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February 9, 1952
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Unwanted In ’50 Long Now Tabbed Sure NHL Bet
Sent To Victoria Last Season After Three Game Trial From Royals Proved He Had Ability BUFFALO, N.Y.— Tabbing young hockey players for future stardom in the National League is a favorite pastime of just about everyone connected with the sport, including the players themselves. Everyone, it seems, likes to feel he’s an “expert” on ice talent. Currently there are a goodly number of “experts” who can’t see how Stingin’ Stan Long, rugged young defenseman of the Buffalo Bisons, can fail making the grade with the parent Montreal Canadiens in due time. They point to the fact that the rookie American League rearguard has all the essentials—size, agility, ability and ambition. All that remains is for him to correlate them while serving his apprenticeship here. In recent years a number of Montreal defensemen have stepped from the…
Birthday Celebration Queered Wings’ Hopes of Gettting Chevy
BOSTON, Mass,— If the Boston Bruins make the Stanley Cup playoffs this season, Coach Lynn Patrick should doff his new brown fedora to the west—in the direction of Detroit. Two of the young men who are endeavoring tu put playoff legs under the Bruins are escapees from the clutches of the Red Wings, wintertime inhabitants of Detroit. One is Jack McIntyre, a big left wing; the other is Real Chevrefils, not as big but also a left wing. The Red Wings lost McIntyre as a junior on an “off” day, one on which someone in the Detroit front office made a electrical error”and Jack a free agent. They lost Chevrefils on a birthday, one shared by Real and another resident of South Porcupine, Ontario, more than twice his age. It all happened in 1948, when a…
March Night Game with Habs Test for Chicago’s Matinees
Sunday Eve Crowd at Canadiens’ Fray Will Tell if Fans Prefer Sunday Afternoon Tilts CHICAGO. Ill.— If the Chicago Black Hawks were only half as successful at transforming themselves into winners as they have been in their Sunday matinee experiment, everything would be lovely at this western extremity of the National Hockey League. The first two Sunday afternoon games, against Toronto and Detroit, drew 13,614 and 13,904 respectively. That compares with their previous average of around 8,000 per game. The third matinee, also against Toronto on Feb. 3, drew correspondingly well. There will be more matinees before the close of this sixth straight gloomy campaign but President Bill Tobin said they would necessarily have th be announced one at a time, with not more than a week’s notice on each. One disturbing factor is…
Yen To Play Goal, Desire To End String As Flyer, Tops In Milligan’s Book
ST. LOUIS, Mo.— One of the very few members of the Flyers’ hockey team who have spent their entire professional playing career with the St. Louis team, 26-year-old defenseman George Henry Milligan says he’d like to remain with the Airmen until he hangs up his skates and calls it quits — “maybe 10 years from now.” “Ever since I’ve followed sports,” George confessed, “I was always impressed by certain players who sort of became a ‘land mark’ with their respective clubs. In baseball, for instance, you’d always identify the late LouGehrig with only the New York Yankees. Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians are synonymous. You’d say the same about Stan Muslal and the Cardinals. “In hockey, the mere mention of Maurice Richard’s name suggests the only club he has ever played for,…
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