Gloom and Glee Around Hawks’ Teepee

Speaking on Sport

Exposing the Hockey Propaganda Boys AMID the rubble of week-end shelling on the shinny front, you’ll find the remnants of misinformation to which the hockey consumer has been exposed recently. You could start with what happened right here in Toronto. We had as our guests the Detroit Red Wings, greatest kitty-bar-the-door experts in hockey. That’s how they were described by Citizen C. Smythe just before he bundled up his bathing suit and skedaddled off to Florida. Give those Wings a couple of goals, Smythe proclaimed, and they’ll spend the rest of the night giving the foe a lesson in frustration. With their tight defensive style of play and their’ amazing Mr. Terry Sawchizi, they can lock up a game tighter than a clam with tiie bends. That was Mr. Smythe’s theory. Too bad…

Sydney and ‘Bay’ On Way Upstairs

SYDNEY, N.S.— Cape Breton clubs enjoyed their best week since the Maritime Major Hockey League opened back Oct. 15 and the scoring statistics reflected the climb by Glace Bay Miners and Sydney Millionaires. Although in sixth place in the six-team standing, Mills are only six games out of second place, and Leo Lamoureux’ Charlottetown Islanders who hold that spot have played two games more than the rest of the clubs. During the week Glace Bay stopped Millionaires. Halifax. Saint John and Charlottetown, but lost the postponed tilt to Johnny Horeck’s Moncton. Hawks iu Amherst, Sydney made four appearances and won three. After losing at the Bay, they came back to post two wins over Moncton and a single over Charlottetown. The Sydney - Charlottetown contest had some moments with the former Pacific Coast…

Pittsburg Club Came Close In ‘47-48 But Finished Season In Second Place

PITTSBURGH, Pa.— One thing that Johnny Harris has missed in all his successful show business enterprises, which include two of the largest ice extravaganza’s in the world, has been a championship hockey club. A club that would not only bring league honors to Pittsburgh for the first time, but also the Calder Cup, an achievement that also remains to be fulfilled for the first time. In 1947-48 the Hornets came nearer the league championship than ever before, going through fifty two games in first place and finally ending up in second spot. As for the Calder Cup, it hovered between the Pittsburgh Hornets and Cleveland Barons for seven full play-off contests last season, before the cloud finally burst and a solitary goal presented the trophy to the Barons in the seventh and final encounter. This…