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November 1, 1952

The Hockey News November 1, 1952

<div class="byline">By IAN MacDONALD MONTREAL Que.&#x2014;</div><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>alt Black Hawks, third-place finishers in the rugged junior section of the Ontario Hockey Association last season, were wondering last week if they had done the right thing in offering themselves as &lsquo;Guinea Pigs&rsquo; for the newly formed Ontario-Quebec interlocking series.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0292/1032962-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="294" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Hamill</b></figcaption></div><p>While all nine teams in the OHA unanimously supported the proposition that their circuit play games throughout the season with the four-team Quebec Junior Amateur Hockey Association most of the Ontario teams showed a reluctance towards pioneering the foreign territory.</p><p>Coach Red Hamill&rsquo;s Hawks stepped forward and while the Chicago farmhands can&rsquo;t squawk at all about their reception from Montreal fans they just happened to be the victim of a glaring case of &lsquo;Grand Larceny.&rsquo;</p><p>For Galt hit Montreal Canadiens on a night when the latter&rsquo;s tiny netminder Charley Hodge was in one of his more brilliant moods. In fact &lsquo;The Nipper&rsquo;, as the pony-sized product of Canadiens farm systems is tagged by his. mates, perpetrated several bare-faced thefts as he turned back Hawk snipers in the Hab&rsquo;s 3-1 win.</p><p>Aside from this &lsquo;unhospitable treatment&rsquo; the Ontarions had nothing but good words to say regarding the experiment.</p><p>Montreal fans went overboard for the visitors and enthusiasm in Three Rivers and Quebec, the other two stops on the Quebec circuit, assures banner crowds for every game.</p><p>The game itself had a playoff atmosphere with both coaches, Sam Pollock of Canadiens and Hamill of the Hawks, feeling each other out in the first period, then letting fly with full force in the last two sessions.</p><p>Canadieus had far the better of the play in the middle canto but were reeling in the tinal frame when the visitors went all out to cop the game. Hodge robbed Tony Poeta, Neil McDonald and Hec Lalonde in the last period after each one had worked his way into the clear.</p><p>Both clubs played the same brand of hockey. It was close-checking, yet full speed all the way. Both teams flashed spurts of concentrated power and fancy passing plays, both teams unearthed possible future stars and both teams played for keeps the whole way.</p><p>The 5,000 plus fans at the Montreal Forum cheered their way through the entire piece and. junior puck enthusiasts are already awaiting the next appearance of an Ontario team.</p><p>Dream-child of junior Canadien coach Sam Pollock and Forum Public Relations Director Kenny Reardon, the plan seems destined for a glowing success.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0459/1032955-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="585" height="907"></div><p><b>Buckingham</b></p><p>THE <i>Mellow</i> CIGARETTE<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Red’s Hawks Have Hard Time in Opener Against Junior Habs

<p>If you ore looking for a trophy for any sport&mdash;Hockey, Bowling, etc. Drop in and look over our complete supply.</p><p>&ldquo;Gifts for all Occasions&rdquo;</p><p><b>ALEX FAILE</b></p><p><b>360 ST. JAMES ST. W.</b></p><p>ROYAL BANK BLDG., MONTREAL<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sport Trophies

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Back of HOCKEY VICTORIES

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins, who haven&rsquo;t been overloaded with colorful players in recent years, may have come up with a kaleidoscope this season in a 21-year-old right wing from the metropolis of Haileybury, Ont.</p><p>They&rsquo;re already calling him the Haileybury Hurricane, and his name is Leo Labine.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01141/1031610-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="299" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Labine</b></figcaption></div><p>The puckish forward with the crew haircut had played exactly one game for the Bruins this season when he prompted this observation from Lynn Patrick, his coach:</p><p>&ldquo;Before this season is over one of us will be in a strait jacket. I don&rsquo;t know whether it&rsquo;ll be Leo or I, but I suspect that it will be I.&rdquo;</p><p>Labine has a faculty&mdash;a highly desirable one from a box-office point of view&mdash;of making things happen.</p><p>When he played for the Barrie Flyers and they won the Memorial Cup two years ago, all sorts of things happened.</p><h2>Provides many Fireworks</h2><p>When he was with the Hershey Bears most of last season, unusual events took place.</p><p>In his brief stay with the Bruins last year, he provided fireworks.</p><p>Now he&rsquo;s running in form as a regular forward, the right wing on the Bruins&rsquo; first line, with Dave Creighton and Real Chevrefiis.</p><p>As a part-time Bruin last year Labine performed two notable feats, one of them credited to him presumably on suspicion.</p><p>In a regular reason game with the Toronto Maple Lears he responded to a trip by Gus Mortson, then a Toronto defenseman, by parting Mortson&rsquo;s hair with his stick in a playoff game with the Montreal Canadiens he, according to Montreal observers who singled him out of a group of three Bruins, made drastic alterations in Maurice Richard&rsquo;s countenance.</p><p>Labine&rsquo;s designation as Richard assassin has always been viewed with skepticism here, on the ground that it was a carryover from his junior days, for they didn&rsquo;t like him in Montreal then, either.</p><p>But there hasn&rsquo;t been any skepticism to the Hurricane&rsquo;s playing ability since Patrick brought the Bruins from their Hershey training camp, it was quickly eviden. that a year had made a big difference in him.</p><p>&ldquo;He has much more speed and poise than he had last year,&rdquo; declared Patrick. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll be one of the most colorful players in the league, and he&rsquo;ll be a leading contender for rookie of the year.&rdquo;</p><p>Labine, in the short time the Bruins have been playing this season, has combined color and ability in typical Labine measures.</p><h2>Tangled with Butch</h2><p>In a game with the Canadiens he threw some lovely bo dy checks and Butch Bouchard, the big Montreal defenseman, ran himself ragged trying to hit him in return. Finally, after crashing into the boards on one miss, Bouchard skated to his bench grinning broadly, and Labine grinned back.</p><p>In a game with the Toronto Maple Leafs he became embroiled in a brawl with Tod Sloan, and when Sloan raised a bump on his head with his stick, he responded with vigor. He was flabergasted when he read in a Toronto paper Sloan&rsquo;s denial that he had used his stick.</p><p>&ldquo;Over 6000 people saw him,&rdquo; he quipped, &ldquo;and I felt it.&rdquo;</p><p>But it was Labine&rsquo;s other talents which interested Patrick more as the Bruins moved out for a six-game road trip. The Bruins&rsquo; coach pointed to statistics which showed that Labine had made more shots in early games than anyone else on the team,</p><p>&ldquo;A year ago one of our troubles was that we didn&rsquo;t get enough shots,&rdquo; he observed. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s an improvement right there, and if he hasn&rsquo;t been scoring he&rsquo;s coming close. To me he looks like a potentially high scorer.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bruins’ Rookie Has Box Office Appeal and Faculty for Making Things Happen

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0144/1033393-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>NHL Action in Camera&rsquo;s Eye</b></h2><h2><b>Aid For Wee Lome</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>teve Kraftcheck of the New York Rangers skates in to take care of a rebound on a shot by Boston&rsquo;s Penti Lund. Lorne Worsley has just made the stop white Nick Mickoski takes Lund out of the play. Jim Ross also rushes in to aid.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0232/1033386-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1790" height="1631"></div><h2><b>Howe Sinks, Ted Swims.</b></h2><p><b>The new Production Line is seen above on a scoring play. Gordie Howe, right, having just put one in behind Harry Lumley. That&rsquo;s Reg Sinclair taking note of how it&rsquo;s done while Ted Lindsay is knocked down by Jim Thompson, of the Leafs.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0316/1033379-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="1192" height="1508"></div><h2><b>Hergy Gets Stuck</b></h2><p><b>Diminutive Wally Hergesheimer is shoved hard into the glass at the end of Madison Square Garden. Hal Laycoe is seen attempnting to get at the puck which is at Hergy&rsquo;s right heel. Hergesheimer potted three goals this game.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-048/1033372-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="1185" height="1504"></div><h2><b>Paul Snarls&hellip;Jim Saves</b></h2><p><b>Real determination is shown on the face of Paul Meger, fiery left winger of the Montreal Canadiens. The gent who&rsquo;s the object of the snarl is Sugar Jim Henry of the Boston Bruins who has just made the save off Meger.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ross Raps Smythe on ‘Vicious Play’ Count

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;Joe Primeau, coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, saw one of his precepts carried out to the letter last week, when Leo Labine of the Bruins and Tod Sloan of the Maple Leafs had a stickswinging duel here.</p><p>&ldquo;One of the first things my junior coach at St. Mike&rsquo;s told me was that I had no friends on the other team,&rdquo; related Labine. &ldquo;It looks as though he must have told Sloan the same thing.&rdquo;</p><p>Primeau, the man who now coaches Sloan, was Labine&rsquo;s coach at St. Michael&rsquo;s in Toronto.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Double Story

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0253/1030897-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO LABINE&hellip;Did He Swing First?</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;Movies of the Boston-Toronto game last week, the result of which has been protested by Toronto, failed to show the start of the mixup between the Bruins&rsquo; Leo Labine and the Maple Leafs&rsquo; Tod Sloan.</p><p>The films, taken by a non-partisan television photographer for use on a Boston network, caught the windup of the incident but not its origin. The reason for that, the photographer explained, was that he was following the puck with his camera when it started.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what usually happens with pictures in Toronto,&rdquo; quipped Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins. &ldquo;Whenever a Maple Leaf starts something, it never comes out in the film.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Principals and Battle</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0348/1030890-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1173" height="1201"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED SLOAN&hellip;Or Did He?</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Movies Fail to Show Battle Start

<div class="byline">&#x2014;ROGER BARRY</div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;The first peace pact ever made between General Manager Art Ross of the Boston Bruins and Conn Smythe, managing director of the Toronto Mople Leafs, lasted a little less than nine months.</p><p>It was only last February that the two long-time antagonists buried the har-chet under a flood of oratory at a Boston press hockey luncheon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0434/1030935-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="292" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Art Ross</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0528/1030928-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="301" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><p>At that time Smythe, referring to their 25 years&rsquo; verbal warfare, said in part:</p><p>&ldquo;Our feud was on the level. He taught me how to make deals, how to give away 10 dollars to get 50, then how to steal the 10 back.&rdquo;</p><p>And Smythe added, &ldquo;Those two sons of his (Art, Jr. and John) changed my way of thinking, though. I got to thinking about their war records one day, and it occurred to me that the father of two such fine men couldn&rsquo;t be too bad himself.&rdquo;</p><p>Then Ross made his contribution to the fledgling mutual admiration society by saying, &ldquo;We battled for years, then we sat down one night and found out that it was a misunderstanding.</p><p>&ldquo;Toronto is the only Canadian club that cares anything about the welfare of the American clubs. When things work out well for us down here, the Toronto organization will deserve a lot of credit.&rdquo;</p><p>And now, less than nine months later, the war is on again! International diplomats couldn&rsquo;t have worked faster!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boston, Toronto Office Peace Pact Lasted Little Less Than Nine Months

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;General Manager Conn Smythe says that even if he wins his protest of the Boston game he wouldn&rsquo;t take the two points.</p><p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t want to win points or games in the committee room. We never have and don&rsquo;t intend to start now.&rdquo;</p><p>At any rate has protest cost him exactly $500 to lodge. That&rsquo;s the stipulated fee set down by the League Governors to put up a beef on a game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Protest Cost $500 but Conn Says He Won’t Take Points

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The previously peaceful National League front has suddenly become a firing line, with two old antagonists manning the heavy artillery.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0163/1030835-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="303" height="396"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Gravel</b></figcaption></div><p>From Toronto Connie Smythe, managing director of the Toronto Maple Leafs, has loosed a blast at George Gravel, veteran National League referee.</p><p>From here Art Ross, general manager of the Boston Bruins, has aimed a return salvo at the man with whom he once carried on one of hockey&rsquo;s most colorful feuds.</p><p>Smythe has charged Gravel, the referee of a spirited game here last week in which the Bruins beat the Maple Leafs, 2 to 1, with incompetence or prejudice, the former charge to fit if the latter doesn&rsquo;t.</p><p>In retaliation Ross has defended Gravel staunchly, at the same time charging Smythe with encouraging the Maple &ldquo;Leafs to play vicious hockey.</p><p>Smythe unloaded his spicy opinions of Gravel after announcing that he had filed an official protest of the game with Clarence Campbell, National League president.</p><p>The reason for his protest, he said, was Gravel&rsquo;s handling of a first-period mixup between Leo Labine of the Bruins and Tod Sloan of the Maple Leafs, for which both received match penalties.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Third Time For Garvel</h2><p>&ldquo;This is the third time Gravel has been involved in match penalties to Toronto players, and I&rsquo;m getting sick of it,&rdquo; declared Smythe.</p><p>&ldquo;I protested the officiating of Gravel last year and got nowhere,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Now I&rsquo;ve got proof that he&rsquo;s either Incompetent or discriminating against the Leafs.&rdquo;</p><p>Ross erupted like a volcano when Smythe&rsquo;s announcement&rsquo; of the protest and his denouncement of Gravel appeared in the papers here, and he wasted no time in striking back.</p><p>&ldquo;Toronto&rsquo;s record so far this Beason makes it appear as if the Maple Leafs are following Smythe&rsquo;s orders to play rough, vicious hockey,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and he personally can take credit for any brawls in which the Toronto club is involved.</p><p>&ldquo;As long as Toronto continues to play the kind of hockey it has played this year and last year, he may as well file a permanent pro test with President Campbell for all games the Maple Leafs lose. Any referee who enforces the rules as written in the book will be charged by Smythe with discrimination toward Smythe.&rdquo;</p><p>Then in defense of Gravel, Ross added, &ldquo;The protest casts aspersions at Gravel, who in my opinion refereed exceptionally well. Smythe doesn&rsquo;t have the ghost of a chance of winning his protest.</p><p>&ldquo;If Gravel&rsquo;s judgment was at fault at all, it was in not giving Sloan a match penalty for hitting Labine over the head from behind and Labine only a major for retaliating with a high stick. If there was any mistake at all, Toronto got the best of it.&rdquo;</p><p>Wasn&rsquo;t Very Serious Incident</p><p>The Labine-Sloan incident had been passed off here as just a part of a crowd-pleasing game until word of Smythe&rsquo;s action came in. The flareup had been covered by the hockey writers present, with the views of both sides recorded, then it was dropped as a news item.</p><p>The first observers knew that trouble was brewing was when it actually started, for neither Labine nor Sloan was involved directly in play at the moment.</p><p>They attracted speedy attention, however, &lsquo;when Sloan rapped Labine on the head with his stick and the 21-year-old Bruins&rsquo; rookie retaliated. They exchanged swings, then Labine dropped his stick and dove at Sloan, knocking the 24-year-old Maple Leaf to the ice.</p><p>When Linesmen Herb Gallagher and Sam BabCock finally separated them, Sloan was bleeding from a cut at his hairline which required five stitches, and Labine had two sizeable lumps on his head. Gravel promptly sent both to their locker rooms, and his move was approved as the speedy end to potential trouble. There were no further outbreaks in the game.</p><p>Post-game statements from the rival dressing rooms were contradictors, with the Bruins mainetaining that Sloan, who was penalized 39 minutes a year go, was the aggressor, and the Maple Leafs claiming that young Labine was at fault.</p><p>&ldquo;He cross-checked me from behind,&rdquo; claimed Sloan.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t, I just pushed him,&rdquo; contradicted Labine. &ldquo;The first thing I knew he hit me an awful belt on the back of the head with his stick. I swung back to protect myself.&rdquo;</p><p>Gravel filed a post-game report with Campbell, and before Smythe made his protest the general belief here was that Sloan and Labine would escape suspension but that both would be assessed automatic $100 fines for receiving match penalties for intent to injure.</p><p>No one suspected that the aftermath would be the rhubarb now in full swing, with the volatile Smythe on one end of the line and the fiery Ross on the other.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ross Aims Whack at Smythe for Labine-Sloan Whacking

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>(Toronto Telegram)</p><p>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s not so much the points as the principle of the thing.</p><p>The Leafs are protesting against a ruling of NHL referee George Gravel in Boston in their first sweep through that city in which Conn Smythe, ably supported by his right hand Happalonius Day, insists that Gravel Gertie improperly applied a match penalty rule in a fracas between Tod Sloan of the Leafs and Leo Labine of the Bruins. Amazingly enough Smythe is not interested in the two points his team might get if by some chance he should win the protest. He strongly insists that the Leafs would forfeit the two points.</p><p>&ldquo;All I want,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;is to bring this refereeing thing to a head. All I want is a 50-50 deal for my players.&rdquo;</p><p>Sloan emerged from his high sticking joust with Labine with a five stitch cut on his head. Labine, though reports have it there was a rising lump on his headbone, emerged relatively unscathed. Gravel thumbed them both off for attempting to injure an opponent, a felony which carries with it an automatic $100 fine, a match penalty under which both sides play shorthanded for five minutes and an automatic suspension until NHL president Clarence Campbell deals with the report from the referee.</p><p>(The president apparently dealt with this case promptly. Both Sloan and Labine played the following Saturday.)</p><p>Smythe is sputtering over Gravel&rsquo;s failure to give Labine a sentence under the more serious section which deals with deliberate injury to an opponent. under which the Bruins would bave been shorthanded 10 minutes. He points to Sloan&rsquo;s taped forehead as mute evidence that this was more than an attempt. It was an actual occurrence.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not trying to be critical of the officials,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m protesting to finally get across my point about Gravel. This is the third time he&rsquo;s been involved in match penalties to Leafs (within a period of one year ending last February, Gravel blessed former Leaf Gus Mortson with three such penalties one for hitting Chicago&rsquo;s Adam Brown on the shoulder harness with his stick, one for allegedly kicking at Detroit&rsquo;s Freddy Glover and one for the same sort of sin against Hy Buller of the Rangers.)</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve still got movies that can show that Mortson&rsquo;s stick hardly touched Brown,&rdquo; Smythe fumed in disclosing that he was influenced in trading Gusty Gus to the Hawks by Gravel&rsquo;s apparent inability to overlook any of Mortson&rsquo;s boisterous retaliations.</p><p>&ldquo;This the first protest of this nature I&rsquo;ve submitted,&rdquo; said Smythe,&rdquo; Up till now I&rsquo;ve just been content to take the knocks as they come. I guess they think that because of that and because hockey is going well here and we&rsquo;re getting good crowds that they don&rsquo;t have to bother with us. Well, they&rsquo;re wrong. I&rsquo;m going to protect my players.&rdquo;</p><p>If he thinks he&rsquo;s getting beaten in the paper end of the League, Smythe is becoming more convinced that his club is going to be tough to beat on the ice floes. It has graduated from the classification he gave it at the start of the season, a &lsquo;mystery team, into a more recognizable unit with potential power at all points.</p><p>Of the four players Smythe said he&rsquo;d have to have to gets the Leafs in the playoffs this season, Gord Hannigan, Tim Horton, Ron Stewart and Leo Boivin in his estimation, have already shown signs&rsquo; that they will fill the bill. If George Armstrong, who has missed all so far with a shoulder separation, can hold up the right wing spot beside Max Bentley as well as most people think he can, Smythe will be wearing sun glasses every time he watches them work out.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0619/1030966-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="574" height="858"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>On Guard</b></p><p><b>CONN SMYTHE</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Just Want 50-50 Deal For My Players,” Yells Smythe

<h2>They Give Rangers Youngest Team in History</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0163/1031042-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="917" height="1209"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DEAN PRENTICE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0252/1031035-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="907" height="1201"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDY BATHGATE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0333/1031028-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="904" height="1208"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RON MURPHY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0418/1031021-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="917" height="1196"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY HOWELL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Blues Hustle Guelph Kids Into MSG

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>If any other team had come home for the first time with but a solitary tie to show for its five-game inaugural trip, there would have been immediate reprisals. But the Rangers trooped back to New York this week in a composed&mdash;if not a particularly happy&mdash;state. They had the idea their season was just beginning and that, already, they knew they were better than at least two other clubs in the NHL.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll start from here,&rdquo; coach Bill Cook said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been in an experimental stage. The injuries to Raleigh, Rayner and Reise and Laprade&rsquo;s refusal to come back&mdash;even temporarily&mdash;caused a big reshuffle. When some of the other veterans we&rsquo;d been counting on didn&rsquo;t get a good start, that changed our plans, too.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the youngsters from Guelph, now, and they look as though they&rsquo;ll do. Certainly I have no complaints with Worsley. He&rsquo;s been doing a real good job in the nets&hellip;an outstanding job. Practically all of the goals against him have been rebounds. The defensemen just haven&rsquo;t been clearing them the way they should.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course, I don&rsquo;t expect that we&rsquo;ll really get rolling until Raleigh is able to play. But we&rsquo;re jelling better all the time and we should win our share, now, even before Don gets back.&rdquo;</p><h2>Raleigh&rsquo;s Return Will Boost Club</h2><p>Frank Boucher, whose job it has been to try to refurbish the ranks depleted by injuries, was also far from pessimistic. &ldquo;Add Raleigh to our team,&rdquo; the manager promised, &ldquo;and we are far better than either Boston or Chicago We&rsquo;ll prove it before the season is over. Not only that, but we won&rsquo;t be very far behind Montreal and Toronto.&rdquo;</p><p>In the absence of Raleigh, who, for at least four more weeks, won&rsquo;t be able to lend the needed balance to the offense, the Rangers will depend upon the three young forwards from Guelph to give considerable lift. Up to now, only the Ronty-Hergesheimer-Dickenson line has been contributing to the attack.</p><p>Two of the Guelph forwards, center Andy Bath-gate and left winger Ron Murphy, were called up in time to play the final two games on the road&mdash;in Toronto and Boston. With Ed Slowinski on their right hand for morale purposes, they showed very well, &ldquo;They acted like veterans,&rdquo; Cook said. &ldquo;They know how to play the game, they want to and they have the skills to do it. They&rsquo;re the type who&rsquo;ll improve, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Dean Prentice, the third junior who was to have joined the team also in Toronto, became a true Ranger before he ever put on the uniform. He suffered a Charlie horse in his last game for Guelph and couldn&rsquo;t report to the parent club until the opener in New York.</p><p>The most impressive of the three young forwards in training camp, Prentice was expected to have to work for a regular job. Although Cook&rsquo;s plans were still indefinite, he thought he&rsquo;d keep Slowinski with Bathgate and Murphy for the time being, at least.</p><p>That would give Prentice a chance to fill in on the catch-as-catch-can third line or give Murphy occasional rest. Prentice can play either wing. Eventually, plans call for the three Guelph graduates to play together, as they had with the Biltmores at the start of this season.</p><p>All three youngsters have something the Rangers have sorely needed in forwards&mdash;size and weight. So has Harry Howell, another Guelph player brought up to fill in for Reise when the ex-Red Wing bounced into a goal post in the third game in Montreal. The resultant pulled ligaments behind his left shoulder blade were to keep Reise out of the lineup for 10 days at least.</p><h2>Cook Impressed With Rookie Harry Howell</h2><p>Cook was impressed with his young defenseman, after playing him in Toronto and Boston. &ldquo;He scored a good goal in his first game,&rdquo; Bill said, &ldquo;but let&rsquo;s forget that. What I like about him is he does everything well. He&rsquo;s a solid defenseman. Won&rsquo;t make many mistakes, even if he is only 20.&rdquo;</p><p>Asked if Howell might stay with the club, even after Reise returns, Cook answered: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll have to wait and see. Right now I&rsquo;d say yes. He&rsquo;s a major leaguer.&rdquo;</p><p>If a second line&mdash;say Bathgate&rsquo;s&mdash;could match Ronty&rsquo;s, the Rangers would be in excellent shape. For the first five-game records showed that the Ronty-Hergesheimer-Dickenson team had done most of it. Of the nine goals scored by the Rangers, they had a part in six. And, of the 16 goals scored against them, the Ronty line was on ice only for one of them.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Will Improve, Have Skill, Reports Cook

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>hey&rsquo;ve been working like hell,&rdquo; Cook said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not their fault we came back with a single point. A few lapses by the defense hurt us. We also missed Laprade in killing penalties. Too many teams scored too often when we had a man down.</p><p>&ldquo;But, we still did better on the road than the record indicates,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I figure we should have had at least four points, with any break at all. But that&rsquo;s an old story now. Now we&rsquo;ll begin the season.&rdquo;</p><p>ICE CHIPS: With Rayner still out with a severe Charley horse, in which a blood clot has formed, and with 30-year-old Reise also absent, the Rangers came home to field their youngest squad in all history. Murphy. at 19, is the baby&mdash;the other three Guelph grads are 20&mdash;and Slowinski the grandpa at 29. The club&rsquo;s average age was 23.5&hellip;Murphy, incidentally, had no sooner skated out for his first practice in New York when several fans pointed out to Cook that the young Irishman has Bill&rsquo;s skating legs. Bowlegged, of course. &ldquo;Glad he&rsquo;s not a goaltender,&rdquo; Cook murmured.</p><p>Jimmy Conacher&rsquo;s name was added to mounting injury list when he bruised a rib in Toronto. He&rsquo;d played his best game against the Leafs, as left winger with Nick Mickoski and Jack Stoddard&hellip;Stoddard, incidentally, is beginning to shape up as the player Boucher thought, he was buying from Providence in last mid-season. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s more aggressive and he sure has the size to be rough,&rdquo; Frank said. &ldquo;Maybe we&rsquo;ll still get our money&rsquo;s worth out of him, yet.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Defense Lapses Hurt in Early Road Games

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;The New York Rangers finally made a decision on their new Guelph grads. They have returned Ron Murphy to the Biltmores of the Ontario Junior loop but signed Defenseman Harry Howell and center Andy Bathgate. The fourth of the lads has another game to play of his three game lend lease. However, the Rangers are expected to sign Dean Prentice to a pro contract.</p><p>The Rangers also announced that they had farmed Jackie McLeod out to the Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Hockey League and recalled Aldo Guidolin from Vancouver.</p><p>Guidolin is in his first year as a pro haveing graduated from the Guelph Bilts this season. He is a cousin of former Chicago star Bep.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Blues Sign Andy and Harry

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01131/1031145-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="263" height="388"></div><h2>Flash&mdash;Irvin and Boucher Agree!</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ick Irvin and Frank Boucher, who rarely see eye-to-eye about anything, agree about one thing and it&rsquo;s that the Chicago Black Hawks won&rsquo;t maintain the torrid pace they are setting in the NHL race.</p><p>&ldquo;Detroit is still the team to beat,&rdquo; Dick said recently. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got good balance. The Black Hawks are an improved team and they might go somewhere if they can avoid injuries. But they&rsquo;re not a young club. Do you know that 11 of them have played on teams that won the Stanley Cup? They&rsquo;re a team of established players.&rdquo;</p><p>Frank Boucher, who was here with the New York Rangers, thinks the Red Wings will have problems before the schedule is over.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re gradually coming back to the level of the other teams,&rdquo; he declared. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got a good team as it stands but they haven&rsquo;t got the players behind them. They&rsquo;ve hauled up all the good ones from their farm clubs. If anything were to happen to Gordie Howe where would they get a replacement?&rdquo;</p><p>But that goes for the other teams, too. Apart from the 20 players each club has on its list there isn&rsquo;t a single player in the minor league worth $10,000. That was established when none of the NHL teams took advantage of the draft to pick up a minor leaguer. The draft price is only $10,000 and their failure to draft a player can only mean that they didn&rsquo;t think any of the players available was worth that amount,</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s why injuries may be such a big factor this season,&rdquo; said the Rangers&rsquo; general manager. &ldquo;The replacements will have to come from amateur ranks, which means junior ranks as far as we&rsquo;re concerned and probably as far as the other clubs are concerned.&rdquo;</p><h2>Laprade Won&rsquo;t Report</h2><p>The Rangers were first to be clipped by the injury jinx this year, losing Charlie Rayner and Bones Raleigh. Rayner is their only experienced goalie and Raleigh was their best centre.</p><p>&ldquo;On top of that came the squabble over Edgar Laprade,&rdquo; said Frank. &ldquo;I just had a wire from him telling me he isn&rsquo;t going to report after all. His daughter is still ill and he has business worries. He opened a sporting goods store in Port Arthur on the first of the month and he says there&rsquo;s a lot of work in connection with it that requires his presence there. So we&rsquo;ve written him off.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What will you do now?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Bring up some of our good juniors in Guelph,&rdquo; was the answer. &ldquo;We will probably do it this coming week-end. I think we&rsquo;ve got the best defense in the league but we lack firepower. We&rsquo;ve got three pretty good young forwards at Guelph and we may bring one, or two, or possibly all three of them up.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Who are the guys?&rdquo; he was asked.</p><p>&ldquo;Ron Murphy is one of them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a left wing and lie can put the puck in the net. Then there&rsquo;s Andy Bathgate, a centre, and Dean Prentice, who was originally a left wing. But we shifted him to right wing and played the three of them as a line in pre-season training.&rdquo;</p><p>Frank believes the league is better balanced this year than it was a year ago when Detroit Red Wings virtually walked out of it, a view also shared by Dick Irvin. Earlier in the day the Canadiens&rsquo; coach predicted that the race was going to be dog-eat-dog.</p><h2>Bruins Will Be Tough</h2><p>Dick, recovering from an attack of flu, sat at his desk in the Forum and talked about a game in Boston.</p><p>&ldquo;It was as good as the playoff games we had with them last spring,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Those two teams are pretty evenly matched. Over the regular schedule last year they scored 33 goals against us and we scored 31 against them. You won&rsquo;t get two clubs closer than that.</p><p>&ldquo;Lynn Patrick has Dave Creighton on a line with Real Chevrefils and Leo Labine and that was the Bruins&rsquo; best line. They call it their Kid Line but they should call it the Action Line. They&rsquo;re real pests and there was something doing every minute they were on the ice. Then they&rsquo;ve got Milt Schmidt between Jack McIntyre and Johnny Peirson. That&rsquo;s a big strong line and McIntyre is an Improved hockey player this year.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re playing Fleming Mackell at centre on their third line with Joe Klukay at left wing and Ed Sandford on the other wing. Mackell is an individualist and I think that&rsquo;s why Conn Smythe got rid of him. But I&rsquo;ll say he was a going concern in Sunday&rsquo;s game He had the puck all the time. It remains to be seen if he can learn to set up plays. Woody Dumart is the other forward and they&rsquo;re using him on the power play and to kill off penalties.</p><p>&ldquo;If they&rsquo;ve got a weakness it&rsquo;s on defense. Bill Quackenbush teamed with Toppazzini and played a whale of a game. Hal Laycoe and Armstrong were the other defense pair. They&rsquo;ve got a rookie rearguard named Warren Godfrey but he didn&rsquo;t play against us Sugar Jim Henry stood up well in the net.&rdquo;</p><p>But what about Toronto? Had he noticed that Ted Kennedy performed the hat-trick against the Red Wings in Detroit?</p><p>&ldquo;I sure did,&rdquo; he said, smiling. &ldquo;Every time Kennedy scores a goal now they&rsquo;ll say I&rsquo;m a poor judge of hockey players because I didn&rsquo;t pick him for the All-Star game. He may have a good year if those Toronto critics leave him alone. But they&rsquo;re probably picking him already to win the Hart Trophy, lead the league in scoring and make the First All-Star Team. I see the Leafs are claiming they&rsquo;ve got five rookies in the lineup. The only two real ones are Leo Boivin and Ronnie Stewart. The other three have been banging around in the minors and have been up with the Leafs before.</p><p>&ldquo;Those Black Hawks may be tougher than any of us think. Some of them may feel that the Chicago River is the last river to cross and they&rsquo;ll battle to stay on the right side of it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Playing the Field

<div class="byline">By HAL WALKER</div><p>(Toronto Globe and Mail)</p><p>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs have filed an official protest to National Hockey League President Clarence Campbell over that 2-1 defeat at the hands of Boston Bruins in Boston,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02121/1031176-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="297" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><p>President and general manager of Maple Gardens, Conn Smythe, in announcing the action he had taken, made it quite clear that he is not protesting to win the two points his team lost on the ice.</p><p>&ldquo;We got licked&mdash;that&rsquo;s enough,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m protesting the game to finally get my point across about (Referee George) Gravel. This is the third time Gravel has been Involved in match penalties to Toronto players. I&rsquo;m getting sick of it. I&rsquo;ve had enough. We&rsquo;re not getting a break.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe&rsquo;s formal protest is based on Gravel&rsquo;s action in giving Tod Sloan of the Leafs and Leo Labine of the Bruins match penalties for a stick-swinging bout in Thursday&rsquo;s game.</p><p>After Labine cross-checked Sloan into the boards, and, by Sloan&rsquo;s version, Labine cut him across the front of the head, both players swung their sticks at each other. Sloan&rsquo;s blood flowed out of a wound that took five stitches to close. Labine was uninjured.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Rule 44 used</h2><p>Gravel gave both players their match penalties under NHL Rule 44 &ldquo;attempt to injure,&rdquo; rather than under Rule 49 Deliberate Injury of Opponent.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How can it be &lsquo;attempt to injure&rsquo; when a player gets five stitches?&rdquo; Smythe wanted to know angrily</p><p>Labine, according to Smythe, should have been penalized under the &ldquo;Deliberate Injury of Opponnent&rdquo; rule, while Sloan&rsquo;s sentence should have come under the &ldquo;Attempt to Injure&rdquo; clause.</p><p>There&rsquo;s an Important difference. Under the &ldquo;deliberate&rdquo; rule, the guilty player is retired from the game, automatically fined $100 and his team must play short-handed for 10 minutes while the player faces further penalties from the League president.</p><p>Under the &ldquo;attempt&rdquo; rule, the guilty player is retired from the game, there is no immediate-automatic fine, and his team plays short-handed for five minutes. Further penalties again may be inflicted by the League president.</p><p>&ldquo;I protested the officiating of Gravel last year,&rdquo; said Smythe, &ldquo;and got nowhere. Now I&rsquo;ve got proof he&rsquo;s either incompetent, or discriminating against the Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;I want it stopped, and I&rsquo;m going to have it stopped,&rdquo; he said grimly.</p><p>While making it clear that his protest was not to have the Boston victory decision wiped from the records, nor to have the points given to Toronto, Smythe said:</p><p>&ldquo;I learned from T.A. Reed up at Varsity years ago that Varsity never won a game by protest, and the Maple Leafs never will either. We never have protested for points in the committee box.</p><p>&ldquo;But the rules are clearly written, and all we want is an even break and a fair deal for our Players.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rule 44 or Rule 49?..

<div class="byline">BY MILT DUNNELL &#x2013; SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0364/1031207-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg"></div><p>Toronto Star</p><h2>Laprade Will Make Another Freedom Bid</h2><p>THE Edgar Laprade case isn&rsquo;t as cold as it may seem. Hockey&rsquo;s leading gentleman&mdash;he was jugged for only 38 minutes during&rsquo; seven seasons of big league play&mdash;hasn&rsquo;t abandoned ideas of getting back on the blades. It won&rsquo;t be with the Rangers, who definitely need him. Edgar would like it to be with the Port Arthur club. He will apply to Clarence Campbell, high nabob of the NHL, to start proceedings which might (wishful thinking) get him his release. Having in mind what happened the last time Edgar tried to retire quietly, you&rsquo;d have to guess he hasn&rsquo;t a hope. That was a few months back. He bad informed the Rangers he wouldn&rsquo;t return to them, and had asked to be placed on the voluntary retired list. Everyone except Campbell appeared to overlook the fact this would require waivers from the other five clubs. Laprade was claimed by the Black Hawks. Rangers, meanwhile, had persuaded him he should come back to help them, because of Bones Raleigh&rsquo;s broken wrist. There was considerable screaming in the upper strata of hockey society before the muddle was straightened out. Both Chicago and Toronto, who had put in claims for Edgar, withdrew their bids. They told the Rangers&rsquo; &ldquo;Thy need is greater than ours.&rdquo; That cleared the way for the shifty little centre to rejoin the blueshirts and help sell tickets around the League. Only he didn&rsquo;t report.</p><p>It develops now that Edgar intended his comeback should last only until Dec. 15 which is the deadline for asking that he be regarded as an amateur again. His departure from the lakehead was delayed when his five-year-old daughter took ill. The doctor advised him not to leave town. She&rsquo;s out of hospital now, but Edgar wonders whether he could help the Rangers and his friend, Frank Boucher, much between now and the middle of December, when he intended to return home anyway. It would take him almost that long to get into shape. And business is growing in the expanded sports goods shop which he operates with partner Guy Perciante, a well-known ball player throughout the north. So he decided to stay put. But he has been out for a practice spin with the lakehead team.</p><p>If he makes a determined effort to get his freedom, he could stir up a tempest for the hockey moguls, because he&rsquo;s popular and has a lot of friends who could say convincing things in his behalf. But they&rsquo;d be doomed to failure. The waiver clause was put in the rules of the big league to prevent stars such as himself from slipping away to so-called amateur teams. There probably won&rsquo;t be any ruckus, because Edgar isn&rsquo;t the wrangling type. He&rsquo;ll renew hie application&mdash;and get turned down.</p><h2>Into Retirement With a New Nose</h2><p>LAPRADE&rsquo;S withdrawal from Rangers shouldn&rsquo;t have, caused the surprise it did cause. All you had to know was that Edgar had surgery on his nose some months ago. During his career in the League, the Laprade beak suffered more than the normal wear and tear. He frequently mentioned he&rsquo;d welcome medical assistance in getting it realigned. Frank Boucher, the club&rsquo;s general manager, finally sold him on the idea it was folly to have the snout reshaped while he was still in hockey. Let the rival serfs take all their shots at the old nose. The club would get him a new one when he quit. It was agreed.</p><p>There came a crisis, more than a year ago. Boucher had staked his job on Rangers&rsquo; making the playoffs. If they missed, he had said, his resignation would be offered. Came the night when it was obvious they would miss. Boucher was tapped on the shoulder. It was Edgar. &ldquo;If you go,&rdquo; Laprade asked, &ldquo;who looks after my new nose?&rdquo; Boucher&rsquo;s resignation was refused by the front office. Presumably it was he who okayed the recasting of Edgar&rsquo;s nose. They both must have known then he intended to quit.</p><p>Strangely enough, the little centre never had such a strong yearning for pro hockey as he has right now. He never wanted to turn pro in the first place. But he&rsquo;s missed the game since he decided to stay home. When Lester Patrick was head man of the Rangers, he used to stop off in Port Arthur on his way home from New York in the spring. Edgar would meet him at the station and drive him from there to Fort William, where Lester would get back on the train.</p><p>&ldquo;He never offered me what I considered good money.&rdquo; Laprade claims. &ldquo;So I never signed for him. Frank (Boucher) was much more generous when he came up and put me on a contract. Of course, I was just out of the army and I was broke.&rdquo;</p><p>Amateur hockey, to which he&rsquo;d like to return, gave him $100 for a whole season, the year Port Arthur won the Allan Cup.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0184/1031238-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"></div><h2>Where Bruins Have Become Loveable Bears<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Hub Gardens Enters Silver Jubilee Year

<div class="byline">By HERB RALBY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0269/1031269-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Top Garden Attraction</b></p><p><b>The &lsquo;Kraut Line&rsquo; of Bauer, Schmidt and Dumart were a leading attraction in the Gardens for years.</b></p></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>This year, 1952-53 marks the silver jubilee of Boston Gardens, which has been the scene of most of the major events held in Boston, the past 25 years.</p><p>Twenty five years ago November 17. Boston Garden opened its doors to sports fans. The event was a featherweight championship fight between Honeyboy Finnegan and France&rsquo;s Andre Routis.</p><p>Since that time, more than 56 million fans have attended the many different events at the Garden. The North Station building has become as much a part of the life of the proper Bostonians as their morning coffee and newspaper.</p><p>Few people who attend the various activities at the Garden realize the hold it has on entertainment pulse of this section of the country. After all more than 2,500,000 people a season are estimated to come to the Garden and for quite a variety of events.</p><p>When the Garden was built by the late Tex Rickard and his New York millionaires, as a subsidiary of the Madison Square Garden in New York, the Board of Directors of the local stadium figured the two main supports would be boxing and professional hockey. That was 25 years ago and how wrong they turned out to be.</p><p>Hockey has upheld its end but boxing has been of minor importance to the maintenance of the building, instead, the era of ice fallows began and these lavish pro-ductions, along with hockey, have been the chief source of revenue</p><p>Over the years, the Garden has housed hockey, basketball, boxing, ice shows, track meets, wrestling, midget races, dinners, ski shows, skating races, horseshows, rodeos, circus, political rallies, dances, concerts, variety shows, religious revivals, commencement exercises, softball, expositions, conventions, tennis matches and even a football game.</p><p>Strangely enough folks take these many different events in stride. Little do they realize as they attend the one which interests them, the behind the scenes activity which enables the Garden to switch from a religious revival one night to an Ice-covered arena on which a spine-tingling hockey game is played the next night. Or, to have the rodeo with its hundreds of horses and wild stock on the dirt packed floor entirely removed in time for a basketball game, or political rally, the following night.</p><p>Twenty five years ago when the Garden first opened its doors Tex Rickard was the president. His chief bread-winners were boxiug and the Bruins which had moved across town from the Arena. The first boxing show, Finnegan against Routis, sold out the building. The first hockey game later that month, in which Montreal Canadiens played the Bruins, attracted an overflow crowd, the size of which could only be estimated, since the fans broke down the doors.</p><p>When the Garden opened its doors for that first fight Tommy Waters was a ticket-seller, Eddie Lee, a timekeeper; and Winnie Walsh, a. telephone switchboard operator. Today Waters is in charge of the box office; Lee, the superintendent; and Winnie Walsh in charge of the operators. They are the only members of the original Garden staff still active and their memories of the place are priceless.</p><p>There has been a succession of presidents, from Major Patrick F.O&rsquo;Keefe, who succeeded Rickard, to William F. Garcelon, Joseph C. Gilman, William F. Carey, Henry Japham and Ray Lapham, Walter A. Brown.</p><p>The biggest crowd they ever saw in the Garden was more than 23,000 for a jitterbug contest sponsored by the Record-American. The biggest money gate they remember, was the Gus Sonnenberg-Ed Strangler Lewis wrestling match, January 7, 1929. The match drew 19,000 fans and receipts of $77,000 a figure which not only hasn&rsquo;t been surpassed but hasn&rsquo;t even been threatened.</p><p>* * *</p><p>For 24 years, they have seen the Greatest Show on Earth pull in with its menagerie, its freaks, its clowns. The circus to them, as well as the millions of kids over the years, has become a Garden institution.</p><p>The same might be said for the Rodeo. Col. W. T. Johnson brought the Rodeo indoors, 21 years ago. With variations it has been one of the Garden&rsquo;s annual presentations ever since. When the novelty of the bucking bronks wore thin, a name personality kept the crowds coming. That personality was Gene Autry, a big favorite of the youngsters, and oldsters as well.</p><p>In the early years of the Garden the only ice show was that presented by the Skating Club of Boston. Then, &lsquo;in December, 1935 Walter Brown, who was then working for his dad, George V. Brown, the Garden&rsquo;s general manager, conceived the idea of a ski show.</p><p>George V. thought the idea was fantastic but Walter finally talked him into sponsoring the winter sports show. Walter had a ski jump built at the west end of the Garden, reaching almost to the roof of the building. For his snow he had more than 500 tons of ice crushed and packed on the jump. For his ski-jumpers he had the world&rsquo;s best, bringing over such famous skiers as Hannes Schneider, Benno Rybizka, Hans Hauser and Strand Mikkelsen.</p><p>To make his ski show more attractive, Walter Brown added a few figure skaters and that was the first the Garden patrons saw of the talented Evelyn Chandler. She was one of the featured skaters and outshone the skiers.</p><p>Two years later, Sonja Henle made her first movie and organized her own show, Hollywood Ice Revue. This brought about a complete change in the financial setups of the Garden and other big winter sports buildings throughout the country. Here was the start of the ice shows, which were to become one of the chief sources of revenue.for the buildings. The Ice Follies were born that same year, 1937, playing two nights in Boston. The following year when the Shipstads, Eddie and Roy, and 6scar Johnson brought their small troupe to the Garden they played to capacity houses. A new era was underway.</p><p>There have been many amusing incidents at the Garden in the past 25 years. Eddie Lee remembers only too well the wrestling match a few years back when an inebriated steelworker suddenly appeared above the catwalk on the steam pipes, yelling to the crowd below.</p><p>&ldquo;We had to stop the bout until the rescue squad could take him down from there,&rdquo; recalled Lee. &ldquo;He was a lucky fellow he wasn&rsquo;t killed.&rdquo;</p><p>Lee also remembers quite vividly the one appearance of Frank Buck &lsquo;s Wild Animal show. About 20 monkeys broke loose one night and it was months before the last one was finally captured.</p><p>The last monkey was still around when the hockey season started,&rdquo; declared Lee. &ldquo;I remember the fans in section 72 feeding him.&rdquo;</p><p>Over the years every top personality in fields of sport, entertainment, and politics appeared at the Garden. The greatest hockey players of the era, Eddie Shore, Howie Morenz, Ching Johnson, the Cook Brothers, Bill and Bun, Babe Siebert, Milt Schmidt, Syl Apps, Dit Clapper, Charlie Conacher and Busher Jackson to name only a few, skated over the Garden surface.</p><p>Heavyweight boxing champions, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Jack Sharkey and Primo Camera, and other boxing champs like Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong and Lou Ambers have at one time, or another, appeared in the Garden ring.</p><p>Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Herbert Hoover and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, of England, have participated in rallies and other events. The foremost names of the stage, screen, radio and TV have appeared in the different variety and benefit shows.</p><p>The Garden officials have made the most of their facilities in booking entertainment for the millions of fans who graced the North Shore building in the past 25 years. They haven&rsquo;t missed one trick in trying to keep the fans happy.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Turnstiles Have Clicked 56 Million Tinies

<p><b>Founded October 1, 1947 HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY 309 Empire Life Building. 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Average Weekly Circulation 35,000</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada&mdash;$4.00 in U.S.A.</b></p><p>Authorised as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y.</p><p>Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company 1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que. Printed in Canada.</p><p><b>Vol. 6 MONTREAL, NOVEMBER 1, 1952 No. 5</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01157/1031338-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK&mdash;Madison Square Garden opened its doors to the New York Rangers for the 27th year on October 22, as Rangers came from behind to tie Boston Bruins, 3-3, in the Big Town&rsquo;s hockey opener&hellip;Rangers, always the last NHL team to open their home season, iced the youngest team in National Hockey League history. The average age of the Ranger players this season is 23.5 years. Five members of the team in. the curtain raiser were playing their first season of Natonal League play. Altogether there were 11 rookies and sophomores wearing Ranger jersies. The five rooks were Goalie Lome Worsley, Defenseman Harry Howell and Forwards Andy Bathgate, Ron Murphy and Dean Prentice. With the exception of Worsley, the rookies were all called up from Guelph Biltmores Juniors&hellip;Frank Boucher announced at the hockey writers luncheon the following day that Bathgate and Howell would be turned pro with Rangers while Prentice would play out his three game tryout period and Murphy would be returned to Guelph&hellip;Prentice, who can play either right or left wing, was the best of the forwards on view in the opener here&hellip;Rangers lack scoring punch right now. Their offensive power is all tied up in one line. The trio of Paul Ronty, Wally Herges-heimer and Herb Dickenson has accounted for nine of Rangers&rsquo; 12 goals after their first six games this season&hellip;Hergeshelmer&rsquo;s Hat Trick against the Bruins was his second since he entered the NHL last year&hellip;The game was also the second draw between these two teams in as many games&hellip;This prompted Dan Parker of the N.Y. Daily Mirror to ask: &ldquo;With his teammates stocking up on ties and Wally Hergesheimer pulling the Hat Trick, can it be that the Rangers are preparing to go into the haberdashery business?&rsquo;&rsquo;&hellip;Myles Lanes, United States Attorney and former defenseman with Rangers and Boston, faced-off the puck at the start of the opener&hellip;Doug Davies refereed the game in the absence of George Gravel, who is hospitalized with a kidney stone and may be away from the refereeing ranks for some time.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0258/1031331-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="292" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wait Hergeshelmer</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><p>BOSTON BRUINS are using neutral sticks this season. There no such thing as a &ldquo;right&rdquo;. or a &ldquo;left&rdquo;. All sticks used by Bruin players are exactly the same and the individual players bend the stick to suit themselves&hellip;Lynn Patrick is very pleased with his team, and figures the Bruins have the best power play of any team in the loop. The, five players Patrick throws over the boards when the Bruins have a one-man advantage are Dave Creighton, Real Chevrefils, Leo Labine, Jerry Toppazzini and Milt Schmidt. Toppazzini and Schmidt ride the points while the youthful forwards swarm all over the opposition&rsquo;s goal. &ldquo;They are fast on their skates and have the legs to dig in every second, Patrick said in discussing his outstanding forward line. &ldquo;Schmidt is still the best rusher in the League and Toppazzini can start a play very well.&rsquo;&rsquo; the Bruin mentor added&hellip;Frank Boucher pointed out at the Rangers&rsquo; luncheon that the Blueshirts have 14 scouts across Canada on the payroll. They also sponsor seven junior clubs and have working agreement with two Western Hockey League teams&hellip;Bud Palmer is the new WPIX play-by-play announcer for Ranger games. Bud, who is specializing as a television sports announcer, has succeeded Win Elliott. He is a former All-American basketball player and also played pro with the New York Knickerbockers, The handsome Princeton grad does the announcing for the television broad-casts of the basketball games from Madison Square Garden, as well as hockey and other attractions that take place in the House that Tex built&hellip;Palmer spent two weeks before the season opened visiting the training camps and is one of the best informed hockey announcers in the National Hockey League&hellip;Leo Reise will be sidelined with a shoulder separation for two weeks at least. He witnessed the opener here from the bench behind the New York players&rsquo; bench. Chuck Rayner and Dr. Vincent Nardiello, team doctor, sat alongside him&hellip;The crowd booed the Rangers when they left the ice at the end of the first period for their failure to score while enjoying a two-man advantage. They cheered when they left at the end of the game for their comeback in tying the Bruins.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0330/1031324-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="294" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><p>THIRTEEN of the first 16 goals scored against Worsley were scored off of rebounds&hellip;Dana Mozley, hockey writer for the N.Y. Daily News, correspondent for THE HOCKEY NEWS and president of the New York Hockey Writers Association, will have a disc removed from his back shortly. Dana presided over the first of the weekly hockey writers luncheon, the day following the opener&hellip;Milt Schmidt, Boston captain, likes his skate one size smaller than the size of his boots. Likes minimum blade on ice&hellip;Toronto rookies, Leo Boivin, Tim Horton, Gordon Hannigan and Ron Stewart, are fast becoming favorites in Toronto. They play with the experience of five-year veterans and Hannigan, particularly, has impressed as a player who is in the NHL to stay.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0417/1031369-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg"></div><h2>Stanley Cup Hawks</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am wondering if you could tell me how many times the Chicago Black Hawks have won the Stanley Cup and when they won it last.</p><p>I am a steady reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS now because my friend Paul Siberas recommended it to me. He is quite a fan of your paper.</p><p>Hugh Rutledge, Toronto, Ont.</p><p>(The Hawks won the cup twice, in 1937-38 and 1932-33.)</p><p>* * *</p><h2>TV Addict</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been watching the hockey game on television and find it would be more interesting to know what numbers the players wear on their sweaters. I could recognize some of them but a great many I could not.</p><p>How can I obtain a list of players on all teams with their corresponding numbers?</p><p>D. Fontaine, Montreal, Que.</p><p>(Would suggest you write to the various teams and ask them for copies of their programs).</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Beliveau Booster</h2><p>Dear Sirs.</p><p>I&rsquo;m a Beliveau fan and I think that there&rsquo;s been no hockey player like Jean Marc since Howie Morenz.</p><p>Richard is good from one blue line to the net, Beliveau is good from net to net. Please consider age and experience.</p><p>Des Doyle, Three Rivers, Que.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>New York Will Improve</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>First of all a big congratulation on a terrific paper. I don&rsquo;t know what I or all the other hockey fans would do without it.</p><p>Although New York is getting off to a bad start, I think they will pull together and finish in the third spot. I also would like to mention that Nick Mickoski, who has all kinds of ability, will finish among the top five scorers in the league if not first. Just watch him go.</p><p>Eddie Keller, New York, N.Y.</p><h2>Indianapolis Fan</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I for one was very sorry to see the passing of the Indianapolis Caps from the American Hockey League but all I have to say is look out, they&rsquo;ll be back and with a still better team than they had before.</p><p>This has always been a pretty good hockey city and we&rsquo;ve sent some good players up to the big time, as witness terrific Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>John Terwilger, Indianapolis, Ind.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Hannigan Happy</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Would you please tell me where the two Hannigan brothers were born and also tell me whether St. Patrick&rsquo;s College of Ottawa is Junior A or Junior B.</p><p>I would also like to know if Tod Sloan lives in Ontario.</p><p>David Post, Kellaloe, Ont.</p><p>(The Hannigans were born in Schumacher, Ont. St. Pats are a junior A team and Tod Sloan lives in Aylmer, Ont.)</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Likes Reg Sinclair</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been reading in all the papers that the &lsquo;Production Line&rdquo; will not be as effective without Sid Abel centering it but I am of the opinion that it will not only be as good, but that it will be better with Reg Sinclair between Howe and Lindsay. Of course they will need a month or two to get used to each other, but Abel was between them for a long time.</p><p>Once they are accustomed to playing with Sinclair, the line will really roll for he&rsquo;s a lot younger than Abel was.</p><p>Jean Stewart, Detroit, Mich.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Memorial Cup Series</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I notice by the OHA junior schedule that the teams in Ontario are playing some games this year against teams from the Quebec junior League. They play each team once away and once at home.</p><p>Would you please tell me if these games are just exhibitions or do they count in the league standing? Will they still play against each other in the Memorial Cup semi-finals?</p><p>Lome Bridget, Windsor, Ont.</p><p>(The games are not exhibitions, they count in the league standings. The Memorial Cup procedure will be the same).</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Wants Newfie News</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first time writing to the Fan Forum, but 1 have been noticiny letters omplaining of the lack of coverage in certain Canadian provinces. What are we in Newfoundland to think when we don&rsquo;t get any coverage at all?</p><p>Copper Leyte is a product of N.F.L.D. Ted Gillies, now playing in this province has been rated by many as better than many of the amateur players on the mainland. So, we really do merit some space in your paper.</p><p>Has Chicago a farm team in the American League?</p><p>Lloyd Walters Harbour Grace S., Nfld.</p><p>(They do not have an A.H.L. farm. Their No. 1 farm is the Calgary Stampeders of the WHL.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0513/1031400-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="592" height="270"></div><h2>NOVEMBER 7 to NOVEMBER 13</h2><p>7&mdash;PRYSTAI, Metro, Detroit forward, 1927.</p><p>8&mdash;BOWER, Johnny, Cleveland goaler, 1924.</p><p>11&mdash;LUMLEY, Harry, Toronto gaoler, 1926.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ublished Weekly, except monthly May through September, HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 309 Empire Life Building1434 Ste-Catherlne St. West. Mont-real, 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 fa Canada, $4.00 in U.S.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

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

<p>(As Seen in the Montreal Herald)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01108/1031486-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="292" height="342"></div><p>THE SURPRISE OF the brief National Hockey season is not, to or own way of thinking, the Chicago Black Hawks, who surged from their regular cellar position up to the leadership of the League for a few brief and dizzy moments, until the altitude overcame them. Toronto Leafs, it seems to this observer, provide a greater jolt to that evanescent thing known as &ldquo;form&rdquo; than any other team, unless it is the inability of Rocket Richard to get any goals.</p><p>The brief upsurge of Hawks wasn&rsquo;t too surprising. The team had been strengthened by some veteran plays, had a new leader and new owners. They got off running, like a sprinter in a one-mile race. Whether this be human or equine. And they may linger for Quite a time in the first division. In fact, it is conceivable they will finish in the first four.</p><p>Leafs were written down before they started. Canny Smythe issued a forecast tinged with deepest gloom. His club was dotted with six or seven rookies. He didn&rsquo;t bother to state that these rookies were replacing regulars of fading, if any, merit, that they couldn&rsquo;t be much worse than their predecessors. And now Leafs are right up in the running, and to the surprise of all, look like a team that will improve, when their youngsters steadily find their feet.</p><p>In direct contrast to this is the Canadian set-up, an array of veterans and sophomores. We don&rsquo;t hold with the &ldquo;sophomore jinx&rdquo;, but the rookies of last year on the Hab team haven&rsquo;t produced much, as yet, in their second season.</p><p>That, we think, is the least sinister of the Canadien worries. We&rsquo;d say that the big Hab problem concerns Rocket Richard, and his inability, thus far, to do any scoring. Already fandom is asking whether the Great Rocket is through, because fandom is impatient, wants fast action, and also likes to find feet of clay in its idols.</p><p>Those who&rsquo;believe the Rocket has passed his peak&mdash;this observer isn&rsquo;t among that gloomy crew&mdash;point to the injury, or ailment, which last season slowed him down to the proverbial walk, then forced him out of the game, to return to action below his best form. They point to the fact that Richard, high-strung to a degree, uses up more nervous energy than perhaps any player in the game. In that, he&rsquo;s in vividly sharp contrast to the relaxed, apparently easy-going Howe, who seems to be the least concerned player on the ice, but gets results effortlessly. Richard fights grimly for every point, harried as he is by cneckers and defences.</p><p>Has this taken the inevitable toll? Well, that&rsquo;s a question which only the immediate future will decide. Richard is in his eleventh major league season. Mentally and physically he has had a rough, hard passage. Physically, he has survived broken arms and legs, and other bodily set-backs. Mentally, he has been under the strain of a high-strung, tempestuous and impulsive mind, given to sudden explosions and tumult. He has been pestered unduly by his opposition, which is, of course, the penalty of greatness.</p><p>Have these things, physical and mental, created a pressure that is now taking its toll? That&rsquo;s the unanswered question. All we know is that Richard is skating well, playing a driving, daring type of game, but getting no goals. This may be an answer to the new and unexpected Canadien problem, perhaps more poignant than any other facing the team at this point.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE GIST AND JEST OF IT

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>(Toronto. Telegram)</p><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Ted Kennedy, who shot to the top of the scoring statistics, seems to be in for a year like the Kennedy of two years ago was accustomed to having. Ron Stewart, his right winger, is part of the answer. It&rsquo;s sometimes hard to tell at a glance which one it is fighting for the puck in the corner, a chore which Kennedy owned almost exclusively last season. With Stewart doing some of it, Kennedy finds himself in front of the net in a scoring position much more than he did last Reason than he did last season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0286/1031517-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="294" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><p>Smythe has the same sort of a plan in store for Bentley.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s&rdquo; had the leavings most of the time he&rsquo;s been with us,&rdquo; said the Leaf commodore. &ldquo;This year he&rsquo;s getting George Armstrong and Hannigan on the other wing. They&rsquo;ll take a lot of the load off him because they&rsquo;ll give their checks something else to think about besides only stopping Bentley.</p><h2>Figures Max Still Good For Three Seasons</h2><p>&ldquo;Max still has two or three years left in him. He&rsquo;s a great hockey player. If we get him well on the way to getting his 300th goal there&rsquo;s no telling when he&rsquo;ll stop.&rdquo; (Max had scored 217 goals in League play up until the end of last season).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ted Getting More Scoring Opportunities With Rookie Stewart Digging in Corners

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0360/1031555-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hal Laycoe and Bob Armstrong of the Bruins stop Richard from getting in on Jim Henry in the Boston goals.</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Maurice Richard can look back upon the first six games of the 1951-53 season in amazement, He set a record. It was his worst start in eight seasons. When he finally burst into the scoring column against the Chicago Black Hawks in the Windy City Stadium on Thursday October 23rd there was a great sight of relief in the Montreal front office. You need a scoring Rocket on a hockey club at any time but you need him even more when the rest of the team isn&rsquo;t scoring in any great fashions.</p><p>For Richard, well he hasn&rsquo;t had such a bad sendoff since way back in 1943-44 when he finished the season with 32 goals after failing to score in his first nine games. Although he started late his present two goals isn&rsquo;t too far behind his pace of other years.</p><h2>Four His Usual Mark</h2><p>For instance, after sixgames last season he had scored four goals. The last three season have been identical, four goals in the first sixgames.</p><p>His best start came in 1946-47 when he scored 45 goals. He notched five in his first six games. The 1948-49 season was practically identical to this one. He scored two goals in the first six games and finished the season with only 20.</p><p>While Richard is looking back at the first six games of the season, he can look as long as he likes for it&rsquo;s doubtful he will find an answer to his failure to connect.</p><p>There was wondering in some circles if perhaps he, at 31 years of age wasn&rsquo;t beginning to taper off after his brilliant scoring career. They began to wisper that he had lost his eye, the magnificent scoring eye that has made him one of the most feared goal scorers in the history of the game.</p><p>If Richard has lost some of his sharpness it must be in the vicinity of the goal alone for his play is as good, if not better than at any time during the last two seasons. His play up to the opposing net was spectacular, in fact. But after that he found it hard to make that red light work. His timing was off drastically.</p><p>In a game against the Boston Bruins he he coasted from the right wing and tried to slide the puck into the far corner of the net. That&rsquo;s a difficult play at any time&mdash;for any other player, but Richard has always been an artist at it. On this occasion he missed his aim by at least three feet.</p><p>Richard had his chances in the first half dozen games. But as one press box observer remarked: &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t remember once this season when the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; has been home free and the puck has been well situated on the end of his stick. It seems that each time he gets in the puck is rolling or hopping.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s how It was time and time again. On other occasions the opposing goalers were making almost miraculous saves off him. One noticable feat, if you can call it a feat is the fact that Richard is right now in line for the Lady Byng Trophy. In his first seven games he, one of the most penalized players in the loop at one time, had spent but two puny minutes in the cooler.</p><p>Dick Irvin always did say that Richard is great because he has a terrific temper and can get mad. This season his ace has cooled down to the point where he doesn&rsquo;t even want to knock anybody out anymore.</p><p>At any rate Richard is finally underway. He now needs four goals to become the all-time goal scoring champ of the National and in one of those heallowed six when the Wings beat them 6-1.</p><p>He started off the season allowing three goals and then had a four game skien of one goal games. He was saving the club with his amazing efforts while his mates were doing as little scoring as possible. In two early games he was little short of spectacular when the Habs eeked out 2-1 wins. He played in the same fashion when the Canadiens defeated the Rangers 3-1 and on the road in their first game in Hockey League. But at the rate of two every seven games the cerebration is going to take quite a while getting here.</p><p>The Habs themselves can thank little Gerry McNeil for their lofty position in the NHL. After seven games they were tied with Chicago and Detroit for the League lead but it wasn&rsquo;t gecause they were filling enemy nets with rubber. It was because McNeil was keeping his net comparatively empty. In the first seven games Gerry had &lsquo;allowed just 15 goals in his carge Boston he held the Bruins to a goal in the 1-1 draw.</p><p>The roof finally caved in on him in Detroit when the Wings rammed home six. Still Gerry was absolved of any blame. Reports were that had he not been on his toes the champs might have doubled the score.</p><p>While Irvin was waiting for his club to hit the scoring columns in a big way he had to depend on Gerry McNeil and good delense work to keep him in the ace.</p><h2>They Stopped Him Here</h2><h2>He&rsquo;s Stopping Everything</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0454/1031548-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="1189" height="920"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry McNeil slides to make a save in the 6-1 Detroit game.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rocket’s Zero for Six Poorest Sendoff in Last Eight Seasons

<p class="dropcap"><span>V</span>ALLEYFIELD, Que.&mdash;Maurice (The Rocket) Richard was fined $10 and costs for assaulting a policeman here on October 22. The Canadiens were in Valleyfield to play an exhibition game against the Braves when the incident occurred.</p><p>Richard did not appear in court but a plea of guilty was entered by his lawyer, Gontran St. Onge.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rocket Fined

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;Lynn Patrick can thank General Manager Frank Selke of the Montreal Canadiens for having Leo Labine. And Selke will tell you he can have him with thanks.</p><p>Labine once belonged to the Montreal Canadiens and was on the reserve list of the Cincinnati Mohawks, then a Hab farm club.</p><p>&ldquo;We brought him to camp about four years ago,&rdquo; says Selke, &ldquo;and he was the best kid we had. But he caused us so much trouble that I had to call him into the office to try and put him straight. He ended up telling me. So I said that life was too short for the likes of that and I released him.&rdquo;</p><p>Selke didn&rsquo;t mention how he felt about that move since Leo the Lion has settled in Beantown and apparently on his way to stardom and Bill Ezinicki&rsquo;s &lsquo;Magnificent Screwball&rsquo; tag.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Labine Once Gave Selke Headaches at Hab Camp

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins have made a slow start as a scoring team this season, and Coach Lynn Patrick blames it on lack of competition.</p><p>Not that the Bruins haven&rsquo;t been receiving sufficient competition from the teams they&rsquo;ve been playing. Patrick doesn&rsquo;t mean that.</p><p>What the Bruins&rsquo; coach does mean is that his team started the season with fewer practice games behind it than some of its opponents, and that in the first two weeks of the schedule it wasn&rsquo;t able to catch up.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0295/1031665-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="282" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;The only time of year when a well-rested team doesn&rsquo;t necessarily play its best is this time of year,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m not being facetious, at least as far as the Bruins are concerned.</p><p>&ldquo;We started the season with three new lines, lines which required competition to develop their timing. We lacked that competition when we played Montreal in our first game.</p><p>&ldquo;At that point we had three informal practice games and one formal one behind us, whereas the Canadiens had played a halfdozen exhibition games and two regular-season games. That&rsquo;s what we ran into for the first couple of weeks.</p><h2>More games needed</h2><p>&ldquo;When we started on this road trip that we&rsquo;re on now, we played fewer games than any team in the League. The thing we needed most was games, to develop our timing.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not complaining about our start,&rdquo; Patrick added, &ldquo;because we lost only one of our first four games as compared to a year ago, when we only won one of the first four.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m only saying that there&rsquo;s a good, factual reason why we weren&rsquo;t able to start off with a rash of goals. Good scoring lines become that way only through playing together, and ours simply haven&rsquo;t had time to develop that way.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-02

Patrick Blames Lack of Competition, Bad Timing on Boston’s Slow Start

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Goal-sniping marksmen on the Detroit Red Wings have gone on a spree shooting holes in the early hopes of some Vezina Trophy conscious goalies.</p><p>It was the night of Oct. 16 that Al Rollins checked into Olympia carrying the best goal-tending record in the National Hockey League. The Chicago thin man had given up only five goals in his first four games.</p><p>Result: The Wings sent him home dazed from a barrage that saw seven goals netted. After the smoke cleared, Rollins&rsquo; record was the worst in the League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0443/1031696-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="475" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry&rsquo;s 1st Shutout</b></figcaption></div><p>Three nights later it was Gerry McNeil&rsquo;s turn to go before the local firing squad, and he then was holding the best record&mdash;only seven goals in five starts.</p><p>Result: McNeil had to play his heart out during a 39-shot bombardment to escape with only six more goals charged against him. It might have 12 except for his brilliance. But McNeil&rsquo;s record was wrecked for the present.</p><p>In running up 7-0 and 6-1 scores against Chicago and Montreal, the Wings moved into first place in the National Hockey League.</p><p>Since the job took six games after the season opened, this left them slightly behind last season&rsquo;s schedule. A year ago they took over the first rung in five games, and never yielded it thereafter.</p><p>The lopsided routs in this case were against the two clubs making the biggest challenge to Detroit&rsquo;s bid. The Hawks were in first place when they got their lumps; the Canadiens were tied for first-place when they got the same treatment.</p><p>Both games followed the same pattern. In each case the first period was scoreless, with the big eruption taking place in the middle stanza. Detroit got a 4-0 lead on the Hawks in the second period, a 3-0 lead on Montreal in that 20-minute stretch.</p><p>Both games had been sewed up, but since the third period of play is the only one carried on television, the Wings served a treat to fireside fans. Three more goals came in each game.</p><p>The ease with which these victories came produced an early blossoming of speculation that Detroit might enjoy another runaway in its drive for a fifth straight NHL title.</p><p><b>* * *</b></p><p>ICE CHIPS: The shutout over Chicago was the first for Terry Sawchuk who had an even dozen last year. But since it didn&rsquo;t come until the fifth game, Terry&rsquo;s timetable was slowed down. He had two by this time a year ago&mdash;in the first and fourth games.</p><p>Ted Lindsay was the only two-goal man in the Chicago spree, while Tony Leswick got a pair in the Montreal game. Those two goals, incidentally equaled one-quarter of Tony&rsquo;s output all last season when, he had eight for the distance.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-04

Champs Lag 1 Game Behind 1951-52 Pace in Race for 1st Spot

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Coach Sid Abel and his band of hungry Black Hawks had to be content with a few crumbs last week. It was a mighty meager diet after the three steaks that were dished up to the club during the earlier days of the NHL campaign. No complaints were uttered, however, as the squad preferred to conserve its energy for another thrust at victory.</p><p>Just before the 7 to 0 disaster al. Detroit, Abel seemed to be preparing newsmen for what was about to occur when he said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re just not as good as our record to date appears to indicate. We will still be happy to finish fourth since that would bring the team a playoff berth at last.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0370/1031727-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="284" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gus Mortson</b></figcaption></div><p>Sid&rsquo;s former mates made his homecoming unpleasant to an almost pointless degree, but he took it all in stride and apparently was able to keep his players in the same frame of mind. &ldquo;We played good hockey for the first 20 minutes, but then just fell apart and Rollins was given very little help,&rdquo; he commented afterward.</p><p>A disputed goal brought on the Black Hawks first defeat of the season on home ice three nights later. Referee Red Storey overruled the goal judge to allow a counter by Harry Watson just past the 13-minute mark in the final period. This tied the score at 2-2 and the Leafs went on to tally the clincher less than two minutes later.</p><p>Abel was more perturbed over the winning goal than the questionable one. &ldquo;We had a legitimate kick coming on the second Toronto score,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but on the third nobody bothered to cover Ted Kennedy and you can&rsquo;t let a guy like that get loose without expecting to get yourself in trouble.&rdquo;</p><h2>&lsquo;Boot&rsquo; in Action for First Time</h2><p>In further discussion on the defensive angle, he pointed out, &ldquo;Sometimes when the puck comes in toward their zone, our rearguards hesitate in going out to get it and, at the same time, the forwards don&rsquo;t bother to pick it up either. This gives the opposition chances it doesn&rsquo;t deserve.&rdquo;</p><p>The Toronto game was the first in Hawk uniform for &ldquo;ole Boot Nose,&rdquo; but he put himself in action only twice. Both times, he served as a forward when the Leafs were shorthanded. Despite the briefness of his appearances, he seemed to possess more zip than most others on the ice at the time. He looked very little like an old man of 34.</p><p>At practice the day after the Leaf loss, Sid juggled his forward combinations around and apparently liked the way several new threesomes worked for he immediately revealed that the changes would hold&hellip;at least through the Thursday game against Montreal</p><p>Pete Conacher has been installed with Cal Gardner and Billy Mosienko in the spot that was held by George Gee. who notched his first two goals of the campaign against Toronto. Gee takes over Pete&rsquo;s spot alongside Gus Bodnar with Gerry Couture moving in on the rights boards.</p><p>Jimmy Peters, who had been sparkling in utility duties, has taken over for Couture with Pete Babando and Jim McFadden. Fred Glover is the 10th forward. No changes were made in defensive pairings, but Gus Mortson was still being hampered by a charleyhorse that he received just after the beginning of the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-03

Abel Ribs Lineup Apart After 7-0 Shellacking.. Opposition Getting Too Many Undeserved Chances

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>ugar Jim Henry was the big question mark as far as the Boston Bruins* playoff chances were concerned, everyone wondering whether or not the not-too-young goaler could come up with another season like the one he turned in last year. Right at the moment coach Lynn Patrick must be breathing a little easier for the veteran goal janitor has been just short of terrific in the seven games he&rsquo;s played to date. At this time he&rsquo;s not only doing well, he&rsquo;s leading all the goalers in league in the all important goals against average with a sizzling 1.43 average.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0833/1031873-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="275" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Henry</b></figcaption></div><p><b>In the seven game the Bostonians havet played to date, Henry has allowed only ten goals to pass the portals of his net. He is the main reason that the Brquins are as high up in the standing</b></p><p><b>as they are for the records chow that the Boston forwards have been no balls of fire in getting goals themselves. To date Sugar Jim has racked up one shutout, that against the Toronto Maple Leafs when he turned back the blue and white 4-0.</b></p><p><b>The Bruins have two ties in their record and much of the credit for getting these two points belongs to Henry. In the 3-3 tie with the New York Rangers he stopped shot after shot and the same was the case in the 1-1 deadlock between the Bruins and the Chicago Black Hawks.</b></p><p><b>Henry, who same to the Bruins after Jack Gelineau&rsquo;s disastrous sophmore year, is a veteran campaigner in the National Hockey League, having played at various limes for the New York Rangers, the Chicago Black Hawks and now the Boston Bruins. When the New York Americans finally threw in the towel, the Rangers acquired another young goaler in the person of Chuck Rayner and he and Sugar Jim shared the Blueshirt netminding chores. Later Henry gave way to Rayner and until last year he more or less drifted. But last season was enough to make everyone reinember Sugar Jim. especially his work in the Stanley Cap playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens.</b></p><p><b>It will be remembered that this series went the limit, with the Montrealers finally taking he seventh and deciding game. Most of the credit for the Bruins fine showing in this series belongs to the affable Henry who was at his all-time best. He stopped many labelled shots and was a source of inspiration to his teammates.</b></p><p><b>The big question was there and it looks like Sugar Jim has supplied the answer. Last year was no fluke, he&rsquo;ll be around for quite a while.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-08

Player-Of-The-Week

f0009-11

Bonued Stock

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01125/1031842-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>As Milt Schmidt of the Boston Bruins falls to the ice in rough action with Dean Prentice of the New York Rangers, goalie Jim Henry of the Bruins kicks puck free for a save in the first period of game at Madison Square Garden, October 22. At left is Nick Mickoski of the Rangers. It was a tie game 3-3.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Ten Year Men</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>here are 17 players who played in the NHL for 10 or more years. Milt Schmidt and Woody Dumart lead the pack with 17 years under Hockey&rsquo;s big tent and Sid Abel, Elmer Lach and Max Bentlev follow with 15, 13 and 13 years respectively.</p><h2><b>Pratt&rsquo;s Record</b></h2><p>The most points ever scored by an NHL defenseman in one season is 57 and the record was set by Babe Pratt of the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1943-44. He had 17 goals and 40 assists in a 50 games schedule.</p><h2>Henry Kicks and Rook Knocks Schmidt</h2><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p>(Standings on Sunday, F.M. Oct. 26)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02105/1031835-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="590" height="174"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3><p>Oct. 22&mdash;Detroit 4 at Toronto 5</p><p>Oct. 22&mdash;Boston 3 at Rangers 3</p><p>Oct. 23&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Chicago 2</p><p>Oct. 25&mdash;Detroit 0 at Canadiens 9</p><p>Oct. 25&mdash;Boston 4 at Toronto 0</p><p>Oct. 26&mdash;Detroit 2 at Rangers 3</p><p>Oct 26&mdash;Boston 1 at Chicago 1</p><p>* * *</p><h3>NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMES</h3><p>Oct. 29&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Oct. 29&mdash;Chicago at Rangers</p><p>Oct. 30&mdash;Rangers at Chicago</p><p>Oct. 30&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Nov. 1&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Nov. 1&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Nov. 2&mdash;Canadiens at Rangers</p><p>Nov. 2&mdash;Toronto at Detroit</p><p>Nov. 2&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><p>* * *</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22</h3><p><b>Detroit 4 at Toronto 5</b></p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Toronto Maple Leafs came from behind with three goals in the last period to defeat the Detroit Red Wings 5-4.</p><p>Behind 4-2 going into the final frame, the Leafs, who have made a habit of coming from behind this season, knocked home three straight goals with the Max Bentley-Gordie Hannigan-Howie Meeker combine leading the onslaught.</p><p>At the end of the first period the teams were deadlocked 2-2 but the Wings jumped into the lead in the second with two goals without an answer from the Leafs. That set the stage for Toronto&rsquo;s three big goals in the third.</p><p>Ted Lindsay opened the scoring in the first period on passes from Marcel Pronovost and Larry Wilson. Ted Kennedy got that back five minutes later on a double relay from Max Bentley and Ron Stewart. The Leafs went ahead 2-1 when Gordie Hannigan notched an unassisted goal at the 13.43 mark of the first. Red Kelly knotted the count on passes from Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe.</p><p>In the second period Gordie Howe put the Wings ahead with a solo effort and. Marty Pavelich added another on a pass from Bob Goldham. Then in the third Hannigan, Bentley and Meeker scored for the Leafs.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>: Goal. Sawchuk; defence, Goidham. Kelly, Ziedel, Pronovost, Woit; forwards. Sinclair, Lindsay, Howe, Leswick, Prystai, Pavelich, Skov, Delvecchio, J. Wilson L. Wilson.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>: Goal, Lumley; defence, Boivin. Horton, Thomson, Bolton, Morrison; forwards, Bentley, Hannigan, Meeker, Watson, Smith. Kennedy, Migay, Sloan, Hassard, Solinger, Stewart.</p><p><b>Referee</b>: Bill Storey; linesmen, George Hayes. Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0374/1031828-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="589" height="585"></div><h3>Boston 3 at New York 3</h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Little Wally Herges-heimer accounted for all his team&rsquo;s goals when he scored, a hat-trick to give the New York Rangers a 3-3 tie with the Boston Bruins. The Blueshirts bad to come from behind a 2-0 deficit to cop the duke. &bull;</p><p>The Bruins jumped off to a 2-0 lead in the opening stanza and appeared on their way to certain victory as the crippled Rangers couldn&rsquo;t organize any kind of an attack. Fleming Mackell opened the scoring on a solo effort and Johnny Peirson added another on passes from Penti Lund and Milt Schmidt.</p><p>In the middle period, Hergesheiner broke the ice for the Broadway Blueshirts on a double relay from Herb Dickenson and Paul Ronty.</p><p>Hergy put the Rangers on even footing with the Bruins early in the third period on passes from Alan Stanley and Hy Buller but the Bruins got this back when Ed Sandford scored an unassisted goal at the 15.40 mark. Hergesheimer earned the New Yorkers a draw with only a minute and thirty nine seconds left in the game. Assists on the play wont to Herb Dickenson and Paul Ronty.</p><p><b>Boston</b>: Goal. Henry; defence. Quackenbush. Godfrey, Armstrong, Toppazzini. Laycoe; forwards, Creighton, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Maskell, Schmidt, McIntyre, Lund, Klukay, Pierson.</p><p><b>New York</b>: Goal, Worsley; defence, Ross. Stanley, Howell, Buller, Kraftcheck; forwards, Ronty. Hergesheimer. Dickenson, Bathgate, Mickoski, Stoddard, Prentice, Stewart, Murphy, Kullman, Slowinski.</p><p><b>Referee</b>: Doug Davies; linesmen, Sam Babcock, Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0738/1031821-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="584" height="586"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>THURSDAY, OCT. 23</h3><p><b>Montreal 2 at Chicago 2</b></p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;It was strictly a two man show as the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks fought to 2-2 draw. Both the Hab goals were scored by Maurice Richard, his first and second of the year, and the Chi-Hawk counters were both potted by Gerry &lsquo;Doc&rsquo; Couture.</p><p>The tie boosted both the Hawks and the Habs into a three way tie for first place with the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Richard&rsquo;s brace of goals gave him a total of 321 or three short of the alltime record of 324 set by Nels Stewart.</p><p>The Canadiens wasted no time getting on the score sheet, their first goal coming after 27 seconds of play in the game. On the face-off the puck was knocked into the Montreal zone, and a Hawk attempted a pass. Richard in tercepted. raced down to within five feet of Rollins and blasted it home.</p><p>Richard&rsquo;s other goal was also in the first period, at the 5.31 mark, on 6 pass from Butch Bouchard.</p><p>The second period was scoreless but Couture scored his two big goals in the third, Bodnar and Gee assisting thefirst and Gee and Gardner the second.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>: Goal, McNeil; defence, Har vey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson MacPherson; forwards, Olmstead. Lach Richard, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Reay McCormack, Mosdell, Meger.</p><p><b>Chicago</b>: Goal, Rollins; defence. Fogo lin, Dewsbury, Gadsby. Kryzanowski, Hu cul, Raglan; forwards, Babando, McFadden, Peters. Mosienko. Conacher, Bodnar Glover, Couture, Gardner, Gee..</p><p><b>Referee</b>: Bill Chadwick; linesmen George Hakes and Harold March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0933/1031814-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="579" height="350"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25</h3><p><b>Detroit 0 at Montreal 9</b></p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Montreal Canadiens could do no wrong and the puck was rolling their way all night as they shellacked the defending champion Detroit Red Wings 9-0. The win avenged an earlier Detroit victory of 6-1. The Habs outchecked, outskated and out-shot the Wings at every turn.</p><p>Floyd &lsquo;Busher&rsquo; Currie and sophomore Dick Gamble showed the way for the Montrealers with a brace of goals apiece. Other Habitant markers went to Tom Johnson, Maurice Richard. Billy Reay, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Bert Olmstead.</p><p>The Canadiens ran up four goals in the first period, three in the second and added a pair in the final frame to give the Detroiters their worst lacing since Dec. 28, 1944 when these same Habs rocked them 9-1 with Maurice Richard setting a record of 5 goals and 3 assists.</p><p>It was the first shutout for Gerry McNeil this season and put him back into the thick of the Vezina Cup race while boosting Terry Sawchuck&rsquo;s goals against average.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Zeidel; forwards, Skov, Pavelish, Sinclair, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Prystai, J. Wilson, L. Wilson.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b>: Goal. McNeil; defence, Bouchard. Johnson, Harvey, Irwin, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards: Reay, Geoffrion, Meger, Lach, Richard, Olmstead Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, McCormack.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1031/1031807-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="586" height="563"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Boston 4 at Toronto 0</h3><p>TORONTO&mdash;Boston Bruins showed that they are still very much in the NHL race when they dumped the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0. The win moved the Bruins into a fourth place tie with the Leafs.</p><p>It was another of the Leafs&rsquo; cast-offs that paved the way to the Boston win. Joe Klukay, acquired by the Bean-towners in an off-season trade, scored two goals. Other Boston markers went to Johnny Peirson and Dave Creighton.</p><p>There was no scoring in the first period and it wasn&rsquo;t until late in the second canto that the Hub team broke the ice. Peirson scoring on a pass from Milt Schmidt.</p><p>In the third period Dave Creighton shot the Bruins two goals out in from on passes from Leo Labine and Real Chevrefils. Late in the same period Klukay scored the first of his two on passes from Godfrey and Sandford. He bounced right back two minutes later, this time on passes from Quackenbush and Sandford.</p><p><b>Boston</b>: Goal, Henry; defence, Armstrong, Quackenbush, Toppazzini, Laycoe; forwards: Sandford, Mackell, Dumart, Klukay, Pierson, Chevrefils.</p><p><b>Toronto</b>: Goal, Lumley; defence, Flaman, Boivin, Thomson, Hortson, Morrison; forwards, Migay, Sloan, Watson, Smith, Kennedy, Meeker, Hassard, Hannigan, Solinger, Stewart.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01117/1031800-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="589" height="493"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26</h3><p><b>Detroit 2 at New York 3</b></p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Jack Stoddard, the tallest player In the NHL, was johnny-on-the-spot as he batted home two rebounds to lead the New York Rangers to a narrow 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings. It was the Rangers&rsquo; first win of the campaign and the Wings&rsquo; second loss in as many nights.</p><p>The game was rought throughout with both teams throwing body checks with wild abandon.</p><p>Most of the action was confined to the second period which saw the Rangers bang in two goals to Detroit&rsquo;s one. Stoddard started the scoring with less than four minutes left in the second period on a pass frm Nick Mickoski. Only seconds later Gordie Howe put the Wings back on an even footing when he took a pass from Red Kelly at the red line, evaded defenseman Jim Ross, and fired a blazing shot past Lome Worsley just before being bowled over by Steve Kraftcheck. Herb Dickenson put the Rangers back out in front before the period ended on passes from Paul Ronty and Hy Buller.</p><p>Stoddard got his second and the winner at 5: 33 of the third period on passes from Jim Conacher and Nick Mickoski. Alex Delvecchio got Detroit&rsquo;s second and last at the 16 minute mark on a play with Red Kelly and Metro Prystai.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Kelly, Goldham, Pronovost, Woit, Zeidel; forwards: Skov, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Prystai, Pavelich, Sinclair, Delvecchio, L. Wilson, J. Wilson.</p><p><b>New York</b>: Goal, Worsley; defence, Ross, Stanley, Howell, Buller, Kraftcheck; forwards, Ronty. Hergesheimer, Dickenson, Bathgate, Mickoski. Stoddard. Stewart. Prentice, Kullman, Slowinski. Conacher.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0260/1031793-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="585" height="460"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Boston 1 at Chicago 1</h3><p>CHICAGO&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks racked up their second straight tie game in the National Hockey League when they fought to a 1-1 deadlock with the Boston Bruins. The win moved the Hawks into second place ahead of the Detroit Red Wings who lost to New York.</p><p>It was a defensive game all the way in which the Hawks drew first blood in the opening period only to have Boston bounce back with a tally in the middle frame to knot the count. The third period was scoreless.</p><p>Jim McFadden opened the scoring for the Windy City sextet after only four and a half minutes of play. Jim Peters and Al Dewsbury getting credit for assasts.</p><p>In the second period Johnny Peirson tallied for the Bruins at the 5.16 mark, climaxing a play with Jack McIntyre and Gerry Toppazzini.</p><p>The game was cleanly played, only six minor penalties being handed out by the officials.</p><p><b>Boston</b>: Goal, Henry: defence, Godfrey, Quackenbush. Armstrong. Laycoe; Toppazzini; forwards: Chevrefils, Creighton. Labine, Sandford, Mackell, Schmidt, McIntyre. Lund, Klukay, Peirson,</p><p><b>Chicago</b>: Goal. Rollins; defence, Mortson, Dewsbury, Fogolin, Gadsby; Hucul, Kryzanowski; forwards: Gee. Bodnar, Couture, Peters, Mosienko, Conacher, Babando, Glover, Gardner. McFadden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0337/1031786-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="584" height="300"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Gaines of Sunday Oct., 26)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0463/1031779-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="587" height="1109"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0551/1031772-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="586" height="207"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0644/1031765-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="546" height="164"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0519/1031758-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="577" height="1264"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Sid Abel&mdash;Detroit tavern-keeper&hellip;Chicago hockey coach&mdash;spoke slowly with a sickly smile:</p><p>&ldquo;I knew there&rsquo;d be nights like this, but&mdash;&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;And on our first trip here too, when we were all trying so hard.&rdquo;</p><p>Those words tell all that&rsquo;s needed about Sid&rsquo;s return to his old-time happy skating grounds at Olympia. He brought his Black Hawks in undefeated, and suffered a 7-0 lacing from his old-time outfit, the Red Wine&rsquo;s.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01140/1031935-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="286" height="393"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>Earlier in the day Sid had discussed the sparkling start made by his Chicago club. He had his fingers crossed and any natural enthusiasm was well under control.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to seem like a wet-blanket coach, but we&rsquo;re really not that good,&rdquo; Abel said at the time while resting in his suburban Detroit home (his family still lives here).</p><h2>Just Set On Making Playoffs</h2><p>&ldquo;Honestly, I just wonder how long this can go on.&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Our sights are set on making the playoffs. If we do any better than fourth, well so much the better.&rdquo;</p><p>Then six hours later the bottom dropped out, for one game at least.</p><p>Driving time from the Olympia to Sid Abel&rsquo;s Bar and Lounge is about 14 minutes, without breaking any speed laws. We don&rsquo;t know how long it took Sid to get there after that game.</p><p>But no one could blame him for hurrying. He needed a little of his private stock to dull the shock.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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I Knew There Would Be Nights Like This, Said Abel After 7-0 Whitewash

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The Red Wing captains&mdash;there are four of them&mdash;are operating in disguise for the present.</p><p>Their names are no secret: Capt. Ted Lindsay and Alternate Captains Red Kelly, Bob Goldham and Marty Pavelich.</p><p>But they are cloaked in the anonymity of an ordinary team member. Nowhere in sight is one of those &ldquo;C&rdquo; or &ldquo;A&rdquo; labels to designate their official standings, like the captains on the other National Hockey League teams.</p><p>All this is part of a technical manouvre as General Manager Jack Adams opens a silent battle on a new front in his perpetual warfare with hockey referees.</p><p>Adams had the &ldquo;C&rdquo; and the &ldquo;A&rdquo; stripped off the jerseys. They were missing for the first time in Detroit&rsquo;s fifth game. (The fact that Detroit won that game from Chicago, 7 to 0, does not have any bearing on this case.)</p><p>Adams explains that it represents a silent protest for the referees&rsquo; &ldquo;disregard&rdquo; for what those labels stand for.</p><p>He emphasized strongly that the move in no way reflected upon the leadership shown by Lindsay and his alternates in the first four games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02107/1031973-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="284" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption></div><h2>Not Getting Any Regard From Officials</h2><p>&ldquo;The captains aren&rsquo;t getting any regard. The referees won&rsquo;t listen to them like the rules say they should,&rdquo; Adams pointed out indignantly.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s become a joke when the referee threatens an alternate captain with a misconduct penalty for carrying out his duty. If the labels mean nothing to the refs, why wear them? So we took them off.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams declined to go into further detail, but the argument apparently stems from a game played, in Chicago. Kelly reportedly got a brushoff and a threat of a misconduct when he asked Referee George Gravel for a rule explanation.</p><p>NHL Prexy Clarence Campbell was asked if any action might be taken, and said none was needed.</p><p>&ldquo;If the labels are taken off, those players who are captains will have no more right than any other player to question a referee,&rdquo; Campbell said. &ldquo;And the rule book covers the violation.&rdquo;</p><p>This judicious opinion, however, was not fully correct. But Campbell hastened off a bulletin to all clubs to clear up a technical point in the rules. And THAT made his statement correct.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s what the rule book says in Rule No. 14:</p><p>&ldquo;One captain shall be appointed and he alone shall have the privilege of discussing with the referee any questions relating to interpretation of the rules. He shall wear the letter &ldquo;C&rdquo; in a conspicuous position on the front of his sweater.</p><p>&ldquo;Each team shall have a captain on the ice at all times. If the permanent captain is not on the ice, alternate captains shall be accorded the privileges of the captain. Alternate captains shall wear &ldquo;A&rdquo;.</p><h2>There is Loophole in Rule Interpretation</h2><p>&ldquo;The referee or official scorer shall be advised prior to the start of the game the names of the captains.</p><p>&ldquo;Only the captain or alternate captain on the ice at the time of stoppage of play shall have the privilege if discussing with the referee any point relating to rules interpretation.</p><p>&ldquo;For violation of this rule by any player, a misconduct penalty shall be imposed.&rdquo;</p><p>The loophole in the rule was that the captains legally had all their official rights as long as the official scorer was notified. But the referee might not get the word from the official scorer. Confusion could result. The special bulletin cleared up this point.</p><p>What the result of all this might be, no one can guess. The labels were off the home uniforms for two straight games, and the decision still was to be made whether they&rsquo;d be stripped from the road uniforms as well.</p><p>Just another skirmish&mdash;and a luke-warm one at that&mdash;in the &ldquo;cold&rdquo; war. That seems to be the best description.</p><h2>Telling Wings&rsquo; Fans</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0465/1031966-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="1178" height="961"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>General Manager Jack Adams of the Wings, right, explains his reason for chopping off captain&rsquo;s crests from his club over Radio and Television station WJBK-TV, Detroit, with Al Nagler.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Adams Wields Axe on ‘C’, ‘A’ Crests—Charges Officials Snub Appointments

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO. Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The addition of Arthur Wirtz as president and Jim Norris as chairman of the board of the Chicago Black Hawks has given the team the most colorful ownership combine in hockey. Their versatility and prestige in the sports and entertainment worlds will undoubtedly go a long way toward moving the Windy City pucksters to the lop of the National Hockey league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0390/1032011-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="283" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Arthur Wirtz</b></figcaption></div><p>Although the actual management of the Hawks remains in the capable hands of General Manager Bill Tobin, Wirtz and Norris are expected to play important roles when it comes to rendering decisions on any problems of note. that may arise. They, along with Coach Sid Abel, will also be called upon to approve all deals that may be made.</p><p>Wirtz, an ardent hockey enthusiast, welcomed the chance to become head of the Black Hawk official family. In addition to serving as president of the Chicago Stadium corporation, he has become one of the master showmen in the country today, producing several of the world&rsquo;s outstanding ice shows, rodeos and circuses.</p><p>In 1934, Arthur Wirtz joined the Chicago Stadium as executive vice president and treasurer. He later originated the famed Hollywood Ice Review which brought Sonja Henie to stardom. He has since received much of the credit for introducing Sonja&rsquo;s successor, Barbara Ann Scott, to the public.</p><p>Wirtz has had a great deal to do with&rsquo; the success of two top rodeo shows. They have starred movie favorites Roy Rogers and Bill &ldquo;Hopalong Cassidy&rdquo; Boyd and have toured the nation from coast to coast. He also maintains interests in the well known Cole Brothers and Barnes Brothers circuses. Besides all this, he is able to remain active in a thriving real estate business in Chicago.</p><p>Jim Norris, son of Detroit owner James Norris, has gained fame as head of the International Boxing club which sanctions virtually all major fights in the United States. Despite his pressing IBC duties in New York, Jim has already managed to get to several Hawk games and hopes to see many more as the season progresses.</p><h2>Practice Ice Available</h2><p>One of the least noticed, but most appreciated changes brought about by the revised front office setup concerns the availability of practice ice for the Chicago team. The fact that Wirtz now heads both the Hawks and the Stadium has made quite a difference in the previously very difficult situation.</p><p>Practice ice at the huge west side arena can now apparently be had by Abel and his charges most any hour of any day. Members of Hawks vasts of the past were seldom accorded such privileges. Instead, they had to go on distant searches for ice on which to practice and such excursions were seldom enjoyed.</p><p>The veterans that have been able to stick around for the 1952-53 version of the Black Hawks find the change somewhat of a dream come true. &ldquo;I feel like the backward farmer using indoor conveniences for the first time, &ldquo;one old-timer&rdquo; said last week.</p><h2>Half of New Look and Star</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0553/1032004-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="1190" height="938"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Norris Jr., new Hawk vice president and Defenseman Gus Mortson whom he acquired from Leafs</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wirtz Gives Hawks All The Practice Ice They Want Now

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The Experts’ Choice

<h2><b>First Hat Trick</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>il Bettio was credited with his first hat-trick of the young: AHL season when he pumped home three goals against the Pittsburgh Hornets as the Hershey Bears won 4-1.</p><h2><b>Harried Hornets</b></h2><p>The defending champion Pittsburgh Hornets are having a hard time getting started. The Hornets dropped five of their first six contests one of them a thriller that went to overtime.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p>STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M. OCT. 28</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01139/1032140-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="592" height="202"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 Pittsburgh 4 at St. Louis 5</h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The St. Louis Flyers knocked in a goal with only a minute and fifteen seconds left in regulation time and then scored after four minutes of overtime to down the Pittsburgh Hornets 5-4.</p><p>Pittsburgh jumped into an early lead when Earl Balfour scored after one minute and fifty-seven seconds of play. Danny Poland and George Ford drew assists on the play. St. Louis evened the count at 7.37 with Steve Hrymnak pulling the trigger on passes from Guyle Fielder and Eddie Stankiewicz. Pittsburgh regained the lead near the end of the period, Danny Poland scoring from Earl Balford and George Ford.</p><p>The only goal of the second period was scored by Danny Poland unassisted at the 12.51 mark.</p><p>The Flyers got back into the thick of things in the third period, Bert Hirschfeld, Fran O&rsquo;Grady and Harry Taylor blinking the red light while Elliot Charley counted for the Hornets.</p><p>At the 4.22 mark of the overtime, JOE Lund converted passes from Fielder and Motto McLean into the winner.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>: Goal, Mayer; defence, Sullivan. Backor, Ashley, Juzda; forwards: Maloney. Blair, Lewicki, Marshall, Chorley, Balfour, Timgren, Ford and Poland.</p><p><b>St. Louis</b>: Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, MacNab; forwards: O&rsquo;Grady, Stankiewicz Taylor, Boone. Fielder, Hirschfeld, Baccari, Pogue, McLean.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02105/1032133-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="593" height="655"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Hershey 3 at Providence 5</h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;The Providence Reds banged home two last period goals to down the Hershey Bears 5-3. At one point the Bears led 2-0.</p><p>Norm Corcoran put the Hershey team one up in the first period on passes from Stan Bettio and Arnie Kullman. Murray Henderson made it 2-0 converting passes from George Sullivan and Lome Ferguson. Pat Egan put the Reds back in business as he scored on a relay from Chuck Scherza.</p><p>There were only two goals scored in the middle frame, both by Providence. Scherza got the first one at 5.49 on a solo effort. Barry Sullivan put the Reds ahead on a pass from Ray Powell.</p><p>Hershey got back on even footing &lsquo;n the third period, Arnie Kullman counting on passes from Joe Schertzel and Norm Corcoran. Pete Kapusta and Barry Sullivan made 5-3 for Providence, scoring the two goals in just over a minute. Ray Laplante and Zellio Toppazzini were the helpers on the first and Laplante and Paul Gladu were credited with assists on the second.</p><p><b>Hershey</b>: Goal. Henry; Defence, Henderson, Branigan, Schertzl; forwards, A. Brown, G. Sullivan, A. Kullman, Fisher. Corcoran, Bettio, O&rsquo;Brien, Ferguson.</p><p><b>Providence</b>: Goal, Bennett; defence, Egan, Bourassa, Bloomer, A veil; forwards, B. Sullivan. Powell, Gladu, LaPlante, Kapusta, Toppazzini, Scherza, Denis, Michaluk.</p><p><b>Referee</b>: Jerry Olinski; linesmen, Art Lesieur and George Deslauniers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0385/1032126-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="592" height="552"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>TUESDAY OCTOBER 21 Hershey 4 at Pittsburgh 1</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Matching the Pittsbrugh Hornets a first period goal and then holding the defending champs scoreless the rest of the way, the Hershey Bears gained a 4-1 decision. Each team scored once in the opener, the Bears added two more in the second and a fourth in the final frame.</p><p>Bettio was the big gun for the winners, his hat-trick supplying the margin of victory. Ferguson added the other Hershey goal while the lone Hornet counter went to Sullivan. Kullman drew a pair of assists on Bettio&rsquo;s last two goals scored in the second period. Maloney drew the assist on the Pittsburgh goal.</p><p>Bettio&rsquo;s first period goal was scored after only a minute and twenty-two seconds of play. Schertzl and Corcoran drawing assists. Pittsburgh got back in the game at the 8.36 mark of the opener but from there on it was Hershey all the way.</p><p><b>Hershey</b>: Goal, Henry; defence. Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzl, Martin; forwards: Kullman, Corcoran. Bettio, Branigan. Brown G. Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, O&rsquo;Brien.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>: Goal, Mayer; defence. F. Sullivan, Backor, Ashley. Juzda; forwards: Maloney. Blair. Timgren. Balfour, Ford, Sabourin, Marshall, Poland. Chorley, Lewicki</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0552/1032119-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="591" height="428"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Pittsburgh 1 at Hershey 3</h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;For the second time in as many nights, the Hershey Bears limited the Pittsburgh Hornets to one goal, and made it two straight over the defending champions. The Bears scored twice in the opening period and once in the last to rack up a 3-1 win.</p><p>Corcoran was the big gun for the winners, his two first period goals giving the Bears a lead they never forfeited.</p><p>Pittsburgh got back in the game in the second period with a singleton by Chorley but Kullman&rsquo;s third period effort nulified this one.</p><p>Bettio and Schertzl drew first period assists on Corcoran&rsquo;s pair while Kulljnan&rsquo;s third period marker was an unassisted effort. Blair and Marshall drew assists on the lone Hornet goal.</p><p>Corcoran&rsquo;s goals came within four minutes of each other, the first at 7: 03 and the second at 11.30.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>: Goal, Mayer; defence, F. Sullivan, Backor, Ashley, Juzda; forwards: Maloney, Blair, Timgren, Balfour, Ford, Sabourin, Marshall, Poland, Chorley.</p><p><b>Hershey</b>: Goal, Henry; defence, Gariepy, Henderson. Schertzl, Martin; forwards: Kullman Corcoran, Bettio, Branigan, Brown, G. Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, O&rsquo;Brien.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0648/1032112-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="588" height="326"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>THURSDAY OCTOBER 23 Syracuse 1 at St. Louis 2</h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;After spotting Syracuse a 1-0 second period lead, the St. Louis Flyers rushed from behind to score two goals in the same period and take a 2-1 verdict from the Shore-men.</p><p>The two teams battled through scoreless periods in both the first and last frames, all the scoring being confined to the sandwich session. Durik put the Syracuse team off on the right foot with an unassisted counter just after the second period got underway but McLean scored the equalizer for the Flyers al 9.28 and Lavell scored what proved to be the winner a tthe 14.51 mark. Guyle Fielder, recently acquired by the Flyers in a trade for Gordie Hannigan, set up both goals and was credited with assists. On Lavell&rsquo;s goal, Lund also drew an assist.</p><p><b>Syracuse</b>: Goal, Bell; defence, Milligan, Tottle, Allen, Gustavsen; forwards. Mc-Nabney, Pidhirney, Gooden, Hayden, Burnett. Casanato, Curick, Horvath.</p><p><b>St. Louis</b>: Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes. McNabb; forwards: O&rsquo;Grady, Stankiewicz, Taylor, Hirsh, Pogue, McLean, Boon, Fielder, Lavell.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0741/1032105-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="586" height="349"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24 Pittsburgh 4 at Cleveland 1</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;The Pittsburgh Hornets got their first win of the 1952-53 season by defeating the Cleveland Barons 4-p right in their own back yard. Ray Timgren, Bob Sabourin, Bill Marshall and Phil Maloney notched the goals for the Hornets with Eddie Olson getting the singleton for the Barons.</p><p><b>Cleveland</b>: Goal, Bower; defence, Reigle, Williams, Chrystal, Shero; forwards: Lynn, Gordon, Wochy, Bailey, Hildebrand. Olson, Sonmor, Ceresino. Kubasek.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>: Goal, Mayor; defence, Juzda, Backor. Ashley, Sullivan; forwards: Maloney. Ford, Timgren, Balfour, Sabourin, Marshall, Poland, Chorley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0839/1032098-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="588" height="449"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 St. Louis 4 at Pittsburgh 2</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;St. Louis Flyers defeated Pittsburgh Hornets 4-2 Saturday night in an American League Hockey game. The defeat was the fifth in six starts for the defending champion Hornets.</p><p>Jake Forbes and Eric Pogue divided the Flyers&rsquo; four goals between them while Poland and Marshall scored for Pittsburgh,</p><p><b>St. Louis</b>: Goal. Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, &bull; McNab; forwards: O&rsquo;Grady, Stankiewicz, Taylor, Boone, Pogue. Hirschfeld, Fielder, McLean, Bonin.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh</b>: Goal, Mayer; defence, Juzda, Backor, Sullivan, Mathers; forwards: Maloney, Ezinicki, Timgren, Marshall, Sabourin, Chorley, Poland, Ford, Balfour.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0938/1032091-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="587" height="530"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Providence 2 at Syracuse 0</h3><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;Providence goalie Harvey Bennett turned in his first shutout the American Hockey League season Saturday night as the Reds defeated Syracuse Warriors 2-0 to protect their League lead.</p><p>Bennett was credited with 30 saves against 12 for Syracuse goalie Gordon Bell.</p><p>Defenceman Pat Egan scored the period and provided the assist in the first Providence goal late in the first final period, slipping the puck to Zello Toppazzini who heat Bell.</p><p><b>Providence</b>: Goal, Bennett; defence, Egan, Bourassa. Lavell, Bloomer; forwards, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, Kapusta, Laplante, Toppazzini, Michaluk, Reardon.</p><p><b>Syracuse</b>: Goal, Bell: defence, Allen, Gustavsen. Tottle, Milligan: forwards: Horvath, Gooden, Pidhirny, Burnett, Lemieux, Hayden, McNabney, Casanato.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1034/1032084-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="585" height="302"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Buffalo 2 at Hershey 0</h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Buffalo Bisons blanked Hershey. Rears 2-0 Saturday night in an American Hockey League game.</p><p>Buffalo scored both goals in the second period. Hartley McLeod opened at close range while Hershey was a man short and Lome Davis finished off the scoring four minutes later, taking a shot on a two-man break.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>: Goal. McAtee: defence, Mc-Neil. Eddolls. Lavitt, Lowe. Pliote: forwards, Pennell. Davis. Kaiser, McKay, Kobussen, Davies, McLeod.</p><p><b>Hershey</b>: Goal, Henry; defence, Gariepy. Henderson. Schertzl. Martin; forwards: Jullman, Corcoran. Bettio. Brown, Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, O&rsquo;Brien, Branitan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1127/1032077-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="587" height="323"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 Hershey 3 at Buffalo 1</h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Hershey Bears squared their week-end American Hockey League series by defeating Buffalo Bisons 3-1. this afternoon. The Bisons had won 2-0 at Hershey Saturday night.</p><p>The Bears took the lead on Norm Corcoran&rsquo;s goal in the first period, with the Bisons short-handed. Obie O&rsquo;Brien made it 2-0 in the second, and Frank Martin tallied in the third.</p><p>Buffalo finally beat goalie Gord Henry on Vern Kaiser&rsquo;s shot at 17.24 of the third period. Ross Lowe and Corcoran were serving major penalties for fighting at the time.</p><p><b>Hershey</b>: Goal, Henry; defence, Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzel, Branigan, Martin; forwards: Kullman. Corcoran, Bettio, Brown, Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, O&rsquo;Brien.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>: Goal, McAtee; defence: Mc-Neil, Eddolls, Lavitt, Lowe, Pilotte; forwards, Pennell, DaVis, Kaiser, MacKay, McLeod, Davies, Kobussen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0468/1032070-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="588" height="427"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25</h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Scoring two goals in both the second and third periods, the Providence Reds downed the Syracuse Warriors 5-2.</p><p>The teams came out even at the end of the first, both scoring one goal. In the second the Reds pumped home two more with only a one goal answer from the Warriors, and added another pair in the final frame.</p><p>Hayden opened the scoring for the Syracuse team at 6.42 on a pass from Burnett but Gladu got that back for the Reds with only 40 seconds left In the period on passes from Egan and Toppazzini. Denis shot the Reds ahead in the second but Hayden got his second to even the count. Two minutes later, Powell gave Providence the lead they never relinquished.</p><p>Sullivan and Michaluk got the insurance markers in the third period</p><p><b>Syracuse</b>: Goal, Bell; defence, Allen Gustavsen, Tottle, Milligan; forwards: Horvath. Gooden, Pidhirny, Burnett, Lemieux, Hayden, McNabney, Casanato&rsquo;, Curick.</p><p><b>Providence</b>: Goal, Bennett; defence, Egan. Bourassa, Lavell, Bloomer; forwards: Sullivan, Powell, Gladu, Kapusta, Laplante. Toppazzini, Denis, Reardon, Michaluk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0553/1032063-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="586" height="504"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 Cleveland 3 at St. Louis 6</h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Combining four goals in the first period with a pair in the last, the St. Louis Flyers defeated the Cleveland Barons 6-3. Pogue was the big gun for the Flyers with a brace of goals while singletons went to Taylor, Hirschfeld. Fielder and Lund. The Baron goals were scored by Reigle, Sonmor and Hildebarnd.</p><p>The Flyers got on the score sheet after only 45 seconds of play, Taylor scoring from O&rsquo;Grady and Stankiewicz. Hlrschfeld added to the count on passes from Forbes and Pogue at the 2.25 mark. Cleveland roared back with two goals, Reigle and Sonmor scoring within a minute of each other. Pogue then potted his twin markers to give the Flyers a 4-2 lead at the end of the period.</p><p><b>Cleveland</b>: Goal, Bower; defence Chrystal, Shero, Reigle, Williams; forwards: Gordon, Wochy, Lynn, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Sonmor, Cereslno, Kubasek.</p><p><b>St. Louis</b>: Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, MacNab; forwardsO&rsquo;Grady, Stankiewicz, Taylor, Hirschfeld Pogue, McLean, Boone, Bonin, Fielder.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0740/1032056-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="593" height="663"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sunday October 26)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1225/1032049-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="589" height="399"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b>: Eric Pogue, St. L. (5); Vern Kaiser, Buff. (5).</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>: Ed Stankiewicz, St. L. (5); Kelly Burnett, Syr. (5).</p><p><b>Most Penalties</b>: Norm Gustavsen, Syr. (20).</p><p><b>Best Goals Against Av&rsquo;g</b>: Harvey Bennett, Prov. (1.40)</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b>: Harvey Bennett, Prov. (1); Phil McAtee, Buff. (1).</p><h2>McAtee Alert To Red Aims</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0462/1032042-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1790" height="1003"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GOAL-MOUTH JAM as Phil McAtee, Bison goalie, alerts himself white Buffalo Bison defenders swipe the puck away from their net. Left to right: McAtee, Calum McKay, Pete Kapusta, Ray LalPante, Jean Paul Denis, Morley McNeil, Coach Frankie Eddolls, Pierre Pilotte.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>TROY, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Beltin&rsquo; Billy Moe, who always dreamed of some day coaching&rsquo; in organized hockey but figured he&rsquo;d never get an opportunity to, has had his dream come true.</p><p>Moe recently was named player-coach of the Troy Uncle Sam&rsquo;s Trojans of the Eastern Hockey League.</p><p>It seems only proper that Moe, one of the few American-born players ever to make the National League, should be chosen to guide the ice activities of a team with such a nickname.</p><p>Moe, who completed 11 years as a pro last season as a member of the Calgary Stampeders of the Western League, has repeatedly stated he never expected to get a coaching job.</p><p>&ldquo;I just have a, feeling I&rsquo;ll never get to coach,&rdquo; Moe always stated when pressed for an explanation of his somewhat dour outlook.</p><p>Now that he has the opportunity, it&rsquo;s a cinch that Moe will give it all he has.</p><p>Always a colorful, eye-catching performer, Moe divided most of his pro career between the lineups of the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League and the New York Rangers, spending a total of nine years with the two clubs.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Liked it Rough</h2><p>Recently turned 36, Mere always delighted in rough going. When the body checks were the hardest, Beltin&rsquo; Billy was at his best.</p><p>One of the favorite tricks of the raw-boned, veteran defenseman was to catch a rushing forward from a crouch and flit him head over skates to the ice-it never failed to bring a loud response from the crowd, or break up an enemy attack.</p><p>The trick baeckfired once, however, when Moe was attempting to stop Montreal&rsquo;s Maurice Richard.</p><p>&ldquo;That Richard is without an equal when it comes to barreling in on a defenseman,&rdquo; Moe stated in beginning the story. &ldquo;But one night, I thought I had him good. I started to flip him but the next thing I knew, I was flat on the ice with Richard on top. I think the son of a gun got his shot off, too.&rdquo;</p><p>But there&rsquo;s not many guys like Richard around to worry Moe, and he should help add color to the Eastern League this season&mdash;in a job he thought he&rsquo;d never get.</p><h2><b>Had a Feeling</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01152/1032202-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="587" height="797"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILLY MOE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Moe Gets Job He Never Did Expect to Get

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>UFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;The Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League have given high scoring Ab DeMarco his unconditional release. The Bisons also announce that DeMarco would be the club&rsquo;s chief scout in Canadian hockey circles.</p><p>General Manager Fred Hunt announced DeMarco&rsquo;s release as an active player and signing as a scout.</p><p>DeMarco led the AHL scorers during the 1950-51 season. He plans to play hockey in his home town of North Bay, Ontario.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Canadian FOOTBAEL NEWS

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>PITTSBURGH, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>John Harris, the silver-haired daddy &lsquo;of the Ice Capades and the Pittsburgh Hornets, stood with his large, meaty hand gripping the handle of a time-beaten, overstuffed brown leather brief case. At the behest of the press, he was expressing his views on the subject of working agreements between National and American League clubs&mdash;and related matters.</p><p>&ldquo;In my association with hockey, I&rsquo;ve come to know the evils of working agreements. as well as their good points,&rdquo; Harris boomed, a knowing light in his eyes reflecting his thoughts.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02106/1032295-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="297" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ray Timgren</b></figcaption></div><p>I remember bacK about a dozen years when it was bad, very bad.</p><p>&ldquo;I remember one trip in particular. The team left Pittsburgh to play in Buffalo. When the team arrived in Buffalo, there were new players waiting to replace some of those in our lineup.</p><p>&ldquo;The changes were made so rapidly that we had replacements for those replacements before the club got back home.&rdquo;</p><p>Harris paused a moment to nibble on a place of chocolate candy but soon resumed his discourse.</p><p>&ldquo;That working agreement really set hockey back in Pittsburgh,&rdquo; he injected.</p><p>&ldquo;After that I decided to go independent. Boom-along came the war and just about wiped every player off my roster. I was ready to throw in the sponge.</p><p>&ldquo;The League insisted it needed a team in Pittsburgh and promised me player aid. Naturally, I got whatever anyone else didn&rsquo;t want&mdash;and lost a pile of dough.</p><p>&ldquo;In fact, I lost so much, I never expect to get even in the books.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><h2>Toronto Agreement Worked Out Well</h2><p>At this point, Harris explained he decided to try working with an NHL club again&mdash;this time Toronto.</p><p>&ldquo;Conn Smythe and I made an agreement under which the Maple Leafs could recall four&mdash;and only that many&mdash;players a year. It&rsquo;s worked out well for both of us, I think,&rdquo; he asserted.</p><p>&ldquo;Take last year for example. He took George Armstrong away from me but, in turn, bought Bill Ezinicki from Boston to replace him. I lost my top man but got one of the most colorful characters ir the game in return for him.</p><p>&ldquo;When he called up (Bob) Solinger and (Rudy) Migay, Smythe sent down Ray Timgren and Danny Lewicki. Once again I had no complaint because Timgren scored goals like mad.</p><p>&ldquo;At no time were we hurt by recalls because Toronto always sent down players of top talent to replace the men we lost.</p><p>&ldquo;After all we did win the Western Division and the playoff championships didn&rsquo;t we?&rdquo;</p><p>Harris next turned his attention to treatment of players by individual American League clubs&mdash;a subject which had been discussed at recent AHL meetings.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see why I should be bound to travel, house, and feed my players in a certain way just because some other owner is,&rdquo; he asserted.</p><p>&ldquo;After all, if John Smith wants his team to travel by bus, sleep in less than the best hotels, and eat poorly&mdash;that&rsquo;s his business. But if I want to travel my team by pullman, house them at the best hotels, and feed them well&mdash;it&rsquo;s my affair.</p><p>&ldquo;This idea of setting a limit on the amount of money to be spent for matters of this type is poor thinking.</p><p>&ldquo;Alter all, whose money I spending? John Smith&rsquo;s or John Harris&rsquo;?&rdquo;</p><h2>It&rsquo;s His Dough</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0388/1032288-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="556" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHN HARRIS</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<h2><b>Empty Net Scores</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>emoving the goaler has backfired twice in the WHL. Archie Scott of Calgary and Chuck McCullough of Saskatoon have both scored on unprotected cages, Scott against Edmonton and McCullough against Seattle.</p><h2><b>Bobby Loves Hockey</b></h2><p>Bob Love of New Westminster earn the Iron Man bouquet due to his being the only player to have played every game with his team since the league turned professional. He&rsquo;s play cd in 286 games to date.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON MONDAY, OCT. 20</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01159/1032521-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="593" height="226"></div><h3>LAST WEEKS RESULTS</h3><p>Oct. 13&mdash;Tacoma 2 at Victoria 7</p><p>Calgary 5 at Edmonton 3</p><p>Oct. 14&mdash;New West. 5 at Vancouver 3</p><p>Edmonton 1 at Calgary 4</p><p>Oct. 15&mdash;Seattle 1 at Saskatoon 3</p><p>Oct. 16&mdash;Seattle 3 at Edmonton 3</p><p>Oct. 17&mdash;New West. 3 at Victoria 6</p><p>Tacoma 3 at Vancouver 4</p><p>Seattle 1 at Calgary 4</p><p>Oct. 18&mdash;Vancouver 2 at Tacoma 0</p><p>Victoria 4 at New West. 3</p><p>Edmonton 3 at Saskatoon 2</p><p>Oct. 19&mdash;Vancouver 4 at Seattle 2</p><p>* * * *</p><h3>SUNDAY OCTOBER 12 New Westminster 1 at Seattle 9</h3><p>SEATTLE&mdash;The Seattle Bombers trounced the New Westminster Royals 9-1 with Bailey and Foley getting two goals apiece.</p><p>The Bombers pumped home four goals in the first period, one in the second and four more in the final period. The lone Royals goal came in the first period.</p><p>Other scorers beside Bailey and Foley for the Bombers were Ailsby, Bell, Homepuke, Nadeau and Filion while the lone New Westminster marker was scored by Ullyot.</p><p><b>New Westminster</b>: Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Bedard, Oskley, Durham; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Boyce, Haidy, Cabana.</p><p><b>Seattle</b>: Goal, Bentley; defence, Sprout, Conn, Ailsby, Kotanen, Lebioda; forwards, Bell, Filion, Foley, Bailey, Parge ter, Stearns, Macauley, Nadeau, Wilkie.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02126/1032514-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="588" height="643"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>MONDAY OCTOBER 13 Tacoma 3 at Victoria 7</h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;The Victoria Cougars both Andy Hebenton and Reg Abbott walloped the Tacoma Rockets 7-2 with scoring two goals. Other Cougar goals went to playing coach Eddie Dorohoy, Joe Evans and Eddie Mazur. Rockets&rsquo; goals were scored by Doug Adam and &lsquo;Speed&rsquo; Brown.</p><p>At the end of the first period the Cougars had a 4-1 lead on goals by Evans, Dorohoy, Hebenton and Abbott. The lone Rocket first period counter was racked up by Adam, and it was the first goal of the game.</p><p>Tacoma didn&rsquo;t score again until the third period. Brown doing the honours.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Long, Bouchard, Roche, Goegan, Webster. Strongman; forwards, Hebenton, Abbott, McIntyre, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Medynski.</p><p><b>Tacoma</b>: Goal, Siemon; defence, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor. Matthew; forwards, Caron, Halderson, Wall, Bradley, Johnston, Marquess, Brown, Kerr, Adam.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0488/1032507-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="589" height="600"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Calgary 5 at Edmonton 3</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;The third period proved to be the pay-off frame for the Calgary Stampeders as Steve Black notched a goal at the 17.42 mark to break a 3-3 deadlock and Archie Scott added the insurance marker with but 6 seconds left in the game, to defeat the Edmonton Flyers 5-3&hellip;</p><p>Calgary goals were scored by Black, Scott, George Agar, Art Michaluk and Pat Lundy. Edmonton scorers were Len Haley and Lou Jankowski.</p><p>Edmonton got the first two goals of the game in the second period but from then on it was strictly Calgary all the way as they pumped In two in the second and three in the third to cop the duke.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b>: Goal, Har; defence, Coburn, May, Folk, Coflin: forwards. Johnson, Fielder, Jankowski. Reibel, Ehman, Uniac, MacDonald, Haley, Anderson, Poile.</p><p><b>Calgary</b>: Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Schvetz, Levandoski; forwards, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Kelly, Barry, Agar, Ashworth, Spratt, Blade.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0572/1032500-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="587" height="576"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>TUESDAY OCTOBER 14 New Westminster 5 at Vancouver 3</h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;New Westminster&rsquo;s veterans proved to be the trigger-men as the Royals dumped the Vancouver Canucks 5-3.</p><p>The Royals&rsquo; goals were scored by Ollie Dorohoy, Gordon Fashoway, Don Slater, Stan Maxwell, and Blinky Boyce, all of whom were with the team last year.</p><p>At one time in the game the New Westminster team enjoyed a comfortable 6-0 lead but the Canucks finally broke the ice at the 9.34 mark of the second period, Guidolin doing the honours. Macintosh scored the other Vancouver goal.</p><p><b>New Westminster</b>: Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Bedard, Leek; forwards, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Lavell, Boyce, Mc-Nab,, Cabana.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>: Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Tarala, Guidolin; forwards, Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Barlow, Defer, Powers, Manson, McIntosh, Hagan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0661/1032493-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="593" height="472"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Edmonton 1 at Calgary 4</h3><p>CALGARY&mdash;Scoring three times in the last period, the Calgary Stampeders defeated the Edmonton Flyers 4-1. The only goal of the first period was cored by the Stamps and there was no coring in the second frame.</p><p>Sid Finney paced the Stamps, scoring a hat trick. Roy Kelly got the other two Calgary goals while the lone Edmonton marker was scored by McDonald</p><p>Kelly opened the scoring in the first period on passes from Scott and Shvetz. There was no second period scoring but in the third, Finney scored before Edmonton finally connected, McDonald coring from Haley and Anderson.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b>: Goal, Hall; defence. Hay, Coburn, Colfin, Folk; forwards, Uniac, Johnson, Jankowski, Reibel, Haley, Anderson, Ehman. McDonald, Fielder, Poile.</p><p><b>Calgary</b>: Goal, Hughes; defence, Michaluk, Levandoski, Kyle, Quackenbush, Schvetz; forwards, Kelly, Lundy, Slack. Barry, Agar, Ashworth, Scott, Finney. Blade.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01108/1032486-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="594" height="429"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15 Seattle 1 at Saskatoon 3</h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers ran their unbeaten skein to four straight with a 3-1 win over the Seat-&rsquo; tie Bombers. It was the Quakers&rsquo; third win in four starts, and the other was a tie.</p><p>There was no scoring in the first period, but the Quakers broke the ice in the second, Kaiser scoring from Wylie and Manson.</p><p>Seattle evened the count after five minutes of play in the third period, Madeau getting an unassisted goal.</p><p>Saskatoon bounced back with two goals by McCullough and Bentley.</p><p><b>Seattle</b>: Goal, Brennan; defence; Sprout, Arnett, Conn, Ailsby, Lebolda; forwards: Fillion, Bell, Folly, Homenuke, Pargeter, Madeau, Bailey, Stearns, Macauley.</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b>: Goal, Bev Bentley; defence, Heindl, Evans, Milford, Parker; forwards: Kaleta, Chad, Strain, Wylie, Kaiser, Manson, McCullough, Senick, Kuzma. Doug Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0279/1032479-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="593" height="326"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>THURSDAY OCTOBER 16 Seattle 3 at Edmonton 3</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;The Edmonton Flyers racked up their second tie game when they drew with the Seattle Bombers 3-3. They have yet to win a game.</p><p>The tying goal was much disputed by the Bombers. It was a high shot from the blue line by defenseman Bill Folk which deflected into the Seattle net off Ching Johnson&rsquo;s stick.</p><p>Twice the Flyers led in the game but the Seattle team roared back to take a 3-2 lead in the third period which paved the way for the disputed Edmonton equalizer.</p><p>Other Edmonton goals were scored by Jim Unlak and Gerry Ehman. Seattle markers went to George Pargeter, Gerry Foley and Rudy Filion.</p><p><b>Seattle</b>: Goal, Brennan; defence, Ailsby, Sprout, Arnett, Conn, Leboida; forwards: Homenuke, Pargeter, Bell, Filiori, Foley, Nadeau, Bailey, Stearns, Macauley.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b>: Goal, Hall; defence. Hay, Coburn, Coflin, Folk; forwards, Poile, Johnson, Uniac, Jankowski, Reibel, Anderson Haley. Evans. MacDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0357/1032472-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="590" height="378"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>FRIDAY OCTOBER 17 New Westminster 3 at Victoria 6</h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Victoria Cougars scored their third straight home-ice victory and their third in four WHL games when they dumped the champion New Westminster Royals 6-3.</p><p>Twice in the game the Royals led but the Cougars were not to be denied. There was no scoring in the first period but Victoria opened the point parade early in the second, Eddie Mazur scoring from Andy Hebenton and Ernie Roche.</p><p>Other Cougar goals were scored by Colin Kilburn, Reg Abbott, Jack McIntyre and Jim Fairburn.</p><p><b>New Westminster</b>: Goal, Dechene; defence. Durham, Bergeron, Bedard, Leek; forwards: O. Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot. Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Boyce, McNab. Haidy, Cabana.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>: Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Web ster, Roche. Long. Strongnaan; forwards: Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, McIntyre. Mazur, Kilburn, E. Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0438/1032465-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="589" height="576"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Tacoma 3 at Vancouver 4</h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;The Vancouver Ca nucks dumped the Tacoma Rockets 4-3 to climb into fifth piece in the standings of the WHL.</p><p>Les Hickey who was with the Victoria team last year, sparked the Canucks to their second victory. Hickey scored twice&mdash;the first goal tying the score at 1-1 in the first period the second the winner on a passing play with Ian Mackintosh and Harry Dick with less than three minutes left in the game.</p><p>The other Canuck goals were scored by Ian Mackintosh and Jack Lancien. Doug Adam, Gordie Kerr and Bill Davidson scored for Tacoma.</p><p><b>Tacoma</b>: Goal, Stevenson; defence, Matthews, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor; forwards: W. Brown, Bradley, Johnston, Wall, Kerr, Marquess, Halderson, Adam, Caron, Medynskl.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>: Goal, Francis; defence, wards: Hickey Atanas, Smith, Popein, Dick, Currie, Tarala, Fontinato; for Leier, Manson, Mackintosh, F, Brown, Lancien.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0530/1032458-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="592" height="525"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Seattle 1 at Calgary 4</h3><p>CALG ARY&mdash;The Calgary Stampeders whacked the Seattle Bombers 4-1 to stay in second place in the standings. The Bombers were a little travel weary, having played three games in as many nights.</p><p>The Stampeders scored three goals in five minutes midway through the second period after George Homenuke had matched a first period goal by Roy Kelly to give Bombers a 1-1 tie.</p><p>Other Stampeder goals went to Black and Shvetz.</p><p><b>Seattle</b>: Goal, Brennan; defence, Sprout, Arnett, Conn. Leboids, Ailsby; forwards, Homenuke. Pargeter, Bell, FiHon, Foley, Nadeau, Bailey, Stearns, Mc-Cauley.</p><p><b>Calgary</b>: Goal, Hughes; defence. Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Shvetz, Levandoski; forwards: Kelly. Brown, Lundy, Black, Barry, Agar, Ashworth, Scott, Finney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0617/1032451-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="587" height="426"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SATURDAY OCTOBER 18 Vancouver 2 at Tacoma 0</h3><p>TACOMA&mdash;Emil &lsquo;The Cat&rsquo; Francis hung the goos-egg on the Tacoma Rockets while his mates potted two goals to give the Vancouver Canucks a 2-0 victory.</p><p>Fontinato broke the ice in the first period as he scored on a pass from Ponein and Macintosh.</p><p>Eddie Leier added the insurance marker early in the second period taking a double relay from Dick and Currie. There was no scoring in the third period.</p><p>The game was hard fought all the way, a total of ten penalties being handed out by the officials.</p><p><b>Tacoma</b>: Goal, Stevenson: defence, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Matthews: forwards: Brown. Bradley, Johnston, Wall. Kerr, Marquess, Haldorsen, Adam, Caron.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>: Goal. Francis; defence. Dick, Currie. Tarala, Fontinato; forwards: Hickey, Atanas, Smith. Ponein, Barlow, Leier, Powers, Manson, Meintosh. Hagan, Gvidolin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0713/1032444-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="591" height="300"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Edmonton 3 at Saskatoon 2</h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers lost their first game of the season and their hold on first place in the standings when they were defeated 3-2 by the Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>Bud Poile opened the scoring for the Flyers in the first period. Lou Jankowski was credited with an assist on the play. Bill Heindl got that one back for the Quakers on a pass from Bill Wylie. Jim MacDonald shot the Flyers out front again on passes from Haley and Johnson.</p><p>MacDonald made it 3-1 on Coburn&rsquo;s assist in the second period.</p><p>Nell Strain put the Quakers within shooting distance in the third period when he scored Saskatoon&rsquo;s last goal on a pass from Kaleta and Evans.</p><p><b>Saskatoon</b>: Goal, Brennan: defence, Heindl, Evans, Parker, Milford; forwards, McCullough, Senick, Kuzma. Howe, Strain, Kaleta, Chad, Jeffrey, Holdaway, Bentley.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b>: Goal, Hall; defence, Co-burn, May, Folk, Coflin; forwards: Johnson, Fielder, Jankowski, Reibel, Ehman. Uniac, MacDonald, Haley, Anderson, Poile.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-088/1032437-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="590" height="377"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>Victoria 4 at New Westminster 3</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;The Victoria Cougars knocked in two quick first period goals and went on from there to defeat the New Westminster Royals 4-3.</p><p>Jack McIntyre accounted for the first Cougar goal and Andy Anderson followed up soon after with another. New Westminster finally got on the score sheet at the 12.14 mark, Max McNab counting.</p><p>McNab came back with another in the second period to knot the count but playing-coach Eddie Dorohoy and Eddie Mazur added third period goals to put the game on ice for the Cougars. Ken Ullyot got one for the losers in the third.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>: Goal, Cotnoir; defence. Long, Bouchard, Roche, G.oegan, Webster, Strongman; forwards: Hebenton, Abbott, McIntyre, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Medynski.</p><p><b>New Westminster</b>: Goal, Dechene defence, Bergeron, Bedard, Oskley, Durnam; forwards: McNab. Dorohoy, Slater Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Boyce, Haidy, Cabana.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-096/1032430-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="596" height="548"></div><p>* * *</p><h3>SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 Vancouver 4 at Seattle 2</h3><p>SEATTLE&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks defeated Seattle Bombers 4-2, scoring two goals in the third period.</p><p>Larry Popein opened the scoring for the Canucks at the 8.06 mark of the first period on passes from Hugh Currie and Harry Dick. The Bombers evened the score in the second period, George Homenuke counting on a pass from McAuley. Vancouver bounced back with a goal late in the period, Ian Mackintosh converting Popein&rsquo;s relay.</p><p>Mackintosh added another in the third from Popein and Hal Brown finished off the Canuck scoring at 4.43. The Bomber&rsquo;s last goal was off the stick of Gerry Foley&hellip;</p><p><b>Seattle</b>: Goal, Bentley; defence, Ailsby, Sprout, Conn, Leboida, Kotanen; forwards: Homenuke, Pargeter, Bell, Fllion, Foley, Nadeau, Bailey, Stearns, Macauley.</p><p><b>Vancouver</b>: Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Barlow, Tarala, Frontinato; forwards, Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Leier, Powers, Manson, Macintosh, Guidolin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-106/1032423-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="588" height="346"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including games of Sunday, Oct. 19th)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0752/1032416-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="590" height="835"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0847/1032409-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="585" height="251"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals</b>: Ian Mackintosh, Vanc. (8).</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>: Larry Popien, Vanc. (8).</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks</b>: Ken Ullyot, N.W. (1)</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks Against</b>: Emil Francis, Vane. (1).</p><p><b>Most Shut Outs</b>: Bill Brennan, Sask. (1); Emil Francis, Vanc. (1).</p><p><b>Most Penalties</b>: Doug Adam, Tac., 20 min: Jack Evans, Sask., 19 min; Gus. Kyle. Calg., 18 min; Hugh Currie, Vane., 18 min; Jim. Bedard, N.W., 16 min; Hugh Coflin, Edm., 16 min; Stan. Long, Vic., 15.</p><h3>TEAM SCORING</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0946/1032402-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="589" height="232"></div><p>* * *</p><h2>Set To Lower The Boom</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03104/1032395-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="1566" height="1134"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Reg Abbott and Colin Kilburn of Victoria rush to the aid of goaler Jerry Cotnoir who has just stopped a shot off the stick of Tacoma&rsquo;s Len Haldorsen. Abbott looks like he is ready to let one go at Haldorsen. Action took place during Tacoma-Victoria contest which the Cougars won 7-2. Abbott, who seems headed towards a big production year scored two of his team&rsquo;s goals.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01164/1032621-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Goalie Jerry Cotnoir was one of the stars as Victoria Cougars edged Vancouver Canucks in Western Hockey League. Here Cotnoir (1) goes to his knees to block puck as Ian Mackintosh (left) of Canuck fires screened shot past defenseman Bernie Strongman. In background, left to right are: Louie Fontinato, Canucks; Reg Abbott, Cougars, and Don Smith, Canucks.</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02112/1032614-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="1560" height="1153"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Cotnoir goes down again to stop approching long shot as Fiori Goegan (centre) of Cougars, and Smith reach for puck, Don Webster (2) of Cougars blocks off former Cougar Les Hickey while Mackintosh (15) is watching Jack McIntyre of Cougars in background. MacIntyre player out-standing game, scoring first Cougar goal and assisting on second.</b> <span class="photo-credit">((Courtesy Victoria Dahay Colonist))</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cotnoir Thwarts Canuck Thrusts In West

<div class="byline">By RAY GUAY</div><p>CALGARY, Alta&mdash;</p><p>It looks like there&rsquo;s going to be a fine scramble in the Western Hockey League before the men are separated from the boys.</p><p>Everyone is taking president Al Leader seriously when he says that the league has improved from top to bottom. Results to date bare out his statement.</p><p>Saskatoon Quakers and Calgary Stampeders have been picking up a lot of points lately with Edmonton Flyers, pre-season favorites to take all the shekels, having their troubles.</p><p>Quakers, at this writing, have yet to taste defeat and it appears rather unlikely that the skein will be broken so long as they remain in the confines of their home surroundings. Quakers, as well as winning all home games to date, have picked up points with a tie at Edmonton and a win at Calgary.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0381/1032652-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="277" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Roy Kelly</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><h2>Stamps Tangled with Quakers</h2><p>Stampeders, on the other hand, had the misfortune of tangling with the Quakers in a home- and home series to start their season and were not yet ready to offer any stiff opposition. Stampeders, however, have won all their starts since&mdash;including two wins in as many nights against Flyers.</p><p>Flyers, in their only showing in Calgary to date, played unin-spired and ragged hockey and looked far from the team which has been picked by many &ldquo;experts&rsquo;&rdquo; to rack up all the honors. However, the &ldquo;experts&rdquo; opinion was probably founded more on Flyers&rsquo; affiliation with Detroit Red Wings than on the team&rsquo;s own merits.</p><p>The Edmonton club appears to miss the leadership of Colin Kilburn who is going like a house afire with Eddie Dorohoy&rsquo;s Victoria Cougars. Kilburn, re-united with his &ldquo;Gold-Dust&rdquo; twin partner Doug Anderson, is one of the main reasons why Cougars are close to the top and rated high for the long grind.</p><p>RANDOM NOTES: Scoring champion George Agar has taken a back seat to linemate Roy Kelly in the scoring department lately, but the Stampeder star stickhandler has been setting up most of the plays&hellip;Sid Finney, loaned to Stampeders by Chicago Black Hawks to make up some of the slack left by injuries, has been in top form, scoring some beauties since joining the club&hellip;Seattle Bombers were the first to invade the prairies and they es caped with one point as result of a tie at Edmonton&hellip;both Sas katoon and Calgary walloped them, but the Bombers looked like they have a lot on the ball</p><p>George Duffy&rsquo;s kind words about Art Michaluk a couple of issues back haven&rsquo;t been lost on the hard-hitting Calgary defence man&hellip;Art appreciates every one of them&hellip;Michaluk, by the way, hasn&rsquo;t lost any of his zest&hellip;he&rsquo;s been checking furiously and has some nice stickhandling jobs&hellip;. Gus Kyle of Stamps and Hugh Coflin of Flyers will probably provide a high-class boxing bout one of these fine nights&hellip;Coflin started it oft by boarding Kyle here last week&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-03

Quakers, Stamps Show Zip in Early Western Struggle

<p>&hellip;in scoring against life&rsquo;s problems, often goes to a Savings Account. Open yours at the B of M today.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0558/1032714-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="213" height="215"></div><p><b>BANK OF MONTREAL SD73</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Credit FOR AN ASSIST

f0014-06

now whenever friends meet

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta&mdash;</p><p>Carefree Guyle Fielder, a young man with a big &lsquo;if&rsquo; barring the way to a 100 per cent realization of his hockey possibilities, was an early casualty as coach Bud Poile&rsquo;s Edmonton Flyers embarked on the Western Hockey League campaign.</p><p>Fielder, who can play a lot of hockey when the mood suits, was shuffled off to St. Louis after three lack-lustre efforts in an Edmonton uniform. Last season&rsquo;s Pacific Coast League rookie award winner, while with New Westminster, was expected to be plain dynamite in his new surroundings. Instead he didn&rsquo;t come close to measuring up and like &lsquo;poor little robin&rsquo; of the Hit Parade, shortly was headed for Missouri.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0467/1032683-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="286" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Earl Reibel</b></figcaption></div><p>He had this &lsquo;edge&rsquo; on the aforementioned feathered nomad: the Flyers, or St. Louis, one or the other, must have provided the transportation.</p><p>Fielder wasn&rsquo;t the only toller in the Poile vineyard who hadn&rsquo;t earned his keep at the time of his being pared from the roster, in favor of Ray Hannigan. In fact the Flyers were still without a win after four starts. The best they could do was snatch a pair of 3-3 ties, against the champion Saskatoon Quakers, and the rebuilt&mdash;and renamed&mdash;Seattle Bombers, respectively.</p><p>Otherwise the Calgary Stampeders, much improved over last season, had taken the Flyers for a couple of fast rides.</p><p>However Poile&rsquo;s cast finally cracked the victory column at Saskatoon, edging the Quakers 3-2, the night of Oct. 18. Rookie pivot Jack McDonald, just up from the juniors, provided the winning margin with a pair of goals, his first in the pro ranks.</p><p>The triumps over Doug Bentdey&rsquo;s powerpacked Hub City crew was doubly welcome inasmuch as the Edmonton aggregation was scheduled to head immediately for the west coast, where they would play five games in. six nights.</p><p>By the time the coast junked was behind them, Poile and Co. would have a better idea of their chances of being a contender for the honors in prsident Al Leader&rsquo;s sprawling puck circuit.</p><p>Hanningan, a puckster who figured in that &lsquo;Lumley-for-four&rsquo; trade of six weeks ago, then refused to report to St. Louis when ordered there by Chicago, was somewhat tardy in arriving in the Edmonton camp. However, he checked in just the day before the team left for the coast. Needless to say he&rsquo;ll get plenty of work as thethe Flyers play their way through the coast centres.</p><p><b>Redline Rambling</b>: &lsquo;Dutch&rsquo; Reibel, American league rookie prize last season, hasn&rsquo;t shown much in a Flyer uniform. Still, he must be a lot of hockey player and local fans are looking for a scoring outburst on his part anytime now&hellip;Another who has been miles below his best form is defenceman Pat Coburn, All-Star Coburn hasn&rsquo;t begun to look as though he were untracked. He complained of feeling &ldquo;listless&rdquo; and the club doctor prescribed &lsquo;yogurt&rsquo; or some such form of booster shot in hopes of shaking Pat loose from his lassitude.</p><p>Netminder Glen Hall has been outstanding in the Flyer hatch. Few of the pucks to get by him were of the &lsquo;stoppable&rsquo; variety&hellip;Rookie Len Haley, last year with Glace Bay, has been hustling and coming up with his snare of points.</p><p>Attendance has been off slightly, due no doubt to the wholesale changes made in the team roster during the off-season, as well as the football fever that is at its height these times.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-04

Flyers Have Touch Time Getting Started

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>As if they didn&rsquo;t have enough grief Quebec Aces lost a game in the committee rooms on the past weekend. On top of their misfortunes on the ice Punch Imlach&rsquo;s crew had a game taken away from them, incidentally their only accredited victory thus far in the Quebec Senior Hockey League campaign.</p><p>The game in question was played at the Ancient Capital, October 12, the lid-lifter of Aces, schedule and Aces won 4-3. On the grounds that Aces played Jackie Leclair, then the property of Ottawa Senators, the Cataracts lodged a protest to the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>Last Saturday in its Montreal Offices the QAHA Executive deliberated the case, ruled that Leclair was ineligible to play foi Aces on October 12, when he was rightly an Ottawa Senator chattel, and so upheld the protest lodged by Don Penniston, coach and manager of the Cataracts.</p><p>George M. Slater, president of the Quebec Senior Hockey League then directed that the official league standing as published in the daily press be changed to show a win for Cataracts and a defeat for the Aces.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Aces Now Winless</h2><p>The adverse decision failed to arouse the Acemen from their slump though they had Jean Marois back in their nets following a lengthy absence due&rsquo; to bruised and sprained thumbs which made it difficult for the goaler to wield a stick. At Ottawa on Saturday night, October 25 the Aces were held to a 2-2 draw by Senators and then on Sunday were trounced 4-1 by the Penniston larrigans at Shawinigan Falls. This made it a nice weekend for the Falls guys. They put two wins in the standing, while only perspiring through one.</p><p>The Cats&rsquo; scorers were Johnny Lebrun, Johnny Raynak, Larry Regan and Nellie Podolsky. Gordon Hudson got Aces&rsquo; only tally.</p><p>The greatest effort which was least rewarded was likely that of the Montreal Royals who strained through an overtime period only to lose with but 17 seconds remaining to play to Chicoutimi Sagueneens.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Groleau the Hero</h2><p>Marius Groleau counted the winning goal in 9:43 when he stole the puck from Veteran defenseman Roger Leger close to the Royals&rsquo; net. Groleau then stick-handled close to the cage and as Jacques Plante dove out of his cage, the wily Marius back-pedalled and flipped the rubber washer into the strings.</p><p>What made the defeat galling to Pete Morin&rsquo;s crew was that they had held a vast superiority in the play, had out-shot the Chicks 43 to 25, made steady raids on the Chicoutimi backyard, only to get beaten off by Merce) Pelletier who put, up a super-duper display of goal-tending. The work of Jean Paul Lamirande, Gerry Claude and Georges Roy on the defense was also glittering.</p><p>Bucky Buchanan, who has long been a popular figure at Shawin-Igan Falls, this year switched to the Sags, drew an assist on the dramtic winning tally and scored an earlier goal for the Chicks as the teams levelled off with a goal apiece in the opening chukker. Paul Masnick got Royals&rsquo; only marker with the help of Jimmy Moore and Lulu Denis.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Braves Tie For First</h2><p>Royal&rsquo;s defeat allowed the Valleyfield Braves to pull into a first place tie. The Braves split home and home decisions with Sherbrooke Saints on the same weekend.</p><p>Saints won 4-2 in Sherbrooke Saturday night and the next day in Valleyfield the Braves came back for a 2-0 victory with Paul Leclerc hanging up his first shatout of the season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01133/1032800-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="555" height="559"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDRE CORRIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><p>Tod Campeau paced the &lsquo;Brookes win on their home ice by scoring a pair of goals, Dewar Thomson and Nil Tremblay bagging the other tallies. Georges Bougie and big Jack Irvine collected the counters for the Braves in this joust.</p><p>Leclere was a busy custodian that night since he handled 40 blistering stops against only 21 which was Roger Bessette&rsquo;s portion.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Corriveau Produces</h2><p>On their home ice the Braves looked something like the well-balanced and sound machine that won the Alexander Trophy two years ago. They had plenty of zip and go and once they were in front at 1-0 on Gordon Haworth&rsquo;s first period goal the homesters appeared quite sure of themselves.</p><p>Andre Corriveau made it 2-0 for Braves in the middle canto when he picked up a loose puck on the rebound after Bougie had tested Bessette, and slammed the black cookie into the pantry. Then in the final stanza Leclerc handled all attempts by Sher-brooke to break the zero.</p><p>Business is good in most of the bigger centres in the Quebec loop. Tommy Gorman was all smiles at Ottawa when 6,601&mdash;largest crowd of the season crammed the Auditorium for the Quebec-Senator clash on Saturday night and more than 9,800 were on hand in the Forum Sunday for the Royals-Chicoutimi embroglio despite competition the same afternoon from an Alouettes-Hamilton Ticat football game at the Montreal ball park.</p><p>ICE CHIPS&mdash;Bob Fryday, hustling little winger, returned to Royals last Saturday following a month layoff at his Toronto home, while recuperating from a knee operation. Fryday had a cartlege removed&hellip;Toe Blake, Valleyfield coach, became an acttive competition again when he lined up with Sages in the Depression Hockey League at St. Laurent Arena. This loop, is made up mainly of veterans, including Gerry Heffernan, former Canadiens and Royals, Jacques Belanger and coach of Junior Royals&hellip;. Until a few years ago Nels Crutchfield who played with Canadiens and McGill back in the 30&rsquo;s was regular&hellip;</p><p>Pete Morin, Royals&rsquo; coach shot a deer on a trip to the Laurentians last week and when many of friends demanded steaks, brought same to the Forum for distribution&hellip;Doug Howie, who figures in various roles as a minor official in both senior and junior games at the Forum, is now in his 26th season as part time employee with Canadiens&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-01

Committee Room Vote Relieves Aces of Two Points to Falls for Using Ineligible Player

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Celebrate with ’58 RYE WHISKY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0466/1032893-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Perfection Combination&hellip;Curry, Mosdeil, Gamble Montreal&rsquo;s line of Flyod Curry, Ken Mosdeil and Dick Gamble were really rhe perfect combination in a game last week against the Detroit Red Wings when they accounted for four goals and five assists. Curry had two goals and one assist, Mosdeil three assists and Gamble two goals and an assist.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-04

The Perfect Combination – Quality! Freshness! Price!

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Greatest change in the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League is in Halifax, where they have new directors and backers, new faces and even a new name.</p><p>From now on it will be Halifax Atlantics. The Saint Mary&rsquo;s tag is gone. A whole new organization has taken over with former sole backer Col. Victor Oland one of the many behind scenes.</p><p>The Halifax team almost didn&rsquo;t run. Two months ago Oland startled city fans with the announcement that he no longer could devote the time to the running of a major league club. He needed assistance. For a fortnight it looked as if the team would drop out. Then another businessman came into the breach and hasty plans were made.</p><p>Just when the Halifax setup was starting to go places, Sydney Millionaires said they wouldn&rsquo;t run. That started a war of nerves in Cape Breton, with the rival Glace Bay Miners speaking their minds in no uncertain terms. A few days later the Moneymen were back in.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0387/1032831-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="290" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>King Clancy</b></figcaption></div><p>It would appear that the tough days are behind the league. The schedule is shortened to 78 from a record 90 games per each of last winter. All four clubs are strongly backed financially.</p><p>It does seem strange to Maritime fans, however, to have a top league without a New Brunswick representative. Both Saint John Beavers and Moncton Hawks have dropped by the wayside. Both may take up the franchise in another year. Meanwhile the Maritimes will have to get by with four teams, a throwback to the days when the original Big Four was in flower in the early 30&rsquo;s and won the Allan Cup three times in three straight years.</p><p>Hockey outdraws all other sports in the Maritimes. It also is far more expensive than other sports. Most of the players come from a long distance and they demand sizeable salaries.</p><p>Transportation costs are heavy because some of the trips are so long. Last season the teams have to contend with the roughest winter in many years. And refereeing costs proved the straw that almist broke the camel&rsquo;s back.</p><p>The feest for the whistle-tooters did break the backs of two clubs and fractured a few bones in other clubs. Now the league has worked out a scheme whereby two referees will work with home-town linesmen.</p><p>One of the referees is a homebrew, Hugh Gillis. Hugh was born, in Cape Breton but moved to Halifax after starring in various sports at St. Francis Xavier University. He has been prominent as a sports official ever since.</p><p>Charlie Goode is the other referee, and he&rsquo;s an import from the Ontario oHckey Association. Serious-faced Charlie is coming here for the fourth straight season. Two years he worked in the Cape Breton League. Last year he was in the Maritime Big Six, quit with less than a month to go on the back-breaking schedule. The league parted with Goode with regrets. As his name implies, Goode is a good man.</p><p>A few months ago he wrote hockey headquarters and said he&rsquo;d be interested in returning. The league was interesting in him so they had no trouble getting together. Over the years he has been in a minimum of rhubarbs, this in a sector where rhubarbs on ice are a dime a dozen.</p><p>Some of the linesmen are graduates of the hocgey school conducted each winter at Charlottetown. Clarence Campbell of the National oHckey League sends George Hayes down each year to explain the rules, and one of the top Maritime coaches discusses hockey strategy. The school has been, a big success and a recommendation from its sponsors falls on eager ears.</p><p>The first year they had the school the referee designated wag Frank (King) Clancy. The King was in his best form and the stories he told are still being retold. Hayes has been in charge for the past four years and may be back again. He predicted last year that the Maritime League would eventually adopt the three-man refereei.g system because, in his opinion, it was by far the best. It has finally, come to pass.</p><p>The scramble for player personnel for the four clubs lead to all hockey centres in Canada. AU four coaches&mdash;Hub Macey of Glace Bay, Murph Chamberlain. Dugger McNeil of Halifax and Cliff Roach of Sydney&mdash;are well known around the hockey cycle and all four looked at a lot of available players before they made their pick.</p><p>An indication that another good season is ahead is seen in the advance ticket sale in all four centres. Season&rsquo;s tickets have been in greater demand this year than ever. This is a. good indication that the league is embarking on a schedule that should, make ends meet in a financial way.</p><p>Making ends meet financially is something you seldom hear of in these parts. But all four clubs are community sponsored now, Halifax being the last to shed a sole owner. The community idea enables the clubs to gain greater support in all directions, it is what saved major hockey for the 1952-53 season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-03

Maritime Majors Cut Expenses By Use of Refs With Local Linesmen

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Hap Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers, an orphan team without a sponsor, were back in familiar surroundings after the first week of play in the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; series.</p><p>The Flyers, the only independent team in the nine-team circuit, survived the first five games without a loss and they gave the impression that they were going to survive a great deal longer with-out suffering too much discomfort.</p><p>The Memorial Cup champions of two years ago compiled four victories and a tie in their first five starts while other more highly-favored teams faltered. Flyers finished in seventh place last season after winning the Memorial Cup the year before.</p><p>When Barrie won the Memorial Cup in the 1950-51 season they were sponsored by Boston Bruins. Last year, however, Boston pulled out when Emms refused to play Sunday hockey&mdash;a. move that was interpreted in many quarters as a direct slam at Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>Junior double-headers on Sunday afternoons have proved immensely popular in Toronto whereas mid-week games have attracted gatherings of 1,000 or fewer. Therefore Emms&rsquo; adamant attitude towards Sabbath shinny wasn&rsquo;t applauded loudly in Toronto where Conn Smythe&rsquo;s Toronto Maple Leafs sponsor Marlboros and St. Michael&rsquo;s in the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop. So it was to be expected that the Leafs would apply pressure to force Barrie to play on Sundays.</p><h2>Persistant Guy</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01138/1032924-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="504" height="852"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HAP EMMS</b></figcaption></div><p>Emms has never been heard to boast of the fact but unfortunately (for iiixnj Barrie is within a 50-mile radius of Toronto. For hockey purposes that places him within the Leafs&rsquo; sphere of influence. No other pro hockey club may sponsor a team in Barrie without Leafs&rsquo; permission. So when Emms declined to play Sunday hockey it was a simple matter for Leafs to compel Boston to cancel its sponsorship.</p><p>In the chain-store conditions that exist in hockey today that move would be enough to force most amateur operators to some other less competitive hobby. But it only angered Emms and he resolved to carry on without sponsorship. It was called a suicidal move by some of the other junior club heads but he is still operating from the same old stand and, despite the lack of a sponsor, he appears to have fashioned a club that will knock off many of the other teams that carry a pro-approved label.</p><p>Barrie finished in seventh place last season but Emms has .11 players from that club back and most of them seem to have improved immensely. Recognized as one of the shrewdest coaches in junior hockey he could make his pre-season boast of &ldquo;no worse than fourth&rdquo; stand up. Besides last year&rsquo;s holdovers he has two or three newcomers who appear destined to earn star ratings.</p><p>The Flyers opened their season at home by thrashing Galt Black Hawks 12-8. The most startling feature of that pitchers&rsquo; duel was that Roy McKenney, a Barrie sophomore, rolled a natural with seven goals&mdash;an OHA record in recent seasons at least.</p><p>Barrie continued on with victories over Windsor, Guelph and Oshawa in that order. St. Catharines held them to a tie. Howard Norris, the philosophiscal Barrie manager, consoled Biltmore officials after their loss with a few soothing words. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry,&rdquo; he told them. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll get used to it. Champions one year, bums the next. We&rsquo;ve been through it too.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-01

Emms Takes Flyer as Independent, Flyers Fly to Top Of OHA Junior

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“Make Mine Molson’s – on the double!”

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