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February 14, 1953
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Gump’s Coaling Record
Born, Montreal, Que., May 14, 1929. Goaltender, Shoots left, 5’ 7”, 155 lbs. Last amateur club: New York Rovers (Seniors).…
Selke Offered Lowe, Irwin To Hawks For Bodnar
MONTREAL, Que.—General Manager Frank Seike offered both Ross Lowe and Ivan Irwin to the Chicago Black Hawks at the beginning of the present season. Seike, a great believer in Irwin, had the Hawks thoughts at heart when ho offered them the big blond rearguard. Irwin was born in Chicago and Selke felt that a local boy making good would help fill the Stadium. 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.…
Connie Still A Magnet
BOSTON, Mass.—If Connie Smythe were to turn up at the North Pole some day, who’d want to give odds that he couldn’t have a press conference going in 10 minutes? Smythe’s unique position with the Boston press was never better illustrated than when he made his annual Boston visit the other day. Because of conflicting events — a hockey game and a baseball dinner being scheduled for that evening — no formal arrangements were made for him to receive the press. 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. After the gabfest the Toronto firebrand made his first Boston radio appearance with Leo Egan, topping off…
Conn Stoutly Defends Modern Players
BOSTON, Mass.— 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. In that respect Smythe disagrees with Cooney Weiland, a former National leaguer now coaching college hockey at Harvard University. “Weiland is mistaken when he says that stick-handling is a lost art”, declared the energetic Toronto president. “Never have we had the fine stick-handling in the league that we have today. “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,” continued Smythe. “One night right here in Boston the old New…