The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.

January 3, 1953

The Hockey News January 3, 1953

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01132/1011071-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>wo of the most controversial figures in hockey are seen in the above shot as they prepare to take the ice. Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard, the idol of every hockey fan in Montreal, is seen on the right and on the left is big Jean Beliveau, who may eventually take up where the Rocket leaves off as the number one man among Canada&rsquo;s French Canadian sports fans. Recently Beliveau, better known in Quebec as Gros Bill, came up to the Montreal Canadiens on a three game lend-lease deal from the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Senior Hockey League. To say that he looked as if he might make the grade would be the understatement of the year for the 6&rsquo;3&rdquo;, 210 pound youngster scored five goals in those three games. If he were ever able to keep up that rate as an NHL regular, he would end up the season with something like 115 goals. Of course no one expects him to go to that extreme but they do figure that if and when the much sought after amateur does turn pro, he&rsquo;ll be one of the most colourful and capable stars in the game. Contrary to what everyone figured, Richard welcomed the highly paid senior with open arms and worked extra hard to help him, in fact drawing assists on four of the Beliveau goals.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-01

IN THIS ISSUE

Present Star and Future Star?

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, III.&mdash;Doug and Max Bentley and Billy Mosienko are probably the greatest farm products of the Chicago Back Hawks. The famed brother combination, now just a memory to fans, came out of Delisle, Sask, a dozen years ago while &ldquo;Mosie&rdquo; is from Winnipeg, Man.</p><p>Billy is the only one of the three still with the Chihawks He&rsquo;s now in his 11th season. Max Bentley was traded to Toronto, with whom he still stars, in 19 47. Doug retired from the Hawks and the National league early last season. He now is player-coach with Saskatoon in the Western circuit.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bentleys and Mosienko Best of Farm Products

<p>&ldquo;Born, Renfrew, Ont., July 29, 1925.</p><p>Left wing. Shoots left. 5&rsquo; 8&rdquo;, 163 lbs.</p><p>Last amateur club:</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s College, Toronto (Juniors).</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0328/1009610-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="877" height="515"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-03

Lindsay, Robert Blake Theodore

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0218/1011728-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="249" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0119/1011735-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="237" height="300"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0317/1011721-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2990" height="1707"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0413/1011714-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2981" height="1714"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Howie Meeker spreads his feet wide apart to get more power into his shot but to no avail as Al Rollins spreads all over the goal mouth to ward off the drive. Harry Watson directly behind Meeker yelis encouragement while Bill Gadsby, right, wheels in to lower the boom on the Member of Parliament. In the lower shot it looks like something found in the last minute rush for the subway but actually it&rsquo;s NHL action around the Chicago Black Hawk goal. Caught in the middle and about to hit the ice is Al Dewsbury while left is Gus Bodnar and centre Gus Mortson. The Leaf player with stick raised on high is rookie Gordie Hannigan. In the background another rookie, Pete Conacher, is seen controlling the rubber.</b> <span class="photo-credit">((Photos by Turofsky))</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

C4-02

Howie the Statesman Meets Al the Coaler

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0139/1011773-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0229/1011766-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2966" height="1708"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WHEN EX-TEAMMATES GET TOGETHER! In the top picture Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; Al Rollins, late of the Toronto Maple Leafs, stops a drive off the stick of his former teammate Jim Thomson. Both seem to be enjoying the reunion immensley. In the lower photo Rollins is again sprawlin&rsquo;, this time to stop Harry Watson&rsquo;s shot. Bill Gadsby puts out his hand to stop himself from toppling to the ice as he skates in to try and put the stopper on Watson, while in the background Jim McFadden rushes to the aid of the downed cage</b> Custodian. <span class="photo-credit">((Photos by Turofsky))</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

Cover-01

Al Rollins Holds Reunion With Leafs

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>An infuential partner is providing material assistance to the Bruins as they rebuild hockey enthusiasm here with their determined surge into championship contention.</p><p>The partnership, which doesn&rsquo;t extend to relations on the ice, embraces the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>The influence is concentrated on box office returns.</p><p>Of the 15 biggest crowds before which the Bruins have played here in the last three seasons, nine have seen the Canadiens as parties of the second part.</p><p>The Bruins and Canadiens make the Garden&rsquo;s cash registers jingle jangle jingle like no other combination does.</p><p>This season alone three of the four biggest, turnouts have been for meetings of the twain, the exception. being the game with Detroit which was played as the feature of the Garden&rsquo;s 25th anniversary celebration.</p><p>The turnstile tide reached its peak for the season last week when the Canadiens wheeled into town with Jean Beliveau in their lineup.</p><p>Fed a steady diet of Beliveau for a week before the game, a round 13,000 cash customers turned out to see the Quebec SuperBoy and his colorful playmates play the Bruins.</p><p>The Canadiens didn&rsquo;t have to play Beliveau here. They had him for only three games, and Frank Selke could have restricted him to games in Montreal.</p><p>Instead, the Montreal general manager arranged to have him play here, and gave the Bruins a full week&rsquo;s notice that he was coming.</p><p>Beliveau received more advance advertising than any visiting hockey player, if not any visiting athlete, has received here in recent years.</p><p>The young man&rsquo;s healthy salary, his imposing physique, his scoring feats became topics of general conversation, wrapped around speculation on whether or not the Bruins could deflate his reputation.</p><p>The day after he scored three goals against the New York Rangers, his pictures adorned most of the sports pages. People referred to him as Belleview, Belvidere and a variety of other names, but they referred to him.</p><p>But the 21-year-old, who scored two goals in his game here, was only the latest of a long list of Montreal players who, according to Walter Brown, have been materially responsible for establishing the reputation of the Canadiens here.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve always had colorful players ever since they&rsquo;ve been coming here.&rdquo; related the Bruins&rsquo; president, &ldquo;and they&rsquo;ve always played crowd-pleasing hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;They used to have Howie Morenz, Pit Lepine, Aurel Joliat and those other old-timers, who came here to play Shore, Hitchman, Clapper and Gainor, and then Richard, Bouchard, Toe Blake and the others came down to play Schmidt, Cowley, Brimsek and the Bruins of more recent years.</p><p>&ldquo;Over the years they&rsquo;ve been the best drawing cards here,&rsquo;&rsquo; he added, &ldquo;and only Toronto has come close to matching them as an attraction.&rdquo;</p><p>It is significant that for their last 2 0 games here, the Bruins and Canadiens have averaged more than 10,000 customers per game, above the Bruins&rsquo; average attendance for the last three years.</p><p>The night that Beliveau was here, the old rivals gave the turnout its fill of excitement. The Bruins, playing without three injured regulars and with several other participants in poor condition, put up a terrific fight which had literal interpretations in jams between Jack McIntyre and BoomBoom Geoffrion and Milt Schmidt and Richard.</p><p>The explosive game had a sufficient number of smouldering incidents to set the stage for another explosive game when the Canadiens come here again, early in February.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the situation which has prevailed for a quarter-century, to the tune of tinkling cash registers. When the Canadiens come to town, things happen, and lots of people like to see them.</p><h2><b>Pay for Him</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0156/1009424-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="570" height="1398"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-01

Colorful Habs Big Reason for Bruins’ Boost at Turnstile

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON&mdash;On the eve of Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s first appearance here with the Montreal Canadiens, the Bruins&rsquo; office received the following telegram from Montreal:</p><p>&ldquo;Convey to your hockey fans that Montreal Canadiens play in your Garden Sunday with the world&rsquo;s greatest defense plus world&rsquo;s greatest goaltender.</p><p>&ldquo;Will have on exhibition world&rsquo;s greatest amateur hockey player who will succeed Elmer Lach as world&rsquo;s greatest centerman.</p><p>&ldquo;Expect you to have world&rsquo;s record attendance at your Garden.</p><p>Regards,</p><p>World&rsquo;s Greatest Coach Dick Irvin&rdquo;.</p><p>Irvin&rsquo;s message was conveyed to Boston hockey fans&mdash;verbatim.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Greatest

<div class="byline">By BCD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>When Capt. Bill Gadsby potted the clincher against Harry Lumley and Toronto to end the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; eight-game victory famine recently, it brought back some fond memories to the veteran rearguard. He was thinking of a night some seven years ago that was remarkably similar.</p><p>It was on that occasion that Bill scored a goal that still ranks as his all-time biggest hockey thrill. Like his effort the other night, it broke a 2-all deadlock in the third period and beat the same Mr. Lumley, who was then tending the twine as a Detroit Red Wing.</p><p>&ldquo;That was really somethin&rsquo; and it came in the last couple of seconds,&rdquo; Gadsby recalled. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll never forget that look he had on his face when he realized the puck had gone in the net. The fans loved that game. Earlier, you remember, Mariucci and Jack Stewart had that famous battle along the Detroit bench.&rdquo;</p><p>The Hawks&rsquo; &ldquo;Ah, at last!&rdquo; triumph over the Maple Leafs was the result of another reshuffling of forward combinations by Coacn Sid Abel, whose return as a fulltime competitor seems to have given the team more vigor than ever. He began experimenting with his attackers shortly after the club went into its winless dive early in December.</p><p>At the regular morning chalk talk before the Toronto game, Sid announced that he was moving Gus Bodnar over onto the right side of Jim McFadden and Jim Peters and that Fred Hucul would take on the same slot with Billy Mosienko and Cal Gardner. &ldquo;Hue&rdquo; had previously been used only sparingly as a fifth defenseman.</p><p>The only forward force that wasn&rsquo;t changed kept Gerry Couture and George Gee as the flankers for Abel. This trio, actually only a week old as a unit, had been shouldering most of the Chicago scoring prowess with a record of four goals and six assists in two tie games.</p><p>All three lines showed excellently in the Toronto contest. Peters notched the tying goal early in the second stanza with Bodnar and McFadden drawing assists. The latter, looking much happier back at the center ice (he had worked briefly at left wing), also received an assist on Al Dewsbury&rsquo;s opener for the Black Hawks.</p><p>Gardner and Hucul were credited with setting up the important Gadsby tally. Freddie, who played on the port side of Sid Finney and Steve Witiuk last season, turned in a satisfying performance and Hawk officials were quick to announce that he had won the job for at least the near future.</p><p><b>HAWK TALK:</b> Late in the Toronto game, Hucul pulled a real &ldquo;Goose&rdquo; Tatum when he stickhandled the puck for several seconds after being knocked to his knees&hellip;The Hawks&rsquo; annual dressing room Christmas party was held the next night with Abel filling the bill as a happy Santa.</p><p>Barbara Ann Scott, beautious star of the Hollywood Ice Revue, was an excited onlooker and visited the press box for a radio interview between periods. She is gracing the Chicago Stadium ice during the Chihawks&rsquo; annual holiday road trip. Barbara, who hails from Toronto, took the Leafs&rsquo; defeat with a smile.</p><p>Hawk General Manager Bill Tobin, who handed out very nice steak knife sets as Christmas gifts this year, revealed that Enio Sclisizzi would be brought up from St. Louis to replace the suspended Pete Babando. After their first tussle with his name, Chicago hockey writers eagerly suggested that Sclisizzi revert back to his old and simpler monicker of just Jim Enio.</p><p>After the announcement of Babando&rsquo;s 30-day suspension was made, Tobin revealed that it would not last for a month, but &ldquo;until he reports to St. Louis.&rdquo; Pete would preferably like to play in the Quebec Senior League, it&rsquo;s believed. He may want to get into action with his &ldquo;buddy,&rdquo; Bep Guidolin, who is now with Ottawa in that circuit.</p><h2><b>Winner and Loser</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0247/1009486-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="590" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL GADSBY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0342/1009479-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="600" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE BABANDO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-02

Gadsby’s Blast Past Lum Halts Hawks Win Famine at Big Eight

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, III.&mdash;When Capt. Bill Gadsby scored what turned out to be the winning goal for the Chicago Black Hawks against Toronto December 21, he became the 10th member of the club to garner a clinch goal so far this season. The victory was the Hawks&rsquo; 13th of the season and came after eight games without a win.</p><p>Cal Gardner, Gus Bodnar and Pete Babando are the only Chi stars that have netted two winning markers. Those, besides Gadsby, who have gotten one clincher each to date are Lee Fogolin, Jim McFadden, Gerry Couture, Jimmy Peters, Fred Hucul and Gus Mortson. Like Gadsby, Fogolin&rsquo;s counter is his only one so far this season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bill Tenth to Score Clincher

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0429/1009541-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="272" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John Wilson</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Neat and tidy, the Red Wings have done their best to get the books all balanced properly with no loose strings as the year 1952 came to an end.</p><p>Both as a team and individually, they have managed to get about every possible item on the profitable side of the ledger.</p><p>First, a look at the team situation. As 1953 approached Detroit had climbed back into the National Hockey League saddle. They were out of first place, the spot occupied for the last four season, during a stretch of six weeks. But on Dec. 7 they climbed back into first and since have built up the biggest lead held by any club.</p><p>At the same time, they were credited with more victories, fewer defeats, more goals-for and fewer goals-against than any of the five other teams.</p><p>Individually, they could point with pride to these facts:</p><p>Gordie Howe was leading the loop in goals and in total points, the same sort of thing he&rsquo;s done for three seasons now.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk was back on top in the Vezina Trophy chase, right where he finished a year ago.</p><p>Four or five other Detroiters were among the top 10 scorers in the NHL, either in points or goals or both. In that select group besides Ho we were Ted Lindsay, Metro Prystai, Alex Delvecchio, Red Kelly and Johnny Wilson.</p><p>Lindsay and Prystai had cleaned up on some unfinished personal business, Lindsay by getting his 200th NHL goal and Prystai his 100th.</p><p>In addition that early-season yammering about Detroit not being a good road club had been stiffled. You&rsquo;ll recall the Wings failed to win one of their first seven road games. But since then they&rsquo;ve won six and tied another.</p><p>A new home streak also was started atronto victory here early in November marked the first defeat in 19 Olympia appearances. But no one has done it again in the last 10 starts on home ice.</p><p>Add this all up and you&rsquo;ll understand why, when anyone wishes a Red Wing &ldquo;Happy New Year&rdquo;, he can answer: &ldquo;Just as happy as 1952, I hope.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-04

Wings Enter 1953 Leading in Everything

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The reporter set out to interview Ted Lindsay, who had just scored the 200th goal of the his National Hockey League career.</p><p>Such a noteworthy event always Calls for a background resume, and why trust to memory when the man involved is at hand.</p><p>So the following conversation took place:</p><p>Q. &ldquo;Which of your 200 goals do you particularly recall?&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>A. &ldquo;Well&hellip;let&rsquo;s see&hellip;there was that one last year which brike a tie and won a game in Montreal. No, wait a minute, I didn&rsquo;t get that one. I made a pass and Gordie (Howe) scored it.</p><p>&ldquo;Say I do remember a big goal against Toronto, but I think that came in the playoffs and doesn&rsquo;t count in the 200.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Q. &ldquo;Do you remember your 100th goal, the other &ldquo;milestone&rsquo; tally, as they say?&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>A. &ldquo;Gee, I can&rsquo;t for the life of me tell you when that was. I know I have the puck autographed by all the players here in the house, but I don&rsquo;t remember the game.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Q. &ldquo;Ted, tell me about your first NHL goal. I know most players always call that one a big moment in their career.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>A. &ldquo;You got me again. That was a long time ago. I guess it was my sixth or seventh, game for Detroit, but I don&rsquo;t remember anything about it.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Before another question could be phrased, Lindsay interrupted.</p><p>&ldquo;You know, I can always remember my last goal. But as soon as I get another one, I forget the rest.</p><p>&ldquo;After all, in this game, it isn&rsquo;t the ones you&rsquo;ve already scored&mdash;it&rsquo;s the ones you&rsquo;ve got to get next which really count.&rdquo;</p><p>On that basis you drop the conversation.</p><p>That is a distinct impression that Lindsay is a mighty modest youngster when it comes to talking about himself. And there&rsquo;s also a strong feeling that he&rsquo;s not going to be content to rest on his laurels until he&rsquo;s hung up the skates for the last time.</p><p>Maybe it&rsquo;s that determined spirit&mdash;with his eye on the future and not the past&mdash;that has made Lindsay one of Detroit&rsquo;s &ldquo;super stars&rdquo; for the past six seasons.</p><p>POST SCRIPT: Just for the record, back issues of newspapers gives some of the answers which Lindsay didn&rsquo;t recall.</p><p>First of the 220 goals came in his second game for Detroit on Nov. 3, 1944. It was the eight goal in a 10-3 sprint over New York Rangers and read: Lindsay, assisted by Armstrong and Carveth, at 8: 42 of the third period.</p><p>Goal No. 100 came under circumstances you&rsquo;d think no player ever would forget. It completed the &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; on Feb. 2, 1949 in a 6-4 victory over Chicago, and read: Lindsay, assisted by Kelly, at &lsquo;5: 16 of the second period.</p><p>Goal No. 200 was registered in Ted&rsquo;s 4 98th game, on Dec. 21, and was the opening tally in a 5-2 triumph in New York. The play went Lindsay, assisted by Howe and Pronovost, at 15: 27 of the first period.</p><p>Now that he has founded the Red Wings&rsquo; 200-Goal Club, Ted Lindsay can prepare to initiate another member soon&mdash;Gordie Howe.</p><p>When Lindsay got his 200th on Dec. 21, he became the 23rd player in National Hockey League history to join the select circle, and the first Detroiter.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0245/1009579-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="945" height="955"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TED LINDSAY</b></figcaption></div><p>Howe may also reach that mark this season. When Ted got No. 200, Gordie had 177. Getting 23 more (making 4 0 for the entire campaign) isn&rsquo;t an unreasonable order the way Howe operates.</p><p>Those two Production Line buddies are the only present-day Wings who have topped the 100-goaJ mark. Metro Prystai came up with the 100th of his NHL career the same night Lindsay got his 200th, But Metro&rsquo;s first 48 came while he toiled for Chicago.</p><p>In the Detroit club&rsquo;s 26-year history, only 10 players have hit for 100 or more goals for the team.</p><p>Lindsay has been the champ ever since he notched his first tally this season. That was No. 188, breaking the tie he held with Syd Howe. Incidentally, Syd had 239 goals in his over-all career counting service elsewhere.</p><p>Third highest goal-getter in club records is Sid Abel, who had 184 before leaving to become Chicago&rsquo;s playing-coach.</p><p>Next is Gordie Howe with his 177.</p><p>All the others who topped the 100 mark retired some time back. Their totals, in order, were Herbie Lewis 148, the late Larry Aurie 147, Carl Liscombe and Mud Bruneteau 137, Ebbie Goodfellow 134 and Joe Carveth 104.</p><p>Headlines tell how plentiful goals are with the Red Wings this season&mdash;the team leads the league in scoring, Gordie Howe is No. 1 individually, Ted Lindsay recently got his 200th and Metro Prystai his 100th.</p><p>All of which leaves Bob Goldham on the outside looking in.</p><p>Bob&rsquo;s job is defense, not offense, yet you can&rsquo;t blame a fellow for wishing.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t even remember the last time I scored&mdash;it was that long ago,&rdquo; says Goldham, who is recognized as one of the finest defensive defensemen in the business.</p><p>The record book tells the answer, however. Bob had gone 119 games with a goal, and that tally was well concealed in the midst of an 11-goal spree against Chicago on Feb. 7, 1951.</p><p>Bob played 19 more games that season, 69 last and 31 so far this season without clicking. No Detroiter has been searching longer.</p><p>&ldquo;This may sound like sour grapes,&rdquo; Goldham says, &ldquo;But I get more of a kick out of blocking a hard shot or making a play which might prevent a goal against as that I&rsquo;d get out of scoring myself. A shutout for Terry Sawchuk means more to me that my getting a goal.&rdquo;</p><p>Goldham figures that he has about 10 good scoring chances a season. A forward like Howe or Lindsay will have that many in the space of a couple of games.</p><h2>You Gotta Fight to Get &lsquo;em</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0156/1009572-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="1734" height="2496"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&ldquo;Terrible&rdquo; Ted Lindsay is not only a leading goal scorer in the NHL but he&rsquo;s also leading in the time spent in the penalty box. in the above picture he is shown being restrained in a battle against Gord Hannigan of the Leafs.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-02

Lindsay Can’t Recall Any One in Particular Detroit Capt., First Red Wing to Enter Club

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p><b>As seen in the Montreal Gazette</b></p><h2>Pity The Poor Referees!</h2><p>There has been, and still is, a lot of beefing over the refereeing in the N.H.L. this year, which makes an interview that Carl Voss gave Red Burnett, of The Toronto Star, especially interesting. Carl is in charge of the referees and is closer to them than anyone else. He admits that they lack uniformity because they are not working under a &lsquo;&lsquo;call everything&rdquo; order.</p><p>&ldquo;When they were calling everything at the first of the season,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;the beefs were terrific. They said we would ruin hockey with the whistle, the way they did basketball. So the referees start easing up, using their own judgment, instead of calling them according to the rule as written in the book. Naturally, no two referees think alike and so away went any semblance of uniformity.&rdquo;</p><p>When the rules committee met away back in June it was decided to &lsquo;&lsquo;call them according to the book,&rdquo; as the saying goes. Jack Adams, general manager of the Red Wings, was first to protest a couple of weeks after the season opened, and Conn Smythe, the Toronto Leafs&rsquo; generalissimo, Tell in line. It wasn&rsquo;t long before Dick Irvin, coach of Canadiens, joined this duo and we guess the resulting tumult was heard in N.H.L. headquarters.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;I wish I knew what was wanted,&rdquo; Voss told the Toronto reporter. &ldquo;If they would come out and say, &ldquo;Call them according to the book,&rdquo; our problems would be much easier.</p><p>&ldquo;They scream about my men blowing calls. Naturally, they make mistakes. To err is a human failing. Players make mistakes, too, probably more than the referee in that particular game, but they don&rsquo;t get blasted to hellengone and back. What&rsquo;s more, those players usually only have to worry about themselves and their check&mdash;just two men. My referees have to worry about everybody on the ice. When you get chippy guys taking shots behind your back, you&rsquo;re bound to miss something.&rdquo;</p><h2>Too Big for One man</h2><p>We think that when Carl made that last statement&mdash;&ldquo;When you get chippy guys taking shots behind your back, you&rsquo;re bound to miss something&rdquo;&mdash;he unwittingly admitted what&rsquo;s wrong with the present system. It&rsquo;s simply that it&rsquo;s too big a job for one man.</p><p>The game is too fast, for one thing. The teams change lines frequently and the forwards tear up and down the ice as hard as they can belt. But the referee has no relief. He is expected to stay on top of the play when it&rsquo;s obvious that he can&rsquo;t keep up with it.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s easy to second-guess from the sidelines,&rdquo; Voss is quoted as saying. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have guys whizzing up and down the ice at a 80-mile-per-hour clip.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Another edge a coach has is that he can pull a player out of the game as soon as he makes a mistake. Then, if the fellow does it a second time, he can get him out of there for the rest of the night. That doesn&rsquo;t happen to a referee-in-chief. I can&rsquo;t haul my fellows off and tell them how they pulled a rock, I have to sweat it out with them all the way and I think they&rsquo;re doing as good a job as can be expected under tough circumstances.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m convinced hockey is the toughest game in the world to officiate because of its great speed and the fact that sticks and skates are used.</p><p>&ldquo;We keep bringing in new referees and are continually on the hunt for new prospects. However, they are as tough to find as N.H.L. players. In addition, you&rsquo;ll spot a good man and find that hockey is only a sideline, that his regular business is so good that he won&rsquo;t give it up for a risky refereeing career under the eyes of the critics.&rdquo;</p><h2>Those Misconduct Penalties</h2><p>It&rsquo;s only a few days ago that Dick Irvin said the referees seemed to feel they weren&rsquo;t earning their pay if they weren&rsquo;t blowing their whistles and thumbing somebody into the penalty box. That was his general criticism, but he had one specific complaint to make.</p><p>&lsquo;It&rsquo;s about those 10-minute misconduct penalties,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You watch closely and you&rsquo;ll see that when a referee calls one he&rsquo;s usually having a bad night himself. Then the minute a player makes a remark to him, bang, he slaps a misconduct on the player.</p><p>&ldquo;My point is that it&rsquo;s tough on a team and on a coach. There&rsquo;s a $25 fine that goes with the penalty. It would be fairer to make the fine $50 but keep the player in the game.&rdquo;</p><p>There are only a half-dozen players in the league who use abusive language to the referees and two of them are notorious. But these two get away with murder and the other players resent it. Lynn Patrick, coach of the Bruins, was discussing this the last time the Bruins were here.</p><p>&ldquo;My players hear those guys abusing the referees and see them escape without penalties,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They wonder why they can&rsquo;t do the same thing. Don&rsquo;t you think that makes it harder for a coach to control his players?&rdquo;</p><p>Since Carl Voss admits that you can&rsquo;t expect a referee to see what&rsquo;s going on behind his back, wouldn&rsquo;t it be better to have two referees? We asked Dick Irvin a few days ago if he didn&rsquo;t think it would be an improvement.</p><p>&ldquo;I think so,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You could have one stationed by the net and the other at the blue line. The fellow at the blue line could get down to the other end of the ice fast enough and the fellow at the net could catch those infringements that go on now behind the referee&rsquo;s back. All you need is one linesman.&rdquo;</p><p>The referees need some help. Frank Boucher was pointing out recently that they can&rsquo;t seem to do anything right. The club owners criticize them, the coaches criticize them, the players criticize them and the crowds criticize them.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a wonder to me,&rdquo; said the Rangers&rsquo; general manager, &ldquo;that they don&rsquo;t throw up their bands and go stumbling off to the psychiatric ward.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It seems that the most important guy on the Montreal Canadiens is presently sidelined with a broken thumb. He goes by the name of Elmer Lach, often known as &lsquo;Elegant Elmer&rsquo; as prescribed by Baz O&rsquo;Meara of the Montreal Star.</p><p>The records show that since Elmer was whacked across the thumb by Sid Abel during his 21st game of this season and sent into inactivity, Maurice Richard went with him. Not by choice, of course. But it seems that Poker Faced Elmer means a little more to La Rocket than was at first thought.</p><p>In the first 12 games in which Lach was sidelined the once dazzling Richard slowed down to a walk. Those same records show that he scored just three goals in that period. It&rsquo;s hard to believe, but it&rsquo;s true.</p><p>So you wonder, as the bright light of Lach&rsquo;s career begins to fade, if perhaps he shouldn&rsquo;t be enshrined into the Hall of Fame as the guy who did the most to make the Rocket the most feared hockey player in the history of the game. Certainly Richard will agree that without Elmer he never would have done it.</p><p>The Rocket isn&rsquo;t the same Rocket without Elmer. Of course there are few Lach&rsquo;s alive in the game today: Mr. Irvin would give a few of his gold coupons to get another and Richard would probably toss in a few of his own since another Lach would prolong his career at least three more seasons.</p><p>We do not for a moment think that Richard wouldn&rsquo;t have turned out to be the sizzler that he was had he not had Lach. But by his last 12 games you wonder if maybe he might be still looking for that record if it hadn&rsquo;t been for Mr. Lach,</p><p>The question pops up that perhaps Rocket is beginning to fade. He has hit the over thirty age and that&rsquo;s when you start to go downhill in a game like hockey.</p><p>Richard himself doesn&rsquo;t say anything about his bad year. Once he told us that he was playing just as well as ever and getting better chances than ever but he wasn&rsquo;t shooting the puck like he used to.</p><p>In the old days if you had walked into the room and asked him what his trouble was he would have glared at you and in plain English would have told you that &lsquo;it&rsquo;s none of your business.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s when you knew that Rocket was just in a slump and you were sure he was going to pull out of it.</p><p>But now it&rsquo;s different. He just shrugs his shoulder. Is he mellowing? Maybe. He doesn&rsquo;t show his fiery temper anymore. He doesn&rsquo;t break sticks in practice like he used to and he seldom belts his opponents any more.</p><p>Last Saturday night in Montreal Glen Skov of the Wings antagonized Richard. Nothing happened. In the old days Skov would either be heading for the clinic for repairs or counting the lights hanging from the Forum ceiling.</p><p>And while you are still wondering if Maurice is getting near the end of the trail perhaps it would be a good idea to look at the centermen he&rsquo;s been playing with since Lach bent his thumb.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

“La Rocket” Without Lach Not As Good

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL-SPORTS EDITOR Toronto Star</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01126/1009689-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Primeau Knows About Garrison Finishes</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>OE PRIMEAU would be the last man to count a hockey club out of the running&mdash;his own club or the other guy&rsquo;s&mdash;until the cold and unrelenting mathematics said the club positively couldn&rsquo;t make the playoffs. Joe was a member of the old Toronto Ravinas, Brantford Falcons, or whatever you&rsquo;d life to call them, who made one of the most spectacular spurts in hockey history to reach the sugar series. With 13 games remaining, they won 12 and finished third in the Canpro league, which later became the International, and still later the AHL. And they did it with a leg-weary staff of eight men.</p><p>&ldquo;We had Joe Ironstone in goal; Dutch Cain, Bert Corbeau and Carl Voss on defence,&rdquo; Primeau recalled the other day. &ldquo;Our forward line was Lloyd Gross at left wing, Freddie Elliott at right wing, and I played centre. For a bench, we has Lloyd Randle and Shrimp McDougall, who playing weight was about 119 pounds.&rdquo;</p><p>One night at Ravina Gardens, when the paid attendance was fewer than 10, the club somehow got the impression it wasn&rsquo;t drawing. So it moved to Brantford and called itself the Falcons. As it turned out, Brantford didn&rsquo;t appreciate the Falcons either, so the: played the rest of their games on the road.</p><p>Voss recalled the club was divided into two cliques while it was in Toronto. One half was the car-owner set. The other was the street-car riders. This division of personnel was economical, rather than social. The four who owned cars always were first to the bank after cheques were issued on pay day. They got the dough, and it wasn&rsquo;t often there was any left for those who arrived by trolley. All cheques were made good eventually, however, because the Leaf&raquo; had guaranteed the contracts.</p><p>Voss and Joe Ironsides were roomies. Joe ran up a remarkable string of seven straight shutouts. This included one with the Leafs on a lease-lend basis. But disaster overtook Joe in the second game (there were only two in those days) of the playoffs at Windsor, A scorching shot struck Ironstone on the nose and gave it all the characteristics of a crushed tomato. The puck rolled down his chest and over the goal-line. They carted Joe to the dressing-room, and administered the smelling salts. The first guy he saw when he regained his senses wag Voss, his buddy. He smiled weakly, but Voss scowled back.</p><p>&ldquo;When you went to all that trouble to stop the puck, why did you let it fall over the goal-line?&rdquo; Voss asked plaintively.</p><h2><b>The Only Man Who Could Stop Morenz</b></h2><p>CONNIE SMYTHE, who happened along while Voss was backtracking along Memory Turnpike, chuckled at mention of the round iron man, Bert Corbeau,</p><p>&ldquo;Bert never would admit he was slowing up,&rdquo; Smythe related, &ldquo;One day when he was near the end of his string with the Leafs, I told him I thought we&rsquo;d have to send him down to the minor league Ravinas. He pleaded for one more chance. It happened our next game was to be against Canadiens, and Bert told me: &lsquo;I&rsquo;m the only guy who knows how to stop Howie Morenz. Let me play this game before you reach a decision.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;So we kept him with the Leafs for the game with Canadiens. I was sitting along the rail when Morenz came down Bert&rsquo;s side like an express train. Bert got the stick between Howie&rsquo;s legs and lifted him right off the ice. While Morenz was in the air, he flicked a wrist shot and I saw the goal light go on. Bert saw it, too. He looked over toward me and yelled: &ldquo;When they can score while they&rsquo;re not even on ice, I don&rsquo;t want to be in this league. Send me down to Ravinas.&rsquo; &ldquo;</p><p>Voss wondered whether Smythe recalled the day Corbeau jumped off a train in London. Both Voss and Bert were playing for the old London pro club by this time. Bert had gone down to shoot the breeze with his former Leaf pals, who were going through London, en route to Detroit. Corbeau got trapped on the Leaf train, which was well on its way before Bert realized it. He raced to the door and leaped.</p><p>&ldquo;One of our players swore he saw one of Bert&rsquo;s legs roll down, the bank,&rdquo; Smythe grinned. &ldquo;All the way to Detroit we were lamenting about poor old Bert and wondering whether the loss of the leg would be fatal.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He played for London that night,&rdquo; Voss remembered. &ldquo;But for a long time, he couldn&rsquo;t shave. His chin was full of cinders.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-01

Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By HARRY NASH</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>There&rsquo;s probably no sense asking how long New York hockey fans will con tinue to take If they were going to on the fascinating ice sport they&rsquo;d long since have quit patronizing the Rangers who seem to be headed for the cellar, a National Hockey League apartment they occupied for four consecutive years during the War.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0177/1009720-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="306" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>Fact is, crowds have fallen off in New York, but nothing comparable to the attendance lag in other sports which continue to exhibit top teams. Take basketball, for instance. Teams such as Seton Hall, with 6.11 foot center, Walter Dukes and. his large following from New Jersey, attracted less than 8,000 to a cage twin bill. Boxing crowds of 3,000 are not uncommon. But hockey is running only slightly behind a year ago despite unfavorable scheduling and an unwinning team.</p><p>New York no longer gets Saturday night dates. Sunday crowds have held up remarkably well, running consistently over 10,000.</p><p>The only Wednesday night crowd which topped 12,000 in Madison Square Garden this season was the night before Thanksgiving Day. This was some sort of tipoff. Fans didn&rsquo;t have to worry about working next day.</p><p>These questions all would be academic, however, if the Blueshirts had a winning team&mdash;or a team that won a reasonable percentage of its game.</p><p>Its been more than a decade since Gotham hockey addicts were treated to a Ranger club which could be regarded as top flight. Of course, there was the 1949-50 brigade that fought its way into the playoffs, beat Montreal four out of five, and then came within a second overtime period goal of taking the Stanley Cup from Detroit&rsquo;s Red Wings in a seven-game set. But that club came apart at the seams the following semester, as it figured to, more or less.</p><p>The last Ranger club of championship calibre still is remembered here.</p><p>Neil and Mac Colville, Muzz and Lynn Patrick, Bryan Hextall, Phil Watson, Alex Shibicky, Clint Smith, Alfie Pike, Kilby MacDonald, Ott Heller. These were names to conjure with. And under the current rules setup of the National Hockey circuit it is doubtful if ever a comparable group will wear the Ranger blueshirt.</p><p>At least Manager Frank Boucher, a Blueshirt immortal, believes regulations are choking off any chance the Rangers have of gathering together a sufficiently large coterie of star players to cope with the league&rsquo;s top clubs.</p><p>Time after time this season the disparity in class has been apparent as the boys in blue, giving out to the last ounce of their ability, have fallen short just when they seemed within striking distance of victory. The more talented, or perhaps I should say the more preponderantly talented clubs played cat and mouse, waiting for the Rangers to make mistakes.</p><p>The Rangers also have talented players, but not nearly enough of them. And in this lies the rub.</p><h2>Have Nots Suggest</h2><p>As a solution Boucher suggests a fairer distribution of young talent. The have-nots always will make that suggestion. And the haves merely sneer.</p><p>Back in the days when the Rangers collected the talent for their good teams there was no sponsorship of minor league clubs. Most of the acquired stars were free agents. Nowadays a player of potential major league calibre has a &ldquo;Hands-off&rdquo; tag affixed to him before he is 15 or 16 years of age.</p><p>A step toward what was believed to be fairer distribution was the adoption last Spring of a draft law permitting a club to protect up to 20 players and attaching a price tag of 510,000 on all others under the club aegis.</p><p>There wasn&rsquo;t any great wave of drafting. Fact is, what draft regulations exist have been more or less detrimental to the Rangers in their efforts to obtain players from minor league organizations.</p><p>Minor league clubs also need players. Oftentimes they need players as sorely as they need cash. Hence, whenever the Rangers attempt to deal for talent, players are demanded in return. But it isn&rsquo;t so simple to obtain waivers on almost any player who has had extensive major league experience.</p><p>Boucher could have used Gaye Stewart in a deal which probably would have given the Blueshirts scoring punch, but Gaye was claimed by Montreal for the $7,500 waiver price and shipped to the Quebec Aces with the rather transparent explanation that he was being sent there in an effort to regain his confidence.</p><p>Virtually stymied by the 50-mile radius sponsorship rule, thwarted in an attempt to obtain what little unattached talent is languishing in the minors, the Rangers don&rsquo;t look as if they are striding with sevenleague boots in a direction calculated to improve their recent performances in the N.H.L. In 10 years the Blueshirts have finished last five times, next to last three times and fourth twice. This year, of course, it looks like another rousing last and the wonder is that fans still patronize the club.</p><p>Can you Imagine the gate at the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium or Ebbets Field if any of the clubs populating those stadia had a record comparable to the Rangers?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-01

Boucher Asks Fairer Distribution of New Talent

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>If the Montreal Canadiens could win the big games they would be on top of the National Hockey League today.</p><p>Every time the Habs get close to the Red Wings, up comes one of those games where you have to. win or else drop from immediate contention. That&rsquo;s what happened in Toronto last week. They went into the Queeen City trailing the Wings by four points. A win would have put them within a game of the Champs with their next two scheduled with the Wings. But they couldn&rsquo;t do it & that failure has both Dick Irvin and General-Manager Frank Selke hitting the ceiling.</p><h2>Big Quns in Small War</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0263/1009765-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="591" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ELMER LACH</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0348/1009758-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="591" height="1393"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICKIE MOORE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0436/1009751-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="597" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><p>What&rsquo;s the answer?</p><p>(1) Jean B&eacute;liveau.</p><p>(2) Dickie Moore</p><p>(3) Elmer Lach</p><p>(4) More goals from the defense.</p><p>(5) An end to Richard&rsquo;s hot and cold goal scoring spells.</p><p>Taking those five answers in turn.</p><p>Jean Beliveau proved that he would be a star in the National Hockey League anytime he decides to make the jump. But while he is deciding the Habs must find other ways. His five goals in three games didn&rsquo;t prove him to be a great center nor a great playmaker and stickhandler. But it did prove that he can put the puck in the net and as &lsquo;Bones&rsquo; Raleigh said after Beliveau had scored his first three goals: that&rsquo;s what you get paid for.</p><p>It&rsquo;s doubtful that Beliveau will play for the Canadiens again this year. He went back to the Quebec Aces with his pockets stuffed with rave notices. He sent a thank you note to the Montreal fans for their splendid treatment and to the club for allowing him to play the three games in the League.</p><p>Asked why he hadn&rsquo;t turned pro he replied that it wasn&rsquo;t a case of money. That&rsquo;s as far as he went. He wouldn&rsquo;t say just what it was a case of.</p><h3>Players Want Him</h3><p>Every player on the Habs expressed hope that the big guy might change his mind. None felt that he would steal their thunder. Maurice Richard, the idol of Montreal was the most outspoken.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s great,&rdquo; said Maurice, &ldquo;and he should be in this League. He&rsquo;s got the greatest shot I&rsquo;ve ever seen in hockey and he&rsquo;s a fine man. He could help this team plenty and I wish he would change his mind.&rdquo;</p><p>Beliveau would make enough difference to the Habs to give them a 50% better chance to catch the Wings. He played with the Canadiens carrying 10 excess pounds. Irvin felt that if he ever came into the NHL in top shape he would burn it up.</p><h3>Moore&rsquo;s Knee Bettering</h3><p>Dickie Moore is still having trouble with his knee. He&rsquo;s skating every day but more exercise is needed before he can be injected back into the lineup.</p><p>Still, Irvin has expressed doubt that Moore can come right back into the National League and help the club.</p><p>&ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t played this season and you can&rsquo;t expect him to come right into the League and be a star again. He may be in condition but he wouldn&rsquo;t be in playing form and we can&rsquo;t afford to lose games while he&rsquo;s getting back in form. I may reccommend that he be sent to Buffalo for a while to regain that form. He&rsquo;s a great player and a wonderful worker but it wouldn&rsquo;t be fair to him nor the club to throw him in there.&rdquo;</p><p>While Irvin talks about sending Moore down for a few weeks it&rsquo;s doubtful that it will ever come about. The situation is too desperate at center for that. Although Moore Is originally a left winger and has played right wing he Is to be converted to center if and when he returns. The Habs are in such a bad way at center that they couldn&rsquo;t afford to have Dickie playing in the American League even on one leg.</p><h3>Amateur Called Up</h3><p>The Habs went into Toronto last week carrying three regular centers and a amateur.</p><p>Irvin had to use Gerry Desaulnlers, called up from the senior Royals to fit into Elmer Lach&rsquo;s spot. His second stringer was Ken Mosdell and Paul Masnick came next. Johnny McCormack was used sparingly.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t exactly the best center ice brigade that ever stepped onto a sheet of ice and Irvin let it be known. He would have used Moore in that game if Dickie was skating on his elbows.</p><p>The loss of Elmer Lach turned the Habs Into the weakest team at center in the League. Elmer won&rsquo;t be back until another week or two and until that time Richard and Olmstead will continue to get along with makeshift centermen.</p><p>Elmer, who broke his thumb three weeks ago against Chicago was having one of his best years when the unfortunate incident came about. Upon his return Irvin will be able to designate a center to each line.</p><h3>Reay Out For Five Weeks</h3><p>The loss of Billy Reay hurt the club. Reay fractured a bone in his cheek and will be out for five weeks.</p><p>Although he started rather slowly Billy was beginning to come into his own when he was checked into the end of the rink in Boston.</p><p>With his resurgence also came the resurgence of Boom Boom Geoffrion and Paul Meger. In five games Boomer scored seven goals and Reay and Meger had assisted on six of them.</p><p>Dick Irvin was calling his defense the best in the league last week but he must have meant defensively.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how long It&rsquo;s been since we got a goal from the anchor,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand it. Everytime I pick up the paper I read where Buller, Dewsbury, Gadsby, Stanley and Pronovost score. But we haven&rsquo;t a goal from the anchor since Bud McPherson got one early in November.</p><h3>Defense Not Scoring</h3><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if we&rsquo;re not shooting enough or not playing the anchor right but we&rsquo;ll have to do something.</p><p>For the records Tom Johnson has scored two goals, Harvey two, MacPherson one, Bouchard one and St. Laurent one.</p><p>Maurice Richard is playing well but not scoring goals. He&rsquo;s well down the list of scorers, averaging about one every three games.</p><p>&ldquo;If anybody had told you that Richard would only scored three goals in fifteen games at home this season you wouldn&rsquo;t believe it,&rdquo; says Irvin, &ldquo;but it&rsquo;s true.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I know I&rsquo;m getting the chances,&rdquo; says Richard, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m not shooting like I used to.&rdquo;</p><p>Those extra five or six goals that &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; generally has at this time of the year would help considerably. The Habs have lost plenty of close ones.</p><p>To stay in the race the Habs must win five of their next seven games. Three of them are with Chicago, one with Detroit and one with Boston. Winning three would do little in their race to the top. They must win five if they hops to catch the Wings and they can only do that if they start potting the goals in those important games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-02

Habs’ Failure to Win Big Ones Leaves Them Little Space to Bottom or To Top of Loop

<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. V. 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>Authorized as second class mail. Post Ottice Department. Ottawa.</p><p>Entered as second class mail at the Post Ottico in Ogdensburg, N.Y.</p><p>Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company</p><p>1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 23, Que.</p><p>Printed in Canada.</p><p><b>Vol. 6 MONTREAL. JANUARY 3. 1953 No. 14</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01150/1009841-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="428" height="424"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON BRUINS ice the heaviest team in the National Hockey League. Average weight of the 17 players on the Boston roster this season is 178.3 pounds&hellip;Montreal Canadiens have the lightest club in the circuit. The average Canadien tips the scales at exactly 171 pounds per man&hellip;Dave Price, popular Toronto sportscaster, has been made Director of TV Sports for the CBC and will give up his two daily sportscasts&hellip;Ed Fitkin, ex-publicity director of Maple Leaf Gardens and the Toronto Maple Leafs, will take over Price&rsquo;s two sportscasts&hellip;Price will continue his weekly national radio show called &ldquo;Canadian Sports Roundup&rdquo;&hellip;Bill Boorman, captain of the Winnipeg Rangers&rsquo; 1943 Memorial Cup team and a former senior player with Lethbridge Maple Leafs among other senior and pro clubs, is laid up with polio. Lethbridge hockey enthusiasts staged a special night for him recently&hellip;In 21 Christmas Night games, the New York Rangers have won 17, lost three and tied one. This is indeed quite a record. There was one stretch, from 1930 through 1949, when the Broadway Blueshirts played 16 games without a loss. The unbeaten string was broken at Detroit in 1950&hellip;Lightest player in the NHL is Don (Bones) Raleigh, New York&rsquo;s clever center&hellip;Raleigh scales 150 pounds, five less than teammates Jimmy Conacher and Wally Hergeshelmer&hellip;Gerry McNeil of Canadiens is the lightest goaltender, at 155 pounds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0254/1009834-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="306" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><p>IF GORDIE HOWE wins the National Hockey League scoring championship this season, he will Become the first player in history to capture the NHL scoring title three season in succession&hellip;Other players besides Howe to lead the League in scoring for two staight seasons are Max Bentley, Dave (Sweeney) Schriner and Charlie Conacher&hellip;Other players who have topped the League for two seasons but not consecutively are Elmer Lach, Howie Morenz, Babe Dye, Newsy Lalonde and Joe Malone&hellip;George Patrick Duffy, publicity director of the Rhode Island Auditorium and the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League, recently added the title of sports owner to his other titles. George recently purchased and is operating by himself, the franchise of the Pawtucket Slaters in the American Basketball League. His team is sure to have excellent publicity with the efficient Duffy on the job&hellip;There are seven players in the NHL weighing 200 or more pounds. Heavyweights are Butch Bouchard and Bud Macpherson, Canadiens; Leo Reise, Rangers; Lee Fogolin and Al Dewsbury, Chicago; and Harry Lumley and Harry Watson, Toronto&hellip;Lumley at 205 pounds is the largest goalie in the loop&hellip;Rookie Jerry Toppazzini of the Boston Bruins is one of the most versatile players in the National League. He can play either defense or forward and has been used at both positions by Coach Lynn Patrick. He is easily one of the finest first-year players in the League this season&hellip;Zellio Toppazzini, who had whirls with Boston and New York but failed to measure up to the NHL standard, is an older brother of Jerry&rsquo;s&hellip;It was only a few weeks ago that Zellio remarked: &ldquo;Watch that kid brother of mine go! He has it. And he&rsquo;s not being rushed too fast, either. That was the trouble in my case. I was brought up too fast and was too young. It was too much for me. It&rsquo;s different with Jerry, however. He&rsquo;s older and more experienced.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0327/1009827-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="306" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jerry Toppazzini</b></figcaption></div><p>TALLEST PLAYERS in the NHL this winter are Bud MacPherson of Montreal and Jack Stoddard of New York&hellip;The elongated Canadiens&rsquo; defenseman and the Rangers&rsquo; forward each soars six feet-three inches into the stratosphere&hellip;Shortest player in the League is tough Tony Leswick of Detroit. The &ldquo;Mighty Mouse&rsquo;&rsquo; as he&rsquo;s called by teammates, Leswick is only five feet-six inches&hellip;Lightest defense in the National League belongs to the Boston Bruins. The average weight of the five Bruin defensemen is 179 pounds. Four of the Bruin rearguards, Bob Armstrong, Jerry Toppazzini, Bill Quackenbush and Warren Godfrey, weigh 180 pounds, while bespectacled Hal Laycoe weighs 175&hellip;Chicago&rsquo;s defense corps of Lee Fogolin, Bill Gadsby, Gus Mortson and Al Dewsbury is the huskiest&hellip;Average weight of the Hawks&rsquo; defense is 194 pounds per man&hellip;Leo Reise, N.Y. Rangers&rsquo; defenseman, is the heaviest player In the League at 210 pounds&hellip;Doug Macauley and George Pargeter of Seattle had scored points in eight straight games before being stopped by Victoria the other night&hellip;Pentti Lund, Boston; Johnny McCormack, Canadiens; Fred Hucul, Chicago; and Lou Jankowski, Detroit; are the only NHL regulars that haven&rsquo;t incurred a single penalty this season&hellip;Roger St. Jean&rsquo;s photo of Maurice Richard and Sugar Jim Henry shaking hands at the end of the last game in the Stanley Cup semi-finals should win the award as the top sports photo of 1952. It was a classic picture and showed these two great athletes with blood running down both their faces and with Henry&rsquo;s eyes both discolored from a broken nose.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0414/1009820-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="300" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bud MacPherson</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0006-01

PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0510/1009872-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>&lsquo;Big Chief&rsquo;</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to know if George Armstrong of the Toronto Maple Leafs is an Indian or not. Were both his father and mother Indians?</p><p>Will you please print this letter in your Fan Forum?</p><p>Clarie Demetrick Norguay, Sask.</p><p>(George has Indian blood in him and his teammates have tabbed him with the nickname &lsquo;Big Chief&rsquo;, like Allie Reynolds of the New York Yankees)</p><h2>&lsquo;Battles&rsquo; Bartlett</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have a question I would like answered.</p><p>Could you give the line-up of the Washington team in the Eastern Hockey League?</p><p>If Jimmy &ldquo;Battles&rsquo; Bartlett and Fern &lsquo;Killer&rsquo; Lapointe are not with Washington this year could you tell me the team and the league they are playing for?</p><p>Patsy Bradley Charlestown, Mass.</p><p>(Bartlett is playing defense for the Cincinnati Mohawks of the International League and doing right well. Feme Lapointe is with Shawinigan Falls of the Quebec Sr. loop. Unfortunately we do not have the Washington line-up at present)</p><h2>No Hab Fan</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have always been a Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; fan & so when 1 moved to Montreal from Vancouver three months ago, I couldn&rsquo;t wait to see the Canadiens play, but after seeing the Canadiens and Black Hawk game in which Lach had his thumb broken and then reading the write up in the Hockey News by Len Bramson in which Lach was supposed to have said, &ldquo;That Abel deliberately brought his stick down on my hand.&rdquo;</p><p>I was very close to this play and I would say it was a very clean check. Lach has always been one of my favourite players and I was very much surprised to read the statement he made about Abel. My days as a Canadien supporter are finished. It seems in Montreal that as long as Bouchard or MacPherson can ram you into the boards with their sticks in the opposition&rsquo;s face, it is quite legal as the referees ignore it, especially Chadwick.</p><p>I definitely agree with Mr. Smythe, that the refereeing (if you can call it refereeing) of Chadwick&rsquo;s stinks.</p><p>Ed. May, Dorval, Que.</p><h2>Bud&rsquo;s Now Coaching</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Being my first letter to the Fan Forum, I&rsquo;m so thrilled to mention that for over 3 years I have read your very educated and interested Hockey News Papers.</p><p>As I am a very passionate hockey fan, my curiosity inquires me to know: How many players, this year, are not Canadians? Name them and where they&rsquo;re from. Where is Buddy O&rsquo;Connor now, is he still playing hockey?</p><p>Let me compliment you for the wonderful sport News.</p><p>Keep up the good work. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years.</p><p>John C. Boulanger, Mamaroneck, N.Y.</p><p>(In the National League, there is only Pete Babando who was born in Braeburn, Pa., but he too has been sent down lately by the Chicago Black Hawks. There is also Guyle Fielder, Detroit farmhand at St. Louis of the AHL, who was born in Potlatch, Idaho. Buddy O&rsquo;Connor is the non-playing coach of the Cincinatti Mohawks of the International League.)</p><h2>Wants A Contest</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>At the present time I have no serious beef or criticism to make of your publication as I am of the opinion that it covers the hockey picture very good from the east to the west and also south of the border and it contains very interesting reading for both the old timer and the up and coming hockey generation.</p><p>The cross word puzzles and the Fan Forum are very interesting.</p><p>In regards to the many complaints about certain sections not getting enough publication on their league functioning; I believe that this could be overcome if each League appointed a representative to send in at least once a month a complete standing, individual scoring and etc.</p><p>A contest always creates great interest and I would suggest that you run a contest something on these lines:&mdash;</p><p>1&mdash;Final Team Standing.</p><p>2&mdash;Team Scoring the Most Goals.</p><p>3.&mdash;Stanley Cup Champions.</p><p>W. T. J. Brehm, Medicine Hat, Alta.</p><h2>Bruin Farm Club</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>May I extend my congratulations to you for such a fine paper. I have been a subscriber to the paper since it&rsquo;s inception and must admit it has become my hockey bible.</p><p>My faith I&rsquo;m afraid was temporally shattered the other night when I lost a small wager to a friend over quoting said Hockey News. I am referring to a crossword puzzle in paper dated November 22nd, as follows:&mdash;</p><p>Question&mdash;twelve across</p><p>&ldquo;Oshawa Generals are affiliated with this N.H.L. TEAM&rdquo;</p><p>Answer&mdash;paper dated November 29th, 1952.</p><p>&ldquo;Rangers&rdquo;.</p><p>According to November&rsquo;s Reserve List published by the Central Registrar&rsquo;s Office, Oshawa is affiliated with the Boston Bruins. If this information stands correcting, please advise.</p><p>Remaining a loyal subscriber,</p><p>John R. McDonald, Port Colborne, Ont.</p><p>(You are so right and we are sorry that you lost any kind of a wager, small or large. A check with the National Hockey League office confirmed your information.)</p><h2>Alex The Great</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Upon reading the November 22 copy of THE HOCKEY NEWS, I also agree with Sam Hart of Hamilton, Ontario on the issue that Alex Delvecchio should be placed at center between Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay. Alex is a very clever passer and has a definate play pattern in his head which should make him fit in well with Gordie and Ted. I am also confident that the big Red Wing center will become one of the leading goal scorers if he gets the proper breaks.</p><p>Barbara Harris. Detroit, Michigan.</p><h2>Right, Old Chap</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have had THE HOCKEY NEWS for the past three seasons and have learned a lot about the world&rsquo;s greatest game.</p><p>If you would print this please, because I would like any fan to write and tell me about their hockey teams, whoever they may be.</p><p>I promise to write in answer to everyone. I am 22 years old and my address is 64A Cavendish Place, Eastbourne, Sussex, England. I thank you very much.</p><p>Eddie Page. Sussex, England.</p><h2>More Amateur</h2><p>Dear Sirs;</p><p>You&rsquo;d be wise to reconsider your apparent decision not to print the amateur league standings and current records this year. These can&rsquo;t be gotten from most dailies and are one of the principal reasons I take your paper.</p><p>Thank you for the International League schedule in the current issue.</p><p>Kenneth Griswold, Minister. Durand. Mich.</p><h2>We Found Him</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Can you tell me whether or not Lloyd Finkbeiner, who played with the Buffalo Bisons and with Montreal Royals last year, is playing hockey this season? I have not been able to find his name on any team&rsquo;s roster although I have scoured the Hockey News each week.</p><p>Thanking you for an early reply.</p><p>June L. Arnold. Buffalo, N.Y.</p><p>(Finkbeiner is playing for the Cincinnatti Mohawks of the International League.)</p><h2>Warrior Followed</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>For several years I have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS and think it is one of the finest sports papers around.</p><p>I have only one complaint. Why not have an article about the team that is going places in the American Hockey League, namely the Syracuse Warriors?</p><p>Mary Buckeye, Cleveland, Ohio.</p><h2>Big Jean</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I read your paper every week and I think its wonderful.</p><p>Could you please tell me Jean Beliveau&rsquo;s weight, height, number and age.</p><p>How many goals has Sid Abel scored in the National Hockey League up to now.</p><p>Lancelatt Blackmore, Port Union, Nfld.</p><p>(Jean Beliveau wore number 12 with the Montreal Canadiens, wears number 9 with the Quebec Aces, weighs 210-215 pounds, is 6&rsquo;3&rdquo; tall and is 22 years old. Abel has scored 183 goals to this week in the NHL.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-05

THE FAN FORUM

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ublished Weakly, 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>

<p><b>JANUARY 9 TO JANUARY 15</b></p><p>12&mdash;BERGERON, Bob, New Westminster defense, 1926; HORTON, Tim, Toronto defense, 1930.</p><p>13&mdash;PENNELL, Gord, Buffalo forward, 1929.</p><p>15&mdash;McNAB, Brent, St. Louis defense, 19 31; McNABNEY, Sid, Syracuse forward, 1929.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0279/1009982-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Merge Norris, new president of the Detroit Red Wings, saw her first game at the Olympia since she was a child recently and what she saw was Metro Prystai score the tying goal with less than a minute left in the game. Here she is shown leaning way out of her box at the rink to congratulate the smiling centre. Also shown in the shot is the phone her late father, Jim Norris Sr., had installed in the box so he could get running commentaries of all Wing home games. He was forbidden to attend in person by his physician.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-02

“Gee, Thanks, Boss!”

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0354/1010013-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="309" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Mariucci</b></figcaption></div><p>Three former Chicago Black Hawks are today taking active interests in the development of an almost extinct creature known as the American hockey player. Johnny Mariucci is coaching the puck team at his alma mater, the University of Minnesota while &ldquo;Fido&rdquo; Purpur and Vic Heyliger hold similar jobs at North Dakota college and the University of Michigan respectively.</p><p>Mariucci, an all-time favorite of Chicago fans, took over the post at Minnesota sereral months ago as the replacement for Elwyn &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Romnes, another Hawk of yesteryear, who quit after serving as coach for several years. Johnny ended a decade of play in pro hockey when the United States loop passed out of existance two seasons ago.</p><p>Known to many as &ldquo;Maroosh,&rdquo; he was one of the roughest and toughest defensemen to ever stagger an opponent in the National Hockey league. Never one to back away from a fight, his rocking fists battered many a foe in belligerent ice action. At Minnesota, he has had to do a complete about face in teaching his charges peaceful participation in the ice sport.</p><p>Johnny entered organized hockey, in 1940 only a short time after his graduation from Minnesota, where he was also a star in football. He guarded the Chicago blue line from 1940-41 to 194.7-48 with four years taken out for a tour of duty with the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. He was team captain in his last two seasons with the club.</p><p>Purpur, a pint-size right winger, was with the Hawks from 1941-42 to 1944-45 when he was shuttled to Detroit in a mind-season shakeup. After a short stint with the Wings, he went to Indianapolis and then to St. Louis, both in the American league. He retired from active play in 1946 and accepted the position at North Dakota a short time later.</p><p>Heyliger, who has been the ice mentor at Michigan for a number of years now, played in most of Chicago&rsquo;s home games during the 1943-44 schedule. A wartime job at the University of Illinois, where he was also hockey coach briefly, prevented Vic from going on the road with the squad. He was with the Hawks for just the one season.</p><p>The efforts of Purpur, Mariucci and Heyliger in the training of American hockey hopefuls was recently recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic association. All three received appointments in connection with the picking of the western representative for the associations&rsquo;s 1953 hockey tournament next March 12-14 at Colorado Springs, Colo.</p><p>J. Howard Starr of Colgate university, NCAA hockey rules boss, named Purpur as one of five regular members of the committee to make the western choice and announced that Mariucci and Heyliger would be asked to serve as alternates. Juan Reid of hosting Colorado is slated to chairman the group.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-03

Three Former Chicago Players Now Teaching American Kids Hockey

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0450/1010044-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>G</span>OING GREAT.&mdash;Some hockey observers were a little surprised when the Detroit Red Wings pulled in a replacement for a replacement. Not double-talk, the foregoing that Glen Hall, 21-year-old sensation from the Edmonton Flyers of the Western League pictured above, replaced Henry &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Almas in the Wing nets. Almas in turn had been replacing the injured Terry Sawchuk, coming from the St. Louis Flyers, but the Detroit brass figured he wasn&rsquo;t quite ready yet. Hall was, as he proved in his first two NHL contest allowing only three gees</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-04

Replacement’s Replacement

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01101/1009951-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK MCINTYRE</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Bruins may possess a leading exponent of bodychecking in Jack McIntyre, a revitalized left wing.</p><p>For the last few weeks some of the Bruins&rsquo; biggest defensive thumps have been those administered by McIntyre.</p><p>So robustly has the 185-pound sophomore connected with Bruins&rsquo; opponents in recent games that he has checked himself back into Coach Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s favor.</p><p>McIntyre, who blew into the Bruins&rsquo; lineup like an inshore breeze on a hot day early last season, started this season with the velocity of a zephyr.</p><p>As a result, he soon found himself watching from the bench as Pentti Lund filled his nominal left wing position on the line with Dave Creighton and Johnny Peireon.</p><p>McIntyre&rsquo;s fall-off from his highly respectable first season puzzled Patrick, and the Bruins&rsquo; coach decided upon periodic benchings as the best way to whet the big fellow&rsquo;s competitive urge.</p><p>Apparently, Patrick put his finger on the right solution, for as the Bruins moved into December, McIntyre started to hit his stride. Patrick gave him his job, making the reservation that he would keep It only as long as he played aggressively.</p><p>As the weeks preceding Christmas, Patrick had no fault to find with the husky youngster from St. Catharines&rsquo;, Ontario. On the contrary, big Jack&rsquo;s performances for that stretch made him feel pretty good.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s giving us 100 per cent, and that&rsquo;s all I want him to give,&rdquo; declared Lynn. &ldquo;He has everything in the way of physical equipment, and as long as he uses it, he plays.</p><p>&ldquo;Jack has the makings of a fine body-checker,&rdquo; the Bruins&rsquo; coach continued. &ldquo;He hits hard and he has the knack of hitting. He&rsquo;s big enough and strong enough, to knock over anyone he hits, and the more he hits the better he plays.&rdquo;</p><p>Coincident with McIntyre&rsquo;s outburst of vigor his scoring records improved. He didn&rsquo;t score a goal in his first 16 games this season, but in the three games before Christmas, games in which he threw his bulk around, he earned five points, two of them goals.</p><p>Jack hasn&rsquo;t been a troublemaker on the ice, but several times he has been prodded into the use of his fists. The most recent occasion was in the Bruins&rsquo; last game with Montreal here, when the Canadiens&rsquo; Tom Johnson and Boom-Boom Geoffrion teamed up on him. He and Geoffrion continued the dispute, and once it was broken up, the Canadien showed no inclination toward continuing. McIntyre has carried a fractured right thumb since, the result of a punch to Geoffrion&rsquo;s head.</p><p>A fine all-round athlete who excelled as a schoolboy track man, McIntyre has been pictured by Patrick for two years as a potential 20-goal scorer. At his pre-Christmas pace he still has a chance to live up to his coach&rsquo;s expectations this season.</p><p>With McIntyre off his mind, Patrick had plenty of other things to think about as the Bruins played out the year clinging tenaciously to a contending position. Most of his thoughts centered on a depleted store of manpower.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; woes&mdash;Patrick trusts they are temporary&mdash;were climaxed the weekend McIntyre tangled with Geoffrion as they finished a stretch of four games in five nights, three of them on the road.</p><p>Johnny Peirson (broken jaw), Hal Laycoe (ankle) and Ed Sandford (knee) were out of the lineup, and Capt. Milt Schmidt and Bill Quackenbush were in poor condition. There were times in that four-game period when all of Patrick&rsquo;s lines and defense pairings were improvised.</p><p>The brilliant Schmidt bailed him out of a defense jam created by an arm injury to Quackenbush by dropping back from center to replace blond Bill. The fiery Bruins&rsquo; captain played two full games at the strange position with a peculiar neck and back stiffness which made every move, painful.</p><p>One time between games, with Schmidt barely able to drag himself about, Boston writers were checking the casualty list with Dr. Thomas A. Kelley, the Bruins&rsquo; physician. A writer asked him about Schmidt&rsquo;s status for the next game. Dr. Kelley laughed.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no point in my saying anything about him,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll play no matter what I say.&rdquo;</p><p>Yet despite the unfavorable schedule and the rash of injuries, the Bruins have managed to keep their heads above water and January, that magic date on which they start a stretch of 13 of 14 games at home, is getting closer all the time.</p><h2><b>A Hard Knocker</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0007-01

McIntyre Checks His Way Back Ta Lynn’s Favor by Tough Checking

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he following is a copy of a letter sent to the publishers of THE HOCKEY NEWS by Ken MacKenzie, former professional hockey player in behalf of a fund started recently to buy invalided Gordie Petrie a television set.</p><p>Mr. Ken MacKenzie,</p><p>309 Empire Life Bldg.,</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine St. West, Montreal, Que., Canada.</p><h2>Dear Ken:</h2><p>I have debated sending this letter to individual professional hockey coaches because as an ex-minor league U.S.H.L. and A.H.L. player myself, have felt I am not well enough known to ask your co-operation in a very worthy cause. However I have nothing to lose and the fellow concerned has everything to gain. That ex-professional player is Gordie Petrie, now suffering with Polio and is confined to an iron lung in a very serious condition.</p><p>Gordie never played in the N.H.L. although on his return from active service in the Canadian Navy, the Detroit organization, considered him potential material and was signed to a 1945-46 contract, and sent to Omaha Nebraska of the U.S.H.L. Here he played for three seasons then was traded to Buffalo who sent him to Dallas from 1948 through 1950. His last season 1950-51 before voluntary retirement was spent between Louisville of the U.S.H.L. and San Diego of the P.C.H.L. While in Dallas, Gord married a Dallas girl and managed an ice cream business in the off season, eventually making this a full time job on retiring from pro hockey.</p><p>The now defunct U.S.H.L. was where he was considered one of the best centermen in the league, not only in ability and sportmanship but also as the nicest guy you&rsquo;d ever hope to meet. Gordie loved everybody and we all thought the world of him. An ironic thought is that I always remember Gord saying he&rsquo;d play hockey as long as he could stand on skates. He would be first to do what I&rsquo;m attempting to do now for any hockey player in his condition, to wit, financial assistance even if it is only a dollar each.</p><p>His parents are retired and for from wealthy. Visiting them today I made up my mind to do what I could. They are grief stricken as any parents would be knowing their son is in such condition.</p><p>Gordie became ill with Polio on July 7th, and near recovery contracted pneumonia which aggravated his sickness. Unable to write of course, no one knew of this until lately. Vince Leah, of the Winnipeg Tribune, through Jimmy Skinner at Windsor, gave every reader the story in his column tonight (enclosed). The donations are going towards a television set so this end is being looked after.</p><p>Regardless of what Gord had before going into the iron lung, we all know that hospital care would soon dissolve that and he has a wife and two good looking boys, 4 and 2 years to bring up. Other expenses include the transportation details from Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston to the home of his in-laws in Memphis, Tenn. A Military aircraft is going to fly Gord over in the iron lung, but as the American Government will not absorb any medical cost of Canadian Servicemen, the Polio fund has to take over in Memphis. This means lack of complete financial care and the iron lung installed in a private home with emergency 110 volt generating equipment is beyond the average man&rsquo;s pocketbook. Gordie cannot live without the lung.</p><p>Most of the boys will remember Gord, no one ever forgot his wonderful personality. It seems it&rsquo;s just one donation after another but this one is the kind that Gord himself, in his playing days, would be the first to start the pot.</p><p>I know Gordie would appreciate a team autographed New Year card with each clubs donation. A letter is hard to write to a fellow in his condition but your autographs would be a wonderful substitute.</p><p>Kindly make cheques or money orders payable to the Gordon Petrie Fund, autograph cards to Gordie and send both to:</p><p>Ken MacKenzie,</p><p>36 4 Lipton St.,</p><p>Winnipeg, Manitoba.</p><p>Sincerely yours,</p><p>Ken MacKenzie.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Invalided Gord Petrie not Forgotten by Pals

<div class="byline">by VINCE LEAH As seen in The Winnipeg Tribune</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0289/1010106-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="336" height="490"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>hristmas is a time for remembering, old friends and new chums, when you curl up by the fire and feel wonderfully warm about everything that is good and true at this extra-special season of the year. You make mental notes to say hello to the fellow next door and perhaps invite him in for a quick one or take the kids skating on Christmas morning. You anticipate the succulence of the festal meal, turkey, mince pie, plum pudding and all the rest of the tasty items Canadians still have at Christmas. You admire the gay greens and scarlets of a thousand twinkling lights, the majesty of the traditional tree.</p><p>But we wonder how many of us pause to think of old friends and acquaintances who may be down on the luck or ill abed, out of circulation, their souls troubled by bad breaks and failing health.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>We know one fellow, who is not complaining although he is having a rough time at the moment. He has had his big moments in the past and brighter Christmases but this one, he finds is rather rough. After all when you are confined to one of those artificial respirators, better known as iron lungs, life get pretty ragged.</b></blockquote><p>Gordon Petrie is his name. If you followed junior hockey in Winnipeg you&rsquo;ll remember him with Pat Lyon&rsquo;s Elmwood Maple Leafs of the early 40&rsquo;s. He was a pretty good forward, not very big but good enough to make the minor pros and senior ranks when he left junior hockey. He fell a victim to polio this past summer and is confined to an iron lung in a Houston, Texas hospital.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0366/1010099-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1172" height="1736"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORD PETRIE</b></figcaption></div><p>He can&rsquo;t enjoy a smoke, read a book or a newspaper unless somebody helps him. He finds the day rather long and lonely, especially when he is so far away from his old friends in local hockey who would beat a path to his door if they could, we&rsquo;re sure.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>To help him keep his chin up and get some fun out of life, Jimmy Skinner of the Detroit Red Wing organizations, has promoted a fund to buy him a television set. Pat Lyon is in charge of tile collecting end locally and is appealing to local hockey enthusiasts to help Jim get that T.V. set for Gordon.</b></blockquote><p>Pat says anything from a buck to a five-spot will be acceptable. If the fund is over-subscribed the balance will go towards some extra comfort for Gordon.</p><p>Gordon has no money, by the way, to buy his own television set. His medical expenses are pretty stiff and do not allow him any special treats.</p><blockquote class="pullQuote"><b>If, at this season or remembering, you feel you can help Brighten Gordon&rsquo;s days in hospital, send your contribution along with your name and address to Pat Lyon, 419 Portage Avenue. Pat will forward the money collected to Jim who&rsquo;ll look after the purchase of the set and make sure Gordon gets it.</b></blockquote><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-02

from the SIDELINES

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01134/1010137-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="572" height="616"></div><p>A steaming cup of rich, creamy Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate is the ideal finish for any game 1</p><p><b><i>Ash for Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate at your favorite fountain</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

Win or Lose

<h2><b>Three For Howe 7</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Gordie Howe won the scoring crown last Reason he became the fourth player to win twice running. As he is leading again this Reason, he could break a record.</p><h2><b>First Rookie Winner</b></h2><p>Carl Voss, the present chief of the NHL referees, had the distinction of being the first &lsquo;rookie of the year&rsquo; chosen in the history of the league. That was for the 1932-33 season with Detroit.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>fter the first few weeks of the NHL schedule, everyone figured that Toronto Maple Leaf General Manager Cann Smythe had pulled his first &lsquo;rock&rsquo; by giving three top players in exchange forgoaler Harry Lumley. At the outset of the season it appeared that apple cheeked Harry was over the hill, that he was a little puck weary from his unhappy alliance with the Chicago Black Hawks.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0639/1010286-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="294" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><p><b>As the schedule progressed, Harry not only proved Conn&rsquo;s faith in him but has shown that he will have to be reckoned with in the hunt for the Vezina Trophy, emblematic of the top goaler in the National Hockey League. When Al Rollins was tending the twine for the Leafs. Smythe said that he had the second best goaler in the League. At present he considers that he has the top or the nearest thing to it.</b></p><p><b>This past week Lumley was just short of sen. rational. He racked up two shutouts in a row and held the opposition scoreless for a period of 125 minutes and three seconds. The skein started just after Fred Glover had scored on him at the 14.57 mark of the third period when the Leafs were playing Chicago in the Windy City on December 21.</b></p><p><b>Christmas Eve he blanked the Montreal Canadiens 2-0 and the credit was all his, for the Habs completely dominated the play throughout the first two frames only to have the Leafs come back with two third period goals. The main stumbling block in the Montreal attack was one Harry Lumley, who time after time, held the Hab snipers at bay. He was full measure for the win and the goose-egg.</b></p><p><b>He also earned the big zero when the Leafs blanked the Boston Bruins 3-0 on Saturday, December 27 at Toronto. He was only called on to handle 15 shots in his contest but he was invincible on every one of them.</b></p><p><b>Lumley is one of the few goalers to &lsquo;come back&rsquo; after being subjected to the Black Hawk bombshell. Usually this post proves to be the graveyard of good goalers. but despite the so-called hex that Chicago seems to hold, Lumley managed to play sound hockey there last season, even though he was constantly bombarded with all kinds of flying rubber.</b></p><p><b>Most fans are surprised by the fact that Lumley, although an eight year veteran of the NHL, is only 27 years old. They remember him when he was the apple cheeked kid starring in the Detroit Red Wing goals at the age of 18.</b></p><p><b>The Wings were faced with a tough problem when they were called on to make a choice between Lumley and the young, practically Inexperienced Terry Sawchuk. They chose Sawchuk, due no doubt to his youth and future use to the club, but there is one person who is extremely happy that they did. His name is Conn Smythe.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-06

Player-Of-The-Week

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>hicago moved ahead of Montreal into second place in the National Hockey League standings and Toronto moved up from fifth to fourth place, ahead of the Boston Bruins. Detroit Red Wings currently hold a commanding grip on first place in the League standings. The Motor City club has 43 points, six more than Chicago and seven more than the third-place Canadiens. Detroit became the first N.H.L. team to score 100 goals this season during the wek when they brought their total for the season up to 111. Toronto is fourth with 35 points, Boston is fifth with 33 and NewYork is sixth with 20 points.</p><p>Big Gordon Howe continues to ramble on scoring goals and laying down assists and the ace Detroit right winger now has a total of 21 goals and 20 assists for 41 points. Besides topping the League in points, Howe also leads in goals scored with 21 and is tied with Wally Hergesheimer, New York; Maurice Richard, Montreal; and Alex Delvecchio, Detroit; with most assists. He has 20 assists.</p><p>The second best scorer is New York Rangers&rsquo; outstanding sophomore right winger, Wally Hergeshehner, with 16 goals and 20 assists for 36 points. Ted Lindsay of Detroit is next with 16 goals and 19 assists for 35 points. Maurice Richard, Canadiens, has 31 points, while Metro Prystai of Detroit follows with an even 30.</p><p>Harry Lumley, Toronto&rsquo;s pudgy netminder, racked up two successive shutouts during the week to bring his total number of shutouts for the season to three. Terry Sawchuk of Detroit and Gerry McNeil of Canadiens each have four shutouts so far this season. Sawchuk, although injured, still has the best record among the goalkeepers.</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs are the most penalized team with 46 2 minutes, 54 minutes more than Chicago Black Hawks, second most penalized club. Ted Lindsay of Detroit is the most penalized player with 70 minutes.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS TUESDAY DEC. 30</h3><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN DEC. 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01118/1010255-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="602" height="242"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3><p>Dec. 24th&mdash;Canadiens 0 at Toronto 2</p><p>Dec. 25th&mdash;Rangers 2 at Boston 1</p><p>Dec. 25th&mdash;Chicago 8 at Detroit 3</p><p>Dec. 27th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Canadiens 2</p><p>Dec. 27th&mdash;Boston 0 at Toronto 8</p><p>Dec. 28th&mdash;Chicago 6 at Rangers 8</p><p>Dec. 28th&mdash;Boston 1 at Detroit 7</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24</h3><p><b>Montreal 0 at Toronto 2</b></p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Montreal Canadiens held a commanding edge in play for two periods but sagged in the finale and the result was that the Toronto Maple Leafs tallied twice and copped a 2-0 victory. It was only the stellar work of goaler Harry Lumley that prevented the Habs from grabbing the duke as time and time again he foiled them at the doorstep&hellip;</p><p>Leafs broke loose in the third period on what started out as a harmless looking routine play but Gordie Hannigan pounced on Jim Morrison&rsquo;s rebound and beat Gerry McNeil at 4.59 to put Toronto up 1-0.</p><p>At the halfway mark in the same frame, Harry Watson teamed up with Phil Maloney to give the Leafs a 2-0 lead. Maloney was up on lend-lease from the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson, St. Laurent: forwards, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Richard, Masnick, Olmstead, McCormack, Meger, Mosdell, Desaulniers.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson. Flaman, Boivin, Morrison, Horton; forwards, Kennedy, Smith, Hassard, Watson, Sloan, Stewart, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Timgren, Maloney.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen, J. Primeau, Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0298/1010248-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="604" height="308"></div><h3>THURSDAY DECEMBER 25</h3><p><b>New York 2 at Boston 1</b></p><p>BOSTON&mdash;The Boston Bruins played the perfect Christmas hosts to the New Yorks Rangers by dropping a close 2-1 decision to them. It was the first win on the road this season for the New Yorkers.</p><p>The Rangers now boast of a unique Christmas record of 17 wins, one tie and three defeats over the last 22 years. Last season and the year before that they lost to the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Joe Klukay gave the Bruins the lead at the 14.17 mark of the first period on a perfect pass from Fleming Mackell who in turn received from Pentii Lund. In the second period Ed Slowinski got that one back for the Rangers with Don Raleigh and Dean Prentice assisting. Paul Ronty, a former Bruin himself, scored the winner midway through the final frame on a play with Wally Hergesheimer and Neil Strain.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Rayner; defence, Reise, Stanley, Howell, Buller, Kraftcheck; forwards: Mickoski, Kullman, Stoddard, Raleigh, Ronty, Macintosh, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Slowinski, Strain</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Armstrong, Godfrey, Schmidt, Toppazzini; forwards: Klukay, Mackell, Sandford, Dumart, Labine, Creighton, McIntyre, Lund, Chevrefils.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0456/1010241-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="602" height="354"></div><h3>Chicago 3, at Detroit 3</h3><p>DETROIT&mdash;Detroit Red Wings racked up their fifth straight tie on home ice as they came from behind to deadlock the Chicago Black Hawks 3-3 with Gordie Howe delighting a Christmas Day crowd of 11,028 by scoring twice in the third period.</p><p>The Wings were without the services of goaler Terry Sawchuk who is out with a broken bone in his instep. Ralph (Red) Almas filled in for him and was called on to handle 22 shots in comparison to the 39 turned aside by Chicago&rsquo;s Al Rollins.</p><p>Bill Mosienko tallied twice for the Hawks and Rags Raglan once while Howe had a pair for the Wings and Ted Lindsay one. Howe&rsquo;s two markers came within four minutes of each other late in the third period and Metro Prystai and Lindsay drew the assists on both of them. Fred Hucul drew assists on both Mosienko tallys.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Mortson, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Hucul; forwards: McFadden, Gardner, Petera, Mosienko, Conacher, Babando, Bodnar, Glover, Couture, Gee, Abel.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence. Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; 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/f0009-0546/1010234-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="606" height="408"></div><h3>SATURDAY DECEMBER 27</h3><p><b>Boston 0, at Toronto 3</b></p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Sparked by 18-year-old junior Eric Nesterenko, the Toronto Maple Leafs blanked the Boston Bruins 3-0. The young Toronto Marlboro player, up on a three game look-see basis, blasted two goals and assisted a third.</p><p>For goaler Harry Lumley it was the second shutout in a row and the third of the season. He blanked the Montreal Canadiens 2-0 on Christmas Eve, but unlike the Hab game, he was only called on to handle 15 shots from the Bruins.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Toppazzini, Armstrong, Godfrey; forwards: Schmidt, LaBine, Chevrefils, Creighton, Fisher, McIntyre, Lund, Mackell, Klukay, Dumart.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Flaman, Boivin, Thomson, Morrison, Horton; forwards: Maloney, Meeker, Watson, Kennedy, Smith. Stewart, Hassard, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Sloan, Timgren.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01133/1010227-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="612" height="422"></div><h3>Detroit 2 at Canadiens 2</h3><p>MONTREAL&mdash;An accidental five minute major to Kenny Mosdell paced the way for the Detroit Red Wings to come from behind and tie the Montreal Canadiens 2-2. Big Moe accidentally clipped Bob Goldham with his stick and drew blood and while he colled his heels in the sin bin, Reg Sinclair tallied the equalizer.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Hay, Woit; forwards: Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Les wick, Pavellch, Skov, Sinclair, Bonin, Wilson, DelVecchio.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards: Masnick, Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Gamble, Curry, McCormack, Geoffrion, Meger, Deraulniers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02100/1010220-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="618" height="412"></div><h3>SUNDAY DECEMBER 28</h3><p><b>Chicago 6 at New York 3</b></p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Chicago Black Hawks regained second place in the tight National Hockey League standings when they downed the New York Rangers 6-3. Jimmy Peters led the Hawk attack with a pair of goals.</p><p>At one point in the game the New Yorkers held a 3-2 lead but Peters second goal of the evening tied it up and from then on the Hawks never looked back. Other Chicago marksmen were George Gee, Gus Bodnar, Gerry Couture and Fred Hucul.</p><p>..Chicago: Goal, Rollins; defence, Gadsby, Mortson, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Raglan; forwards: Peters, Bodnar, McFadden, Mosienko, Conacher, Hucul, Couture, Gardner, Gee, Sclissizzi.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Rayner: defence, Reise, Howell, Buller, Kraftcheck, Stanley forwards: Ronty, Hergesheimer, Strain, Raleigh, Mickoski, Stoddard, Prentice, Kullman, Slowinski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0383/1010213-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="626" height="594"></div><h3>Boston 1 at Detroit 7</h3><p>DETROIT&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings rang up their fifteenth consecutive game without a defeat when they slammed the Boston Bruins 7-1. Detroit had a wide edge in the territorial play, out-Bhooting the Bruins 40-21.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Toppazzini, Armstrong, Godfrey: forwards: Schmidt, LaBine, Che vrefils, Creighton, Fisher, McIntyre. Lund, Mackell, Klukay, Dumart.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Goldham. Kelly, Pronovost, Hay, Woit; forwards: Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Pavelich. Skov, Sinclair, Bonin, Wilson, DelVecchio.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0458/1010206-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="616" height="458"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including games Sunday, Dec. 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0367/1010199-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="604" height="1323"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0365/1010192-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="606" height="326"></div><h3>Penalties In Minutes By Clubs</h3><p>Rangers, 300; Boston, 310; Detroit, 328; Canadiens, 376; Chicago, 408; Toronto, 462.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-01

Wings, Hawks Run One, Two In Tight NHL Race

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-12" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1214/1010431-1-eng-US/f0010-122.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>oronto Maple Leafs were only seeking replacement for an injured player when they brought Eric Nesterenko up from the Toronto Marlboro juniors but as it happened he fitted like a glove with Gordie Hannigan and Bob Hassard. In two games, Nesterenko collected two goals and an assist, all in one game, as he personally beat Boston 3-0. Hannigan had 2 goals and two assists this week and Hassard a pair of goals.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-12

The Perfect Combination…Hassard, Hannigan, Nesterenko

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; farm system has had few chances to blush from flattery. To the contrary, fans and critics of the club have usually scoffed at the mention of the player development program. &ldquo;What farm system?&hellip;I didn&rsquo;t think they had any&hellip;They get all their players through trades,&rdquo; have been typical of remarks.</p><p>&ldquo;There has never been any real justification for such unfair reasoning and here is proof,&rdquo; Hawk General Manager Bill Tobin said last week. With that he released a previously Confidential list of close to 50 players developed through the Chicago farm setup during recent years.</p><p>Twenty-six on the list, we discovered, are now doing their puck pushing in the three recognized pro leagues with seven in the National, three in the American and 16 in the Western circuit. In addition, 10 others previously had established themselves in professional ranks, but have since retired or been reinstated as amateurs.</p><p>&ldquo;Virtually all of the boys on this roster,&rdquo; Tobin related, &ldquo;were discovered by &lsquo;Tiny&rsquo; Thompson, our long-time chief scout for western Canada. 1 think he&rsquo;s the best scout in hockey history and he&rsquo;s still at it. Just recently he brought us a young goalie named Henry Bassen, who is considered the best in the west by &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Dutton, a former president of this league.</p><p>Four of the seven farm products in the NHL today are with the parent Hawks. They are netminder Al Rollins, who made a two-year trip to Toronto before coming to Chi, defensemen Bill Gadsby and Fred Hucul and winger Pete Conacher. The other three are Ranger rearguard Leo Reise and forwards Metro Prystai and Bert Olmstead of Detroit and the Canadiens respectively.</p><p>The Black Hawks developed players in the American loop are defender Brent MacNab and center G. Abner Fielder at St. Louis and winger Johnny Michaluk at Providence. Fielder attended the Detroit training camp last fall, but was unable to make the world champion crew. Both he and Michaluk received trials with Chicago during the 1950-51 campaign.</p><p>The 16 listed Hawk discoveries now playing in the Western league are spread around all eight teams in the circuit. Calgary&rsquo;s contigent of five is the largest and Coach Hank Blade is also a product of the Windy City team&rsquo;s farm system. The Stamp players are Sid Finney, Steve Witiuk, Bill Shvetz, Frank Ashworth and Art Michaluk, older brother of Johnny.</p><p>Those with the other clubs are as follows: Jim Bedard, Gordon Fashoway and Don Slater at New Westminster, Hugh Coflin and Vic Stasiuk at Edmonton. Emile Francis and Ed Leier at Vancouver, Joe Conn at Seattle, Bob Goodacre at Victoria, Bev Bently at Saskatoon and Hal Tarala at Tacoma.</p><p>Finney and Witiuk, who spent a good part of last season with the Hawks, as well as Shvetz and Bedard, are still owned by Chicago. Shvetz has never played with the team, but Bedard, a tough rearguard built along the lines of Kenny Reardon, had brief stays in 1949-50 and 50-51.</p><p>Bob Wilson, formerly associated with Toronto, has only been chief scout for eastern Canada with the Hawks for a few months, but he has already found a number of promising rookies that may someday make the grade. &ldquo;And we have them all under agreement,&rdquo; Tobin enthusiastically states.</p><p>Heading the group of Wilson recommended hopefuls are five youngsters now with Galt and St. Michael&rsquo;s college in the Ontario Junior league. Kenny Wharram, Jack Sleaver and Hillary Menard are the Galt stars while Murray Costello and Ron Wallace are at St. Mike&rsquo;s. Tobin says any or all the five may receive tryouts this season.</p><p>Both Thompson and Wilson have a number of valuable assistants and co-scouts that are spread all over Canada. The foremost include &lsquo;Baldy&rsquo; Northcott at Winnipeg, &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Hamill of Galt and Ted Murdock of northern Ontario. Hamill is coach of the Galt Juniors from whence Pete Conacher came this year.</p><p>HAWK TALK: The Household Finance corp., which will sponsor the Black Hawks&rsquo; return to live television starting next month, has just published a 3 2-page hockey booklet. It may be obtained free of charge by writting the Hawks at 610 N. LaSalle st., Chicago. It is also available in all Chicagoland HFC offices.</p><p>Left winger Jim Enio Sclissizzi, who suffered a broken jaw in one of the pre-season exhibition battles with Detroit, has now completely recovered. He has been loaned to St. Louis, but may be recalled at any time. He was purchased last summer with Fred Glover from Detroit.</p><p>Glover, incidentially, had plenty of reason for highsticking Ranger rearguard Steve Kraftcheck in a Chicago Stadium game a couple of weeks ago. The burly Blueshirt had knocked out a couple of Freddy&rsquo;s teeth a few moments earlier. The incident was clearly visible to thousands of fans, but Referee Red Storey assessed no penatly. On the other hand, Glover got one.</p><p>Cal Gardner&rsquo;s recent fight with Toronto&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy did not come as a surprise to those who know how the red-haired Hawk center feels about his former teammate. Just after coming to the Hawks in the deal for Harry Lumley, Cal said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not the only one who dislikes Kennedy. He&rsquo;s the Leaf&rsquo;s second coach.&rdquo;</p><p>A minute of silence in tribute to James Norris was observed at the Stadium just before the Hawk-Leaf game December 7. A resident of Chicago for many years, he created the Chicago Shamrocks, who gave the Black Hawks opposition at the box office during the days of the old American Hockey association.</p><p>Press box visitors: NHL President Clarence Campbell attended the Toronto game and the DetroitChicago tussle the previous night at Indianapolis. During the former contest, he observed, &ldquo;This is the best exhibition of goaltending I&rsquo;ve seen this year.&rdquo; Another press box guest was Lou Trudel, the Chicago star of the &lsquo;30s who now manages Grand Rapids in the International league.</p><p>With the Hawks trailing 2 to 0 in the closing bits of the heretofore mentioned Toronto game. Coach Sid Abel did everything, but take out Al Rollins. He used tour forwards and just one rearguard for several minutes and then wound up with five attackers. The Leafs were not shortanded during any of this time.</p><h2><i>Five in NHL Via Braves</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0547/1010345-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="302" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0644/1010338-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="306" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Reise</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0733/1010331-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="310" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Metro Prystai</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0832/1010324-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="306" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Gadsby</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0929/1010317-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="312" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Rollins</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0010-05

Chi Farm Setup Proves Hawks’ Players Not All From Trades

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1026/1010400-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>o less than 32 established professional hockey stars of today were discovered and developed through the often berated Chicago Black Hawk farm system. They are listed below for all to sep.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-10

Chi Discoveries in Pro Ranks

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0834/1010570-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="558" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>It didn&rsquo;t take Dune Fisher long to convince Boston Bruin brass that he should be recalled from the Hershey Bears of the AHL. He was the top goal scorer in the circuit when recalled and this week&rsquo;s records show he still holds that title.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0011-08

Top Sniper

<h2><b>Scoring Barons</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Cleveland Barons are the scoringest team in the AHL. They hold the record for one season, 357, and the most goals scored of alltime, 3594. Really putting the puck in the net!</p><h2><b>Longest Blanking</b></h2><p>Nick Damore of the Hershey Bears had an almost unbelievable record of 221.02 minutes of shutout hockey during the 1939-40 season. That&rsquo;s the equivalent of almost four whole games in row.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01132/1010539-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="608" height="206"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 25</b></h3><p><b>Buffalo 1 at Providence 3</b></p><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Paced by Jean Paul Denis, the Providence Reds came from behind to down the Buffalo Bisona 3-1 in a Christmas Day fixture.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal: McAtee; defence, Lavitt, MacNeil, Lowe; forwards: Kaiser, Davis, McKay, McLeod, Davies, Kobussen, Pilotte, Fryday, Achlymichuk.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, Morris, Bourassa, Bloome, Kryzanowski, forwards: Scherza. Toppazzini, Denis, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, Laplante, Eacarri, Kapusta, Larivee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0298/1010532-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="614" height="452"></div><h3><b>Pittsburgh 2 at Hershey 3</b></h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Murray Henderson potted a shot from the blue line to give the Hershey Bears a close 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>Pittsburgh: Goal, Mayer; defence, Bolton, Mather, Juzda, Frank, Sullivan, Lumsdens; forwards: Lewicki, Barbe, Bollinger, Balfour, Blair, Sabourin, Marshall, McLellan, Chorley.</p><p>Hershey: Goal, Henry; defence, Branigan, Henderson, Gariepy, Schertzl, Martin; forwards: George Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, Brown. Kullman, Corcoran, Bettio, O&rsquo;Brien, Poland.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0378/1010525-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="605" height="516"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY DECEMBER 26</b></h3><p><b>Syracuse 5 at Cleveland 1</b></p><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;The Syracuse Warriors scored four goals in the second period and went on to down the Cleveland Barons 5-1.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Milligan, Tottle, Ashley, Allen; forwards: Burnett, Curick, Horvath, Lemieux, Mc-Nabney, Gooden, Pidhirny, Pogue, Casanato, Ashbee.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower: defence, Chrystal, Shero, Williams, Reigle; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Kubasek. Lynn, Sonmor. Ceresino, Wochy, Hildebrand, Olson, Delmonte.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0456/1010518-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="602" height="522"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY DECEMBER 27</b></h3><p><b>Cleveland 3 at Pittsburgh 3</b></p><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;The Cleveland Barons and the Pittsburgh Hornets fought to a 3-3 draw in an American Hockey League game. Chuck Blair scored the tying goal for the Hornets.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Chrystal, Shero, Williams, Reigle; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Kubasek, Lynn, Sonmor. Ceresino, Wochy, Hildebrand, Olson, Delmonte.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Bolton, Mather, Juzda, Frank, Sullivan, Lumsdens; forwards: Lewicki, Barbe, Sollinger, Balfour, Blair, Sabourin, Marshall, McLellan, Chorley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0642/1010511-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="602" height="584"></div><h3><b>Providence 3 at Syracuse 2</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;Providence Reds edged Syracuse Warriors 3-2 to snap the warriors&rsquo; American Hockey League winning streak at four games.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal. Bennett; defence. Morris, Bourassa, Bloome, Kryzanowski. forwards: Scherza, Toppazzini, Denis, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, Laplante, Bacarri, Kapusta, Larivee.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell: defence. Milligan, Tottle, Ashley, Allen: forwards: Burnett, Curick, Horvath, Lemieux. McNabney, Gooden, Pidhirny, Pogue, Casanato, Ashbee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0735/1010504-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="602" height="494"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 0 at Hershey 5</b></h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Hershey Bears whitewashed Buffalo Bisons 5-0 in an American Hockey League game.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal: McAtee; defence, Lavitt, MacNei1, Lowe; forwards: Kaiser, Davis, McKay, McLeod, Davies, Kobussen, Pilotte, Fryday, Achlymichuk.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence. Branigan, Henderson, Gariepy, Schertzl, Martin; forwards: George Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, Brown. Kullman, Corcoran, Bettio, O&rsquo;Brien. Poland.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0933/1010497-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="608" height="404"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY DECEMBER 28</b></h3><p><b>Hershey 7 at Buffalo 2</b></p><p>BUFFALO&mdash;George Sullivan scored three goals as Hershey Bears drubbed Buffalo Bisons 7-2 to sweep a week-end American Hockey League series.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal: McAtee; defence, Lavitt, MacNeil, Lowe; forwards: Kaiser, Davis, McKay, McLeod, Davies, Kobussen, Pilotte, Fryday, Achlymichuk.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Branlgan, Henderson, Gariepy, Schertzl, Martin; forwards: George Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, Brown, Kullman, Corcoran, Bettio. O&rsquo;Brien. Poland.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1124/1010490-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="612" height="522"></div><h3><b>Pittsburgh 2 at Providence 3</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Zellio Toppazzini scored in the overtime period to give the Providence Reds a 3-2 AHL win over Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal. Mayer; defence, Bolton, Mather, Juzda, Frank. Sullivan, Lumsdens; forwards: Lewicki, Barbe, Sollinger, Balfour. Blair, Sabourin, Marshall, McLellan, Chorley.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal. Bennett; defence, Morris, Bourassa, Bloome. Kryzanowski, forwards: Scherza. Toppazzini, Denis, Powell, Sullivan, Gladu, Laplante, Bacarrl, Kapusta, Larivee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1222/1010483-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="610" height="440"></div><h3><b>Cleveland 4 at St. Louis 7</b></h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The St Louis Flyers clicked for a half dozen goals in the second period to down the Cleveland Barons 7-4.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Chrystal, Shero, Williams, Reigle; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Kubasek, Lynn, Sonmor, Ceresino, Wochy, Hildebrand, Olson, Delmonte.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal. Almas: defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, McNab; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Glover, Boone, Stankiewicz, Hirschfeld, Taylor, Hayden, Ehman.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0286/1010476-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="604" height="750"></div><h2><b>Heads The Pack</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0546/1010469-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="1208" height="1798"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivan is aiming at another shot in the NHL and if he continues his present torrid rate of racking up the points, he&rsquo;s a sure bet to make it. To date he has managed to climb to the top of the AHL scoring ladder as well as lead the league in assists.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including game of Sunday, Dec, 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1030/1010462-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="606" height="410"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> D. Fisher, Hers. (20).</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> G. Sullivan, Hers. (35).</p><p><b>Most Penalties:</b> F. Sullivan, Pitts (63)</p><p><b>Goaler: J. Bower, Clev.</b> (29 gms, 73 gls.)</p><p><b>Team Penalties:</b> Pittsburgh Hor. 420.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-01

AMERICAN LEAGUE

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

Sport Trophies

<div class="byline">By GEORGE CARSON</div><p>ST. LOUIS, Mo.&mdash;</p><p>The St. Louis Flyers have never had the scoring leader of the American Hockey League, but they may achieve that distinction this season if clever, play-making, smooth workink Guyle Fielder continues his phenomenal scoring.</p><p>Fielder took just a couple of weeks to adjust himself to the faster pace of this circuit, then the Rookie of the Year in the Pacific Coast League last season, bit his stride and for four straight weeks led the A.H.L. in scoring before being sidelined by an injury.</p><p>The rather odd part of Fielder&rsquo;s performance was that he was getting nearly as many goals as assists. In the Coast League, Fielder had just 2 5 goals and 5 0 assists for 7 5 points, quite normal for a center.</p><p>But this season, Guyle is doing what Coach Jake Forbes, who also directed Fielder last year, wanted him to do then. He is shooting more often and his scoring has been exceptional in the tougher competition afforded by the A.H.L.</p><p>With New Westminister last season, Fielder was center for Gordon Fashoway and Bob Paul. Fashoway tied for second in the Coast scoring race with 51 goals and 34 assists for 85 points, while Paul was well up in the list with 30 goals and 37 assists for 67 points.</p><p>In the first 17 games this season, Fielder had collected 11 goals and 15 assists for 2 6 points. Part of his fine showing was due to the play of his rookie linemates, Marcel Bonin and Motto McLean. Both were feeding Fielder, with Bonin getting five goals and sixteen assists and McLean 5 goals and 10 assists.</p><p>Part of the Improvement in Fielder&rsquo;s scoring is due to the fine work of Bonin who joined the Flyers after the season opened and has played in only 14 games. When he teamed with Fielder and McLean, that line became the best in the league.</p><p>That&rsquo;s an all-rookie line, but with Fielder directing traffic, it&rsquo;s been better than any other trio so far. If Fielder can win the scoring title or finish near the top, he&rsquo;ll be a cinch to take the rookie of the year honors in this league too.</p><p>Fielder is one of the few American-born players in hockey, but by an odd twist, he is now a Canadian citizen. It frequently happens that players born in Canada come to the States and like it so well that they become American citizens.</p><p>But Fielder, although born in Potlach, Idaho, spent nearly all his life in Canada and last year took out Canadian citizenship papers.</p><p>Fielder&rsquo;s parents left Potlach before Guyle was a year old and moved to Spalding, Sasketchewan for five years and then to Nipawin, Sask, for 10. He went through the usual years of hockey and began his junior career by playing two seasons with Prince Albert Mintos before going to Lethbridge Native Sons, Alberta, for two years. Then last season, he played for New Westminster under Forbes.</p><p>Always a center. Fielder has a good left hand shot and is mighty tricky in front of the net. With Bonin and McLean, he makes up the fanciest passing combination ever to play for the Flyers. The three delight in setting each other up for easy goals. And Fielder&rsquo;s generalship enables them to work through the defense to get into scoring range without having to bang the puck into enemy territory and then try to get it away from the defense.</p><p>Fielder was 22 years old last Nov. 22 and is not married or engaged. The youngster fits in with the plans of the Flyers for this season as they stress the youth movement.</p><p>He likes this year&rsquo;s team, calling it &ldquo;a good hustling club that should do all right.&rdquo;</p><p>Guyle is particularly fond of Bonin, his leftwinger, and the two of them are good for each other as they seem to fit together from the very first game, teaming to make some brilliant plays and golf.</p><p>During the summertime, Fielder spends his off time on a golf course or in a swimming pool when he&rsquo;s not busy working as a laborer in a lumber mill or as a plasterer&rsquo;s helper, jobs designed to keep him toughened up for the hockey grind.</p><p>Fielder has yet to prove that he&rsquo;s the greatest center the Flyers have ever had, but if he keeps up as he has started, he&rsquo;ll undoubtedly merit that distinction. He reminds fans of Don &ldquo;The Count&rdquo; Grosso, with his clever playing, but he&rsquo;s far better around the net than the Count. He may not be quite as clever or proficient a scorer as Cliff Simpson, but he&rsquo;s faster and is his equal as a passer.</p><p>In commenting on the difference between Coast League hockey and American League, Fielder remarked that the AHL is better balanced. The way Fielder&rsquo;s going, he may well unbalance it in favor of the Flyers. And wouldn&rsquo;t that be a great achievement of the loyal Flyer fans if he could lead them to a title, take the scoring crown, and win rookie of the year honors, too? It&rsquo;s a mighty big dream, but Fielder&rsquo;s a mighty good hockey player.</p><h2><b>Up Top</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01145/1010625-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="564" height="1375"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUYLE FIELDER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-01

Fielder Eyes AHL Scoring Crown, May Be First Flyer To Wear It

<h2><b>Streak Snapped</b></h2><p>Doug. Macanley and George Pergeter of Seattle had scored point: in eight straight games before being stopped in Victoria on Dec. 19.</p><h2><b>Four Goal Guys</b></h2><p>Vic Stasiuk of Edmonton, George Senick of Saskatoon, Steve Witiuk of Calgary and Jim Fairburn of Victoria have all scored four goals in a game this season.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING TUES, A.M, DEC, 23</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01152/1010775-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="602" height="232"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Dec. 16</b></p><p>Calgary 3 at Victoria 6</p><p><b>Wed. Dec. 17</b></p><p>Calgary 6 at Seattle 6</p><p>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 2</p><p><b>Thu. Dec. 18</b></p><p>Calgary 4 at Tacoma 11</p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 19</b></p><p>Seattle 2 at Victoria 8</p><p>Calgary 3 at Vancouver 6</p><p>Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 4</p><p><b>Sat. Dec. 20</b></p><p>Vancouver 1 at Tacoma 1</p><p>Calgary 0 at New Westminster 2</p><p>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 9</p><p><b>Sun. Dec. 21</b></p><p>New Westminster 2 at Seattle 3</p><h3><b>TUESDAY DECEMBER 16</b></h3><p><b>Calgary 3 at Victoria 6</b></p><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Victoria Cougars took the measure of the touring Calgary Stampeders 6-3 and continued on the upgrade, looking more Improved all the time.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal. Hughes: defence, Michaluk, Levandoski, Quackenbush, Kyle; forwards, Kelly. Brown, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar<i>,</i> Ashworth. Scott. Finney.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roch, Long, Irwin, Kirk; forwards, Strongman, Hebenton, Abbott, McIntyre, Dorohoy, Anderson, Fairburn, Goodacre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02119/1010768-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="606" height="550"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17</b></h3><p><b>Calgary 6 at Seattle 6</b></p><p>SEATTLE&mdash;Coach Lloyd Ailsby pulled the goalkeeper in the last 30 second of play and the move paid off when George Pargeter notched/the tieing goal with 5 seconds to play to enable the Seattle Bombers to eke out a 6 all tie against the touring Calgary Club. It also ran Seattle&rsquo;s undefeated streak to 8 games.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal. Hughes: defence. Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Schvetz, Levandoski; forwards, Kelly, Brown. Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence. Conn, Sprout, Ailsby. Arnett, Lebioda; forwards, Bell, Filion, Foley, Bailey, Pargeter, Stearns, MacAuley, Nadeau, Homenuke.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0397/1010761-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="600" height="604"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 2</b></h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The last plane Edmonton Flyers dumped the front-running Saskatoon Quakers 4-2 in a Western Hockey League game before about 4,000 fans.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, Worsley: defence, Heindl, Evans; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Strain; subs., McCullough. McLeod. Senick, Jeffrey, Kaiser, Rouse, D. Bentley, Parker. Milford.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Hay, Coflin; forwards, Poile. Johnson, Uniac; subs., Reibel, Anderson. Haley. Hannigan, Ehman, Macdonald, Zeidel, Raglan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0481/1010754-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="594" height="350"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 18</b></h3><p><b>Calgary 4 at Tacoma 11</b></p><p>TACOMA&mdash;Calgary Stampeders failed in their bid to vault over the Vancouver Canucks into second place in the WHL by being drubbed 11-4 by Tacoma Rockets.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Shvetz, Levandoski; forwards, Kelly, Brown, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Scott.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Caron, Tarala, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor; forwards. Bradley, Matthews, Johnson, Wall, Kerr, Marquess, Halderson. Aram, Brown</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0655/1010747-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="604" height="856"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY DECEMBER 19</b></h3><p><b>Seattle 2 at Victoria 8</b></p><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Seattle Bombers had their undefeated record snapped at eight when they were soundly trounced 8-2 by the Victoria Cougars.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan: defence, Ailsby. Sprout, Arnett, Lofvendahl; forwards, Homenuke, Bell. Pargeter, Fllion, Foley, Nadeau, Manson, Stearns, MacAuley.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Long, Irwin; forwards, Goegan, Strongman, Hebenton. Abbott. Maxwell. Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans. Fairburn.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Knott and Ross Vallierre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0747/1010740-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="602" height="605"></div><h3><b>Calgary 3 at Vancouver 6</b></h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks again grabbed a share of first place as they dumped the slumping Calgary Stampeders 6-3.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards, Kelly, Witiuk, Lundy, Black, Agar, Ashworth, Finney, Scott, Barry, Blade.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie. Lancien, Fontinato; forwards, Hickey, Wylie, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Bathgate, Leier, Manson, Brown; Powers.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Scotty Morrison and Merrick Cranstoun.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0842/1010733-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="598" height="530"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 1 at Edmonton 4</b></h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;League leading Saskatoon Quakers bowed to the Edmonton Flyers 4-1. It was the sixth winless game in a row for the Quakers.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Heindl, Ross, Evans, Milford; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, McCullough, Rouse, Kuzma, Jeffrey, Kaiser, Kassian, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal. Hall; defence, Folk, Zeidel, Raglan, Coflin; forwards, Poile, Johnson, Uniac, Reibel, Stasiuk, Haley, MacDonald, Hannigan, Wilson. MyGill.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Ed Powers and Hank Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0941/1010726-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="600" height="418"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY DECEMBER 20</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 1 at Tacoma 1</b></p><p>TACOMA&mdash;With seven seconds left in the game Bill Davidson scored to give the Vancouver Canucks a 1-1 draw with the Tacoma Rockets.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Smith, Lancien, Fontinato; forwards, A tanas, Popein, Hickey, Power, Leier, Wyllie, Manson, F. Brown, Bathgate.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Jones, Davidson, O&rsquo;Connor, Tarala; forwards, Marquess, Wall, Bradley, Adam, Kerr, Matthews, Johnston, W. Brown, Halderson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1041/1010719-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="598" height="353"></div><h3><b>Calgary 0 at New Westminster 2</b></h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;The Calgary Stampeders finished out a disastrous road trip to the Coast by losing 2-0 to the New Westminster Royals.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defense, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards, Kelly,, Lundy, Black, Wittiuk, Barry, Agar, Ashworth, Scott, Blade.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal. Dechene; defence, Durham, Coburn, Bergeron. Bedard; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Boyce, Bailey, Cabana.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1137/1010712-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="596" height="325"></div><h3><b>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 9</b></h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers snapped out of their slump and regained first place in the WHL by dumping the Edmonton Flyers 9-4.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Zeidel, Coburn, Goflin, Hay; forwards, Johnson, Poile, Uniac, J. Anderson, MacDonald, Ehman, Haley, Stasiuk, Reibel, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal. Worsley; defence, Heindl, Evans, Parker, Milford; forwards, Kalata, Chad, Strain, Jeffrey, Senick, McCullough, Wylie, Kaiser, Kuzma.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1235/1010705-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="601" height="811"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY DECEMBER 21</b></h3><p>New Westminster 2 at Seattle 3</p><p>SEATTLE&mdash;The Seattle Bombers won a hard earned 3-2 battle with the New Westminster Royals before 2,396 fans.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Bedard. Coburn; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyot, Love. Fashoway, McIntyre, Cabana, Hamilton.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence. Conn, Sprout, Ailsby, Lebioda; forwards. Fillon, Homenuke, Foley, Nadeau, Pargeter, Sterns, Bailey, MacAuley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1810/1010698-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="600" height="420"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Sunday Dec. 21)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1427/1010691-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="606" height="1158"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1523/1010684-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="604" height="288"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1612/1010677-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="608" height="163"></div><h3><b>HAT TRICKS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-199/1010670-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="592" height="52"></div><h3><b>MOST WINNING GOALS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-207/1010663-1-eng-US/f0013-202.jpg" title="f0013-20" width="600" height="54"></div><h3><b>MOST PENALTIES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1710/1010656-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="602" height="170"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-01

WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0566/1010806-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>UNCLE AND NEPHEW.&mdash;The Bentleys of Deslisle, Sask, believe in keeping things pretty well in the family. In the above picture Uncle Doug Bentley, former Chicago Black Hawk star and now playing coach of the Saskatoon Quakers, clears the puck away from the net of Nephew Bev Bentley. Checking Bentley, Doug that is, is Cal Stearns of the Seattle Bombers. Seattle won the game 6-1.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-05

All In The Family

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01158/1010837-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"></div><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Attendance in the Western Hockey League has shown a decline of 7 &frac34; % in the first 125 games played to date. Edmonton, Seattle and Tacoma show the largest decline in attendance with Saskatoon, Calgary and Vancouver all showing an Increase. Victoria and New Westminster are very close to last seasons attendance figures.</p><p>While attendance figures are off 7 &frac34; % Net receipts are off only a little over 3 &frac12; indicating that the customers are purchasing more of the better seats.</p><p>With the election and football out of the way the two American cities are looking forward to substantial increased attendance. The same should also apply to Edmonton where the decline in attendance has been greatest, now that the football season is over.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-01

WHL Shows Cate Decline

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, III.&mdash;Chicago&rsquo;s Pete Babando is the only Americanborn player in the National Hockey league this season. He first saw the light of day in Braeburn, Pa. on May 10, 1925, but the Babando family moved to Ontario a short time later. Pete now makes his home in Timmins, Ont.</p><p>Americans have been very few in number in the NHL for the past several years. Babando shared the distinction last season briefly with Ray Barry, a native of Boston. He played with the Bruins during their first 18 scheduled games, but was then farmed out to acquire further competitive experience. He has since been sold to Calgary in the Western loop.</p><p>Babando, Normie Dussault of the Canadiens and Guyle Fielder, who had a tryout with the Hawks, were the only Americans to play in the big time in 1950-51. Dussault was born in Springfield, Mass, while Pottach, Ida. was Fielder&rsquo;s first home. Like Barry, they are also both in the minors now.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Only One America-Born Player In NHL This Year

<div class="byline">By HUGH WATSON</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Co-owner Ken MacKenzie of the New Westminster Royals has a standing offer of $500 to anyone able to tip him off on a player of Western Hockey League capabilities.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not too scared of losing the money,&rdquo; says MacKenzie. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve done everything possible to try and improve our club. I&rsquo;ve talked almost daily with Jack Adams in Detroit. The Wings haven&rsquo;t got anything to sell. What they have, they need.&rdquo;</p><p>MacKenzle&rsquo;s latest deal, however. proved once again that he is one of the most astute dealers in organized hockey. He bought Jackie Hamilton, former Toronto Maple Leaf, for an undisclosed sum from Shawinigan of the Quebec League.</p><p>Hamilton, fourth highest scorer in the AHL with St. Louis last season, was farmed out early this season to Shawinigan.</p><p>Adams told MacKenzie that Hamilton, figuring he still had enough left for the AHL, refused to report to Shawinigan. St. Louis retaliated by suspending the 27-year-old forward.</p><p>&ldquo;I got in touch with the Shawinigan club and arranged the deal,&rdquo; said MacKenzie. &ldquo;It made everybody happy, including Hamilton. He&rsquo;s a heady player, knows what to do and when to do it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

MacKENZIE OFFERS $500 FOR TIP-OFF TO ANY PROSPECTS

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;If Howie Meeker of the Toronto Maple Leafs appears to be skating a little stiffer these days, its not old age creaping up on him. Meeker is wearing a special corset-like apparatus to protect his Injured back.</p><p>The rest of the Leafs too are taking precautions against the rash of back injuries that has plagued the team. They are reinforcing the backs of their hockey pants with foam rubber padding.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Leafs Pad Pants Against Further Injury to Backs

<div class="byline">By HUGH WATSON</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.&mdash;</p><p>Walter (Babe) Pratt, a veteran of 517 games in the National Hockey League, not to mention 342 games in minor pro hockey, announced plans for a comeback Dec. 16 at the tender age of 36. -</p><p>Pratt, coach of New Westminster Royals in the Western Hockey League, made the decision after watching his club lose three out of five games following a &lsquo;produce or else&rsquo; ultimatum that apparently failed.</p><p>&lsquo;We are the highest paid club in the league but only Edmonton and Victoria have kept us out of last place through the first 30. games,&rdquo; said Pratt. &ldquo;I plan to work with Pat Coburn and Pete Durham on defence if they see an old man like me taking my turn on the ice maybe they&rsquo;ll snap out of the doldrums. In any event, we can&rsquo;t be any, worse.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Big ‘Babe’ Makes First Comeback to Bolster His Fast Sagging NW Royals

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02106/1010964-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BABE PRATT</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Royals, perrenial first place contenders in the WHL, dropped into a sixth place tie with Victoria Dec. 15 after the Cougars defeated Calgary Stampeders 6-3.</p><p>The next day, Pratt worked out in a uniform for the first time this season. He was admittedly out of shape but the only thing that really bothered him was his three-year-old back trouble, some displaced discs.</p><p>Pratt pinpoints the Royals&rsquo; troubles as the lack of the &lsquo;will to win&rsquo; and lack of &lsquo;hustle with an objective.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Most of the players hustle but few of them know what they&rsquo;re doing&rdquo;, said Pratt. Some of them hustle when the team is in scoring position but let up Immediately when they lose the puck. With the others it&rsquo;s the other way &lsquo;round.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-02

Unpacks His Blades Again

<div class="byline">Al Parsley (of the Montreal Herald)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01126/1010995-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="318" height="342"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ELPFUL HINTS FOR REFEREES&mdash;Such is the title on a neat folder authored by George M. Slater. In addition to his chore as president of the QSHL, which he performs quite well, Mr. Slater is chairman of the Rules Committee, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.</p><p>It&rsquo;s obvious that Mr. Slater wishes to instill a few pertinent ideas into the noggins of all earnest hockey officials. He has broken down most of the important rules Into pointed paragraphs and has added a few notions of his own on behavior and decorum, both on and off the ice. Any journeyman serious at the trade will carry the folder around and study same with all the avidity of a horse player peering at a form chart. It&rsquo;s built to last, printed on stout blue cardboard.</p><p>Mr. Slater starts off with such bromides as: Have a thorough knowledge&hellip;never show any partiality in your decisions&hellip;have complete control of the game at all times, etc., but he warms up to his work later on with sage advice like: Keep away from penalized players after you have designated such players&hellip;in other words: once you&rsquo;ve given a guy the thumbo, scram to the other side of the rink&hellip;</p><p>Ha! that&rsquo;s a good one for you&hellip;Hugh McLean, of the NHL refereeing staff, made the mistake of going to the same hotel in New York, a couple of years ago, as the Canadiens, and Maurice Richard grabbed Mr. McLean by the necktie and almost throttled him&hellip;had Mr. Slater published the blue folder a couple of years earlier, the Rocket might have saved the $500 fine he was clipped by Clarence Campbell and McLean might have still been in the National Hockey League&hellip;</p><p>&ldquo;Never strike a player, coach, manager or spectator, protect yourself from Injury in a legitimate manner&rdquo;&hellip;Moose Moore-house, a Sherbrooke linesman had that one figured out before Mr. Slater wrote it&hellip;in a game at Sherbrooke last month, Georges Bougie, Valleyfield forward, took a pass at the linesman and was flattened by a counter punch, Moorhouse didn&rsquo;t miss&hellip;</p><p>Bougie was suspended for six games by the QAHA, but Moore-house kept right on working, which goes to show that Mr. Slater gives his officials steady support&hellip;</p><p>Here&rsquo;s one we like: &ldquo;Always have a good whistle, which should be blown with vigour in order that it may be heard by all&rdquo;&hellip;some officials are whistle-happy in the opinion of the fans, who make unprintable remarks about piccolo players&hellip;and another one: Have fortitude, self confidence and assurance in your work&hellip;that one goes for guys like Sibbey Mundey and Ken Mullins, who are generally pretty sure of themselves, both on and off the ice&hellip;we&rsquo;ve never known either of them to show chicken, no matter how hostile the fans, nor obstreperous the players&hellip;</p><p>And the closing paragraph is one that any hockey fan will heartily endorse: Realize that your work is the most difficult in the sports officiating field, the action in hockey is faster, bodily contact more frequent, which obliges you to make split second decisions without error&rdquo;&hellip;Mr. Slater&rsquo;s doctrines are definitely sound. He might add as clincher &ldquo;Follow the blue folder, and avoid the blue envelope&rdquo;.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-01

SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que</p><p>Call it academic endeavor, of plain hate of their old mates, the Sherbrooke Saints, are throwing 16-pound monkey wrenches into the works of the Montreal Royals.</p><p>Whereas Pete Morin&rsquo;s hearties were able to fend off the big threat of Chicoutimi Sagueniens, who were making a big claim on the Regals&rsquo; first place rights in the Quebec Senior Hockey League last week, the Saints made things tough by slicing into the point margin, in taking two victories during the past seven days.</p><p>The Saints tumbled the haughty Royals 4-3 at the Forum on Christmas Night and then walloped the Morinites 3-2 in the Eastern Townships on Saturday. The Royals were compelled to get rolling on all wheels to cling to their perch. They managed this by drenching the Cataracts of Shawinigan Falls 4-1 in a game which was all hustle both ways as Jacques Plante, the poker-faced lad from Shawinigan, who tends twine, bid farewell to Royals&rsquo; arms.</p><h2><b>May Be Him&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0296/1011040-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="598" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK GELINEAU</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;For Him</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0381/1011033-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="560" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES PLANTE</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;Or Mr. McAtee</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0462/1011026-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="1174" height="1536"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED McATEE</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Plante Buffalo Bound</b></h3><p>It was established by Frank Selke generalissimo of all the Forum hockey enterprises that before the next editions roll Plante will pen his name to a pro hockey contract, will likely shuffle off to Buffalo, and either Red (Phillip) McAtee, veteran minor leaguer, Stratford born, will he turned over to Royals, or maybe Jack Gelineau, the ex-McGill and ex-Boston Bruin barricader, will man the nets henceforth for Royals.</p><p>Plante, having played his 29 games for a major amateur club in his 23rd year on earth, becomes vulnerable to the NHL draft. Vincing at the thought that such a valuable chattel should be high-jacked in such fashion Selke was outspoken in praise of Plante.</p><p>Asked by THE HOCKEY NEWS quizzer: Would he keep Plante around as understudy to Gerry McNeil? Selke said: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s too good a boy, to be idle. I want him to have steady employment and so he&rsquo;ll be Buffalo bound before any of us are much older.&rdquo;</p><h3><b>Wants Gelineau</b></h3><p>Selke has a yen to obtain fee simple to Jack Gelineau if he could get the Quebec Aces to talk turkey. He was inclined to believe that Jack Latter might consider such a proposal, if ha (Selke) could give Latter a lift with a couple of forwards who might reasonably be expected to put the puck into the next now and then and help Aces in their plans to make a climb from sixth place.</p><p>Selke had already delivered Gaye Stewart to the Ancient Capital and Gaye obliged by counting one of Aces&rsquo; two goals, though it&rsquo;s sad to relate two weren&rsquo;t enough as Chicoutimi Sags got three in a 3-2 Sunday contest.</p><p>This win gave the Chicks three out of four points for their weekend, endeavors as they played a 1-1 draw with the Cataracts at Shawinigan Falls on Saturday night. Jean Paul Lamirande collected the Chicoutimi tally and Bob Leger for the Cataracts in this overtime stalemate. Thus the Chicks were again pressing Royals who lead by just one point.</p><h3><b>That Sherbrooke Blight</b></h3><p>When Chicks and Royals were running neck and neck just a week ago Rollie Hebert brought his larrigans to Montreal and they absorbed a 4-0 coat of calsomine which seemed to settle things for a while. But then came the shenanigans with Sherbrooke, who, as Pete Morin points out, have now dumped the Royals in four out of five encounters. The Brookie-boys won in two outings at the Forum and two of three jousts played in Sherbrooke.</p><p>Frank Carlin says the extra-eager effort put on by the Saints in their meetings with Royals is accounted for by the fact that the Sherbrooke line-up includes such names as Bobby Pepin, Tod Campeau, Jacques Locas and Dewar Thompson who are all ex-Royals. They are most earnest when they tangle with their old mates, keyed up for such battles with the idea of getting even with the high brass, and all others who were in any ways responsible for their transfer to Sherbrooke.</p><h3><b>Should Reverse Things</b></h3><p>The Ottawa and Valleyfield teams can&rsquo;t seem to get their scoring synchronized to the proper tune for home consumption. For instance at Ottawa on Saturday night the Braves won 5-3, then on Sunday when the action shifted to Valleyfield Senators took a gizzling struggle that went into 10 minutes of overtime, 3-2. Had things been reversed it might be much better for the box-offices.</p><p>Alan Kuntz netted the nougat in the sixth minute of overtime to win the fray at Valleyfield. He had help from Emile Dagenais. This was Kuntz&rsquo; second tally of the game. He also scored in the second period, Butch Stahan getting another as the Barberpoles came back in a hurry to knot the count and force the extra session. Braves collected two markers in the second heat&mdash;Tom Smele and Aldo Guidolin&mdash;after the first period had gone scoreless.</p><p>Jacques Deslauriers scored into an unguarded cage with only 12 seconds of playing time left in the Saturday night tussele at Ottawa. Braves led 4-3 when Senators&rsquo; coach, Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty, pulled his goaler, Ray Fredericks. Then Deslauriers hoisted a long lifter and the puck drifted between the pipes. Kitoute Joannette had a pair of the Braves&rsquo; tallies and singles were collected by Georges Bougie and Jackie Schmidt. For Senators the scorers were: Allan Kuntz, Red Johnson and Jack Giesebrecht.</p><h3><b>Author Slater</b></h3><p>? George M. Slater QSHL prexy, announces that his book will be off the presses this week&hellip;Author Slater each season compiled a comprehensive record book on league affairs which is brought out in a limited edition and distributed among hockey people and those verey close to shinny affairs&hellip;It&rsquo;s an accurate chronicle of doings in recent years, contains names addresses and phone numbers of important personnel in all cities of the loop, in addition to those of league executives, referees and linesmen&hellip;generally Slater indites a preface which is highly informative, also some instructions to referees and linesmen which have between the lines many sly twists of the typical Slater dry humour.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-02

Pro Draft Breaks Up Royal Combo as Habs Plant Plante in Buffalo

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, III.&mdash;Vic Heyliger was a real commuter when he played with Chicago&rsquo;s Black Hawks during the 1943-44 campaign. When not on the ice at the Chicago Stadium, he was giving physical training and coaching the hockey squad at the University of Illinois in downstate Champaign. He traveled the 135 miles between the two cities for most of the Hawks&rsquo; home games.</p><p>Vic had actually hung up his skates five years before after an unsuccessful tryout with the Chicago squad. He was hauled out of the moth balls when war regulations prevented several Hawk stars from crossing the Canadien border. He tallied two goals and three assists in the 26 games in which he appeared.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Commuter

<p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ockey, Track, Golf, Tennis, Baseball, Football, and other sports publications from 1818 to date. All items included in lists 41-51 incl. covering 100 pages. Will send free upon request those lists pertaining to the sports which interest you. Hundreds of scarce hockey guides and programs.</p><p><b>GOODWIN GOLDFADEN</b></p><p><b>Box 577 Briggs Station Los Angeles 48, Calif.</b></p><p>Dept. HN-1<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

50,000 Books of All Sports—FOR SALE

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>When the Toronto Marlboros were in Montreal to play the Montreal junior Canadiens, the Toronto papers were represented in full force at the Montreal Forum. The Marlie-Canadien game was the second of a twin-bill and we were sitting next to one of Queen City scribes during the first game which saw the Three Rivers Reds going against the Montreal Royals. It was a listless sort of game and just seemed to drag on and on. Only one bright spot was apparent on the ice and our catwall: friend mentioned it.</p><p>&ldquo;That Swartzack is a whale of a player.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0453/1011157-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="274" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sam Pollock</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0529/1011150-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="294" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Swartzack</b></figcaption></div><p>Of course no one around Montreal had to be told that but to a visitor, Swartzack would seem like a coach&rsquo;s dream come true. &ldquo;Here is a kid that should go a long way,&rdquo; they say.</p><p>Now Steady Eddie has been transferred to the Montreal Canadiens and local fans fig. ure that coach Sad Sam Pollock made one of the soundest switches a coach could make. His Habs were power-packed is it was but with the acquisiion of Swartzack, they&rsquo;re raring to go, chomping at the bit in anticipation of their next encounter with the OHA leading Marlboros. They can hardly wait to get at the Torontonians again in wopes of avenging their previous defeat. And the boy who has raised their hopes so high is none other than E. Swartzack.</p><p>Eddie is a hard driving sort of player and a digger all the way. He&rsquo;s in the corners, on the point and just about everywhere on the freeze.</p><p>Swartzack was named rookie of the year last season and came close to grabbing off the first all-star position, being nosed out in the final balloting by the man he replaced on the Canadiens this season, Dave McCready. He looks like a sure bet to cop the honor this year. Last season he toiled for the Montreal Nationales, a team, that has suspended operations. He collected 68 points comprised of 29 goals and 39 assists.</p><p>There is an interesting sidelight in Swartzack&rsquo;s finally coming to the Habs. He came to Montreal from Glace Bay, N.S. on the recommendation of Father Frank McNeil who had seen the youngster play. At the Canadien camp he impressed Pete Morin, then coach of the Nationales. He then received an offer from the Quebes Citadels and journeyed off to the Ancient Capital. But before he left. Morin asked him not to sign until he (Morin) had talked with him. Young Eddie was quartered with the Cit players when Morin got to Quebec. Pete phoned him, asked if he&rsquo;d signed with the Citadels, and upon finding out that he hadn&rsquo;t, told him to come to the hotel without mentioning a word to anyone. This he did, and as a result is now toiling in the Hab organization.</p><h2><b>Coaches Say He&rsquo;s Got It</b></h2><p>Ed Swartzack likes Montreal and in fact stayed liera during the off-season, working in a factory to build himself up for the present campaign. He finds the style of hockey, &ldquo;more rugged, more precision like and more man to man compared to the wide open type played down East.&rdquo;</p><p>He thinks that the junior players around Montreal and Toronto are fortunate in the fact that they get to see the NHL teams and players in action more often and thus pick up many valuable pointers.</p><p>Coach Sad Sam Pollock says that &ldquo;Eddie is going to be a great help to us. He is the type of player I admire. A real digger. He&rsquo;ll go good with our style of play.&rdquo;</p><p>His former coach, Jacques B&eacute;langer of Royals, also rates Eddie highly and says he was really sorry to lose the classy player whom he knows will be a standout for his city rivals, the Habs.</p><p>Not only his coaches and hockey men figure Eddie is potentially great but so do the boys in the press box. Charlie Boire of the Montreal Star, one of the more astute junior writers hereabouts, rates Steady Eddie a real comer and &ldquo;just about the best piece of hockey ivory in the Quebec circuit.&rdquo;</p><p>One thing is for certain. Coach Pete Morin, now the mentor of the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Senior loop, is keeping steady tabs on his young protegee and he may get a whirl with the seniors before the year is out. He&rsquo;s almost certain to put the first grab on the starry left winger when his junior days are over. Pete knows his hockey players, and he rates Eddie as one of the best juniors he&rsquo;s seen for a long while.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-04

Habs Count On Steady Eddie for Return Tilt With Toronto Marlies

<p><b>For English League Club. Please apply to box 123, Hockey News, stating age, position, right or left shot, and give outline of experience.</b></p><p>Release from present club essential</p><p><b>Players interested for 1953-54 Season may apply at the same time.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Senior Hockey Players Required Immediately

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Barrie Flyers, &ldquo;the best team money can buy&rdquo; in the opinion of Stafford Smythe, manager of Toronto Marlboros, moved into high gear after the acquisition of Orv Tessier and goalie Bill Harrington from Kitchener Greenshirts and a great many observers are convinced that Hap Emms has fashioned himself another Memorial Cup contender.</p><p>That may arouse a raucous phooey in Quebec (with Gallic overtones, of course) where the Flyers failed to win a single game in their four-game tour a few weeks back. But the Flyers are a much Improved team row, they have tremendous scoring punch and Hap Emms&rsquo; ingenious purchasing appears to have solved their defensive weaknesses.</p><p>Marlboros, of course, will continue to roll in their precise, methodical fashion and they represent the chief obstacle to Hap Emms&rsquo; hopes of his second OHA championship in two years. Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s, who possess three or four of the best players in the league, also deserve honorable mention although they have tapered off alarmingly in recent weeks.</p><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s have a frustrating habit of going into a tail-spin When least expected and for that reason the selectors are giving them a wide berth. In a recent game the Irish had a 5-0 lead going into the second period with fit. Catharines Teepees. But the spirited Teepees rammed in four goals in the third period and the game wound up in a 5-5 tie.</p><h2><b>Low Average</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01103/1011212-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="600" height="1080"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL HARRINGTON</b></figcaption></div><h3><b>Marlies Still Lead</b></h3><p>The Barrie team failed to convince Quebec fans that it had anything resembling a championship team. Phil Watson snorted, &ldquo;they&rsquo;ll never win a game in Quebec City.&rdquo; But Watson may have forgotten the fact that the odd games of the Eastern Canada junior final will be played in Ontario next spring. When Barrie knocked off Quebec Citadelles two years ago they didn&rsquo;t win a game in Quebec but they won all four in Ontario.</p><p>When the OHA teams dispersed for the Christmas lull the Marlboros were still leading the pack with the reinforced Flyers four points behind. St. Mike&rsquo;s were three games behind Barrie, Galt was in fourth place another four points back and St. Catharines was in fifth one point behind Galt.</p><p>Three teams are struggling desperately for sixth place, the last playoff station. Guelph Biltmores were still clinging to it at Christmas with Oshawa Generals and Windsor Spitfires right behind them. Kitchener Greenshirts have the cellar all to themselves.</p><p>The rejuvenated Windsor team, which failed to win a game in its first 12 starts, has developed Into a strong-skating, strong-checking aggregation that will be difficult to keep out of the playoffs. Biltmores, although leading them by three points at Christmas, had played six more games.</p><p>The addition of high-scoring Orv Tessier and goalie Bill Harrington to the Barrie lineup worked like a tonic on Hap Emms&rsquo; team. They promptly went out and won six straight games with the former Kitchener players playing leading roles.</p><p>Goal-tending, Emms&rsquo; chief worry all season, has been one of Barrie&rsquo;s strong points with Harrington between the pipes. Barrie fans must feel he&rsquo;s unbeatable. In his first two games in Barrie he blanked the opposition both times. One was a 2-0 drubbing to Marlboros.</p><p>Statistics show that Barrie has improved immensely since Emms bought Tessier and Harrington. In six games since that big swap the Flyers have scored 31 goals, compared with 12 scored against them. Harrington&rsquo;s goals-against average in his first five games with Barrie was 1.80. Until his arrival Barrie&rsquo;s goals-against average was 4.37.</p><p>Also worth noting was the fact that Barrie launched their latest winning streak without two of their leading scorers, Skip Teal and Don McKenney. They were running one-two in the individual scoring race when injuries sidelined them.</p><p>Several teams completed lastminute trades before the December 15 deadline. Guelph Biltmores sent forward Frank Bettiol and some cash to Galt Black Hawks in exchange for defenseman Art White. Kitchener procured forward Marc Boileau from Montreal Canadiens in a straight exchange for defenseman Boo McCord. Windsor sold their spare goalie, Ken Woods, to Oshawa Generals. St. Catharines added defenseman Bob Maxwell from senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; ranks but the other teams-decided to stand pat.</p><p>Windsor Spitfires, who have insisted all along that they have the best defensive team in the league, can almost prove their claims by referring to league statistics. For a team that didn&rsquo;t get out of the cellar until December the Spits have a remarkable defensive record.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-01

Flyers Loom As Threat for Memorial Cup with Added Player Strength

<div class="byline">BY HUGH WATSON</div><p>PENTICTON, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>This thriving little town in the heart of the Okanagan fruit district has taken its place alongside Deslisle, Saskatchewan, as one of the few places in organized hockey to boast a three-player brother act.</p><p>Deslisle, of course, had the Bentley Bros. Penticton had to wait a long time before acquiring the Warwick Bros&mdash;Knobby, Bill and Dick.</p><p>Entered in the fast Okanagan Senior Hockey League and coached by ex-NHLer Bill Carse, Penticton is leading the league and, now that Knobby has finally joined the team, local fans figure they&rsquo;re just about a shoo-in.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0274/1011243-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="306" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Grant Warwick</b></figcaption></div><p>The Warwick triumvirate was pretty well scattered at the end of last season. Knobby, who played 395 NHL games in eight seasons, started the 1951-52 season with Buffalo in the AHL. He played 55 games, scored 65 points. At the tail-end of the season, after Buffalo had been shunted out of the playoffs he joined brother Bill at Halifax in the Maritime league.</p><p>Bill had started out the year in the Quebec League but finished up in Halifax. Dick, only one of the brothers who didn&rsquo;t turn pro, had a good playing year with Nanaimo of the defunct Pacific Coast Amateur circuit.</p><p>After the club folded, Carse in Penticton pointed out the advantages of playing with the V&rsquo;s. The Warwick Bros, saw the light and have opened up a good paying business as a sideline.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-02

Knobby Warwick Joins Brothers Bill and Dick

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0352/1011274-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span> trio of Warwicks are seen in the above shot. The Penticton, B.C. restaurant owners are all playing for the Vs in the Okanagan Senior League. Recently they opened their eating establishment in the town and are doing right well. From left to right are Grant (Knobby), ex-NHLer with New York, Boston and Montreal, Bill, last season with the Halifax St. Marys of the Maritime Major loop and at right is Dick, who last season had a try-out in the Pacific Coast Hockey League. With their help, the Vs are now contenders for the loop lead.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-03

Hockey Playing Brothers

<h2><b>NEW BRUNSWICK LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 23)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01112/1011466-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="612" height="126"></div><h2><b>MARITIME MAJOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 23)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0256/1011459-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="606" height="122"></div><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0335/1011452-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="610" height="228"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0427/1011445-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="610" height="274"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0518/1011438-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="608" height="154"></div><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-27/1011431-1-eng-US/f0018-272.jpg" title="f0018-27" width="595" height="174"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0614/1011424-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="614" height="202"></div><h2><b>PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0715/1011417-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="616" height="152"></div><h2><b>LAKE ST. JOHN LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0810/1011410-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="604" height="142"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-098/1011403-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="616" height="152"></div><h2><b>O.H.A. SENIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 29)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-106/1011396-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="612" height="216"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-114/1011389-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="602" height="288"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 24)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-124/1011382-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="608" height="142"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-134/1011375-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="606" height="528"></div><h2><b>CAPE BRETON JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-143/1011368-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="610" height="126"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-153/1011361-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="608" height="192"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC: 16)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-163/1011354-1-eng-US/f0018-162.jpg" title="f0018-16" width="606" height="150"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-173/1011347-1-eng-US/f0018-172.jpg" title="f0018-17" width="606" height="300"></div><h2><b>N.O.H.A. SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 21)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-183/1011340-1-eng-US/f0018-182.jpg" title="f0018-18" width="604" height="154"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-193/1011333-1-eng-US/f0018-192.jpg" title="f0018-19" width="606" height="286"></div><h2><b>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-203/1011326-1-eng-US/f0018-202.jpg" title="f0018-20" width="602" height="188"></div><h2><b>O.H.A. JUNIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS DEC. 21)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-213/1011319-1-eng-US/f0018-212.jpg" title="f0018-21" width="604" height="256"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-223/1011312-1-eng-US/f0018-222.jpg" title="f0018-22" width="600" height="540"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-232/1011305-1-eng-US/f0018-232.jpg" title="f0018-23" width="600" height="342"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-01

Amateur Parade At A Fast Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-24" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-24/1011497-1-eng-US/f0018-242.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLACE BAY CONFERENCE.&mdash;Glace Bay Miners of the Maritime Major Hockey League have been plagued with injuries ever since the season started. The most recent casualty was Bill McCracken, centre, who hails from Winnipeg. Bill, the team&rsquo;s highest pointgetter, went out of action due to a shoulder separation in a Charlottetown game. He was with Saint John Beavers last season when they won the Maritime Major title. In the picture are Lloyd Hinchberger, left, and Eddie Joss, right, both of whom played with Edmonton last season and came to the Bay via Shawinigan Falls. Hinchberger is from Trout Creek, Ontario, and Joss, who starred in the OHA Junior A series with Windsor Spitfires two seasons ago, is from Saskatoon.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-24

Bay Hockey Chat

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO&mdash;The Member of Parliament for Waterloo South found out recently that it is a costly business to speak out of turn, especially if the Member happens to be a hockey player and the person he is addressing happens to be an NHL referee.</p><p>Howie Meeker was the player who started the debate and in the end it cost him $25. In a game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers, Meeker received a match misconduct penalty and an automatic fine.</p><p>He had read of a tongue lashing given Referee Red Storey by Eddie Shore, coach of Syracuse Warriors of the American Hockey League. When Storey handed Leaf defenceman Tim Horton a holding penalty, Meeker remarked, &ldquo;I can see why Shore lowered the boom on you Storey.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Then Storey lowered the boom on Meeker.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Meeker Out of Order Sc Storey Lowers $25 Boom

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-26" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-26/1011552-1-eng-US/f0018-262.jpg"></div><p><b>The 1952-53 N.H.L. Press and Radio Guide also includes Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey, and is the only Hockey Guide published this season.</b></p><p>This compact 206-page book answers every question imaginable about the National League. Gives complete professional records of every player in the National, American and Pacific Coast Leagues.</p><p>Only 1000 copies for sale, so get your order in early!</p><p><b>All This For Only</b></p><p><b>$1.00</b></p><p><b>(Postage paid)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-26

The Best Hockey Guide Published

f0018-25

The Canadian FOOTBALL NEWS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0189/1011621-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Ranger player.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of Stanowski, former N.H.L. player.</p><p>7&mdash;Initials of Gerrard, old time player.</p><p>8&mdash;Jean Beliveau receives a&mdash;each time he scores a goal.</p><p>9&mdash;An N.H.L. goaltender answers to this.</p><p>11&mdash;Nattrium (Sym.)</p><p>12&mdash;Sammy McManus, ex-N.H.L. player, was born in this country.</p><p>14&mdash;Girl&rsquo;s name.</p><p>16&mdash;Roman numerals for number worn by Max Bentley.</p><p>17&mdash;Teams sometimes travel by this method (abbr).</p><p>18&mdash;Public Utilities (abbr).</p><p>19&mdash;&rdquo;Moe&rdquo; Morris&rsquo; initials.</p><p>20&mdash;Initials of a Detroit rearguard.</p><p>21&mdash;Native province of Joe Evans (abbr).</p><p>24&mdash;Played for Canadiens on Nov. 8th.</p><p>28&mdash;Jack Stewart had an operation on an injured&mdash;.</p><p>29&mdash;Art Ross once worked in one.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of Anderson, former coach of Pittsburgh Hornets.</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of Calgary&rsquo;s goalie.</p><p>33&mdash;Number of minutes Floyd Curry spent in the penalty box last season.</p><p>35&mdash;Initials of Robertson, former N.H.L. goaltender.</p><p>36&mdash;Bob Hassard plays one.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Birthplace of 3 down.</p><p>2&mdash;Given name of Abbott of Canadiens.</p><p>3&mdash;This member of the Calgary Stampeders is called George.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Smith, ex-N.H.L. netminder.</p><p>5&mdash;Lumsden of Pittsburgh hails from here.</p><p>6&mdash;Chicago plays their home games here.</p><p>10&mdash;Cooper Smeaton was once one (abbr).</p><p>13&mdash;All goalies like to have a low one (abbr).</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of Mac Colville&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>20&mdash;Nickname of club with whom Doug Harvey last played amateur hockey (sing.).</p><p>22&mdash;This former Ranger player is nicknamed &ldquo;Snuffy&rdquo;.</p><p>23&mdash;Gerry Couture is one during the summer.</p><p>25&mdash;Bob Grade now makes his home in this country (abbr).</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of a Cleveland forward.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of a New York defenseman.</p><p>31&mdash;Gordie Drillon once coached In this province (abbr).</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of a Montreal winger.</p><p>33&mdash;Thilium (Sym.).</p><p>34&mdash;Initials of Tustin, once a member of the Rangers.</p><p>35&mdash;Comparative ending.</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/f0019-0262/1011614-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="560" height="892"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0019-01

HOCKEY X-WORD

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0343/1011652-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NEAR MISS. Victoria&rsquo;s Reg Abbott, who only recently returned from a stint with the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL, lets go a shot that just misses thet net. He had the whole cage to shoot at as Calgary goaler Phil Hughes lies prostrate on the ice. Max Quackenbush and Gus Kyle watch helplessly from a distance.</b> <span class="photo-credit">((Coutesy Victoria Daily Colonist))</span></figcaption></div><p>HULL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The City of Hull, a hotbed of hockey for many years now, hopes to have its own arena in the near future.</p><p>The proposed structure, rumored to cost something in the neighborhood of $600,000., will rank with the finest of medium sized arenas in Eastern Canada and is expected to be ready for use by Christmas 1953.</p><p>&ldquo;The new rink will fulfill a great need for the youth and people of Hull,&rdquo; said Bob Guertin, well known sportsman and presently an alderman of the city.</p><p>Guertin, along with Mayor Henri Gauthier and Industrial Commissioner Ernest Dufour, form the committee which has broughtplans to their present state of near completion. &ldquo;It has been a long, hard fight,&rdquo; said Guertin recently, &ldquo;but at last we are beginning to see a little light. It will be a great thing for this city.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Forced for years to play their hockey in the Ottawa rink, the thought of having an arena of their own has captivated the local citizens and they are swinging in behind the municipal fathers in the venture.</p><p>The first big step was to obtain a suitable location, and this has been settled to the satisfaction of everyone. In the National Capital plans, which takes in Ottawa, Hull and their extensive environs, provision has been made for a huge Recreation Center in Hull.</p><p>Site for the Center was chosen by Jacques Greber, French planning expert. It will be located on the west side of the city beside the huge new armories.</p><p>At present the land belongs to the National Defence, but it is expected momentarily that the transfer will be made public.</p><p>Next on the list was the seeking of aid from Premier Duplessis&rsquo; government. A grant of $100,000. has been secured, and this coupled with donations from several of the big industries in Hull and area, will make up more than half of the funds needed.</p><p>The balance of funds will be sought in a referendum to be placed before the people next April when the elections roll around.</p><p>The arena, which will be complety without posts and similar in some respects to the Quebec Coliseum, will seat 5,000 and have a standing room capacity of 8,000.</p><p>When completed, a committee will be appointed by the city to run the arena. The committee will be independent and elected by the people.</p><p>&ldquo;It is sad to relate that in a metropolitan area like Ottawa and Hull there is but one rink,&rdquo; said the Hull Mayor. &ldquo;Our children will be the ones to benefit from this new rink.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-03

Hull May Get New $600,000 Arena

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0435/1011683-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>K</span>EEP UP WITH THE HOCKEY JONESES BY SUBSCRIBING TODAY</b> for every true-blue hockey fan will want to be a regular reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS&mdash;&ldquo;Official Organ of All Hockey&rdquo;. The Hockey News carries stories on all the teams and the star players written by the foremost hockey writers in Canada and the United States. Besides outstanding features and stories The Hockey News runs more action pictures and cartoons than any other publication. Interesting Crossword puzzles also appear in each issue.</p><p><b>Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Search for your favorite player or team

January 3, 1953

Present Star and Future Star?

Bentleys and Mosienko Best of Farm Products

Lindsay, Robert Blake Theodore

Howie the Statesman Meets Al the Coaler