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April 19, 1952

The Hockey News April 19, 1952

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-09" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0916/938765-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg"></div>Just look at that gleam of satisfaction as our &ldquo;Master Gardener&rdquo; anticipates a friendly Brading&rsquo;s&mdash;his refreshing reward for a job well done!After gardening&mdash;or any time you decide to treat your thirst&mdash;enjoy mellow, satisfying Brading&rsquo;s&hellip;it&rsquo;s Canadian ale at its best.Try it&hellip;let its zest, tang and flavor tell you why more and more men say &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a Brading&rsquo;s man myself!&rdquo;Always ask for Brading&rsquo;s Old Stock Ale<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1015/938758-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="673" height="271"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0816/938751-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="1722" height="943"></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

I’m a BRADING’S man myself!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0243/938209-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="580" height="273"></div><h2>April 23 to April 29</h2>23&mdash;RAYNAK, Johnny, Edmonton, forward, 1925.24&mdash;CERESINO, Ray, Seattle, forward, 1929; BODNAR, Gus, Chicago, forward, 1923.25&mdash;EGAN, Pat, Providence, defense, 1918.26&mdash;ALMAS, Ralph, St Louis, goaler, 1924.27&mdash;NARDUZZI, Mike, Syracuse, forward, 1924.28&mdash;BLADE, Hank, Calgary, playing coach, 1921; STANOWSKI, Wally, Cincinnati, defence 1919.29&mdash;BACKOR, Pete, Pittsburgh, defense, 1919. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday To You

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KREML-GROOMED HAIR!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01128/938154-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><h2>Wings Deserve Credit</h2>Dear Sirs,I wish to submit a reply To Mr. Waldo Willis&rsquo; letter in the April 5th issue of the Hockey News.I am only a high school student and I don&rsquo;t pretend to know as much about hockey as Mr. Willis seems to think he does, but what I do know, I understand and I certainly don&rsquo;t find pleasure in running down one of the best teams in the National Hockey League, Detroit. I am inclined to think that he favors some other team, and he is jealous of Detroit&rsquo;s power. The members of the Detroit team may not all be prize-winners, or something of that sort, but I think they deserve credit for progressing so far as to take the Stanley Cup a few years ago and to succeed in taking four of the six All-Star positions, this year, making the final playofts, and being winners of the Stanley Cup for many of the past years. Because he is a resident of Detroit, this should affect his views some, but he is definitely prejudiced against Detroit for some reason and likes to demerit them.I am speaking for several of my classmates, who feel the same as I do, about Mr.&rsquo; Willis&rsquo; letter.Denise Scanlon Dearborn, Mich.&mdash;<h2>An Ode To Rocket Dear Sir,</h2>I am writing to your fine paper to congratulate you on your fine coverage of hockey. I would appreciate it very much if you would print my letter in the HOCKEY NEWS as I have recently made up the following poem.&lsquo;&lsquo;THE FINAL SCORE&rdquo; T&rsquo;was the night before play-offs As they all hit the hay. Not a creature was strirring not even McKay.The sticks were hung on the wall with great care.In the hopes that the Red Wings soon would be there.The players were snugged in there beds all aloneWhen the Detroiters arrived at the Canadiens home.The night quickly passed and the game soon begunThe first period ended the score one and one.But late in the third as it climbed two to twoThings got dull and the crowd began to boo.It ended like that with the boys very tired&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the matter&rdquo; is what they required.The over time started and the forum hushedAs Rocket Richard broke out with a rushHe held onto the puck with a lot of great careAnd in front of the net it lifted into the airSuddenly the crowd began to roar Rocket Richard had made the final score.Raymond McLean Jamestown, Ont.<h2>The Border Line</h2>Dear Sir,I&rsquo;ve read your paper this year with much Interest particularly the records set. Often I have noticed Sawchuk landed as the best goal keeper the League has ever seen&mdash;The last time I read it as a quotation of Frank Boucher.Could you tell me on what grounds these statements have been made as George Hainsworth in 1928-29 had 22 shutouts in 44 games 50% perfect and only 43 goals in 44 games scored against him. Also Alex Connell had the longest shut out sequence &mdash; 6 games and longest modern sequence 4 games by Durnan. Also could you tell me where the line is between modern records set, &lsquo;Old Records set&rsquo;?Where would you say Lumley stood now in goalkeeping standing?Hoping to see my letter in print or get a reply.Ralph Shearer Shearer Dalen B.C.(We aren&rsquo;t saying.)<h2>The Right Two</h2>Dear Sir,I guess Jack Adams clarified the situation of how great were the oldtimers. I agree with him that just Morenz and Shore belong on an All-Time All-Star team. The rest were just so-so. I saw them.Arnold Morris New York, N.Y.<h2>Diz&rsquo;s Quote</h2>Dear Sir,Mr. Adams must have heard Dizzy Dean&rsquo;s quote after reading about Cobb. The older we are get the greater we was.That goes for hockey players too. I&rsquo;m glad Adams shut them up before they got a change to say anything.James L. Littlefield. Windsor, Ont.<h2>The Blairs Will Come</h2>Dear Sir,That was a neat piece of work that Dann did on Johnny Wilson. So far the deal has panned out favor the Wings but the Blairs will come along yet.R. H. Lamb Montreal, Que.<h2>Chuck&rsquo;s Comeback</h2>Dear Sir,I was glad to read that Chuck Rayner intends to get his job back.As for this fan I have never been convinced that he lost it in the first place. It seems that newspapermen are quite critictl. They never look into the past and find out just how much a player has or means to his club.I wish to pat Chuck on the back for being the great guy he is and wish him all the luck in his comeback, which I for one knew will be successful.Daniel Shea Ottawa, Ont.<h2>Sand Trapped</h2>Dear Sir,Is Conn Smythe going to contend with Bill Ezinicki again or is he going to build him a private golf course in Maple Leaf Gardens so Ezzie can play there on the day of those important games as he did in Boston.F. Jefcoat Toronto, Ont.<h2>Wants Variety</h2>Dear Sir,Your paper is fine &mdash; all except one item. The Pacific Coast Hockey League coverage is about as hammed up a piece of work as I have ever seen. I have read enough about Edmonton and seen enough pictures of Victoria to make me wish I&rsquo;d never heard of them. As a matter of fact I wish I never had.How about getting a little variety next season.Ralph English Seattle, Wash.<h2>The White Elephant</h2>Dear Sir,To Mr. Arsenault I would like to say the following. Is he interested in the welfare of the so called amateur hockey player, as he says he is or is he just interested in the future of Jean Beliveau. Isn&rsquo;t it unusual that all the beefs about the NHL&rsquo;s negotiation list seem to stem from the Quebec City area.Could it be that the Quebec Coliseum in that city is a white elephant and somebody is using Jean Beliveau to cover up. That&rsquo;s the way we think it is.Bill Fairburn Toronto, Ont.<h2>Lincoln&rsquo;s Friend</h2>Dear Sir,Despite Mr. Arsenault&rsquo;s intere-ference we bet Beliveau will be with the Canadiens next season. Didn&rsquo;t Lincoln free the slaves. What&rsquo;s Mr. Arsenault trying to do prove Lincoln wrong?Marc Dufresne Montreal, Que.<h2>Those Open Doors</h2>Dear Sir,If the National Hockey League opens it&rsquo;s doors to Cleveland then they certainly must do likewise to at least one other team in the American League. I believe St. Louis should be given a chance to show it belongs in the NHL. Also, how about Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Washington and Philadelphia. They all support major league ball and any city that can do that can certainly supper a major league hockey club.Mike Thayor Cincinnati<h2>OK By Him</h2>Dear Sir,Your stories in recent issues of Doug Harvey and Lynn Patrick were excellent. How about a story on the present coach of the Indianapolis Capitals, Ott Heller. In my books he is one of the greatest defencemen of all time so 1 hope that in forthcoming issues there is a story about him.I am interested in writing to fans in other cities. Therefore please would you print this letter in your &ldquo;fan forum&rdquo; in the near future. Thank you very much! 93 Hincks St. Bob Goodwin St. Thomas, Ont. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover1" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover13/939812-1-eng-US/cover12.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Photographed while shaking hands following the final whistling in the seventh game of the Boston, Montreal series Maurice Richard, right and Sugar Jim Henry, left gave the cameraman something to be proud of. Henry, with two black eyes and a broken nose and Richard with blood pouring from a six stitch cut over his left eye starred for their respective clubs. Minutes before this shot was taken Richard ripped in and scored the goal that broke up the game. ((Photo by Roger St. Jean))</figcaption></div><h2>Blood, Sweat, Toil and Broken Beaks</h2><h2>These Were Top Seven Who Drew Nod Of Fans</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0133/939805-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="909" height="936"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG HARVEY, Canadiens,</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-049/939798-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="907" height="934"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORDIE HOWE, Detroit, RIGHT WING</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0228/939791-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="892" height="922"><figcaption class="caption-body">TERRY SAWCHUK. Detroit, GOAL</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-056/939784-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="890" height="918"><figcaption class="caption-body">ELMER LACH. Conadiens. CENTER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0319/939777-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="895" height="937"><figcaption class="caption-body">RED KELLY, Detroit, DEFENSE</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-063/939770-1-eng-US/f0003-062.jpg" title="f0003-06" width="896" height="930"><figcaption class="caption-body">TED LINDSAY, Detroit. LEFT WING</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Fans Pick 4 Wings. 3 Habs on All-Stars Wings 4, Habs 3, In All Star Romp

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div>NBW-YOHK, N.Y.&mdash;Since he departed New York to take a personal gander at what the farms might offer the Rangers next fall, Frank Boucher has had a change of heart as well as a much-needed change of scenery. Until he stopped off in Saskatoon to talk to Doug Bentley and watch Lome (Gump) Worsley, the Ranger boss could never get enthused over a small goalkeeper.The first thing Bentley, as Saskatoon coach, said to Boucher concerned Worsley. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t understand why this kid is not in the National League,&rdquo; Doug remarked. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s as good as some and better than others up there now.&rdquo;Boucher, who likes his goalies to fill the cage, then saw and believed. He knows now that Worsley is ready to wear a New York uniform next season. If Chuck Rayner comes all the way back from his knee operation, as he has promised he will, he&rsquo;ll still have to beat Worsley out of the job.Worsley, who&rsquo;ll be 23 next month, is a small one all right. He&rsquo;s a little taller and a little wider than Emile (The Cat) Francis, ahother Ranger chattel, but his 5-7, 150-pound frame hardly fills any cage.<h2>Reminds Him of Worters</h2>&ldquo;Yes, he&rsquo;s smaller than I like&mdash;tham.&rdquo; Boucher admits, &ldquo;but he has great actions He&rsquo;s very quick, has a fine pair of hands and he&rsquo;ll keep his feet. He&rsquo;s stronger than he looks, too. You know whom he reminds me of? Roy Worters.&rdquo;This season at Saskatoon was only Worsley&rsquo;s second in the pros. But he was the best goalkeeper in the league, just as he has been in every other he&rsquo;s played in.Only Lucien Dechene of league leading New Westminster had a better record in the PCHL, and Dechene was playing with a much better team. Worsley had a goals-against record of 3.07 in a scoring loop. Dechene had 2.84. Each had five shutouts.The season before, while Worsley labored at St. Paul, he began to fit into the Rangers&rsquo; future plans. In 64 games, Gump allowed only 184 goals. The 2.88 average was the first time in the history of the now defunct USHL that any goalie had bettered 3.00. Even Terry Sawchuk couldn&rsquo;t do it at Omaha.As the result of his extra-special efforts, Worsley was not only chosen the All-Star goaltender but also was named the league&rsquo;s outstanding rookie.The little goalkeeper, who actually isn&rsquo;t much smaller than Montreal&rsquo;s Gerry McNeil, is a graduate of the St. Francis Xavier Cyclones of Verdun. He had seven shutouts with them in 1948-49.The next season, he spent here in New York with the senior Rovers. There wasn&rsquo;t another EHL goalkeeper to compare with him. A 3.00-game record and four shutouts earned the promotion to St. Paul and also this comment from the then-Ranger coach, Lynn Patrick: &ldquo;The kid can&rsquo;t miss. He has what ft takes.&rdquo;There are apparently a couple other kids who have what it takes too. Two juniors at Guelph will be coming up to the Rangers next fall and Boucher is ready to stake a good Biltmore hat they both make it, first crack. They are Andy Bathgate and Ron Murphy, both forwards.After watching them in several of their playoffs&mdash;Murphy twice had four-goal games&mdash;Boucher tailed back to New York: &ldquo;They are good enough for our league. They got size and speed and they look awfully mature for junior players.&rdquo;Murphy was the leading goal scorer of the Junior OHA this past season, when he recorded 58 counters in 51 games. He is a left winger. Bathgate, a center and right winger, was captain of the club and its most solid player&mdash;when he played. Chronic knee trouble kept him down to 34 games, in which he scored 27 goals and 50 assists:The Rangers will get a healthy Bathgate, however. As soon as Guelph&rsquo;s playoffs are ended, Andy will be sent to New York to have a knee cartilage removed by the same specialist&mdash;Dr. Kazuo Yanagisawa&mdash;who did such successful operations on Allan Stanley and Rayner this winter. Bathgate has been bothered, off-and-on, for the past two years.ICE CHIPS: How successful was Rayner&rsquo;s knee operation&mdash;removal of ligament and replacement by thigh tendon? The doc had Rayner doing knee bends less than five weeks after the cutting ceremonies&hellip;Boucher saw Cincinnati lose its final playoff game to Providence and wasn&rsquo;t dissatisfied with farm club&rsquo;s effort. &ldquo;I thought they might go all the way,&rdquo; Boucher said. &ldquo;That is, until the injuries came.&rdquo; In playoffs, Jackie McLeod first got fractured cheekbone, then Nick Mlckoski broke an ankle and finally Buddy O&rsquo;Connor tore some muscles in a shoulder.Boucher admits he has had some trade discussions with Toronto&rsquo;s Connie Smythe, but then adds that they haven&rsquo;t gotten very far&hellip;Jim Hendy, Cleveland general manager, came to New York recently to try to sell Jim Norris, Jr., a bill of goods. Seems Norris is only NHL owner who wouldn&rsquo;t vote for Barons&rsquo; entry into major league.<h2>Will Fight It Out</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0133/937688-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="544" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHUCK RAYNER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0226/937681-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="538" height="548"><figcaption class="caption-body">LORNE WORSLEY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Worsley Sneaks In And Threatens Chuck’s Job

SHERBROOKE, Que. &mdash; Chuck Rayner got a vote of confidence from teammate Reg Sinclair last week. Sinclair thinks Rayner will be back in the New York nets when the 1952-53 season gets underway.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s true that 219 goals got past Rayner but that wasn&rsquo;t his fault,&rdquo; said Reg. &ldquo;Our goalie didn&rsquo;t have the necessary protection. The team had lots of offensive power but the defense was the weak spot.&rdquo;Sinclair gave Rayner the nod over Francis for the job next season because of Francis&rsquo; size.Sinclair, who once played for the Sherbrooke Saints of the Quebec Senior League, now makes his home here. In the off-season he is a disc jockey on the local radio station.Commenting on has plans for next season Reg said he wasn&rsquo;t sure. &#9632;

Reg Thinks Chuck Will Be Back

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;A nine-day &ldquo;vacation&rdquo; right in the middle of the playoffs might seem a wonderful break for a hockey team, but it left the Detroit Red Wings slightly dubious.Leo Reise had no trouble forming his opinion. He became a practice casualty which took him out of the lineup for the Stanley Cup finals against Montreal.It was ironical that Reise, a five-year veteran on defense, should have suffered the most serious injury to hit the Wings all year right at a time when the club was trying only to stay in shape.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0323/937781-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="293" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Leo Reise)</figcaption></div>Reise suffered a severe puncture wound on his ankle when the heel of Marcel Pronovost&rsquo;s skate sliced through the steel-and-leather protective guard and cut a vein. At first it was feared that Reise also had cut a tendon but doctors found otherwise upon examination.The rest which took away one defenseman was also supposed to return another but it didn&rsquo;t work out that way. Red Kelly, who missed the last two games of the Toronto series with a badly sprained wrists, needed all the rest he could get, and then some.Kelly was able to play when the Canadian finals opened, thanks to a steel guard which was taped to the back of his hand. It was built by a Detroit firm on rush order and delivered just be-bore the club left for Montreal.The All Star redhead had no chance to practice with it before playing in the opener. He was well below his normal efficiency, and when the action caused his hand to swell painfully again, there were doubts whether he would be able to play the entire series.Never has any team had to wait around such a long stretch during the playoffs, and it caused several changes in the club&rsquo;s routine. For one thing Jack Adams came out of coaching retirement again to pilot the club through a couple of the drills.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m now Tommy Ivan&rsquo;s assistant,&rdquo; laughed Adams as he handled the sessions while Ivan was on a scouting expedition to the Montreal-Boston series. It marked the first time, incidentally, that Adams had donned skates in six years. He skated easily but attempted no frills.The Wings kept only four of their extra players around for the playoffs&rsquo; forwards Fred Glover, Enio Sclisizzl, Larry Wilson and Goalie Glen Hall. Outside of the Detroit regulars, the remainder of the 25-inan player list were sent to their homes on a standy by basis, including all extra defensemen.One of these was Hugh Coflin, a regular Indianapolis defenseman Coflin had been home at Blaine Lake, Sask., only three days when he got a call.&ldquo;I thought it was some of the kids in town playing a joke on me when the telephone operator said Detroit was trying to reach me,&rdquo; Coflin said. &ldquo;But when I heard Mr. Adams on the other end, I knew it was no gag.&rdquo;Coflin flew to Detroit just in time to join the club before the Montreal series. The loss of Reise and doubtful availability of Kelly had stripped the club to four defensemen, and Coflin was tagged for added strength.The long layoff had one happy result for the Wings. Usually at playoff time they are quartered in a Toledo hotel, 60 miles from Detroit, while at home. When a layoff loomed as soon as the Maple Leafs were conquered, Adams gave them permission to stay at home for a spell.But he wanted them ready to move to Toledo as soon as the other series was over. Thus when the clubs were playing their sixth game in Boston, the Wings had a double set of orders:If Boston won, ending the series, they were to meet one half hour after the game was over to take a bus to Toledo. But if Montreal won, making the seventh game necessary, they could remain in their Detroit homes.So the entire team was assembled at the Olympia as the sixth game went into overtime, and they listed to a radio broadcast of the events in Detroit. When Pau Masnick scored the winning goal for Canadiens, the Detroiters headed back to-bed, and the bus was dismissed. &#9632;

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Rush Order for Steel Guard Protects Kelly In Final Cup Series

<div class="byline">BY MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Never did a regular forward score so few goals in an entire season and still feel a complete absence of criticism than did Tony Leswick this year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0416/937750-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="289" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gaye Stewar</figcaption></div>Tough Tony or Tiny Tony (the name depends upon whether you play against him or just look at him) occupies the role of a defensive specialist. Every club has a couple, and many regard Leswick as the best in the business.While with New York for six seasons, Leswick made a career out of checking Rocket Richard in Montreal games. He handled that assignment in capable fashion, a matter upon which Richard will agree anytime.Leswick also did all right as a scorer. He averaged closed to 20 goals for his six seasons, and hit 27 in his peak.But Jack Adams had been eyeing him for his defensive assets for a couple of years, and when the Rangers agreed to a deal, a trade was made.It was one of those trades by which both clubs should gain.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0512/937743-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="569" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tiny and Tough (TONY LESWICK)</figcaption></div>New York, needing a good goal scorer, got Gaye Stewart. It was a tough break that Stewart had such a hard time getting started this season, but the Rangers will cash in on his shooting yet.Detroit got a morale booster in Leswick. He has high nuisance value, can check any man in the business, and also zip confidence into other players. He filled a need which Detroit had.Strangely enough, Leswick was switched over to right wing, which had been his spot before he played left wing the six years at New York. He was on a line with Marty Pavelich and Metro Prystai most of the year, Detroit&rsquo;s so-called second, or checking line. Later, Glen Skov replaced Prystai at center.The switch, however, pulled Leswick off Richard as a check. Marty Pavelich had that assign ment and kept it. Tony found himself a new cast of opposing forwards, and gave them the old Rocket treatment.But the goals came hard. He worked in all 70 games, and scored only nine. Never once, however, was any criticism heard from Adams or Tommy Ivan. Leswick was following orders &mdash; concentrating on defense.At playoff time, however, Leswick got his reward. Three times he came up to score big goals and steal the headlines from the high scoring forwards who had drawn such praise all year.The first time was in the clincher of the Toronto series Tony rapped in the winning goal which doomed the Maple Leafs to defeat in four straight games. He broke a 1-1 tie and Detroit went on to a 3-1 triumph.Then in the opener against Montreal, Leswlck became a golden opportunist. In the second period he waltzed in to accept a loose puck and plant the first goal behind Gerry McNeil. In the third period he scored again, boosting the count to 2 to 0 with a 50-foot screen shot.It was a long wait for the 5-foot-6, 155-pounder with the handy fists before he became a &ldquo;big man&rdquo; in the Detroit offense. But when the time did come, Tony took over which extreme pleasure. &#9632;

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Goals Come Hard for Tony But Criticism Doesn’t Show

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash; With Detroit Coach Tommy Ivan losing out to Montreal&rsquo;s Dick Irvin in the mastermind voting, ace left winger Teddy Lindsay of the Detroiters stepped into the lead in the individual race for honors. Lindsay now has been selected for All Star honors four times in all since the fans&rsquo; poll was inaugurated in the 1947-48 season&mdash;more than any other individual. Ivan, with three wins, was neck-and-neck with Lindsay until this year. &#9632;

Terrific Ted Takes Lead As Loop’s Most Nominated

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash; Rookie Dickie Moore of the Montreal Canadiens is the only player in the League who got votes on THE HOCKEY NEWS ALL-STAR team for two positions.Although they didn&rsquo;t amount to many votes Moore got some for right wing and a few for left wing. He was credited with one second team vote on left wing and three third.As a right winger he received 50 first place votes, 12 seconds and 32 thirds. &#9632;

Moore Gets Votes for Two Spots

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0271/937819-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadiens are the only two teams left in the Stanley Cup hunt after the marathon puck season, and the fan voters proved themselves pretty good pickers as they gave all places on the Fifth Annual HOCKEY NEWS All Star Team to members of these same two teams. With all the ballots in and added up, the four-time League champion Red Wings had four players on the elite squad, with Canadiens supplying the other two and the coach.Thus, the Motor City crew added another triumph to their All Star string, maintaining their record of the past few seasons of being right up in the front rank when the top player nominations are being made. The Habitant crew, by virtue of their surge up the ladder in the latter stages of the race, pulled in ahead of the other loop entries to nail down the only two positions the Detroiters missed.Reading from the goal out, here&rsquo;s the 1951-52 team of superstars as selected by readers of the HOCKEY NEWS from coast to coast, in Canada and the United States: &mdash;Goal, Terry Sawchuk, Detroit; Defense, Red Kelly, Detroit, and Doug Harvey, Montreal; Center Elmer Lach, Montreal; Right Wing, Gordie Howe, Detroit; Left Wing, Ted Lindsay, Detroit; Coach, Dick Irvin, Montreal.Ranking behind the first-line stars to make up the Second Team were a pair of Canadiens, two Maple Leafs, and one entry, each from New York, Boston and Detroit.The alternates were: Goal, Gerry McNeil, Montreal; Defense, Hymie Buller, New York, and Bill Quackenbush, Boston; Center, Ted Kennedy, Toronto; Right Wing, Maurice Richard, Montreal; Left Wing. Sid Smith, Toronto, and Coach, Tommy Ivan, Detroit.The closest race in this season&rsquo;s All Star contest came in the coaching spot, where canny Hab mentor Dick Irvin showed his heels to three-time winner Tommy Ivan of Detroit by an 800-point margin. All the other positions were decided in clear-cut fashion, with brilliant young Terry Sawchuk piling up the biggest lead&mdash;almost 6,600 points&mdash;over his closest competitor, Gerry Mc-Nell.Totals were compiled on a point basis, weighted to give the first and second-place ballots relatively more value. Every first choice was worth five points to the All Star nominee, with a second rating three points and a single for each third place vote.While Sawchuk had the biggest lead over the opposition, he had to give way to a pair of his teammates for the highest number of first place votes and the biggest point total. Detroit defenseman Red Kelly drew the nod from 2,010 fans as their first choice and this was good enough to give him the biggest point total, 10,6 6 2, almost 3,000 ahead of boyish-looking Doug Harvey of Montreal.Hard-working right winger Gordie Howe of the Detroiters picked up the second highest first-place vote count, 1809, and was second in total points with 10,150. This was close to double the count pulled in by Rocket Richard, who lost a lot of ground because he was sidelined most of the year and because the ballots were made out before his blazing comeback thriller in the semi-finals against Boston.That was in sharp contrast to last season, when Howe and Richard duelled it out all the way through the race and the red-shirted Wing just nudged into the first place slot by a few scanty points over the Montreal sizzler.One minor surprise in the balloting&mdash;although not to experienced observers of the game&mdash;was the placing of Chicago&rsquo;s Harry Lumley in third place behind Sawchuk and McNeil in the goalie race. Lum was only 78 points behind clutch-player Gerry in the tabulations, as the fans showed their impartial puck judgment despite the fact that the Black Hawk netminder let in the highest number of goals in the circuit as he labored behind a sieve-lika defense.The only thing close in the fight for the left wing nomination was the sparring match between Lindsay and Toronto&rsquo;s Sid Smith. The Detroiter came out of that with close to a 1,700-point lead over Smith and the rest of the pack far to the rear.While no rookies made the All Stars, as the voters stuck closely to the experience and proven performance of the veterans, a couple of them made a valiant attempt to win the fans&rsquo; affections. Hymie Buller of the Rangers was the closest contender for a First Team defense berth, finishing up the track ahead of capable veterans like Boston&rsquo;s Quackenbush, Toronto&rsquo;s Thomson and Detroit&rsquo;s Reise&mdash;all former winners in previous polls. Paul Meger of Montreal finished third in the left wing voting, although he trailed well behind Lindsay and Smith, while Bernie Geoffrion of the Habs made it into the top five in the right wing vote tabulations.<h2>HOW THE FANS PICKED THEM</h2>Here are the vote tabulations, showing how the fans rated them in the Fifth Annual HOCKEY NEWS All Star Poll. Only that leading contenders at each position are shown, with the number of first, second and third choices they received, and the point totals.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-07/937812-1-eng-US/f0003-072.jpg" title="f0003-07" width="569" height="1990"><figcaption class="caption-body">DICK IRVIN&hellip;Coach</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Lion’s Share of Playing Berths Again Goes To Detroit Whizzers

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01104/937954-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div>DETROIT entered the 1952 Stanley Cup finale as 9-5 favorites&hellip;This is the first time in history that Montreal Canadlens and Detroit Red Wings have clashed in the Stanley Cup final although either Detroit or Canadlens have been in the Cup finals every year since 1940&hellip;Detroit were in the finals in 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1948, 1949 and 1950. They won the Cup in 1943 and 1950&hellip;Canadians were in the finals in 1944, 1946, 1947 and 1951, winning the Cup in 1944 and 1946&hellip;This is the 12th playoff series for Captain Sid Abel of the Wings&hellip;It is the 10th playoff round for Captain Butch Bouchard of Canadiens&hellip;It is the 9th and 8th series respectively for Elmer bach and Maurice Richard, holders of more Stanley Cup playoff records than any other players&hellip;Alex Delvecchio and Larry Zeidel of Detroit are playing in their first Cup playoffs&hellip;Zeidel and Dickie Moore of Canadiens are buddies during the off-season. They both make their home in Montreal and last summer spent two weeks at Dake Placid skating and getting into shape before reporting to their respective training camps&hellip;Moore had five scoring chances in the opening game of the finals and missed &rsquo;em all&hellip;Richard played a fine game for Montreal in the opener but just wasn&rsquo;t able to get the puck past Terry Sawchuk&hellip;Terrific Terry came up with several sensational saves to rob Montreal of sure goals&hellip;Dollard St. Laurent played a fine rushing game from the Montreal defense. This 2 2-year-old rookie improves every game out and looks like All-Star material in a couple of seasons&hellip;Red Kelly&rsquo;s sprained left wrist bothered him considerably during the opener. Kelly played with the wrist in a cast. He wouldn&rsquo;t have seen action at all if Leo Reise hadn&rsquo;t been injured in practice and forced to miss the final round&hellip;Add Look-alikes: Terry Sawchuk and Glenn Hall, Red Wing&rsquo; understudy goalkeeper. Hall, who played with Indianapolis this season and is standby goalie for the Wings In the playoffs, is a dead ringer for the Vezina Trophy winner.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0297/937947-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="284" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Olmstead</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0344/937940-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="285" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Floyd Curry</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0424/937933-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="286" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0520/937926-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="283" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glen Hall</figcaption></div>MONTREAL fans are still talking about the picture goal that Maurice Richard scored against Boston in the deciding game of their series to put Montreal into the finals&hellip;It was unanimously agreed by everyone who saw it that it would go down as one the prettiest goals ever scored in playoff hockey. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s still the Babe Ruth of hockey,&rdquo; Dink Carroll, sports ed. of the Montreal Gazette, stated after the game&hellip;The enthusiastic Montreal crowd was BO eager to congratulate him after his game-winning goal that he had to be escorted out the backdoor of the Forum&hellip;Hundreds of well-wishers milled about the corridor&hellip;Richard&rsquo;s face is full of scars and scabs right now from the numerous facial cuts he&rsquo;s Incurred recently&hellip;Dick Irvin blasted Moore and Boom Boom Geoffrion after the first Detroit game for their indifferent play&hellip;Geoffrion has been a flop so far in the playoffs&hellip;Detroit players checked into the Mount Royal Hotel the same time Wednesday as the Boston Bruins players were checking out&hellip;The lobby was crammed full of hockey players&hellip;Gordie Howe lost a back tooth in the opener when he collided with Maurice Richard&rsquo;s elbow&hellip;Howe was disappointed in his play in the first game and figures he&rsquo;ll play a lot better from here-on-ln&hellip;Glen Skov has been a standout for the Wings in the playoffs. The tall blond center is playing his best hockey right now&hellip;Tiny Tony Leswick who scored only nine goals during the regular season had a big night in the opener tallying twice&hellip;Tony was also up to his old tricks of needling the opposition. He did a good job on young Moore and also bothered The Rocket at times. Les-wick rates as one of the best needlers in the business&hellip;In the first game of the series Canadiens sent Paul Masnick, Eddie Mazur and Floyd Curry against Detroit&rsquo;s Production Line&hellip;Johnson and Olmstead shared duties with Masnick and Mazur on the line&hellip;The Red Wing unit of Skov-Leswick-Pavelich checked Canadiens&rsquo; Punch Line with Marty Pavelich holding Richard pointless&hellip;Frank Selke Jr. and Pick Irvin Jr. sit up in the press box at all Montreal home games taking down statistics on the game. The sons of the Canadiens&rsquo; braintrust do a good job, too&hellip;Selke Jr. is assistant publicity director of Canadians.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0615/937919-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="278" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry McNeil</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0713/937912-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="280" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sid Abel</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0812/937905-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="284" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0912/937898-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="275" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Elmer Lach</figcaption></div>THE RED WINGS practised on the day between the first and second games. The Canadiens took it easy&hellip;Detroit feel they need as much practice as possible to overcome their lengthy 10-day layoff&hellip;Canadiens looked a little jaded in the first game after their hectic seven-game series With Boston&hellip;Four play-by-play broadcasts emanated from the Forum during the final game of the Boston-Montreal series&hellip;Doug Smith did the English broadcast across Canada; Michel Normandin handled the French broadcast; Frank Ryan did the whole game back to Boston via WHDH while Al Nagler aired the complete game to Detroit over WJBK&hellip;The Detroit writers moved into Montreal in time for the final game of the Boston series&hellip;Fred Huber, Detroit publicist, described the time clock at the Forum as something Jacques Cartier brought here&hellip; &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; When the Montreal-Boston semi-final went seven full games, the Red Wings were forced to ask concessions in drafting a schedule for the finals.Because of conflicting attractions at Olympia, Manager Jack Adams had to waive the right to open the series at home. It was arranged to play the first pair in Montreal, then the next three in Detroit. After that the normal schedule would be followed, if necessary, the sixth game in Montreal and seventh in Detroit.The Montreal club accepted those dates with mixed emotion. Coach Dick Irvin wasn&rsquo;t happy because the concentration of games meant a stiff grind for his leg-weary warriors. For instance, the opener of the finals was the third of five games which his club must play in eight nightsBut Manager Frank Selke viewed the schedule in another light. It meant that one and possibly two home games would be played on Saturday nights when a coast-to-coast broadcast would go on the Canadian network.This was the first time the Canadiens ever have enjoyed a Saturday &ldquo;Hockey Night in Canada&rdquo; show with its audience of 3,000,000. It is normal however for Toronto every Saturday night in the season.The broadcast is not only a matter for deep pride, but also of shrewd business. Hockey people figure the broadcast gives Toronto a big advantage, especially in scouting. Throughout the Western provinces, the Maple Leafs have become regarded as THE National League team of Canada. Not only would Montreal like to erase this misconception, but also the four United States entries.There is some discussion that the playoff broadcasts may become the opening wedge for a Montreal request that the Saturday network broadcasts next season be alternated between Toronto and Montreal. &#9632;

Habs Accept Date Switch And Air, Too

<div class="byline">BY MILT DUNNELL-SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1011/938016-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg"></div>(Toronto Star)<h2>The Voice of Freedom Is Tuned to Quebec</h2>JUST before you grab a pen and nominate Mr. Bona Arsenault, M.P., as a second Abraham Lincoln&hellip;you never heard of Mr. Arsenault? Why, he&rsquo;s the member for Bonaventure in the House of Commons. And he about to free slaves like Howie Meeker, also an M.P., from the chains that bind them to hockey. Having seen coolies like Meeker, George Armstrong and Danny Lewicki slugging over a hot billiard table in the games room of the Dearborn Inn, only last week, we know the cry of joy that will go up on the great day of emancipation. No longer will they have to eat broiled lobster in the same room with strange characters like Ford executives.But, anyway, don&rsquo;t take Mons. Arsenault and his voice of freedom too seriously. Actually, he&rsquo;s not interested in the slaves, He&rsquo;s interested in one slave by the name of Jean Beliveau. This poor little peon has been subjected to the cruellest kind of exploitation, with a club called the Quebec Aces. When the season is over, he probably won&rsquo;t have a nickel more than twelve to fifteen grand to show for the back-breaking toil he&rsquo;s done for his heartless masters. Being a practical sort yourself, you say Beliveau might do worse. Why is Mons. Arsenault so determined to rid him of these masters? He isn&rsquo;t. Mons. Arsenault&rsquo;s concern is to keep him from escaping.The pitch, in short, is this: Beliveau, as everyone knows, is under obligation &mdash; which he signed himself &mdash; to play hockey, if he ever turns honestly pro, with Montreal Canadiens. But he&rsquo;s found such a soft touch &mdash; and at more dough &mdash; that he has no desire to move into tougher competition. And, to be truthful, we don&rsquo;t blame him. The Quebec club doesn&rsquo;t want to see him go. He&rsquo;s their meal ticket. Canadiens could force him to join their club when he&rsquo;s 22. But there isn&rsquo;t a chance they&rsquo;d do it, because the Beliveau thing, in Quebec, is political dynamite. They&rsquo;d like to have the kid. But help have to rap on the Forum door and yell: &ldquo;Let none harm a hair on Dick Irvin&rsquo;s gray noggin. Beliveau is here to defend him.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-119/938009-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="582" height="1332"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN BELIVEAU</figcaption></div><h2>The Bogey Is The Black Hawks</h2>WELL, you ask, if Beliveau wants to stay with the Aces, and if Canadiens are content to have him remain, what&rsquo;s all the excitement? The answer is the Chicago Black Hawks. In 1953, Beliveau, will be subject to the draft, under terms of the agreement between the Quebec league and the NHL. The last club in the NHL &mdash; it&rsquo;s always Chicago, isn&rsquo;t it&mdash;would get first chance to draft him by paying the Aces 55,000. Then, Mr. Beliveau would have to decide in a hurry whether he was going to report to Canadiens, as per his earlier option, or whether he&rsquo;d be shanghaied by the Black Hawks.And that, dear hearts and gentle people, is the kernel of all the corn that&rsquo;s being served about the need to free young boys from the greedy clutch of the hockey barons.You might say it&rsquo;s a fine kettle of herring if a boy with an amateur team can be dragged away from the paymaster he loves, by the pro club handing over a cheque for $5,000. The answer is that the Quebec league is just as pro as the NHL. Every player gets paid. Every player is on a contract. And the contracts are respected by every club in professional hockey. That&rsquo;s why you don&rsquo;t see the pro teams raiding the Quebec league teams in the middle of the season. An exception, of course, is Montreal Royals, who are owned outright by Canadiens. Beliveau is just as much a pro as Rocket Richard or Ted Kennedy. As a pro, he&rsquo;s subject to the working rules of the business. If he&rsquo;s playing for the sheer joy he derives from the game, as some of those folks would have you believe, he could have lined up with some city league team and kept on playing there forever. And he wouldn&rsquo;t have signed that agreement with Montreal Canadlens.The idea that scouts track down kids and hold a gun to their heads until they sign is strictly phonus-balonus. More often, the scout is pestered to death by parents and relatives who just know there&rsquo;s another Eddie Shore in the making. As for kids being put on negotiation lists against their will and without their knowledge, take the case of John Wilson. He was on the Leaf list. But his folks said no dice. They wanted him to play for Detroit. So the Leafs and Red Wings switched, with one of the Blair brothers coming to Toronto. That&rsquo;s why John Wilson was able to score four goals for the Redbirds against the Leafs. Call it parental preference. &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;If the Detroit Red Wings take a pasting from Maurice &lsquo;&lsquo;The Rocket&rdquo; Richard during the final Stanley Cup playoff series, they&rsquo;ll have the sympathy and understanding of the Boston Bruins.The Bruins were shot out of the final round themselves by the Rocket at his explosive best.They have many memories of their hectic seven-game series with the Montreal Canadiens, but that which will stick the longest is probably the winning goal in the seventh game as scored by Richard.&ldquo;I have never seen a better goal,&rdquo; declared Coach Lynn Patrick. &ldquo;When he saw his chance and cut for the net he looked like only one thing, a rocket. That&rsquo;s how he got the name, and it fits.&rdquo;&ldquo;That was such a goal,&rdquo; said defenseman Murray Henderson, &ldquo;that you don&rsquo;t think about who could have prevented it, you just give the scorer all the credit.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0517/938099-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="294" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Quackenbush</figcaption></div>The thing about the Rocket&rsquo;s goal which made the deepest impression on technical-minded Bruins was the way he cut from the right hand corner of the Forum rink to the net &ldquo;Not many players in hockey could have done it,&rdquo; ventured Patrick, and Henderson added, &ldquo;It was the sharpest cut for as pretty a goal as I have ever seen him score.&rdquo;On the ice for the Bruins when Richard erupted were defensemen Bob Armstrong and Bill Quackenbush and forward Woody Dumart. Capt. Milt Schmidt was on the way out to replace Ed Sandford, but Schmidt was on the wrong side of the ice to cope with the Rocket.&ldquo;I thought I had him carried wide,&rdquo; said Quackenbush with a shake of his head, &ldquo;but he got around.&rdquo;Sugar Jim Henry, the final Bruin passed by Richard, just said, &ldquo;He came by me so fast I coult hardly see him.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Bruins’ Players Credit Goal One of Most Beautiful Ever

<div class="byline">By ELMER FERGUSON (Montreal Herald)</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Rocket Richard scored the most sensational goal of the season while still partially dazed, and Elmer Lach fainted away when the winning goal was scored. That&rsquo;s really the strange story behind the winning goal in that thrilling Stanley Cup semifinal at the Forum, when Canadines beat the Bruins 3-1, and moved on to meet Detroit Red Wings in the final.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0156/938068-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="284" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Elmer Lach</figcaption></div>The first part of it we&rsquo;ll take from the Rocket himself, and Bill Head, the Forum&rsquo;s physiotherapy expert.The Rocket crashed the ice head-first, in the second period, and sprawled there, senseless, with a thin trickle of blood taining the ice from what proved to be a 6-stitch cut in his forehead.Some thought Labine had high-sticked him, for there was a nasty scrape on the side of his face with the outer-skin torn away. So naturally, you asked Richard what had happened.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; said the Rocket frankly. &ldquo;Suddenly, everything went black, and the next thing I knew, I woke up in the medical room. And I want to tell you,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;I was still groggy when I scored that goal. I don&rsquo;t remember it clearly. My legs were all right, but my head was all foggy.&rdquo;&ldquo;That could be so,&rdquo; said Bill Head, and Dr. Gordon Young nodded agreement. &ldquo;When we got Richard on his feet, he was completely out. We had to steer him towards the medical room, and there he passed out again. He was completely unconscious when the doctor put six stitches in his fore head, and he came around very slowly. He must have got a terrific crack. Whether it was from hitting the ice or from Labine&rsquo;s knee, or stick, we&rsquo;ll never know, I guess.&rdquo;&ldquo;What is it?&rdquo; asked the Rocket, &ldquo;that they say about those boxers who get hit on the chin early, but fight on, and around the seventh round ask if it&rsquo;s the second?&rdquo;Some said it was &ldquo;instinctive.&rdquo; &ldquo;I guess that&rsquo;s what it was with me,&rdquo; said the Rocket. &ldquo;Instinctive. I had a hazy idea of what I should do and I did it.&rdquo;&ldquo;You play better when you&rsquo;re unconscious,&rdquo; needled Lach, and the Rocket grinned broadly.Just then, someone came over and enquired whether Elmer felt all right. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m all right now,&rdquo; said Elmer, looking embarrassed. &ldquo;But the Rocket&rsquo;s still dazed. Why,&rdquo; added Elmer admiringly, &ldquo;the guy is wonderful even when he&rsquo;s un-conscious.&rdquo;Wo wondered why anyone should enquire about Lach&rsquo;s well-being. He looked pretty healthy to us. &ldquo;I guess it was the excitement or the strain or something,&rdquo; said Elmer, &ldquo;but I fainted when the Rocket scored. Just let myself drape over the fence and passed quietly out. It was the greatest goal I ever saw, and that strain was too much after the 1-0 game here and the overtime battle in Boston. In a few seconds I was all right again, but I really passed out.&rdquo;He probably wasn&rsquo;t the only one who saw Rocket snatch that hard-fought game out of the fire and just about fainted away from excitement. It was the thriller of the year, a goal that had the true stamp of Richard greatness upon it.It was definitely an $18,000 goal. For it gave Canadiens $9,000 more for this series alone than they would have got had Bruins won the game, and it puts them in the final where, even if they lose to Wings&mdash;and don&rsquo;t bet on that&mdash;they get $500 more each, or $9,000 in the aggregate. &ldquo;Those $1,000 bills don&rsquo;t grow on trees,&rdquo; philosophized Dickie Moore. If they should beat Wings, the club gets $18,000.Gerry McNeil, the stocky little goaler, sat quietly in a corner. Lynn Patrick said the other night that on close-in shots, McNeil is the best in the NHL. We asked him whether, when Chevrefils blasted that shot at him in the third period, and the puck went high in the air, he thought of the similar goal that beat Henry in the Bruin nets Sunday night in the overtime game.&ldquo;You&rsquo;re darned tooting I did,&rdquo; said McNeil. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not kidding. The picture of Henry fencing with that puck while it was in the air and letting it drop flashed through my mind. So 1 took no chances. I dived on it as it came down and buried it. No guy was going to come along and nudge it into my cage.&rdquo;After it was over, Lynn Patrick visited the Canadien room and sportingly congratulated the winners. &ldquo;I remember one time,&rdquo; said Frank Selke, &ldquo;when I visited the Ranger room, after we had beaten them. I was with Leafs then, and was lucky to escape with my life. Bill Cook, who like Richard was a great competitor, wanted to slug me just because I was in the Leaf organization.&rdquo;&ldquo;But it won&rsquo;t happen here,&rdquo; Selke added.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t even know the puck was in the net,&rdquo; said Sugar Jim Henry, disconsolately, as he sat in the quiet Bruin room peering through his blackened eyes. &ldquo;Rocket went past me so fast that I didn&rsquo;t know he had thrown the puck. No one could have stopped that shot.&rdquo;The feud that brewed hotly in a couple of games between Dickie Moore and Milt Schmidt expired about as quickly as it sprang into flame. Indeed, after a slight flurry in the seventh, game in which Lach, Laycoe and Richard were involved, with Schmidt a brief participant, Moore and Schmidt were conversing amiably together in mid-ice, awaiting resumption of play. Which is the way it should be, says Lynn Patrick, Bruins&rsquo; coach.Coming back from Boston Monday night, somebody mentioned the feud, and other personal battles of the hockey past.&ldquo;I never heard of anything so silly as players carrying personal grudges beyond a game&rdquo; said Lynn. &ldquo;I can say that now, but one time I wasn&rsquo;t any smarter than to carry such a battle-torch myself, and to my great embarrassment, I must admit.&ldquo;I had to be a smart guy, and pick on Jack Stewart, then at the peak of his rugged career with Detroit. I don&rsquo;t know what started it. I just took a stupid dislike to him, and went out to get him, in a fair way. I traded bumps with him a few times, but always landed on my ear, until one night I saw him coming down the ice, full steam ahead, and he wasn&rsquo;t looking at me at all. So I figured out: &ldquo;This is it. I&rsquo;ll hit him a sneak body-check now that he&rsquo;ll never forget.&rdquo;&ldquo;So I skated straight into Stewart. He didn&rsquo;t see me coming, and I hit him with everything I had. Now, I&rsquo;d like to be able to tell you that I spilled Stewart all over the ice and knocked him dizzy,&rdquo; sighed Lynn. &ldquo;But that isn&rsquo;t what happened. I bounced back like I had hit a stone-wall and landed on my ear. Stewart kept right on going as if he hadn&rsquo;t noticed.&ldquo;So when I picked myself up. I thought: &lsquo;I&rsquo;m just plain nuts. And that was the end of the feud. But no one can say I picked a push-over.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0246/938061-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1183" height="981"><figcaption class="caption-body">A Proud PopMaurice Richard poses with his father after seventh Bruin game.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0335/938054-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1782" height="730"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rocket&rsquo;s Path to VictoryTHE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; artist does his best to try and put Maurice Richard&rsquo;s victory goal path on paper. It wasn&rsquo;t easy, he said because there are at least 10 or 15 conflicting versions. Above, he gives his version of the most spectacular goal shot in the Montreal Forum in a decade. Both teams were playing a man short when the goal was scored with Billy Reay and Hal Laycoe both sitting out five minute major penalties.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0426/938047-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="1763" height="907"><figcaption class="caption-body">The Actual GoalAbove, the camera catches Maurice Richard as he swerves in front of Jim Henry to score the winning goal in the seventh game of the Montreal, Boston final. Richard can be seen in front of Henry while Armstrong (6) and Quackenbush (11) watch and try to do their best of stop the goal. Racing in from the left are Elmer Lach and Woody Dumart.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Still Groggy When He Shot Winning Goal

Founded October 1, 1947Published by Kenneth W. MeKenzie and Will. V. Cote HOCKEY NEWS COMPANYCirculation Room 204. King&rsquo;s Hall Bldg., 1231 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que. Advertising & Editorial 403A Sun Life Bldg., 1155 Metcalfe St., Montreal 2, Que.Averaao Weekly Circulation 35.000Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada &mdash; $4.00 In U.S.A.Authorised as second elose mail. Poet Office Department Ottawa.Entered as second fines mail at the Post Office In Ogdensburg, N.Y.Retura all U.N undeilverable coples under From 3579 to the Hockey News Company Room 204. Kings Hall Bldg.. 1231.Ste. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25 Que Printed in CanadaVolume 5 April 19, 1952 Number 29<h2>TIME ON THEIR HANDS!</h2>That now famous incident in the first game of the Detroit versus Montreal Stanley Cup finals is going to occupy the cracker box debaters for some interesting sessions between now and the beginning of the next hockey season.When clock and human timer got a little out of synchronization in the Forum as the third period drew to an end, confusion reigned rampant. As is common knowledge by now, the timer had the announcer call out the last minute of play, and then the venerable clock kept &lsquo;tick tocking away for another full 120 seconds.Coach Dick Irvin and the Canadiens were peeved by it all, since goalie Gerry McNeil was pulled out for a six-man attack and the Red Wings promptly scored into the open net to make the score a safe and sure, insurmontable 3-1. The argument is that Canadiens wouldn&rsquo;t have taken out their netminder until a minute-later if it hadn&rsquo;t been for the time tangle. Nevertheless, there isn&rsquo;t any guarantee that Wings wouldn&rsquo;t have done the same thing even in the final sixty seconds if the mixup hadn&rsquo;t occurred. They came within a whisker of scoring Saturday night when the same manoeuvre was attempted.The biggest thing is that the turmoil probably robbed the Habs of a minute of playing time. They were thrown into such confusion that it&rsquo;s a cinch their mental state wasn&rsquo;t of the best for playing hockey as the final seconds ticked away. However, it was their clock and the game was already just about wrapped up, since the act of removing the cage guardian is a spectacular but generally unproductive gesture.An event to cause a real hassle could have occurred if Canadiens had tied up the game in the &ldquo;extra&rdquo; minute after the so-called &ldquo;last&rdquo;minute of play had expired. It&rsquo;s easy to visualize a situation where Wings, thinking only a few seconds remained in play, might have got a little careless in the Montreal end, believeing the Habs wouldn&rsquo;t have time to get to the other end of the ice anyway.A goal under such circumstances could have taken the argument right into the committee room and started an otherwise more or less gentlemanly series off into a prime Donnybrook.On such little things in sport as a timer&rsquo;s clock hang mighty momentous decisions.<h2>THE AMATEUR MERRYGOROUND</h2>As year after year rolls around, with perpetual arguments and disputes over player eligibilities, most observers wonder why the amateur moguls don&rsquo;t do something about tightening up their rather elastic interpretations, in an effort to sidestep some of these none too edifying tug-of-wars.This year&rsquo;s &ldquo;cause celebre&rdquo; which is keeping the arguments average well up to par in the junior ranks concerns Ron Stewart of Guelph Biltmores Mad Hatters. Stewart was signed up by the Biltmores to bolster their club under the clause which allows a junior team to take on outside help when they lose players from outside causes.The whole matter is rather tangled, involving another player, Ray Ross, who technically was signed to a pro contract and thus became ineligible. However, Guelph&rsquo;s opponents, the Montreal Junior Canadiens, contend that there is a certain amount of irregularity in the Ross deal and that Stewart therefore is ineligible to play for the Biltmores.We aren&rsquo;t going to attempt to argue the question pro or con until the whole thing is threshed out by the authorities involved. But what we do contend is that there is more than a little laxity when a case like this can arise to disrupt an important Memorial Cup playoff series. It is was an isolated case, it would be different, but similar disputes arise every year.It isn&rsquo;t fair to the teams involved, and it certainly isn&rsquo;t fair to the fans who pay out good money to see games which may be tossed right out of the book the next week. It&rsquo;s reasonable to think that the rules and regulations could be so drafted that these useless wrangles could be nipped before they start, with benefit to the game and the people who support it.Junior and senior hockey has passed from the sport to the business and entertainment stage, the same as professional hockey, and should be run as such. &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;How close can you come to winning a Stanley Cup playoff series without actually winning it?The Boston Bruins can give a pretty close answer. They came within eight minutes and 5 5 seconds of eliminating the Montreal Cana diens in their semi-final series.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0178/938271-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="291" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown</figcaption></div>The Bruins were that far away from the fourth victory over the Canadiens which they needed to qualify for the final round against the Detroit Red Wings.Eventually they carried the Canadiens into the last part of the third period of the seventh game before conceding defeat grudgingly, but their defeat wasn&rsquo;t a catastrophe.On the contrary, there were developments emerging from the splendid seven-game series which reflect great credit on the Bruins. Among them were these:The furor which they created by coming back with three successive victories after losing the first two games.The consistently brilliant play of the older players, like Sugar Jim Henry, Bill Quack enbush, Murray Henderson, Hal Laycoe, Woody Dumart and Capt. Milt Schmidt.The ability of youngsters like Real Chevrefils, Leo Labine, Bob Armstrong, Jack McIntyre and Fleming Mackell to tear into a heavily-favored foe with no shaking of poise, no decrease in confidence.The enthusiasm with which the Boston hockey public followed the series, to the extent of filling Boston Garden for the first time in three years for the sixth game.The vindicating of Coach Lynn Patrick, who had maintained stoutly for a long time that his Bruins were capable of playing any team in the league to a standstill. There were few who agreed with the big coach before the series, many who sided with him afterward.&ldquo;We missed the boat when we had them down in that sixth game,&rdquo; recapped Lynn, &ldquo;but this series is going to help us a lot in the long run.&ldquo;Everyone has observed the effect which it has had on Bruins&rsquo; fans, and I think everyone has seen the development in this team.&ldquo;The Canadiens were generally picked to win the Stanley Cup before the playoffs started,&rdquo; Patrick continued, &ldquo;yet we conceded them nothing, could have won just as well as they.&ldquo;What pleased me particularly was the way some of the players conducted themselves, by playing better in the playoffs than they had during the regular season. I&rsquo;ll admit disappointment in the performances of a couple, but I&rsquo;m very proud of how well the team as a whole played.&ldquo;We got off to a bad start, right in the first game,&rdquo; Patrick went on, &ldquo;and it took us two games to get over the, effects of their scoring the first goal. But from then on we were a terrific hockey team.&ldquo;Henry was wonderful, even after his injury, and the defensemen, including young Armstrong, were great. Milt Schmidt, the greatest player I have ever seen, was at his best.&ldquo;The younger players, like Chewy, Labine and McIntyre, should all benefit from this experience, providing that they continue to improve. They should gain incentive from coming as close as we did.&rdquo;Patrick, who wound up having to juggle an injury and illness-hampered squad, came in for his own share of the credit for the Bruins&rsquo; surge.&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve done a wonderful job, Lynn,&rdquo; President Walter Brown told him, &ldquo;not only during the playoffs but also during the regular season.&rdquo;In the wake of the Bruins&rsquo; defeat came speculating, with &ldquo;might-have-beens&rdquo;, &ldquo;what-ifs&rdquo;, and the rest.What if the sparkling Mac kell hadn&rsquo;t missed the first two games with the flu? Wasn&rsquo;t the Dumart-Sandford-Mackell line the best after it was reunited?What if Henry hadn&rsquo;t been hurt? Didn&rsquo;t the Canadiens tie up the sixth game, then the series, less than four playing minutes after a Doug Harvey shot smashed into his nose?Even the questions reflected a healthy situation, because it was only a year ago, after the Bruins had been walloped by Toronto, that there weren&rsquo;t any questions.No one was interested or enthusiastic enough to ask them, but they are now, for while the Bruins have lost their most recent hockey war, they are on the way to winning others in the future.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0257/938264-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="555" height="868"><figcaption class="caption-body">Had Great SeriesWOODY DUMART</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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“We Missed Boat in 6th Game,” Says Lynn

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Penalties in the Boston, Montreal semi-final series were split right down the middle. Each spent a total of 49 minutes in the box and each were dished out 23 penalties. Each had one major penalty. Hal Laycoe of the Bruins led both teams in minutes in the coop. He had three minors and a major penalty in the seven games. Billy Reay, one of the cleanest players in the NHL, led Canadiens in time spent in the box. He had one minor and a major for seven minutes. Flem Mackell of the Bruins actually had the most penalties called against him. In the five games he played he had five minors. &#9632;

Teams Split Coop Time in Series

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Maurice Richard, rated the greatest clutch player of them all, broke down and cried after the seventh game in which he scared the most spectacular goal of the season to break it up.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the first time I ever saw him beak down in all the years he&rsquo;s been with the team,&rdquo; said Coach Dick Irvin. &ldquo;Only a guy like him could score a goal like that.&rdquo;Richard left the room and went for a rest on the rubbing table. He regained his composure and returned to the room. A moment later his father came in to shake his hand. He broke down again. His father, a little man with features not unlike his famous son was the proudest fellow in the world as photographers flashed their bulbs. Richard also received congratulations from Senator Donat Raymond, owner of the Canadiens. The Senator told &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; the goal was the most beautiful he&rsquo;s ever seen in all his years in hockey and that he would never forget that night.<h2>Boston Scribes Quiz Him</h2>It took Richard quite a few moments to regain his senses after he trooped into the dressing room. Although he has scored many important goals in his career this one was undoubtedly the one that gave him back his confidence. It was like watching Ralph Kiner hit a home run after striking out 25 times in a row.The Boston newspapermen, whom Richard and Dick Irvin regard as being among the best in the business, cooled &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; down while he was dressing, with a barrage of questions. He smiled for the first time when someone asked him if he was &lsquo;out cold&rsquo; after Labine crashed into him.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t remember a thing,&rdquo; he laughed. &ldquo;Everything went black. I didn&rsquo;t know where I was.&rdquo;About the goal, he couldn&rsquo;t explain too much about it for he was groggy and in pain. He rubbed the back of his neck as blood spurted out of the six stitch cut over the lid of his left eye. There was a two inch red botch on his cheek where the ice had grazed his skin when he fell.&ldquo;When I got into the corner I wheeled around Quackenbush, said Richard. &ldquo;I was going tc cut right around behind the goal and see if I couldn&rsquo;t put it in from the other side. But I looked up and saw him behind me and that I had a good jump on him so I decided to cut out in front I let ft go as I was in the middle of the goal. I heard the crowd yell, but I was too groggy to do much else. I had an idea what I was supposed to do and I did It,&rdquo; he said.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0432/938333-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="580" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body">Spectacular GoalMAURICE RICHARD</figcaption></div>That seventh game was Rocket&rsquo;s best in the series. For the first three he was a poor shadow of the great player who had whirled up and down the ice for some of the fanciest goals in the history of the game.His mid-season injury, which had Montreal fans wondering if he had hit the end of the trail made for a poor year for the guy who is more used to scoring between 40 and 4 5 goals a season. This year he scored just 27 in 48 games. He worried himself into a frenzy at times over his queer pain that even medicos seemed to be stymied by. He went to Florida for a two-week holiday and while he was sunning himself on the sands his teammates came through with some great hockey. Once he himself commented that the club was going so well that they didn&rsquo;t need him. For a while the fans here even became used to seeing the Habs skate out to their positions without him. Dickie Moore took his spot on the right wing and commenced to set a blazing record of 11 goals in eight games. The most used up question at that time was: Who is this guy Richard?So it&rsquo;s not hard to realize just how important that winning goal was to Richard. The tremendous ovation proved that despite the others he is still the guy they want to see cruising in on the opposition in his own inimitable way.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0334/938326-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1724" height="1163"><figcaption class="caption-body">Richard Breaks Down After WinRichard, center, bows his head and cries after scoring winner. Senator Raymond, right, and Lach, left, look on.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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“Jump on Quack Changed My Plans on Goal,” Says Richard

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens outshot the Boston Bruins according to the Unofficial statistics. In the seven game series the Habs had 200 shots on Henry and McNeil had to stop 176 off the sticks of the Bruins players. Each goaler racked up one shutout. McNeil got his in the second game when the Habs won 4-0 and Henry got his in the fifth game when the Bruins shutout the Habs 1-0. &#9632;

Canadiens Outshot Bruins by 24 in Semi-Final Series

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>Hay Laycoe, tall defenseman of the Boston Bruins, seems to be a playoff player.Several years ago, when he was working part-time for the Montreal Canadiens, Laycoe was called upon during a playoff series to replace the injured Butch Bouchard. He played very well.This season Laycoe gave the Bruin 70 games of steady employment, but during the playoff series against his old team he hit his major league peak.The most spectacular Bruins&rsquo; defenseman for the entire series was undoubtedly Laycoe, and he reached the heights virtually on one leg.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0521/938388-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="286" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Hal Laycoe</figcaption></div>In the second game of the Montreal set the 28-year-old veteran received a severe bruise on his left knee, a joint already handicapped by the presence of fluid.<h2>Dressed Toppazzini Just in Case</h2>As the series progressed, so did Hal&rsquo;s knee&mdash;for the worse.So painful was the knee that he was a doubtful participant in the seventh game, until he settled the issue himself, by playing.Before the final game Hammie Moore, the capable Bruins&rsquo; trainer, did a special taping job on Laycoe, but every turn of the tape brought an involuntary grimace from the patient.Coach Lynn Patrick, watching the proceedings, promptly ordered young Jerry Toppazzini into uniform, told him to skate with the squad during its warmup, hopeful but doubtful that Laycoe would survive that mild ordeal.But just before the first whistle the determined Hal gave Patrick a nod, and Toppazzini doffed his uniform.Before the game Laycoe&rsquo;s knee was the size of an orange. Afterwards it was the size of a grapefruit, but he took his regular turn and maintained his pace.The next day he visited a Montreal doctor friend for X-rays, which failed to show any break.&ldquo;You have a bad bruise and water on the knee,&rdquo; the doctor told him. &ldquo;Keep the leg propped up for a week while you&rsquo;re in bed and it should be all right.&rdquo;That was welcome news to Patrick, to whom Laycoe represents a goodly portion of his defense plans for next season. It was delightful news to Laycoe, not looking forward with any degree of pleasure to a continuation of the pain.In the first two games of the Montreal series Laycoe was the Bruins&rsquo; defensive spark. In the third game he scored the team&rsquo;s first goal, and for the rest of the series he stuck out like&hellip;well, like his sore knee.For the last five games he had 20-year-old Bob Armstrong, the rookie from Hershey, for a defense partner, and Armstrong&rsquo;s efficiency was attributed in part to Laycoe, good all season but at his best in the games which counted most. &#9632;

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Laycoe Series Star…But On One Knee

(Sports Editor Montreal Gazette)<h2>Playing the Field</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01111/938426-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="257" height="384"></div><h3>The Cleveland Question</h3>Among the hockey personalities who were around the hotel lobby recently was rotund Jim Hendy general manager of the Cleveland Arena Company, which owns the Cleveland Barons. The Barons have been reported as anxious to join the National Hockey League and we asked him if it were true.&ldquo;You bet it&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Look, Cleveland is a big league city. It has big league baseball and big league football, but only minor league hockey. We could win the American Hockey League 10 seasons in a row and it wouldn&rsquo;t impress Cleveland citizens because the AHL is a minor league.&rdquo;&ldquo;How close are you to joining the NHL?&rdquo; he was asked.&ldquo;We hope to be in the NHL next season,&rdquo; he answered, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to make formal application for membership at the semi-annual meeting this spring.&rdquo;Jim had a formidable array of facts and figures to show why Cleveland belongs in the big city.&ldquo;There are only four cities in the league that are bigger than Cleveland right now,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;They are New York, Chicago, Detroit and Montreal. I&rsquo;m talking about the city proper&mdash;not greater Cleveland. But if you want to consider the city&mdash;greater Cleveland&mdash;why, we have almost 2,000,000 people. Or take automobile registration figures, which are considered a good yardstick for income in marketing circles. Cleveland is fourth on the continent behind New York, Chicago and Detroit.&rdquo;<h3>Not Satisfied Being Small Time</h3>According to Jim, the Cleveland newspapers are trying to push the Barons into the National Hockey League. They keep pointing out that Cleveland has the largest baseball stadium in the country and that the Indians sometimes outdraw the New York Yankees. In football the Cleveland Browns have been one of the greatest teams in the country for years.&ldquo;They aren&rsquo;t satisfied to be small time in hockey,&rdquo; he said. They give us good publicity now, but they&rsquo;d really go overboard if we were in the big league.&rdquo;But what about hockey players? Where would they come from?&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got &lsquo;em now,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re in ideal position because we own our own arena. We don&rsquo;t have to pay any rent. We run ice shows, wrestling matches and everything else, the Barons are independent and have their own scouting system; they also have four sponsored clubs. We can develop our own players and I don&rsquo;t think it would be long before we&rsquo;d have a real contender.&rdquo;The Cleveland Arena seats 9,676 and has room for 1,500 standees. During the 19 48-49 hockey season the Barons grossed close to $450,000 after taxes and the highest priced seat cost only $2.50.&ldquo;If we could fill the arena for 3 5 home games, and I&rsquo;m not including standing room,&rdquo; Jim said, &ldquo;we could do $700,000 net.&rdquo;The Barons came close to joining the NHL almost 10 years ago, but something went wrong somewhere.&ldquo;Al Sutphin was the owner then,&rdquo; said Jim. &ldquo;I guess you&rsquo;d have to ask him what happened. But the war was on at the time and you could fill the joint with a dog-fight.&rdquo;Whenever the question has been raised of the Barons joining the NHL, it has invariably been pointed out that they pack the arena with a minor league club. Why would they go big league when the operating costs would be higher?<h3>Salaries Would Have to Be Bigger</h3>&ldquo;Salaries are the only item,&rdquo; he answered quickly. &ldquo;The cost of equipment, of travel and of hotel accommodation is the same. We&rsquo;d have to raise our price scale, that&rsquo;s all, and the fans would understand that because they&rsquo;d realize they were watching big league hockey. They&rsquo;d be willing to pay a little more for it. Our present price scale is from $1 to $2.60. For big league hockey it would be from $1 to $3.50 and our problem would be to sell the low-priced seats. We always sell the high-priced ones. They go first. I don&rsquo;t know how many times I&rsquo;ve tried to sell business men season tickets to our games and they told me, &ldquo;Come back the day you&rsquo;re in the National League and I&rsquo;ll buy 10 of them.&rdquo;Geographically, Cleveland would be almost the focal point of the NHL. Canadiens, for example, could break their long trip to Chicago with a stopover in Cleveland.&ldquo;Scheduling might present a problem,&rdquo; said Jim, &ldquo;because Cleveland is a Saturday town and you can&rsquo;t expect cities now in the league to give up their Saturdays. But if we&rsquo;d been in the league this year we could have had a perfect schedule without requesting a single date from any other club. There were 20 Saturdays when some of the clubs weren&rsquo;t scheduled. We could play on Sunday afternoons after Christmas too, not before because the Cleveland Browns are on TV and we couldn&rsquo;t go against them. I&rsquo;m hoping the other clubs will in-clude us in the NHL. If we are admitted at the spring meeting, I think we could sell 50 per cent of the house for the season before September.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0352/938419-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1183" height="2064"></div> &#9632;

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DINK CARROLL

<div class="byline">By JIM ELLERY</div>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;A combination of a wearisome road trip during which they engaged in four playoff games before hostile crowds, a total of eleven post season contests in 22 days and a well organized and perfectly coordinated opponent in the Pittsburgh Hornets, proved too much for the Providence Reds in the opening two games of the final Calder Cup playoff round. The Rhode Islanders dropped the first two encounters in Pittsburgh by scores of 4-1 and 5-0 on April 8 and 10.That Pittsburgh was the better team for these two games was quite evident to the observers who witnessed the contests, particularly in the second of the series when they ran up a 3-0 first period lead and scored once in each of the other two sessions, while holding the Reds off the scoresheeet. However, the Hornets from Coach King Clancy right on down were far from counting the Reds out of it, being well aware of the famous comeback efforts of Terry Reardon&rsquo;s players in the past. Thus with the next two games scheduled for the Rhode Island Auditorium, Clancy cautioned his players against over confidence.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0195/938485-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="295" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">King Clancy</figcaption></div>After finishing their task of defeating the state of Ohio by eliminating the two Buckeye representatives, Cleveland and Cincinnati in the preliminary rounds. Providence journey straight to Pittsburgh from Cincinnati, after two games in Ohio, to engage the Hornets in a pair in Pittsburgh. The first game was a close affair until past the midway mark in the third period, as Hornet center Rudy Migay. provided the only tally in the first two periods.Early in the third period, Ray Hannigan made it 2-0, and at 8:19, Paul Gladu notched the only Providence goal. Gladu wasted no time in capitalizing on a Hornet penalty for his score, as Pete Backor had just been thumbed off at 8:10. However a pair of quickies by Andy Barbe and Wild Bill Ezinicki furnished the necessary power to clinch the Hornet win.Two nights later, the Hornets were off and flying early, and even the most rabid of Providence supporters had to admit that the Reds were hardly in the game, although they tried with all their power to overcome the Pittsburgh lead, and never gave up right to the end, in at least trying to avert a shutout.Ezinicki scored on a sharp rebound for the first goal, Migay from a cage mouth scramble for the second and Johnny McLellan closed out the period when he caught a corner of the net with a right alley blast. The remaining two goals one in each of the second and third periods, came on breakaways with the Providence defenders trapped in the Hornet end in an effort to cut the score down. Migay and the rough and ready rookie, Gordie Hannigan made the shots after thrilling dashes from one end to the other.In the both games, Pittsburgh netminder, Gil &ldquo;Needle&rdquo; Mayer played a terrific amount of goaltending. Veteran hockey writer Paul Sullivan, who has covered Pittsburgh hockey since 1923 claimed that at various stretches of the games, he had no recollection of any better netminding in Pittsburgh.The Pittsburgh fans have been enthusiastic for years, but have reached the very heights in their rooting this season with their fine team. After every Hornet goal the recorded music of &ldquo;Clancy Lowered the Boom&rdquo; floats across the arena in honor of the well liked King Clancy.The Toronto Maple Leafs were well represented at the two games, with general manager Conny Smythe, his assistant Hap Day and Coach Joe Primeau in attendance. The Toronto press was ably taken care of by Jim Vipond, sports editor of the Globe and Mail. No doubt the Leaf master minds were looking over prospective talent for next season&rsquo;s Toronto team and this spurred on the many Hornet young hopefuls. Pittsburgh has a glittering array of rookies and other fine players for candidates. Sid Smith former Pittsburgh favorite who last season plunked in plenty of goals for Toronto was at the games to lend vocal and moral support to his former and future mates, who will join him in Toronto next season.Two of the most ardent rooters for the Hornets are their president and owner, John Harris and their manager Jim Balmer. The congenial, sociable and popular executives are hoping to realize a long time ambition this year, in having their Hornets annex their first Calder Cup Championship. When the Pittsburghers finished on top of the league standings for their first regular season title, their first dream was consummated and now they are after a complete sweep.A newcomer to the Pittsburgh staff this season Is Peter Thornton, their publicist, who has been doing a remarkable job all season in promoting good will among the press, radio, fans and visiting teams and dignitaries. Thornton has a definite appeal to everyone, and his fine British accent, which is quite natural sort of lends added spice to his efforts.The Hornets by taking the opening pair of final round games at home, increased their host team efforts to 23 straight victories, without a single tie, which established both regular season and playoff records for the league. The Hornets finished up with 18 in a row for the regular schedule and have added five playoff wins to date.Two different schools of thought prevailed before the opening game. Pittsburgh had not played for twelve days, and many thought they would be stale with Providence with their amount of games in recent days ready to continue right on. Others figured the Hornets would be rested and relaxed with Providence weary from the grind. The latter seemed to be true. However, another important factor which hampered the Reds was their injury list. Missing two star right winger in Zellio Toppazzini and Johnny Denis entirely, they had another not up to par in Barry Sullivan of the &ldquo;Big Line&rdquo; of Sullivan, Ray Powell and Paul Gladu. Toppazzini is expected back for the remaining games if his shoulder comes around, but Denis bad ankle, broken three months ago still prevents him doing his fine workmanlike job. Sullivan is playing but in addition to the broken toe he has a badly banged up knee. Barry is giving it all he has though, as is the hard rock Art Michaluk who has a groin injury.Every time Pat Egan gets the puck and sets for a shot the Pittsburgh crowd winces, as they know what power is packed into Egan&rsquo;s drives.The Reds presented Coach Reardon with a fine birthday present when they sent Cincinnati home for the season on April 5 and advanced Into the finals, as Terry celebrated number 33 on the 6th.In attendance at the game also, was Scotty Alexander, the fast talking efficient trainer of the Hershey Bears who motored from Hershey to Pittsburgh. Scotty really could enjoy this one as his beloved Bears were not in action and he could just view the proceedings in a neutral manner.Captain Pete Backor of the Hornets is still a main cog in the Pittsburgh defense, the perennial all-star rallying his rearguards together many times. He is ably assisted by Timmy Horton and Frank Mathers of the veteran corps and two fine rookies in Leo Boivin and Frank Sullivan.The popular Baz Bastien. Hornet business manager compiles a host of amazing figures and statistics which he gathers while observing from his press box coop. Baz&rsquo;s figures have proven&rsquo; quite valuable in determining Hornet strategy.Two bits of news, one of saddness and the other of a happier nature were being discussed around the playoff circles. American Leaguers in particular and hockey in general were shocked over the news of the passing of Bob &ldquo;Rosy&rdquo; Stoddart, who died last week. Stoddart was a former member of the Indianapolis, Providence and Buffalo teams in the circuit.Providence followers were pleased to hear that their former star rightwing, Johnny Chad had been selected for the first All-Star team in the Pacific Coast League. Johnny can still slam plenty of goals into the nets.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0276/938478-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="1696" height="1337"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mazur Connects for AnotherRookie Eddie Mazur of the Montreal Canadiens bats the loose puck into Jim Henry&rsquo;s cage. The puck can be seen at the point of the arrow. Mazur is just to the left of the disc. Number 10 for the Bruins is Laycoe and 20 is Mackell. Floyd Curry rests against the netting on the left and watches his mate flash the light.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0346/938471-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="1785" height="1123"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Shakes Gerry&rsquo;s HandJim Henry of the Bruins congratulates Gerry McNeil after the seventh game of the semi-final series. Hal Laycoe chats with Butch Bouchard in the background.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0436/938464-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="606" height="1214"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0529/938457-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="1214" height="1293"></div> &#9632;

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Back of the Nets In AHL Cup Hunt

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;Biting the end off his ever-present cigar, General Manager Art Chapman of the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Buffalo Bisons leaned back in his chair.A cloud of grey smoke partly obscured his vision as he lit the opposite end.&ldquo;One thing Is certain about next year,&rdquo; he began between puffs, &ldquo;there will be wholesale changes on our team.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to go with youth and speed,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;We played our best hockey this year when we had those kids from St. Catharines and New Haven in our lineup.&rdquo;Chapman was referring to Defensemen Pierre Pilote and Orrirn Gould. Center Brian Cullen and Winger Billy Young from St. Catharines and Defenseman Ward Brandow, Center Ted Powers, an Left Winger Stan Warecki fron New Haven.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01110/938530-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="539" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body">Defense SurvivorSAMMY LAVITT</figcaption></div>Those amateurs played from one to three games with the Herd when injuries depleted Buffalo&rsquo;s forces late in the AHL campaign.&ldquo;Pilote, Brandow and Gould all will make out defense next year,&rdquo; Chapman declared. &ldquo;Pilote is a real policeman on the ice, something we haven&rsquo;t had in three years. Gould is the ideal partner for him as he&rsquo;s the type who will back Pierre up and breaks up a play well. Brandow is the same type as Gould and handles himself well.&rdquo;The Buffalo General Manager Indicated that only Sammy Lavitt, the &ldquo;steadiest of our defensemen this year,&rdquo; would be back for the 1952-53 campaign.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0277/938523-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="562" height="879"><figcaption class="caption-body">Planning NowART CHAPMAN</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Of course, we&rsquo;ll be more than willing to have Stan Long with us again if he doesn&rsquo;t make the grade with Montreal,&rdquo; he added.&ldquo;Up front, I&rsquo;m counting on Young and Powers making the team. Both displayed a lot of hustle, going both ways while they were with us this year,&rdquo; he pointed out.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s where the kids have it over the older fellows in this game today &mdash; they have the stamina to go at top speed both on attack and when they&rsquo;re back-checking.&rdquo;In addition to the above mentioned, Chapman intends to bring in Center Billy Hagan, who play-ed most of the past season with Vancouver of the Pacific Coast League, and Goalie James Ivan Walmsley of the Johnstown Jets of the Eastern League.&ldquo;Unless we are successful in obtaining a proven goaltender like Red Henry of Hershey, Walmsley will be our goalie,&rdquo; Chapman stated. &ldquo;Ducky Skinner, coach of our New Haven farm in the Eastern League, insists the kid is capable of going in this league.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen him myself a few times and was favorably impressed. As long as we strengthen our defense, as we plan to do, I think well be adequately taken care of in the nets by Ivan.&ldquo;As for Hagan, I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll stick with us this time. He had some unfortunate Injuries slow him down this year but he&rsquo;s a fine prospect.&rdquo;Chapman indicated that he had a number of player deals pending which he figured would further strengthen the club.He and Jim Hendy Cleveland General Manager, usually spring an off-season trade or two and it would not be too far off to assume that they&rsquo;ll get together this summer.However, the status of four players was pretty well set. Centers Gordie Pennell and Eldie Kobussen and Left Wingers George Pargeter and Don Ashbee were on the &ldquo;to be retained list.&rdquo;&ldquo;Pennell could be our number one center,&rdquo; the Buffalo major domo asserted. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised to see him 10 to 12 pounds heavier. With increased stamina, he&rsquo;d be one of our most valuable players. Gordie has the hockey brains to make the National League, and while he&rsquo;s not a great scorer, he could develop into another Kenny Mosdell.&ldquo;I liked the way Kobussen played after he joined our club late in the season. As for Pargeter, George will be our utility man again. He&rsquo;s a willing worker who givess you all he has every time he&rsquo;s on the ice.&rdquo;Ashbee will be returning to Buffalo after spending the latter part of the season with Indianapolis, where he was sent in a conditional trade for Defenseman Pete Durham.&ldquo;Don promised me he won&rsquo;t play lacrosse this summer,&rdquo; Chapman explained. &ldquo;I believe that he came to camp tired last fall because of lacrosse and never hit his stride.&ldquo;I still believe that Ashbee is a potential National Leaguer, Maybe next year he&rsquo;ll prove it.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0360/938516-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="541" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">No. 1 CentreGORDIE PENNELL</figcaption></div>Veteran Ab DeMarco, the leading Bison scorer the past three years, left town without divulging his future plans although he had. indicated he would make an announcement at the end of the season.The status of another veteran&mdash;Grant (Nobby) Warwick, Buffalo&rsquo;s captain the past two years, remained a moot question. However, the possibility existed that the hammered-down little right winger may return to the NHL for the 1952-53 campaign. Warwick, hampered by injuries a good portion of the season, still possesses good speed, scoring ability, and the heart of a lion.Montreal, of course, has recalled Right Winger Lome Davis, Left Wingers Calum MacKay, Eddie Mazur, and Vern Kaiser, as well as Long. &ldquo;Davis particularly would be a welcome addition to our club next season if he fails with the Canadiens,&rdquo; Chapman offered.&ldquo;One thing is certain, though, youth will be served come another hockey season in Buffalo. And I think the fans will like the way the kids do things.&rdquo;Perhaps. They certainly didn&rsquo;t care too much about the way the &ldquo;veterans&rdquo; performed this past campaign. &#9632;

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Chapman Promises Shakedown For Bisons Before Next Year

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The death knell may be tolled for the American Hockey League as it is now constituted within the next few weeks.This is not only a possibility, but, unfortunately, a probability.First, the Cleveland Barons, one of the backbone franchises in the AHL, desire to make the leap into the National League.Secondly, Dick Miller, the General Manager of Indianapolis, already has stated publicly that the formation of a new league which would include three present AHL cities &mdash; Indianapolis, St. Louis and Cincinnati &mdash; is a likely possibility.With those four clubs out, Buffalo, Hershey, Syracuse, Providence and Pittsburgh would be left. It isn&rsquo;t very likely that these five cities would try and operate together in a circuit.With such a small group, the travel to Providence from other points would be prohibitive. And what happens with Providence out? You have no league at all.So what is going to happen to Buffalo, Hershey, Syracuse and Pittsburgh?Well, it could be that a new International League will.be formed with three Canadian cities and a like number of American cities in the compact loop.Buffalo, Hershey and Syracuse conceivably could be the American clubs with Hamilton, Kitchener and Toronto &mdash; that&rsquo;s right &mdash; the north of the border representatives.The moving of the Pittsburgh franchise to Toronto &mdash; where the Leafs operated with success with the Marlboro Seniors for a number of years &mdash; would be the ace in the hole of the new setup.Such a split-up could possibly save hockey for American cities like Buffalo, Syracuse, Cincinnati and Indianapolis where the red ink has been making such a firm imprint on the financial ledgers in the past couple of years that the sport is dangerously close to being dropped in many locales.Curtailing the amount of travel by having a compact six-team league here in the East would mean a saving of approximately $10,000 in road expenses and by using more players fresh out of the junior ranks &mdash; as the teams would be required to do &mdash; would mean a $20,000-$30,000 reduction in payrolls.The matter of approximately $40,000 less per franchise for operating would have been the difference between success and failure for several teams in the American League this past season.To cap the whole deal, the champion of the league proposed by Miller could meet the International League titlist in a post-season playoff. &#9632;

Rumor Death Of AHL 2 New Loops Possible

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0439/938585-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg"></div>The Perfect Combination&hellip;Leswick, Pavelich and SkovThe perfect combination in hockey last week was the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; line of Leswick, Skov and Pavelich. In three playoff games this line played the biggest part in straight wins for the Wings over the Canadiens. Between them they accomplished eight points in three games. They scored three goals and five assists. Leswick scored two goals and on assist while Pavelich scored a goal and two assists and Skov drew two assists. &#9632;

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The Perfect Combination-Quality! Freshness! Price!

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Announcement of the make-up of the Pacific Coast Hockey League All-Stars served to confirm New Westminster netminder Lucien Dechene in the role of Bonus Kid.Dechene caught the nod as goalkeeper on the &lsquo;dream team&rsquo;, beating out Saskatoon&rsquo;s Lome (Gump) Worsley by a substantial margin, 102 Votes to 64. Previously the 26-year-old native of Quebec City had been voted the most valuable player to his team in the eight-team loop, while he likewise finished with the best goals-against average of any of the netminders. Guyle Fielder or Royals led the field among first year men to capture the rookie award.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01109/938644-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="292" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guyle Fielder</figcaption></div>The three honors &mdash; all-star, most valuable player and top goalie &mdash; boosted the Dechene take-home by three hundred dollars, each being worth a C note.Scrutiny of the remaining members of the league All-Stars proves that the PCHL is no part of a treasure trail for the very young. At 25, defenseman Pat Coburn, Edmonton, and leftwinger Gordon Fashoway, New Westminster, are the youngest performers to gain sufficient votes from scribes and sporscasters around the league, who did the balloting.Completing the squad are 33-year-old defenseman Roger Leger, playing coach of the surprising Victoria Cougars, center George Agar, Calgary (32) and rightwing Johnny Chad, Saskatoon, 32. Average age of the team comes to 28.8 years.At that It would be hard to improve on the All-Stars, although Coburn made a surprisingly Strong run, considering he did not play for the last six weeks, due to a serious eye injury, suf-fered in Seattle. However the Ottawa Irishman was turning in one good performance after an-other until Injured and many of the selectors must have felt he deserved the honor, regardless of having been sidelined at a crucial time.As mentioned Dechene, the goalkeeping nominee, won everything, while the veteran Leger paced the defensemen of the league in the point derby, likewise playing well in a defensive capacity.Centerman George Agar led the circuit in points, gaining 93 in 70 games, Including 55 assists. Fashoway topped the goalgetters, with 51, while the still-sprightly Chad closed with a great rush in the second half to tie with Sask-atoon teammate Alex (Seabiscuit) Kaleta for fourth place in the point parade, each with 82.Here&rsquo;s a partial breakdown of the all-star balloting:First team: Goal, Lucien Dechene, New Westminster, 102 votes; defense, Pat Coburn, Edmonton, 66, and Roger Leger, Victoria, 63; center, George Agar, Calgary, 77; left wing, Gordon Fashoway, New Westminster, 96 right wing, Johnny Chad, Saskatoon, 85.Second team: Goal, Lome Worsley, Saskatoon, 64; defense, Jake Forbes, New Westminster, 62, and Danny Sprout, Seattle, 46; center, Eddie Dorohoy, Victoria, 60; left wing, Ollie Dorohoy, New Westminster, 38; right wing, &lsquo;Wlngy&rsquo; Johnston, Tacoma, 45.Third team: Goal, Doug Stevenson, Tacoma, 19; defense, Bill Heindl, Saskatoon, 30 and Hugh Currie, Vancouver, 26; center, Alex Kaleta, Saskatoon, 45; left wing, Ray Manson, Vancouver, 28; right wing, Bob Paul, New West-minster, 21.Dechene and Leger were allstar repeaters from a year ago, before the advent on the PCHL scene of the prairie centers of Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon. Stepping down were derense-man Walter (Babe) Pratt, Tacoma, center Ken Ullyot, New Westminster, left wing Joe Bell, Seattle, and right wing Bill Shill, Vancouver, no longer in the league.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0436/938637-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="578" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body">All-StarPat Coburn</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0526/938630-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="290" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Them, TooJohn Chad</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0624/938623-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="292" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gord Fashoway</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0717/938616-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="552" height="859"><figcaption class="caption-body">Vet ChoiceGeorge Agar</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Royals Top Voting-Tumble In Playoffs

Official paid attendance for the 280 games played in the Pacific Coast Hockey League the season reached 992,060 and will go well over the one million mark when the playoffs are completed. The five Coast cities showed an over-all increase of 59,401 over last year with evetry city bettering their last year&rsquo;s mark. The three prairie cities showed an increase of 5376 over their last season&rsquo;s mark with only Edmonton showing a decline. The prairie cities played 35 games this season as against 30 last year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0276/938675-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="702" height="400"></div> &#9632;

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Attendance TOPS Million

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Victoria Cougars, a team that won a sixth place reprieve on the last day of the regular Pacific Coast League season, turned executioners once the playoffs got underway.The suddenly revived Cats, who hibernated in the league basement for many weeks before finally working up enough steam to barely squeeze into the playodwns, ushered the high-flying New Westminster Royals to the sidelines.Series was a thriller, the teams playing out the seven game string to the limit, with the Cougars earning a 2-1 win in the final encounter, played at New Westminster, April 5.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0357/938720-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="289" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ed Dorohoy</figcaption></div>Goals by Bob Frampton and Eddie (Pistol) Dorohoy staked Cougars to a two-goal lead before the desperate Royals, who were never out of first place duringr the regular run, finally hit the score-board, with less than three minutes remaining. Fittingly enough Gordon Fashoway, top goalgetter in the circuit with 51 regular-season counters, was the New Westminster marksman.Victoria netminder Jerry Cotnoir played sensationally to turn back the Royals, as he had throughout most of the series. Three times the gang from British Columbia&rsquo;s Queen City of New Westminster enjoyed a one game edge, only to have coach Roger Leger&rsquo;s now aroused champions of a year ago bounce back to square matters.Fifth game, played in the lair of the Royals, wound up in some wild and woolly shenanigans.Royals scored a 5-4 overtime win on Amy Dufault&rsquo;s goal, after Cougars claimed to have counted a marker earlier in the extra Session that would have provided them with victory.Dufault&rsquo;s goal was a signal for most of the Cougars, led by netminder Cotnoir, to crowd around goal-judge Bill Jones, with obvious intent to dance him loose from his bridgework. A segment of the partisan crowd then took up the cudgels on behalf of Jones and for a time it was a touchy situation. The police arrived to avert further trouble. They discovered Dorohoy and one or two other Cougars holding the more enthusiastic fans at bay with hockey sticks.As a result of their timely return to form Cougars qualified to meet the winner of the Saskatoon&mdash;Tacoma series in the playoff final.All signs pointed to a Saskatoon&mdash;Victoria finale, although after what happened to the Royals a prediction hardly is in order. Still the Quakers had won the first two games of the best-of-five set, which seemed margin enough to assure a series triumph at the expense of &lsquo;Muzz&rsquo; Patrick&rsquo;s potent Rockets.A five goal Quaker splurge in the third period turned the series lid-litter, played at Saskatoon, into a rout, coach Doug Bentley&rsquo;s prairie crew catching the nod in 7-1 style. Swifty George Senlck and clean-playing Johnny Chad were two-goal men for the night.Second game, also played in the Saskatchewan Hub-City before another S.R.O. crowd, again was decided in favor of Quakers in the third frame. Goals by bossman Bentley and winger Bob Manson broke a 4-4 stalemate.Teams then headed for Tacoma to resume the series, despite an offer on the part of the Edmon-ton Gardens&rsquo; management to provide &lsquo;home-ice&rsquo; for the Rockets.The rinks have carried overflow crowds tor most of the playoff tilts.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01122/938713-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="1764" height="1090"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0279/938706-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1754" height="1017"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard sweeps in on Defenseman Bob Goldham of the Detroit Red Wings as. Gordie Howe, left makes a turn to get into the action. The picture was taken during the first game of the series with Richard playing a standout game. In the bottom picture, Johnny Wilson tries to juggle the puck in front of Gerry McNeil as goaler goes into a croutch on one knee. Butch Bouchard comes in to aid Gerry while Paul Meger looks behind at the play. Players in the background are Bud McPherson, Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay. Also Referee Bill Chadwick.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Cougars Knock Off Odds-On Favorites

Mr. Ombreso says, &ldquo;I work on the hair of millionaires, statesmen and big business tycoons. The majority of them ask for a hair dressing that gives their hair a naturally well-groomed look. That&rsquo;s why I always recommend Kreml!&rdquo;*One of the famous Termitral Barber Shops. In all Terminal Shops, noted for high tonsorial standards, Kreml is the featured hair tonic.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0446/938827-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="437" height="588"></div> &#9632;

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WHSFAMOUS WALDORF ASTORIA BARBER RECOMMENDS KREML

<h2>Record For Assists</h2>When Billy Taylor was playing for the Detroit Red Wings he entered the record books for scoring the most assists in one game&hellip;On March 1G, 1947 against the Chicago Black Hawks the Wings won 10-6. In no fewer than seven of his team&rsquo;s goals Taylor drew assists.<h2>Left Winger In Points</h2>When Herbie Cain was with the Boston Bruins he set the record for the most points in one season by a left winger. During the 1943-44 campaign Cain netted 36 goals and added 44 assists for a record high of 82 points. That season the National Hockey League schedule consisted of 50 games.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01129/938907-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="584" height="129"></div>March 25&mdash;Toronto 0, Detroit 3March 27&mdash;Toronto 0, Detroit 1March 29&mdash;Detroit 6, Toronto 2April 1&mdash;Detroit 3, Toronto 1SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0296/938900-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="582" height="128"></div>March 25&mdash;Boston 1, Canadians 5March 27&mdash;Boston 0, Canadians 4March 30&mdash;Canadians 1, Boston 4April 1&mdash;Canadiens 2, Boston 3April 3&mdash;Boston 1, Canadiens 0April 6&mdash;Canadiens 3, Boston 2April 8&mdash;Boston 1, Canadiens 3SERIES &ldquo;C&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0376/938893-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="584" height="104"></div>April 10&mdash;Detroit 3, Canadiens 1April 12&mdash;Detroit 2, Canadiens 1April 13&mdash;Detroit 3, Canadiens 0The Champion Detroit Red Wings, apparently remember the rather embarrassing position they found themselves in after their six game series with the Montreal Canadiens last season and don&rsquo;t relish the idea of going through it again. So, just to make sure they went out and whipped the Leafs in four straight and then proceeded to take the mark of the Habs.The week started with the Bruins and Habs meeting for the seventh and final game of their series. Tied in games at three apiece the series moved to Montreal for the final. While the Wings Fat in Detroit awaiting the outcome of this game the Canadiens and Bruins battled right down to the wire. With three and a half minutes to go in the game Richard scored his spectacular goal and Reay added one in the open net to make it 3-1.The Wings then hopped a train for Montreal. A switch in dates by the Wings made it necessary to open the series in their opponent&rsquo;s back yard. The next three were played in Detroit.The Wings opened up with a 3-1 win with Tony Leswick getting two and Ted Lindsay getting one in an open net.The second game was a much better one with the Wings getting a 2-1 win out of it. The winner, credited to Lindsay was actually carried across the goal line by Defenseman Butch Bouchard. Th&rsquo;e other Wings&rsquo; goal was a fine piece of work by Pavelich.Back in Detroit the Wings fired three pucks behind sensational Gerry McNeil while Terry Sawchuk was unbeatable. The 3-0 shutout was his third in the playoffs this season. Previously he shutout the Leafs twice.Floyd Curry and Gordie Howe lead the point collectors in the playoffs. Curry, in 10 games scored four goals and added three assists for seven points. Howe scored two goals and five assists for the same number of points.Curry, Maurice Richard, Johnny Wilson and Ted Lindsay have all scored four goals to lead in that department while Howe&rsquo;s five assists are top in that department.<h2>TUESDAY, APRIUL 8</h2>Boston 1 at Canadiens 3(Montreal wins best of seven series 4-3)MONTREAL. &mdash; A spectacular dash by Maurice Richard (Rocket) Richard, almost ice-length and climaxed by a sensational goal broke up the seventh and deciding game of the Stanley Cup semi-final late in the third period. Montreal Canadiens winning over Boston Bruins 3-1.Boston: Goal. Henry; defence, Henderson. Quackenbush. Armstrong. Kryza-nowski. Laycoe; forwards. Schmidt, Labine. Chevrefils, Sandford, Sullivan. Dumart, Creighton, McIntyre, Mackell, Peirson.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, St. Laurent, Ha&rsquo;rvey,. Johnson. MacPherson. Bouchard; forwards, Lach, Richard, Masnick, Moore, Mazur, Curry, Reay, Geoffrion, Meger, Olmstead.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0546/938886-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="583" height="388"></div><h2>THURSDAY, 10 AVRIL</h2>Detroit 3 at Canadiens 1 (Detroit leads best of seven final series series 1-0)MONTREAL. &mdash; Little Tony Leswick. usually noted for his fine checking turned the tables in the first game of the Stanley Cup final against the Canadiens as the blasted in two goals to lead the Wings to a 3-1 win over the Habs. Ted Lindsay scored the other Wing goal ir an empty, net after McNeil had beer pulled in favor of the extra forward.Tom Johnson, defenseman converted center for the playoffs, scored the Habs only goal. It was his first of the seasonDetroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence. Pro novost, Goldham, Woit, Zeidel; forwards Abel, Lindsay, Howe, Skov. Leswick Pavelich, Delvecchio, Prystal, Wilson Stasiuk.Canadiens: Goal. McNeil: defence. St Laurent, MacPherson. Bouchard. John son, Harvey: forwards, Lach. Richard Olmstead. Geoffrion, Curry, Mazur, Moo re. Reay. Meger, Masnick.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0637/938879-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="581" height="343"></div><h2>SATURDAY, APRIL 12</h2>Detroit 2 at Canadiens 1(Detroit leads best of seven series 2-0)MONTREAL. &mdash; A luck-tinged goal by Ted Lindsay 43 seconds after the second period opened gave the Detroit Red Wings a 2-1 victory over Canadiens at the Forum. It also gave the Detroiters a 2-0 lead in games in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series.From then until the end of the crowd of 14,549 sat and suffered as they saw the fast skating Red Wings set up such a tight defence that the desperate Habitants couldn&rsquo;t get through for the tying marker. They were forced to shoot from far but most of the time and Terry Sawchuk, the Wings&rsquo; brilliant netminder turned the shots aside with ease.Detroit: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Gold-ham, Rronovost, Woit, Zeidel, Kelly: forwards, Abel, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Skov, Prystal, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Wilson, Stasiuk.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil: defence, St. Laurent, Bouchard, MacPherson, Harvey, Johnson: forwards, Masnick, Curry., Gamble, Lach, Richard, Moore, Reay, Geoffrion, Meger, Olmstead.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0827/938872-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="580" height="368"></div><h2>SUNDAY, APRIL 13</h2>Canadiens 0 at Detroit 3(Detroit leads best of seven series 3-0)DETROIT. &mdash; Gordie Howe, the 24-year-old bundle of hockey power from you-know-where Saskatchewan was the one-man show as Detroit Red Wings moved to within a game of the 1951-52 Stanley Cup championship here. At-tendance was 14,018.Howe produced a goal in the first period, assisted In a soft one in the seconn and finished off his night&rsquo;s work with another in the third. The 3-0, victory game Detroit three straight wins over Montreal Canadiens and unless Dick Irvin is a magician the series should finish here Tuesday night.Canadiens: Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, MacPherson, Harvey, Long, Johnson: forwards, Lach, Richard, Moore, Geoffrion, Curry Gamble, Olmstead, Meger, Masnick.Detroit: Goal. Sawchuk: defence. Gold-ham, Pronovost, Woit, Reise, Zeidel: forwards, Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Lindsay, Howe, Wilson, Abel, Stasiuk, Prvstai. Delvecchio.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0927/938865-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="574" height="318"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0731/938858-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="581" height="574"></div> &#9632;

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O’keefe’s OLD VIENNA BEER

Little Tony Leswick, obtained from the New York Rangers by the Wings for Gaye Stewart has never been known as a proficient goal scorer His biggest asset has been his checking ability and that&rsquo;s the reason he was taken in trade. But last week Tough Tony turned the a playmaker and goal scorertables. He became a playmaker and against the team he has done most of his checking.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1026/939000-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="277" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony Leswick</figcaption></div>The Wings, playing the Hobs in the final playoff found Leswick not only a great player for holding his check but he come through for two goals and an assist. They liked him that way too. For his outstanding play we chose him Ployer-of-the-Week and O&rsquo;Keefe&rsquo;s award winner.When the Wings found they were going to be pitted against Montreal in the final their biggest problem was holding Moore and Richard off the scoring list. Leswick was given the task of holding the young rookie and Marty Pavelich. as he had done all season was pitted against Richard. Both did outstanding jobs. But Leswick in particular wasoutstanding. When he wasn&rsquo;t checking and annoying Moore he was tossing his weight around with Richard. He became a real pain in the neck to the Canadiens.To boot Leswick scored two goals in the first game in which the Wings won 3-1. He was the best player in the gome for either team and as small as he is he was tossing his weight around like a giant. He was chosen the first star of the game.In the second game, also in Montreal. Leswick engineered the play that set the Wings on their way to victory number two. He picked up the puck, skated into the corner with Bouchard holding and then deftly flipped the disc out to Pevelich who wacked it into the cage. The Wings won that game 2-1Neither of Leswick&rsquo;s goals were on the brilliant side but the tact that he hustled his way showed how much he deserved them. He skated well in both games. He backchecked and generally played like he was anxious to get his name engraved on Lord Preston&rsquo;s Stanley Cup.Leswick, born in Humbolt, Saskatchewan is playing his seventh season in the NHL. He started out his pro career with Cleveland and was drafted by the Rangers in 1942-43. But he was out of pro hockey for two season while serving in the Canadian armed forces. He returned and join the Rangers in 1945-46. His best season was 1949-50 when, in 69 games he scored 19 goals and 25 assists for 44 points. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-Week

<div class="byline">By IAN MacDONALD</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters&rsquo;, champions of the Ontario Junior Hockey Association, created a tremendous impression with Montreal&rsquo;s hockey wise last week, in the first two games of their Memorial Cup final with Montreal Junior Canadiens.The Hatters definitely produced one of the biggest junior squads to show at the Forum in a long time and had many observers comparing them with the best junior clubs ever to come out of the perennialy strong OHA circuit.Though they only earned a split in the two games, the Hatters displayed a great team effort and they looked like the New York Rangers in their heyday, when they produced such well-precisioned units.Though lacking the glamorous individual stars which Montreal junior fans have become used to and seek in top teams, Biltmores were always dangerous as they calmly unfolded one dangerous play after the other.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01135/939038-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="293" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Alf Pike</figcaption></div>In fact, with strong goaling support, there seems little doubt that this squad could be compared with the top junior clubs of all time.Coach Alf Pike of the Hatters went on record as saying that this year&rsquo;s version of the club is stronger than last year&rsquo;s Memorial Cup winning Barrie Flyers. While admitting that his squad was not blessed with such brilliant first-stringers as Real Chevrefils, Leo Labine, Jim Morrison, Jerry Top-pazzini and Lorne Howes, all who led the Flyers to their Canadian title-coup last season. Pike thinks his charges have much more depth than the Barrie club had.<h2>Take No Dust</h2>&ldquo;We were just as good as they were last season,&rdquo; said Pike. &ldquo;And we have practically the same team back.&rdquo;Coach Sam Pollock of the Canadiens admitted that he felt the Guelph club was stronger than last year&rsquo;s Flyers. He thought they had much more depth, that they bad three dangerous lines and four solid defensemen. However Pollock winced as he discussed the Biltmore defense for Ronnie Stewart, star of the blue-line brigade, is the object of a bitter protest by the Hab mentor.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0285/939031-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="572" height="1196"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEN LAUFMAN</figcaption></div>Pollock was not so sure how good the Hatters would be without the smooth-striding all-star defenseman, who came to the club at the start of the playoffs from Barrie, after a Biltmore player had allegedly turned professional.But there is little dispute over the merits of the Hatter&rsquo;s attacking units. In 54 League games they set a new record by scoring 341 goals, for an average of better than six goals a game.From center-ice on the Bilts streak into formation. The puck carrier always seem to have a trailer for a drop pass, and someone always works their way into the clear in front of the net. Biltmore waste very few drives through a maze of players, as they take their time with checker board passing, to set some one up, in front of the net.The squad specialises in tip shots as every pattern finishes with a player streaking in front of the net to deflect a hard-pass into the goals.Key for most of these intricate plays is Ken Laufman, probably the smallest player on the squad. Laufman, a deceptively tricky play-maker, is a solid puck-hound who can shoot with the best when the opportunity arises. Laufman is the lad who fades back to the point position when Bilts have a manpower advantage.Ronnie Murphy, a tousle-haired speed demon, is the most deadly goal producer and he is usually the last to tip home the puck on the combination pays.Dean Prentice, Andy Bathgate, Ado Guidoin, Bill Chaimers and Franl Bettiol are all big, fast dangerous forwards who know where to put the puck.<h2>Strong Right Through</h2>Besides the controversial Stewart, Guelph has Harry Howelle, Ted Brady and Low Fontinato on defense. Howelle is the best of the lot as he combines a rugged defensive style with a smooth offensive ability.Canadlens, who ad mid-season were being hailed as favorite for National-wide honors, have lost a little of the combined team efforts which marked their earlier success. Habs have been unable to get everybody at peak form to-gether for close to two months, and the team strength has dropped proportionately.Captain of the team, Donnie Marshall, who was suffered a terrible slump at the end of the regular schedule and in the early playoffs, has recovered his magic and is again one of the finest looking juniors in the country. Dave MeCready, a fancy stick handler and deadly sniper, has carried an amazing load while most of the club went through their slumps, and Connie Broden and Billy Sinnett have kept up their top brand of hockey.Montreal fans believe that unless the entire Tab club can get going together, then they are going to have a tough job trying to stop a well-precisioned unit like the Guelph Bilt-more Hatters. &#9632;

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Guelph Hatters Draw Raves As Biggest, Best In Years

MONTREAL &mdash; Alfie Pike, veteran star with New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, won himself a lot of admiration from Montreal hockey fans in the second game of the Eastern Canada Memorial&rsquo;Cup finals at the Forum.Pike, who coaches Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters, stopped what could have turned into a major embroglio late in the first period when he used common sense and good sportsmanship.Bashing Bucky Holling-worth star defenseman of the Montreal Junior Canadiens, was in an even more bashing mood than usual and was bouncing the visitors over like ten pins.Finally Andy Bathgate dropped his stick and started swinging at the Hab rearguard. In a few seconds the two players were locked in a struggle near the boards and Bathgate deftly tipped Hollingworth into Pike&rsquo;s seat beside the Guelph player bench.As hot-headed Guelph supporters and several palyers menacingly stood by, Bucky came up swinging but Pike chased his players and the fans away, caught a few of Bucky&rsquo;s wild wallops and proceeded to calm him down. Pike patted Hollingworth on the back and advised him to settle down before any damage was done. &#9632;

Diplomatic Alf Nips Rrowina Riot In Bud

<div class="byline">By IAN MacDONALD</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0360/939093-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg"></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Ronnie (Suitcase) Stewart, most travelled player in the Ontario Junior Amateur Hockey Association this season, is the center of a full scale protest from two junior clubs.Montreal Junior Canadiens, opposing Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters in the Eastern Canada Memorial Cup finals, and St. Catherine Tee Pees, eliminated by the Hatters in the OHA finals are protesting Guelph&rsquo;s use of Stewart.The smooth-skating Stewart, unanimous all-star selection in the OHA, was picked up by Bilt mores when the club lost a player because he allegedly turned professional.The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association has a rule which provides for a junior team to replace a player signed to a professional contract.<h2>Basis of the Protest</h2>Habs protest and that of Tee Pees is that Guelph knew Ray Ross, a mediocre junior, had no intention of signing professional. Ross served a three-game trial with Seattle Ironmen, but then demanded a ridiculous salary to turn pro and was put on the indefinitely suspended list.Stewart, who started the season with Toronto Marlboros, went to Windsor Spitfires in a trade and then went to Barrie Flyes a week later, has been a valuable cog in the Hatters&rsquo; machine, since he has scored a point a game from his defense post.Coach Pike of the Biltmores says that since the CAHA granted the permission in the first place he doesn&rsquo;t see how they can renege on their own word, but coach Sam Pollock of the Canadiens is certain that Stewart will be banned&ldquo;Why, if they allowed that sort of dealing,&rsquo;&rsquo; fumed the fiery Sam,&rsquo;&rsquo; then the big centers could ruin junior hockey right across the country.&rdquo;Fuel was added to the fire when Stewart played a strong brilliant game for Guelph, as they won the first game of the series 4-3. He was much less conspicuous when Habs evened the round with a 7-5 win, but then so were most of the visitors. &#9632;

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More Than Hatters Mad As Three-Ring Hassle Centers About Stewart

<h2>Migay&rsquo;s Assists</h2>Rudy Milray of the Pittsburgh Hornets set the American Hockey League playoff assist record for a single series with 15 playmaking efforts in 1950-51.<h2>Two Way Record</h2>Frank Mario of Hershey and Dong McMurdy of Syracuse hold the record for assists in one game during American Hockey league playoff competition with 5 each.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01103/939159-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="600" height="746"></div>The Pittsburgh Hornets showed their championship class as they took a two game lead over the Providence Reds before the Reds came back with a winner.The Hornets, fresh from a long layoff after defeating the Hershey Bears in a seven game series waited while the Reds whipped the Cleveland Barons and Cincinnati Mohawks.In the first game of the final Pittsburgh came through for a 4-1 win. They made it 5-0 in the second game and it looked as though they were going to walk away with the chips.But the series switched to Providence and here the Reds came through to solidly get back into the race with a 5-1 win over the Clancymen.Paul Gladu of the Reds leads the playoff scorers with eight goals and six assists for 14 points. Barry Sullivan, his teammate is second with five goals and eight assists for 13 points. Ray Powell, also of the Reds rounds out the top three with 12 points.<h3>TUESDAY, APRIL, 8</h3>Providence 1 at Pittsburgh 4 (Pittsburgh leads best of seven series 1-0)PITTSBURGH. &mdash; It&rsquo;s first blood to Pittsburgh Hornest in the finals of the AHL.The Hornets exploded for three goals in the third period to down Providence Reds 4-1 and take the opening game of the best-of-seven series for the league championship and the Calder Cup.The game was a tight defensive battle all the way until the third period. Only seven penalties were called.Rudy Migay scored the first goal for Pittsburgh after seven minutes and 48 seconds of the first period and the teams battled until 3.13 of the third stanza before Ray Hannigan made it 2-0 for Pittsburgh.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Mathers, Horton, Backor, Sullivan; forwards, Maloney, R. Hannigan, Blair, Ml-gay, Solinger, G. Hannigan, Ezinicki, McLellan, Barbe.Providence: Goal, Bennett; defence, Egan, Morris, Lund, A. Michaluk; forwards, Laplante, Toppazzini, Kapusta, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, McGill, Reardon, Smith.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0445/939152-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="589" height="470"></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Providence 0 at Pittsburgh 5(Pittsburgh leads best of seven final series 2-0)PITTSBURGH. &mdash;Rudy Migay led the Pittsburgh Hornets to a 5-0 win over the Providence Reds as the Hornets took a 2-0 lead in the best of seven final series for the Calder Cup.Bill Ezinicki, Johnny McLellan and Gordie Hannigan scored the other Pittsburgh goals.Providence: Goal, Bennett: defence, Morris, Egan, A. Michaluk, Lund; forwards, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, Smith, Laplante, McG411, J. Michaluk, Scherza, Toppazzini, Kapusta.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Sullivan, Horton, Backor, Mathers; forwards, Migay, Earbe, Solinger, Hassard, Ezinickd, G. Hannigan, Maloney, Blair, R. Hannigan, McLellan.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0534/939145-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="588" height="409"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 13</h3>Pittsburgh 1 at Providence 5(Pittsburgh leads best of seven series 2-1)PROVIDENCE. &mdash; The Providence Reds exploded for three first period goals and then went on to defeat the Pittsburgh Hornets 5-1 for their first win against two for the Hornets in their best-of-seven AHL playoff series.The Hornets won the first two games in Pittsburgh. The fourth game will be played here Tuesday night.Paul Gladu and Ray Laplante scored the first two Providence goals while the Hornets were shorthanded. Barry Sullivan made it 3-0 on a clever pass from Ray Powell.Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer: defence, Boivin, Horton, Backor, Mathers. F. Sullivan; forwards, G. Hannigan, Blair, Migay, Hassard, R. Hannigan, Solinger, McLellan, Barbe, Ezinicki.Providence: Goal, Bennett; defence, A. Michaluk, Morris, Egan. Lund: forwards, McGill, Smith, Powell, B. Sullivan, Gladu, Laplante, Kapusta, Scherza, Reardon, Denis.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0722/939138-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="592" height="519"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0627/939131-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="586" height="550"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0363/939124-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="1775" height="1800"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lead Hornets&rsquo; Calder Cup DriveBobby Hassard, slated to move up to the Toronto Maple Leafs next season, left, and Ray Hannigan, also destined for a chance are two good reasons why the Pittsburgh Hornets are favored to bring the Calder Cup to Pittsburgh for the first time in AHL history.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01113/939245-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAPTURING THE LOOP CHAMPIONSHIP for the second year in a row, Johnstown Jets have played a major role in putting hockey over with a bang in the city of the famous inudation. Shown here are members of the 1951-52 team. Seated, left to right: Reggie Grigg, Don Hall, Ivan Walmsley, John Bobenic, Skippy Burchell. Standing, left to right: Norm Grinke, Ken McNally, George Harrison, Johnny Horvath, Ed Montigny, Larry Archambeault, Wilf Gorman, Joe Krahulec, Ed Blondin and Coach Wally Kilrea.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Swept Through Like the Flood

<div class="byline">By MARY HOBAR</div>JOHNSTOWN, Pa.&mdash;A scant three years ago any of the 200,000 residents of this steel and coal community would have raised a quest-ioning eyebrow at the thought of attending a hockey game. Now, with the game still in its growing pains here, two championships in as many years has proved a healthy shot in the arm.That&rsquo;s the story of the yearling Johnstown club in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League.Whether hockey would gain a foothold in this industrial area was a question mark in the fall of 1950, when the $1,500,000 Cambria County War Memorial Arena was completed and a $70,000 gamble was taken on promoting hockey.Only once before had hockey been presented here. In 1941, Johnstown had an EHL berth but lacked the financial backing to see it through a successful season. Johnstown made the fourth team in the EHL for 1950-51 and was the surprise of Tom Lockhart&rsquo;s setup.It finished first during the regular season by a single game margin. Even more surprising than that the Jets won the title was that it also showed a profit financially. That was a firm indication that hockey was here to stay.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0268/939276-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="525" height="795"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jet PilotWALLY KILREA</figcaption></div>Both Johnstown and the EHL set out to improve for 1951-52. The league was expanded to eight teams and Johnstown took its first step in the same direction by signing Coach Wally Kilrea for another year.Kilrea, late of the Detroit Red Wings as a player and as coach at Philadelphia in the American League and Grand Rapids of the International League, had other duties besides coaching. Along with keeping a sharp eye peeled for talent in numerous safaris northward, he also is the No. 1 salesman of hockey in the area.War Memorial officials became assured of a supply of players by joining the far-flung system of Montreal Canadiens. Although the pipeline didn&rsquo;t produce in quantity this season, it provided the quality that sparked the Jets to their second title.Squad Has Leading Goalie; Places 3 Players On EHL All Star Sextet For &rsquo;52Kilrea&rsquo;s Kid wrapped up the championship by a six-point margin over Boston, the same team it edged out last year. A late season spurt of 16 wins in 17 games gave the Jets another leg on the Mayor James J. Walker Trophy, a onetime pawn shop item that has a history almost as rich as that of the EHL itself.In latching on to their second title, the Jets won 39, tied 5 and lost 21&mdash;a win percentage of .600. That topped their mark of last year when they recorded a .481 percentage on 26 wins, three ties and 25 setbacks. At home this season, the Whiteshirts won 26, tied 3 and lost six, a win mark of .743. Also a hot item on home ice last year, they copped 20, divided 2, and lost 15.Ivan Walmsley (dubbed the Terrific by local scribes) who played every minute of every game throughout the season, was by far the tightest netminder in the league. He also topped the circuit in shutouts with six, five of them coming during the late title drive. In 13, other games this Toronto product, who got to Johnstown by way of Galt Juniors, Scotland, Windsor and Toledo, missed shutouts by single goals.Centerman Skippy Burchell, a bud of the Montreal garden, topped the team in scoring and would have mastered the league in that field had not a hip Injury sidelined him for seven games. He scored 3 7 goals, winning his hat three times, and 56 assists for 93 points. He practically had the EHL scoring title in his pocket until the late season injury kept him out of action.Johnstown grabbed off half of the EHL&rsquo;s all star berths with Burchell and Walmsley named to the first team along with defenseman Larry Archambeault, a draft choice from Washington&mdash;and the team&rsquo;s mainstay in the home stretch. &#9632;

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Johnstown Team Builds Up Rabid Following In 2 Years

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;Although their beloved Miners didn&rsquo;t go far in the Maritime Major Hockey League playoffs, Glace Bay fans are happy because this year for the first time in a long while they made the playoffs while Sydney Millionaires dropped to fifth spot, two points behind Miners and the last playoff spot.Miners didn&rsquo;t win any titles, but their players carried off all the individual honors. The former Medicine Hat junior, Len &ldquo;Comet&rdquo; Haley finished with terrific pace in the drive to nose out Saint John Beavers&rsquo; Johnny Ubriaco for the scoring championship. Len had 102 points, two more than his teammate, Pete Wywrot from Fort William, Ontario, and Ubriaco, Beavers&rsquo; center. Wywrot, with 100 points, had 72 assists for the chief playmaking role. Leading in goals scored was Bay winger Jimmy Anderson who punched home 51 goals, one more than Willie Marshall, the Toronto boy with Charlottetown Islanders. Anderson played with Windsor Spitfires last season.The collapse of the Miners in the playoffs can be traced to injuries. They started the important round without Captain Hub Macey, out with a hip and groin injury, while Anderson was playing with a bad ankle and Haley had a chest injury. In the second game at Saint John, Coach Bud Poile went out with a badly wrenched knee. It didn&rsquo;t&rsquo; stop there. Pete Wywrot was taken ill. That meant Miners had all three centers, Macey, Poile and Wywrot on the shelf for the return games in Glace Bay. Macey managed to dress and was used for killing off penalties.In one ofthe greatest games seen in the Bay, Miners won 4-1 with the injured Jimmy Anderson potting three goals. He was further injured in that game and he, too, went to the sidelines. The games were developing into rough affairs, and Saint John, too, started to suffer. &#9632;

Ousted Miners Top Honor List

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“Captain Morqan’s in town!”

<h2>Game Winning Goals</h2>Doug. Bentley, Coach of the Saskatoon Quakers, has scored the game winning goal on three occasions during the current playoffs including the one to win the longest game ever played in the present Pacific Coast League. Bentley&rsquo;s goal at 31 minutes and 24 seconds of overtime won the deciding game for Saskatoon against Edmonton and the longest game played in the PCHL.<h2>League Champion Out</h2>This will be the first time since the league turned pro that the club winning the league Championship did not go on to win the playoffs. Last season the Victoria Cougars finished in first place and took everything. The two previous seasons New Westminster ended in first place and went on to win the playoff Championship.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0188/939439-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="602" height="425"></div><h3>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S GAMES</h3>Mar. 31&mdash;Saskaton 3 at Edmonton 2 (O.T.)Apr. 1&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 3 at Victoria 4Apr. 2&mdash;Victoria 4, at New West&rsquo;er 5 (O.T.)Apr. 4&mdash;New West&rsquo;er 1. at Victoria 3 Tacoma 1 at Saskatoon 7Apr. 5&mdash;Victoria 2 at New West&rsquo;er 1 Tacoma 4 at Saskaton 6The sixth place Victoria Cougars eliminated the league champions New Westminster Royals from the play-offs in a thrilling seven game series, four games to three. The underdog Cougars just would not quit and were never ahead in the series until the seventh and deciding game which was played in New Westminster before a packed house, and the final game was in doubt until the horn went, ending the game with six New Westminster players in the Victoria zone trying to get the equalizing goal. It was a heart breaker for Coach Jake Forbes and his New Westminster Royals, but the Cougars lead by the hard working Roger Leger and backed up by some scintillating goal keeping by Jerry Cotnoir, outfought and outhustled the champion Royals and were full value for their victory. The Cougars will await the outcome of the Saskatoon &mdash; Tacoma series and will play the winner for the Presidents&rsquo; Cup, emblamatic of the playoff Championship.George Senick, hustling leftwinger of the Saskatoon Quakers, leads the individual scorers in play-off games played to date with 5 goals and 4 assists for 9 points. He has also spent the most | time in the penalty box, 13 minu-tes.<h3>MONDAY, MARCH 31</h3>Saskatoon 3 at Edmonton 2 (Overtime)(Saskatoon wins best of five series 3-1)EDMONTON. &mdash; Playing coach Doug Bentley made it a personal triumph as Saskatoon Quakers edged Edmonton Flyers, 3-2, in two overtime periods at Edmonton to move into the PCHL semifinals.Saskatoon: Goal, Worsley; defence, Heindl, Milford, Kaiser, Parker; forwards, Bentley, Senick, McCullough, Hunter, Fowler, Kuzma, Manson, Strain, Kaleta, Chad.Edmonton: Goal, Brennan; defence, McCaig, McLeod, Cox, Pettinger; forwards, Unlac, Kilburn, Thomas, McLean, Podolsky, Backor, Raynak, Joss, Johnson. Giesebrecht.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0523/939432-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="591" height="544"></div><h3>TUESDAY. APRIL 1</h3>New Westminster 3 at Victoria 4 (Best of seven series, tied 2-2)VICTORIA. &mdash; Reg Abbott slashed in his own rebound at 10.17 of the second overtime period at Memorial Arena to give Victoria Cougars a stirring 4-3 triumph ove New Westminster and even their best-of-seven PCHL playoff series with the Royals at two games each.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Forbes, Houle, Bedard; forwards, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love. Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Fielder, Paul, Cabana.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Roche, Goegan, Strongman; forwards, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, McIntyre,<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0610/939425-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="593" height="565"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2</h3>Victoria 4 at New Westminster 5 (Overtime) (New Westminster leads best of seven series 3-2)NEW WESTMINSTER. &mdash; New Westminster Royals won the fifth game of the PCHL semi-final series. But Amy Dufault&rsquo;s overtime goal that gave them a 5-4 win after more than 21 minutes of extra play cannot erase from the minds of a furious band of Victoria Cougars and scores of other neutral observers the fact that the lack of proper goals and apparent inefficient goal judges took this one so richly deserved from the Cougars.Les Hickey apparently won the game with a pot shot, seconds before Dufault&rsquo;s climaxing effort, but the red light never went onVictoria: Goal. Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Bouchard, Goegan, Strongman; forwards, Hebenton, Frampton, Abbott, Hickey, Ballance, Dorohoy.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; defence, Roberge, Bergeron, Houle, Bedard; forwards, Forbes, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell, Fielder, Paul.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0198/939418-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="586" height="733"></div><h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 4</h3>Tacoma 1 at Saskatoon 7(First game of best of five series)SASKATOON. &mdash; A five-goal outburst in the third period gave Saskatoon Quakers a 7-1 victory over Tacoma Rockets in the first game of their best-of-five PCHL semi-final.A capacity crowd or 5,300 saw Quakers spot Tacoma the first goal early in the game and then come back to turn the contest into a rout.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson: defence, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Godfrey, Pratt; forwards, Bradley, Delmonte, Young, Kerr, Marquess, MacDonald, Haldorson, Johnston, Brown.Saskatoon: Goal, Worsley; defence, Heindl, Milford, Kaiser, Parker; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Strain, Hunter, Manson, Fowler, McCullough Kuzma, Senick, Bentley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0242/939411-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="582" height="473"></div>New Westminster 1 at Victoria 3 (Best of seven series tied 3-3)VICTORIA. &mdash; Victoria Cougars and New Westminster Royals will settle their semi-final PCHL series in a suddendeath fashion at New Westminster following Victoria&rsquo;s 3-1 triumph over the Royals before another sell-out crowd here.The Victoria victory squared the best-of-seven series at three games each with each club having won all games on home ice.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; defence, Roberge. Bergeron, Forbes, Bedard; forwards, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Dufault, Fashoway. Lavell, Fielder, Paul, Houle.Victoria: Goal. Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Bouchard, Goegan. Strongman; forwards, Hebenton. Frampton, Abbott, McIntyre, Hickey, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Atanas, Medynskl.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0328/939404-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="582" height="398"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 5</h3>Victoria 2 at New Westminster 1 (Victoria wins best of seven series 4-3)NEW WESTMINSTER. &mdash; The Cinderella club of the PCHL found its glass slipper and roared into the finals by eliminating the league-champion New Westminster Royals with a breathtaking 2-1 victory in the final game of the best-of-seven semi-final.Checking furiously throughout the full length of the game, Victoria Cougars broke a scoreless tie midway through the second period when Bob Frampton slipped in a pass from Eddlo Dorohoy to gain a 1-0 lead.Victoria: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Leger, Bouchard, Goegan, Strongman; forwards, Hebenton. Frampton. Abbott, Ballance, Hickey. E. Dorohoy, Anderson, Atanas, Evans, Medynskl.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; de, fence, Roberge, Bergeron, Forbes, Be, dard; forwards, O. Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Dufault, Fashoway, Lavell., Boyce, Fielder, Paul.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0420/939397-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="579" height="296"></div>Tacoma 4 at Saskatoon 6 (Saskatoon leads best of five series 2-0)SASKATOON. &mdash; Saskatoon Quakers defeated Tacoma Rockets 6-4 to take a stranglehold on their best-of-five PCHL semi-final.Quakers won the series opener here 7-1. The series now moves to Tacoma for the third game.Playing Coach Doug Bentley, scored the winning goal just before the halfway mark of the third period after Murray Patrick&rsquo;s Rockets had tied the score period&rsquo;s first minute. Bob Manson then added the insurance tally.Tacoma: Goal, Stevenson: defence, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Godfrey; forwards, Bradley, Delmonte, Young, Kerr, Marquess, MacDonald, Haldorsen, Johnston, Brown, Adam.Saskatoon: Goal, Worsley; defence, Heindl, Milford, Kaiser, Parker; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Strain, Hunter, Manson, Fowler, McCullough, Kuzma, Senick, Bentley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0514/939390-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="582" height="616"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-079/939383-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="547" height="721"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0260/939376-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="605" height="1330"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0342/939369-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="1181" height="597"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0426/939362-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="1186" height="607"><figcaption class="caption-body">Cougars Three Star SelectionJerry Cotnoir, top, former gooler of the New Westminster Royals was the main road block for the same Royals when the Victoria Cougars played them in the semi-final round of the Pacific Coast League playoffs. The Cougars, who just made the post season classic with a final game victory over the Seattle Ironmen pulled the biggest upset of the season by ousting the favored Royals in the seventh games of the series. Cotnoir was sensational in the upset. Below Cotnoir is a picture of Bob Frampton of the Cougars. He scored the winning goal for his club and it pushed the Royals to the sidelines. On the left is Ed Dorohoy. Ed scored the first goal in the 2-1 victory and then set Frampton up with the winner.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

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“Wotta Man”

If you are looking for a trophy for any Sport&mdash;Hockey, Bowling etc.&mdash;Drop in and look over our complete supply.&ldquo;Gifts for all Occasions&rdquo;ALEX FALLE360 ST. JAMES ST. W.ROYAL BANK BLDGMONTREAL &#9632;

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<h2>MARITIME MAJOR</h2><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 5</h3>Saint John 6. Halifax 2(Saint John leads best of seven final series 2-0)<h3>MONDAY, APRIL 7</h3>Halifax 3, St. John 2(St. John leads best of seven final series 2-1)<h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9</h3>St. John 6, Halifax 3(St. John leads best of seven final series 3-1)<h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 10</h3>St. John 4, Halifax 3(St. John wins best of seven final series 4-1).<h2>QUEBEC SENIOR</h2><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 6</h3>Quebec 6, Chicoutimi 0(Best of nine final series tied 2-2).<h3>TUESDAY&rsquo;, APRIL. 8</h3>Quebec 4, Chicoutimi 3(Quebec leads best of nine series 3-2).<h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Chicoutimi 2, Quebec 1(Best of nine series tied 3-3).<h2>WESTERN CAN. SEMI-FINALS</h2>(ALLAN CUP) SATURDAY, APRIL 5Edmonton 2, Trail 1(Edmonton wins best of seven series 4-2).Fort Francis 5, Letellier 4(Fort Francis wins best of seven series 4-2).<h2>(FINALS) TUESDAY, APRIL 8</h2>Fort Francis 3, Edmonton 3 (Overtime).(First game best of seven series).<h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Fort Francis 8, Edmonton 5(Fort Francis leads best of seven series 1-0. One game tied).<h2>EASTERN CANADA FINALS</h2>(ALLAN CUP) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9Stratford 5, Pembroke 3(First game best of seven final).<h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Startford 3, Pembroke 0(Stratford leads best of seven final 2-0).<h2>EASTERN CANADA FINALS</h2>(MEMORIAL CUP)<h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 6</h3>Guelph 4, Montreal 3(Guelph leads best of seven series 1-0).<h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9</h3>Montreal 7, Guelph 6(Best of seven series tied 1-1).<h3>FRIDAY, APRIL 11</h3>Guelph 7, Montreal 6(Guelph leads best of seven series 2-1).<h2>WESTERN CANADA FINALS (MEMORIAL CUP)</h2>TUESDAY, APRIL 8Fort William 3, Regina 1(First game best of seven series).<h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Regina 3, Fort William 2(Best of seven series tied 1-1)<h3>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE SATURDAY, APRIL 5</h3>Toledo 5, Grand Rapids 4 (Toledo wins best of seven final series 4-2)<h3>EASTERN AMATEUR LEAGUE SATURDAY, Al&rsquo;RIL 5</h3>Johnstown 4, New Haven 3 (First game best of seven final) SUNDAY, APRIL 0Johnstown 2, New Haven 1 (Johnstown leads best of seven series 2-0)<h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 8</h3>New Haven 2, Johnstown 1 (Johnstown leads best of seven series<h3>WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10</h3>Johnstown 4, New Haven 1(Johnstown leads best of seven series 3-1)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0611/939532-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="521" height="757"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0712/939525-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="507" height="760"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leading the PatsGordon Cowan, left and Eddie Litzenberger of the Regina Pats right are carrying the banner of their club into battle. Rated two of the finest juniors in the country this pair are expected to be the big guns in the Pats&rsquo; final seige on that elusive Memorial Cup.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Minor League Parade At Quick Glance

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“Kingsbeer”

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-09" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-095/939594-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg"></div>There is a limited supply left of the Official N.H.L. Record Book(This is not the NHL Press and Radio Guide but an entirely different book)The 250-page Official NHL Record Book includes the complete NHL records from the 1917-18 season up to and inclusive of the 1950-51 season. This is the only book published that lists how the teams finished each season, how they made out in the playoffs etc. It also runs the complete individual scoring records of each season from 1917-18 up to the present.It lists Trophy winners, scoring leaders, goalkeepers averages, penalty minutes by clubs, names of players holding every all-time record.Be sure to order your copy of the Official NHL Record Book today. The supply is limited an 4 books will be sold on a First Come&mdash;First Served basis.ALL THIS FOR ONLY $1.00 (Postage Paid)NOTE: Attractive printed Revision Sheets for 1950-51 season are available for 10c. These can be inserted in last year's edition. Send to NHL Revisions 603A Sun Life Bldg., Montreal, Canada. &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0174/939632-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div>(Solution Next Week)<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Canadien player pictured.4&mdash;Initials of Warecki who played briefly for Buffalo.6&mdash;Initials of Olson of Cleveland Barons.7&mdash;24 down celebrates his birthday in this month (abbr.)8&mdash;Red Kelly was sidelined during the Leaf-Detroit series with a&mdash;Injury.9&mdash;All NHL officials can be identified by one (abbr).10&mdash;Initials of a member of the Maple Leafs.11&mdash;Ted Kennedy always regard ed Charlie Conacher as one 13&mdash;initials of a Hornet forward 14&mdash;First name of a member of Indianapolis Caps.15&mdash;Initials of an NHL coach who once piloted Indiana-polis.16&mdash;Hooley Smith&rsquo;s initials.17&mdash;Bob Armstrong is a native ol this province (abbr.)19&mdash;Initials of a Buffalo player who recently injured his leg<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0248/939625-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="548" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body">LAST WEEK&rsquo;S X-WORD KEY</figcaption></div>20&mdash;Number of games Gus Bodnar missed in 1951-52.21&mdash;Initials of a Buffalo defenseman23-&mdash;AHL scoring champion of 1951-52.26&mdash;This could be the initials of Love of New Westminster.27&mdash;Otherwise.28&mdash;Germanium (Sym.)29&mdash;Bob Goldham celebrates his birthday in this month.30&mdash;Nickname of NHL club with whom Babe Pratt first played (sing.)32&mdash;Terry Reardon once played for Canadiens while on&mdash;from Boston.34&mdash;This AHL goaltender was born in Prince Albert, Sask.<h2>DOWN</h2>1&mdash;Recently voted Detroit&rsquo;s most valuable player.2&mdash;This Red Wing once played for Kansas City.3&mdash;NHL official whose first name is Carl.4&mdash;Gift given to players selected as Imperial Oil &lsquo;Three Stars.5&mdash;Initials of a Montreal center.7&mdash;First name of Anderson who played goal briefly for Rangers this season.11&mdash;First two letters of Iliad.12&mdash;Initials of Nova, now retired heavyweight boxer.13&mdash;This is where Max Quackenbush played junior hockey.15&mdash;NHL team with whom Bill Thoms once played (abbr.)18&mdash;Player who scored first goal in the Leaf-Detroit series.22&mdash;Danny Lewicki plays this position (abbr.)23&mdash;This Maritime League coach once played for the Maple Leafs.24&mdash;Providence player who once played for N.Y. Americans.25&mdash;Short for given name of 18 down.2 6&mdash;Rene Trudell now operates a&mdash;in San Francisco.29&mdash;Initials of 24 down.30&mdash;Name given 23 across.31&mdash;Short for first name of a Boston forward.33&mdash;Initials of Roche of Victoria. &#9632;

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0329/939687-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg"></div>You know right well that you&rsquo;ll want to know what your favorite hockey star is doing during the summer months; what players are being traded; what players are being given their unconditional release. You&rsquo;ll also be eager to find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.The Only Way To Know All This is by becoming a Year-Round Subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS. You see. THE HOCKEY NEWS is not sold at arenas during the summer months or on the newsstands and the only possible way you can get a copy is by becoming a regular subscriber. This way you will be sure of receiving the five snappy monthly summer issues just as soon as they're off the press.THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favorite puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless others. We at THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication (May to September).A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.Canadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U. S. A. Remittances&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque in U.S. funds. Postal Money Orders must be drown on the Postmaster at New York in U.S. funds.Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-017/939739-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="243" height="285"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-027/939732-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="252" height="291"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-036/939725-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2960" height="1644"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-045/939718-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2954" height="1980"><figcaption class="caption-body">Maurice Richard lays sprawled on the ice, out cold after colliding with Leo Labine of the Boston Bruins. Bill Head and Trainer Hector Dubois attend him. He was escorted to the clinic where he took six stitches in a cut over the eye. He came back to score the winner. In the lower picture. Bill Quackenbush of the Bruins, guides the puck off the stick of Dollard St. Laurent, left, as Jim Henry goes on guard just in case. Rookie Labine is seen waiting for a pass in the center.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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April 19, 1952

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