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February 7, 1953

The Hockey News February 7, 1953

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Although proof wasn&rsquo;t necessary, Paul Ronty, Wally Hergesheimer and Neil Strain are now being marked as the Rangers&rsquo; best line. They have the scars and the bruises to show for it.</p><p>Not since the days of the Bent-leys and Bill Mosienko has one light line taken as much physical punishment as Ronty & Associates have had to take this Winter. All five opponents, slow to act at the start, have now come to concentrate on the one line. They realize the other two forward units are seldom able to handle the chore, if Ronty&rsquo;s is quieted.</p><p>This concerted effort to deaden New York&rsquo;s best line was more evident than ever during the team&rsquo;s recent swing around the league. It played five games on the trip, winning twice. In the other three, the Rangers were shut out when Ronty and the other two were subjected to constant abuse.</p><p>None of the No. 1 line nor coach Bill Cook complain about the concentration on three players. Such treatments is a mark of their abilities. Ever alive and alert, they have come to expect it. But they do have one big gripe&mdash;much of this treatment is done illegally.</p><p>&ldquo;The kids are taking it well,&rsquo;&rsquo; Cook said. &ldquo;But I don&rsquo;t like to see them get the butt end of the stick, or be crosschecked when the referee isn&rsquo;t looking. They&rsquo;re being worked over&hellip;but good. Why, the other night up in Boston (Jan. 24) I saw Sandford belt Hergesheimer across the neck three times with his stick, while Storey had his back turned.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re always got their heads up,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to be lucky to get a clean crack at any of them, when they should expect it. But you can&rsquo;t always have eyes in the back of your head.</p><p>&ldquo;I just wish Strain was about 10 pounds heavier. They need a cop on that line, and he&rsquo;s the only one who can do the job. But he isn&rsquo;t really strong enough for it.&rdquo;</p><p>The 150-pound Hergesheimer comes closest to complaining &ldquo;There are a few players in the league who give it to you dirty,&rsquo;&rsquo; he said. &ldquo;I just wish I was a little bit bigger. I&rsquo;d take care of three guys first: Howe, Lindsay and Olmstead.&rdquo;</p><p>Although they&rsquo;ll do their own checking with the courage of larger men, Ronty, Hergesheimer and Strain are mismatched physically against any line in the league. They average only 156 pounds, with Strain&rsquo;s 162 and Ronty&rsquo;s 158 added to Hergy&rsquo;s 150.</p><p>Until Herb Dickenson nearly lost an eye in a practice accident and had to leave the Rangers for the balance of the season, Ronty and Hergesheimer did have their cop. Dickenson weighs 10 pounds more than Strain and he&rsquo;s considerably stronger. He helped keep it clean, but only for the first few weeks of the season.</p><p>All legal attempt to brake&mdash;or break&mdash;the Ronty line must be expected. For it is a fact that it has produced more this season than the other two Ranger lines combined.</p><p>Ronty and Hergesheimer, playing with Dickenson first, then Eddie Kullman for a few games and finally with Strain, have made a total of 52 goals. Paul, now almost assured of being the AllStar center, had 15 goals as of the 44th game. Hergy, a leading candidate for the Lady Byng, had 21. Strain, a strong candidate for rookie-of-the-year, had 10 scores in his 28 games.</p><p>Prior to his injury and early retirement for the season, Dickenson had scored four times. Kullman, his interim replacement, came up with two goals while playing on Ronty&rsquo;s left wing.</p><p>As compared to these goals, the other two lines (discounting all defensemen, of course) had produced but 46 times in the 44 games. And, of these, Nick Miskoski had 14 and Jack Stoddart 10.</p><p>It seems the Rangers will either have to get more balance up front or add some ballast to the Ronty line. How long can the little guys take it?</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> New York fans wonder now if it&rsquo;s possible for the Rangers to win in Detroit, 8-2, one game and then lose in Boston, 9-0, the next. Says Cook: &ldquo;They got goal-happy. Even the defense wanted to score Hat Tricks. The way we played, Boston could have driven a truck through to our goal. I hope they learned a lesson.&rdquo;&hellip;Still absent with an injured right knee, Chuck Rayner is trying to work into shape at Guelph. It&rsquo;s doubtful, now, if he&rsquo;ll ever again be in New York nets. Gump Worsley had allowed two or less goals in six of the last seven games. The 9-0 rout, of course, was only partly his fault.&hellip;Incidentally, 150 members of the Rangers&rsquo; Fan Club went to Boston to see the one-sided shutout. But they stayed over till the next night to watch the Rangers win, 2-1.</p><p>George Senick, the rookie left winger from Saskatoon who resembles Rocket Richard, made an instant hit with the New York management. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s strong, and. he won&rsquo;t back up from anyone,&rsquo;&rsquo; said Cook. Remarked Frank Boucher: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a pretty darn good hockey player. I think he looks like Richard on the ice, as well as off it. Of course, he&rsquo;s no Rocket and probably never will be, but he&rsquo;s good.&rdquo;&hellip;Pete Babando, now in shape, has the best wrist shot of the Rangers. He needs but about six inches of movement.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

Ronty & Co. Most Abused Line

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<h2>Award Presented</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>K</span>en MacKenzie, general manages of the New Westminster Royals, was recently presented with THE HOCKEY NEWS Award for being hockey&rsquo;s outstanding executive for 1951-52</p><h2><b>Scoreless Players</b></h2><p>Don Webster of the Victoria Cougars and Frank Arnett of Seattle Bombers are the only active players in the WHL at the present time who are yet to score a goal.</p><p>Calgary&rsquo;s Classy Cage Cop</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING TLES. A.M. JAN. 27</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01166/1055433-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="612" height="250"></div><p>***</p><h3>LAST WEEKS RESULTS</h3><p><b>Tues., Jan. 20th</b></p><p>Vancouver 1 at Victoria 1</p><p>New Westminster 2 at Calgary 4</p><p><b>Wed., Jan. 21st</b></p><p>Victoria 5 at Seattle 7</p><p>New Westminster 3 at Edmonton 6</p><p><b>Thur., Jan 22nd</b></p><p>Vancouver 5 at Calgary 2</p><p>New Westminster 2 at Saskatoon 2</p><p><b>Fri., Jan. 23rd</b></p><p>Tacoma 1 at Victoria 5</p><p>Vancouver 5 at Edmonton &</p><p><b>Sat., Jan. 24th</b></p><p>Seattle 1 at Tacoma 2</p><p>Victoria 2 at New Westminster 4</p><p>Edmonton 2 at Calgary 8</p><p>Vancouver 5 at Saskatoon 8</p><p><b>Sun., Jan 25th</b></p><p>Tacoma 4 at Seattle 8</p><p>***</p><h3>TUESDAY JANUARY 20</h3><p><b>Vancouver 1 at Victoria 1</b></p><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Hugh Currie scored in the third period to give Vancouver Canucks a 1-1 draw with the Victoria Cougars.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defense, Dick, Currie, Lancien, Fontiano; forwards: Atanas Smith, Popeln, Leir, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Powers, Brown and Unger.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Sotnoir; defense, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards, Goegan, Hebenton, Abbot, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02133/1055426-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="602" height="368"></div><p><b>New Westminster 2 at Calgary 4</b></p><p>CALGARY&mdash;George Agar scored twice to pace the Calgary Stampeders to a 4-2 win over the New Westminster Royals.</p><p><b>New Wesminster:</b> Goal, defense; defense, Bergeron, Bedard, Durham, Coburn; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Boyce, Slater Ullyot, Love Hamilton, Fa-howay, Bailey, Cabana.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes: defense, Hy-le, Quakenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards, Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashwort, Barry, Scott Finney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03111/1055419-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="598" height="430"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21</h3><p><b>Victoria 5 at Seattle 7</b></p><p>SEATTLE&mdash;Seattle Bombers scored three goals in the third period to down the Victoria Cougars 7-5.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defense, Irwin, Roche, Goegan, Webster; forwards Anderson, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Hebenton, Abbott, Maxwell, Evans, Strongman.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defense, Lor-vendahl, Ailsby, Sprout, Arnett; forwards Homenuke, Nadeau, Pargeter, Bell, Fillion, Foley, Stearns, Manson, Macauley, Conn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0495/1055412-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="606" height="707"></div><h3>Wesminster 3 at Edmonton 6</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;Edmonton Flyers scored their tenth victory in their last 11 games by dumping New Wesminster Royals 6-3.</p><p><b>New Wesminster:</b> oal, Dechene; defense, Bergeron, Bedard, Durham, Coburn; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Boyce, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Hamilton, Fa-showay, Balley, Cabana.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defense, Zeibel Coburn, Coflin, Hay; forwards, Johnson, Poile, Uniac, J. Anderson, MacDonald, Edman, Haley, Stasiuk, Reibel, Hannigan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0668/1055405-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="588" height="580"></div><p>***</p><h3>THURDAY JANUARY 22</h3><p><b>Vancouver 5 at Calgary 3</b></p><p>CALGARY&mdash;Despite two goals by Roy Kelly, the Calgary Steampeders lost a 5-3 decision to the Vancouver Canucks.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defense Dick, Currie, Lucien, &lsquo; Fontiano; for-Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Powers, Brown wards, Atanas, Smith, Popeln, Leier, and Unger.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defense, Kyle, Quakenbush, Michaluk, Levandowski; forwards, Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Barry, Scott, Finney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0759/1055398-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="592" height="632"></div><p>***</p><h3>New Westminster 2 at Saskatoon 2</h3><p>SASKATOON-Ollie Dorohoy scored the only goal of the third period to give New Wesminster Royals a 2-2 with Saskatoon Quakers.</p><p><b>NewWesminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Bedard, Durham, Coburn; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Boyce, Slater, Ullyot, Love Hamilton, Fasho-way, Bailey, Cabana.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, R. Bentley; defence, Ross, Milford, Heindl, Evans; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Rouse, McCullough, McLeod, Senick, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0853/1055391-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="592" height="404"></div><h3>FRIDAY JANUARY 2.3</h3><p><b>Tacoma 1 at Cougars 5</b></p><p>VICTORIA&mdash;The Victoria Cougars gave a lift to their play-off hopes by downing the Tacoma Rockers 5-1.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Jones, Davidson, Caron, O&rsquo;Connor, Tarala; forwards, Mathews, Bradley, Johnson, Wall, Keer, Marquess, Halderson, Adam, W. Brown.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards, Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, Mazur, Killburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0952/1055384-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="592" height="430"></div><p>***</p><h3>Vancouver 5 at Edmonton 3</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;Vancouver Canucks chalked up the second win of their prairie tour downing the Edmonton Flyers 5-3.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence Pick, Currie, Landen, Fontiano; forwards, Atanas, Smith, Pepein,. Lelr, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Powers, Brown and Unger.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defence, Zeidel, Coburn, Coflin, Hay; forwards, Johnson, Poile, Unlac, J. Anderson, MacDonald, Edman, Haley, Stasiuk, Reibel, Hannigan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1051/1055377-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="594" height="537"></div><p>***</p><h3>SUNDAY JANUARY 25</h3><p><b>Tacoma 4 at Seattle 8</b></p><p>SEATTLE&mdash;The Seattle Bombers downed the Tacoma Rockets 8-4 with George Homenuke and Doug Macauley each potting a pair.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defense, Jones, Davidson, Tarala; forwards, Johnson, Keer, Adam, Mathews, Bradley, Wall,, Brown, Marquess, Haderson.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Sprout, Conn, Ailsgy, Lafvendahl, Arnett; forwards, Foley, Fillion, Bell, Homenuke, Manson, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, MacAuley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1146/1055370-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="598" height="714"></div><p>***</p><h3>SATURDAY JANUARY 24</h3><p><b>Seattle 1 at Tacoma 2</b></p><p>TACOMA&mdash;The Tacoma Rockets scored two first period goals and then coasted to a 2-1 win over the Seattle Bombers.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Lor-vendahl, Ailsby, Sprout, Arnett; forwards, Momenuke, Nadeau Pargeter. Bell, Fillion, Foley, Stearns, Manson, Macauley, Conn.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Jones, Davidson, Caron, O&rsquo;Connor, Tarala; forwards, Mathews, Bradley, Johnson, Wall, Keer, Marquess, Halderson, Adam, W. Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1527/1055363-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="598" height="424"></div><p>***</p><h3>Vitoria 2 at New Westminster 4</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Max McNab scored a hat trick to lead the N.ew Westminster Royals to a 4-2 win over the Victoria Cougars.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Sotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards, Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Bedard, Durham, Coburn; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Boyce, Slater, Ullyot, Love, Hamilton, Fa-showay, Balley, Cabana.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01171/1055356-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="606" height="566"></div><p>***</p><h3>Edmonton 2 at Calgary 8</h3><p>CALGARY&mdash;Defenseman Gus Kyle had a field day, garnering four assists in an 8-2 win for the Calgary Stampeders over the Edmonton Flyers.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Folk, Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forwards, Johnson, Uniac, Staniuk, Reibel Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quakenbush, Michaluk, Levandoskl; forwards, Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Witiuk, Agar, Ashwort, Barry, Scott, Finney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02119/1055349-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="610" height="672"></div><p>***</p><h3>Vancouver 5 at Saskatoon 3</h3><p>SASKA TOON&mdash;Emil Francis was a Wizard in the nets as the Vancouver Canucks gained first place by dumping Saskatoon Quakers 5-3.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; denfence, Dick, Currie, Lancten, Fontinato; forwards, Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein, MacKintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Brown.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, R. Bentley; defence; Ross, Milford. Heindl, Evans; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Rouse, Me Cullough, McLeod, Senick, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0386/1055342-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="614" height="596"></div><h2><b>Calgary&rsquo;s Classy Cage Cop</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0579/1055335-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="1574" height="1148"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PHIL FOILS &mdash; Phil Hughes, Calgary Stampeder netminder, blocks a shot off the stick of Jim Fairburn of Victoria Cougars, centre. Colin Kilburn, left, was also in on the play. Calgary defenseman is Art Michaluk.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Courtesy Victoria Daily Colonist)</span></figcaption></div><div class="sidebar"><p><b>The Toronto maple leafs use BIKE supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

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Smoother! Lighter! Better Tasting!

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Chicago Black Hawks, sometimes out-played but rarely out-fought demonstrate in the top photo the art of smothering the puck in a goal-mouth scramble. Gus Bodnar (12), Bill Gadsby (4) cover up as Lee Fogolin, facing camera and Jimmy Peters (behind him) keep Montreal&rsquo;s Floyd Curry from poking the puck out. Al Rollins is the guy on the right. In the lower photo, seconds after the scramble, Rollins&rsquo; is escorted to the clinic for patchwork by Bodnar (holding his arm). Sid Abel is directly behind him while Cal Gardner looks on from the extreme left.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

ROLLINS ROCKED—

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0150/1056375-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Champs&rsquo; Slump Worst Suffered In Five Years</b></h2><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Cost of their worst slump in five seasons was punched home at the Detroit Red Wings as they were temporarily knocked out of the National Hockey League lead, by the Montreal Canadians.</p><p>After building up a seven-point margin&mdash;biggest enjoyed by any club this season&mdash;the Wings squandered it all in two weeks. Over that stretch they won only one of seven games, losing four and tying two others.</p><p>As a result Montreal ambled into first place on Jan. 28 with a victory while the Wings were idle. It was a stiff shock to the Detroiters, who had ideas of becoming the first team ever to win five straight NHL titles, and were heavily favored to do so.</p><p>Then, just as they were brooding over their lot, they steamed past Chicago and Toronto in two weekend games to regain the lead.</p><p>Cause of the slump was a sour mystery. Maybe it was just a passing phase, part of a cycle, since the team had lost only once in the 19 games immediately before.</p><p>The one thing which was certain, it wasn&rsquo;t the result of injuries or old age. Only serious casualty to the young squad has been the loss of Terry Sawchuk for seven games, but Terry was back by then.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0238/1056368-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="296" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Metro Prystai</b></figcaption></div><p>And&mdash;to squelch any rumors before they get started&mdash;there is not one sign of dissention about.</p><p>The players seemed to feel it was nothing more than a cold streak, a series of games in which the puck bounced the wrong way and breaks went the other way.</p><p>Obviously, for an exact answer, there must be a delay until the Wings show what they can do about regaining the top position.</p><p>Rock bottom in the slump came the night that the New York Rangers handed the Wings their worst home-ice beating in history. It was an 8-2 humiliation, the Rangers scoring seven straight goals starting midway in the first period.</p><p>More goals have been made at Olympia by visiting team. Boston got nine once back in 1945-&mdash;and still lost, 10 to 9.</p><p>The defeat marked an inglorious ending to some brief and unexpected line juggling by the Detroit tacticians. In the spirt of slump-breaking and experimenting for the future, all three forward lines came out for that game under new makeup.</p><h2>Metro Moved</h2><p>Alex Delvecchio was promoted to first-line center in place of Metro Prystai. Prystai went to right wing on the third line and found Marty Pavelich, an erstwhile left winger, as his center there. Marcel Bonin bounced over from right wing to handle Pavelich&rsquo;s usual left-wing assignment on the second line.</p><p>Those changes left the lines this way: Delvecchio-Gordie Howe Ted Lindsay; Glen Skov-Tony Leswick-Bonin, and Pavelich-Prystai-John Wilson.</p><p>It might have been Interesting to have seen more of that but the ignoble debut ended it. Manager Jack Adams flatly stated that the lines would be worked that way in the next game, but by the time the club got to Toronto 4 8 hours later, all men were back in their former spots.</p><p>Later on one minor variation was worked out and tested several times. Pavelich and Skov switched positions on the second line, Skov going to left wing and Pavelich to center. It was an attempt to add more offensive punch, to that unit.</p><p>For a couple of days the clump was overshadowed by the sharp exchange between Manager Jack Adams and the Montreal forces. This all started when Dick Irvin let the news leak out in Toronto that Adams had invaded the privacy of Referee Red Storey in the oficials&rsquo; dressing room.</p><h2>Adams Replies</h2><p>Adams countered that he had been invited in, which left all further developments up to NHL President Clarence Campbell.</p><p>Then irked at Irvin&rsquo;s meddling in such affairs, Adams touched off a new subject by charging Rocket Richard with &ldquo;deliberately injuring&rdquo; Detroit players.</p><p>Irvin replied that Adams was &ldquo;squawking because we&rsquo;re beating his team&rdquo;, and Richard gave his quote that: &ldquo;I hate that Detroit team.&rdquo;</p><p>All of which was stage dressing for the Wings next home game after the beating by the Rangers.</p><p>Richard scored his 63rd goal against Detroit and 28th at Olympia for a 1-0 lead, but the Wings took advantage of two trips to the penalty box by the Rocket to score three power-play-goals. Bud MacPherson eventually forced a 3-3 tie in the last five minutes, and Irvin still looked like the winner of the latest warmup of this bitter feud.</p><p>Most unhappy of all the Detroit players over the various events in Montreal games recently is Leswick, the Mighty Mouse at left wing. So far Tony has been whacked about the head for a total of 21 stitches in games with Canadiens.</p><p>And to make him completely frustrated by such a state of affairs&mdash;a point which Adams will stress if you inquire not a single penalty was handed out as a result of any of the cuts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Angular Al Rollins…Wings Regain Lead After Scare by Habs “Hockey’s Been Good To Me,” Says Rollins

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0170/1054192-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Rontry&hellip;&hellip;NHL All-Star Centre 7</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bopped But Not Stopped

<div class="byline">MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORM, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>For what it Is worth, the Rangers now have a Plaster Line.</p><p>Bones Raleigh, in the center, is wearing a cast over his fractured left wrist. George Senick, to his left, has a cast covering his left hand to protect a slow-healing broken thumb. And Aldo Guldolin, on the right, is playing with a sprained right wrist covered with a mass of tape.</p><p>A couple of Rangers aren&rsquo;t fortunate enough to be playing. Ed Slowinski was due to have his broken right foot re-examined on Jan. 30, with the chance he might then begin to skate easily. He&rsquo;ll be out another month, probably.</p><p>The status of rookie Dean Prentice, rather confused a week ago when one doctor warned of permanent harm if he continued to play and another doctor deemed his chest injury &ldquo;slight,&rdquo; is now defined. After a thorough examination here, Dean was found to have suffered a small crack in his breastbone when checked by Lee Fogolin in Chicago, Jan. 18. There was also a slight puncture in a lung, which caused the internal bleeding that had everyone worried.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0260/1054230-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="291" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Senick</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0355/1054223-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="300" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bones Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><p>Prentice will be completely sound, ready to return to the lineup when the Rangers come home to play the Canadiens, Feb. 8.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-02

Rangers’ New Plaster Line Features Bones at Centre

<p>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The record scoring spree Michel Labadie had in one Quebec Junior League game has earned for him another shot with the Rangers. Not long after the Citadel right winger scored eight times against St. Catharines&rsquo; Teepees, general manager Frank Boucher recalled him to New York for the last two games of his pro trial.</p><p>Labadie, who was to start on Bones Raleigh&rsquo;s right against the Canadiens on Jan. 28, previously came up with teammate Aggie Kukulowicz around the holidays. Aggie was more impressive in their first game here and, as a result, was taken on the road to complete his trial. Labadie was sent home after the one game.</p><p>With Ed Slowinski still out with a broken right foot and with his replacement, Aldo Guidolin, just so-so, Labadie now has a good chance to earn a regular job on Raleigh&rsquo;s line. If he can score one goal&mdash;not eight&mdash;he&rsquo;s in.</p><p><b>MOZLEY</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Labadie’s Scoring Spree May Help Him Turn Pro

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>The ranks of what was once called &ldquo;the greatest batch of rookies ever to perform on one NHL club&rdquo; is depleated. Those ranks we are talking about, of course, is that of the five sensational rooks who fancy-danned their way through the &lsquo;majors&rsquo; wearing the colors of Les Canadiens last season.</p><p>They are Boom Boom Geoffrion, Paul Meger, Dick Gamble, Dollard St. Laurent and Dickie Moore.</p><p>Today only Geoffrion is having anything near the year he had in 1951-52. The sophomore jinx seems ready to claim victories over the remainder. Those five combined for a total of 98 goals last season but at the 48 game mark this year they had hit for only 35.</p><p>The biggest drop in production has been that of Meger and Gamble. Both finished in the 20 goal circle a year ago, Paul ending with 24 and Dick with one less. At the 47 game mark then Meger had 17 and Gamble 15. Their total at the same time this season is just about 50 percent less. Meger with eight and Gamble with seven is their record. Geoffrion is maintaining the same pace as when he won the rookie award with 30 goals. At the 47 game mark he had 18. That&rsquo;s exactly the same number as a year ago. Moore, of course, is getting in shape in the minors after a pair of knee operations that sidelined him. He hasn&rsquo;t seen action in the NHL this year, as yet, but will rejoin the Habs from Buffalo in Chicago on February 12. Moore set the league on fire in 1951-52 with 18 goals in 33 games. At this time last season he had only scored four. The five rookies are running 21 goals behind their 1951-52 pace. They had scored 56 after 47 games compared to 35 this season.</p><p>The reason? You could blame it on that well known jinx, that is, if you&rsquo;re one to believe there is such a thing. Personally, neither Meger nor Gamble believe there is.</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say what&rsquo;s the matter,&rdquo; says Gamble. &ldquo;All the boys say I&rsquo;m playing as well as last season but I&rsquo;m just not putting them in. I don&rsquo;t believe in that jinx stuff. If you work hard enough they&rsquo;ll come and that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve been doing. Work is the only way to snap a slump. Of course I&rsquo;ve had some tough breaks. In New York last week there was two chances that I missed. Once the puck went right under Worsley but he saved it. I don&rsquo;t know how. There was another time when I thought I had one and he stopped it. Last season those were going in.&rdquo;</p><p>Gamble is in the worst slump of his ice career. When he scored against the Rangers last Thurs-day it was the first time he had flashed the light in 28 games.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the worst slump I&rsquo;ve ever been in,&rdquo; he says. When he scored Dick dived into the net for the puck. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to frame it,&rdquo; he laughed.</p><h2><b>Great On&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0440/1054268-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="606" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAUL MEGER</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip; Defensive</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0531/1054261-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="558" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK GAMBLE</b></figcaption></div><p>As for Meger, well, he too is not getting the breaks that came so easily last year.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course I&rsquo;m worried. I should be. Perhaps I&rsquo;m not playing like I did last season. I don&rsquo;t know. I&rsquo;ve asked all the boys. what I&rsquo;ve been doing wrong and. they say I&rsquo;m playing just as well. Maybe our line isn&rsquo;t clicking but then Boomer has 19 so it can&rsquo;t be that.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe in that second year jinx stuff. If you dig and work you can snap a slump. But don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m not worried because I am.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What is this jinx stuff?&rdquo; we asked Lach.</p><p>&ldquo;Nothing,&rdquo; he retorted. &ldquo;If you&rsquo;ll look in the records you&rsquo;ll find that players who were successful in their first season Isually start figuring that they&rsquo;ve the next year. But those kind don&rsquo;t stick around very long.&rdquo;</p><p>Elmer was not referring to either Meger or Gamble. Two made it and don&rsquo;t work as hard quiet, unassuming fellows who never give anything but their best at all times, neither has ever been troubled with an inflated ego or had trouble with swelling of the hatband.</p><p>While the Habs have not been getting the goals expected from both Meger and Gamble they have made up for that lack by helping McNeil thin his goals against average. Gerry is fighting a tooth and nail battle with Terry Sawchuk for the Vezina Trophy with his reduced count against him being that margin of goals that the club has failed to score. In other words, Gerry is keeping them out while Meger and Gamble are finding their way out of their slump. If and when they do the Canadiens may go on two or three real scoring sprees.</p><p>The records of both Gamble and Meger in the goals against column is a rosy one. Gamble has allowed his check only six goals while Paul has allowed eight. Both have been used to kill of penalties during the season as well.</p><p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve been playing a more defensive type of game. I know I&rsquo;m more conscious of my check scoring and I think my record is pretty good,&rdquo; says Gamble. &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re not scoring the only way to keep up is to stop you check from scoring and that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve been doing.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-04

Hab Sophmore Brigade Lacks Scoring Punch They Had as Rookies

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0256/1054323-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Hockey is quite a sport and I wouldn&rsquo;t trade it for the world. Sure, I&rsquo;ve had my ups and downs just like everyone else, but I can&rsquo;t complain Hockey has been plenty good to me &hellip; I only hope I can repay it in at least a small way. I welcome this chance to talk about it.&rdquo;</p><p>Thus spoke long and lean framed Al Rollins, a guy deserving of more praise than any other Chicago goaltender since the days of the immortal Charlie Gardiner Citing instances of his great play would be no problem for anyone who has seen the outstanding performances turned in by Al in virtually every Black Hawk game to date.</p><p>All this hasn&rsquo;t been easy. He has had to take his share of the bumps too. He&rsquo;s stopped flying pucks .with his head, has had knuckles creased by charging skates and has felt the strain of an enemy power attack. Yet, Al has managed to come through it all With the quiet smile of a happy man.</p><p>&ldquo;I was happy at Toronto too,&rdquo; he confessed, &ldquo;but it, was a different sort of content. I didn&rsquo;t have the feeling of security that I&rsquo;ve got here in Chicago and I was constantly reminded of the fact that I was replacing a fellow (Turk Broda) who&rsquo;d been the favorite of the fans for 15 years. It wasn&rsquo;t easy, believe me!</p><p>&ldquo;When the Leafs secured me from Cleveland (AHL) in December, 1949, Turk was the first one to let me know how things stood. &lsquo;Look kid,&rsquo; I remember him saying just after we had started rooming together, &lsquo;you probably won&rsquo;t play much this season, but don&rsquo;t get discouraged. You&rsquo;re here for the future.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It was only a couple of weeks later when Conn Smythe surprised both of us and of all times, it was on Young Canada night at the Gardens. Turk had been beaten four times by Boston in the first period and this paved the road for my NHL debut. I finished the game and actually didn&rsquo;t do any better than he had. It was my start though and I&rsquo;ll never forget it.&rdquo;</p><p>Al went on to gradually assume the netminding chores from Broda the following season. His terrific work in allowing an average of only 1.75 goals per game won him puckdom&rsquo;s coveted Vezina Trophy as hockey&rsquo;s top tender of the twines. And all this was accomplished, it should be remembered, in his first year as a full-fledged regular in the big time.</p><p>Rollins came back with a commendable 2.20 goals against record for the 1951-52 campaign, but this was apparently not good enough to satisfy Leafian brass. Odd as it seemed, club officials were deep in the thought of a swap for the Hawks&rsquo; sieve-like Harry Lumley, who had seen 487 pucks flit by in just two seasons in the Chicago cage.</p><p>The deal became reality last September with Rollins, Gus Mortson, Cal Gardner and farmhand Ray Hannigan departing from the Toronto scene in exchange for the highly regarded Mr. Lumley. Since then, master bargainer Smythe has been pouting in his ale on a nightly basis for the trade from a Leaf standpoint has turned out sourer than a barrel of green apples.</p><p>Lumley, while handling his duties suitably, has been no world pleaser and his goals against average remains much heavier than Rollins 2.20, which failed to excite Toronto front office moguls last season. Al, Mortson and Gardner, on the other hand, have given the Hawks enough pep to boost them higher than they&rsquo;ve been in over half a decade.</p><p>Al has set two marks to achieve in his first year at Chicago. &ldquo;First,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I want to do all I can to get us into the battle for the Stanley Cup and secondly and more personally, I&rsquo;m going all out to keep my average below the three-goal per game rate. With these aims reached, I may someday be able to look back at this year with a little satisfaction.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>The Rollins goals against average has been well below three to date and it would appear that it&rsquo;s destined to stay that way during the month and a half of play that remains. He will then have become the first Hawk netminder to complete a season thusly since Sam LoPresti wound up with a 2.90 average at the end of the 1940-41 schedule.</p><p>No less than a dozen goalies with widely varying talents have paraded before the Chicago hockey public in the interim and each one has failed to survive much more than one or two years of competition. Mike Karakas&rsquo; comeback mark of 3.04 in 19434 4 was the best effort recorded during this period with the 7.00 average credited to Doug &ldquo;Stonewall&rdquo; Jackson four campaigns later rating as the positive worst.</p><p>Al gives a good deal of credit for his success to the mon in front of him. &ldquo;This defense is just as good as any I had at Toronto,&rdquo; he assures. &ldquo;Gadsby and Mortson would be great on any team and Dewsbury, well I&rsquo;m glad his shooting is going the other way. Fogolin and Raglan are playing the best hockey of their careers.&rdquo;</p><p>Regardless of how things go for the Hawks from now on, Al Rollins has won himself a job for as long as he wants it and he has no more enthusiastic a backer than Bill Tobin, general manager of the team. &ldquo;I think Al deserves definite consideration for the most valuable player award,&rdquo; he said recently. &ldquo;I sincerely don&rsquo;t know what we would do without him!&rdquo;</p><h2><b>ROLLINS, ELWIN IRA (AL)</b></h2><p>Born, Vanguard, Sask., October 9, 1926.</p><p>Goaltender, Shoots left, 6&rsquo; 2&rdquo;, 185 lbs.</p><h3>Last amateur club: Edmonton Flyers (Seniors).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h3>

f0003-02

Al Feels Secure In Goalie Post with Black Hawks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0170/1054354-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p><b>Day, Thompson Rated Top Rollins Teachers</b></p><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Al Rollins, Chicago&rsquo;s great netminder, feels that Hap Day of Toronto and Paul Thompson, once coach of the Black Hawks, have taught him the most. &ldquo;They are the men that really deserve a good chunk of the applause that I get from time to time,&rdquo; says Al.</p><p>&ldquo;Hap for one thing, got me to spread my feet farther apart in my normal goal stance. He pointed out how much quicker I could then respond with my legs. It seemed awkward at first, but when I got used to it, the change suited me fine. Thompson gave me some valuable tips while I was with his Vancouver club out on the coast.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-01

Tall, Thin and Terrific

<div class="byline">BOOTH</div><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Al Rollins, Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; goaler supreme, met his petite wife, Bert (short for Bertha), in a skating rink in New Westminster, B.C. They were married in May, 1947 and now have a three-year old daughter, Susan. The Rollins off-season home is in White Rock, 12 miles from New Westminster.</p><p>Honors accorded Al during his days as an amateur were numerous. He was voted the most valuable player in the Pacific Coast league while with Edmonton&rsquo;s Allan Cup champions in 1948. Earlier, he had recorded the most shutouts in both regulation and cup play as a member of the Seattle club in the same circuit.</p><p>Al was first spotted and tagged for stardom by the New York Rangers, but when he was hit with a minor attack of rheumatic fever, they released him outright. Lester Patrick reportedly later tried to reclaim him after his great showing at Seattle, but his efforts were unsuccessful.</p><p>Carpentry and construction work is what Al does during the summer to keep in shape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bits About Al

<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/f0004-01138/1054409-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p>Toronto Star</p><h2><b>Value Received&mdash;In Shirts and Socks</b></h2><p>&ldquo;WELL, sir,&rdquo; chuckled John Ross Roach, the pride of Port Perry in his goaling days, &ldquo;the most money I ever got for playing amateur hockey was $10. And I didn&rsquo;t get it in cash. That was from the old Granites. To make sure nobody would have any evidence against me, they gave me a voucher on a clothing store. Since I lost $12 in wages through being away from my job on that trip, I guess you could say I was a pure amateur.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>Aura Lee seniors weren&rsquo;t so sticky. They wanted Roach to play goal for them, and mentioned $1,000 which John Ross could have without the co-operation of a toggery shop. Roach had played for Bill Marsden&rsquo;s Aura Lee junior team. But Granites balked at giving him his freedom.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s when I decided to turn pro with St. Pats,&rdquo; Roach recalled. &ldquo;I got $1,000 for signing. It was a two-year contract, and I was to get $1,500 the first season. That was pretty big stuff in those days.&rdquo;</p><p>His career in Toronto had a somewhat spectacular ending, after contract difficulties with Conn Smythe, who had brought the club. Roach, who had an off-season job in Bay St., balked at what he regarded as a $500 salary cut. He had been expecting a $500 raise.</p><p>&ldquo;After Smythe and I had one or two meetings at which we couldn&rsquo;t agree, I got a call from him one day,&rdquo; John Ross said. &ldquo;He wanted me to come over to his office. Said there was something that was Important to my future. So I went. When he told me I had been traded to Rangers, I guess I almost fell off the chair. But I assured him I would go. After we&rsquo;d talked for a while, I left and went down the street. The newsboys already had papers announcing I&rsquo;d been traded for Lorne Chabot and $12,500. So they must have had the information before I did. I didn&rsquo;t pay any attention to that $12,500 business. Figured it was just window dressing to make the deal look good. But after I&rsquo;d been with New York for a while, I got talking to Lester Patrick about it one day. When I told him what I thought, he brought out the Rangers&rsquo; books and showed me it was true. Then I really felt silly. If I ever had thought there was that kind of money involved, I&rsquo;d have been holding out for a piece of it.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Dye Hardest, Joliat Most Accurate</b></h2><p>HAVING been bruised by some of the harder blasters in the history of the business, the little guy rubbed his shins reproachfully as he remembered some of the rubber that had come his way.</p><p>&ldquo;That Howie Morenz,&rdquo; he muttered, &ldquo;was pure murder. He&rsquo;d come down the wing and then start to cut in. Like as not, he&rsquo;d let the shot go while crossing in front of a defence man. That made it tough to handle&mdash;especially if the defence man backed up a bit, as they often did. Babe Dye, I thought, had the hardest drive. He wasn&rsquo;t big, but he had terrific wrists. There probably was as much speed in Charlie Conacher&rsquo;s shot, but he gave you more warning than Dye. That didn&rsquo;t always help. He hit me one night with a shot I was expecting. It still knocked me to my knees. But for accuracy, my pick would be Aurel Joliat. If you left an opening the size of a nickel, that guy could hit it.&rdquo;</p><p>In the Stanley Cup playoffs of 1931, Roach allowed only four goals in four games as Rangers knocked off Montreal Maroons, and then got nugged out by the Black Hawks. The following spring was one he would sooner forget. He was bombarded for 27 goals in seven games as Leafs wound up with the Stanley Cup. In the final three-game round, the Torontos gave him a salute of 18 goals in three games.</p><p>That was his farewell to arms as a Ranger. They traded him to Detroit for Andy Aikenhead, where John Ross finished out his hockey career of 14 seasons. He seldom had been hurt&mdash;until the 13th year jinx caught up to him.</p><p>&ldquo;They hit me with everything but the water bucket,&rdquo; Roach recalled mournfully. &ldquo;The only time I ever was knocked out was when one of my own players, Ebbie Goodfellow, went to leap over me while I was down on the ice. The toe of his skate drove into my face, above the lip. I got over that and Mush March hit me in the kisser with the puck. Seven stitches. Whoever it was said number 13 is unlucky wasn&rsquo;t fooling.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Howe Worried About Old Bootnose</b></h2><p>THUMBNAIL Tales: There&rsquo;s no person less concerned over <b>Gordie Howe&rsquo;s</b> chances of setting a new goal record for big league hockey than the aforementioned Howe. He pays practically no attention to the scoring statistics, beyond satisfying himself he&rsquo;s Still on top. His coach, <b>Tommy Ivan,</b> thinks Howe might have erased <b>Rocket Richard&rsquo;s</b> mark of 50 goals last season if the big Detroit winger could have become excited about the feat. &ldquo;During the last eight or 10 games of the schedule, against teams which we were beating by two or three goals,&rdquo; Ivan recalls, &ldquo;I noticed Howe pass up what looked like good scoring chances for himself, in order to pass the puck to <b>Sid Abel</b> or some other Red Wing. <b>Jack Adams</b> finally called him in and pointed out that Gordie was getting close to the record. But Howe told him: &lsquo;Ah, ole Bootnose (Abel) hasn&rsquo;t been gettin&rsquo; as many as usual. I&rsquo;d like the record all right, but I&rsquo;d feel better if Ole Boot finished with 20 goals.&rsquo;&rdquo; Howe had 47 goals when the regular season ended. Abel had 17.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-01

Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><p>(As zeen in the Montreal Gazette)</p><h2>Hockey&rsquo;s Greatest Showman</h2><p>Gordie Howe may be leading the NHL in scoring but the fellow who steals the spotlight, even in Detroit, is Maurice (The Rocket) Richard.</p><p>The Rocket doesn&rsquo;t have the lightning fast reflexes that he once had, which is one of the reasons why Howe and others have scored more goals so far this season than he has. But The Rocket still packs more color than Howe or any other player in the NHL. He is one of the greatest showmen in the history of hockey, if not the greatest.</p><p>Some of the dramatic effects he achieves are deliberate, but not all; some are the inevitable result of has super-charged personality. He gets all steamed up emotionally&rsquo; and just naturally explodes. How the hockey writers in another town react to him is exemplified in a few paragraphs by Sam Greene in a recent edition of The Detroit News.</p><p>&ldquo;When Joseph Henri Maurice Richard professed deep hatred for the Detroit Red Wings,&rdquo; wrote Sam recently,&rdquo; he confirmed his deserved reputation as the super-showman of the National Hockey League.</p><p>&ldquo;M. Richard, known to rinksiders as The Rocket, was inviting further abuse from Olympia patrons, who for 11 winters have been at their booing best, or worst, when he was on the premises.</p><p>&ldquo;A week ago 15,303 persons&mdash;a record for the season&mdash;jeered the scoring ace of the Montreal Canadiens. It was a few days later that he sneered, &lsquo;I hate Detroit,&rsquo; in an interview with The Canadian Press in Toronto. Sunday night M. Richard was back among his detractors. The box office count was increased to 15,307, and for a while it seemed that everybody in the stadium had come to villify The Rocket.&rdquo;</p><h2>A Friend in the Crowd</h2><p>It seems that this proved to be a mistaken impression, as The Rocket had at least one friend in the crowd. But let Sam Greene tell it:</p><p>&ldquo;As usual, M. Richard became embroiled with the referee&mdash;in this case a relative newcomer, Frank Udvari. The presence of an admirer developed while The Rocket was serving a sentence for checking Glen Skov into the boards in the first period.</p><p>&ldquo;A girl left her party in the inclined section in quest of M. Richard&rsquo;s autograph. An usher stopped her. It was strictly against the rules for prisoners to have visitors.</p><p>&ldquo;Gallantly, The Rocket intervened. He beckoned the girl, invited her to a seat next to the penalty box, signed her program and waved to the unfriendly crowd. More boos!</p><p>&ldquo;As the girl left, a smile lit the face of The Rocket. In a few minutes it turned into a scowl. He was joined on the penalty bench by a teammate, Bud MacPherson, and before they were released Detroit scored twice.</p><p>&ldquo;Les Canadiens had come to town amid reports that a grudge battle was afoot. None developed. Referee Udvari, whose work elicited approval from Jack Adams (hockey&rsquo;s equivalent of praise from Caesar) called only seven penalties, two against The Rocket.&rdquo;</p><p>If the Rocket is the game&rsquo;s greatest showman, he has a fine impresario in Dick Irvin. Dick makes sure that The Rocket&rsquo;s best quotes reach the press. He Is also better than fair himself as a provider of copy, and his recent charge that Jack Adams was in line for a $500 fine for invading the referees&rsquo; dressing room was expert needling. It was meant to arouse the Red Wings&rsquo; general manager and it did.</p><p>It didn&rsquo;t take Adams long to come back with the counter-charge that The Rocket, with Dick&rsquo;s approval, had deliberately tried to maim his players on their last two visits to Montreal.</p><h2>The Lumberjack Gag</h2><p>Somewhere along the line, Jack referred to The Rocket as lumberjack, a word that wasn&rsquo;t lost on Dick. He went right along with it on Canadiens&rsquo; visit to Detroit last Sunday. Here is The News&rsquo; description of the gag Dick thought up in answer to the lumberjack epithet:</p><p>&ldquo;Gaston Bettez, assistant trainer of Montreal Canadiens, had an extra chore. The former amateur goal-tender appeared with the team for pre-game practice. Dressed as a woodsman from the north country. Bettez carried a hockey stick with an imitation hatchet attached. On the back of his checkered shirt was the numeral (9) regularly worn by Rocket Richard, esteemed No. 1 villain of the rinks by the Detroit public.&rdquo;</p><p>Dick has a flair for that sort of thing and our only regret is that when he pulls somthing like that it&rsquo;s usually in an out-of-town rink. A few years ago a hockey bug wrote to the papers threatening to burn the Forum down if Dick was still with the team when it came in off a road trip. The Canadian Press picked up the story and Dick read it first on arriving in Toronto for a mid-week game there. That night Canadiens skated out on the ice at Maple Leaf Gardens wearing firemen&rsquo;s helmets.</p><p>It seems to us that hockey could do with a little more of this type of clowning. It&rsquo;s big success, to be sure, but it&rsquo;s also entertainment and there are few people around nowadays who can&rsquo;t use a laugh.</p><p>To get back to The Rocket, the league is the loser because there aren&rsquo;t more around like him. Even Jack Adams and Tommy Ivan admit that. When they talk about what a great hockey player Gordie Howe is, inevitably they reach the point when they lament his lack of color.</p><p>&ldquo;He makes everything look too easy,&rdquo; they say. &ldquo;Now if he only had The Rocket&rsquo;s color&hellip;&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass&mdash;</p><p>The insult-swapping contest in which Lynn Patrick and members of the redoubtable New York Rangers have been indulging for several weeks hasn&rsquo;t reached a last laugh climax yet.</p><p>As a result of its latest developments, both sides are wearing sickly grins.</p><p>For the greater part of the season Patrick has been looking down (verbally) his nose at the Rangers&rsquo; high scoring line of Paul Ronty, Wally Hergesheimer and Neil Strain.</p><p>In a recent edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS Patrick referred to the New York trio as &ldquo;scavengers&rdquo;, and pointed out that he didn&rsquo;t consider them worthy of defensive planning.</p><p>Ronty sponsored a reply in which he voiced the doubt that the Bruins had a forward as good as Hergesheimer and termed Patrick&rsquo;s attitude &ldquo;sour grapes&rdquo;.</p><p>Patrick promptly revised his estimate of Ronty and his linemates, saying, &ldquo;I was wrong when I called them just a scavenger line. I should have said that they&rsquo;re the best scavenger line in the league.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Feelings Mixed</b></h2><p>That set the stage for a two-game weekend series here between the Bruins and Rangers, a test of Patrick&rsquo;s &ldquo;scavenger&rdquo; label, a trial for Ronty&rsquo;s claim that Hergesheimer was better than the Bruins&rsquo; best.</p><p>The result was a stalemate, for while the Bruins didn&rsquo;t allow Ronty, Hergesheimer and Strain a solitary point in either game, the Rangers won one of the games.</p><p>Any jubilation that Patrick felt about the efficiency of his defense against the &ldquo;Scavengers&rdquo; was overcome by his remorse at losing a game which the Bruins wanted desperately to win.</p><p>To add to his woe, the Bruins blew nine goals past squat Lome Worsley in the first game of the series and were able to get only one by him 11 the second game.</p><h2><b>&ldquo;Ice-Cleaners&rdquo; Deluxe</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0275/1054509-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="297" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RONTY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0359/1054502-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="282" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HERGESHEIMER</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0445/1054495-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="309" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STRAIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Patrick Revises Estimate Of Rangers’ “R-H-S” Trio

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0528/1054540-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE (Red) SULLIVAN &hellip; &hellip; A Budding Bruin</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Smashes Old-Time Record)</span></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan of the Boston Bruins propelled himself into the record books by figuring in six goals against the New York Rangers the other night, he also put his bosses in the middle&mdash;of a muddle.</p><p>By scoring one goal himself and assisting on five others by teammates, the 23-year-old center broke one Bruins&rsquo; record&mdash;for the most assists in a game&mdash;and tied a second&mdash;for the most points in a game.</p><p>He made the biggest athletic splash here by a member of the Sullivan clan since the legendary days of the great John L.</p><p>But he also created a problem for the Bruins&rsquo; front office, as represented by General Manager Art Ross and Coach Lynn Patrick.</p><p>When the jut-jawed redhead sparked the Bruins to a 9 to 0 walloping of the Rangers, he was playing out the final days of his loan by the Hershey Bears of the American league.</p><p>After Dave Creighton broke his leg in early January, the Bruins called up Sullivan to bolster their forward squad. At that time they had fewer than 10 forwards available, so they were able to do so. They explained at the time that his presence would be only temporary.</p><h2><b>Bosses Puzzled</b></h2><p>Then the hustling youngster proceeded to turn in the outstanding performance by a Bruin this winter, leaving Ross and Patrick in a quandary.</p><p>At the time of Sullivan&rsquo;s six-point spree, the Bruins had only 10 forwards, counting him. Out with injuries were Johnny Peirson and Creighton.</p><p>Then a game later Peirson returned to action and that was when Sullivan was scheduled to exit for Hershey&mdash;but Fleming Mackell was unable to play.</p><p>The questions confronting Ross and Patrick were these:</p><p>When Mackell was fit for duty, would they return Sullivan to Hershey?</p><p>Or if they didn&rsquo;t send him back, whom would they send in his place?</p><p>&ldquo;We have no alternative but to send him back, because we brought him up under the emergency rule,&rdquo; explained Ross. &ldquo;However, we do not have to leave him there if we send someone else down to replace him.</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s not look ahead too far, though,&rdquo; added the veteran Bruin&rsquo;s executive. &ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t gone yet, and we may get more Injuries.&rdquo;</p><p>Regardless of his eventual disposition, it has been evident during the past three weeks that Sullivan has been a fine fill-in for the injured Creighton. Patrick has had to do all kinds of improvising at other line positions, but the 155-pound native of Peterborough, Ontario, has enabled him to ice an all-professional centering trio.</p><p>Patrick used Sullivan mainly on a patchwork line with Jack McIntyre and Jerry Toppazzini, a pair of huskies, with Toppazzini moving up from defense for the role. The two did all the converting of Sullivan&rsquo;s record number of assists, Toppazzini making three goals, McIntyre two.</p><p>The six points exceded by one Sullivan&rsquo;s previous peak. Earlier in the year he made three goals and two assists for Hershey against Buffalo.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sully’s Six-Point Splurge Spots Bruin Bosses in Middle of Muddle

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Dick Irvin may rate as the miracle coach of 1952-53&mdash;that is, if his Canadiens manage to finish atop the NHL this season. Not that Irvin hasn&rsquo;t the team to finish there or his no right there for he has, the miracle being that he could lead his team to the top while the injury jinx has belted his best players to the sidelines periodically throughout the season.</p><p>For instance, he lost Bouchard, Reay, St. Laurent, Moore, Lach, Mosdell and McNeil during the season. On top of that Dickie Moore hasn&rsquo;t played a game. While the ranks of his club were recuperating, Irvin had to call on players from his farm system. He brought up Reg Abbott from Victoria, gave Gerry Deslauniers from the Senior Royals a shot in the majors as well as Defenseman Rollie Rousseau and was fortunate enough to get Jean Beliveau for three games.</p><p>At one time Irvin had only Mosdell, Masnick and Johnny MacCor-mack to center his three lines. Lach was sidelined with a broken thumb while Reay sat in hospital nursing a broken cheek. To boot, Irvin was forced to call Jacques Plante up from the Royals to replace McNeil when the latter suffered a broken cheekbone on a shot off Harry Watsons stick. And when Plante had played the three games allowed to an amateur Dick had to dig further down. He went to the Quebec Provincial League for a replacement for Plante. He came up with Hal Murphy from St. Therese.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Moore To Come</b></h2><p>Now only Moore is to come. Dickie was shuffled to Buffalo for two weeks to get in shape. He will be fitted into center when he returns, probably between Gamble and Curry.</p><p>Whether the Canadiens can remain in first place is a question only time can answer.</p><p>&ldquo;We will if some of those other clubs can knock off Detroit,&rdquo; says Irvin. &ldquo;We are in first only because we can beat the Wings. If we had done that last season we would have finished on top then.&rdquo;</p><p>Canadiens only took two wins from the Wings last season and tied three. They managed to take only seven points out of a possible 28 from the Champs.</p><p>But it&rsquo;s a turnabout this season. The Wings have taken only a victory from the Habs while tieing five and losing four.</p><p>&ldquo;Actually we&rsquo;re not much better off than we were last season,&rdquo; says Irvin, &ldquo;except that we can beat the Wings and that&rsquo;s the difference that separated us in 1951-52.&rdquo;</p><p>The Habs have a long way to go before they can clinch a playoff berth however.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Bruins Could Upset</b></h2><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got six games left with Boston and they can upset the apple-cart. We&rsquo;re 13 points up on them and they have two games in hand. Those are the games we have to win to clinch the playoff spot and we have to beat the Wings to end in first.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin believes that 85 points will give his club the 1952-53 championship. After 48 games they had taken 56. So, of the ramaining 22 games they have to take 29 points or about 15 wins. It may be hard to do.</p><h2><b>Has Secret</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0191/1054464-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="564" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK IRVIN</b></figcaption></div><p>The Habs are only two points better than they were at this time last season. At that time they had 54 points and were in second while the Wings were on top with 64 points. The difference this season is that the Wings are nine worse off that at the same time in 1951-52 and those nine are the ones the Habs have taken from them.</p><p>The Irvin secret, you would say, is getting the &lsquo;mostest from the littlest&rsquo;. The club lost little ground when it&rsquo;s best players were sidelined. In fact that&rsquo;s when they began to pick up. From a club that once couldn&rsquo;t win on foreign ice even if the other team had stayed in their dressing room, they have developed into a team that now boast the best record in the League on the road.</p><p>As a matter of fact the Habs didn&rsquo;t win a game on the road until they had played 12. They won against Toronto for the first time on December 10th, nearly two months to the day that the season opened. Since winning that first game on the road, however, it&rsquo;s been a different story. They have played another dozen and have won seven, tied three and lost only two.</p><p>No homers these Habs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Irvin Claims First Place Standing Due To Beating Detroit

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01164/1054616-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="424" height="426"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>MERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE</b> arenas have their public address announcers give lineup changes as they occur during a game. This way the fans always know what players are on the ice for both teams. Reasons are also announced for referee and linesmen whistler which stop play, such as off sides and other causes&hellip;Syl Apps believes too many of the younger players in the NHL are too concerned with proving they&rsquo;re tough guys rather than playing good hockey. &ldquo;If they&rsquo;d go ahead and play hockey and forget about trying to outrough the other fellow they would be a lot further ahead,&rdquo; the onetime Toronto center remarked&hellip;Four members of the 1940-41 Chicago Black Kawks are coaching in the Okanagan Senior League. Sammy Coreau, eagle-eyed kamloops sportswriter, discovered this when he looked at a group picture of the 19 40-41 Black Hawks. Paul Thompson, manager of the &lsquo;40-41 Hawks and Players Phil Hergesheimer, Daye MacKay and Bill Carse, are all coaching this season in the Okanagan loop, which is fast becoming one of the top senior circuits in Canada &hellip;Jim McKechnie, who does the play by play announcing of the Syracuse Warriors home games, is the son of Bill McKechnie, famous baseball player, oach and manager&hellip; Young McKechnie was the goaltender for Penn State during his college days&hellip;George Storey, sports editor of the Barrie Examiner, is a younger brother of the Dick Irvin National Hockey League referee&hellip;Frank Boucher paid Dick Irvin a compliment the other day, which is really news. There&rsquo;s never been any love lost between the two and when Boucher said: &ldquo;He won&rsquo;t win any popularity contests, but he&rsquo;s the best coach in the business. Maybe the best there ever was.&rdquo; &hellip; it nearly floored the dour Montreal mentor.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0264/1054609-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="300" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>***</p><p><b>JOHNNY McCORMACK</b> was so excited after he scored one of his few goals in a game in Chicago recently, that he left his false teeth in the dressing room. He had almost reached the Chicago station before he remembered his choppers&hellip;Harry Watson, husky left winger of the Toronto Leafs, is the only forward in the NHL wearing Number 4. All other Number 4&rsquo;s in the loop are worn by defensemen&hellip;Eight Hat Tricks have been registered in the NHL this season. Wally Hergesheimer of N.Y. Rangers and Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe have performed the trick twice. Other players to score three goals in one game are Jean Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion of Canadiens, Fleming Mackell of Boston and Ted Kennedy of Toronto&hellip; The English National League is loaded with well known Canadian players. Some of the better known Canucks now performing across the ocean are Tony Licari, Joe Shack and Ed Blondin with Harringay Racers; Bob Cornforth, Frank Boucher, Wally Swords, Dave Maguire, Ross Tyrell, Hugh Riopelle and Bobby Dennison, Wembley Lions; Alf Harvey, Tom Jamieson, Fred Denny, Ken Booth, Les Anning and Cliff Ryan, Earl&rsquo;s Court Rangers; Earl Betken, Kreky Kreklewitz, Don Callaghan, Gord Callafgan, Vic Fildes, Roy Maisonneuve and Andre Charest, Streatham; Bobby Lee, Brighton Tigers; and Les Strongman and Chick Zamick, Nottingham Panthers&hellip;Zamick, a Winnipeg, Man. product has scored 400 goals in English hockey. He is one of the few Jewish hockey players&hellip;Bobby Lee, playing coach of Brighton, is the only other player to score 400 goals in English league hockey&hellip;Dick Irvin thinks Wally Hergesheimer the top candidate for the Lady Byng Trophy&hellip;He nominates his own Gerry McNeil for the Hart Trophy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0335/1054602-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="298" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>W. Hergesheimer</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><p><b>DAVE PRICE,</b> Director of TVsports for the CBC, has a new radio program running these days. It&rsquo;s titled &ldquo;Kellogg&rsquo;s Pep Talks&rdquo; and is on the air three times a week on Canadian stations from coast to coast. Price also conducts the popular &ldquo;Canadian Sports Roundup&rdquo; which is now in its third year. This is the best all-round Canadian sports program in Canada&hellip;Leafs&rsquo; Howie Meeker is trying swimming as exercise to loosen up his damaged knee &hellip; Boston&rsquo;s Dave Creighton had the cast removed from his broken leg last week and is exepected to start skating in three weeks&hellip; Montreal Canadiens are interested in buying Bobby Solinger from Toronto &hellip; Toronto, on the other hand, are searching for a left defenseman. There&rsquo;s a possibility the Leafs may bring Wee Willie Juzda up from Pittsburgh &hellip;The Leafs would trade Solinger to Montreal for one of Canadiens&rsquo; defensemen, but the Habs say ixnay to that&hellip;Jack Adams feels the absence of the injured Dave Creighton is the main trouble with the Bruins. &ldquo;They miss Creighton. He&rsquo;s my kind of player, always driving,&rdquo; said Adams on a recent visit to Boston&hellip; Adams tried to get Creighton from the Bruins last summer in a trade for Leo Reise. The Bruins reneged on the deal&hellip; Jim Morrison has not developed as swiftly for the Leafs as expected. He&rsquo;s cooled out considerably after his early season promise.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0422/1054595-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="290" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dave Creighton</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/f0006-0518/1054647-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>We Lost It</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I read THE HOCKEY NEWS every week. I like it very much.</p><p>I was sick and I missed the last two weeks and I am wondering what happened to the Hockey X-Word Puzzle? I enjoyed doing is very much.</p><p>Last of all, where could I obtain a Montreal program?</p><p>Roy Saint<br>Toronto, Ont.</p><p><b>(The X-Word was only missing one week and that was because we somehow managed to misplace it. It&rsquo;s back in its customary place now. Will one of our Mtl. readers send Roy a program at 511&frac12; Eastern Ave?)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>All Tough</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>We have been reading your extremely informative paper THE HOCKEY NEWS for several years and wonder if you might answer a few questions. First, having read in the January 24th issue a letter concerning the United States Amateur Hockey Association, we would like to know who the director is for our district, that we may write for information concerning junior amateur hockey. Deerfield is located in Western Massachusetts and there are many hockey enthusiaste who have been kept from the sport because of the recent mild weather.</p><p>Secondly, to settle an arguement, is there any one player in the NHL who is notorious as the roughest, hardest hitting player, but not necessarily the most penalized</p><p>Mike Erdinar Whitney Addington<br>Deerfield, Mass.</p><p><b>(The Representitive for your district is Walter A. Brown, 120 Causeway St., Boston 14, Mass. No one player in the NHL, could lay claim to being the roughest, they&rsquo;re all tough.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Our Slip is Showing</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Before I say what I would like to I must tell you that in the three months that I have been getting your paper. I have enjoyed it tremendously.</p><p>I am writing this letter in regard to an article in your December 17th issue. It was sent in by Donald MacDiarmid. He asked what number Edgar Laprade wore before he retired from the N.H.L. and you told him that it was number 9. I must correct you in that statement. It was number 10.</p><p>Again I would like to say that THE HOCKEY NEWS is great and I look forward to many more years reading it.</p><p>Raymond Sherwood<br>New York, N.Y.</p><p><b>(You&rsquo;re so right!)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Like Doug Smith</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>What a shame for hockey that it let a figure like Doug Smith slip away from it.</p><p>Down here when it was &lsquo;Hockey Night in Canada&rsquo; my wife and I would look forward to turning in CBM Montreal, and listening to the greatest sports announcer, hockey or otherwise, we ever heard.</p><p>When someone said that he could broadcast a sewing bee and make it sound like the Stanley Cup, they weren&rsquo;t kidding.</p><p>With all due respect to our Fred Cusick, the Boston club could use him to help sell its product in this era of slow business. Danny Gallivan is good to be sure but for our dough, both he and Foster Hewitt are far back in the race.</p><p>I wonder if our sentiments are shared by any of the Canadiens&rsquo; fans. Good luck Doug wherever you go.</p><p>Earland R. Worthley<br>Gloucester, Mass.</p><h2><b>Shellacking</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my second letter to your paper. I think it is the finest hockey paper I&rsquo;ve ever seen.</p><p>I wonder if you would settle this arguement between me and my friend. He says that the Detroit Red Wings once beat the Chicago Black Hawks 25-0 and I say that they did not. Please tell me who is right.</p><p>I hope to see the answer in the Fan Forum.</p><p>Jack Taylor Hamiltoin, Ont.</p><p><b>(Your friend is a little too awed by the Detroit scoring machine. They do hold the record for most goals scored in a game but it was only 15-0 and the team they beat was the New York Rangers and not Chicago. That was January 23, 1944 at Detroit.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Rocket&rsquo;s Ruckus</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>So Dick Irvin congratulated Maurice Richard on his play for last night when he got so many penalties. I wonder if he will walk the gallows with him when he commits murder &hellip; I haven&rsquo;t missed a game in 4 years and have yet to see anyone act so darn stupid and hot headed. Besides spoiling Jerry&rsquo;s chances for a shut-out and a possible win for the Canadians he lost a lot of his popularity. If it&rsquo;s publicity you want Richard you&rsquo;ll get plenty in you start putting the puck in the net again.</p><p>What I would like to know is this. When a player is picked as one of the three stars after each game is he paid for it?</p><p>Keep up the good work with THE HOCKEY NEWS, its great.</p><p>Blackie<br>Montreal, Que.</p><p><b>(They are not paid when picked as a star. It is only a token honour).</b></p><h2><b>Guyle&rsquo;s The Guy</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to THE HOCKEY NEWS and may I say that it is the finest sports paper I have ever had the privilige to read.</p><p>The reason for this letter is the great controversy over Rocket Richard and Gordon Howe. Well, admitted they are both terrific hockey players but there is a fellow playing down in the American Hockey League who goes by the name of Guyle Fielder, who is tops with me.</p><p>I&rsquo;ve followed his career since he started with the Lethbridge Native Sons and his rise to hockey fame isn&rsquo;t too far away. I noticed after he left the Edmonton Flyers for the St. Louis Flyers he was up with the league leaders. Its to be expected.</p><p>So in closing all I can say is &lsquo;Look out Gordie and Rocket!&rsquo;</p><p>Bob Garner<br>Calgary, Alta.</p><h2><b>Off Season Publicity</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>In one of the recent issues of THE HOCKEY NEWS I saw in Mr. Elmer Ferguson&rsquo;s column a statement about the decline of hockey followers in Chicago, New York and Boston. It concerned the opinion of one Mr. Art Chapman and Emile Francis that only Canadians appreciated good Hockey and that the fans of the US were concerned only with large scoring games. I wrote to Mr. Ferguson in regards and told him if the fans in these towns mentioned could have some decent hockey they would, could and will pass the attendance marks of Detroit Montreal and Toronto.</p><p>Now in the December 27th edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS in Ken McKenzie&rsquo;s column there is a piece about Chicago having the largest attendance of the year at one of their home games and this I believe is due to the fact that the Hawks are not any ones doormat anymore. Being from Chicago I happen to know that the Chi City sextet holds the record for single games in the National League and also for the season. The single game record is 20,004 and for the entire season is something around 480,000 and if I am wrong please correct me.</p><p>My beef to your column is that Emile Francis, an ex big time goalie and Art Chapman an ex NHL veteran should be well aware that the fans south of the border are, have been and will be glad to go watch winning teams plays hockey anytime. I am quite sure that if Montreal Toronto or Detroit ever had 5 seasons of the kind of Hockey we had in Chicago up till this year, they probably been out of business by now. But the fans in Chicago did not desert them. They are now being dewarded with a winning brand of Hockey. This everyone knows is good for Hockey and should help even up the league to a more even balanced league and make the competion and rivalry something to put the great sport of Hockey on a higher basis in the States as well as Canada. No, I am sure that Mr. Ferguson and Mr Francis and Chapman are wrong in their opinion of the fans South of the border.</p><p>I would like to add that your paper is just about the sole information guide to the fans in the US during the off season and if more publicity was instigated in the off season it would certainly help Hockey. I think your paper is tops and always look forward to receiving it. How about an article on Bill Mosienko the stellar veteran of Chicago?</p><p>Pfc. William P. Dolan<br>c/o P.M. San Francisco, Calif.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Three Howes</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Just a short note to say how much I enjoy reading your paper and also to ask a few questions I hope you won&rsquo;te mind answering.</p><p>Has Gordie Howe a brother named Sid Howe and if so would you give me his hockey history and also his age?</p><p>James Noble<br>Kilmar, Que.</p><p><b>(Sid Howe was also a Detroit Red Wing star but was not Gordie&rsquo;s brother. Gordie has a hockey playing brother however, by the name of Vic, who is the property of the New York Rangers).</b><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/f0006-0615/1054678-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="594" height="280"></div><p><b>FEBRUARY 13 to 19</b></p><p>14&mdash;GEOFFRION, Bernie, Montreal, forward, 1931.</p><p>15&mdash;SCHERZA, Chuck, Providence, forward, 1923.</p><p>17&mdash;MEGER, Paul, Montreal, forward, 1929.</p><p>18&mdash;JOHNSON, Tom, Montreal, defence, 1928.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-06

Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><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<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The familiar figure in the light skypiece wasn&rsquo;t announced when he attended the game between Rangers and Canadiens on the night of January 28th.</p><p>In fact anybody who recognized Conny Smythe (underneath a deep coat of tan) must have wandered why he chose to brave the chilly blasts of the North instead of relaxing in the Southern heat waves.</p><p>But his unexpected visit was calculated to stir some interest in hockey circles and he had no sooner settled himself in a Madison Square Garden seat when trade talk started to buzz.</p><p>Smythe was shopping for a rearguard to help his failing, injury-riddled Leafs and Tom Johnson before the game was over the man most likely to fit into Conn&rsquo;s plans was Leo Reise, the big Ranger ice cop.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0293/1054740-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="246" height="388"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tom Johnson</b></figcaption></div><p>Smythe didn&rsquo;t confirm his intention but Frank Selke, General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens, on his return to Montreal, said that Smythe wanted a defenseman and that Leo Reise was the one he wanted most from Rangers.</p><p>He then explained that Smythe, no-bargain basement dealer, had offered Canadiens Bob Solinger, even up for Tom Johnson. What Selke had to say about that was brief and to the point. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want an American Hockey League player for a proven National Leaguer.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0367/1054733-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="252" height="388"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Reise</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-02

Smythe Marketing, Seeks Reise To Aid Sagging Blueliners

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Exit (laughing) Dick Irvin.</p><p>The Grey Ghost of Montreal has exhibited various emotions in his departures from Detroit Olympia in the past, but lately his curtain lines have called only for deep chuckles.</p><p>By some process not known to other National Hockey League pilots. Irvin and his Canadiens have learned how to handle the title-laden Red Wings.</p><p>Only once this season has Detroit won a home game from Montreal. And that so long ago fans have to tax their memories to recall the event. It was Oct. 19, to be exact.</p><p>The Wings should be thankful they&rsquo;ve won that many. It&rsquo;s one more victory than they&rsquo;ve booked at the Forum. So after 10 games the Canadiens &ldquo;own&rdquo; the Wings to the extent of tour victories and five ties.</p><p>On the last whirl around the circuit Irvin even shared the laughs with Detroit fans. On purpose, too&mdash;not like the night in 1950 he had them roaring at his antics as he climbed the dasher and chased Referee Hugh McLean around center ice.</p><p>This time they were laughing with him. When the Canadiens swooped out for pre-game practice one member of the troupe was attired in a plaid lumberpack shirt, street trousers, black whiskers, a toque and, of course, skates.</p><p>The star of the show was missing, but this character obviously was the replacement since a huge No. 9 was boldly printed on the back of the shirt.</p><p>Nothing was more unexpected. This was the game when the fans&mdash;all but one of the 15,307&mdash;had turned out of boo Rocket (&ldquo;I hate that Detroit team&rdquo;) Richard. Maybe this clown really was the Rocket, but still they had to laugh.</p><p>After five minutes of suspense Richard finally skated out from the dressing room to join his teammates. The other No. 9, stripped of his disguise, was revealed as Gaston Bettez, Montreal&rsquo;s assistant trainer.</p><p>Some might claim it all was undignified, of halving no place in big-league hockey. But the customers loved it and showered Richard with his usual quota of booes just the same. Maybe, however, more good-naturedly that usual.</p><h2><b>He Hates Detroit</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0461/1054771-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="348" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ROCKET RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><p>In this game the Rocket squatted in the penalty box while the Wings scored three goals. It was there that the amazing disclosure came that he had one loyal fan in the huge crowd after all.</p><p>A pert young lady hastened to the penalty box to collect an autograph from the man who is No. 1 on the hate parade in these parts. The Rocket scowled. But then, ever the gracious gentleman, he courtly obliged with his signature.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t until some 30 minutes later that Richard escaped being the goat of a defeat. Bud MacPherson delivered his second goal of the season, a 60-foot screen shot with five minutes left, to bring Montreal a 3-3 tie instead of a 3-2 setback.</p><p>And once more Irvin, unanimously cast as a villain, gathered up his cloak and strode off the stage. You could hear his chuckles echoing through the empty stadium for days afterwards.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-04

Who Says Margie “Owns” Red Wings, Habs’ Claim Much More Binding

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>In three weeks time major league baseball teams will be taking off for sunnier climes to get in shape for the rugged season ahead.</p><p>Sometime during that season, there will be at least one old time player stating &ldquo;They don&rsquo;t play the game like they did in my day, and the players of today are inferior.&rdquo; It happens as regular as clockwork. It was Ty Cobb last season.</p><p>Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your outlook on the subject, the same thing is an annual occurence in hockey. It just happens that this year it&rsquo;s Lionel Conacher, Member of Parliament in Canada and former NHL star who is saying that the players of his era were better than any of the hockey players presently trotting the ice lanes.</p><p>In an article in New Liberty magazine entitled &lsquo;You Call This Hockey?&rsquo; Conacher recently picked what he considered to be the all time all-star team. Without doubt, even some of his most loyal constituents are going to give &lsquo;The Big Train&rsquo; an arguement on his selections.</p><p>Conacher&rsquo;s starting team would have Roy Worters in the nets. Eddie Shore and Eddie Gerard on the defense and Milt Schmidt pivoting Bill Cook and Aurel Joliat. His second string consists of Chuck Gardiner between the pipes, King Clancy and Ching Johnson on the blueline with Howie Morenz centering Chuck Conacher and Harvey Jackson.</p><p>There is sure to be a contreversy over his selection for the goaltender&rsquo;s job. Montreal fans will raise a hue and cry and point to Big Bill Durnan, six time Vezina Trophy winner as a better goaler than either of Conacher&rsquo;s picks. They will point out that Bill was ambidextrous and was as lightning fast or faster than any goaler to don pads in the NHL. Detroit fans will point with pride to Terry Sawchuk, rated by Jack Adams, himself a pretty sound judge of hockey flesh, as the greatest of them all. That statement is debateable but the fact remains that Terry is a mighty proficient cage custodian and could have made any team in the eminent MP&rsquo;s era.</p><p>There are more, like Frank &lsquo;Mr. Zero&rsquo; Brimsek in his prime with Boston, Walter &lsquo;Turk&rsquo; Broda with the Toronto Maple Leafs and others.</p><p>His defense is pretty sound, most avid fans will agree, but there are still those that will say that Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly, Boston&rsquo;s Bill Quackenbush in his prime with Detroit, Butch Bouchard of the Canadiens, Detroit&rsquo;s Jack Stewart, and a few others would give the oldsters quite a tussle for the job.</p><p>His first string right winger is Bill Cook and once again there isn&rsquo;t too much cause for arguement although Gordon Howe of the Detroit Red Wings and the Habs&rsquo; Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard rate right up there, certainly on a par or better than his second choice pick, brother Charlie of the Toronto Maple Leaf&rsquo;s famous &lsquo;Kid Line&rsquo;. In the same article Lionel Conacher states that &ldquo;Les Canadiens&rsquo; Elmer Lach and Rocket Richard are nice to watch.&rdquo; He states that this duo plays somewhat the same type hockey as they did in his tenure in the NHL, so is it therefore presumptious to assume that Richard would be as big a star then as he is at the present time?</p><h2><b>Milty Only!</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0544/1054802-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="576" height="890"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LIONEL CONACHER</b></figcaption></div><p>On Left wing his first choice is Aurel Joliat and still again there will be few dissenters but someone is sure to point out to him that Ted Lindsay of the Detroit Red Wings is as good or better any day than Harvey Jackson, Conacher&rsquo;s alternate on the port side. The Habs&rsquo; Toe Blake would also rate hearty consideration but unfortunately The Big Train says of Toe, &ldquo;Two good examples of mediocre players 7 made into &lsquo;stars&rsquo; by the playing rule changes of World War II were the Leafs&rsquo; Murph Chamberlain and the Canadiens&rsquo; Toe Blake.&rdquo; Being a legislator, Conacher should like to deal in facts. Here are two! In the 1 938-39 season, before the war broke out, Blake was the NHL&rsquo;s leading scorer and also won the Hart Trophy, and this with a team that was going newhere at the time. Therefore, and again we must assume it, Bloke must have been a &lsquo;star&rsquo; before the new rules were introduced.</p><p>His most surprising choice, and the one liable to create the most controversy, was his choice of Boston&rsquo;s Milt Schmidt over the immortal Howie Morenz for the pivot spot. Morenz was chosen the outstanding hockey player of the best fifty years, yet Conacher sees fit to relegate him to the alterante&rsquo;s post on his team. Conacher, himself voted Canada&rsquo;s top all around athlete of the same period, also missed good bets in the likes of Toronto&rsquo;s Syl Apps and Ted Kennedy, Montreal&rsquo;s Elegant Elmer Lach, Detroit&rsquo;s Syd Abel, Chicago&rsquo;s Max Bentley, Boston s Bill Cowley, and the Rangers&rsquo; Neil Colville, every one a star and some equally as or more prefficient than Schmidt, as great as the Boston veteran was and is.</p><p>One thing that is certain about Lionel Conacher, he called them as he saw them, with no restraint, just as he did during his playing days.</p><p>As stated earlier, it is an annual event, this sounding off against the present day hockey. This year it was Conacher, any volunteers for 1954?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-05

“Big Train” Way Off Base As Star Selector

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Conn Smythe, the Leaf managing director, is still puzzling how a goalkeeper can let 240 goals flit past him one season and with a change of scenery and another club in front of him still turn out in to the minor sensation that Harry Lumley has become in the past few weeks.</p><p>Lumley&rsquo;s amazing metamorphosis from a strictly mediocre sometimes porous janitor who hadn&rsquo;t collected a shutout early in December to a remarkable adhesive factor that has helped to hold the Leafs together while Max Bentley and Ted Kennedy succumbed to the rigours of ther profession, is more than accident.</p><p>Smythe, who negotiated the deal for Lum with Chicago with a shadow of a doubt still in his mind but with the pressure of fans on his neck, now claims that the Owen Sound service station operator &ldquo;has far exceeded his expectations.&rdquo; Lum has exceeded a lot of peoples&rsquo; expectations in the past few weeks even those who leaned towards him before he became a Leaf. Starting on Dec. 7, he had amassed a total of six shutouts, one against each team and two against the Black Hawks at this writing and no one could make any estimation as to when he&rsquo;d stop.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01148/1054847-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="303" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><p>Lumley has accepted his newly acquired aquaintance with the goosegg, a factor which kept the Leafs at .500 hockey in spite of serious vacancies in the roster, with no particular explanation. He remarks only that he is not particularly interested in shutouts, is more particularly anxious about the playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve found through experience,&rdquo; he comments ruefully, &ldquo;that it&rsquo;s a long summer without that playoff cheque.&rdquo;</p><p>Smythe, however, confesses to finding some technical faults with Lumley&rsquo;s goalkeeping that had to be ironed out. They were not, however, the sole reason that the Leaf fortunes rose and fell like an elevator through the first part of the season. Lumley was suffering his miseries at the same time that a bunch of rookies were disvorering what was like to play in the NHL. Happily they both met on the same road and in the opinion of most observers&hellip; it&rsquo;s going to lead right to the playoffs.</p><p>Smythe, the only boss in the NHL who records errors and heroics alike on film, informed Lumley that he was about to discover if he, Lum, could operate under the pressure that it is generally the consensus every Leaf player must learn to love. Smythe maintained that Lumley wasn&rsquo;t keeping his eye on the puck and had the pictures to prove it. Lumley started watching the puck. Smythe maintained that Lumley wasn&rsquo;t playing to the post and had the pictures to prove it. Lumley wrapped an elbow around the post and kept watching the puck. Smythe maintained that Lumley was holding his stick too short to allow him to intercept passes from the corners and had the pictures to Kennedy prove it. Lum kept his eye on the puick wrapped his elbow around the post and took a longer grip on the stick.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02102/1054840-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="288" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ten Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><p>The effect has been phenominel. Lumley is now being touted for the All Star team (here anyway) an honor which habitually is synonymous with the Vezina Trophy. And both awards aren&rsquo;t entirely out of his reach.</p><h2><b>Getting SO&rsquo;s</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0376/1054833-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="591" height="898"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HARRY LUMLEY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-01

Conn Smythe Turns to Directing; Harry Lumley In Starring Role

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0624/1054878-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>ERNIE &lsquo;BOOM BOOM&rsquo; GEOFFRION <b>is looking ahead to his twenty-second birthday with some optimism. He will reach that age on February 14, St. Valentine&rsquo;s Day, and he is hoping that he will be able to pot his twenty-second counter on that date, especially seeing as how the opposition at the time will be the hated Toronto Maple Leafs. The game is slated for the Gardens and he hopes to be able to rap in the all important counter before the usually hostile Toronto crowd. Last year&rsquo;s Calder Cup winner is seen in the above shot on the occasion of his birthday last season.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-06

Seeks 22nd for 22nd Birthday

f0008-04

WE’D LIKE TO KNOW YOU!!

<p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t&rsquo;s getting to be monotonous trying to pick the Player of the Week. By all rights it would be a lot easier to just assign Gordon Howe of Detroit Red Wings the title permanently. This season anyway, be seems to have a strangle hold on the honour.</p><p>At the moment. Howe is hotter than a firecracker, and has been belting home the goals at such a rapid rate that observers are already awarding him the record for goals scored in a season. Of course he stil has a few to go to smash Rocket Richard&rsquo;s record 50 for a season but his ardent admirers will give you all kinds of odds that the big, likeable guy is just the person who can do it.</p><p>To date this season, Gordon Howe has scored 37 goals, just 13 shy of the mark. He&rsquo;s done this in 48 games and still has 22 encounters left in which to set a new record. If he can keep up the torrid pace he set during this last week, he should be able to do it. This past seven days he booted home six goals, an average of two for each of the three games he played.</p><p>Add to this the fact that Howe is nearing the 200 goal mark, and it is apparent that Gordie will always mark this season down in his memory as one of his better ones. In his seventh NHL campaign, Howe has amassed a tola of 197 goals and only needs three to join the exclusive &lsquo;200 Goal Club&rsquo;.</p><p>There is still another record that he is virtually sure of smashing. Three other players have won the scoring championship of the league twice running but it is now pretty well apparent that Gordon Howe will become the first player to ever make it a triple. Add 30 assists to his 37 goals to date and it gives him 67 points, far ahead of his nearest rival.</p><p>There is some speculation that before the 24-year-old Howe decides to call it a day, he will break Richard&rsquo;s all time goal scoring record. Earlier this season the Rocket broke Nels Stewart&rsquo;s mark of 324 and is still going. Howe has a good chance to break the record again. After Richard&rsquo;s first seven seasons in the NHL he had a total of 207 goals, a mark Howe could surpass this year.</p><p>Since the big fellow hit his stride a few years back, people have ceased trying to figure out who will make the first all-star right wing post. They now wonder who will run second to Howe. Usually it is Maurice Richard. Howe&rsquo;s greatest rival.</p><p>Although he is undoubtedly the top player in the game right now. Howe will never have the color his rival always manages to swathe himself with, but the quiet, unassuming guy will go down in the records as one of the all-time greats, just as will Richard.</p><p>One thing is for certain. As long as the Detroit Red Wings have Gordie Howe In the line-up. they never need worry about finishing too low in the standings.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0650/1055093-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="292" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordon Howe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-06

Player-Of-The-Week

<h2><b>Gump Garners SO</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>orne (Gump) Worsley, rookie netminder with the New York Rangers, racked up his second shutout of the season as the New Yorkers shut out the Chicago Black Hawks 1-0 on February 1.</p><h2><b>Gerry Leads SO&rsquo;s</b></h2><p>Gerry McNeil of the Montreal Canadiens continues to lead in the goose-egg department. To date nimble Gerry has turned in eight, his latest a scoreless draw with the Boston Bruins.</p><h2><b>Red Wings Regain Top Spot As Canadiens Slip</b></h2><p>Detroit took over first place from Montreal Canadiens and Toronto went ahead of Chicago during the past seven days. The Wings had three impressive wins during the week to increase their point total to 59, two more than the Canucks. Toronto is third 50 points, while the faltering Chicago Black Hawks who lost three straight during the week, are fourth with 4 8 points. Two points back of the Hawks, and with two games in hand, are the Boston Bruins. New York is sixth with 34 points.</p><p>Gordie Howe added 10 scoring points to his record and now leads the loop&rsquo;s scoring derby with a 17-point margin over the second-place Ted Lindsay. Howe had six goals and four assists during the week and his season&rsquo;s record is 37 goals and 30 assists. The burly Detroiter leads the League in points, goals scored, and shares the assists leadership with Lindsay and Alex Delvecchio. Lindsay, Howe&rsquo;s line mate on the Red Wings, has 20 goals and 30 assists for 50 points. Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard is third with 21 goals and 26 assists for 47 points. Wally Hergesheimer has slipped from second place to fourth. The New York winger has 21 goals and 24 assists for 45 points.</p><p>Paul Ronty of Rangers and Aiex Delvecchio of Detroit are next with 39 points; Metro Prystai, Detroit, follows with 38; then comes Bert Olmstead of Canadiens with 34 and Red Kelly of Detroit with 34 Red Kelly of Detroit with 33.</p><p>Every goalie in the League with the exception of Al Rollins chalked up a shutout during the past week. Gerry McNeil of Canadiens leads in shutouts with eight. Terry Sawchuk of Detroit has the best average. He has allowed 2.05 goals-against. Detroit has had 97 goals tallied against them in 48 tilts.</p><p>Ted Lindsay, Detroit captain, is the most penalized player with 100 minutes. Toronto remains the most penalized club with 630 minutes.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01132/1055062-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="591" height="181"></div><h2><b>RESULTS OF THE GAMES</b></h2><p>Jan. 28th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Rangers 1</p><p>Jan 29th&mdash;Rangers 2 at Canadiens 6</p><p>Jan. 29th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Boston 2</p><p>Jan 29th.&mdash;Detroit 5 at Chicago 2</p><p>Jan. 31st&mdash;Boston 0 at Canadiens 0</p><p>Jan. 31st&mdash;Rangers 0 at Toronto 4</p><p>Jan. 31st&mdash;Chicaga 0 at Detroit 4</p><p>Feb. 1st&mdash;Canadiens 3 at Boston 4</p><p>Feb. 1st&mdash;Toronto 1 at Detroit 5</p><p>Feb.lsct&mdash;Rangers 1 at Chicago 0</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28</b></h3><p><b>Montreal 2 at New York 1</b></p><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Montreal Canadiens took over sole possession of first place in the National Hockey League when they downed the New York Rangers 2-1. The win moved the Habs one point in front of the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>The hero of the piece was Floyd Curry, Hab winger, who potted the winning goal at the 8:57 mark of the third period. Dick Gamble drew the assist on the play.</p><p>There was no scoring in the opening stanza which was featured by major penalties to the Habs&rsquo; Bert Olmstead and Steve Kraftcheck of the Rangers. In the second period Ken Mosdell scored for Montreal on passes from Doug Harvey and Olmstead while Pete Babando counted for the Blues from Harry Howell and Jack Stoddard.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defense, Johnson, Boucher, Harvey, St. Laurent, McPherson: forwards, Masnick, Gamble, Curry, Geoffrion, Richard, Reay, Olmstead. Lach, McCormack. Mosdell, Meger.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defens, Reise, Howell, Buller, Kraftcheck, Stanley; forwards: Ronty, Hergesheimer, Strain, Mickoski, Stoddard, Babando, Senick, Kullman, Labadie.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari. Linesmen: Sammy Babcock and Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02112/1055055-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="608" height="403"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY JANUARY 29</b></h3><p><b>Detroit 5 at Chicago 2</b></p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Gordie Howe went on a scoring rampage, knocking home three goals in the second period to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-2 win over the Chicago Black Hawks. The win kept the Wings within one point of the league leading Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Chicago took an early lead, Jimmy Peters scoring the only goal of the first period.</p><p>Four goals In the second period put the game on ice for Detroit. Besides Howe&rsquo;s triple, Johnny Wilson banged home a single.</p><p>The teams exchanged goals in the final frame, Jim McFadden notched one for the Hawks and later Metro Prystai got that one back for the Detroiters.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal Sawchuk defense, ,Gold-ham, Kelly, Pronovost, Foit, Hay; forwards. Howe, Prystai, Lindsay, Leswick, Pavelich, Skov, Sinclair, Delvecchio, Wilson. Bonin.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins: defense, Mortson, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Raglan, Hucul; forwards: Couture, Abel, Lynn, Peters, Bodnar, Sclisizzi, Gardner, Gee, McFadden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01147/1055048-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="604" height="556"></div><p>***</p><h2><b>Toronto 2 at Boston 2</b></h2><p>BOSTON&mdash;Gordie Hannigan&rsquo;s goat near the half way mark in the second period gave the Toronto Maple Leafs a 2-2 standoff with the Boston Bruins and enabled them to tie Chicago for third place in the NHL standings.</p><p>It was an uphill fight for the Leafs, they having to come from behind a 2-0 deficit to eke out the draw.</p><p>Real Chevrefils and Joe Klukay shot the Beantowners to a 2-0 first period lead and the Bruins appeared on the way to a certain victory.</p><p>Tod Sloan put the Torontonians back in the game after only 28 seconds had elapsed in the second canto and then Hannigan scored at the 8:18 mark to even it up and that&rsquo;s the way it eventually ended.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02114/1055041-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="616" height="512"></div><p>***</p><h2><b>New York 2 at Montreal 5</b></h2><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens overcame an early deficit and went on to down the New York Rangers 5-2 with Maurice Richard scoring a pair of goals. The victory left the Habs one point out in front of the tight NHL race.</p><p>Nick Mickoski got the Blues off to a good start by tallying within 23 seconds of play In the first period. That was the last time the Habs were behind.</p><p>Before the period had ended, Dick Gamble and Richard had put the Mont realers on even footing and then ahead.</p><p>Canadiens added two more in the second, Bernie Geoffrion and Richard scoring and Jack Stoddard counted for the Rangers. Elme.Lach scored the only goal of the final twenty minutes.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defense: Howe.ll, Reise, Buller, Kratfcheck, Stanley forwards: Kullman, Mickoski, Stoddard, Raleigh, Ronty, Babando, Senick, Hergesheimer, Strain, Labadie.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal McNeil; defense: Harvey. St. Laurent. Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson: forwards: Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Reay, Geoffrion. Meger, McCormack, Curry, Gamble, Masnick, Lach.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0397/1055034-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="604" height="440"></div><p>***</p><h3><b>SATURDAY JANUARY 31</b></h3><p><b>Boston 0 at Canadiens 0</b></p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Boston Bruins an 1 the Montreal Canadiens battled to a scoreless draw at the Montreal Forum in which goaltending was the spotlight.</p><p>The crowd of 14,377 saw Gerry McNeil of Montreal rack up his eight shutouts of the season and Sugar Jim Henry his sixth. McNeil is the league leader in this department and was called on to handle 16 shots as against the 26 taken care of by Henry.</p><p>Maurice Richard had several opportunities to break the game wide open as did Bernie Geoffrion but Henry foiled them at every turn. Joe Klukay and Ed Sandford had good chances for the Bruins but were turned aside by McNeil.</p><p>There were only minor penalties called, five of them against Montreal, tempers frequently flared and the game its rough, solid checking spots.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defense, Quackenbush, Goodfrey, Armstrong, Toppazzini, Laycoe: forwards, Schmidt, Chevre-fils, Klukay, Sandford, Mackel, LaBine, Dumart, McIntyre. Peirson, Lund.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defense, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson: forwards: Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Masnick, Geoffrion. Meger, McCormack.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen, Sam Babcock, Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0471/1055027-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="603" height="346"></div><p>***</p><h2><b>New York 0 at Toronto 4</b></h2><p>TORONTO&mdash;Sparked by the fine goaltending of Harry Lumley and the sure fire scoring of young Eric Nesterenko, the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the New York Rangers 4-0.</p><p>The Toronto rookie pushed home two goals and veteran Harry Watson added the other pair. Nesty also added an assist to his total for the evening.</p><p>The Leafs had little trouble subduing the cellar-dwelling Blues who showed little in the attack department andal-lowed their defense to rest almost entirely on the shoulders of Lome Worsley in their goals.</p><p>12,885 fans attended the game in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence: Howell, Reise, Buller, Stanley, Kraftcheck; forwards, Kullman, Mickoski, Stoddard, Raleigh, Babando, Ronty, Hergesheimer, Strain, Eenick, Guidolin.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defense, Thomson, Horton, Boivin, Flaman, Morrison: forwards. Hassard, Hannigan, Nesterenko, Bentley, Smith, Stewart, Sloan, Watson, Armstrong, Maloney.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bil Chadwick: linesmen: Jim Primeau, Bernie Lemaitre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0559/1055020-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="599" height="531"></div><p>***</p><h2><b>Chicago 0 at Detroit 4</b></h2><p>DETROIT&mdash;Detroit Red Wings posted a 410 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks, allowing them to climb into a first place tie with the Montreal Canadiens. The win was a present to coach Tommy Ivan on his 42nd birthday.</p><p>It was the sixth shutout of the season for Terry Sawchuck, two behind Gerry McNeil of Montreal.</p><p>Followers of Gordie How&rsquo;e attempt to shatter Maurice Richard&rsquo;s mark of 50 goals in a season were happy when the big fellow potted number 35 at the half way mark in the third period.</p><p>Other Detroit scorers were Tony Leswick. Reg Sinclair and Red Kelly.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense: Mortson, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Raglan; forwards: Gardner, Mosienko, Lynn, Peters. Hucul, Bodnar, Sclisizzi, Couture, Gee, McFadden, Abel.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defense: Gold-ham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Bonin, Ledwick, Delveccio, Wilson, Sinclair.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Ollnsky; linesmen: Bobbie Carse, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0655/1055013-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="603" height="319"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1st</b></h3><p><b>Toronto 1 at Detroit 5</b></p><p>DETROIT&mdash;Gordon Howe continued his terrific scoring streak as he notched another pair as the Detroit Red Wings dumped the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1.</p><p>The goals were Howe&rsquo;s 36th and 37th, leaving him with 14 goals left before he can shatter the record. He has 22 games left in which to accomplish the feat.</p><p>Other Detroit scorers were Alex Delvecchio, Marcel Pronovost, and Alex Delvecchio again.</p><p>As big a hero as Howe was Terry Sawchuk, who played almost the entire game with a banged from face after being struck by Harry Watson&rsquo;s rising shot in the first period.</p><p>Toronto: Goal, Lumley: defense: Thomson, Horton, Morrison, Boivin, Flaman; forwards: Hassard, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Watson, Smith Sloan, Armstrong, Maloney, Lewlcki.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> goal, Sawchuk: defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Del vecchio, Leswick, Sinclair, Skov, Bonin, Wilson.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehnlenbacher; linesmen: George Hayes and Bobby Carse.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0743/1055006-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="603" height="636"></div><h2><b>New York 1 at Chicago 0</b></h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Little Lome Worsley racked up his second shutout of his short NHL career to date as he turned back the Chicago Black Hawks 1-0. The lone Ranger goal was scored by Aldo Guidolin in the first period.</p><p>The Rangers got on the score sheet at the 6:36 mark of the opener when Don Raleigh carried the puck into the Hawk zone, flipped over to Senick who made a nice play to Guidolin and he in turn converted the pass into the winning goal.</p><p>Worsley was magnificent in the New York nets, being called upon to handle the almost ilncredible sum of 44 shots as compared to the 33 the Rangers threw at Al Rollins, who also played a good game between the pipes.</p><p><b>NewYork:</b> Goal, Worsley: defense: Buller, Reise, Kraftcheck, Stanley, Howell; forwards, Strain, Ronty, Hergesheimer, Raleigh, Mickoski, Guidolin, Stoddard, Babando, Kullman, Senick.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense: Mortson, Raglan, Fogolin. Dewsbury; forwards: Bodnar, McFadden, Peters. Mosienko, Lynn, Hucul, Sclisizzi, Couture, Gardner, Gee, Abel.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen: Doug Young and Harold March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0841/1054999-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="605" height="341"></div><p>***</p><h2><b>Montreal 3 at Boston 4</b></h2><p>BOSTON&mdash;Joe Klukay scored twic in the third period to cap a Boston Bruin comeback performance and give them a 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiena. The loss shoved the Habs back into second place in the NHL standings.</p><p>At the point in the contest the Flying Frenchmen held a 3-0 lead over the Beantowners but they went on to blow that lead and eventually the game.</p><p>Besides Klukay&rsquo;s pair, Leo LaBine and. Ed Sandford tallied for the Bruins while diminutive Paul Masnick paced the Hab attack with a pair and Bert Olmstead scored a single.</p><p>The game was played on ice that was soft and had huge puddles of water. The slushy conditions were caused by a temporary block in the Garden ice making equipment.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> goal, McNeil; defenses Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards: Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Curry, Gamble, Geoffrion, Masnick, Lach, McCormack, Meger</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry defense: Quackenbush, Godfrey, Laycoe, Armstrong forwards: Schmidt, Klukay, Chevrefils, Mackell, Sandford, Dumart, LaBine, McIntyre, Lund, Toppazzzini, Peirson.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Sam Babcock and Herb Gallagher.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0935/1054992-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="612" height="512"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Sun. Feb 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0381/1054985-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="593" height="2316"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1037/1054978-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="571" height="353"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1129/1054971-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="574" height="353"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<h2><b>Double Hat Trick</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>ob Solinger performed the hat trick on two successive nights recently. His six goals, three in each game, came against the Syracuse Warriors and the Buffalo Bisons.</p><h2><b>Sport In Family</b></h2><p>Jim MeKechnie who announces the play by play of the Syracuse Warriors in the AHL. is the son of Bill McKechnie, famous major league ballplayer, manager and coach.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING TUES. A.&Mu;. FEB. 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01146/1055173-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="600" height="220"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28</h2><h3>St. Louis 3 at Buffalo 1</h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Gerry Ehman, moved up from a utility role because of Harry Taylor&rsquo;s broken arm, scored the key goal as the St. Louis Flyers defeated the Buffalo Bisons 3-1.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Aimas; aefense, Hrym-nak, Lund, McNab, Forbes forwards: Fielder, McLean P. Conacher, Jankowski, Hayden, Ehman, Boone, Stankiewicz, Hirschfeld.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defense. Pilote, Eddolls, Lavitt, MacNeill; forwards: Moore, Davis, MacKay, J. Conacher, Fry-day, Kaiser, Achtymlchuk, Pennell, Davies, MacLeod.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Ollnski; linesmen, LeMaitre and McMahon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02112/1055166-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="614" height="562"></div><h2>Cleveland 1 at Pittsburgh 3</h2><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;The first-place Pittsburgh Hornets took a point lead over the second place Cleveland Barons as they scored in each period for a 3-1 victory over the Ohioans.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; Defense. Rei-gle, Williams, Chrystal, Shero; forwards: Gordon, Glover, Wochy, Bailey, Olson, Hildebrand, Sonmor, Ceresino, Ross, Del-monte.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense: Bolton, Mathers, Backor. Juzda, Lumsden. Forwards: Lewicki, Solinger, Barbe, Marshall, Balfour, Blair, McLellan, Timgren, Ezlnicki.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Morrison; linesmen: Regis Davies and Clyde Adams.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0391/1055159-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="604" height="534"></div><h2>THURSDAY, JANUARY 29</h2><h3>Cleveland 6 at Providence 3</h3><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Cleveland Barons registered their seventh straight victory over Providence Reds in the American</p><p>Hockey League by winning a 6-3 decision.</p><p>The combination of Steve Wochy, Jackie Gordon and Eddie Olson paced Cleveland&rsquo;s attack with four goals, three in the last five minutes. Wochy, veteran right winger worked the three-goal &ldquo;Hat Trick.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Crowdis; defence, Shero, Williams, Chrystal, Reigle; forwards, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Gordon, Sonmor, Ceresino, Wochy, Del-monte, Ross, Glover.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence. Morris, Bloomer, Kryzanowski, Bourassa; forwards, Sullivan, Powell, Gladu, Ba-carri, Laplante, Kapusta, Toppazzini, Denis, Smith, Larivee.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Olinski; linesmen, Art Lesieur and George Deslauniers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0557/1055152-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="604" height="774"></div><h2>FRIDAY JANUARY 30,</h2><h3>Hershey 2 at Syracuse 3</h3><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;Syracuse Wariors moved into fifth place in the American Hockey League tonight by defeating Hershey Bears, 3-2, before a crowd of 1,856.</p><p>Sammy Casanato slammed home the winning goal on a 60-foot shot from the corner of the blue line with about five minutes left in the game.</p><p>Syracuse grabbed the lead early in the second period on a goal by Harry Pidhirny and Hershey evened it with Ray Gariepy scoring. Syracuse made it 2-1 when Kelly Burnett scored just after the third period opened. Dune Fisher brought it level once more before Casanato finished it.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defense: Gar-iepy, Schertzl, Brannigan, Henderson, Martin; forwards: Kullman, Bettio, OBrien, Ferguson, Fisher, Sullivan, Caron, MacDonald, Brown.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defense: Allen, Milligan, Tottle, Casanato; forwards: Burnett, Pidhlrny, Lemieux, Horvath, Gooden, Pogue, Curik, Guidolin, Ashbed, Ford.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0653/1055145-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="592" height="362"></div><h2>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1</h2><p>St. Louis 5 at Providence 2 PROVIDENCE&mdash;St. Louis Flyers moved into a third place tie with Her-shey Bears by defeating Providence Reds, 5-2, today in an afternoon America hockey League game.</p><p>Motto McLean&rsquo;s second goal broke a 1-1 deadlock in the second period and sent the Flyers on their way to the victory. The loss was the Red&rsquo;s seventh in their last eight games.</p><p>Pete Conacher, Lou Jankowski and Guyle Fielder were the other St. Louis scorers, while Paul Gladu and Pete Kapusta tallied for Providence.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defense: Hry-mnak, Lund, McNab, Forbes; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Conacher, Jankowski, Ehmanc Boone, Stankiewicz, Hirschfeld.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defense: Morris, Bourassa, Kryzanowski, Bloomer; forwards: Sullivan, Powell, Gladu, Scher-za, Toppazzini, Denis, Kapusta, Laplante, Baccari, Smith.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0746/1055138-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="592" height="586"></div><h2>Cleveland 3 at Buffalo 1</h2><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence Chrystal, Shero, Reigle, Williams; forwards: Gordon, Wochy, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Sonmor, Ross, Glover, ceresino, Delmonte.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante: defense: Lowe, Lavitt, Eddolls, MacNeil; forwards: Moore, Davis, Mackay, Conacher, Fryday, Kaiser, Achtymlchuk, Pennell, Davies, McLeod.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Morrisona linesmen: Bernie Lemaitre and Mike McMahon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0943/1055131-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="600" height="442"></div><h2>Tops Scorers</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0468/1055124-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="590" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LORNE FERGUSON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0844/1055204-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="598" height="446"></div><p><b>Most goals:</b> Ike Hildebrand, Clev. Zellio Toppazzinl, Prov. (26)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> George Sullivan Hers. (36)</p><p><b>Penalties:</b> Bob Bailey, &Ccedil;lev. (77 mins.)</p><p><b>Best Goaler:</b> Gil Mayer, Pitts. (41 games, 102 GA, 2.37 avg.)</p><p><b>Shutouts:</b> John Bowers, Clev; Gord. Bell, Syr. (5)</p><p><b>Team Penalties:</b> Pittsburgh Hornets 623 minutes.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-08

THE POINT PARADE

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Not since George Ratterman of football fame stepped off the University of Notre Dame campus into the lineup of the defunct Buffalo Bills in 1947 has any athlete captured the imagination of Buffalo sports fans as Jacques (The Snake) Plante, the fast-reflexed goaltender of the American League Bisons.</p><p>Superlatives often are misused in describing the play of athletes. Yet, Plante has been just that&mdash;superlative&mdash;in his first games in Buffalo livery.</p><p>Two of his efforts were shutouts; in two games he was scored upon once, and each time the puck went off the blade of one of his own players, and in the other game he gave up three goals.</p><p>Plante&rsquo;s showing, along with the overall improvement of the club, has hypoed fan interest in the Bisons tremendously. In two games, approximatly 16,000 fans piled into Buffalo&rsquo;s Memorial Auditorium for a look at the black-haired, lanky puckstopper with a flair for the spectacular.</p><p>Plante who was dubbed &ldquo;The Snake&rdquo; by a local sportswriter because of the way he wriggles in the net when play is in Buffalo&rsquo;s end of the rink, doesn&rsquo;t appear to be very impressed with his great showing.</p><h2>Praises Mates</h2><p>&ldquo;This is a good hockey club,&rdquo; Plante insisted in his clipped French-Canadian ac-cent. &ldquo;I do not understand why it is not higher in the standings. In time, we will be as we have hungry hockey players who want to win and don&rsquo;t quit.&rdquo;</p><p>Two of Jacques &lsquo;victories have been scored with Cleveland&rsquo;s Johnny Bower at the other end of the rink. When Bower stopped off in the Buffalo dressing room following the second game to congratulate Plante, a dressing room habitue kidded:</p><p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s the Jacques Plante of Cleveland.&rdquo; It was a compliment to both men as Bower has long been considered the premier goalie in the AHL.</p><p>&ldquo;This Johnny Bower is a great goaltender,&rdquo; Plante commented after the blond boy from the Barons bastion left. &ldquo;I cannot understand why he is not in the National League. He certainly is good enough.&rdquo;</p><h2>Fans&rsquo; Favorite</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02112/1055242-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="567" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACQUES PLANTE</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><h2>Afraid He&rsquo;ll Leave</h2><p>Buffalo fans are almost half afraid that Plante is, too. They just hope the Canadiens continue to look upon Gerry McNeil with favor.</p><p>Plante, incidentally, does not attempt to pattern his play after the style of any single netminder.</p><p>&ldquo;I have my own style. I look at all goaltenders, even the young juniors. That way I learn some-thing from one, something else from another,&rdquo; he Explained.</p><p>Plante credits an operation he had on his left wrist last summer with improving his play greatly over what it was last year.</p><p>&ldquo;I had been advised not to have the wrist operated upon as it would weaken it,&rdquo; Plante stated. &ldquo;But I decided that if I could not get to use my left hand better, I would give up hockey. So I had the operation.&rdquo;</p><p>Jacques trouble with the wrist began when he was five years old and a playmate pushed him off a slide and he fell 20 feet to the ground.</p><p>&ldquo;The wrist was in a cast for four months, and I could never bend it afterwards,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;In games, I often dropped pucks for goals because of being unable to bend the wrist. Some-times I was accused of trying to catch the puck fancy&mdash;but it was the wrist.</p><p>&ldquo;After they removed two inches of bone from the wrist, it was very weak and I thought that maybe I was wrong in having the operation. But now it is strong and I can move it the same as I do my right wrist.&rdquo;</p><p>Ironically, Plante almost made his American Hockey League debut when he was 15 years old.</p><h2>Mother Was Right</h2><p>&ldquo;Providence wanted me to take the place of Mike Karakas, who was having a rough year,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;My mother would not hear of me leaving home for hockey until 1 was through high school. She said and would have nothing if I did that I could get hurt in hockey not complete my education. She was right.&rdquo;</p><p>Plante&rsquo;s career between the pipes began four years earlier while he was attending St. Mary&rsquo;s grammar school in Shawinigan Falls. He was a 90-pound defensemen at the time when the school&rsquo;s goalie quit.</p><p>&ldquo;I told the coach I would play goal,&rdquo; Jacques said. &ldquo;Later, the other boy came back but the coach told me to stay, the job was mine.&rdquo;</p><p>As a junior, Plante was the object of a bidding duel among Three Rivers, Montreal National, Montreal Canadiens, and Quebec Citadels&mdash;with the last named club winning.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Had 10 Shut-Outs</h2><p>During his first year with Quebec, 1947-48, he had 10 shutouts and 17 games in</p><p>which he allowed 1 goal. The next year, he was voted the team&rsquo;s most valuable player.</p><p>While the bidding for his services as a junior were going on, Plante also was being ogled by Toronto, New York, Detroit, and Montreal. He ended up inking a &ldquo;B&rdquo; form for the Canadiens &ldquo;as they always have a good defensive club&mdash;and the money prospects were best.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I got my biggest thrill in hockey in playing those three games with Canadiens this year,&rdquo; Jacques replied in answer to a question.</p><p>&ldquo;I have looked forward to being a National League goaltender for a long time .That was it. Some day I hope the stay will be longer.&rdquo;</p><p>There seems to be little doubt but that it will.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01158/1055235-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="1227" height="1858"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>An Anxious Moment</b></p><p><b>WATCH IT&mdash;</b>Frankie Eddolls. coach of the Buffalo Bisons, experiences an anxious moment watching a scramble around his own nets from his coaching position on the bench. Frankie was sidelined with a knee injury and the Bisons lost most of the 13 games he was out.</p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Jake The Snake” Plante Big Boom to Buff alo Bisons

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0392/1055273-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe, Detroit Red Wings&lsquo; great right winger, is well on his way toward a new National Hockey League record for the most goals scored in one season. MauriceRichard, Montreal Canadiens* fiery right winger, is thecurrent record holder with 50 goals.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-03

Shooting To A Record

<p><b>A steamin, cup of rich, creamy Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate is the ideal finish for eny game !</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0471/1055304-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="600" height="637"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ash for Stafford&rsquo; Hot Chocolate at your favorite fountain</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-04

Win or Lose

<p><b>(Including Games Sunday 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1242/1055478-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="600" height="1272"></div><p>***</p><h2>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1332/1055471-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="598" height="318"></div><p>***</p><h2>LEADERS</h2><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Roy Kelly, Cal., 26.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Alex Kaleta Sask., 42.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Emile Francis, Van., 4; Lucien Dechene, N.W. 4.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks against:</b> Doug Stevenson. Tac., 4.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks:</b> Vic Stasiuk, Edm., 2.</p><p><b>Most Winning Goals:</b> Doug Macauley. Sea., 9</p><p>***</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1432/1055464-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="600" height="324"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<div class="byline">By HUGH WATSON</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The closest thing to perpetual motion in the Western Hockey League is rotund Robert Thomas Love, veteran centre of New Westminster Royals.</p><p>In these days of fragile hockey players, Love stands out like Marilyn Munroe in a bathing suit. Up to Jan. 17, Love had played 371 games for co-owner Ken McKenzie, 323 regular scheduled games and 48 games in playoffs.</p><p>How does he do it?</p><p>&ldquo;Bobby is built like a barrel,&rdquo; says Me Kenzie. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s only five foot, seven inches but he&rsquo;s hefty&mdash;weighs Ken Mackenzie around 180 pounds. When a defenceman hits him it&rsquo;s just like hitting another defenceman. Nothing happens, except to the other guy.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0472/1055509-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="304" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken MacKenzie</b></figcaption></div><p>Love, who was born in Dauphin, Man., 27 years ago, is one of three originals still with the Royals from their amateur days in the 1947-48 season.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Consistent Scorer</h2><p>Off the ice, Love resembles a successful businessman who maybe eats too much. On the ice, however, he has been one of Royals&rsquo; most consistent scorers through, the past four pro seasons.</p><p>In those four years Love has amassed 128 goals and 212 assists for a total of 340 points, or an average of 85 a season, including playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;Love gets the same bumps and bruises like any other player but he seems to shrug them off,&rdquo; says McKenzie. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s certainly not brittle. But I&rsquo;ve often seen him play when another player would be sitting, on the sidelines. He likes the game and won&rsquo;t admit that mere injuries can keep him out of the lineup.&rdquo;</p><p>McKenzie also has a theory that centre men don&rsquo;t take as much punishment as wingmen.</p><p>A centre usually sets up the play. It&rsquo;s his wingmen that usually do the scoring and, consequently, get pushed around a little more. However, that doesn&rsquo;t take a thing away from Bobby.&rdquo;</p><p>Love&rsquo;s best season came in 1948-49 when he won the league scoring championship with 101 points on 38 goals and 63 assists.</p><p>He&rsquo;s one of the few players on the club that has never been mentioned in trade rumors. He&rsquo;s likely to play out his string with Royals and then settle down to private business in New Westminster.</p><p>&ldquo;Love&rsquo;s one of the easiest players to deal with a contract time,&rdquo; says McKenzie. &ldquo;He knows what he&rsquo;s worth but the figure is always fair. What&rsquo;s more he&rsquo;s a real gentleman.&rdquo;</p><p>Gentlemen, and Napoleon Bonaparte, whom McKenzie greatly admires, are both A-1 with the Canny Scot.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-04

Ironman Bobby Love Turns In 371 Games In Row For Royals

<h2>Still Strong</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0561/1055540-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="604" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY LOVE</b></figcaption></div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>Vic Stasiuk, Edmonton Flyer forward who has rattled home 22 goals in 28 games, has no illusions about the difference in calibre between the National Hockey League and his present stamping grounds, the Western loop.</p><p>&ldquo;The big difference is in the checking,&rdquo; he pointed out recently. &ldquo;In this league you might have eight or 10 shots on goal in one game. Up there&mdash;in the National&mdash;I used to go three and four games and not have 10 shots.&rdquo;</p><p>He thought about this for a few seconds.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course I didn&rsquo;t play much in Detroit. That would make a difference. But I did see quite a lot of action with Chicago.&rdquo;</p><p><b>MOHER</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Less Checking Is Reason For Vic’s Showing

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><p class="dropcap"><span>E</span>DMONTON, Alta.&mdash;Big Vic Stasiuk appears to be earning another major league trial on the strength of the most productive stick being carried by anyone in the Western Hockey League.</p><p>The Lethbridge-born winger of the Edmonton Flyers popped 22 goals in his first 2 8 outings since hooking on with coach &lsquo;Bud&rsquo; Poi-le&rsquo;s squad a month or so after the WHL schedule was broken out of the wrapper. He comes close to being professional hockey&rsquo;s top marksman of the season, based on average goal output per game.</p><p>Stasiuk, a lefthand sniper who nevertheless patrols the right lane, has had big league experience with Chicago and the Detroit Red Wings. He is the property of the Wings and was retained by them to start the NHL campaign last fall. No one questions but that volatile Vic will merit a lot of consideration in the all-star balloting. You can&rsquo;t laugh off a powerhouse who averages close to a goal a game.</p><p>Stasiuk, along with linemates Earl Reibel and Jim (Onions) Uniac, over on other wing, is a valuable cog in the &lsquo;big&rsquo; line of the Flyers. When they aren&rsquo;t turning on the light over enemy nets the team Harry Dick usually has a rough time of it.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0652/1055578-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="380" height="606"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Dick</b></figcaption></div><p>Speaking of &ldquo;a rough time of it&rdquo;&mdash;that&rsquo;s exactly what happened following a success string of 11 games, marred by but one setback. First the sprightly Vancouver Canucks came to town and humbled the homesters 5-3 in what was a kind of &lsquo;key&rsquo; game in the Flyer hopes of finishing in the first division.</p><p>Then the next night, in Calgary, the Cowboys ambushed Poile&rsquo;s pucksters to the tune of 8-2. Just about now Flyers&rsquo; hold on sixth place was being threatened again by the New Westminster Royals, just a point away. The locals took some comfort from the fact that they had three games in hand on the British Columbians.</p><p>However coach Poile and manager Jim Paul were hardly comforted as they examined the balance of the schedule. Of 26 remaining Flyer games 16 were slated for foreign icehouses. It appeared that the Flyer bid for a playoff berth (six teams qualify) was going to be anything but a soft touch.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>High Flyer</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0743/1055571-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="602" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>VIC STASIUK</b></figcaption></div><h2>Three Against Quakers</h2><p>On the immediate agenda was a three game set against the Saskatoon Quakers. Inasmuch as the Flyers have handled the Quakers all season like they owned them chances were they might pick up a pair of wins, with a resultant heightening of playoff hopes.</p><p>After that Poile and his men faced another rigorous coast jaunt, where prairie teams are called upon to play five games in six nights. These eight games, including those against the Quakers, might decide the fate of the gang from the Alberta capital.</p><p>* * *</p><p>S.O.S. To Olympia</p><p>In the meantime Poile had put in a S.O.S. to the Olympia, in Detroit, asking head office for reinforcements. His requisition was for a defenceman and a forward. He indicated he might even settled for Gordon Howe and &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Kelly, if the Wings could spare them.</p><p>About those Vancouver Canucks of Art Chapman. They were really something on their last trip to the prairies. On successive nights they humbled Calgary, the Flyers and Saskatoon and looked good doing it.</p><p>In each instance the score was 5-3. The Canucks not only played well, they played no favorites.</p><p>To kick off their tour in Calgary, they hit the Stamps with three goals in less than 12 minutes of play and never looked like losing. &lsquo;Hard Harry&rsquo; Dick stylish Walt Atanas and scrappy Larry Popein were the marksmen.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-06

Vic Stasiuk Averages Almost Goal Per Game Since Joining Flyers

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Some hockey coaches quit while they&rsquo;re ahead. Others, few in number, die with their boots on. And still others, sad to relate, are, ah, fired.</p><p>Then there&rsquo;s the case of Johnny (Peanuts) O&rsquo;Flaherty, one quite unique and deserving of a category of its own.</p><p>Peanuts, or The Voice as he is known around the Capital City, was coach of the Ottawa Senators but departed under mysterious circumstances last week and hasn&rsquo;t been seen since.</p><p>No sooner had O&rsquo;Flaherty disappeared when it was announced that Alex Smart, former QSHL player and presently a junior mentor here, would handle the Barber Poles&hellip;temporarily.</p><p>On top of all this, the name of George (Buck) Boucher, a former Ottawa coach presently unemployed, was injected into the picture. Buck, it was said, had leapt into the breach and &ldquo;offered Buck Boucher his services.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01140/1055616-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="306" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Buck Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>The question is now, who really is, or will be, the coach of Tommy Gorman&rsquo;s Ottawa Senators for the balance of the season?</p><p>O&rsquo;Flaherty, at odds with his players and his boss, not to mention the fans, is unlikely to return to his job, although, to tell the truth, he hasn&rsquo;t been fired from it yet.</p><p>According to General Manager T. P. Gorman, O&rsquo;Flaherty has merely gone to Toronto for a few days and will be doing some scouting for the club. He would, the club said, be returning in a week or so.</p><h2>He&rsquo;s Out</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02110/1055609-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="585" height="895"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PEANUTS O&lsquo;FLAHERTY</b></figcaption></div><p>And Peanuts himself, speaking via telephone from Toronto, indicated he would be back. But he didn&rsquo;t say when, or what year.</p><p>Smart, too, is also an unlikely occupant of the Senator hot spot because he has a good position which requires considerable travelling.</p><p>The former Senator player undoubtedly would like to handle the team, but just finds it impossible to provide enough time for both jobs. There is no doubt, though, that his experience as a player and as a junior coach would fill the bill.</p><p>Which leaves the aforementioned Mr. Boucher right on the rail, if not already under the wire.</p><h2>Wha&rsquo; Hoppen?</h2><p>What happened to O&rsquo;Flaherty, you say? It&rsquo;s a long story and not a particularly fascinating one. Peanuts just didn&rsquo;t, or couldn&rsquo;t get along with his players and things began going from bad to worse.</p><p>The situation reached a boiling point last week when O&rsquo;Flaherty had a difference of opinion with the recently acquired Bobby Copp. Copp, just up from Smiths Falls of the Eastern Canada league, wasn&rsquo;t changing his style of play to the conform with the coach&rsquo;s and was upbraided publicly for it during a practice.</p><p>Copp said he was willing to adapt himself to any style of TEAM play, but refused to change his presonal style of play, one which he had used with no little success for some 12 years.</p><p>O&rsquo;Flaherty whereupon issued an ultimatum &ldquo;to play it my way or not at all.&rdquo; Copp, of course, refused and the upshot was that O&rsquo;Flaherty benched him for most of the next game which the Senators blew to Valleyfield in overtime, 5-3, mostly because of poor defensive play.</p><p>Immediately after the game, Gorman announced that &ldquo;drastic measures&rdquo; would be taken, and the next thing anyone knew Smart, was in the driver&rsquo;s seat.</p><p>The Copp incident, of course, wasn&rsquo;t an isolated one. To the uninitiated, the players just weren&rsquo;t playing hockey for O&rsquo;Flaherty and the team was only managing to hang onto third place in the Slater circuit by the skin of their teeth.</p><p>It is possible that before this yarn appears in print that (1) O&rsquo;Flaherty will be back, (2) Smart will remain, (3) Boucher will take over.</p><p>We&rsquo;ll go along with No. 3. Boucher has a wealth of experience in hockey and his record speaks for itself. If Buck can inject a spirit of harmony into the club and get them thinking about the opposition instead of themselves, there is every hope that the Barber Poles will find themselves and take all the marbles this year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0015-01

Buck Boucher Offers Services To Coachless Ottawa Senators

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>A well-balanced team, no spectacular big-name stars, nobody a big threat for the individual scoring honors, the goal-collection well distributed, a squad which while it won&rsquo;t finish in first place none-the-less will be a definite contender in the playoffs for the Thomas O&rsquo;Connell Memorial Trophy.</p><p>This is how Tommy Gorman, owner and generalissimo sizes up his Ottawa Senators. Tay Pay, who won Stanley Cups at Ottawa, Chicago and Montreal, when he was active in coaching and managerial roles in the NHL, was once tabbed by a New York gagster &ldquo;The Man of Million Words.&rdquo;</p><p>He didn&rsquo;t use quite that many when interviewed in his well-appointed offices at the Auditorium the other day, but you got the idea that he has a lot of confidence in this team he has put together. That is, once he gets his coaching problems straightened out&mdash;which is like Rudyard Kipling used to say-another story.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0394/1055661-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="273" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tay Pay</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;We have three good lines and it&rsquo;s really remarkable how well they have shared up the scoring. Listen to these figures.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Knows His Figures</h2><p>And he read them off with the rapidity and facility of a broker going over the market quotations.</p><p>&ldquo;Take what we call &lsquo;our French Line&rsquo;. That&rsquo;s Leo Gravelle, 18 goals, Jackie Leclair, 18 goals and Rip rticpelle, 11 goals None of these guys are going to challenge Stan Smrke, or Andre Corriveau, or the great Beliveau for the scoring honors, but they represent 4 7 goals between them. That&rsquo;s a lotta tallies isn&rsquo;t it?&rdquo;</p><h2>Speedster</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0470/1055654-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="558" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEO GRAVELLE</b></figcaption></div><p>He went over the next trio readily, too. It was pointed out that at the time of reckoning Jackie Giesebrecht had scored 11, Emile Dagenais 10 and Allan Kuntz 14 tallies. And on the third combine there was Billy Robinson with eight goals. Red Johnson had ten and Bill Richardson six.</p><p>&ldquo;A fine bunch of forwards, a fine bunch of forwards,&rdquo; he said in that rapid-fire, machine-gun style of talking which is to typical of Tay Pay. &ldquo;With a few breaks, if we really get rolling in these playoffs we could win the Alexander Trophy.&rdquo;</p><p>What of the defense, he was asked?</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Raves For Butch</h2><p>&ldquo;Have you seen Butch Stah-an, lately? He&rsquo;s playing the greatest hockey of his career. Wonderful fellow, wonderful fellow. Gives all he has, a great competitor, too, a great competitor.&rdquo;</p><p>Like everyone else in Ottawa, Gorman is happy that Bobby Copp is back. A prosperous Ottawa dentist, Copp loves to play hockey, and when it didn&rsquo;t appear he was wanted in Ottawa with the Senators at the start of the season, Dr. Copp would drive fifty miles to Smith Falls to play in the Eastern Canada Senior League.</p><p>He made such a fine showing up there that he was beckoned back to Senators.</p><p>Copp somehow or other didn&rsquo;t get along too well with Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty, as Jack Kinsella explains in another column in this edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS, but let it pass now.</p><p>He&rsquo;s partner to Stahan on one blueline redoubt while big blond Vic Grigg with the craggy countenance pairs up with Johnny Arundel or Bobby Robertson to make up the other duo.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Big And Fast, Too</h2><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re big but fairly mobile at the same time&rdquo; says Gorman. &ldquo;You got to have them big. This is tough league. &ldquo;You know I was down to Syracuse the other day. I saw Eddie Shore&rsquo;s team Rip Riopelle Play Hershey: Do you know this QSHL is a much better league than the AHL.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0266/1055647-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="279" height="415"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rip Riopelle</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-03

Well Balanced Squad Makes Ottawa Team Real Playoff Threat

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0553/1055699-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="600" height="1022"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>for a man&rsquo;s beer!</b></p><p>A man&rsquo;s taste in ale&mdash;let&rsquo;s face it&mdash;is heartier than the little woman&rsquo;s. So next time you want a man&rsquo;s drink, try fullbodied, zestful, satisfying Labatt&rsquo;s* India Pale Ale. I.P.A. <i>is</i> a man&rsquo;s drink&hellip;brewed with the full flavour demanded by masculine taste. John Labatt Limited.</p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0829/1055692-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="585" height="785"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>*The Swing is <custom name="underline">definitely</custom> to</i></b></figcaption></div><h2>LABATT&rsquo;S<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0015-05

It’s a MAN’s Work…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0735/1055737-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg"></div><h2>Smoke pandora CIGARS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0642/1055730-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="582" height="1102"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0015-07

“Captain Morqan's in town!”

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When Guelph Biltmores secured Ron Stewart as a replacement for Ray Ross on the eve of the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; playoffs last spring it created considerable resentment among several other junior clubs, particularly those that had hopes of beating the Mad Hatters in the playoffs.</p><p>Most eloquent denunciations of this last-minute substitution were uttered by Sammy Pollock, the effervescent coach of Montreal Canadiens. It is hoped that Sammy saved some of his finer orations because he may be able to use them again in the near future or at least sell them to his bosom pal, Phil Watson, Quebec Citadelles&rsquo; coach.</p><p>If everything works according to plan Toronto Marlboros, leaders of the nine-team, O.H.A. junior grouping, will use the same gimmick to strengthen their team for the playoffs. And the player they have selected should prove just as valuable to their team as Stewart was to Biltmores.</p><p>At the time of writing Marlboros were negotiating with Biltmores for Billy McCreary, 17-year-old forward and one of the leading scorers in the league, as a replacement for Eric Nesterenko who was turned pro by Toronto Leafs.</p><p>The issue was still in doubt while this article was being prepared but the odds were that McCreary would be traded to Marlboros for the rest of the season. In return Biltmores would receive three or more players from Marlboros&rsquo; minor chain for future seasons. Also McCreary would return to the Guelph club next year.</p><p>Even with McCreary there is still some doubt if Marlboros are strong enough to win the O.H.A. title but their manager Staff Smythe thinks the addition of the Guelph forward is all his team needs to go all the way. Hap Emms and his Barrie Flyers naturally think otherwise and possibly St. Mike&rsquo;s, Galt and St. Catharines also have their doubts but you can&rsquo;t blame Smythe for trying.</p><p>But if Marlboros, with McCreary, should win the O.H.A. title it would give Sad Sammy or Watson another opportunity to hurl abuse at the C.A.H.A Last-year Pollock termed the C.A.H.A. ruling &ldquo;ridiculous&rdquo; and called Stewart &ldquo;a ringer&rdquo; and a few other choice epithets.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Sam Had Point</h2><p>The C.A.H.A. must have thought that Pollock had a point or two in his favor when he rebelled at the Stewart shift because it revised its regulations for replacements at its annual meeting last summer. But, as Marlboros found out, it is still possible to get replacements.</p><p>Pollock thought it unfair that a team should land a player of Stewart&rsquo;s calibre just before the playoffs. Evidently the C.A.H.A. concurred. This year it is imperative that applications for replacements be filed before January 15. Marlboros complied with this. Also the player for whom a replacement is sought must have signed a professional contract. That latter stipulation rules out any repetitions of the Ray Ross episode Ross returned home after a three-game trial without turning pro.</p><p>But it matters not if the substitution is arranged according to Hoyle. Stewart&rsquo;s move to Biltmores last year was perfectly legal but that didn&rsquo;t prevent the other clubs from screaming indignantly. You&rsquo;ll probably hear the same old tune with slightly different lyrics this year if Marlboros (with McCreary) represent the O.H.A. in the eastern Canada playoffs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01145/1055768-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="576" height="1590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>He&rsquo;ll Howl</b></p><p><b>SAM POLLOCK</b></p></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><h2>Marlies Modest?</h2><p>Actually Marlboros&rsquo; management might be excessively modest by pretending that reinforcements are needed to win the O.H.A. The Dukes didn&rsquo;t even break stride when they lost Nesterenko and with about a month in the schedule remaining they were four full games in front of Barrie</p><p>Marlboros and Barrie are virtually assured of finishing first and second although not necessarily in that order. It is doubtful if any of the other clubs care too much because the first and second place finishers will meet in the first round of the playoffs. So, one of the top-ranking teams will be bounced out in the first round&mdash;a prospect that isn&rsquo;t causing any sorrow outside of Barrie and Toronto.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-01

Pollock, Watson Storm Certain If Marlboros Acquire Bill McCreary

<p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>One of amateur hockey&rsquo;s most colourful coaches, L. A. &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Emms of Barrie Flyers is hotter than a pancake griddle since a report came from Boston stating &ldquo;he refused to let his left-wing star Doug Mohns go to the NHL Bruins for a three-game, led-lease tryout.</p><p>Bruin mentor Lynn Patrick was quoted as saying, &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like very much to bring up young Doug Mohns from Barrie and play him for three games. But unfortunately, the Barrie authorities won&rsquo;t let us have him or the other boys we have there&rdquo;.</p><p>When quizzed on the report, Emms fumed, &ldquo;I defy any official of the Bruins to say they have asked my permission to use Doug Mohns or any other player for a three-game trial. I have never as much as been approached and all this is news to me. If Patrick did say it, I think he owes me an apology. Even Mohns didn&rsquo;t know anything about it.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Mohns tells me that when he left the Bruin training camp, they promised to leave him alone for the season. Apparently they have. Either the reporter (Roger Barry) is making up a story or else Patrick is running way off base.&rdquo;</p><p>Emms pointed out that the only time the Bruins came to him about the use of a player was in Windsor two years ago when his Flyers were in the middle of a Memorial Cup march.</p><p>&ldquo;Their captain Milt Schmidt was ill and Boston wanted to use Real Chevrefils for Sunday&rsquo;s game against Detroit. I left the decision up to the boy but as it turned out, Schmidt was able to play and they didn&rsquo;t need Chevrefils.&rdquo;</p><p>Emms didn&rsquo;t hint if he would sanction a three-game trial for Mohns or the remainder of his Bruin chattel. It&rsquo;s up to the Bruins to ask and find out.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0298/1055799-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="486" height="811"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Boiling</b></p><p><b>HAPPY EMMS</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0016-02

Hap Is Unhappy Over Patrick’s Alleged Quote

<div class="byline">By FRANK BIRD</div><p>LETHBRIDGE, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>One of the brightest professional prospects in the West, Billy &ldquo;Hardrock&rdquo; Dea of the Leth. Native Sons, will have a chance to strut his stuff in pro company via the three game tryout route.</p><p>The hard skating port-sider has been called up by the Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Hockey League for three games: January 30, 32, and February 3. On those three dates, Quakers will meet the Edmonton Flyers twice and the Calgary Stampeders, once. Last season Dea was among the top six in scoring with a total of 44 goals and 28 assists for 72 points. This season in 2 7 games he has amassed 42 points on 2 7 red lights and 15 assists. But this total still leaves him well behind the pace-setters of the loop, with the regular league schedule rapidly approaching the sunset.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Pull Boner</h2><p>There are many sports observers in Western Junior League circles who have attached the &ldquo;boner of the month&rdquo; to the Medicine Hat Tiger executive. This dubious hon-nor was imposed on the Tabbies when they released four regulars, App Dorohoy, Frank Carlson, Lloyd Pudwell and Jim Crawford, in a move designed to cut expenses to rock bottom. In addition, Medicine Hat officials were hoping to realise some cash returns from the sale of the contracts of the two regulars, Dorohoy and Carlson. However, the catch was that, the deadline for signing players not moving to a higher category, was Dec. 15. Therefore, these players were not eligible to be signed by any other club in the league. So now, the latest move by the Medicine Hat Club, was to have Carlson and Dorohoy reinstated at a reported lower salary. Pudwell and Crawford are still viewing proceedings from the outside.</p><p>The Edmonton Oil Kings of Ken McAuley who are favored to cop the honors this season are also expected to supply the league&rsquo;s scoring leader.</p><p>This past week starry centericeman Norm Ullman, increased his total to 57 points, only one behind the departed Gordie Vejpra va, former Crows Nest Coaler, now chasing pucks at New Haven. Ullman is away out in front in the play-making dept, with 34 passes to his credit that wound up flicking the red light. This 17-year-old flash is also in line for rookie of the year honors so his debut in Junior A Company is causing quite a splash. Ullman is another of the many home-brewed products the Kings are carrying this year. As a matter of fact, only one player on the squad hails from outside the Oil Capitol and that is Dino Maniago of Trail. Edmonton can well be proud of &lsquo;her&rsquo; OIL KINGS.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

‘Hardrock’ Dea Jumps To Pro For Look-See

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Sparked by the return of George Abel to the lineup, the Melville Millionnaires are closing in on the leaders of the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League.</p><p>Melville downed the league leading Regina Caps and second-place Moose Jaw Millers, on successive nights last week. And the fact that they had to come from behind both times made their victories all the more notable. They trailed Regina 4-1 with eight minutes to play and wound up with a 6-4 overtime win. In that game George Abel, younger brother of Sid, present coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, figured in four of their goals.</p><p>Later In the week the Millionaires added another win over the Reginans to leave them breathing heavily down the necks of the two front-runners.</p><p>George Abel sat out the early games of the season but since his return to the squad, the Millionaires have been really rolling. Coach Dick Milford put him on a line with Norman (Nipper) Knippleberg and veteran Hap Edwards, and the trio has been the hottest unit in the circuit. Knippleberg, last year&rsquo;s scoring champion, has moved into second place in the point-getting parade and Abel himself was credited with 12 points in a space of three games.</p><p>Injuries have left the leading Regina Caps in a bad way and coach Bill Kyle has to hope for a return of his men from sick bay if the Reginans want to regain their early-season stride. He has lost both Ab McDougall and Ted Yarnton through back Injuries and then little Buddy Rogers, pinch-hitting for the Injured men, ran into a shoulder separation which sent him to the sidelines.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>ICE CHIPS</b></h2><p>Regina made a creditable showing against the pro Saskatoon Quakers in an exhibition game at Regina&hellip;they lost 7-2 but enjoyed a good part of the play, with the Quakers only out-shooting them 29-27&hellip;4,000 fans turned out for the game&mdash;the largest hockey crowd of the year in Regina&hellip; there is nothing definite to report yet on plans for a Regina entry in the Western Pro league next season and it&rsquo;s likely that nothing will come of them&hellip;Moose Jaw coach Vic Myles used Freddie Smith in goal in place of Glen Loughren in a game at Yorkton.&hellip;He may give more work to Smith, who was released by Regina earlier in the season&hellip;Melville has moved big Buck Morgan back to defence in Jaek Muir&rsquo;s spot. The Moneymen have a solid blueline corps with Ken Barlow, last year with Cincinnati Mohawks; Tom Pollock and bespectacled Don Abel, another brother of Sid&hellip;both George Abel and Pollock played with the Edmonton Mercurys last year when they won the Olympic hockey championship&hellip;Melville has another good line in coach Dick Milford, former po Ching Dheere and speedy Johnny Kotzma&hellip;even the lowly Yorkton Legionaires, tar out of playoff contention, took a fall out of the injury-jinxed Caps last week&hellip;Yorkton sent a forward line consisting of coach Bing Juckes, Jackie Shave and Bill Yanchuk to help the Caps in their exhibition game with Saskatoon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01114/1055854-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="600" height="609"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Blueliner</b></p><p><b>KEN BARLOW</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0017-01

Regina Caps Leading Saskatchewan Senior But Mills Pressing

<div class="byline">By AUBREY KEIZER</div><p>SYDNEY, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>The persistency of Glace Bay Miners of the Maritime Major Hockey League paid off during the past week with the long-awaited arrival of Kenny Watson, ex-Saint John Beavers centre. In his first start for the Miners, Saturday night against their old rivals from Sydney, Watson triggered home the first Bay goal that wiped out a Sydney lead and paced the Miners 2-1 decision with Johnny Raynak of Fort William potting the winner.</p><p>The Watson Incident started months ago when Playing-coach Hub Macey of Miners started building his team. Hub had his eye on ex-Beaver, Bill MacCracken of Winnipeg and Kenny Watson of Long Beach, California, who played on the same line for &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty at Saint John last Winter when they won the six-team Maritime Major League then bowed out in the Alexander Cup finals to Jean Beliveau and Quebec Aces.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0284/1055892-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="300" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Horeck</b></figcaption></div><p>Watson, according to Bay reports, was to contact the Miners as soon as he was discharged from the United States Army. A dental technician, Watson agreed to Bay terms some time ago. Transportation Pete Horeck was sent through, but never picked up. In the meantime, Mr. O&rsquo;Flaherty, now one of Tay Pay&rsquo;s boys, wanted to keep all his peanuts in one bag, so ordered the slick centre into Ottawa, then shipped him off to Smith Falls of the Eastern Canada League. At first Miners went along with the reasoning that Watson was still on Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; list and was sent to Ottawa then Smith Falls. Finally a member of the Bay Executive thought it might be wise to check with Hap Day of the Leafs. Word came back that as far as they were concerned Watson was a &ldquo;free agent.&rdquo; Miners didn&rsquo;t lose any time in bringing the matter before the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association&hellip;and it was ruled that Watson was the property of the Glace Bay Club. Hal Dewey at Smith Falls tried to make a quick shift to keep Watson by giving the Bay another player, but Miners, needing another centre, held out for Watson, and It looks like it wasn&rsquo;t any mistake. Last season at Saint John the slim centre finished 13th in the scoring, despite a late start, having 42 goals and 30 assists in 68 games. Miners now have Playing-coach Macey, Eddie Joss from Saskatoon, Don Keller from Winnipeg and Watson to look after their centre ice chores, and Macey lost no time in reuniting Watson with his ex-llnemate, Bill MacCracken, and in their first game they teamed up for a big goal.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Morrow Miffed</h2><p>In Sydney, tempermental Johnny Morrow, the Montreal winger, was back in the news and this time at the rate of fifty dollars a second. Johnny was cast in the unfortunate &ldquo;goat&rdquo; role when Halifax Atlantics tripped Millionaires in Sydney 4-2 on a unique finish.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0362/1055885-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="528" height="850"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Gets Winner</b></p><p><b>JOHNNY RAYNAK</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Late in the third period with the score tied three-all, Sydney&rsquo;s fiery goalie, Nick Pidsodny, exchanged high sticks with Dougie MacPhee, Halifax forward. They were both given minor sentences, and Morrow was named to serve the two for Pidsodny. They went to the bin at 13.12. Around the 15-minute mark Penalty Timer, Jack Bannerman told the two to leave at 15-12. Morrow in his overanxiousness jumped on the ice two seconds too soon and MacPhee brought it to the attention of Referee Hughie Gillis. That was it. Morrow went back for an extra two minutes and while he was there Halifax native Muckle Hol-lett set-up Captain Billy Watson, an Ottawa native, with the winning marker. After the game Playing-coach Johnny Horeck tossed a $100 fine at Morrow for his &ldquo;quick jump&rdquo; and at the same time John said there&rsquo;ll be other fines for indifferent play unless two or three members pull up their socks.</p><p>Millionaires trying to land a top performer during the last week of the deadline found that dealing with the NHL for a suspended player can cost a lot of money, that is if you want to complete the deal. Mills were looking for Johnny Horeck&rsquo;s brother, Pete who failed to come to terms with Chicago Black Hawks last season and is on the In definitely suspended list. Brother John, needing help, asked Pete to come to his rescue. Pete agreed if Black Hawks would go along with it. Pete asked Bill Tobin, Black Hawks boss, on the matter, Tobin replied&rsquo;&mdash;&ldquo;Sydney can have you for $4,000 for the rest of the season. That&rsquo;s the amount Eddie Shore offered to get you to Syracuse.&rdquo; It Is understood Shore had Pete in mind as playing-coach for the following season.</p><p>That $4,000, plus a bonus to Pete for signing, plus Pete&rsquo;s salary was just too much for the Sydney club to handle. Sydney will have to get along with one Horeck.</p><p>The bright lights in Sydney hockey during the past few weeks have been native-born Dune MacIntyre and the former NY Ranger, Ronnie Rowe. Moved back to defence, Dune has been the key to the rearline and has been hitting for points regularly. Rowe has been the top scorer in recent weeks.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-02

Ken Watson Joins Millionaires In Time To Score Tying Marker

f0017-04

JOHNNIE WALKRE

<p>MONTREAL, Que.-</p><p>Montreal Canadiens are weak down the centre. At least that&rsquo;s what the experts have been saying for the last two seasons. They say that if the Habs could get Jean Beliveau and another competent centre, they would loom as the team to beat in the National Hockey League.</p><p>Most every hockey fan knows about the trouble the Montreal front office is having signing the elusive Mister Beliveau but all figure that sooner or later he will affix his John Henry to a Canadien contract.</p><p>There then remains the problem of securing another competent centre ice man. Right at the moment it would appear that they have three aspirants to the job, if and when Ken Mosdell, Billy Reay and possibly Elegant Elmer Lach decide that its time to retire from the NHL scene.</p><p>There is Reggie Abbott, who had a trial with the parent club earlier this season and was returned to the Victoria Cougars, Skippy Burchell, last season in the Eastern Amateur League and this year with the Montreal Royals of the QSHL, and last but far from least they have a young gentleman by the name of Donnie Marshall.</p><p>Young Marshall is currently burning up the International League while perfoming with the Cincinnatti Mohawks under former Canadien and Ranger Buddy O&rsquo;Connor.</p><p>In his first 39 games with the Mowhawks, Donnie had turned in three hat tricks and amassed a toal of 66 points on 31 goals and 35 assists, a lead of nine points over his nearest rival.</p><p>It is partly because of his fine work that the Mohawks find themselves coasting along comfortably atop the league standings.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Junior MVP</h2><p>Last season was Marshall&rsquo;s last year as a junior and he made it a good one, winning the League&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player award. Team captain, Don Marshall pushed home 32 goals and had 46 assists for 78 points in the 43 games he played.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01123/1055954-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="582" height="1401"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>A Comer</b></p><p><b>DON MARSHALL</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-01

Mohawks’ Don Marshall Good Bet To Make Habs

<div class="byline">By LEN TAYLOR</div><p>KITCHENER, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>If confidence means anything the Allan Cup will come back East from the western confines of Ontario after the current hockey season has been fully written into the records.</p><p>Three circuits in Ontario are all confident their eventual champion will go on to the seniors hockey laurels currently held by Fort Frances Canadians. They could be right for senior hockey in this part of Canada is at its highest peak in some time.</p><p>Up North the NOHA bockers are touting Sudbury Wolves to win game, set and match in the senior chase. Soo Greyhounds, who held the title last year and for some seasons past, think they can upset Maxie Silverman&rsquo;s plans although returns in the regular schedule indicate Wolves are the class of the circuit.</p><p>In Western Ontario the Pembroke, Smith&rsquo;s circuit looks stronger than ever. Teams from the Quebec Major Series loop have been giving stiff opposition by the Eastern Ontario sextets whose challenge through Pembroke in the past couple of seasons has always flattened out in the early rounds.</p><p>While support of these two claims is widespread and vocal there is still more for the challenge of the OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; winner.</p><p>Right now the playoff spots are almost certain to be filled by Owen Sound Mercurys, Stratford Indians, Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen and Brantford Redmen, in that order.</p><p>How they will stand after the money series have been played is the topic engaging fan interest in the OHA whirl. Stratford Indians, who looked like winning off by themselves at one stage of the race, have faltered badly in the past few weeks.</p><p>They took a 10-3 shellacking at home from the K-W Dutchmen whom they had been beating previously with monotonous regularity. Then Mercs bounced them 6-3 in Owen Sound to make it look very likely that the Indians wouldn&rsquo;t finish better than second.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Injuries Hurt</h2><p>Injuries have hurt Stratford and there have been rumors of clubhouse trouble with some of the executive unhappy about the work of playing coach Pat Wilson. Mercs, despite late injuries to centres Doug Gillespie and Tommy Burlington, are the choice of many to win it all. Both men should be back in shape for the playoffs and at this point it looks as if the Sounders can coast home in front.</p><h2>Signed</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0341/1055992-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="585" height="904"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG McKAY</b></figcaption></div><p>Biggest threat on their recent form are the Dutchmen who won seven of their eight for new coach Bob Rafferty, and whose only loss was a tight 4-3 decision taken by Stratford that the Twin City could have won on the play.</p><p>Brantford Redmen, who are a bit a couple of weeks back, appear to have recovered their poise and a timely win over Sarnia, closest to the Brant fourth-place spot, appears to have put the Redmen in the last playoff position.</p><p>They have know added Doug McKay, former Detroit player back from a holiday in Florida, and will have to be considered in playoff speculation.</p><p>Sarnia Sailors, who lack a couple of key players, look to be out of things. Chatham Maroons, a dead loss on the road from the standpoint of doing themselves any good, have only won three games away from home in something like 17. They seem too far back to catch up but colorful owner-player-coach Black Jack Stewart still continues to draw hundreds who come to jeer.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0619/1055985-1-eng-US/f0018-062.jpg" title="f0018-06" width="1086" height="358"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0018-03

Sudbury Wolves Rate Strong Contenders For Allan Cup Coupe

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01100/1056030-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></figcaption></div><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0272/1056023-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="564" height="883"></div><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Canadien player pictured in centre.</p><p>2&mdash;This NHL player is sometimes called the &ldquo;Haileybury Hurricane&rdquo;.</p><p>3&mdash;One of the Smrke&rsquo;s.</p><p>4&mdash;Arnie Kullman&rsquo;s number.</p><p>5&mdash;Dune Fisher plays these.</p><p>6&mdash;Phil Maloney&rsquo;s native province (abbr).</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of a Calgary forward.</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of an NHL captain.</p><p>16&mdash;Once played goal for Syracuse Stars.</p><p>19&mdash;Gord Hannigan&rsquo;s Father is one.</p><p>22&mdash;In 1938-39 Pittsburgh Hornets were a farm club for this NHL&bull; team (abbr).</p><p>25&mdash;Played for the Leafs in 193536, called Mickey.</p><p>27&mdash;Ken, Reardon needed this in Chicago on Nov. 2nd, 1949.</p><p>28&mdash;Incorporated (abbr).</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of a Buffalo forward.</p><p>30&mdash;Nickname of Boston club with whom Woody Dumart once played.</p><p>31&mdash;Gord Haidy&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>32&mdash;&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan celebrates his birthday in this month (abbr)</p><p>35&mdash;These could be &ldquo;Flash&rdquo; Hol-lett&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>38&mdash;When in the AHL Allan Stanley played home games in this State (abbr).</p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;WHL referee.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of a Habitant forward.</p><p>7&mdash;Anno Ordinis (abbr).</p><p>8&mdash;This NHL coach owns a golf course.</p><p>9&mdash;New Westminster player who hails from Ottawa.</p><p>11&mdash;nitials of a Syracuse player who was born in Detroit.</p><p>2&mdash;Played for Pittsburgh last season.</p><p>14&mdash;Name given Wilson, WHL referee.</p><p>15&mdash;Another name for Mrs. Fred Hunt.</p><p>17&mdash;Leafs have this regularly.</p><p>18&mdash;Initials of 1 across.</p><p>20&mdash;Chicago player known as George.</p><p>21&mdash;Name given McNabney.</p><p>23&mdash;Another name for Earl Sei-bert.</p><p>24&mdash;Number of NHL teams Alex Shibicky played for.</p><p>26&mdash;Tennis term.</p><p>27&mdash;Name given Carson, member of 1928-29 Bruins.</p><p>30&mdash;Jack Portland represented this country at 1932 Olympics.</p><p>33&mdash;Leo Boivin owns one.</p><p>34&mdash;Initials of a member of the Pittburgh Hornets.</p><p>36&mdash;Initials of Lee, Rangers&rsquo; announcer.</p><p>37&mdash;Period of time.</p><p>39&mdash;Short for given name of Lumsden of Pittsbrugh.</p><p>40&mdash;Initials of Macintosh who played for Rangers recently.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-01

HOCKEY X-WORD

<h2>QUEBEC SENIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0354/1056292-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="586" height="210"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0443/1056285-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="592" height="460"></div><p>***</p><h2>OHA SENIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0532/1056278-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="588" height="202"></div><p>***</p><h2>NEW BRUNSWICK SENIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0621/1056271-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="584" height="108"></div><p>***</p><h2>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 25)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0720/1056264-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="588" height="134"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0818/1056257-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="594" height="430"></div><p><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORD</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0915/1056250-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="596" height="158"></div><p>***</p><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY&rsquo;29)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1011/1056243-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="592" height="138"></div><h2>NOHA SENIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1110/1056236-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="598" height="128"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1210/1056229-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="588" height="278"></div><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY&rsquo; 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1310/1056222-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="596" height="178"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1410/1056215-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="580" height="378"></div><h2>EASTERN CANADA SENIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-158/1056208-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="590" height="160"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-167/1056201-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="594" height="436"></div><h2>N.Y.-ONT. LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-177/1056194-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="588" height="158"></div><h2>OHA JUNIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo;</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-187/1056187-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="588" height="254"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><p>***</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-197/1056180-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="592" height="438"></div><p>***</p><h2>MARITIME MAJOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-206/1056173-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg" title="f0019-20" width="584" height="130"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-215/1056166-1-eng-US/f0019-212.jpg" title="f0019-21" width="596" height="282"></div><p>***</p><h2>CAPE BRETON JUNIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDING JANUARY 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-225/1056159-1-eng-US/f0019-222.jpg" title="f0019-22" width="590" height="102"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-235/1056152-1-eng-US/f0019-232.jpg" title="f0019-23" width="590" height="312"></div><p>***</p><h2>LAKE ST. JOHN SENIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 24)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-245/1056145-1-eng-US/f0019-242.jpg" title="f0019-24" width="594" height="130"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-255/1056138-1-eng-US/f0019-252.jpg" title="f0019-25" width="592" height="408"></div><p>***</p><h2>QUEBEC PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</h2><p><b>(STANDINGS JANUARY 28)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-265/1056131-1-eng-US/f0019-262.jpg" title="f0019-26" width="586" height="128"></div><h2>EASTERN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>STANDINGS JANUARY 28</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-274/1056124-1-eng-US/f0019-272.jpg" title="f0019-27" width="594" height="154"></div><h2>N.B. CENTRAL JUNIOR</h2><p><b>STANDINGS JANUARY' 27</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-283/1056117-1-eng-US/f0019-282.jpg" title="f0019-28" width="596" height="94"></div><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2><p><b>STANDINGS JANUARY 24</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-292/1056110-1-eng-US/f0019-292.jpg" title="f0019-29" width="590" height="214"></div><h2>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</h2><p><b>STANDINGS JANUARY 26</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-302/1056103-1-eng-US/f0019-302.jpg" title="f0019-30" width="590" height="136"></div><h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR</h2><p><b>STANDING JANUARY 26</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-312/1056096-1-eng-US/f0019-312.jpg" title="f0019-31" width="588" height="134"></div><h2>NOVA SCOTIA APC LEAGUE</h2><p><b>STANDINGS JANUARY 27</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-322/1056089-1-eng-US/f0019-322.jpg" title="f0019-32" width="588" height="158"></div><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-33/1056082-1-eng-US/f0019-332.jpg" title="f0019-33" width="588" height="282"></div><h2>LOWER ST. LAWRENCE LEAGUE</h2><p><b>STANDINGS JANUARY 28</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-34/1056075-1-eng-US/f0019-342.jpg" title="f0019-34" width="588" height="130"></div><h2>QUBEC CITY JUNIOR &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h2><p><b>STANDINGS JANUARY 28</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-35/1056068-1-eng-US/f0019-352.jpg" title="f0019-35" width="600" height="156"></div><h2>OHA JUNIOR &ldquo;B&rdquo;</h2><p><b>STANDINGS JANUARY 28</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-36/1056061-1-eng-US/f0019-362.jpg" title="f0019-36" width="590" height="184"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Hockey Parade At A Quick Glance

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-022/1056330-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="c0004-02" width="266" height="268"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-012/1056337-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="c0004-01" width="238" height="282"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-032/1056323-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="c0004-03" width="3017" height="3797"><figcaption class="caption-body">QUICK WATSON, THE PUCK&mdash;<b>Harry Watson, Toronto&rsquo;s 200-pound winger is shown in the top photo (far right) scrambling for the puck as Gordie Howe (No. 9) comes to Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s rescue. That&rsquo;s Red Kelly moving in to check Watson. In the lower photo Metro Prystai moved in on Harry Lumley but the latter dropped in time to make a sensational save.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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