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October 4, 1952

The Hockey News October 4, 1952

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0355/966213-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="570" height="615"></div>A steaming cup of rich, creamy Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate is the Ideal finish for any game IAsh for Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate at your favorite fountain &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Win or Lose

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Sport Trophies

<div class="byline">By ELMER FERGUSON</div>(Montreal Herald)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0443/965287-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="299" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Hooley Smith)</figcaption></div>Authentically the first All-Star game was a fine show, even though it became quickly apparent that the All-Stars, who came catapulting into Toronto on the afternoon of the game from all ends of the hockey world, many arriving only a few hours before the game, jaded by long trainrides, could no hope to combine their varied forms of skiland technique with any degree of usefu cohesion.Against the ragged brilliance of then opposition, the Leafs tossed a powerful, smooth and efficient machine, sturdy cogs that clicked smoothly into place who worked with fine understanding, who passed with perfect timing and who, at the end ripped asunder the best defensive the All-Stars could toss out.<h2>Two Today</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0284/965280-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="535" height="533"><figcaption class="caption-body">(EDDIE SHORE)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0354/965273-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="535" height="536"><figcaption class="caption-body">(ACE BAILEY)</figcaption></div>Of course, the All-Stars did not collapse, nor did they go down without a fight. Indeed the rush of Leaf goals in the last few minutes was retraceable in some degree to the fact that the AllStars, fighting as if a title was at stake, tore into the Leaf end, forcing George Hainsworth to become in those last few torrid stages, the real hero of the piece. The little ex-Canadien was magnificent, as he fought off two thrusts by Jimmy Ward, on the first of which the flying Maroon was in alone. But when the line of Himes, Aurie and Lewis, one of the most effective devised by Lester Patrick, came pelting through, rained shot after shot on him at close range, fought him down to his knees, but failed to score as they thrust and jabbed at the puck&mdash;it was then that Hainsworth flashed to stardom in the history making battle.His goaling was so stubborn as the puck flicked and bounced around him in the wild melees that little Aurie wheeled away shaking his head in wonderment, while Lewis skated up, grinned and ruffled up Hainsworth&rsquo;s hair as the little guy was crawling up. was the rough tribute of the ice to a goaler they couldn&rsquo;t beat.<h2>Harvey Jackson Brilliant</h2>It was a fast skating battle with lots of action and speed, no body-checking, no penalties and play moving from end to end with bewildering speed, but always the Leafs a little surer, a little better. Headed by the whirlwind form of Harvey Jackson, left wing flash who carried the aggressive load for Leafs much of the way, and who clinched his seasonal all-star rating in this match beyond doubt, Leafs packed too much cohesion tor their starry foes. They were without Charlie Conacher most of the game. Just out of hospital, he was in uniform, but fell early in the play, retired, and was not seen again. All-Stars matched this by losing &lsquo;Hooley&rsquo; Smith early in the proceedings. Smith went into action under difficulties, handicapped by a very sore knee and crashed the boards with it in the first few minutes, an accident which was in part, responsible for the first Leaf goal, for the Blair-Doraty-Cotton combine flashed off and Cotton batted in a loosly rolling puck.Apart from this the teams were at full strength, though the Stars were handicapped by a plethora of right hand shots, and not enough south-paws. This caused some odd forward alignments which at one point found the veteran right-wing Finnigan playing on left wing.Joliat and Morenz provided the best combined play on the Star line Because of their understanding, gained over a period of eleven years&rsquo; association. Bill Cook, however, didn&rsquo;t fit in with them at all, due to difference in style of play. This line got a goal which Morenz scored in brilliant fashion off a pass from Joliat bat these two missed many opportunities as their passing failed to click. Stewart, Smith and Ward, paired as an all-Maroon line&mdash;with two ex-Maroons, Dutton and Lionel Conacher on defence&mdash;but this line didn&rsquo;t last long. Stewart played fine fighting hockey, was deadly around the nets and finally combined with his former sidekick, Jimmy Ward, to get a goal, in which he catapulted over Hainsworth into the cage. Ward skated well, but missed great close-range chances because of his speed.Joliat&rsquo;s play sparkled in spots, but many of his finest efforts were wasted. The best line Patrick had, at the end, was the Himes-Aurie-Lewis array which seemed to combine as a whole more smoothly than any of the others, and finished going great guns.Jackson was a sparkling factor for Leafs. Romping along the left Wing, he scored the second Leaf goal brilliantly, as he faked around the Shield-Johnson defence and was in like a flash on Chuck Gardiner. Starting the second he notched another, to make it 3-1 for Leafs. But Morenz came back with a goal, Finnigan scored another on a great play and pass by Nels Stewart, and Stars were even for the first time Then Day was credited with goal that seemed to have merely hit the post, and going into the final frame with a 4-3 lead, Leafs crammed home three, two in the last three minutes.Clancy played a smashing game for the Leafs, Hec Kilrea was wheeling along at high speed, the Blair-Doraty combine was usefu&mdash;but Hainsworth was their spec tacular hero. &#9632;

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Hainsworth, Jackson Starred but All-Stars Never Gave Up

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0528/965018-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="275" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Jim Norris)</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;It was 17 years ago that Detroit began billing itself as &ldquo;The City of Champions.&rdquo;That was the year when the Motor City&rsquo;s sports reputation hit an alltime peak which is unlikely to be equaled anywhere. The baseball Tigers won the World Series, the hockey Red Wings the Stanley Cup, the football Lions the pro title and playoffs, and the basketball Eagles the pro cage crown.In the years since the local citizenry have liked to think that the championship label still was authentic. And thanks to Jack Adams and his Red Wings there still is sound evidence today.Elsewhere things have been rough. The Tigers, who landed in last place this summer, won the American League twice more, in 1940 and 1945, and the World Series for the second time, in 1945.The Lions haven&rsquo;t been champions since, although the prospects are the brightest this autumn. The Eagles folded without another title, and pro basketball has become extinct.But hockey has continued to wave the championship banner frequently. In those 17 years since the Stanley Cup first came here, Adams-managed teams have been Winners four more times. In addition the Wings have paced the National Hockey League (or American Division) seven times over that stretch.* * *PEAK NOW: In all of their glorious history, the Wings never rated higher than they do on the eve of a new campaign. They have won four straight NHL crowns and are favorites to take another.The team which will take the ice in the opener on Thursday, Oct. 9, is essentially the same which romped through the playoffs last spring in eight straight games over its bitterest rivals&mdash;four in a row against Toronto and then four in a row against Montreal.On the roster are many of the most decorated stars in the game. Gordie Howe is the two-time scoring champion, along with being the Hart Trophy holder as the NHL&rsquo;s most valuable player. Terry Sawchuk is the Vezina Trophy man as top goalie.Howe and Sawchuk along with Ted Lindsay and Red Kelly are members of the first All Star team, forming two thirds of the honor sextet.Never could Detroiters point with more pride to any team when extolling praise of &ldquo;The City of Champions.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Sports Reputation Hit All Time Peak Some 17 Years Ago

<div class="byline">&#x2026;by Groves</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0128/966737-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0219/966730-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="cover-02" width="2490" height="2464"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-045/966723-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="cover-04" width="1244" height="268"></div> &#9632;

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Adams Rates Howe Greatest Wing Ever

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-052/966799-1-eng-US/cover-052.jpg" title="cover-05" width="303" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Ted Lindsay)</figcaption></div>SAULT Ste. Marie, Mich.&mdash;After 26 years at the helm of the Detroit Red Wings general manager Jack Adams has found the ideal guy to tag the &lsquo;ideal player&rsquo;. It wouldn&rsquo;t take much to guess that the player&rsquo;s name is Gordie Howe. Not only does Jack rate Howe the greatest player ever to perform in a Red Wing jersey but he also considers him the &ldquo;greatest player I have ever seen in hockey.&rdquo;&ldquo;I say Howe is the greatest I have ever seen because he has everything. He has size, speed, is ambidexterous (he can shoot from both sides), he is a throwback to the greatest stickhandlers in hockey. And Gordie has not reached his peak. He still has seven to nine years in big-time hockey. Getting away from his talent on the ice, he is a real man in every sense of the word. He is totally unselfish, wants to help out other players and never misses a chance to pass the puck if he figures the other guy can score.* * *<h2>Gord Has All Factors</h2>&ldquo;Gordie is a great team player and wants the club to emerge as the big thing and not himself as a personality. He can pass accurately, and take a pass like nobody&rsquo;s business. He simply is the finest natural hockey player that I have ever seen.&rdquo;Jack said in sizing up great players, he often finds that many have great assets, but lack other important ones that detract from their greatness. &ldquo;But I feel in Gordie Howe we have the perfect hockey player. He has all the factors that go into painting a great hockey player.&rdquo;Jack had a story to tell about Gordie that probably gives you an insight into his character more than anything else. It shows the Gordie Howe as a man, and not simply as a hockey player.&ldquo;Last season,&rdquo; Jack recounted, &ldquo;when Gordie had 47 goals we told him we could play him more in order to increase his goal-production and help him shatter the record. You know the answer we got? He told us that the 20th goal to Sid Abel was a heck of a lot more important to him than his own record and he was going out to help Sid get it. And Gordie meant every word of that.&rdquo;There is little question about Jack Adams&rsquo; choice of the top player in his book. Now it&rsquo;s a little different the rest of the way. For his top centre players he named Syd Howe of the great 1941-42-43 era, Don Grosso and Marty Barry. He credited Howe&rsquo;s amazing versatility and scoring power; Grosso&rsquo;s tremendous fore-checking, courage and scoring punch, and Barry&rsquo;s great drive and all-round ability working with linemates Larry Aurie and Herbie Lewis on the great 1935-36-37 aggregations.Swinging to right wing, Adams Quickly named off his three greatest, Gordie Howe, Larry Aurie and Mud Bruneteau. He cited Aurie&rsquo;s great checking and penalty-killing along with his ability to capitalize on opportunities when the chips were down and the team needed victories. Sooner or later, Jack had to get around to Ted Lindsay, and he named the fiery Northern Ontario lad as one of his top left-wingers along with Sid Abel (who could play both centre and left, and did) and Marty Pavelich.&ldquo;Ted Lindsay is a great fighter and has that burning ambition to win for Detroit; he can score goals and works like a glove with Gordie Howe. He never stops and it&rsquo;s this drive and spirit that means so much to the team. Sid Abel, of course, has given us great inspirational leadership all these years as captain and before he attained the captaincy. He is one of the greatest playmakers in hockey and is &ldquo;The Maker of Lines.&rdquo; We&rsquo;ll never forget Sid and we&rsquo;ll miss him this season. As for Marty Pavelich he&rsquo;s my boy. Here&rsquo;s a boy who has had tough luck in scoring so far, but is coming into his own now and will reach the top. When you consider that Marty does so much checking, breaks up so many plays, and hounds the big stars of other clubs so effectively, and still gets goals, you have to concede that he is one of my best left-wingers. Marty is another boy who never quits, fights all the time, and still has his best years in hockey ahead of him.&rdquo;<h2>Five Great Rearguards</h2>Reverting back to his defense selections, Adams picked Jack Stewart, Leo Reise, Red Kelly, Ebbie Goodfellow and Reg Noble as his five best. Even on this score Adams refused to pick his two best or name them 1-2-3. &ldquo;They are all great in my book,&rdquo; Adams explained. He credited Stewart with giving hockey some of the most bruising rearguard work it has ever seen and making Detroit Red Wings one of the hardest eiubs to beat.&ldquo;Goodfellow, of course, was a great leader and could rally our team when he was going strong. Reg Noble is one of the all-time greats for all his all-round power and daring style of play. And of course when you talk about Red Kelly and Leo Reise you talk about two of the finest defensemen ever to hit hockey. They can score, hit, check and do every-thing that a top defenseman should do to reach greatness.&rdquo;Knowing how Adams feels about Terry Sawchuck, we were anxiously awaiting his choice or choices to go along with Terry&rsquo;s name. He unhesitantly picked Johnny Mowers of 1941-42-43 era. &ldquo;Terry is the class of the League right now, he makes stops one classes as impossible and is entirely fearless under pressure. When the going gets really rough Terry never loses his head. He hates to lose and fights like a tiger to avoid losing a game. Johnny Mo wers was our stylish goalie that made a tremendous hit with the fans. He saved us game after game with his fine work and was the kind of player that made the forwards want to get goals by the way he kept the opposition from getting them.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Wouldn’t Say WhoWouldGet 2nd, 3rd Rating

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0310/966768-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="cover-03" width="296" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body">(MAURICE RICHARD)</figcaption></div>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;Four veteran campaigners, two defensemen, a left wing and a right wing, are slated to play in their sixth consecutive NHL AllStar contest this weekend in Detroit. Bill Quackenbush of Boston, Toronto&rsquo;s Jim Thomson, Ted Lindsay of Detroit&rsquo;s world champions and the Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard have been in each of the benefit duels since the annual game was inaugurated in 1947.Richard is the only member of this stellar quartet that has actually been picked on the authentic first or second All-Star squads each time. Lindsay has made the select dozen five of the year Quackenbush has been chosen four times during this per nd Thomson has made the grade twice.ay and Richard have been first team choices for four of the All-Star games to date and Quackenbush has been selected three times. Quackenbush and Richard, however, have been the only ones in the All-Star lineup for all six games. Thomson and Lindsay were required to compete with their Stanley cup Winning clubs three times and once respectively.Centers Doug Bentley Edgar Laprade and Ted Kennedy will be missing their first All-Star contest. Bentley quit Chicago&rsquo;s Black Hawks and the National Hockey League early last season and is now player-coach at Saskatoon (PCHL.) Kennedy remains a stalwart with Toronto. He played with the Leafs in the initial three All-Star battles, but was with the Stars during the last two games. Laprade has retired.* * *<h2>Three Habs in First</h2>Three canadiens will be among the six real rookies making their debut as an All-Star member Sunday night at De-troit&rsquo;s Olympia. They are rearguard Tom Johnson, center Billy Reay and winger Bernie Geoffrion. Boston&rsquo;s man in the nets, &ldquo;Sugar Jim&rdquo; Henry, and defensemen Fernie Flaman of the Leafs and Hy Buller of the Rangers complete this group.Scheduled to play in their fifth game are Gus Mortson of the Hawks and &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Bouchard of the Canadiens, both rearguards also, center Max Bentley of the Leafs and wingers Gordie Howe and Tony Leswick of the Wings and Harry Watson of the Maple Leafs. New York&rsquo;s netminder, Chuck Rayner, Bob Goldham of the Red Wings&rsquo; defensive corps, center Milt Schmidt of Boston and Wings Bill Mosienko of the Black Hawks and Sid Smith of the Leafs will be taking part in their fourth All-Star game.Goalie Terry Sawchuk and rearguard Red Kelly of the Wings are readying for their third such contest and the same goes for Leo Reise, the ex-Detroiter now defending with the Rangers. Four more Canucks, goaler Gerry McNeil, rear-liner Doug Harvey, center Elmer Lach and wingman Paul Meger, are slated for their second All-Star tilt. Other second timers are centers Don Raleigh of New York and Ed Sandford of the Bruins and wingers Reg Sinclair and Marty Pavelich of the Wings and Tod Sloan of the Leafs.Detroit&rsquo;s Tommy Ivan and Dick Irvin of Montreal will be coaching their third All-Star squads this year. Irvin previously led the allLeague team in 19 47 and cocoached with Toronto&rsquo;s Joe Primeau last year. Ivan coached the dream team before in 19 48 and &lsquo;49. Boston&rsquo;s Lynn Patrick led the Stars for the 1950 game. &#9632;

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‘Rocket’ Only Player Picked on Six Teams

<h2>1st Team Coach</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-132/964434-1-eng-US/f0002-132.jpg" title="f0002-13" width="585" height="586"><figcaption class="caption-body">(TOMMY IVAN)</figcaption></div>1st TEAMSawchuk (Detroit) Kelly (Detroit) Harvey (Montreal) Lindsay (Detroit) Lach (Montreal) Howe (Detroit)POSITIONGoal Defence Defence Left Wing Centre Right Wing2nd TEAMHenry (Boston) Buller (New York) Thomson (Toronto) Smith (Toronto) Schmidt (Boston) Richard (Montreal)1st team subs.. Rayner (New York), Reise (New York), Goldham (Detroit), Mortson (Chicago), Quackenbush (Boston), Raleigh (New York), Sandford (Boston), Mosienko (Chicago, Sinclair (Detroit), Pavelich (Detroit), Leswick (Detroit)2nd team subs.: McNeil (Montreal), Flaman (Toronto), Johnson (Montreal), Bouchard (Montreal), Bentley (Toronto), Reay (Montreal), Sloan (Toronto), Geoffrion (Montreal)Six Annual All-star Game Game Played at: Detroit OlympiaCity: DetroitDate: Sunday, October 5, 1952Starting time: 8.30Broadcast: Sponsored by Imperial Oil for Canadian Broadcast and by Strohs Brewery for Detroit broadcastPlay-by-Play announcers: Al. Nagler, W.J.B.K. Detroit and Foster Hewitt for Canadian broadcast. Bud Lynch will do play by play on Television over W.X.Y.Z. for Detroit only.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-142/964427-1-eng-US/f0002-142.jpg" title="f0002-14" width="279" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Al Nagler)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-152/964420-1-eng-US/f0002-152.jpg" title="f0002-15" width="288" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Foster Hewitt)</figcaption></div>Radio station: W.J.B.K. Detroit and over Trans Canada NetworkBroadcast Time: Starting at 8.30 over W.J.B.K., Detroit and from second period to end of game over Trans Canada. Starting at 9.00 p.m.Capacity of Olympia: 14,500 including 2,000 standeesCrowd expected: 14,000Gate expected: $26,000 net.Receipts to be added to the NHL player&rsquo;s pension fundLocation of entranee to Olympia: Box Office and Main Entrance on Grand River Ave. Side entrances on McGraw and Hooker streetsLargest pro crowd in Olympia: 15,336 on October 24, 1948. Detroit 2, Toronto 1.Officials for game: Referee Bill Chadwick; Linesmen Doug Young, George Hayes.Dimensions of rink: 200 feet by 8 3 feetEnds of rink: Wire nettingOrganist: Bob ClarkeFirst team trainer: Carl Mattson, DetroitSecond team trainer: Hector Dubois, Montreal<h2>2nd Team Coach</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-162/964413-1-eng-US/f0002-162.jpg" title="f0002-16" width="583" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body">(DICK IRVIN)</figcaption></div>1 st TEAM<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0710/964406-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="289" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Terry Sawchuk)</figcaption></div>SAWCHUK, Terrance(Terry) Gordon (Detroit Red Wings)Born: Winnipeg, Man,, Dec. 28, 1929.Goaltender, shoots left. 5&rsquo;10&rdquo;, 175 lbs.Playing in his second straight All-Star game as a member of the first team. Was a unanimous choice last season with 90 points. Has won rookie award in each pro league he has performed in. Last season won Vezina Trophy with amazing 1.94 goals against record. Recorded 12 shutouts. Scored four shutouts in eight playoff games and had a terrific 62 goals against. Turned pre with Omaha in 1947.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-086/964399-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="270" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Red Iefy)</figcaption></div>KELLY, Leonard (Red) Patrick (Detroit Red Wings)Born: Simcoe, Ont., July 9, 1927.Defense, shoots left. 5&rsquo; 11&frac12;&rdquo;, 180 lbs.Playing on his third All-Star team. He has twice been chosen to the first team and once to the second. He was a unanimous choice by writers and broadcasters this season. Red is a former winner of the Lady Byng Trophy. He&rsquo;s been the top scoring defenseman in the NHL for the past three seasons. Last season he finished 14th with 16 goals and 31 assists. His All-Star scoring record is two assists.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-096/964392-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="286" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Doug Harvey)</figcaption></div>HARVEY, Douglas Norman(Montreal canadiens)Born: Montreal, Que., Dec. 19, 1924.Delense, shoots left. 5&rsquo; 10&frac12;&rdquo;, 18? lbs.Playing on his first official All-Star team. Harvey polled 71 points for All-Stardom.Long rated one of the finest defensemen in the NHL, Doug is playing his sixth season in the Big Loop. In 68 games last season he scored six goals and added 23 assists for 29 points. He spent 82 minutes in the penalty box and led his team in that department. In the playoffs he scored no goals but added three assists in 11 games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-104/964385-1-eng-US/f0002-102.jpg" title="f0002-10" width="277" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Ted Lidsey)</figcaption></div>LINDSAY, Robert Blake(Ted) Theodore (Detroit Red Wings)Born: Renfrew, Ont., July 29, 1925.Left wing, shoots left. 5&rsquo; 8&rdquo;, 163 lbs.Ted is one of the few players in the NHL today who has participated in the last five AllStar games. He polled 80 out of a possible 90 points in the voting and was 35 ahead of his nearest competitor, Sid Smith. Ted is now the oldest player with the Red Wings in point of service. He is starting his ninth year with them. He holds the record for the most assists in a season and is a former Art Ross Trophy winner.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-113/964378-1-eng-US/f0002-112.jpg" title="f0002-11" width="271" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Elmer)</figcaption></div>LACH, Elmer James(Montreal Canadiens)Born: Nokomis, Sask., Jan. 22, 1918.center, shoots left. 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo;, 170 lbs.Elmer Lach, veteran center from the Montreal Canadiens recorded one of his greatest sraseasons in 1951-52 and finished third in the scoring with 15 goals and 50 assists for 65 points. He led the League in assists. Elmer is playing his 12th season with the Canadiens. His All-Star record is one assist. He polled 72 points to beat out Milt Schmidt on the first team. He has been named to the center Position on two previous teams.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-123/964371-1-eng-US/f0002-122.jpg" title="f0002-12" width="279" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Gordie)</figcaption></div>HOWE, Gordon(Detroit Red Wings)Born: Floral, Sask., March 31, 1928.Right wing, shoots right. 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo;, 187 lbs.The NHL&rsquo;s Leading scorer for the past two seasons, Howe was also a unanimous choice for the first All-Star team with 90 points. Last season he led the League in scoring with 47 goals and 39 assists for 89 points. Playing on the first tram for the second straight year. Has also been selected on two second teams. In 1950-51 he set a new NHL seasonal scoring record with 86 points and duplicated the feat last season. His AllStar record is two goals 1 assist.2nd TEAM<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0141/964364-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="305" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Jim Henry)</figcaption></div>HENRY, Samuel James(Sugar Jim) (Boston Bruins)Born: Winnipeg, Man., Oct. 23, 1920.Goaltender, shoots left. 6&rsquo;, 175 lbs.Sugar Jim Henry made one of the greatest comebacks in the history of hockey last season when he took over the goaltending chores of the Boston Bruins and was so magnificient that they came close to upsetting the Montreal Canadiens in the playoffs. Henry was purchased from the Wings by Boston at the beginning of the 1951-52 season after suffering bail bums in an off season accident.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0233/964357-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="285" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Hy Buller)</figcaption></div>BULLER, Hyman(New York Rangers)Born: Montreal, Que., March 15. 1926.Defense, shoots left. 5&rsquo; 11, 185 lbs.It Took Hy Buller nearly ten seasons to prove to the NHL. that he is really big league material. He turned pro with the Detroit organization in 1943-44 and actually had two tries with the Wings before being trailed to the Hershey Bears in 1944 45. In 1947-48 he went to Cleveland where he became the best minor leaguer in hockey. The Rangers made a deal whereby they got Buller and Hergesheimer in trade<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0329/964350-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="293" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Jim Thomson)</figcaption></div>THOMSON, Janies Richard(Jim) (Toronto Maple Leafs)Born: Winnipeg, Man., Feb., 23, 1927.Defense, shoots left. 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo;, 175 lbs.For the second season in a row Jim Thomson has been chosen on the second NHL AllStar club. He polled 38 points and was fourth in the race between defensemen. One of the steadiest performers in the NHL, Jim has actually played in five All-Star games, three with the Leafs and two as a member of the All-Stars. This will be his sixth game. He hasn&rsquo;t netted a point in the five games he has participated.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0422/964343-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="300" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Sid Smith)</figcaption></div>SMITH, Sidney Janies(Toronto Maple Leafs)Born: Toronto, Ont., July 11. 1925.Left wing, shoots left. 5&rsquo; 10&frac12;&rdquo;, 183 lbs.Sid won the Lady Byng Trophy last season as the most gentlemanly player in the NHL. He finished fifth in the League scoring with 27 goals and 30 assists for 57 points and was top Toronto point maker. He polled 45 points from newsmen and broadcasters in making the second team. This is the second year in a row that he has been selected to the second NHL team. He turned pro with the Pittsburgh Hornets of the AHL in 1946-47.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0518/964336-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="289" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Milt Schmidt)</figcaption></div>SCHMIDT, Milton Conrad(Boston Bruins)Born: Kitchener, Ont., March 5, 1918.Center, shoots left. 6&rsquo;, 190 lbs.Milt Schmidt is the oldest player in point of service in the National Hockey League and one of its greatest. He is starting his 15th season with the Boston Bruins. A member of the great Krout Line&rsquo; Milt is still the backbone of the Boston club. He netted 40 points in the center ice race for AllStardom this year and was bested by Elmer Lach. Last season Milt was voted to the first team. Milt has been voted on two other NHL clubs.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0611/964329-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="287" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Maurice Richard)</figcaption></div>RICHARD, Joseph HenriMaurice (Rocket) (Montreal Canadiens)Born: Montreal, Que., Aug. 4, 1921.Right Wing, shoots left. 5&rsquo; 10&rdquo;, 175 lbs.Maurice Richard has been chosen to either the first or second NHL All-Star team for the past nine seasons. He has been picked to six first teams and three seconds. This season he attained 42 points to Gordie Howe&rsquo;s 90 and made the second squad. Rocket, who has never scored less than 20 goals in a season since 1943-44 holds the record for most goals in a season. &#9632;

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N.H.L. 6TH Annual All-Star Show at a Glance

<div class="byline">By DOUG HARVEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0141/964465-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div>as told to LEN BRAMSONMONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Few hockey players have had the opportunity to sound off in this manner. I grabbed it. I have always wanted to find out how easy it is to be a newspaperman. Now I know. It&rsquo;s easier than playing hockey, believe me.I may offend a few people during the next few minutes. If I do I hope they don&rsquo;t take it to heart. Should they, then I&rsquo;ll re-member to duck if I happen to meet them during the season. And before I go any further may I say that this is in no way an alibi for my manner of play in the NHL nor am I crying on anybody&rsquo;s shoulder. I worry about one thing during the winter&mdash;my hockey. Fans, newspapermen critics and had write-ups have never bothered me nor do I believe they ever willActually I&rsquo;m supposed to be telling you what its like to be a National League All-Star after six years of being labeled a bum or things to that effect.* * *<h2>Answers The Critics</h2>I&rsquo;m very proud to have been chosen as one of the six best players in the League this year. I deem it a great honor. But, I particularly relished my choice because in one way or another it answers a lot of critics in my home town in whose estimation I am not and never will be an All-Star.You&rsquo;d be surprised how many people jump on the old bandwaggon when you become an All-Star. I&rsquo;m surprised myself. You know, ever since I came into the National League from the Senior Montreal Royals six seasons ago I&rsquo;ve had the threat of trade or demotion hanging over my head. Luckily, as I said before that sort of stuff has never bothered me. It might other players but not me. The first half of my rookie season with the Canadiens was fine. Then when things started going bad I was in the doghouse. Ever since then all I ever read and hear is: what&rsquo;s the matter with Harvey? He has all the ability in the world, he could be an All-Star any time he wants if he&rsquo;d only smarten up. Perhaps they&rsquo;re right. I can&rsquo;t say. I made the All-Star team last season though, and I haven&rsquo;t changed my style of play since six years ago. I played the same game last season as the season before yet one I was a bum and the other I was an All-Star.On thing I&rsquo;ll say right here and now is that I made the All-Star team without any help or encouragement from local newspapermen. They didn&rsquo;t help me a bit. If I have anybody to thank it is the newspapermen in the other cities. It&rsquo;s tough to make it in Montreal.Admitted I was a little surprised that I made it. Not that I believe I shouldn&rsquo;t have. But when you read nothing but bad about yourself for such a long period you don&rsquo;t hold out much hope.To me I was lucky to make it. Luck plays a big part in making such a team. At least that&rsquo;s my belief. You have to be lucky to go through the season without getting hurt. You have to be lucky to be playing on a club where you are recognized as a better than average player. Luck means plenty.The first time I realized that I had a chance to make the team came after Marshall Dann, in Detroit had the six coaches pick an All-Star team for THE HOCKEY NEWS after the first 4 0 games of the season. I was chosen with Kelly and after that it seemed everybody else fell in line. There wasn&rsquo;t a change on the real team.I have been asked if the fans, who often get on my neck, bother me during a game. I can&rsquo;t say they do. They pay to get in and with that ticket they get the privilege to scream at whoever they like. If I happen to be the guy then that&rsquo;s my tough luck. But I do take offense to some newspapermen who watch you play eight good games and hardly say a word and then take you over the coals when you come up with a bad one.He Was BenchedTake last season against Boston in the playoffs. It was the third period of the last game and the coach benched me. I feel bad enough about being benched but the next morning I pick up the paper and some guy writes that if they had picked the All-Star team in the playoffs I never would have made it. Maybe I should tell that guy that had they picked the All-Star team from the playoffs then Gordie Howe wouldn&rsquo;t have made it either and he&rsquo;s as good a hockey player as I&rsquo;ve played against in the League.I admit that I pace myself a little during a game and that I watch the clock a little more than may be good for me but when I&rsquo;m in a game and we&rsquo;re a goal up I&rsquo;m not out to make any foolish mistakes.Often when we&rsquo;re up a goal in the last minutes I Can hear people yelling &lsquo;shoot it out. Get it out of there.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s easy to do. I can shoot that puck out of there anytime. I can Sit back there and shoot it out when I&rsquo;m 50 years old if they&rsquo;ll let me. But when that one goal means the difference I&rsquo;m not throwing any pucks away. I&rsquo;m trying to do what is best for the team that&rsquo;s why I take my time and make the play. Oh, I know I look like I&rsquo;m playing it dangerously when I play around my own net but that&rsquo;s the way I play the game. I know what I&rsquo;m doing back there, believe me. I guess it&rsquo;s hard on everybody&rsquo;s nerves. It was bad on the coaches&rsquo;.Last season he tagged an area about ten feet around our goal the $100 circle &lsquo;for me. If an opposing player ever came in and stole the puck and scored it was going to cost me one hundred bucks. Nobody ever did. I admit that I used to take chances. Sometimes I&rsquo;d cross over in front and look up at the coach. I did it on purpose. Then I go off the ice and sit on the bench and yell: cancel that fine coach I can&rsquo;t stand the pressure. The boys used to rib me plenty. But it never affected me.You know, sometimes you wonder when you take the puck and hear a crowd boo, you. You figure maybe they&rsquo;re right and you&rsquo;re wrong. I was tempted to change my style of play once because of that. I never did though. I was going to become the &ldquo;shoot is out&rsquo; guy and the &lsquo;great rusher&rsquo;. That&rsquo;s the best way to make an All-Star team and make the fans love you. Just keep rushing up the ice. They love it and they think you&rsquo;re playing a heck of a game. It looks good anyway. In Montreal they remember Kenny Reardon for that. He was their type. He was a terrific competitor and had a lot of spirit. They loved his style of rushing and he looked great. I just don&rsquo;t play that type of game. When we&rsquo;re up a goal my first thought is to protect the lead. Particularly if time is getting short. I&rsquo;m not rushing up the ice all night if I can protect a lead by staying back.I remember a couple of years ago in Toronto during the playoffs. We won the game when &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; scored in overtime. But before that I saw a chance to make a rush. Mosdell and I broke away and I had a good shot on the net. &lsquo;Moe&rsquo; crashed into the backboards and I turned and went back as hard as I could. I knew what was at stake. Anyway, luck was against us and seconds after the puck hit Kennedy&rsquo;s leg and went in. It tied the game up.I got on the train that night and a newspaperman gave me heck for what he called the &lsquo;worst play&rsquo; he&rsquo;d even seen in hockey. I told him that anytime I can get a two man break like that I&rsquo;m going to take it. He said I didn&rsquo;t get back fast enough. Yet I went back and fast and as fast as I could.A little while later he comes up and asks me why I never give him any sass because he has been riding me so hard all these years. I told him in simple English. You watch me play hockey but I never read your column. That was that.Getting back to being an AllStar. I think I played more hockey last season than any other. Dick used me on the power-plays and people get a chance to watch you on such plays. When it&rsquo;s four against five you shine. Then too I believe I gained a measure of success last season from the fact that for the first time I felt like I was the number one defenseman on the club. It game me a sense of responsibility. When we were in a tough spot I just used to hop on. I never waited for the word from Dick.Anyway it&rsquo;s another year coming up and a good one I hope. And at least this season I won&rsquo;t hava to greet newspapermen with that same old question: Who&rsquo;ve you got me traded to this season?&mdash;I hope.<h2>He Made It On Savvy &#9632;</h2>

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First Inkling Came After Six Coaches Chose

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Being chosen an All-Star has many fine features, says Doug Harvey.&ldquo;In my case I needed the money and I had some bonuses clauses in my contract. I&rsquo;m building a new house and it costs plenty.&rdquo;Then with a faint snicker on his face Harvey told us: &ldquo;It not only helps the bank account but brother it&rsquo;s a great talking point at contract time.&rdquo; &#9632;

It Helps at Contract Time, Too

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Doug Harvey was asked if he would ever go to the minors if he was sent.&ldquo;I had enough in one season at Buffalo,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We used to travel 35 miles to St. Catherines to practice. When we got there half the players hadn&rsquo;t had breakfast so they&rsquo;d go and eat while the other half practiced. Then we&rsquo;d switch. We&rsquo;d eat and they would practice. No sir I had enough of the minors.&rdquo; &#9632;

Enough of Minors

<div class="byline">BY Ken Mckenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01112/964614-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02104/964607-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="289" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Sid Abel)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0350/964600-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="278" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Gus Mortson)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0429/964593-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="290" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Ed Dorohoy)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0524/964586-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="302" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Cal Gardner)</figcaption></div>CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS held their own with the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings in their recent seven-game exhibition series. Each club won two games and three were draws. Play was rough throughout the series and feelings ran high on numerous occasions. &ldquo;You would have thought the Stanley Cup was at stake,&rdquo; observed Sid Abel&hellip;Abel, the new Chicago coach, was extremely pleased with his team&rsquo;s showing in the exhibition games and is only hoping they can fare as well against the Red Wings once the regular season starts. &ldquo;If I can finish in fourth place this season I&rsquo;ll be the happiest guy in the world,&rdquo; the likeable Chicago coach stated&hellip;Abel figures the Hawks are fairly well balanced this term with the left wing position being the weakest section of the club&hellip;Abel has only been on skates three times this year and doesn&rsquo;t plan to play very much. &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t take a regular turn but may play on the point on power plays. I&rsquo;m hoping the boys will go well enough that I won&rsquo;t have to get out there,&rdquo; he explained&hellip;Pete Conacher, playing on a line with Gus Bodnar and Freddie Glover, has been the outstanding Chicago forward in exhibition games. Young Conacher resembles all the Conachers, his famous dad Charlie and uncles Roy and Lionel in action. He probably plays more like Roy than any of them although he hasn&rsquo;t the shot that Roy possessed&hellip;Gus Mortson has also sparkled for the Hawks in games to date and he&rsquo;s looked upon as the player to lead them to the playoffs this season&hellip;Cal Gardner has been a disappointment to date and Ray Hannigan isn&rsquo;t expetced to make the team&hellip;Tommy Ivan won&rsquo;t decide on his forward units until the season&rsquo;s been on for a month&hellip;Reg Sinclair has been used at center between Lindsay and Howe but hasn&rsquo;t measured up too well thus far&hellip;Ivan has also tried Guyle Fielder in this pot.AFTER HE came out of the ether following his 10-stitch cut in the back of his leg, the first thing Gordie Howe drawled was: &ldquo;Gee, those guys are playing tricks on me already.&rdquo;&hellip;Howe was sent back to Detroit from Kirkland Lage, Ont. where he Incurred his nasty cut and is expected to be completely recovered when the season starts&hellip;Ted Lindsay has taken eight stitches in his nose so far and the reason hasn&rsquo;t even started. When someone remarked it was tough luck, Lindsay laughed: &ldquo;Oh, I never care about that. Some guys worry about their looks but I&rsquo;ve given up on that a long time ago.&rdquo;&hellip;Abel has talked Jim Peters out of his retirement plans and &ldquo;Shaky&rdquo; will be used in a utility role with the Hawks this season&hellip;Pete Babando of the Hawks spent four weeks in Italy this summer&hellip;Johnny Gottselig, former star forward and now an executive, Is starting his 2 5th consecutive season with Chicago&hellip;Johnny was mistaken for Doug Bentley and for Al Dewsbury within the space of two hours by not so observant Pembroke, Ont. fans&hellip;Frank Nighbor, original winner of the Lady Bying Trophy and a member of Hockey&rsquo;s Hall of Fame, was a frequent visitor at the Chicago training camp in Pembroke. Nighbor runs prosperous insurance business in Pembroke these days&hellip;He hasn&rsquo;t seen a National Hockey League game tor 14 years&hellip;Chicago will televise the third period of all home games this season. Joe Wilson will be the televiser&hellip;Fred Cusick will air the Boston Bruins&rsquo; games this season. Johnny Crawford will assist Cusick with the commentary&hellip;The naming of Eddie Dorohoy as coach of Victoria Cougars came as a surprise to many as the wisecracking Eddie is only 23 years old&hellip;Dorohoy was telling his forwards in practice the other day that if they wanted to make the NHL they should play on a line with him. Andy Hebenton, who has been with the Cougars for a couple of seasons, heard this and yelled: &ldquo;Hey, Eddie, when are you going to give me a chance?&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;Take your time,&rdquo; Dorohoy yelled right back, &ldquo;Bill Cook didn&rsquo;t make the Rangers until he was 29.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0619/964579-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="291" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Bill Gadsby)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0716/964572-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="276" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Ted Lindsay)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0815/964565-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="295" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Dick Moore)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0915/964558-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="293" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Jim Thomson)</figcaption></div>BILL GADSBY threw a scare into everyone at the Chicago training camp. Immediately following his arrival in camp he was rushed to a hospital in Ottawa with all the symptoms of polio. In fact the doctors were just waiting for paralysis to set in when the rugged Black Hawk defenseman rallied around and made an almost miraculous recovery. He missed the majority of the Hawk training period&hellip;Pete Conacher will wear Chicago sweater No. 9. This is the same number his Uncle Roy wore with the Hawks and the same number his Dad wore with Toronto&hellip;Boston Bruins will open the 19 52-53 season at home for the first time since the Bruins joined the NHL in 1924&hellip;Dr. Thomas A. Kelley will start his 24th season as club doctor for the Bruins&hellip;Dickie Moore is still having trouble with his knees and is a question mark in the Canadiens&rsquo; camp&hellip;Only four members from Toronto&rsquo;s youthful Stanley Cup winners of 1947 are still with the Leafs. The four are Ted Kennedy, Howie Meeker, Harry Watson and Jimmy Thomson&hellip;New York Rangers start the season with the best defense corps in the entire League. Where can you find three better defensemen on one team than Al Stanley, Leo Reise and Hy Buller?&hellip;Sid Abel figures Gerry Couture should have a good season with Chicago. The gangly right winger has looked good in exhibition games for the Black Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1013/964551-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="1826" height="803"></div>Leading scorers and penalty men in past five All-Star games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1110/964544-1-eng-US/f0004-112.jpg" title="f0004-11" width="597" height="1220"></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

GOALSAWCHUK 90HENRY 23DEFENCEKELLY 90HAkVEY 71BULLER 47THOMSON 38CENTERLACH 72SCHMIDT 40RIGHT WINGHOWE 90RICHARD 42LEFT WINGLINDSAY 80SMITH 45 &#9632;

Following is a tabulation of the number of points for the players who made the first and second All-Star teams.

ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;Defenseman Frank Mathers has been put on the suspended list by the Toronto Maple Leafs.The Leafs, a little cautious since Edgar Laprade was put on waivers and picked up by the Chicago Black Hawks decided that rather than do the same with Mathers they would just put him on the banned list.Mathers, who played for the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American League says he&rsquo;s retiring from the game. So far he hasn&rsquo;t asked to be put on the voluntary retired list as did Laprade. Mathers indicated he will be working at a strictly non-hockey job in Pittsburgh. At first it was though he was retiring to return to university to study dentistry.Leaf officials said they just had to suspend Mathers to protect themselves.&rsquo; &#9632;

Leafs Suspend Mathers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-12" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-123/964721-1-eng-US/f0004-122.jpg"></div><h2>&mdash;1947&mdash;</h2>Played at Toronto, October 13, a crowd of 14,169 contributed a gross gate of $25,865.40. Score was 4-3 for the All-Stars.NHL ALL-STARS:Goal. Durnan (Canadiens) and Brimsek (Boston); defence, Bouchard (Canadiens), Reardon (Canadiens), J. Stewart (Detroit) and Quackenbush (Detroit); Forwards, M. Bentley (Chicago), D. Bentley (Chicago), Mosienko (Chicago), Warwick (Rangers), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Lindsay (Detroit), Diunart (Boston), Schmidt (Boston), Bauer (Boston) and Leswick (Rangers). Coach, Dick Irvin (Canadiens).TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:Goal Broda; Defence, Goldham, Stanowski, Mortson, Thomson and Barilko; Forwards, Watson, N. Metz, Poile, Kennedy, Apps, Ezinicki, Lynn, Meeker, G. Stewart, Klukay and Mackell. Coach, Hap Day.Referee, King Clancy; Linesmen, Ed Mepham and Jim Primeau.<h2>&mdash;1948&mdash;</h2>Played at Chicago, November 3, a crowd of 12,794 contributed a gross gate of $23,018. Score was 3-1 for the All-Stars.NHL ALL-STARS:Goal, Brimsek (Boston) and Durnan (Canadiens); defence, J. Stewart (Detroit), Quackenbush (Detroit), Colville (Rangers), Reardon (Canadiens) and Bouchard (Canadiens); forwards, Lindsay (Dertoit), D. Bentley (Chicago), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Howe (Detroit), G. Stewart (Chicago), Dumart (Boston), Schmidt (Boston), Lach (Canadiens), Leswick (Rangers) and Poile (Chicago). Coach, Tommy Ivan (Detroit).TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:Goal, Broda; defence, Thomson, Mortson, Boesch, Barilko, Mathers and Juzda; forwards, Watson, M. Bentley, Klukay, Kennedy, Meeker, Ezinicki, Lynn, Costello, Mackell and Gardner. Coach, Hap Day.Referee, Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Sam Babcock and Mush March.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-13/964714-1-eng-US/f0004-132.jpg" title="f0004-13" width="1113" height="303"></div><h2>&mdash;1949&mdash;</h2>Played at Toronto, October 10, a crowd of 13,541 contributed a gross gate of $25,920.75. Score was 3-1 for the All-Stars.NHL ALL-STARS:Goal, Durnan (Canadiens) and Rayner (Rangers); defence, Stewart (Detroit), Goldham (Chicago), Egan (Rangers), Quackenbush (Boston), Harmon (Canadiens) and Reardon (Canadiens); forwards. O&rsquo;Connor Rangers), R. Conacher (Chicago), D. Bentley (Chicago), Mosienko (Chicago), Richard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Abel (Detroit), Howe (Detroit), Lindsay (Detroit), Leswick (Rangers) and Ronty (Boston). Coach. Tommy Ivan (Detroit).<h2>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS:</h2>Goal, Broda; defencee. Thomson, Boesch, Juzda and Barilko; forwards. Watson, M. Bentley, Klukay Meeker, Lynn, Mackell, Kennedy, Gardner, Timgren, Dawes and Smith. Coach Hop Day.Referee, Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Ed Mepham and Jim Primeau.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-14/964707-1-eng-US/f0004-142.jpg" title="f0004-14" width="1114" height="254"></div><h2>&mdash;1950&mdash;</h2>Played at Detroit, October 8, a crowd of 9,166 contributed a gross gate of $17,512.80. Score was 7-1 for the Detroit Red Wings.NHL ALL-STARS:Goal, Rayner (Rangers) and Broil a (Toronto); defence, Stewart Chicago), Mortson (Toronto), Thomson (Toronto), Harmon (Canadiens) Quackenbush (Boston) and Bouchard (Canadiens), Laprade (Rangers), Kennedy (Toronto), Leswick (Rangers), Ronty (Boston), Peirson (Boston) and Smith (Toronto). Coach, Lynn Patrick (Boston).DETROIT RED WINGS:Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Reise, Fogolin, Pronovost; forwards, Lindsay, Gee, Howe. Peters, Stewart, Abel, Prystai, Pavelich, McFadden, Carveth, Black. Coach, Tommy Ivan.Referee, George Gravel; linesmen, George Hayes and Doug Young.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-15/964700-1-eng-US/f0004-152.jpg" title="f0004-15" width="1112" height="353"></div><h2>&mdash;1951&mdash;</h2>Played at Toronto, October 9, a crowd of 11,455 contributed a gross gate of $25,259.75. First All-Stars team against second win first team being augmented by players from the four American clubs and the second by players from the two Canadian clubs. Score was 2-2 tie. FIRST TEAM:Goal. Sawchuk (Detroit) and Lumley (Chicago); defence. Kelly (Detroit). Quackenbush (Boston), Eddolls (New York), Fogolin (Chicago), Dewsbury (Chicago); forwards, Schmidt (Boston), Howe (Detroit), Raleigh (Nev York), Sandford (Boston), D. Bentley (Chicago), Bodnar (Chicago). Peirson (Boston), Sinclair (New York). Stewart (New York). SECOND TEAM:Goal, Rayner (New York) and McNeil (Montreal); defence, Thomson. (Toronto), Reise (Detroit), Bouchard (Montreal). Harvey (Montreal), Morson (Toronto); forwards, Kennedy (Toronto), Richard (Montreal), Smith (Toronto), M. Bentley (Toronto). Sloan (Toronto), Watson (Toronto), Mosdell (Montreal), Curry (Montreal), Meger (Montreal).Referee, Bill Chadwick; linesmen, Sam Badcock, Bill Morrison.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-16/964693-1-eng-US/f0004-162.jpg" title="f0004-16" width="1111" height="252"></div> &#9632;

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The Past Five Games

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0162/964766-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE BEST OF ALL: That&rsquo;s what General Manager Jack Adams of the Detroit Red Wings calls his 1951-52 club pictured above. Front row, left to right: Terry Sawchuk, Red Kelly, Jack Adams (manager), Sid Abel (captain). Tommy Ivan (coach), Leo Reise, Ted Kelly, Harry McQueston. Back row, left to right: Lefty Wilson (ass. trainer), Marty Pavelich, Glen Skov, Tony Leswick, Vic Stasiuk, Alex Delvecchio, Benny Woit, Gord Howe, Marcel Pronovost, Enio Sclisizzi, Bob Goldham, Metro Prystai, Carl Mattson (trainer). Missing from picture is Larry Zeidel.</figcaption></div>SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.&mdash;The 1951-52 version of the Detroit Red Wings not only won the NHL championship and the Stanley Cup but they also became the greatest Detroit club in history in doing so. General Manager Jack Adams will tell you that if you ask him.&lsquo;The 1951-52 team was my greatest Detroit team without a doubt. For my second team I have to lump two straight teams, the 1941-42-43 team, because they were made up pretty well of the same guys. Then for my third, the 1935-36-37.&ldquo;We had more balance, more depth, all our lines were fast and strong and we had the greatest hockey player in the world in Gordie Howe, and the greatest goalie, Terry Sawchuk. And another very important thing, we were terrific on the road, something many fans appear to overlook. We got 51 points at home and no less than 49 on the road.&rdquo;&ldquo;We never lost a game we HAD TO WIN! This fact typfies the greatness of that 1951-52 team.&ldquo;Then there&rsquo;s another thing, we had a terrific team spirit. Actually, we could leave that team all alone and they could get out and play championship hockey. There was no jealousy on the club. No one resented the greatness of Howe, Sawchuk, Lindsay and the other stars. They pulled together as one family, and to my mind this adds to my argument that the 1951-52 team was the greatest I over had.&ldquo;Man we had the best defense we ever had. Look at who we had: Leo Reise, Bob Goldham (the most underrated player in the League), Red Kelly (the all-star ace), Marcel Pronovost, Benny Woit. And talking about defense, Terry Sawchuk was simply tremendous; they don&rsquo;t come any better than Terry. So you see in summing up greatness, we had all the elements: scoring-power, speed, team spirit, strong-defense, a great goalie, and we had all this strength light through the squad. When Howe, Lindsay and Abel went off, we threw in Marty Pavelich, Tony Leswick and Glenn Skov or Metro Prystai. Then when they went off, we could count on such guys as Alex Delvecchio, John Wilson, Vic Stasiuk and Larry Ziedel.&rdquo;Jack also advanced many other points to back up his naming the 1951-52 team as his greatest. He cited that the average age of the club was 24.3 years, the first line was the best offensive line, the second line was better that most first-lines on the other clubs, and that the third line was better than most second-lines on the other clubs.&ldquo;We got four of our players on the All-Star team: Kelly, Sawchuk, Howe and Lindsay. We dominated the All-Star team. And we thought Bob Goldham should have been on that team as well. Then take versatility; Prystai can play three positions and Leswick together with Howe and Skov can play two. You take our second line of Pavelich, Leswick and Skov alternating with Metro Prystai was our best line in the playoffs. This line not only checked the other scoring lines, but went on to score themselves. And Red Kelly, our defensemen, outscored most of the NHL forwards. It was a durable, colorful team that was so good all the way around we could afford to experiment with our lines and not lose strength anywhere. Even when Leo Reise was out for 14 games, our defense still carried on.&rdquo;The number two club that sticks in the mind of this man who has nearly always come up with a winner is the 1942-43 unit that Won the Stanley Cup.&ldquo;Whatta different club that was! Boy they were tough! That team was a throwback to the old Gashouse Gang, for sure. You know I never really appreciated that club until after I had to start rebuilding. That was my toughest club ever. They did not play orthodox hockey, but they played championship hockey. (The 1942-43 club won the Stanley Cup). * * *<h2>Grosso Was Hockey&rsquo;s Greatest Forechecker</h2>&ldquo;The big key to that team was the forwards would funnel the opposition right into the brickwall defense, and that&rsquo;s all there was to it. Jimmy Orlando, Jack Stewart and Cully Simon did the rest&hellip;tear them apart. If that slipped, somehow, Goalie Johnny Mowers took care of things.&ldquo;Well, first, Jet me tell you about Don Grosso.It was his amazing forechecking that changed the rules. He made them put in that red-line to open up hockey. Heck, he forechecked those guys dizzy. I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;ll ever see such a forechecker again in hockey. But apart from this feat, Don worked at centre with Sid Abel on left wing, and Eddie Wares on right. And these boys scored goals, just look at the record. So here we have a team as tough as they come, still good checkers and scorers.&ldquo;And what about Syd Howe,&rdquo; Jack continued. &ldquo;Man he was one of the greatest scorers we ever had and the most versatile. He could play any position. Then we had such fellows as Mud Bruneteau, Carl Liscombe and Joe Carveth. That team of 1941-42-43 was as different to the 1951-52 team as day and night, yet they had that same greatness only in a different way. It&rsquo;s the kind of a team you never forget. Man what a tough club that was! Just think Orlando and Stewart together on the same defense!&rdquo;As though he was still feeling the impact of that &lsquo;Gashouse Team&rsquo; of 1941-42-43, Jack paused for a while, thinking back to that colorful team he ranked Number Two. I think Jack could write a book about that team&hellip;a mighty interesting book. Then we got down to the task of the Number Three Team&mdash;the 1935-36-37 units that captured the Stanley Cup both years. This was the team with the greatest power play. The actors: Marty Barry, Larry Aurie and Herbie Lewis, supported by Ebbie Goodfellow and Johnny Sorrel.&ldquo;As a matter of fact, do you know that this line of Barry, Aurie and Lewis is a standard in Detroit because all succeeding lines are compared to this &ldquo;yardstick line&rdquo; in measuring greatness. And all five men on this power-play represent the greatest power-play combination in my 26 years of hockey,&ldquo;Barry, Aurie and Lewis were different types&hellip;Barry the big guy with the power; Aurie the big little man (140 pounds) who could check with the best of them; Lewis, the little, Speedy skater with all the color and that tremendous burst of speed. This line caught the imagination of the fans and the hockey world in general and when they worked with Goodfellow and Sorrel were the best in the business at the time. Even Lester Patrick called them the greatest of the day.&rdquo;<h2>Three Of Motor City&rsquo;s Best</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0252/964759-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1756" height="1023"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE ABOVE TEAM of 1942-43 Red Wings gets high rating in Jack Adams&rsquo; book. Back row, left to right: Honey Walker (trainer), Jimmy Orlando. Jack Stewart, Sid Abel, Alex Matter, Ebbie Goodfellow (playing-coach), Harry Watson, Joe Carveth, Joe Turner (sub goaltender). Middle row: Mud Bruneteau, Eddie Wares, Ralph Almas (sub goaltender), Jack Adams (manager), Johnny Mowers, Cully Simon. Front row, left to right: Dob Grosso, Carl Liscombe, Connie Brown, Johnny HoIota, Syd Howe. Missing from picture are Les Douglas Hal Jackson and Joe Fisher.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0340/964752-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1760" height="822"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE RED WINGS of 1936 were one of the smoothest teams of all time, according to General Manager Jack Adams. Front row, left to right: Herbie Lewis, Syd Howe, Larry Aurie, Jack Adams (manager). Norm Smith, Les Tooke, Jim Norris Jr. (executive), Wally Kilrea. Back row, left to right: Honey Walker (trainer), Doug Young, Bucko McDonald, Pete Kelly, Marty Barry. Gordon Pettinger, Ebbie Goodfellow, Johnny Sorrell, Scotty Bowman, Wilf Star, Carl Mattson (ass. trainer). Missing from picture is Mud Bruneteau.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The 1942-43 Team Gets Second Rating as ‘Gashouse Gang’ Type

<h2>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</h2>Founded October 1. 1947HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY309 Empire Life Building,1434 Ste. Catherine Street West.Montreal 25. Que.Average Weekly Circulation 35,000Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada&mdash;$4,00 in U.SA.Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. Entered as second class mail at the Tost Office in OjrdensburjF, N.Y. Return all U.S. undeliverabie copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Printed in Canada.MONTREAL, OCTOBER 4. 1952 Vol. 6 No. 1<h2>The First Actual Beef in Six</h2>Although not generally known, the sixth National Hockey League All-Star game brought forth its first beef. It came from the diffusive Conn Smyth in Toronto and was directed at the excursive Dick Irvin in Montreal.Smythe strongly objects to what he calls Irvin&rsquo;s deliberate passing up of Teeder Kennedy on the second All-Star team. Irvin, as coach of the second team has the right to augment the club, as chosen by the newspapermen and broadcasters around the league with players from the Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. That Irvin bypassed Kennedy is inexcusable in Toronto, plausible in Montreal With Sugar Jim Henry of the Boston Bruins on the injured list and the chance that he might not be able to play in the game, Irvin must find another goaler. Smythe&rsquo; strongly suggested that he take Lumley who is open for bids to play in the game.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01135/964818-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="299" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Dick Irvin)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0248/964811-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="284" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Harry Lumley)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0322/964804-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="289" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Ted Kennedy)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-049/964797-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="299" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Conn Smythe)</figcaption></div>It seems that the jocose Mr. Irvin will take little notice of his former boss. You can&rsquo;t blame him for that. He insists that he will pick the players he wants without being pushed into it and he told Mr. Smythe in just that many words.Irvin, it seems chose his own Billy Reay as center over Kennedy. It marked the first time that the Toronto star has not performed in the Annual affair.&ldquo;I chose Reay because I am looking for checkers on the club,&rdquo; says Irvin, &ldquo;and Kennedy can&rsquo;t check.&ldquo;Anyway, if I remember rightly Billy Reay played in the Stanley Cup finals last season.&rdquo;You have to go along with Irvin. He was asked to coach the second team and he was also asked to choose the players he wants on the club. If he feels that he wants one player over another then, whether he be right or wrong that&rsquo;s the way it must be.He also insists that Harry Lumley is not eligible to play on his second team just because he now performs in Toronto livery. He may be forced to play him if Henry is not ready but he doesn&rsquo;t believe it is quite by the books.&ldquo;The All-Star teams are chosen on last season&rsquo;s play. Last season Lumley was with the Chicago Black Hawks. This season has nothing to do with the actual choice of the club. Lumley, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned should be chosen for the first club.&rdquo;But Irvin may be forced to use Lumley whether he wants to or not. President Campbell insists that Lum is eligible.It seems to us that the All-Star team is labeled the 1951-52 squad. Lumley was with the Hawks when it was chosen and because of that he should be eligible for the first team only.<h2>Hawks Carrying Many Hopes</h2>We can&rsquo;t remember when a club has gone into a National League season with so many hopes riding on it. The Chicago Black Hawks of this season, with virtually a new deal all along the line is the club. You won&rsquo;t be able to measure Sid Abel&rsquo;s success with the Hawks until after Christmas for that, it seems is when they collapse each year. If the likeable Mr. Abel can get his squad going after the New Year than he might pull an upset. Certainly in pre-season exhibition games the Chicago club has looked good enough to be able to keep up with the other five teams.The new look in the Chicago front office seems to be more than just a new look. They showed that they are going to let nothing get by. They proved that when they snapped up the waivers on Edgar Laprade last week. Generally the others clubs by-pass waivers on a player who requests to be put on the voluntary retired list. But there is nothing in the NHL constitution that says they must let him go and the Hawks have taken full advantage of their position.The Hawks would have been foolish to let Laprade go Into retirement without at least trying to lure him back. &#9632;

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The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-055/964849-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>MORE ON QUAKERS</h2>Dear Sir:I would like to see a few more write-ups on our league the former P.C.H.L. I was sort of peeved to see that our Saskatoon Quakers didn&rsquo;t get more publicity in your paper then they did. I can tell you they would give any team in the American league a darn good run for their money.Well another year is coming and maybe we. will get a little better publicity because last year our club came out on top. It is quite a feat after only our first year in pro hockey.Well I hope you keep up your good work as you have in the last two years.Saskatoon, Sask. Johnnie Halder* * *<h2>NOT ENOUGH ONTARIO</h2>Dear Sir,As the new hockey season draws close may I give you a bit of advice. Please cover some of the smaller leagues a bit better. We hardly saw a word in your paper about the Ontario Junior League and nothing about the senior. Don&rsquo;t you like the leagues, we like your paper.You covered the Quebec junior and senior quite thoroughly. Now lets see you do a real job.Alex Williams Guelph, Ont.<h2>POOR MR. ROLLINS</h2>Dear Sir,In the September issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS All Rollins was a little miffed by the way he heard he had been traded to the Chicago Black Hawks by the Toronto Maple Leafs.Maybe we&rsquo;ll use carrier pigeon next time. Anyway it was a neat trick pulled by Mr. Conn Smythe. Now the Leafs will really be able to go to town.Robert Phillips Toronto, Ont.* * *<h2>NEGLECTING THE SMALL GUYS</h2>Dear Sir,Just to let you know that I read your paper all the time. It sure has Improved but seem to neglect a lot of the smaller leagues. For instance you covered the Maritimes pretty well last season and sometimes the Pacific Coast League but you completely forgot the Eastern Amateur League and the Ontario senior and junior.We here read your paper quite thoroughly but we deserve a little consideration, I think.How about a little better coverage this year.Roger Gaudet Ottawa, Ont.* * *<h2>IRVIN TOSSES HIS WEIGHT</h2>Dear Sir,It seems to me that Dick Irvin is using his position to run his feud with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He deliberately overlooked Ted Kennedy in his All-Star selections. Teeder, one of the greatest players of all-time certainly doesn&rsquo;t deserve that kind of treatment.In the future I believe some other person should choose the players to argument both clubs. I was always under the impression that it was supposed to be the two best possible clubs. It doesn&rsquo;t seem that way when Irvin picks Reay over Kennedy.Ivan Bothwick. Toronto, Ont.<h2>THE LAPRADE CASE</h2>Dear Sir,As a fan of the New York Rangers I must say I&rsquo;m surprised that Edgar Laprade has been handed over to the Rangers for the pny price of $7,500. I don&rsquo;t know who pulled the boner but if Laprade plays for the Hawks this season against the Rangers then somebody is going to get an awful riding.One can&rsquo;t blame President Campbell for his move. After all he is just carrying the normal procedure that has been done in the National League for the past few years. I cannot understand why he didn&rsquo;t ask Frank Boucher however if he would like to put a recall on the waivers as I have been told that can be done. Can you answer me that question?William Goseke New York, N.Y.(It was not up to President Campbell to ask Boucher if he wanted a recall put on the waiver.)* * *<h2>BLUES LOSE STRENGTH</h2>Dear Sir,May I be the first to predict that the New York Rangers will finish at the bottom of the League this season and the Red Wings on top. The Rangers cannot afford to lose such scoring punch as Sinclair, Laprade and Raleigh and. expect to come out in the playoffs. If they do it will be a mircale.Incidentally I figure the Bruins for second, Canadiens for third. Hawks for fourth and the Leafs for fifth.If anybody would care to argue the point just drop a note to the fan forum. I&rsquo;ll take on all comers. I&rsquo;m a loyal Detroit fan.Richard Jacobs Windsor, Ont. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-064/964880-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="591" height="270"></div>OCTOBER 8 TO OCTOBER 148&mdash;JONES, Wimpy, Seattle, forward, 1926: O&rsquo;GRADY, Francis, Edmonton, forward, 192 9: COTNOIR, Gerry, Victoria, goaler, 1925.9&mdash;KULLMAN, Arnie, Hershey, forward, 1927: ROLLINS, Al, Chicago, goaler, 1926.10&mdash;LAPRADE, Edgar, Chicago, forward, 1919.11&mdash;WARWICK, Grant, Syracuse, forward, 1921.13&mdash;REID, Gerry, Indianapolis, forward, 1928. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to YOU

Published Weekly, except monthly Moy through September. HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY. 309 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste-Catherine St. West, Montreal, Que. Canada. Entered as second class Matter December 6. 1951, at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N. Y., under the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription price $3.00 in Canada, $4.00 in U.S.A. &#9632;

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-07/964935-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg"></div>and every true-blue hockey fan will want to be a regular reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS&mdash;&ldquo;Official Organ of All Hockey&rdquo;. The Hockey News carries stories on all the teams and the star players written by the foremost hockey writers in Canada and the United States. Besides ou standing features and stories The Hockey News runs more action pctures and cartoons than any other publication. Interesting Crossword puzzles also appear in each issue.THE HOCKEY NEWS is published for 30 consecutive issues during the season and 5 monthly summer issues. It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you st.ll get your 35 issues.A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issue.Canadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal., Bank or Telegraph Money Order.U. S. A. Remittances&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal Nofe Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque.Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order &#9632;

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It’s Here YES HOCKEY FANS THE 1952-53 SEASON IS HERE AT LAST

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0186/964987-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0265/964980-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="1501" height="1056"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0342/964973-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="1456" height="1247"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0440/964966-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="1446" height="1232"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE CITY OF DETROIT, noted for its automobiles. Red Wings and Briggs Stadium is known as the &ldquo;City of Champions.&rdquo; Above an a few of the more important sites In the Motor City. Top left, the City Hall. Top right shows three phases of automobile development, steam, electric and gas. The City of Detroit is the headquarters of the automotive industry. Center picture shows the Detroit Olympia, home of the champion Detroit Red Wings and host arena for the NHL&rsquo;s sixth annual All-Star game. Bottom picture shows the downtown section of the City with the Penobscott Building, the tallest of the tall buildings.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Motor City Deeply Steeped In Ice Tradition

INTERNATIONAL: Many casual historians regard the growth of professional hockey as a golden ice sheet which slid south from Canada into the United States since the growth of the NHL in the last quarter-century.The impression is mistaken. Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Penninsula had outstanding hockey teams 50 years ago, and the sport flourished on open-ice rinks within the Detroit city limits long before the NHL was organized.Unlike many other U.S. cities where the sport flourishes, Detroit is fairly well steeped in hockey tradition. Its fans have intelligent knowledge of the sport and its background, a situation which often amazes their Canadian neighbors.* * *MR. HOCKEY: Yet there is one man who can be singled out for boosting hockey to the major-league status which it now fills in the Detroit sports parade. He is John James Adams, a far-sighted promoter who combined his love of the game with a smart business insight and built up the Wings with vision and wisdom.If Adams never had wandered onto the scene here, hockey still would be a popular sport and Detroit would have an NHL team.But there is no doubt that the success would be much smaller. Adams has fitted himself into the community as one of its leading sports figures, and has encouraged many of his players to likewise become permanently adopted Detroiters.Adams, in turn, points to James Norris, the club&rsquo;s owner since 1933, as the real reason for the Wings&rsquo; success. Norris is a keen fan and follower of the team from his homes in Chicago and Florida, but his role has been chiefly a financial one.The Norris grain fortune brought Detroit the opportunity for a team. But it&rsquo;s the Adams rink wisdom which made the team champions.* * *OLYMPIA: The first year that Detroit had an NHL entry (1926-27) they were known as the Cougars and all games were played across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont.The following year the name was changed to Falcons, but the big change was occupying a brand-new sports palace, the Olympia Stadium which is located about three miles northwest of the loop area on Grand River Ave.The Olympia opened Oct. 2 6, 1927 with a boxing program, and hockey moved in shortly after. It has been the rink home ever since. Norris picked up the Olympia shortly after he obtained the hockey franchise in 1933, and has owned both ever since. One of his first moves was to approve Red Wings as the team&rsquo;s new name.The Olympia is listed as having a seating capacity for hockey of about 12,600. Attendance figures, however, have been above that for a long time. In 1930 a record of 14,600 was set, and it stood for 15 years.A record was set at 15.336 at a Detroit-Toronto game in 1948, and that held until last Jan. 13. With the Maple Leafs again as visitors, a total of 15, 668 jammed into the building for the present mark.Bigger crowds have been on hand for other events, however. There was 18,916 in the building for a 1930 Walker-Risco fight, and 18,930 for a Robinson-Lamotta go in 1943.But the all-time peak is considered the estimated 19,500 who bulged the walls to hear VicePresident Henry Wallace make a campaign speech there in 19 44.ICE CHIPS: Detroit has its own Hall of Hockey Fame, and 15 men have been elected to membership by the Detroit Hoc-key Writers&rsquo; Association. Its members are:Jack Adams, Sid Abel, Mud Bruneteau, Ebbie Goodfellow, Don Grosso, George Hay, Syd Howe, Herbie Lewis, Johnny Mowers, Reg Noble, Jack Stewart, Larry Aurie, Marty Barry, Carson Cooper and Doug Young.Except for a brief spell when Goodfellow was a playing-coach, Adams combined the duties of general manager and coach until Tommy Ivan took over in 1947 as bench pilot. Under his guidance for five years the Wings placed second once and then won tour straight NHL crowns.One of Adams&rsquo; most successful moves has been the development of a productive farm system. Detroit currently has a pro farm at Edmonton in the Pacific Coast League (Bud Poile is coach), plus working agreements with the St. Louis Flyers (Jake Forbes) and Milwaukee Sea Gulls (Eddie Bruneteau). Nearby is one of its top junior farms, the Windsor Spitfires (Jimmy Skinner).Another man in the organization well known in hockey circles is Fred A. Huber, Jr. In addition to serving as the Wings&rsquo; publicist, Huber is a regular on television and radio hockey shows, is managing director of the International League and vice-president of the Amateur American Hockey Association. &#9632;

Hockey Was Played In Upper Michigan At Turn Of Century

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01119/965073-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="297" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Fleming Mackell)</figcaption></div>HERSHEY. Pa.&mdash;Lynn Patrick, who as coach of the Boston Bruins has probably tried more players at different positions than any contemporary, is experimenting again.This time he is exploring the centering possibilities of Fleming Mackell, a 23-year-old with a crewcut who has played in seven Stanley Cup series.Mackell, a professional since 1947, has done most of his playing for pay at right wing, a position which he filled for the Bruins for the last three months of last season.But when the Bruins opened their training period at Hershey a couple of weeks ago, one of the first things Patrick did was shift Mackell one-third of the way across the ice, to center.He has been using him there since, and if the experiment stands up in exhibition games, the stocky native of Montreal may start the season as a regular pivotman, with Capt. Milt Schmidt and Dave Creighton.&ldquo;He looks like a natural at the position,&rdquo; observed Patrick, who once made Defenseman Max Quackenbush a center right in the middle of a Stanley Cup game. &ldquo;He used to be a center when he was playing with St. Michael&rsquo;s juniors in Toronto, and I&rsquo;m going to give him a thorough try at the job.&rdquo;&bull; * *<h2>Switches Toppazzini to Defense</h2>The Bruins&rsquo; coach expressed delight at Mackell&rsquo;s stickhandling ability shortly after he came to the team in a trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs last January. He hinted last spring that he might move him this fall, so the follow-up to the hint was not a real surprise.Nor was his experimenting with husky Jerry Toppazzini as a defenseman during the early workouts at Hershey, for although Toppazzini has been mainly a forward in the last three years, Patrick indicated last spring that he might make him a defenseman.For the first part of the training program, in which 50 players, amateurs and professionals participated, Patrick refrained from using line combinations, preferring to intermingle the youngsters and National Leaguers.He wasted no time, however, in pairing off his defensemen, for he faced the prospect of opening the season with only two of extensive experience in front of Goalie Sugar Jim HenryThe veterans were Bill Quack-enbush and Hal Laycoe, and Patrick promptly paired Quacken-bush with Warren Godfrey, 194-pound product of the Tacoma Rockets, and Laycoe with Armstrong, 185-pound alumnus of the Hershey Bears.Godfrey and Armstrong are the heirs-apparent to the jobs held a year ago by Murray Henderson, now coaching Hershey, and Gus Kyle, now playing for Calgary.Behind them he employed another pair of Toppazzini, also up from Hershey, and Frank Martin, 19-year-old former St. Catharines&rsquo; TeePee.&ldquo;Armstrong and Godfrey have looked impressive.&rdquo; he observed cautiously, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m not going overboard on anything that happens before the season starts.&rdquo;Elsewhere in his lineup Patrick was looking for stability and production from his veterans, on whose ability the Bruins will naturally rise or fall this season. He hasn&rsquo;t used many superlatives on his younger players, except to single out five amateurs for special comment, preferring to let the performances of the others speak for themselves.The five he singled out were Forwards Gordon &ldquo;Junior&rdquo; Wilson of Port Arthur, Jack White of Stratford, Ed Panagabko of Hum-bolt and Doug Mohns of Barrie, and Martin.The only Bruin unable to pitch into practice at full speed was Schmidt, who underwent minor foot surgery before reporting at Hershey and wasn&rsquo;t able to skate with his accustomed vigor for the first week.Patrick was one goal-tender short for the intra-squad work when Lome Howes informed the Bruins that he was going to college. Howes, who backstopped Barrie to the Memorial Cup two years ago, announced that he was entering University of Michigan, one of this country&rsquo;s leading hockey colleges. &#9632;

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Lynn Turns To Mackell In Experiment For 3rd Stringer Down Middle

HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Goaler Jim Henry of the Boston Bruins joined the long list of NHL stars who have been sidelined by injury last week when he sprained his ankle in an intra-squad practice.The loss of Henry forced Coach Lynn Patrick to use Jack Slemon of the Tacoma Rockets of the Western Hockey League in Henry&rsquo;s place in exhibition games.It&rsquo;s doubtful that Henry will be able to play in the annual AllStar game in Detroit on October 5. He was chosen to the second team by writers and broadcasters. &#9632;

Sugar Jim Sprains Ankle in Intra-Squad Practice

<div class="byline">Jack Piner.</div>SAULT STE MARIE, Mich.&mdash;The fall training camp at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, where Detroit Red Wings come every year, resembled a real market this fall. Manager Jack Adams and Coach Tommy Ivan were kept busy talking to eager managers and coaches from scores of teams searching for talent. Whiz McNaughton, fiery president of the Soo Michigan Indians Hockey Club, entered in the Northern Ontario Hockey Association this season, was on the Detroit doorstep every day looking for some help; then Don Grosso, former Detroit Great, and now coach of the Soo Ontario Greyhounds, pressed for a couple of good senior players for his team. On top of this Ken McKenzie, owner of the New Westminster team in the Western Senior League, and Jack Lockington of the Brantford Seniors in the OHA Visited the camp for players. Adams tried his best to satisfy all &ldquo;customers&rdquo; are remarked: &ldquo;Man, business is really good!&rdquo; &#9632;

Talent Hunters Flood Detroit Camp

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The 1952-53 season could turn out to be one of violent upheavals in the ranks of the National Hockey League. By that we mean, anything could happen. Even if you are one to follow form charts or the type that prefers to go along on a previous year&rsquo;s record, it&rsquo;s doubtful that you&rsquo;ll be any further along the road to an answer to that old question: How do you pick &lsquo;em this year? Than the next guy. It&rsquo;s that confusing.There are question marks on each club. In short, the guy who pays the freight can&rsquo;t figure it out this season.If we were asked to pick them, and we have been, we&rsquo;d rip each team apart before we&rsquo;d commit ourselves. Then we&rsquo;d call it this way.FIRST: You have to go along with the champion Detroit Red Wings because they have the best bench strength in the League. They won&rsquo;t walk off with the honors as easily as they did last season but even without Reise and Abel they look to have a powerful enough club to top the League by three games. The Wings still have four of best young players in the League in Howe, Sawchuk, Kelly and Lindsay. True they will not be the same club defensively and not quite as strong up front without Abel, but they still have enough 20 goal scorers to keep them in front even if Sawchuk should happen to have a mediocre year. Much depends on Woit,. Pronovost, Skov, Delvecchio and whether the Wings can find a suitable replacement for the center of the &lsquo;Production Line.&rsquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0276/965187-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="295" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Tommy Ivan)</figcaption></div>SECOND: The Montreal Canadiens have been in the finals two years in a row now and have tasted defeat on both occasions. Although a bit weak down the middle they are still a hungry club. Defensively they are as strong as any in the League. With Richard and Moore in good shape and if Elmer Lach can hold up they should be able to grab the second spot but they&rsquo;ll have to go all out to do it. If Irvin should happen to come up with a first string centerman he could make it hot for the Wings. Of course he must also contend with the &lsquo;sophomore jinx&rsquo; whether he wants to or not. Meger, Moore, St. Laurent, Geoffrion and Gamble are all starting their second seasons. Much depends on whether Bouchard holds up and whether Meger, Moore, Geoffrion and Gamble can start off this season where they left off last. Their goaling is good, the defense is in good shape as are both wings. It could be disastrous if their centers collapse.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0357/965180-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="298" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Dick Irvin)</figcaption></div>THIRD: The question of whether Toronto Maple Leafs benefitted by that recent trade that brought them Harry Lumley cannot be answered until a little later on in the season. Still the Leafs gave away experience to get Lumley and with the loss of Juzda, their once tough defence corps is down to two experienced players&mdash;Flaman and Thomson. Hugh Bolton, although he improved last season still hasn&rsquo;t attained the hights expected of him. The Leafs are counting on Leo Boivin and Tim Horton to fill in for Mortson and Juzda. If they don&rsquo;t then the Blue and White could have a very tough time holding their own in the race for third place. Up front the Leafs are redecorating in a big way. They have brought back Bill Ezinicki to give them that needed punch they lacked last season. Harry Lumley will improve their goaling situation, but he can&rsquo;t improve too much on Al Rollins goals against record last season. It was second best in the League. Still the Leaf defence will be able to take chances with Lum In their nets. He will give them confidence. They still have one of the best trios in the NHL in Kennedy, Smith and Sloan. If Teeder can regain his old form then it might be smoother sailing for the one time perrenial champs. Bentley is back and so is Harry Watson one of the League most underrated players. If Meeker, Ezinicki and Ken-nedy come through then the Leafs could make it tough all around. If their new defense doesn&rsquo;t hold up then they may fall way down.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0434/965173-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="276" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Joe Primeau)</figcaption></div>FOURTH: The Boston Bruins are weak on defense. If Lynn Patrick can come up with one or two good rearguards then he could rip the ladder out from under the whole loop. Up front Patrick has the best young forwards in the League. He too must contend with the old second year jinx but players like Chevrefils and Labine may be good enough to skip such things.There is no use denying that the Hub club is weak on defence. Henderson, Kryzanowski and Kyle are gone. Kryzanowski didn&rsquo;t play the defense position too often and Kyle wasn&rsquo;t the best that ever dressed in the Bruins&rsquo; uniform but they did have the experience. Now. Patrick has two such defencemen left. He has Quackenbush and Laycoe and if one should happen to have a bad year and Warren Godfrey, Frank Martin and Bob Armstrong don&rsquo;t pan out then it could be a blue season for the Bruins. But if Jim Henry holds up and Lynn applies his magic as he has in other years, then he could be the guy to upset this applecart. Much depends on the new defensemen, Jim Henry, Schmidt and the second year men.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0517/965166-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="279" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Lynn Patrick)</figcaption></div>FIFTH: Sid Abel will have a better Chicago hockey club than his two predecessors. Still we think he will be on the outside looking in when the season ends. He has a better balanced club than either Ebbie Goodfellow or Chuck Conacher could muster. Lumley is gone but the Apple Cheeked lad wasn&rsquo;t worth anything to the Hawks as long as they had that kind of de-fence. In Rollins they have secured a goaler on a par with the rest of the club. Abel&rsquo;s defence will still be the big question mark. Mortson had a bad season last year and Bill Gadsby has been plagued with injuries. These are his two top rearguards. He has rookie Fred Hucul who can either play defence or forward. His other rearguards are Al Dewsbury and Lee Fogolin. Abel has a host of veterans up front, all who at one time or another have shown themselves to be real big leaguers. If Sid can get them working together he could make it.His front wall is better defensively than last season. Gardner will give the club added strength down the middle and Ray Hannigan will add goal scoring strength. If Gadsby and Mortson have good years and Mosienko, Gee and Hucuk, Finney and Peters as well as Pete Conacher can stand the gaff, then likeable Sid could edge out the Bruins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0615/965159-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="290" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Sid Abel)</figcaption></div>SIXTH: The New York Rangers will have one of the best defense corps in the National League but they have lost too much up front to make them anything but a second division club. The addition of Reise gives Bill Cook a fine blueline brigade, perhaps the best in the League, certainly the best in the League in Madison Square Garden. He has Buller, Stanley, Reise, Evans and Ross and perhaps Harry Howell from Guelph. If Rayner can hold up and the defense plays as it looks on paper then Cook&rsquo;s main worry will be to get some forwards who can net the puck: He has parted with fighting Reg Sinclair, a 20 goal scorer. Edgar Laprade, his playmaker deluxe has retired. Bones Raleigh, his ace centerman is out for six weeks. That is a big gap in any club. Andy Bathgate, who starred with Guelph last season and Ron Murphy might help the Blues out of their troubles. Jack Stoddard was a disappointment after stating the AHL on fire. If they come through then they might hit a higher rating.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0714/965152-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="275" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Bill Coak)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Picking ‘Em This Year May Be Tougher Than All Others

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01103/965218-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Eddie Shore and Ace Bailey meet at center ice before gome.</figcaption></div><h2>Highlight of Game &#9632;</h2>

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Bailey Benefit Was Most Dramatic Game

<div class="byline">By ELMER FERGUSON</div>(Montreal Herald)As the sixth annual NHL All-Star game goes into the Detroit Olympia, many will ponder about the games of the past. Actually the dream game was born out of the near fatal accident to Ace Bailey many years ago. Since then there have been benefit games for Howie Morenz and Babe Siebert and five NHL All-Star games which were inaugurated back in 1917. We asked this question: In the games played, including the benefit All-Star games, what was the most thrilling, the most drama packed for both the fans and writers? The answer was: the Ace Bailey benefit played in Toronto on March 14, 1934. So, in keeping with that opinion we have reprinted Elmer Ferguson&rsquo;s graphic story of this game from the Montreal Herald.TORONTO. Ont., Feb. 15, 1934&mdash;Hockey staged its greatest show of all time last night.Against the background of a roaring mob that paid $20,900, as their tribute to athletic sentiment, there was enacted stark, gripping drama, the sort that grips throat strings, that leaves you momentarily wordless because there is a lump in the speakingapparatus that makes words at that point impossible.That moment came, when last night, in the fast moving one act pre-game spectacle created by gaudy uniforms, glittering skates, the sheen of perfect ice and the machine-gun flashes of photographic apparatus that surrounded the scene, Eddie Shore skated over to &ldquo;Ace&rdquo; Bailey, gripped him by the hand, the two grinned amiably at each other, shook hands with genuine sincerity, while the huge house, scenting with unerring instinct the climax of hockey&rsquo;s near-tradgedy, fairly rocked the huge stadium with their roaring volume of sound, a cascade of screams that swirled above the deeper undertones.* * *<h2>They Meet Again</h2>There stood the &ldquo;Ace&rdquo;, smiling in a brown overcoat that came to his knees, his head bared, his eyes glinting up at the vast banks of humanity through the sun-glasses he now effects. There, gripping his hand was the stocky helmeted figure of the player who two months ago almost plunged him to death. There stood the two main actors in a drama that held a sports world breathless with suspense and fear for days, as a gallant athlete fought for life with a tenacity, a complete disregard for all sinister medical precedent that amazed even the expert practitioners.And all around in serried rows that ran from the very edge of the ice far back into the high and shadowy areas pitched up into this huge building, their cheers rolling upward in crescendo waves that struck an almost hysterical note, were thousands upon thousands who, a few short weeks before, were cursing the name of Shore, who blazed at any mention of him, who demanded that he be barred, black-listed, out-law-ed for all time from the game of hockey.<h2>Toronto&rsquo;s Sporting Gesture</h2>Yet here they were, cheering and applauding this very Shore, shaming those who had conjured up the spectre of hostile, and perhaps dangerous demonstration against the Bruin stalwart. Toronto established its sporting spirit as New York, Detroit and Montreal have done, established it even in greater degree, for it was in Toronto that the clouds of near-tragedy cast their blackest shadow in the days when Bailey&rsquo;s life hung by a scant and fragile thread, there was never a suggestion last night of anything but a hearty welcome for Shore. The roaring crescendo of welcome struck its peak, of course, as he and Bailey gripped hands, but throughout the hockey battle that followed, as Shore played a typical, rushing effective game, there was nothing but applause for his movements. It was a generous, fine and sporting episode in a sporting city&rsquo;s history.It was almost unbelievable that all these strange elements could have been welded into last night&rsquo;s drama, but here they were, as if some master-dramatist, some great mechanician of the stage had skilfully fused vastly divergent themes into a great harmonious whole.It was hockey&rsquo;s show of shows, as the crowd gathered to see, for perhaps the only time, a &ldquo;ghost&rdquo; team snatched out of the air and becoming a reality for the first time in the major leagues, battle a team of established repute. It may be the last because it was proven, as suspected, that no team of mere brilliant individuals can be welded at once into a smooth-working machine. Leafs, though crippled, ran riot over the stars at the end, won the game 7 to 3, and gave, convincing proof that cohesion, understanding and all other essentials of smooth team-play must be served over disjointed and non-understanding brilliancy. &#9632;

Shore Cheered When He Shook Hands With Ace

<h2>BAILEY BENEFIT Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens,</h2>February 14, 1934 Toronto 4, All-Stars 3All-Stars: Goal, Gardiner (Chicago); defence, Johnson (Rangers) Shore (Boston); centre, Morenz (Montreal); Wings, W. Cook (Rangers), Joliat (Montreal); subs.. Shields, Conacher, Dutton, Smith, Ward, Stewart (Maroons); Aurie, Lewis (Detroit); Himes; Finnigan (Ottawa).Toronto: Goal, Hainsworth; defence, Clancy, Horner; center, Primeau; Wings, Sands, Jackson; subs., Day, Levinsky, C. Conacher, Blair, Cotton, Doraty, Kilrea, Boll, Thoms.Referees: Mike Rodden and Bobby Hewitson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0536/965332-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="541" height="599"></div><h2>MORENZ MEMORIAL Montreal Forum.</h2>November 3, 1937 All-Stars 4, Montreal 5Ail-Stars: Goal, Thompson (Boston); defence. Goodfellow (Detroit); Horner (Toronto); center, Boucher (Rangers) Wings: March (Chicago), Shriner (Americans). Subs: Smith, Barry (Detroit); Shore, Clapper, (Boston); Conacher, Jackson (Toronto); Chapman, Day (Americans); Gottselig (Chicago); Dillon (Rangers).Montreal: Goal. Cude (Canadiens); defense, Siebert (Canadiens); center, Blinco (Maroons); Wentworth (Maroons);. Wings, Gagnon (Canadiens); Northcott (Maroons); subs., Beveridge, Clancy, Ward, Robinson. Trottier (Maroons); Joliat. Buswell, Lepine, Haynes, Blake, Mantha (Canadiens).Referees: Albert Leduc, Mickey Ion, Eusebe Daignault.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0629/965325-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="545" height="573"></div><h2>SIEBERT MEMORIAL Montreal Forum,</h2>October 29, 1939 All-Stars 5 Canadiens 2AU-Stara: Gaal, Brimsek (Barton); defence. GeodLfellow (Detroit), Seibert (Chicago); center, N. Colville (Rangers); Wings, Drillon (Toronto) Anderson (Americans); subs., Shore, Clapper, Bauer (Boston); Coulter (Rangers); Gottselig (Chicago); Jackson (Americans); Howe (Detroit); Apps (Toronto).CaniMliens: Goal, Cude; defence. Buswell, Wentworth; center, Getliffe; Wings, Blake, Robinson; subs., Drouin, Lorrain, Trudel, Young, Haynes, Mantha, Gagnon, Goupille, Mondou.Referees: Bill Stewart and King Clancy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0725/965318-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="541" height="549"></div> &#9632;

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The First Three All-Star Games

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Detroit Red Wings

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0285/965401-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="553" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body">(RED SINCLAIR)</figcaption></div>SAULT Ste. Marie, Mich.&mdash;At the end of three weeks fall training at the Pullar Ice Stadium here, Detroit Red Wings packed off their gear and headed for Detroit. What did these three weeks prove?They showed that they should be a stronger club than last season and that Manager Jack Adams and Coach Tommy Ivan successfully closed the gap left by Sid Abel&rsquo;s departure to Chicago. In addition to this, the loss of Leo Reise has not been felt due to the immense strength Detroit enjoys in front of the redoubtable Terry Sawchuk.When the camp first got underway one of the big questions was: &ldquo;Can Reg Sinclair fill Abel&rsquo;s shoes?&rdquo; That was the all-important task at camp. Because it was going to take a good man to work between the great Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay. Before camp Jack Adams felt he had picked the right man. But it&rsquo;s an entirely different story to prove it on the ice. So Reg came into camp with a tremendous job facing him.&#9733; &#9733; &#9733;<h2>Ivan Satisfied That Reg Will Fit Into &lsquo;Production Line</h2>Now, after the workouts here and the nine exhibition games in ten days, Reg Sinclair did prove himself a wise choice. The 170-pounder who stands around six feet-one inch, and who scored 3 8 goals for New York the past two seasons, showed he was right at home between Howe and Lindsay. He scored important goals in workouts and in the exhibition games with Chicago on their Northern Ontario tour. He showed the facalty of setting up Howe and Lindsay neatly as the broke in. He kept up to the speedy Howe and Lindsay by sheer fight and drive and left little doubt that he will be Abel&rsquo;s successor.It was the consensus of opinion among most observers that Sinclair could have his greatest record built between Howe and Lindsay because of the necessity of going every minute to keep up to them. &ldquo;Sinclair has proved himself at camp,&rdquo; Coach Tommy Ivan said. So that takes care of the Abel problem. Now about Reise! Red Kelly and Bob Goldham are playing the best hockey of their life; Marcel Pronovost is a 25 per cent better player than last season and Benny Woit has found himself at camp. Add the fine work of Larry Ziedel and strong contenders like Bill Folk, Jim Hay and Pat Coburn and you can see that there are absolutely no problems there.The second line of Marty Pa-velich, Tony Leswick and Glenn Skov, with Metro prystai alternating at centre, seems even better than last season, according to Ivan and Adams. This line is destined for big things and it was the feeling in camp they are far superior to most first lines on other clubs. Alex Delvecchio is showing the benefits of experience and despite his youth, appears a cinch for the third line along with John Wilson and either Prystai or Skov will take over the second-line centre spot. Skov works well with Pavelich and Leswick and Prystai can play almost any forward position. Vic Stasiuk has been going good, showing more powerful scoring punch around the nets than last year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0368/965394-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="584" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body">(SID ABEL)</figcaption></div><h2>Sawchuk Looks Just As Good As Ever</h2>We watched Terry Sawchuk closely all through camp and found he has lost none of the eye that makes him the greatest. He pulled off several startling saves on the best sharpshooters on the club during workouts and Manager Jack Adams feels he will shatter all scoring marks this season.&ldquo;Although one is careful never to predict how any race will go, because injuries alone can wreck a club in short time, but I feel this club preparing for the 1952-53 season will keep up the great record made last year because some of stars are just getting into their prime and should improve with age. I am very satisfied with the club so far, we have no serious Injuries and we&rsquo;re all eager to win another Cup. All our lines are well-balanced, we seem to have a little more scoring punch, especially in the second and third lines,&rdquo; said Adams. &#9632;

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Reg Sinclair’s Jump From Blues May Prove Rhopsody For Red Wings

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0446/965432-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="307" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Bill Ezinicki)</figcaption></div>ST. CATHERINES. Ont.&mdash;Bill Ezinicki has done it again. While hockey fans were wondering if &lsquo;Wild&rsquo; Bill hadn&rsquo;t settled down to the normal life of a hockey player for the first time in a few seasons he up and left the training camp of the Toronto Maple Leafs here. He packed his bags and shoved off for his home in Boston. Most of the experts figured he was more homesick for the golf clubs he had left behind than anything else.Ezinicki, who was brought back to the Leafs by Conn Smythe after the Toronto General Manager had sold him to the Boston Bruins two seasons ago refused to sign a contract offered him by the Leafs.Smythe indicated that he would slap a suspension on the unpredictable character who believes he plays a better game of golf than he actually does.Ezinicki packed his wife and child into his car and was reported on his way to Boston and his golfing job at the Colonial Club there.Ez said he didn&rsquo;t like the financial terms of the contract and was against a clause in it which would permit the Leafs to shift him to the minors. Since it has been indicated that he will be suspended he has the right to appeal his case to President Clarence Campbell of the National League.* * *Said Smythe: &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t want a $1,000 a month. He just doesn&rsquo;t want to play hockey. If he was really interested, he&rsquo;d say: &lsquo;Give me that stick and I&rsquo;ll show you.&rsquo; He hadn&rsquo;t been going any too well in practice. They were knocking him down instead of him knocking them down! We&rsquo;ll go with the kids.&rdquo;This is the third season in a row in which Ezinicki has either packed up and left for home or just failed to report. Last season he indicated he was going to stick to golf and didn&rsquo;t report to the Bruins until Walter Brown talked him out of going into retirement. Then last New Year&rsquo;s Day Ezinicki went out and played 18 holes of golf a few hours before a game. It was for that reason he was shipped back to the Leafs&rsquo; organization and then to Pittsburgh.Two seasons ago Ezinicki stayed at his home in Winnipeg playing golf rather than reporting to the Leafs&rsquo; camp at St. Ca-tharines. When he finally did show up he said he just wasn&rsquo;t feeling well enough to practice. He was then shipped off to the salt mines in Pittsburgh and that was the last time he was seen in a Leafs&rsquo; uniform. &#9632;

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Ez Pulls Out Of Leafs’ Camp After Thumbing Offer

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01117/965498-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="485" height="489"><figcaption class="caption-body">(FRANK SELKE)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0284/965491-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="464" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body">(CONN SMYTHE)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0365/965484-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="480" height="484"><figcaption class="caption-body">(JACK ADAMS)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0444/965477-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="480" height="488"><figcaption class="caption-body">(BILL TOBIN)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0534/965470-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="479" height="486"><figcaption class="caption-body">(ART ROSS)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0632/965463-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="483" height="486"><figcaption class="caption-body">(FRANK BOUCHER)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Big League Managers……Ready for Battle

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1952-53 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE SCHEDULE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0823/965595-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="413" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body">(LYNN PATRICK)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0923/965588-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="428" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">(DICK IRVIN)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1021/965581-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="415" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">(TOMMY IVAN)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1115/965574-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="429" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body">(JOE PRIMEAU)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1214/965567-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="411" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body">(BILL COOK)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1311/965560-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="414" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body">(SID ABEL)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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One New Coach……As Race Gets Going

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-148/965689-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="293" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Budd Lynch Channel WXYZ Television Detroit)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-155/965682-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="279" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Al Nagler Station WJBK Radio Detroit)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-163/965675-1-eng-US/f0011-162.jpg" title="f0011-16" width="275" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Danny Gallivan Station CBM English Radio Montreal)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-173/965668-1-eng-US/f0011-172.jpg" title="f0011-17" width="273" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Michel Normandin Station CBF French Radio Montreal)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-183/965661-1-eng-US/f0011-182.jpg" title="f0011-18" width="285" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Bert Lee Station WMGM Radio New York)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-193/965654-1-eng-US/f0011-192.jpg" title="f0011-19" width="281" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Ward Wilson Station WMGM Radio New York)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-202/965647-1-eng-US/f0011-202.jpg" title="f0011-20" width="278" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Johnny Gottselig Station WCFL Radio Chicago)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-212/965640-1-eng-US/f0011-212.jpg" title="f0011-21" width="290" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Fred Cusick Station WHDH Radio Boston)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-222/965633-1-eng-US/f0011-222.jpg" title="f0011-22" width="292" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Foster Hewitt Station CBL Radio Toronto)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-23/965626-1-eng-US/f0011-232.jpg" title="f0011-23" width="441" height="707"><figcaption class="caption-body">(JOHNNY CRAWFORD)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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They’ll Air Big League Shows This Season

<div class="byline">Roger Barry</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins, pioneers in the broadcasting of National League games, have revamped their entire radio setup for this season.They will have new announcers broadcasting over a new network and, for the first time in history, all their road games as well as all their home games will by aired to New England audiences.The pew announcers are Fred Cusick, who will do the play-by-play accounts of the games, and Johnny Crawford, former captain of the Bruins, who will provide expert commentary and conduct between-periods interviews.Cusick, a former New England college star, succeeds Frank Ryan, who broadcast Bruins&rsquo; games for 2 5 years. Crawford succeeds John Brooks, Ryan&rsquo;s assistant in recent years.Cusick, recently discharged from the United States Navy, for which he did radio public relations work, played hockey for four years at Northeastern University here, also playing baseball and football.Before being recalled to active duty by the navy two years ago, he broadcast Boston Olympics&rsquo; and college games and the National Collegiate championships at Colorado Springs.Crawford, who resigned as coach of the Hershey Bears last spring after two highly successful seasons, played defense for the Bruins for 12 years. He was selected on the National League all-star team in 1946 and twice Won the Du-fresne trophy as the most valuable Bruin in home games.Bruins&rsquo; games will be carried over Station WHDH in Boston and a network of 24 other stations, embracing most of New England, with Carling&rsquo;s Ale as the sponsor. Cusick and Crawford will travel with the Bruins, whereas in the past only Stanley Cup play-off games have been carried &ldquo;live&rdquo; to Boston. Crawford will combine his radio work with his regular job with a paper company. &#9632;

Bruins Hire Cusick. Crawford to Broadcast Games

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><h2>Carried&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0370/965789-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="524" height="524"><figcaption class="caption-body">(MARTY BARRY)</figcaption></div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;It didn&rsquo;t take long for Jack Adams to describe his &ldquo;ideal hockey team.&rdquo;Asked to list the qualities desired, Adams had only to look back at some of the 2 6 Detroit teams he has managed and come forth with the following combination:&ldquo;Give me a club with the balance and determination of the 1935-37 Red Wings, the roughness and toughness of the 1941-43 outfit, and the individual brilliance and versatility of the boys we have now.&rdquo;But when asked to name which one of his clubs was the best, Adams was harder to pin down.&ldquo;A question like that is a little unfair,&rdquo; he answered. &ldquo;Those were the three best clubs we&rsquo;ve ever had here, but each had different problems to face and different abilities to meet those problems.&ldquo;For instance, the 1935-37 gang won the League and Stanley Cup twice in a row, and certainly was the best team in hockey in several years. They were able to rise up and play over injuries which should have cost them titles.&ldquo;There were few Individual stars on that club, for it impressed me more with Its smoothness. Certainly it had the best power ay of any Detroit team with the line of Marty Barry, Larry Aurie and Herbie Lewis, plus Ebbie Goodfellow and Johnny Sorrell on the points.&ldquo;And then when the playoffs came, Capt. Doug Young, Orville Roulston and Aurie all were injured. But still they kept on plugging and won.<h3>They Were Tough</h3>&ldquo;The next outstanding team also had two big years, 194142 and 1942-43. That was a club which seemed to accomplish more than you&rsquo;d expect from those players, and they did it by being tough.&ldquo;We had Jack Stewart, Jimmy Orlando and Goodfellow on defense, and the &lsquo;Liniment Line&rsquo; of Sid Abel, Don Grosso and Eddie Wares.&ldquo;Everyone who played against us had to go through the &lsquo;meat grinder.&rsquo; Instead of orthodox defensive play, the forwards would steer the puck carriers into the &lsquo;funnel&rsquo; where Stewart or Orlando would rock them.&rdquo;Adams long has prided himself on being up-to-date with his hockey thinking, and after a brief pause, proved it again.<h2>&hellip;Bundle</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0453/965782-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="526" height="520"><figcaption class="caption-body">(HERBIE LEWIS)</figcaption></div>&ldquo;But I guess the best outfit of all is the team we have now&mdash;or anyway the team we left off with last year,&rdquo; he laughed.&ldquo;There were more good hockey players on that squad than I&rsquo;ve ever seen before on any team. And they could do anything, and make it look easy.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve never had a goalie as good as Terry Sawchuk. We&rsquo;ve never had a player equal to Gordie Howe, who is the greatest ever anywhere. And we&rsquo;ve never had a better all-round man than Red Kelly. Then there are several others close behind them.&ldquo;You have to concede that there is a general improvement of all hockey every year, so these boys must be the best of all-time. No one can really realize now good some teams are until after they&rsquo;ve broken up, but you can see and the record also says that these were our greatest.&ldquo;I think that two things which made me the proudest of this bunch last year was the class they showed in winning on the road, and their behavior both on and off the ice.&ldquo;Yes, of all the teams we&rsquo;ve had, I guess the nod goes to last year&rsquo;s bunch.&ldquo;And I hope I can say those same words about the 19 52-53 team a year from now,&rdquo; Jack concluded. &#9632;

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Combination of Three Clubs Adams’ ‘Ideal Team’

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0287/965751-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="288" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Roger Leger)</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;George Slater&rsquo;s dream of a million fans attending the Quebec Senior Hockey League games in one season came true when all the box office receipts were counted at the end of the circuit&rsquo;s playoffs last Spring. In fact the objective was over-reached by a comfortable margin&mdash;1,107,292.As he looks forward to his 16th term as chief executive of this prosperous organization Slater is confident that this great boom has only begun.For the QSHL which will launch another 60-game schedule on October 11 seems to have strengthened its financial structure and bolstered its playing personnel in all direction.The news that Jean Beliveau was to remain with Quebec Aces, and that the league champions and Alexander Trophy holders would be even more formidable was happily received by every club in the circuit. Quebec will again be the team to beat for the honors, of course, but at the same time the Acemen with Beliveau in the cast attract a great following every where they play. &ldquo;Gros Bill&rdquo; is a strong magnet at the gate.Royals of course will be a powerful factor. They always have been. This year they are assured greater assistance from the parent NHL Canadiens. since Dick Irvin is ready to turn over a half dozen or more proven players to the Forum&rsquo;s QSHL entry. At this writing it appears that defensemen Ross Lowe, Ivan Irwin and Roger Leger will be applying their talents to the team directed by Pete Morin.And forwards of such class as Colin Kilburn, Eddie Mazur. Ed Litzenburger and Lorne Davis will be added to the plethora of talent who were putting out for the red and blue forces at the end of last season.Hockey in the Canadian Capital has been stimulated through a working agreement Tommy Gorman obtained for his Ottawa Senators with Conn Smythe and the Toronto Maple Leafs. &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty, long one of the active workers in Maple Leaf farm projects has been installed as Ottawa coach and he&rsquo;ll bring into the fold several of the outstanding performers who were with him and the Beavers last year in Saint John, N.B.Shawinigan Falls Cataracts, cellar-dwellers in the loop the past-few seasons, are showing signs of rebellion at the underdog role. And Coach Don Penniston has been for the past few weeks at Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; training camp at Sault St. Marie, Mich., enlisting the interest and tangible help of Jack Adams.It&rsquo;s amply evident that the Wings are going to throw several good players Penniston&rsquo;s way. Already he has obtained the promise of goaler Bill Brennan and forward Nellie Podolsky, last year with Edmonton in the Pacific Coast League. Also Jackie Hamilton from St. Louis.At Chicoutimi Rollie Hebert has made an alliance with Terry Reardon and the Providence Reds and should get puck and stick artisans of high rank from thia source.Sherbrooke and Valleyfield look to be the only uncertain quantities with the schedule opening ten days away, but in the Eastern Townships, Forrest Keene, and Ivan Dugre can generally be depended to come up with a team that will be a contender before the campaign is well warmed up, if the Saints don&rsquo;t look too impressive when first shots are fired.Toe Blake is quietly rebuilding the Braves, who just two years ago were first winners of the Alexander Trophy. While the Old Lamplighter hasn&rsquo;t been getting much ballyhoo about this campaign, it could be that he has some surprises in store.Puck-putter&mdash;Ernie Mundey who did fine chore last season has been re-appointed referee-in-chief of the QSHL. He has added seven new officials to the referee staff. Most of them saw league service last season as linesmen&mdash;Bill Roberts, Jimmy Slater and Ernie Milford, of Montreal. The latter a former Ottawan; Len Corriveau and Jean Bernier, Quebec City; Hubert MacDonald and Earl &ldquo;Sparky&rdquo; Nicholson of Ottawa&hellip;last year&rsquo;s referees who&rsquo;ll again accept appointments are: Ken Mullins, Sibby Mundey, Pean Bennett, Hap Shouldice and Stan Pratt&hellip;Scotly Morrison has been taken on the staff of the Western Hockey League&hellip;the idea this season in the QSHL is that the veterans will get fewer assignments to allow the younger men a chance to gain experience&hellip;Frank Selke made a deal with Rollie Hebert, sending Fern Perreault, centre and right-winger, last year with Cleveland and Royals, to Chicoutimi&hellip;it&rsquo;s understood that Jimmy Moore, brother of Canadiens Dickie will wind up with Buffalo Bisons&hellip;Frank Carlin will wait until the major league clubs make their full shake-down, and thus QSHL teams will be certain of their rosters, before picking his players for the QSHL All-Star game against Aces in Quebec City, October 9.<h2>In His Own Class</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01130/965744-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="1214" height="1463"></div> &#9632;

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Quebec Major Loop Gets Set for Record Season at Gate

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL-SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01137/965827-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02104/965820-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="544" height="1061"><figcaption class="caption-body">(TURK BRODA)</figcaption></div>MAYBE the worst thing about Al Rollins was Turk Broda. He came in while the Turkey was chained to the treadmill sweating off suet at this command of cruel master Conn Smythe. The man in the street was with Broda. So was the guy in the greys and the bloke in the blues. A good many of them had picked up spare tires around their own middles. They knew how the Turkey felt, with his head swathed in a bath towel and his seat stuck to the saddle of a stationary bike. When Rollins arrived, they ignored his recommendations, envied his midriff and muttered? &ldquo;Okay, Slim, but ya better be good.&rdquo;It was bad enough to be following up one of the most popular players in Leaf history&mdash;and one of the really great goalies of all times, besides. Rollins had the misfortune to be the upstart who was trying to steal the job from the aging Turkey, whose only sin was that he was beginning to show tonnage as a badge of his success. It would have been a tough spot for even a seasoned backstop. And Mr. Rollins wasn&rsquo;t that. He had fewer than 100 games to his credit in minor pro league play. And he never had played in this League.In view of that background, he did quite a chore, when you look it over. His goals-per-game average was 1.75 the first season, when he won the Vezina Trophy. Few goalies ever equalled that average. Broda never did. Neither did Bill Durnan, who won the Vezina so often they thought he owned it. Neither did Chuck Rayner, Terry Sawchuk or Harry Lumley. It&rsquo;s true that Rollins shared the work with Broda. But he still showed in 40 games. That used to be considered a season&rsquo;s toil. Even last season, when Rollins worked through the whole schedule, his 2.20 goals-per-game record was second in the whole League. Only Sawchuk, at 1.94, topped him. And you know the kind of goalie Sawchuk is. You also know the kind of club he had in front of him.But it didn&rsquo;t matter. Rollins failed to influence people and round up friends. Maybe it was because he lacked the kind of color that would have overcome fan resentment. They used to say of Babe Ruth that he looked like a champion even striking out. Rollins never had that. When he fanned on a shot he looked like a bum and everyone said so. If Broda had done it, they&rsquo;d have said: &ldquo;Tough luck, Turk.&rdquo;<h2>Lum and Leafs Have Much in Common</h2>SMYTHE calls the deal for Lumley the one that was made for him by the press and the fans. He&rsquo;s kidding, of course. That isn&rsquo;t the way he reaches decisions, although it is true he quizzed scores of Gardens&rsquo; subscribers. They told him, &ldquo;Get Lumley,&rdquo; almost without a dissenting voice. Although we wouldn&rsquo;t have said so while Rollins was battling to hold his job with the Leafs. We think the customers gave good advice. Al wasn&rsquo;t catching on with them&mdash;and they pay the freight. And he didn&rsquo;t figure to be as good as Lum, who ranks No. 2 in this book among goalies in the game today.Big Lum has poise and polish which come with experience. Rollins may have it in a year or two. In one way, he&rsquo;s lucky to be joining Chicago when the Hawks&rsquo; fortunes are on the rebound. Under young Jim Norris, they&rsquo;ll get a transfusion. Lum was sold down the river from a championship club when the only question about the Hawks was by-how much they&rsquo;d finish last. Their goalie didn&rsquo;t worry about his average. He was too busy protecting his life. That&rsquo;s going to be changed now, and Rollins rides with the new deal. It&rsquo;s up to him to show he belongs. And don&rsquo;t sell him short. He was washed out, eight years ago, when rheumatic fever laid him low. The doctors told him to sell his tackle. He&rsquo;s been on Stanley and Allan cup winners since then.There&rsquo;s a new deal for Lumley, too. He and the Leafs have a lot in common. They both were evicted from Park Ave. by the same people, the Detroit Red Wings. It happened to Lum just after he&rsquo;d helped them win the Stanley Cup. The Leafs got the boot, but good, last spring. It wasn&rsquo;t a defeat; it was a rout. They won&rsquo;t feel they&rsquo;ve evened the score until they&rsquo;re up and the Detroits are down.Lumley was at a Renfrew fall fair while his contract was changing hands in Chicago. A batch of telephone call slips awaited him when he returned to the Hawks&rsquo; camp at Pembroke. He tried one and got Joe Primeau. That&rsquo;s how he learned he was a Leaf at last. &#9632;

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">&nbsp;By BOB HESKETH (Of The Toronto Telegram)</div>Trying&hellip;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0383/965872-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="578" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body">(LEO BOIVIN)</figcaption></div>ST. CATHARINES, Ont.&mdash;One thing that will have to be admitted about the new edition of the Toronto Maple Leafs. No one is saying that it&rsquo;s going to be a great edition, but, it certainly has to be different.There are so many beardless, shining faces turning up at the Leaf camp here these days that it&rsquo;s almost difficult to follow a practise without a programme.Last year&rsquo;s dismal demise in the playoffs spurred the Leaf brass into a belated frenzy o. activity which brought about the suspected deal, for Harry Lumley of the Chicago Black Hawks. The Blocky Owen Sounder eliminated three of the old familiar faces when Goalie Al Rollins, defenseman Gus Mortson and centre Cal Gardner were put on the block for him. Next old timer Joe Klukay, plagued by knee trouble last season, fell afoul the youth movement and was sold to the Boston Bruins leaving only Fern Flaman, Jim Thomson and to a lesser degree Hugh Bolton as the only defensemen left with which Toronto fans have a nodding acquaintance and Ted Kennedy, Sid Smith, Tod Sloan, Bill Ezinicki, Harry Watson and Howie Meeker are the only forwards they&rsquo;ll know without checking a number. Max Bentley, who has been busy harvesting money on his plantation in Delisle, Sask., will be another when he reports for duty.<h2>Smythe Is Confident</h2>The experiment with youth has left managing director Conn Smythe unshaken in confidence. He experimented once before, in 1946, and started knocking off Stanley Cups so promptly afterwards, that he amazed even himself.The severest blow to hit the camp in the first two weeks fell in a fresh physical training accident which incapacitated right winger George Armstrong for two months and broke up what Smythe, in one fit of enthusiasm, was moved to say was the best looking kid line he&rsquo;d seen come up the pike in the Leaf camp.Armstrong was teamed with centre Bobby Hassard and the rough Gordie Hannigan until he collided with Lumley one morning in a vigorous game with a medicine ball and wound up with a separated shoulder, a decided tribute to Lum&rsquo;s prowess as a body checker which will be borne out by a number of venturesome forwards in the League.<h2>..To Break..</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0467/965865-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="578" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body">(GORDIE HANNIGAN)</figcaption></div><h3> Armstrong&rsquo;s Injury</h3>Smythe was inclined to accept Armstrong&rsquo;s injury stocally while everybody else in the camp was mired in the depths of despond. He optimistically pointed to the reserves upon which he could call which include Ezinicki, making dead set on a comeback, Meeker, who is in his last season and determined to make it a good one, Andy Barbe from the Pittsburgh Hornets who isn&rsquo;t given much chance of catching and Ron Stewart, a large and rugged junior. Lesser lights are George Ford, obtained on waiver from Eddie Shore and Eric Nesterenko who turned pro from Marlboro Juniors last season but the general opinion is that they need some more time in a minor league. In a pinch Tod Sloan, who has filled Gardner&rsquo;s skates between Watson and Meeker admirably, could switch back to right wing with Kennedy when Bentley gets ready. That, however, will likely be a last resort.Only other point of sorrow on the forward wall has been the inability of Sid Smith to untrack himself yet though he&rsquo;s liable to break out in a rash anytime and the slow manner which Captain Ted Kennedy is rounding into shape having not been helped any by a shoulder injury.Kennedy is a notoriously slow starter and though he has been taking his knocks in the press as well as on the ice, hasn&rsquo;t caused the management any undue anxiety yet.* * *<h3>Defense Brighter Picture</h3>Back on defense there&rsquo;s a brighter picture with four potentially great candidates from the Hornets trying for the contract that Mortson didn&rsquo;t get. These include Tim Horton, a rough puck carrying kid (he put Don Raleigh out of commission in a Hornet-Ranger exhibition), Jim Morrison, who had a turn with the Leafs last season and has a double value because he can fill in well at centre.Leo Boivin, who is a cinch to be kept and Frank Sullivan, a kid who has come up by leaps in the Leaf chain and deserves a chance.<h2>&hellip;In</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0552/965858-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="580" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body">(TIM HORTON)</figcaption></div>Back all that up with the incomparable Lum in goal and it adds up to what Smythe is moved to call a &ldquo;Pretty Good Hockey Club.&rdquo; You&rsquo;ll know whether or not he was whistling in the dark sometime around the first of November. &#9632;

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New Leaf Edition Will Be Only Slightly Dotted With Old Faces

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TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 1952-53 ROSTER

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><h2>They May Be Guys</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01143/965941-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="575" height="816"><figcaption class="caption-body">(WARREN GODFREY)</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0293/965934-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="574" height="844"><figcaption class="caption-body">(FRANK MARTIN)</figcaption></div>HERSHEY. Pa.&mdash;If Coach Lynn Patrick can find a pair of aggressive defensemen to replace Murray Henderson and Gus Kyle, the Boston Bruins shape up as the real dark horse of the coming National Hockey League campaign.Patrick, who is currently looking over a crop of 45 prospective Bruins during pre-season drills at Hershey Sports Arena, is confident he&rsquo;ll come up with the necessary replacements from among a host of likely looking prospects.On the basis of what he has seen, Patrick believes young Bob Armstrong. 190-pound blue liner, up from the Hershey Bears, has the inside track for one of the vacancies. The 21-year-old Armstrong, who jumped into the Boston lineup last season for the last five games of the play-off series with the Canadiens, has demonstrated he knows how to throw his weight around and blds fair to become one of the NHL&rsquo;s hardest body checkers.Warren Godfrey, who played at Tacoma in the PCHL last season, where he pleased Patrick&rsquo;s brother, Muzz, and young Frank Martin, 19-year-old who played for the St. Catherine&rsquo;s Tee Pees, an Ontario junior club, are leading candidates for the second blue line vacancy.* * *<h3>Topper May Be Answer</h3>If Patrick doesn&rsquo;t find what he wants in Godfrey or Martin he may turn to Jerry Toppazzini, a right wing by trade, with a flamboyant personality. Rugged and fiery, Toppazzini, who made his pro debut with Hershey last season, has taken to his new chores like a duck to water. He may be the answer to Patrick&rsquo;s search for a fourth blue line defender.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m confident we can find the boys we need, one to go with Bill Quackenbush, the other to team up with Hal Laycoe. Bill and Hal will take care of the rest. They&rsquo;ll break in their new partners to the best advantage.&rdquo;Of one thing, Patrick is certain. His goalie will be the reliable Sugar Jim Henry. &ldquo;Jim had a great year last season and he&rsquo;s in the pink right now. He&rsquo;s definitely the keystone of our defense, and I predict he&rsquo;ll repeat his great performance of the 195152 campaign.&rdquo;Physically, the squad appears to be in better shape than at any time in recent years. Except for Captain Milt Schmidt, who has been favoring his ankle, which was recently operated on for the removal of a cyst, everybody reported in tip top shape. &ldquo;The players know,&rdquo; Patrick pointed out, &ldquo;That they can&rsquo;t report carrying too much excess poundage. The competition for positions is too keen now-a-days for them to take that chance.&rdquo;Turning to his forward lines, Patrick emphasized from the very start of practice sessions that no one was certain of his post. &ldquo;We had some pretty good forward lines at the close of the past season,&rdquo; he commented, &ldquo;But we can&rsquo;t go on past performances. Every guy must prove himself all over again.&rdquo;Of the forwards, Real Chevrefils, Dave Creighton, Johnny Peirson, Jack McIntyre and Fleming Mackell, all regulars at the close of the 1951-52 campaign, appear virtually certain of retaining their varsity status.The veteran Schmidt, of course, is a &ldquo;must&rdquo; in Patrick&rsquo;s scheme of things. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll come along in his own good time as the strength returns to his ankle.&rdquo;Other Bruin regulars will come from an assortment of veterans, including Lome Ferguson, Adam Brown, Pentti Lund, George Sullivan, Ed Sandford, Dune Fisher and Joe Klukay. Leo Labine, who came up from Hershey late last season, is another possibility.Patrick doesn&rsquo;t know whether he&rsquo;ll continue his &ldquo;fourth line&rdquo;, a two-man penalty killing team, which he originated two seasons ago. &ldquo;I hope we&rsquo;ll be strong enough this season to through penalties without improvising, but if we can&rsquo;t there&rsquo;s &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivan and Klukay, who can be counted upon to do an A-l penalty killing job.&rdquo;The Bruins will remain here through October 8 before breaking camp and heading home to the Garden for their National League opener with the Canadiens on Sunday, October 12. &#9632;

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Bruins Shape Up As Dark Horse If Lynn’s Stable Has Two Backs

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>PEMBROKE, Ont.-&mdash;Chicago&rsquo;s new deal in the National Hockey League is rapidly nearing peak condition and already appears set to bring a top flight contender back into the Windy City for the first time in a half dozen years. Puck fans here will get their initial glimpse of the vastly altered Hawks when the team opens its 1952-53 home schedule at the Chicago Stadium against the New York Rangers on Sunday night, October 12.The new ownership combine of Arthur Wirtz, Jim Norris and Bill Tobin appears to have gone all out in a sincere effort to bring the loyal Chicago followers a winner. At least eight newcomers will be donning Hawk livery for the first time to mark a 50 per cent turnover from last season&rsquo;s cellar finishers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0367/965972-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="290" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Bill Gadsby)</figcaption></div><h2>Club Has Hustle</h2>As the Black Hawks neared the completion of their grueling exhibition series with the world champs from Detroit last week, it was quite evident that Coach Sid Abel&rsquo;s charges will have to be reckoned with by everyone in the approaching NHL campaign. The former Red Wing great has instilled an abundance of hustle, fight and will to win in the Chicago pucksters.The squad of nearly 40 that attended the Hawk camp at Pembroke, Ont., last month has now been cut to 23 and five of these will have to go before League play begins. General Manager Tobin has reported that 18 men, two over the playing limit, will be carried this season. The roster will include 12 forwards, five defensemen and a goalie.During the exhibitions, Chicago appears to have perfected two starting lines. The first has Cal Gardner centering off left wing George Gee and right wing Billy Mosienko while the second trio consists of Gus Bodnar at center with rookie Pete Conacher on the left side and Fred Glover on the right.Pete Babando and Gerry &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Couture seem to be set at left and right wings respectively on the third line, but both Sid Finney and Jim McFadden have been between them. A fourth forward unit has consisted of Ray Hanni-gan, Enio Sclisizzi and Jim Peters.The Hawks&rsquo; rearguard corps looks better than it has in some years. Fred Hucul and Gus Mortson form one defensive pair and Capt. Bill Gadsby and Al Dewsbury make up the other. Lee Fogolin, Clare Raglan and Ed Kryzanowski are biding for the fifth blue line spot.Injuries have been fairly frequent with the Hawks during training and the practice contests, but Abel expects to be at full strength when the season starts. He has now recovered from his appendectomy and may see at least some action in the squad&rsquo;s opening game at Montreal October 8.Gadsby was unable to get in much work while training was in progress since he was bedded down with a bad cold and also had a slight touch of the dreaded infantile paralysis. He is now back in top condition, however, and is all set to get going. Several others, including Hucul, Dewsbury, Mosienko and Sclisizzi, were sidelined briefly too. &#9632;

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Once Battered Hawks To Get 8 New Braves

<div class="byline">Bud Booth.</div>PEMBROKE, Ont.&mdash;Al Rollins is impressed and has impressed as the new Chicago netminder and it appears that Harry Lumley will not be missed by the Black Hawks. After his very first workout in the nets with his new team, Al reported that the men in front of him seemed easily as good as those he had with Toronto.Chicago officials, on the other hand, were amply impressed with Al&rsquo;s first performance as the new Hawk goaler. In his initial game in the exhibition series with Detroit, he allowed just one goal and Coach Sid Abel termed his work as &ldquo;very good.&rdquo; &#9632;

Rollins Calls Chi Defense as Good As He Had in Tor.

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0454/966027-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="579" height="1164"><figcaption class="caption-body">(BERT OLMSTEAD)</figcaption></div>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;Unlike Milton Berle who &lsquo;Always Leaves &lsquo;Em Laughing&rsquo; Dick Irvin &lsquo;Always Leaves &lsquo;Em Guessing.&rsquo; Less than a month ago Irvin announced that there would be at least four new faces in the lineup of his club when they open the season against the Chicago Black Hawks next week.This week he announced that he would go into the 1952-53 season with exactly the same lineup that finished out last season. It seems while everybody and his brother was worrying about Irvin&rsquo;s lack of centers, the only guy who wasn&rsquo;t worrying was Irvin himself.&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s only right that we give the players who took us to second place and into the Stanley Cup finals last season a chance to show again this year.&ldquo;I think the four centers we have, Lach, Reay, Mosdell and McCormack can hold up through the season. If one or two fail then I can call in Masnick or Reg Abbott.* * *<h2>Will Be Improved Team</h2>&ldquo;Even with the same team we had last season, going into this one we&rsquo;ll be a vastly improved club. The kids are a year older and have gained experience. Then too, we have &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; back. He was hardly any use to us last season. Bouchard is playing his best hockey, we&rsquo;ll have Mosdell back, he was injured most of the season. Meger is now an experienced left winger. He only got three goals in his first 20 games last season. We didn&rsquo;t have Gamble, St. Laurent or McCormack for the playoffs. With those players in condition and with Gerry in the nets, we&rsquo;ll be a much better club.&ldquo;We might even catch the Wings this year, I don&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;ll be as powerful. All we had to do was break even with them last season and we would have tied them for first place. Don&rsquo;t forget we only beat them once and tied them twice. If we split through the season it comes out to a difference of 14 points each. Take 12 off them and add it to our total. If we can manage to break even with them this season we may make top place.&ldquo;I know, I know, everybody is picking the Wings for first again. Well let them. They may get an awful surprise.&rdquo;The man who has warmed the cockles of Dick&rsquo;s tough heart the most so far is Lanky Bert Olmstead. Bert, who almost hammed his way Into the minors last season came to the Habs from Chicago in the middle of the 1950-51 season with an overnight stop in Detroit. Leo Gravelle went in trade.&ldquo;Bert fits into Lach and Richard&rsquo;s line better than any other player,&rdquo; says Dick. &ldquo;Yes, even better than Moore. Incidently I don&rsquo;t think that youngster will be able to start the season with us. His knee is in bad shape.&rdquo;Moore had his left kness operated on during the off season. Medicos removed a cartilage but a growth has appeared in the back of the knee.At any rate he is expected to open the season with the club.Getting back to Olmstead, he showed his best form in The Habs&rsquo; second exhibition game of the season in Valleyfield where they won 7-2. Scoring two goals he skated better and was making better plays. Since then he has been burning up the camp. It&rsquo;s a good thing too, because it was thought not too long ago that he would be burning up some far distant railroad run in a race to the minors.Actually Olmstead didn&rsquo;t fit into the Habs&rsquo; plans after the end of last season. He scored only seven goals and 28 assist for 35 points and was succeeded on the big line by Dickie Moore. During the off season he was offered in trade to Chicago when the Hawks showed interest in taking him back to reunite their old &lsquo;Boilermaker Line&rsquo; of Olmstead, Guidolin and Prystai. The Habs asked for. Bodnar in return and the deal was killed right there and then.The Habs showed a number of fine prospects at their camp. Reg Abbott, a young center who was with Victoria last season was used between Geoffrion and Meger most of the time and he performed well. He was signed to a Canadiens&rsquo; contract subject to immediate recall.Others who looked to have the makings were Mazur, Edmunsston, Skippy Burchell from Johnstown and Don Marshall from the Junior Canadiens. The experts figure both Marshall and Burchell will be in the big loop before the season is over.The Habs will stock the Montreal Royals with their best prospects with immediate recall notices on them. Among those likely to be there are Ivan Irwin, Ross Lowe and Stan Long on defence with Mazur, Lome Davis, Masnick, Edmunson and Eddie Litzenberger going down. That is if they are waived out of the pro leagues the played in last season.When they open the season, the Habs will be exactly the same club that closed last year.Richard, Lach and Olmstead will be the first line with Moore alternating, if his knee is better.Geoffrion, Reay and Meger will be the second line with Gamble, Curry and Mosdell on the third line. The defense will be Bouchard, Harvey, Johnson, St. Laurent and MacPherson with McNeil back in goal.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be a better club,&rdquo; promised Irvin. &ldquo;Take that Curry, for instance. He&rsquo;s improved plenty. Last season he would get near the net and freeze up. At camp he would cut in and dump the puck into the cage with no trouble at all. That&rsquo;s a good sign.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Irvin Gives ‘51-52 Team Chance toProve They’re Good Enough for ‘52-53

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01111/966058-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE HOME OF the defunct Tulsa Oilers, formerly of the United States Hockey League, is no more. It burned to the ground recently. Above, the Coliseum roof crashed to the ground as the roaring inferno gets out of hand. Nobody was hurt as the building was closed that night.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Tulsa Coliseum Goes Up In Smoke

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Never before in the history of the National Hockey League have so many stars been sidelined in training camp as they have this year.At least one star from each club has been on the sidelines at one time or another.The Detroit Red Wings have lost the services of their star right winger Gordie Howe for 10 days. He was cut in the back of the leg for 10 stitches by Chicago&rsquo;s Lee Fogolin&rsquo;s skate. That&rsquo;s the only serious injury the Wings have had.The Montreal Canadiens have young Dickie Moore on the sidelines with a bad knee. Moore had it operated on this summer but a small groth in the back of the knee has put him out of action for a while.The Toronto Maple Leafs first lost the services of Ted Kennedy with a shoulder injury and then rookie George Armstrong collided with Harry Lumley and separated a shoulder. He&rsquo;ll be out for some time.The Boston Bruins have goaler Sugar Jim Henry on the rails with a swollen ankle. He sprained it during a practice.The Chicago Black Hawks were mired in Injured players for a while. Bill Gadsby was in hospital and Fred Hucul, and Enio Sclisizzi were all sidelined.The Rangers have suffered the worst loss. Their star Don Raleigh broke his wrist in an exhibition game against the Pittsburgh Hornets and won&rsquo;t be back in action for at least two months. &#9632;

Tough On Stars

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The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS

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It’s New!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01119/966182-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"></div>1952-53 SEASONOCTOBER8&mdash;Tacoma at Reattla Calgary at Saskatoon9&mdash;Vancouver at Victoria10&mdash;Victoria at Vancouver Saskatoon at Edmonton11&mdash;Seattle at Tacoma Vancouver at New Westminster Saskatoon at Calgary12&mdash;New Westminster at Seattle13&mdash;Tacoma at Victoria Calgary at Edmonton14&mdash;New Westminster at Vancouver Edmonton at Calgary15&mdash;Seattle at Edmonton17&mdash;New Westminster at Victoria acoma at Vancouver Seattle at Calgary18&mdash;Vancouver at Tacoma Victoria at New Westminster Edmonton at Saskatoon19&mdash;Vancouver at Seattle21&mdash;Edmonton at Vancouver Calgary at Saskatoon22&mdash;Edmonton at Seattle Tacoma at New Westminster23&mdash;Edmonton at Tacoma Saskatoon at Calgary24&mdash;Edmonton at Victoria Seattle at Vancouver25&mdash;Victoria at Tacoma Edmonton at New Westminster25&mdash;Victoria at Seattle28&mdash;Victoria at Vancouver New Westminster at Saskatoon29&mdash;Tacoma at Seattle New Westminster at Edmonton30&mdash;New Westminster at Calgary Edmonton at Saskatoon31&mdash;Seattle at Victoria Tacoma at Vancouver Saskatoon at EdmontonNOVEMBER1&mdash;Vancouver at Tacoma Victoria at New Westminster Saskatoon at Calgary2&mdash;Vancouver at Seattle4&mdash;Saskatoon at Vancouver5&mdash;Saskatoon at Seattle Tacoma at New Westminster6&mdash;Saskatoon at Tacoma7&mdash;Saskatoon at Victoria New Westminster at Vancouver Calgary at Edmonton8&mdash;Seattle at Tacoma Vancouver at Victoria Saskatoon at New Westminster Edmonton at Calgary9&mdash;New Westminster at Seattle11&mdash;New Westminster at Tacoma Calgary at Victoria Seattle at Vancouver12&mdash;Tacoma at Seattle Calgary at New Westminster Edmonton at Saskatoon14&mdash;Tacoma at Victoria Calgary at Vancouver15&mdash;Calgary at Tacoma Seattle at New Westminster Saskatoon at Edmonton16&mdash;Calgary at Seattle17&mdash;Vancouver at Saskatoon18&mdash;Vancouver at Edmonton19&mdash;Victoria at Seattle Tacoma at New Westminster Vancouver at Calgary20&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon21&mdash;New Westminster at Victoria Seattle at Vancouver Saskatoon at Edmonton22&mdash;Seattle at Tacoma Vancouver at New Westminster Saskatoon at Calgary23&mdash;Tacoma at Seattle24&mdash;Victoria at Saskatoon25&mdash;New Westminster at Tacoma Victoria at Edmonton26&mdash;Vancouver at Seattle Victoria at Calgary28&mdash;Seattle at Victoria Tacoma at Vancouver Calgary at Edmonton29&mdash;Vancouver at Tacoma Seattle at New Westminster Calgary at Saskatoon30&mdash;New Westminster at SeattleDECEMBER1&mdash;Victoria at Vancouver2&mdash;Vancouver at Victoria Tacoma at Calgary3&mdash;Victoria at Seattle Tacoma at Edmonton4&mdash;Tacoma at Saskatoon5&mdash;New Westminster at Victoria Seattle at Vancouver Saskatoon at Calgary6&mdash;Victoria at Tacoma Vancouver at New Westminster Saskatoon at Edmonton7&mdash;Vancouver at Seattle9&mdash;New Westminster at Tacoma Saskatoon at Vancouver10&mdash;Taoama at Seattle seattle at New Westminster Edmonton at Calgary12&mdash;Saskatoon at Victoria New Westminster at Vancouver Calgary at Edmonton13&mdash;Saskatoon at Tacoma Victoria at New Westminster Edmonton at Calgary14&mdash;Saskatoon at Seattle16&mdash;Calgary at Victoria17&mdash;Calgary at Seattle Edmonton at Saskatoon18&mdash;Calgary at Tacoma19&mdash;Seattle at Victoria Calgary at Vancouver Saskatoon at Edmonton20&mdash;Vancouver at Tacoma Calgary at New Westminster Edmonton at Saskatoon21&mdash;New Westminster at Seattle23&mdash;Calgary at Edmonton26&mdash;Tacoma at Victoria 3 p.m. Seattle at Vancouver 8.30 p.m, Calgary at Saskatoon 2.30 p.m.27&mdash;Victoria at Tacoma Seattle at New Westminster Saskatoon at Calgary28&mdash;Victoria at Seattle29&mdash;New Westminster at Calgary30&mdash;Seattle at TacomaNew Westminster at EdmontonJANUARY1&mdash;Vancouver at Victoria 3 p.m. Calgary at Edmonton 8.30 p.m, N. Westm. at Saskatoon 2.30 p.m.2&mdash;Victoria at Vancouver3&mdash;Tacoma at New Westminster Seattle at Calgary Edmonton at Saskatoon4&mdash;N. Westm. at Tacoma 2.30 p.m.5&mdash;Seattle at Edmonton6&mdash;New Westminster at Victoria Tacoma at Calgary Seattle at Saskatoon7&mdash;Tacoma at Edmonton8&mdash;Tacoma at Saskatoon9&mdash;Seattle at Victoria New Westminster at Vancouver Edmonton at Calgary10&mdash;Seattle at Tacoma Victoria at New Westminster Saskatoon at Edmonton11&mdash;Vancouver at Beattie 8.00 p.m.13&mdash;Victoria at Vancouver Calgary at Saskatoon14&mdash;Tacoma at Beattie Calgary at Edmonton15&mdash;Victoria at Calgary16&mdash;Tacoma at Vancouver Victoria at Edmonton17&mdash;Vancouver at Tacoma Seattle at New Westminster Edmonton at Calgary Victoria at Saskatoon18&mdash;New Westminster at Seattle20&mdash;Vancouver at Victoria New Westminster at Calgary21&mdash;Victoria at Seattle New Westminster at Edmonton22&mdash;Vancouver at Calgary New Westminster at Saskatoon23&mdash;Tacoma at Victoria Vancouver at Edmonton24&mdash;Seattle at Tacoma Victoria at New Westminster Edmonton at Calgary Vancouver at Saskatoon25&mdash;Tacoma at Seattle27&mdash;Victoria at Tacoma Calgary at Vancouver Edmonton at Saskatoon28&mdash;Calgary at New Westminster30&mdash;Calgary at Victoria New Westminster at Vancouver Saskatoon at Edmonton31&mdash;Calgary at Tacoma ancouver at New Westminster Edmonton at SaskatoonFEBRUARY1&mdash;Calgary at Seattle3&mdash;Edmonton at Victoria Saskatoon at Calgary4&mdash;Edmonton at New Westminster5&mdash;Calgary at Saskatoon6&mdash;New Westminster at Victoria Edmonton at Vancouver7&mdash;Edmonton at Tacoma Victoria New Westminster Calgary at Saskatoon8&mdash;Edmonton at Seattle10&mdash;Victoria at Vancouver Seattle at Calgary11&mdash;Tacoma at New Westminster Seattle at Edmonton12&mdash;Seattle at Saskatoon13&mdash;Tacoma at Victoria New Westminster at Vancouver Saskatoon at Edmonton14&mdash;Victoria at Tacoma Vancouver at New Westminster Saskatoon at Calgary15&mdash;&rsquo;Vancouver at Seattle17&mdash;New Westminster at Tacoma Saskatoon at Victoria18&mdash;Saskatoon at New Westminster20&mdash;Seattle at Victoria Saskatoon at Vancouver Edmonton at Calgary21&mdash;Saskatoon at Tacoma Vancouver at Victoria Seattle at New Westminster Calgary at Edmonton22&mdash;Saskatoon at Seattle23&mdash;Victoria at Calgary24&mdash;Vancouver at Tacoma Victoria at Edmonton25&mdash;Victoria at Saskatoon27&mdash;New Westminster at Victoria Tacoma at Vancouver Saskatoon at Edmonton28&mdash;Seattle at Tacoma Victoria at New Westminster Saskatoon at CalgaryMARCH1&mdash;New Westminster at Seattle2&mdash;Vancouver at Saskatoon3&mdash;Tacoma at Victoria Vancouver at Edmonton4&mdash;Tacoma at New Westminster Vancouver at CalgaryB&mdash;Edmonton at Saskatoon6&mdash;Seattle at Victoria New Westminster at Vancouver Calgary at Edmonton7&mdash;Victoria at Tacoma Vancouver at New Westminster Edmonton at Calgary8&mdash;Tacoma at Seattle10&mdash;New Westminster at Tacoma Edmonton at Vancouver Calgary at Saskatoon11&mdash;Edmonton at New Westminster12&mdash;Saskatoon at Calgary13&mdash;Edmonton at Victoria Tacoma at Vancouvert14&mdash;Edmonton at Tacoma&rsquo; Vancouver at Victoria Seattle at New Westminster Calgary at Saskatoon15&mdash;Edmonton at Seattle17&mdash;Victoria at Vancouver Tacoma at Calgary18&mdash;Tacoma at Edmonton19&mdash;Tacoma at Saskatoon20&mdash;New Westminster at Victoria Seattle at Vancouver Edmonton at Calgary21&mdash;Seattle at Tacoma Vancouver at New Westminster Calgary at Edmonton22&mdash;Victoria at Seattle<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0274/966175-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="587" height="926"></div> &#9632;

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Western Hockey League

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0193/966244-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="301" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Edgar Laprade)</figcaption></div>PEMBROKE, Ont.That ancient if erroneous, aphorism&ldquo;Lightning never strikes twice in the same place,&rdquo; offers small consolation to New YorkRangers&rsquo; manager Frank Boucher as he contemplates another National League season.Boucher, normally one of the most personable gents in hockey, is beginning to acquire a look of perpetual concern as if he expects a thunder-bolt to detonate at his heels at any Instant. Considering what has been happening to his Rangers, you have to admit that there is some justification for such morbid speculation.Rangers have run into more grief in the past two seasons than any other three NHL clubs. Three seasons back they pulled a major upset by battling gamely into the Stanley Cup final and fought fiercely for seven games before capitulating to Detroit Red Wings.<h2>Stanley, Rayner Big Loss</h2>They haven&rsquo;t been in the playoffs since then. Two years ago they finished one point out of fourth place. Last spring they trailed the fourth-place Boston Bruins by seven points. Both times they limped down the stretch, their spirit shaken by Injuries to key personnel.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure we would have made the playoffs last season if we hadn&rsquo;t lost defenceman Allen Stanley and then Chuck Rayner&rdquo;, Boucher declares confidently. &ldquo;We were doing all right until we lost them, weren&rsquo;t we? We just didn&rsquo;t have anybody to replace them.&rdquo;Boucher has almost forgotten that unkind deal by the fates when he arrived in Guelph, for training camp a few weeks back.He predicted blithely that this was a new season and Rangers, for a change, were about due for a smile from lady luck. But that was before Rangers played their first exhibition game with Pittsburgh Hornets here on September 24.Rangers blanked the rebellious Pittsburgh team 2-0, but any elation over this victory was cancelled when Don &lsquo;Bones&rsquo; Raleigh, their ace centreman and the fourth highest scorer in the NHL last season (19 goals, 42 assists), fractured his wrist in a collision with Tim Horton, burly rearguard of the AHL Champions.Doctors who examined Raleigh described the injury as &ldquo;a very bad break&rdquo;. They estimated that he would have to wear a cast for at least five weeks and it might be two months before he would be able to play hockey again. That would keep him out of the lineup at least until mid-November.Boucher recovered from this blow and succeeded in wooing Edgar Laprade out of retirement. Laprade had earlier decided to go on the voluntarily retired list but the smooth-skating centreman agreed to return to Rangers after Raleigh was injured.Boucher was beginning to feel that tilings weren&rsquo;t so bad after all when he received a wire from NHL president Clarence Campbell advising him that Laprade was the property of Chicago Black Hawks.The shocked Rangers&rsquo; manager read that Laprade had been picked up by Chicago for the waiver price of $7,500. Boucher said he thought waivers were unnecessary in this particular case since it was the player who had requested retirement. As this was being written he was planning to appeal the president&rsquo;s verdict.After that double jolt, Boucher is wondering if perhaps, he or the Rangers, are the victims of some strange voodoo.But being a resilient sort of fellow he recovers easily and he can still see a faint chink of sunlight through the overcast.&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;re going to be all right this season,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We have plugged our weak points from the year before. You remember last year we started out by striving for more scoring punch. Well we got it. We were the third highest scoring team in the league. But our defence and injuries let us down. This year we have an even stronger defence and we also have insurance against injuries.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Cook Sees His Club in 1st Division but Not Good Enough for 1st Place

GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;The announcement by President Clarence Campbell of the NHL to the Rangers that Edgar Laprade was no longer their property but Chicago&rsquo;s was probably the biggest shock General Manager Frank Boucher has had in a long time.&ldquo;Only the night before I was assured by Laprade that he was coming back to us,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I asked him to return when Don Raleigh broke his wrist. Laprade was quite concerned about Raleigh and he was anxious to help us out. He said he would fix up his business and be with us in a few days. And then today I get a telegram about this waiver business.&rdquo;Laprade decided to give up hockey this season and concentrate on a business in Port Arthur. Boucher made several at-tempts to get the flashy centre to change his mind but to no avail.During one point of their negotiations, Laprade notified Boucher that he would like to have his amateur status restored. But Boucher replied that this could not be done because Rangers had already invested too much money in him.Laprade finally signified his Intention to be placed on the voluntary retired list and Boucher gave his consent. Boucher said that Campbell committed an error in requesting waivers.&ldquo;I could understand it if we had started this thing,&rdquo; said Boucher. &ldquo;If a club desires that a player retire or wishes to ter-minate his contract, then it is only fair that waivers be asked. Otherwise a player might be deprived of a chance to earn his livelihood. But at no time did we do that. We&rsquo;ve been trying for weeks to get Laprade to report. Finally he reconsidered and Thursday he advised us he would return. Now I&rsquo;m notified that he doesn&rsquo;t belong to us any more.&rdquo; &#9632;

Boucher Says It was Error for NHL to Request Waivers

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Say Searam’s and be Sure

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NEW YORK RANGERS 1952-53 ROSTER

Boucher doesn&rsquo;t think any team will run away and hide from the others this season. &ldquo;Anyone of the six teams could conceivably win it,&rdquo; he estimated. The League is so well balanced, he said, that he wouldn&rsquo;t risk a forecast on the order of finish. That&rsquo;s about the first time he has refused to play this annual guessing game.Bill Cook, Rangers sober-faced coach, echoed Boucher&rsquo;s remarks about the team&rsquo;s strength. He too thought injuries kept the New Yorkers out of the playoffs last year. Asked what kind of a team Rangers would have this season, Cook hesitated.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s rather hard to say at the moment,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;I know the kind of team I&rsquo;d like to have but we&rsquo;ll have to wait and see what develops. I think that right now we&rsquo;re a stronger club than we were a year ago.&rdquo;Cook said the acquisition of defenceman Leo Reise, from Detroit Red Wings, was a tremendous help to Rangers. Reise went to New York for forward Reg Sinclair and a parcel of cash. Detroit was also given the rights to a junior player on Rangers list.&ldquo;Reise will not only strengthen us defensively but he will also give us more offensive punch,&rdquo; Cook declared. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mean that we&rsquo;re going to count on him too much as a rushing defenceman but with him back there the forwards will be able to open up more.&rdquo;&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t misunderstand me,&rdquo; Cook stressed. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think for a minute that we&rsquo;re going to be a first-place club. But we&rsquo;re good enough to be second or third.&rdquo; Detroit, he said, is still the team to beat for the League title.Cook pointed out that it was an advantage to have control of the team from the start of the season. He took over from Neil Colville half way through last season. It took him a few weeks to become acquainted with the players and their ability. Now that he has that information before hand he thinks Rangers will get off to a faster start.Although Cook has been pictured as a rigid task-master in some quarters he doesn&rsquo;t drive his players too hard in training camp. After the first few days the. players had daily two-hour drills only plus occasional exhibition games. He contends that a gradual approach to physical perfection removes the threat of injuries although with Rangers luck the players would probably get charley-horses while sleeping.Cook is expecting Gaye Stewart, one of the most widely-travelled players in the NHL, to flash some of the ability that made him one of the most-feared sharpshooters in the League a few seasons back.Stewart went into a bewildering slump in the early part of last season. He went through some 20-odd games without scoring a goal, a discouraging deviation for the hard-shooting Lake-head veteran.&ldquo;Stewart was unlucky last season&rdquo;, Cook commented. &ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t get too many breaks. He his goalposts and he missed openings he would normally have hit. And then he was injured part of the time. He&rsquo;s a whole lot better this year. As a matter of fact he&rsquo;s better physically than I&rsquo;ve ever seen him.&rdquo;Goal-keeper Charlie Rayner caused Boucher and Cook a few anxious moments when he reported in a week in advance of the other players. Rayner was ordered to start earlier because there was some doubt that he might not be able to stand the physical strain of another NHL season.After being injured late last season he underwent surgery to have ligaments in his left knee removed. That particular operation has proved troublesome to other hockey players in the past so Rayner&rsquo;s ice conduct was closely observed.If the operation wasn&rsquo;t a complete success Rayner is the best actor to come along since David Garrick trod the boards. He subjected his vulnerable knee to a series of violent tests and went through them all without a grimmace.One of the most active goalies in hockey, Rayner will continue his jumping-jack style in the Rangers crease because there is no doubt that he will again be their No. 1 goalie. He dived and flatted and performed other remarkable acrobatics to blank Pittsburgh Hornets in an exhibition game. Some observers say he is even more agile than last year.Recent developments might have changed his planning but Cook is confident that two lines which he formed last season will provide most of his scoring punch. Rangy Paul Ronty will centre one trio with a pair of sophomores, Wally Hergesheimer and Herb Dickenson on the wings. This was Rangers best line in the closing weeks of last season and it didn&rsquo;t take them long to start clicking again in training camp.Cook was expecting Don &ldquo;Bones&rdquo; Raleigh to pivot another line, flanked by veterans Gaye Stewart and Eddy Slowinski. Raleigh&rsquo;s injury will naturally change that. If Edgar Laprade returns to Rangers he will likely be given Raleigh&rsquo;s spot for the first part of the season.With almost two weeks of training completed Cook was still pondering the formation of a third line.He plans to carry three lines, two fill-in forwards and five defencemen. Picking that third line has been his No. 1 problem.Three juniors from the Memorial Cup champions, Guelph Biltmores, impressed Cook greatly. Centre Andy Bathgate and left wingers Dean Prentice and Ron Murphy performed as a unit throughout training and had little difficulty matching the pace of the pros. Biltmore defenceman Harry Howell was also considered for a starting role with Rangers.As this article was being prepared Cook and Boucher were still trying to determine if the Guelph quartet could jump directly into the NHL. The matter was complicated by the fact that all four players are still of junior age and Guelph club officials were exerting pressure to keep them in, Junior hockey for another season.Another line that Cook thought highly of in training had Jackie McLeod at centre with Jack &ldquo;The Octopus&rdquo; Stoddard and Nell Strain on the wings. The latter played with Saskatoon Quakers in the PCHL last season. Stoddard played with the Rangers the latter part of last season after being picked up from Providence.Strain, with Stoddard setting up the play, scored a goal in an exhibition game against Pittsburgh. Strain is a little on the light side but he is elusive enough to dodge the would-be bruisers. McLeod is certain to nail down one of the forward shots even if he is not Included on a regular line.Several other forwards are also under consideration for that third line. Ed Kullman, Nick Micoski and Jim Conacher might make it on experience alone. They showed plenty of foot in training and their rugged play forced the rookies to be on the alert.Two defense positions are also wide open, Cook revealed. Leo Reise, Allan Stanley and Hy Buller are assured of starting berths on Rangers defence but four others are battling for the other two positions.Steve Kraftcheck, Jim Ross, Jack Evans, and Harry Howell are the other rearguards scrapping to remain with Rangers. Ross seems certain to nab one of the spots. He broke in with Rangers last season fresh from Amateur ranks and developed into a first-class player.Buller, acknowledged as the third-best defenceman in the League last season although he was a freshman, will be out to explore that so-called sophomore jinx this year. Buller, who spent seven years in the AHL before getting his crack at the big time, accounted for 35 points, 12 goals and 23 assists last season. Only all-star Red Kelly, of Detroit, had a better total among defenceman.Buller was considered to be in line for the Calder Trophy, but Montreal&rsquo;s Bernie Geoffrion captured this award instead. Buller was behind the eightball all the way because a defenceman never has won this trophy.At New York&rsquo;s training camp several veteran observers, noting Buller&rsquo;s mature play, remarked that they wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if he made the first All-Star team this coming season.But whatever fate holds in store for Rangers Frank Boucher and Bill Cook are not overly-worried. Boucher, in particular, feels that the law of averages should straighten things out and this could be Rangers year.&ldquo;We proved last year that we had the scoring,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The addition of Reise gives us one of the best defence combinations in the League. It looks like a close race all the way, but I feel certain you&rsquo;ll see the Rangers in there this time.&rdquo; &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01103/966385-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="285" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Doug Smith)</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;With the opening of the National Hockey League season only a few days away, thousands of radio listeners in the Province of Quebec find it hard to realize that Doug Smith will not be back on the job broadcasting the games of the Montreal Canadiens.In mid-summer, Smith quietly announced that he was retiring as English play-by-play announcer for NHL games played in the Forum. At first there was disbelief for Doug had built himself a reputation second to none. Many of those close to the picture kept saying: &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll change his mind. Wait till they drop the first puck to start the season. Doug will be back. He loves the game too much to stay away&rdquo;.Then it was learned that Smith had become dissatisfied with the manner in which the broadcast franchise of NHL games in Montreal was being offered for sale to other sponsors. He strenuously objected to being sold as part of the hockey &lsquo;package&rsquo; in the Forum.* * *<h2>Terrifying Grid Schedule</h2>Then the friendly ex-Westerner accepted a long-standing offer from Dow Kingsbeer Brewery to sign an exclusive radio and television contract covering his broadcasts within the Province of Quebec. With an infinite capacity for hard work, Smith plunged into a terrifying schedule, broadcasting the football games of the Alouettes, and six times each week supplying the live commentaries to the motion pictures of Alouettes games.&ldquo;I broadcast seven football games a week&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;How would you like to broadcast an Argo-Alouettes game seven times with the score always coming out the same way&mdash;43-0 for the Argonauts?&rdquo;Smith also handles a six-a-week quarter hour sports program for Dow Brewery, and when sign-off time comes at 11.00 P.M., often as not Smith goes to his office for another hour or two of work.He has no Immediate plans for participation in television. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d prefer the early mistakes in TV to be made by someone other than myself. TV is here to stay, and so am I. We can both wait&rdquo;.Has he any regrets over his retirement as a hockey broadcaster in Montreal &ldquo;Not many&rdquo; says Smith. &ldquo;I broadcast hockey games for 14 years out of a majority of the biggest rinks in Canada and the States and I&rsquo;ve had my share of thrills. I&rsquo;m satisfied. I think I quit when I was at my best and that&rsquo;s the time to do it&rdquo;.To what does he owe his success &ldquo;The most colorful team In hockey&mdash;the Montreal Canadiens&rdquo;, Smith is quick to point out. &ldquo;When I came into the League eight years ago, tremendously colorful players like Toe Blake, Bill Durnan, Ray Getliffe, Murph Chamberlain and Kenny Reardon were with the club.As they dropped out, new players came up to take their places&mdash;Billy Reay, Doug Harvey&mdash;and in the meantime, Elmer Lach, Maurice Richard and Butch Bouchard were still going strong. Then last year, along came another exciting batch of colorful young players&mdash;Boom Boom Geoffrion, Paul Meger, Dollard St. Laurent and Dickie Moore. I had the easiest broadcasting job in the League with players like those down on the ice. It was like sitting in a rocking chair. Look at the dough Imperial Oil could have saved if they had known I would have been happy to work the majority of Canadiens&rsquo; games just for the fun of it&rdquo;.Firmly entrenched in the motion picture business as a one-third partner in Briston Films Limited, Smith says: &ldquo;We worked hard, and got Briston Films on the rails. Everyone says we take the best sports pictures in either Canada or the United States. That goes for either football or hockey, so I&rsquo;m going back into the radio business to give my sponsor, Dow Kinsbeer Brewery 100% of my time. I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ll be able to see any NHL games until the football season is over, but from then on. I&rsquo;ll switch from strict neutrality to extreme partiality. I&rsquo;ll become a fan. In the meantime, I&rsquo;m trying to become known as a good football broadcaster too&rdquo;. &#9632;

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0179/966509-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2>ANSWERS NEXT WEEK</h2>ACROSS1&mdash;Leaf player shown in centre.5&mdash;Initials of Buzinski, former Ranger netminder.7&mdash;Companay (abbr).8&mdash;Initials of O&rsquo;Neill, former Maple Leaf player.9&mdash;Given name of a new member of the Black Hawks.10&mdash;Another name for Aldege Bastien.11&mdash;Manager of Buffalo Bisons.12&mdash;Calder Trophy winner of 1942-43.14&mdash;In 1944-45 &ldquo;Dutch&rdquo; Hiller was sold to this N.H.L. team (abbr).15&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom &ldquo;Busher&rdquo; Jackson first played (abbr).17&mdash;Initials of new coach of St. Louis Flyers.18&mdash;Name given Hockey Club of Buffalo.20&mdash;Initials of Albright, ex Ran ger.23&mdash;A portion.25&mdash;Dickie Moore had an operation on one recently.26&mdash;New member of the Black Hawks.29&mdash;A.H.L. President.31&mdash;Pictured star&mdash;is 25.32&mdash;Short for given name of Houle of New Westminster.DOWN1&mdash;&ldquo;Pep&rdquo; Kelly is a scout for this N.H.L. team.2&mdash;Old time great, first name Frank.3&mdash;Name given an Indianapolis forward.4&mdash;Roy Conacher spent one&mdash;with Detroit (abbr).5&mdash;Short for first name of Long, who played for Canadiens in 1951-52 play-offs.6&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom Ross Lowe first played.10&mdash;Nickname of Houle of New Westminster.11&mdash;&rdquo;Rip&rdquo; Riopelle&rsquo;s initials.13&mdash;Number of seasons 22 down played with Rangers.15&mdash;Lome Ferguson once played for this USHL team.16&mdash;Name given Brayshaw who once played for Chicago.17&mdash;Given name of &ldquo;Peggy&rdquo; O&rsquo;Neil, ex N.H.L. player.19&mdash;Each (abbr).20&mdash;Nickname of Brown who played for Detroit in 19 3940.22&mdash;This player obtained his release from Boston recently.23&mdash;There must be snow before one can do this.24&mdash;Ells English (abbr).26&mdash;Short for first name of Leger, ex-Habitant player.27&mdash;Number of seasons 22 down played with Boston.28&mdash;Initials of Silvestri, who played for Portland in 1950-51.29&mdash;Initials of Adams, former member of the Canadiens.30&mdash;Initials of Chicago&rsquo;s Vice-President.<h2>Sept. 15 Answers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0253/966502-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="556" height="880"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0334/966540-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="298" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">(C. S. Campbell)</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, says he did not err in allowing the Chicago Black Hawks to pick up Edgar Laprade on a waiver, as was charged by Frank Boucher, manager of the New York Rangers.Campbell said waivers are obligatory when a player asks to be put on the voluntary list, as had Ranger star Laprade. The only difference in this situation, was that another team picked up the $7,500 waiver. Usually, such waivers are passed.Boucher said in Guelph, Ont., after being informed of the Black Hawk deal, &ldquo;only the night before I was assured by Laprade that he was coming back to us&hellip;and then today I get a telegram about this waiver business.&rdquo;Campbell said requesting waivers in such cases is &ldquo;standard practice which has been in vogue under present by-laws since September, 1948, during which time dozens of such waivers have been called for.&ldquo;They are automatic and unavoidable.&rdquo;He said the &ldquo;Ranger management was expressly reminded by letter that the waivers would be required if Laprade was to be placed on the voluntary retired list. Apparently they assumed that no one would claim.&rdquo; &#9632;

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<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0212/966647-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="255" height="296"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0112/966654-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="232" height="283"></div><h2>Four Juniors to Rangers Only</h2>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;Four members of last season&rsquo;s Guelph Biltmores, still eligible for Junior Hockey, are working out with New York Rangers and Guelph fans and hockey officials are greatly agitated lest the four jump directly into the NHL. Biltmore officials take the stand that the players should be permitted to finish out their junior careers before moving along to pro.The tour players in question are forwards Andy Bathgate, Dean Prentice and Ron Murphy and Defenceman Harry Howell. Biltmores would be strong contenders for the Memorial Cup again if they keep these four players. If they lose them, however they would be lucky to get out of their own league. So Biltmore officials are treating the Rangers experiment most frigidly.Frank Bouclter has assured the Biltmore club that the players will not turn pro &ldquo;unless they can move directly to the Rangers.&rdquo; So far, he hasn&rsquo;t decided if they&rsquo;re ready. &ldquo;We would never turn any junior pro to play in a Minor league,&rdquo; explained Boucher. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no point in that. But if a player is ready for the NHL, what&rsquo;s the sense in keeping him a Junior?&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0311/966640-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="1214" height="1293"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-049/966633-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="1221" height="1635"></div> &#9632;

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