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November 15, 1952

The Hockey News November 15, 1952

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0461/1025938-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sieve Hrymnak (2) St. Louis Flyers defenseman scores first gcai of the 1952-53 F.yers home schedule. in the goal for Pittsburgh is Gil Mayer (1), to the left of the net is Guyie Fielder new Flyer forward who is being taken out of the pay by number 13, Frank Sullivan, Jittsburgh defenseman. Directly behind Hrymnak is Eddie Siankiewcz Fyer forward. The Flyers defeated the Hornets 5 to 4 in on overtime game</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

First For Flyers At Home

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>SYRACUSE. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Frank Beisler, wiry coach of the Syracuse Warriors looks like a fellow whose nickname would be &ldquo;Butch&rdquo;, as his is.</p><p>He&rsquo;s an erect 6 footer with a dented nose and the scars of 78 game-acquired stitches on the brow of his leathery face. Another scar, above his upper lip, marks the spot where a puck shot by Cleveland&rsquo;s Les Cunningham caught Beisler when he was in the lineup of the old Springfield Club in the A.H.L.</p><p>Butch&rsquo;s tendency to speak in short, clipped tones adds to his &ldquo;tough guy&rdquo; appearance.</p><p>Beisler came by his nickname honest enough-he was a pretty rough fellow during his playing days. One of those guys, who, although not endowed with the all-around ability necesary for National League fame, gave it everything he had when on the ice.</p><p>The rougher the going, the more Beisler felt at home. He owns up to having patterned himself after his present boss, Eddie Shore, as a player.</p><p>&ldquo;It was one of the greatest thrills of my hockey career when Shore picked me to team with him on defense when he bought the Springfield franchise some years back,&rdquo; Beisler has often stated.</p><p>Being on the ice with Shore assured Beisler of being around when the fur was flying.</p><p>For all his willingness to mix with the opposition, Beisler never drew more than 75 minutes in penalties in nine years of American League competition, and had an average sin-bin time of around 40 minutes per season.</p><p>&ldquo;I always tried to belt&rsquo;em hard and clean,&rdquo; was Beisler&rsquo;s explanation for the comparatively low infraction total.</p><p>He also pointed out that only once during those nine years was he ever thumbed off the ice by a referee with a match misconduct penalty.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what that proves though,&rdquo; he added, almost apologetically.</p><p>Since hanging up the skates and launching his coatching career as mentor at New Haven&rsquo;s Cheshire Academy in 1944, Beisler has had the misfortune of being strapped with several talent-shy teams.</p><h2><b>Big Butch</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02110/1026377-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="593" height="903"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(FRANK BEISLER)</span></figcaption></div><p>His debut as coach at Buffalo in the 1945-46 A.H.L. season was auspicious enough&mdash;since Frank bossed the Bisons to the league championship.</p><p>However, after departing from Buffalo a year later under rather mysterious circumstances (he brought the team through to the semi-final round of the playoffs but was still fired), Beisler successively coached A.H.L. clubs in Washington, New Haven, Springfield, and now, Syracuse.</p><p>None of the teams gave Beisler much to write back home to New Haven to his wife and six children about. In fact, more often than not, the Lions, Eagles, Indians, and Warriers were the last place club in their division.</p><p>Nor do Beisler&rsquo;s chances of matching his Buffalo success look very good for this season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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‘Tough Guy’ Beisler Always Belted Them Hard but Was Clean

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0221/1027056-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="249" height="293"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0122/1027063-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="229" height="281"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Johnny on The Spot)</span></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0320/1027049-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2906" height="965"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny on The Spot</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Johnny Wilson of the Red Wings shoots one post Jim Henry of the Boston Bruins. The puck can be seen entering the net.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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On The Firing Line in The Major Loop

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Though they were due to lose Paul Masnick to the parent Montreal Canadiens Royals went on the rampage in the Quebec Senior Hockey League last weekend, exploded intense fire-power as they poured the puck into the opposition cages for 14 goals in two days, and took a firm grip on first place in the Quebec Senior Hockey League.</p><p>On their first visit to Canada&rsquo;s capital Saturday night they drubbed the Senators 6-1, and the very next day repulsed Jean Beliveau and Company 8-3 as Quebec Aces helped the Royals draw 14,452 into the Montreal Forum. It was the largest senior crowd of the season and the big gate had the figure filberts digging into the dope books to find a comparable gathering.</p><p>Beliveau was haltered and hobbled a8 Pete Morin sent out Skippy Burchell and Paul Masnick to be his constant checks.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;Gros Bill&rdquo; had an unhappy afternoon as one or both of these boys was under this feet, or harrying him with sweeping hookchecks.</p><h2><b>Big Gun</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0385/1026539-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="556" height="870"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(JACK HAMILTON)</span></figcaption></div><h3><b>Frampton is Starring</b></h3><p>Bob Frampton, who is now playing bang-up hockey for the Royal Family led the big eight goal splurge with a pair, and singles were grabbed by Skippy Burchell, Paul Masnick, Gerry Plamondon, Roger Leger, Lulu Denis and Eddie Litzenberger. It was likely Masnick&rsquo;s last turn with the QSHL entry and he made it a signal performance by chipping in with a pair of assists.</p><p>Jean Marois in the Quebec net had a busy, perspiring afternoon with a handle of 39 shots, and he made many sensational saves. Otherwise the count would have been staggering.</p><p>Jacques Plante, back in Royals&rsquo; cage, after a three game lend-lease tour with the NHL Canadiens turned away 25 pucks.</p><h3><b>Two Broken Wrists</b></h3><p>Both teams suffered in the injury toll. For it was revealed by X-Rays later that both Jimmy Moore, Royals, and Frank Mario, Quebec forward, had suffered broken left wrists. Both had left the lee at different points of the game, their injuries in no way connected.</p><p>Valleyfield Braves lost ground at the same time when they held to a 2-2 draw on home ice by the Chicoutimi Sagueneens. In this outing Marius Groleau bagged two tallies for the Chicks while Bep Guidolin and Jackie Schmidt were the Valleyfield snipers.</p><p>With his forces riddled by injuries coach Rollie Hebert was only able to dress three defensemen Taylor, Bowness and Lamir and the latter was singled out for special mention for turning in a sparkling game with many long shifts.</p><p>Don Penniston&rsquo;s Cataracts at Shawinigan Falls pulled one of the season&rsquo;s biggest upsets in midweek when they upended the Royals 4-2. Jackie Hamilton was a big figure in this triumph for the Falls guys with a goal and a helping. But unfortunately this sudden flash of prosperity couldn&rsquo;t be sustained. For in their next game the Cats were defeated 4-2 by Ivan Dugre&rsquo;s Sjherbrooke Saints.</p><h3><b>Tkachuk Gets Three</b></h3><p>Hat-tricks haven&rsquo;t been too common in the Slater circuit this season. Pete Tkachuk delivered one to spark the Sagueneens to 4-2 win over the Saints in Sherbrooke on Saturday night, and with the draw they grabbed in Valleyfield the next day Hebert&rsquo;s henchmen made it a very successful invasion of the western end of the circuit. Last year the Chicks were labelled a very poor road team. Now it appears they have definitely shaken this curse.</p><p>Nil Tremblay veteran tourist, who previously played for both Aces and Senators shone for Sherbrooke in this one getting both goals. Ralph &lsquo;Bucky&rdquo; Buch-anan, who was the backbone of many squads at Shawinigan Falls over the years, has lost none of his deadly marksmanship. He accounted for the Chicks&rsquo; fourth tally to supplement Tkachuk&rsquo;s trio.</p><h3><b>Imlach Registers Beef</b></h3><p>Harassed by the constant chain of injuries to his team George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Ihlach, Quebec coach was outspoken in sentiments to your reporter following the Aces-Royals embroglio in Montreal. He was awaiting word on the X-Ray at Western General Hospital across the park from the Forum, upon Frank Mario.</p><p>&ldquo;I fear the worst&rdquo; said Imlach, before he even knew that his wing forward had suffered a fractured wrist. &ldquo;But that isn&rsquo;t all. Ludger Tremblay had to take three stitches in his head and Pierre Brilliant had one suture in the mouth. And these cuts are from high sticks.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;And one of these was from Jimmy Moore. It was Moore who got Jean Beliveau in the mouth down in Quebec and broke his upper plate. Big Jean had about a dozen stitches in his lip and in the roof of his mouth, and was on soup for more than ten days. Is is any wonder the big guy wasn&rsquo;t going so good at the start of the season. You can&rsquo;t score goals on a soup diet.</p><p>&ldquo;Frankly I&rsquo;m getting tired of this high stick business and I&rsquo;m about ready to tell my&rsquo;guys to go out and do a little of it themselves. We&rsquo;ll have to retalliate.</p><p>Rebounds&mdash;Johnny Mitchell, Detroit scout, has been looking &lsquo;em over in the Quebec loop for the past week, and says he&rsquo;ll linger longer. He was much impressed with the twine-tending of young Dave Gatherum of the Cataracts. Davey is a Red Wing chattel&hellip;Les Douglas sat out his first game in more than three seasons of AHL and QSHL competition when he missed Royals tussla with Aces. He is bothered by a hernia ailment and seeks rest to avoid an operation&hellip;</p><p>Jackie Hamilton, of the Cats, has been fingered in the loop for his snarky stunt of skating the enemy goaler out of his cage or at quiet push or tug, so that a mate can fire Into an unguarded net&hellip;Shawinigan Falls Cataracts&rsquo; gained additional scoring punch when Dick Wray, red-headed winger was purchased from the Sagueneens&hellip;</p><p>Jack Gelineau, former goaler with Quebec Aces through the playoffs last spring, playing with, considerable flair as the Quebecers won the Alexander Trophy, is about ready to start practise again following hospitalization and operation for hernia&hellip;So many of the Royals are getting aproving nods from Frank Selke and Dick Irvin these days there are rumours flying about Montreal that there might be some top level changes which would see a couple of Canadiens&rsquo; veterans displaced.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0465/1026532-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="571" height="1276"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Braves Lose Ground As Royals Take To Warpath

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover1" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover15/1027160-1-eng-US/cover12.jpg"></div><h2><b>As Seen Through A Lense</b></h2><p><b>Ed Fires a Hot One</b></p><p><b>Goaler Terry Sawchuk of the Detroit Red Wings prepares to stop a shot off the stick of Ed Sandford of the Boston Bruins while Joe Klukay looks on from the corner of the rink.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover23/1027153-1-eng-US/cover22.jpg" title="Cover2" width="1707" height="971"></div><p><b>Split Second Rebounding</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover3/1027146-1-eng-US/cover32.jpg" title="Cover3" width="1103" height="1776"></div><p><b>Elmer Misfires</b></p><p><b>Veteran Elmer Lach of the Canadiens wheels in front of Jim Henry of the Bruins but missed his chance. Jim saved from the Hab sharpshooter.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover4/1027139-1-eng-US/cover42.jpg" title="Cover4" width="1151" height="976"></div><p><b>On The Tip Of His Stick</b></p><p><b>Hab&rsquo;s McNeil goes down on his side and drags the puck into his body. The disc can be seen at the end of his stick but Sid Smith of the Leafs was just a little too slow to bang it in.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fourty-One Unassisted Goals in Roc’s Record

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0161/1024712-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>The Canadiens&rsquo; dressing room took on a Hollywood atmosphere after Maurice Richard scored his record breaking goal and Elrner Lach netted his 200th. Photos above were taken immediately after by David Bier. Top, left to right: Lach and Richard are greeted by a host of well-wishers. Center: Maurice Jr., on his Dad&rsquo;s lap looking at the puck that gave his father the record. Right: Big Jean Marc Beliveau of the Quebec Aces congratulates the Rocket after the game.</b></p><p><b>Lower photos, left to right: Red Storey hands Richard the puck seconds after he broke the record. Center: Father Romeo Guilbaut, a missionary from Basutoland fits Richard with a straw hat and a blanket robe, symbolic of a Bantu tribe chief of South Africa. Elmer aids him. Right: Richard skated to the bench with the puck and was so overjoyed that he just leaned on the boards for a moment. The cameraman, standing close by snapped the above picture of injured Gerry McNeil patting him on the back while Dick Irvin looks on</b></p> <span class="photo-credit">((Photos by Dave Bier))</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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A Happy Richard … The Pressure Is Off

<p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>f Richard&rsquo;s 325 goals, 41 have been scored unassisted with a total of 449 assists have been awarded on the remaining 284. Following is a list of the players and their total assists credited on goals scored by Richard:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0526/1024764-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="508" height="1170"></div><p>* This as the only point ever credited to Hill Durnan during his career.</p><p>The following is a table of Maurice Richard&rsquo;s record against each goaler he has scored on in the National Hockey League regular season to record his 325 goals. The table shows the number of goals scored against that soaler with each NHL team which he has performed.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0251/1024757-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="1196" height="611"></div><p>(Statistics compiled by T.H. MARTIN)</p><p>The following is a table showing winning, tieing goals and multiple scoring efforts by Maurice Richard in his 325 goal career.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0346/1024750-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1149" height="206"></div><p>The following is a table showing the number of goals Richard has scored against each club in the National Hockey League and a breakdown period by period.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0432/1024743-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="1216" height="1046"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Richard’s Record Recorded For A Fast Glance

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The puck which Maurice Richard scored his 325th goal of his career is to be presented to Queen Elizabeth shortly.</p><p>General Manager Frank Selke said after the game that he will have it gold plated and engraved and sent to Her Majesty.</p><p>Queen Elizabeth, when she visited Montreal last November with the Duke of Edinburgh expressed interest in Richard&rsquo;s career. The Royal Couple saw Richard play in a game against the New York Rangers.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Queen to Get 325th Goal Puck

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0161/1024819-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The goal: Although Maurice Richard is nowhere to be seen in the above picture, this is the goal that netted him the tag of all-time goal scoring king of the National Hockey League. He was about 10 feet to the right when the pic was taken. The arrow indicates the puck as it is about to go over the line while Bert Olmstead (15) tries to poke it with his stick. Lee Fogolin (3) of the Hawks is the player on the right.</b> <span class="photo-credit">((Photo by David Bier))</span></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Maurice Richard tugged off his jersey. He sat down, lolled back on the bench in the Hab&rsquo; dressing room and smiled. In a matter of seconds the room took on the atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. A batch of newspaper photographers formed a circle around his seat. As the bulbs. popped, reporters fired questions at him. When they halted for a moment a dozen hands went forth to congratulate him. Danny Gallivan shoved a microphone under his nose as a Life magazine photographer clicked his camera, like a boy with a new toy. You&rsquo;d have thought the Canadiens had just won the Stanley Cup. A South African priest presented Richard with a straw hat and blanket, symbolic of a native chief of that country. The din grew louder. It seemed that it would never end. They crowded around, they fired questions, they asked him to pose for shots and more shots. &ldquo;Lean over a kiss your daddy on the cheek,&rdquo; said a photographer. Maurice Jr. followed orders. The cameras popped again.</p><p>So this is what happens when you score three hundred and twenty five goals in the National Hockey League, you said to yourself. Everybody goes crazy.</p><h2><b>Irvin a Happy Coach</b></h2><p>Dick Irvin stood close by. He must have had a feeling of satisfaction. He&rsquo;s seen Richard grow from the lean, fragile, brittle boned kid into a king. He&rsquo;s seen more of Richard&rsquo;s career, more of those 325 goals than any living human other that the &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; himself. He can remember plenty.</p><p>He can remember when they yelled that Richard was just a wartime hockey player who would drop to a respectable level</p><p>when the true hockey players returned. He can remember the barbs, the battles and most of the bruises that Richard has taken to become the number one goal scorer of the game.</p><p>&ldquo;There,&rdquo; said Irvin, &ldquo;is the greatest this game has ever known,&rdquo; and he pointed to Maurice. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the best thing that ever happened to hockey, the king of &lsquo;em all.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s like Joe Dimaggio was as a Yankee. What was that they used to say about Dimag every time he went into a world series. Ya, everytime he went to bat he set a record. That&rsquo;s like this guy.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a great player on the ice and a real guy and gentleman off the ice. He&rsquo;s been a model for all those kids who look up to him and he&rsquo;s never let them down.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What about the goal?&rdquo; we asked.</p><p>&ldquo;The goal&hellip;I&rsquo;ve seen him score lots of them.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Did you have a feeling he was going to score tonight?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Hell, everytime that guy goes into a game I have a feeling he&rsquo;s gonna score. That&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s so great,&rdquo; finished Irvin.</p><p>The room began to clear now Richard peeled off his sweat-sOaked underwear and walked into the shower.</p><h2><b>&lsquo;Roc&rsquo;s&rsquo; 325th NHL Goal</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Remembers Taking Swipe at Puck and Then Falling

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0250/1024881-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Maurice Richard doesn&rsquo;t play any favourites when it comes to goal scoring. To score his 325 goals he pounced upon no fewer than 21 netminders.</p><p>The man with the dubious honor of having the most scored against him is Harry Lumley of the Leafs. Richard dumped 5 3 goals into his cage on his road to the record. Thirty-four of them came when Lum was with Detroit, seventeen with Chicago and two with the Leaf&rsquo;s,</p><p>The men with the lowest number against are Steve Buzinski, ex-of the Rangers and Doug Stevenson of the Chicago Black Hawks. They each had one against them. Incidentally Buzinski&rsquo;s was the first of Richard&rsquo;s career.</p><h2><b>Champ Dethroned</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Lum Has Suffered Richard Most

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;If anybody is ever going to break Maurice Richard&rsquo;s newly established National Hockey League record it will mean scoring goals at a pretty fast pace.</p><p>Closest to the pace Richard set during his career is Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe. In his first six seasons in the National Hockey League Howe scored 16 0 goals. Richard scored 187 in his first half dozen in the big league.</p><p>Howe&rsquo;s 160 goals came between and including the 1946-47 season until last season. But during those same six seasons Richard netted 205 goals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Howe Closest to Pace Set by Richard for 325 Goals

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que,&mdash;Maurice Richard was all choked up when he skated to the bench I after he scored his goal. Dick Irvin was standing beside him and said the Hab star was as white as a sheet.</p><p>&ldquo;I was afraid he was going to pass out in front of the bench,&rdquo; said the coach.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Roc was White

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0332/1024850-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Elmer Lach, left and Maurice Richard hold up the pucks that put them in a very select circle seconds apart in the game against Chicago. Elmer scored his 200th goal at 9.29 of the second period ani at 10.01 Richard scored his 325th.</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;What about that goal Roc? Did you know you scored?&rsquo;&rsquo; we asked.</p><p>&ldquo;Know! I didn&rsquo;t know a thing until the light went on and Storey pointed to me. The last thing I remember is taking a swipe at the puck and then someone hit me from behind and I went down. I didn&rsquo;t see it go in.</p><p>&ldquo;How did it look from where you were sitting?&rdquo; he asked. &ldquo;Did Rollins push it in himself?&rdquo;</p><p>We confessed that we didn&rsquo;t know either.</p><p>From that picture that was taken you would imagine that Al did help the puck to cross the line.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad I finally got it,&rdquo; Richard went on. &ldquo;The pressure was terrific. It was tough. I knew it would come though, just like I knew that first goal would come. It was just a matter of time.&rdquo;</p><p>That the pressure was terrific on him is an understatement. Everytime he touched the puck during the period between his 324th goal in Toronto through two games with the Rangers and another with the Leafs and half of one with Chicago the crowd roared in anticipation. And even as he missed, and he missed at least a dozen good opportunities during that period he looked good in doing so.</p><h2><b>Mrs. Richard Happy</b></h2><p>As you left the dressing room and walked up the corredor you met Mrs. Richard chatting with Mrs. Bouchard. She was as happy as her better half and just as relieved that he had finally broken Nels Stewart&rsquo;s long standing record.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know he&rsquo;d scored at first,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I saw him near the net and saw the puck near Rollins but then he fell and I thought he hurt his hand. He was rubbing his arm. Then the crowd started to roar and I knew he&rsquo;d finally scored it.</p><p>&ldquo;The pressure&rsquo;s been terrible on him. Believe me I know and it&rsquo;s been like that for the last 15 days. It&rsquo;s better now.&rdquo;</p><p>So, from now on they must catch the Rocket if they want to break the record again. But, by the time he hangs up his blades he may well put it out of reach. Dick Irvin predicted he&rsquo;d score at least 100 more goals before he&rsquo;s through. That would make the final figure about 425 which is almost twice as many as any other active player today.</p><p>The question of how many games Richard played to break Stewart&rsquo;s record has been asked. The answer: Richard played in 530 and Stewart in 602. These figures do not include playoffs.</p><p>Richard&rsquo;s record breaking goal cannot be rated as one of the better ones he has netted. As a matter of fact it would probably be hard to rate it at all, considering some of those remarkable counters he has popped past amazed netminders in the past. A little more agility on Al Rollins&rsquo; part and Richard might still be looking for that goal today.</p><p>He took a pass from Bouchard at the blueline and wheeled in front of Rollins from about 15 feet out. He let a backhander go that got tangled in Lee Fogolin&rsquo;s feet and then rolled on to Rollins. Al apparently had the puck but let It get away from him. It was a full five seconds before it went over the red line and another couple before the startled goal judge switched on the light. By that time Gadsby had hauled down Richard.</p><p>&ldquo;I should have scored just seconds before that. As a matter of fact I should have scored the one Elmer got. It was a wide open net,&rdquo; said Maurice.</p><p>The startled Richard couldn&rsquo;t believe he had scored nor could the capacity crowd of 14,562. It came at 10.01 of the middle period, exactly 30 seconds after Elmer Lach had scored the 200th of his big League career.</p><h2><b>Loudest Cheer Ever</b></h2><p>But there was no doubt in any minds after that. The roar of the crowd was the loudest ever heard in the Forum. It rose from a low cheer to a deafening cresendo and then to the point where it was just one mass concentrated scream. Fans who have been know to be meek and mild rose to their feet and bellowed. It sent tingling chills up and down your spine.</p><p>Missing from the scene was 01&rsquo; Poison, Nels Stewart. He had travelled to Montreal for one game in which Richard had failed to break the record but didn&rsquo;t come back.</p><p>When Richard realized he&rsquo;d scored he leaped into the net and grabbed the puck. He was so happy that he threw it to the ice, picked it up and raced to the tench. Etery possible ounce of drama was drained from the goal. Gerry McNeil grabbed him beside the club bench and kissed him.</p><p>Dick Irvin recorded the biggest smile since one of his pigeons flew home first. Rocket leaned on the bench, the roar deepened and the tears of happiness flowed from his eyes. The greatest of all National Hockey League records had been broken after ten long years of struggle.</p><h2><b>The Reigning Monarchs</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Mrs. Richard Wasn’t Sure He’d Scored

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01129/1024960-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="293" height="343"></div><h2><b>THE CIST AND JEST OF IT</b></h2><p><b>(As Been in the Montreal Herald)</b></p><p>&bull; THE STRANGEST THING about the Leaf-Habs game last week as you mingled with the tail-end of the big crowd going slowly down the stairs, is that there was little of the elation that has always gone, hitherto, with a Canadien victory over the Maple Leaf forces. No one. remarked that Canadiens had forced a 3-way tie for the National League lead.</p><p>Instead, in subdued tones, the crowd discussed Rocket Richard&rsquo;s misfortune in being unable, for a third straight game, to pot the goal that would have given him a new record of 325 goals. And their disappointment was rendered the more acute through the fact that, in the last minute of play, Richard made a crashing sortie at the Leaf nets, battered through the defense, fell sideways from the impact and at the very goal-mouth took a wild swing at the puck, missing the corner nearest him by inches.</p><p><b>There&rsquo;s no question but that the suspense created as Richard battled for the record caught public imagination. At this game, there was present a crew from Life, world&rsquo;s greatest picture magazine, with cameras poised on the catwalk, always pointed at the Toronto nets, in case Richard should get the recordsmashing goal. A score of other cameras were set along the side-lines, always in the Toronto end, in case the Rocket should finally click and set a new record.</b></p><p>In fact the goal seemed to be considered more important than winning the game. In the dressing-room after the game, everybody was offering a theory why the Rocket hadn&rsquo;t scored. Richard himself was remarking: &ldquo;Getting this goal is just as tough as for a rookie to get his first big League goal, and just as hard on the nerves.&rdquo;</p><p>In the midst of all these lamentations, coach Dick Irvin suddenly broke forth: &lsquo;Hey, did anyone notice we won the hockey game, and picked up two points to get even with Chicago and Leafs in first place?&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s so&rdquo; said one of the crowd but without the ususal enthusiasm.</p><p>&ldquo;We beat them because we scored 18 hits, and only one error&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;We floored their players 18 times and any time we score more than 15 hits, we win. Hardest hit was scored by St. Laurent, when he dumped Migay. Second hardest, when Masnick hit Max Bentley.</p><p><b>&ldquo;By the half-way mark in the season, when Richard has 20 goals or so, all this stuff about his getting that one big goal will be forgotten&rdquo; quoth Irvin. &ldquo;But the points that we acquire in winning these games will still be prominent and very useful, too.&rdquo;</b></p><p>Words of great wisdom were falling on deaf ears, though. Everybody was asking: &ldquo;Will Richard ever get that goal?&rdquo; and hurling invective at refereeing that broke away from the very close-calling and strict officiating that has been in vogue, and allowed a great deal of holding to go unpunished. Richard, of course, was victim of much of this. The motto of opposing teams seemed be &ldquo;Richard isn&rsquo;t going to get that goal against US.&rdquo;</p><p>And that&rsquo;s the way it&rsquo;s going to be. &ldquo;After I get that goal&rdquo; said the Rocket, wryly, &ldquo;they&rsquo;ll probably leave me alone.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;And did you notice,&rdquo; chortled Irvin, &ldquo;who I put on Teeder Kennedy to check him Our slowest forward, Johnny McCormick, and he did a masterful job. Kennedy never figured in a play. I still insist I was right, leaving Kennedy off my second all-star team. Why,&rdquo; insisted Irvin, &ldquo;he&rsquo;s slower than ever and using a fast skater to check him is just wasting speed.&rdquo;</p><p>Well, anyway, Kennedy is still second in the League points race, with a 7-7&mdash;14 total.</p><p><b>One of the boys dug up this theory: &ldquo;What happens if Lach and Richard get a clean breakaway and race in on the opposing goaler, with Lach seeking goal No. 200 and Richard after 325? Lach is carrying the puck. Will he shoot, or pass?&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;A good question, and an easy answer&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;Lach would pass if he saw Richard was in a better position to score. In fact, I think he&rsquo;d pass anyway.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Someone carried the proposition to Lach and asked him for the answer.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;I pass&rdquo; said Elegant Elmer, with a broad grin.</b></p><p>&bull; THOSE CRITICS OF Rocket Richard who have labelled him as a player whose only ability is to score goals, should take a look at the NHL averages to date this season. They&rsquo;ll be surprised.</p><p><b>For Richard is leading the League on assists, as well as on points. It&rsquo;s nothing new to see the Rocket up there on top, but hitherto, he achieved this spot by popping in goals, rather than aiding others to get them. This season, he&rsquo;s been closely checked when he had what looked like a scoring chance, but he has been getting the puck away to his mates cleverly.</b></p><p>There was one good reason to believe Richard might score that 125th goal against Leafs, though it didn&rsquo;t come off. Harry Lumley, now with Leafs, has been the Rocket&rsquo;s favorite goaler over the years, and one keeper of statistics, who has followed the career of Richard from the very beginning, and recorded every goal he scored in minute detail, came up with the information that he had potted 53 against Lumley. Most of these came, probably, when Lumley was in the nets for Chicago, though Richard got two against him in Toronto this season.</p><p><b>Hockey has seen the last of Jacques Plante&rsquo;s famous tnque, &ldquo;When I got back to the Royals&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I will discard the tuque. I find I do not need it for luck. I have one more use, though, for one of my hand-made tuques. When Richard scores goal No. 325, I am going to present him with a tuque&rdquo;&hellip;and that wont&rsquo; be all&hellip; Marconi is going to present the Rocket with television set on the same occasion, if and when&hellip;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Elmer Ferquson

<div class="byline">BY MILT DUNNELL-SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02119/1025019-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg"></div><h2><b>Bad Men of Rinks Are Reliable Witnesses</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>HE bad men of hockey will fetch an opponent a swipe on the jaw with an armored elbow and then scream that the referee shouldn&rsquo;t leave home without his seeing-eye dog, just because the poor guy hands out a penalty. They&rsquo;ll part a rival&rsquo;s hair with the blade of a stick or stretch his neck with a cross-check when they nail him in a corner. That comes under the heading of self-defence or accidental incident. What, then, does Rhodes scholar Clarence Campbell expect to prove when he calls them on the carpet? Mr, Campbell will find himself handing out good conduct medals if he listens to their evidence.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s where you&rsquo;re wrong,&rdquo; the NHL president emphasized the other day. He had just finished hearing the testimony of Leo Labine and Tod Sloan regarding recent gore-letting in Boston.</p><p>&ldquo;In almost every case,&rdquo; Campbell revealed, &ldquo;the principals in a brawl give you a straight-forward story. There&rsquo;s practically no attempt by one of the parties involved to damage the case of the other. One of the most outstanding examples of that was when I called in Ted Lindsay and Bill Ezinicki for that fracas in Detroit.&rdquo;</p><p>By terming it a &ldquo;fracas&rdquo;, Mr. Campbell might have been guilty of a minor under-statement. It started Innocently enough-as a shoving bee. But one thing led to another. Ezzie nicked Lindsay with his stick. Lindsay cut Ezzie for 11 stitches, then dropped him with a punch that knocked him cold when his head hit the ice. That added up to eight more stitches. What alibis would a couple of cavemen like that pair dream up for submission to the high court of hockey?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0362/1025012-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="282" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Gus Mortson)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0439/1025005-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="296" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Maurice Richard)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0533/1024998-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="287" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Ted Lindsay)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0626/1024991-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="287" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Hy Buller)</span></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Not a word,&rdquo; Campbell said emphatically. &ldquo;They merely said, they were out to carve each other a bit. I estimated the fines and suspensions I imposed on Lindsay in that case cost him $1,200. I&rsquo;m not sure what it cost Ezinicki. But I never heard a bleat from either one of them.&rdquo;</p><p>There was one player whose evidence startled Campbell, but he couldn&rsquo;t do much about it. That was Hy Buller, stocky rearguard of the New York Rangers. Buller was invited to tell how Gus Mortson of the Leafs kicked at him. By the time Buller had said his piece, Campbell couldn&rsquo;t tell whether Buller was the plaintiff, the defendant or a character witness for Mortson. He got the impression that Buller regarded mortson as a sterling fellow. Hy was a candidate for rookie of the year at the time, and Wasn&rsquo;t seeking any &ldquo;snitcher&rdquo; roles to antagonize the electors.</p><h2><b>The Rocket Backed Up His Accuser</b></h2><p>ROCKET Richard&rsquo;s ambush of referee Hugh McLean provided Campbell with one of his better headaches of the last few years. The Rocket was accused of putting the slug on McLean in a New York hotel. He was still frying over a match misconduct penalty which McLean had Imposed the previous night in Montreal. As it turned out, the evidence wasn&rsquo;t quite that damning. The assault on McLean consisted mainly of throttling him momentarily with his own necktie and peeling his ears with some good ole-fashioned Montreal profanity. Richard listened while McLean told his version of the prosecution. Then Campbell gave the Rocket his chance to say McLean not only was a bandit on ice but a liar as a witness. Richard told his story in two words.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; he said, referring to the testimony of the referee. That amounted to pleading guilty of the charge as read. Campbell tined him $500 for conduct prejudicial to hockey.</p><p>Another of the Montreal mayhem men, Kenny Reardon, startled the court by the candor of his evidence. Kenny&rsquo;s trouble stemmed from his long-standing feud with Cal Gardner, then with the Leafs. It had started in Madison Square Garden and spilled over into Maple Leaf Gardens and the Montreal Forum. Its progress showed on the hospital eharts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0267/1025057-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="302" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Jack Adams)</span></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll take the blame.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s answer to the question which is stumping hockey folk in Detroit as well as everywhere else around the National Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;Here&rsquo;s the way I look at it,&rdquo; Terry explained after a brisk practice session. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m paid to keep pucks out of the net. I haven&rsquo;t done it-33 have gone by in the first 11 games.&rdquo;</p><p>In fairness it must be pointed out that Sawchuk&rsquo;s viewpoint is far from unanimous. For instance, his bosses-both Manager Jack Adams and Coach Tommy Ivan-point their fingers elsewhere when trying to solve the puzzle of the Detroit tumble.</p><p>Favorites for the title, Detroit skidded Into fourth place and dropped below the. 500 level for the first time in many seasons. The defending NHL and Stanley Cup champs, they could win only four of their first 11 starts.</p><p>And here was Terry asking to shoulder the blame and the criticism. It was a most unusual attitude for a pro athlete, a breed which specializes In alibis of all sorts and rarely will admit to personal faults.</p><p>Sawchuk seriously denied that he was being noble about the Wings&rsquo; skid. But he did confess to being mighty puzzled by all the events.</p><p>&ldquo;Others may Lot say so, but I know that I&rsquo;m in a slump the worst slump I&rsquo;ve ever had,&rsquo;&rsquo; he analyzed.</p><p>&ldquo;Always before, in amateur and in the pros, whenever I had a bad streak, it lasted for only one game or two. This one just keeps going on and on.</p><h2><b>Playing Just The Same But Puck Goes In</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve asked everybody who might know what I was doing wrong. All of them Mr. Adams, Tommy and the players-tell me I&rsquo;m playing just the same as I did last year. Yet the pucks just keep going by.</p><p>&ldquo;For instance in the last Toronto game here (Detroit lost, 4 to 2), Harry Watson got a breakaway. I gave him an opening intentionally, and he went for it. I closed it before he shot, but the puck got in anyway. How I don&rsquo;t know. He did what I wanted him to do, and still he scored.</p><p>&ldquo;Then a few minutes later Ted Kennedy got the same type of breakaway. I played him different-sprawled down across the opening, and stopped that one. Maybe if I&rsquo;d got the one on Watson, we might have been able to catch up. But after he scored, it was too late to save the game. And then was when a play came off right for me.</p><p>Every night I figure this is the game when the slump will. end. But it never does.&rdquo;</p><p>It was pointed out to Terry that Adams and Ivan both claim defensive lapses by other players have been the cause of Detroit&rsquo;s drop.</p><p>&ldquo;I think that I should have been able to fire up the team more,&rsquo;&rsquo; Terry replied. &ldquo;Last year I would come up with the odd save early in the game to prevent a goal, and the team would seem to get a lift from that and pull on out in front.</p><p>&ldquo;Now that one big save isn&rsquo;t there. The puck goes by me. instead.&rdquo;</p><p>It was only a few months ago that Sawchuk was being hailed as one of the greatest goalies of all time. He had just hung up a fancy 1.9 goals-against record in 70 regular season games to win the Vezina Trophy by 24 goals. And he hit his peak by permitting only five tallies in Detroit&rsquo;s eight-game playoff sweep.</p><h2><b>Zing Goes Another One</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0182/1025050-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="1144" height="1152"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK&hellip; &hellip;paid to stop &rsquo;em</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Terry Shoulders Blame for Wings’ Showing… In Worst Slump of All

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT, Mich.&mdash;When the Red Wings bowed to Toronto, 4 to 2, on Nov. 2, it marked the first time a Detroit team had lost on home ice in 19 games.</p><p>The string started last January after a 3-2 defeat from Chicago. There were nine straight home victories in the rest of the regular season and four more in the playoff sweep. The streak was continued at the start of the present campaign with four more victories and a tie.</p><p>To make the reversal all the more painful, the largest crowd of the season-14,162 fans-witnessed it.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Wings Drop 1st Fray in 19 Before Largest Gate

<div class="byline">By MARSH ALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>A juggled lineup and the introduction of two rookies proved to be a temporary dump-breaking tactic for the Red Wings. And then they slipped right back to their losing ways.</p><p>After the team had lost three straight games&mdash;the first time such a thing had happened in three seasons&mdash;Manager Jack Adams and Coach Tommy Ivan agreed upon a few minor changes.</p><p>Right Wing Vic Stasiuk and Defenseman Larry Zeidel were shipped to Edmonton. They crossed paths with Right Wing Lou Jankowski and Defenseman Bill Folk, who were headed this way.</p><p>Zeidel caught a good share of the blame in the three setbacks, all of which were away from home. Stasiuk was entirely innocent, however. He wasn&rsquo;t taken on the trip.</p><p>Jankowski made his debut in a game with Boston, when the Wings showed their old-time spark for a 4-1 triumph. Folk didn&rsquo;t play until the next game, and then only briefly. Detroit went back to losing ways on the wrong end of a 4-2 score with Toronto.</p><p>But more important than the introduction of these new men-who probably will be the least-worked players on the squad just like those they replaced&mdash;was the juggling of the forward lines.</p><p>At least a dozen different combinations are being tested in each game, and in some cases it&rsquo;s impossible to say who are the regular linemates. This is particularly true on the Production Line, where no real solution has been reached at filling Sid Abel&rsquo;s old spot.</p><p>Lanky Glen Skov was pulled up from the second line to center between Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay. Larry Wilson, the fourth center, took over for Skov between Marty Pavelich and Tony Leswick.</p><p>Then came more switches. Wilson popped up on the big line. Howe shifted over to center, and Jankowski came in on the right side. Reg Sinclair subbedtor Leswick on the second line.</p><h2><b>Gets Chance</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0352/1025112-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="554" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(BILL FOLK)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-03

Wings Try 12 Lineup Switches To Dump Slump

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0439/1025143-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="293" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Babe Pratt)</span></figcaption></div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Walter (Babe) Pratt isn&rsquo;t trying to take anything away from the National Hockey League in which he made his living for so many seasons. Nevertheless the coach of? the New Westminster Royals rates the Western league as very nearly on a par with president Clarence Campbell&rsquo;s NHL circuit.</p><p>&ldquo;If the calibre of play in &lsquo;our&rsquo; league was just 10 per cent better it would be on a par with the National,&rdquo; the &lsquo;Honest Switchman&rsquo; told newspapermen. The statement was made without visible use of a slide rule but there was no doubting the ring of sincerity in the Pratt voice.</p><p>&ldquo;Do players sent down by National League clubs burn up this Western league?&rdquo; he persisted &ldquo;If they do, I don&rsquo;t know anything about it.&rdquo;</p><p>For the first time in 17 seasons the big fellow from Stony Mountain, Manitoba, is back on the bench, his playing days apparently a thing of the past. As a budding young defenceman (last amateur club: Kenora Thistle Juniors) Walter Pratt turned professional with Philadelphia in 1935. Before the 1935-36 season was very far along he was recalled by the &lsquo;parent&rsquo; New York Rangers. Then followed eight glamorous seasons with the Rangers, three at Toronto and a final campaign at Boston before the minors gobbled him up.</p><p>Hershey, Cleveland, New Westminster, Tacoma (where just last season he played out the active string with his onetime Ranger teammate, &lsquo;Muzz&rsquo; Patrick)&mdash;&lsquo;The Babe&rsquo; continued to give it everything he had in his own inimitable fashion.</p><p>Now he&rsquo;s satisfied to be a bench coach, &ldquo;The legs and back are gone,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;A guy can&rsquo;t go on forever.&rdquo;</p><p>The Royals&rsquo; mentor is restless figure as he directs his team from the players&rsquo; sanctum. He presides in one corner of the box, disdaining to have a seat with the hired help, possibly for fear no might not be able to get the ear of the referee and linesman. He goes to considerable lengths to let the wrhistletooters hear about it when he doesn&rsquo;t like a decision.</p><h2><b>Harder On Nerves As Non-Playing Coach</b></h2><p>From time to time lie takes his eyes off the ice long enough to point out this or that fact to a line awaiting its turn, or to finger&rsquo;a defenceman lately out of position by a swift opposition thrust.</p><p>&ldquo;Really, it&rsquo;s harder on the nerves not playing than</p><p>it ever was as a player or a playing coach,&rdquo; he admitted.</p><p>The National League&rsquo;s Hart Trophy winner of the 1943-44 season has his Royals in a contending position. Nor is there much chance that the gang from the Queen City of British Columbia will drop very far down in the race for league honors, despite the balance that marks the Western loop this year. After all Luo Dechene continues to guard Roy als&rsquo; nets in much the same spectacular fashion that earned him all-star laurels last season.</p><p>If there&rsquo;s such a thing as a &lsquo;stopper&rsquo; in hockey, then the roly-poly Dechene fills the bill for New Westminster. He has bad night, now and then, as what netminder doesn&rsquo;t? But they ome infrequently.</p><p>Coach Pratt is mighty sweet on his goalkeeper.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a big leaguer all the way,&rdquo; Pratt declaimed. &ldquo;I know I saw none better in the 12 seasons I spent in the NHL&rdquo;. That would include Durnan, Broda and more, wouldn&rsquo;t it?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-04

Pratt Rates Western Just 10% Under NHL

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0524/1025174-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="303" height="474"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Ken Reardon)</span></figcaption></div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey&rsquo;s greatest need is &ldquo;capable men at the administrative level,&rdquo; Clarence Campbell, president of the National League, stated during a recent stopover here.</p><p>The N.H.L. prexy had been called home due to his father taking suddenly ill! Mr. Campbell, senior, is much improved of late.</p><p>&ldquo;Men who can handle the business affairs of a team and at the same time recognize a player&rsquo;s worth are scarce,&rdquo; he elaborated. &ldquo;If there&rsquo;s no other way of coming up with this type of administrator, then there&rsquo;s only one thing to do and that is for organizations to train their own.&rdquo;</p><p>He cited the case of Ken (Beans) Reardon.</p><p>&ldquo;The Canadians made Reardon a member of their organization after his playing days were done. They have given him an opportunity to study almost every phase of team promotion. He did some scouting, now he&rsquo;s the general manager at Cincinnati.</p><p>&ldquo;Reardon is becoming an executive, an administrator, by degrees. Hockey needs more of the same kind of training.&rdquo;</p><p>Mr. Campbell sees the N.H.L. teams waging &ldquo;a close fight for League honors&rdquo;, more especially as the Chicago Black Hawks shape up as capable of taking care of themselves for. the first time in years.</p><p>He expects hockey attendance to be up generally over last year, particularly in such U.S. centres as Chicago and Boston.</p><p>&ldquo;The danger point could be New York,&rdquo; he pointed out. Attendance at Madison Square Garden frequently reflects Rangers&rsquo; position in the standings.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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More Capable Front Office Men Game’s Greatest Need—Campbell

<p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1, 1947 HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY 309 Empire Life Building, 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25, Que. 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>Authorized 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 15, 1952 No. 7</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hocky News

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01155/1025250-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0256/1025243-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="295" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Gaye Stewart)</span></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>HENEVER PETE CONACHER fails to play as well as his bosses on the Chicago Black Hawks figure he should play, they threaten the lad with: &ldquo;Wait until your old man hears about this!&rsquo;&rsquo;&hellip; Charlie Conacher, Pete&rsquo;s father, is the boy&rsquo;s severest critic&hellip; Two players in the National Hockey League have played for four different teams. They are Gaye Stewart and Jimmy Peters. Stewart has played with Toronto, Chicago, Detroit and New York. The handsome Petes has-toiled with Montreal, Boston, Detroit and Chicago&hellip; Peters, who makes his year-round home in Detroit, landed one of the best out of hockey jobs of any NHL player recently. He is a sales representative for a Detroit steel company&hellip; Leonard Patrick &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly of the Detroit Red Wings is probably the best ballroom dancer in the NHL&hellip; Teammates Gordie Howe and Marty Pavelich are not far behind&hellip; Kelly&rsquo;s mates don&rsquo;t know whether to refer to him on occasion as Red Kelly or Gene Kelly&hellip; Detroit is the only team in the National Hockey League that does not have at least one player in the 30 years or over category&hellip; Boston has four players in the 30 or more group. They are Woody Dumart, Milt Schmidt, Hal Laycoe and Bill Quackenbush.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0329/1025236-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="297" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Leo Lobine)</span></figcaption></div><p>LEO LABINE, Boston &lsquo;s rookie winger, is quite a card. Lynn Patrick, his coach, was telling Milt Dunnell several stories about him the other day in Toronto. One time Leo and Freddy Glover, then playing for Detroit, started an exchange of uncomplimentary adjectives. Every time Labine skated past the Detroit bench Glover called him a num in spades. The thought suddenly occurred to Labine that Tommy Ivan, Detroit coach, wasn&rsquo;t using Glover&hellip; &ldquo;At least I&rsquo;m playing: that&rsquo;s more than you can say,&rdquo; Leo hooted the next time he passed Glover. That very night Labine was on the train to the Bruins&rsquo; farm club at Hershey. Patrick had decided he needed more experience&hellip; &ldquo;All the way to Hershey I kept wondering what Glover would say when he found out I&rsquo;d been sent down.&rdquo; Leo admitted&hellip; Happy Emms, outstanding junior coach with Barrie Flyers, once forcer Leo to promise he wouldn&rsquo;t get into a fight during a playoff game with Toronto Marlboros. Emms figured the Marlies would needle Labine all though the game and curtail his effectiveness with penalties&hellip; Labine was as good as his word. When Johnny Lumley, cousin to Harry, belted him, he didn&rsquo;t strike back. Lumley belted him again. The referee then handed out five-minute penalties to both of them. Leo was so overcome by the injustice of it all that he left the ice practically bawring&hellip; Overheard in the New York Rangers&rsquo; dressing room: Jim Conacher to Bones Raleigh.: &ldquo;Hey, Skin, I believe you finally got enough weight with that cast to outweigh me.&rdquo;&hellip; Raleigh to Conacher: &ldquo;With this vacation I probably got you by 10) pounds with or without the cast.&rdquo;&hellip; Program weights: Raleigh 148&hellip; Conacher 150&hellip; Frank Boucher calls Alf Pike of the Guelph Biltmores the best coach in junior hockey&hellip; H. G. Salsinger, sports editor of the Detroit News, stated in a recent column that the late Graham McNamee, pioneer sports announcer, actualy knew only one game, hockey, and he never broadcast a game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0416/1025229-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="289" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Jim Conacher)</span></figcaption></div><p>NINE PLAYERS in the NHL have performed for three different clubs. They are Cal Gardner (New York, Toronto. Chicago), Gerry Couture (Detroit, Montreal, Chicago). Harry Watson (N.Y. Americans, Detroit, Toronto), Pete Babando (Boston, Detroit, Chicago), Jim Conacher (Detroit Chicago, Rangers), Bob Goldman (Toronto, Chicago, Detroit), Hal Laycoe (New York, Montreal, Boston), Harry Lumley (Detroit, Chicago, Toronto), and Jim Henry (Rangers, Chicago, Bos-ton)&hellip; Doug McLellan has started a new sports publication ip Northern Ontario. It&rsquo;s called the Northern Wold&hellip; Scott Young, author of the popular new &ldquo;Scrubs on Skates&rdquo; has just completed another novel on hockey. It will be released next fall&hellip; Annual convention of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association takes place at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto Saturday, November 22&hellip; Some of the old-time hockey stars seen at the Elmer Ferguson dinner were Dickie Boon, Newsy Lalonde, Frank Patrick, Dune Munro, Aurel Joliat, Archie Wilcox and Dinny Dinsmore&hellip; Dick Irvin Jr., son of the Canadiens&rsquo; coach, sits In the press box at all Montreal home games jotting down how many times each Montreal player knocks an opposing player on his panties. It is called a &ldquo;hit&rdquo; each time the opposition is the recipient of a solid todycheck that hurts&hellip; Canadiens had 18 &ldquo;hits&rdquo; in a recent game and Irvin was most pleased about it&hellip; Hy Peskin, top sports photographer from New York, took pictures of the last two games in Montreal, hoping to record Richard&rsquo;s record-breaking goal. The goal-scoring picture will appear in Life Magazine.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0512/1025281-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Babe and Rocket</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have a beef to make. I&rsquo;m tired of seeing Maurice Richard referred as the &lsquo;Babe R&gt;uth of Hockey&rsquo; because he is only as good as Ruth was in. sports. Perhaps Mister Richard could have learned a little sportmanship from the late Babe.</p><p>I know hockey is a rough, tough game, but I&rsquo;m sure it too has its limits. I read in our town paper as well as in THE HOCKEY NEWS of Richard&rsquo;s $10 fine for man-handling an officer of the law. How long does he think he can get away with this? If he does it once more, I think he should be put in the &lsquo;penalty box&rsquo; for longer than $10 would hold him. Officers are appointed to protect us, but apparently Mister Richard has his own ideas.</p><p>Believe me, it never hurts to be courteous.</p><p>Cam Paradise, Irvington, N.J.</p><h2><b>Believe It Or Not</b></h2><p>Dears Sirs,</p><p>Congratulations on your fine hockey paper which I have read for several years. I have no kicks but would like to make one suggestion.</p><p>How about an Oltimers column each week with a picture of the star and a short write-up, using for instance Patterson of Amerks, Babe Seibert, Art Samus, Red Beattie, Carson Cooper, Hap Emms, Frank Carson, Battleship Leduc and many others.</p><p>I am a hockey picture and program collector and will welcome letters from all fans interested in trading or dealing for group photos or individual players right back to 2 7-28&rsquo;. I am one fan who likes still photos better than action shots, believe it or not. My address is 9 Erie Street.</p><p>Cyrol A. Butcher St. Thomas, Ont.</p><h2><b>Says Pat Not Phil</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been an ardent reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS for quite some years now and enjoy your articles very much.</p><p>In reading the issue of Oct. 11, I came across and article about the Calgary Stampeders written by Ray Guay. He stated that their new goaler, Phil Hughes, had played for Toronto Malboros against the Stampeders in the Allan Cup final in 1950. I do not agree with him because I saw the games, played in Calgary and their goal-keeper was &lsquo;Pat&rsquo; Boehmer of Kitchener.</p><p>That was the same year Danny Lewicki and George Armstrong played the last few games for the Marlboros. Phil Hughes played for the Toronto St. Mikes against Valleyfield in the Alexander Cup final of the 1950-51 season.</p><p>Peggy Wilforg, Kitchener, Ont.</p><h2><b>Old Age Getting Us</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>In the last few issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS I have noted a few errors in regards to certain players and information about them.</p><p>In the October 2 5 edition it said that the New York Rangers called up Harry Howell, Andy Bathgate, and Dean Prentice from Guelph Biltmores. This is an error. It should he Howell, Bathgate and Ron Murphy. Prentice wasn&rsquo;t called up until later and came up all alone. You guys are slipping. Old age creeping up?</p><p>Frank Mclsaac, Halifax, N.S.</p><p><b>(The Rangers originally called up Howell, Bathgate and Prentice but at the time Prentice was nursing an injury, so Murphy went up in his place. Later Dean Prentice joined the Rangers and Murphy returned to Guelph.)</b></p><h2><b>Human Interest</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>As I order my second Press and Radio Guide I thought I would let you know how much I enjoyed the first. It is certainly the most complete hockey manual I have ever seen.</p><p>I have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS for two years now and enjoy it very much. Please print some more human interest stories on the players as they are very interesting.</p><p>Dick Irvin left out only one thing when he said that Canadiens would finish first and the Rocket would score 50 goals. He forgot to say that Gerry McNeil would win the Vezina Trophy.</p><p>Maureen Foley, Ottawa, Ont.</p><h2><b>Appreciates Broadcasts</b></h2><p>Dears Sirs,</p><p>Ever since your paper was first published, my family and I have been consistent readers and have thoroughly enjoyed your coverage of hockey news. In fact my Son is keeping each issue and theu making them into yearly volumes. The arrival of THE HOCKEY NEWS in our home really causes a panic.</p><p>During a recent discussion of your paper, we all readily agreed that if would be a great gesture on the part of the paper and on behalf of the hockey fans to publish a small paragraph in gratitude to the Imperial Oil Company for their broadcast of both Canadian teams games. Just a &ldquo;Thank You&rdquo; appreciation from the thousands of Radio hockey fans.</p><p>Wishing your paper continued success for the bright future ahead.</p><p>E. D. Blake, Vancouver, B.C.</p><h2><b>Howe&rsquo;s Retired</b></h2><p>Dears Sirs,</p><p>Although I have started my second year of THE HOCKEY NEWS this is the first time I have ever written the Fan FORUM.</p><p>Could you please tell me what Sid Howe is doing now?</p><p>I have some Edmonton programs and would like to trade for other programs in other hockey cities. My address is R.R. 6, Edmonton.</p><p>John William Duke, North Edmonton, Alta.</p><p><b>(Sid Howe resides and works in Ottawa, Ontario, and is retired from hockey.)</b></p><h2><b>I.ach Record Holder</b></h2><p>Dears Sirs,</p><p>I am a teen-ager and an ardent Montreal Canadien fan but even so I cannot see them walking away with the league title without a fight from Detroit. I do think they will end up on top with Detroit second. I also think they will win the Stanley Cup.</p><p>Would you please tell me how many goals Elmer Lach has scored since entering the NHL? Also, would you please tell me if Lach has the record for the most points in a lifetime or the most assists?</p><p>Here&rsquo;s wishing the Rocket good luck in his quest for number 325.</p><p>Gordie Savoy, Terrace Bay, Ont.</p><p><b>(Eager Elmer is now seeking goal number 200. He holds both the most assists and the most points records.)</b></p><h2><b>Calendar Cutups</b></h2><p>Dears Sirs,</p><p>Could you please inform me how to obtain Hockey Calendars from the following NHL teams: Detroit, Boston, Montreal, and Chicago. I already know how to get the Toronto calendar and read that the New York Rangers de not put one out.</p><p>I am a weekly reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>Eddie Bielawski, Toronto, Ont.</p><p><b>(There are only two teams that put out Hockey calendars. These are the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens).</b></p><p><b>* * *</b></p><h2><b>Backs Up Referees</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>As a steady subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS, I have just finished the November 8 edition which contained the results of the inquiry, on the Sloan-Labine incident in which referee George Gravel seems to have gotten the wrong end of the stick.</p><p>Now, what I would like to know, is just what affect this decision will have on the officials in future games? Will they have to think twice about every play before calling them? Will they have to confer with the general manager of the offending player&rsquo;s team before calling a penalty? Will it be necessary to call President Campbell&rsquo;s office before putting some hot-head in the box?</p><p>To my way of thinking, the referees are on the ice to take charge of the game. That&rsquo;s the job they are paid to do. Let them do it. The question is, how can they do it if the head of the league doesn&rsquo;t back them up 100%?</p><p>Sure our officials make mistakes, but right or wrong, I am sure they call them honestly without discrimination. Why weaken, the authority of our officials by placing them in a bad light before players, team managers and the general public?</p><p>Smythe can boss the Leafs, let the referees boss the games. Let the officials call them as they see them. Leave the game in their hands.</p><p>Hazen Hunter. Brooklyn, N.Y.</p><h2><b>Q.S.H.L. Every Week</b></h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>I have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS now for about a year and as of yet I have not seen any results of scores in the Q.S.H.L. Also I have not noticed very many stories on players in this league. I think that you would get far more readers in this region if you did. Apart from that I think that your paper is tops.</p><p>Neville Hamilton. Lennoxville, Que.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ublished Weekly, except monthly May through September, HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY. 309 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste-Catherine 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. Sub scription price $3.00 In Canada, $4.00 in U.S.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0610/1025336-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="588" height="273"></div><p><b>NOV. 21 to NOV. 27</b></p><p>21&mdash;FIELDER, Guyle, St. Louis forward, 1930.</p><p>22&mdash;DICK, Harry, Vancouver defense, 1922.</p><p>27&mdash;BELL, Joe, Seattle forward, 1923.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-06

Happy Birthday To You

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01106/1025374-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="299" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Ken Mosdell)</span></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Canadiens, riding on top of the League will get their biggest test of the season next week when they hit the road for a four game series. The Ice Capades take over the Forum and the Habs will move on to Chicago, Toronto, New York and Detroit before returning home. This will be the 1952-53 testing trip for the front runners and it could be that by the time they return they win be looking for added strength down the middle.</p><p>While the Habs are riding the top spot in the League, they are doing so on the crest of a wave of home victories. They have lost but one at home, their opener to Chicago 3-2 and have been winning here ever since. But on the road it&rsquo;s a different story. They have yet to win on foreign ice, tieing three and losing two of five. Eight of the Habs first 13 games have been played at home with five on the road. The toughest part of the schedule looks them in the face right now.</p><h2><b>Center Still Weak Spot</b></h2><p>It&rsquo;s hard to find a weak spot on a club that is tops in most departments, but it can be done. Tied with the Wings in goals scored with 42 and second in goals scored against with 30, the team nevertheless, will have to be strengthened down the middle if they want to remain in the top spot for the full schedule.</p><p>Up until the last few games they were being carried by brilliant goaling, just as brilliant defensive work and the power of the &lsquo;punch Line&rsquo;.</p><p>Indications that all is not well in the Hab camp came against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday, November 9. Dick Irvin benched veterans Billy Reay and Ken Mosdell and then dug down into the farm system and came up With fighting Paul Masnick as a replacement. He inserted Paul between Geoffrion and Paul Meger. and the line was the best in the game. Irvin kept Masnick up for the next game as well, and he performed even better. He drew star billing in both games but even more important was the fact that both Geoffrion and Meger showed new life. Geoffrion scored once and so did Meger. Mas-nick drew an assist in both games.</p><p>While there has been no statement nor alarm shown in the Habs front office over the failure of Reay and Mosdell to deliver it is known that they are concerned, lest they would not have called on Masnick.</p><p>The benching of Ken and Bill more or less substantiates the claim of the experts. Before the season started they noted that Unless the club came up with at least one new centerman they may find the going tough when they got into the thicker part of the schedule. The calling of Masnick bears out their claim.</p><p>It will be remembered that General Manager Frank Selke, in Detroit during playoffs last season promised that he would never again be caught with such a deplorable lack of good centermen. He promised that he would sign at least five amateurs and spread them throughout the farm system, with Immediate recall tags on them. Of the most part he has done this, but without realizing that the biggest and most immediate need was right here in Montreal.</p><p>He has Skippy Burchell and Masnick with the Royals, Reg Abbott and Doug Anderson with Victoria and Don Marshall in Cincinnati. He may call on one of them at any moment.</p><p>Going back to training camp, one will remember the particular brilliance of a line made up of Reg Abbott, Geoffrion and Meger. They frequently outscored and outplayed every line they were pitted against. It was thought that Abbott would be signed for that position since both Irvin and Selke showed a particular liking for the former Brandon Junior.</p><p>But to the surprise of one and all they shipped Reg back to Victoria. The failure of Beliveau to come to terms left Selke with but one alternative; he had to sign Reay and Mosdell for another year. To be quite frank, neither had figured prominently in the club plans this season. Reay had been destined to take over a job in Buffalo and Mosdell was figured to move to other circles. Selke has only himself to blame for allowing his heart to rule his better business sense. Now it is quite likely that he will call on Abbott before the season is very much older.</p><p>In all likeliness he will keep Masnick, although he was going to send him back to the Royals and give Jimmy Moore a chance. But Moore broke his wrist last week and will be out for a month. Burchell will more than likely take his place for a three game trial and so will Jean Beliveau get a lend lease stint for a trio of games.</p><p>The most prominent improvement on the club has been the defense. Tom Johnson has developed Into one of the best rushing rearguards in the League while playing sound defensive hockey. Dollard St. Laurent, after a rather shaky start has begun to come around. Bouchard is playing his best in five years While Harvey, who has shown a tendency, to play somewhat Indifferent hockey is Improving. While Bud MacPherson hasn&rsquo;t seen too much action, he is nevertheless certain to remain with the club. When he gains a little more confidence he will get plenty of work.</p><p>The &lsquo;Punch Line&rsquo; has been particularly brilliant with Olmstead showing a new lease on life. With the opposition concentrating on Lach and Richard, Bert has been having a field day. He&rsquo;s, proven himself the work horse on the line, doing the backchecking and digging in the corners.</p><p>While it&rsquo;s hard to say, and even harder to write, particularly about guys you know and respect it might be said that Irvin, when he benched Reay and Mosdell was putting the &lsquo;writing on the wall.&rsquo;</p><p>Neither has been impressive this season. Reay, at camp and during exhibition games was explosive. He showed signs of a good season. But once it was underway he petered out. At 34 it could be that the old legs just won&rsquo;t go like they used to. His record offensively is rather poor compared to other years. He&rsquo;s scored one goal and hasn&rsquo;t shown that particular passing genius of other seasons. His play has been from blue line to blueline. As for Mosdell, well he&rsquo;s been plagued with injuries for the past few years. Last season he injured his shoulder when Ed Sandford crushed him into the boards in Boston. When he returned he was used until the playoffs but them the same Sandford crushed him into the boards in Montreal in the first playoff game and he broke his ankle. He&rsquo;s failed to deliver since his return.</p><p>Mo&rsquo;s record is somewhat like Reay&rsquo;s. Unimpressive. He had one good game against the Wings when the Habs walloped them 9-0. He drew three assists and scored a goal. That was the only shot he had on the nets at home this season.</p><p>Irvin replaced him with Johnny McCormack.</p><p>It&rsquo;s unlikely that the Habs will make any sort of a deal. In fact it&rsquo;s unlikely that any other club in the League would be Interested enough in either player to talk trade. Both are over 30 and sorry to say, they may have hit the end of a very bright trail.</p><h2><i>?????</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0284/1025367-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="584" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(BILL REAY)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-01

Benching of Mosdell, ReayMayBe ‘Writing on Wall’ for Couple

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0358/1025405-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Klukay fires one at Lumley while Mackell and Sandford look on in background.</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A topsy-turvy early season, productive of such phenomena as the Chicago Black Hawks being in first place, has yielded its share of surprise here with the Bruins.</p><p>Not the least of these has been the emergence of a line composed of Fleming Mackell, Ed Sandford and Joe Klukay as a scoring line.</p><p>Mackell and Klukay, both former Toronto Maple Leafs, and Sandford, an inconspicuous Bruin for several years, were originally banded together before the season started as a defensive line.</p><p>Mackell, a center, and Klukay, a right wing, brought impressive defensive pedigrees with them from, Toronto, where a goodly portion of their time had been spent in killing off penalties.</p><p>The 190-pound Sandford had long been considered a solid defensive player, capable of carrying out testing assignments.</p><p>fet as the Bruins moved into the second month of the season this patchwork line, with Mackell and Sandford in comparatively unfamiliar positions, was the Bruins&rsquo; most proficient at scoring goals. Its three members were all batting above their lifetime averages.</p><p>In five previous National League seasons Mackell, formerly a right wing, had a scoring average of slightly more than five goals per season. A year ago he scored only three, but this season he owned that many after 10 games.</p><p>Klukay spent six seasons in Toronto, and he averaged 11 goals per season. A year ago he scored only four goals. He scored halt that many the first time he played in Toronto this season.</p><p>Sandford is in his sixth season with the Bruins, and for his previous five he had a seasonal goals average of eight. A year ago he didn&rsquo;t score his third goal until late December. He hit that mark this season in his 10th game.</p><p>In the course of working their way to a rating as the Bruins&rsquo; number one line, Mackell Sandford and Klukay have provided the customers with some high-class entertainment, most of it through the stick-handling ability of Mackell and Klukay.</p><h2><b>Best All Around Line We Have, Says Lynn</b></h2><p>The stocky center and his taciturn linemate, who seldom played often enough in Toronto to demonstrate it, are both masters at dribbling the puck, and the have given some rare exhibitions this season.</p><p>One night in Toronto Klukay cut capers around and through the Maple Leafs for nearly half a minute on one foray before losing possession of the plug, and in the same game Mackell whirled the length of the ice to score a goal, faking several Leafs out of their britches In the process.</p><p>As the Bruins settled down to a more equitable schedule after playing seven of their first 10 games on the road. Coach Lynn Patrick acknowledged the proficiency of his erstwhile third line by jumping it two notches.</p><p>&ldquo;It has been our best all-round line,&rdquo; he observed, &ldquo;and without the goals which it has made we&rsquo;d have been in bad shape. ,</p><p>&ldquo;Until further notice,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;Mackell&rsquo;s line will be the one which I&rsquo;ll play against the best lines of the other teams.&rdquo;</p><p>While Mackell and his cohorts were carrying the scoring ball for the Bruins, Patrick waited patiently for his other two lines to start making more consistent contributions to the goals column.</p><p>His young line of Dave Creighton, Real Chevrefils and Leo Labine and his middle trio of Capt. Milt Schmidt, Jack McIntyre and Johnny Peirson both lacked early-season consistency, but not for lack of chances.</p><p>Both lines demonstrated everything but finishing punch, as one goalie after another played like Hall-of-Famers at their expense. Patrick remained confident that constant pressure would eventually produce goals, and in abundance.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-03

Patchwork Line Keeping Bears From Splitting at Front Seams

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO, Ont.&mdash;The Art Ross-Conn Smythe feud, temporarily revived by the Leo Labine-Tod Sloan incident in Boston several weeks ago, seemingly has an unwilling participant at this end.</p><p>&ldquo;Uncle Arthur is in fine health and his eyesight was sharp enough for him to see the bump rising on Labine&rsquo;s head from 50 feet,&rdquo; quipped Smythe, &ldquo;but he has lost his punch. I feel guilty feuding with him.&rdquo;</p><p>The Maple Leafs&rsquo; managing director made his comment about the Bruins&rsquo; general manager in the course of an explanation of his views on officiating to Boston hockey writers.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Art Lacks Punch

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01139/1025467-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="292" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Bill Gadsby)</span></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>A variation of the old adage that advises going to the source for the best of anything was applied to the Chicago Black Hawks last week as they continued their surprising top drawer play in the NHL. &ldquo;How do you explain the big change in the team?&rdquo; each regular on the squad was asked.</p><p>Capt. Bill Gadsby was the first to reply. &ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve got more hustle than we had before,&rdquo; he said, &lsquo;&lsquo;and the new men have helped a lot too.&rdquo; Freddie Glover agreed. &lsquo;&lsquo;I was at Detroit until this season, but the Hawks do seem to have more hustle than we thought they had last year.&rdquo; he commented.</p><p>&ldquo;There are fewer men out,&rdquo; Gus Mortson answered. &ldquo;The club was hit by a record number of injuries in 1950-51 and the retirement of such greats as Doug Bentley, Roy Conacher and Jack Stewart didn&rsquo;t help any last season. I don&rsquo;t think any team could take such blows without showing it.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We have more determination and will now,&rdquo; reported Lee Fogolin. &ldquo;Yes, that desire to win is something you have to have&rdquo;, added Al Dewsbury. &ldquo;And let&rsquo;s not forget that we have more ice to practice on now,&rdquo; Gus Bodnar reminded. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have to do much travelling around the countryside for workouts any more.&rdquo;</p><p>Fred Hucul was next to reply. &ldquo;We are hustling more and I think having Sid (Coach Abel) behind us is doing it,&rdquo; he stated. &ldquo;He has always been with a winner and when he came here from Detroit, he brought those winning ways along.&rdquo; &ldquo;I&rsquo;II sure go along with that,&rdquo; George Gee broke in.</p><p>Al Rollins felt this way too. &ldquo;Everyone is really playing hard for Sid and that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ll have to keep on doing if we want to stay up near the top.&rdquo; Billy Mos-lenko termed the reason for the difference as &ldquo;better harmony.&rdquo; &ldquo;Bill&rsquo;s right and I think that&rsquo;s one of the main reasons that we are showing more hustle,&rdquo; Jimmy Peters pointed out.</p><h2><b>Gardner Agrees</b></h2><p>&ldquo;This is only my first season here in Chicago,&rdquo; Cal Gardner answered, &ldquo;but it would seem that this bunch certainly has better spirit. We definitely have as much or more as any Toronto squad I ever played with.&rdquo; &ldquo;Guess our pep is making the big change,&rdquo; Gerry Couture agreed.</p><p>&ldquo;It would appear to me that we have better balance this season,&rdquo; Pete Babando said. &lsquo;We have more guys taking part in the scoring. Only a couple of us have yet to get a goal or assist and no one has really moropolized things. Of course, we do have a lot more hustle too.&rdquo;</p><p>Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s latest review of NHL statistics bears Pete out on the balance angle. It shows that the Hawks have more men among the top 40 scorers than any other squad. Ten Chicagoans are listed along with eight players from Detroit, seven each from Montreal and Toronto, five from New York and three from Boston. Just one Black Hawk, Gardner, is in the top 10.</p><p>Jimmy McFadden turned out to be the only cautious member of the Hawks when it came to giving a reason for the change in Windy City hockey fortunes. &ldquo;I think I&rsquo;ll wait until the season&rsquo;s over to answer that query,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We still have most of our games ahead of us.&rdquo;</p><p>Young Pete Conacher declined to comment at all, but displayed his boyish grin to show that he wasn&rsquo;t exactly sad about the way things were going. That same smile really broke loose in the recent 8 to 3 route of the Rangers when he notched his first two major league goals. As this was being written, he also had four assists to his credit.</p><h2><b>Sclisizzi on Mend</b></h2><p><b>ICINGS:</b> Al Me.gard, Chicago Stadium organist, continues to play &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Just Wild About Harry&rdquo; (Lumley). This season, however, he inserts strains of a funeral march between choruses&hellip; Enio Sclisizzi, Hawk left winger who suffered a broken jaw in the preseason exhibition series with Detroit, is now out of the hospital and working back into condition at a rink near his home in Milton, Ont.</p><p>When Ed Sandford crashed into A1 Rollins and knocked him cold in the Boston game at the Stadium November 2, balcony fans immediately blossomed forth with &ldquo;We want Sandford.&rdquo; The catch in the request was that they wanted him up in the balcony and not on the ice. &ldquo;Sandy&rdquo; has drawn the ire of Chicago spectators on a number of occasions.</p><h2><b>Suspension Lifted</b></h2><p>After topping the Bruins by a 4-1 margin that night, the Hawks were given some healthy praise by Abel. &ldquo;They could very well continue in first place all the way if they keep on playing like they have in the last few gamess,&rdquo; he said. Sid, incidentally, is now back in playing shape and may dress for each home game as the 17th man.</p><p>It was announced during the &ldquo;Bruin battle that the suspension of rearguard Clare &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; Raglan had been lifted. He was expected to report to Edmonton of the Western League on an immediate recall basis. At the same time, Hawk General Manager Bill Tobin revealed that waivers had been asked for Ed Kryzanowski, another defenseman.</p><p>Billy Mosienko celebrated his 31st birthday by netting the fourth goal against Boston. He also was awarded an assist on Cal Gardner&rsquo;s winner in the first period. Pete Babando was the victim of some real scoring hijinks on the third goal in that game. It was at first given to him, but he then lost it to McFadden in exchange for an assist. In the final change, he got nothing with the assist going to Jim Peters.</p><h2><b>Leads the Way</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0293/1025460-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="592" height="593"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(SID ABEL)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hustle, Spirit, Harmony, That’s What’s Making Hawks Go, Say Players

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;Herb Dickenson, 21-year-old left winger for the New York Rangers, may lose the sight in has left eye due to his having been struck by flying puck in the pre-game warmup for the Ranger-Toronto game November 5.</p><p>He was skating around behind the Ranger nets when a sizzling drive caromed off the stick of goaler Chuck Rayner and hit him flush on the optic. He was cut above and below the eye and could not see out of it when he left the ice.</p><p>Dr. Norman De Larue, Leafs&rsquo; attending surgeon, accompanied him to the hospital</p><p>Hospital officials said they would not know for at least five days the extent of the injuries to the winger&rsquo;s eyes. The officials said both eyes are bandaged.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Dickenson Eye Damage Unknown

<div class="byline">By HARRY NASH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0369/1025498-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY HOWELL&hellip; &hellip;Makes few mistakes</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.</p><p>With a little more than one-seventh of the current NHL season a matter of painful history for New York&rsquo;s Rangers, opportunities to rejoice have been few and far between tor the boys in blue. But the picture hasn&rsquo;t been entirely dismal. In fact there have been rays of sunshine, and one of the brightest has emanated from an unexpected source.</p><p>When Injuries decimated Ranger ranks Manager Frank Boucher was obliged to strip the Guelph Biltmores of a flock of talented rookies in an effort to give the Blues some scoring punch.</p><p>Andy Bathgate, a promising center and Dean Prentice and Ron Murphy, a pair of wings who carried the Biltmores to victory in the Memorial Cup, were called up.</p><p>Along with them came Defenseman Harry Howell.</p><p>Of the quartet Howell seemed least likely to stick beyond the three-game pro trial period. Not that Boucher wasn&rsquo;t high on the 19-year-old Hamilton backliner. It just happened the Rangers felt the defense department was capably manned what with Hy Buller, Leo Reise, Capt. Al Stanley, Steve Kraftcheck and Jim Ross, all hale and hearty.</p><p>Still, if Boucher were given a choice today as to which of the youngsters he&rsquo;d retain there is no question whatever Howell would be the man.</p><p>Injuries have been something of a Ranger trademark. And it was an injury which destined Howell to become a Blueshirt regular.</p><p>Reise had lost a decision with a goal post in Montreal, Oct. 1G. The resultant shoulder separation meant the big blond would be lost for several weeks.</p><h2><b>Scored in First Game</b></h2><p>To bolster the defense. Boucher asked Coach Alfie Pike to include Howell in the shipment of Guelph rookies he was sending to the Rangers for the game in Maple Leaf Gardens two night later.</p><p>Maybe it was prophetic, but the only one of the Guelph stars to score against Toronto that night was Howell. It was a looping shot from near the blueline which Harry Lumley didn&rsquo;t see.</p><p>But it wasn&rsquo;t the goal which impressed Coach Bill Cook and the ebullient Boucher. It was the deft manner in which Harry patrolled his beat and before the third and final game of Howell&rsquo;s pro trial arrived there wasn&rsquo;t a shadow of doubt he was up to stay.</p><p>&ldquo;In all my experience,&rdquo; Boucher says, &ldquo;I never have seen a defenseman so young come into the NHL and play with such authority. He is only 20 and when you consider he has had only two years of junior amateur hockey it is positively amazing how he handles himself. You&rsquo;d think he&rsquo;d been around for years. Of course, he has made a few mistakes, mighty few, but he never has made the same one twice.</p><p>&ldquo;We knew Hy Buller would step into our plans when he came up from Cleveland as a rookie last year, but Hy had seven years of pro hockey experience,&rdquo; Frank concluded.</p><p>Howell, who will not reach his 20th birthday until three days after Christmas, had appeared in only one pro game before coming up to New York. He broke into the lineup with Cincinnati last year, but was returned to Guelph, where he was a tower of strength in That team&rsquo;s sweep of the junior amateur field.</p><p>Pike used the 190-pounder in 45 or 50 games each of the last two seasons. Apart from turning in a hang up defensive job Harry also was a consistent scorer. He tallied 17 goals and was credited with 20 assists last season.</p><p>Considering his youth Howell is likely to be around for a long time. But the name Howell may be around longer. Harry has a 17-lear old brother, Ron, now with the Dundas, Ont. juniors, who is said to be better now than his older brother.</p><p>This is exceptionally good news to the Rangers, who have strings on the youngster. How they obtained these ties is a story in itself. Briefly, to acquire title to the youngster, the New York club had to sponsor the Dundas team.</p><p>Now, if the Blues could latch onto one or two wings who could take charge as Howell has, the remainder of the season will not be so dismal, Boucher feels that It the Ronty line can get some help there still is a good chance to be among those present come playoff, time.</p><p>Much had been expected of the Raleigh line, but when Bones suffered a fractured wrist in a pre-season practice game, Ed Slowinski and Gaye Stewart lost their bead on enemy nets.</p><p>This was New York&rsquo;s most prolific line last season (55 goals) and one from which Cook expected a great deal this year. It is possible big Ed and Gaye might have picked up where they left off last season had Edgar Laprade kept his promise to Boucher to pinch hit until Raleigh was sound again.</p><p>But Edgar, with his new nose job, reneged and no matter who Cook put between Slowinski and Stewart the goals just didn&rsquo;t happen.</p><p>Last season, you might recall. Stewart, who needs only 16 goals to join the 200 club, didn&rsquo;t beat a goalie for the first 22 games. Then he broke out in a rash of scoring and wound up the campaign with 15 goals and 25 assists. Slowinski had his best season, 21 goals and 2 2 assists. In the first 11 games this semester Stewart had exactly two assists to show for his pains. Slowinski was even worse off, having only a single assist, and that on a goal scored by one of the defensemen</p><p>The slump of Slowinski and Stewart has retarded development of Bathgate and Prentice, especially Prentice.</p><p>When Raleigh returns to service Cook, in all probability, will flank the will &lsquo;o the wisp with Slowinski and Prentice. With the steadying influence of Bones to bolster his courage and gloss over some of his rough spots Prentice is likely to fulfill the promise with which he broke into pro hockey.</p><p>Maybe it will be too late to have much effect on this season&rsquo;s race, but when Raleigh is sound again; Chuck Rayner is reaay to play, (and this is taking absolutely nothing from Gump Worsley, who has played a terrific game in the nets) and with Reise recovered entirely from his hurts, the Rangers ought to be a much finer team. Certainly the club should do much better than one victory in 11 games.</p><h2><b>In There Solid</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Uncertain at First, Howell Shows Rangers Something to Howl About

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0737/1025675-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="289" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Maurice Richard)</span></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he player-of-the-week could not be anyone else but Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard, star right winger of the Montreal Canadiens, who this week broke the all-time goal scoring mark. Richard notched number 325 against the Chicago Black Hawks to break Nels shwart&rsquo;s mark of 324.</b></p><p><b>Richard scored his record breaking total in eleven seasons of play, all with the Montreal Canadiens.</b></p><p><b>Add to this fact that he Is the current point parade leader as well as leading in assists, and the title Player-of-the-Week is richly deserved.</b></p><p><b>Maurice Richard has written many records into the NHL record book but the one he has just set is the one least likely to be broken. He also holds the record for the most goals in one season, fifty, which he set in 1944-45. This was done at the average rate of a goal a game for the National Hockey League schedule only called for fifty games that season.</b></p><p><b>This season Richard finds himself in a new role, for his league leading point total is made up mostly of assists. Previous years showed the Rocket always among the top scorers, but his total. was always top-heavy with goals rather than assists. This year, during the past two weeks at least. Richard has found himself double-checked at every turn and as a result at least one of his linemates was always in the clear. Richard has been getting the puek over to them and they in turn have been getting goals galore. Bert Olmstead has already tied the number of goals he hod all last season, and Richard has been the help-mate on most of them. His 11 assists is tops for the circuit and he is not far behind in his specialty, scoring goals.</b></p><p><b>Maurice Richard was the right wing on one of the most famous lines in hockey history, along with centre Elmer Lach and left wing Toe Strike. This was the famous &lsquo;Punch Line&rsquo; which was broken up with the re:irement of Blake. It is fitting that Elmer Lach, who has played with the Rocket to these many years, should score his 200th goal the same night that Richard eclipsed the record, and true to the pattern of the old Punch Line, it was Richard who supplied the assist on the goal.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player-Of-The-Week

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-09" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0932/1025706-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg"></div><p><b>CONGRATULATES THE PLAYER OF THE WEEK!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player’s Canada’s mildest Cigarette

<h2><b>Sugar&rsquo;s Shutouts</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>ugar Jim Henry of the Boston Bruins rucked up his second shutout of the campaign when he turned back the defending champion Detroit Red Wings 2-0.</p><h2><b>Rookie Rifler</b></h2><p>The record for the most points ever scored by a rookie was set by Gus Bodnar, then with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In a 50-game schedule he accounted for 22 goals and 40 assists for 62 points.</p><h2><b>Habs, Richard Take Over First Place in NHL Standings</b></h2><p><b>Sugar Jim Continues To Lead Vezina Trophy Race</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01123/1025644-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="286" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Elmer Lach)</span></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Montreal Canadiens and Montreal players enjoyed a big week, what With Maurice Richard scoring his 325th National Hockey League goal, Elmer Lach firing his 200th NHL tally, and Canadiens taking over first place in the League standings. The Habs have 17 points, the same number that Richard tops the individual point parade with. While becoming the first player in National Hockey League history to score 32 5 goals, Richard upped his season&rsquo;s output to six goals and 11 assists.</p><p>Canadiens have seven wins and three ties In 13 starts. Toronto Maple Leafs are second with seven wins and two draws in 13 games for 16 points. Chicago is third with 15 points, and is followed by Detroit with 13 points, Boston with 12 and New York with five.</p><p>Hard on the heels of Richard in the point-garnering battle are Max Bentley of Toronto and Gord Howe of Detroit with 15 points apiece. While Richard has the most assists - 11, none other than the old dipsy doodle dandy, Max Bentley, leads in goals, with nine. Ted Kennedy, Toronto; and Ted Lindsay, Detroit, have 14 points each. The improving Bert Olmstead of Montreal is next with 13 points.</p><p>Boston Bruins&rsquo; remarkable cage custodian, Jim Henry, is pulling further ahead of other goalkeepers all the time. The veteran Winnipeg native has only allowed 22 goals to be scored against him in 12 games. He racked up his second shutout of the season on November 13, as the Bruins blanked Detroit 2-0. Henry has a goals-against average of 1.83. He is the only goalie with two shutouts this season.</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs are the most penalized team in the League with 201 penalty minutes. Ted Lindsay is still the most penalized player. The Detroit winger has spent 34 minutes in the cooler.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS TUESDAY, NOV. 11 A.M.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0372/1025637-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="576" height="180"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p>Nov. 4&mdash;Postponed due to U.S.A, elec.</p><p>Nov. 5&mdash;Rangers 1 at Toronto 4</p><p>Nov. 6&mdash;Toronto 1 at Canadiens 3</p><p>Nov. 6&mdash;Detroit 0 at Boston 2</p><p>Nov. 8&mdash;Chicago 4 at Canadiens 6</p><p>Nov. 8&mdash;Detroit 3 at Toronto 3</p><p>Nov. 9&mdash;Rangers 1 at Detroit 3</p><p>Nov. 9&mdash;Chicago 1 at Boston 4</p><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Gaines of Sunday, Nov. 9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0461/1025630-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="583" height="856"></div><h3><b>TOP TEN SCORERS A YEAR AGO</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0550/1025623-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="580" height="274"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0643/1025616-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="582" height="252"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1030/1025609-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="549" height="168"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5</b></h3><p><b>New York 1 at Toronto&rsquo;4</b></p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Toronto Maple Leaf-climbed into a first place tie with the Chicago Black Hawks by dumping the New York Rangers 4-1. Charlie Rayner played his first game of the season and apoeared a little shaky.</p><p>The Rangers also lost the services of Herb Dickenson who was injured in the pre-game warm-up. He was struck in the eye by a deflected puck.</p><p>After battling through a scoreless first period, the Leafs came up with two goals in the second while the New Yorkers tallied once. In the third the Leafs added two more insurance markers.</p><p>Max Bentley took the scoring honours, his two second period goals supplying the margin of victory. His first came after seven minutes of play and the as it on the play went to Jim Thomson. New York tied the score at 15.11, Wally Hergesheimer getting his sixth goal of the campaign unassisted. Two minutes later Bentley shot the Torontonians ahead again on passes from Ray Hannigan and Leo Boivin. In the third, Sid Smith counted from Ron Stewart and Rudy Migay was credited with a goal that actually went in off Hy Buller.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Rayner; defence. Howell, Buller, Stanley, Reise. Kraftcheck; forwards, Ronty, Bathgate, Mickoskt, Stoddard. J. Conacher, Stewart. Prentice, Hergesheimer, Kullman. Slowinski.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence. Thomson. Horton, Botvin, Flaman, Morrison; forwards. Watson, Bentley, Smith, Kennedy, Migay, Sloan, Hassard. Armstrong, Hannigan. Bolinger, Stewart.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Olinski; linesmen, George Hayes, Jim Primeau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0832/1025602-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="603" height="370"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8</b></h3><p><b>Chicago 4 at Canadiens 6</b></p><p>MONTREALL&mdash;With Maurice Richard counting his 325th goal and Elmer Lach his 200th. the Montreal Canadiens downed the Chicago Black Hawks 6-4. The goals were scored 32 seconds apart in the second period.</p><p>The teams fought on even terms throughout the opening canto, Dick Gamble scoring for the Canadiens and George Gee for the Hawks. Chicago took over in the second period, Fred Glover scoring at the 2.06 mark but the lead was short-lived as Floyd Curry put the Habs back on even footing just over a minute later. Canadiens got three more in the period, Lach Richard and Gamb&rsquo;e counting while Jimmy McFadden got the third Chi-Hawk marker.</p><p>Paul Meger scored on a break-away in the third period to give the Habs a three goal head but Al Dewsbury put the Hawks only two back with only six stconds left In the game.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal. Rohlins, defence, Gad-by, Morrison, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Hucul; forwards: Abel, Peters, McFadden. Glover, Mosienko, Conacher, Bodnar, Couture, Gardner/Gee.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Murphy; defence, Bouchard, Johnson: Macpherson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards, Lach, Richard, O&rsquo;mstead, McCormack, Gamble. Curry. Masnick, Meger, Geoffrion, dell, Reay.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey: linesmen, Jim Primeau, Frank Udvari.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02105/1025595-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="597" height="929"></div><h3><b>Detroit 3 at Toronto 3</b></h3><p>TORONTO&mdash;Max Bentdey and his linemates matched goal for goal with the defending champion Detroit Red Wings as Toronto gained a 3-3 tie.</p><p>Twice the Leafs had to fight from behind to finally be satisfied with a single point for the tie. Detroit opened, the scoring in the first period but the Leafs came back in the same frame to knot the count. Red Kelly chot the Wings in front at&rsquo; the 2.19 mark with an unassisted goal. Max Bentley got this one back on passes from George Armstrong and Jim Morrison.</p><p>The teams exchanged goals in the second period also, Johnny Wilson scoring on passes from Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio for Detroit and George Armstrong equalizing for the Leaf on passes from Max Bentdey and Gordie Hannigan.</p><p>Hannigan opened the third period scoring on Armstrong&rsquo;s pass-out but Delvecchio knotted the count on a pass from Howe and Lou Jankowski.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk: defence, Goldiham, Kelley, Pronovost. Wolt, Folk; forwards, Shov, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Prystal, Pavellch. Sinclair, Delvecchio, J. Wilson, L. Wilson, Jan-koski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0388/1025588-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="598" height="915"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6</b></h3><p><b>Toronto 1 at Montreal 3</b></p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard failed to notch his 325th goal but his Montreal Canadian mates still managed to thump the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1. Doug Harvey, Bert Olmstead and Bernie Geoffrion scored the Habs&rsquo; goals while Max Bentley accounted for the lone Leaf marker.</p><p>The Canadiens scored Frce in every period while the Maple Leafs were restricted to a second period goal.</p><p>Doug Harvey opened the scoring early in the first. He took a pass from Johnny McCormack and lifted a high looper from almost centre ice. It took a weird hop and bounced into the cage for the only goal of the period.</p><p>In the second Montreal made it 2-0, Bert Olmstead counting from Maurice Richard. Max Bentley put the Leafs back into contention in the same frame, scoring on a pass from Gordie Hannigan.</p><p>The nicest goal of the evening was scored in the third period. Boom Boom Geoffrion counting on a pass from Dick Gamble and Paul Masnick.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley: defence, Horton. Boivin, Thomson, Flaman, Morrison; forwards: Bentley, Armstrong. Hannigan, Watson, Smith, Kennedy, Migay, Sloan, Hassard, Stewart.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Plante; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent, Harvey, Macpherson: forwards: Masnick. Geoffrion, Meger, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, McCormack, Curry, Gamble, Mosdell, Reay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0463/1025581-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="594" height="402"></div><h3><b>Detroit 0 at Boston 2</b></h3><p>BOSTON&mdash;The Boston Bruins shutout the faltering Detroit Red Wings 2-0 to climb into a fourth place tie with the defending champions. It was the second shutout of the season for Sugar Jim Henry and the third win for the Beantowners.</p><p>Boston scored once in the first and third periods while holding the Red Wings snipers at bay. It was a clean game all the way with only four penalties being handed out by the officials.</p><p>Leo Labine opened the scoring at 9.21 of the first period on a long shot that got away from Terry Sawchuk. It was unassisted and was all the Bruins needed. There was no second period scoring but Joe Klukay got. the insurance goal at 11.31 of the thir period on a pass from Ed Sandford.</p><p>Henry was sensational In the Boston cage and turned aside a total of 31 shots to keep a strangle-hold on the goals-against leadership.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Menry; defence. Godfrey, Quackenbush, Armstrong, Laycoe, Tnppazzini; forwards: Schmidt, Peirson, McIntyre, Sandford. Mackell, Labine, Creighton, Lund, Klukay, Chevrefils.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal. Sawchuk: defence. Gold-ham. Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Folk; forwards: Sknov, Howe Lindsay, Leswick. Prystal, Pavelich, Sinclair. Delvecchio, J. Wilson, L. Wilson. Jankowski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0551/1025574-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="589" height="297"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9</b></h3><p><b>New York 1 at Detroit 3</b></p><p>DETROIT-Detrest Red Wings scored a goal in every period to snap out of their glump and down the New York Rangers 3-1. It was the first victory for the fourth place Red Wings in four games and only therir second victory in the last eight games.</p><p>The injury riddled Rangers have lost nine of their 13 games to date and haven&rsquo;t won a game in their last six.</p><p>Lou Jankowski opened the scoring on a double-relay from Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay at the 8.18 mark of the first but the Rangers matched this one. Eddie Kullaan potting on passes from Pawl Ronty and Hy Buller.</p><p>In the second period Ted Lindsay scored on passes from Johnny Wilson and Red Kelfly.</p><p>Glen Skov closed Just the scoring for the Wings at the 1.53 mark of the. third period on passes from Red Kelly and Marty Pevelich.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defense, Howel, S-taney, Ross. Buller, Kraftcheck; forwards. Dickenson, Ronty, Hergesheimer. Mickoski. Stoddard. Stewart. Kullman, Slowinski, Bathgat, Prentoice</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0648/1025567-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="590" height="419"></div><p><b>Chicago 1 at Boston 4</b></p><p>BOSTON&mdash;Flieming Mackell performed the Hat-trick to lead the Boston Bruins to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago Back Hawks. It was the Hawks second loss in as many nights.</p><p>The first period was scoreless, both goaers. Henry of Boston and Rollins of Chicago, turnig in splendid performances. But the roof fell in for Sid Abel&rsquo;s charges in the second period when Mackell scored the first two of his trio. The first was on passes from Gerry Topazzini and Joe Klukay and the duo repeated the help-mate act on the second.</p><p>Macket got his third after 4:40 of the third, Klukay and Bob Amrstrong getting the assists. Jack McIntyre put the Bruins four up just after the half way mark on a pass from Bill Quackenbush.</p><p>Less than a minute later Chicago finally got on the scoring sheet with coach Sid Abell doing the honours on passes from Jimmy Peters and Jim McFadden.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins: defense, Morison, Dewsbury. Fogolin, Gadsby, Hucul. Couture. Peters, Mosienko, Conacher. Babando, Glover, Gardner, McFadden.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, (Quackenbush, Godfrey, Armstrong. Toppazzini. Laycoe; forwards: Creighton, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford. Mackell Schmidt. McIntyre, Lund, Lund, Klukay, Pierson</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0737/1025560-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="594" height="643"></div><h2><b>Top Sniper</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02103/1025553-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="554" height="1187"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Max Bentley, the old smoothie of the Toronto Maple Leafs, vaulted into the goal scoring leadership this week by boosting his total to nine for the campaign thus far.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01138/1025751-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dickie Moore of the Montreal Canadiens above, is visited by his parents after being oper-ated on his dinky knee again. Moore, who hasn&rsquo;t seen action this season as yet had the cartridge removed from his right knee in August when he returned to action he found that it still wasn&rsquo;t in shape. Medicos opened it again and removed a large cist from between the joint. He is expected to be out of action until Christmas, at least.</b></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0836/1025744-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="592" height="1295"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0932/1025737-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="1180" height="2088"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">INFERNO&nbsp;by Havoc-Bon Ino</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1033/1025907-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Seagram’s King’s Plate

<h2><b>League Bad Men</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Pittsburgh Hornets are the American League&rsquo;s bad men, having amassed a total of 170 minutes in penalties in the first 11 games, close behind are the Providence Reds.</p><h2><b>Ray Powell Honoured</b></h2><p>Ray Powell of the Providence Reds was honoured recently with the presentation of the Carl LIscornbe Trophy. Powell won the trophy as League high scorer last season.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01137/1025845-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="591" height="175"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER-5 Cleveland 1 at Hershey 6</b></h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Hershey Bears defeated the Cleveland Barons 6-1 to move into a two-way tie for second place. Joe Schertzl and Arnie Kullman each notched a pair while Bob Chrystal and Lome Ferguson added singles.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal: Henry; defence, Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzl, Martin; forwards: Kullman, Corcoran, Bettio, Brown, Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, O&rsquo;Brien, McNally.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal: Bower: defence, Shero, Chrystal, Reigle, Willaims: forwards: Gordon, Wochy, Lynn, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Sonmor, Ceresino, Kubasek.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02103/1025838-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="595" height="429"></div><h3><b>Pittsburgh 2 at Syacuse 5</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;The Syracuse Warriors Snapped a six game losing streak by defeating the Pittsburgh Hornets 5-2. Armand Lemieux had two for the Warriors while Bill Gooden, Harry Pidhirny and Keith Allen had one apiece.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Milligan, Tottle. Allen, Gustavsen; forwards: Burnett, Lemieux. Pidhirny, McNabney, Casanato, Curick, Horvath, Hayden.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal: Mayer: defence, Mathers, Juzda, Sullivan, Backor; forwards: Maloney. Timgren, Ezinickl, Poland, Lewicki, Chorley. Balfour, Marshall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0383/1025831-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="592" height="647"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6 St. Louis 2 at Providence 4</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE-The Providence Reds strengthened their grip on first place in the American Hockey League by downing the St. Louis Flyers 4-2. The. Reds struck for three goals in the final frame after trailing from behind a 1-0 deficit in the second period.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defence. Lund, Hrymnak, Forbes, McNab; forwards: O&rsquo;Grady, Taylor, Stankiewicz, Fielder Bonin, McLean, Pogue, Boone, C. Leave11.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> &ldquo;Goal. Bennett: defence, Morris, Bourassa, Bloomer, O. La veil; forwards: Sullivan, Powell, Gladu, Kapusta, Laplante, Toppazzini, Denis, Scherza, Michaluk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0551/1025824-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="586" height="478"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 Hershey 3 at Pittsburgh 5</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Defenseman Frank Sullivan scored two goals to lead the Pittsburgh Hornets to a 5-3 victory over frst Hornet victory over the Bears in the Hershey Bears. The triumph was the three starts and moved them into a fourth place tie with the Cleveland Barons.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal: Henry, defence, Garlepy, Henderson, Martin, Schertzl. Forwards: Rettio, Corcoran, Kullman. Ferguson, Brown, B. Sullivan, O&rsquo;Brien, McNally.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, four, Maloney, Timgren. Sabourin. Mar-Backor, Juzda. Mathers, F. Sullivan, forwards: Chorley, Blair, Lewicki, Bal shall, Ezinickl.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0647/1025817-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="583" height="456"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8 St. Louis 2 at Syracuse 1</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE-Brent MacNab scored one goal and assisted on another to lead. St. Louis Flyers to a 2-1 victory over Syracuse Warriors in an American Hockey League game before 1.985 fans Saturday night. MacNab was in the thick of things in other ways too, getting four penalties.</p><p>The win enabled St. Louie to take over second place, a single point behind providence. The Warriors are in last place in the seven-team League.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal. Almas; defence. Brymnak. Lund, Forbes, MacNab; forwards: O&rsquo;Grady. Taylor Stankiewicz, Boone. Lavell. Pogue. McLean. Fielder. Bonin.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal. Bell: defence. Allen. Milligan, Gustavsen. Tottle; forwards: Burnett, Hayden, Lemieux, Horvath, Gooden, Webster, Casanato, Harrison, Curick.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0740/1025810-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="586" height="501"></div><h3><b>Pittsburgh 3 at Hershey 2</b></h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Wild Bill Ezinickl scored two goals in quick succession in the second period as Pittsburgh Hornets, beginning to show the form that caraed them to the American Hockey League championship last season, defeated Hershey Bears 3-2 before&rsquo; a crowd of 7.4.58 Saturday night..</p><p>Ezinicki&rsquo;s two goals, coming slightly more than two minutes apart, were the declcsive ones, sending the Hornets into a 3-1 lead after Lome Ferguson had scored for Hershey and Willie Mashall for Pittsburgh in the first period.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Juzda, Backor, Mathers, Frank, Sullivan: forwards: Lewicki, Blair, Chorley, Maloney, Timgren, Sabourin, Marshall, Ezinicki. Balfour.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Schertzl, Henderson, Gariepy, Martin; forawrds: Kullman. Corcoran. Bettio, Brown, George, Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson. O&rsquo;Brien. McNally.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0838/1025803-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="585" height="522"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 2 at Cleveland 8</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Jackie Gordon and Frank Kubasek scored two goals each as Cleveland Barons rolled up their highest total of the American Hockey League season Saturday night by Trouncing Buffalo Bisons 8-2 before 8,241 fans.</p><p>Held to a single goal in the first pe riod, the Barons got four in the second and three in the third. The Bisons. scored both their goals in the second period.</p><p>The victory moved Barons into third-place tie with Hershey and Pittsburgh, l-1/2 games behind the Leagueleading Providence Reds.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence. Chrystal, Shero, Reigle. Williams: forwards: Gordon, Lynn, Wochy, Kubasek, Hildebrand, Sonmor, Olson, Ceresino, Delmonte.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, McAtee: defence, Eddolls, McNeil, Lavitt, Lowe; forwards: Kaiser, Pennell, Davis, MacKay, Mc-Leod, Davies, Kobussen, Pilote, Fryday.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0387/1025796-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="595" height="690"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER ft Cleveland 6 at Providence 3</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;The Cleveland Barons scored three first period goals and went on to down the league leading Providence Reds 6-3. Eddie Olson led the attack with two goals while singles went to Dutch Delmonte, Ike Hildebrand, Frank Kubasek and Steve Wochy.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, Egan, Bourassa, Lavell, Bloomer; forwards: Powell, Laplante, Reardon, Gladu, Michaluk, Kapusta, Denis, Sullivan, Toppaazini.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Chryatal, Shero, Reigle, Williams; forwards Gordon, Lynn, Wochy, Kubasek, Hildebrand, Sonmor, Olson, Cereslno, Delmonte.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0467/1025789-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="598" height="733"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0937/1025782-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="572" height="465"></div><p><b>LEADERS</b></p><p><b>Goals:</b> Guyie Fielder, St. L. (8)</p><p><b>Assists:</b> Phil Maloney, Pitt. (10); Marcel Bonin, St. L. (10).</p><p><b>Penalties:</b> Gustavsen. Syr. (38).</p><p><b>Team Penalties:</b> Pittsburgh (17 0)</p><p><b>Goaler:</b> Red Henry, Hershey; 11 Gms. 27 Gls 2.45.</p><p><b>Shutouts:</b> Phil McAtee, Buff. (1); John Bower, Clev. (1): Harvey<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By GEORGE PATRICK DUFFY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01150/1025976-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RELAXING WITH TELEVISION: Bert Bourassa, right, who has started out in terrific fashion for the R.I. Reds of the AHL takes time to look at a TV show along with Bobby Perreault, reserve goalie of the Reds. The two French-Canadians live together in an apartment in Central Falls, R.I., three miles from the Providence Arena.</b></figcaption></div><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I.&mdash;</p><p>A year ago, Bertrand Bourassa was playing for &ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake at Valleyfield for the Braves in the QSHL. Today, this same Bourassa chap is with the R.I. Reds and believe you me, the 22-year-old is not just another name in the program.</p><p>Bourassa has surprised everyone in the Providence organization with his terrific play. Bert may be surprising himself, too, but if he feels that way, the likeable Sherbrooke native &ldquo;aint saying&rdquo;.</p><p>Coach Terry Reardon and Owner Lou Pieri felt that Bourassa had the goods to be a good hockey player. Blake, a former star Providence player, kept watch over Bert and from time to time Informed the Providence &ldquo;brain trusts&rdquo; just how things were progressing with the youthful back-liner.</p><h2><b>Worked Hard At Camp</b></h2><p>At training camp in Grand Mere, Bourassa worked diligently. He obviously could see his chance to make the grade with the Reds, what with Art Michaluk, Moe Morris and Joe Lund gone from the defensive corp of the team that reached the Calder Cup finals a year ago.</p><p>Bert is a guy who speaks very little english. In fact, he speaks very little of any language, he&rsquo;s that quiet. Already Bourassa has been labeled as a &ldquo;good sub for Art Michaluk in the NO TALK department.&rdquo; &ldquo;Big Mich&rdquo;, it was always said around the Providence clubhouse, used up about 10 words per week. Bourassa is using about the same quota.</p><p>Quiet off the ice, Bourassa&rsquo;s play at R.I. Auditorium in Providence has already spoken volumes for his ability. Fans in this area where the Reds have been in business for 27 consecutive years, are enthused at what they see in Bourassa. They point out he is small at 5.10 and 155 pounds but cuickly add: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got more gutr than a butchered steer.&rdquo;</p><p>Teamed with the Veteran Pat Egan, who has been around hockey since 1938 when he played with Seattle of the PCHL, Bourassa has covered his point far better than expected, has passed well, and, despite his size, has bumped numerous fellows in games against Buffalo and Hershey on the Providence rink. As a hockey player with the Reds. Bourassa, as of this writing, has definitely made the grade, and then some.</p><h2><b>Is TV Fan</b></h2><p>What about his life away from the hockey scene? For one thing, Bourassa has become a rabid fan of TV programs. The first night he arrived in Rhode Island, Bert and his roomie, Bobby Perreault, took time out to watch Ezzard Charles <b>KO</b> Bernie Reynolds in the second round. Bourassa admitted he was seeing his first television and enjoyed the fight, although it didn&rsquo;t last too long.</p><p>In living with Perreault, Bourassa has a tremendous partner. Perreault, the former Three Rivers goalie, is the &ldquo;hit&rdquo; of the Reds&rsquo; dressing room. His older teammates call Bobby the &ldquo;Wit tiest guy in the league&rdquo;. Perreault tells stories galore, always relating them in his Three Rivers En glish, so thick with a Parisian accent it lends tremendously to each story. As one listener put it: &ldquo;The accent is as thick as a hogs-head of Canadian chedder.&rdquo;</p><p>Bourassa serves as chauffeur for Perreault. The latter does al! the cooking. &ldquo;I try cook chicken Sunday&rdquo;, he remarked. &ldquo;Cheese, Crackers, I hope its goot&rdquo;. It was Bourassa played Sunday, October 2 6 against Syracuse Warriors.</p><p>A couple of happy-go-lucky guys, Bourassa and Perreault are quite fearless, except, that is, until the Providence Police Department &ldquo;attacks them&rdquo;.</p><p>Perreault tells his story of an incident with the Providence gendarmes this way: &ldquo;Bert and I are ride down Nort Main St. (North Main St., where Arena is located) We boat smoke Seegar. We don&rsquo;t know eet but some robber are loose in Providence. The cops see Bert &lsquo;n&rdquo; me and chase us, thinking we are the robber. Cheese, crackers, dey push our car to da curb with the police car. I don&rsquo;t know what the story and reach for my handkerchief. The cop he think I&rsquo;m reach for a gun and quick, he&rsquo;s pull me and Bert from the car. After while, we are found out to be hockey player with the Reds and get free. Cheese, crackers. They tink we criminals. Imagine, the cops had guns ready for us. Bert and me laugh now. But then, too close to get shot&rdquo;. Uncomfortable, to say the least.</p><h2><b>The Quiet Man and Roomie</b></h2><h2><b>No Talk Guy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02105/1025969-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="571" height="1338"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(BERT BOURASSA)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Reds Tab Bourassa Sure Fire Bet to Become American League Star

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>T. LOUIS&mdash;Pat Egan, veteran defenseman with the Providence. Reds, has been suspended indefinitely. The announcement was made by Emory Jones, president of the American Hockey League..</p><p>Egan was involved in a brawl in Cleveland during which he allegedly attacked two. linesmen, Ratsy Callighan and Bobby Carse He also received a $100 fine.</p><p>The burly defenseman is a veteran hockey player, having played in the NHL for 11 seasons, with the New York Americans. Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers. Last season he split his time between Cincinnati and Providence.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Jones Suspends Egan for Run-in with Two Officials

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.-When Hal Murphy took the nets for Canadiens for their game against Chicago Black Hawks at the Montreal Forum, November 9, he earned the unusual distinction of playing for three different teams in three different leagues all in the same week.</p><p>He played Sunday for Royals when they defeated Ottawa Senators 4-i at the Forum, then when Jean Paul Renaud his un-derstudy with the Provincial League Ste. Therese team was injured Murphy returned to the small town north of Montreal and played two games for the Saints, and they won both.</p><p>He was called to Canadiens for the Saturday night joust so that Jacques Plante, who had replaced injured Gerry McNeil could return to Royals. Plante had completed the three games of lend-lease term, and though he turned in a gilt edged performance as the Habs won two games and tied one, Frank Selke and Dick Irvin were not ready to make him a permanent pro at this time.</p><p>So Murphy was in the net for Habitants&rsquo; the night that Rocket Richard scored his record-smashing 325th goal and Elmer Lach reached his personal peak of 200.</p><p>When Murphy sat quietly in Canadiens room at the Forum as camera-men and sports writers ganged up on Richard in a busy scene, one writer said to the young goaler:</p><p>&ldquo;No one seems to be paying much attention to you.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care&rdquo;, said Murphy, &ldquo;I can always say I was on the ice the night the Rocket broke the scoring record.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Different Teams in Week Murphy Plays For Three

<div class="byline">by Scoot Young</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0552/1026055-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Don’t miss SCRUBS ON SKATES

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WE CHOOSE ‘WHITE HORSE’!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0486/1026253-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The third period proved to be the tempestuous one as everybody tried to jam into the Victoria net after a goal-mouth scuffle. The centre of the controversy was Joe Evans, standing beside the goal. The leg of Wait Atanas may be seen protruding from the webbing. Colin Kilburn is atop Atanas and Referee Eddie Powers behind. Cougars won the game by the score of 3-2.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Everybody Wants To Get Into The Act

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<h2><b>Equals Record</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>eorge Senick, Saskatoon forward, equalled the record for points in one game when he scored seven point against Calgary. The old mark was set last season by George Agar of the Stampeders.</p><h2><b>The Cat&rsquo;s Meow</b></h2><p>Emile &lsquo;The Cat&rsquo; Francis appears on his way to a new shutout record. To date this season he&rsquo;s racked up three and the record is five. It is jointly shared by Lome Worslev and Lucien Dechene.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01157/1026222-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="594" height="228"></div><h3><b>LAST WEEKS RESULTS</b></h3><p>Oct. 28&mdash;Victoria 3 at Vancouver 8 New West. 5 at Saskatoon 1</p><p>Oct. 29&mdash;Tacoma 1 at Seattle 4 New West. 2 at Edmonton 5</p><p>Oct. 30&mdash;New West. 2 at Calgary 11 Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 5</p><p>Oct. 31&mdash;Seattle 4 at Victoria 8 Tacoma 6 at Vancouver 3 Saskatoon 3 at Edmonton 6</p><p>Nov. 1&mdash;Vancouver 4 at Tacoma 3 Victoria 2 at New West. 6 Saskatoon 8 at Calgary 3</p><p>Nov. 2&mdash;Vancouver 4 at Seattle 0</p><h3><b>TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28</b></h3><p>New Westminster 5 at Saskatoon 1</p><p>SASKATOON&mdash;New Westminster Royals walloped the Saskatoon Quakers 5-1 with Max McNab getting two goals. Singletons went to Bob Love, Stan Maxwell and Ken Ullyot, Gord Fashoway picked up a pair of assists.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goat, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Bedard; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Boyce, Haidy, Cabana.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, B. Bentley; defence, Heindl, Evans, Parker, Milford; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Strain, Jeffrey, Sellick, McCullough, Wylie, Kaiser, Kuzma, D. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02124/1026215-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="595" height="402"></div><h3><b>Victoria 3 at Vancouver 5</b></h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks picked up a first period lead and never looked back as they went on to dump Victoria Cougars 5-3. Walt Atanas led the way with two goals while Ted Powers, Ian Mackintosh, and Harry Dick got the others.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Long; forwards, Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, McIntyre, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, D. Anderson, Evans, Fairbum.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Lancien, Fontinato; forwards, Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popeln, Webster, Leier, Powers, Manson, Mackintoch. Brown, Harrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03102/1026208-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="590" height="496"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29</b></h3><p>Tacoma 1 at Seattle 4</p><p>SEATTLE&mdash;Seattle Bombers laced Tacoma Rockets 4-1, by scoring singles in the first two periods and then potting two in the final frame. Gerry Foley led the way with a pair of goals while John Bailey and George Homenuke got the others. The lone Seattle marksman was Pete Caron.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Caron, Tarala, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor; forwards, Bradley, Matthews, Johnson, Wall, Kerr, Marquess, Halderson, Adam, Brown.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Sprout, Conn, Ailsby, Arnett, Lebioda; forwards, Bell, Filion, Foley, Bailey, Stearns, Pargeter, MacAuley, Nadeau, Homenuke.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Scotty Morrison; linesman, Bill Knott.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0571/1026201-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="587" height="400"></div><h3><b>New Westminster 2 at Edmonton 5</b></h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;Edmonton Flyers downed the invading New Westminster Royals 5-2 with newcomers supplying the scoring punch. Making their first home appearance, Ray Hannigan and Vic Stasiuk both had a goal while Ching Johnson had a pair and Dutch Reibel another.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Leek, Bedard; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Haidy, Cabana.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Hay. Coburn, Coflin, Zeidel; forwacds, Poile, Johnson, Uniac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Anderson, Haley, Ehman, MacDonald, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Hank Wilson, White Rock, B.C.; Eddie Powers, Vancouver.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0660/1026194-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="594" height="549"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30</b></h3><p>New Westminster 2 at Calgary 11</p><p>CALGARY&mdash;Pat Lundy was the big gun as the Calgary Stampeders lowered the boom on the New Westminster Royals to the tune of 11-2. Lundy had a hat-trick while Hal Brown and Sid Finney each contributed a pair to the onslaught on goaler Dechene.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Leek, Bedard; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Haidy, Cabana.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Shvetz, Levandoski; forwards, Kelly, Brown, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Riley Mullen and Joe Shannon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0751/1026187-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="590" height="679"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 5</b></h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers eked out a close 5-4 decision over the Edmonton Flyers to vault into a first place tie in the Western Hockey League. Newcomer Vic Stasiuk potted two goals while singles went to Earl Johnson and Bud Poile for the Fivers. Earl Kaiser with two, Jackie McLeod, Alex Kuzma, and Doug Bentley scored for Quakers.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Zeidel, Coburn, Coflin, Hay; forwards, Johnson, Point, Uniac, J. Anderson, MacDonald, Ehman, Haley, Stasiuk, Reibel, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal. B. Bentley; defence, D. Anderson, Kaiser. Milford, Heindl, Evans; forwards. Jeffery, D. Bentley, Kuzma. Kaleta, McCullough, Chad, McLeod, Strain, Senick.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Eddie Powers and Hedley McDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0846/1026180-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="597" height="630"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 Edmonton 6 at Saskatoon 3</b></h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;Edmonton Flyers moved into a third place tie with an impressive 6-3 victory over the Saskatoon Quakers. There are three other teams deadlocked for the third spot. It was the Flyers&rsquo; fourth win of the campaign.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal. Hall: defence. Hay. Coburn, Coflin, Zeidel: forwards Poile, Johnson, Uniac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Anderson, Haley, Macdonald, Hannigan, Thomas.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, B. Bentley; defence. Heindl. Milford, Kaiser. Evans; forwards, Kuzma, Strain, Senick, McCullough, Kaleta, Jeffrey, Chad, D. Bentley, McLeod.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Ed Powers and Hank Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01136/1026173-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="598" height="682"></div><h3><b>Seattle 8 at Victoria 4</b></h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;The Victoria Cougars snapped a four game losing streak by thumping Seattle Bombers 8-4. Colin Kilburn paced the attack with a hattrick while singles went to Ed Doronoy, Jack McIntyre, Stan Long, Doug Anderson and Andy Hebenton.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche. Goegan, Strongman: forwards. McIntyre, Kilburn, Anderson, Hebenton, Dorohov, Mazur, Bouchard, Abbott. Fairburn. Evans.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal. Brennan; defence, Snrout, Conn. Arnett. Lebodla: forwards. Bailey, Stearns. Pargeter, Macauley, Nadeau, Homenuke, Bell, Fllion, Foley,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0290/1026166-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="602" height="606"></div><h3><b>Tacoma 6 at Vancouver 3</b></h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;Vancouver Canuck&rsquo;s win streak was snapped at six games when the Tacoma Rockets handed them a 6-3 beating. Rockets galloped to an first period lead of 4-1 and-never had to look back after that, counting singles in the second and third.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0368/1026159-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="599" height="532"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Vancouver 4 at Tacoma 3</b></h3><p>TACOMA&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks held on to first place in the Western Hockey League by edging the Tacoma Rockets 4-3. Rockets took a 3-1 lead in the first period and held the Rockets in check the rest of the way.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Fontinato, Lancien; forwards Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein. Leier, Manson, Mackintosh, F, Brown, Powers, Wylie.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson: defence, Jones, Davidson, Caron, O&rsquo;Connor, Tarala; forwards, Matthews, Bradley, Johnston, Wall. Kerr, Marquess, Halderson, Adam, W. Brown.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Knott and Joey Johns.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0457/1026152-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="603" height="563"></div><h3><b>Victoria 2 at New Westminster 5</b></h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;The New Westminster Royals dumped the Victoria Cougars 5-2 in a rough penalty-filled game. Playing coach Eddie Dorohoy of the Cougars drew two ten minute misconduct penalties, his second and third of the season.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal. Cotnoir: defence, Webster. Roche, Long, Kirk, Irwin; forwards, Hebenton, Goegan, Abbott, McTntyre. Mazur, E. Dorohoy, Anderson, Kilburn. Fairburn.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene: defence, Durham, Bergeron. Bedard, Leek: forwards.. McNab, C. Dorohoy, Slater. Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Boyce. Taldy. Cabana.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Scotty Morrison and Merrick Cranston.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0531/1026145-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="596" height="582"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 8 at Calgary 3</b></h3><p>CALGARY&mdash;George Senick tied the &lsquo;record for points in a game when he figured in seven of the eight goals Saskatoon Quakers scored in clubbing the Calgary Stampeders 8-3. The record was set last year by Calgary&rsquo;s George Agar.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence. Kyle, Shvetz, Quackenbush, Michaluk; forwards, Levandoski, Kelly, Brown. Lundy, Black, Barry, Agar, Ashworth, Scott.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, B. Bentley; defence, Heindl, Evans, Parker, Milford; forwards, Kaleta. Chad. Strain. Jeffrey, Senick, McCullough, Wylie, Kaiser, Kuzma, D. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0619/1026138-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="595" height="579"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 Vancouver 4 at Seattle 0</b></h3><p>SEATTLE&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks shutout the Seattle Bombers 4-0 with Ian Mackintosh leading the way by scoring two goals. Other markers went to Al Brown and Ed Leier.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Conn, Lebioda, Sprout, Arnett, Allsby; forwards, Fllion, Bell, Foley, Stearns, Pargeter, Bailey, Nadeau, Homenuke, MacAulay.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Currie, Dick, Fontinato. Lancien; forwards, Popeln, Mackintosh, Atanas, Leier, Manson, Brown, Powers, Harrison. Smith. Webster.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0716/1026131-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="594" height="378"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3><b>INCLUDING GAMES SUN. NOV. 2</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0945/1026124-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="589" height="886"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1045/1026117-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="591" height="258"></div><p>LEADERS</p><p><b>Most Goals,</b> Ian Macintosh, Van., 11</p><p><b>Most Assists,</b> Larry Popein, Van., 13.</p><p><b>Most Shut Outs,</b> Emil Francis, Van., 3.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks,</b> Ken Ullyot, N.w:, 1 Fred Brown, Van., 1; Colin Kilburn, Vic., 1; Pat Lundy, Cal., 1; John Bailey, Sea., 1; Geo. Senick, Sask., 1.</p><p><b>Most game winning Goals,</b> Ed Leier, Vane., 2; Steve Black., Calg., 2; Sid Finney, Calg., 2; Geo. Senick, Sask., 2; Gordie Fashaway, N.W., 2.</p><p><b>Most Penalties,</b> Jack, Evans, Sask., 40 min; Eddie Dorohay, Vic., 38 min; Hugh Coflin, Edm. 37 min; Llyod Durham, N.W., 37 mln; Gus Kyle, Calg., 33 min Jim Bedard, N.W., 28 min.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Murray Henderson has discovered that the life of a hockey coach isn&rsquo;t always a bed of roses, but the quiet, soft-spoken mentor of the Hershey Bears is fast learning to take things in his stride.</p><p>After his Bears got off to a bad start, dropping a pair of battles to Terry Reardon&rsquo;s Providence Reds, Murray took account of stock and revamped his lineup in an effort to snap a losing streak which dated back through two exhibition contests.</p><p>Happily, the new combination was what the doctor ordered, and the Hershey skaters went on to bang King Clancy&rsquo;s defending Calder Cup champions, the Pittsburgh Hornets, on successive nights, 4-1 and 3-1.</p><p>Henderson&rsquo;s first move was to pull rookie Frank Martin out of the center post of his No. 3 line, returning the big St. Catherine&rsquo;s product to his original love, defense. Martin quickly installed himself as a Hershey favorite, turning in a job reminiscent of that done by Bob Armstrong a year ago.</p><h2><b>Branigan on Wing</b></h2><p>Left winger Obie O&rsquo;Brien found himself centering the trio, flanked by Adam Brown and captain Andy Branigan. Branigan, a defenseman by trade, has played quite a few games at wing, and once this trio gets a couple of games under its belt, Henderson is confident he&rsquo;ll have three of the most potent lines in the league.</p><h2><b>Riding High</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01162/1026346-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="559" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(SAM BETTIO)</span></figcaption></div><p>After one week&rsquo;s play the Bears found themselves in a three-way tie with Cleveland and St. Louis for second place, each club having a quartet of points. Despite the fact that they lost their first two contests to Terry Reardon&rsquo;s Providence Reds, the Bears have fared better this season in the first four games than last year&rsquo;s club. The 19 51-52 Bears, under Johnny Crawford, won one, tied one and lost two of their initial quartet of games.</p><p>Henderson&rsquo;s confidence in Arnie Kullman, Sam Bettio and Norm Corcoran, whom he named as his No. 1 line when he took over the direction of the Bears, has been more than justified on the basis of the individual scoring in Hershey&rsquo;s first four tilts.</p><p>Eight of Hershey&rsquo;s eleven goals were recorded by the line, with Kullman and Bettio getting three each, and Corcoran the other two. In addition, Kullman an Bettio have registered a trio of assists each, with Corcoran receiving credit for one.</p><p>All of Bettfo&rsquo;s scores came in a &ldquo;hat&rdquo; trick against the Pittsburgh Hornets on October 21. Two of the scores came from Sam&rsquo;s brand new rifle shot, which he unleashes from the blue line.</p><p>Henderson, incidentally, selected his number one offensive unit very carefully, studying last season&rsquo;s individual scoring re-cords with an eye to icing the most efficient cpmbination possible. Kullman and Bettio were last season&rsquo;s number one and two top scorers, respectively, only a point separating them at the season&rsquo;s end. Kullman had 25 goals and 31 assists for a total of 5 6 points, while Bettio collected 18 goals and 37 assists for 55 points. Corcoran registered 22 goals and 21 assists a year ago.</p><p>The Bears&rsquo; No. 2 line, consisting of George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, Lome Ferguson and Dune Fisher, all Boston farmhands, has shown signs of getting into the scoring act, with Fisher and Ferguson racking up a goal each. Once Sullivan, who has been hampered by an attack of the flu, gets going, Henderson believes the popular redhead will become one of the AHL&rsquo;s top play-makers.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bears’ Trio Claw Opposition After Reds Clip ‘em In Opener

<div class="byline">By EDDIE COEN</div><h2><b>Going Ahead</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0380/1026408-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="574" height="915"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(BOB BAILEY)</span></figcaption></div><p>CLEVELAND. O.&mdash;</p><p>Bashin&rsquo; Bob Bailey that&rsquo;s my boy!</p><p>That&rsquo;s what Cleveland hockey fans have been saying to each other as they watch the whirling dervish from Kenora, Ontario take over as one of the most highly touted and highly regarded newcomers ever to step into a Cleveland Baron uniform.</p><p>Bailey, who sat on the sidelines last year with a knee injury, is starting to live up to each and every expectation that heralded his arrival with the Barons. In fact Bailey may soon surpass all those rave notices that came out of training camp and in the early stages of the season.</p><p>The odd part of this new basher that is working down the center ice lanes is the fact that off the oice he is one of the nicest individuals that has come along in a long time. Bailey is a handsome lad who has a typical Irish sense of humor with an Irish twinkle in his eye that has started to make him the Idol of the bobby-soxers.</p><p>Only 21 years old, Bob has a brilliant future ahead of him. He is big, stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 185 pounds and knows how to use his height and weight to advantage.</p><h3><b>Doing Best He Can</b></h3><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m just doing the best I can and I hope to be able to stay with this club,&rdquo; Bailey says in a typical modest statement that has endeared him to Cleveland newspapermen with whom he scored a smash hit immediately. There is nothing cocky or concleted about the boy. He is in his own words, a &ldquo;worker&rdquo; who tries to get goals and set up his forwards and at the same time keep opponents from scoring.</p><p>Right now he is being touted as a likely candidate for the &ldquo;Rookie of the year&rdquo; award in the AHL-an honor that has come to two other Barons, Bobby Sollnger in 1948-49 and Wally Herges-heimer in 1950-51. And Bailey is just the boy who can make it if he continues his present style of play.</p><p>The Baron sensation broke Into organized hockey with the Rotary International juvenile team in Kenora in 1946-47. He then played for Hettche Spitfires and returned to Kenora with the Thistles before moving to Windsor to Stratford. Then he had a &ldquo;ready for delivery&rdquo; stamp placed on him and he came to the Barons at the start of the 1951-52 campaign only to have his knee go bad.</p><p>An operation fixed the knee as good as new and right now he is one of the key men in the Barons&rsquo; scheme of things&mdash;bashin* Bob Bailey is the Barons newest star and he looks like he&rsquo;ll b&rdquo; around for along time&mdash;a mighty long time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Brilliant Future Seen for Barons’ Bob Bailey

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0466/1026439-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="565" height="608"></div><p>A tteaming cup of rich, ereamy Stafford&rsquo;t Hof Chocolate it tho ideal finish for any game!</p><p><i><b>Ash for Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate at your favorite fountain</b></i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Win or Lose

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When T. P.Gorman, the major&mdash;domo of the Ottawa Senators, announced a &ldquo;new deal&rdquo; for the fans in 1 95 2-5 3, the Capital City crowd individually and collectively quipped: &ldquo;Not again&rdquo;.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01131/1026477-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="296" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(John Ashley)</span></figcaption></div><p>Ever since the Barber Poles swept all before them in 1949, the fans had been hearing the same story, all the while suffering every ignomity at the hands of Quebec, Valleyfield and Royal teams. Their patience was wearing a little thin.</p><p>This time, however, it looks like Tay Pay meant every word he said. It looks like it could be Ottawa&rsquo;s year.</p><p>With a new coach, and several new players (courtesy Toronto Maple Leafs), the revamped Barber Poles have gotten off to a flying start and have lost but two games in their first ten.</p><p>The success of the Capital City team can be attributed to two reasons, 1) a new mentor, and 2) some new blood.</p><p>The new coach, of course, is Johnny (Peanuts) O&rsquo;Flaherty, a former Leaf chattel himself and last season coach at St. John in the Maritime Major League.</p><p>Peanuts (he hates the nickname) believes in hustle more hustle, and never stops telling his charges about what he wants. He is the original holler guy, and every fan in the rink can hear him when he screams instructions, which is almost always.</p><p>O&rsquo;Flaherty believes in positional hockey and the results are becoming evident. This year&rsquo;s players cover their checks and play it O&rsquo;Flaherty&rsquo;s way&mdash;or they don&rsquo;t play.</p><h2><b>New Star</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02101/1026470-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="577" height="1210"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(KEN LAUFMAN)</span></figcaption></div><p>It&rsquo;s as simple as that.</p><p>The new blood, of course, has helped matters considerably. For the. past couple of seasons, the Barber Poles were limping along on reputation, vrhile the other Slater circuit clubs were jamming their rosters with young, hustling talent.</p><h3><b>Some Departed</b></h3><p>Assured of help by Leafs, the Senator management went ahead from here and the result is a well balanced team.</p><p>Three of the several players purchased by Ottawa, including Bep Ouldolin, former Black Hawk, Ray Frederick, a goalie from Charlottetown, and Bill Richardson, from Vancouver, are still with the club. The others didn&rsquo;t fill the bill and have since departed.</p><p>Leafs came up with Johnny Arundel, last year with St. John, and a recent newcomer to the defense, John Ashley, from the Hornets. Another rearguard, Bobby Robertson, was here last year.</p><p>Up front, Toronto sent down Ron Hurst, former star junior, Ken Laufman, another junior, Jack Leclair, last year with Quebec, and of course, Red Johnson who was here last season.</p><p>Coupled with the Senator holdovers of Rip Riopelle, Leo Gravelle, Emile Dagenais, Al Kuntz, Jack Giesbrecht, Butch Stahan. Vic Grigg and Bill Robinson, you can see why the Barber Poles are so improved.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Success Of Senators Is Attributed To New Deal

<p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ORT ALFRED, Que.&mdash;Maurice CourteaU of Quebec City has been appointed the new coach of the Port Alfred team in the Lake St. John Senior Hockey League. He succeeds Marcel Boisvert.</p><p>The officials of the club decided a change was needed after the club had gone ten games with only one win and one tie to its credit.</p><p>Courteau is a veteran goaler, having played in both the AHL and the QSHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Courteau Named Coach

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0549/1026570-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><i><span>T</span>oday, all sportdom salutes MAURICE RICHARD, who has now written a new and glorious record into the annals of hockey, Eclipsing Nels Stewart&rsquo;s superb mark of 324 goals, the &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; has now scored more goals</i></b></p><p><b><i>In his professional hockey career than any other player ever to don skates in the National Hockey League.</i></b></p><p><b><i>Truly a great achievement&mdash;from one of the game&rsquo;s truly greats</i></b></p><p><b><i>More power to you, Maurice!</i></b></p><p><b>Dow BREWERY</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The ‘ROCKET’ Does It!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0815/1026601-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="520" height="667"></div><p>Check the discomfort of a cold&mdash;fast! Inhale Minard&rsquo;s Liniment. You&rsquo;ll breathe easier, feel better. Just try it&mdash;you&rsquo;ll see.</p><p><b>MINARDS &ldquo;KING OF PAIN&rdquo; Liniment</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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RELIEF FOR COLDS

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0913/1026632-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="960" height="526"></div><p><b>The 1952-53 NJH. L. Press and Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who In Hockey, and is the only Hockey Guide published this season.</b></p><p>This compact 206-page book answers every question imaginable about the National League. Gives complete professional records of every player in the National, American and Pacific Coast Leagues.</p><p>Only 1000 copies for sale, so get your order in early!</p><p><b>All This For Only $1.00 (Postage paid)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Best Hockey Guide Published

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HOCKEY FOLDERS

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>WITZERLAND is famous for alps, watches and beer! So historic Lowenbrau in Zurich was inevitably one of the seven breweries asked to report on Labatt&rsquo;s Pilsener Beer, Hans Westenneier forecast the verdict of thousands in Canada who now acclaim its light dry sparkle&hellip;mellow old world smoothness. Try Labatt&rsquo;s Pilsener. Note how fredo and clean it tastes! There&rsquo;s nothing in Canada quite like iLgbatt&rsquo;s Pilsener. The top mountain is Swiss, below is Mount Vancouver.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0355/1026746-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="570" height="1052"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0616/1026739-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="590" height="943"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Which scene is in Canada?

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Twice Welcome…

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01106/1026708-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="273" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Joe Lepine)</span></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>The Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League is well under way and it could become the close-kuit circuit the sponsors had hoped to see. For after two weeks of play the first and last place clubs were only four points apart.</p><p>The first week Halifax Atlantics swept the board. The Glace Bay Miners couldn&rsquo;t win for losing. Then came an almost about-face. In the second week the Atlantics won only one out of four while Miners were winning three.</p><p>Two of the Glace Bay victories were over Halifax, thus evening the score on the season&rsquo;s play. The Miners, outclassed on all sides the first week, look as if they&rsquo;d be one of the strongest contenders for the big prize.</p><p>The Miners have balance even if they lack size. Their pull Is at the blueline but speed up front makes up in part anyway for weight. Halifax is strong at and behind the blueline, but their crying need for forwards was very apparent in the second Week of the schedule.</p><p>Sydney Millionaires will probably play the most defensive hockey of them all, and they&rsquo;re ideally geared for this type. They have weight and experience and coach Cliff Roach believes in the tight-knit play. This will make for low acores and a lot of skating. It should cut down the heavy scoring that has been rampant of late years. The fans have tired somewhat of seeing a deluge almost every time out, so the change is Welcome. And much overdue.</p><p>Murph Chamberlain is having his troubles with a Charlottetown club that lacks its usual fire. The Hard Rock thrives on pressure hockey but so far his boys are producing only in gusts. Of course a player change here and there could give the fiery coach the kind of team that maintains a constant pressure, is hard on players but good for the box office.</p><p>There has been some trading Within the ranks, and so far the best deal has been Lockhart for Arneil. The former goaled for Moncton Hawks last year and was generally regarded as the best in this area. Arneil was the regular Glace Bay custodian after winning his early-season test with Hicks, who later went to Sydney as Nick Pidsodny began his amazing trek from team to team.</p><p>Arneil was slow to reach top form this season and Lockhart was sent Into the breach. He produced from the start and Arneil was shipped to Charlottetown. In the first game between the teams after the shift, Arneil outgoaled Lockhart. But the latter is still regarded as the best of the lot.</p><p>Charlottetown started with Campbell but when Arneil showed up the former was shuttled to the sidelines. If Arneil continues to shine Campbell will be sent home.</p><h2><b>Pidsodny Colorful</b></h2><p>Meanwhile Pidsodny has taken up where he left off early last season. Before he made the trek to Buffalo, Nick was one of the most colorful figures in the league. He has been deluged with buckets of water by irate Glace Bay fans. He has been involved in more than one fistic encounter.</p><p>He is up with the leaders in penalties, cannot resist the temptation of slashing when a player rounds his nets. In between, however, he plays a lot of goal and if anyone is co dispute Lockhart&rsquo;s cjaim as the best it will likely be Pidsodny.</p><p>Statistics for the first fortnight&rsquo;s play show an old favorite with the leaders. That would be Roy (Buck) Whitlock, Charlotte-town native who finally got to the Islanders last year after serving many seasons in Moncton and Saint John.</p><p>Whitlock is a scoring specialist. He was high in the lists last year. He holds the league record. He has won the scoring crown three times.</p><p>In the glory days of Halifax Saint Mary&rsquo;s juniors the best known of the visiting players was Joe Lepine. Now Joe is with the Halifax team and beginning to feel his oats. After a quiet start the colorful defenseman is pulling the fans off their feet with his cork-screw rushes.</p><p>Atlantics have too many defensemen and too few forwards. It is not uncommon to see the Halifax team send into action an entire forward wall composed of defensemen.</p><p>Latest to join Atlantics is little Billy Goold. Formerly with Montreal Royals, Goold celebrated his debut in the Maritime League with Halifax&rsquo;s only goal in two games with the Miners.</p><p>Crowds have been consistently good so far this season, a happy omen. It looks like a good league now that those who were so weak the first week have mended their fences.</p><p>All four clubs are community sponsored. They are working together for the good of all. Of course there is no way of con-trolling play, and the magnates wouldn&rsquo;t want it that way anyway. So long as each game is a content that is all they care for.</p><p>The only fiy in the ointment is the schedule. Last year they scrapped the original script after a month or so and substituted another. This season they are working from fortnight to fortnight, in an effort to please everyone.</p><p>The hope, of course, is to adopt a complete schedule some time this month. Otherwise everything is running smoothly.</p><h2><b>A Tribute to a Great Guy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0277/1026701-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="1755" height="1164"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The greatest collection of name sportsmen, journalists and athletes ever to gather under one roof in Canada did so last week in the Windsor Hotel in downtown Montreal to pay tribute to Elmer Ferguson, retiring sports editor of the Montreal Herald. Over 800 turned up for the Ferguson Testimonal Dinner and among those present were Jack Dempsey, Jack Sharkey, Bill Tobin, Art Ross, Jack Adams, Buzzie Bavasi, Frank Selke and a host of others. Above, Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League and guest speaker eulogizes Fergie who shows a faint smile. Those in the picture are, left to right: Hon. Gerry Martineau, representing the Quebec Government, Ferguson, Leo Dandurand, chairman and toastmaster, Campbell, Baz O&rsquo;Meara, sports editor Montreal Star, Frank Selke, general manager Montreal Canadiens, John Fisher, radio commentator. Jack Dempsey, Myrtle Cook of the Montreal Star and Jack Adams.</b></figcaption></div><p><b>The Perfect Combination Armstrong, Bentley, Hannigan</b></p><p><b>The Perfect Combination this week was the line of George Armstrong, Max Bentley and Gordie Hannigan. Between them they accounted for an even dozen points, five going to Bentley with four goals and an assist. Hannigan had four points, comprised of three assists and a goal, while Armstrong had a goal and two assists for three points.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0529/1026694-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="1161" height="1779"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Maritime Major Loop Foresees Tight Race As Miners End Slump

<div class="byline">By DON PILLING</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01115/1026808-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Familiar faces to the hockey scene across the country are seen in a happy pose above. They&rsquo;re the Warwick Brothers. Left to right: Dick, Billy and Grant. They now own Warwick&rsquo;s Commodore Cafe in Penticton, British Columbia. Dickie and Bill play for the Penticton hockey club while Knobby is hoping to get his amateur re-instatement to play. Grant is a former rookie of the year in the NHL and played with the Rangers, Bruins and Canadiens before being shipped to Buffalo. He has applied for his amateur re-instatement.</b></figcaption></div><p>LETHBRIDGE. Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Play is well under way in the seven-team Western Canada Junior Hockey League and if you took time to ask any fan how he thought the race would finally end you&rsquo;d likely get the following answer: &lsquo;&lsquo;Edmonton and Lethbridge one-two.&rdquo;</p><p>Ken McAuley&rsquo;s Oil Kings from the OH Capital are fairly bursting at the seams with talent. They lost only three or four men from last year&rsquo;s league finalist club and have added a flock of new kids, hustlers all the way, to plug the holes.</p><p>Lethbridge Native Sons, with ex-National and American Leaguer Butch McDonald at the coaching helm, are shooting the works this year in an effort to represent the loop in the Memorial Cup playoff.s</p><p>They purchased centre ice ace Clarence Jaster, property of Cleveland Barons, to round out one line with holdover Dave Magee and newcomer Roger La Plante from Northern Alberta. They latched onto the services of rearguards Gerry Sorenson and Bud Laidler from Winnipeg to join forces with defence holdovers Ed Zemrau, Don Smith and Howie Yanosik. Men from last year&rsquo;s third-place club round of this season&rsquo;s edition.</p><p>Oil Kings have some of the best junior warriors in the west chasing pucks for them this year. Included in the batch are centre Jerry Melnyk, rated by the Detroit Reg Wing brass as one of their best juniors, leftwinger Jerry Prince, high scorer last year, Normie Ullman, Gerry Karpinka, George Townseed and Billy Bucyk.</p><p>The league&rsquo;s three-time kings, Regina Pats, were forced to undergo a major rebuilding job when several of their stalwarts graduated from junior ranks. But coach Murray Armstrong has come up with another fine junior machine.</p><h2><b>Pats Have Hookies</b></h2><p>Four-year goalie Bob Tyler, four-year centre Gordie Cowan and three-year defenseman Tony Schneider are back and appear headed for great seasons. Armstrong has added a batch of promising rookies and by the time the playoffs roll around he&rsquo;ll have possibly the surprise club of the circuit.</p><p>Calgary Buffaloes, under new thief Art Somers, have Improved quite a piece over last year and the same applies to Moose Jaw Canucks who have the cagey one, Ken Doraty, back at the piloting stand. Doraty, one of the smartest junior men in the business, should have a whale of a club by playoff time. He has 10 holdovers blended with a fine crop of rookies.</p><p>Judging from the games played so far. Medicine Hat and Crown&rsquo;s Nest will fight it out for the next sixth final playoff berth with the Tigers, possibly, holding a slight edge.</p><p>A new playoff policy has been adopted and this year six teams will battle it out in the post-season rounds.</p><h2><b>The Warwicks in Business</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Kings Picked For Top Spot In Western Jr.

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Seven points seperated the first six teams in the Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race as the schedule moved into November. Although some observers have insinuated that he is doing it with mirrors Hap Emms still had his Barrie Flyers out in front after 11 games.</p><p>With only two losses in their first 11 games the Flyers had 17 points, two more than the second-place Galt Black Hawks and four ahead of the surging St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors who had played but eight games.</p><p>Toronto Marlboros and Guelph Biltmores were tied for fourth spot with 11 points followed by Kitchener with 10, Oshawa and St. Catharines with seven and the winless Windsor Spitfires in the cellar with one point in 10 games.</p><p>Despite Barrie&rsquo;s early season success the feeling prevailed in most camps that the flying Irish from St. Mike&rsquo;s were destined to take over first place as soon as the schedule catches up with them.</p><p>Pre-season favorites to win the OHA crown the Irish dropped only one game in their first eight. In eight games St. Mike&rsquo;s gave their goalie, big Ed Chadwick, three shutouts. His average for eight games is a little better than two per game, lowest in the league.</p><p>Chadwick&rsquo;s average Improved Immensely when St. Mike&rsquo;s put a pair of shutout victories back to back. They blasted Guelph Biltmores 7-0 in Guelph and returned home to trounce Kitchener Green shirts 6-0. Earlier they had trampled Windsor 10-0.</p><p>That pair of victories convinced everybody (but Barrie) that it is only a matter of time until the Irish take over leadership. They boast a finely-balanced team, have an abundance of terrific two-way skaters and Chadwick is usually thoroughly reliable in goal.</p><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s, who can point with pride to some of their great teams in the past, have an added impetus to win the championship this season. This is the 100th anniversary of the Toronto College and they would like to round it out with another Memorial Cup.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Majors on Diet</b></h2><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s were rated seriously for championship honors last season but they had a habit of folding when least expected. They staged a surprising coup in the playoffs by knocking off Galt Black Hawks three straight only to bow out in the next round to St. Catharines Teepees who barely qualified for the playoffs.</p><p>Father Faught, manager of the St. Mike&rsquo;s team, has taken steps to ensure that his players retain their exuberance throughout the playing season. One of Majors&rsquo;&rsquo; closest advisers is Lloyd Percival, the noted track authority and also an expert on diets for athletes.</p><p>Percival has charts, graphs and barrels-full of statistics to prove that most athletes could improve their efficiency if they consumed, more grapes, figs, and raisins and eliminated frilly desserts. His opinions have been disputed by authorities in and out of sports but track and field athletes, coached and nurtured by Percival, have been re-writing records in Ontario for the past few years. US college coaches have frequently sought his advice on particular problems.</p><p>Percival is in charge of the training table at St. Mike&rsquo;s and Father faught credits him with increasing the stamina of the col-legians. &ldquo;I think he has helped us a great deal,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The players are eating as much as ever but he has made them cut down on some things like sweets and stuff like that.&rdquo;</p><p>After a game most junior hockey players rush for the refreshment booth to stoke up on soft drinks, chocolate bars and hot dogs. St. Mike&rsquo;s players usually regard these tempting items longingly and settle for an apple. If St. Mike&rsquo;s keep on winning hockey games the Ontario Fruitgrowers Association should do a landslide business with some of the other teams.</p><p>Kitchener Greenshirts won a protest they lodged after playing their first game of the season with Guelph Biltmores. The game ended in a 2-2 overtime tie but Kitchener claimed they might have won but for a peculiar decision by referee Jack Shropshire.</p><p>With the score tied at 1-1 in. the last minute of regulation time Kitchener was awarded a penalty shot. Orv Tessier, who probably packs the hardest shot in the league, was nominated for the solo effort but the referee stipulated that he must fire the shot from a line 30 feet directly in front of goal. Tessier did and blasted wide of the net.</p><p>The special line was a relia from New York Rangers&rsquo; training camp and had not been erased in time for the game. It was put there as an experiment by Frank Boucher who hopes to have tha penalty-shot rule altered in future seasons.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Irish Continue Fast Climb Towards OH A Top Spot

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<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0192/1026932-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>ANSWERS NEXT WEEK</b></h2><h3><b>ACROSS</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Pictured Leaf player.</p><p>2&mdash;Former member of Tacoma Rockets, called Doug.</p><p>3&mdash;First name of Guidolin, recently recalled from Vancouver by Rangers.</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of Rossini, ex Boston player.</p><p>11&mdash;Number of seasons Laycoe played with Rangers.</p><p>12&mdash;Short for first name of Senick of Saskatoon.</p><p>13&mdash;First name of Mundey, Q.S. H.L. referee-in-chief.</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of a Bruin veteran.</p><p>15&mdash;Jack McDonald of Edmonton once played junior with Edmonton&mdash;Kings.</p><p>17&mdash;Company (abbr).</p><p>18&mdash;Number of shut-outs McNeil got in 1951-52 play-offs.</p><p>19&mdash;Harry Howell&rsquo;s native province (abbr.).</p><p>1&mdash;Leafs have this at training camp (abbr.).</p><p>2&mdash;Fred Glover played junior hockey with-Red Wings.</p><p>5&mdash;Ont. birthplace of Leo Boivan.</p><p>8&mdash;Initials of a member of 195152 All-Star team.</p><p>9&mdash;Providence defenseman.</p><p>0&mdash;Given name of Hay of Edmonton.</p><p>3&mdash;Initials of an N.H.L. captain.</p><p>4&mdash;Calgary Stampeder&rsquo;s coach is called this.</p><h3><b>DOWN</b></h3><p>1&mdash;Plays for New Westminster Royals.</p><p>2&mdash;An A.H.L. coach.</p><p>3&mdash;Preposition.</p><p>4&mdash;Gerry Plamondon&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>5&mdash;Pete Conacher&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>6&mdash;A member of the Buffalo Bi sons.</p><p>9&mdash;Initials of a Red Wing for ward.</p><p>10&mdash;Germanium (Sym.).</p><p>14&mdash;Birthplace of Lome Worsley.</p><p>16&mdash;Given name of &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Alexander, W.H.L. referee.</p><p>17&mdash;Once played defense for Toronto, called Bobby.</p><p>19&mdash;Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty is coaching here.</p><p>20&mdash;Initials of an N.H.L goaltender.</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of a Ranger winger.</p><p>23&mdash;Nickname of Quebec club with whom &ldquo;Rags&rdquo; Raglan once played.</p><p>24&mdash;Type of book usually found on a ship.</p><p>26&mdash;Kind of tree.</p><p>27&mdash;Ton (abbr.).</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of a Boston rearguard.</p><p>31&mdash;Initials of Stankiewics of St. Louis.</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of a Boston Penalty killer.</p><h2><b>Last Week&rsquo;s Answers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0265/1026925-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="557" height="885"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOCKEY X-WORD

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>ALGARY&mdash;Ray Barry of the Calgary Stampeders has been hospitalized due to an attack of pneumonia. His condition is reported to be fairly good. Barry, who came to the Stamps Boston Bruins last season, is expected</p><p>to be lost to the Calgary this season-after having played for the Hershey Bears and the club for about a month.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Ray Barry Out For Month With Attack of Pneumonia

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The Export’s Choice

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“HOCKEY NEWS” Heads their Christmas gift lists…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="C4-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-053/1027108-1-eng-US/c4-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Changes Face</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>arry Lumley of the Leafs goes into one of his facial expression acts as he stops a couple of the Bruins&rsquo; whizz kids cold. Real Chetvrefils (24) and Leo Labine, directly opposite get the cold treatment as Tod Sloan right looks as though he&rsquo;s firing it into his own cage.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0415/1027101-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="1118" height="1763"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Juggles With One Eye</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Little Gerry McNeil juggles a hot shot off a Leaf stick. He was totally blind on his right side most of the game after he was hit in the face by a shot from Rookie Ron Stewart. He went to hospital with a broken cheek-bone.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-063/1027094-1-eng-US/c4-062.jpg" title="C4-06" width="1716" height="1095"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Puck Hangs Loose</b></figcaption></div><p><b>The puck hangs loose in mid-air in Detroit as Jim Henry of the Bruins waits for it to reach him. It was fired by Marcel Pronovost (3) who is then railroaded by Bob Armstrong. Eyeing the puck in the middle is Johnny Wilson.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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November 15, 1952

First For Flyers At Home

‘Tough Guy’ Beisler Always Belted Them Hard but Was Clean

On The Firing Line in The Major Loop

Braves Lose Ground As Royals Take To Warpath