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February 14, 1953

The Hockey News February 14, 1953

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0261/1067249-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p><b>Born, Montreal, Que., May 14, 1929. Goaltender, Shoots left, 5&rsquo; 7&rdquo;, 155 lbs. Last amateur club: New York Rovers (Seniors).</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Gump’s Coaling Record

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0547/1067697-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="310" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gus Bodnar</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL, Que.&mdash;General Manager Frank Seike offered both Ross Lowe and Ivan Irwin to the Chicago Black Hawks at the beginning of the present season.</p><p>Seike, a great believer in Irwin, had the Hawks thoughts at heart when ho offered them the big blond rearguard.</p><p>Irwin was born in Chicago and Selke felt that a local boy making good would help fill the Stadium.</p><p>Selke offered Lowe to the Hawks at the beginning of the season as well. The Habs were after Center Gus Bodnar at the time but coach Sid Abel wanted no part of the deal.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Selke Offered Lowe, Irwin To Hawks For Bodnar

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;If Connie Smythe were to turn up at the North Pole some day, who&rsquo;d want to give odds that he couldn&rsquo;t have a press conference going in 10 minutes?</p><p>Smythe&rsquo;s unique position with the Boston press was never better illustrated than when he made his annual Boston visit the other day.</p><p>Because of conflicting events &mdash; a hockey game and a baseball dinner being scheduled for that evening &mdash; no formal arrangements were made for him to receive the press.</p><p>Yet within minutes after his arrival from New York, his suite at the Sheraton-Plaza was populated by nearly a dozen writers and sportscasters, with whom he discussed a subject a minute for more than two hours.</p><p>After the gabfest the Toronto firebrand made his first Boston radio appearance with Leo Egan, topping off his busy day by watching his Maple Leafs tie the Bruins. Early the next morning he was back on a plane for Florida.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Connie Still A Magnet

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Connie Smythe, a one-time college hockey coach who now heads the Toronto Maple Leafs, is of the opinion that stick-handling in the National league today is at its peak of skill.</p><p>In that respect Smythe disagrees with Cooney Weiland, a former National leaguer now coaching college hockey at Harvard University.</p><p>&ldquo;Weiland is mistaken when he says that stick-handling is a lost art&rdquo;, declared the energetic Toronto president. &ldquo;Never have we had the fine stick-handling in the league that we have today.</p><p>&ldquo;In the old days, under the old rules when Cooney was playing, all a team had to do to get the puck out of its own end was shoot it out, all the way to the other end of the rink,&rdquo; continued Smythe.</p><p>&ldquo;One night right here in Boston the old New York Americans did that for a whole game with the Bruins and C.F. Adams (late owner of the Bruins) was so mad that he told Art Ross to do the same thing the next time the Bruins played in New York. They did and almost killed hockey in New York.</p><p>&ldquo;Today, with five players moving into the offensive zona frequently, the only way a team can get the puck out is by stick-handling. Does Cooney mean to say that less stick-handling skill was required to get away from the one or two forwards that teams used to send in than is required today to get away from four or fiv&middot; men?</p><p>&ldquo;These former players are all alike,&rdquo; added Smythe. &ldquo;They remember the good games but they don&rsquo;t remember the bad ones, and believe me, there used to be plenty of bad ones. We don&rsquo;t play that type of hockey today.&rdquo;</p><h2>Praises Pastime</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0449/1067452-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="465" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CONNIE SMYTHE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Conn Stoutly Defends Modern Players

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0154/1069144-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">((Photo by Turofsky))</span></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>S LUM GLUM? <b>&mdash; Harry Lumley, Leafs&rsquo; goalie knows what it is to be crowded. In the top photo Wally Hergesheimer of Rangers (11) waits for a pass at the side of the nets while Leo Boivin (15) skids into him. Fern Flaman (3) goes after the puck. In the lower picture, Lumley snags a puck shoulder-high and propels it towards Flamban (back of nets) while Tod Sloan (15) and Nick Mickoski stage a high-sticking duel in front of him.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boucher Says Conacher Living In The Past

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0242/1069196-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="292" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>With all due respect to a man of his age and distinction, Lionel Conacher is slightly damp &mdash; if not all wet. That, in essence, was the firm belief of Frank Boucher after he&rsquo;d read his playing contemporary&rsquo;s blast at modern-day hockey in the February issue of New Liberty. Canada&rsquo;s greatest all-around athlete, now an MP for Trinity-Toronto, asks a simple question: &ldquo;You Call This Hockey?&rdquo; He starts at the to. and tears down the game &mdash; all the way into the amateurs.</p><p>&ldquo;While there is a lot of merit in Mr. Conacher&rsquo;s article,&rdquo; Boucher readily admitted, &ldquo;I just can&rsquo;t accept it as a whole. Present day hockey isn&rsquo;t as bad as he has painted it. His reason for the nature of the current game is absolutely wrong. And where he says there are very few good hockey players now, I can name you at least five on each team that would have been better than run-of-the-mill in Lionel&rsquo;s and my day.&rdquo;</p><p>The Rangers&rsquo; general manager agrees with Lionel&rsquo;s preference for three-man over five-man rush hockey. &ldquo;Personally, I&rsquo;d much rather see our old time game, where the three forwards worked for the goal,&rdquo; he asserted &ldquo;But Mr. Conacher and I are in a small minority.</p><p>&ldquo;Times have changed. No one today wants to see two defenseman standing around with nothing to do. Everyone, it seems, wants wide-open hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good game. too. Not the sort of slapstick, six-man golf that Mr Conacher says it is. We&rsquo;ve got fine hockey players who play the game the way it is set up. And it is set up the way the fan and most of the people in the game want it.&rdquo;</p><p>Of the red line, which he blames for the poor state of today&rsquo;s game, Conacher says in his article.</p><p>&ldquo;The real trouble developed with the introduction of the red line at center ice. This was little more than an extension of the forward pass rule, designed to provide faster hockey and produce more goals from second and third string players.</p><p>&ldquo;The fact is that the red line was introduced to NHL play at the start of World Wah II, when the league&rsquo;s promoters found themselves in the awkward position of being merchants to the public wthout a product to sell.</p><p>&ldquo;What good players there were went into the armed forces. Those that remained presented the NHL with a choice of one of two possible solutions to its problem: the league could fold up and wait for better times; or it could phoney up the rules in such a way that not near as much ability would be needed to play the game.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher was amazed when he read this. &ldquo;It is quite obvious that Mr. Conacher forgets why the red line was introduced.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Because if he did know, he would understand how difficult it is to eliminate those features&hellip; shooting the puck into the end zone and five men rushing over the blue line after it&hellip; which we both agree is the bad part of the game.</p><p>&ldquo;To reacquaint Mr. Conacher with the facts, what&rsquo; actually led up to the introduction of the red line was a new style of hockey which came into being about that time. All teams decided on a five-man attack before we ever Lach, Geoffrion, Bouchard and Harvey; Boston&rsquo;s Schmidt, Quackenbush, Dumart, Creighton, Mackell and Chevrefils; New. York&rsquo;s Reise, Buller, Stanley, Hergesheimer, Ronty and Raleigh and Chicago&rsquo;s Mortson and most of its forwards.</p><p>With one exception, Boucher agrees wholeheartedly with Conacher&rsquo;s blast at the professionals&rsquo; sponsorship of the amateurs. Actually, he was way ahead of the author. He tried to take action as long as three years ago.</p><p>&ldquo;I suggested then that the CAHA create a separate set of rules for players up to the juvenile age,&rdquo; Boucher said. &ldquo;Mr. Conacher would include all amateurs, I think that kids would have a better opportunity to learn the fine art of stick handling and combination play by restricting five-man attacks. By the time they&rsquo;re juniors, they should be ready to fit into our rules.</p><p>&ldquo;Sponsorship should be completely abolished,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Let the merchants in the small towns thought of the red line. Iu fact, five-man attacks were at their peak in 1942-43. The red line was adopted in 1943-44.</p><p>&ldquo;There was a very good reason for putting in the red line when we did. We made this move to correct a serious situation in the game brought about by the five-man rushing. With this new style, the team defending its own zone couldn&rsquo;t get out. It had to contend with five men and still skate over its blue line on-side.</p><p>&ldquo;As a result, the game was played at one end of the ice for minutes at a time. The fan certainly didn&rsquo;t like it and it was no fairer to the defending player. We put the red line in so they could forward pass out of the zone and speed up the game.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher slapped Lionel&rsquo;s hand for his failure to offer a solution to what he considers is a horrible style of play.</p><p>&ldquo;He wants to go back to the old style of hockey,&rdquo; Frank remarked. &ldquo;Then Mr. Conacher say: &lsquo;remove the red line.&rsquo; Why, if we did that, everyone would go right back to the five-man attacks and we&rsquo;de have the bogging down in one end, as we had just before the War.</p><p>&ldquo;Obviously, five-man hockey is here to stay. Let&rsquo;s face it.&rdquo;</p><p>The New York critic said that the author underestimates modern-day hockey if he thinks there are very few good players. &ldquo;Sure, the player now doesn&rsquo;t play oldtime hockey. He shouldn&rsquo;t. The nature of the game has changed. But if our game were old-time, you find that a great number of the players would be every bit as good as players of that day. We have the player talent now and I hate to keep hearing it torn down by old-time players.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher named a number of 1952-53 players whom he&rsquo;s certain would have been fine players in any era. He named the Red Wings&rsquo; Howe, Lindsay, Sawchuk, and Kelly; Toronto&rsquo;s Kennedy, Smith, Max Bentley, Thomson and Hannigan; Montreal&rsquo;s Richard, take over the amateurs again. Then let us have a professional draft of amateur players to insure a fair distribution among the pro teams.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;d save enough money in not sponsoring teams to pay a fair price to the amateur team owners. Yes, let&rsquo;s give the money to the small town merchants and not to the CAHA. The merchants would be repaid for their interest in developing young players. They weren&rsquo;t in the old days.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher disagreed in part with one more item in Conacher&rsquo;s article, Lionel chose a 12-man AllTime, All-Star team. Frank says four present day players were overlooked and that they must be included.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course, no team men will ever agree on as many as a dozen all-stars,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;But how could Mr. Conacher leave off Sawchuck, Howe, Kelly and Lindsay? I&rsquo;d put them on the team and leave off four of his selections. I don&rsquo;t want to say who the four are, because I don&rsquo;t want to hurt any feelings. But I think most people could pick them out easily.&rdquo;</p><p>Conacher&rsquo;s lineup had Roy Worters and Chuck Gardiner, goal; Eddie Shore, Eddie Gerard, King Clancy and Ching Johnson, defense; Bill Cook and Charlie Conacher, right wing; Aurel Joliat and Harvey Jackson, left wing and Milt Schmidt and Howie Morenz, center.</p><p>&ldquo;The trouble with Mr. Conacher is that he doesn&rsquo;t appreciate present-day hockey enough.&rdquo; Boucher concluded. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s living in the past, when our game was different but the players no better than they are now. The game has changed, because the change was wanted.</p><p>&ldquo;If he thinks that five-man attacks should be stopped, let him tell how it could be dene. Certainly, the elimination of the red line wouldn&rsquo;t do it. And that seems to be his only solution.&rdquo;</p><h2>Imagine Them Not Good Enough</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02106/1069189-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="312" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sawchuk</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0379/1069182-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="292" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Kelly</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0451/1069175-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="324" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Kennedy</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rangers’ GM Claims Lionel ‘Slightly Wet’

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Someone noticed that Gordie Howe was sparkling just as sharply on defense as he was on offense during his hot scoring streak. Particularly, his fore-checking was effective.</p><p>The comment brought this answer from a press-box wag:</p><p>&ldquo;No wonder he&rsquo;s so aggressive on defense. Here he&rsquo;s in the middle of a hot streak and the other team is playing with HIS puck.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Howe So Hot, Puck is His!

<div class="byline">MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0265/1067132-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="285" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">Horry Watson</figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>A rising 15-foot shot with as much force as 207-pound Harry Watson could put behind it brought pain to Terry Sawchuk and a shock to all Detroit hockey fans.</p><p>The Wings were leading, 2 to 0, midway in the first period of a Toronto game when Watson&rsquo;s blast caught Sawchuk flush in the mouth. He staggered slightly, then pitched forward onto the ice. His teammates helped him up and rushed him, weak-kneed, away for repairs.</p><p>For 20 minutes an audience of 14,000 was left wondering whether that shot would knock Sawchuk back on the injury shelf where he had just spent seven games with a broken foot. There were visions of another emergency dash from Edmonton, Alta., by Glen Hall, No, 2 goalie in the Red Wing system.</p><p>Back in the first-aid room Sawchuk was stretched on a table as a doctor wove his stitching needle back and forth. The wound was a strange one, a clean cut entirely through the upper lip instead of the usual smashing blow.</p><p>Five stitches inside the mouth and seven more outside it closed all the gashes. A question to Terry whether he was dizzy. A quick negative answer. And back to the ice he came.</p><p>After that Sawchuk yielded only one goal to the furiously rushing Leafs, that when Detroit had boosted its lead to 3 to 0. The game ended 5 to 2.</p><p>Terry could not eat any steaks to celebrate the triumph, nor drink anything hot or cold. Two front teeth had been broken and the nerves were exposed. A day later dental surgery fixed that up.</p><p>The next game Sawchuk was back in his usual spot, the 12 new stitches sending his total for facial wounds in his career over the 200-stiteh mark.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Watson’s Heavy Shot Brings Stitch Total On Sawchuck to 200

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0175/1067077-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>As far as Detroit fans are concerned, Gordie Howe has become the greatest &ldquo;scene stealer&rdquo; in hockey.</p><p>The big excitement in these parts is Howe&rsquo;s fantastic scoring streak in a bid to crack the all-time National League record for 50 goals in a single season.</p><p>That was &ldquo;the record which never will be broken&rdquo; when it was set by Montreal&rsquo;s Rocket Richard in 1944-45. Richard himself never came closer than 45 again.</p><p>Now that Howe is on the track, and roaring at full speed, spectators tension hits its highest peaks at Olympia whenever the big right winger is on the ice.</p><p>It&rsquo;s just like Babe Ruth was at his peak hitting home runs, the fans turned out just to see the Babe smash another out of the park.</p><p>Now it&rsquo;s to see Howe get a goal. For example, in one recent game the Wings were working on a 3-0 lead In the final period. Usually In such circumstances the suspense from then on is whether the goalie can save his shutout.</p><p>But the reaction in the packed stadium obviously was something different. Howe hadn&rsquo;t made any of the earlier goals, although he was having one of his greatest nights.</p><p>A press-box statistician offered a running report that Howe was getting more shots than in any previous game of a brilliant pro career. Nine times Chicago Goalie Al Rollins had saved against him, another shot hit the post and five were wide by Inches. That made 15 shots so far, where six is considered a big number for any forward.</p><p>Finally Howe clicked for his goal, and it brought as crashing whoops of joy as if it had won the Stanley Cup.</p><p>That Terry Sawchuk went on to get his shutout became strictly anti-climactic.</p><p>Even that the Wings were fighting to get back into first place appeared Incidental to these fans. The drama of Howe&rsquo;s run for the record was overshadowing all else.</p><p>Wherever hockey is talked the fans are having hot arguments dealing with the fact that Richard got his 50 in a 50-game schedule. Believe it or not, there are those in this city who think that the Rocket&rsquo;s feat should loom ahead of whatever Howe achieves.</p><h2>Here&rsquo;s how those debates go:</h2><p>PRO&mdash;&ldquo;Richard averaged a goal a game in seting his record, and Howe shouldn&rsquo;t be considered the record holder unless he does the same, which means 70 goals in 70 games.&rdquo;</p><p>CON&mdash;&ldquo;Sure, but the Rocket piled up that fancy record when the NHL was its weakest and most unbalanced in history. The Canadiens had all the players, the other clubs were using washed-up old-timers and ordinary minorleaguers. It was a &lsquo;war-time&rsquo; record, and nothing else. Compare Richard&rsquo;s goals total against Howe&rsquo;s for the last four seasons if you want the real answers&rdquo;.</p><p>And so the arguments go while Howe merrily shoots his total higher and higher. After 48 games he had 37 goals, getting 15 of them in the last 10 games with a blistering offensive show.</p><p>For instance, these were his results over a recent week-end. On a Thursday date in Chicago, he fired three goals and assisted on another in a 5-2 triumph. The hat trick was his second of the season, and all three came in one period.</p><p>Then came a rematch with Chicago here on Saturday, That was the game described above with Howe getting his one goal late.</p><p>The next night Toronto Maple Leafs were the visitors, and Howe gave them a real show. He had a hand in all five goals of a 5-1 triumph. The 24-year-old, 194 pound Saskatoon native scored two and assisted on the other three.</p><p>All told that gave him six goals and four assists in 14 Detroit goals over that stretch.</p><p>Valuable? Well, in those games the Wings bounced back out of second place and returned to the NHL lead. They had dropped to second on the preceding Wednesday when the Montreal Canadiens pushed one point ahead while Detroit was idle.</p><p>The Canadiens matched the first victory. But the Wings forged. into a tie on the Saturday as Montreal played a scoreless deadlock with Boston, and they jumped two points out in front again on the Sunday since Montreal was nipped by the Bruins.</p><p>Those three victories also were convincers that Detroit had snapped out of a seven-game slum in which four defeats and two ties were matched against a lone triumph.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: &mdash; Marty Pavelich became the third Red Wing to go on the injury list this season when he missed a pair of games with a badly bruised el bow. He suffered it at Chicago when he crashed first into the goal pipe and then into the boards on a scoring bid.</p><p>Earlier Marcel Pronovost had missed two games &mdash; one each following seperate accidents, while Terry Sawchuk was out of seven games with a broken bone in his instep.</p><p>Short as February is, it could be a long month for the Wings. After diving into the month with a pair of home games they pulled a disapearing act on the local fans. Of the next 11 games, 10 were booked on the road as the Barbara Ann Scott Ice Show took over at Olympia.</p><p>That made 10 of the 13 games in February on the road, not at all the sort of diet a hockey team usually thrives on. Detroit had played .500 on the road previously with eight victories, eight ties and five defeats in the first 21 ventures.</p><p>But an even break might not be enough to hold off the eager Montreal Canadiens, who were making a steady drive to return to first place.</p><p>Thus in order to claim their fifth straight NHL title, the Wings might be forced to stage a big finish in the stretch drive. Which would be a new way to win it, since the four previous titles were sewed up rather early.</p><h2><b>Getting Closer&hellip;&hellip;to Mythical Mark</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Detroit Fans Label Gordie Howe Greatest Scene Stealer As He Approaches Magic Mark Set By Rocket Richard

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0360/1067163-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b><i>Big Bud Helping Little Gerry</i></b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>With spring just around the corner and the flowers ready to pop their heads through the earth, there is one Bud in Montreal who is rapidly blossoming into a sweet smelling violet for Coach Dick Irvin. We are speaking of Bub MacPherson the biggest man in the National Hockey League.</p><p>It was only last season that the 6&rsquo;4&rdquo;, 200 pound MacPherson was being chewed up by the wolves in Montreal. Each time he stepped onto the ice it was to a chorus of boos. My how the picture changes. Today &lsquo;Big Jim&rsquo; seldom hears anything but cheers and, whereas he was once just a so-so player with little confidence, he is now a full fledged big leaguer, with plenty to learn but swiftly becoming a potent force on the Habs&rsquo; blue line.</p><p>&ldquo;I surprised a few of our newspapermen the other night when I asked them if they had any idea who our best defensive defenseman was. When I told them MacPherson they couldn&rsquo;t believe It,&rdquo; said Irvin.</p><p>&ldquo;Do you know that Bud has fewer goals scored against him than any of our other defensemen? He&rsquo;s not a bad hockey player today and he&rsquo;s going to get a lot better, just you wait and see.&rdquo;</p><p>Apparently both Irvin and General Manager Frank Selke believe he is going to Improve into one of the best rearguards in the league. Last season, when the local fans were causing Bud so many sleepless nights General Manager Bill Tobin of the Chicago Black Hawks decided to make an offer for the big guy. He went as high as $35,000 but was turned down.</p><p>MacPherson&rsquo;s career in the National League has been anything but a glorious one &mdash; up until now, that is. He had a miserable season in 1951-52 until playoff time. Despite the fact that the Red Wings defeated the Canadiens in four straight games in the Stanley Cup final Jim was a standout on defense.</p><p>When the present season opened Irvin announced that he had eight defensemen on his roster but only two were certain of making the team. They were Butch Bouchard and MacPherson. So, there was every reason to believe that Jim was finally going to get his chance to play regularly. But it wasn&rsquo;t to be. When the season started Irvin used Doug Harvey with Dollard St. Laurent and re-united Tom Johnson with Bouchard. Back to the end of the bench went MacPherson to become the fifth and little used rearguard.</p><p>There was seldom a peep out of Jim while he watched his mates go to work night after night. He admits that he itched to get on and show what he could do but &ldquo;anything Dick does is okay with me after the way he handled my situation last season.&rdquo;</p><p>Jim was speaking about his few appearances on home ice.</p><p>&ldquo;I refuse to throw him to those wolves,&rdquo; stated Irvin when asked why he didn&rsquo;t use Bud at home.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t until the middle of December that Jim Finally got his chance. St. Laurent was hit on the back of the head by Leo LaBine of Boston and a few weeks later started complaining of headaches. He was sent to hospital for a checkup, medicos fearing repercussions from his eye injury in the playoffs last season. While Dolly was sidelined Jim MacPherson showed Montreal fandom that he has what it takes. Partnered with Doug Harvey, Bud blossomed into a smart, hard hitting rearguard.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s great playing with a guy like Doug. He gives you confidence. Things start getting tough and you look over and see him there. You know that he can do everything right and that he won&rsquo;t let you down in the rough going. You gain confidence that way. He&rsquo;s a great player, does everything right, rushes, stickhandles and passes just the right way. Even when he makes a mistake it looks good says Bud.</p><p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t say I was having my best year this season. I think my first was better. But I still feel that I lack something, I don&rsquo;t know what it is. Maybe it&rsquo;s more confidence.</p><p>&ldquo;I can only say that I owe everything to Dick right now. He could have handled the situation different last season but he gave me a break I know I&rsquo;d have broken down if he had done it any other way.&rdquo;</p><p>Today Irvin is obliged to use five defensemen. Had St. Laurent not been injured there is little doubt tht Bud might still be sitting on the end of the bench waiting for his chance.</p><p>No longer just the fifth defenseman, MaePherson is now a regular and when things get tough back there it isn&rsquo;t surprising to see Irvin throw his &lsquo;Big Bud&rsquo; out to solve the situation.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Big Bud Bursts Into Bloom, Habs’ Top Defensive Rearguard

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>EW YORK &mdash; Gump has been married for two years to pretty Dorene, whom he met in Montreal while playing for Verdun. Although Lome, Jr., is now his chief hobby, Gump still finds time in the Summer to be a sub-90 golfer, a softball expert and one of Canada&rsquo;s finest soccer players.</p><p>In one of the most one-sided soccer games on record, Gump was one of the stars last Summer. He played on the Saskatoon club which lost to the great Tottenham Hotspurs of England, 19-1. Gump star? Why, sure. He scored Saskatoon&rsquo;s only goal.</p><p>Worsley also has a union card as a tavern waiter, which he uses in Saskatoon during the off-season. He&rsquo;ll own that tavern someday, if he keeps tending goal the way he is now.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Gump Can Play Soccer Too!

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0175/1067194-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>In a roundabout way, Lome (Gump) Worsley has finally found what he has been looking for all the mature part of his 23-year-old life. The little fellow with the icy nerves shuttled more than 14,000 miles by rail and air this winter before locating the regular goaltending job with the Rangers.</p><p>To the New York club, as well as to Gump, it was well worth all the time and expense for his travel from Saskatoon to Guelph to Saskatoon to New York to Saskatoon to Edmonton to Saskatoon to New York. By the time he finally settled down here early last month, both he and the Rangers were fairly well convinced Worsley could become a permanent partner in a much brighter hockey future.</p><p>Worsley can thank Chuck Rayner for his present well-being. It the 33-year-old veteran hadn&rsquo;t suffered a series of ills, necessitating Gump&rsquo;s recall at the start of the season and again on Jan. 8, he&rsquo;d be still biding his time in the minors.</p><p>As it is, the little poker-faced guy with the short haircut has played 2 8 NHL games this season, up to Feb. 1st. And, although Rayner&rsquo;s legs are now sound enough for him to return to the nets, there no longer is any talk that he&rsquo;ll do so &mdash; this year or next. Worsley not only has pleased but has been an improvement over the aging veteran.</p><p>Although he has had his bad games, which is understandable when you consider how bad the Rangers have been this season, Worsley has generally proved himself to be a major leaguer. He did well enough when the team, crippled by injuries at the outset, had such a dark outlook that a tie was a victory. Since he returned last month to anchor a much improved lineup. Gump has himself improved.</p><p>Except for one 9-0 mauling in Boston, Worsley has had a better-than-average record since his second recall. Certainly, a remarkable one for a sixth-place club. In the last 10 games, excepting only the one-sided shutout, he has allowed but 19 goals. Two of his efforts have been shutouts.</p><p>The Rangers aren&rsquo;t alone in their praise of the Saskatoon dweller, who has finally been given permission to make his job &ldquo;official&rdquo; by sending for his wife and 10-months-old Gump, Jr. As long ago as Nov. 2, after a 2-2 tie in Montreal, Dick Irvin said of Worsley: &ldquo;That was the greatest exhibition of goalkeeping I&rsquo;ve seen in many, many years.&rdquo;</p><p>When the Rangers recently went on a rampage and gave the Red Wings their worst licking ever at home (8-2), Detroit coach Tommy Ivan gave Worsley much of the credit. He pointed out that the goalkeeper was slightly terrific in stopping wave after wave of Detroit attackers while the game was still a tossup. Ultimately, the frustration he produced in the Wings&rsquo; forwards let the gates down and the Rangers poured through.</p><p>Even the 9-0 murder in Boston on Jan. 24, when every Ranger had reason to bow his head in shame, helped further Worsley&rsquo;s cause as a regular. For he came back the very next night on the same ice, nerveless and calm, to beat the same Bruins, 2-1.</p><p>Worsley is a delight to the fans. They feel sorry for his size &mdash; 5-7 and 155 pounds &mdash; and have to admire the way he bounces around the cage with quick hands and legs.</p><p>He never gets flustered, even under the strongest of pressure. He&rsquo;s quick to cover rebounds and, once on the ice, can bounce back up into position with rubber-like quality. He has sharp eyes and is hard to screen, despite his size. And he has a good working knowledge of the angles.</p><p>Bill Cook, the Ranger coach who is slow to praise, has called Worsley &ldquo;the best young goalkeeper to come along since Sawchuk.&rdquo;</p><p>Of the same person, Ranger manager Frank Boucher says: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s very cool and sound. He makes no unnecessary moves and he has that ability to make the tough ones look easy. He&rsquo;s stronger than he looks, too. You know who he reminds me of? Roy Worters.&rdquo;</p><p>Nothing seems to bother this cocky, confident rookie. Neither his orders to report back to Saskatoon this winter when Rayner came back nor his return to New York later offset his equilibrium.</p><p>When told he was to return to the minors, he merely said: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll see you next year.&rdquo; When he came back to the team for the second time, he offered this impression: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m awfully glad to be back in New York. It was 20 degrees below in Saskatoon.&rdquo;</p><p>Worsley admits he is a better goaltender now than he was at the start of the season. Besides the fact that he gets more help from the improved checking of his mates, he says: &ldquo;I needed the experience. I know more now what to expect. Some players make the same shift all the time. I&rsquo;ve come to recognize it.</p><p>&ldquo;I also had to become accustomed to faceoffs in the NHL,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Out in the Western League, faceoffs are out in front and you center yourself in the goal. Here, you get them in the corner and you have to play them differently.&rdquo;</p><p>It was natural that Worsley, who grew up in the Rangers&rsquo; system, must be a goalkeeper. &ldquo;I was the small one so I became the goalie,&rdquo; he explains now of his early hockey days in native Montreal. &ldquo;The smallest kid always got the pads, if any, and I was the runt. I was just 11, trying to make good in the Parks and Playground League.&rdquo;</p><p>Eventually, Gump (so-called because he resembles the comic strip character in appearance) worked up to the Verdun Juniors, a Ranger-sponsored team run by Alcide Hebert. After watching his goalkeeper produce seven shutouts for the Cyclones in 1948-49. Hebert doubling as a Ranger scout, recommended Gump to the senior Rovers in New York.</p><p>In 1949-50, Worsley had a 3.0 0-goals against average and four shutouts with the Rovers. They won the EHL championship and lost only to Spokane in the national finals.</p><p>For his efforts, Gump earned a promotion to the pros the next season. At St. Paul, in the defunct U.S. League, he set a record that even Terry Sawchuk couldn&rsquo;t match at Omaha. For the first time in the league&rsquo;s history, a goalkeeper allowed less than three scores a game. Worsley&rsquo;s 2.8 8 average earned him both All-Star and &ldquo;rookie-of-the-year&rdquo; tribute.</p><p>A year ago, Gump worked his first tour of duty in Saskatoon. Again he was an All-Star, after leading his team to the playoff title. He had a record of 3.0 7 goals allowed, with five shutouts.</p><p>Worsley had plenty of reason to wonder where he should hang his hat this season. Not only did he fail to beat Rayner to the regular Ranger job-during their competition in training camp, but the didn&rsquo;t even have any security in Saskatoon when he went back there after his first itch.</p><p>Bev Bentley had the job when Worsley went West in November. They alaternated for awhile, and then Saskatoon tried to send Gump to Edmonton. He reported there, but the deal was nullified by the league so Gump returned to his part-time job in his home-town. Then came the second call to New York, where he went to work on a permanent basis.</p><h2><b>He Cooks For Bill</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Little Poker-Faced Goalie Appears To Have Won Job

<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/f0004-01143/1067280-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Ten Minutes Out For Medical Attention</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>S</span>UGAR JIM HENRY</b> was talking shop one day when the Boston club was in town. A bystander asked the cheerful bow-tie Bruin for an opinion of a rival goalie. But Henry shook him off. &ldquo;The goal-tending business is a brotherhood,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;I just say they&rsquo;re all good. I dn&rsquo;t discuss the other fellow&rsquo;s system.&rdquo;</p><p>Sugar Jim&rsquo;s banter could be one of those bits of wisdom spoken in jest. Things being what they are in the net-minding trade, the journeymen could do with a brotherhood &mdash; one that would pay benefits. Where they&rsquo;d get any company to underwrite it is their problem. The further blood-letting to which Detroit&rsquo;s Mr. Sawchuk was subjected recently merely calls attention to the hazards of the profession in present-day hockey. There are six regular twinemen in the NHL. And three have been out for varying periods with injuries suffered at their occupation. It should be remembered that goalies don&rsquo;t discourage easily. The kind of hurts that would keep a good husky blacksmith at home for a week merely mean a goalie is &ldquo;allowed 10 minutes for medical attention,&rdquo; as they say over the P.A. systems.</p><p>Little Gerry McNeil of the Habs played out a game here after his cheekbone had been smashed. He skated nonchalantly back to his cage as soon as the doctors had completed their hemstitching. It wasn&rsquo;t until the club returned to Montreal that x-rays revealed the extent of his Injuries. He&rsquo;s one of the three who have been forced out of the lineup so far this season.</p><p>Henry has been lucky so far in the current campaign. But his battle against Montreal Canadiens and his own peepers in the playoffs last spring will be a hockey legend in years to come. The Bruins had two tasks on their hands: to beat the Habs and to keep Sugar Jim&rsquo;s eyes from closing. They failed in one and halffailed in the other. Montreal finally won. Part of the Boston defeat might be charged to the fact that Sugar Jim was looking out of one eye and over a nose that loomed like Heartbreak Ridge when the series finally ended.</p><p><b>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</b></p><h2><b>But Rayner Hasn&rsquo;t Gone Yet</b></h2><p><b>UNLUCKIEST</b> of all the goalies this season has been the big, likeable summer camp owner. Chuck. Rayner, who is Henry&rsquo;s buddy and business partner. Prince Cholly has been written off a couple of times since last fall. But he&rsquo;s still around. He was at the Gardens Saturday night, slightly on the limp, but still looking forward to rejoiining the suicide squad. Rayner has absorbed more stitches and spit out more teeth than any goalie of the current crop. That&rsquo;s the irony of it. Just when Chuck didn&rsquo;t have many teeth left to get knocked out, his kness started popping on him.</p><p>Sawchuk beat tonsilitis and floating bone chips in his elbow to rack up two complete seasons of uninterrupted attention to this chores. He got the normal quota of stitches, of course, but nothing to knock him out of the net through 140 league games, plus playoffs. This season, it&rsquo;s different. He was out three weeks with a broken bone in his foot. And it had to happen in practice. A shot sneaked in above his skate and below the shin pad. That did th &lt; damage. He still hasn&rsquo;t recovered completely.</p><p>That brings up another point which Sugar Jim&rsquo;s brotherhood should consider if it ever gets around to providing workmen&rsquo;s compensation. A fellow who&rsquo;s plugged by a teammate might be covered by a floater policy that would include other occuupational hazards. When Harry Lumley played for the Wings, there used to be a special night, once a year, in which the pros played th &lt; amateurs. Lum, who always had a yen to score a goal at Olympia waddled up the ice in his goaling gear and sprained his ankle This was one of those proverbial sprains that&rsquo;s worse than a break It gave Terry Sawchuk one of his several chances as Lum&rsquo;s under study. The Detroit brass soon knew they had two goalies of big league calibre. So they traded Lum to Chicago. Now there&rsquo;s the type of damage against which the brotherhood might try to figure out protection.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Snort

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2>No Form in Hockey</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>ll season long hockey fans have been remarking about the lack of form of clubs in the National League. The so-called weak teams not only defeat the strong teams on certain nights, but they really pour it on.</p><p>How can those form reversals happen? We don&rsquo;t know and neither do the coaches, a fact that became apparent once more in a conversation with Tommy Ivan over, the weekend. The powerful Detroit Red Wings, who set a precedent last spring by sweeping to the Stanley Cup in eight straight games, were conceded the league championship again this season before it ever started. It was just a question of how many games they would finish in front.</p><p>But it hasn&rsquo;t been working out like that. The Red Wings got off to a hesitant start and the hockey diagnosticians looked for the reasons. They came up with various findings.</p><p>One school reasoned that they were missing Sid Abel&rsquo;s leadership on the ice, and that Howe and Lindsay would not be able to produce without him. Another group reasoned that the Red Wings had given away more defensive strength than they could afford when they traded Leo Reise to the Rangers. A third group declared that Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s work was far below the standard he had set in previous seasons.</p><p>Then they straightened out and began to resemble the powerhouse club of the previous spring, losing only one game in something like 18 starts. Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay were pumping pucks past opposing goalers, the former at such a rate that he is given an excellent chance to set a new record for goal-scoring in a single season.</p><p>By the turn of the year coaches of rival teams were predicting that the Red Wings would finish off by themselves and the other clubs would scrambel. That seemed like a safe enough assumption, too.</p><h2>Coaches Puzzled, Too</h2><p>Then, surprisingly, the Red Wings went into a sudden slump and first thing you knew Canadiens were topping them in the league standings. Then they steadied away once more, though they were only one point ahead of the Habitants when they arrived here Saturday.&rsquo; Our interview with Tommy Ivan, the slick-haired little coach of the Detroiters, went some thing like this:</p><p>&ldquo;Hello, Tommy, you&rsquo;ve been having a little trouble lately. What seems to he the matter?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Oh, I think we&rsquo;re all over that now. At least I hope we are.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You had one bad beating there, didn&rsquo;t you?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Let time see, you must mean the Rangers, don&rsquo;t you? They best us 3 to2 right in our own rink.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the game. How can a thing like that happen?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know. It happens to everybody, doesn&rsquo;t it?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It happened to Canadiens. I know because I was in Madison Square Garden when they beat us 7 to 0. After the game Camil DesRoches said to me. &lsquo;We ought to leave you at home. You were with us a couple of years ago when they beat us 9 to 0.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Well, you can&rsquo;t put the puck in the net for them, can you?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Nope, and I can&rsquo;t keep it out for them, either.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Well, if you find out what causes these things, let me know, will you?&rdquo;</p><h2>By Way of Comparison</h2><p>The only way to try to get a line on it is to compare hockey with other team sports like baseball and football, both games in which teams are fairly formful.</p><p>A tailend ball club will sometimes defeat the league leader, but you don&rsquo;t have to look far for the explanation. It&rsquo;s always a question of pitching. The tailender may have a great pitcher on its staff who is apt to beat anybody. That was the case when Ned Garver was having his great seasons with the St. Louis Browns. He was better than an even bet to beat the Yankees, Red Sox or any other club every time he started.</p><p>Or it may work the other way with the good ball cub starting a good pitcher who just hasn&rsquo;t got his stuff that day. Before ths manager can get him out of there the game is already gone.</p><p>The reasons for an upset in football are a little more complicated, despite the fact that some experts insist there is no such thing as an upset in that game. They argue that when an underdog team wins because it has scouted the favorite team so thoroughly that it has found weak spots in its defence and goes on from there to formulate a winning plan. It has also been able to shape its own defence to stop the favorite team&rsquo;s attack. The coaches themselves explain a defeat by saying their team wasn&rsquo;t &ldquo;up&rdquo; for that particular game.</p><p>But in both baseball and football you can control the ball while you can&rsquo;t control the puck. Maybe that has something to do with it. We have heard hockey coaches and players say after losing a game, &ldquo;The puck wasn&rsquo;t rolling for us,&rdquo; and one of Dick Irvin&rsquo;s favorite expressions is, &lsquo;&lsquo;We&rsquo;ll win if we get the playing breaks.&rdquo;</p><p>Then, again, that first goal is so important in hockey; the other team is forced to open up in an effort to get the eqalizer, forgetting about defence and leaving itself open to breakaways. That would explain why a cellar team could give a league-leading team an 8-2 pasting.</p><p>You would think that an NHL championship club should beat any minor league club every time they take the ice. But we once heard Jack Adams, the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; general manager, say that if an NHL club went on a tour that called for 12 games against minor league teams, it could expect to lose two of them. Why?</p><p>&ldquo;Because that&rsquo;s the kind of a game hockey is,&rdquo; said Jack, which didn&rsquo;t help to clear away the fog.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0196/1067335-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Defenseman At Dewsbury &hellip;&hellip; Agrees with Boss</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;We are undoubtedly the most traveled club in the NHL,&rdquo; General Manager Bill Tobin of Chicago&rsquo;s Black Hawks commented with disgust after a recent Sunday night loss to Toronto on home ice.</p><p>The Montreal to Chicago trips are a transportation nightmare. The team has to rush from the Forum in order to make an 11 p.m. train, but then has to pile off in Toronto at 6 in the morning to get a plane. The flight doesn&rsquo;t depart until about 9 a.m. and so close to three hours are spent lolling around in the air terminal. The plane lands in Chicago at 11 o&rsquo;clock. The defeat, a costly one in view of the tightness of the league race, followed another of the Hawks&rsquo; tiring quick trips back from a Saturday game in Montreal.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be darned if we are going to put up with any more of that kind of scheduling,&rdquo; Tobin lashed out. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t expect the players to perform in adequate fashion when they are able to get only a few hours of restful sleep before a game.&rdquo; He went on to point out that the loss to the Leafs and a tie with New York under similar circumstances cost the Hawks three valuable points.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Players Complain Too!</b></h2><p>The Black Hawk players themselves feel no better about the situation than Tobin. &ldquo;We have to eat breakfast about 3 a.m. and we just seem to be getting to sleep when we have to get off the train to make that doggone plane connection,&rdquo; Capt. Bill Gadsby said. Al Dewsbury summed things up with, &ldquo;The whole setup is for the birds.&rdquo;</p><p>Tobin&rsquo;s contention that the Hawks are the heaviest travelers in the National League may be doubted in some quarters, but a study of the schedule for the first half of the current campaign proves that he was right with plenty of room to spare. The Chicago squad covered over 15,000 miles on the rails and in the air during this period.</p><p>The more exact figure of 15,100 was well over the runnerup total of 13,500 posted by both the Rangers and Canadiens. Toronto&rsquo;s pucksters traveled about 13,300 miles and Boston hit the road for approximately 12,700. Detroit&rsquo;s world champs, ironically, covered the smallest distance with only 11,900 miles recorded up to January 1.</p><p>Tobin sees no simple solution to the &ldquo;back from Montreal&rdquo; problem. &ldquo;They want their Saturday dates just as much as we do our Sundays at the Stadium and who&rsquo;s to give in?&rdquo; he asks. From this observation post, however, things don&rsquo;t take on so futile an appearance. There would appear to be several ways to at least improve on the situation.</p><p>Since Sunday night hockey Is also played in New York, couldn&rsquo;t the Hawks conceivably travel to Manhattan from Montreal at least a couple of times each season? The distance is much smaller. As a matter of fact, Chicago will make no less than four trips from Montreal to Boston, another Sunday night spot, before the current campaign ends. These towns are only 325 miles apart.</p><p>HAWK TALK: George Gee, veteran Chicago forward, became a proud papa for the second time on January 27. His wife gave birth to a five pound, 11 ounce boy on that date in a Detroit hospital. He has since become George Michael Gee and, along with his mom, is doing fine. The Gees also have a daughter, Alice Louis, age five.</p><p>Hawk defenseman Gus Mortson, who is having one of his best years in pro hockey, recently shed his plastic nose guard with a welcome sigh of relief. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t mind how it felt, that wasn&rsquo;t bad at all, but I couldn&rsquo;t see very well in front of me. The fans probably thought I was nuts when I didn&rsquo;t notice the puck between my feet several times.&rdquo;</p><p>Murray Costello, the flashy amateur now starring in his final year at St. Michael&rsquo;s College in Toronto, seems sure to get a tryout with the Black Hawks before the end of the present season. &ldquo;We were all set to bring him up the other day when he got a broken nose,&rdquo; Bill Tobin confessed.</p><p>Johhny Gottselig, Tobin&rsquo;s assistant, is celebrating his 25th year with the Hawks this season and during that time has held just about every conceivable post with the club. He started out as a player, then coached the team and a minor league affiliate at Kansas City and finally settled down to the front office post that he now holds.</p><h2>&ldquo;Set-Up For The Birds&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Tobin Blasts Quick Trips To Montreal

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, Ill. &mdash; The longest distance between any two National Hockey league cities is the 985 miles between Boston and Chicago. The 223 miles between Boston and New York represents the shortest. Here are all the ground travel distances for the six clubs in the circuit:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0280/1067366-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="591" height="523"></div><p>New York - Boston: 233 miles</p><p>Detroit - Toronto: 234 miles</p><p>Chicago - Detroit: 272 miles</p><p>Montreal - Boston: 326 miles</p><p>Toronto - Montreal: 353 miles</p><p>Montreal - N. York: 375 miles</p><p>Toronto-New York: 503 miles</p><p>Chicago - Toronto: 50 miles</p><p>Toronto - Boston: 567 miles</p><p>Detroit - Montreal: 589 miles</p><p>Detroit - New York: 624 miles</p><p>Boston - Detroit: 713 miles</p><p>Chicago-New York: 854 miles</p><p>Montreal - Chicago: 861 miles</p><p>Boston - Chicago: 985 miles<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Time Table Of Turmoil

<div class="byline">BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>If National League authorities embalm the red line before another season rolls around, they&rsquo;ll be doing the game a favor.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the conviction of Ralph &ldquo;Cooney&rdquo; Weiland, a former National Leaguer who now coaches hockey at Harvard University.</p><p>Weiland is of the opinion that the elimination of the red line and the return to three-zone rule can help restore skill, science and gate appeal to the game.</p><p>&ldquo;The way hockey is played today isn&rsquo;t the way it was meant to be played,&rdquo; he observed. &ldquo;Most of the goals today are lucky goals, coming out of scrambles around the nets, and the fans can seldom tell which player scores.</p><p>&ldquo;The puck is thrown the length of the ice so often today that lots of people think that&rsquo;s all there is to the game. Stick-handling is becoming a lost art because players seldom retain possession of the puck long enough to see what it looks like.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course the professionals point to the Detroit Red Wings to prove I&rsquo;m wrong,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;but fellows like Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe learned their hockey under the old rule, and that&rsquo;s why they&rsquo;re great today. The present rule hasn&rsquo;t made them great.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Says Most Goals Scored Today ‘Lucky’

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0363/1067421-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="597" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>COONEY WEILAND</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>eiland, a native of Owen sound, Ontario, scored 43 goals and made 73 points in 44 games as the center for the Bruins&rsquo; famed Dynamite Line during the 1929-30 season. A decade later he coached Boston to the Stanley Cup. Although rstricted In time by his present coaching job, he is a frequent a spectator at games at Boston Garden.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Suggests Change

<p>Founded October 1. 1947</p><p>Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. Cote</p><p>HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY</p><p>309 Empire Life Building.</p><p>1434 Ste. Catherine Street West.</p><p>Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Average Weekly Circulation 35,000</p><p>Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada &mdash; $4. Q0 in U.S.A.</p><p>Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa.</p><p>Entered ns second class mail at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y.</p><p>Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey hews Company</p><p>1134 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</p><p>Printed in Canada.</p><p>Vol. b MONTREAL. FEBRUARY 14, 1953 No. 20<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01169/1067528-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="427" height="423"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>UNCH IMLACH was presented with THE HOCKEY NEWS award as the &ldquo;Outsanding Coach in 1951-52&rdquo; at a pre-game ceremony we attended in Quebec last week. Imlach was selected as the top mentor in all of hockey last season, pro and amateur included, and he is the first member of the Quebec Senior League to be so honored&hellip; The former Toronto senior star is in his sixth season as coach of Quebec, and in only one of these years has his team failed to make the QSHL finals&hellip; Jean Beliveau, who has been Imlach&rsquo;s meal ticket the last two seasons, is exepcted to leave Quebec at the end of the cuurent year&hellip; Those in the know say he is anxious to prove what he can do in the National Hockey League, as there are no new worlds for him to conquer in the QSHL&hellip; The finest</p><p>arena in the world is the Quebec Coliseum. It is a magnificent edifice. It seats 10,000 spectators comfortably but can accommodate close to 17,000 including standees&hellip; Quebec fans rate with the most rabid in the country. Everyone in the Ancient Capital takes a vital Interest in the hockey club&hellip; Frank Byrne is doing a great job with the juniors. The juniors are outdrawing the Aces this season&hellip; When Byrne Introduced junior hockey to Quebec several years ago everyone thought he was crazy and said he was doomed for failure. However, it turned out to be a sparkling success and is by far the best junior franchise in Canada&hellip; Byrne is an astute promoter, and Phil Watson, his coach, supplies the necessary color to make the Citadelles one of the top hockey Frank Byrne attractions in Canada&hellip; Gaye Stewart, the much-travelled hockeyist, is playing splendid hockey for the Aces and is determined to get back in the NHL again.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0268/1067521-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="314" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Byrne</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><p>WHEN DICK IRVIN says Doug Harvey was on the ice for more goals by the opposing teams than any other defenseman, why doesn&rsquo;t someone answer him with: &ldquo;Maybe so, but he spends a great deal more time on the ice than any other Montreal defenseman. So isn&rsquo;t is only natural to assume that he&rsquo;s be on for more goals.&rdquo; &hellip; Irvin is lucky to have such an outsanding rearguard on his roster&hellip; It&rsquo;s a good job Toronto plays half their games at home. They can&rsquo;t win on the road, and sport the worst road record they&rsquo;ve had for years&hellip; Art Ross claims most players today don&rsquo;t know how to lace their skates properly. Recently he went around the Boston dressing room looking at the boots and found only one player who laced his shoes in what he terms the correct way&hellip; Pentti Lund was the only one to lace the boots correct, according to Ross&hellip;</p><p>Lynn Patrick calls Lund the most determined player he has ever known. &ldquo;You never have to drive him,&rdquo; explained Patrick. &ldquo;He gives everything he has on the ice. He hasn&rsquo;t the natural ability of some of the other players but he makes up for it in determination&rdquo;&hellip; Happy Day calls Gordie Howe the greatest player of all time. Nice praise, indeed, from a man with Hap&rsquo;s hockey knowledge and background&hellip; Highest number worn by a National League player is 25. It&rsquo;s worn by Phil Maloney of Toronto. Leafs also use numbers 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24&hellip; Three of the greatest stars in the NHL, Ted Kennedy, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard, wear Number 9 on the back of their jersies&hellip; Jean Beliveau also wears Number 9&hellip; Two of the National League&rsquo;s top forwards, Ted Lindsay and Max Bentley, wear Number 7&hellip; 4 4 players in the NHL have taken part in every game played by their respective clubs this season. Detroit boasts the most durable team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0336/1067514-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="289" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pentti Lund</b></figcaption></div><p>&#9733; &#9733; &#9733;</p><p>THERE HAVE been 35 shutouts registered in the NHL so far this season. This is two more than were racked up all last season&hellip; Statistics show N.Y. Rangers had a better record than Chicago Boston after the first 25 games of the current season&hellip; Eddie Slowinski, injured Ranger winger, became a father for the second time last week. It was another girl for Eddie and Mrs. S&hellip; Fred Huber, Detroit publicist, lists hockey&rsquo;s most colorful players as follow: 1927-1940 &mdash; Eddie Shore. Howie Morenz, Ching Johnson, Babe Siebert, Chuck Gardiner, Nels Stewart, Charlie Conacher, Hooley Smith, King Clancy, Larry Aurie and Aurel Joliat&hellip; Recent Times: Bobby Bauer, Earl Seibert, Turk Broda, Pat Egan, Flash Hollett, Bryan Hextail, Phil Watson and Dit Clapper&hellip; Current Stars: Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard. Ted Lindsay, Milt Schmidt, Sid Abel and Chuck Rayner&hellip; &ldquo;I may have left out a few but &lsquo;think I&rsquo;ve covered the key ones,&rdquo; stated Fred ou his recent trip to Montreal&hellip; Frank Carlin has been connected with the Montreal Royals for 17 years. After coaching the club for 16 straight</p><p>seasons he became General Manager this year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0423/1067507-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="305" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ed Slowinski</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/f0006-0519/1067559-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>See Here Private!</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I don&rsquo;t know where Private Henrich got the idea that Frank Boucher wants to move 10 or 15 Ranger games to Quebec next year.</p><p>There was a story suggesting this possibility out of Quebec, but Boucher made it plain that he knew nothing about it. What he did say was that the Rangers would go a long way to get Beliveau. This was interpreted to mean he&rsquo;d go to Quebec when all he meant was that he&rsquo;d give plenty in cash and players for Beliveau. I know, because I asked him at a recent Ranger Fan Club trip to Boston.</p><p>The truth is, of course, that Mr. Boucher is very conscious of the fine support the Rangers are getting for a sixth place team and is hopeful of building it into a real</p><p>contender. When you talk to any of the other teams, you realize they recognize the potential of so many youthful Rangers.</p><p>Maggie Pickett New York, N.Y.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Mr. Malone</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I fail to see why everyone is raising such a furor about Howe&rsquo;s chances of breaking Richard&rsquo;s 50 goal mark.</p><p>Did anyone ever stop to consider that the best scorer of ail time was neither of these two gentlemen but a man by the name of Joe Malone? Mighty Malone scored no fewer than 44 goals in 22 games, an average of two goals a game.</p><p>Richard&rsquo;s mark was 50 goals in 50 games, or an average of a goal a game. Howe doesn&rsquo;t even fit into the picture, he requiring 70 games to break the 50 mark, if he is lucky enough to do so.</p><p>Richard may be good, Howe may be fair, but the best scorer of them all was Joe Malone.</p><p>Joseph Hamilton Quebec City, Que.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>More Western</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a constant reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS and find that it is a great source of hockey information.</p><p>Like most of the Fan Forum readers, I only write when I have a beef. Here it is. On your coverage of the Western Hockey League, you usually run one action shot. As a rule these pics feature the Victoria Cougars and whoever they happen to be playing. Can&rsquo;t you get some shots featuring some of the others teams in the loop besides the Cougars, who are riding herd on the cellar or in that vicinity all the time?</p><p>As I said, I had a gripe and now that it is off my chest, I wish to congratulate you on an otherwise perfect paper. Keep up the good work.</p><p>George Young Vancouver, B.C.</p><p><b>(We will do so in subsequent issues.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2>King Kelly</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>My daughter has been receiving THE HOCKEY NEWS for several years and we both think think it&rsquo;s tops in sports publications.</p><p>Your paper has settled several of our arguements on hockey data in the past so here are a few more.</p><p>1) Where is Gus Kyle playing this year? 2) What has become of Frank Brimsek? Is he still connected with hockey in any capacity?</p><p>One thing on which both mot her and daughter agree is ou: favourite player&mdash;Leonard Pat rick Kelly. We think Red is the best defenseman in the league and hope you will do a feature story on him real soon.</p><p>Mrs. Sylvia Swanstrom Chicago, Ill.</p><p><b>(Gus Kyle is playing hockey in the WHL. To the best of our knowledge, Frank Brimsek has retired and is not connected with hockey).</b></p><h2>Rookie Hannigan</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I read and enjoy THE HOCKEY NEWS weekly and this being my first letter to the Fan Forum, I figured I&rsquo;d be better off praising someone than knocking someone.</p><p>My nomination for the rookie of the year is most certainly Gordie Hannigan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Here is a good scorer, a digger, and a tireless worker all the way. He is deserving of the honour.</p><p>Paul Devine Toronto, Ont.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>English Ice Fan</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I enjoy reading THE HOCKEY NEWS each week and its certainly the best weekly paper on the world&rsquo;s greatest winter sport.</p><p>Over here in England, hockey is becoming more popular each season. I am a fan of the Earls Court Rangers of the English League and I go to see many of our other teams in action. There are six teams in the English League, namely Wembley Lions, Harringay Racers, Nottingham Panthers, Brighton Tigers, Stratham and Earls Court.</p><p>I am very interested in the NHL teams and look forward to seeing the Montreal Canadiens and the Detroit Red Wings if and when they come to London next April.</p><p>I am very keen to write to hockey fans in the United States and Canada and if any fans would to me at 41A Danehurst St., Fulham, London S.W.G., England I shall be glad to hear from them and will gladly answer their letters and let them know about hockey in England.</p><p>Doug Sims London, Eng.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Stop Richard!</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to your wonderful paper which I have been reading for the past three years.</p><p>I want to say a word about the criticism of the sportsmanship of Maurice Richard, perhaps these critics think that the other players are good sports who trip, hold, and otherwise stop Maurice Richard by means that are of no way in the game of hockey and certainly don&rsquo;t show good sportsmanship. but of course these players are never blamed for it as all the blame goes to the &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; who has a bit of a temper and who wouldn&rsquo;t have with the treatment he gets usually most unfair, that all goes with being the wonderful player he is, and doesn&rsquo;t show very good playing on their part or they would stop him the right way or not at all but seeing as they can&rsquo;t always do it the right way do it anyway possible for them.</p><p>Also I want to say that Gordon Howe is not always the gentlemanly player some people see:n to think at least not on the occasion when I have seen him play and that is what I am judging by.</p><p>Jean Morrison St. Therese, Que.</p><h2>On Schedule</h2><p>Dear Sir,</p><p>We get THE HOCKEY NEWS weekly from Paynes News Stand, and enjoy it very much. One thing we find it lacks is the hockey schedule for the following week after publication. The only schedule we are able to get in Michigan is the Red Wing, and some of us like to follow Richard and Co.</p><p>How about a comparison of Howe and Richard, sometime. Thanking you for the many hours of reading pleasure we get from Hockey News.</p><p>Irving R. Picotte Calumet, Mich.</p><p>* * *</p><h2>Hot Off Press</h2><p>Dears Sirs,</p><p>I received my first issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS through the mail the other day and I would like to know if you have any back issues.</p><p>I would like those from October 1, 1952 to December 27, 1952.</p><p>If you have would you please get in touch with me.</p><p>Bill Carr Metacher, N.J.</p><p><b>(Unfortunately, the issues that you require were such hot sellers that we now find ourselves completely out of back copies.)</b></p><p>* * *</p><h2>Bring Back Topper</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I enjoy reading THE HOCKEY NEWS very much and find it very interesting.</p><p>I think that if the New York Rangers would buy back Zelllo Toppazzini who is going great for the Providence Reds, they would have a much stronger club. Hope they make the play-offs.</p><p>Miachel Sheedy Bissett, Ont.</p><p>* **</p><h2>Wants More Moore</h2><p>Dears Sirs,</p><p>I was very glad to read in THE HOCKEY NEWS of the impending return to the Montreal Canadiens of Dickie Moore, the sensational rookie of last season, but what I would like to know, has any exact date for his return been announced? It seems that every week since the start of the hockey season, I have been reading that he would be back that particular week but so far have failed to see his name in the line-up for a single contest.</p><p>Then he was shipped to Buffalo Bisons and his name appeared in their line-up. If he is good enough of well enough as the case may be, to play in the American League, how come he can&rsquo;t play for Montreal?</p><p>My favourite team is the Canadiens and Moore my favourite player so I am hoping that he will return to them in the near future. It he returns, maybe the next time the Canadiens overtake the Wings, they will be able to hold on to the league lead.</p><p>Norm McLeod Halifax, N.S.</p><p><b>(Dickie Moore returned to the Montreal Canadiens on February 8 at New York but did not figure in the scoring. He was sent to Buffalo to play himself into shape before rejoining the NHL team.)</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/f0006-0616/1067590-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="592" height="276"></div><p>22&mdash;ABEL, Syd, Chicago playingcoach, 1918.</p><p>23&mdash;THOMSON, Jim, Toronto defense, 1927.</p><p>24&mdash;STRAIN, Neil, New York forward, 1926.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ublished Weekly, except monthly May through September, HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 309 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine St. West, Montreal, Que., Canada. Entered as second class Matter December 6, 1951, at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $3.00 in Canada. $4.00</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A hardened veteran of Stanley Cup playoffs, who wouldn&rsquo;t feel natural going home early in the spring, has pumped new hope into the Boston Bruins.</p><p>He is Joe Klukay, who hasn&rsquo;t missed being around for the playoffs since he has been in the National League.</p><p>Given a chance to play on the Bruins&rsquo; first line &mdash; with Milt Schmidt and Real Chevrefils &mdash; the Soo Ghost has picked up his scoring where he left off when his own line was dismembered by injuries.</p><p>For the first two months of the season the lean right wing from Sault. Ste. Marie, Ont., played on a line with Fleming MacKell and Ed Sandford, and they comprised a high scoring threesome.</p><p>Then MacKell, then Sandford, then MaKell again, acquired injuries, and Klukay&rsquo;s scoring output dropped with the line&rsquo;e loss of organization.</p><p>When Coach Lynn Patrick placed Joe with Schmidt and Chevrefils, the little left wing who leads the Bruins in scoring, he did it partly as a reward for the ex-Toronto Maple Leaf&rsquo;s consistently fine play.</p><p>But it was soon evident that the Bruins themselves were benefitting by the move.</p><p>In the first three games played with Schmidt and Chevrefils for limates, Klukay scored three goals, the first ending a scoreless streak of 13 games for him. One goal represented a tie with Toronto, another a win over Montreal.</p><p>Having a classy first line seemed to stimulate the Bruins just when they were ripe for elimination from the playoff fight. They took four of a possible six points from Toronto and Montreal in succession and moved into February still punching.</p><p>Their first game this month was one of the most spectacular played here in years, representing a three-goal comeback to beat the Canadiens, and before one of the season&rsquo;s best crowds besides.</p><p>The game was started on sloppy ice, and before the ice hardened &mdash; the Garden was used for two basketball games and two track meets in the 36 hours previous &mdash; the Bruins were three goals behind.</p><p>Klukay tied the score in the third period and followed that goal with the winner to guarantee the maintainance of enthusiasm for the week following.</p><p>It Patrick couldn&rsquo;t find much consolation in the Bruins&rsquo; inability to gain much ground on the first division field during the first three weeks of the long home stand, there were other encouraging developments.</p><p>One was the spirited play of Big Jack McIntyre and Chevrefils, the 20-year-old who is developping into one of the league&rsquo;s best goal-getters. Another was the improved condition of high-scoring Johnny Peirson, who missed a full six weeks with a broken jaw.</p><p>Patrick gave Peirson a couple of games to gain his skating legs, then put him to work on a line with MacKell and Sandford, in Klukay&rsquo;s place. His other line developed into a patchwork affair after George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan was shipped back to Hershey, with McIntyre, Woody Dumart. Leo Labine, Pentti and Jerry Toppazzini working in shifts.</p><p>The Sullivan situation, in which the red-head center, was returned to the minors less than a week after breaking one Bruins&rsquo; scoring record and tying another, threatened to become a hot controversy, but the Bruins cooled it off by suddenly coming to life.</p><h2><b>So Goes Joe&hellip; &hellip;So Goes Boston</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0635/1067728-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="554" height="630"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOE KLUKAY</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Soo Ghost,” A Good Luck Charm, Hasn’t Missed Playoffs in N.H.L.

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Conn Smythe, the Leaf managing director, made his annual northerly swing through Yankeeland the other week to see the Leafs play Boston Bruins and reached the Land of the Cod filled with predictions, castigations and Florida orange juice.</p><p>Smythe, entertaining the press and radio, had naught of the sensational to say as has been his wont save the information that he saw the gradual decline of the monarch Detroit Red Wings with the loss of Jim Norris Sr. who passed away last December.</p><p>&ldquo;They have lost their heavy-weight&rdquo;, he metaphored, throwing out the suggestion that Detroit manager Jack Adams did all the directing of the team anyway.</p><p>&ldquo;Adams was always on the phone after every game to Big Jim,&rdquo; Smythe remarked and successfully stickhandled around a retort to a question submitted as to whether he knew of any other case where those circumstances prevailed.</p><p>The Man, who returned to Florida immediately after seeing the Leafs draw 2-2 with the Bruins offered a barb of castigation the supporting by written testimony his claim of a few weeks ago that NHL officials were paying such strict attention to the Leafs, that they were neglecting to reward the crimes of other clubs. It was in the form of a letter from King Clancy, coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets (a most unusual method of communication for Clancy) the which he claimed that he had written to referee-in-chief Carl Voss in protest to the manners of &ldquo;one Olinski&rdquo;. Clancy wrote that he had received a reply which read to the effect that Voss had informed his referees to &ldquo;rule with an iron hand any time Pittsburgh played hockey as they are a very rough club and play a rugged game of hockey the same kind as played by the Maple Leafs, their NHL parent club.</p><p>He stymied Boston scribes with a query as to why there weren&rsquo;t any American hockey players and answered his own question with the explanation that &ldquo;it was the toughest game there is to learn and Americans didn&rsquo;t provide the facilities to learn it&rdquo; such as outdoor rinks, etc. And, in an embittered vein he remarked, pertinent to a query on the NHL all Star game, that it would be a long time before it was held in Toronto again. &ldquo;We are not going to take an insult like that lying down,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>The insult in his opinion was perpetrated by Canadian coach Dick Irvin when he refused to pick Leaf captain Ted Kennedy on his all Star aggregation for the last All Star game.</p><p>Though he hastened to admit that Milt Schmidt of the Boston Bruins was one of the greatest, he scoffed when informed that he had been picked as the centre on Lionel Conacher&rsquo;s All Star team, published recently in a Canadian magazine.</p><p>&ldquo;He played against Syl Apps for years,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and I didn&rsquo;t hear Appsy taking any back talk from him. Every time I see that Apps around the Gardens I feel like being ill. That guy could still be playing hockey for us.&rdquo;</p><p>His chief concern, shared by his coach Joe Primeau, was the seeming failure of Max Bentley&rsquo;s aching back which could be the barometer of Leaf success this season. Ted Kennedy, still nursing a shoulder separation, might get back for the tall end of the season but it was on Bentley&rsquo;s shoulders along with goalie Harry Lumley&rsquo;s that a lot of the Leaf playoff hopes were placed<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

“Schmidt Good, Sure, But Apps Was Better,” Explains Leaf Boss

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The date of February 15 may or may not send the Montreal top brass scurrying at the last minute to pull a deal or two. But on that date the National Hockey League closes its doors to deals or recall of players from the minors. From then on the major league teams will have to &lsquo;go with what they have&rsquo;, be it good or bad.</p><p>News of forthcoming deals has been negligible. And whether there are any on the fire is another question. Recently, in Toronto Coach Dick Irvin expressed interest in Left Winger Bob Solinger who is with Pittsburgh of the American League.</p><p>&ldquo;If he&rsquo;s interested, let him make us an offer,&rdquo; said Smythe&rsquo;s right hand man, Hap Day at the time.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll probably want my all-star defenseman Doug Harvey for the guy,&rdquo; replied Irvin, refusing to make any concrete offer then.</p><p>Little has happened since then. Smythe was in New York recently, from Florida. The Canadiens were there and Conn conferred with General Manager Frank Selke. Smythe, a guy who will give you a toy pistol tor a loaded cannon any day, offered to give the Habs Solinger in a straight swap for Defenseman Tom Johnson.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not the kind of a guy to give away a proven National Leaguer for a minor leaguer, said Seike in reply. negotiations were broken off. But there expected to resume before the 15tn.</p><p>If and when the negotiations are resumed the name of Jonusun will be crossed off the list as &lsquo;non-tradable&rsquo; unless, of course, Smythe offers enough to make the deal worthwhile to Canadieus.</p><p>Smythe has been shopping around for a left defenseman. The Canadiens are concerned about the shortage of goals from the left side of their team. That a deal may be made is not out of the question.</p><p>The Habs still want Solinger but will not part with a player now on their club for him. Since Boo is in the minors Selke feels that it would be au even-up deal if Smythe would accept a minor leaguer in exchange. The Habs have three reaguards in the minors right now who could qualify for positions in the majors. They are Ross Lowe in Buffalo and Ivan Irwin and Stan Long in Victoria.</p><p>Irwin was up with the Canadieas at the beginning of the season but didn&rsquo;t get much of a show. Lowe was with the club last season but was shipped to Buffalo at the beginning of this year. He was traded to Canadiens by Boston tor Hal Laycoe. The Habs may not be too eager to part with Long. A rough tough character, he may be slated for a permanent spot with the big team when Butch Bouchard decides to retire.</p><p>The Leafs can get either Irwin or Lowe but to get Long they would have to give up more than Solinger. Since the Habs may be looking for a big bruising type of rearguard next season it&rsquo;s logical to consider a bigger deal on the way. say one that might include Solinger and Fern Flaman.</p><p>There has been no indication that the Habs will make a deal with anybody else before the deadline. The return of Red Sullivan to Hershey caused quite a stir in Boston. Red is the center who Irvin expressed interest a year ago and offered Baldy Mac-Kay for him in a straight swap. It was no deal. Dick, although not quite as interested as before is still interested enough to want Sullivan and he&rsquo;d still give Mac-Kay to get him.</p><p>With the stretch drive or dive staring them In the face, Irvin has indicated that he will make changes unless his goal scorers wake up. Whereas they were loaded with 20 goals men last season, it&rsquo;s doubtful they will end up with more than two in the circle this year. Richard has already scored 21 and Geoffrion 19. But Boom Boom was injured in practice last week and is out for two weeks. The Habs brought up Ed Litzenberger from the Senior Royals to fill in for three games. Dickie Moore will rejoin the club in Chicago on the 12th. He was originally slated for a center spot but with Geoff and Meger on the second line. Moore played right wing last season when Richard was injured and scored most of his 18 goals in 33 games playing in that position.</p><p>Just Whom the Habs will recall before the deadline is not known. Selke took a hurried trip to Buffalo to look over his farm stock last week but didn&rsquo;t rave about anyone in particular when he returned. He said the Habs didn&rsquo;t have too much there to aid them in the stretch drive. He said Baldy MacKay was the best of the bunch and that Moore, while he seemed to handle the puck well was having a little difficulty skating.</p><p>With the last portion of the schedule on the way, Irvin can look with a gleam in his eye. It calls for 17 more games by the Habs with eight of them at home. The Wings, with whom the Habs are battling for first place have 19 games with 12 on foreign ice. They play each other three more times, twice in Montreal and once in the Olympia.</p><h2>He&rsquo;ll Trade any of &lsquo;em</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01119/1067666-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="298" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Long</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0298/1067659-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="296" height="384"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lowe</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0371/1067652-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="302" height="466"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Irwin</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;For Him</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0465/1067645-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="554" height="566"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB SOLINGER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Habs-Leafs Trade Talks Peter Out, Need “Somebody” By February 15th

<p class="dropcap"><i><span>T</span>he Immortal Edward &ldquo;Eddie&rdquo; Oatman started his hockey career in the Junior Ontario Amateur Hockey Association in 1902 and retired as a competitor after a season with an Omaha, Nebraska, Amateur club in 1942.</i></p><h2>Junior O H A</h2><p>1902&mdash;Tillsonburg, Ontario</p><p>1903&mdash;Tillsonburg, Ontario</p><p>1904&mdash;Tillsonburg, Ontario</p><p>1905&mdash;Tillsonburg, Ontario</p><p>1906&mdash;Tillsonburg, Ontario</p><p>1907&mdash;Tillsonburg, Ontario</p><h2>Intermediate O H A</h2><p>1908&mdash;Simcoe, Ontario</p><p>1909&mdash;Simcoe, Ontario&mdash;Cleveland, Ohio</p><h2>Western Ontario Pro League</h2><p>1910&mdash;Waterloo, Ontario</p><h2>National Hockey League</h2><p>1911&mdash;Quebec Bulldogs, Quebec</p><p>1912&mdash;Quebec Bulldogs, Quebec</p><h2>Pacific Coast Hockey League</h2><p>1913&mdash;New Westminster, British Columbia</p><p>1914&mdash;New Westminster, British Columbia</p><p>1915&mdash;Portland, Oregon</p><p>1916&mdash;Portland, Oregon</p><h2>National Hockey League</h2><p>1917&mdash;228t.h Battalion, Toronto, Ontario</p><h2>Pacific Coast Hockey League</h2><p>1918&mdash;Portland, Oregon</p><p>1919&mdash;Victoria, British Columbia</p><p>1920&mdash;Victoria, British Columbia</p><p>1921&mdash;Victoria, British Columbia</p><p>1922&mdash;Victoria, British Columbia</p><p>1923&mdash;Victoria, British Columbia</p><h2>Western Canada Hockey League</h2><p>1924&mdash;Calgary, Alberta</p><p>1925&mdash;Calgary, Alberta</p><p>1926&mdash;Calgary, Alberta</p><p>American Hockey Association</p><p>1927&mdash;Minneapolis Millers, Minnesota</p><h2>Canadian-American Hockey League</h2><p>1928&mdash;Boston, Massachusetts</p><p>1929&mdash;Boston, Massachusetts</p><p>1930&mdash;Boston, Massachusetts</p><h2>American Hockey Association</h2><p>1931&mdash;Buffalo, New York</p><p>1932&mdash;Buffalo, New York</p><p>1933&mdash;Refereed in Central Hockey League</p><p>1934&mdash;St, Paul, Minnesota</p><h2>Omaha Amateur Hockey League</h2><p>1934&mdash;1941&mdash;Referee&mdash;Coach and Service</p><p>1942&mdash;Omaha</p><p><i>Besides his competitive years he has spent another 10 years refereeing and coaching. He is still coaching.</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

A Record To Be Proud Of

<div class="byline">By FRED EDWARDS</div><p>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn &mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Hot Stove&rdquo; Leagues have long debated the question of the Life-span of an athelete in competitive sports.</p><p>They have agreed in the main that it depends entirely upon the sport, and for the rest that is pretty much of a matter of opinion.</p><p>Baseball players perhaps can boast the longest careers and football players the shortest. Herein, however, lies a controversal point, inasmuch as other groupwise sports have arguments to present. One in particular. Hockey, might well upset what theories there may be clear across the board.</p><p>It deals with a player whose character, reputation, brilliance and endurance have become legionary wherever this great game is played.</p><p>His name, Edward &lsquo;Eddie&rsquo; Oatman, occupies a hallowed spot in every Arena of any size in both Canada and United States. Dyed-in-the-wools remember him affectionately as Eddie and as one of the truly greats of the era of 60-minute men.</p><p>Few athletes in any field have proven more dynamic or more durable; boasted more memorable conflicts or shown more battle scars. His mark places him among the foremost of the game&rsquo;s immortals, embracing every known professional League in a phenomenal 24 years as a pro and innumerable lesser leagues as an amateur. He probably stands alone in total games played.</p><p>If scenes of heart-rending struggles, fisticuffs and drama could be mirrored from his clear, steely, blue eyes they would unfold the greatest era in the history of this fastest game on earth.</p><p>He has lived the fullest life of any player who ever laced on a pair of skates, a sum total of 3 3 years of actual competition and an additional 10 years as a referee and coach.</p><h2>MILESTONES ALONG THE WAY</h2><p>The acme of his achievements down through those epic-making years marked him as the greatest all-around player of his day and included his selection on the all-star team of the old and original Pacific Coast Hockey League for 10 consecutive seasons and the participation in four National Hockey League Stanley Cup finals.</p><p>A constant participant in this most rugged and most thrilling of all snorts for 50 years, with time out for two world wars under two different flags is in short a brief summation of the greatness of this immortal athlete.</p><p>He rallied to the call to the colors in World War One, serving one year with the 228th Battalion from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and then, even though in his fif ties, again took up arms in World War Two to serve three years with the American Army Engineers in the Pacific Theater.</p><p>His start in hockey was normal. Virtually born with a pair of skates in Springford, Ontario, it was not until his family, modest hotel proprietors, moved to Tillsonburg in the same province that he actually began to find his niche.</p><p>He was 13 then and all boy. His enthusiasm for the game knew no bounds. The first frost would see him bank and flood his own rink with the garden hose.</p><p>An early yen to become a goaltender saw him step into his father&rsquo;s long rubber boots and stuff them with magazines or papers to protect his shins from the flying rubber. But the action of a custodian of the nets proved too slow to suit his whims and he began aspiring to be a forward.</p><p>He was always a good stickhandler, rarely being without a stick in those tender years in his effort to improve himself at the art. Ragging the puck for minutes on end in the age old pastime of &ldquo;Shinny-on-your-own side,&rdquo; more technically known as scrimmaging, was an enviable accomplishment both on and off the ice.</p><p>His first pair of skates, which he still has, were of the old spring type that strapped on. Even though several sizes too big for him it was amazing how he could manipulate on them. No team seemed to be complete for the &ldquo;Home Town Gang&rdquo; without his services.</p><h2>NO PLAYER LISTS</h2><p>After an interlude of corner-lot play came his first big moment to strut his stuff in the organized game with the Tillsonburg club in the junior League of the Ontario Amateur Hockey Association. It was here that his talent won Recognition, and he quickly moved up the ladder to play in the Intermediate loop of the Ontario Amateur Hockey Association, first with Simcoe and then with Cleveland, Ohio.</p><p>The pros had a bead on him by this time and in 1910 he accepted his first contract with the Waterloo team in the Western Ontario Hockey league. There were few scouts in those days and player lists were unheard of. Essentially it was a team not a player mart as today when a promising rookie has no choice once he shows. Scouts register his name with their respective club and it is through that club he must negotiate. It is to player-lists that many attribute the folding of many a club and league.</p><p>Running-mates with Oatman on the Waterloo team were two of the greatest names in the business world aoday, Ed Seagram and Dave Kuntz.</p><p>Contracts in that period were more lucrative from a travel point-of-view than financial. After one season with Waterloo, he made the big jump into the National Hockey League with the Quebec Bulldogs, a rare accomplishment even then. From here on in the Oatman band-wagon was in full-flight, and his feats headlined the sport pages of every daily. He was a National idol and still in his teens.</p><p>It was at this aim that hockey&rsquo;s future was being weighed-in-the-balance between the East and the West and the redoubtable Patrick Brothers, with Lester at the helm, were shaping the des-</p><p>Highlights of his quarter centiny of the game. After two memrable seasons with the Bulldogs, he accepted a $2,200, all-travel expense contract to play on the West Coast to indelibly enscribe his name in the annals of the game for all-time. He played with New Westminster, Portland and Victoria and for 10 consecutive years was elected on as many allstar teams, an unparalled feat in any sport.</p><p>That was when the seven-man game was in vogue and the teams, carrying but eight player rosters used the player-referee system to perfection. The players on idle teams would do the officiating. It was an every day occurrence then for a player to start and finish a game without ever leaving the ice. They were the days of 60-minute men.</p><h2>Miss Name Players</h2><p>If a player spends five minutes on the ice in today&rsquo;s six-man game he is considered fagged, so geered up has the action become in an effort to inject and sustain more speed. In Oatman&rsquo;s opinion . many will argue that the game is different and faster than it used to be and takes more out of a player. He disagrees on this point and argues that while he concedes it Is more hopped up by greater manpower and more subbing it has been always fast. It is his contention that players today do not get the chance at their second wind they did when the Rover was the seventh man. He candidly thinks that the current edition misses the color and the drama of nameplayers, so prevalent before the bluelines and the redlines.</p><p>A priceless utility man, he starred as a rover, centre and right wing in the odd-man version and when the six-man style was introduced he continued to shine as a forward and a defenseman.</p><p>His 24 years in the &ldquo;Big Time&rdquo;, dating back to almost the beginning events in the East-West colding events in the East-West cold war for supremacy, a period perpetually re-lived in the Hot Stove Leagues. Feverish excitement, torrid conflicts and queues were the order of the day rather than the exception.</p><p>tury in the majors saw him first as a member of the Quebec Bulldogs in 1912, when they defeated the Ottawa Senators in a sudden death game for the coveted Stanley Cup.</p><p>He was in the play-offs again in 1916, when he captained the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey League, leading them East to drop a five-game challenge series to the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 in the fifth and deciding tussle.</p><p>In 1922 he was on the lineup of the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey League that bowed the knee to the Toronto St. Pats in a five-game challenge-series, and finally, in 1924, as playing coach of the Calgary Tigers, of the Western Canada Hockey League, when they were taken into camp by the Montreal Canadiens in a two-game challenge series.</p><h2>Best Man In Hockey</h2><p>Lester Patrick, &ldquo;The Silver Fox&rdquo;, himself an outstanding player in those days and a former president of the Pacific Coast Hockey League, said of Oatman In 1915, &ldquo;He is the best man playing hockey today&rdquo;. That was the year both he and Oatman appeared on the most famous of famous all-star Pacific Coast selections. The team was as follows:&mdash;</p><p><b>Goal: Hugh Lehman, Vancouver Left def.: Lester Patrick, Victoria Righ def.: Ern. Johnson, Portland Rover: Fred Taylor, Vancouver Center: Mic. MacKay, Vancouver Left wing: F. Nighbor, Vancouver Right wing: Ed. Oatman, Port&rsquo;d.</b></p><p>Patrick, who virtually swung the balance of power from the west to the east, later wrote one of hockey&rsquo;s greatest chapters as major-domo of the New York Rangers.</p><p>As the game shifted and the Pacific Coast circuit sank into almost oblivion, Oatman followed the trek eastward, piling up more laurels in the Late West Champs Western Canada League, and the American Hockey Association, later revived as the United States League.</p><p>While playing with the Duluth Zephyrs in an International Amateur loop in the twilight of his phenomenal competitive career he was written up in Ripley&rsquo;s &ldquo;Believe it or not&rdquo; feature for the number of years he had played hockey then.</p><p>Before his retirement as a participant with an Omaha amateur club in 1942 he spend intervening years since 1934 as a referee and coach. In fact he still remains active In the latter guise, giving freely and tirelessly of the benefits of his wealth of experience to the movement started by Tom Lockhart, president of the Amateur Hockey Association of United States in the development of Pee Wees.</p><p>The autobiography of this 60-minute ironman remains evergreen in the memory of puckchasing fans wherever the game is played. If the written word of his exploits as a point-getter and as an example of athletic prowess were to be copiled they would make volumes of the most stirring events ever to be recorded. Greatest names in the history of the game were numbered among his team-mates.</p><p>Now in his sixties and better preserved than many a man in his forties his great love of the sport has led him to Interest his employers, the Minneapolis Savings and Loan company, to sponsor a team in the &ldquo;Little Big Four&rdquo; Pee Wee league. He has been putting on his skates and coaching these youngsters for the past three years, seeing in them the makings of many a potential star if given half a chance to strut their stuff. In his opinion the Pee Wee movement of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States is the greatest thing in the encouragement of hockey in America, and he predicts a new surge of American players within the next five years. Married in 1921, with one son, Ted, a veteran of World War Two, with three years in the Pacific, he sees not only the salvation and perpetuation of hockey in the youth of America but a surprisingly higher standard in the calibre of play.</p><p>A truly great Immortal who merits the salute of sportsmen the world over.</p><h2><i>One of the Greats</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01153/1067807-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="604" height="910"><figcaption class="caption-body">EDDIE OATMAN</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Vet of Two World Wars, Eddie Oatman Skated To Immortality As “Iron Man”

<h2><b>More Shutouts</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>o date there has been two more shutouts recorded in the National Hockey League than there were throughout the entire 1951-52 season. Gerry McNeil of National leads with nine.</p><h2><b>Rough Contest</b></h2><p>When the Chicago Black Hawks played the Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto on Saturday February 7, Referee Red Storey called no fewer than nine penalties in the first period.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1131/1068022-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="292" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Peters</figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>ome National Hockey League players have the quaint faculty of being highly effective and yet managing to remain virtually unnoticed by the fans. Such a player is James Meldrum Peters.</p><p>Jimmy Peters has played for four different NHL teams and on every one of them he has remained in the background while others have taken his place In the spotlight, but always the hard working Peters has been one of the best puck carriers, checkers and skaters on his club.</p><p>Sid &ldquo;Bootnose&rsquo; Abel, the new coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, was Jim&rsquo;s teammate with the Detroit Red Wings and he knows the true value of the guy with the boyish grin. As a result, Abel counted on Peters as one of the main cogs in his plan to lift the Chi-Hawks outof the NHL basement and right into the Stanley Cup playoffs, Peterh hasn&rsquo;t let him down.</p><p>His play has been steady all season, not as spectacular perhaps as some of the other players, but always highly effective. He is one of the men Abel throws over the boards when the Hawks are a man shy due to a penalty. Not a loud type player, Jim is still a short of &lsquo;take charge&rsquo; guy out there on the ice, a policeman, oddly enough a job his father holds in Jim&rsquo;s home town of Verdun, Quebec.</p><p>The 30-year-old veteran has been having a good year, and has banged home 14 goals to date and added 17 assists for 31 points. His highest previous high goal mark in the NHL was for the 1950-51 season when he scored 17 with the Detroit Red Wings. It is virtually certain that he will pass that mark this season.</p><p>This past week Jimmy added 2 goals and 3 assists to his total and was the sparklug of the twin victories racked up by the ChiHawks at the expense of the Toronto Maple Leafs, wins that moved them back onto the third rang of the NHL ladder.</p><p>Last season was the the first year in his long tenure in the big leagues that he did not take part in the Stanley Cup playoffs, a fact that didn&rsquo;t sit too well with Mister Peters, and he intends to see to it that it will be the last time it happens. If the Hawks had ten more players who worked as hard as Peters, they wouldn&rsquo;t ever have to worry about getting into the playoffs. A real hustling Hawk!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player-Of-The – Week

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>hicago Black Hawks clipped the Maple Leafs of Toronto twice over the weekend, to move ahead of the Torontos in the National Hockey League standings. The spirited Hawks are in third place with 52 points, two more than the Leafs. Detroit remains in first place. The Red Wings now have 64 points, four more than the second-place Montreal Canadiens. Boston Bruins are fifth with 48 points, while New York Rangers bring up the rear with 3.6 points.</p><p>Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; Gordie Howe is moving closer to Maurice Richard&rsquo;s goal-scoring record all the time, Howe now has 39 goals this season and needs 12 to break Richard&rsquo;s mark of 50 goals in one season, in 51 games. Howe has 39 goals and 3 2 assists for 71 points, and is well on his way to his third straight National Hockey League scoring title. Howe&rsquo;s teammate, Ted Lindsay, is second a m o n g the loop&rsquo;s top point-makers with 52 points, made up of 21 goals and 31 assists. Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard is third with 22 goals and 28 assists for 50 points. Wally Hergesheimer, New York, and Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, are tied for fourth place with 45 points a piece. Paul Ronty, New York, and Metro Prystai, Detroit, are next with 39 points each.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01137/1067991-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="280" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div><p>Howe leads the League in scoring goals with 39 tallies. The 20-year-old Delvecchio heads the circuit in assists with 3 5.</p><p>Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Gerry McNeil tops all goalkeepers in racking up shutouts. He has nine thus far this season. Terry Sawchuk of Detroit has the best record among the goalies. He has a goals-against average of 2.07.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p>STANDINGS ON WED. A.M. FEB. 11</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02117/1067984-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="590" height="186"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3><p>Feb. 5th&mdash;Toronto 0 at Canadiens 2</p><p>Feb. 5th.&mdash;Rangers 3 at Detroit 3</p><p>Feb. 5th&mdash;Chicago 1 at Boston 4</p><p>Feb. 7th&mdash;Detroit 3 at Canadiens 1</p><p>Feb. 7th&mdash;Chicago 4 at Toronto 2</p><p>Feb. 5th&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Rangers 1</p><p>Feb. 8th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Chicago 4</p><p>Feb. 5th&mdash;Detroit 5 at Boston 3</p><p>* * *</p><h3>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5 Toronto 0 at Montreal 2</h3><p>MONTREAL &mdash; Gerry McNeil hung up shutout number nine and the Montreal Canadiens slimbed to within one point of first place as they knocked oft the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-0.</p><p>Maurice Richard and Dollard St. Laurent were the Montreal marksmen, both scoring in the third period.</p><p>Richard&rsquo;s counter at the 6.08 mark of the third came on a paly with Elmer Lach and Bert Olmstead while Lach and Richard drew the assists on the St. Laurent goal.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson, Boivin, Flaman, Horton, Morrison; forwards, Maloney, Armstrong, Watson, Smith, Sloan, Hassard, Nesterenko, Han nigan, Lewicki, Stewart.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Johnson, St. Laurent, Harvey, Bouchard, MacPherson; forwards, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Masnick, Litzenberger, Meger, Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, McCormack and Reay.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen, George Hayes and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0386/1067977-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="590" height="354"></div><h3>New York 3 at Detroit 3</h3><p>DETROIT &mdash; The league leading Detroit Red Wings last a little ground in the close NHL race as they were held to a tie by the New York Rangers. Alan Stanley scored late in the third period to give the Blues a 3-3 deadlock.</p><p>George Senick and Aldo Guidolin were the other New York scorers while Johnny Wilson, Alex Delvecchio and Gordie Howe were the Detroit marksmen. It was Howe&rsquo;s 38th of the season.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Buller, Reise, Kraftcheck, Howell, Stanley; forwards, Mickoski, Stoddard, Kullman, Ronty, Strain, Hergesheimer, Raleigh, Guidolin. Babando, Senick.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk, defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay: forwards. Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Bonin, Leswick, Delvecchio, Sinclair. Wilson.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen, Doug Young and Jerry Olinski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01152/1067970-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="602" height="380"></div><h3>Chicago 1 at Boston 4</h3><p>BOSTON &mdash; The Boston Bruins blasted the Chicago Black Hawks right out of the first division and boosted themselves in by hammering the Abel men 4-1.</p><p>Actually the two teams are still tied on points but the Bruins have played two less games. They moved into fourth place.</p><p>Chicago scored the first goal of the game but were never able to beat Sugar Jim Henry again during the contest.</p><p>The Hawks have won only one game in their last seven.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal Rollins; defence, Gadsby, Mortson, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Raglan. Hucul; forwards, Gardner, Mosienko, Bodnar, McFadden, Gee, Peters, Abel, Couture, Lynn.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry: defence, Quackenbush. Godfrey, Laycoe, Armstrong, Toppazzini; forwards, Schmidt, Klukay, Chevrefils, Mackell, Labine, McIntyre, Lund, Dumart, Peirson, Sandford.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mihleneacher: linesmen, Herb Gallagher and Sam Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02119/1067963-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="598" height="412"></div><h3>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7 Detroit 3 at Montreal 1</h3><p>MOUTREAL, Que&mdash;For the second time this season and the first time in Montreal, the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Montreal Canadiens, this time by a 3-1 score. The Habs still hold a 3-2 record over the Wings, with five other games resulting in draws.</p><p>Jim &lsquo;Red Eye&rsquo; Hay was the hero of the piece from the Detroit Standpoint, his goal in the seventeenth minute of p ay of the second period proving to be the winner. It was scored on a power play with Dollard St. Laurent in the penalty box.</p><p>Other Red Wing marksmen were Johnny Wilson and Gordie Howe, the latter soring into an open net as the Habs strove to tie up the game in the dying minute of play. Rookie Eddie Litzenberger accounted for the lone Habitant goal.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuck; defense. Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Hay; forwards, Prystai. Howe, Lindsay. Leswick, Shov, Sinclair, Delvecchio, Wilson, Bonin.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defense Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, Macpherson; forwards, Lach, Richard, Olmstead. Masnick, Gamble, Curry. Reay, Litzerberger, Meger. McCormack, Mosdell.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick, Linesmen; George Hayes and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03100/1067956-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="612" height="430"></div><h3>Chicago 4 at Toronto 2</h3><p>TORONTO&mdash;With two regulars sitting out after being benched, the Chicago Black Hawks downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2.</p><p>The Leafs outshot the visitors 31-29 but the Chicagoans paid off around the with playing-coach Sid Abel, Jimmy Peters, Jim McFadden and Bill Mosienko all collecting goals. Danny Lewicki, up from the Pittsburgh Hornets, and George Armstrong accounted for the Toronto goals.</p><p>The game Was fairly rough all the way with referee Bed Storey handling out ten penalties, nine of them in the first period when three brawls broke out. Even Harry Iumley got into the act, he fighting with al Dewsbury, but no penalty was called on this one.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0474/1067949-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="604" height="510"></div><h3>SUNDAY FEBRUARY R Montreal 1 at New York 1</h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;George Senick scored his seecond NHL goal late in the third period to earn the New York Rangers a 1-1 tie with the second place Montreal Canadiens. His goal came at the 16.29 mark and ruined Gerry McNeil&rsquo;s bid for a tenth shutout.</p><p>Bert Olmstead had put Montreal out in front in the first period as he converted Maurice Richard&rsquo;s pass into a goal at the 4.21 mark, with Allan Stanley in the penalty box for boarding.</p><p>The tie, coupled with loss the previous night to the Wings, moved Montreal four points back of the league leading Detroit team.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defense, Johnson, Bouchard. Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards, Masnick, Curry, Gamble, Richaid, Moore, Reavy, Olmstead. Lach, Mosdell, Meger.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defense, Reise, Buller, Howell, Kraftcheck, Stanley: forwards, Ronty, Hergeshel mer, Strain, Raleigh, Mickoski, Guidolin, Stoddard, Babando, Senick, Prentice, Kullman.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick; Linesmen, George Hayes and Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0562/1067942-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="606" height="356"></div><h3>Toronto 2 at Chicago 4</h3><p>CHICAGO&mdash;For the second time in as many nights, the Chicago Black downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2. The presame trick with the identical score on Toronto Maple Leaf Garden ice.</p><p>Bill Gadsby, Cal Gardner, Doc Couture and Jim McFadden were the snipers for vious evening the Hawks turned the the Chicagoans while Tod Sloan notched both of the Leaf goals.</p><p>The Hawks scored two In the first period and one in each of the remaining frames. Both Toronto goals came in the opening stanza.</p><p>The game was played before the biggest Chicago crowd of the season as 16,228 crowded into the Chicago Gardens.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defense, Flaman&bdquo; Boivin, Horton, Morrison, Thomson; forwards, Nesterenko, Hassard, Hannigan, Watson, Smith, Sloan, Armstrong, Steward, Maloney, Lewicki.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense, Mortson, Gadsby, Fogolin, Raglan, Price; forwards, Peters, Dewbury, McFadden, Mosienko, Lynn, Bodnar, Couture, Gardner, Abel, Hucul, Finney.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari. Linesmen, Doug Young and Harold March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0658/1067935-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="608" height="570"></div><h3>Detroit 5 at Boston 3</h3><p>BOSTON&mdash;Detroit Red Wings staged a late rally in the third period to down the Boston Bruins 5-3. It was the Wings&rsquo; victory in ten starts against the Boston team this season.</p><p>Defenseman Red Kelly&rsquo;s second goal of the evening at the 16.20 mark gave the Wings the margin of victory. Other Detroit scorers were Johnny Wilson, Capt. Ted Lindsay and Glen Skov. Johnny Peirson, Fleming Mackell and Real Chevrefils were the Bruin snipers.</p><p>The Wings scored two in each of the first and third periods and sandwiched a single into the middle session. Boston scored once in the second and twice in the third period.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuck, defense, Goldham, Pronovost. Kelly, Woit, Hay; forwards. Prystai, Howe, Lindsay. Leswick, Skov, Sinclair, Delvecchio, Wilson, Bonin.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defense, Quackenbush, Godfrey, Laycoe, Armstrong; forwards, Dumart, Klukay, Chevrefils, Sandford, Mackell, Peirson, Labine, McIntyre, Lund, Toppazzini, Sullivan.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Qlinski; linesmen. Herb Gallagher and Sam Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0745/1067928-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="598" height="554"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday, Feb. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0474/1067921-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="586" height="2716"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0560/1067914-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="588" height="172"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0653/1067907-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="586" height="176"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0745/1067900-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="590" height="116"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0840/1067893-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="584" height="146"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0940/1067886-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="560" height="134"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chi-Hawks Grab Third Ahead of Leafs, Bruins

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0842/1068060-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>G</span>ordie Howe added two more goals to his season&rsquo;s mark during the last week and now looms even more as the new goal tearing champion In the National Hockey League. He now needs but 12 goals to eclipse the previous mark of 50 set by the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard.</p><h2>IN A CAPSULE</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1128/1068053-1-eng-US/f0010-112.jpg" title="f0010-11" width="1165" height="2108"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Shooting To A Record

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0936/1068091-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="270" height="510"></div><p>45th Street West off Broadway</p><p>HOCKEY HEADQUARTERS</p><p>in</p><p>New York City, N.Y,</p><p>$4.50 SINGLE</p><p>$7.00 DOUBLE BED</p><p>$7.50 TWIN BEDS</p><p>(Special rates for hockey teams)</p><p>Too Room, All With Private Baths, Showors, Circulating Iced Water Radios. Television Also Available</p><p>EXCELLENT CUISINE</p><p>Home of tht Famout</p><p>PICCADILLY CIRCUS LOUNGE<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOTEL PICCADILLY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-10" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1031/1068122-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>or a long time now we&rsquo;ve wanted to know just who our readers are, whether they are young or old; male or female; students or working types. We would like to know just what they desire in the way of hockey stories and coverage.</p><p>Remember this is the Hockey Fan&rsquo;s paper and we are determined to make it the best possible paper. So won&rsquo;t you help us do this by answering the following questions, then tearing out this form or a reasonable facsimile and returning it to us as soon as possible. Thanks a lot for your co-operation.</p><p>YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS ARE NOT NECESSARY</p><p>(Send to Promotion Dept., The Hockey News, 309 Empire Life Bldg., Montreal)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WE’D LIKE TO KNOWYOU!!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0655/1068268-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">AHUs Best</figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>OHNNY BOWER,</b> Cleveland&rsquo;s greatest goaltender is shown receiving the &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Holmes Memorial Trophy, emblematic of the lowest &ldquo;goals against&rdquo; average in the AHL for the 1951-52 season. Al Sutphin, former Baron president and donor of the trophy is shown making the presentation in the Cleveland Arena. Bower is having another great season and despite the fact that the Barons play offensive hockey exclusively Johnny has a great chance of winning again this season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Bouquets For Bower

<h2><b>Sully Leaves Again</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Hershey Bears again lost the services of star George &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivan to the parent Boston Bruins. Sully was re-called from the Bears to replace the injured Bruin captain, Milt Schmidt.</p><h2><b>Close Race</b></h2><p>The Cleveland Barons and the Pittsburgh Hornets are staging one of the closest races to the wire the AHL has seen for a while. Two points seperate them and the Hornets have a game in hand.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. FEB. 10</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01151/1068237-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="602" height="212"></div><h3>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 St. Louis 6 at Providence 7</h3><p>PROVIDENCE &mdash; An overtime goal by Bob Bourassa, just 28 seconds after the overtime period got underway, gave the Providence Reds a 7-6 victory over the St. Louis Flyers.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, McNab; forwards, Hirschfield, McLean. Boone, Stankie wicz, Fielder, Janowski, Conacher, Ehman.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence. Morris, Bourassa, Kryzanowski, Bloomer; forwards, Sullivan, Powell, Gladu, Laplante, Kapusta, Bacarri, Scherza, Toppazzini, Denis, Reardon.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Doug Davies; linesmen. Art Lesieur and George Desaulniers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02117/1068230-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="604" height="890"></div><h3>Pittsburgh 3, at Cleveland 0</h3><p>CLEVELAND &mdash; Goaltender Gil Mayer scored his second straight shutout and his fifth of the season as the Pittsburgh Hornets regained first place in the American Hockey League by crushing the Cleveland Barons, 3-0.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Bullivan, Juzda, Bolton, Backor, Lumsden; forwards, Lewicki, Barbe, Solinger, Marshall, Blair, Balfour, Mathers, Chordey, McLellan.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Williams, Chrystal, Reigle, Shero; forwards, Gordon, Olson, Wochy, Bailey, Sonmor, Hilderbrand, Ross, Olson, Ceresino, Glover.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0396/1068223-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="607" height="436"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Cleveland 4 at Syracuse 4</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE &mdash; The Cleveland Barons and the Syracuse Warriors fought to a 4-4 overtime stalemate in an American Hockey League game played here.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Williams, Chrystal, Reigle, Shero; forwards, Gordon, Olson, Wochy, Bailey, Sonmor, Hildebrand, Ross, Olson, Ceresino, Glover.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Allen, Milligan, Tottle, Casanato; forwards, Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Horvath, Pogue, Gooden, Curick, Guidolin, Ashbee, Ford.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen, Earl McDonald and Loren Kirkby.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0471/1068216-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="610" height="654"></div><h3>St. Louis 2 at Hershey 4</h3><p>HERSHEY &mdash; The Hershey Bears scored three un answered goals in the second period to score a clean-cut 4-2 victory over the visiting St. Louis Flyers in an American Hockey League game played here.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, MacNab; forwards, Fielder, McLean, Conacher, Hirschfield, Ehman, Boone, Staniewicz, Janowski.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Gari&eacute;py, Branigan, Schertzi, Martin; forwards, Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson. Brown, Kullman, Corcoran, Bettio, Caron, O&rsquo;Brien, Poland.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen. Art Fasnacht and Bill Stover.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0559/1068209-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="610" height="474"></div><h3>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Providence 0 at Pittsburgh 1</h3><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; Goalie Gil Mayer came through with his third straight shutout and Pittsburgh Hornets notched their ninth straight victory as they beat the Providence Reds 1-0.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defense: Bourassa, Kryzanowski, Bloomer, Morris; forwards: Baccari, Denis, Powell, Laplante, B. Sullivan, Gladu, Smith, Scherz, Toppazzini, Kapusta.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense: Bolton, Backor, Juzda, Lumsden; forwards: Solinger, Ezinicki, McLellan, Barbe, Balfour, Sabourin, Timgren, Chorley, Marshall, Mathers.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Morrison; linesmen: Regis Davies and Joe Walsh.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0846/1068202-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="608" height="420"></div><h3>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7 Pittsburgh 3 at Syracuse 6</h3><p>SYRACUSE &mdash; Gil Mayer&rsquo;s three-game shutout streak came to an abrupt end when the Warrios slammed six goals past the harassed netminder to hand the Hornets their first loss since January 11.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense, Bolton, Backor, Juzda, Mathers, Lumsden: forwards: Solinged, Ezinicki, McLellan, Barbe, Balfour, Sabourin, Timgren, Chorley, Marshall.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defense: Allen, Milligan, Tottle, Casanato; forwards: Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Horvath, Gooden, Pogue, McNabney, Guidolin, Ashbee, Ford.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Olinski; linesmen: Bernie Lemaitre, Earl McDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02116/1068195-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="604" height="627"></div><h3>St. Louis 2 at Hershey 5</h3><p>HERSHEY &mdash; Obie O&rsquo;Brien and Charlie MacDonald scored a pair of goals apiece to pace the Hershey Bears to a 5-2. victory over the St. Louis Flyers.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defense: Hrymnak. Lund, Forbes, MacNab; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Conacher, Hirschfeld, Ehman, Hayden, Boone, Stankiewicz, Jankowski.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defense Gardepy, Branigan, Schertzl, Martin; forwards. Sullivan, Fisher, Ferguson, Brown, Kullman, Corcoran, O&rsquo;Brien, Caron, MacDonald. Poland.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenhacker; linesmen: Art Fasnacht, Bill Stover.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0395/1068188-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="607" height="531"></div><h3>BUFFALO 2 at Cleveland 6</h3><p>CLEVELAND &mdash; The Barons moved into a first-place tie with the Pittsburgh Hornets by drubbing the hapless Bisons, 6-2 before 8.828 fans.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defence, Eddolls, Lavitt, McNeil, Lowe; forwards: Moore Cancher, Achtymichuk, McLeod, Mackay, Kaiser, Davies, Davis, Fryday, Pennell.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defense: Williams, Chrystal, Reigle, Shero; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Ross, Olson, Sonmor, Ceresino, Wochy, Hildebrand, Glover. Delmonte.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Morrison; linesmen: Bobby Carse, Patsy Callighen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0473/1068181-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="607" height="581"></div><h3>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8 Syracuse 3 at Buffalo 4</h3><p>BUFFALO &mdash; Goalie Gordie Bell of the Syracuse Warriors lost his own game in the afternoon game played here as the Buffalo Bisons whipped the Warriers, 4-3 in overtime. Bell drew a tripping penalty and while the Warriors were short-handed, Ken Davies scored the winning overtime goal.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence: Casanato Allen, Milligan, Tottle forwardst Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Horvath, Pogue, Gooden, Curick, Guidolin, Ashbee, Ford.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defence: Pilote, Eddolls, Lowe, Lowe, Lavitt, MacNeill: forwards: Pennell, Davis, MacKay, Conacher, Fryday, Davies, Achtymlchuk, McLeod, Kaiser.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Hugh McLean linesmen: Bernie Lemaitre and Mike McMahon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0556/1068174-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="600" height="666"></div><h3>Hershey 3 at Providence 7</h3><p>PROVIDENCE &mdash; Scoring three unanswered goals in the second period th&middot; Providence Reds turned on the Hershey Bears with a vengeance to take a 7-3 American Hockey League decision.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett: defense: Morris, Bourassa. Bloomer, Kryzanowski; forwards: Baccari, Denis, Powell, La plante. B. Sullivan, Gladu, Scherza, Tonpazzini, Kapusta, Smith.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defense: Garlepy. Schertzi, Martin, Branigan; forwards: Brown, Kullman, Fisher, Corcoran, Ferguson. Bettio, O&rsquo;Brien, Caron, Poland, McDonald.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher: linesmen: Art Lesieur and Georg Deslauniers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0642/1068167-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="613" height="670"></div><h3>Cleveland 4 at St. Louis 2</h3><p>ST. LOUIS &mdash; Cleveland Barons scored four straight goals without a reply from the St. Louis Flyers and staved off a desperate third period drive to defeat the Flyers. 4-2 in an American Hockey League game.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower: defense: Chrystal. Shero, Reigle, Williams; forwards: Gordon, Wochy, Olson. Bailey, Hildebrand, Glover, Sonmor, Ceresino, Delmonte and Ross.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal. Almas: defence: Hrymnak, Lund. Forbes, MacNab: forwards: Fielder. McLean. Conacher, Hirschfield, Ehman, Hayden, Boone, Stankiewics and Jankowski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0741/1068160-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="603" height="414"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games Of Sun. Feb. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0748/1068153-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="596" height="528"></div><h2><b>LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Ike Hildebrand, Clev. (29)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Guyle Fielder St. Louis (40), George Sullivan Hers., (40).</p><p><b>Most Penalties:</b> Bob Bailey, Clev. 88.</p><p><b>Best Goaler:</b> Gil Mayer, Pitts. (46 games, 108 GA., 5 SO., 2.35 AVG.)</p><p><b>Shutouts:</b> J. Bowers, Clev., Gord Bell. Syr., Gil Mayer, Pitts. (5),</p><p><b>Team Penalties:</b> Pittsburgh Hornets, (656 minutes)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The recent demotion of Pete Conacher to St. Louis in the American League does not mean that the Chicago Black Hawks have given up on the youngest member of hockey&rsquo;s fabulous Conacher clan. &ldquo;We definitely still rate him as a top prospect,&rdquo; Coach Sid Abel assures, &ldquo;but it was felt that he&rsquo;ll do much better with a little minor league experience.&rdquo;</p><p>Pete, it should be remembered, came into the NHL without the benefit of any previous pro competition. Many present day puck stalwarts had no such handicap with which to contend. Terry Sawchuk of Detroit, for example, spent three years in the American and United States circuits before landing the goaltending job with the Red Wings.</p><p>Even &ldquo;Great Gordie&rsquo;&rsquo; Howe of the Motor City champions had a year in the minors prior to making the big jump and he then took three more seasons to reach full stardom. New York&rsquo;s top blue liner, Hymie Buller, played through eight campaigns in the AHL before gaining All-Star recognition as a rookie with the Blueshirts.</p><h2><b>Tough Handicap</b></h2><p>A second and probably much tougher handicap will be hurled as a challenge to Pete throughout his days in hockey. What could be harder than trying to live up to the reputations established by a father (Charlie) and two uncles (Lionel and Roy) ranked among the best men in the history of the sport?</p><p>Abel was recently credited with stating that Pete lacks the drive that made Charlie famous. &ldquo;I never said that,&rdquo; Sid firmly announced after seeing the comment in print. &ldquo;It could be true though in the sense that Pete seems to be more like Roy.&rdquo; This would appear to be all well and good since Roy was the highest scoring of the Conachers.</p><p>Down at St. Louis, Pete wasted no time in displaying his talents to good advantage. After Player-Coach Jake Forbes had Installed him on a line with Guyle Fielder and Motto McLean, he proceeded to notch three goals and three assists in his first four games as a Flyer.</p><p>In the 5 to 2 losing effort to Cleveland on January 23, he scored both St. Louis goals. Such play, we are willing to bet, will not keep Pete Conacher in the minors for long. His future is still looming brightly on the hockey horizon and it shouldn&rsquo;t be too long before he&rsquo;s back giving National League rivals a taste of the Conacher brand of puck play.</p><h2><i>He&rsquo;ll Return</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01163/1068299-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="579" height="1192"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PETE CONACHER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pete’s Demotion Not Permanent, Abel Rates Him Top Prospect

<p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>tarting In the issue of February 21st THE HOCKEY NEWS readers will be able to vote for the N.H.L. All-Stars they believe deserve the distinction. It&rsquo;s the only opportunity you fans have to put in a bid for the players you think should be All-Stars.</p><p>The ballot will run for six consecutive weeks. In the issue of April 18th THE HOCKEY NEWS ALL-STAR team, as picked by you fans will be announced. So don&rsquo;t forget to purchase your copy If you want to put In a bid for your ALL-STARS.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

All-Star Balloting Starts In The Feb. 21st Issue Of The Hockey News

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01171/1068452-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">PATRICK TRIBUTE &mdash; Mayor F. &ldquo;Toby&rdquo; Jackson (far left) reads a message of congratulation from Lester Patrick over the air to Ken MacKenzie who was presented with THE HOCKEY NEWS award as the outstanding executive of the year of all hockey. Shown from left to right are Mayor Jackson, CBC broadcaster Bill Good, Al Leader, Ken MacKenzie and Leo Ornest.</figcaption></div><h2><b>20 Goal Club</b></h2><p>Seventeen players in the Western Hockey League have already turned at least twenty goals so far this season. Vic Stasiuk leads with 27.</p><h2><b>First Time</b></h2><p>The Calgary Stampeders defeated the Vancouver Canucks last week, the first time the prairie club has managed to turn the trick so far this season.</p><h2><b>MacKenzie Receives Award</b></h2><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON THURS. A.M. FEB. 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02138/1068445-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="601" height="214"></div><h3>LAST WEEKS RESULTS</h3><p><b>Tues. Jan. 27th</b></p><p>Victoria 4 at Tacoma 4</p><p>Calgary 3 at Vancouver 0</p><p>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 5</p><p><b>Wed. Jan. 28th</b></p><p>Calgary 1 at New. Westminster 3</p><p><b>Fri. Jan. 30th</b></p><p>Calgary 4 at Victoria 4</p><p>New Westminster 1 at Vancouver 3</p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Edmonton 3</p><p><b>Sat. Jan. 31st</b></p><p>Calgary 1 at Tacoma 10</p><p>Vancouver 10 at New Westminster 2</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 1st</b></p><p>Edmonton 5 at Saskatoon 6</p><h3>TUESDAY JANUARY 27 Victoria 4 at Tacoma 4</h3><p>TACOMA &mdash; The Tacoma Rockets scored three goals in the third period and earned a 4-4 draw with the Victoria Cougars.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards: Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</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/f0013-03116/1068438-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="602" height="534"></div><h3>Calgary 3 at Vancouver 0</h3><p>VANCOUVER &mdash; Calgary goaler Phil Hughes chalked up his second shutout as the Stamps dumped Vancouver Canucks 3-0.</p><p><b>Calgaray:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards: Shvetz, Kelly. Lundy, Blaek, Wittiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Barry, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal. Francis; defence, Dick. Currie, Lancien, Fontinato; forwards: Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Mackintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0499/1068431-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="603" height="391"></div><h3>Edmonton 4 at Saskatoon 5</h3><p>Edmonton: Goal. Hall; defence, Folk, Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forwards: Johnson, Uniac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal. R. Bentley; defence, Ross, Milford, Heindl, Evans; forwards: Kaleta, Chad, Rouse, McCullough, McLeod, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser D, Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0582/1068424-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="606" height="576"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 28 Calgary 1 at New Westminster 3</h3><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards: Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Wittluk, Agar, Ashworth, Barry, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bedard, Bergeron, Coburn; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyott, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Cabana, Boyce, Robert.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0670/1068417-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="600" height="378"></div><h3>FRIDAY JANUARY 30 Calgary 4 at Victoria 4</h3><p><b>Calgaray:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandosk.; forwards: Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Wittiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Barry, Scott, Finney.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards: Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0761/1068410-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="606" height="464"></div><h3>New Westminster 1 at Vancouver 3</h3><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bedard, Bergeron. Coburn; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyott, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Cabana, Boyce, Robert.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence. Dick, Currie, Lancien, Fontinato; forwards: Hickey. Atanas, Smith, Popein, Mackintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0855/1068403-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="600" height="438"></div><h3>Saskatoon 3 at Edmonton 3</h3><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, R. Bentley; defence, Rose, Milford, Heindl, Evans; forwards: Kaleta, Chad, Rouse, McCullough, Mc-I.eod, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence. Folk, Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forwards: Johnson, Uniac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0474/1068396-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="602" height="405"></div><h3>SATURDAY JANUARY 31 Calgary 1 nt Tacoma 10</h3><p><b>Calgaray:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski: forwards: Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Wittluk, Agar, Ashworth, Barry, Scott, Finney.</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/f0014-0563/1068389-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="598" height="553"></div><h3>Vancouver 10 at New Westminster 2</h3><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Lancien, Fontinato; forwards: Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Mackintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Brown.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence. Durham, Bedard, Bergeron. Coburn; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, Slater, Ullyott, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Cabana, Boyce, Robert.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0654/1068382-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="594" height="753"></div><h3>Edmonton 5 at Saskatoon 6</h3><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal. Hall; defence, Folk. Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forwards: Johnson, Uniac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan. O&rsquo;Grady.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, R. Bentley; defence, Ross, Milford, Heindl, Evans; forwards: Kaleta, Chad, Rouse. McCullough, McLeod, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0744/1068375-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="599" height="569"></div><h3>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1 Calgary 1 at Seattle 9</h3><p><b>Calgaray:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandosk; forwards: Shvetz, Kelly. Lundy, Black. Wittiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Barry, Scott. Finney.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennande; fence, Lof-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/f0014-0838/1068368-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="600" height="634"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday Feb. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0954/1068361-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="606" height="970"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1053/1068354-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="608" height="290"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Roy Kelly, Cal. 28</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Alex Kaleta, Sask. 43 Most Shutouts: Emile Francis, Van. 4; Lucien Dechene, N. W. 4; Doug Stevenson, Tac. 4.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks Against:</b> Doug Stevenson, Tac. 4; Phil Hughes, Cal. 4.</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks:</b> Vic Stasiuk, Edm. Most Winning Goals: Doug Macaully, Sea. 19.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Less than 48 hours after Kenneth Colin MacKenzie, coowner, general manager and coach of the New Westminster Royals of the Western Hockey League was presented with THE HOCKEY NEWS award as the OUTSTANDING EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR of all hockey for the 1951-52 season, he turned over the coaching chores to his ace playmaker, leading point getter and former Detroit Red Wing star, 28-year-old Maxwell (Max) Douglas McNab of Watson, Saskatchewan, but who now makes his home here.</p><p>McNab&rsquo;s appointment came as a surprise to hockey filberts out here. While it was speculated that &ldquo;The Canny Scot&rdquo; might get somebody to take over the coaching Job and thereby leave him free to devote his time to his many-other problems, there was little, if any, thought that MacKenzie would turn to one of his players to try and lift his Royals into a playoff berth.</p><p>However, after the club went through a stiff workout Monday, February 2, MacKenzie discussed the matter with his boys and all of them were unanimous in supporting &ldquo;The Squire of Columbia Street&rdquo; in his coaching selection.</p><p>McNab, not overly anxious to accept the position, agreed to do so provided he can terminate the pact at any time. There&rsquo;s no getting away from the fact the lanky centreman is on the spot. MacKenzie knows it and so do the players. Now it&rsquo;s up to the boys to come through for Max. If they can they&rsquo;ll finish sixth or higher and in the playoffs. If they fail to improve their present position (seventh, two points behind Edmonton) last season&rsquo;s league champs will be on the sidelines at playoff time. The Royals have 4 4 points at this time.</p><p>McNab is the Royals&rsquo; third coach this season. Walter &ldquo;Babe&rdquo; Pratt pulled the strings until last January 19 when the big fellow &ldquo;resigned.&rdquo; The team was seventh at the time. MacKenzie took over and in the two weeks he worked from the bench the Royal City sextet climbed as high as sixth &mdash; won two, lost four and tied one game &mdash; but dropped back to seventh February 3 when a Vic Stasiuk-Earl Reibel paced Edmonton Flyers trounced Victoria, 11-2, at the Capital City.</p><p>The ertswhile NHL&rsquo;er who sat out all last season because of health reasons, is the sixth playing mentor in the circuit. &ldquo;Muzz&rdquo; Patrick at Tacoma and Art Chapman at Vancouver are the only bench coaches. McNab is the fourth pro coach N.W. has had in the team&rsquo;s five year WHL history. Pratt, Jake Forbes, another Detroit product and now coaching at St. Louis of the American League, Pratt again, MacKenzie and now McNab are in the records as being bossmen of the Royals.</p><p>This is Max&rsquo;s first pro coaching job. All he needs do to make a success of it and get started on a coaching career is get N.W. into the playoffs. If the six year veteran of the monied ranks can accomplish this he&rsquo;ll be &ldquo;top dog&rdquo; in this rabid hockey metropolis.</p><p>We might add that if McNab&rsquo;s charges can equal Max&rsquo;s play the Royals will be a cinch to participate in the run for the WHL championship and the President&rsquo;s Cup won last season by Doug Bentley&rsquo;s Saskatoon Quakers.</p><h2><b>On The Spot</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01175/1068483-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="549" height="886"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAX McNAB</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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McNab Takes Over As Royals’ Coach

<div class="byline">By HUGH WATSON</div><p>VANCOUVER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The return of Ian &lsquo;Mickey&rsquo; Macintosh from New York gangers snapped Art Chapman&rsquo;s Vancouver Canucks out of the Western Hockey League doldrums and pushed them back into first place during their recent record-breaking tour of the prairie division.</p><p>Chapman heaped praise on every player after the Canucks completed their prairie Invasion with three straight victories, all via a 5-3 score.</p><p>Goalie Emile Francis was a standout, as was Bill &lsquo;Wiggle&rsquo; Wylie. But it was Macintosh, picking up four goals in three games, that sparked the Canucks, who came from behind in every game.</p><p>The big game was at Saskatoon. The Canucks and Quakers met to settle a first place deadlock. The Vancouver club, with Francis performing miracles, stopped the Quakers 5-3.</p><p>One of the oddities on the trip was the manner in which Canucks scored their fifth goal in each game. All the clinchers were registered while the opposition had their goalie pulled.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0936/1068521-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="304" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Art Chapman</b></figcaption></div><p>The three straight victory performances was the first time since the prairie teams were admitted to the league that a coast club has picked up six points In three games.</p><p>The Canucks had a three day Art Chapman rest before entertaining Calgary Stampeders Jan. 27. The Stamps, making their first start on a hectic five-game road Trip, stopped the Canucks 1-0.</p><p>Vancouver picked up again Jan. 30 and 31 when they hammered New Westminster Royals twice, 3-1 at home, and 10-2 in the Royals&rsquo; backyard.</p><p>ICE CHIPS &mdash; Calgary goalie Phil Hughes experienced a nerveshattering weekend on the end of the club&rsquo;s coast tour when the Stamps absorbed 10-1 and 9-1 beatings from Tacoma and Seattle&hellip; Calgary went undefeated in their first tour of the coast but this time they managed only one win and a tie, a 1-0 victory over Vancouver and a 4-4 draw at Victoria&hellip; Cougars&rsquo; Reg Abbott scored with three seconds left in the game to give Victoria their tie&hellip; Babe Pratt, recently disposed coach of New Westminster, has signed as coach of Vancouver Wheelers in the amateur Commercial League. He is hoping to compete in the Allan Cup playoffs but Dr. Larry Giovando, president of the B.C. Amateur Hockey Association, says the club isn&rsquo;t strong enough for Allan Cup competition&hellip; Art Chapman of Vancouver is already being mooted as &lsquo;coach of the year.&rsquo; His closest rivals would be Muzz Patrick at Tacoma and Doug Bentley at Saskatoon.</p><h2>A Big Help</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1033/1068514-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="544" height="604"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>IAN MocINTOSH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Mickey Back In Fold, Proves Shot In Arm to Chapman’s Canucks

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0388/1068552-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span> want to become a regular year-round subscriber to Hockey&rsquo;s International Weekly. I want to take advantage of the saving a subscriber has and also receive the offseason issues which only a subscriber can get.</p><p>Put me down right now for a year&rsquo;s subscription.</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues. Canadian Remittance $3.00 Payable by Postal. Bank or Telegraphic Money Order.</p><p>U.S.A. Remittances $4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or Personal cheque in U.S. funds. Postal Money Orders must be drawn on the Postmaster at New York in U.S. funds.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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YES, I WANT THE HOCKEY NEWS!

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;The Case of The Missing Coach&rdquo;, a serial story of undetermined length, is making great inroads into the Perry Mason following around the Capital City these days.</p><p>It has all the elements of suspense, including a sudden and unexplained disappearance of the main character in the plot, the appointment of a temporary replacement, and the injection of a &ldquo;dark horse&rdquo; angle.</p><p>The incumbent who disappeared almost without a trace is, of course, J. P. (Peanuts) O&rsquo;Flaherty; the temporary replacement is A. (Alexander) Smart; and the dark horse is G. (Buck) Boucher.</p><p>The author of the serial, which is now in its third exciting week, is T. P. Gorman, major-domo of the Ottawa Senators and a man who has ever had a flare for the dramatic.</p><p>Anything can happen in succeeding chapters, but the consensus of opinion among thriller experts (backed up by information from the printer of the script) is that Smart will emerge as hero of the piece and will take over for the balance of the season.</p><p>The former Montreal Royal and Ottawa Senator star Intimated last week that he would like the job very much, adding that he thought the necessary arrangements could be made with his boss for the time needed from his work.</p><p>The fact that arrangements have been made, too, to obtain a replacement for Smart as coach of the Eastview junior team, would point to Smart moving up to the Barber Poles.</p><h2>Boucher Out</h2><p>The clincher was applied a few days ago when it was learned that for a variety of reasons, Buck Boucher, a quondam Senator coach who had offered his services, was definitely out of the running.</p><p>As far as Smart is concerned, he has done fairly well in his tenure to date. The Barber Poles rallied to grab a 5-5 tie with Royals, and then split a weekend series with Sherbrooke Saints. They also held their own against Shawinigan Falls.</p><p>One story has it that Smart was working on a sort of &ldquo;trial basis&rdquo; for a few games to see if he sould handle the coaching chores well enough to merit the job for the rest of the season. If this was the case, Smart appears to be in.</p><p>There appeared to be a much better spirit among the players in the games he has handled, and that old hustle which has been conspicuous by its absence most of the season, was evident to a marked degree. Whether Smart can generate a strong stretch drive in another thing, but certainly he will be a help.</p><p>Meanwhile, the main character in the plot, O&rsquo;Flaherty, is still on the missing persons file. Ever since he first disappeared January 26, nothing has been heard from him except the word that he was engaged in &ldquo;scouting&rdquo;.</p><p>O&rsquo;Flaherty was reported to have requested a chat with Tay Pay recently, but if he appeared around the Auditorium, nothing came of it and he definitely out.</p><p>It is a rough break for the Toronto coach, but he must have known it was coming for some time. Once you lose your grip. there&rsquo;s not much point hanging around a hockey club.</p><p>Meanwhile, as far as the team Itself is concerned, opinions are caried as to how the Barber Poles will fare from here in, their defence has been the weakest point this season, but if they suddenly tighten up the Senators could make it rough for any team in the Slater loop.</p><p>Their big line is, of course, Jackie Leclair, Rip Riopelle and Leo Gravelie. This trio has been carrying the load for more than a month now and are dangerous every time they step out on the ice.</p><p>Ray Frederick has been nothing short of sensational in nets, and it is no secret that Ottawa would not be in third place or even thereabouts except for Frederick.</p><p>Butch Stahan, the colorful rearguard, too, has ben playing fine hockey. For his age, Butch is a marvel and there aren&rsquo;t many in the league today better than him.</p><p>But, getting back to the serial, don&rsquo;t miss next week&rsquo;s chapter. It will be on the newstand as usual in THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><h2>New Coach</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01145/1068607-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="564" height="913"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALEX SMART</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Alex Smart Appears To Have Inside Track On Ottawa Job

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>While Chicoutimi Sagueneens still move ahead of the pack by a healthy margin &mdash; it was four points at the turn of the week &mdash; the resurgence of the Royals causes tongues to wag in the Quebec Senior Hockey League.</p><p>Everything seemed to click just right for Pete Morin, and the double-take by Eddie Litzenberger was quite a weekend feature. Liz was called up by Canadiens for a lend lease whirl in the NHL, scored the only goal as the Habs missed the bus in their first place bid against Detroit Red Wings then the next day the lanky Regina lad was in the party as Royals trecked to Sherbrooke. The Liz helped in one tally and scored the other as Red McAtee hung up his first shut-out when the Saints were blanked 2-0.</p><p>McAtee appears to have taken over the net-minding chore for keeps after being shuffled about, with Jean Paul Renaud, the Ste. Therese custodian taking a turn or two. Red has been working a long time since he joined the Montreal forces at the turn into 1953 for this calsomine credit.</p><h2>Four Straight Wins</h2><p>The victory made it four in a row for Royals and their third successive win on the road. They had been chased out of the Montreal Forum while the Ice Follies were holding forth on 10-day stand.</p><p>Where Pete Morin&rsquo;s good fortune was remarkable was that he had to make a tardy departure from Montreal for Quebec on the morning of Wednesday, February 4, because of the imminent arrival of a baby daughter. The child was born shortly after the train departed. At noon Morin got into his own motor car, picked up Phil Samis, who had been attending morning lectures at McGill University. They arrived in Quebec in time for Samis to get into the game against Aces. He picked up an assist early the game then led a three goal third period drive so that Royals won 6-3.</p><h2>Gerry Gravel Big Help</h2><p>And that was by means all. Lulu Denis was hurt in that game, hit on the ankle by a hard-driven shot fired by Jean Beliveau. Denis was sent back to Montreal for treatment by Bill Head, Forum&rsquo;s physio-therapist, and a hurry-up call was sent to Ste. Therese to Johnny Hormon, manager of the Provincial League farm team Hormon suggested that Gerry Gravel be shipped f.o.b. Quebec in time to join the Royals&rsquo; cavalcade before it pulled out for Chicoutimi.</p><p>This was done after a bit of a scramble in which Hormon just managed to meet the Quebec train with Gravel&rsquo;s skated and other equipment, Gravel made connections in Quebec, and at Chicoutimi scored all three tallies as the Royals beat the Sagueneens 3-2.</p><h2>Deep-thinking By Pete</h2><p>Gravel&rsquo;s remarkable showing caused Morin to do a little deep thinking. He was tempted to keep Gravel with his forces, but then the 27-year-old Montreal born gent, had already played two games of his lend lease stint, since he was up with the Royals around New Year&rsquo;s.</p><p>Morin figured, after a huddle with manager Frank Cardin, it would be smarted business to allow Gravel to go back to Ste. Therese and serve the third game of the lend-lease dodge with Royals on March 1 when they meet Chicoutimi Sags in Montreal in the close-out game of the league schedule.</p><p>This could be &ldquo;the decider&rdquo; for first place privileges, though this is hardly likely as the Chicks continue to keep that four points of daylight between them end the Royals.</p><h2>Chicks Cling To Lead</h2><p>After being shaded by the Royals the Chicks picked up three points out of a four in a home and home series with Quebec Aces. Marcel Pelletier, who is making a brilliant bid for the Vezina Trophy, turned in his sixth shutout of the campaign as Chicks won 2-0 Saturday night at the Ancient Capital; the next day in Chicoutimi it was 1-1 overtime draw.</p><p>The league&rsquo;s best forward line, Bucky Buchnan, Sherman White and Stan Smarke co-operated in one of the golas at the Quebec Coliseum, with Pete Tkachul getting the other with help from Marius Groleau. In the Sunday joist White got the Chicoutimi tally unaided and Gaye Stewart scored for Aces with Joe Crozier and Herbie Carnegie in the party.</p><h2>Smart Stay At Ottawa</h2><p>The most important development on other fronts was the appointment of Alex Smart as coach of Ottawa Senators for the balance of the season. Smart was active as a player in the Slater circuit. With some years of service with both. Royals and Senators behind him he had taken over, it was announced only temporarily, when Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty left on what was called a scouting trip. In Toronto it is said that O&rsquo;Flaherty&rsquo;s scouting is confined to Maple Lear Gardens as a he lamps all the junior teams and the pros as them come to Forum.</p><p>Anyway it is now apparent that O&rsquo;Flaherty won&rsquo;t be back, that George &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Boucher will put in the remainder of the winter on his farm, though he was reported as a possible selection, and that the job is Smart&rsquo;s from here on.</p><p>Senators did pretty well the first night it was established that Samrt was coach for keeps. They beat the Cataratcts 5-3 at Ottawa Saturday night, but next day in Shawinigan the Ottawa defense fell apart and Cats rose on a high tide for a 6-0 victory.</p><p>Jackie Giesebrecht and Rip Riopelle scored two tallies each and Leo Gravelie got the other in the win at Bytown, with Bert Giesebrecht and Dick Wray counting from Cataracts. In the game at Falls, the homesters were led to their overflow triumph by Frank Bathgate with Fern Lapointe, Dick Wray, Bob Leger and Bert Giesebrecht getting the other. Roger Bessette turned aside 25 shots in earning his shut-out.</p><p>REBOUNDS: George Slater, league prexy reports that he&rsquo;s much surprised by the calm that&rsquo;s been prevalent in the QSHL during the past few weeks&hellip; What no referee squawks? This is news&hellip; Jack Latter, Quebec Aces, president got into quite a lather when NHL president Clarence Campbell was quoted by a Boston writer as stating &ldquo;That Beliveau would beup with Canadiens before the end of the season&rdquo;&hellip; Boston writers, were at the press party were quite clear that Campbell made no such statement though the NHL head-man didn&rsquo;t bother to claim that he was me misquoted since this would only add fuel to the flames.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Litz Rejoins Royals In Time to Keep ‘em Hot On Sags’ Trail

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The scramble for all-star positions in the Quebec Junior Hockey Association will soon be over and the super stars named to their respective positions.</p><p>League publicist Doug Howie this week sent out the ballots to the various sports writers around the circuit and, unlike other years, the press box boys will not have too much trouble picking the standouts. This season, some players have stood head and shoulders over the rest of the field. The closest race of all is expected for the goaler&rsquo;s position with both Charlie Hodge of Junior Canadiens and Marcel Paille of Quebec Citadels as standouts.</p><p>This writer is inclined to give the nod to the diminutive Hodge, a standout with the Habs for the past three seasons, and all-star on the last two dream teams. He has been just short of sensational this year. Paille on the other hand, has been one reason for the fine showing on the part of the Cits. He has been the difference between many close games and at times reached the heights with his brilliant play.</p><p>One defense post is almost certain to go to the Habs&rsquo; captain, Gordon (Bucky) Hollingworth, a tower of strength on the Montreal blue line all season. Bucky had to curb his tendency to get foolish penalties at the beginning of the season and since he&rsquo;s accomplished this, he&rsquo;s become the number one bump & bat &lsquo;em guy in the loop. In his fourth and last season with Canadiens, Bucky was an all-star last season.</p><h2>Blueline Toss-Up</h2><p>The other first team defense slot is a toss-up, with at least three players deserving hearty consideration. These are Real Chevalier of the Citadels, Oyila Gagnon of Royals and Moe Collins, also of the Citadels. Chevalier would seem to have the edge in this observer&rsquo;s winter book, but any one of those named could easily cop the honour.</p><p>When it conies to the forwards, one name stands out above them all. Guy Rousseau. The 17-year-old bombshell from St. Hyacinthe, Que. has been so terrific this season that there aren&rsquo;t very many who will argue his right to a starting position with the all-stars.</p><p>A close runner-up to Rousseau would be Citadels&rsquo; prolific scoring wizard, Camille Henry. Undoubtedly he is the most dangerous man in the loop once Inside his opponents&rsquo; blue line. A master at potting the puck, he is also a good team player.</p><p>That leaves the center spot open and here the scramble is fast and furious. We are inclined to go along with Henri (Pocket Rocket) Richard, the vest sized edition of his famous brother. Like Rousseau, young Richard is only 17 years old. He has a knack of controlling the puck that must run in the family and is dangerous around the net.</p><h2>Honorable Mention</h2><p>Honorable mention and possible second team spots must go to the likes of Phil Goyette of the Habs, Eddie Swartzack of the same club, Quebec&rsquo;s Michel Labadie and possibly the Royals Ross Watson and Ken Naylor.</p><p>The coaching job is wide open and could go to any one of the league&rsquo;s four mentors. On the fine showing of his team, and on his ability to instill spirit just when it is needed, we&rsquo;re going along with Sad Sam Pollock, the colourful cut-up of the Montreal Canadiens. Although his club is running a poor last, we like Jacques Belanger for the second team mentor. The Royal coach has a way with his players and has managed to get them to play outstanding hockey on occasion.</p><h2>Sure To &hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01150/1068645-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="588" height="898"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUY ROUSSEAU</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip; Make It</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02103/1068638-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="562" height="874"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOLLINGWORTH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Guy Rousseau Certain To Cop All-Star Post

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>A thumping 7-0 victory over the defending champion Regina Pats registered right in Regina sewed up first place in the final standing of the Western Canada Junior Hockey league for the Edmonton Oil Kings.</p><p>The win broke a first-place deadlock between the two clubs. Pats have only one game left in-the regular schedule while Edmonton has four games.</p><p>At the same time the overwhelming triumph made the powerful Kings odds-on favorites to take out the Pats in their best-in-nine semi-final playoff series. The two top-place clubs will clash in the marathon playoff, with the winner entering the league final. Edmonton holds a big edge over the Pats in season&rsquo;s play, winning five and losing one in six games.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0380/1068676-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="298" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alex Shibicky</b></figcaption></div><p>Off their terrific victory over the Pats, observers rated coach Ken McAuley&rsquo;s Edmontons the west&rsquo;s best bet for Memorial cup honors since Port Arthur Bruins won the honors in 1948. That was the last time the Memorial cup came west.</p><p>The Oil Kings are big, hard skaters and smooth passers. They can more than hold their own in the rough going, with their blueline brigade in particular hitting hard. They are well-balanced, too, not relying on any one forward line to carry the load. In addition coach McAuley, a former netminder himself, can call on two goalies &mdash; Bob Sangster or Al Jacobson &mdash; and get a good job from both.</p><h2>Skating Fools</h2><p>While the younger, less experienced Regina team wore themselves out skating all over the ice, the Oil Kings conserved their strength by firing long passes and hitting full speed only when the opportunity presented itself. They got stronger as the game progressed, slamming home five goals in the third period after leading 2-0 at the end of the second.</p><p>It was the worst drubbing suffered in the recent history of the Regina Pats on their home ice.</p><p>McAuleys&rsquo; big line consists of 16-year-old pivot, Norm Ullman, the league&rsquo;s leading point-getter with over 60 points, flanked by Gerry Prince and Ray Kinasewish. Prince, the league&rsquo;s outstanding payoff forward, has fir ed home 35 goals this year. Kinasewich was obtained from the Calgary Buffaloes and has proven a great addition to the Kings.</p><p>Other lines consist of Gerry Melnyk, Billy McNeill and Jack Bucyk; and Townsend, Moore and Holmes.</p><p>On defense are Dino Maniago, Bill Bucyk, B. Cowan and Zeniuk.</p><p>Prior to their invasion of Regina, the Kings powered their way to a 10-2 victory over the fourth-place Calgary Buffaloes at Edmonton.</p><p>Elsewhere in the circuit, the Moose Jaw Canucks under coach Ken Doraty improved their playoff chances with a 10-2 win over the Medicine Hat Tigers &mdash; their ribals in the first playoff round. The Canucks were hotter than fire-crackers and skated in the typical, free-wheeling manner which has long marked Doraty-coached teams.</p><p>Medicine Hat, under coach Don McCullough, is playing a more rugged style of hockey this year. They apparently have taken a leaf out of the book of eastern Canadian juniors but so far it hasn&rsquo;t lifted thew higher than sixth place in the standing.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> &mdash; If Edmonton can win the western junior title, it will complete a big season in sport for the Oil Capital&hellip; In football, their Eskimos won the western senior crown and their Maple Leafs took junior grid honors&hellip; Providing coach. McAuley can keep them in their present form, there doesn&rsquo;t seem much around the country to stop them &hellip; in the Northern Saskatchewan junior wheel, the Humboldt Indians are rated highly but first they have to get past Alex Shibicky&rsquo;s Flin Flon Bombers &hellip; in Manitoba, it&rsquo;s between St. Boniface Canadians and Brandon Wheat Kings but neither of the Manitoba clubs are in the same pro-style class as Edmonton&hellip; Tony Schneider, Regina&rsquo;s rugged defenceman, took three penalties in the debacle against Edmonton but held his temper&hellip; Schneider is on the spot as he had been advised by league governor Al Pickard that another misconduct penalty will result in a four-game suspension for him&hellip; the Oil Kings have now run their unbeaten string to 15 games and they&rsquo;re still going strong.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Edmonton Kings Cinch Top Spot In Western Junior

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>A few weeks ago it looked like Toronto Marlboros would waltz nonchalantly to their second straight OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; title but with less than a month remaining in the schedule it appears that Barrie Flyers, who have been pursuing the Dukes for weeks, are preparing to challenge for first position.</p><p>As the schedule headed into the final month Marlboros, who boasted an 11-point lead a few weeks back, were only four points ahead of Barrie and the Flyers had a game in hand.</p><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s, looking more and more like the well-drilled team it was earlier in the season, was also inching steadily ahead. By the end of January the flying Irish had closed to within seven points of their intra-city rivals and they emphasized their comeback plans by defeating Marlboros, a feat they had not been able to accomplish since early in the season.</p><p>St. Catharines Teepees and Galt Black Hawks continued a bitter fight for fourth place but were still deadlocked at the end of January, 19 points off the pace. But Teepees had an edge here because they had three games in hand.</p><p>Guelph Biltmores, counted out of the race weeks ago, were still keeping everybody guessing by continuing to win important games although their lineup was decimated by injuries and sickness. With three of their players in hospital and two more among the walking wounded they launched a five-game winning streak that brought them to within three points of Oshawa Generals, who held down sixth place, the last playoff position. Windsor Spitfires and Kitchener Greenshirts were in eighth and ninth places respectively.</p><h2><b>Not Worried Yet</b></h2><p>Marlboros didn&rsquo;t seem greatly perturbed that Hap Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers were closing in on them. The Dukes board of strategy isn&rsquo;t worrying as much about first place this season as the playoffs which follow. Finishing on top doesn&rsquo;t guarantee playoff success, especially if a team goes into the post-schedule round physically and mentally tired from a schedule pounding.</p><p>There are still a few second-guessers in these parts who insist that Marlboros pulled a monumental faux pas last year by refusing to rest limping players in the closing stages of the schedule. Marlboros were so intent on clinching first place (they did too) that they gave scant thought to the playoffs.</p><p>In the playoffs they were eliminated in six games by Guelph Biltmores. Charlie Lumsden, Marlboros&rsquo; ace defenceman and a great inspirational player, hobbled painfully on an injured knee throughout the series and was virtually no help to his team. Had he been left out of the lineup for a few games earlier it might have made a big difference because Lumsden could inspire the Dukes like no other player.</p><h2><b>Better Insurance</b></h2><p>Stafford Smythe, Marlboros&rsquo; manager, hasn&rsquo;t disclosed publicly his modus operandi for this season but it isn&rsquo;t likely that he regards first place with the same fervour he did last year. First and second will play off anyway so there&rsquo;s no particular benefit in winning the schedule apart from a matter of pride. An able-bodied lineup is much better insurance for the playoffs.</p><p>Athletes, as a rule, are notoriously superstitious so, as far as this league is concerned, you would think that they would like to avoid first place. Invariably it is a team from one of the lower levels in the league_that grabs off the championship. Since 1947 only Barrie Flyers have finished first and won the league title in the same season. That was in the 1950-51 season and Barrie went all the way to win the Memorial Cup.</p><p>Last year Guelph finished in second place but they brushed past all opposition in the playoffs. Marlboros won the league in the 194 9-50 season but Guelph, who finished fourth, won all the marbles in the playoffs. Barrie won the OHA title in 1947-48 and again in 1948-49 and in neither instance did they finish in first place. In 1947-4 8 they finished third behind Windsor and Oshawa and in 1948-49 they were runners-up to Windsor. So why should a team burn itself out trying to lead the pack all season and then get bounced in the first round of the playoffs?</p><p>Marlboros and Barrie have evidently considered this unpleasant prospect because they floated a trial balloon recently to see if the other teams might be willing to change the archaic playoff arrangements which pit first and second place teams against each other in the first round. One of the better teams is blasted into oblivion right off the bat, they said and the survivor might be left in such an emaciated condition that it would be an easy victim in the next round.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Marlies lead Shaved By Streaking Flyers

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>EATTLE, Washington.&mdash; Sid Finney, the rangy forward ace of the Calgary Stampeders is the latest Western Hockey Leage star to answer an S.O.S. plea from the National League and while his stay with the Black Hawks isn&rsquo;t expected to be a long one, he may prove on this trip that he&rsquo;s an NHL calibre player.</p><p>Before Calgary made its last Coast tour the Stampeders Were conceded even money to give Saskatoon and Vancouver a fight to the wire for first place, the Western Hockey League regular loop championship and the Governors&rsquo; Trophy.</p><p>However, when a crippled, soundly beaten and downcast Calgary team arrived back in Stampederland February 3, whatever first place hopes &ldquo;Hank&rdquo; Blade&rsquo;s men had were all but gone. The club&rsquo;s leading pointman, veteran George Agar, had missed three complete and part of a fourth game and was sidelined indefinitely with a twisted knee.</p><p>Bill Shvetz, winger or defenceman, hurt his left shoulder in Vancouver; where the club shutout the Canucks, 3-0, for goalie Phil Hughes&rsquo; second shutout and the only victory the club picked up in five games. Shvetz didn&rsquo;t play the next game, saw limited service in the third Coast game at Victoria, and when he re-injured his shoulder he was through for the trip, maybe the season.</p><p>A crippled Calgary sextet crawled in and out of Tacoma and Seattle, respectively, and when they left Tacoma had walloped them, 10-1, Seattle, 9-1! The Washington State teams really poured it on!</p><p>But the hopes of first place still remained with Calgary even though Agar, Shvetz, and Steve Black, out for the season, meant the third place Calgarians&mdash;53 points, eight off the page&mdash;would have to work extra hard to make up the difference between them and the leaders. However, they had the knowledge of knowing they were finished with their Coast trips and could concentrate on winning at home and at Edmonton and Saskatoon.</p><p>Then fate stepped in. The one thing Blade & Company had feared, but prayed wouldn&rsquo;t happen, did just that. Chicago recalled centreman Sid Finney and the 23-year-old (he&rsquo;ll be 24 next May 1st) sniper played his last game in a Calgary uniform February 5 at Saskatoon.</p><p>Sid scored two of his team&rsquo;s three goals in a losing cause, the Quakers winning, 6-3. Calgary will miss Finney. With Agar he was Blade&rsquo;s premier pivotman and one of the league&rsquo;s foremost scorers. All Finney needs to keep him in the N.H.L. is desire. At times he electrified W.H.L. audiences with his brilliance and everybody started asking, &ldquo;Why did Chicago let him go? Why isn&rsquo;t he up in the N.H.L.?&rdquo;</p><p>If Sid Abel can shake Finney loose and &lsquo;Old Bootnose&rsquo; can keep him &ldquo;up&rdquo; and anxious Chicago won&rsquo;t regret recalling Finney. In exchange for Sid the Hawks farmed Enio Sclisizzi (Jim Enio), a seven year N.H.L. and A.H.L left wing veteran to Calgary. Sclisizzi will we appreciated, we sure, by Calgary, but what Coach Blade needs most now is a top centreman, especially with Agar on the sidelines.</p><p>For the records Finney scored 25 goals and 19 assists for 44 points in 40 games, that&rsquo;s better than a point-a-game. It&rsquo;s up to Sid. As much as Calgary hated to see one of its favorites go, Finney has the sincere wish of every hockey follower in Stampeterville in his major league chance.</p><p>Sid played his first game for Chicago Saturday. February 7 at Toronto, his second the next night against the Leafs at Chicago and his third game as a Hawk was scheduled for Montreal Forum ice, February 12.</p><h2>Helps Hawks</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01119/1068731-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="560" height="872"><figcaption class="caption-body">SID FINNEY</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Calgarian Sid Finney Answers Hawk Call as Replacement But

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“Captain Morgan’s in town!”

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0446/1068793-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he Perfect Combination &hellip; Sandford, Klukay, Mackell Ed Sandford, Joe Klukay and Fleming Mackell are clicking of late and right now rate as the Boston Bruins&rsquo; top line. Last week Sandford picked up a goal and an assist, Klukay an assist and Mackell had two of each for a total of seven points between them.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Perfect Combination - Quality! Freshness! Price!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0289/1068831-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="602" height="1068"></div><h2>for a man&rsquo;s beer!</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>f other beers seem too weak &mdash; brewed perhaps with feminine tastes in mind&mdash;try Labatt&rsquo;s* India Pale Ale (&ldquo;I.P.A.&rdquo; to thoseintheknow). Hearty, zestful and satisfying, I.P.A. is a real man's, drink&mdash;full bodied and fully flavoured. Ask for:&lsquo; &lsquo;Labatt&rsquo;s I.P.A. again, please!&rdquo; John Labatt Limited.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0532/1068824-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="585" height="799"></div><p>The swing is <u>definitely</u> to LABATT&rsquo;S<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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It’s a MAN’s work…

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01105/1068869-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Detroit rookie shown in centre.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Fillion of Seattle.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of Butler, former Tulsa player.</p><p>7&mdash;A member of the Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>9&mdash;First name of Dougherty who played briefly for Vancouver last season.</p><p>12&mdash;Short for Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>13&mdash;Number of goals Lome Davis scored for Buffalo last season.</p><p>16&mdash;Name sometimes given O&rsquo;Connor of Tacoma.</p><p>17&mdash;Former NHL player known as Hib.</p><p>19&mdash;Upon.</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of Webster, ex-Leaf player.</p><p>22&mdash;Kind of blackberry.</p><p>24&mdash;Short for given name of WHL president.</p><p>25&mdash;Lithium (Sym.).</p><p>26&mdash;&ldquo;Spex&rdquo; Telford&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>27&mdash;Played for Rangers in 194344, called Bill.</p><p>30&mdash;Once coached Portland in the PCHL.</p><p>31&mdash;Denotes number worn by Frank Udvari.</p><p>32&mdash;Dick Gamble was born in this province (abbr.).</p><p>34&mdash;Initials of player who won Jack Fox Memorial Trophy in 1950-51.</p><p>35&mdash;Short for given name of &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Horner.</p><p>36&mdash;One of the Red Wings is called this.</p><p>38&mdash;Initials of a member of the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>40&mdash;Nattrium (Sym.).</p><p>41&mdash;Another name for Mrs. Marcel Pronovost.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Given name of MacNab of St. Louis.</p><p>2&mdash;One of the Hershey Bears.</p><p>3&mdash;Initials of a Ranger player.</p><p>4&mdash;B.C. birthplace of Archie Scott.</p><p>8&mdash;Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>8&mdash;&ldquo;Motto&rdquo; McLean&rsquo;s initials.</p><h2>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0277/1068862-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="591" height="927"></div><p>10&mdash;&ldquo;Ott&rdquo; Heller once coached in this State (abbr.).</p><p>11&mdash;Cerium (Sym.).</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of Mauriello, boxer.</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of Iverson, former NHL coach.</p><p>18&mdash;Phil Maloney played amateur hockey with &mdash; Falls.</p><p>20&mdash;Number of All-Star teams Sid Abel has been on.</p><p>21&mdash;Davey Gatherum is the property of this NHL club (abbr.).</p><p>23&mdash;Number of goals Phil Samis scored in 1951-52 season.</p><p>24&mdash;Gerry Cabana&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>27&mdash;NHL players find this rule expensive.</p><p>28&mdash;First name of Gould, who played 3 games for Buffalo last season.</p><p>29&mdash;These could be the initials of Ed Dorohoy&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>33&mdash;To exist.</p><p>37&mdash;Initials of a Hershey forward.</p><p>39&mdash;Initials of Dick, Vancouver defenseman.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY X-WORD

<h2>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE (STANDINGS FEB. 7)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0359/1069068-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="605" height="216"></div><h2>QUEBEC PROVINCIAL LEAGUE (STANDINGS FEB. 7)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0446/1069061-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="604" height="145"></div><h2>O.H.A. SENIOR (STANDINGS JANUARY 31)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0534/1069054-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="602" height="209"></div><h2>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR (STANDINGS FEBRUARY 1)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0623/1069047-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="604" height="144"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0722/1069040-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="599" height="453"></div><h2>MANITOBA SENIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 1)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0820/1069033-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="602" height="161"></div><h2>NOHA SENIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 2)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0917/1069026-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="602" height="130"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1013/1069019-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="605" height="292"></div><h2>EASTERN LEAGUE (STANDINGS FEBRUARY 5)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1112/1069012-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="602" height="159"></div><h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE (STANDING FEBRUARY 2)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1212/1069005-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="599" height="163"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1312/1068998-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="600" height="412"></div><h2>OKANAGAN SENIOR (STANDINGS JANUARY 27)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1412/1068991-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="599" height="141"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1510/1068984-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="593" height="400"></div><h2>EASTERN CANADA SENIOR (STANDINGS FEBRUARY 4)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-169/1068977-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="600" height="172"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-179/1068970-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="606" height="400"></div><h2>NOVA SCOTIA A.P.C. LEAGUE (STANDINGS JANUARY 27)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-189/1068963-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="602" height="164"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-199/1068956-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="592" height="288"></div><h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR (STANDINGS FEBRUARY 1)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-208/1068949-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg" title="f0019-20" width="604" height="140"></div><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR (STANDINGS FEBRUARY 3)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-217/1068942-1-eng-US/f0019-212.jpg" title="f0019-21" width="598" height="104"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-226/1068935-1-eng-US/f0019-222.jpg" title="f0019-22" width="608" height="534"></div><h2>OHA JUNIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo; (STANDINGS FEBRUARY 2)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-236/1068928-1-eng-US/f0019-232.jpg" title="f0019-23" width="600" height="262"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-246/1068921-1-eng-US/f0019-242.jpg" title="f0019-24" width="596" height="568"></div><h2>WESTERN JUNIOR (STANDINGS FEBRUARY 3)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-256/1068914-1-eng-US/f0019-252.jpg" title="f0019-25" width="600" height="222"></div><h3>SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-266/1068907-1-eng-US/f0019-262.jpg" title="f0019-26" width="604" height="280"></div><h2>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR (STANDINGS FEBRUARY 3)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-275/1068900-1-eng-US/f0019-272.jpg" title="f0019-27" width="596" height="136"></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/f00c4-0125/1069113-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00c4-01" width="240" height="285"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0224/1069106-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00c4-02" width="240" height="282"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0324/1069099-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00c4-03" width="2993" height="3759"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>N</span>EAR MISSES. &mdash; Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; goaler Gerry McNeil stares into his cage at the prostrate form of Vic Lynn in the upper photo. Lynn crashed heavily into the goal post and his own momentum more or less carried him right into the rigging. He failed to score on the play. In the lower photo,</b></p><p><b>Lee Fogolin, Chicago defenseman strives to control the puck from a sitting position as Gus Bodnar moves in to check the Habs&rsquo; Paul Masnick. Masnick also failed to score on the play.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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