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December 13, 1952

The Hockey News December 13, 1952

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill&mdash;</p><p>Tie games were accepted with a bow of gratitude by last season&rsquo;s wallowing Chicago Black Hawks, who were more than glad to get anything unlike a defeat. The 1952-53 revised edition of the club, however, striving to increase its NHL lead, was noticeably disturbed a couple of weeks ago when hit by a string of three straight deadlocks.</p><p>There were mingled growls of &ldquo;Bring back overtime&rdquo; and &ldquo;We could have licked &lsquo;em in another 10 minutes&rdquo; In the dressing rooms after each of the draw decisions. A tie game gives a hockey player a feeling of futile frustration that never accompanies a win or a loss and it&rsquo;s a sensation that is seldom enjoyed.</p><p>Hawk General Manager Bill Tobin did not hesitate in expressing his opinion on the problem. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m definitely opposed to the continuance of the overtime ban,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The extra periods were first eleminated during World War II. The transporpation situation had gotten so tight that playing an additional 10 minutes often resulted in missing a necessary connection.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0645/1141734-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="263" height="266"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Not Satisfied</b></p><p><b>BILL TOBIN</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;If some teams still feel that overtimes would hamper their travel schedules, why not start the games earlier? We could move ours up to 8:15 or even 8 o&rsquo;clock and I think the fans would appreciate the change since they&rsquo;d be able to get home earlier. And besides, they deserve to see overtime play again. A tie just doesn&rsquo;t satisfy them anymore.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>312 Ties in 11 Schedule Years</b></h2><p>Since the ban on the extra half periods was invoked in 1941, 312 ties have been played during the 11 full schedules, which comprised a total of 1,938 games. This means that over 15 percent of the games resulted in deadlocks. Up to December 1 this season, 16 ties were recorded in the 66 games played for a much severer rate of over 24 percent.</p><p>If ties continue at their present rapidity, a new mark of 51 for a single season will be established. The previous high was In 1950-51 when 45 no decision games were played. Some 38 took place last year. If the ties continue to increase in number every other season or so, the time may not be too distant when teams will have more deadlocks than wins or losses.</p><p>The American Hockey league, the junior pro circuit, reinstated overtime play sometime ago and since then, over 50 percent of the games that would have been ties resulted in definite decisions. The AHL Red Book, covering the 1951-52 campaign, shows the results in a clear and exact fashion.</p><p>&ldquo;Of the 29 games In which overtime was played during the season,&rdquo; It reports, &ldquo;17 games resulted in an ultimate decision, with the other 12 remaining tied at the end of the 10 minute &lsquo;sudden death&rsquo; overtime period. Thus 59 percent of the games which would have been tied without the benefit of the overtime, reached a final decision because of It.</p><p>&ldquo;Of the 306 games played by the entire League, only 17 resulted in ties, or six percent. Of the 17 ties, overtime could not be played in five, because of travel difficulties. Thus the total of unavoidable ties in 306 games was only 12,&rdquo; the report concluded.</p><p>How could the National Hockey league go wrong in at least experimenting with overtime for a season or even just a portion of one? In cases where there would be known travel difficulties, a pre-game no overtime agreement could be made just as the AHL reports it did in five instances.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Tobin Launches Drive for Overtime When Chi Draws Three in A Row

<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, Montreal, Que. Canada. Entered as second class Matter December 6, 1951, at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N. Y. under the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription price $3.00 in Canada, $4.00</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/f0006-0531/1141565-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="938" height="121"></div><h2><b>TV Road Games</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I think your paper Is the greatest sports publication in the world. It&rsquo;s probably the reason that hockey Is the international sport that it is.</p><p>I live about 25 miles south of Cleveland and I am a great Baron fan. In your recent issue pou had an article about Winnipeg&rsquo;s pee wee hockey program. Cleveland has started pee wee and junior hockey too. But outside of Cleveland, hockey is non-existent in Ohio. I am 16 years old and have been playing hockey since I can remember. There are other kids around where I live that would give a lot to be able to play pee wee or junior hockey. I think a few great American-born hockey players would bring attendance up in cities like New York and Chicago.</p><p>How many players are there on the Detroit Red Wings who earn over $20,000?</p><p>My solution to the televising of big league games is that the teams should televise only away games. Take New York for instance. If they could set up a system by which they would televise road games and have a blackout on home games, attendance would probably improve. This is the system used by American pro football teams.</p><p>Stuart Bell.</p><p>Medina, Ohio.</p><p><b>(We are not sure that any one of the Wings draws $20,000, al&lsquo; though it is possible that one or more may.)</b></p><h2><b>Kenora Cut-ups</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to give big hearty thanks to your paper for the splendid write-up it contained on Bob Bailey.</p><p>&ldquo;Poquey&rdquo; as he is known in Kenora is everything which this article says he is. He is one the most likeable fellows you can meet.</p><p>I also would like to know if it is possible that a story on Neil Strain, currently with the New York Rangers and another boy from Kenora will appear in your paper.</p><p>I would like to add that I read THE HOCKEY NEWS weekly and enjoy It very much.</p><p>Don Myles.</p><p>Kenora, Ont.</p><p><b>(It is quite possible there could be a story on Strain. Keep posted, we&rsquo;re full of surprises.)</b></p><h2><b>Moore The Merrier</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>We have been reading your paper for sometime now and we enjoy It very much.</p><p>In THE HOCKEY NEWS we read that that handsome kid Dickie Moore will be in action shortly and we have heard on the radio that he won&rsquo;t be playing before January. Which is true? How old is Dickie Moore?</p><p>Is Tom Johnson married? How many children does he have? How old is he? How long has he been playing with Canadiens?</p><p>What is the name of Butch Bouchard&rsquo;s restaurant?</p><p>Therese Martin.</p><p>Margaret Someau.</p><p>Lower Neguac, N.B.</p><p><b>(He is supposed to return just before the New Year. Dickie is 21 years old. Tom Johnson is not married, he is 24 years old, and is in his third season as a Hab. Butch Bouchard&rsquo;s restaurant is called &lsquo;Chez Butch Bouchard&rsquo;.)</b></p><h2><b>Black Jack&rsquo;s Team</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I&rsquo;m writing to THE HOCKEY NEWS to find out why they put in scores and standing of minor leagues but they don&rsquo;t put in anything about the OHA Senior A in which Chatham St. Clair Maroons, Brantford Redmen, Stratford Indians, Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, Owen Sound Mercurys, Sarnia Sailors, and the hapless Hamilton Tigers play.</p><p>Chatham is my favorite hockey club in this league. They are coached by a former NHL great, Black Jack Stewart. The Maroons have another NHL player in Joe Carveth.</p><p>This is the first year for the Maroons in the OHA Senior A League and I wish them luck. Last season they played in the International League. In 1950 they broke into the International League and won the championship.</p><p>I have been getting THE HOCKEY NEWS for two years and enjoy it very much. So put some articles in your paper about the Maroons.</p><p>Ken Robinson.</p><p>Bothwell, Ont.</p><p><b>Surely T&rsquo;was Chorley</b></p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my second letter to your paper. The first time I had a beef to make, this time I would like to ask a few questions.</p><p>Is the fellow called Chorley who is now playing with the Pittsburgh Hornets the same one who played with the Monarchs of the Manitoba Junior League in the 1950-51 season?</p><p>Would Cam Paradise read a life story of Babe Ruth? If he or the would realize that the Babe was not such a gentleman as he or she portrays but rather a temperamental player who was traded when he got too sassy with his manager. Richard is a gentleman off the ice as well as on, a much better gentleman than Ruth ever was.</p><p>L. R. Walters.</p><p>Harbour Grace S., Nfld.</p><p><b>(The player in question, Elliot Chorley is the same one you mention.)</b></p><h2><b>Why Send It Away?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>We have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS for the past few years and have been enjoying it very much. We especially like the Fan Forum column in which everybody expresses their opinion, right or wrong.</p><p>We are writing in regard to the 325th goal scored by Maurice Richard. This is a great accomplishment for any hockey player and we consider Richard one of the finest hockey players. There is one question we would like to bring forth at this time however, and that is, why send the puck he scored his all important goal with to the Queen of England?</p><p>In our opinion, the Hockey Hall of Fame is the place for such a historical puck as this is considered to be. After all the Hockey Hall of Fame it will be remembered for all time and appreciated by the many people who visit here at all time.</p><p>Two Boston Fans. Boston, Mass.</p><h2><b>AHL Executive</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs:</p><p>Ever since I started watching American League hockey, five years ago, I have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of it. There has been only one thing that bothered me, and that was the executive branch of the league-namely Maurice Podoloff and his blundres. He never seemed to learn to stop. Many people therefore heaved a great sigh of relief when his term of office ended this year, and a new president was installed. Many other people have since taken that sigh back however as soon as they met the work of Mr. Emory Jones.</p><p>Maybe I am judging him unfairly as I am taking his work on just one decision, that of Pat Egan. Now you Cleveland fans, just shut-up, and hear me out. I did not see the game where Mr. Egan committed his wrong-doing, or supposed wrong doing. In the game the word of the official should most obviously be taken over that of the excited fans or players. Also obviously, the other side should have its&rsquo; chance to at least give its&rsquo; version of what happened. In all the fisticuffs, etc. that take place in the National League, everyone is given a fair and democratic chance to explain their side of the story.</p><p>I am not saying that Pat Egan should be acquitted, that he is not guilty of slugging Messrs. Callighan and Carse, I am just saying that it would be a good thing for all concerned, and American League hockey too, to give this &ldquo;tiff&rdquo; a thorough hearing, get the whole thing cleared up, and maybe establish the AHL a little more firmly.</p><p>Dorothy Storges</p><p>Troy, N.Y.</p><h2><b>Outsobs J. Bay</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs</p><p>I have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS for the last five years and I sure enjoy it.</p><p>Recently in a five game losing streak Coach Alfie Pike of the Junior OHA Guelph Biltmores kept crying that the reason for the slump is because the New York Rangers took his three best men.</p><p>My advice to him is to stop acting like Johnny Ray and start being himself, Alfie Pike one of the best coaches in junior hockey.</p><p>Eric Lyphey.</p><p>Welland, Ont.</p><h2><b>Knocks At Rock</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I noticed a letter in last weeks &lsquo;Fan Forum&rsquo; which was sent in by Mr. Rocky Gadziola. He speaks of Maurice Richard&rsquo;s sportsmanship. I don&rsquo;t believe there is such, a thing In Maurice Richards make-up as sportsmanship. He fights only when somone else is holding his &ldquo;victim&rdquo; and this has happened more than once. Also Rocky says that Richard served only 44 minutes in penalties last year&mdash;in my opinion this isnt a bad total, considering that Richard only played a little over half the season.</p><p>I would like to ask a question about a truly great, gentlemanly right winger, Gordie Howe. Could you please tell me how many goals he has scored in his N.H.L. career to date.</p><p>Jack Flood.</p><p>Calumet, Que.</p><p><b>(Howe has scored 196 goals in regular play plus 17 in Stanley Cup Play-offs for a total of 213.)</b></p><h2><b>T&rsquo;Aln&rsquo;t Him</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>One thing I would like to know. Has the Ken McKenzie who writes in THE HOCKEY NEWS ever played hockey with the Buffalo Bisons?</p><p>When we first came into hockey six years ago there was a Kenny McKenzie on the team and I keep wondering if the two are the same.</p><p>We enjoy THE HOCKEY NEWS and all the first hand information it gives.</p><p>Mrs. H.J. English.</p><p>Buffalo, N.Y.</p><p><b>(That wasn&rsquo;t our Ken McKenzie.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<p>MONTREAL&mdash;Reg Abbott arrived in Montreal at three o&rsquo;clock in the morning on the day of his first NHL game with the Canadiens.</p><p>The Habs lost to the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 but Abbott showed pretty well.</p><p>He was pivoting Paul Meger on left wing and Boom Boom Geoffrion on right wing. He centered them at training camp this season.</p><p>Reg played well and had one good scoring opportunity in the game. Meger shot at Lum and the rebound came out to Abbott in front of the net. With nobody within ten feet of him Reg blasted his shot into Lumley&rsquo;s pads.</p><p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t get too many of those kind of chances in this League,&rdquo; said Reg after the game. &ldquo;You gotta make the most of them when you do.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Reg Misses Chance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0173/1143301-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Photos by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><p><i>Johnny Peirson of the Brains (SEE PAGE 2)</i></p><p><b>Roaring NHL action. Terry Sawchuk came all the way around to the back of his net to make a save in the top left hand photo. Alex Delvecchio skates by him. In the top centre photo Tod Sloan (15) stands by to lend Goaler Harry Lumley a hand but Lum had already made the save sprawled on the ice. Top right Terry Sawchuk again sprawls way out of his cage, this time to foil the Leafs&rsquo; Jim Morrisson. Dick Gamble lets out a moan of disgust as Harry Lumley prepares to fall on a rebound in the centre row, left photo. He made the save. In the right hand photo Tony Leswick block Jim Morrisson with his stick while in the background Sid Smith, left, and Benny Wait exchange &ldquo;Oh Ya&rsquo;s.&rdquo; In the lower left hand photo Bob Goldham closes his eyes after a close miss. Harry Lumley does the splits to deflect the shot. Lower right hand photo shows Rudy Migay stopped at the doorstep by Terry Sawchuk while Red Kelly moves in to take Migay out of the play.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Camera Catches NHL Highlights

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01102/1140938-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="648" height="871"></div><p><b>PAUL RONTY&hellip; &hellip;HE&rsquo;S TIRELESS</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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New Garden Favorite

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON&mdash;Fleming Mackell, the Boston Bruins&rsquo; high scoring center, had a close brush with serious Injury during the Bruins&rsquo; game with the Montreal Canadiens last week.</p><p>In the first period Mackell was involved in a collision with Doug Harvey, Montreal defenseman, who received a penalty for interference.</p><p>As the pair fell to the ice the tip of Harvey&rsquo;s skate raked across Mackell&rsquo;s throat, severing the exterior jugular vein. The speedy center was hustled off the ice, and Dr. Thomas Kelley, the Bruins&rsquo; physician, hastily sewed up the cut.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a very lucky boy,&rdquo; observed Dr. Kelley afterward. &ldquo;The tip of the skate glanced off his windpipe instead of cutting through.&rdquo;</p><p>Mackell, who hasn&rsquo;t been free of minor injury since the season opened, was expected to be out at least a week.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mackell Sidelined for Week After Skate Cut

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0382/1140976-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="289" height="72"></div><p>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;</p><p>After two falls of frustration, the Boston Bruins have finally found the formula for making friends before playoff time&mdash;a winning start at home.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0288/1140983-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="160" height="250"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</b></figcaption></div><p>When the Bruins departed for a three-game road trip last week, they left behind them clicking turnstiles, cheers and enthusiasm, an interested public.</p><p>Their temporary departure was in sharp contrast to the situations which existed at a comparable point in their schedule last year and the year before.</p><p>In both seasons they started slowly at home, failed to impress a populace which doesn&rsquo;t seem to give a hoot what happens on the road, and the resulting chill penetrated their protective armour.</p><p>This season the Bruins finished their first 10 home games with a winning average, with their attendance up over a year ago, with their progress again a matter of public interest.</p><p>The change of style is best brought out by statistics covering the first 10 home games of the past three years. They are as follows:</p><p>The Bruins started this season with a regular schedule streak of seven games in which they hadn&rsquo;t been beaten on Garden ice. They extended the streak to 13 games before losing to Detroit.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0463/1140969-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="298" height="316"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p>Shares Credit</p><p><b>FLEMING MACKELL</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Including the three games which they played with Montreal in the playoffs here last spring, they had an over-all record of only one loss in 16 games before bowing to Detroit.</p><p>With 10 home games played this season, their all over record was but two losses in 20 games, a record comparable to any in the league.</p><p>This season the Bruins weren&rsquo;t beaten at home until their seventh game. In contrast, they weren&rsquo;t able to win here a year ago until their 10th game, and two years ago they had to play eight games before winning.</p><p>Any team with playoff ambition has to harvest most of its points at home, and the Bruins&rsquo; inability to do that used to drive Coach Lynn Patrick nearly to distraction.</p><p>&ldquo;If we could only get off to a winning start at home,&rdquo; Patrick used to lament. &ldquo;The longer, we go without winning, the more the team presses. The more it presses, the worse it plays.&rdquo;</p><p>It is a matter of fact that last year&rsquo;s Bruins&mdash;until they hit a late-season victory clip&mdash;and their preaecessors preferred playing away from home, because they were convinced that they played better on the road.</p><p>This bugaboo has been dismissed by the turn of the tide this season, however. Picking up where last year&rsquo;s combination left off, this year&rsquo;s team has displayed both hustle and skill at home, and the results have been victories.</p><p>There isn&rsquo;t much doubt but that the successful start has had a stimulating effect on some of the older Bruins, whose ears used to be blistered by taunts from the cash customers. Now that the jeers have turned to cheers, some of the veterans have been playing better than they ever did.</p><p>Patrick&rsquo;s youngsters probably deserve a goodly share of the credit for the improved takeoff, for their poise and determination has been evident. Players like Jerry Toppazzini, Bob Armstrong, Leo LaBine, Real Chevrefils, Fleming Mackell, Warren Godfrey, Jack McIntyre and Dave Creighton seem to have added needed ingredients.</p><p>At the very start of the season the sharp-witted LaBine made a pertinent comment which seemed to reflect the Bruins&rsquo; new attitude toward playing at home.</p><p>&ldquo;There are a lot of young fellows like me on this team,&rdquo; expounded the 21-year old wing, &ldquo;and it isn&rsquo;t going to be a loser because of us. Some of us have never played on a loser, and we&rsquo;re not going to start now.</p><p>&ldquo;It may take us a while to learn our way around,&rdquo; added the Haileybury Hurricane, &ldquo;but we&rsquo;ll learn. We&rsquo;ll win, and we&rsquo;ll win at home.&rdquo;</p><p>Young Mr. LaBine was prophetic in his statement, and as far as the home part of it is concerned, his prophecy was fulfilled sooner than he expected.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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BRUINS FIND WAY TO WIN FRIENDS AND $$$ …JUST WIN AT HOME

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;</p><p>When the Chicago Black Hawks played a &ldquo;home&rdquo; game against Detroit Red Wings in Indianapolis on Dec. 6, it marked the first time a National Hockey League game had been staged outside of a league city since 1928.</p><p>Playing the game in Indianapolis resulted from a strange series of circumstances. Originally the game was booked for the Black Hawks&rsquo; home ice in Chicago Stadium on Nov. 4.</p><p>The Chicago management requested a postponement since that fell on Election Day when interest certainly wouldn&rsquo;t be centered on hockey.</p><p>Then came the problem of trying to find another date when both Chicago and Detroit were free, could meet transportation schedules, and the Chicago Stadium was available. None could be found.</p><p>Finally Chicago suggested I Indianapolis as a site, and the Wings agreed to the time and place.</p><p>The last time a game was taken outside of an NHL city was at the tail-end of the 1928 campaign. It was done by design that time.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0636/1141069-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="304" height="288"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p>Site of Play</p><p><b>Indianapolis Coliseum, where the Wings and Hawks played their cancelled game last week.</b></p></figcaption></div><p>The Detroit Cougars, forerunners of the Red Wings, and Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets agreed to move the last game of the regular season from Pittsburgh to Fort Erie, Ont. The idea was to introduce hockey to fans in Buffalo area, since Buffalo was coming up with a club the next year.</p><p>There have been several shifting of games and sites since, however, to other NHL rinks. In the early 30s, the Black Hawks moved a number of their home games to the Detroit Olympia since no home ice was available.</p><h2><b>Rangers Once Shifted</b></h2><p>And in 1950 the New York Rangers lost their Madison Square Garden rink for two playoff games, and picked Toronto as neutral ice for two &ldquo;home&rdquo; games against Detroit.</p><p>Last year the Boston Bruins were forced to move out of&rsquo; their regular den, the Boston Garden, for a couple of games. Pipes which were part of the freezing unit broke, and contests were switched to the old home across town, the Arena.</p><p>The weather has caused a few switches in scheduled dates, too. One Bosron-Detroit game in Boston about five years ago was called off after the first period when it became so warm that dense fog formed over the ice.</p><p>A few years back a Detroit-Chicago game in Chicago had to be postponed because it was hot inside the Stadium that the ice wouldn&rsquo;t freeze. Before that the same thing happened when Montreal was booked to play there, that game going on 24 hours later.</p><p>Then last season three Montreal home games were shifted about in efforts to tie in with a visit of the Royal Family to Canada.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Shift of Wings-Hawk Game To Hoosier State 1st Since ’28

<div class="byline">By HARRY NASH</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Of all the trades negotiated by the Rangers in the last few years none has proved as sagacious as the maneuver which brought Paul Ronty to the Blueshirts.</p><p>The frail-looking blond center invites few headlines, but if a vote were taken on the actual basis of team value Ronty, as of now, would have to be named the most valuable player in Ranger livery.</p><p>Overshadowed by the more spectacular Wally Hergesheimer, Ronty nevertheless has been the wheelhorse of New York&rsquo;s attack. In the team&rsquo;s first 21 games Paul was the pivotal player in 24 of the club&rsquo;s 44 goals.</p><p>Ronty wasn&rsquo;t what you&rsquo;d call a castoff when he came to New York from Boston last year. Fact is, Paul had proved himself with the Boston Bruins, but when Lynn Patrick relinquished the Ranger helm to coach Boston. Ronty seemed to lose his effectiveness.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0550/1141014-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="157" height="244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>There was little love lost between Lynn and Paul, both exceptionally personable. Paul was unhappy and made no secret of the fact he&rsquo;d welcome a change.</p><p>George (Buck) Boucher, brother of Frank Boucher, the Ranger general manager, had preceded Patrick at the helm in Boston. Buck was high on Ronty and communicated the fact to brother Frank.</p><p>Of course, Patrick was receptive when Boucher suggested a trade which would bring Ronty to New York in exchange for Defenseman Gus Kyle, a bundle of cash and the right to acquire Pentti Lund from Cleveland, wnere he went Id the trade which brought Hergesheimer, Hy Buller and Steve Kraftcheck to the Rangers.</p><p>Kyle apparently was Lynn&rsquo;s type of back liner. Big and rugged, the former Northwest mountie liked to toss his weight around. He spent a good deal of time in durance vile, but he commanded respect from opposing players. But he didn&rsquo;t quite pan out as Patrick had hoped he would.</p><p>Despite Ronty&rsquo;s record before Patrick took over at Boston, Lynn thought he was making a wise transaction in letting the blond slip away.</p><p>Paul, who was born in Toronto, July 12, 1928, had begun his professional hockey career with Hershey, scoring 19 goals and getting credit for 40 assists during his first season&mdash;1946-47. In 24 games with the Bruins the following season Paul netted the disk three times and got 11 assists. Back at Hershey for 31 games lie chalked up 15 goals and 24 assists.</p><p>The next season Paul joined the 20-goal club at Boston, racking up 20 goals and 29 assists in 60 games. He was destined to improve upon this mark, for the next season Paul played in every one of Boston&rsquo;s 70 games and finished the cam palgn with a mark of 23 goals and 36 assists.</p><p>It was apparent something had happened to Ronty during Lynn&rsquo;s first year in Boston, for the blond center fell off to only 10 goals and 22 assists in 70 games.</p><p>Ronty reported for pre-season training with a bad back and missed most of the conditioning siege. Just about the time the campaign opened Paul was bedded with the flu. Naturally he got off to a woeful start as a Ranger and Neil Colville, coaching the Blueshirts at the time, wasn&rsquo;t impressed. In other words, it looked as if Patrick was correct in his appraisal of the player.</p><p>During the early part of last season Paul centered a line which bad Hergesheimer on the right wing and Gaye Stewart on the left. They didn&rsquo;t set the NHL afire.</p><p>On November 20 Herb Dickenson was called up from Cincinnati to play on a line with Don (Bones) Raleigh and Ed Slowinski. Nick Mickos ki, who couldn&rsquo;t get going, was benched.</p><p>Dickenson stuck around for only eight games and was sent back to Cincinnati, but again was recalled, Jan. 14. That was the birth of the Ronty-Hergesheimer-Dickenson line, which proved the club&rsquo;s most prolific scoring unit until Dickenson was hit in the eye with a puck after playing In 11 games this season.</p><p>Coach Bill Cook felt tilings couldn&rsquo;t get mu eh tougher, but to lose Dickenson, who had scored four goals and had as many assists in 11 games, made Bill feel the bottom was about to fall out completely.</p><p>Eddie Kullman was sent into Dickenson&rsquo;s spot and it is significant the only two goals Kullman scored in the club&rsquo;s first 21 games were registered during the three contests he operated as one of Ronty&rsquo;s wings.</p><p>Rookie Neil Strain was brought in from Saskatoon, replaced Kullman, and registered a goal and three assists in his first five games. Hergesheimer, of course, who had operated with Ronty from the season&rsquo;s outset, had 13 goals and eight assists in the first 21 contests.</p><p>Paul is not rugged, by any means. He is a heady player and must employ guile to compensate for lack of toughness. He is a tireless worker and with Hergesheimer and Dickenson, before Herb was shelved for the season, had an ex hilarating affect on Madison Square Garden fans whenever he took a turn on the ice.</p><p>Just as Ronty steadied Hergesheimer and Dickenson, thus creating one of the league&rsquo;s highscoring lines, Coach Cook had hoped to produce similar results by breaking up the old line of Raleigh, Slowinski and Gaye Stewart and putting Bones between a brace of rookies. Dean Prentice and Andy Bathgate.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ronty Finally Earns Star Not Tin as One of Few Shining Lone Rangers

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A group of Boston hockey writers was discussing National League goal-getters with Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins the other day when Johnny Peirson&rsquo;s name entered the conversation.</p><p>One writer, addressing himself to Patrick, asked:</p><p>&ldquo;And what type of scorer would you classify Peirson, Lynn?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what you mean by the question,&rdquo; replied the Bruins&rsquo; coach.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, he doesn&rsquo;t have a fireball shot like Boom-Boom Geoffrion of Montreal,&rdquo; explained the Writer, &ldquo;and he doesn&rsquo;t get a lot of tip-ins like Wally Hergesheimer of New York and he doesn&rsquo;t drive With the power of Maurice Richard and Gordie Howe. How does he get as many goals as he does?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;In my opinion,&rdquo; related Patrick, &ldquo;Pelrson is one of those players with a knack of putting the puck into the net. He probably scores more goals more different ways than any player in the league.</p><p>&ldquo;He may not have the power of Richard or Howe, but he can car<b>ry</b> the puck from end to end. He may not get as many tip-ins as Hergesheimer, but he gets them. <b>He</b> may not have a Geiffrion shot, but he has several good shots.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a strong, graceful skater, an alert player, and he has that Indefineable knack of putting the puck into the net,&rdquo; Patrick added. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s how Peirson scores the goals he does.&rdquo;</p><p>This is the fifth year that Peirson, a 27-year old native of Montreal, has been playing a regular right wing position for the Bruins. He is an established National league veteran at his post.</p><p>Yet in that time black-haired Johnny has probably received less publicity that a number of other players with neither his length of service nor his talent.</p><p>The reason for the oversight is largely his businesslike attitude on the ice. He isn&rsquo;t a brawler and there is no justification for typing him as colorful.</p><p>Thus it is surprising to find that in his four previous seasons of regular employment Peirson scored a total of 88 goals, an average of 22 per season.</p><p>Know how many contemporaries have exceeded that pace over the same four-year period? Just four and they are Ted Lindsay and Howe of Detroit, Sid Abel of Chicago and Richard.</p><p>Over that stretch Peirson scored more goals than such better-known forwards as Ted Kennedy and Max Bentley of Toronto, Bill</p><p>Mosienko of Chicago and his own teammate, Capt. Milt Schmidt of the Bruins.</p><h2><b>Must Have His Goals</b></h2><p>In a quiet, effective way, he has become a prominent part of the offensive machine which Patrick has been building here.</p><p>&ldquo;In order to have a good offense,&rdquo; explained Lynn, &ldquo;a team must have at least three 20-goal scorers. A team with fewer will lose games for lack of goals.</p><p>&ldquo;The Bruins need the 22 goals which John averages a season, regardless of when he scores them. If we don&rsquo;t get them, we&rsquo;ll waste other goals because we won&rsquo;t be in a position to be helped.</p><p>&ldquo;As long as Peirson Is getting his goals regularly, we&rsquo;ll have the basic offense to get along until some of our younger players start scoring regularly themselves. We can&rsquo;t win without those three 20-goal men, and John is one of them.&rdquo;</p><p>In four full seasons as a Bruin, the one-time McGill University athlete has been a model of consistency. His best year for goals was that of 1949-50, when he scored 27. His worst, using the word for contrast, was last year, when he scored 19.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

5th in Scoring in League Over Four Year Period

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01102/1141124-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="962" height="1111"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>JOHNNY PEIRSON &hellip;</b></p><p><b>&hellip; UNADVERTISED</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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He Has Knack of Scoring

<p>BOSTON&mdash;A chance meeting with an army friend on a Montreal street was the incident which steered Johnny Peirson to the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Shortly after his discharge, Peirson met Don Penniston, an ar-army acquaintance then coaching the Hershey Bears.</p><p>After an exchange of greetings, Penniston asked Johnny what he was doing. Nothing much, replied Peirson.</p><p>&ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you come down to Hershey and work out with my team?&rdquo; asked Penniston.</p><p>Peirson did, and General Manager Art Ross of the Bruins signed him after a brief look.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Chance Meeting Gave Him National Loop Opportunity

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0284/1141179-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="314" height="605"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>ohnny Peirson is not ony a top ranking Hockey National League star he&rsquo;s also a very proficient operator on the goat links. When he was living in Montreal he was rated one of Canada&rsquo;s finest amateur golfers. He was once chosen as a member of the Quebec Provincial Willingdon Cup team, a national tournament consisting of teams from the ten provinces. Johnny is seen on the links In the above shot.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Tops on Links Too

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON&mdash;Johnny Peirson of the Bruins used to enliven many Bruins&rsquo; games with his fights a few years ago, but few fans ever mistook him for Rocky Marciano.</p><p>The 170-pound Peirson usually found himself matched with burly opponents like Butch Bouchard of Montreal and Jack Stewart of Detroit, to his eventual dismay.</p><p>&ldquo;It seemed like every time I had a fight with one of those monsters I&rsquo;d wind up with a sprained back or a pulled muscle,&rdquo; he recalled, laughing.</p><p>One of Peirson&rsquo;s most memorable scraps was with Gus Kyle, the 210pound defenseman then with New York. After Peirson pulled off Kyle&rsquo;s Jersey, Bill Ezinicki made the memorable crack:</p><p>&ldquo;All that fight proved was that the Bruins have cleaner underwear than the Rangers.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

When He Fought Johnny Picked on The Big Guys

<h2><b>Credits Centers</b></h2><p>The modest young man has never claimed any credit for his proficiency at beating opposing goal-tenders. He has always directed it elsewhere.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been fortunate in playing with good centers since I&rsquo;ve been here,&rdquo; he maintains. &ldquo;First I played with Paul Ronty, then with Milt (Schmidt) and Dave Creighton. They&rsquo;re the fellows who have made most of the plays which have resulted in my goals.&rdquo;</p><p>Peirson has tamed down considerably since he first put on a Bruins&rsquo; uniform regularly shortly before the 1949 Stanley Cup playoffs. He used to be a scrapper, but up to last week he hasn&rsquo;t been in a fight in two years.</p><p>&ldquo;He had to go through the usual trial period that all aggressive youngsters have,&rdquo; opined Patrick. &ldquo;When he first came up he was always getting into jams with big men like Butch Bouchard and Jack Stewart.</p><p>&ldquo;He had to prove that he could take it, and he did. Now he doesn&rsquo;t run into that stuff any more. I guess everyone knows lie doesn&rsquo;t back down from trouble, though.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Made Fast start</b></h2><p>Peirson made a fine start this season, scoring five goals in his first seven games. Then he hit a temporary slump before regaining his pace.</p><p>Thus far he has been fortunate in escaping the minor ailments which have hampered him in the past. Once he was most susceptible to charley-horses, but an off-season golf link program has improved the condition of his legs.</p><p>Johnny is one of a number of illustrious graduates of the now-defunct Boston Olympics, for whom he played in the Eastern league before joining the Bruins. Only Schmidt and Woody Dumart of the present Bruins&rsquo; squad were here before he was, a full eight years ago, just out of the Canadian army.</p><p>Then, as now, he made the deepest impression with his poise and businesslike attitude on the ice, and even in the Eastern league it was necessary to refer to the records to find out what a fine forward he was.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Credits Centers With Helping To Make Him Success

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01170/1141258-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="160" height="188"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>Elmer Ferguson</i></b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; THE SOLID MAN of the National Hockey League died last week, when James Norris, senior, a multi-millionaire who loved hockey, passed suddenly at Chicago after suffering a heart attack. In life, this grim warrior who wrested a fortune from that tough battle-ground, the Chicago wheat-pit, made an indelible impression on the operations of hockey&rsquo;s major league. In death he leaves behind some uncertainty for the future of the NIIL, to which, after it became an international body, he brought that solvency and soundness which only a man of his financial status and acumen could provide.</p><p>This isn&rsquo;t meant to say that with the passing of this sturdy, square-chinned citizen, the National Hockey League is due to fall into uncertain, or straitened, circumstances. One man could hardly make all that difference to a flourishing international body. But there&rsquo;s no question but that his sound business principles, Lis sagecity, and the capital he was ready to invest in the game he liked most in order to strengthen any weak spots that might develop, will be sorely missed.</p><p>There were three weak spots in the narrowing horizons of the National Hockey League, last season, that caused intense concern for the future of that body. They were, in order of financial instability, Clucago, Boston and New York, Mr. Norris was himself a former player, once a member of the famous amateur Montreal Victorias, a club that has, unforteunately disappeared along with all its fine and unsoiled traditions from the hockey picture. That was away back at the turn of the century, when victorias was a name with which to conjure in the world of ice, blades and sticks, a team that once held the Stanley Cup. He left Montreal, the city of his birth, to gain a massive fortune, and then his thoughts turned to hockey.</p><p>He owned the Detroit Red Wings, and they were the first love of this gruff, but kindly gentleman. He bought the Detroit Olympia, along with the Wings, when this was financially unstable. Having invested a million in this, he was always anxious that the League should prosper, as a whole, not only to protect his original investment, for he was a business man, but that hockey should continue to flourish.</p><p>That two of the three weak spots have been strengthened to wounder proportions is due to the sagacity and the monies of James Norris. When he sew that former strongold of the game, Boston, declining in support of the Bruins, he aligned himself solidly behind Art Ross, then feuding with the Adams family, while the club suffered. Whether he invested a corner of his many millions there, to aid in the transfer of the club to better hands, we wouldn&rsquo;t know. If he did, that was his own private business, and no reflection on himself of the League. But his personal pressure undoubtedly helped put Bruins back on the hockey map, through more practical ownership And today the club is solvent and on its way up.</p><p>&bull; AT THE END OF LAST SEASON, it looked as though the Chicago club would collapse, which would have been disastrous indeed to the League. At that point; it was James Norris who stepped into the breach, placed his son, James Jr. in command, and revitalized the entire situation. Perhaps he put some of his own money into the setup at Chicago. Why not? He had a substantial interest in the Auditorium, and no one can blame a man shrewd enough to protect his interests. And there&rsquo;s no &ldquo;syndicate hockey label on any of Mr. Norris&rsquo; operations. First and last, he was a Red Wing fan. Over and above that, he was interested in the welfare of major hockey, and the monies he could make from that source were rather less than the proverbial drop in the bucket.</p><p>&ldquo;He was a great man for hockey, a sincere lover of the game, with a tremendouly constructive mind&rdquo; said Pres. Clarence Campbell, last week. &ldquo;I dont believe the National Hockey League could have continued without him. As it is, thanks to his tremendous constructive ability, the National League today is in its best shape in years. The overhall attendance it up 80,000, and at only one point is there a decline in attendance. That is at New York, where there is a drop of a mere 2,000.</p><p>Frank Selke, general manager of Canadiens, declared Mr. Norris had contributed more to the succces of hockey in the last 20 years than any othe man in the history of the sport.</p><p>&bull; PERSONALLY, THE LATE JAMES NORRIS was everything a Hollywood director would select at a typical tycoon of Big Business.</p><p>He was a square-built man, with a solid chin, a gruff voice. Strong rugged face, a man of determined ideas, and with the personality and the wherewithal; to enforce these. We don&rsquo;t know how he got his start, whether he was a Horatio Alger rags-to-riches figure, who started with nothing and parlayed this into a great grain enterprise, in which he owned a fleet of ships that sailed the Great Lakes, wharves and grain elevators of his own. In brief, a fabulous person.</p><p>All we know about him is that he was a fine sportsman. And a very charming person, outside business. Perhaps a charming man in business, too, so long as he had his own way, which was generally the Red Wing maestro, a personality not unlike James Norris himthe right way, about it. We know he was very found of Jack Adams, self, because he was eminently successful in directing the policies of the Red Wings, built teams, scrapped them at the crucial points and built up new machines always keeping Red Wings in the forefront of the hockey race. It has already been said that Jack Adams may become the head of a syndicate to buy the Detroit Olympia and the Red Wings franchise, and if Mr. Norris had been consulted about that, he would approve, because Jack Adams was his kind of a guy.</p><p>The National League will miss him, will miss his broadly constructive ideas, and his strong personality. He was the League&rsquo;s Solid Man.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE GIST AND JEST OF IT

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK&mdash;&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think losing me made much difference, It stands to reason that a club can&rsquo;t lose two experienced men like myself and Sid Abel without being hurt, but that hasn&rsquo;t been their trouble. They&rsquo;re got a lot of impressionable youngsters on the club and its taken them a while to realize that because they are the champions every other club in the league is gunning for them. They might have been a little complacent but I think they have shaken that.&rdquo;</p><p>That was Leo Reise, New York Ranger defenseman talking about his former mates, the Detroit Red Wings. Someone had asked him for his opinion on the low rating of the perennial leaders.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Reise Figures His Loss Not Detroit’s Trouble

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL - SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02152/1141320-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="241" height="195"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0390/1141313-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="152" height="169"></div><h2><b>Shovelling Sand to Shooting Pucks</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>HERE&rsquo;S a piece In Ron McAllister&rsquo;s latest collection of hockey personnalities which should make encouraging reading for the kids &ldquo;across the track.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s about Gordie Howe, one of 15 to 20 hockey stars of past and present, who have been profiled in McAllister&rsquo;s book, entitled; &ldquo;More Hockey Stories From the Canadian Sports Album,&rdquo; published by McClelland and Stewart.</p><p>McAllister relates how big Gordie was forced to quit school at 14 and go to work. There wede nine kids in the Howe family. Unfortunately for goalies who were still to make the National Hockey League, Gordie picked a Job with a construction gang. Shovelling sand and slugging concrete blocks gave him the power to grip a stick as if it had been clamped in a vise. To make life more miserable for the poor cage-tenders big Gordie quickly developed the knack of firing from either the port or starboard gun, a feat on which McAllister neglects to elaborate.</p><p>He does mention, though, that Howe played goal on his first hockey team, because he was such a poor skater. That&rsquo;s something else that would make a footnote for the minor hockey coaches&rsquo; manuals. It&rsquo;s evidence that skaters are made, not born. Gordie now is one of the more effortless gliders in the business.</p><p>Young Howe&rsquo;s whole career is a challenge to Canadian kids. He lacked money, had to leave school before he could get more than an elementary education. He was painfully shy and had no sensational talents that were immediately obvious to any observer. But he did have a driving desire to play the game of his choice. In his modest, unassuming way, he felt he was good, if he could just get the chance to prove it. His confidence and love of the sport have paid off. He&rsquo;s one of hockey&rsquo;s two top stars, depending on how you rate him and the Rocket. At the pay window, he&rsquo;s done well enough for several years now to make that construction Job out west seem like a short, rough detour for his bandwagon. And the big dough should continue for a good many years yet. Howe&rsquo;s star Is still on the way up. That&rsquo;s one respect in which his edge over the Rocket can&rsquo;t be challenged. With normal luck, he should be firing goals long after Richard has been forced to a non-combatant role in hockey.</p><h2><b>Kids Know the Door Is Open</b></h2><p>JUST how the Rangers missed him in a question that must plague the New York brass every time they see his name at the top of the league&rsquo;s scoring statistics. It&rsquo;s a mystery which still puzzles Al Richie, who scouts the west for the Broadway Blueshirts. Ritchie did send Howe to a Ranger tryout school. But he was sent home, unattached and discouraged. The reason probably is Just what has been said: that as a lad of 15 of 16 he wasn&rsquo;t a particularly exciting skater. But he was developing fast, after having kicked off the goalie&rsquo;s armor. And the kid teams for which he played had a habit of winning championships.</p><p>Rangers didn&rsquo;t get a second chance. Fred Pinkney, who used to work the west for the Red Wings, recommended Howe to Jack Adams. The way McAllister puts it, Pinkney assured Adams this kid was sure-fire. Even so, Adams probably gets numerous similiar testimonials regarding players who never earn their transportation charges. Actually, it was Howe&rsquo;s habit of switching from a right to left-hand shot that attracted the Red Wings&rsquo; boss when he saw Gordie among a flock of candidates. From that day on, he never let Howe get far from his sight. Because he couldn&rsquo;t get a transfer from west to east, young Gordie lost a chance to play for Galt in the OHA, except in exhibition games. He actually Jumped from Juvenile hockey in Saskatchewan to minor pro hockey at Omaha, where the Red Wings finally planted him.</p><p>It didn&rsquo;t take long for the pros to make a flattering estimate of his potential. Hap Day of the Leafs returned from a scouting trip to the United States league and reported discovery of an all-star right-winger. Unfortunately, he wasn&rsquo;t available. The Red Wings knew what they had down on the farm. They weren&rsquo;t selling. As long as there are Gordie Howes in hockey, Canadian kids can know the door to the big show always is open. It doesn&rsquo;t matter if they&rsquo;re struggling on second-hand skates, with old magazines for shin pads, and working hard with their hands Is no handicap. In fact, it helps. Try to lift Gordie Howe&rsquo;s stick sometime, if he doesn&rsquo;t wait it lifted.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Even severest critics of the Red Wings can&rsquo;t find much to complain about their recent record.</p><p>Although Detroit skidded at one time into fifth place, no one ever called them other than &ldquo;still the team to beat.&rdquo; The difference now is that they&rsquo;ve begun to look like it.</p><p>The October-November portion of the campaign were divided into three distinct phases for the Motor City outfit.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01123/1141351-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="155" height="233"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption></div><p>First they opened up with a characteristic rush, and after two weeks were in the familiar surroundings of first place. That&rsquo;s where they finished the past four seasons.</p><p>Then came a puzzling slump&mdash;five defeats in six games. None of the previous championship teams ever wa3 guilty of such a thing, and there was no excusable reason for it this time.</p><p>Several answers were offered. Manager Jack Adams said it was a case of bad timing&mdash;&ldquo;the offense is off one night, the defense the next.&rdquo;</p><p>Others diagnosed the problem as a mental letdown, figuring that the players had become too accustomed to winning and figured victories should come by some natural process.</p><p>In plain language this meant over-confidence.</p><p>But the wings snapped out of it over a three-week period. There was a stretch of &ldquo;soft&rdquo; games against tail-enders, when they gradually recovered by winning four and tying one of six in that stretch.</p><p>Finally there came the real test to prove that the improvement was no mirage. Three games were booked in four nights against the clubs Detroit had had the most difficulty in handling&mdash;one with Montreal and two with Toronto.</p><p>Against Montreal it was a 2-2 tie. But this was highly acceptable since it took a late two-goal rally to do it.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Champs, ‘Always Team to Beat’ Now Playing Like ‘Team to Beat’

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>A fellow who wouldn&rsquo;t trade jobs with anyone right now is Gordie Howe, l the big siege gun of Detroit&rsquo;s revamped Production Line. He has moved out in front of the individual scoring parade with 26 points, two more than his linemate, the terrible-tempered Ted Lindsay, and four more than Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02106/1141389-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="161" height="246"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ted Lindsay</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0382/1141382-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="160" height="251"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gord Howe</b></figcaption></div><p>If Howe can hold his lofty spot he will become the first player in NHL history to lead the league in scoring in three consecutive years.</p><p>Speaking of Lindsay, Paul Chandler of the Detroit News, confides that Ted credits his marriage this summer for his roaring start.</p><p>&ldquo;What else could it be but marriage?&rdquo; the fiery forward, who never enjoyed such an early-season scoring outburst, asked. &ldquo;I know I never felt better physically in my life. Maybe it&rsquo;s the regular hours. Maybe it&rsquo;s the diet.</p><p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s that&mdash;the diet?&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Eat Most of Meals at Home Now</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Sure, we eat most of our meals at home now. Pat has turned into a wonderful cook. Never did it before, either, and she didn&rsquo;t have any confidence when she started. But she&rsquo;s doing a swell job.&rdquo;</p><p>Mrs. Lindsay isn&rsquo;t the only one who&rsquo;s cooking with gas. Hubby Ted has 11 goals and 13 assists for 24 points in 21 games. And he has spent 50 minutes in the penalty box which is high for the league.</p><p>Marriage may have improved his physical and mental wellbeing but obviously it hasn&rsquo;t mellowed him to the point where he takes cross checks or dirty digs without retaliation.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ted Credits Mrs. L’s Home Cooking for Quick Start

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>If Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay miss their old sidekick, Sid Abel, you can&rsquo;t tell it from the scoring records.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0463/1141420-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="166" height="248"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Metro Prystai</b></figcaption></div><p>The two Detroit wingers are breezing along in the National Hockey League scoring derby just as successfully as they did when Abel was centering between them. They have pulled into the same standing that they held at the close of last season first and second.</p><p>When Abel retired to become Chicago&rsquo;s coach last summer, there was speculation about what effect his departure might have on his two remaining Production Line mates.</p><p>&ldquo;Sid was the brain of that line, and they won&rsquo;t be the same without him,&rdquo; claimed one hockey expert who will be kept nameless in view of developments.</p><p>Abel-Howe-Lindsay formed the NHLs highest scoring line for four straight yeras. Working in that unit, Howe finished 3.-l-l in the points chase the last three years. Lindsay placed 1-7-2. Abel was 2-4-7.</p><p>Howe and Lindsay had kept the Art Ross Trophy, symbolic of the point scoring title, in Detroit for three straight campaigns.</p><p>That was their exalted status when the question of whether the loss of Abel, their pivot man, would be too much of a handicap.</p><p>Especially on the spot, was Howe, who had to defend the scoring title. He was bidding to become the first three-time champ in history. There are 10 players who have paced the scoring pack twice, but no one ever managed the feat three times, not to mention three times in a row.</p><h2><b>Both Late Starters</b></h2><p>So what happened? They&rsquo;re right back up on top again, and it&rsquo;s surprising in more ways than that they&rsquo;re doing it without Abel.</p><p>Both are notoriously late starters when it comes to scoring. There&rsquo;s no good reason for that&mdash;both being comparative youngsters Howe is 24 and Lindsay 2 7. Yet, neither ever has broken fast In the point races, getting their positions with fast finishes.</p><p>And they&rsquo;ve achieved fat point totals with a variety of linemates. A half-dozen different combinations were tried on that line, but neither star has been off form since the campaign opened.</p><p>Metro Prystai now holds the coveted center spot and it&rsquo;s the most successful teaming seen yet.</p><p>Lindsay and Howe never doubted from the beginning but what a clicking combination would be found. They were quoted back in September when training camp opened as asuring that the Production Line efficiency wouldn&rsquo;t be cut with Abel&rsquo;s departure.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s our job to fit in with the man assigned to play with us, and we&rsquo;ll do it,&rdquo; Lindsay said at the time.</p><p>&ldquo;Sure we&rsquo;ll miss Abel&rsquo;s team play. So maybe Gord and I will have to work a little harder.&rdquo;</p><p>Lindsay always does the talking for both of them. Howe nodded his silent assent and then offered a typical wisecrack: &ldquo;I hope we get someone who can carry us.&rdquo;</p><p>In case you&rsquo;re wondering what strategy Coach Tomy Ivan has worked to keep his two strongest Wings flying, Ivan is willing to let you on the secret;</p><p>&ldquo;I open the gate, and say &lsquo;Gord and Ted&rsquo;, get on the ice.&rdquo;</p><p>Seriously, Ivan claims that no two players like to play hockey as much as they do. After each practice, he has to give repeated orders to get Lindsay, Howe and their special buddles, Marty Pavelich, Metro Prystai and Red Kelly, off the ice.</p><p>They never want to stop.</p><p>But in games it&rsquo;s been the other way around. Ivan keeps them out on the ice for extra work. For instance, in the last game played, Howe worked 25 minutes and 21 seconds, Lindsay 22:21. The average for a forward is 20 minutes. In the second period both played 9:33.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Prystai Fits Into Abel’s Place But Howe, Lindsay Confident Last September

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;After a practice last week Dick Irvin decided that a few of his players weren&rsquo;t shooting too well so he invited nine of them back out in the afternoon for another shooting practice.</p><p>&ldquo;How do you like that,&rdquo; laughed Gerry McNeil. &ldquo;I go home after the morning practice and the wife tells me we&rsquo;re going shopping. Oh no we&rsquo;re not, 1 tell her because I&rsquo;ve got to go back and practice this afternoon. A few of the boys weren&rsquo;t hitting the net this morning.</p><p>&ldquo;&lsquo;We&rsquo;ll that&rsquo;s great,&rsquo; she tells me. &lsquo;If you&rsquo;d practice right in the morning you wouldn&rsquo;t have to go back in the afternoon.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;So what can I do? May be it would be better if I let those guys score goals on me in the morning, eh?&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

It Doesn’t Pay To Be A Good Goaoler in Practice

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0543/1141482-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="613" height="971"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p>Wouldn&rsquo;t Change His Job</p><p><b>GERRY McNEIL&hellip; &hellip;24 SQUARE FEET OF BLAME</b></p></figcaption></div><p><b>(Montreal Herald</b></p><p>MONTREAL, QUE.&mdash;</p><p>Of all the jobs in sports, probably the National Hockey League goaltenders have the toughest one.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0628/1141475-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="154" height="256"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Henry</b></figcaption></div><p>As Gerry McNeil, who is guarding the nets with conspicuous success for Montreal Canadiens, says: &ldquo;It is my job with the Habs to catch the puck in my glove, smother it with my body in wild melees around the net, often by diving headlong into a sea of razor-edged skates.</p><p>&ldquo;Willing players obscure my vision, sticks often deflect the puck unpredictably but if it ends up in the 24 square feet of net, who gets the blame?&rdquo;</p><p>Yet despite the rigors of his work and the nerve-shattering tension he must endure for 60 minutes of each game, McNeil probably is the most Improved goalie in the league this season.</p><p>Next to Sugar Jim Henry of the Boston Bruins, young Gerry boasts the best goal-against average at 2.29 and he is in the thick of the race for the Vezina Trophy, according to official statistics released.</p><p>At the start of the season, Dick Irvin predicted that McNeil would show an Improvement of 25 per cent and so far the coach&rsquo;s statement looks as good as Marilyn Munroe on a calendar.</p><p>In his first season with the Habs, the game little goaltender who started his career as a forward in Quebec City, yielded 184 goals In 70 games. Last season he cut 20 off that total, dropping to 164</p><p>This year, according to Irvin, he should reduce his total by another 20 and already McNeil seems well on his way to fulfillment of that bold prophecy.</p><p>As a kid McNeil coleceted pictures of goal tenders and he still retains a cardboard box full of them. In the box, too, there is a newpaper clipping in which Lynn Patrick, coach of the Bruins, Is quoted as saying, &ldquo;A fellow doesn&rsquo;t have to be crazy to play goals but It helps.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Patrick might be right,&rdquo; said McNeil the other day. &ldquo;But I wouldn&rsquo;t trade jobs with any other athlete. Not the way I&rsquo;m going now,&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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GERRY GETS INTO THICK OF VEZINA TROPHY RACE BY THINNING GA RECORD

<div class="byline">BY Kew In-Kenzie</div><p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1, 1947</b></p><p><b>Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. Y. Cote</b></p><p><b>HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY</b></p><p><b>309 Empire Life Building,</b></p><p><b>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West.</b></p><p><b>Montreal 25. Que.</b></p><p><b>Average Weekly Circulation 35,000</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada&mdash;$4.00 in U.S.A.</b></p><p><b>Authorized as second class mall. Post Office Department, Ottawa.</b></p><p><b>Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y.</b></p><p><b>Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company 1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Printed in Canada.</b></p><p><b>Vol. 6 MONTREAL, DECEMBER 13, 1952 No. 11</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01195/1141534-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="235" height="229"></div><p>BAZ BASTIEN, who was forced to retire as regular goalie for the Pittsburgh Hornets due to a serious eye accident in 1949, dons the goaltender&rsquo;s equipment at all practice sessions of the Hornets. Now business manager of the Hornets, Bastien wears a plastic mask when playing goal in the practice skirmishes&hellip; Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, wife of General MacArthur, and her son, Arthur, took in the recent Toronto-Ranger game in New-York&hellip; Jack Adams calls the Toronto Maple Leafs the &ldquo;team to beat&rdquo; this season&hellip; It seems almost a certainty now that Chicago Black Hawks are not going to fold&hellip; There are nine players of French descent in the National Hockey League this season. They are Maurice Richard, Butch Bouchard, Boom Boom Geoffrion and Dollard St-Laurent of Montreal Canadiens; Marcel Pronovost of Detroit; Leo Boivin, Toronto; Gerry Couture, Chicago; and Real Chevrefils&rsquo; and Leo LaBine, Boston&hellip; Vince Lunny, talented Montreal sportswriter, has a splendid piece on Boom Boom Geoffrion in the January edition of Sport Magazine&hellip; Venerable Bill Bentley, father of the famous Bentley brothers, Doug and Max, has never seen either Bon play in the National Hockey League. Now that Doug is out of the League, the only chance old Bill has is seeing Max during the playoffs as he&rsquo;s planned a trip east if the Leafs make the playoffs this spring. He plans to motor down from Delisle, Sask., with several members of the family&hellip; Allan Stanley, captain of the Rangers, is dating Kay Starr, the Binger, these nights&hellip; Lynn Patrick, Boston coach, believes bow ties bring him luck, and now wears them all the time&hellip; Johnny Peirson, Boston winger, also figures the bow tie is a lucky omen.</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0290/1141527-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="139" height="235"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 139px"><b>Leo Boivin</b></figcaption></div><p>MORE NHL PLAYERS were born in Winnipeg, Man. than any other city&hellip; Eleven players were born in the Gateway to the Golden West&hellip;Montreal is the birthplace of 10 National Leaguers, while Toronto has sent eight players to the Big Time&hellip; Saskatoon district is the birthplace of seven NHL&rsquo;ers&hellip; Dick Gamble, sophomore left winger of the Montreal Canadiens, is the only player in the NHL who was born in the Maritime Provinces. Dick was born in Moncton, N.B&hellip;. Pete Babando of Chicago is the Bole United Statesboro player in the National League this season&hellip; Don Clark, secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association, advises that Minnesota is currently starting its biggest hockey program. Minneapolis alone, has 98 hockey teams competing in 22 leagues&hellip; St. Paul has 60 teams In their recreation setup&hellip; Duluth, home of the United States Pee Wee champions for the last two years, has 30 teams, and the Mesabi Iron Range community of Eveleth (pop. 5,800), developer of more top American amateur, college and pro players than any other city in the United States, has 12 teams in three leagues&hellip; According to the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Bruins need an attendance average of 9,000 at a $1.67 each to break even during a season&hellip; In other words, a $15,000 house&hellip; Saskatoon Quakers became the first team in the Western Hockey League to score 100 goals this season.&hellip; Montreal Canadiens are the only team in the National Hockey League that hasn&rsquo;t been shut out this season. Detroit Red Wings have been shut out the most. Detroit has been blanked three times. Boston and Toronto have each been shut out twice, while Chicago and New York were each kept off the score sheet on one occasion&hellip; Maurice Richard scored three goals in one game on 17 occasions. He&rsquo;s scored four goals in a game once and five goals in a game once. The four goals were scored against New York Rangers, the five goals against Detroit.</p></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0353/1141520-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="152" height="242"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Max Bentley</b></figcaption></div><p>FORMER NEW YORK RANGER players are now coaching 25 different hockey teams. Eight of the 25 ex-Rangers now coaching teams are employed in professional ranks. Bill Cook of the Rangers and Lynn Patrick of Boston are in the National League. Frank Eddolls of Buffalo Bisons is the sole ex-Ranger coaching In the American League. Four former Rangers art masterminding In the thriving Western League. They are Muzz Patrick at Tacoma, Bud Poile at Edmonton, Babe Pratt at New Westminster, and Lloyd Ailsby at Seattle&hellip; Other ex-New Yorkers now coaching and the teams they are piloting are as follows. Herb Foster, Atlantic City Seagulls. Eastern League; Scotty Cameron, Humbolt, Sask. Senior; Bob Dill, Springfield, Eastern League; Ott Heller, Kitchener Dutchmen, OHA Sr. &ldquo;&lsquo;A&rdquo;; Butch Keeling, Brampton, Ont. Jr. &ldquo;B&rsquo;s&rdquo;; Bill MacKenzie, Winnipeg Barons, Manitoba Junior League; Hub Macey, Glace Bay Miners, Maritime Major League; Murray Murdoch, Yale University; Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Cincinnati Mohawks, International League; Alf Pike, Guelph Biltmorea, Canadian Junior champions; Alex Bhibicky, Fljn Flon, Northern Sask. Jr. League; Art Somers, Calgary, Western Junior League; Phil Watson, Quebec Citadels, Quebec Junior loop; Bill Moe, Troy, N.Y., Eastern League; Bucko McDonald, 8undrldge, Ont. Intermeuiate; Bobby Kirk, Kapuskasinsg, Ont. Settlors; and Bryan Hextali, St. Boniface Canadiens, Manitoba Junior League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0435/1141513-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="158" height="248"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Muzz Patrick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0628/1141620-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="326" height="144"></div><p>19&mdash;HARVEY, Doug Montreal defence, 1924</p><p>22&mdash;ATANAS, Walt, Vancouver forward, 1922; MILLIGAN, George, Syracuse, defense, 1925.</p><p>23&mdash;DUMART, Woody, Boston forward, 1916; SOLINGER, Bob, Toronto forward, 1925.</p><p>24&mdash;SULLIVAN, Red, Hershey forward, 1929.</p><p>25&mdash;WOCHY, Steve, Cleveland forward, 1922.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01146/1141672-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="309" height="473"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY REARDON</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02123/1141665-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="306" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EMORY JONES</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0391/1141658-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="293" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED STOREY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0481/1141651-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="627" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT EGAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Principals In Testimony… …That Suspended Him

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he November 29th issue of The Hockey News carried two stories on the suspension for the balance of the season of player Pat Egan of the Providence Reds for allegedly striking Linesmen Callighen and Carse in a game in Cleveland on Nov. 1.</p><p>One of these stories was by Austen Lake, Sports Editor of the Boston Sunday Advertiser, the other by Roger Barry, Boston correspondent of THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>They took the stand that Egan had been grievously harmed by the decision, which they seemed to think was unjustified.</p><p>As a follow up I decided to call several eyewitnesses in Cleveland and they intimated that the penalty fitted the crime.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0560/1141703-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="234" height="235"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY CARSE</b></figcaption></div><p>Of particular interest is a questionnaire which Jim Hendy, General Manager of the Cleveland Barons, had his fifteen players and Coach Bun Cook fill in. From the answers given by the players and other eyewitnesses whom we interviewed these points standout:</p><p>1. Pat Egan struck an official, Patsy Callighen, not once but several times.</p><p>2. He struck the first blow after kicking Callighen&rsquo;s skates from under him.</p><p>3. He struck him so hard on the side of his temple that he knocked his glasses from his face and raised a lump on the side of Callighen&rsquo;s head.</p><p>4. Egan wasn&rsquo;t on the ice when the fight started between Cleveland&rsquo;s Bob Bailey and Providence&rsquo;s Johnny Denis&hellip; Reardon sent him out as captain to see what was going on even though a co-captain wag on the ice already.</p><p>6. It took the combined efforts of Reardon and several Providence players to hold Egan after he had finally been pulled off Callighen.</p><p>We spoke to Jim Hendy in Cleveland and lie stated that after reading the Providence papers and Egan&rsquo;s statements It was very difficult to believe that the stories related to the same incident, they were so different from what he and the others in the press box saw happen on the ice.</p><h2><b>Players Say Egan Hit Callighen</b></h2><p>Hendy, feeling that perhaps his, and the reporters in the press box at the time of the incident, eyes might have deceived them and not wanting to see Egan unjustly suspended made out a questionnaire and submitted it to the fifteen members of the Barons and their Coach Bun Cook. Before so doing he explained that a fellow player had been deprived of his livelihood and as the players DID NOT have to sign the questionnaire all he wanted was the answer the way they saw it:</p><p>Question: Did you see the incident. Answer: 15 yes; 1 no (Bailey who was fighting with Denis at the time).</p><p>Q: Were you on the ice at the time? A: 6 yes; 10 (including Coach Bun Cook) no.</p><p>Q: Did you seen Egan strike Callighen? A: 15 yes; 1 (Bailey) no.</p><p>Q: Did you see Egan kick Callighen&rsquo;s feet from under him? A: 9 yes; 7 no.</p><p>Q: Did you see Egan wrestle Callighen to the ice? A: 14 yes; 2 no.</p><p>Q: Did you seen Egan pummel Callighen AFTER he was on the ice? A: 12 yes; 4 no.</p><p>Q: Did you see Egan strike Carse? A: 5 yes. 11 no.</p><p>Q: Did you see Callighen strike Egan? A: 5 yes; 11 no.</p><p>Q: Did you see Callighen strike Egan BEFORE he (Callighen) had been struck? None yes; 16 no.</p><p>Q: Did you seen Callighen molest, shove around or in any way take the offensive against Egan? None yes; 16 no.</p><p>Q: Did you see Carse take the offensive against Egan? A: None yes; 16 no,</p><p>Q: Do you think Egan&rsquo;s suspension adequate? 13 yes; 2 no; 1 no opinion.</p><p>Q: Do you think Egan&rsquo;s suspension too long? None yes; 15 no; 1 no opinion.</p><p>Q. Do you think he should have been suspended for life? 4 yes; 11 no; 1 no opinion.</p><p>So there are the facts from eye-witnesses in Cleveland. They are entirely different from the statements given out by Pat Egan and Terry Rear don and quoted by Providence and Boston writers.</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS learned one other fact which we have not yet seen in print and that is Egan&rsquo;s suspension was not made by Emory D. Jones, President of the American League, but the statements of Egan, Reardon, Referee Red Storey, Linesmen Callighen and Carse and three Cleveland newspapermen were handed to each Governor of the American League and the majority voted for Egan&rsquo;s suspension for the <b>balance of</b> the season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Questionnaire to Baron Players Backs up Egan’s Year Suspension

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Boom Boom Geoffrion, NHL rookie-of-the-year last season is finding it tough to keep up with his press clippings this season. The Boomer, who racked up 30 goals, highest on his club in 1951-52, may be paying the penalty of indolence.</p><p>When the season opened Geoffrion was tabbed for forty goals by Irvin on the presumption that this kid with the &lsquo;Gilt Edged&rsquo; shot would miss the undefined sophomore jinx that has caused the downfall of so many youngsters once predicted for greatness.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01179/1141765-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="162" height="244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Moore</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Perhaps it was an injustice on my part to ask the kid for so many goals,&rdquo; says Irvin, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure. Sometimes he looks so great and then he just falls off.</p><p>&ldquo;But what worries me most is his defensive play. In Boston last week when we lost 3-1 Peirson was standing in front of McNeil waiting for the puck. Nobody touched him. Boom was as close to Peirson as anybody on the ice and he just stood there. He scored while Geoff waited for someone to take him out of the play.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say exactly what&rsquo;s the matter with the kid. He doesn&rsquo;t realize himself that he&rsquo;s going bad therefore he&rsquo;s a little reluctant to be told that he is.&rdquo;</p><p>If Geoffrion doesn&rsquo;t realize that his play isn&rsquo;t up to standard then some of the faithful fans who cram the Forum in Montreal do.</p><h2><b>Received First Jeers in Chicago Game At Home</b></h2><p>The first visable and verbal indication of this came against the Chicago Black Hawks on the night of Saturday, November 30th. The Habs and Hawks stalemated 1-1 with Geoffrion contributing little to the cause. It was the third period that the onlookers began to yell: &lsquo;go home ya bum.&rsquo; it was the first time since Geoff entered upon the professional hockey horizon that he has had to accept the old adage: &lsquo;they don&rsquo;t always love you&rsquo; or as Butch Bouchard puts it: &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a very short trip from a hero to a bum.&rsquo;</p><p>The visable difference between Geoff&rsquo;s play in his first season and this year is considerable. He seems to lack the hustle that won him so many plaudits in 1951-52. His brilliant stickhandling ability hasn&rsquo;t left him but the once accurate shot that terrified so many goalers isn&rsquo;t coming close enough to make &lsquo;them sweat anymore. Still, most of those commodities can be regained. But the lack of hustle is something that could put him in a bad spot.</p><p>Geoff&rsquo;s letdown is hard to take by the fans inasmuch as they know from watching him perform as a junior and as a pro that he&rsquo;s a great player. So far they have not lost faith in ham but they are disappointed.</p><p>&ldquo;Perhaps we&rsquo;re being a little hard on the kid. To run him down may do a lot of harm. Geoff&rsquo;s always been a star ever since he&rsquo;s played hockey and has always been in the headlines. When he was a junior the goals came easy as was the case last season. He was hailed everywhere he went as the &lsquo;Great Boom Boom.&rsquo; Well, those things have an affect on a kid of that age and when the goals didn&rsquo;t come so easily this season he began to worry,&rdquo; says General Manager Frank Selke.</p><p>&ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s a little befuddled but believe me, and I&rsquo;m sincere when I say this, I have not lost faith in him. He&rsquo;s a little confused and I believe he&rsquo;s worried. He&rsquo;s going to become a father for the first time shortly and he&rsquo;s tempermental kid who worries about such things.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew he would have to pass through this phase but I hoped he might miss it. It could last for the complete season or maybe for a few games but he&rsquo;ll pull out of it. At that though, I&rsquo;m not sure that&rsquo;s his trouble. He just had five teeth removed yesterday and that too could be the cause of his letdown.</p><p>&ldquo;Charlie Conacher, whom I consider one of the greatest hockey players I was ever associated with went through the same phase. One season he scored just 14 goals and that was preposterous for Chuck. But he shook it off and became a great player.</p><p>&ldquo;There were moments when I watched Boom Boom play this season that I wondered if perhaps Dick Irvin didn&rsquo;t have a little too much patience with Geoff. I know I might have benched him but then I realized that you can&rsquo;t bench a kid like that because he has come up with some pretty important goals.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Geoff&rsquo;s Not Much Behind Last Season&rsquo;s Record</b></h2><p>Although Irvin denies it, his patience might have run out in that game in Boston. He didn&rsquo;t use Geoffrion in the third period at all. Instead he moved defenseman Tom Johnson up to the wing spot and carried on with three rearguards.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t bench him. Just because a player isn&rsquo;t used in a period it doesn&rsquo;t mean that he&rsquo;s benched,&rdquo; says Dick. &ldquo;In every game there&rsquo;s a player who doesn&rsquo;t get on one period. One Saturday night Mosdell didn&rsquo;t get on in the second period but he played in the third. He wasn&rsquo;t benched. I was just giving another player a chance instead of sitting on the bench. And even at that Johnson came pretty close to scoring when I shoved him up there.&rdquo;</p><p>Geoff&rsquo;s Inability to get going this season has perhaps been magnified to bigger proportions than it should be. For Instance, after 21 games this season he had scored just six goals and four assists for 10 points. Last season at the 22 game mark he was little better. He had scored seven goals and five assist for 12 points. It could be that Geoff is a slow starter and strong finisher. The fact that he finished with 30 goals and 24 assists for 54 points bears out that fact.</p><p>The imminent return of Dickie Moore, however has posed a question. Moore is a versitile player who has performed at almost every position on the club. However, most of his success came while playing at right wing. Could it be that Moore will dispose Geoff from his regular right wing position? Many fans believe he will. Others laugh at the thought. Dick Irvin just shakes his head and mutters: &ldquo;No comment.&rdquo;</p><p>And since everybody is giving Geoffrion advice we too would like to get into the act.</p><p>If he isn&rsquo;t hustling then we should have just the following to say.</p><p>Thomas Edison once wrote: &lsquo;Genius is one per cent Inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.&rsquo;</p><p>And look what happened to Edison.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boomer’s Defensive Play Worrying Habs More Than Offensive Downfall

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02129/1141796-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="309" height="308"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOOM BOOM GEOFFRION</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Long Way To Go

<p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;&ldquo;If I ever got rid of Geoffrion I might as well leave town,&rdquo; laughed Frank Selke when asked if he&rsquo;d ever think of trading the popular youngster. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry about him, he&rsquo;ll be all right.&rdquo;</p><p>When asked if he though Dickie Moore might dispose Geoff from his job, Selke shook his head.</p><p>&ldquo;Definately not. When Moore returns he will be converted to a center. That&rsquo;s where he&rsquo;ll be used.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Moore to Be Converted to Pivot Upon Return to Club

<p><b>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>When Ken McKenzie, publicity director of the National Hockey League and co-publisher of THE HOCKEY NEWS, returned to Montreal after attending the 1952 Grey Cup game in Toronto, he received the biggest surprise of his life. Lorraine, the youthful publicist&rsquo;s attractive wife, had given birth to a five pound boy while McKenzie was en route home to Montreal Sunday night.</b></p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0397/1141851-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="148" height="229"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 148px"><b>Ken McKenzie</b></figcaption></div><p>McKenzie arrived at the Montreal West Station on Monday morning and went to his home in Montreal&rsquo;s west end figuring on having breakfast with his wife and picking up his car prior to going to the office. He was more than a little surprised to find no one home when he unlocked the front door. Then he spotted a note. It read: &ldquo;Darling, &lsquo;Phone my mother the minute you arrive home. All my love, Lorraine.&rdquo; McKenzie did this and was immediately informed by his mother-in-law that he was the father of a five-pound baby boy.</p><p>The baby, which was not expected until the first week of February, spent &lsquo;several days in an incubator, but is now out of the incubator and doing well. Mrs. McKenzie is doing very well, too.</p><p>Daddy? He says he&rsquo;s going to be careful about taking future trips to Toronto.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Ken Gets Five Pounds Surprise

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs are the first team to put forth their candidate for the rookie-of-the-year award. He&rsquo;s Gordie Hannigan, &ldquo;spelled H-A-double-N-I-G-A-N&rdquo;.</p><p>&ldquo;More than anything&rdquo;, says Coach Joe Primeau. &ldquo;Hannigan has sheer determination. It&rsquo;s inbred in the family. Two years ago I visited the Hannigan family-in Schumacher, Ont., and there were 11 of them around the dinner table. I tell you, I was very careful of how I talked. One wrong word and I felt as if they&rsquo;d all jump me.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hannigan Leafs Rookie Award Candidate

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>oronto&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs have their share of troubles. No fewer than a half dozen Leafs have various ailments. So acute was the missing player problem that Coach oJs Primeau recently called a halt to the Leafs&rsquo; practice drills.</p><p>Hobbling around were Tod Sloan (badly swollen foot), Gord Hannigan, Jim Thomson, Jim Morrison, Harry Watson, and Howie Meeker.</p><p>To fill the breach in the game against Montreal on December 4, General Manager Conn Smythe rushed in Toronto Malboro Junior Parker McDonald.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Injuries Force Leafs to Halt Practice Drills

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>(Toronto Telegram)</p><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0467/1141913-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="149" height="241"><figcaption class="caption-body" style="width: 149px"><b>Gord Hanningan</b></figcaption></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0540/1141906-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="151" height="245"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Armstrong</b></figcaption></div><p><b>The questionable links in the new and gigantic Leaf construction, it was considered last October, were going to be at center and at left defense. There were nine untried players being added and Conn Smythe applied the slide rule of success by commenting that six of them would have to prove themselves major leaguers before the Leafs could count on making fourth and last playoff spot.</b></p><p><b>An appraisal the other day disclosed that three, in his estimation, had proven their points so far.</b></p><p>&ldquo;George Armstrong has proven to me that he has it,&rdquo; said Smythe reviewing the situation in the sad shadow of a Leaf slump. &ldquo;The others are Gord Hannigan and Jim Morrison.&rdquo;</p><p>Army and Hannigan formed a Leaf line with Max Bentley that was doing most of the scoring until the injuries started to fall and Hannigan and Bentley joined each other in the hospital with a back and knee injury respectively. Morrison, the defenseman who doesn&rsquo;t qualify as a rookie, has partially solved the weakness on the left defense. He looks like the class of the Johnny-Come-Latelies</p><p>Close to getting the seal of approval are Tim Horton and Leo Boivin. But they haven&rsquo;t quite made it yet. Boivin and Horton have been working together as a rookie defense combination and part of the plan to end the horrible slump in which the Leafs found themselves due mostly to a plague of back and knee injuries was to split them up. Boivin, it was thought, would be better playing opposite Fern Flaman who has the experience to steady him away. Morrison is teamed with Jim Thomson and Horton, under current plans will be used as a fifth defenseman. Timothy has shown a remarkable ability as a puck carrier but Smythe has perceived some defensive mistakes. Hugh Bolton, the other Leaf defenseman, who got life a couple of weeks ago when he was ticketd for Pittsburgh Hornets but stuck because of injuries to Thomson and Morrison, has been despatched to the Ottawa Senators of the Quebec Senior League where he can be recalled instantly unfettered by the no-recall barrier set up the American League.</p><p>The problem still remains, it would seem apparent, at centre. Bentley and Ted Kennedy, both centers Smythe considers, are his two key men. Losing one of them is bad enough. If both should ever be out at the same time, the Leafs might as well concede all points until they get them back. Bobby Hassard has, apparently, so far fallen short of the seal but shows promise. Rudy Migay, who hasn&rsquo;t been blessed with the best of wingmen, carries on in an efficient but unspectacular manner.</p><p>Smythe made no secret, however, of the fact that he has been prowling for a deal for a center. He tried the Rangers for Edgar Laprade or Don. Raleigh and ran into insurmountable demands. He openly discussed the possibilities of Willie Marshall who played with Charlottetown of the Maritime Major League last season and is currently, considered the best pivot man with the Pittsburgh Hornets. It&rsquo;s not inconceivable that Marshall may be the last of two recalls the Leafs, like all NHL clubs, are allowed to bring up till Feb. 15 when the emergency rule begins to govern all switching between the two leagues. It&rsquo;s also not inconceivable that Bill Ezinicki, who was labeled as a man who would never again wear a Leaf suit when he refused to sign a contract with a minor league clause in it at the St. Catharines training camp last fall, might be given another shot after all. Smythe registered no surprise at the mention of his name so he has been cogitating the possibility.</p><p>Also under consideration as plugs In the dyke are Bob Sabourin, a right winger who might have made it in the fust jump instat&rsquo;d of going to the Hornets, had he been able to check in his own end. He has apparently learned to do that under King Clancy&rsquo;s tutorship. From the junior ranks, Parker MacDonald, a left winger has already been summoned on a trial basis and Eric Nesterenko, a big right winger, has also been mentioned. Nesterenko had a shot at the NHL last season and didn&rsquo;t look too much out of place.</p><p>Meanwhile Howie Meeker pursues his parliamentary duties in Ottawa, not appearing to be any closer to returning to right wing than he was Immediately following the time he banged up his back being checked by Boston&rsquo;s Real Chevrefils. Meeker reports that the injury was no better last week than it was five weeks ago. There has been conjecture that he might be out for the season which is denied by Smythe.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-05

Smythe Throws Out Trade Feelers but Big Demands Tossed Right Back

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>I</span>t&rsquo;s not too often that a defenseman becomes his team&rsquo;s scoring hero in two successive games but such was the case this past week when sophmore Hy Buller of the New York Rangers scored the tying goal twice in as many nights.</b></p><p><b>Against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday December 6 in Toronto, Hy fired the equalizer in the third period and the following night duplicated the feat in New York against the Montreal Canadiens. The score was 2-2 in both eases.</b></p><p><b>His goal against the Leafs was an assisted affair and came at the 12.55 mark of the final frame after Ted Kennedy had given the Leafs the lead. Against the Habs, Buller fired a S5-foot screen shot past Gerry McNeil to complete one of the more successful Ranger week-ends.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1140/1142097-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="160" height="250"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hy Buller</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Besides his mighty scoring outburst, Hy was a tower of strength on the Ranger blue-line and looked as if he might be a strong candidate far all-star rating. Last season the burly rearguard surprised everyone except New York General Manager Frank Boucher by being se&rsquo;ected for the second oil-star team in his rookie year. Boucher wasn&rsquo;t too surprised for when he obtained Buller from the Cleveland Barons along with Wally Hergesheimer, he expected big things from him. Hy didn&rsquo;t let him down.</b></p><p><b>Aside from gaining all-star recognition, big Buller was also a &lsquo;close second to Montreal&rsquo;s Bernie Geoffrion in the balloting for the Calder Trophy, awarded the year&rsquo;s best rookie. New York fans were high on Hy for the award and Buller is out this year to fulfill the paying customers&rsquo; faith in him.</b></p><p><b>Although he was a rookie to the NHL last season, Hyman Buller was far from being a rookie to pro hockey, having played at various times for Indianapolis, Hershev and Cleveland of the AHL and even having a fling with the Detroit Red Wings, brief though it was, in 1943-44.</b></p><p><b>Last season with the Rangers he scored 12 goals and assisted on 23 more for 35 points, right fine for a defenseman, especially a rookie at that.</b></p><p><b>Born in Montreal, Que., Buller moved to Saskatoon, Sask., at an early arse and started a hockey career that has moved him up to being rated one of the best defensemen in the NHL.</b></p><p><b>The New York Rangers are quite satisfied with the deal that brought them Hyman Buller, and well they should be.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-11

Player - Of - The - Week

<h2><b>Tie Game Rangers</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he New York Rangers are well on their way to equalling their record 21 ties wet in the 1950-51 season. To date the Blueshirts have played to 8 deadlocks, the latest being Dec. 6 and 7 against Toronto and Montreal.</b></p><h2><b>Low Scoring Team</b></h2><p><b>The old Philadelphia Quakers of 1930-31 were the lowest scoring team in me history of the NHL. The Quakers only managed to put together a total of 76 goals in an entire 44 game schedule, a record no team wants to match.</b></p><h2><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3</b></h2><p><b>Chicago 5 at New York 3</b></p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks increased their league lead to five points by turning back the New York Rangers 5-3 on last period goals by Gus Bodnar. Jimmy Peters and Fred Glover.</p><p>The game was marked by lingering feuds, the biggest of which finally sent Gus Bodnar and Steve Kraftcheck to the penalty box with majors in the second period.</p><p>The teams matched goals In the first period, the Rangers scoring first. Paul Rooty opened the count at the two minute mark with Leo Reise and Wally Hergesheimer assisting. Three minutes later coach Sid Abel got that one back for the Hawks on a double-relay from George Gee and JimMcFadden.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Doug Davies; linesmen, Sammy Babcock and Jerry Olinski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01164/1142066-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="329" height="330"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 4</b></h2><p><b>Toronto 2 at Montreal 1</b></p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The sagging Montreal Canadiens slumped to fifth place with a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Toronto scored both their goals in the second, period and only a third period marker by Maurice Richard saved the Habs from a whitewashing</p><p>Defenseman Dollard St. Laurent of the Habs and Max Bentley and Gordie Hannigan of the Leafs did not play due to injuries. The Leafs used junioi Parker McDonald and the Canadiens brought up Reg Abbott from Victoria.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley: defence, Thomson, Morrison, Flaman, Horton, Boivin; forwards. Kennedy, Stewart, Smith, Watson. Migay, Sloan, Hassard. Armstrong, Solinger, MacDonald.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal. McNeil&ocirc; defence, Harvey, MacPherson, Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent; forwards, Mosdell, Curry. Gamble. Abbott, Geoffrion, Meger, Masnick, Richard. Olmstead, Reay. McCormack.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02144/1142059-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="327" height="233"></div><h2><b>Chicago 1 at Boston 5</b></h2><p>BOSTON&mdash;With Ed Sandford clicking for two goals, the Boston Bruins thumped the league leading Chicago Black Hawks 5-1. The loss snapped a Hawk win streak at five.</p><p>The Bruins scored two goals in each of the first and third periods and a single in the sandwich session while the Hawks&rsquo; lone counter came in the opening stanza.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Gads by, Mortson, Dewsbury, Fogolin, Hucul; forwards Bodnar, Couture, Gee, Peters. Conacher, Babando, Gardner, McFadden. Abel.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence. Quack enbush, Godfrey, Armstrong, Toppazzini, Laycoe; forwards, Labine, Schmidt, Chevrefils, Dumart, Sandford, Klukav. Peirson, Lund, McIntyre, Creighton.</p><p><b>Feferee:</b> Jerry Olinski; linesmen, Sam Babcock, Herb Gallagher.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03113/1142052-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="326" height="260"></div><h2><b>New York 3 at Detroit 5</b></h2><p>DETROIT&mdash;Detroit Red Wings climbed to withing three points of the league leading Chicago Black Hawks by dumping the New York Rangers 53. Marty Pavelich paced the attack with a pair of goals.</p><p>Detroit jumped to 2-1 lead in the first period and were never headed. Tel Lindsay opened the scoring after only a minute and four seconds had elapsed. Three minutes later Marty Pavelich scored and at the 6:50 mark Dean Prentice got New York&rsquo;s first goal.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Rayner: defence, Reise, Stanley, Howell, Buller, Kraft check; forwards, Mickoski. Kullman Slowinski, Raleigh, Ronty, Laprade, Bathgate, Prentice, Hergeshimer, Strain.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Coal, Sawchuck: defence, Goldham,&rsquo; Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Folk forwards, Prystai. Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Pavelich, Skov, Sinclair, Delvec chio, Wilson, Jankowski.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen Doug Young, Bernie Lemaitre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0497/1142045-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="332" height="287"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6</b></h2><h3><b>New York 2 at Toronto 2</b></h3><p>TORONTO&mdash;The New York Rangers scored late in the third period to earn a 2-2 deadlock with the Toronto Maple Leafs In a game that threatened to break out in a donney-brook at any moment.</p><p>Hy Buller was the hero of the piece for the Blueshirts his unassisted marker at the 12.55 mark of the final frame giving the Rangers the single point.</p><p>There was no scoring in the opening period but Bob Solinger shot the Leafs ahead in the second period on a play with Bob Hassard and Tim Horton.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Rayner: defence. Reise, Stanley, Howell. Buller. Kraftcheck; forwards, Laprade, Kullman, Mickoski, Ronty, Bathgate, Conacher, Stewart, Hergesheimer, Slowinski, Strain</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson, Morrison, Flaman, Horton, Boivin, forwards: Meeker, Watson. Migay, Smith, Kennedy, Sloan, Hassard, Armstrong, Stewart, Solinger.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0579/1142038-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="323" height="245"></div><h2><b>Detroit 2 at Chicago 0</b></h2><p>INDIANAPOLIS&mdash;Playing a previously postponed game, the Detroit Red Wings collared the league leading Chicago Black Hawks 2-0. The game had been set back due to the U.S. Presidential election and was shifted to Indianapolis due to there not being any Ice available at either Detroit or Chicago.</p><p>The game drew a surprising 10,529 fans in a city that has been without professional hockey all this season.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Folk; forwards: Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Pavelich, Skov, Sinclair, Delvecchio, Wilson, Jankowski.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Mortson. Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Hucul; forwards: Mosienko, Gardner, Babando, Peters, Conacher, Bodnar, Glover, Couture Gee. McFadden, Abel.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01179/1142031-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="275" height="149"></div><h2><b>Boston 2 at Montreal 1</b></h2><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Montreal Canadiens moved a little deeper into fifth place by dropping a close 2-1 decision to the high flying Boston Bruins. The winning goal was scored for the Bruins by Jack McIntyre in the third period.</p><p>Sugar Jim Henry was in top form all night as the Habs rained 30 shots at him but only managed to beat him once. Gerry McNeil handled 22 in the Montreal cage&hellip;</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Toppazzini, Armstrong. Godfrey; forwards: Schmidt, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Dumart, Creighton, McIntyre, Lund,&rsquo; Klukay, Peirson.</p><p><b>Canadians:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence. Bouchard, Johnson. Harvey, McPherson; forwards: Masnick, Richard, Olmstead, Abbott, Geoffrion. Meger, Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, McCormack, Reay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02140/1142024-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="275" height="136"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7</b></h2><p><b>Montreal 2 at New York 2</b></p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;For the second time In as many nights, Hy Buller scored a goal in the third period to enable the New York Rangers to earn a 2-2 tie. His goal came at the 7.33 mark of the third and tied the Montreal Canadiens. The night before his final frame marker had tied the Toronto Maple Leafs by the identical score.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, McPherson; forwards: Masnick. Richard, Olmstead, Abbott, Geoffrion, Meger, Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, McCormack, Reay.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Rayner; defence, Helse. Stanley, Howell, Buller, Kraft check; forwards: Laprade, Kullman, Mickoski, Ronty, Bathgate, Conacher, Stewart, Hergesheimer, Slowinskl, Strain.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03120/1142017-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="275" height="208"></div><h2><b>Boston 1 at Detroit 1</b></h2><p>DETROIT&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings avoided their first shutout in 53 home games by scoring in the third period to gain a 1-1 tie with the Boston Bruins. The one point for the draw enabled the Wings to tie the Chicago Black Hawks for the league leadership, although the Detroiters have played two less games.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Toppazzini, Armstrong, Godfrey; forwards: Schmidt, Labine, Chevrefils, Sandford, Dumart, Creighton, McIntyre, Lund, Klukay, Peirson.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Folk; forwards: Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Pavelich, Skov, Sinclair, DelVecchio. Wilson, Jankowski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0490/1142010-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="273" height="138"></div><h2><b>Toronto 2 at Chicago 0</b></h2><p>CHICAGO&mdash;For the second night in a row, the Chicago Black Hawks found themselves on the wrong end of a 2-0 score, this time being blanked by the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was the first shutout of the campaign for Leaf goaler Harry Lumley.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson, Morrison, Flaman, Horton, Boivin; forwards: Meeker, Watson, Migay, Smith, Kennedy, Sloan, Hassard, Armstrong, Stewart, Solinger.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Mortson. Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Hucul; forwards: Mosienko, Gardner, Babando, Peters, Conacher, Bodnar, Glover, Couture Gee, McFadden, Abel.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0576/1142003-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="273" height="159"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. DEC. 7)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0670/1141996-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="325" height="119"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0761/1141989-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="325" height="210"></div><h2><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h2><p>BOSTON&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;244</p><p>RANGERS&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;249</p><p>DETROIT&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;270</p><p>CANADIENS&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;291</p><p>CHICAGO&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;223</p><p>TORONTO&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;383</p><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE TOP ELEVEN A YEAR AGO</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0856/1141982-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="323" height="164"></div><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS TUES. A.M. DEC. 9</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0956/1141975-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="322" height="100"></div><h2><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h2><p>Dec. 3rd&mdash;Chicago 5 at Rangers 5</p><p>Dec. 4th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Canadiens 1</p><p>Dec. 4th&mdash;Rangers 3 at Detroit 4</p><p>Dec. 4th&mdash;Chicago 1 at Boston 5</p><p>Dec. 6th&mdash;Boston 2 at Canadiens 1</p><p>Dec. 6th&mdash;Rangers 2 at Toronto 2</p><p>Dec. 6th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Shicago 0</p><p>Dec. 7th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Rangers 2</p><p>Dec. 7th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Chicago 0</p><p>Dec. 7th&mdash;Boston 1 at Detroit 1</p><h2><b>ONE YEAR AGO HOW THE RACE WENT</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1051/1141968-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="324" height="95"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

f0010-06

Gets Big Chance

<div class="byline">by LEO ORNEST</div><p>VICTORIA, B.C.&mdash;-</p><p>The dream of every hockey conscious youngster is to one day play in the NHL. Reg Abbott, 22-year-old centreman of the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League, is getting his chance to fulfill that dream and make good in the big leagues&mdash;to catch a regular berth on the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>The popular Winnipeg-born puckster has been recalled by the parent Canadiens for a three game trial. An injury to Elmer Lach, November 30, at Boston, which will sideline the NHL all-time total points champion for about two months, made it mandatory for Montreal to call up one of its minor league pivotmen.</p><p>Coach Dick Irvin, who has been high on Abbott from the time he saw the Cougar at the Habs&rsquo; training camp in the fail of 1950, decided the injury to Lach would give him an opportunity to see this new rookie in action in league competition. Abbott looked good to Irvin when the Montreal mastermind had him working with Paul Meger and Bernie &ldquo;Boom Boom&rdquo; Geoffrion in several preseason exhibition game.</p><p>Reg played his last game for the Cougars against Vancouver at Victoria, December 2nd. He left immediately after the game via TCA for Montreal. His first NHL game was at the Forum against Toronto. Abbott&rsquo;s second major league contest was against Boston at Montreal, December 6 and his third game, December 7 at New York against the Rangers. After the game with the Blueshirts the Habs will make their decision on Abbott-&mdash;to keep him or to return him to Victoria for additional seasoning.</p><p>As much-as Victoria fans hated to see Abbott leave everybody out here is pulling for him to make good. During his stay here Reg made a hit with everybody. He won the fans over with his winning spirit, his burning desire to give his best every time he was on the ice and the &ldquo;Kid Line&rdquo; of Abbott, Bobby Frampton, now with the Montreal Royals, and Reg Hebenton, wrote hockey history for the Cats the last two seasons.</p><p>When this threesome was formed two seasons ago, 1950-51, it wasn&rsquo;t excepted they would immediately click in championship form. But they did, and Victoria won the league and playoff championships. Last season the club fought its way into the playoffs on the last day of the league schedule and extended a powerpacked Saskatoon club to six games before losing in the playoff finals. Abbott, Frampton and Hebenton played starring roles with Reg the pivot man.</p><p>This is Reggie&rsquo;s third season as a pro. He joined the Cats from Brandon Wheat Kings of the Manitoba Junior League. Abbott was Brandon&rsquo;s spark in two Memorial Cup playdowns. He has been associated with winning clubs during most of his hockey career, which Is a good sign for any team the blond-haired youngster performs for.</p><p>Naturally Reg is elated at being given this opportunity to make the grade with the Canadiens. To play for Montreal and in the National League has been his burning desire and only ambition and you can be sure he will give it everything he has. Reg told us it was one of the happiest moments of his hockey career when he was told of his good fortune &hellip; a chance with the Canadiens.</p><p>But what about Abbott? What kind of a player is he? What is his record in pro company? What are his chances?</p><p>Taking the questions in order, Reg is a centreman. He is lean and wiry, standing 5&rsquo; 10 &frac12; and weighing 155 pounds. He shoots left. And girls he&rsquo;s still single.</p><p>Reg is a better than average stickhandler. He is an excellent forechecker, one of the best la the league, and Montreal fans are sure, we think, to see some similarity between Abbott and Johnny McCormack. To a degree they are the same type. Abbott is five years younger, and this could be one of the few difference between him and McCormack who has several years NHL experience under his belt while this is Reggie&rsquo;s first fling in the majors.</p><p>In his first season as a pro Abbott played in every game, 70 league and 12 playoff engagements. He scored 14 goals and 38 points in league play and garnered three goals and 12 points in post-season competition. In his second season Reg was injured early in the Beason and sat out 13 games with a shoulder Injury. Nevertheless he upped his goal production by two over the previous season, getting 16 goals and 27 assists for 43 points. In 13 playoff games he got three goal&mdash;all important ones&mdash;and six assists. He was one of Victoria&rsquo; stars against New Westminster and Saskatoon in the 1951-52 playoffs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Habs Call on Abbott to Bolster Weak Center Left by Lach Injury

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0760/1142301-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="971" height="658"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>H</span>arvey Bennett, netminder for the Providence Reds, wears a pained expression on his face as he turns to look at the puck in his cage. The cause of his anguish was Norm Corcoran on the far side of the net who has just scored. Standing by to rtiake sure there was no mis-fire on the play are Adem Brown, centre and Arnie Kullman (9). Ray Laplante (11) and Chuck Scherza (14) watch the play, unable to do anything about It.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-07

Bears Gang Up On Bennett

<h2><b>Boz Still Stops &lsquo;em</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>U</span>na, Bastien, although no longer an active player due to an eye injury he received in 1949, still kicks them out with the best of them when he acts as Pittsburgh Hornet practice netminder.</b></p><h2><b>Phil Wounded</b></h2><p><b>Although It hasn&rsquo;t affected his great work in the Buffalo Bison goals, Phil McAtee was wounded during the last war while serving with a Canadian Armored regiment. He recovered fully as witness his play.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS ON TUES., A.M., DEC. 9</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01178/1142270-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="329" height="110"></div><h2><b>TUESDAY. DECEMBER. 2</b></h2><h3><b>Syracuse 1 at Cleveland 3</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Johnny Bower, the AHL&rsquo;s leading goaler kept his goal a fame streak intact as the Cleveland Barons stopped the Syracuse Warriors 3-1. Ike Hildebrand, Ed Olson and Steve Wochy scored for the Barons while Leo Curick accounted for the lone Warrior marker.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Chrystal, Shero, Reigle, Williams; forwards, Gordon, Bailey, Kubasek, Olson, Lynn, Sonmor, Wochy, Hildebrand, GereBino.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Allen, Milligan, Tottle, Ashley; forwards, Horvath, Curick, O&rsquo;Grady, Webster, Lemieux, McNabney, Pogue, Casanato, Pidhirny.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen, Patay Callighen and Bobby Carse.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02143/1142263-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="331" height="197"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3</b></h2><h3><b>Syracuse 1 at Pittsburgh 2</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Frank Mathers scored both of Pittsburgh&rsquo;s goals, one a sudden death overtime shot at 1:15 of the extra stanza, to give the Pittsburgh Hornets a 2-1 win over Syracuse In an American Hockey League game.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Backor, Mathers, Sullivan, Lumsden; forwards: Marshall, Balfour, Sabourin. Timgren, Maloney, Ezinickl, McLellan, Lewicki, Blair.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Ashley, Allen, Milligan, Tottle; forwards: Mc-. Nabney, Curick, Casanato, Pogue, Pidh.rny, Lemieux, Horvath, O&rsquo;Grady, WebBter.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03118/1142256-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="329" height="203"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY, DEC EMBER 4</b></h2><h3><b>Buffalo 2 at St. Louis 4</b></h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Harry Taylor scored all St, Louis goals as St. Louis Flyers defeated Buffalo Bisons, 4-2, in their American Hockey League game.</p><p>Another oddity was that Lome Davis got both Buffalo goals. Still a third twist was that no penalties were called in the fast game.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, McAtee; defence: Lavitt, Lowe, MacNeil; forwards: Davies, Davis, MacKay, Kaiser, Achtymicuk, McLeod, Kobussen, Pllote, Fryady.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymnak, McNab, Lund, Forbes; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Bonin, Harrison. Taylor, Hayden, Boone Stankiticz, Sclisizzi.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0490/1142249-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="327" height="265"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6</b></h2><h3><b>Sy racuse 11 at St. Louis 5</b></h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The Syracuse Warriors swamped the St. Louis Flyers 11-5 with. Armand Lemieux scoring four goals. Eric Pogue had a pair for the Warriors.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Ashley, Allen, Milligan, Tottle; forwards: McNabney, Curick, Casanalo, Pogue, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Horvath, O&rsquo;Grady, Webster.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymnak, McNab, Lund, Forbes; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Bonin, Harrison. Taylor, Iiayden, Boone, Stankiticz, Sclisizzi.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0575/1142242-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="328" height="457"></div><h3><b>Hershey 6 at Pittsburgh 6</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;The Pittsburgh Hornets and the Hershey Bears fought to a 6-6 deadlock with Dusty Blair scoring the equalizer for the Hornets at the 5.23 mark of the third period.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Backor, Mathers, Sullivan, Lumsden: forwards: Marshall, Balfour, Sabourin, TImgren, Maloney, Ezinicki, McLellan, Lewicki, Blair.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzl, Caron; forwards: Kullman, Corcoran, Bettio, G. Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, Poland, O&rsquo;Brien, Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0668/1142235-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="324" height="454"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 1 at Cleveland 3</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;The Cleveland Barons remained atop the AHL heap by downing the Buffalo Bisons 3-1. The Barons took an early first period lead and were never headed after that. Bisons&rsquo; goal came when the Barons were shorthanded.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, McAtee; defence: Lavitt, Lowe, MacNeil; forwards: Davies, Davis, MacKay, Kaiser, Achtymicuk, McLeod, Kobussen, Pllote,&rsquo; Fryady.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Williams, Reigle. Chrystal, Shero; forwards: Gordon, Wcchy, Lynn, Kubasek, Ceresi, no, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Sonmor.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01190/1142228-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="326" height="208"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY DECEMBER 7</b></h2><h3><b>Hershey 4 at Providence 3</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Sam Bettio&rsquo;s goal on a 25-foot blast less than two minutes before game-over, gave Hershey Bears a 4-3 American Hockey League victory over Providence Reds. Attendance was 3,602.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry: defence, Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzl, Caron; forwards: Kullman, Corcoran, Bettlo, G. Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, Poland, O&rsquo;Brien, Brown.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, Morris, Bourassa, Kryzanowski, Bloomer: forwards: Laplante, Kapusta, Toppazzlni, Powell. Gladu, B. Sullivan, Scherza, Denis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02141/1142221-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="326" height="277"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 5 at Buffalo 3</b></h3><p>BUFFALO&rsquo;&mdash;Cleveland Barons consolidated their position at the head of the American Hockey League by posting a 5-3 decision over the cellar-dwelling Buffalo Bisons.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Williams. Reigle, Chrystal, Shero; forwards: Gordon, Wochy, Lynn, Kubasek, Oeresino, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Sonmor.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, McAtee; defence, Lowe, Lavitt, MacNeil, Pllote; forwards: Davies, MacKay, McLeod, Fryday, Kaiser, Achtymiuk. Kobussen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03116/1142214-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="322" height="306"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games Sunday Dec. 7)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0858/1142207-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="326" height="286"></div><h2><b>LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Ike Hildebrand, Clev. (16)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Geo. Sullivan, Harsh. (23)</p><p><b>Penalties:</b> Frank Sullivan, Pitts. (47)</p><p><b>Goaler:</b> John Bower, Clev. (20 gms, 46 gls. 3 SO, 2.30 av&rsquo;g)</p><p><b>Hat Tricks:</b> Harry Pidhirny, Syr (3)</p><p><b>Team Penalties:</b> Pittsburgh Hornels (290)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-01

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0649/1142363-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="303" height="308"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE PENNELL</b></figcaption></div><p>BUFFALO. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p><b>It is doubtful if a more inopportune time could have been selected by fate&mdash;and Burley Gord Tottle of Syracuse&rsquo;s Warriers&mdash;to send lanky Gordie Pennell, Buffalo&rsquo;s number one center, to the sidelines for at least three weeks than Nov. 23.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0566/1142370-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="163" height="244"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gord Tottle</b></figcaption></div><p>When Tottle charged into Pennell (that&rsquo;s what he was penalized for), Buffalo was going through the motions of dropping its ninth game in 11 outings, and its fourth straight.</p><p>Pennell, as is usually the case, was one of the few Bisons operating in winning fashion. From the record, it&rsquo;s evident even at a cursory glance that Coach Frank Eddolls could ill afford to lose Gordie for a game, much less Indefinitely.</p><p>Tottle caught Pennell with his shoulder with such force that the Bison playmaker w&rsquo;as sent sprawling with his legs kicking convulsively. In fairness to Tottle, he was retaliating for a pretty good body check Pennell had given him a few seconds earlier. The difference was that Pennell stayed within the rules.</p><p>Pennell, although in pain, played the remainder of the game. However, after a complete physical examination, Club Physician Louis J. Schmitt ordered Pennell to &ldquo;stay off skates and take a complete rest for three weeks.&rdquo; At the conclusion of that period, Pennell will undergo another examination.</p><p>The edict was a severe jolt to Pennell as he had high hopes that &ldquo;this would be my season.&rdquo;</p><p>In his previous three years in Buffalo livery, Pennell has been counted upon as the man-whokeeps-his-check-from-scoring.</p><p>His first year&mdash;1949-50&mdash;Gordie never had a regular job. He was alternated at center with Sid McNabney, who also was making his pro debut, on Buffalo&rsquo;s third line, and also took the odd turn at both wing positions.</p><p>The last two seasons, Pennell had the unhappy post of centering just about anyone who didn&rsquo;t fit too well into Buffalo&rsquo;s plans.</p><p>&ldquo;I had a total of 33 different players on the wings last year, believe it or not,&rdquo; Pennell related. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t get very well acquainted with anyone&rsquo;s style when changes come that rapid.&rdquo;</p><p>It was not meant as a alibi on Pennell&rsquo;s part. He had no reason to make excuses. Whenever Pennell goes over the boards, It&rsquo;s a safe bet that he&rsquo;ll give the fans 100 percent of his ability&mdash;regardless of the circumstances he may be playing under.</p><p>With the start of the current season, Pennell was placed between Right Winger Lome Davia and Left Winger Vern Kaiser (who later switched lines with Cal MacKay).</p><p>Pennell took to the Idea of being on the ice for power plays, as well as killing off penalties,&mdash;and skating his regular turn&mdash;like a duck to water.</p><p>While his defensive play remained on its usual high plane, Pennell boosted his standing as a scoring threat. In 17 games, he had 15 points&mdash;on three goals and 12 assists.</p><p>&ldquo;I was just beginning to find the range when I was hurt,&rdquo; Pennell offered. &ldquo;At the start of the season, the shots just wouldn&rsquo;t go in for me &hellip; if I only didn&rsquo;t get that whack in the chest.&rdquo;</p><p>The injury, ironically, was only the second of Pennell&rsquo;s career as the 6 foot, 160 pound Winnipeg whippet seemed blessed with good health.</p><p>&ldquo;In my first year in junior in Winnipeg, I had my liver jarred loose,&rdquo; Pennell recalled. &ldquo;The doctors said I&rsquo;d never play hockey again&mdash;but I was back in two weeks.&rdquo;</p><p>While on the sidelines, Pennell will serve as between periods commentator on Charley Eailey&rsquo;s broadcasts of the Buffalo home games&mdash;and undoubtedly will do a high class Pennell job.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-06

Tottle’s Charge at Pennell Puts Bison Star on Sidelines

<div class="byline">By GEORGE CARSON</div><p><b>Big Guy Originally Belonged To Mound City Team But Was Traded To Detroit Wings</b></p><p>ST-LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;</p><p>The Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, last summer may have been just so much more international competition among the world&rsquo;s greatest amateurs to some professional athletes, but to the St. Louis Flyers&rsquo; Joe Lund It was one of the greatest events that ever happened in the city in which he was born.</p><p>Yes, the clever defenseman who gives ground to no opponent on the ice rink was born 25 years ago at Helsingfors (now Helsinki) of Finnish parents. And they named their second son Conrad Waikto. But in the hockey world he&rsquo;s just plain Joe.</p><p>Lund&rsquo;s grandfather had settled near Port Arthur, Ont., and because farming was good up that way, he beckoned to Joe&rsquo;s parents to make the move across the ocean. So Joe has been a resident of Canada ever since he was four years old-and maybe that&rsquo;s why he excels at the rugged sport of Ice Hockey.</p><p>Every one learns to skate at an early age in Canada, especially in the neighborhood of the twin cities of Port Arthur and Fort William and Waikko&mdash;beg pardon&mdash;Joe was no exception. Like most hockey players of today he came through the midget, flyweight and paper weight divisions, but what the Flyer management likes best, Joe was signed by St. Louis scout Ed Lauzon when Lund was in the junior ranks.</p><p>In fact Lund at 15 played on a team known as the West End Bear-Cats and then moved to the Port Arthur Flyers coached by Lauzon himself. He played two years of junior hockey at Port Arthur and then a year with the Barrie Flyers under Hap Emms when Barrie was a St. Louis farm club.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0488/1142332-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="318" height="730"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Finn Find</b></p><p><b>JOE LUND</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Only 18 when he turned pro, Lund was sent to Dallas of the United States League for more seasoning and then came to St. Louis for the first time and was an immediate hit. Fans five years ago will remember the hustling rookie who would come out of nowhere and break up rushes by the visiting forwards. And Joe was a versatile speedster because he could fill in at forward when needed, too, though defense was his normal position.</p><p>Since that season the six-foot, 190&mdash;pound Lund has been a much travelled hockey player but he has been winning championships, too, and maybe its a good omen for the Flyers that most times where-ever Joe hung his skates, championship pennants were flying or playoff money was waving.</p><p>Flyer coach Ebbie Goodfellow, noting that Lund was a National League prospect and the Detroit Red Wings were interested in the Finnish-born fireball, struck a hard bargain with the National League power. Goodfellow parted with Lund (not wishing to stand in Joe&rsquo;s way when an opportunity to advance arose) but important to the Flyers, he received five players from Detroit and Indianapolis in exchange.</p><p>In one of the biggest deals ever swung by a St. Louis hockey club, the Flyers received Goalie Ralph Almas, Red Doran, Barry Sullivan, Tony Licari and Thain Simon&mdash;all for Joe Lund. And its a matter of record that Almas, Doran and Sullivan especially helped immeasurably in bringing the Flyers their only Western Division pennant in the 1948-49 season of the strong American League.</p><p>Lund, meanwhile, went to the Detroit training camp but because the Wings had such a wealth of talent, both veteran players&mdash;and outstanding young prospects, he was farmed out to Indianapolis for the 48-49 season and the Caps in turn, loaned him to Buffalo for a brief part of the winter in which the Flyers won the big marbles in the Western race.</p><p>It was the following campaign (49-50) when Lund helped the Caps win the Calder Cup. Indianapolis won eight straight playoff victories (including two over St. Louis) and Lund played a prominent roll along with such stalwarts as Al Dewsbury, Benny Woit and Clare Raglan and-biggest name of all-young Goalie Terry Sawchuck, now with the Wings.</p><h2><b>Moves To Cleveland</b></h2><p>Lund moved to Cleveland for the 1950-51 season and with him moved the Calder Cup. The hard charging Barons of Bun Cook finished first in the Western race and swept their first-place playoff series with Buffalo, giving Lund a unique record&mdash;perhaps unparalleled in American League Hockey&mdash;of 12 straight playoff triumphs. Cleveland suffered defeats in its final drag-out series with the rugged Pittsburgh Hornets (remember how the Wasps got into the playoffs when the league president was overruled on St. Louis&rsquo; protest), but the Barons won the big end of the purse and defenseman Lund was among the top 10 scorers of the playoff with 11 points.</p><p>About a year ago joltin&rsquo; Joe figured in a deal for Vic Lynn, still another Flyer hero,, and moved to Providence, where he again helped push a team into the Calder Cup final playoffs. The Reds finished second In the regular race, beat Cleveland, three games to two; then Cincinnati, three games to one; and finally bowed to Pittsburgh In the final set, which went six games,</p><p>Joe Is a steadying Influence on any hockey squad, an easy skater knows what to do with the puck when it&rsquo;s in his possesion. His help to the Flyers-with Joe a 25 year old veteran among some rookies almost that age-cannot be over-emphasized. He won the very first game the St. Louis club played at home with a long blueline shot in tense overtime battling. And that climaxed a come-from-behind performance in which the Flyers were never ahead in the game.</p><p>Because he won&rsquo;t yield an inch on the ice surface, Lund is the type who will recieve his share of the penalties. He figures lie&rsquo;s usally good for 100 to 110 minutes a year. He&rsquo;s known around the circuit as a scrapper who never hesitates to use his fists, when necessary.</p><p>&ldquo;You have to get the respect of some players that way,&rdquo; Joe explains, &ldquo;Else they&rsquo;ll try to push you around.</p><p>Lund doesn&rsquo;t go around looking for fistic action, but when it&rsquo;s inevitable, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s the first punch that counts,&rdquo; he maintains. A little ring fighting in my boyhood probably didn&rsquo;t hurt me one bit.&rdquo;</p><p>His&rsquo; older brother, Pentti, a tested National Leaguer, has a different temperament.</p><p>Not so, however, his pretty Irish wife, Doreen, who now is one of Joe&rsquo;s strongest rooters although she didn&rsquo;t care much for hockey until Lund moved into the neighborhood she formerly lived in Port Arthur; Now she seldom misses a practice.</p><p>Married to swift-skating Lund for about a year and a half now, Doreen&rsquo;s hoping that playoff luck holds out here in St. Louis&mdash;that the Flyers reach the Calder Cup finals.</p><p>An why not. If they all put out like Joe Lund, it ought to be a cinch, fans agree.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-04

Hard Driving Joe Lund Now Big Hit Flying for St. Louis Flyers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0870/1142537-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Although he isn&rsquo;t visible, Victoria Cougars&rsquo; Ivan Irwin is very much in the picture. Referee Scotty Morrison Is seen here trying to restrain the burly rearguard from putting the slug on New Westminster&rsquo;s Pete Durham, seen on the ice being aided by linesman Ross Vallelre. The brawl was started by Irwin and Pat Coburn (15) but soon everyone had a hand in the proceedings.</b> <span class="photo-credit">((Courtesy Victoria Daily Times))</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-08

Scotty Has His Hands Full

<h2><b>Double Trouble</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>oug Stevenson of the Tacoma Rockets turned in the double feature last week by shutting out New Westminster and Vancouver on successive nights. Only two other goalers have ever done it in the WHL.</p><h2><b>Gump Returns</b></h2><p>Lome &lsquo;Gump&rsquo; Worsley returned to his old stamping grounds between the pipes for the Saskatoon Quakers. He had been replacing the injured Chuck Rayner for New York Rangers since the start of the season.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDINGS MONDAY A.M. DEC. 1</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01196/1142506-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="330" height="123"></div><h2><b>RESULTS</b></h2><p><b>Monday, Nov. 24</b></p><p>Victoria 4 at Saskatoon 7</p><p><b>Tuesday, Nov. 25</b></p><p>New Westminster 0 at Tacoma 10</p><p>Victoria 2 at Edmonton 5</p><p><b>Wedesday, Nov. 26</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at Seattle 2</p><p>Victoria 2 at Calgary 9</p><p><b>Friday, Nov. 28</b></p><p>Seattle 1 at Victoria 2</p><p>Tacoma 1 at Vancouver 0</p><p>Calgary 4 at Edmonton 3</p><p><b>Saturday, Nov. 29</b></p><p>Vancouver 4 at Tacoma 1</p><p>Seattle 6 at New Westminster 5</p><p>Calgary 2 at Saskatoon 5</p><p><b>Sunday, Nov. 30</b></p><p>New Westminster 1 at Seattle 6</p><h2><b>MONDAY NOVEMBER 24</b></h2><p><b>Victoria 4 at Saskatoon 7</b></p><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The league leading Saskatoon Quakers pulled out the stops and coasted to a 7-4 win over the Victoria Cougars. The loss left the Cougars in the cellar.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Long, Irwin, Webster, Strongman, Goegan; forwards, Kilburn, Anderson, Mazur, Dorohoy, Joe Evans, Hebenton, Abbott, Fairburn, Roche.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Evans, Heindl, Milford, Parker; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Rouse, McCullough, McLeod, Senick, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Scotty Morrison and Hedley McDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02160/1142499-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="331" height="364"></div><h2><b>TUESDAY NOVEMBER 25</b></h2><h3><b>New Westminster 0 at Tacoma 10</b></h3><p>TACOMA&mdash;The Tacoma Rockets tied a WHL mark of seven goals in one period as they scalped New Westminster Royals 10-0. Strangely enough the mark was set by the Royals in 1949.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Bedard, Coburn, Leek, Durham; forwards, Boyce, Dorohoy. Fas howay, Haidy, Love. Slater, Maxwell.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Tarala; forwards, Johnston, Adam, Kerr, Mathews, Halderson, Wall, Brown, Marquess and Bradley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03137/1142492-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="325" height="344"></div><h3><b>Victoria 2 at Edmonton 5</b></h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;With Earl Relbel scoring a pair of goals, the Edmonton Flyers dumped the Victoria Cougars 6-2. Singles went to Vic Stasiuk, Gerry Ehman and Jim Uniac.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Long; forwards; Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, Me Intyre, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, D. Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Hay, Coburn, Coflin, Zeidel; forwards, Poile, Johnson, Uniac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Anderson, Haley, Ehman, MacDonald, Hannigan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04119/1142485-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="330" height="218"></div><h2><b>WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26</b></h2><h3><b>Vancouer 2 at Seattle 2</b></h3><p>SEATTLE&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks came from behind to earp a 2-2 draw with the Seattle Bomber. Both teams scored once in the first and third periods.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Conn, Sprout, Ailsby. Lebiado; forwards, Fillon, Homenuke, Foley, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, Batley, Macauley.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence. Lancien, Fontinato, Currie, Dick; forwards, Leler Manson, Brown, Popein, Macintosh, Hickey, Wylie, Smith, Atanas, Powers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0599/1142478-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="330" height="236"></div><h2><b>Victoria 2 at Calgary 9</b></h2><p>CALGARY&mdash;For the third time in as many nights the Victoria Cougars found themselves on the wrong end of the score. This time it was 9-2 at the hands of the Calgary Stampeders.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Long, Irwin, Kirk; forwards, Hebenton, Abbott, McIntyre, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Fairburn, Goodacre.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Schvetz, Levandoski; forwards, Kelly, Brown, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Scott, Finney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0685/1142471-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="325" height="343"></div><h2><b>FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28</b></h2><h3><b>Seattle 1 at Victoria 2</b></h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Victoria Cougars scored two goals in the first period and hung on the rest of the way to post their first victory in the last four starts when they edged Seattle Bombers 2-1.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Long, Irwin, Kirk; forwards: Strongman, Hebenton, Abbott, McIntyre, Mazur, Dorohoy, Anderson, Fairburn, Goodacre.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Conn, Sprout, Ailsby, Lebioda; forwards, Fillion. Homenuke, Foley, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, Bailey, MacAuley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0776/1142464-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="326" height="193"></div><h2><b>Tacoma 1 at Vancouver 0</b></h2><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;Doug Stevenson scored his second shutout in a row as the Tacoma Rockets blanked the Vancouver Canucks 1-0. Ted O&rsquo;Connor scored the winner at the 19.53 mark of the third period.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence Jonee, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Tarala; forwards: Johnston, Adam, Kerr, Matthews, Halderson, Wall, Brown, Marquess, Bradley.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Fontinato, Landen; forwards, Hickey, Wylie, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Leier, Manson, Mackintosh, Brown, Powers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01200/1142457-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="327" height="181"></div><h2><b>Calgary 4 at Edmonton 3</b></h2><p>EDMONTON&mdash;Calgary Stampeders continued to prove that no one can beat them except the Saskatoon Quakers as they edged the Edmonton Flyers 4-3.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Schvetz, Levandoski; forwards: Kelly, Brown, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Scott.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Zeidel, Coburn, Coflin, Hay; forwards: Johnson, Poile, Uniac, J. Anderson, MacDonald, Edman, Haley, Stasiuk, Reibel, Hannigan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02140/1142450-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="327" height="239"></div><h2><b>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29</b></h2><h3><b>Vancouver 4 at Tacoma 1</b></h3><p>TACOMA&mdash;Vancouver Canucks scored two goals in the first period and two more in the third to down the Tacoma Rockets 4-1. Tacoma&rsquo;s lone goal came in the first period.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal. Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Fontinato, Landen; forwards, Hickey, Wylie, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Leier, Manson, Mackintosh, Brown, Powers.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Tarala; forwards: Johnston, Adam. Kerr, Matthews, Halderson, Wall, Brown, Marquess, Bradley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03101/1142443-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="327" height="222"></div><h3><b>Seattle 6 at New Westminster 5</b></h3><p>New Westminster&mdash;Seattle Bombers edged the New Westminster Royals 6-5 by scoring four goals in the second period. Gerry Foley led the way with two for the Bombers.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Conn, Sprout, Ailsby, Lebioda; forwards, Fillion, Homenuke, Foley, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, Bailey. MacAuley.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Leek, Bedard; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Boyce, Cabana Haidv.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0484/1142436-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="326" height="303"></div><p><b>Calgary 2 at Saskatoon 5</b></p><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers continued their mastery over the Calgary 8tampeders with a 5-2 win. The scoring was equally divided with two in the first, one in the second and another pair in the final frame.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Schvetz, Levandoski; forwards; Kelly, Brown, Lundy, Black. Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Scott.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, Worsley; 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/f0014-0573/1142429-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="326" height="246"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30</b></h2><h3><b>New Westminster 1 at Seattle 6</b></h3><p>SEATTLE&mdash;For the second time In as many nights, the Seattle Bombers downed the New Westminster Royals, this time 6-1. George Homenuke and Doug McCauley each scored twice.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Leek, Bedard; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Maxwell, Fashoway, Boyce, Cabana, Haidy.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence. Conn, Sprout, Ailsby, Lebioda; forwards, Fillion, Homenuke, Foley, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, Bailey, MacAuley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0664/1142422-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="325" height="250"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games Nov. 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0967/1142415-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="330" height="572"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1066/1142408-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="328" height="169"></div><h2><b>LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Ian Macintosh, Vane., 17</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Alex Kaleta, Sask., 25</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Emile Francis, Vane., 4</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks Against:</b> Emile Francis, Vane., 3; Doug Stevenson, Tac., 3.</p><p><b>Hat Tricks, 1 each:</b> Ken Ullyot, N.W.; Fred Brown, Vane.; Steve Black, Cal.; Pat Lundy, Cal.; John Bally, Sea.; Geo Senick, Sask.; Chuck McCullough, Sask.; Alex Kuzma, Sask.; Sid Finney, Cal.; Colin Kilburn, Vic.; Rudy Filion, Sea.; Doug Adam, Tac.; Gordie Fashaway, N.W., 5.</p><h2><b>MOST PENALTIES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1158/1142401-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="327" height="111"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By EDDIE COEN</div><p>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;</p><p><b>&ldquo;I sort of figured that this was my last chance to stay in the Cleveland organization, and I knew that I had to buckle right down from the start.</b></p><p>The same Ceresino who is acknowledged as one of the fastest skaters In the circuit, and who is thrilling Cleveland hockey fans with his ability to flit in and out of play as quick as you can say &ldquo;Ceresino.&rdquo;</p><p>The saga of Ceresino is becoming something for the books. He came to the Barons after being in the Toronto Maple Leafs chain for one year. He had been a standout with the Oshawa Generals in the Ontario junior loop for two years, 1946-47 and 194748.</p><p>He played 12 games for the Leafs back in 1948-49 and then played 47 games for Pittsburgh that same year. It was with Pittsburgh that he had his best year from the goals scored standpoint bagging 22.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0753/1142568-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="317" height="487"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Proving Himself</b></p><p><b>RAY CERESINO</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Ceresino came to the Barons along with Tod Sloan and Harry Taylor. He is the only remaining mernber of the trio and in 1950-51 he was one of the key men in the Barons &lsquo;Grand Slam&rsquo; winners when he scored 21 goals and 27 assists for 48 points.</p><p><b>Last year he started off badly&mdash;so badly in fact that Jim Hendy, Barons&rsquo; general manager, sent the Italian boy to Seattle.</b></p><p>The change in his whole attitude and style of play took place in Seattle. &ldquo;I knew that it was all over as far as I was concerned if I didn&rsquo;t make good right away,&rsquo; Ray stated in reviewing his Seattle days.</p><p>The native of Port Arthur, Ontario is what is hard to find these days. He is a crowd pleaser and Cleveland&rsquo;s Italian colony Is starting to adopt the 23 year old boy who is still single, and rates as one of the best looking boys in the circuit.</p><p>His coach Fred (Bun) Cook says that Ray will not score a bushel of goals, but we need some guys who won&rsquo;t let the other guys pop in a bushel too, and Ray fits in that class.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ceresino Making Good in Last Chance to Remain with Barons

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0846/1142599-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="642" height="882"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>C</span>OME HELL OR HIGH WATER.&mdash;Cleveland fans pictured above are just a few of the huge throng who braved a driving rainstorm to get down to see the Cleveland Barons play the Pittsburgh Hornets. It was the biggest crowd of the season at the Arena, amazing considering the weather. Real hockey fans, those Clevelanders.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Still They Come

<div class="byline">By HUGH WATSON</div><p>New Westminster, B.C.&mdash;</p><p><b>A verbal fight reminiscent of Turk Broda&rsquo;s &lsquo;Battle of the Bulge&rsquo; exploded here Dec. 2 when owner Ken MacKenzie of the New Westminster Royals suspended rotound goalie Lucien Dech&ecirc;ne.</b></p><p>The announcement came on heels of a horrendous three game winless streak in which Dech&ecirc;ne, all-star goalie in the Western Hockey League last year, was beaten 22 times by the opposition.</p><p>&ldquo;Dech&ecirc;ne is indefinitely suspended,&rdquo; said MacKenzie. &ldquo;He Is a fat 235 pounds, at least 50 pounds overweight. I have been in touch with four eastern clubs for help. I expect at least two, maybe four new players. One of them will be a goalie.</p><p>One of the clubs MacKenzie was Detroit Red Wings. Jack Adams has promised to do what he can but, as MacKenzie pointeed oute, it&rsquo;s getting a little late in the season to snap up any real good players.</p><p>Coach Babe Pratt blamed the whole cluub for its fifth place standing but after watching Dech&ecirc;ne get beaten six times by the previously impotent Seattle Bombers he &lsquo;blew up&rsquo; in a dressing room post mortem.</p><p>&ldquo;Four of those six goals could have been stopped by the rankest amateur,&rdquo; said the volatile Babe. &ldquo;We scored five goals yet lost the game. There&rsquo;s going to be a few changes.&rdquo;</p><p>Royals started the string Nov. 25 in Tacoma, losing 10-0 to the Rockets. They followed up by their Nov. 29 game at home to Seattle 6-5 and then lost the return match at Seattle the next night 6-1.</p><p>Rumoured as a possible replacement for Dech&ecirc;ne is Bev Bentley, who was shunted out of his job with Saskatoon Quakers by the return of Lorne (Gump) Worsley from the New York Rangers.</p><p>ICE CHIPS&mdash;Lucien Dech&ecirc;ne, who posted a 2.84 goal average to lead the loop last year, currently sports a 3.9 4 average&hellip; Emile The Cat Francis of Vancouver Canucks is the top goalie with a 2.94 mark&hellip; Goalie Doug Stevenson of Tacoma became the first goalie to shutout Vancouver this season when he blanked them 1-0 on the Canucks home Ice&hellip; Ted O&rsquo;Connor scored with seven seconds remaining in the game to break the scoreless tie&hellip; Chuck Holdaway, junior from Moose Jaw, was signed to a pro contract by Canucks Dec. 1&hellip; Eddie Leier of Canucks was released from an Edmonton hospital Nov. 26 after a cheek bong operation. He is expected back In about two weeks&hellip; WHL president Al Leader sat in on the Vancouver-Victoria game at Vancouver Dec. 1&hellip; Harry Dick of Canucks and Colin Kilburn and Eddie Dorohoy of Victoria all picked up misconducts which added $30 to the league treasury&hellip; Defenceman Jack Lencien of Canucks will have some surgery done on a broken nose suffered Dec. 28.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

MacKenzie Pulls ‘Bulge’ Battle Using Dechene as a Turk Broda

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01170/1142654-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="637" height="804"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>LUC DECHENE&hellip;</b></p><p><b>&hellip;HIS AVERAGE BOOMS</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Must Trim Waistline

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>eattle, Wash.&mdash;The Tacoma Rockets take a seven game undefeated road record to the prairies with them. Their previous best road record was six wins without a defeat. They have won four and tied three of their last seven games away from home. Calgary went seven games on the road without a defeat until they ran into their nemesis the Saskatoon Quakers who ended the streak in Saskatoon last Saturday, defeating the Stampeders 5-2 for their seventh win out of 8 games with Calgary. These seven loses to Saskatoon accounts for all of the games the Stampeders have lost to date. No other club have been able to defeat Calgary. Vancouver have tied them twice and New Westminster once. The Stampeders have beaten Edmonton five straight games.</p><p>Saskatoon have won their last six games at home. Seattle won their first game of the season on the road Saturday night, defeating New Westminster 6-5. Tacoma have not been able to beat Vancouver at home this season, dropping 3 straight games to the Canucks in Tacoma. In Vancouver they have won two out of three played to data.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Saskatoon Stumps Stamps To Tune of Seven Losses

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02138/1142709-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="332" height="504"></div><p><b>for a man&rsquo;s beer!</b></p><p>And I.P.A. is just that! Brewed to a man&rsquo;s taste, its flavour is full-bodied, zestful and hearty&hellip; a real <i>man&rsquo;s</i> drink. Try it! You&rsquo;ll find it has the character of a. fine, old-time ale. Ask for Labatt&rsquo;s* India Pale Ale&mdash;I.P.A. for short&mdash;and you&rsquo;ll smack your lips with <i>satisfaction.</i> John Labatt Limited.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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It’s a Man’S work…

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01174/1142740-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="969" height="628"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>C</span>harlie Conacher, former Toronto great and more recently coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, right, and Montreal General Manager Frank Selke, centre, listen intently as Nels &lsquo;OI Poison&rsquo; Stewart reminisces about hockey as it was played in his day. Stewart&rsquo;s all-time scoring record was recently eclipsed by Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Visitors to The Montreal Forum

<p><b>SCOTCH WHISKY</b></p><p><b>The Oldest Name in Scotch Famous for 323 Years</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Haig & Haig

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Canada&rsquo;s biggest town is in the throes of a hockey rhubarb. The fans aren&rsquo;t taking kindly to the habit of Hub Macey&rsquo;s Miners of languishing in the basement of the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League&rsquo;.</p><p>And Macey is not at all pleased with the broken promises of his one-time pal and ice boss Norman (Bud) Poile.</p><p>Poile, it will be recalled, was playing coach at Glace Bay last winter. One of the players he persuaded to come with him was Macey, long-time veteran of the ice lanes. When Poile accepted an offer to coach Edmonton in the Western League, he persuaded the Glace Bay management to make Macey the coach. Then he promised the executive and Macey that he would assist in the procurement of players.</p><p>But Poile ran into playing troubles in Edmonton and was unable to help his old pal. In fact he couldn&rsquo;t help himself. And Macey, waiting daily for assistance from Poile, saw his Miners sink lower and lower in the Maritime standings.</p><p>It is a well known fact that Glace Bay fans are Impatient with losers. They demand that their favorites be up with the leaders. If not, they show their displeasure by remaining away from the spacious Forum in the mining town.</p><p>Right now the Miners are down In the league standings, they&rsquo;re far behind In finances and there Is talk that they&rsquo;re about to fold their tents and department, leaving the league with only three clubs. On top of this comes the tale that Poile, in disfavor in Edmonton because his team isn&rsquo;t doing better, may come to Glace Bay and take over from his erstwhile buddy.</p><p>This puts Macey on the spot. It also leaves him a bit bitter. If Poile had fulfilled his pre-season promises the Miners wouldn&rsquo;t be where they are today, Macey contends. If Poile had sent the players Macey wouldn&rsquo;t be working his legs off on the ice and his head in between games.</p><h2><b>Macey Bitter</b></h2><p>Macey has been around a long time. A good many years have passed since he played with Les Canadiens in the National League. Last winter he was well up in the scoring list but he suffered through the 90-game schedule. That was a schedule built for young legs, and Hub is a springer no longer.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0398/1142826-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="299" height="644"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Speedster</b></p><p><b>KEN LAUFMAN</b></p></figcaption></div><p>But being supplanted by the man who promised assistance and failed to make good the promise, would be too much. No wonder Macey is bitter. Of course they&rsquo;ve been friends over such a long period that Macey could probably be reconciled to playing for his old pal again. The big thing, <b><i>ot</i></b> course, is to get the Miners playing winning hockey and the fane back into the rink. If the Miners dropped out now, what would happen to the league isn&rsquo;t a situation anyone will wish to face.</p><p>While the Miners are slumping the Sydney Millionaires are surging. Cliff Roach has his Moneymen in high gear these days. Latest accomplishment was <b>a</b> double victory over Halifax Atlantics. These twin wins sent the Mills a game ahead of the third place Charlottetown Islanders and within three games of the league leading Atlantics.</p><p>Murph Chamberlain is still In the market for players for his Islanders, but he admits frankly he is having his troubles. He says he had a couple of seasoned players, a couple of tough guy as he puts it, all ready to sign on the dotted line. Then they found out the length of the Maritime schedule and turned thumbs down.</p><p>It&rsquo;s like this. Last year they played 90 games each, and there were six teams. This season they decided to whittle it down to 78. But the teams with the smaller rinks said they couldn&rsquo;t get along financially with only three home games every two weeks. They needed two homes games every week.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Macey Irked At Poile’s Failure To Send Players To Bolster Sagging Bay

<div class="byline">By LIONEL WILSON</div><p>PRINCE ALBERT, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Ever since the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League was moulded into a four-team loop some four years ago, it has often been dubbed the &ldquo;weak sister&rdquo; of the western junior circuits.</p><p>The present league is comprised of the &ldquo;leftovers&rdquo; of the old Saskatchewan Junior League that also included Regina Pats and Moose Jaw Canucks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02124/1142771-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="156" height="245"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Skip McKay</b></figcaption></div><p>The pats and Canucks combined with four Alberta communities to form the Western Junior Hockey League (Edmonton Oil Kings have since been added).</p><p>The three Northern Saskatchewan clubs left, Prince Albert Mintos, Humboldt Indians and Saskatoon Wesleys, collaborated with Flin Flon Bombers to become what is now known as the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.</p><p>So far, tills league has not fared too well against the rival league to the south.</p><p>Four years ago, Moose Jaw Canucks whipped the Mintos in straight games. Regina Pats repeated the shellacking against the same Mintos three seasons ago.</p><p>The closest the Saskatchewan Junior League representative came to bowling over the southerners was in the 1950-51 playoff when the Mintos lost the first two games of their best-of-five series with Regina Pats and then bounced back to take the next two and came within a minute of copping the final contest.</p><p>Last year, Alex Shibicky&rsquo;s Flin Flon Bombers lost quite ignominously to Regina in four straight games.</p><p>However, most hockey followers in this league felt that the last-place Bombers were not the loop&rsquo;s best team. They were held up in the playoffs by goaltender, Bob Lalonde who didn&rsquo;t show up too well against the Pats.</p><p>This season however, the hockey fandom in these parts feels that this is &ldquo;the&rdquo; year.</p><p>The league is &ldquo;loaded&rdquo; with talent as it never has been before. Such hockeyists as Don Campbell, Bob Lalonde, Joe Connors, Eddie Ponagabko, Eddie Kassian, Dale Sweany, Bill Dobbyn, Frank Kuzma and Skip MacKay would more than hold their own in other western junior loops.</p><h2><b>Turnstiles Click</b></h2><p>Added to this is the fact that the guy with the greenbacks, Joe Fan, is clicking the turnstiles at the merriest clip ever.</p><p>Even in Saskatoon, where the Wesleys were lucky to draw 200 fans three years ago, crowds of up to ten times that figure have been turning out.</p><p>Humboldt is enjoying a bonanza. The town of Scotty Munro, which hasn&rsquo;t a population of much more than 2,000, has been drawing approximately the same size crowd as Saskatoon.</p><p>Prince Albert is getting crowds of up to 2,500 even though Mintos are mired in the cellar of the league. This city&rsquo;s crowds usually shoot up after Christmas.</p><p>We have had no report on how Flin Flon is drawing them in but we imagine with a first-place club the Bombers won&rsquo;t be exactly &ldquo;starving&rdquo; at the box-office.</p><p>If the present rate of arena-packing continues there seems little doubt that all four teams will finish up the season&rsquo;s activities well up In the black which is unusual nowadays.</p><p>At the time this story was written, Skip MacKay, string bean Minto right-winger, was leading the league in scoring with 36 points.</p><p>The Vancouver product set some sort of record for this circuit when he scored in eleven consecutive games. During that time he sniped no less than 21 goals.</p><p>Five points back of MacKay was Frank Kuzma, brilliant Humboldt Indian right-winger, defenseman, penalty-killer, ticket-seller and what have you.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-02

Saskatchewan Junior Fans Feel That This Could Be ‘The Year’

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que,&mdash;</p><p>Despite the fact the Montreal Royals took a week off the other clubs in the Quebec Senior Hockey League weren&rsquo;t able to make much impression in the first place lead Pete Morin&rsquo;s marauders had gathered.</p><p>Johnny O&rsquo;FIaherty&rsquo;s Ottawa Senators made the best showing. They by-passed the Valleyfield Braves into second place and were thundering along in fine style at the turn of the new week only three points in arrears of the Montrealers. When Royals took a holiday they were four points up on Braves, then in second place.</p><p>It would seem that Senators are Just about the hottest and coldest alternate proposition Mr. George Slater&rsquo;s circuit is able to produce.</p><p>After getting sloughed 8-2 by <b>the</b> Shawinigan Falls Cataracts in a grudge battle, the Barber Poles got out the whitewash brush and plastered Sherbrooke Saints 2-0 <b>at</b> the nation&rsquo;s capital, and then <b>held</b> a scalping party at the Braves&rsquo; wigwam and handed the Valleyfield warriors the tonsorial treatment, 7-4.</p><p>In the first instance it was Ray Frederick&rsquo;s fourth shutout of the campaign; in the second case Toe Blake&rsquo;s forces were tumbled to fourth place&mdash;even on points with Chicoutimi Sagueneens, but behind them in the scoring aver<b>ages.</b></p><h2><b>Leo &ldquo;The Lion&rdquo; Hungry</b></h2><p>Leo &ldquo;The Lion&rdquo; Gravelle, was the bellwether in this triumph for the Ottawas scor<b>ing a</b> pair of tallies while singles were marked up by Bill Johnson, George Ford, Jackie LeClair, Vic Grigg and Emile Dagenais. The Valleyfield snipers were Carl Smelle, Bruce Cline, Kitoute Joannette and Jacques Deslauriers.</p><p>The Braves found the going rough indeed, since they were nosed out 4-3 on Sunday by Sherbrooke Saints to make it a double weekend disaster for the Valleyfield loyal rooters. It&rsquo;s a long time since the warriors had such a setback. Things were all the more smarting since the Dugremen plunked home the rutabaga three times in the last period, and at one point of the piece the Braves held a two-goal lead. Rene Pepin turned the switch for the winner, and others to score for Sherbrooke were Jacques Locas, Pete Wright and Tod Campeau. Larry Kwong clicked for a pair for Valleyfield and Jean Paul Blsaillon got the third.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01139/1142864-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="309" height="802"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Flying&hellip;</b></p><p><b>BUCKY BUCHANAN</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Rollle Hebert keeps his Chlcoutimi Sagueneens rolling so that they&rsquo;re never too far out of hailing range to the pace-makers. The Chicks invaded Quebec City and gave the Aces the business 3-1. Out of the ordinary was the fact that all the goals were scored in the third period Ralph (Bucky) Buchanan, generally prolific, got a pair of markers while Stan Smrke got the odd one. Claude Robert chalked Quebec&rsquo;s only counter.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02109/1142857-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="314" height="377"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>for Chics&hellip;</b></p><p><b>LOU SMRKE</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Punch Imlach is having his troubles. Without Jean Beliveau in the line-up the Aces just don&rsquo;t seem to have enough drive to get into a regular winning mood. The big guy had been sidelined a week as these priceless lines were headed presswise, and there was no immediate notice of his rapid return. It was a smash into the boards at Chicoutimi, November 30 which put Beliveau on the shelf with an injured hip.</p><h2><b>Maybe&mdash;Smoked Herring</b></h2><p>There have been persistent rumours around the hockeygossip shops that Beliveau may be with the NHL Canadiens by the turn into 1953. In fact Frank Selke sort of implied this in a fanning bee with Monttreal scribes, but later the Forum Habitant boss said his wishful thinking might have been misunderstood. Anyway, one waggish writer said &ldquo;where there&rsquo;s smoke you&rsquo;ll likely get some cured bacon&rdquo;.</p><p>Yves Nadon takes the modest approach to his new duties as coach of the Shawinigan Cataracts. He told the writer when the Cats were in Montreal last weekend that he was reluctant to succeed Don Penniston, since he once had played for Don, and the latter had taught him nearly all the hockey he knew.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t until he was thoroughly convinced that Penniston was definitely on the outs with the Shawinigan Fall directors that Nadon agreed to take the job.</p><p>The Cats have been hitting a few high spots since he took over. Their 8-2 victory over Senators of course was about the brightest day of the season at Shawinigan Falls.</p><p>Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty had mentioned that the Falls team needed bolstering and something should be done about things, and that they weren&rsquo;t playing very good hockey, attracting few customers into the rinks when they were on the road.</p><p>This expression of opinion got the Cats ired up and they turned in their noblest effort, and lighted all the fires of enthusiasm against the Barber Poles. Joe Tremblay, drum-beater for Saints got into the act by writing to Montreal sports editors and this grabbed quite a dab of ink.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-01

Blake’s Braves Tumble to Fourth with Nats Moving Up to 2nd Spot

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>incinnati&mdash;The Cincinnati Mohawks of the International Hockey League staged an intersquad game for the fans after their scheduled game with the Troy Bruins was cancelled due to heavy snows making the roads impassable.</p><p>The Bruins were delayed while still an hour away from Cincinnati. The game will be re-scheduled at a later date. The date will be announced in the near future.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Troy Team Snow-Bound So Mohawks Play Exhibition

<h2><b>EASTERN CANADA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01147/1143101-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="325" height="70"></div><h2><b>NEW BRUNSWICK SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0289/1143094-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="326" height="55"></div><h2><b>MARITIME MAJOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0356/1143087-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="327" height="57"></div><h2><b>LAKE ST. JOHN</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0442/1143080-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="326" height="75"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0532/1143073-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="327" height="301"></div><h2><b>PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0628/1143066-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="327" height="73"></div><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0725/1143059-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="326" height="90"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS NOV. 29)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0819/1143052-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="325" height="116"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPER&rsquo;S RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0917/1143045-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="326" height="148"></div><h2><b>NOHA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS NOV. 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1014/1143038-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="326" height="73"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1112/1143031-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="325" height="163"></div><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1212/1143024-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="326" height="103"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1312/1143017-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="324" height="207"></div><h2><b>CENTRAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS NOV. 23)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1411/1143010-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="324" height="88"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1511/1143003-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="324" height="105"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1611/1142996-1-eng-US/f0018-162.jpg" title="f0018-16" width="329" height="74"></div><h2><b>OHA JUNIOR B</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1710/1142989-1-eng-US/f0018-172.jpg" title="f0018-17" width="328" height="103"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-1810/1142982-1-eng-US/f0018-182.jpg" title="f0018-18" width="326" height="74"></div><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-199/1142975-1-eng-US/f0018-192.jpg" title="f0018-19" width="326" height="103"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS NOV. 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-209/1142968-1-eng-US/f0018-202.jpg" title="f0018-20" width="326" height="74"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-219/1142961-1-eng-US/f0018-212.jpg" title="f0018-21" width="326" height="166"></div><h2><b>OHA JUNIOR A</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS NOV. 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-228/1142954-1-eng-US/f0018-222.jpg" title="f0018-22" width="327" height="149"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-237/1142947-1-eng-US/f0018-232.jpg" title="f0018-23" width="325" height="312"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-246/1142940-1-eng-US/f0018-242.jpg" title="f0018-24" width="326" height="118"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-256/1142933-1-eng-US/f0018-252.jpg" title="f0018-25" width="329" height="402"></div><h2><b>CENTRAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-265/1142926-1-eng-US/f0018-262.jpg" title="f0018-26" width="319" height="70"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-275/1142919-1-eng-US/f0018-272.jpg" title="f0018-27" width="316" height="181"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-01

Amateur Parade At A Fast Glance

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><p>BARRIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p><b>Russian propagandists who deplore the &ldquo;beastly beizbol&rdquo; that is played in the U.S. should dispatch one of their Red agents to snoop around the turbulent OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit if they wish to convince the peasants of the decadence of the capitalist athletes (sic).</b></p><p>Russian roulette and the Lenin hop-step-and-jump with loaded grenade are mere parlor games when compared with the incendiary deportment of some of the young dynamos in Ontario&rsquo;s teenage battle arenas in recent games.</p><p>The ebullience of the players spilled over the boards and infected the fans in one or two instances. One player was seized from behind while he was seated on the bench and the gendarmes had to be summoned in a hurry to prevent an old-fashioned necktie party from stealing the acclaim reserved for the hockey attraction.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-283/1143132-1-eng-US/f0018-282.jpg" title="f0018-28" width="306" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HUGH McLEAN</b></figcaption></div><p>Pyrotechnics first started popping in the Barrie Arena when Phil Watson&rsquo;s Quebec Citadelles and Hap Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers exploded in their much-ballyhoed grudge match. A few weeks ago the Flyers were subjected to a severe mauling in Quebec City and Emms, blazing with anger, vowed he would extract revenge when the teams met in Barrie.</p><p>Quebec spokesmen derided Emms&rsquo; wild claims but they were forced to concede that he was right when the Flyers blasted the Cits 9-2 before 4,000 vociferous fans in Barrie. &ldquo;I told you so,&rdquo; the triumphant Barrie coach crowed after the game. &ldquo;All you got to do is hit them in the first few minutes and they&rsquo;re through.&rdquo;</p><p>Watson, weeping in his rage, was forced to agree with this analysis, the only harmonious note struck by this volatile pair all season. Watson was infuriated with several of his players and he fined them $25 each for not assisting Quebec goalie Marcel Paille in one of the game&rsquo;s principal bouts.</p><h2><b>Watson Blasts McLean</b></h2><p>Watson conceded that his team was outclassed by Barrie but he stormed at the officiating of Hughie McLean, former NHL referee. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen a worse referee,&rdquo; he bellowed. &ldquo;He gave 29 penalties, 16 of them to us. We couldn&rsquo;t blow our nose without getting a penalty. But that bunch of farmers from Barrie deserved 66 of them. When I was playing with New York Rangers we used to hope McLean would referee our games in New York because he was such a homer. And the fact that the National League got rid of him only proves he&rsquo;s no good.&rdquo;</p><p>In his own defence McLean pointed out that Watson&rsquo;s words were pure fabrication. &ldquo;But that&rsquo;s what you can expect of a guy like Watson,&rdquo; McLean said. &ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t play any games for Rangers that I refereed. It looks like the newspapers are putting the blame on me for everything.&rdquo;</p><p>A 6,000 plus crowd in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens witnessed plenty of unscheduled action in another recent game between Toronto Marlboros and Oshawa Generals. Outcome of that schemozzle was a match penalty to Marlboros&rsquo; irascible right-winger, Jerry James.</p><p>James crashed Oshawa&rsquo;s Phil Chapman into the boards and then cracked him across the back of the head with his stick, opening a seven-stitch gash. This naturally provoked a general brawl although James was safely convoyed to the Marlboro bench.</p><p>While he was sitting there mediating his transgression he was jumped from behind by a fan, later identified as Phil Chapman Sr. Chapman Sr., evidently incensed at the injury of his son, clamped a strangle-hold on James but he was yanked away by Toronto coach Reg Hamilton and Gardens&rsquo; policemen. The elder Chapman was given an undignified bum&rsquo;s rush right out of the rink.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-28

“I Told You So” Says Emms After Outfighting Cits

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>ARRIE&mdash;Coach Happ Emma of the Barrie Flyers was elated after his team had thumped the Quebec Citadels of JAHA 9-2 in an inter-locking game. Previously his club had lost to the Cits 4-2 in Quebec.</p><p>&ldquo;I told you they didn&rsquo;t have any intestinal fortitude&rdquo;, roared Emms. &ldquo;Air you got to do is hit &lsquo;em in the first few minutes and they&rsquo;re through!&rdquo;</p><p>Hit &lsquo;em they did. There were a total of 30 penalties called, in the three hour contest. After the game in Quebec City Emms had stated that he was willing to bet $50 or $100 that the Cits wouldn&rsquo;t get within six goals of his club in Barrie.</p><p>He was right.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

“Hit ‘em In First Few Minutes” Ems

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01126/1143194-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="636" height="1068"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS.</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Canadien star pictured In centre.</p><p>3&mdash;Plays goal for Syracuse.</p><p>7&mdash;Leo LaBine is said to have this.</p><p>8&mdash;First name of a Ranger player.</p><p>11&mdash;Jerry Toppazzinl plays this position.</p><p>16&mdash;Birthplace of Frank Sullivan.</p><p>17&mdash;Short for first name of Ford of Pittsburgh.</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of a Seattle forward.</p><p>20&mdash;Initials of Newhouser, baseball star.</p><p>21&mdash;Pictured player&rsquo;s Initials.</p><p>22&mdash;This Chicago player is called George.</p><p>23&mdash;Dick Irvin likes players to do this.</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of Dugre, Sherbrooke coach.</p><p>26&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Poile did not play, (abbr).</p><p>27&mdash;Plays for for Calgary Stampeders, called Roy.</p><p>2 9&mdash;Preposition.</p><p>30&mdash;Nickname of a W.H.L. coach.</p><p>32&mdash;Herb Dickenson had one injured recently.</p><p>34&mdash;This player was given a &ldquo;Night&rdquo; in Providence recently.</p><p>37&mdash;Nickname of 15 down.</p><p>38&mdash;Initials of Williams of Cleveland.</p><h2><b>DOWN.</b></h2><p>1&mdash;One of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>2&mdash;Ray Manson&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>3&mdash;Initials of a Montreal winger</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of a Ranger veteran.</p><p>5&mdash;Fontinato of Vancouver answers to this.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of a New York rearguard.</p><p>9&mdash;Ells English (abbr).</p><p>10&mdash;First name of Lamoureux, former Canadien.</p><p>12&mdash;New Rochelle (abbr).</p><p>13&mdash;Gerry McNeil got one on Nov. 15th (abbr).</p><p>14&mdash;Leafs start all home games at the South&mdash;of the rink.</p><p>15&mdash;Plays for St. Louis.</p><p>18&mdash;First name of Chorley of Pittsburgh.</p><p>20&mdash;Given name of MacDonald, W.H.L. linesman.</p><p>21&mdash;One of the Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>22&mdash;Neil Strain&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>24&mdash;Ton (abbr).</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of Barlow of Saskatoon.</p><p>28&mdash;Each (abbr).</p><p>31&mdash;Gus Kyle was the&mdash;man of the N.H.L. last season.</p><p>33&mdash;Initials of a W.H.L. coach.</p><p>34&mdash;Unger&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>35&mdash;Initials of Defelice, former A.H.L. player.</p><p>36&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom Church Russell once played (abbr).</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/f0019-0289/1143187-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="320" height="499"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOCKEY X-WORD

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Heads their Christmas gift lists…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0020-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01102/1143270-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0242/1143263-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="1650" height="904"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">((Photos by Turoftsky))</span></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>G</span>erry Stops Leafs. Wee Gerry McNeil had his hands full when the Habs took on the Toronto Maple Leafs recently. In the above photos he makes two sensational saves. In the upper picture he does the splits to clear Tod Sloan&rsquo;s sizzler off into the corner. Doug Harvey, left and Busher Curry lend a hand on the play. In the lower photo Tom Johnson moves in to clear the rebound after Gerry had gone to one knee to block Bob Solinger&rsquo;s drive. The Canadiens came from behind to tie the score 2-2.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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