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January 10, 1953

The Hockey News January 10, 1953

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-22" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-222/1005003-1-eng-US/f0018-222.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>his 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.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Best Hockey Guide Published

<div class="byline">By GEORGE CARSON</div><p>ST. LOUIS, Mo&mdash;</p><p>Hockey&rsquo;s a glamour game to many dyed-in-the-wool fans and it&rsquo;s exciting sport and even glamorous to some of the players, but to hardworking Steve Hrymnak, the St. Louis Flyers&rsquo; ever - hustling captain, playing hockey is a regular job.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played hockey ever since I&rsquo;ve been nine years old,&rdquo; Baid the modest defenseman, &ldquo;and whereas a person has his ups and downs and hot streaks and cold streaks, the sport&rsquo;s simply a job to me&mdash;and I think I work hard at it.&rdquo;</p><p>There can be no challenge to that, because if ever a player is constantly giving his all and plugging and hustling every minute of the way, even in the face of bone-shaking injuries, it&rsquo;s the 16 5-pound Hrymnak.</p><p>On the first visit of the Hershey Bears to St. Louis this Beason the Flyer captain took the ice with a badly banged-up right foot, the result of injuries suffered on the road the week previous. During the first period there was a pile-up of players, skates and sticks and out of the tangle came Hrymnak. with an ugly cut on his left ankle that required five Btitches to close.</p><p>The injury during the course of the game was somewhat overshadowed by a shoulder injury suffered by Guyle Fielder, the American League&rsquo;s leading scorer at the time, because It was feared for some time that Fielder had suffered a fractured collar bone.</p><p>Dr. D. J. Verda, the Flyers&rsquo; club surgeon, worked on Fielder first, taping the rookie&rsquo;s shoulder and back, and then he sewed up Hrymnak. &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; thought Hrymnak&rsquo;s cut so bad that he didn&rsquo;t want Steve to go back on the ice, but Steve merely said, &ldquo;you do the stitching, and I&rsquo;ll get back out there!&rdquo;</p><p>With Clayton Lavell later sidelined and Coach Jake Forbes also ailing, it was a tremendous help to an undermanned squad to have Hrymnak take a regular</p><p>turn to help tired teammates. The fans in the stands didn&rsquo;t know that Steve was skating with two damaged ankles simply because Steve didn&rsquo;t favor the Injuries while working at his job.</p><p>Hrymnak has received the plaudits of several coaches he&rsquo;s played under. Ebbie Goodfellow thought highly enough of the 26-year-old Port Arthur, Ont., native that he had him In Chicago for more than six weeks last winter. Johnny Mitchell used to say of Steve, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s a guy who gives you an honest game&mdash;really honest, because he&rsquo;s always trying.&rdquo;</p><p>And Forbes is like the rest. After a recent victory Jake was singing the praises of several Flyers but when it came to Hrymnak, he just said, &ldquo;Boy, I with I had four Or five like Hrymnak. If ever a guy had Intestinal fortitude, Steve has it. He&rsquo;s always hustling.&rdquo;</p><p>Born in Port Arthur 26 years ago of Ukrainian parents, Hrymnak is another pupil of Ed Lauzon, the Flyers&rsquo; chief scout, but Steve came up in the New York Rangers&rsquo; system rather than in the Flyer organization. Steve played&rdquo; three years with the Port Arthur Juniors and then served a hitch in the Canadian Army, where he was stationed in the armored corps.</p><p>It was sort of a tough break for the workmanlike Stephen, because the year he went into the Army, the Port Arthur Juniors</p><p>won the Memorial Cup, emblematic <i>of</i> the junior championship of Canada. Out of the service, Arthur and had the benefit of Hrymnak was back with Port more coaching by Lauzon, considered an expert in the matter of laying ground work for young players.</p><p>In 1947 Steve turned pro with the New York Rangers and spent three successful seasons with the New Haven Ramblers, a Ranger farm, before coming to St. Louis along with Jean Paul Lamiranda and Sherman White when the Rangers dropped New Haven as an affiliate.</p><p>Always considered a better-than-average scorer for a defenseman, Hrymnak reached his peak in St. Louis last winter when ha was a veritable ball of fire in leading the early-season Flyer surge. In 2 2 games Steve racked up 11 goals and 17 assists for an amazing total of 2 8 points.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no doubt that he was the spark plug that kept the Flyers of Mud Bruneteau in an early contending position.</p><p>Steve was called the Ukrainian handyman, because if a left wing was ailing, Hrymnak would fill ia at left wingf. If a right wing needed spelling, there was Hrymnak, Johnny on the spot, and he took his turn at center, too, as well as defense.</p><p>While St. Louis fans cheered his every burst of skating brilliance and clever stick-handling, Ebble Goodfellow up in Chicago was noticing the same fire in Hrymnak&rsquo;s play and so it was that on December 9 Steve was called up to the Black Hawks. A good break for Steve, perhaps, but a bad break for the Flyers! Just as soon as Hrymnak departed, the Flyers seemed to fall apart. They never were the same team and gradually the St. Louis squad faded out of playoff contention.</p><p>Steve played regularly in the big league from December 9 until January.23, getting several goals and assists and playing mostly defense with such stalwarts as Bill Gadsby, Jack Stewart and others. And how did he feel upon coining back, when the Hawks finally saw the return of some of their veteran defensemen?</p><p>&ldquo;Well, I&rsquo;d say it&rsquo;s sure nice to play in the National League,&rdquo; Steve said. &ldquo;But there&rsquo;s always much more pressure up there and you can&rsquo;t help but have some dissension on a loser like the Chicago team was last winter.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Coaches&rsquo; Dream</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0381/1004301-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="588" height="1138"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STEVE HRYMNAK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Steve Hrymnak One Big Reason For. Lofty Perch of Flyers

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The variety and balance of Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; widespread hockey organization was accented by the presence of the two newest rookies, relief goaler Glen Hall and forward Marcel Bonin.</p><p>They were funneled into Detroit uniforms through different sections of the scouting, training and farm-club sub-divisions which are supervised by a new executive this season, Johnny Mitchell.</p><p>Hall fit into a pattern familiar with local fans who had seen Countless number of current stars advance by the same route.</p><p>Absorbed into the system as a youngster several years ago, he gradually moved up the ladder by playing on three different farm teams.</p><p>All the way along he was groomed and educated by coaches trained in the Detroit pattern. Each fall his improvement was studied and noted at training camp by General Manager Jack Adams and Coach Tommy Ivan. Adams always knew exactly what was in the package.</p><p>Now 21, Hail was ready in the emergency when Terry Sawchuk was injured&mdash;just like Sawchuk was two years ago when Harry Lumley was hurt and needed relief for a few games.</p><p>There&rsquo;s also another goalie progressing up the farm chain behind Hall. He&rsquo;s Davey Gatherum, currently on loan to Shawinigan Fall.</p><h2><b>Hall of Fame</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0346/1003516-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="574" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GLEN HALL</b></figcaption></div><p>Bonin, however, represented a payoff from a different section of the over-all operation, the one which handles the scouting of older players in the minor leagues. Mitchell mentions that his scouts watch other NHL team&rsquo;s young prospects as much as they watch Detroit&rsquo;s own property.</p><p>As a Detroit freshman, Bonin is a rarity since he had been in the organization only two months. Usually it takes at least a year&rsquo;s seasoning before any rookie is brought up to the big team.</p><p>And he&rsquo;s even more of a rarity since he never had been viewed by Adams prior to his debut in the Detroit lineup. In fact, Adams missed Bonin&rsquo;s first game, at Montreal.</p><p>Bonin was unknown to the front office until two years ago when he played against Detroit in an exhibition game with the Quebec Aces. Ivan came home with firm praise about a rough little bulldog battler after that one-game look.</p><p>Ivan was even more impressed in the same setting last year, so Adams directed his scouts who roam Canada to look Bonin over. Their reports were favorable.</p><h2><b>Vezina Again?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0434/1003509-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="596" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b></figcaption></div><p>Now any time an NHL team other than Montreal lands a player from the Quebec Senior League there&rsquo;s a question which needs answering: Why didn&rsquo;t the Canadiens grab him if he possessed NHL ability? Maybe the answer is something Adams has yet to learn.</p><p>At any rate Detroit parted with Alt Baccari and a sum of cash to Providence which held the rights to Bonin. This was only Bonin&rsquo;s third year of organized hockey-one in junior and last year in senior&mdash;and he never did get into a Providence uniform.</p><p>He was shipped to St. Louis to be studied further by Coach Jake Forbes.</p><p>&ldquo;We won&rsquo;t have him here long&mdash;he&rsquo;s too good,&rdquo; Forbes told Adams in his first report.</p><p>This week Hall and Bonin reported together. Needing a sub goalie and wanting another forward, Adams pressed two levers.</p><p>Out rolled the two players from the vast machine which Adams has spent 20 years building and which other hockey men call the real secret behind Detroit&rsquo;s domination of major-league hockey.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Detroit’s Ladder System Well-Runged With Stars

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>GUELPH. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Unless Barrie Flyers can launch a sensational winning streak in the New Year Toronto Marlboros appear destined to breeze to their second straight Ontario Hockey Association junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; title.</p><p>Flyers are the only team in a position to give Marlboros a fight and they haven&rsquo;t been able to close the gap between second and first place in recent weeks. Marlboros went into the New Year with an eight-point advantage over the Fivers.</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors, a team that was expected to fight for leader ship every inch of the way, has fallen badly off the pace. Although still in third place at year&rsquo;s end they were six full games behind the Dukes.</p><p>Even six games might not be too much of a deficit to overcome&mdash;not in junior hockey anyway but Marlboros are a solid hockey club, deep in reserves and there is absolutely no hut that they will go into a lengthy tailspin</p><p>Barrie could close the chasm between first and second place but they&rsquo;ll need help from some of the other teams. So far the other teams have been singularly unsuccessful in trying to stop Marlboros. In a two-month stretch the baby Leafs lost only two games, one to Quebec Citadelles and the other to Barrie.</p><p>Most of the other clubs in the league were elated when Toronto Maple Leafs called up Eric Nesterenko, Marlboros&rsquo; ace rightwinger, for a three-game trial. When Nesterenko scored two goals for the Leafs in his second game they cheered&mdash;apparently figuring that this performance might expedite lanky Eric&rsquo;s conversion to a full-fledged pro. But latest word is that Conn Smythe will permit Nesterenko to remain with Marlboros for the remainder of the season. But he has been known to change his mind before and, apart from Jean Beliveau, how many amateurs are there in the country who can score two goals in their second N.H.L. game?</p><h2><b>SPITS ON MOVE</b></h2><p>Windsor Spitfires, a team that has been progressing steadily in recent weeks, might give Barrie some assistance in whittling Marlboros&rdquo; lead. During December only Marlboros and Barrie boasted better records than Spitfires&mdash;an amazing turnabout for a team that didn&rsquo;t hit the victory column until its 13th try.</p><p>In the early weeks of the schedule Jimmy Skinner&rsquo;s Spits were dismissed as the weak sisters of the league but not any more. By the end of December Windsor had fought Its way into sixth place and they were only seven points out of fifth with six games in hand.</p><p>Marlboros and Windsor, owing to schedule peculiarities, have only met twice this season and both times the score was close. Marlboros won by a 4-2 score back in October when the Spits couldn&rsquo;t win for losing. A month later in Toronto, however, Windsor fought to a 2-2 tie and might have won but for some poor shooting.</p><p>Spitfires have improved immensely since then and closed off the old year by winning nine of their last 11 games. Although still a trifle shy on scoring punch their defensive play is second to none.</p><p>St. Catherines Teepees are another team that will have to be watched closely when playoff time arrives. Teepees are loaded with spirit, they skate furiously and they never give up regardless of the score. And they have a habit of getting hot in the playoffs.</p><p>Last year Teepees barely made the playoffs, finishing in sixth place a decimal point behind Kitchener. But they fought their way into the O.H.A. final with startling upsets over Kitchener and St. Mike&rsquo;s. They were finally eliminated by Guelph. Biltmores who continued on to win the Memorial Cup but the Hatters were immensely relieved when they were finally rid of the pestiferous Teepees.</p><p>Biltmores, who haven&rsquo;t missed the playoffs in their last three seasons, may have a tough assignment making the charmed circle this year. A double defeat by Windsor knocked them into seventh place and they face a rough schedule ahead.</p><p>Galt Black Hawks, a team with plenty of scoring punch, continue to win their share of games and they seem certain to win one of the six playoff spots. In speedy Jim McBurney they have one of the top goal-scorers in the league.</p><p>Oshawa Generals and Kitchener Greenshirts hold down the last two spots in the standings in that order and they aren&rsquo;t likely to progress much farther. But the way Biltmores have been going lately the Generals might shunt then out of seventh place.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Flyers Need Lengthy Win Streak To Catch Front-Running Dukes

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0137/1005155-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0227/1005148-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="2931" height="1512"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ERIC NESTERENKO, the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; sensational rookie who completed a three-game trial by personally beating the Boston Bruins in his second game, is shown above scoring his two goals against Sugar Jim Henry in the Boston nets. Apart from his pair, &ldquo;Nesty&rdquo; set up Hanigan for the third marker as the Leafs blanked the Bruins, 3-0. The kid with the great future has returned to the Toronto junior Marlboros where he will finish out the season. (See page 2 for story on him.)</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Nesterenko Spoils Henry’s Zer

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Erie Nesterenko has probably had his 34 hours of fame for this season. The nineteen year-old right winger, who joined the Leafs from Marlboro Juniors for one brief but spectacular two-goal-and-an-assist splurge against the Boston Bruins in the second game of his three-game trial, will stay an amateur till next fall. Then he&rsquo;ll have to make the decision as to whether he wants to attend university to become a chemical engineer or become one of the potent Sally rich hockey players there has ever been. The consensus is that he&rsquo;ll take the latter route.</p><p>For Conn Smythe, Leaf managing director, wasted no time in assessing Nesty with a price tag that was bound to make any youngster&rsquo;s head spin.</p><p>&ldquo;He can make $100,000 in the next few years,&rdquo; Smythe beamed.</p><p>Nesterenko&rsquo;s educational ambitions (he is a brilliant student at North Toronto Collegiate) were to be furthered at Michiban where he was to attend on the advice of Lloyd Percival, head of a national Sports College whose training diet influenced Nesty so much on one occasion last season that he disdained the regular hockey diet of a steak before a game for a bag of grapes and a dash of yogurt.</p><p>Nesterenko&rsquo;s transition to the pro ranks would have been almost immediate, probably, had the Leafs been short of right wingers. He can play centre too, wants to in fact, and that makes him twice as valuable. But the Leafs are fairly well stacked at right wing with George Armstrong (out with a bad knee or Nesterenko would never have had his big chance), Howie Meeker, who is now not admitting that he will retire at the end of this season, a plan he was said to have formulated at training camp, Ron Stewart, a leading candidate for the rookie of the year award and Tod Sloan. Smythe feels that the Leafs more immediate need is on left wing, has an eye on Ted Toppazzini of St. Michael&rsquo;s Juniors who staunchly refuses to discuss pro hockey until Smythe converses with his brother Zellio, now playing for Providence Reds.</p><p>Nesterenko, meanwhile continues to be the talk of this town but sager. hockey analysts are remembering the days when Billy Taylor enjoyed the same fame. And Danny Lewicki.</p><p>&ldquo;He has all the makings of a good one,&rdquo; is coach Joe Primeau&rsquo;s non-committal observation and he gets an equally non-committal nod in agreement from assistant managing director Hap Day who can recall one of his first games with Pittsburgh when he scored four goals. An he was a defenseman. But then, he did turn out pretty well.</p><p>Nesty, meanwhile, continues to set a heated pace in goal scoring with the Marlboro Juniors leaving people who saw him at the Gardens that night against Boston and the thousands who watched him on television with the unshaken conviction that they have seen another Syl Apps in action. Staff Smythe, boss of the Marlboros, soberly points out though that against the Bruins he was only beating the kids he&rsquo;d be beating for the past two years in junior. No one, in fact, is going as far cut on the limb about him as Smythe did when he estimated his potential earning power.</p><p>Nesterenko, an outstanding football player too, is the son of a Ukrainian immigrant who came to Canada 25 years ago to settle at Flin Flon. Eric was born there and Pop Nesterenko, who was a pretty fair figure skater in his day, taught him to skate on the ponds and rivers. Fred Jackson, a Toronto newspaperman and talent scout can bow for bringing him along as a hockey player nurturing him from a tall gangling kid who had to lean on his stick to stay erect through midget and finally to the Weston Dukes of Junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; ranks. Nesterenko moved from there to Marlboros three years ago.</p><p>Already people are getting ready to offer him advice about changing his name. Some feel that Nesterenko is too long and unwieldy and once Eric agreed with them to the extent that he shortened it to his nickname, just plain Nesty.</p><h2><b>Toronto&rsquo;s Beliveau</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0245/1003117-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="618" height="1234"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ERIC NESTERENKO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Nesty” Must Make Decision, Engineer Or 100 Grand Vision

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Max Bentley, the Leaf key pivot man, was ready to return to Toronto last week end but no one could offer any esiniate as to when his injured back would have healed sufficiently to let him play again.</p><p>Contacted at his home in Delisle where he spent the festive season with his wife and family, Max couldn&rsquo;t offer any guesses either. He has been taking treatments every day, he said, but confessed that his strained back hadn&rsquo;t healed sufficiently to let him straighten up.</p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t been on skates since 1 re-injured it in practise,&rdquo; he says (that was late in November). &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t be ready to skate when I get back.&rdquo;</p><p>The Leafs, in spite of the fact that they have enjoyed passable success missing two centres, Bentley and Rudy Migay, are still potentially better with them in the lineup. An injury to rookie right winger George Armstrong, who came home from Chicago with a bad knee courtesy of Lee Fogolin, hasn&rsquo;t done much good either.</p><p>Migay, too, went home for Christmas to the Lakehead, with his left encased in a cast.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bentley’s Future? Back Still Aches

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.)</p><p>Any observant soul now has the means of financing a holiday expenditure or next summer&rsquo;s vacation. He must simply apply to Madison Square Garden with a ready answer to the following appeal: &ldquo;WANTED: Information leading to the arrest and consignment of a sound forward of major league ability.&rdquo;</p><p>It is not yet a matter of record that the Garden will pay regular agent&rsquo;s fees for the discovery of a worthwhile hockey player but, at last notice, Frank Boucher looked worried enough to at least contribute half his season&rsquo;s pay for much needed help. The Ranger manager is up a tree&mdash;and he&rsquo;s air sick.</p><p>What forwards the Rangers can use, they can&rsquo;t get. What ones they can get. they can&rsquo;t use.</p><p>Boucher, who knows the Rangers would be a winning team with two more good forwards, realizes that his own organization has but a very slender chance of supplying what he needs. But yet, out of sheer desperation, he must continue to take a shot in the dark with such untried juniors as Gordie Haworth, whom he has just called up from the Valleyfied Braves of the Quebec Senior League. Haworth, no scorer of note with Valleyfield, gets his three game pro trial.</p><p>&ldquo;Haworth is a smooth skater and a good stickhandler,&rdquo; Boucher commented upon his verification of the temporary&rsquo; promotion. &ldquo;He may help us or he may not. We&rsquo;ve got to take that chance. Certainly, we&rsquo;ve learned we can&rsquo;t get help anywhere else. We&rsquo;ve tried.&rdquo;</p><p>No team has had a better reason to try to build a winner than the Rangers. have. Fan support has been maintained within two per cent of last year&rsquo;s level despite an atrocious team showing from the very outset. Boucher and the Garden owners appreciate this, and they are ready, willing and able to spend good money to procure what is needed.</p><p>&ldquo;1 can&rsquo;t get anything out of the rest of the league.&rdquo; Boucher says. &ldquo;They just don&rsquo;t want to trade. Everyone&rsquo;s sitting tight.</p><p>&ldquo;The minors? We&rsquo;ve looked everywhere. The teams that have anyone who might help us&mdash;like Pittsburgh and St. Louis&mdash;are fully controlled by major league clubs. They won&rsquo;t give. As for the independants, they don&rsquo;t have anyone of major league calibre. Cleveland has one or two, but it&rsquo;s holding onto them. I don&rsquo;t blame them, in their situation.</p><p>&ldquo;What about our own teams? We have the 2 clubs in the Pacific Coast (Saskatoon and Vancouver) and they can&rsquo;t help us. We&rsquo;ve taken Strain and&rsquo; he&rsquo;s helped some, and we now have McIntosh and are soon getting Senick (awaiting repair of a thumb broken in Saskatoon). But they&rsquo;re not the forwards we&rsquo;re looking for. They&rsquo;re just hopes.&rdquo;</p><p>Kelly Burnett is a typical example of Boucher&rsquo;s frustration this year with minor league talent. He was bought from Syracuse on a three-game trial basis at the time he was tearing the American League apart.</p><p>As one wag put It: &ldquo;After Burnett&rsquo;s first game with the Rangers (when he scored a goal) he looked like a major leaguer. After the second, you knew he belonged In Syracuse. After the third, you began to wonder.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;There just doesn&rsquo;t seem to be any hockey players around,&rdquo; Boucher is wont to moan. &ldquo;Where are they? I don&rsquo;t know. It seems that every good player coming up now is from the juniors. We&rsquo;ve had good juniors and we have a couple now (Harry Howell and Dean Prentice), but most of them are a year or two away.&rdquo;</p><p>It is no secret that Boucher might have gotten some necessary front-line help from Toronto this year. He tried hard to wean Bill Ezinicki and Ray Timgren away from the Leafs while they sat down on the farm at Pittsburgh. But Connie Smythe wasn&rsquo;t interested.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt about it,&rdquo; the Leafs&rsquo; boss said here recently, &ldquo;no one wants to trade right now. There&rsquo;s too much balance in the league. You just ean&rsquo;t afford to weaken yourself of strengthen the other team one inch. So you just stand pat.&rdquo;</p><p>The one thing the Rangers just can&rsquo;t afford to do right now is stand pat. &ldquo;We just got to have at least two more good forwards,&rdquo; Boucher admits. &ldquo;One line, Ronty and Hergesheimer, have been carrying the whole lead. The others aren&rsquo;t scoring, they&rsquo;re not checking the way they should and their overall play is certainly being reflected in the defense, also.&rdquo;</p><p>Although the&rsquo; young rookies like Andy Bathgate and Ron Murphy-fizzled and others like Strain and Prentice have not sizzled, New York&rsquo;s dire need now for at least two more forwards can be attributed to the team&rsquo;s veterans. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re the ones that have let us down,&rdquo; Boucher complains.</p><p>The worst blow, of course, was the fractured wrist suffered by Bones Raleigh in a pre-season exhibition. He was to have been the All Star center this year. Instead, after missing the first month of the season, he has tried to play with a cast&mdash;and without success.</p><p>&ldquo;Bones still has the legs and the biggest part of him is his heart,&rdquo; coach Bill Cook will verify. &ldquo;But he can&rsquo;t shoot and he can&rsquo;t make that quick pass. He&rsquo;s little help to himself or the line. But he&rsquo;s still better than anyone we can get from the minors. That&rsquo;s how bad the situation is.&rdquo;</p><p>With Raleigh first out, and then partly crippled, the effect has been disastrous on his right wing. Big Ed Slowinski, a 20-goal scorer a year ago, has never become untracked. He now has but two goals and has given no indication of getting any more. He&rsquo;s skating badly, his timing on plays is way off and Raleigh&rsquo;s presence in the lineup hasn&rsquo;t been of benefit.</p><p>Raleigh&rsquo;s other carryover wing from &rsquo;51-&rsquo;52, Gaye Stewart, was also counted upon to carry some weight. He carried so little he was sold to Montreal, from whence he was immediately farmed out to the amateurs to regain some confidence.</p><p>That&rsquo;s only one line. A second one fizzled when Edgar Laprade played hard to get. After it had suffered without the smoothskating veteran, Edgar finally reported out of playing condition. Just as he skated back into it, and starred for three games in a row, Edgar decided it was time to go home to Port Arthur again&mdash;which he did. So there&rsquo;s no third line to speak of, any more.</p><p>Ronty and Hergesheimer must do all the work&mdash;an impossible assignment&mdash;until Boucher finds someone ready to offer a couple of forwards. Any forwards, at any price&hellip;just so they&rsquo;re major leaguers.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Haworth comes to the Rangers highly recommanded by Phil Watson. He played for Phil&rsquo;s Quebec Citadels last year&hellip;Senick is due to join the team in New York by January 7. Up to now, the rookie left winger&rsquo;s best claim to fame is that he resembles Rocket Richard&mdash;facially&hellip;Added to the Rangers&rsquo; lost list of cripples is McIntosh, who missed two weeks of play with infected instep. At the time he went out, Jimmy Conacher, who would have dressed in his place, was home in Chicago spending the holidays with his family.</p><h2><b>Trial Horse</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0154/1003086-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="597" height="1198"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HAWORTH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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What I Need I Can’t Get, What I Can Get I Don’t Need--Boucher

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Terry Sawchuk is sitting on the sidelines these days watching his Vezina Trophy hopes being handled by a sub goalie.</p><p>After 174 straight games in the Red Wing lineup, Sawchuk finally was forced out of action. He was injured in a practice session when hit by a hard shot fired by Alex Delvecchio. It landed between the skate and pad, and X-rays showed a hairline fracture of a small bone in his right instep.</p><p>It&rsquo;s serious business when a goalie of the magnitude of Sawchuk is sidelined, especially when there are indications that he&rsquo;ll miss anywhere from seven to 10 games. Even the over-all strength of the Wings might not offset such a loss.</p><p>Still there were no moans from the front-office, curiosity &lsquo;having won out.</p><p>In the Detroit farm system was a bright young prospect, Glen Hall, toiling at the Edmonton (Alta.) farm club. Last year Hall was at Indianapolis, the year before with the Windsor (Ont.) Junior Spitfires.</p><p>Way back then Manager Jack Adams used to tell newsmen: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a youngster named Hall that I wouldn&rsquo;t be afraid to throw in the Detroit nets any time if I had to.&rdquo;</p><p>Everyone wanted to see Hall, and he was ordered to grab a plane and fly to his National Hockey League debut.</p><p>Hall couldn&rsquo;t make it at once, so Red Almas was hailed from St. Louis for a one-game fill. It was Almas&rsquo; third NHL game&mdash;one with Detroit in 1947 and one with Chicago in 1950. He also worked the short 1947 playoffs for Detroit against Toronto.</p><p>So Sawchuk delivered his Vezina bid&mdash;he had built up an eight-goal lead over his other NHL rivals at the time of the accident&mdash;to Almas and Hall.</p><p>Oue to the terms of the Vezin Trophy, which Terry won a yes ago, he&rsquo;ll be charged with a the goals permitted by his repla cements.</p><p>It&rsquo;s one of the strangests&mdash;and to hockey players, one of the silliest&mdash;rules governing a ma jor award. The exact wordin says the Vezina goes to &ldquo;the goal keeper who plays the most game for the team with the fewes goals scored against it.&rdquo;</p><p>That may have been and when the Trophy meant just glory. But now that it&rsquo;s worth $1,000 bonus, the terms are way out of date.</p><p>Nevertheless, that&rsquo;s the picture and it had been studied previously by Sawchuk&rsquo;s nearest challenger, Gerry McNeil, when Gerry was sidelined for a spell. Jacque Plante and Hal Murphy subbed for McNeil, giving up eight goal in their four games.</p><p>Almas was dented three time in his one-night stand, a 3-3 affair with Chicago, Hall bowe in against Montreal with a 2-2 tie, and then yielded just one in his home debut, a 7-1 spree against Boston.</p><p>If Hall keeps that up, Sawchul can have no complaints. His own record was 61 goals in 31 starts slightly under a 2.0 average.</p><p>Terry was downcast at the whole chain of events, which hi him just before the holidays. The first game he missed was Christ mas Night, the third one was his 23rd birthday, Sunday, Dec. 2 8</p><p>&ldquo;1&rsquo;m not concerned about the Vezina Trophy&mdash;I know Hall is an excellent goalie,&rdquo; he commented, then added sadly:</p><p>&ldquo;But why did this have to happen just when the club was going so good. Why didn&rsquo;t it happen a few weeks ago when I was playing bad.&rdquo;</p><p>Being in a gloomy mood he went on, &ldquo;You remember what happened the last time a Detroit goalie was forced out with in-juries?&rdquo;</p><p>That, of course, was a time Terry never will forget. Lumley was hurt in 1950 and Sawchuk came up from Indianapolis to play seven games as a replacement. He sparkled.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes, and Lum was gone from here the next season&mdash;maybe that will happen to me now,&rdquo; Terry said.</p><p>Which certainly is looking at the dark side of things.</p><p>Still just a youngster, Sawchuk was rated the best goalie in hockey last season, and maybe one of the best of all-time. His record during the campaign and playoffs was the finest in many years. Nobody think he&rsquo;s any worse now.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sawchuk Forced To Sidelines After 174 Straight Games

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; Dune Fisher, up from Hershey in an emergency role, demonstrated a speedy way to disarm an antagonist during the New Year&rsquo;s night game with Toronto here which produced a free-for-all.</p><p>Shortly after the second-period&rsquo; brawl Fisher, who has received only one major penalty in six years of professional hockey, was jostled behind the net by Gordon Hannigan of Toronto.</p><p>As Hannigan prodded the stocky wing with his stick, Fisher backed away. Suddenly he extended one powerful arm and plucked Hannigan&rsquo;s stick right out of his hands. The flabbergasted Toronto youngster stared in astonishment for a moment, then asked for his stick back.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fisher Disarms Hannigan, Plucks Stick From Him

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>After Toronto&rsquo;s second victory of the season over the Boston Bruins a few days ago. President Conn Smythe of the Maple Leafs spotted Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins entering the press room at Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>&ldquo;I see by the papers where a couple of our former players have developed into stars under your tutelage,&rdquo; proclaimed Smythe to Patrick. Don&rsquo;t come to me for any more players if that&rsquo;s what you&rsquo;re going to do to them.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry, we won&rsquo;t&rdquo; snapped Patrick. &ldquo;We have all the good players that you have. You can have the trash that&rsquo;s left.&rdquo;</p><p>Ex-Maple Leafs Fleming Mackell and Joe Klukay have scored nine goals against their old team this season, six of them by Mackell, who leads the Bruins in scoring.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Smythe Chides Lynn Patrick About Ex-Leaf Stars

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0154/1003196-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creiahton (left) broken leg, Ted Kennedy, separated shoulder.</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Worse things could have happened to the Maple Leafs. There could have been a train wreck on the way back from Boston. As it was they lost Ted Kennedy probably for the rest of the season or a good part of it and the panicky were ready to leap at the conclusion that Kennedy might have taken the Toronto&rsquo;s playoff chances with him.</p><p>Kennedy joins the ranks of walking wounded that has spread to alarming proportions. Leaf coach Joe Primeau has never been faced with so many hospital charts since he took over the club three years ago. Joe could only muster one comment, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re in deep trouble&rdquo; which summarized it very nicely.</p><p>Kennedy underwent an operation to wire together a badly separated right shoulder. At that he might have escaped luckily for if some of the force of his fall to the ice in his wrestling-boxing match with Bruin Milt Schmidt hadn&rsquo;t been taken by the shoulders, it could have caved in his skull like an eggshell and that&rsquo;s what a lot of people at the Boston Garden thought might have happened as trainer Bill Smith broke one ammonia capsule after another trying to bring him around as he lay on the ice. X-Ray&rsquo;s revealed, however, that aside from a concussion there was no serious injury to the head.</p><p>Kennedy was at a loss to reconstruct what had happened. It was an almost spontaneous outbreak. He and Schmidt ran into each other at centre ice just before Red Storey blew a penalty at Jim Thomson. The elbows went up, the gloves came off and the fists started going. Schmidt won the decision, it must be admitted. He caught Kennedy with a solid punch but the Leaf captain was up and at him again and they broke away from the main body of combatants and drew up in a sort of a bear hug in front of the Bruin bench. That&rsquo;s when Schmidt flipped him and laid him out on his. back. Schmidt was rolling up his sleeves to really work him over when he noticed that Kennedy was limp. He looked towards the Leaf bench and waved for help and lifted Kennedy&rsquo;s head off the ice prompting one Boston scribe to remember that it was something Ted Lindsay failed to do the night he pasted up Bill Ezinicki but then maybe Theodore was angrier.</p><p>&ldquo;I was scared stiff,&rdquo; Schmidt admitted later. &ldquo;We had been throwing punenes and hit the ice together. Teeder had his arm around my neck and I tried to get out of the head lock. I twisted and grabbed him and we fell to the ice and I was on top. He went limp and I got a real scared when the whites of his eyes were showing so I lifted his head and called for a doctor.&rdquo;</p><p>Refreshingly enough there was no controversy arising out of the affair except that Kennedy, who couldn&rsquo;t remembem much of what had happened after he &ldquo;raised his dukes&rdquo; was amazed how Schmidt could flip him right over.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a most unbelievable,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;that anybody on skates could get the purchase to lift a man right off his feet and throw him like that.&rdquo;</p><p>Kennedy, whose shoulder was described by examinlug doctors as badly separated, didn&rsquo;t even know he had a shoulder injury until trainer smith revived him, led him to the garden hospital and stretched him out on the table.</p><p>&ldquo;That was when it started to hurt,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but I can&rsquo;t remember anything at all about being revived or even leaving the ice. I do remember catching just one Glimpse of the rubber matting on the floor that leads to the dressing room, but that&rsquo;s all. It was just one of those things. It could have happened to Milt just as easily as it did to me. It was just a rub of the green.&rdquo;</p><p>Mrs. K., Ted&rsquo;s charming wife, viewed the situation superstitiously. It seems that Kennedy always carries a wallet containing three pictures of his year-old son on his person. His wife, for some reason, removed it from his suit pocket the night before he left on the Boston road trip. It was the first trip he had made without it since the pictures were taken. Mrs. Kennedy is planning to plaster it to his chest with adhesive tape.</p><p>There &ldquo;was a feeling of general relief but no optimism out of Kennedy&rsquo;s medical report. No complications developed from the hit on the head but the shoulder, which was at first believed to be a fractured collar bone, was much more serious than the first diagnosis indicated. A fracture would have kept him out a minimum of five weeks but the separation and the torn shoulder ligaments that went along with it had examining physicians doubtful that he would be ready to return in time to catch the playoffs. An operation was performed the day following Kennedy&rsquo;s arrival by plane from Boston. The separation was wired together but it was explained that it was the ligaments which would take all the time to heal.</p><p>&ldquo;George Armstrong had a slight separation early this season&rdquo; one doctor explained. &ldquo;That kept him out only three weeks but this is a complete separation with torn ligaments. He&rsquo;ll be out a long, long time.&rdquo;</p><p>Conn Smythe, vacationing in Florida, rather than take a leap in the ocean on hearing the news, in spite of the fact that just a few hours before he had been reiterating Kennedy&rsquo;s excessive value to the club, pointed out that it was &ldquo;high time the others took the load for a change.&rdquo;</p><p>He planned no emergency recalls from the Pittsburgh Hornets probably because he already has one of their centres, Phil Maloney, up with the Leafs leaving them cut to the bone. He is still interested in getting Bill Ezinicki up possibly to give Howie Meeker&rsquo;s much-maligned knee a rest. Meeker has been playing with the Knee frozen. Meanwhile the Leafs got a break with a week&rsquo;s rest between games and time to regroup. Max Bentley, still with a sore back. flew to Toronto from Delisls where he had spent the Yuletide season with hopes that he could be back in harness in 10 days. Rudy Migay, another centre, is still hobbling on a bad knee and should be another two weeks&hellip;Rudy, though, always takes time to get back into condition. George Armstrong, also with knee trouble, is due back in. by the end of this week.</p><p>There&rsquo;ll be help from the Marlboro Juniors to take up the slack. Perker McDonald, a winger, is ready for a three game trial and Hap Day has signed left winger Ted Toppazzini, brother of Zellio and Jerry, to an agreement for a trial with the Leafs.</p><h2><b>Out For The Year?</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Teeder Amazed At Milt’s Power, ‘Just an Accident’

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>While he is in Palm Beach sopping up the sun on an annual winter vacation, Conn Smythe will be concerned with the health of the National Hockey League. The managing director of the Toronto Maple Leafs, here recently enroute to Florida, predicted that the league will have &ldquo;a casualty list a mile long before the season is over.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0243/1003234-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="308" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><p>Smythe put his finger on three reasons for the unhealthy situation. They are: (1) closer team competition; (2) the limitation on the number of players allowed to dress and (3) the early season stalemate with the American Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;The teams are so evenly matched you&rsquo;ve got to fight like a demon every night,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t a chance that you&rsquo;ll fight every night and not get injuries.&rdquo;</p><p>In days past, Smythe pointed out, a team could often rest some of its better players occasionally against weaker clubs. But now, with every game a crucial one in a well-balanced league, coaches must always use their best available talent. As a result, they often take a chance on a sore knee or ankle and wind up with a true casualty.</p><p>The player limitation is corelated. With only 16 players dressed, coaches often chance serious injury by keeping ailing players on ice under almost emergency circumstances.</p><p>&ldquo;The restriction of player movement early in the season between our league and the American Hockey League was also damaging,&rdquo; Smythe added. &ldquo;This left us short of replacements in some cases and resulted in a heavy burden on the regular NHL roster.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0326/1003227-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="296" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>When he was asked what he thought of Smythe&rsquo;s comments, Ranger manager Frank Boucher agreed in most part. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d add one more reason for the great number of injuries,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The type of game we&rsquo;re playing now leads to casualties With the five-man ganging attack, 11 players are bunched in one end. With that much close contact, you&rsquo;re bound to have injuries.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher disagrees on one point. &ldquo;You have to have a limitation on the number of players to be dressed,&rdquo; he declared. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all right for the real wealthy clubs like Toronto to have unlimited players. They can afford to. But if we took the limitation off, then this would work Unfairly toward the less wealthy clubs.&rdquo;</p><p>No matter what the reason, there&rsquo;s no denying the fact that the league&rsquo;s Injury lists have been long. When Smythe saw his Leafs for the last time before heading South, for instance, they were missing Max Bentley, George Armstrong, Rudy Migay and Howie Meeker with injuries.</p><p>The Rangers have been hardest hit, of course, ever since center Bones Raleigh fractured his wrist in a pre-season exhibition against Pittsburgh. Since then, they lost goalie Chuck Rayner, defenseman Leo Reise and left winger Herb Dickenson. The later is out for the full season.</p><p>Boston has felt the loss of Johnny Peirson, Hal Laycoe and Ed Sandford. Montreal was hurt by the absence of two centers at the same time, Elmer Lach and Billy Reay.</p><p>As of now, neither the Hawks nor the Wings have had many serious casualties. Concerning Chicago, Smythe commented that &ldquo;they&rsquo;re a tough, hard old crew and it will take quite a bit to knock them down. Veterans are more inclined to keep their heads up and less likely than the newcomers to get hit from them not looking.&rdquo;</p><p>Except for the injury to goalie Terry Sawchuk, which was suffered in practice, Detroit has been fairly free of injuries, also. Smythe had a couple of reasons for the Wings&rsquo; fine state of health.</p><p>&ldquo;The schedule seems to work in favor of Detroit,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;They often play fresh on Sunday night against a team that played the night before. And besides the Red Wings are so much better than everyone else.&rdquo;</p><p>He might have said that first.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Smythe Predicts “Mile-Long Casualty List” And He’s Speaking From Experience

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Charges and countercharges have been made since the New Year&rsquo;s night brawl at the Garden in which Toronto&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy was injured, but the Bruins have remained adamant on one point.</p><p>It is that but for the interference of Tim Horton, bespectacled Toronto defenseman, there would have been no brawl and no injuries to Kennedy.</p><p>The Toronto captain sustained a broken collarbone and concussion in a fight with Capt. Milt Schmidt of the Bruins, one of five different rights which made up a second-period free-for-all.</p><p>Kennedy was knocked to the ice by Schmidt in what amounted to the second round of a fight which was a private one until Horton undid the work of the officials in ending round one.</p><p>Linesmen Jack Mehlenbacher and Doug Davies had separated the long-time antagonists, but Horton jumped Schmidt, bringing Bruins flying to their captain&rsquo;s assistance.</p><p>In the general melee Schmidt and Kennedy resumed fighting, and the Bruin tipped his rival onto the ice. The joint opinion of Dr. Thomas A. Kelley of the Bruins and Dr. Hugh Smythe of the Maple Leafs was that Kennedy struck his head and shoulder when he fell.</p><p>Schmidt, whose next act was to call for assistance to the Toronto bench as Kennedy grew limp, was reluctant to discuss the affair after the game.</p><p>&ldquo;He elbowed me to start it,&rdquo; he said soberly, &ldquo;and I guess it was a half-punch, half-shove that knocked him down, but whatever I say he&rsquo;ll probably contradict anyway.</p><p>&ldquo;There wouldn&rsquo;t have been anything to it if that fresh little punk Horton hadn&rsquo;t butted in. I would have punched him In the face if he hadn&rsquo;t been wearing contact lenses. He was being a wise guy out there all night.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Horton figured he had to be a tough guy,&rdquo; snorted the Bruins&rsquo; Leo LaBine. &ldquo;He talks tough, but he never won a fight in his life.&rdquo;</p><p>Other Bruins, subdued after a 5 to 1 victory which produced a broken leg for their own Dave Creighton as well as the injuries to Kennedy, concurred with LaBine&rsquo;s observation.</p><p>The fighting broke out after a mild first period, and there was no doubt about what started it. Referee Red Story had blown his whistle to call a penalty on Toronto&rsquo;s Jim Thomson, and as the players slowed to stops, Kennedy and Schmidt met in mid-ice.</p><p>Accidently or otherwise&mdash;only he knows&mdash;Kennedy hit Schmidt under the chin with his elbow, and the muscular Bruin flew back at him. Then came the brief lull created by the linesmen, Horton&rsquo;s Intervention and the resulting free-for-all.</p><p>Horton was plucked off Schmidt by Bob Armstrong, the big defenseman, and tossed across the ice. Other bouts started be-tween LaBine and Thomson, Real Chevrefils and Ron Stewart and Warren Godfrey and Stewart. The only good punch of the three-minute mill was landed by Godfrey on Stewart.</p><p>Schmidt and Kennedy have tangled periodically ever since the Bruins&rsquo; captain came back from the service after the war. The last time they had trouble was in the 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs in Toronton, with Kennedy requiring post-fight stitching.</p><p>The free-for-all was the first at the Garden since opening night of the 1950 season, when the Bruins and Montreal Canadiens engaged in a first-period team fight. There were no injuries in that one, although Ferny Flaman, then a Bruin, twice flattened Montreal&rsquo;s Ken Mosdell.</p><p>Creighton&rsquo;s injury, like Kennedy&rsquo;s, came on a penalty play. As the 22-year-old center started around Flaman in the third period. the 190-pound defenseman tackled him around the waist. They slid along the ice toward the end fence, Creighton on his stomach, Flaman atop him.</p><p>Creighton&rsquo;s legs., held rigid by Flaman&rsquo;s weight, broke the force of their drive into the boards, and the expression on his face quickly Indicated that he had been hurt.</p><p>X-rays revealed the break in his right fibula (shinbone) to be a clean one and set perfectly by Dr. Kelley. He has been outfitted with a walking cast and he will remain here during his convalescence, expected to take four to so weeks.</p><p>To fill Creighton&rsquo;s center position the Bruins called up George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan from Hershey, where he was leading the American league in scoring.</p><p>Creighton&rsquo;s injury brought to four the number of Bruins sidelined by injuries at that time. The others were Defenseman Hal Laycoe and Forwards Ed Sandford and John Peirson.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

‘Smitty’ Says Tim Butted In When Tempers Cooled

<div class="byline">By MILT DuNNELL-SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01124/1003337-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p>Toronto Star</p><h2><b>The High Cost of Bumps and Bruises</b></h2><p>Last season, the six clubs of the National Hockey league paid out $9 4,875 in salaries to playerrs who were on crutches, in casts on the limp and on the lam from the hazards of their employment. Among them, the same six clubs probably anted $50,000 to hositals, surgeons, bone-setters, oculists, and ambulance operators. The Maple Leafs&rsquo; bill was close to six grand. And they had a comparatively injury-free season. A team like the Black Hawks must have gone for at least twice that much. Instead of computing the manpower loss in days absent from the job, as is done by industry, the hockey clubs base their tally on the number of games missed by their casualties. Last season, the Black Hawks missed 250 games in a 70-game schedule. When you also think of the goals the Black Hawks missed you marvel that their little boss. Bill Tobin, didn&rsquo;t take the gas pipe.</p><p>There&rsquo;s no way of estimating what injuries cost at the gate, but It has to be substantial when a star is knocked into sick bay, as Rocket Richard was for a good portion of last season. The turnstiles still twirled in Montreal, but in towns like New York and Boston, his absence undoubedly slowed the sale of tickets when Canadiens paid a visit. You do know that when a player is hurt, another player has to take his place. So the pay of the stand-ins must be added to the $94,875 which injured players drew while they weren&rsquo;t working.</p><p>All things considered, the big league hockey clubs are the most logical clients in the whole world of sport for a fearless salesman of accident insurance and workmen&rsquo;s compensation. Their injury rate is much higher than it is even among the suicide squads like jockeys and stock car drivers. The difference&mdash;and it&rsquo;s an Important one&mdash;is that big league hockey&rsquo;s hospital chart, cluttered up as it is with almost every known type of damage to the human chassis, shows only one death in the modern game that could be attributed to ice injury. Howie Morenz is the one, and he died in hospital while recovering from a broken leg. The boss and jalopy pilots send a few to the last roundup each year. Their accidents are fewer, &lsquo;but more of them are fatal.</p><p>We mentioned that hockey&rsquo; is a hot prospect for the benevolent and benefit boys. That&rsquo;s the trouble&mdash;it&rsquo;s too hot. The insurance people would just as soon take their chances on a Russian roulette team.</p><p>&ldquo;What they (the NHL) want is catastrophic coverage,&rdquo; one Insurance executive observed yesterday.&rdquo; They couldn&rsquo;t afford to pay the kind of premium we&rsquo;d have to get for carrying it. We have insurance for hockey teams, but we like to keep it to semi-pro of amateur.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>You Wouldn&rsquo;t Lose One Deliberately</b></h2><p>The league has protection of it&rsquo;s own against permanent disability. A player who loses an eye, a hand or a leg collects $5,000. You&rsquo;d sooner keep even a bloodshot eye at that price, but it&rsquo;s still better than a kick in the face with a rusty skate, as they say in the better penalty boxes. Loss of both hands or both legs would up the ante to ten grand, which also is the payoff in case of death. Referees are covered, too. George Gravel will collect full pay for this season, although he has spent most of his time in hospital.</p><p>The reason Insurance companies can&rsquo;t get excited over the prospect of having the NHL among their clients should be plain to all who read the papers or listen to the radio. This promises to be the costliest season in the big league&rsquo;s history. Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s shoulder damage tops a Leaf list that includes such casualties as Max Bentley, George Armstrong, Howie Meeker, Harry Watson and Gord Hannigan. Detroit has lost Terry Sawchuk, the top goalie in the business. Any chance the Rangers had of making the playoffs was blown before the season even started when Bones Raleigh had his wrist broken. Herb Dickenson, Leo Relse, Chuck Rayner were other notable victims. Practically every club has been hit. Hal Laycoe&rsquo;s Injury had hurt Boston. Now they get another jolt, with Dave Creighton out for the rest of the season. Gerry McNeil, Elmer Lach and Dickie Moore are just a few of the Montreal battle-scarred heroes.</p><p>So there are howls about dirty hockey. Well&hellip;young Herb Dickenson was hit in the eye by a flying puck while Rangers were warming up for a game at the Gardens. His injury will be one of the costliest of the season. Raleigh&rsquo;s wrist was broken in a practice game with the minor league Hornets. Several of the more damaging bumps have been suffered in practice As far as the actual games are concerned, they&rsquo;re cleaner than they&rsquo;ve been in years. Even an old Lady Byng winner like Frank Boucher of the Rangers thinks that. He suggests the injury plague may be due to two things: (a) the excessive ramming and jamming in the end zones during live-man attacks; (b) the game keeps getting faster.</p><p>Whatever the cause, big league hockey sure is the friend of the hospitals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02115/1003368-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="262" height="398"></div><h2><b>Dinner With Tommy Ivan</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>ittle Tommy Ivan, coach of the Detroit Red Wings, was sitting in the hotel dining room in Montreal recently. He eats when the players eat, though not necessarily with them, and they Invariably eat between four or five hours before a game.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes, we&rsquo;re going better,&rdquo; he said in answer to a question, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t know what&rsquo;s going to happen with Sawchuk out of there. Funny thing, the way he got hurt. it was in practice and he stopped a shot with his foot. It hit him right here&mdash;&rdquo; pointing to his foot below the instep&mdash;&rdquo;where the pads didn&rsquo;t protect him. Now he&rsquo;s out for six and maybe seven games.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How come you brought Ralph Almas up as a replacement?&rsquo;he was asked. &ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t both you and Jack Adams say a couple of months ago that Glen Hall and Dave Gatherum were great prospects?&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We brought Almas up for the first game because he was in St. Louis and closer than either of the other two,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;Hall and Gatherum are fine prospects, but you never know what they can do until they&rsquo;ve been tested. We&rsquo;ll probably keep Hall until Sawchuk returns, if he stands up the way we think he will.&rdquo;</p><p>One of the surprises of the early season was the defensive weakness of the Red Wings. Was it Sawchuk&rsquo;s fault? Or was it because of a shaky defense and the fact that the forwards weren&rsquo;t checking back?</p><p>&ldquo;I think it was a little bit of everything,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think Sawchuk was quite as good at the start of this season as he was last season. We&rsquo;d traded away L. Reise and some of the other guys weren&rsquo;t playing up to scratch, particularly Red Kelly. But Kelly is going as good right now as he ever did and I think we&rsquo;ve got our lines straightened out. Prystai is playing well with Lindsay and Howe.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Defense and Offense</b></h2><p>The waiter came in with a big tray and set it down on an adjoining table. He took the lids offf several dishes and then served Tommy a sirloin steak, baked potato, green beans and toasted rolls. It looked like a big meal for such a little guy.</p><p>&ldquo;I put five patties of butter in the baked potato,&rdquo; the waiter said, and Tommy nodded approvingly.</p><p>&ldquo;I was interested in that thing you wrote this morning about defensive hockey,&rdquo; he said between bites. &ldquo;But I want to point out to you that when a guy is in position to play good defensive hockey he&rdquo;s also in a good position to play offensive hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;Look at this,&rdquo; he said, fishing a notebook out of his pocket. &ldquo;These are some of the statistics from the playoff games last spring between us and Canadiens. We won that series in four straight and we scored 11 goals. And who do you think scored seven of them Our checking line&mdash;Skov, Pavelich and Leswick.&rdquo;</p><p>But every coach differs a little from his fellow coaches in his hockey theories. Isn&rsquo;t it sometimes difficult to get a fellow to switch over to your theories after he&rsquo;s played for someone else?</p><p>&ldquo;It sure is,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You get a fellow in a trade, say like we got Tony Leswick. It&rsquo;s a brand-new atmosphere and it takes him quite a while to get used to It. All Tony knew was the way things were done around the Rangers. He&rsquo;d only joined us when Jack (Adams) came in after a game and bawled the daylights out of Lindsay and Howe. Leswick was sitting there listening with his mouth open. Later he said to our trainer, &lsquo;Gee, they get on everybody around here, even the stars,&rsquo; and the trainer said, &lsquo;Sit tight, kid, your turn&rsquo;s coming.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>The Same Old Home</b></h2><p>Tommy remarked that Gordie Howe hadn&rsquo;t changed perceptibly since he&rsquo;d joined the Red Wings a half-dozen years ago.</p><p>&ldquo;Nothing bothers him and nothing you can do or say will make him move a step faster than his usual gait,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The other night were playing the Black Hawks and they&rsquo;re leading us 3-2 late In the third period. Howe got the puck inside their blue line and started to dawdle around with it and I&rsquo;m yelling, &lsquo;Shoot! Shoot!&rdquo; But he works around until he&rsquo;s in front of the net and sees his spot and then he fires it in. When he came back to the bench I said, &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you pull the trigger sooner? You&rsquo;re running the risk of having somebody take the puck away from you.&rsquo; He drawls, &lsquo;Just wanted to make sure.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Bun Cook watched him one night and after the game he said, &lsquo;He&rsquo;s a great hockey player, but I wonder how great he&rsquo;d be if he exerted himself.&rsquo; Of course, he fools you because he&rsquo;s a relaxed athlete. But what an attraction he&rsquo;d be if he had the fire and drive of Lindsay or Richard! The way it is, he makes things look too easy.&rdquo;</p><p>The schedule Is getting near the halfway mark and Tommy was asked which teams looked good to him around the league.</p><p>&ldquo;Canadiens look as good as anybody,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and the Black Hawks looked pretty good in their last two games against us. They tied us in the last game and In the game before that we beat, them, 2-0, but they played well. They just didn&rsquo;t have any luck. That Boston team doesn&rsquo;t make many mistakes and they&rsquo;re tough to play against.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Then you think maybe it&rsquo;ll be the Leafs who won&rsquo;t make the playoffs?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t say that,&rdquo; he denied quickly. &ldquo;The first five clubs are so tightly bunched that anybody could fall out of there. Maybe it&rsquo;ll be us. How do I know? An injury to a key player could be fatal. Then you have to keep building fires under the guys all the time. If you let up a little on discipline, it shows immediately in their play.&rdquo;</p><p>But Tommy needs some disciplining himself; he ate his steak and baked potato, but left his green beans untouched.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Playing the Field

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0175/1003406-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&hellip;BOS ARMSTRONG</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A hockey scout&rsquo;s occupation is a hazardous one in which a man matches his judgment, his reputation, and sometimes his future earnings against uncounted, unforseen developments.</p><p>Few men in the game require the foresight of he who has to look at a youngster and decide whether he will or will not make a major leaguer.</p><p>Sometimes the scout guesses correctly, some times he doesn&rsquo;t, but the present tendency is to be cautious, for the percentage is against and the expenses of the failures are costly.</p><p>Yet there is one young player in the National League this season who represents what must be the ultimate in judgement by a scout, for at the time he was signed by his present team he wasn&rsquo;t able to make a fair junior team.</p><p>The player is 21-year-old Bob Armstrong of the Boston Bruins, and the scout who risked his reputation to sign him against odds was Harold &ldquo;Baldy&rdquo; Cotton.</p><p>The head of the Bruins&rsquo; scouting department has provided the parent club with several dozen players in the last half-dozen years, but none under more bizarre circumstances.</p><h2><b>Army failed as Junior</b></h2><p>When Cotton signed Armstrong to a Bruins&rsquo; agreement in the fall of 1948, the big-boned defenseman had just failed to make the Junior A team in his home town of Stratford, Ontario.</p><p>The coach of the Stratford Kroehlers that year didn&rsquo;t think Armstrong a Junior A prospect, yet the Bruins&rsquo; Bald Eagle thought him a major league prospect.</p><p>&ldquo;I had been working out with the &ldquo;A&rdquo; team after having played with the &ldquo;B&rdquo; team,&rdquo; related the young defenseman, &ldquo;but I was handicapped by an injury which I had received playing high school football that fall and I didn&rsquo;t make it.</p><p>&ldquo;Cotton saw me practicing with the Kroehlers, and that very night he came over to the house and talked to my mother and father. The result was that I signed with the Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;As it so happened, the Kroehlers got off to a slow start, losing five of their first seven games, and&rdquo; by the seventh game I was in shape to play. I was given another chance, and this time I made the team.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Buzzin&rsquo; For Bruins</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0261/1003399-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="594" height="896"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>&hellip;LEO THE LION</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cotton Risked Reputation On Armstrong

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Bob Armstrong doesn&rsquo;t need any reminders that he knew fiery Leo Labine before the two played together at Hershey a year ago.</p><p>All he has to do is glance at the left side of his chest, across which runs a Jagged scar.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a souvenir of one of my meetings with Leo when we were both juniors,&rdquo; he laughed. &ldquo;We went into a corner and down together one night, and I came out with this. His skate did it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Scarred but not Scared By Leo

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Rookie Bob Armstrong is the Boston Bruins&rsquo; leading candidate for the title of best dressed player in the National league.</p><p>Because of his knack of wearing conservative clothes well, the handsome 21-year-old was dubbed &ldquo;Beau Brummel&rdquo; by Bill Grimes, veteran Boston hockey writer. The nickname has since been shortened to &ldquo;Beau&rdquo;.</p><p>A bachelor who is studying for Bachelor of Arts degree at University of Western Ontario, Armstrong follows the Harvard trend toward flannels and plain-colored ties.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Beau Knows His Clothes

<p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>rmstrong put In three seasons with the Stratford team, and then in his third season the Bruins gave him a brief taste of major league competition. They played him at defense in a two-game series with the Toronto Maple Leafs late in the year.</p><p>Last year Armstrong was moved up to Hershey of the American league for a brushing up under Johnny Crawford, then the coach of the Bears but now a radio commentator for Bruins&rsquo; games.</p><h2><b>A Big Boy From Toronto</b></h2><p>After Hershey was eliminated from the American League playoffs last spring, he was called to Boston, and he played the last five games of the Bruins&rsquo; Stanley Cup series with the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>His work in that series won a regular job for him this year, a job in which he has entrenched himself as the season has progressed.</p><p>Armstrong, a six-foot 186-pounder, is a native of Toronto, but when Bob was eight the family moved to Stratford, 100 miles or so to the West. The Armstrongs now live in Sarnia, on the shore of Lake Huron.</p><p>Always a husky youngster, the strawberry blond moved up through the ranks in hockey, always as a defenseman. At Stratford Collegiate High School he also participated in football (as a fullback) and volleyball, and he won the school pentathlon championship, competing in five a possible nine events, twice.</p><p>Armstrong stepped into a steady job last spring under trying conditions, for when he joined the Bruins from Hershey they had lost the first two games of their playoff series with the Canadiens.</p><p>Coach Lynn Patrick placed him beside the veteran Hal Laycoe, and with Layce calling the shots, they tightened a leaky Bruins&rsquo; defense. In record time both Patrick and Laycoe were singing the young man&rsquo;s praises, and they&rsquo;ve been doing it ever since.</p><p>Taking stock after the playoffs, Patrick said. &ldquo;Bob made a mistake the first time he was on the ice, and he didn&rsquo;t take make another one for the entire series. He&rsquo;ll be a regular next fall.&rdquo;</p><p>And Laycoe added, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never met a rookie who asked more questions, all of them sensible. Every time he steps on the ice he Improves.&rdquo;</p><p>This season Armstrong started comparatively slowly, but as he gained experience and poise his play became more conspicious. At this point he operates as a steady, rugged customer, fully able to join the Bruins&rsquo; offense when attacking situations arise.</p><p>Already his brief career carries highlights. In a game with the Chicago Black Hawks he made three assists, a rare total for a defenseman. In the same game with Chicago he had his first National League fight, with Jimmy McFadden, taking offense at McFadden&rsquo;s act of hitting him over the eye with his stick.</p><p>Patrick showed his confidence in Lum during a period in which Laycoe was out with an injury by playing with Bill Quackenbush in times of stress and when the Bruins were short-handed.</p><p>Opposing players have aimed compliments at the work man linke youngster with the broad shoulders to supplement those which he has been receiving in his own camp.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a fine looking young defenseman, getting better all the time,&rdquo; maintained Coach Abel of Chicago.</p><p>&ldquo;He has the fastest slap shot in the league right now,&rdquo; averred George Gee, veteran Chicago wing. &ldquo;He fired one by me one night that I could hardly see.&rdquo;</p><p>Armstrong&rsquo;s off-the-ice appearance is that of a college student, which is precisely what he is in the off-season. He started work for a Bachelor of Arts degree at University of Western Ontario last summer, studying English and economies. Next summer he plans to add a language to his curriculum.</p><p>Bob figures in the Bruins&rsquo; plans on a basis that is strictly longterm, He won&rsquo;t be 22 years old until April, and he is still growing.</p><p>&ldquo;At the rate he is improving he should be good for 10 years,&rdquo; figured Patrick, &ldquo;because he has everything in his favor. He has size, intelligence and spirit and his constant desire to improve. He should be around a long time.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s Bob Armstrong, budding major leaguer, picked up by a discerning scout who didn&rsquo;t believe he wasn&rsquo;t good enough to make a fast junior team.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sid Abel Praises Rookie Rearguard

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>F</span>ounded October 1, 1947 Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. Cote HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY 309 Empire Life Building, 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 Office Denartment, Ottawa.</p><p>Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y.</p><p>Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company 1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Printed in Canada.</p><p><b>Vol. 6 MONTREAL. JANUARY 10. 1953 No. 15</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01148/1003592-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="430" height="430"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0252/1003585-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="302" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Reise</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ED KENNEDY will not score his 200th NHL goal this season. The standout Toronto captain will be sidelined for the remainder of the season&hellip;Although Kennedy suffered shoulder separation and torn ligaments and Boston&rsquo;s Dave Creighton received a broken leg, reports say that the Boston-Toronto game was not a rough one. Both injuries were of the most unfortunate variety&hellip;Injuries are piling up badly on both of these teams&hellip;Toronto is minus Rudy Migay, Max Bentley, George Armstrong and Kennedy, while the Bruins are without Hal Laycoe, Johnny reirson, Eddie Sandford and Creighton&hellip;Several of the Boston stars such as Bill Quackenbush and Milt Schmidt are playing with several injuries each, but with no replacements available they are carrying on the best way they can&hellip;Connie Smythe calls big Leo Reise of New York the best defenseman in the National Hockey League&hellip;Smythe is currently In Florida on his annual midwinter vacation&hellip;The first 4,000 ladies to attend the New Year&rsquo;s Eve game in New York were presented with baby orchids in plastic vials&hellip;Now that Pete Babando has been dropped by the Chicago Black Hawks there isn&rsquo;t a single United States-born player in the National Hockey League&hellip;Gordon Tottle, veteran defense star of the Syracuse Warriors, is one of the few U.S. born pucksters in the American League. Tottle hails from Detroit&hellip;Jack Adams and Tommy Ivan presented each member of the Red Wings with silver cuff links and a tie clip with Wing insignia for Christmas&hellip;The Detroit players gave Adams and Ivan leather travelling bags&hellip;Trainers Carl Mattson and Lefty Wilson received ties, shirts and other haberdashery from the players.</p><p>ATTENDANCE IS UP 6 &frac12;percent over last year for the first 97 games played in the National Hockey League this season&hellip;A year ago the paid attendance for the first 97 games was 870,539&hellip;This year it is 927,539, an increase of 56,598 admissions&hellip;Chicago shows the biggest increase. The Hawks are up 35,000; Boston is up 15,000; Detroit and Montreal are both up 5,000; Toronto is exactly the same as last year, while New York is down 1,937, which is a little less than 2 per cent over ayear ago&hellip;Boston Bruins have a special mask rigged up for Johnny Peirson to wear to protect his cracked jaw but they will have to receive the O.K. from the National Hockey League before he can wear it&hellip;Peirson had the wiring removed from his jaw the other day&hellip;Muzz Patrick turned down Toronto&rsquo;s offer to coach the Toronto Marlboro Juniors. It is expected that Muzz will move from Tacoma to Victoria next season and coach Poppa Lester&rsquo;s Cougars&hellip;Hy Buller has saved the New York Rangers from defeat four times this season with last period goals&hellip;Art Ross, general manager of the Boston Bruins, can&rsquo;t remember when the NHL race was so close as it is among the first five teams&hellip;Ross, incidentally is the senior manager in the National League, having been with the Bruins since the team was formed in 1924&hellip;Rumors presist that Billy Reay, Ken Mosdell and Jimmy Moore (Dickie&rsquo;s older brother) toll line up with Quebec Aces next term and that the elusive Jean Beliveau will be with Canadiens&hellip;Chicago hockey writers are after Enio Sclissizi to start calling himselt Jim Enio again. Dan Desmond says the new Chicago winger&rsquo;s name reminds him of a guy falling down the back porch steps into a puddle of water&hellip;Al Rollins is giving the Hawks the best goalkeeping they&rsquo;ve had in 10 years. Chicago had 11 different goaltenders over that period and not one had a goals-against average anywhere close to Rollins&rsquo; fine record.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0325/1003578-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="280" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Rollins</b></figcaption></div><p>ACCORDING TO Herb Ralby of the Boston Globe, Jean Beliveau didn&rsquo;t receive a cent for his recent three-game stint with Montreal Canadiens. Instead of the money, Ralby says Beliveau will receive a complete set of furniture as a wedding gift from Canadiens when he gets married next spring&hellip;Frank Selke, Montreal G.M., is taking Beliveau and his bride to Kitchener, Ont. where they make the finest furniture and have the newlyweds select what furniture they want. Ralby quotes Selke as saying to Beliveau: &ldquo;If you never turn pro you can always look at the furniture and think that the Canadiens gave it to you for playing three games for them.&rdquo;&hellip;Jack McIntyre of Boston thinks Tom Johnson, Montreal defenseman, is a big bluff as a tough guy. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a lot of talk, that&rsquo;s all,&rdquo; McIntyre stated recently after a Boston-Canadiens&rsquo; game&hellip;New York Rangers may be making overtures to Guyle Fielder, St. Louis Flyers&rsquo; scoring whizz any day now&hellip;Enio Sclisizzi has been brought up to the National League from the American League eight times in six seasons&hellip;Buffalo Bisons are the fall guys for outstanding scoring feats by St. Louis Flyer players. Harry Taylor tallied four times against Buffalo last month as St. Louis defeated the Bisons, 4-2. and a few nights later rookie Buddy Boone supplied all goals as the Flyers downed the Bisons, 3-2&hellip;Rangers plan to use Adolph Kukulowicz and Michel Labadie of Quebec Citadels on three-game tryout soon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0412/1003571-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="292" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Taylor</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-058/1003623-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Brooklyn Bounce</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I enjoy reading THE HOCKEY NEWS every week. A few weeks ago Elmer Ferguson mentioned the changes in ownership in the NHL.</p><p>I believe its time for a change with the New York Rangers. In nine seasons the Rangers have made the play-offs only twice. Since Lester Patrick moved out to Victoria the situation has been bad. The Rangers have no farm team in the AHL and the New York Rovers have been dropped. What&rsquo;s the matter with the front office?</p><p>I propose someone buy the Rangers. Who? Eddie Shore. He has a good way of developing players and is a shrewd judge of hockey players. The Rangers proposed new coach? Elmer Lach!</p><p>If players like Conacher, Stoddard and Kraftcheck are allowed to remain, it&rsquo;s certainly time for a change.</p><p>Sanford Zwicker. Brooklyn, U.S.A.</p><h2><b>Okanagan Okay</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>In recent issues of your excellent publication I was very dis-apointed in the complete lack of news about what I consider to be a very fine up-and-coming league. I refer, of course, to the Okanagan Senior Amateur League.</p><p>The league is in the Okanangan Valley of British Columbia. This is the fruit famous Okanagan Valley.</p><p>The four franchises are located in Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton. Each town has a population of roughly 25,000. Average attendance at games is about 2000. The race had been very close this year in contrast to the runaway of one year ago. At present the defending champion Kamloops Elks hold a one point edge over the early season leaders, the Penticton Vees. Vernon and Kelowna are not far behind.</p><p>There are many ex-pro big names in the league. Phil Herges-heimer is playing-coach of the Kelowna Packers. Paul Thomson, former NHL star came to Kamloops as coach from Vancouver Canucks of the PCHL. Dave McKay, playing-coach at Vernon, Bill Carse, handling the star studded Penticton Vees, Grant Warwick signed with Vees along with brothers Bill and Dickie, Andy Clovechuck, Bernie Bathgate, Johnny Milliard, Willie Schmidt, all great.</p><p>Peter S. Tomlin. Penticton, B.C.</p><h2><b>No Detroiter He</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I wonder if you could please tell me where I could get some autographed pictures of some of the NHL players, especially the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>I would like to know if the Johnny Bower playing for the Cleveland Barons is the same one that used to play for Detroit and if he is, could you tell me his age?</p><p>I find your paper is tops, and as I am interested in baseball as Well, could you tell me where I could get a baseball paper like it?</p><p>Don Wallace. Armstrong, B.C.</p><p><b>(If you write the Wings&rsquo; publicity office at the Olympia in Detroit, they can tell you how to secure the photos. You are a little confused on your goalers. Johnny Mowers was the Detroit goalee in question. Johnny Bower is 28 years old. You could try to get The Sporting News for baseball.)</b></p><h2><b>Hang Fellow Worker?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to your paper. I think it is the finest hockey paper I&rsquo;ve ever seen and look forward to It every week.</p><p>My reason for writing is the questionnaire put to the players of the Cleveland Barons by Jim Hendy. For guys that are making their living playing hockey they&rsquo;re sure a poor bunch to blacken a fellow worker. I&rsquo;m not exonerating Egan altogether but, I don&rsquo;t think he deserved what he got.</p><p>Hoping you will keep up the good work.</p><p>G. Thomas.</p><p>Edmonton, Alta.</p><h2><b>Netminding Captain?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I enjoyed Rex McLeod&rsquo;s story on goalie Bill Harrington, (Hockey News; Jan. 3), but what caught my attention immediately was the picture you showed of Mr. Harrington. Would you be so kind as to explain the presence of the letter &ldquo;C,&rdquo; (indicating Captain, I presume) on Harrington&rsquo;s sweater in view of section E, Rule 14, C.A.H.A. Official Rule book, which states: &ldquo;No goalkeeper&hellip;shall be entitled to privileges of a Captain or Alternate Captain?&rdquo;</p><p>Paul Patton.</p><p>Port Colborne, Ont.</p><p><b>(The pic we ran showed Harrington in a Montreal junior Cauadicns uniform, a team he played for part of one season and was taken in practice, thus the &lsquo;C&rsquo; on the sweater.)</b></p><h2><b>Howe Top Athlete?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to THE HOCKEY NEWS, and I have a great deal of interest in it.</p><p>The article which I quote concerns Canada&rsquo;s top athlete:</p><p>&ldquo;Excuse please, but how does Maurice Richard, exclusively a hockey player (and one way at that) rate Canada&rsquo;s &lsquo;top athlete of 1952&rsquo; award over, say, Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; Gordon Howe, who is a more proficient puck-chaser than the stormy Montreal winger and besides is a four handicap golfer and a better than green hand baseball performer? Could it be that the Canadian Press poll was top-heavy with Eastern Canada sportswriters, many of whom never heard of Saskatoon, Howe&rsquo;s hometown, much less visited it? &lsquo;</p><p>Seeing as Howe is the best hockey player that has ever laced up a pair of skates I back up this quote 100%.</p><p>LeRoy Hutton.</p><p>Calgary, Alta.</p><p><b>(We are sure that most of the Eastern sportswriters have heard of Saskatoon, and we fail to see what visiting a player&rsquo;s home town has to do with selecting Canada&rsquo;s Top Athlete.)</b></p><h2><b>Junior Jauntings</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I enjoy your Hockey News very much even though I don&rsquo;t like the way everybody praises Gerry James.</p><p>You would almost think that it was smart to deliberately injure a player and cause a seven stitch gash in the head.</p><p>I have watched James in both Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; and &lsquo;B&rsquo; hockey and it has always burned me up to see him get away with his &lsquo;woodshopping.&rsquo; I sympathize &lsquo;with Mr. Chapman Sr. and the treatment he received. Any boy&rsquo;s parents would see red if they saw someone deliberately injure their son.</p><p>Do you honestly think a three game suspension was enough?</p><p>I. Miff. Brampton, Ont.</p><h2><b>Amateur, Bah!</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a constant reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS and find very little to complain about. The beef that I do have is not directed at you alone but at all the other hockey writers and the general hockey set-up.</p><p>Last week Jacques Plante, the starry netminder for the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Senior Hockey League, was forced to turn &lsquo;professional&rsquo; or the Montreal Canadiens took the risk of losing him in the pro draft.</p><p>I don&rsquo;t know how it appears to some of your otter readers, but to me it sounds sort of ridiculous for him to have to go &lsquo;pro&rsquo; from a league in which one player, Beliveau, is getting a reported $10,000-$20,000 per annum, and all the others are also drawing salaries close to those of NHL players. If Beliveau isn&rsquo;t a pro, then pray tell, who is?</p><p>In baseball you never come across a similar situation. There is semi-pro and pro but no so-called amateurs who are receiving as much as players of Quebec Senior League caliber are receiving.</p><p>Something should definately be done to amend this sort of thing. Just what the solution is, I do not know but the way it stands now, it is ridiculous.</p><p>George Boutler Verdun, Que.</p><h2><b>Huzzas For Vets</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Every time I pick up a newspaper, yours included I am sorry to say, I read about the Boston Bruins having a great rookie team and that these rookies are the best players on the team.</p><p>I would like to inform these sportswriters that any success the Bruins have attained this season is mostly because of two so called old veterans. Of course I am referring to Sugar Jim Henry and the great Bill Quackenbush. These two more than any others have been the backbone of the team.</p><p>Labine is good, so is Chevrefils, and also Armstrong. Toppazzini and Godfrey but without Sugar and Bill the team would be even lower than fifth place.</p><p>Sol Tiomkin Revere, Mass.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-067/1003654-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="590" height="272"></div><p><b>January 16 to January 22</b></p><p>19&mdash;HANNIGAN, Gordie, Toronto forward, 1929.</p><p>22&mdash;LACH, Elmer, Montreal forward, 1918.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ublished Weekly, except monthly May through September. HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY. 309 Empire Life 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>

Hockey News

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>&ldquo;What the team does in those six road games should give us a good idea of how we&rsquo;ll finish this season,&rdquo; General Manager Bill Tobin commented during a New Year&rsquo;s eve hockey bull session at Chicago Black Hawk headquarters. He was referring to the lengthy trip on which Sid Abel&rsquo;s boys embarked while shouts of &ldquo;Happy 1953&rdquo; were still ringing in the air.</p><p>&ldquo;I think this will be the toughest series that any team will have to go through away from home,&rdquo; Tobin continued. &ldquo;We play at Toronto twice and in each of the other NHL centers once. If we&rsquo;re still in the running after all that, you can bet that we will be right up there at the end and in the playoffs too.&rdquo;</p><p>As this hits the typewriter, it would appear that the Black Hawks might well complete the 1952-53 schedule in as high as second place. That all important item known as luck will, however, probably figure prominently in the final ratings of all of the National League clubs.</p><p>If the Hawks get at least half of their share of good fortune. Windy City fans will be treated to their first battles for Lord Stanley&rsquo;s touted trophy since 194 6. That year, a John Gottselig-coached crew wound up third in the regular campaign, but was eliminated quickly in four straight games by a champion. Montreal contingent, which went on to win the cup.</p><p>The current batch of Chicogo skaters continue to surprise those who had tabbed them as nothing more than non-contenders before the season began. They recently reached the mid-way point in their schedult with 14 victories. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s one more than we had in all 70 games two years bacvk,&rdquo; poetic Joe Farrell, Hawk publicitor, hastened to point out.</p><p>For a time last month, when the Abelmen went though five straight defeats, it seemed as though they were readying for another plunge to the NHL basement. A few changes and threats of demotions quickly altered the pattern, however, and the squad bounced back soundly to wade through six games with only a single loss.</p><p>Although he notched just one goal, the veteran &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Couture assisted on seven others to emerge as the standout Point-getter in this comeback series. George Gee nabbed four goals and an assist and Cal Gardner was credited with five aiding efforts. Fifteen Hawks actually figured in the scoring and shared 19 goals and 31 assists.</p><h2><b>Abel&rsquo;s Bodied Men</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0199/1003716-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="603" height="912"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOC COUTURE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0277/1003709-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="567" height="911"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CAL GARDNER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Six Big Road Games Will Determine Fate Of Black Hawks-Tobin

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0352/1003747-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Prolific Pavelich. Centre of Attraction</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>Even with a rookie goalie, Glen Hall, subbing for injured Terry Sawchuk, the Red Wings kept rolling along through December with defeat only something which those with long memories could recognize.</p><p>For more than a month the Detroiters hadn&rsquo;t lost a game as they stepped toward the 1953 portion of the schedule. In the meantime they had ticked off 15 games, all wins and ties enough to cause research into the record for such endeavors.</p><p>The mark was set at 23 by the Boston Bruins of 1940-41, a total the Wings couldn&rsquo;t approach unless they continued to shy away from defeats until Jan. 18.</p><p>Boston had 15 victories and eight ties in its strings, and Detroit has been approaching the tie portion. In going 15 in a row, the Wings had eight victories and seven ties.</p><p>In fact, ties became a drug on the market for a while as far as local fans were concerned. There were five in a row at Olympia, the monotony finally being broken by a 7-1 outbreak against Boston.</p><p>Still no one could exactly complain. The ties were paying off with valuable points. Before entering the long unbeaten streak on Nov. 23. Detroit rested in third place. Right when the ties were being knotted the fastes, Detroit held a five-point lead which was the fattest margin any club had compiled this season.</p><p>Tommy Ivan has been up to his old tricks of switching players to strange positions just to see what happens.</p><p>Marty Pavelich was his latest subject, popping up for one period as a center between Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay It was the first time in his six season here that he&rsquo;d been moved from left wing.</p><p>Marty was an instant and enthusiastic success in his strange position. He assisted on one goal and scored another, all part of his biggest night in hockey. It was a 7-1 game against Boston, with Pavelich figuring in the last five goals. He scored two of them.</p><p>But it doesn&rsquo;t mean the Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) buzz-saw is about to become a center. Ivan commented &ldquo;Now we have some new information about Marty in case of any emergency.&rdquo;</p><p>Ivan long has like to switch around his forwards right when things are clicking smoothly. Last year he had six of his 10 forwards trained at two positions. Metro Prystal was the best example, often working at center, left wing and right wing all in a single game.</p><h2><b>Between Lindsay, Howe---A Wow</b></h2><p>&ldquo;The time to experiment is when there&rsquo;s no pressure on anyone,&rdquo; Ivan Insists. &ldquo;Then when an emergency comes up like a key injury or a puzzling slump, you&rsquo;ve got some information to work with.&rdquo;</p><p>The Detroit management also likes to experience with its leading farm hands in the jobs of fifth defenseman and utility forward. Three youngsters have been seen at each spot this season.</p><p>Larry Zeidel was followed by Bill Folk as the fifth defenseman earlier in the campaign, and now Jim (Red Eye) Hay has replaced Folk on the squad.</p><p>Larry Wilson had the first shot as the utility forward. A center, he was replaced by right wing Jankowski. Then Jankowski was sent to St. Louis in the move with brought up left wing Marcel Bonin.</p><p>In his first two games Bonin got a bewildered taste of NHL action. He worked left wing, then right wing, finally center, and was thrown in on all three lines plus the special power-play combination.</p><p>&ldquo;Utility forward means we might use the man anywhere,&rdquo; Ivan pointed out later in an unnecessary explanation.</p><p>Just for the record, at the halfway mark of the campaign, here are the rgular Detroit lines, with the number of goals and assists by each forward:</p><p>Gordie Howe (21-20)&mdash;Metro Prystal (11-19)&mdash;Ted Lindsay</p><p>Tony Leswick (5-6)&mdash;Alex Delvecchio (6-20)&mdash;Johnny Wilson (12-7).</p><p>The goal-assist totals for the four regular defensemen:</p><p>Red Kelly (10-13), Marcel Pro-novost (5-15), Bob Goldham (0-6), and Benny Woit (0-3).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-03

Ivan’s Switch Not New Hitch Testing Marty For Future Party

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0448/1003785-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="591" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL QUACKENBUSH</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0536/1003778-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="566" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MILT SCHMIDT</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON. Mass<b>&mdash;</b></p><p>If Lynn Patrick boosts his Boston Bruins back to their pre-injuries position of eminence in the National League, he&rsquo;ll qualify for a heavy helping of adjectives.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; coach can add to his title such descriptives as smart, resourceful, wily, shrewd and ingenious.</p><p>Not often in his three-year tenure here has Patrick&rsquo;s coaching ingenuity been tested as severely as it has been in recent weeks.</p><p>His once-strong squad decimated by injuries, his lines scrambled and his defenses shattered, Patrick has had to improvise to an unprecedented degree.</p><p>He has had to play games with as many as five regulars unfit for action, and he has had stretches when at least three have been unavailable.</p><p>And unlike some of the other National League coaches, he has been unable to fit replacements into his plans, for the simple reason that the Bruins have been pinched for replacements.</p><p>Consider this: When the Bruins opened the season Jerry Top pazzinl was a defenseman, Capt. Milt Schmidt a center, Pehtti Lund and Woody Dumart spare forwards.</p><p>But in recent weeks Toppazzini has been a forward, Schmidt a defenseman, Lund and Dumart regulars working overtime.</p><p>It was late last season when Patrick looked back over the preceding months and opined, &ldquo;This has been my toughest year in hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Since the Bruins did better a year ago than, many expected they would, it was evident that Patrick has had higher expectations of success than they did.</p><p>This season his expectations&mdash;and this time they were shared by others&mdash;were even higher. What will he say this spring?</p><p>When the Bruins limped home for a one-night stay last week preparatory to limping out for more roadwork, Patrick took a hasty glance at the standing situation.</p><p>&ldquo;Things look tough for us,&rdquo; he observed. &ldquo;Now it looks as though someone will have to fold to help us out, and I still think someone&mdash;Chicago&mdash;will do that.</p><p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t very satisfactory figuring when you have to depend on what another team does for yours to benefit, but thats&rsquo; the way things look to me right now.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had these Injuries and some of the well players haven&rsquo;t been doing as well as I think they can do, and between the two we&rsquo;re in a tough spot. The hope that someone will crack up is our brightest one unless this injury epidemic ends.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick&rsquo;s strongest supporters during the period of adversity have been a couple of veterans who have played despite injuries, Bill Quackenbush and Schmidt.</p><p>Blond Bill has been operating with an odd shoulder injury which left his arm numb for a spell and a most painful bone bruise on his ankle.</p><p>In one game he was hit on the tender ankle and required seven minutes of repair work, yet his work time for the night was 34 minutes.</p><p>Schmidt has been stricken with a peculiar stiffness in his back and neck which has made just moving extremely painful, yet he has continued to play at least three positions a game.</p><p>The two have been shining examples of determination for the rest of the team and they have probably been responsible to a great degree for keeping Patrick from blowing his top.</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; coach is a hard loser, and particularly this season, when he expected to win. The necessity of improvising consistently has been quite a strain, to boot.</p><p>Yet he has managed, with the help of a nucleus of able-bodied operatives plus Schmidt and Quackenbush, to keep the Bruins within sight of the pack.</p><p>Now if the Bruins&rsquo; Injury string&rdquo; runs out before it is too late for them to benefit, he&rsquo;ll be in line for the descriptives Which he is earning under, to say the least, duress.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-04

Patrick Qualifies as Master Manipulator of Men In Effort To Pull Bruins Back To First Division

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>You had to be on the Canadians&rsquo; sleeper the night before they went into the Detroit Olympia and broke the champion Red Wings&rsquo; non losing streak at 15 games to appreciate the humor that intermingled throughout their car after they, shut qut the Wings 2-0.</p><p>It was probably the biggest upset of the year. Inasmuch as the Habs were playing with a skeleton crew, itself held together by scotch tape.</p><p>But the whole story of the victory, as humorous as it seems took place in Dick Irvin&rsquo;s compartment as the Habs embarked from Montreal the afternoon before the game.</p><p>It was a dour faced Irvin who boarded the train in Montreal as the players sat in the smoker talking, Irvin sent his trainer through the car, periodically calling on individual players.</p><p>Hec Dubois eased up to a player and gave him the nod. &ldquo;The coach wants to see you in his office right now,&rdquo; he told Mosdell.</p><p>Moe straightened his tie and with a worried look, moved on to Mons Irvin&rsquo;s quarters.</p><p>&ldquo;Wonder who&rsquo;ll be next? The players asked. One hour later Mosdell emerged from his conference and hit the sack.</p><h2><b>Smooth Talk</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01132/1003830-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="582" height="915"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>IRVIN&hellip;A dietician Yet?</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Golden Goals</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0364/1003823-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="552" height="757"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Mosdell&hellip;2 goals two wins</b></figcaption></div><p>Dubois&rsquo; next call Was on Gerry McNeil.</p><p>Another hour was spent before McNeil emerged and promptly hit Berth lower one.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t until the players boarded the bus after the Detroit game that some inkling of what took place at those conferences could be had.</p><p>&ldquo;Gerry&rsquo;s going to settle down on a chicken farm,&rdquo; laughed Goose McCormack.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to live on eggs from now on,&rdquo; said another. &ldquo;You guys laughed at me, but those eggs worked,&rdquo; yelled a happy McNeil.</p><p>&ldquo;I hope he calls us into his office before every game,&rdquo; said Mosdell.</p><p>It seems that Irvin had a theory. He called in Mosdell that night and Moe went out and scored the winning goal against the Wings.</p><p>He called in McNeil and Gerry went out and stood the champs on their collective ears for 60 minutes.</p><p>&ldquo;What did you tell them?&rdquo; we asked Irvin the following day in Chicago.</p><p>&ldquo;Can&rsquo;t tell you,&rdquo; said Dick. &ldquo;Those talks are trade secrets. What goes on in our room is private. Just gave him a little fatherly advice, though&rdquo;.</p><p>It was the best advice Mosdell ever got. He scored his second goal and picked a very opportune time to do it. As was his first goal against Boston some weeks ago, it was the winner. For a guy who has been keeping his bag packed, not knowing whether he&rsquo;ll be hitting the minors from one day to the next, Ken has shown that when you need a guy in the pinches he&rsquo;s it.</p><p>But the egg story got the best laugh and ironically enough it was a tonic to McNeil&rsquo;s mates.</p><p>&ldquo;Gerry looked a littl bloated and lazy in his last few games. He wasn&rsquo;t fighting the puck and wasn&rsquo;t as sharp as he was at the beginning of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;I figured that he must have been eating too much on the day of a game. I told him to eat his steak at noon instead of four and to eat eggs before the game,&rdquo; said Dick.</p><p>McNeil played one of his best games against Detroit. The Wings fired everything but the Olympia clock in his direction and he came up with his fifth shutout of the season. If the Wings&rsquo; players have any respect for an opponent it must be little Gerry for he has shut them out three times this season, twice right in Detroit and that&rsquo;s unbelievable. Not a foe shut the Wings out in the Motor City last season. The last time they were goose egged there was in the playoffs, in 1950-51 when the same little Gerry walloped them. 1-0 in the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>You would have to go deep into the record books to find a goaler who has stopped the Wings cold three times in the first half of a season.</p><p>If the Wings feel that Gerry has the Indian sign on them, you can&rsquo;t blame them a bit. They haven&rsquo;t scored on him in 120 minutes of hockey in the Olympia. He shut them out 9-0 in Montreal and in his last two displays in Detroit held them to a goalless draw and zeroed them 2-0.</p><p>The Wings on a 15 game non-Gerry&rsquo;s New Egg Diet Supplants Steak as Food For &ldquo;Hungry&rdquo; Goalers losing streak have found Montreal hard to handle this season. As a matter of fact the Habs are the only club in the league to boast a better record against them. In seven games the Canadiens won three, lost one and tied three.</p><p><b>Gerry&rsquo;s New Egg Diet Supplants Steak as Food For &ldquo;Hungry&rdquo; Goalers</b></p><p>In only one game of the seven have the Wings had a decided edge. That was the second when they whipped them 6-1. Excluding that game, McNeil has allowed the Detroit sharpshooters just five goals in six games. That&rsquo;s phenomenal when you look at the terrific scoring pace the Wings have been travelling at.</p><p>The losses incidentally were the worst each club has suffered this season. The Wings ran aver the Habs 6-1 in the second game in Detroit and the Canucks overwhelmed the Red Wings 9-0 next time they met.</p><p>The Wings have been able to ram a total of 11 goals past McNeil in the seven games. Six came in that one game.</p><p>The Canadiens, on the other hand have scored 18 but nine came in one game. In the other six games the champs were out-scored nine-five.</p><p>Little Gerry&rsquo;s fight for recognition as top goaler in the National League is slowly turning his way.</p><p>Playing nip and tuck with Terry Sawchuk in the Vezina Trophy scramble, McNeil, for the first 14 games had to hold himself in the race. He had little aid from his mates on the road. They failed to win one in their first 14 games on foreign ice. Despite two six goal games and one seven goal game Gerry has proven to be the most consistent eager in the league. He has thinned his average down to a point where that recognition is now coming.</p><p>It was coach Dick Irvin who stated, at the beginning of the season that if McNeil could cut his goals against average by 25 this season he would win the Vezina Trophy.</p><p>As the Habs moved into the second half of the 1952-53 season McNeil was close on the heels of Terry Sawchuk in the Vezina race. In the games he allowed just 71 goals into his cage. An average of just a little better than two per game. Sawchuk allowed 69 at the 35 game mark.</p><p>Tributes are something McNeil has had few of. But in Chicago Johnny Gottselig, former Hawk star and coach paid him a beauty.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t compare him with any other goaler in the league,&rdquo; said Gottselig.. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t say he was as good as Durnan because Bill was ambidextrous but his reflexes are as good and he plays the angles like no other goaler in the league.</p><p>Now it&rsquo;s up to Gerry to prove that his play in the first half of the season was not just a hot streak. If he can come up with a good second half then the Vezina Trophy may well go back to Montreal to rest in the City that produced a goaler who nearly made them change the name of it to the Durnan Trophy&mdash;the greatest of them all.</p><p>And with that little Gerry will finally get the All-Star recognition many felt he should have got last season.</p><h2><b>Basket-ful of Goose-Eggs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0440/1003816-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="1206" height="1192"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>McNEIL&hellip;has new success formula</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-01

Irvin’s Private Huddles Reap Rewards

<p>A steaming cup of rich, creamy Stafford&rsquo;i Hot Chocolate is the ideal finish for any game!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0287/1003861-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="585" height="618"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-02

Win or Lose

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0523/1003892-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="294" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Reay</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill---</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens broke the Detroit Red Wings non-losing streak at 15 games and did it with a club hardly recognizable to a close follower of the team,.</p><p>Sitting on the sidelines were Elmer Lach (broken thumb), Billy Reay (broken cheek), Dickie Moore (bad knee).</p><p>Butch Bouchard strained ligaments in his side after five minutes of play against the Wings.</p><p>For his first line, Irvin played Mosdell with Richard and Olmstead. Regularly that would be Lach, Olmstead and Richard.</p><p>His second line consisted of Masnick, Geoffrion and Meger. Reay was missing at center. The third had utility Center Johnny McCormack flanked by Curry and Gamble. Mosdell was moved up from that line.</p><p>On defense Harvey, Johnson and MacPherson were free from injury. St. Laurent was thrown into the game when Bouchard was injured. St. Laurent hadn&rsquo;t been in a game since the middle of November.</p><p>Then, during the game, after Bouchard was injured, St. Laurent stopped a puck with his left eye and was hit again below the light one. Each cut required six stitches. By morning his left eye was completely closed and the Habs had to fly Rollie Rousseau of the Montreal Royals in for the Chicago game.</p><p>In Chicago the Habs had three lines. No extra forwards. On defense they had three regular defensemen and an amateur.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-05

Team That Snapped Wings’ Streak Shadows Of Former Selves

<h2><b>Long Streak</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>ecently the Detroit Red Wings had a run of 15 games without a loss but they are quite a way off the record set hr the Boston Bruins during: the 1940-11 season. They went 23 games without a loss, 15 wins and 8 draws.</p><h2><b>Last Period Hy</b></h2><p>Hy Buller of the New York Hangers holds one distinction among NHL defensemen. To date this season the burly rearguard has notted four goals in the third period. Now all the Rangers need is two more guys for the first two frames.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Closest race in the history of the Rational Hockey League is currently unfolding in hockey&rsquo;s major loop. Detroit are in first place with 45 points; Canadiens and Chicago are next with 3 9 points apiece; Boston and Toronto follow with 37 points each, while New York brings up the rear with 23 points.</p><p>Gordie Howe, Detroit&rsquo;s powerful scoring threat, is still No. One in the individual scoring parade. Howe leads in goals scored with 22, is tied for most assists with 21, and is tops in points with 43. Wally Hergesheimer of New York Rangers is second with 17 goals and 21 assists for 38 points, one more than Ted Lindsay of Detroit, who has 16 goals and 21 assists. Maurice Richard of Canadiens is next with 32 points and is followed by Ted Kennedy, Toronto and Metro Prystai, Detroit, with 31 points each.</p><p>Ted Kennedy, Toronto captain, Buffered a shoulder separation and torn ligaments in a game against Boston on New Year&rsquo;s Night and will be out for the season. He will not score his 200th N.H.L. goal this year. Kennedy has scored 199 and had been trying for two weeks to get No. 200. Dave Creighton, Boston center, suffered a broken leg in the same game in which Kennedy was injured.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk of Detroit who has played the most games for the team with the fewest goals scored against it still heads the netminders. An oddity is that Harry Lumley, Toronto; and Al Rollins, Chicago; principals in hockey&rsquo;s biggest off-season trade, have exactly the same goals-against record. Each has allowed 101 goals in 38 games. Gerry McNeil of Canadiens leads in shutouts with five.</p><p>Most penalized club is Toronto, with 491 minutes in the &ldquo;penitential pew.&rdquo; Ted Lindsay is the most penalized player with 72 penalty minutes.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDINGS TLES. A.M. JAN. fi</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01116/1004024-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="604" height="196"></div><h2>RESULTS OF GAMES</h2><p>Dec. 31st&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Detroit 0</p><p>Dec. 31st&mdash;Toronto 3 at Rangers 3</p><p>Jan. 1st&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Chicago 2</p><p>Jan. 1st&mdash;Toronto 1 at Boston 5</p><p>Jan. 3rd&mdash;Boston 1 at Canadiens 0</p><p>J-an. 3rd&mdash;Chicago 1 at Toronto 1</p><p>Jan. 4th&mdash;Boston 2 at Rangers 9</p><p>Jan. 4th&mdash;Chicago 3 at Detroit 5</p><p>THE POINT PARADE&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 31 Montreal 2 at Detroit 0</b></h3><p>DETROIT&mdash;Paced by Ken Mosdell and Paul Meger and the stellar goal tending of Gerry McNeil, the Montreal Canadiens scored a 2-0 shutout over the Detroit Red Wings on New Years Eve.</p><p>The win moved the Habs into second place ahead of the Chicago Black Hawks, who were idle.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards: Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Masnick. McCormack, Meger.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Goldham, Kerfy, Pronovost, Woit, Hay. forwards: Skov, Leswick, Prystai. Lindsay, Howe, Pavelich, Sinclair, Delvecchio, Wilson. Bonin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0296/1004017-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="600" height="314"></div><h3><b>Toronto 3 at New York 3</b></h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Jack Stoddard scored for the New York Rangers late in the third period to earn the New York Rangers a 3-3 deadlock with the Toronto Maple Leafs on New Years Eve.</p><p>The first period was listless to a degree as both teams failed to put up any kind of an effective attack.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson, Morrison. Flaman. Horton, Boivin; forwards: Hassard, Sloan. Hannigan, Watson, Smith, Kennedy, Meekere, Stewart, Tingren, Maloney.</p><p><b>New&rsquo; York:</b> Goal, Rayner; defence, Reise, Howell, Buller, Kraftcheck, Stanley: forwards: Ronty. Hergesheimer, Strain, Raleigh, Mickoskt, Haworth, Stoddard, Prentice, Kullman, Slowinski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0365/1004010-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="610" height="475"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY JANUARY 1</b></h3><p>Montreal 2 at Chicago 2</p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Montreal Canadiens clung to their one point lead over the Chicago ing from behind to earn a 2-2 tie with Black Hawks in second place by com the Windy City sextet in a New Years Day game.</p><p>Maurice Rocket Richard and Bernie Boom Boom Geoffrion counted for the Habs and Cal Gardner and Gerry Doc Couture scored for Chicago.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent. MacPherson; forwards: Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Masnick, McCormack, Meger.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Mortsort, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Raglan, forwards: Mosfenko, Gardner, Hucul, Peters, Conacher, Bodnar, Couture, Gee, McFadden, Sclislzzi.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0828/1004003-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="606" height="446"></div><h3><b>Toronto 1 at Boston 5</b></h3><p>BOSTON&mdash;Boston Bruins&rsquo; Dave Creighton suffered a broken leg and Captain Ted Kennedy of the Toronto Maple Leafs a slight concussion and a broken collar bone as the Bruina thumped the Leafs 5-1 in a rough National Hockey League game.</p><p>Kennedy&rsquo;s injury, a blow to the already injury riddled Leafs, came as the result of a scuffle with Boston Captain Milt Schmidt. He fell to the ice on his head and shoulders and was knocked cold.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson, Morrison, Flaman, Horton, Boivin; forwards: Hassard, Sloan, Hannigan, Watson, Smith, Kennedy, Meekere, Stewart, Tingren, Maloney.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Top-pazzini, Quackenbush, Armstrong, Godfrey; forwarde: Schmidt, LaBine, Che-vrefils, Creighton, Klukay, McIntyre, Mackell. Dumart. Lund, Fisher.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01131/1003996-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="604" height="518"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY JANUARY 4</b></h3><p>Chicago 3 at Detroit <i>5</i></p><p>DETROIT&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings stretched their league lead to six points as they turned back the second place Chicago Black Hawks 5-3. The Wings had to come from behind twice to gain the win.</p><p>George Gee scored two of the three Chicago goals, with the singleton going to Gerry &lsquo;Doc&rsquo; Couture. Detroit markers went to Tony Leswick. Metro Prystai, Gordie Howe, Johnny Wilson and Marty Pavelich.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Morrison, Gadsby, Fogolin, Raglan, Dewsbury; forwards: Gardner, Moslenko, Hucul, Conacher, Peters. Bodnar, Sclisizzi, Couture, Gee, McFadden.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Prystal. Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, DelVecchio, Wilson, Sinclair, Bonin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0298/1003989-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="610" height="446"></div><h3><b>New York 5 at Boston 2</b></h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Boston Bruins continued to play country cousins to the New racked up their sixth win of the cam York Rangers and as a result the Blues paign, a well earned 5-2 verdict.</p><p>It was the third time this season that the New Yorkers have turned back the fifth place Bruins. The two teams have also played two draws&hellip;</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Toppazzini, Armstrong. Godfrey: forwards: Schmidt. LaBine, Chevrefils, Mackell, Dumart. McIntyre, Lund, Klukav. Fisher, Sullivan.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Rayner; defence, Howell, Reise, Buller, Kraftcheck, Stan-ley; forwards: Mickoski, Stoddard, Kull-man, Raleigh, Ronty, Mackintosh, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Slowinski, Strain, Haworth.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0381/1003982-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="608" height="568"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY JANUARY 3</b></h3><p>Boston 1 at Montreal 0</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Bill Quackenbush scored for the Bostpn Bruins after only 1:31 of the first period and this proved to be the margin of victory as the Bears whitewashed the Montreal Canadiens 1-0.</p><p>It was the fourth shutout of the season for Sugar Jim Henry in the Boston cage. Henry was also Injured In the game when he stopped a Hab drive with his nose.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush. Toppazzini, Armstrong. Godfrey; forwards: Schmidt, LaBine, Chevrefils. Mackell, Dumart. McIntyre, Lund, Klukav, Fisher, Sullivan.</p><p><b>Canadiens</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, St. Laurent. Rousseau, Mac-Pherson, Johnson: forwards: Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Masnick, Geoffrlon, Meger, McCormack, Curry, Gamble, Lach.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0456/1003975-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="610" height="277"></div><h3><b>Chicago 1 at Toronto 1</b></h3><p>TORONTO&mdash;With all the scoring jammed into one minute of play, the Chicago Black Hawks and the Toronto Manle Leafs battled to a 1-1 stalemate.</p><p>The win for the Hawks moved them into a second place tie with the Montreal Canadiens although they have plaved more games.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal. Rollins: defence. Morrison, Gadsby, Fogolin, Raglan, Dewsbury; forwards: Gardner. Mosienko. Hucul, Conacher, Peters, Bodnar, Sclisizzi, Couture. Gee. McFadden.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley: defence, Horton. Boivin, Thomson, Morrison, Flaman: forwards: Maloney, Meeker. Watson, Sloan. Stewart, Smith, Hassard, Nesterenko, Hannigan. Timgren.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0545/1003968-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="596" height="359"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0454/1003961-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="599" height="709"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0544/1003954-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="604" height="525"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0637/1003947-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="561" height="166"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wings Extend League Lead To Three Games

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0733/1004062-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="294" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Quackenbush</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>ith so many rookie defensemen on the Boston Bruins roster this season, it seems only natural that one of the veteran rear-guards would take over the role of leader, teacher, and inspirational force. This player was Bill Quackenbush.</b></p><p><b>Hubert George Quackenbush has been hampered this season by an injured shoulder and an injured ankle and by all rights should be comfortably watching from the sidelines until his wounds heal, but with Hal Laycoe, the only other Boston blueline basher with experience in the NHL, sitting out his injuries, Bill has been forced to carry an.</b></p><p><b>Carry on he has, and in great fashion. He is the bulwark of the Beantown defense and has been playing his best hockey in a few seasons this year. He has set a fine example for Gerry Toppazzini, Bob Armstrong and Warren Godfrey, the trio of rookies. They look up to him, and well they might for Big Bill has had a long and illustrious career, and continues to shine as one of the standout performers in the National Hockey League.</b></p><p><b>Probably the best game ho has played this season to date was against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, January 3 when he not only scored the only goal in a 1-0 win for the Bruins, but was undoubtedly the best player on the Ice, with the possible exception of Sugar Jim Henry, Rinksiders were unanimous in acclaiming him as &lsquo;the Quackenbush of old.&rsquo;</b></p><p><b>For six seasons Bill Quackenbush was the outstanding defenseman for the high flying Detroit Red Wings, three times being selected for the NHL all-star team. He also won the Lady Byng Trophy for the 1948-49 season, the first defenseman so honoured. When he teamed with Black Jack Stewart, the duo was one of the most formidable blue line units in the loop.</b></p><p><b>He was traded to the Bruins at the start of the 1949-50 season and as if to show that it didn&rsquo;t matter where he played, he promptly turned around and won first all-star honours, the fourth year In suc-cession he made the dream team.</b></p><p><b>Bill at 30 may be reaching the twilight of his career but It would be pretty hard to convince some of the fans around the circuit who have watched him this season cavort with the best of the bunch. He is still one of the best and opposing forwards know that he&rsquo;s still a man to be reckoned with when making forays into the Boston zone.</b></p><p><b>If Bill Quackenbush can continue his stellar playing, it is quite possible that he will not only be named Player-of-the-Week, but also Player-of-the-year.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0928/1004055-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="2999" height="1337"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player-Of-The-Week

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0830/1004117-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg"></div><p><b>The Perfect Combination&hellip;Ronty, Hergesheimer, Strain</b></p><p><b>Ever since Neil Strain was called up from the Saskatoon Quakers, New York Ranger fans have something to holler about in their first string: attacking unit of Paul Ronty, Wally Hergesheimer and Strain. Between them this past week they accounted for five points, all in one game. Ronty had two assists, Kergy one of each and Strain a goal.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Perfect Combination-Quality! Freshness! Price!

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont&mdash;</p><p>Blaming the coach, one of hockey&rsquo;s quainter customs, appears to be having a &ldquo;run&rdquo; around the Capital City these days.</p><p>The coach, as everyone knows, is Peanuts (The Voice) O&rsquo;Flaherty whose Ottawa Senators are skidding at a phenomenal pace towards the nether regions of the Quebec Senior Hockey League.</p><p>It wouldn&rsquo;t be the first time, of course, that a hockey Coach&rsquo;s head was in the basket, and it likely &ldquo;won&rsquo;t be the last, either. The most recent QSHL mentor to &ldquo;retire&rdquo; was Shawinigan&rsquo;s Don Penniston whose hounds went nowhere from the very start of the season.</p><p>The situation may not be as serious as viewed above, hut certainly changes are in the offing, and soon. The Barber Poles have played some ghastly hockey of late&mdash;winning the odd game, it is true&mdash;but in general performing in erratic fashion.</p><p>The status quo came to a head last week when The Boss, alias T. P. Gorman, arrived on the scene at his usual speed-of-sound pace. Tay Pay had been away GMing the Sonja Henie Ice Show and had only been in touch with things wia air mail, which as everyone knows, is far from the real thing in these modern days of TV.</p><p>&ldquo;Terrible, terrible. Ghastly, ghastly,&rdquo; said T. P. after watching his heroes belted hither and yon by the Montreal Royals the other night.</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;II be some changes. There&rsquo;ll be some changes.&rdquo; (Mr. Gorman tends to repeat himself under great stress).</p><p>But if Gorman can persuade O&rsquo;Flaherty to make some swithches on the team (we&rsquo;ll give you any odds on that one) he&rsquo;ll be the first one who has been able to do so. Everyone can&rsquo;t go around telling a coach what to do, of course, but when a fact begins to assume gigantic proportions, even the most shortsighted person can see the light.</p><h2><b>DON&rsquo;T LIKE SYSTEM</b></h2><p>It has become obvious even to the least discerning fan that several of the players are not pulling their weight, or even half of it.</p><p>Why? Rumor has it the players do not like the driving tactics of O&rsquo;Flaherty who learnt under the old Toronto school. They apparently don&rsquo;t like his system of hockey, either, despite what is has done for a lot of Toronto teams in the past.</p><p>The result has been a rather half-hearted, shoot-the-puck-in type of game which becomes almost ludicrous at times. If an Ottawa player were to carry the puck over the blue line some night a lot of fans would be jolted form their seats by surprise. Ottawa has become so well known around the league for shooting the puck into the corner that we&rsquo;ve actually seen opposing players back to the net and wait for it.</p><p>Just what will happen, of course, is anyone&rsquo;s guess. It is most likely that Gorman and O&rsquo;Flaherty will be having a little tete-a-tele one of these days and changes will result.</p><p>Would Toronto, which has an &ldquo;agreement&rdquo; &lsquo;with Ottawa, pull out their players if O&rsquo;Flaherty quit or bounced? It&rsquo;s anyone&rsquo;s guess. Certainly, the opinion around the Capital is that the Leafs haven&rsquo;t sent anything yet. The only player of top calibre sent here was Hugh Bolton and he only remained one day.</p><p>The rumor is that Alex Connell, former Ottawa Senator and Montreal Maroon star, might take over the reins of the Barber Poles. Connell had one brief stint a couple of years ago but gave up when he became ill.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Tay Pay Unhappy Over Nats Display May Seek Help

<h2><b>Trophy Winner</b></h2><p>..Recently Ray Powell, Providence Reds&rsquo; star centre, was presented with the Leslie Cunningham Trophy for being voted the Most Valuable player in the league for 1951-52</p><h2><b>Shutout Saga</b></h2><p>The American Hockey League record for shutouts in a single season is nine and is held by Gordon Bell, Syracuse goaltender who established his mark with Buffalo, in 1942-43.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDINGS TUESDAY A.M. JAN. 6</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01130/1004232-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="608" height="213"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30 Providence 4, Hershey 3</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Zello Toppazzini&rsquo;s goal after 21 seconds of overtime gave Providence Reds a 4-3 victory over Hershey Bears.</p><p>The Topper took a pass from Barry Sullivan during a gang attack and scored from close up. Defenceman Frank Martin of the Bears was in the penalty box at the time on a penalty carried ever from the third period.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Gaylepy, Henderson, Martin, Schertzl; forwards: Kullman, Corcoran, Bettio, Branigan, G. Sullivan, Ferguson, O&rsquo;Brien, Poland, Caron, Brown.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, Morris, Bourassa. Bloomer, Kryzanowski: forwards: B. Sullivan, Powell, Toppazzini, Scherza, Denis, Bacarri, LaPlante, Kapusta, Larivee, Reardon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0296/1004225-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="603" height="595"></div><h3><b>St. Louis 4, Cleveland 2</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Scoring two goals in 11 seconds late in the last period, St. Louis Flyers defeated the slumping Cleveland Barons 4-2. It was the fifth straight game without a victory for the Barons.</p><p>With less than three minutes to go. Ken Hayden and Bert Hirschfeld exploded the deciding tallies past goalie John Bower.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymuak. Lund, Forbes, McNab; forwards: Fielder, Taylor, Boone, McLean, Hayden. Hirschfeld, Glover, Jankowski, Stankiewicz, Ehman.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower: defence, Chrystal, Shero, Williams, Reigle; forwards: Gordon. Bailey, Ross, Lynn, Sonmor, Ceresino, Wochy, Hildebrand, Olson, Delmonte.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0376/1004218-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="597" height="458"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY JANUARY 1 Cleveland 5 at Providence 4</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Cleveland Barons defeated Providence Reds 5-4 on a lastditch gamble that enabled them to tie the score 27 seconds before the end of regulation time and then win on Ike Hildebrand&rsquo;s goal after 90 seconds of overtime.</p><p>The victory kept the Barons tied with Hershey for the American Hockey League lead..</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal: Bower; defence, Williams, Reigle, Chrystal, Shero; forwards, Gordon, Bailey, Ross, Lynn, Sonmor, Ceresino, Wochy; Hildebrand, Olson, Delmonte.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, Morris. Bourassa. Bloomer, Kryzanowski; forwards, Sullivan, Powell, Gladu, Toppazzini, Scherza, Denis, Bacarri, LaPlante, Kapusta, Larivee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0454/1004211-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="617" height="697"></div><h3><b>Syracuse 2 at Hershey 4</b></h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Hershey Bears continued to set the pace in the torrid American Hockey League race by defeating Syracuse Warriors 4-2.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Milligan, Tottle, Allen; forwards, Horvath, Pogue, Gooden, Burnet, Casanato, Pidhirny, Curik, Webster, Ashley, Ashbo, McNabney.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzf, Branigan; forwards, Kullman, Corcoran, Bettio, Martin, Brown, Sullivan, Ferguson, O&rsquo;Brien, Caron. Poland.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0640/1004204-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="605" height="472"></div><h3><b>St. Louis 3 at Buffalo 4</b></h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Buffalo Bisons broke their five-game American Hockey League losing streak with a 4-3 triumph over St. Louis Flyers before 2,429 fans.</p><p>The home forces tied and won on goals 26 seconds apart by Lome Davis and Cal MacKay, late in the third period..</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Lund, McNab, Forbes; forwards, Fielder, Glover, McLean, Taylor, Jankowski, Haydenc Boone, Stankiewicz, Hirschfield, Ehman.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, McAtee; defence. Lowe, Lavitt, MacNeil, Pilote, Eddolls; forwards, Thornton, Davis, MacKay, Conacher, Fryday, Kaiser, Achtymichuk, Haidy, Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0733/1004197-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="601" height="511"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY JANUARY 4 Syracuse 3 at Providence 6</b></h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;A Providence Reds scored two goals a period in defeating Syracuse Warriors 6-3 in an American Hockey League game.</p><p>It was the first daylight contest played here in 15 years and the crowd of 5,097 was the largest to watch a regularly-scheduled game here in three years.</p><p>Zello Toppazzini paced Providence&rsquo;s attack with two goals and an assist. Bill Gooden scored twice for the Warriors.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Ashley, Allen, Milligan, Tottle; forwards: Burnett, Casanato, Pidhirny. Gooden, Pogue, Curick, McNabney, Horvath, Webster, Ashbee.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, Morris. Bourassa, Kryzanowski, Bloomer; forwards: Sullivan, Powell, Gladu, Toppazzini, Scherza, Denis, Bacarri, LaPlante, Kapusta, Larivee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0832/1004190-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="599" height="689"></div><h3><b>Pittsburgh 0 Buffalo 1</b></h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Cal MacKay&rsquo;s goal at 2:34 of sudden-death overtime gave Buffalo Bisons a 1-0 victory over Pittsburgh Hornets in a rough-and-tumble American Hockey League game memorial au ditorium. Attendance was 5,313.</p><p>MacKay circled the cage and pushed in his own rebound. Gil Mayer, Pittsburgh goalie, protested vigorously and was fined $25 by referee Jerry Olinsky.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Backor, Bolton, Lumsden, Mathers, Sullivan; forwards: Lewicki, Blair, Solinger, Marshall, Sabourin, Balfour, Chorley, McLellan.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defence, Lowe, Lavitt, MacNeil, Pilote, Eddolls; forwards: Thomson, Davis, MacKay, Conac.her, Fryday, Kaiser, Achtymichuk, Haidy, Davies</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0931/1004183-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="605" height="535"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY JANUARY 3 St. Louis 3 at Syracuse 2</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;After taking a three-goal lead in the second period, St. Louis Flyers held on for a 3-2 victory over Syracuse in an American Hockey League game Saturday night. &bull;</p><p>Ken Hayden tallied the decisive goal after Fred Glover and Lou Jankowski had scored earlier. Billy Gooden of Warriors got one while Brent MacNab was in the penalty box in the second period, and Bronco Horvath added another for the losers in the third.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal. Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, McNab; forwards: McLean, Fielder Glover, Hirschfeld, Ehman, Taylor, Hayden, Boone, Stankiewicz, Jankowski.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Ashley, Allen, Milligan, Tottle; forwards: Burnett, Casanato, Pidhirny. Gooden, Pogue, Curick, McNabney, Horvath, Webster, Ashbee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1028/1004176-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="606" height="532"></div><h3><b>Hershey 2 at Pittsburgh 6</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Bob Solinger and Willie Marshall scored twice each to lead Pittsburgh Hornets to a 6-2 win over Hershey Bears in a rough American League hockey game Saturday night.</p><p>Hornets moved within four points of Cleveland and Hershey, tied for the league leadership.</p><p>Marshall, Solinger and Frank Mathers counted in the first period to give Pittsburgh a 3-1 lead over Arnie Kullman&rsquo;s tally.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence: Schertzl, Garieny, Martin. Henderson, Caron; forwards,: Kullman, Corcoran. Bettio, MacDonald, O&rsquo;Brien, Ferguson, Poland, Branigan, Brown.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal Mayer: defence. Backor, Bolton. Lumsden, Mathers, Sullivan: forwards: Lewlcki, Blair, Solinger. Marshall, Sabourin, Balfour, Chorley, McLellan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1122/1004169-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="602" height="707"></div><h3><b>Buffalo 2 at Cleveland 1</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Vern Kaiser scored the winning goal at 14125 of the third period Saturday night as Buffalo&rsquo;s strengthened Bisons defeated Cleveland Barons 2-1 in an American Hockey League game.</p><p>It was the fourth straight home defeat for the Barons, who still are tied for the league lead with Hershey. Cleveland, once holding a big lead, has won only four of the last 12 games.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defence, Lowe, Lavitt, MacNeil, Pilote, Eddolls; forwards: Thomson, Davis, MacKay, Conacher, Fryday, Kaiser, Achtymichuk, Haidy, Davies.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Chrystal, Shero, Reigle, Williams; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Olson, Lynn, Sonmor, Ceresino, Hildebrand, Wochy, Delmonte.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1317/1004162-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="614" height="420"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Sunday January 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1221/1004155-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="608" height="634"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> I.Hildebrand (21)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> G. Sullivan (36)</p><p><b>Penalties:</b> Sullivan, Pitts. (67)</p><p><b>Goaler:</b> Bower, Clev. (32 gms, 83 gls. 5 S. O., 2.59 Avg.)</p><p><b>Team Penalties:</b> Pittsburgh (470).</p><h2><b>Leading Twine Tender</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0544/1004148-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="1166" height="1190"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GOING GREAT&mdash;Johnny Bower of the Cleveland Barons is leading all the netminders in the American Hockey League so far this season. He has been going great guns. This is his eighth season as cage cop for the Barons.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Maurice &lsquo;The Rocket&rsquo; Richard has been chosen Canada&rsquo;s top athlete for the year 1952. Rocket also earned the honour of being chosen the &lsquo;outstanding personality in any sports capacity&rsquo; in the annual Canadian Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters.</p><p>Running in the third spot as the outstanding athlete was Richard&rsquo;s perennial rival for all-star right wing honours in the National Hockey League, Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>The voting, based on a 3-2-1 system of tabulation, had Rocket an easy winner with a total of 69 points. Howe in the runner-up spot was a full 36. points behind his French Canadian rival.</p><p>Probably the outstanding contribution to Maurice&rsquo;s twin triumph was the goal he scored November 8. In the second period of a game in the Montreal Forum against the Chicago Black Hawks, he set the all-time goal scoring record when he eclipsed the previous high of 324 set by Nels &lsquo;O1 Poison&rsquo; Stewart.</p><p>The sheer drama of the goal was enough to warrant his being given the selection. The agony of waiting for the all-important counter dragged over a period of weeks and when it finally arrived, the roof of the Montreal Forum came very close to taking a trip north to the Laurentians as Canada&rsquo;s French Canadian fans and English speaking ones as well joined in one of the most tumultuous ovations ever heard in the arena&rsquo;s long history.</p><p>Some have said that it was probably Richard&rsquo;s swan song as a really great star. No youngster at 3 2, Richard has had a long and colourful career, starting in 1942-43 season when the Rocket broke in and managed to get into 16 games before being sidelined with a broken leg. Even then coach Dick Irvin saw signs of greatness in the quick tempered winger.</p><p>Probably his greatest previous triumph was during the 19444&rsquo; season when he scored 50 goals in as many games, a record that will take a lot of breaking.</p><p>Just recently Rocket became involved in an inter-city word throwing barrage when an article bearing his by-line stated that hockey fans in Quebec City were everything from bandits to poor sports. The controversy flew thick and fast and like the great sportsman that the is, Richard refused to put the blame for the article on his &lsquo;ghost-writer&rsquo; but took full responsibility himself, stating that the following week he would have a follow-up article. This he did, and although not as explosive as the first, still barred no holds. He was inscensed at the treatment the fans of Quebec had given his younger brother, Henri &ldquo;Pocket Rocket&rsquo; Richard who played in the Ancient Capital for Canadien Juniors against the Citadels.</p><p>He&rsquo;s been called practically everything from a war-time player to a hot headed crum bum but through it all he&rsquo;s answered in the fashion he knows best, by scoring goals against opponents of the Montreal Canadiens. He&rsquo;s taken more rough treatment than probably any other player in the history of the sport, but always he was back for more, twisting, turning, and firing those blistering shots that nearly drove some NHL goalers to padded cells.</p><p>Now he&rsquo;s nearing the end of the trail and still he is recognized as Canada&rsquo;s Athlete of the Year. He must still have something left on the ball, and there&rsquo;s not a team in the league that wouldn&rsquo;t jump at the chance to get him.</p><h2><b>They&rsquo;re At It Again</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01143/1004270-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="594" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0299/1004263-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="600" height="592"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rocket Named Canada’s Athlete Of the Year—Gordie Howe 36 Points Back In Tabulations

<p>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;</p><p>Joe Primeau, Leaf coach, is en joying a chuckle these days tel Hng about his eight-year-old son. Rickey and a Christmas present the nipper bought for Pop.</p><p>Seems that Rickey amassed 81 cents singing. Christmas carols and presented Joe with a small parcel at Christmas with:</p><p>&ldquo;Here, Dad, I always hear you asking Mom for them.&rdquo;</p><p>The gay wrappings were re moved revealing a bottle of aspirans.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Primeau Receives Gift Of Aspirins from Son

<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

<h2><b>Rookie Rifler</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>erry Foley of the Seattle Bombers, a rookie to the Western loop thi year, was the third player in the league to reach the twenty goal mark. A good candidate for Bookie of-the-Year.</p><h2><b>Low Averages</b></h2><p>Four goaltenders in the Western Hockey League boast of less than a three goals a game average. They are Francis (2.83), Bentley 2.92), Stevenson (2.93) and Brennan (2.97)</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS MONDAY A.M. DEC. 29)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01150/1004464-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="620" height="244"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Dec. 23</b></p><p>Calgary 4 at Edmonton <i>2</i></p><p><b>Fri. Dec. 26</b></p><p>Tacoma 6 at Victoria 1</p><p>Seattle 6 at Vancouver 3</p><p>Calgary 2 at Saskatoon 7</p><p><b>Sat. Dec. 27</b></p><p>Victoria 1 at Tacoma 3</p><p>Seattle 3at New Westminster 4</p><p>Saskatoon 2 at Calgary 3</p><p><b>Sun. Dec. 28</b></p><p>Victoria 1 at Seattle 2</p><h3><b>TUESDAY DECEMBER 23 Calgary 4 at Edmonton 2</b></h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;The Calgary Stampeders had just a little too much scoring punch for the Edmonton Flyers and skated off with a 4-2 win.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal. Hall: defence, Folk, Zeidel, Raglan, Poile forwards, Johnson, Uniac. Stasiuk, Reibel, Haley, Macdonald, Hannigan. Wilson, McGill.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards. Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth. Scott, Blade</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02117/1004457-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="614" height="514"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY DECEMBER 26 Tacoma 6 at Victoria 1</b></h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Wingy Johnson and Wayne Brown each potted a pair of goals as the Tacoma Rockets downed the Victoria Cougars 6-1.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence. Jo-, Davidson. Caron, O&rsquo;Connor, Tarala: forwards, Matthews, Bradley, Johnston, Wall, Kerr, Marquess, Halderson, Adam, W. Brown.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir: defence, Webster, Roche. Strongman. Irwin: forwards. Goegan. Hebenton, Abbott, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0395/1004450-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="616" height="514"></div><h3><b>Seattle 6 at Vancouver 3</b></h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;Gerry Foley and Rudy Filion paced the Seattle Bombers to a 6-3 win over the Vancouver Can-ucks. Each potted a brace of goals.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan: defence, Ailsby. Sprout, Arnett. Lofvendahl; forwards, Homenuke, Bell. Pargeter, Filion. Foley, Nadeau, Manson, Stearns. MacAuley.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goals. Francis; defence, Dick Currie. Lancien, Fontinato; forwards, Hickey. A tanas. Popein. Power, Wylie, Manson. Mackintosh, Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0479/1004443-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="612" height="452"></div><h3><b>Calgary 2 at Saskatoon 7</b></h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;Saskatoon Quakers went on the scoring rampage and the result was a 7-2 win over the Saskatoon Quakers</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal. Hughes: defence, Michaluk. Levandoski Quakenbush, Kyle; forwards, Kelly, Brown, Lundy, Black. Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, Bentley: defence. Heindl, Evans: forwards, Kaleta. Chad. Strain, McCullough. McLeod. Jeffrey. Kaiser, Rouse, D. Bentley, Parker, Milford.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0653/1004436-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="608" height="526"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY DECEMBER 27 Victoria 1 at Tacoma 3</b></h3><p>TACOMA&mdash;For the second time in as many days, the Victoria Cougars found themselves on the short end of a game against the Tacoma Rockets. This time it was 3-1.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal. Cotnoir: defense, Webster, Roche, Long, Irwin, Strongman: forwards, Gnegan, Hebenton, Maxwell. Dorohoy, Kilburn, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn, Abbott.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson: defense, Jones, Davidson, Tarala, O&rsquo;Connor; forwards. Adam, Kerr, Matthews, Johnson, Halderson, Brown, Marquess, Bradley, Wall.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0745/1004429-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="608" height="464"></div><h3><b>Seattel 3 at New Westminster 4</b></h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;New Westminster Royals were edged by the Seattle Bombers 4-3 on Lome Nadeau&rsquo;s second period goal.</p><p><b>Seattel:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Conn, Sprout, Ailsby, Arnett, Lebioda; forwards, Bell, Fillon, Foley, Bailey, Pargeter, Stearns, MacAuley, Nadeau, Homenuke.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Bedard, Coburn: forwards. McNab, Dorohoy. Slater. Ullyot. Love. Fashoway, McIntyre. Cabana, Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0840/1004422-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="606" height="438"></div><h3><b>Saskatoon 2 at Calgary 3</b></h3><p>CALGARY&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers couldn&rsquo;t quite make it two in a row over the Calgary Stampeders and were edged 3-2.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Heindi Evans, Parker, Milford; forwards: Kalata, Chad, Strain, Jeffrey, Senick, McCullough, Wylie, Kaiser, &frac34; uzma.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal. Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Schvetz, Levandoski; forwards: Kelly, Brown, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Scott, Finney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0939/1004415-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="606" height="521"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY DECEMBER 28 Victoria 1 at Seattle 2</b></h3><p>SEATTLE&mdash;Seattle Bombers scored a goal in each of the first two periods and rode to a 2-1 victory over the Vic-toria Cougars.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche. Long, Strongman. Irwin; forwards: Kilburn, Anderson, Fairburn, Maxwell. Dorohoy, Hebenton, Coegan, Abbott. Evans.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal. Brennan; defence. Sprout, Arnett, Ailsby, Tofvendahl; forwards: Pargeter, Stearns, MacAuley, Foley, Bell, Conn, Manson, Nadeau, Homenuke.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1326/1004408-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="608" height="424"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Friday Dec. 2)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1039/1004401-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="610" height="1150"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1136/1004394-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="606" height="312"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Roy Kelly. Cal. (21)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Alex Kaleta, Sask. (35)</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Emile Francis, Vane. (4)</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks Against:</b> Doug Stevenson. Tacoma (4) One each.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks:</b> Seventeen Players: Most Winning Goals: Doug, Seattle (7).</p><h3><b>MOST PENALTIES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1234/1004387-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="618" height="388"></div><h2><b>Tops in Stops</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0564/1004380-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="1782" height="1176"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CAT&rsquo;S MEOW&mdash;Pictured above is Emile Francis, starry cage cop of the Vancouver Canucks. To date this season The Cat is leading all the goalers in the WHL, both in averages and in the shutout department. He has a 2.83 mark for 36 games and has credit for 4 goose-eggs. He formerly played NHL hockey with the Chicago Black Hawks and the New York Rangers and last season toiled for the Cincinnati Mohawks of the AHL.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTRN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>TTAWA&mdash;If, some night, the roof were to fall in on a packed house at the Auditorium here there couldn&rsquo;t be more excitement around the joint than there were here recently when Ottawa and Chicoutimi met head-on in mortal conflict.</p><p>Rollie Hebert&rsquo;s Sagueneens were rdinig hight when they it the Capital City. The Chicks had a nine-out-of-ten record going for them and they were in first place.</p><p>&ldquo;Furthermore,&rdquo; confided friend Rollie, &ldquo;the boys can pick up $400. in bonuses by winning tonight. They&rsquo;re really eager.&rdquo;</p><p>Three hours and ten minutes later, (it was 11.45 p.m., to be exact) the Chicks staggered to their dressing room, battered, broken, and beaten to a pulp, physically and mentally.</p><p>It was the wildest game seen in the local rink in the last decade, if not longer. And the sad part of it all was that only 3,500 turned up to see it, probably thinking it wouldn&rsquo;t be much.</p><p>As it turned out, Frank Gorman could have demanded a special silver collection after It was all over. There was that much in the evening.</p><p>There was blood-letting, fights, delays, and a payoff punch in the last second of the game. That was the item that really broke Chicoutimi&rsquo;s backs.</p><p>With the score tied, 5-5, and time running out, Jackie Glesebrecht picked up a loose puck in the Sagueneen end and fired it home just as the siren sounded.</p><p>All pandemonium broke loose. Hebert, along with the entire team, hopped the boards and chased Referee Ken Mullins across the ice, claiming the siren had gone before the lights flashed.</p><p>Mullins, beset on both sides, called on Timer Frank Smith for a decision. Smith came up with a stop watch indicating one second of play remaining.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s it,&rdquo; said Kenny and made for the official&rsquo;s room pursued by the whole Chicoutimi team. He explained afterwards that he advised the Chicks of the faultry clock and that Smith would be usink a stop watch. No one thought it would matter&mdash;then.</p><p>Then, with the crowd all over the ice, defenceman George Roy.struck a youngster in the face as he tried to make off with goalie Marcel Pelletier&rsquo;s stick.</p><h2><b>Bep To Rescue</b></h2><p>Bep Guidolin, the Ottawa policeman, saw the incident and went to the kid&rsquo;s assistance. For a minute the makings of a relax donnybrook existed but the cops arrived in time to break up the melee and escort the Chicks to their room.</p><p>Then there was the wild overtime brawl between Butch Stahan and Lou Smrke. Both were waved for roughing; and once inside the penalty box, began to be loose with the lip.</p><p>First thing veveryone knew, the usual jovial Butch had removed his gloves.shoved back the bench, and piled into Smrke. It almost started another riot.</p><p>When they pulled Stahan off Cmrke, Butch then divested himself of his sweater, and shouder pads, and then issued an invitatoin to the entire Chicoutimi team. Mullins waved both he and Smrke to their dressing rooms.</p><p>In the third period, Bobby Robertson tangled with Roy. Roy hit Robertson on the head with his stick, and when the latter turned around, cross-checksd him in the face, drawing blood.</p><p>Robertson went completely bersek trying to get at Roy who crouched down on the ice with his arms over his head. The Ottawa Teaguard shoved all three referees wildly away, actually belted teammate Billy Robinson in the chops and generally put on quite a show before being persuaded to retire for repairs.</p><p>It was revealed later that he lost a front tooth and suffered a seven-stitch gash in his mouth, causing him to lose all interest entirely in Christmas turkey.</p><p>Ribertson drew a match misconduct and Roy a major fir drawing blood.</p><p>Then there was the Pete Taillefer&mdash;Blly Robinson tussle in the penalty box which resulted in another pair of misconducts., There was little damaged done in this affair except to big, genial Gerry Claude who was belted by a heavy lady&rsquo;s purse as he watched the proceedings.</p><p>The two delays were caused by the goalies, one by Marcel Pelletier who picked up several stitches in his chin, and the other by Ray Frederick who broke a skate while fooling around during Pelletier&rsquo;s absence..</p><p>It was quite a night. One thing&rsquo;s for sure, there&rsquo;ll be a few more than 3,500 in the house next time the Chicks hit Ottawa, including this person.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rollie Coach With Dough Offers Bonuses For Wins

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01156/1004519-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MURPH CHAMBERLAIN&hellip;&hellip;a weeper at last</b></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Elwin (Murph) Chamberlain is an unhappy and a baffled man. He has made more player changes than any other coach in the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League. He has brought in hard skating, hard hitting men to replace those who lacked the fire so dear to his heart.</p><p>But he can&rsquo;t get his team out of third place, although the play of the Islanders has improved immeasurably. The reason is the front-running Halifax team.</p><p>In 13 meetings this season the Atlantics have won 12. Sure, some of them have been mighty close. But no matter how well the Islanders play the Atlantics always seem to have a little extra. It&rsquo;s very perplexing to Murph, who sees his team hold its own or a little better with Sydney Millionaires and Glace Bay Miners.</p><p>He has tried fast, open games, to no avail. Then there have been a few that just short of wholesale riots. But the result is the same, the Atlantics have the last laugh.</p><p>December 13 is a night Halifax fans thought they wouldn&rsquo;t forget for a long time. That was the night Murph became embroiled with a hockey fan and his players locked horns with unbending Halifax stalwarts. Halifax won the game.</p><p>December 27 the Islanders were back again, and while all the antics were on the ice they were even more boisterous than que game of December 13. There were small and large fights all over the Forum. At one time all the players of both teams were on the playing surface, ready for whatever might develop.</p><p>The game took three hours to play. The second period alone consumed more than an hour, much more; P.S. Halifax won. If it is any consolation to the Hard Rock, his men forced Atlantics into overtime before little Billy Goold broke his heart with a quick, rising shot from 10 feet out.</p><p>Apart from Halifax&rsquo;s amazing stranglehold on the Islanders, there were other developments. The league has decided on January 15 and the deadline for players. It was by unanimous vote, and the CAHA concurred.</p><p>Johnny Horock, who got off to an unhappy start as player coact with Sydney Millionaires, is determined to plug a few weak links. The January 15 deadline is right up his alley.</p><p>Horeck&rsquo;s first three games were nightmares, all against Halifax at a time when the Atlantics were in high gear. No mattei what he planned and his men executed, the Atlantics had the answers. The results not only made the coach grimly determined to wreak major changes but also made a big dent in Nick Pidsodnys goalie average.</p><p>Glace Bay Miners look to the New Year with renewed confidence. The Miners have had more than their share of injuries. They feel that their worst times are behind and that they will start to make up lost ground.</p><p>Now that president Neil Ferguson has assured all and sundry that Miners are determined to improve as they go along, there seems to be a feeling of confidence in Canada&rsquo;s biggest town Hub Macey, armed with a new vote of confidence, has seen his team make an Improved showink at home and abroad.</p><p>Actually the Miners are better than their record would seem to indicate. They have lost a number of games by the margin of one goal. They have had more than their fair share of injuries. There is one particularly bright spot in the Glace Bay hockey picture&mdash;the boys are solidly behind Macey.</p><p>With Miners getting their regulars hack from hospitals and Horeck making plans for a surge in Sydney, the spotlight will be turned on Charlottetown, where the restless Chamberlain is said to be pacing the floor every night before and after a game with Halifax.</p><p>Meanwhile local experts seek to explain the whirlwind splurge of the Halifax team. They see in the Atlantics a fast skating, hard hitting squad that has more than its fair share of good goal-getters and an amazing team spirit.</p><p>Once again the teams are faced with a killing schedule, four games every week. Yet the Halifax team hasn&rsquo;t fared worse than four points in any single week. Christmas week they swept the boards, with double victories over Charlottetown and Sydney at home and abroad.</p><p><b>Ace Foley.</b></p><h2><b>Could He Really Be Sad?</b></h2><p><b>Since the Greet Murphy is better known in hockey for his vociferous outbursts and fiery temper, playing the role of the Great Waller must be a strange one for him.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Atlantics’ Tidal Wave Keeps Murph Enshrouded In Ocean Gloom

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGI NA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Ken McAuley, coach of the Edmonton Oil Kings, is one man who believes western hockey referees should give more leeway to rough play.</p><p>&ldquo;We have to play it rough out here if we except to compete with the east&rdquo;, McAuley said recently in Regina after his Kings had polished off a 4-2 victory over the Regina Pats. &ldquo;They call penalties so closely in the west every year that we&rsquo;re licked before we start the Memorial cup final. The eastern boy just go to town against us.&rdquo;</p><p>McAuley&rsquo;s views are shared by many western puck observers. They feel that because the Ontario and Quebec junior leagues are so close to the National Hockey league, they tend to follow the more rugged N.H.L style of play and their referees let them get away with it. Out west, however, where they don&rsquo;t see the N.H.L. &lsquo;ers perform, they still call them according to the strict interpretation of the rule book.</p><p>Twice in the past three years, the Regina Pats have run into the rugged brand of eastern junior hockey. In the spring of &lsquo;50, they took quite a physical beating from the Montreal Canadiens in the Memorial cup final. Murray Armstrong&rsquo;s Pats were better equipped to throw their weight around last spring but they were still no match for the powerful Guelph Biltmores who hit in the lusty N.H.L. fashion. In the two series, Pats won only one game while losing eight.</p><p>It could be, if McAuley and his Oil Kings win the western crown this season, that the easterners will get a dose of their own medicine come spring-time. Two prominent western scouts&mdash;L a wrenee (Spud) Russell who gathers talent for the Montreal Canadiens and Alvin Horace Ritchie who works for the New York Rangers&mdash;think the Edmonton club can match most eastern junior teams at their own game.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not saying that the Oil Kings will win the west,&rdquo; said Russell, &ldquo;but they play closer to the eastern style than anybody I&rsquo;ve seen out here. They have those big men and fast skaters.</p><p>&ldquo;They are well equipped to play the eastern style of hockey and they would match most of the clubs down there except the Toronto Marlboros. The Marlboros would give them a physical beating on top of everything,&rdquo; said Russell-</p><p>However, the Montreal scout added a note of warning. &ldquo;If Edmonton can reach the Memorial cup final, they may be hurt because they don&rsquo;t get that season-long stiff competition that an. eastern champion has to face.&rdquo;</p><p>Like Russell, Ritchie of the rival N.Y. Rangers was especially impressed with the rugged qualities of the Oil Kings but pointed out that the Marlies were a great junior machine, too. &lsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Incidentally,&rdquo; said Ritchie, who was guest speaker at the annual Grey cup dinner, &ldquo;the people in Guelph still talk about the great goaltending of Pats&rsquo; Bobby Tyler in the Memorial cup final last spring. When I was in. Guelph, many people were asking about him.&rdquo;</p><p>Tyler this season is spending his fourth consecutive year between the pipes for the Regina juniors. In two of the three previous years, he has taken his team to the Canadian final.</p><p>While the Pats are holding a slim lead over Edmonton in the Western Junior league race, scribes still rate the Oil Kings as the &ldquo;team to beat.&rdquo; In skirmishes with the Pats so far this season.</p><h2><b>Likes It Rough</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02104/1004550-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="573" height="883"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN McAULEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Ken McAuley Advocates Rougher Type Of Hockey

<div class="byline">Al Parsley</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01124/1004581-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="317" height="340"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>RANK CARLIN, manager of Royals&rsquo; hockey enterprises, was that busy studying time tables, and dispatching players to all points of the compass, as the Old Year faded and the New Year dawned, he found his duties embraced many of the chores of a travel expert or tourist bureau chief.</p><p>It all began at seven o&rsquo;clock Wednesday, the last day of the Old Year, when Hal Murphy phoned. The young goaler claimed back miseries, he was dubious about his fitness to travel to Quebec for Royals&rsquo; game with Aces that night.</p><p>&ldquo;Wait a minute I&rsquo;ll give you Bill Head&rsquo;s number, meet him at the Forum, see if he can fix you up. In the meantime, I&rsquo;ll try and get Renaud from Ste. Therese,&rdquo; Carlin said.</p><p>Carlin phoned Johnny Horan, Ste. Therese manager: Could lie get hold of Renaud. Horan could, and Renaud had a car so he could pick up his own stuff and drive in with his pads and other gear, meet Royals at Windsor Station in time to entrain for the Ancient Capital.</p><p>Meantime Murphy saw Bill Head, who couldn&rsquo;t find much wrong with the goaler&rsquo;s back but sent him to hospital for X-rays.</p><p>Ray Marshall, right winger from Ste. Therese, also went along to Quebec, but he remainded there, to visit his folks, since Royals had an extra forward, or could have if Phil Samis played centre. Thus the senior club was okay for the game New Year&rsquo;s Day.</p><p>Carlin didn&rsquo;t go to Quebec with Royals, and a good thing, too. For early on the morning of New Year&rsquo;s Day, he received a phone call from Frank Selke who had Just learned via long distance phone from Dick Irvin that the NHL Habitants were in trouble. Butch Bouchard had a badly smashed side, might be broken ribs. He had been sent home from Detroit as the Habs moved along to Chicago. And Dollard St. Laurent was having dizzy spells. He had been hit near the eye. Carlin better get a defenseman aboard the plane on the first Chicago flight out of Dorval Airport.</p><p>Royals were not long in from Quebec on the early morning train. Carlin found Rollie Rousseau at his apartment just about ready to catch a few more hour&rsquo;s snooze before the afternoon game. For Royals were playing Chicoutimi at the Forum. Rousseau was bundled off with his skates and other personal gear, away to Chicago.</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s see, now,&rdquo; said Carlin to himself in his best meditative fashion. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be needing another forward. Because Marshall remained in Quebec, Kenny Biggs, must sit out another game, because of that suspension for two tussles by Martin Conway of the QAHA, and Samis will have to play defense again. So he phoned Johnny Horan once more, and asked him to dig up a right winger.</p><p>So Gerry Gravel, another Ste. Therese man, entered Royals&rsquo; dressing room at the Forum, a half hour before game time, and he went out and played a bang-up game, scored one of the tallies in a 5-1 victory over Chicoutimi Sags. Goaler Renaud gave a stylish effort too, had a shut-out going until the last two minutes. And the Montreal senior entry moved six points ahead in the QSHL scramble.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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★ SIDELIGHTS

<div class="byline">By Al Parsley</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>New life and new drive appears to have been injected into Valleyfield Braves as the calendar spun into 1953. Toe Blake&rsquo;s Warriors accomplished a feat none of the other teams had been able to perform this season when they dumped the Royals twice on the past weekend by 3-0 and 6-3 scores.</p><p>And they took little time to gloat; rather they were Inclined to belittle their own achievement and rejoice over the departure of Jacques Plgnte. &ldquo;Now that Plante&rsquo;s gone to Buffalo&rdquo; said Toe Blake, in the Forum dressing room after the Sunday success &ldquo;we can do something about these Laughty Royals.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes it was Plante who beat us all the time, both here and at home&rdquo; said Arthur Vinet, Braves&rsquo; president. And Jean Claude Lefebvre, editor of &lsquo;La Gazette de Valleyfield&rdquo; who accompanies the team on most of its junkets, nodded assent.</p><p>Whether Plante was some sort of &ldquo;bad medicine&rdquo; for the Braves or not they look to be on their way. They moved into a third place tie with Ottawa Senators, and what&rsquo;s more held two games in hand over the Barberpoles. When Pete Morin&rsquo;s boys were blanked in the Cotton Town on Saturday night goalie Paul Leclerc hung up his fifth shutout.</p><h2><b>Cline Reaps Harvest</b></h2><p>Bruce Cline was the bell coy in the twin triumph. He had one of the tallies in the 3-0 victory and two in the Sunday triumph. Andre Corriveau, of course is still the potent point maker over the long season haul for the Braves. He scored once in each game while Kitoute Joannette is still a menace to the opposing goalies.</p><p>It was a tough debut for Phil McAtee, the veteran redheaded twine-keeper who ruefully fished nine pucks out of his net in the two encounters.</p><p>George Bougie was a two goal scorer in the Sunday jousting in which Royals suffered far more than the Braves from reverses while shorthanded. Three of the Valleyfield goals were tallied while the Montrealers had men in the sinbin.</p><h2><b>Aces Still Slumping</b></h2><p>Quebec Aces can&rsquo;t seem to get organizied for a concerted pull. The best Punch Imlach&rsquo;s boys could do was salvage one point out of a home and home series with Senators. Ottawa won at the Dominion Capital 4-1 on Saturday night, and the return engagement at Quebec Sunday ended in a 4-4 overtime draw.</p><p>The Aces had to stage a third period comeback at that to ovoid a double set-back. They had to crowd three of their markers into the third period. Joe Crozier, Herbie Carnegie, Gaye Stewart and Yogi Kraiger were the marksmen for the Aces. For Ottawa Alan Kuntz, Leo Gravelie, Emile Dagenais and Bep Guldolin were the scorers.</p><p>Howard &ldquo;Rip&rdquo; Riopelle counted two for the Bytown buglers in the game at Ottawa Auditorium Saturday night with Guidolin and Jackie Giesebrecht completing the four goal quota, with Gaye Stewart getting the loner for Quebec. It was an oddity that Jean Marc Beliveau, who recently returned to the Quebec forces after his triumphal lend-lease tour with Canadiens didn&rsquo;t get a goal in either game. Such things have happened to many other top scorers. but the fans have come to think of Belivieau as a consistent scorer who should be in there hitting the target in every game, especially in the QSHL.</p><h2><b>Glad To Be Home</b></h2><p>Chicoutl Sagueneens were very happy to get back to home and fireside. They had a disastrous trip to the western section of the circuit over the New Year holady period when they lost 5-3 in Valleyfield and 5-1 at Montreal.</p><p>As soon at they got back to Chicoutimi their luck turned for the better as they wrapped up a 5-2 victory over Sherbrooke Saints The Smrke brother, Lou and Stam, scored two goals apiece and the fifth for the Chicks was collected by Bucky Buchanan. Ronnie Matthews and Tod Campeau got the Sherbrooke goals.</p><p><b>Rebounds</b>&mdash;Frank Carlin had to holler for help twice in the past week to Royals&rsquo; St. Therese farm club in the Provincial League. Gerry Gravel and &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; Richard were used to fill gaps in the Montrealers&rsquo; line-up caused by Injuries and departure of Rollie Rousseau for a brief whirl with Canadiens NHL troupers.., Rousseau was no sooner back from serving with the big leaguers than he was rushed to hospital. He ran a high temperature and Forum medicos feared he showed symptoms of pneumonia&hellip;Gerry Desaulniers, it was discovered had a cracked ankle bone, after he had been limping around which what at first was thought no more than a sprain&hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Braves Come To Life Celebrating Revival At Royals’ Expense

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0461/1004636-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>f</span>or 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>THE HOCKEY NEWS is published for 30 consecutive issues during the season and 5 monthly summer Issues. It doesn&rsquo;t matter when you start, you still get your 35 issues.</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutiv issues.</p><p><b>Canadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00</b> Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</p><p><b>U. S. A. Remittances&mdash;$4.00</b> Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque.</p><p><b>Fill in Form Above and Send Postal Note or Money Order</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Frank C. Greenleaf, former president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association, died recently. He was 74 years old.</p><p>Mr. Greenleaf was keenly interested in amateur sports. He headed the Q.A.H.A. from 1927 to 1930 and the C.A.H.A. from 1934 to 1936. He was the present chairman of the Registration Committee of the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada and served as ring judge in recent years at A.A.U.-sponsored boxing shows with Leo Burns, a longtime friend.</p><p>Mr. Greenleaf was associated with teams in hockey baseball and lacrosse. In the early 20&rsquo;s he was president of the Kensington hockey team in Notre Dame de Grace before becoming a member of the executive of the Q.A.H.A.</p><p>He is survived by two daughters, Evelyn and Gertrude of Montreal: and three sons, Howard of Montreal, Nelson of St. Catharines, Ont., and Russell of Toronto. His wife, the former Florence Silverson, predeceased him. .<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Frank C. Greenleaf Dies; Was Head of CAHA

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jacques Belanger is a pretty placid sort of a guy, very likeable and very quiet. However, he can be riled!</p><p>Jacques took his going-nowhere Montreal Royals up to Quebec City on an unimportant safari and before the big hunt was over, point chaser Belanger found himself slapped with an indefinite suspension by the QAHA.</p><p>Of course you can hardly blame a guy for flipping his wig when you consider that he has to handle a crew that has won exactly two games and tied three in the 29 contest they&rsquo;ve engaged in. Belanger ran out the string last week when he pulled an act that could have originated in Hollywood. Chased from the Royal bench while the Regals were playing the Quebec Citadels in the Ancient Capital, Belanger went to the dressing room and returned to the bench sporting coloured glasses. Of course the arbiter lost no time giving him the double heave-ho and putting his notation on the official score sheet. As a result, Jacques found himself sitting out not only the remainder of that game, but also the remainder of the week.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01130/1004722-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="270" height="378"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jacques Belanger</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0284/1004715-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="249" height="342"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ross Watson</b></figcaption></div><p>Belanger is the type of guy that would seem a natural to handle a team like the Royals. In other words he&rsquo;s the constant optimist. When Sam Pollock of the Montreal Canadiens made a statement earlier this year to the effect that one night his Habs would score 15 goals against the Royals, Belanger turned right around and stated that if the Canadiens scored 15 goals on Royals, they in turn would score 16. Royals are a long way from making Jacques&rsquo; boast come true but as they say &lsquo;It could be,&rdquo; for the Regals, although not deep in player strength, are one of the scrappiest teams in the Quebec circuit.</p><p>Generally looked down upon by junior fans and press alike, the Royals do boast of several top flight players. Ross Watson is a Dickie Moore type player, digging in the corners and taking on all and sundry, Ovila Gagnon has proven himself one of the top defensemen in the loop, and bids fair to cop all-star honours this season. Dave Broadbelt in the goals, although he had to retire for a period of two weeks with a nervous breakdown, has been playing sound hockey since his return. There are others like Ken Naylor, John McGillvray, and Brian McCann who have been going in spurts.</p><p>Probably the biggest upset the Regals have pulled this seasoa was the beating they handed the Barrie Flyers. Hap Emms&rsquo; team came here with a pretty good record behind them in the OHA junior A series and were expected to have trouble with the Montreal Canadieng and the Quebec Citadels. But no one expected the Flyera to lose to the Three Rivers Reds and you would&rsquo;ve had to give fantastic odds that they wouldn&rsquo;t thump the Royals. Yet the Belanger crew, inspired no doubt by the fact that they were rated such underdogs, whipped the Flyers.</p><p>Jack Toupin&rsquo;s Reds are experiencing practically the same hard ships as the Royals. They figure the bad thing about the schedule is the fact that they have to meet the Quebec Citadels and the Canadiens. Strangely enough, the Reds have taken the measure of the junior Habs on two occasions, both wins coming at home. Only Quebec has more wins over the Habitants, three. The Reds, like the Royals, have a fast skating crew, put they lack polish. They can carry the play to their opponents put they don&rsquo;t have that extra something it takes to finish off the play.</p><p>Quebec Citadels, under coach fiery Phil Watson, figure that this is their year to take it all but they still have to find a formula to beat the junior Habs consistently. The Cits are currently in a first place tie with Sam Pollocks&rsquo; charges but they have played two more games. The Cits have also experienced quite a bit of trouble with their rural cousins, the Three Rivers Reds. If you listen to Phil Watson however, the Cits are in, and Prexy Frank Burne, always in a box behind the Cit bench, agrees.</p><p>As things stand right now, it looks like a two team race between the Habs and the Cits, but you never can tell about those Reds and Royals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Royal Mentor Proves He Too Can Be Actor

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s long been Dick Irvin&rsquo;s dream to pack his roster with oversizes.</p><p>Basketball, of course, is the sport most noted for its goons; football, too, goes for the huskies. While the shinny game is generally well stocked with the hefty guys, those with avoirdupoids as well as stature in the same abundance haven&rsquo;t been collectively conspicuous.</p><p>Jean Beliveau, who towers 6&rsquo; 2&frac12; (and that&rsquo;s official) is regarded as a Canadien comer almost any edition, and next in line&mdash;next year, anyway&mdash;is a lanky lad named Edward Lltzenberger who tips the Toledos at 195 and towers six feet-three.</p><p>Liz, last year with Regina Pats, is currently a sensation in his first year with the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Se-nior Hockey League. A righthand shot he&rsquo;s been patrolling the alley on his natural side on a line with such seasoned performers as Les &ldquo;Dad&rdquo; Douglas, and Gerry Plamondon, who have been around in fast amateur and pro company now for a decade.</p><p>It could be that Irvin may not wait until next season. For he has &ldquo;borrowed&rdquo; Lltzenberger for several of the Habitant practises and has had him Working at the pivot position With Boom Boom Geoffrion and Paul Meger as the flankers.</p><h2><b>AMAZES RATLBIRDS</b></h2><p>This caused some eyebrow lifting by the railbirds at the Forum. &ldquo;Liz, a Centreman, now? What&rsquo;s coming off out there? What&rsquo;s the Grey Eagle trying to do?&rdquo; they have whispered huskily out of the side of their mouths.</p><p>It seems to he the long range plan of Irvin to make over Liz as centre-man. Of course, it&rsquo;s been frequently mentioned in dispatches that the Canucks are weak down the middle and good pivotmen are not hidden under every bush.</p><p>Pete Morin, peppery little pilot of the senior Royals is of the opinion that Liz will be ready for big time next year. And Morin doesn&rsquo;t see anything wrong with the notion of using him in the middle of a line either.</p><h2><b>QUICK TO LEARN</b></h2><p>&ldquo;When he started out with us at the start of the season&rdquo; says Pete, &ldquo;He found the going a little strange. It may be that he didn&rsquo;t think the QSHL was as a good a league as he first; found it. His main fault, I soon discovered, was that he wasn&rsquo;t skating back as fast as the other fellows. I guess as a junior he didn&rsquo;t have to back-check much. He could wheel at mid-ice and wait for the play to swing around. But I only had to point this out to him once or twice, and also point out to him the fact that a fellow who packs such an excellent shot should not hesitate in firing once he got within range.&rdquo;</p><p>Morin was delighted with the earnestness of this tall westerner, his readiness to improve, and his close attention to any word of advice dropped by either his coach, his manager Frank Carlin, or any of Royals&rsquo; veteran players.</p><p>Litzenberger, now just past 21, was a top scorer last season in western junior company, and is slowly catching such leaders as Sherman White, of Chicoutimi, Andre Corriveau of Valleyfield and Beliveau, the big seige gun of Quebec Aces. Liz packs an excellent slap shot which he eanuncrank with devestating suddenness. He can propel a puck with accuracy and power in orthodox fashion too. sinc. he possesses strong wrists and well muscled arms hung on a sturdy pair of shoulders. His tremendous reach makes him an adept checker and when he&rsquo;s goalward bound with the puck his strong stick-handling with the momentum his big rugged frame carries gives hint tremendous drive.</p><h2><b>A DECEPTIVE MOVE</b></h2><p>His slapshot has been studied by many keen-eyed scouts and those with perception have marvelled at the way he can deceive defensemen and goalers, with a ruse few other forwards have been known to employ.</p><p>He&rsquo;ll pull back as if ready to golf the puck, then when his stick is just a few inches short of the rubber biscuit. pull his punch, and deftly pass to a linemate who happens to be in more advantageous position.</p><p>When Liz finally arrives with Canadiens to join forces with such stalwarts as Beliveau, Butch Bouchard, Bud MacPherson, Doug Harvey, Bert Olmstead&mdash;Irvin will sure have a group of tall journeymen around&mdash;they&rsquo;ll be tailing &lsquo;em the Habitant Giants.</p><h2><b>Is He Ready?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01101/1004753-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="579" height="1338"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE LITZENBERGER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Litz May Blitz Pro Hockey, His Size A Click With Dick

<h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 30)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01111/1004910-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="608" height="146"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0254/1004903-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="610" height="264"></div><h2><b>NEW BRUNSWICK SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 30</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0334/1004896-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="600" height="106"></div><h2><b>MARITIME MAJOR</b></h2><h3><b>STANDINGS DECEMBER 30</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0426/1004889-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="606" height="133"></div><h2><b>LAKE ST. JOHN SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 2)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0517/1004882-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="615" height="137"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 27)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0613/1004875-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="604" height="213"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0714/1004868-1-eng-US/f0018-072.jpg" title="f0018-07" width="607" height="284"></div><h2><b>CAPE BRETON JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 30)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-089/1004861-1-eng-US/f0018-082.jpg" title="f0018-08" width="607" height="106"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-097/1004854-1-eng-US/f0018-092.jpg" title="f0018-09" width="605" height="245"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 29)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-105/1004847-1-eng-US/f0018-102.jpg" title="f0018-10" width="621" height="229"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-113/1004840-1-eng-US/f0018-112.jpg" title="f0018-11" width="610" height="993"></div><h2><b>OHA JUNIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 28)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-123/1004833-1-eng-US/f0018-122.jpg" title="f0018-12" width="599" height="254"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-133/1004826-1-eng-US/f0018-132.jpg" title="f0018-13" width="608" height="587"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPEKS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-142/1004819-1-eng-US/f0018-142.jpg" title="f0018-14" width="600" height="336"></div><h2><b>PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 2)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-152/1004812-1-eng-US/f0018-152.jpg" title="f0018-15" width="599" height="133"></div><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 28)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-162/1004805-1-eng-US/f0018-162.jpg" title="f0018-16" width="599" height="155"></div><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS DECEMBER 26)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-172/1004798-1-eng-US/f0018-172.jpg" title="f0018-17" width="597" height="211"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-182/1004791-1-eng-US/f0018-182.jpg" title="f0018-18" width="602" height="315"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><h3><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 2)</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-192/1004784-1-eng-US/f0018-192.jpg" title="f0018-19" width="598" height="139"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Parade At A Fast Glance

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta&mdash;</p><p>A &lsquo;double play&rsquo;&mdash;New York to Saskatoon to Edmonton&mdash;saw Lome (Gump) Worsley installed in the nets of the local Western Hockey league entry. At the same time it set tongues to wagging, with the merits and demerits of the farm system the prime topic of conversation.</p><p>Worsley&rsquo;s arrival was preceded by the recall to Detroit of Glenn Hall, regular Flyer netminder, and a young puckblocker who was just beginning to spell box-office with his generally sound, and of-times spectacular, play.</p><p>It so happens that a lively box office is something the Edmonton Exhibition Association, backers of the Flyers, is pining for in a big way.</p><p>Hall was yanked back to Detroit as a replacement for Terry Sawchuk, injured Red Wing netminder. It&rsquo;s standard practice in hockey (baseball, too), this business of reaching down unto the &lsquo;farm&rsquo; when the roster of the &lsquo;big&rsquo; team falls below strength. At the same time it&rsquo;s a custom that never fails to rile followers of the farm team. Riles them, or what can be worse for business, brings on an attitude of &ldquo;what&rsquo;s the use?&rdquo; .</p><p>It can be argued, of course, that Hall never would have been in Edmonton in the first place, except for the Flyer&mdash;Red Wing hookup. Then, with the brilliant Sawchuk sidelined and the Wings intent on retaining their place on the front end of the N.H.L. race. General Manager &lsquo;Jolly John&rsquo; Adams had na recourse but to call up the 21-year-old, Humboldt-born Hall.</p><p>As for how Worsley got into the act, it seems he had become excess baggage in Saskatoon. This must be rated an unexpected development inasmuch as he opened the season in the cage of the New York Rangers, an organization which Quakerville has a working agreement. For some weeks, as a matter of fact, Worsley looked mighty like a major league netminder, so much so that several Manhattan writers batted out the obituary of Charlie Rayner, regular Ranger guardian of other years.</p><p>Then those N.H.L..snipers, having had a good look at the diminutive Worsley, found the range. Or it might have been that the Rangers, not being much of a club anyway, made it too rough on their rookie goal-keeper.</p><p>Whatever the reason the pucks began to slip by Worsley, sometimes at an alarming rate. Finally Rayner was hurried back into action and Worsley was handed the return part of his transporta tion to Saskatoon.</p><p>Back in Saskatoon Bev Bentley, nephew of Quaker coach Doug Bentley, had been making a lot of hay in the Quaker cage, as a stand-in for Worsley. So that upon his return &lsquo;Gump&rsquo; was forced to share the duties with Bentley, instead of being immediately reinstalled as No. 1 goalie. And this was the situation when the Detroit organization, in looking around for a replacement for Hall, asked Saskatoon for help. Worsley, not Bentley, was shipped to the Alberta capital.</p><p>It was obvious that Worsley, despite protestations that &ldquo;I am glad to be in Edmonton, this is a good town&rdquo;, was unhappy about having been fast-shuffled by the Quaker management. As he remarked, with some feeling: &ldquo;Boy, there&rsquo;s one team I want to play against real Pad, It&rsquo;s those Quakers.&rdquo;</p><p>Worsley, who is one of the country&rsquo;s better soccer players, was slated to don a Flyer uniform for the first time against Walter (Babe) Pratt&rsquo;s New Westminster Royals, direct from a Canadian hot-bed of the roundball sport.</p><p>Hall&rsquo;s recall by Detroit came not long after defenceman &lsquo;Rags&rsquo; Raglan had been requisitioned by the Chicago Black Hawks. So players passed in revue at a neat clip.</p><p>Jack McGill, former Providence star, has been unable to get untracked since finning the Flyers three weeks ago. A mild, but persistent. form of pneumonia has served to hobble him. If the lanky pivot can regain his best form in time it might be just what is required to launch the long awaited win streak.</p><p>In the meantime Detroit&rsquo;s No. 1 farm team continues to occupy the Western league basement, although not so far out of it that a moderate win streak wouldn&rsquo;t serve to boost it into playoff contention.</p><p>As one astute hockey observer stated recently. &ldquo;This is one of the few last place teams I ever saw that still looked as though it might win it all before it&rsquo;s over.&rdquo;</p><p>What their fans can&rsquo;t forget is the mastery Coach &lsquo;Bud&rsquo; Poile&rsquo;s Flyers have of the pace setting Quakers. Something like seven and a tie in a dozen meetings.</p><p>So they reason &ldquo;if the Quakers are up there, why not the Fly ers?&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Gump Can Do It!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-202/1004941-1-eng-US/f0018-202.jpg" title="f0018-20" width="576" height="940"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUMP WORSLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Maybe Gump Can Make Fans Forget “Curse Of Hockey’s Farm System”

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FOOTBALL NEWS’

<p>THE CIST AND JEST OF IT</p><p><b>(As Seen In The Montreal Herald)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0187/1005034-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="294" height="342"></div><p>&bull; THERE WAS A SINISTER parallel when Teeder Kennedy, captain of Toronto Leafs, was crashed to the. ice at Boston last week, suffering a broken collar-bone and a brain concussion, and was carried from the ice unconscious.</p><p>It could have been another Eddie Shore-Ace Bailey near-tragedy, had it so happened Kennedy had struck the ice with greater force, as the veteran Milt Schmidt according to despatches, wrestled him down. And the sinister parallel or coincidence is that it was in the same Boston Gardens, and with clubs representing the same cities, that major hockey skirted the edges of its nearest approach to tragedy nineteen years ago.</p><p><b>There, fortunately, the parallel ends, Schmidt is not the Eddie Shore type. Kennedy has not, apparently, suffered an injury nearly so serious as that which kept Bailey of Leafs hovering between life and death, for many days, his life saved only by a delicate operation on his fractured skull.</b></p><p>It was in 1933, on the night of December 13&mdash;a sinister date in itself&mdash;that Shore skated into Bailey from behind, sent him headlong to the ice, to suffer a 5-inch fracture extending back from the forehead, an injury so desparate that for days his life was despaired of. Only a miraculous operation by Boston&rsquo;s Dr. Crotty saved Bailey&rsquo;s life, though the left-winger of Leafs, who in 1929 led the League scorers with a modest 22 goals, never was able to play again.</p><p>That was major hockey&rsquo;s closest approach to a real tragedy. It brought on stormy times. There were demands that Shore be banished from hockey. Boston police announced that if Bailey died, Shore would be arrested and charged with manslaughter. Shore&rsquo;s friends contended he had temporarily list has senses in the heat of combat, while Shore said he was skating at about 22 miles an hour with his head down, didn&rsquo;t see Bailey at all, and was hastening to get back so that a puck-carrying effort by Marty Barry would not be ruled offside.</p><p>Shore was banned from hockey play between the date of the accident and January 28 of 1934. And here happened a strange unexplainable thing Shore&rsquo;s name had been anathema to the hockey world while Bailey hovered between life and death. And so, after Shore returned to play, it would be logical to expect that in every rink where he appeared, he would come in for a bitterly hostile reception. But Instead, he received, invariably,&rsquo; one tremendous ovation after another, possibly a reaction from the tension that existed while Bailey hovered on the brink of death. Fandom was quite as unpredictable then as now.</p><p><b>We&rsquo;re not seeking to draw any further parallel than that it was in the same rink and between the same two clubs that the near-tragedy of 1933 took place. Milt Schmist is no Eddie Shore. He lias none of the Shore belligerence and pugnacious qualities which earned the Bruin defense ace of that era 166 minutes in penalties in a single season, just a minute short of Red Horner&rsquo;s all time record. And incidentally, after Shore had floored Bailey, it was Horner who wheeled up and crashed his stourdy right fist to Shore&rsquo;s chin with such vehemence that Shore had to be carried off. Schmidt has been a clean and sporting player throughout his career, and last week&rsquo;s brawl was one of the comparatively few in which he has engaged. Shore was, on the other hand, a forceful and turbulent individual.</b></p><p>It was unfortunate that in the same game, Dave Creighton of Bruins broke a leg. He has been a sound player for Bruins. Leafs suffer the greatest loss, however, in the injury to Kennedy, the sparkplug of the team, and an indefatigable worker.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Elmer Ferguson

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0341/1005072-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="591" height="1062"></div><p><b>for a man&rsquo;s beer!</b></p><p>If other beers seem too weak&mdash;brewed perhaps with feminine tastes in mind&mdash;try Labatt&rsquo;s India Pale Ale (&ldquo;I.P.A.&rdquo; to those in the know). Hearty, zestful and satisfying, I.P.A. is a real <i>man&rsquo;s</i> drinkfull bodied and fully flavoured. Askfor:&rdquo;Labatt&rsquo;s I.P.A. <i>again</i>, please!&rdquo; John Labatt Limited.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0433/1005065-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="579" height="789"></div><p>*The swing is <u>definitely</u> to LABATT&rsquo;S<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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It’s a MAN’S work

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0217/1005110-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="252" height="283"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0118/1005117-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="234" height="285"></div><h2><b>Keeping &lsquo;Em Out</b></h2><h2><b>Knocking &lsquo;Em In</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0316/1005103-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2995" height="3795"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Its a wonder that diminuitive Gerry McNeil could see to make the save in the upper photo with all the players swarming over him but make it he did. Bert Olmstead (15) is at left, Doug Harvey (2) centre and Ken Mosdell (18) in the right background. In the lower photo rookie Pete Conacher raises his stick on high after having scored on Harry Lumley of Toronto.</b> <span class="photo-credit">((Photos by Turofsky))</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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