring Pole
DETROIT, Mich.— Sidney Gerald Abel, the pride of Melville, Sask., became the highest point maker in the history of the Detroit Red Wings hockey club last week. Abel, who hit the National Hockey League in 1939 and has captained the Red Wings for eight years, tied the club record set by Syd Howe. He pulled into a tie by getting two assists in Detroit’s 4-2 victory over Boston January 6. All he needed then was one more goal or one more assist to become the all-time leader. He got the record breaker In the form of a goal at 1.32 of the second period on the night of January 10. The Wings whipped the New York Rangers 5-2 that night and Abel netted one goal on an assist from Ted Lindsay. Syd Howe set the…
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