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February 21, 1953

The Hockey News February 21, 1953

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IN THIS ISSUE

JOHNNIE WALKER

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2><b>A Hockey Documentary</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t being one of the alms of the National Film Board to Interpret Canada to the rest of the world, as well as to Canadians, the little matter of the national pastime can&rsquo;t be overlooked. That would be hockey, of course, which we have been assured by more than one deep dome Is part of our national culture, just as bull-fighting is a part of the culture of the Spanish people. We can believe It.</p><p>So for some weeks, off and on, we have been hearing a good deal about the making of an as yet untitled film about hockey. This came about because an old friend, Leslie MacFarlane, is directing the picture.</p><p>We knew Les first through a short story of his that was collected in an anthology of Canadian short stories. It was called &ldquo;The Forest Fire&rdquo; and it had a Canadian quality that was decidedly original. When we met him years later he said that the miraculous thing about that story was that it had ever been published. There was nothing tricky about it and the public taste was for contrived stories with a snapper at the end.</p><p>This is supposed to be a piece about a motion picture, not about the publishing business, but the fact that he did write short stories at one time has something to do with the film. He also had experience as a newspaperman and as fiction editor for a magazine before becoming a director of documentary films.</p><p>&ldquo;I wrote the script for this picture and it&rsquo;s an advantage to have the writer do the directing,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s because you sometimes have to depart from the script as you go along. It isn&rsquo;t always possible to shoot the scenes that the script calls for. You have to make substitutions and the writer can do that better than anyone else because he carries the story line in his head and knows what will fit and what won&rsquo;t.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>On Location For Action</b></h2><p>He wanted to start the film with a scene showing a bunch of kids playing hockey on an open air rink. Then he moved on to organized hockey in the schools and the various divisions, like pee wee and bantam, etc., where the boys are taught the fundamentals by competent coaches. These shots were easy enough to get, but from there on he had to get expert advice.</p><p>That&rsquo;s when he consulted Kenny Reardon, Canadiens&rsquo; ambassador at large. Kenny has travelled across the country from coast to coast and gone up and down it from a spot near the border to another spot in the vicinity of the North Pole, making speeches and scouting hockey players, all in the interests of Le Club du Hockey Canadien.</p><p>We don&rsquo;t know where Kenny told him to go, but he was gone for quite a whiles and when he returned there were Icicles hanging from his chin.</p><p>&ldquo;He told me the right places to go,&rdquo; Les exulted. &ldquo;I got just the stuff I wanted. I even got some shots of a couple of Indian teams playing up on Manitoulin Island. The spectators were wonderful with their tuques and checked woollens shirts and heavy mackinaws. Real backwoods flavor. Now I want to get some NHL stuff. The big crowds and the big stars.&rdquo;</p><p>Then he was around the Forum for a couple of nights with his camera men, leaving there to visit Toronto, Quebec and other hockey centres. Last Saturday he returned here.</p><p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t always easy to get the right locations in the rink for your cameras,&rdquo; he confided. &ldquo;I had to resort to trickery a couple of times. If they see your cameras they get a little worried that you might obstruct somebody&rsquo;s view. So in one or two places I just bought seats behind the nets and we set up the cameras at the last minute and got what we wanted before they had a chance to object.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Off the Ice Stuff</b></h2><p>He had a somewhat humorous anecdote to relate about Maurice (The Rocket) Richard, who gave him a pleasant surprise.</p><p>&ldquo;I asked The Rocket if he would take part in a scene showing him signing autographs for some teen-agers,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The Rocket said he would, but he sort of scowled when he said It. Then I went to the kids and said, &lsquo;Give The Rocket a cheer when he comes out and put him in a good mood, will you? It&rsquo;ll help the scene.&rsquo; But I didn&rsquo;t know The Rocket. The moment he saw the kids he started to smile and was most gracious with them. He&rsquo;s photogenic and almost an actor in the professional sense of the word.</p><p>&ldquo;We did well with Jean Beliveau in the Quebec Coliseum. He&rsquo;s a most co-operative guy. We got one shot of him scoring a goal that&rsquo;s wonderful in slow motion. Shows his great shift and stickhanding ability.&rdquo;</p><p>Last Saturday night he had one camera trained on The Rocket and the other on Gordie Howe. It was a great chance to show the two most-publicized players in the game playing against each other. He was fortunate to get a picture of Howe putting the puck in the net in the last minute of play, but something was worrying him.</p><p>&ldquo;I need some off the ice stuff,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;When I was a kid we used to save pictures of hockey players that you got with a pack of cigarets.&rdquo;</p><p>He was told that a gum company circulated the pictures today and they were as popular as ever. In fact, we knew an anecdote that might lend Itself to filming. Some kids met in a busy store and Immediately yelled, &ldquo;Traders,&rdquo; which meant they had duplicate pictures they were willing to trade for others they lacked. The manager spied them and quickly chased them. A couple of days later they were at it again when they saw the manager coming towards them. But this time he pulled out a pack of the cards and said with a grin, &ldquo;Traders.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Must have a kid of his own,&rdquo; said Les. &ldquo;I can do something with that.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">BY KEN McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01130/948605-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="438" height="424"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>RESIDENT CLARENCE Campbell of the National Hockey league broke his right leg while skiing last Saturday. It was a severe break and he will be hospitalized at least a month. It may take four months before he can use the leg again&hellip;Conn Smythe is counting on having Ted Kennedy back with the Leafs before the end of the season. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know where all this stuff came from that Kennedy would be out for the season. As far as I&rsquo;m concerned we&rsquo;re going to point Kennedy for those last six games, and they&rsquo;re the games that will settle the playoff positions,&rdquo; Smythe stated recently&hellip;In the final six games Toronto meets Boston and New York twice, Montreal and Chicago once&hellip;Bob Goldham broke his nose tor the third time last week. He won&rsquo;t miss any games as a result of it. It&rsquo;s old stuff for Bob&hellip;Marcel Bonin, Detroit&rsquo;s rookie winger, once wrestled a bear. On a dare he grappled with a 600-pound bear being shown by a travelling troupe. The bear&rsquo;s jaws were muzzled and his claws clipped. At the last minute Marcel wanted to back out, but he went through with it and was paid $100&hellip;The stockey winger is also quite a weight-lifter. He goes in for weight-lifting to condition himself tor hockey, and is one of the most solidly muscled players on the Wings&hellip;Leafs&rsquo; Howie Meeker appears through for the year. Just when he started to skate on his bad knee, he came up with a sore back&hellip;Milt Schmidt is on inveterate movie-goer. The Boston captain favors Westerns&hellip;Schmidt, incidentally, plans to take his family on a Florida vacation at the end of the season. This will be the first time for Miltie&hellip;Leo Ornest, Western representative of THE HOCKEY NEWS, did a superb job in handling details connected with THE HOCKEY NEWS presentation to Kenny MacKenzie of New Westminster as the Top Executive in 1952.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0245/948598-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="290" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><p>FOUR OF the six coaches in the National Hockey League agree that Gordie Howe is the greatest player of all-time. Before he hangs up his skates the Floral Flash should hold just about every scoring record in the book&hellip;Lynn Patrick has given up smoking. The Boston mentor signed the pledge last month&hellip;Fred (Cyclone) Taylor, one of hockey&rsquo;s greats, advises that the annual Old Timers game will be played in Vancouver on March 3. These games started four years ago and they&rsquo;ve played to packed houses every time. Taylor is hoping that some of the Eastern Old Timers will be on hand for the game on March 3. Proceeds from these Old Timers games go towards helping needy former puck stars. Directors of the B.C. Hockey Benevolent Association are Cyclone Taylor, Percy Hicks, Porky Levine, Scotty Milne, John Taylor, Joe McPhee. Tip O&rsquo;Neil. Paul Runge, Art Jefferd. Bill Lane, Ken Philllips and Clint Smith&hellip;, It&rsquo;s usually defensemen who lead hockey leagues penalties, but this year both the National and American League &ldquo;Bad Men&rdquo; are forwards&hellip;Ted Lindsay, Detroit left winger, leads the National loop, and Bob Bailey, Cleveland center, heads the AHL&hellip;Walter Brown, president of the Boston Bruins says Bill Quackenbush is the best defensive defenseman he&rsquo;s ever seen. &ldquo;He can do more with his stick to steal the puck,&rdquo; said Brown. &ldquo;than Dr. Giovanni as a pickpocket&hellip;&rdquo; Brown also revealed that the Bruins&rsquo; attendance is up 16 per cent over a year ago.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0320/948591-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="296" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Emile Francis</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><p>FLASH HOLLETT holds the record for most goals by a defenseman. He scored 20 during the 1944-45 season, while playing with Detroit&hellip;Red Kelly will undoubtedly beat that mark this season. Kelly has scored 16 goals already this year&hellip;Johnny McCormack, elongated Montreal center, is the only National League regular without a penalty this season&hellip;Sid Smith hasn&rsquo;t picked up too many points since Ted Kennedy was dsidelined on New Year&rsquo;s Night. Last year&rsquo;s. Lady Byng winner seems lost without his ace center and playmaker&hellip;Lefty Wilson, assistant Detroit trainer, played goal for the Red Wings in a recent exhibition game against the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Lefty played throughout the third period while puffing on a cigar. He stopped Michigan shots in able fashion and acknowledged applause with sweeping bows, and otherwise clowned through most of the final period. As he puffed heavily on the cigar, a fan yelled: &ldquo;Hey, can&rsquo;t you read those &lsquo;No Smoking&rsquo; signs&rdquo;&hellip;Over his shoulder, Lefty hollered bock&rsquo;: &ldquo;No, I never Went to college&rdquo;&hellip;Sid Abel still thinks his Hawks will end up in third place&hellip;Hap Day calls Leo Boivin, Toronto defenseman, the best rookie in the NHL this year. If Boivin wins the Calder Memorial Trophy as the League&rsquo;s outstanding rookie, he&rsquo;ll be the first defenseman to ever win the award.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-047/948584-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="284" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Charlottetown Islanders and Halifax Atlantics have found their feud on ice reached into the law courts.</p><p>As a result of another tumultuous imbroglio on Halifax ice, Islanders goalie Al Millar has been sidelined with a match penalty and haled into court on a charge of common assault.</p><p>Meanwhile the charman of the Halifax Forum Commssion, Aiderman AJ. G. DeWolfe is seeking positive action to protect patrons attending Big Four games in Halifax. He has written league president J. Elliott Hudson asking the league leader to &ldquo;take immediate and drastic action to prevent incidents which marked the visits of the Charlottetown Islanders on Halifax ice.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;The Forum Commission is greatly concerned over the conduct of certain members of the Charlottetown hockey team in recent weeks and particularly in last night&rsquo;s (game of February 6) game&rdquo;, wrote DeWolfe.</p><p>Millar was charged with common assault on Mrs Lola Hanna of Halifax and appeared in Police Court the morning after the game before Magistrate R. J. Flinn whom, it will be recalled, called for the ban of abusive and obscene language in a letter to league officials some weeks ago. The case was continued to Feb. 11 without plea.</p><p>Millar was given a match penalty by referee Hugh Gillis in the first period of the game and is under automatic suspension until his case is dealt with by the league.</p><p>Hudson refused to comment on the case until he hands down a decision. He said he had received the referees&rsquo; report but did not disclose the contents.</p><p>Counsel for Millar at the morning session in court sought adjournment to February 18. Mrs Hanna&rsquo;s counsel protested this issue, stating:</p><p>&ldquo;This charge rose out of a disgraceful and vicious incident and I am objecting to a long adjournment&rdquo;.</p><p>The hearing was then set for Feb. 11. Bail for Millar was set at $300. Islanders coach Murph Chamberlain, attending the hearing, made only one comment: &ldquo;Halifax were lucky to win that game last night&rdquo;.</p><p>Halifax had built up a 3-0 lead when the game erupted. Islanders forward Gordon and Halifa goalie MsMeekin got into a roughing duel. On his way up the ice Millar became embroiled with spectators at rinkside.</p><p>After a long delay he was ordered off the ice and when he had dressed was arrested by Halifax police. Forward Chuck Holdaway donned the big pads and, without previous experience and very unorthodox style, gave up only two goals in the remaining 41 minutes. Halifax had a 5-0 lead before Charlottetown got into the scoring.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Millar Out On $300. Bail on Common Assault Charge

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0124/950770-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Ranger Rookie Repels Richard</b></h2><h2><b>Gump Stumps Rocket</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>F</span>OILED</b>.&mdash;Gump Worsley, the spike-topped Ranger rookie goalie wanders away out of his cage to put the clamp on Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice (Rocket) Richard in a recent game. Try as he did, the Rocket simply couldn&rsquo;t pry the puck loose from youthful Gump.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0216/950763-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1156" height="1464"></div><h2><b>Time Out Tangle</b></h2><p><b>GADS!</b>&mdash;Bill Gadsby of Chicago (right) appears to be delivering a well-timed right cross to Bert Olmstead&rsquo;s chin but in actuality, the pair became entangled during a melee. Once they got their sticks unravelled peace was restored with the Canadiens&rsquo; winger none the worse for wear.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-038/950756-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="1144" height="1228"></div><h2><b>Leo Lurches At Lome</b></h2><p><b>STOPPED</b>.&mdash;Leo LaBine, Boston&rsquo;s fiery forward, cruises right in on Lome (Gump) Worsley of the New York Rangers but he was shoved oft balance by Allan Stanley (extrme left) in a goal-mouth action play. LaBine was recently shipped down to Hershey.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Abel Advocates Rough Style Hockey

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Penalties, viewed with disgust and tolerated through necessity, have frustrated many a potential hockey attack. Their assessment never fails to heave angry cries into the rafters of arenas everywhere. Penalties, even the most reverent of puck officials have to admit, will never win any popularity contests.</p><p>Despite this genuinely universal a, ppraisal, Chicago&rsquo;s battling Black Hawks could conceivably rise up with a resounding and justifiable objection. Sid Abel&rsquo;s charges have actually thrived on penalty box visits this season and their slam-bang tactics have moved the team into contention for the first time in recent years.</p><p>&ldquo;I really do feel that the rougher we play, the better we do,&rdquo; Abel himself admitted the other day and records show that he is absolutely right. In the Hawks&rsquo; first 20 victories, they wound up on the short end in minutes in penalties only twice and in their 12 ties, they were the lesser penalized club just three times.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-043/950808-1-eng-US/cover-042.jpg" title="Cover-04" width="336" height="574"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim McFadden</b></figcaption></div><p>Chicago&rsquo;s power via the ruggedness route was never more apparent than during a recent home and home weekend series with the usually damaging Toronto Maple Leafs. The Hawks bounced out of a lengthy slump to capture both games by 4 to 2 counts and rang up a 43 to 27 minutes margin in the penalty department.</p><p>Explosive treatment of the Leafs is considered particularly suitable since Conn Smythe has always been an exponent of penalty-getting play. &ldquo;That is the way you have to go against them or they&rsquo;ll shove you all over the rink,&rdquo; said Jim McFadden, who notched the winning marker at Toronto and then scored the clincher on home ice.</p><p>The Chihawk penalty parade has not been a one-man campaign although George Gee, he of the former peaceful manner, tops the squad with three majors and two misconducts thrown in amongst a flock of minor offenses. Just about everyone on the team has spent more time in the belligerence bin thir season, than before.</p><p>As of February 10, 240 minor, 15 major and six misconduct penalties had been called against the aggressive Hawks. Charged with misconduct, besides Gee, were Al Dewsbury, Gus Mortson, Bill Gadsby and Billy Mosienko. Gadsby is team captain while &ldquo;Mosie&rdquo; is an assistant.</p><p>Gus Bodnar, another assistant captain, and Cal Gardner have each received pairs of major penalties. Others who&rsquo;ve been sent off for five minutes are Mortson, McFadden, Dewsbury, Gadsby, Pete Conacher, Fred Glover, Fred Hucul and Lee Fogolin. Glover has since been dispatched to Cleveland in the American league.</p><p>HAWK TALK: Chicago President Arthur Wirtz and his wife and Jim Norris, chairman of the club&rsquo;s board of directors, were on hand to offer their congratulations after the second win over Toronto. Norris went direct to the dressing room while Wirtz waited outside among enthusiastic fans.</p><p>The misconduct sentence given Billy Mosienko by Referee Frank Udvari at the 19.03 mark in the final period was the first such penalty he has ever taken. &ldquo;I was merely acting for Garsby, who&rsquo;d been sent off the ice for the rest of the game,&rdquo; Billy explained later and with ample logic.</p><p>Gus Bodnar, veteran Hawk forward, was felled by a vicious check from Leaf rearguard Leo Boivin in the first period and was carried from the ice unconcious. It was at first feared that he had suffered a broken nose and brain concussion, but examination disclosed no serious injuries. Gus was released after one day in the hospiotal and was expected to be back in action in a week.</p><p>Toronto&rsquo;s Ron Stewart provided some extra-curricular excitement when he heaved his stick at a heckling fan at the Chicago Stadium. The wood caught an innocent bystander on the nose and the atmosphere became quite heavy for a few moments. Ushers and police quickly rushed to the scene, however, and any possibilities of a riot were terminated.</p><p>Jim McFadden&rsquo;s empty-net goal in the closing seconds was made from an almost Impossible angle to the left of the Leaf cage. Jimmy Peters set things up with a neat pass between two Toronto defenders. McFadden also aimed a 180-footer into an empty Boston net on home ice last Nocember.</p><p>Al Dewsbury played center in both games and was credited with an assist in each contest. Al has no preference in regard to positions, but Coach Sid Abel has indicated that he might become a full-time front liner next season. A possessor of one of the hardest shots in hockey, Al has alwyas been a top puck carrier.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02100/950801-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="591" height="1219"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Boot Says Hawks Play Best Games In Rugged Going

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Casting for any port in a storm, the Rangers have varied their approach to keeping alive in a woebegone: chase for the playoffs this season. First, they depended upon Paul Ronty&rsquo;s line to keep them going and then, later, it was a defense featuring little Gump Worsley in the goal and Leo Reise and Hy Buller in front of him. Now the emphasis has swung hack to the forwards&mdash;but to another line.</p><p>Although Bones Raleigh isn&rsquo;t at all satisfied with the way he&rsquo;s been playing, it is his line which is now keeping the New York club from falling right out of the league. In the last three games, through Feb. 8, the Rangers matched a seasonal record of three in a row without defeat. And, in beating Chicago (1-0) and tying Detroit (3-3) and Montreal (1-1), the Raleigh line was on the ice when all five goals were scored.</p><p>Only the goal which tied Detroit wasn&rsquo;t scored by Raleigh or his wings. Defenseman Allan Stanley got that one, by tipping Buller&rsquo;s long, screened shot. Otherwise, Aldo Guidolin scored the lone tally against the Hawks and repeated once in Detroit, and George Senick scored in Detroit and came back with the tying goal against the Canadiens.</p><p>Considering that this line has two 21-year-old rookies who just formed a unit with Raleigh only a few games ago, Bones should be gratified. He is&hellip;but. The Thin Man, still playing with a brace on his fractured left wrist, isn&rsquo;t happy because he isn&rsquo;t scoring himself.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had the chances&hellip;just as many as the two kids,&rdquo; the 26-year-old veteran admits. &ldquo;I realize I can&rsquo;t shoot hard with this wrist, but I should be getting more goals than I have.</p><p>&ldquo;I could use a little luck,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I had McNeil beat twice and didn&rsquo;t get it in. Once I hit the post. Then, in the last game, he was falling away to the other corner when I put it just where I wanted. You know how he stops it?. With the stub end of his stick.</p><p>At this writing, Raleigh, a 61-point scorer last season, had scored but three goals in 35 games. He had 13 assists.</p><p>&ldquo;I know I won&rsquo;t be right until I get this contraption off my wrist,&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;But I can&rsquo;t keep using it as an excuse. It&rsquo;s nice to see Senick and Guidolin doing some scoring, but I ought to be doing my share.&rdquo;</p><p>The contraption, incidentally, must remain through the rest of the season. That is doctor&rsquo;s orders. Raleigh&rsquo;s wrist, fractured in a preseason exhibition in Pittsburgh, is not yet nearly strong enough to stand by itself.</p><p>Raleigh has recently changed the brace, however, and he thinks it may bring him some luck. Instead of a plaster cast, which couldn&rsquo;t be removed, Bones is now wearing a long leather gadget halfway to his elbow. This is lined with a steel rib, so his hand and wrist movement is still limited. But, between games, he is allowed to remove it and strengthen the wrist by exercise.</p><p>There was nothing wrong with Senick and Guidolin, however, that a little experience didn&rsquo;t cure. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re veterans already,&rdquo; coach Bill Cook said of them after the Montreal game. &ldquo;I can count on them now, and we&rsquo;ll be in good shape if I could begin to count on Ronty and Hergesheimer again.&rdquo;</p><p>Senick had played only nine games; Guidolin, the right wing, only 11. Guidolin had three goals and two assists; Senick two and two.</p><p>As for the Ronty line, Cook had reason to worry. Not since the 8-2 rout in Detroit, nine games ago, had Paul or Wally or Neil Strain, on the left, scored a single point.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;re pressing,&rdquo; Ronty said after being shut out again in the Montreal game. &ldquo;I know I&rsquo;m not. It&rsquo;s just one of those slumps which are hard to explain. Maybe I&rsquo;m not working hard enough. Maybe we&rsquo;re getting checked closer than before. All I know is, we&rsquo;re not getting the scoring chances we did a few weeks ago. But they&rsquo;ll come.&rdquo;</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Unless needed in a dire emergency, Chuck Rayner seems through for the season. It now develops that the unlucky goalkeeper has a torn cartilage in his right knee, instead of merely a little water. He had the left knee operated on for the same injury last Spring and will probably have to go under the knife again when the season is ended&hellip;Senick and Guidolin have been playing so well that Dean Prentice found himself out of a regular job with Raleigh when he returned from a chest Injury. He&rsquo;ll be spotted for Senick and Strain&hellip;Speaking at the New York Hockey Writers&rsquo; luncheon Detroit coach Tommy Ivan said he couldn&rsquo;t understand why the Rangers were in last place. &ldquo;From what I&rsquo;ve seen, you&rsquo;re better than Chicago or Boston,&rdquo; he said. At the time, the Wings had been beaten by those two clubs only once apiece. But the Rangers had beaten Chicago but once. The Detroit vs New York series stood at 4-3-3.</p><h2><b>He Helps&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0136/948181-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="558" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BONES RALEIGH</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>&hellip;Him Produce</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0229/948174-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="588" height="610"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GEORGE SENICK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Raleigh’s Line Rallies To Keep Rangers’ Hopes Of Making Playoffs Up

<h2><b>Still Strangers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0515/948264-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="299" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Art Ross</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-069/948257-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="300" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;Gordon Howe of the Detroit Red Wings has won the Art Ross Trophy as the National league&rsquo;s leading scorer twice, and he is an odds-on choice to win it again this year.</p><p>Yet the hockey veteran for whom the trophy is named has never met the soft-spoken Red Wing.</p><p>Ross revealed that oddity the last time Detroit played here, when he expressed a desire to become acquainted with Howe.</p><p>&ldquo;He has won my trophy twice,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; general manager, &ldquo;and I have never had the pleasure of shaking hands with him. I would like to meet him before he wins it a third time. He&rsquo;s a great player and a credit to the game.&rdquo;</p><p>Ross also revealed that he has never met Ted Lindsay, the Detroit captain and a nine-year National league veteran. The Bruins&rsquo; executive used to play against Lindsay&rsquo;s father, once a professional goal-tender.</p><h2>Produce Or Else!</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-078/948250-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="594" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICK IRVIN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Howe Won Ross’ Trophy Twice But Has Never Met Donor

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Closing day of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s 1952-53 season is little more than a month away but it may be closer for some of Dick Irvin&rsquo;s charges unless they show a little more scoring life. This week Mr. Irvin threatened wholesale changes in his lineup, naming four players who might get the axe or a permanent seat on the end of the bench. Last week the ignitible coach axed All-Star Defenseman Doug Harvey for a game and now he speaks of going even further and dipping into the ranks of the Habs&rsquo; vast farm system for replacements.</p><p>The players whom Irvin insists can do better are Paul Mager Johnny McCormack, Billy Reay and Ken Mosdell. They&rsquo;ve been disappointing but Dick also admits that there are a few others who haven&rsquo;t been living up to their press notices.</p><p>&ldquo;Unless they wake up I&rsquo;m going to do what Sid Abel did&mdash;bench three or four and bring in some amateurs who will show a little more fight,&rdquo; said the gray-haired mentor.</p><p>Being eyed for return to Canadiens is Baldy MacKay in Buffalo while the amateurs who may get their chance are Eddie Litzenb-berger and Duke Edmunston. The former played two games with the Habs last week, replacing the injured Boom Boom Geoffrion and didn&rsquo;t seem to be out of place. Edmunston was with the Habs in the playoffs against the Boston Bruins last season, his mosnotable feat being a punch on the nose he took from Murray Henderson. Litz still has a game to go on his trial and local news-men have voiced their opinion that he&rsquo;s ready for the big time He scored the only goal for the Habs when the Wings whipped them 3-1 in the Forum.</p><p>The imminent return of Mac-Kay means that someone is going to get benched. Since Paul Meger is in the throes of a &lsquo;bad season&rsquo; his name has been mentioned. Whereas, Paul finished up last season with 23 goals it&rsquo;s unlikely he&rsquo;ll get half that many this season.</p><p>MacKey, apparently, has his mind set on getting another shot in the &lsquo;majors&rsquo;. He&rsquo;s one of the few players who was ever drummed out of it following an 18 goal year.</p><p>&ldquo;I saw him last week and he&rsquo;s the best we have in Buffalo. He&rsquo;s a lot thinner and is skating better. When he&rsquo;s playing his best he&rsquo;s good enough for the National League,&rdquo; says Ken Reardon, Habs travelling ambassador. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the one guy I would recommend as a replacement.&rdquo;</p><p>It seems that every time the Habs build up for the kill they are unable to stand up to their would-be victim when the time arrives. Such has been the case all season.</p><p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the use,&rdquo; says Irvin. &ldquo;We get all enthused about first and then we go and lose the big one. I&rsquo;m not beefing too much about the loss to the Wings here (Sat. 7, 3-1) but it was the night after in New York. I was never so ashamed of a team in my life. We were okay in the first two periods but in the last one we didn&rsquo;t touch the puck. We were reaching all night and that&rsquo;s no time to reach when you&rsquo;re within grasping distance of first place.</p><p>&ldquo;You know, I&rsquo;m not so sure we&rsquo;ll make the playoffs after all. We have four games left with Boston and. they have three games in hand. If we lose those four and they win the other three we&rsquo;re sunk. Chicago and Toronto are due to shake their slumps and we may be due fo rone. We&rsquo;ll have to go a lot better to make it.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;The Wings,&rdquo; Says Irvin, &ldquo;can thank the two bottom place clubs for keeping us out of top spot. We scored one goal against them in two games. How do you expect to get anything out of that?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Last time we played the Bruins to a goaless draw and last time we were in New York we got one goal. We&rsquo;ve scored something like 48 goals in our last 35 games. How do you like that?&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Mo, Goose Cooked?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0326/948219-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="543" height="897"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>KEN MOSDELL</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0419/948212-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="545" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JOHNNY McCORMACK</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Dick at Philosophical Best, Threatens to Bench Foursome

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Leaf assistant general manager Happalonius Day proved that he was unbiased unprejudiced and high in principle a couple of weeks ago when he selected Gord Howe of the Detroit Red Wings as his own choice as all time great. Day dismissed the Cooks and Morenzes and Conachers as heirs to the throne, selected the Red Wing right winger as in a class by himself.</p><p>It should therefore not be regarded as a hometown favorotism when the same Day, still in selecting mood, picked Leo Boivin, the blockily built Leaf left defenseman as the rookie of the year.</p><p>Day unfortunately doesn&rsquo;t get a vote.</p><p>The Calder is picked by newspapermen in the six league cities who refresh their memories come selection time by scanning the latest NHL statistics. One of the more prominent factors in judging the blue ribbon golden boy of the season, is the number of points he has a massedi. A defenseman, unless he&rsquo;s a Red Kelly, which most of them aren&rsquo;t, seldom appears in name the top of the NHL star. Boivin, like the rest of the unsung heroes of the blue line, will be buried under the scorers. But they are, nevertheless, pounding the bass drums for the relatively short (five foot eight) stocky (183 pound) native of Prescott much in the same manner as they did in New York last season for Hy Buller. The New Yorker finished second. Boivin might meet the same fate.</p><p>Leo Joseph is performing in the wake of the natural choice for the Calder, Gordie Hannigan, the shanty Irisher who flits up left wing in front of him. Hannigan has become the Leafs leading goal-getter, has impressed press box habitues all around the circuit at one time or another with his gumption and irrepressiblility. And the odd coach too. Sid Abel, coach of the Black Hawks, said the other day that he thinks Hannigan is out and alone in the run for the Calder Trophy. He&rsquo;s got numerical proof too. In the last releases he was the not only the Leafs leading goal-getter but he was just two goals short of having twice as many as his nearest freshman competitor, Ron Stewart. To clear that up a bit, he had 16 to Stewart&rsquo;s nine.</p><p>But Boivin still remains the choice of Day, who it must be admitted is one of those who know the game best and has revelled in the verbal praise of one C. Smythe, Leaf managing director.</p><p>&ldquo;Boivin,&rdquo; said S&egrave;mythe recently, &ldquo;is the best defenseman for his age that I have seen under the new rules (since the early forties).</p><p>The unfortunate thing about such verbal bouquets is that they won&rsquo;t buy as many groceries as the $1,000 that goes with the Calder would.</p><p>Still Boivin, with the people who know the inner mechanics of what has been and what is wrong with the Leafs this season, remains the top choice. It is horrible to contemplate what depths they could have reached without his left defense talents. Tim Horton, a right handed defenseman who has been recruited for left side duty, has had trouble orientating himself and Jim Morrison, who looked tremendous in his early season escapares beside the veteran Jim Thomson, has touched on mediocrity at some stages since. The Leaf management still is searching, though it is claimed not desperately, for a left defepseman so it can be construed that if Boivin hadn&rsquo;t came down the pike, there would have been nothing much at all on that side.</p><p>And Boivin almost didn&rsquo;t come down the pike. At Pittsburgh&rsquo;s training camp a year ago last fall, he turned up to practise having become a Leaf employee through the Vic Lynn. Bill Ezinicki deal with Boston for Fern Flaman. Boivin was the unnamed amateur in the deal, a factor which has had Boston scout Harold Cotton threatening suicide everytime it is mentioned.</p><p>Boivin was offered a pro contract but sniffed at the bait and turned up his nose. It wasn&rsquo;t the money. He just wasn&rsquo;t sure that he wanted to be a pro hockey player. He agreed finally to play after, it is alleged, Pittsburgh coach King Clancy and Day tied his ankles together and hung him over the Falls at the Niagara training camp. But he set a deadline for going home and when it came he kept his word.</p><p>That he finally came back and eventually made the jump to the NHL as easily and gracefully as if it was stepping up on a curb, is a tribute to the oratorical powers of Day. Happy was despatched by the front office to do some ear-bending at Leo&rsquo;s Prescott home in an effort to persuade him that manual labour, or labour of any kind that didn&rsquo;t have to do with skates and sticks, wasn&rsquo;t the lot of a Boivin. And Boivin believed him.</p><p>Larrapin&rsquo; Leo&rsquo;s antics have bean one bright spot along with Harry Lumley&rsquo;s goal-keeping, in the doldrums that have overtaken the club.</p><p>Maxwell Bentley, he of the aching back, re-entered from the wings last week and it is anticopated that Maxwell&rsquo;s generalship and goal-getting can do something to lift the lull. Rudy Migay, too, is on the mend having missed 21 games with a knee hurt which developed into water on the knee. It is anticipated that it will take a minimum of three weeks to work Rudolph back into top shape hut his return along with Bentley&rsquo;s has done something to alleviate the gloom which has been in partners with the situation at centre all season. It has also been disclosed that Ted Kennedy who went missing on New Year&rsquo;s Night with a separated shoulder, will return with a fanfare of trumpets for the tail end of the schedule and will help the club wade through six games in eight days at the finish. Those six, the way the league is stacked now, could mean a playoff or no payoff.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Happalonius Day Booms Mr. Howe As Game’s Best

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0136/948326-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><h2>&ldquo;Pheenom&rdquo; From Fort William</h2><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Alex Delvecchio is a wideawake, agressive young Detroit Red Wing who may become the biggest sleeper in the National Hockey League this spring when time comes to take the annual All-Star vote.</p><p>Amazingly capable and clever for a sophomore in the big-time, this sturdy product of Fort William, Ont., has been a surprising statistical and athletic success since the season&rsquo;s start. And all those accumulated statistics are beginning to leap off paper and yell in his behalf.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a safe bet that a dozen Other centers would have been named before Delvecchio in any pre-season listing of 1952-53 All Star nominees. Yet now, with less than 20 games to go, there are some mighty persuasive arguments why he should be the No. 1 candidate.</p><p>Some may consider this situation resulted from a technical default. No question about it, Ted Kennedy was operating at a pace which would have locked up his bid until he was injured and forced out after 31 games. There are no signs of the Toronto captain returning until the playoffs at earliest.</p><p>With Kennedy erased from the field, the center spot became wide Open. Out of the flock of candidates, Delvecchio has emerged with a minimum of fanfare, presenting a platform which deserves Study before election day.</p><p>After 53 games young Alexander Peter Joseph Delvecchio&mdash;to be formal about this&mdash;rated as the top scoring center in the NHL. His 46 points ranked him fourth among all scorers, trailing Wingers Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Rocket Richard.</p><p>Furthermore, Delvecchio was excelling at the business which is considered a center&rsquo;s big job&mdash;playmaking. He was leading the league in assists, having served getup passes on 36 of the Red Wing goals.</p><h3><b>How about his rivals?</b></h3><p>A year ago Elmer Lach and Milt Schmidt ran one-two in the All Star center race&middot; Both are ground for consideration again, but a combination of age find injuries are hurting them. Fierce competitors as they are, at 35 they&rsquo;ve been slowed down and It&rsquo;s telling in the scoring sheet. True, Statistics don&rsquo;t fully reflect the value of Schmidt to the Bruin offense or Lach to Richard&rsquo;s gunning. but still they count. And Lach has 12 goals and 15 assists, Schmidt only five goals and 22 assists.</p><p>No other centers still are around who have made the first or second All-Star teams in the past five years. Kennedy was one, and Sid Abel, Chicago&rsquo;s coach who is semi-retired as a player, another.</p><p>So this became a year for newcomers to be introduced on the All-Star stage. Nearest centers to Delvecchio in scoring are Paul Ronty, who has enjoyed the biggest buildup since Kennedy&rsquo;s injury. and Metro Prystal, another of the Detroit cast who also is unsung, also fully capable of moving into the front rank before the ballots are cast.</p><p>If the vote had been taken a couple of weeks ago, Ronty likely would have come out the victor. But the dashing blond Ranger and his wingers have tailed off in recent games, and he now needs a new spark to fire up his campaign boiler.</p><p>Prystai, as well as Delvecchio, has benefited from playing alongside Howe as the rugged giant is waging his assault on assorted scoring records. Other centers might claim this an unfair advantage on the grounds that men on the ice with Howe are bound to reap points in quantities.</p><p>While Prystai has been more or less the regular center between Howe and Lindsay since the first 10 games, Delvecchio has moved into the spot lately on the powerplay crew.</p><p>Prystai and Ronty have records almost alike. Metro with 13 goals and 27 assists and Paul with 15 and 24, which leave them more than a dozen points behind Delvecchio.</p><p>Only remaining centers with enough scoring to merit consideration are Jim McFadden, onetime rookie of the year who has 16 goals and 18 assists for Chicago, and Fleming Mackell, whose whirlwind comeback this season gives him the goal lead for Boston with 20 but who has only nine assists.</p><p>So it appears that the position will be decided by the events of the last 15 games, with Delvecchio, Ronty and Prystai the pick of the field going into the stretch.</p><p>Delvecchio not only has a head start, but also a flying start. Improving steadily since Christmas he is going at his fastest pace right now.</p><p>The surprising part of the Delvecchio package is his youth, for at 20 he is the baby of the Red Wings and one of the youngest players in the league. Not since Schmidt flashed into the league with the Kraut Line and won an All-Star berth when he was 22 has so young a center been on top.</p><p>It may be that Delvecchio came with built-in hockey brains. That could be one explanation for his playmaking ability, moves which prompted Johnny Crawford, the former Bruin now a Boston sportscaster, to call him &ldquo;the coolest kid I&rsquo;ve ever seen, just like he had every move planned in advance.&rdquo;</p><p>Tommy Ivan is another who feels that way, claiming that Delvecchio makes plays automatically which some men can&rsquo;t learn in 10 years.</p><p>&ldquo;Just watch how he keeps turning his head from side to side&mdash;swivel neck, we call him&mdash;while he&rsquo;s carrying the puck. He always looking for a winger to pass off to. That may seem like a little thing, but how may players do you see who do that?&rdquo;</p><p>It&rsquo;s this cool operating, combined with his uncanny talent at laying clean sure passes which has prompted Ivan to call Alex &ldquo;our young old man.&rdquo;</p><p>Which isn&rsquo;t any pun, either, on Delvecchio&rsquo;s name, which in Italian means &ldquo;of old.&rdquo;</p><p>While Delvecchio comes from native Italian stock, he doesn&rsquo;t speak a word of the language. Nor is his temperment that usually associated with Latins. There once was a time when he had a flaming temper on the ice, but self-control was impressed upon him at the junior level and only once has he been involved in anything close to a fight since he hit this league. After 118 games he had picked up only 18 penalties.</p><p>Most impressive to close observers is that he has not only conquered the apparent temperment of youth and has matured as a hockey player surprisingly early, but that he has developed that coolness on the ice comparable to a veteran center.</p><p>In his sophomore year his personalty both in competition and in the dressing room has materially changed. As a rookie he was somewhat boisterous. However, within a single year he has become of more somber, reserved mien. Just one year ago he was the self-styled spokesman for the club&rsquo;s younger players, yet now he already has matured beyond this point.</p><p>Much of this is thought to stem from his close friendship with Glen Skov. Although the two players had never faced one another except in training camp competition prior to Delvecchio&rsquo;s joining the Wings, they immediately formed an alliance comparable to the famed Lindsay-Howe relationship.</p><p>They were assigned as roomates and became so close that during the past summer Skov left his home in Windsor and went to Fort William when he and Delvecchio worked together in a local road construction firm, played together on a local softball team and lived together at the Delvecchio home. Undoubtedly the quiet reserve of Skov had its mirroring effect on Delvecchio.</p><p>Delvecchio&rsquo;s developments always have been rapid. His physical growth came within a single year&rsquo;s period. He first attended a Red Wing camp with Scout Louis Passador when he was 17. At that time he was overshadowed in both size and seeming ability by teammate Alex (Moe) Irving. Both had played center for Passador&rsquo;s Hurricane Rangers, yet when the two boys returned a year later Delvecchio had grown so rapidly that he physically was one of the biggest forwards in the camp, and had developed athletically to the extent that he warranted recognition as one of Canada&rsquo;s top junior players.</p><p>His rise within professional ranks has been equally rapid. One year of Junior A competition qualified him for a pro contract with the Indianapolis Capitals even though he still was eligible for junior pay. And as the record book shows, two weeks in the minor leagues was sufficient to prepare him for big-league competition.</p><p>As a junior he was with the Oshawa Generals under the supervision of the late Larry Aurie, former Red Wing great, to whom Delvecchio gives much credit for his rapid development. In his one season there, his only year of topflight junior competition, he established a record as a playmaker. Alex&rsquo; total of 69 assists added to 51 goals made him he second highest scorer in organized hockey in 1950-51. He was surpassed only by his linemate, Lou Jankowski, who had 123 points by coverting Delvecchio&rsquo;s passes.</p><p>According to Delvecchio, Aurie was the greatest individual force in his personal development.</p><p>&ldquo;I had trouble controlling my temper and was always getting into trouble with the referee,&rdquo; Delvecchio relates. After so many misconducts, Mr. Aurie quickly showed me the difference between a two-minute penalty and a misconduct for popping off.</p><p>Get talking with Alex and you soon believe that he Is one boy who was destined for the NHL at an early age.</p><p>&ldquo;I figure I&rsquo;m lucky to be up here, maybe because it&rsquo;s the only thing I ever dreamed about,&rdquo; he says. Since the time I was 12 or 13 years old, I guess I&rsquo;ve wanted to be a hockey player.</p><p>&ldquo;I remember listening to the Saturday night radio broadcasts. Syl Apps and Milt Schmidt were my heroes. You can Imagine what a thrill it was the first time I played against Schmidt in a game.&rdquo;</p><p>Delvecchio&rsquo;s early record is the usual pattern for an NHL player&middot; At 13 he played his first organized hockey on the K. of C. Canadien bantam team at Ft. William. The next three years he played for East End Athletic Club, bantam and then midget. It was during last year there, when he was 16, that Passador signed him to an A form, bringing him into the Detroit fold.</p><p>Alex says that as far as he knows no other team ever was interested in him. It wasn&rsquo;t until a year later, between seasons with the Hurricanes, that he first appeared at training camp.</p><p>The move to Oshawa was made to advance him to a tougher level, and also to supply Aurie with a forward line. Jankowski and Stan Mille were assigned as his wingers and they were shipped there as a unit.</p><p>A year later the jump into pro ranks came as a surprise to him. Training camp had been underway for 10 days when General Manager Jack Adams called him in and broke the news. But he played only six games for Indianapolis before the next change came.</p><p>&lsquo;We had heard earlier in the day that Larry Wilson was being sent down from Detroit, and we figured Earl Riebel probably would go up,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;That night after a game against Hershey, Ott Heller called me into the office and said I was catching a plane at 7 in the morning for the NHL.&rdquo;</p><p>Two days later he had been shunted on to Toronto to Join the club and make his NHL debut.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t ask me how I did that game,&rdquo; he laughs. &ldquo;I had butterflies and was so nervous that I can&rsquo;t remember a thing about it.&rdquo;</p><p>But whatever he did do. it must have been good. He&rsquo;s been a regular ever since, and this writer recalls doing a story 10 days after Delvecchio came up to the effect that here was a boy who be around for the next decade. That&rsquo;s one prediction which still stands.</p><h2>Record-bound?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0814/948319-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="574" height="1496"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ALEX DELVECCHIO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Youthful Centre Has Best Record In League to Date

<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/f0004-01107/948381-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p>Toronto Star</p><h2>Abel&rsquo;s Know-Howe Hasn&rsquo;t Helped Hawks</h2><p>SID ABEL, the freshman coach of the NHL, has one advantage over his more-experienced brothers of the bench. Having centred Detroit&rsquo;s Production Line for years, Sid knows how to check Gordie Howe, the one-man scourge of big-league goalies. Abel is like the smartie who works for the income tax department until he knows every short-cut and loophole. Then he quits and hangs out his shingle as a tax consultant. Sid made the plays for many of Howe&rsquo;s 190-plus goals. He advised and abetted Howe from the time the big winger came in green from Omaha. Knowing the moves Howe makes, Sid has but to set up his defence against him.</p><p>&ldquo;There are two methods I&rsquo;m advocating at the moment,&rdquo; Abel revealed, prior to game at the Gardens. &ldquo;One is that Howe be forced to wear his skates on the wrong feet. The other is that the league squip him with a saddle with pockets for weights. Then he could be handicapped, the way they handicap a horse. There must be some way of making things come out even.&rdquo;</p><p>Sid admitted these were not his first findings. He didn&rsquo;t arrive at these conclusions without trial and error.</p><p>&ldquo;We tried having the defence back in,&rdquo; he recalled. &ldquo;That doesn&rsquo;t work, because he shoots so hard, the goalie can&rsquo;t see the shot. Finally, I told our guys to wrestle him, grab him, take a penalty if they had to, but keep him from scoring. Next thing I see Lee Fogolin, one of the strongest members of our club, with his arms around Howe, trying to hold him. Howe drags him a few feet and then breaks loose. Fogie just can&rsquo;t hang on to him.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Ivan Likes to Hear Him Complain</b></h2><p>OLD buddy Abel gave Howe one of the few facial wounds h&middot; has had this season. This gave rise to stories of a feud between the former Production Line partners.</p><p>&ldquo;I caught up to him behind the net.&rdquo; Abel related. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the Wings beaten, 3-1, and the game is well into the third period. I try to lift Gordie&rsquo;s stick from behind. Shoulda knows better, because you might as well try to lift the corner of the stadium. But I keep tugging away until my stick finally slips up and nicks him over the eye. On the very next play, he busts through our team and scores. That makes it 3-2. His line gets a rest then. But on the next shift, he scores again. We wind up with six men in our net at the end of the game to salvage a tie from a game we&rsquo;ve got won. When Howe is leaving the ice, he skates past me and grunts: &lsquo;That&rsquo;ll teach ya not to cut me.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p><p>After another game in Chicago, Abel bumped into Howe at the railway station where the clubs were boarding the rattlers for a rematch in Detroit.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m playin&rsquo; under an awful handicap,&rdquo; Howe told his old line-mate. &ldquo;I gotta broken toe, but hardly anybody knows it.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Handicap?&rdquo; Abel howled. &ldquo;You scored three goals against us tonight, and now I&rsquo;m supposed to feel sorry for you.&rdquo;</p><p>Red Wings&rsquo; coach Tommy Ivan feels happiest when he hears Howe complaining that he&rsquo;s nigh unto death. That&rsquo;s when Mr. Trigger burns out the goal lamps. Ivan tells a story about a night when the Wings needed a goal for a tie. Tommy went to Howe while the team was waiting to take the ice for the last period.</p><p>&ldquo;How you feeling?&rdquo; he asked Howe. &ldquo;Good, Tommy&rdquo; Howe assured him. Ivan was disappointed. He tried again, just as the buzzer sounded. &ldquo;Are you sure you don&rsquo;t hurt anywhere?&rdquo; he asked anxiously. &ldquo;Feelin&rsquo; great,&rdquo; Howe persisted.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew we wouldn&rsquo;t get that goal,&rdquo; Ivan concluded. &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t either.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Rollins Is One Hawk Who Didn&rsquo;t Fold</b></h2><p>THUMBNAIL Tales: One Black Hawk who has been exempt from criticism during the Chicago slide which included five straight defeats is ex-Leaf Al Rollins. Hawk brass say he&rsquo;s been terrific. That&rsquo;s the way he looked hede Saturday night. Coach Sid Abel claims Gus Mortson hasn&rsquo;t been as effective since he had his nose broken in a collision with Detroit&rsquo;s Ted Lindsay&hellip;Chicago&rsquo;s Doc Couture, who left here with a charley horse, blamed Leafs&rsquo; Phil Maloney for whacking him, just above the shinpad, with his stick.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0158/948412-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"></div><p><b>DETROIT, Moch.</b>&mdash;</p><p>Did you ever hear dancing called an Ideal way for a hockey player to keep in shape?</p><p>Recently the For &rsquo;Em Club, a Red Wing fan organization, held its annual dance. Although it came on the only off day in a stand of three games in four nights, the Red Wing bachelors received permission to attend.</p><p>During an intermission at the dance, which was held in the Hotel Detroit-Leland, some one noticed the Chicago Black Hawks in the lobby, checking in for a game the next night against Detroit.</p><p>Politely the committee extended an invitation to the Chicago players to join in the swing.</p><p>&ldquo;Certainly not,&rdquo; replied one of the Hawks. &ldquo;Let the Wings dance their feet off if they want. We&rsquo;re going to rest.&rdquo;</p><p>Score the next night: Detroit 4, Chicago 0.</p><h2>SKOV SKITTLED</h2><p><b>UPENDED.</b>&mdash;Glen Skov, Detroit&rsquo;s classy forward finds Harry Howell of New York Rangers a pretty hard cookie to get around as he flops in an ungainly heap after colliding with the rugged New York defenseman.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wings “Rhumba” Into Shape

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0248/948443-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="315" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Carl Voss</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Carl Voss placed the blame for decreased scoring in the National league squarely on the shoulders of the coaches in hs first appearance of the season at a Boston hockey writers&rsquo; luncheon.</p><p>The chief of the National league&rsquo;s officiating staff charged the fall-off in goals to chippy infractions of the rules, and blamed the coaches for not discouraging them.</p><p>&ldquo;It isn&rsquo;t practical to referee a major league game by the book, because hockey has been built up on contact,&rdquo; opined Voss, a native of nearby Chelsea.</p><p>&ldquo;At the start of this season our referees were most strict about calling penalties for hooking, holding and interference, and within a couple of weeks there was a terrific uproar about too many penalties being called.</p><p>&ldquo;That chippy stuff has no place in a game, but I&rsquo;ve become convinced that the problem no longer lies with the officials. Now it&rsquo;s up to the coaches to do away with it. They can easily enough, if they want to help the game.</p><p>&ldquo;It is my sincere belief that if the players, under orders from their coaches, will cut out the holding, hooking and interference,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;there will be more goals scored and fewer tie games played.&rdquo;</p><p>The energetic Voss also urged the placing of more emphasis on the virtually obsolete penalty shot, saying, &lsquo;&lsquo;It is a spectacular play and definitely an attraction, yet in the last three years there have been only three of them, one for each season.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Voss Blames Coaches For Scoring Decrease

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0337/948474-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="294" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption></div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Having always beep a good man with figures, going all the way back to his high school days in Ottawa, Frank Boucher refuses to concede the Rangers are out of it. While New York still had 20 games left to play, this junior Ein-stein came up with some mathematics to prove his club can still make the playoffs. All it must do is win and win and win.</p><p>At the time the Ranger manager spoke, his team could be found some 11 points behind the Bruins and back of the Maple Leafs. &ldquo;You think we&rsquo;re dead,&rdquo; he remarked by way of introduction. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re still alive, if only because we still have five games left with Boston and Toronto. Three games in each series are at home, you&rsquo;ll notice.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher looked at his crystal ball, while carressing his favorite rabbit&rsquo;s foot. &ldquo;The way I see it,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ll begin to catch up by taking four of the five games with each of the two clubs we have to beat.</p><p>&ldquo;Then, let&rsquo;s say Toronto wins six of its other 12 games. That&rsquo;s a fair estimate, considering Kennedy Is out and Bentley is of little use. The Leafs would then Wind up with 64 points.</p><p>&ldquo;Boston, likewise, could finish with 64 points. That would mean losing the four out of five to us&mdash;we&rsquo;ve already won four of the last five from them&mdash;and then losing eight of their other 15 remaining games.&rdquo;</p><p>Since Boucher had already won half the battle, the other half came easy. He realized that, with all their ties, the Rangers would have to compile 65 points in order to make the playoffs. This is how he did It:</p><p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s see now, we&rsquo;ve already won eight out of 10 games from the Leafs and Bruins, haven&rsquo;t we?&rdquo; That&rsquo;s leaves us 10 games to play. Six wins and one tie and we&rsquo;re in. Simple mathematics.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boucher Gives Rangers Mathematical Chance Of Making Playoffs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0427/948529-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WARREN GOODFREY</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass.&mdash;The best play which Warren Godfrey has made for the Bruins this year came only a few minutes after the one which he considers his worst.</p><p>In a game which the Bruins lost to the New York Rangers by a goal last month, the young defenseman provided the whining margin&mdash;for the Rangers&mdash;by shooting a puck into his own net.</p><p>A few minutes later Don Raleigh of New York received a clean breakaway from the Bruins&rsquo; blue line with Godfrey, the nearest Bruin, a full 20 feet behind him and caught without a stick besides.</p><p>As Raleigh started his drive, Godfrey took off in pursuit. Just as the Ranger lined up what looked like a certain goal, Warren made a head-first dive, knocking Raleigh off balance as the puck slid aside.</p><p>&ldquo;That,&rdquo; observed Coach Lynn Patrick afterward, &ldquo;was one of the best examples of not giving up I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rdquo;</p><h2><b><i>Got Buzz From Muzz</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Best Play Followed Worst

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>One day last summer Warren Godfrey was perusing a copy of THE HOCKEY NEWS in his Toronto home when the name in a headline over a story caught his eye.</p><p>The name was Godfrey and the story was about him.</p><p>It told of how Murray &ldquo;Muzz&rdquo; Patrick, coach of the Tacoma Rockets of the then-Pacific Coast league, had paid a visit to his older brother Lynn, coach of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>It went on to tell of how the younger Patrick extolled the potential ability of Godfrey, one of his defensemen of the season previous, to the National league Patrick.</p><p>It quoted Murray as saying that Godfrey, with only one year of professional experience, would be a leading contender for a regular job with the Bruins.</p><p>The startled Godfrey read the story from beginning to end. And he didn&rsquo;t believe it!</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t doubt that Muzz said what he did,&rdquo; he confesses now, &ldquo;but I didn&rsquo;t believe that he could possibly be talking in terms of this year.</p><p>&ldquo;There I was. with only one season of minor league experience behind me. being called a leading contender for a major league job. All I was hoping for then was a chance to work out with the Hershey team in the fall and maybe catch on there.</p><p>&ldquo;Playing with the Bruins themselves was something which was pretty far from my mind.&rdquo;</p><p>The young man&rsquo;s skepticism was wiped out a few weeks later, however, when he received his orders to report to Lynn at Hershey, for while Godfrey might have taken Murray&rsquo;s statements lightly, his brother hadn&rsquo;t.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t have to watch him (Godfrey), long before I found out why Muzz had been so sold on him,&rdquo; related the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the type youngster to catch a hockey man&rsquo;s eye because he makes good moves.</p><p>&ldquo;His reflexes are very fast, I mean, and he can catch your eye regardless of what he&rsquo;s doing, whether it is skating, shooting or checking. Then his size attracts attention, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Because he came up from Tacoma, the 21-year-old defenseman is&mdash;technically speaking&mdash;a product of the Bruins&rsquo; farm system, but Godfrey&rsquo;s earlier background embraces hitches with teams sponsored by other National league clubs, namely Toronto and Chicago.</p><p>In fact, the tall blond was in the process of becoming a rolling stone until his destination was pin-pointed by Harold &ldquo;Baldy&rdquo; Cotton, the sharp-eyed scout who digs up prospects for the Bruins from his Toronto base.</p><p>Cotton put Godfrey on the path to Boston in February of 1951, while he was playing for the Waterloo Hurricanes of the Ontario Junior Hockey Association.</p><p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know where I was headed until I signed with the Bruins,&rdquo; admits the youngster. &ldquo;I played three years with little fellows&rsquo; teams sponsored by the Maple Leafs, and for awhile I was on the Toronto Marlboros&rsquo; list, but I never actually played for them.</p><p>&ldquo;Then I went to Galt, spon-sored by Chicago, and when I was let go there I went to Waterloo. Then Baldy came along.&rdquo;</p><p>Connie Smythe, who as the president of the Maple Leafs picked up Godfrey&rsquo;s bills indirectly for three years, sounds somewhat regretful today when he says:</p><p>&ldquo;We must have overlooked something, because we certainly had plenty of time to size him up. His rapid rise indicates that we missed something.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins assigned Cotton&rsquo;s prospect to Tacoma a year ago, and he acquired a wealth of instruction on defense play. His coach was a defenseman with the New York Rangers, and he smoothed off some rough spots. So did Walter &ldquo;Babe&rdquo; Pratt, a veteran of 20 professional seasons, with whom he paired frequently.</p><p>&ldquo;I got a great break in being able to play with Babe,&rdquo; relate&middot; Warren. &ldquo;I used to alternate with Ed O&rsquo;Connor (still with Tacoma) as Babe&rsquo;s partner, and he taught me a great deal.&rdquo;</p><p>Godfrey didn&rsquo;t break into the Bruin lineup at the start of this season with any great bang. In fact, he didn&rsquo;t even break in at the start of the season. When it opened he was sidelined, with a pulled muscle in his back.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Muzz Told Lynn of Godfrey, He Impressed from Start

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>F</span>ounded October 1, 1947 Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. Cote HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY 309 Empire Life Building, 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Average Weekly Circulation 35,000</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada&mdash;$4.00 in U.S.A.</b></p><p><b>Authorised as second claws mail. Post office Department, Ottawa.</b></p><p><b>Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Ogdensburg. N.Y.</b></p><p><b>Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company 1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Printed in Canada.</b></p><p><b>Vol. 6 MONTREAL FEBRUARY 21, 1953 No. 21</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-053/948636-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Leger a Royal</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Could you tell me whether or not Roger Leger who played for the Victoria Cougars last year is playing hockey? If so, for what team is he playing? Is Bill Durnan, the ex-Canadien goaler in any way connected with hockey?</p><p>Anyone Interested in corresponding with me please write me at 239 Avenue C North, Saskatoon, Sask.</p><p>Simon P. Doell Saskatoon, Sask.</p><p>(Roger Leger is playing defense for the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Senior League and Bill Durnan is coaching a team in Rouyn, Que.)</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Rabid Rocket</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I don&rsquo;t suppose this letter will get in your paper as it is my first but I sure hope it does. Usually a person has to write two or three before you put them in so I won&rsquo;t expect too much.</p><p>I do like your paper very much. It covers the NHL very good and it also covers the AHL fairly well but I think you could do a little better by the WHL.</p><p>It seems that the only time you ever write anything about Tacoma is when there are rumors about us losing our franchise. I think you could find something more to write about our Rockets. We may not be in first place in the league but we&rsquo;re not in last.</p><p>We have a lot of good players and we have a wonderful coach and swell owners. You couldn&rsquo;t find a team with more color than the Rockets. We have Doug Stevenson who is one of the best goalers in the League. He has as many shutouts as The Great Emil (the cat) Francis and tubby Dechene. We have &middot; one of the best goal getters in the League in Doug Adam. He not only has plenty of goals but a lot of assists. Gordie Kerr is another player who could be mentioned once in a while.</p><p>This business about Tacoma losing our team is really getting tiresome. With Muzz Patrick running the team we can always be sure of a good team and good attendance. Hockey is new to Tacoma but we haven&rsquo;t done so bad in the past and we won&rsquo;t do so bad in the future.</p><p>Eddie Asp Tacoma, Wash.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>What&rsquo;s The Chance?</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my second letter to the Fan Forum and I hope this one will be printed. I would like to correspond with a Detroit Red Wings fan; do you think that there will be some one interested in my request. And I want to ask you another thing; I wrote to the director of publicity of the Red Wings asking for photography, what do you think of my chances to get them?</p><p>To end that letter I remain one of your annual subscribers.</p><p>Robert Parent, Quebec, P.Q.</p><p>(We really couldn&rsquo;t say what your chances are, we don&rsquo;t know, but most publicity directors are pretty good guys.)</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Rink Length</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to your most wonderful paper. My favourite players are Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, and Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>I Would like very much if you couuld tell me the length and width of the Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens.</p><p>Douglas Brown, Renfrew, Ont.</p><p>(Maple Leaf Gardens is 200 feet by 85 feet and has a capacity of 14,550.)</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Still Playing There</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Pardon me for writing these few lines to your wonderful HOCKEY NEWS paper, which is widely read here at the head-of-the lakes, Fort William and Port Arthur.</p><p>Many hockey fans here in both cities would be pleased to see a little write-up in your valuable paper to let the rest of Canada know that we are still playing the game and will be heard from when play-off time comes.</p><p>A good brand of hockey is being played here this winter. Rivalry between the both cities is very keen which goes a long way in producing good hockey.</p><p>George Alexander, Fort Wiliam, Ont.</p><p><b>* * *</b></p><h2><b>Picks Pictou</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I want to congratulate you for your fine paper. There are a lot who write to you and complain, but I bet they couldn&rsquo;t do half as good as you can.</p><p>My favourite team doesn&rsquo;t belong in the big time but it is the Pictou Maripacs with starry Frank Prozenor in the nets.</p><p>I think Jean Beliveau, alias &lsquo;Gros Bill&rsquo; wil score more goals than anyone in the National League.</p><p>James MacConnell, Scotsburn, N.S.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Rates Referees</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Two topics of interest to all Hockey fans are the players and the officials of the NHL. It takes both of them to make a good game. Therefore I would like to expand on this subject of the conduct of Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard by submitting to you my &ldquo;Dream Team&rdquo; of the most gentlemanly and most ungentlemanly players in the NHL. Also included is my rating of NHL officials.</p><p>Most Gentlemanly team as of Jan. 25; GOAL: Gerry McNeil DEFENSE: Red Kelly (6 Penalty Minutes), Bill Quankenbush (4 P. M.) FORWARDS: Howe (35 P.M.), Hergesheimer (10 P. M.), Sid Smith (2 P. M.).</p><p>Most Ungentlemanly teamGoal: Harry Lumley; Defense. Leo Bovin (76 P. M.), Al Dewsbury (69 P. M.), Forwards: Ted Lindsay (94 P. M.), George Gee (79 P. M.), Richard (76 P. M.)</p><p>My rating of NHL officials: 1) George Gravel&mdash;If he returns after his illness, will retain his spot as top official; 2) Bill Chadwick&mdash;colorfull and very efficient; 3) Jerry Olinski&mdash;young and a very good addition to the staff; 4) Frank Melenbacher&mdash;slow skater but good official; 5) Frank Udvari&mdash;shows flashes of efficiency occasionally; 6) Red Storey&mdash;uncolorful and by far the bottom of the barrel as an official.</p><p>James Von Tobel, Detroit, Mich.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>You Win Bill</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>My friend and I were having an argument the other day concerning Skippy Burchell of the Montreal Royals. I bet ten dollars with my friend that he played for a team in the United States and ended up second scorer in the league. My friend says he played in the Maritimes. Could you tell me which one of us is right?</p><p>Can Beliveau join the Canadiens after the semi-finals are begun in the NHL? Thanks and keep up the good work.</p><p>Bill Devine, Quebec City, Que.</p><p>(Burchell played for the Johnstown, Pa. Jets of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League last season and did come second in the scoring. He had 37 goals and 56 assists for a total of 93 points in 56 games played. Collect your tenner. Beliveau can, if he should want to do so.)</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Comparisons Yet</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Comparing hockey stars and coming to a conclusion as to who&rsquo;s best is just impossible.</p><p>But the greatest tribute you can afford a hockey player today is to have him compared with Maurice (Rocket) Richard. Fans delight in doing so. They used to compare Schmidt and Kennedy to him and now its Gordon Howe. I wonder who will be next? There&rsquo;s Boom Boom, Hergesheimer, Beliveau and should I add Nesterenko? Well, let&rsquo;s wait and see what the future will hold.</p><p>Ray Philippot, St. Claude, Man.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Blues&rsquo; Farm Clubs</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to know how the Eastern League and the International League stack up with the Senior League in Canada. With what leagues would you compare them with?</p><p>I would like to know the farm teams of the New York Rangers.</p><p>I am a subscriber to your paper and enjoy it very much.</p><p>Carl Yanowitz, Brooklyn, N.Y.</p><p>(In Canada there is the Major series teams which vie for the Alexander Trophy and the straight Senior clubs who battle it out for the Allen Cup. The two leagues you mention would be on a par or slightly higher than the Allan Cup leagues. The Rangers have three main farm clubs, the Saskatoon Quakers of the Western Hockey League, the Guelph Biltmores of the OHA Junior A league, and the Quebec Citadels of the Quebec junior league.)</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Story on Bev</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>How about a story on the great Bev Bentley, the new goaler of the Saskatoon Quakers.</p><p>Bev stepped into the breach when Lome Worsley was called up to New York and has been going great ever since. He is one of the famous hockey playing Bentleys and has been going great guns for uncle Doug&rsquo;s club.</p><p>Keep up the good work.</p><p>George MacDonald Saskatoon, Sask.<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/f0006-062/948667-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="596" height="274"></div><h2><b>February 27 to March 5</b></h2><p>27&mdash;FOGOLIN, Lee, Chicago defense, 1926.</p><p>28&mdash;DENIS, Jean-Paul, Providence forward, 1924.</p><p>1&mdash;HIRSCHFELD, Bert, St.-Louis forward, 1929; STANLEY, Allan, New York defense, 1926; BENTLEY, Max, Toronto forward, 1920</p><p>2&mdash;QUACKENBUSH, Bill, Boston defense, 1922.</p><p>3&mdash;KRAFTCHECK, Steve, New York defense, 1929; GORDON, Jackie, Cleveland forward, 1928; HRYMNAK, Steve, St. Louis defense, 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 in U.S.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0181/948757-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="318" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry McNeil</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>nce again it is all-star picking time for readers of THE HOCKEY NEWS, and as in the previous five all-star polls, we are starting with the goalers.</p><p>Led by Vezina Trophy holder and current leader Terry Sawchuk, the cage cops go to the post in this, the sixth annual THE HOCKEY NEWS National Hockey League All Star Poll. It is time for you fans to get a voice in the selection of the all-stars and ballots will appear in the next six editions of THE HOCKEY NEWS, including this issue for the goalers, defensemen, centres, right and left wings, and the coaches.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0260/948750-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="303" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Rollins</b></figcaption></div><p>Leading candidates in each section will be named each week to guide you in your choice, but in the long run your selections will depend on the performances of each individual player over the season.</p><p>The final few weeks of the season can often make or break a player in his bid for all-star honours so for that reason please note that YOU MUST NOT SEND IN ANY BALLOTS UNTIL ALL SIX HAVE APPEARED. By that time the season will be almost over and you can then make a better analysis of a player&rsquo;s worth. ANY BALLOTS RECEIVED BEFORE THAT TIME WILL NOT BE COUNTED.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0337/948743-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="321" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sugar Henry</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0435/948736-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="267" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gump Worsley</b></figcaption></div><p>When you have all six ballots, including the final one which will appear in the March 28 issue, you must then send them in all together. The NHL season closes on March 22nd, and you can then mail your ballots immediately. The only stipulation is that letters containing the ballots must be postmaked NO LATER THAN MIDNIGHT TUESDAY, MARCH 31.</p><p>Each ballot has space for you to write the names of your first, second and third choices for each position. In the case of the de-densemen you will be asked to fill in six names&mdash;rated in the order you judge their ability.</p><p>After all the votes are tabulated the All Stars will then be selected on point basis, with five points allotted for each first place vote, three for second and one for third. The six players and the coach with the highest point totals in their positions win the First Team berths, with the runner-up candidates being named to the Second Team.</p><p>The first ballot appearing in this issue is for the goaltending job on the Big Team&mdash;a selection which may cause some head scratching if puck blocking in the premier puck loop keeps on at its present pace. While the youthful Sawchuk is currently heading the pack in the goals-against department, he has been getting some spirited opposition from the Habs Gerry McNeil and the other rage occupants in recent games.</p><p>So remember, don&rsquo;t send in your selections now. Wait until the last possible minute, so you can follow the torrid goaltending race and pick the best man over the season&rsquo;s play.</p><p>In the meantime, here are brief thumbnail sketches on. the six goalie candidates, just so get you better acquainted with them.</p><p><b>SUGAR JIM HENRY</b>&mdash;Winnipeg-born, on October 23, 1920, the Boston goalie is now in his seventh season of NHL play. Henry broke in with New York Rangers in 1941-42, spent three years in military service before coming back to share Blueshirt duties with Chuck Rayner. Traded to Chicago, he played the 1948-49 campaign with the Hawks, then was ousted by the Harry Lumley trade.</p><p><b>HARRY LUMLEY</b>&mdash;The former &ldquo;boy wonder&rdquo; of the league, Lumley broke into NHL play with Detroit for two games in 1943-44 when he was only 17-years-old (born at Owen Sound, Ont., November 11, 1926). He played 37 games the next year, then was a brilliant regular for the next five seasons before he was supplanted by the up-and coming Sawchuk and was traded to Chicago. The porous Hawk defense played havoc with his goals-against average. This season he was traded to Toronto and has been going great of late.</p><p><b>GERRY NeNEIL</b>&mdash;Quebec City born on April 17, 1926, the fairhaired boy of Montreal Canadiens is now hitting his stride. He played two games on trial in 1947-48, and filled in for Bill Durnan during injuries for six games in 1949-50, between toiling 55 games for the AHL Cincinnati Mohawks. Now an NHL vet, more or less, he leads in shutouts with nine and is second in goals against.</p><p><b>AL ROLLINS</b>&mdash;Also 25 years old like Lumley and McNeil, (born at Vanguard, Sask., October 9, 1926), the lanky Chicago netminder is definitely in the running. Traded to the Hawks this season. Chicage livery seems to suit and he is playing some of the best hockey of his career.</p><p><b>TERRY SAWCHUK</b>&mdash;The favourite of the NHL goalie brigade at 23, the crouching-styled Red Wing was born in Winnipeg on December 28, 1929. He has racked up a startling record since breaking in with Omaha of the defunct United States League in 1947-48. He captured the outstanding rookie award in that league, repeated with Indianapolis of the AHL the following year, and won the Calder Trophy in his debut in NHL ranks. Right now, he is being rated by some as potentially the greatest netminder of them all.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0523/948729-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="297" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0617/948722-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="279" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><p><b>LORNE WORSLEY</b>&mdash;Born May 14, 1929 in Montreal, Que., &lsquo;Gump&rsquo; came up from the Saskatoon Quaekers to fill in for the injured Chuck Rayner in the New York Rangers&rsquo; goals and now seems set in the NHL for some time to come. In the 1950-51 season with St. Paul of the USHL he was adjudged the Rookie of the year and named to the first all-star team. Last season in the PCHL he led in shutouts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fans Ready To Take Their Pick In Sixth Annual All-Star Poll

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The Hockey News 1952-53

<p>1&mdash;Anyone is eligible to cast ballots for the National Hockey League All Star Team, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming first, second and third choices.</p><p>2&mdash;One ballot will appear each week in the following order: goaltender, defensemen, right wing, center, left wing and coach. Final ballot will appear in the March 28 issue.</p><p>3&mdash;Ballots for the choice of three players at each position (six for defensemen) must be filled as indicated, with the names of players and their clubs. Use blanks published each week, or reasonable facsimiles or tracings of same if you do not wish to deface your copy. Space will be provided on the sixth and final ballot for your own name and address.</p><p>4&mdash;Ballots must be held until all have appeared, and selections for all six positions, plus coach, must be submitted at the same time.</p><p>5&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to&mdash;All Star Editor. THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal.</p><p>6&mdash;All ballots must be mailed and postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT TUESDAY, MARCH 31.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Voting Rules

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The All Stars of last season still remain the best players in the National Hockey League, according to the men who know talent best.</p><p>Each year about this time the NHL coaches are asked to pick a mid-season all-star sextet.</p><p>Their January choices are presented here and while entirely unofficial, could offer a firm preview of who will be honored on the NHL All Star team to be picked next month. Last season the coaches tagged five of the six men correctly.</p><p>Each coach was asked to pick a first team only, and he was permitted to name his own players. All choices were to remain secret.</p><h2>Took Him&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01114/948878-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="555" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>SUGAR HENRY</b></figcaption></div><h2>Gave Howe&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0355/948871-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="299" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ivan</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0433/948864-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="290" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>One of the pilots refused to turn in a ballot, claiming &ldquo;every time I pick an all-star team, the writers ride me.&rdquo;</p><p>The five co-operating coaches who did the picking were Joe Primeau, of Toronto; Lynn Patrick, of Boston; Bill Cook, of New York; Sid Abel, of Chicago, and Tommy Ivan, of Detroit.</p><p>They listed a total of 13 players. Here are their selections, with the number of votes for each player:</p><p>GOALIES&mdash;Terry Sawchuk (3), Jim Henry (1), Harry Lumley (1).</p><p>DEFENSEMEN&mdash;Red Kelly (5), Doug Harvey (3), Bill Quackenbush (1), Bill Gadsby (1).</p><p>CENTERS&mdash;Ted Kennedy (3), Ken Mosdell (1), Paul Ronty (1).</p><p>RIGHT WINGS&mdash;Gordie Howe (4&frac12;), Rocket Richard (&frac12;).</p><p>LEFT WINGS&mdash;Ted Lindsay (5).</p><p>First impression from those choices is the great similarity to the official All Star team selected last year by the panel of 18 sports writers and broadcasters, three from each NHL city.</p><p>That team listed Sawchuk, Kelly, Harvey, Howe and Lindsay with Elmer Lach at center. Thus the replacement of Lach by Kennedy marks the only change in the current evaluations.</p><p>All of which must bring additional sorrow to Kennedy, the sidelined captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><h2>&hellip;4&frac12; Votes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0614/948857-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="282" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Patrick</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0713/948850-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="284" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Primeau</b></figcaption></div><p>This looked like the year that Kennedy finally would gain his deserved recognition by making the first All Star team. An 11year veteran who long has been a standout, his best previously was to hit the second All Star team twice.</p><p>He was a logical choice in any mid-season selection, leading all the centers until his shoulder injury benched him after 31 games.</p><p>Now it is unlikely that he will draw much consideration in the formal poll in March which covers the 70-game route. The injury has shelved him for the balance of the season and undoubtedly cost him a chance to cash in (for $1,000) on the best start of his NHL career.</p><p>Without Kennedy, the All Star center spot has been thrown wide-open. But it is the only position so regarded on the basis of the coaches&rsquo; votes.</p><p>Two players were unanimous choices. Kelly seems to hold a permanent spot at the top of the list any time present-day defensemen are rated. The Detroit redhead, at 25, is one of the craftiest and steadiest players on defense, and to that he adds a conslant threat on the offense. He leads all NHL defensemen in both goals and total points.</p><p>Lindsay was the other unanimous pick, a tribute to his improved start this season. A year ago Smith in the coaches&rsquo; voting among left wingers, earning All Star honors with a fast finish.</p><p>Howe missed unanimous attention on right wing by one-half a vote. One coach hit a snag at that position, saying &ldquo;I honestly can&rsquo;t choose between Howe and Richard and feel that the only fair thing to do is split my vote.&rdquo;</p><p>Another coach suggested a way out for the official selectors who might be similarly puzzled.</p><p>&ldquo;There isn&rsquo;t a real outstanding center since Kennedy was forced out, and I feel that the proper solution would be to place both Howe and Richard on the All Star team, listing one of them as a center,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Just like a year ago in the coaches&rsquo; voting, Harvey was the only defenseman other than Kelly to get more than one vote.</p><h2>&hellip;Over Him</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0811/948843-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="596" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GERRY McNEIL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0008-01

Five N.H.L. Coaches Pick Mid-Season All-Stars, Red Kelly and Ted Lindsay Only Unanimous Choices

<div class="byline">DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Gordie Howe isn&rsquo;t the only Red Wing gunning for a scoring record this season. Red Kelly also is in the chase although his target is nothing so lofty as the 50-goal record Howe is out to smash.</p><p>Only once in National Hockey League history has a defenseman made 20 goals. In one season. Flash Hollett hit that figure exactly, his last season with Detroit 1944-45.</p><p>Kelly is up to 14 after 48 games, a scoring pace which can send him above 20 if he keeps it going.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0274/948909-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="324" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red kelly</b></figcaption></div><p>Like Howe, Kelly also is favored by a habit for stagng strong finishes. He never had more than 10 goals after 48 games in the last three previous seasons, but his totals those years were 15, 17 and 16.</p><p>Hollett also flirted with the 20 figure several times before reaching it. Twice in a row he hit 19.</p><p>Foremost among other high-scoring defensemen in the NHL records are Babe Pratt and King Clancy. Pratt made 18 goals one year, 17 another. Clancy&rsquo;s best was 17.</p><p>Neither of those, however, ever reached the 19 total posted by Harry Cameron, of Toronto St. Pats back in the 24-game schedule of 1921-22.</p><p>Pratt is the holder of the defensemen&rsquo;s point record, 57 on 17 goals and 40 assists in 1943-44.</p><p>Kelly came close two years ago with 54, and had 47 last season. The quiet redhead had 33 points in his first 48 starts this time.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-02

Kelly Shooting For Goals Mark Set By Hollett

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>When Coach Dick Irvin, the one dissenter when Marshall Dann applied to the NHL mentors for their all-stars after the first 40 games of the schedule, heard about the choices of the other five he showed neither surprise or ambiguity, in fact he showed a decided &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t care attitude.&rsquo; However, he did make a few comments. Particularly when told that Sawchuk drew three votes, Lumley and Henry one and Gerry McNeil none.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what those other coaches think we have on our team,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;imagine anybody picking Henry over Gerry. Lumley is at least the third high goaler in the league.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0516/948940-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="299" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Hvin</b></figcaption></div><p>Irvin showed little resentment in the defense choices and laughed when told that Howe drew four and a half Richard&rsquo;s a half vote.</p><p>Lindsay drew Irvin&rsquo;s vote for left wing but the center spot made him boil over. The fact that Kennedy drew the most votes was what did it.</p><p>&ldquo;Kennedy getting his deserved credit!&rdquo; he exclaimed. &ldquo;Why that guy has scored just one goal more than Lach and Elmer has played four games less.&rdquo; Irvin indicated that he would have picked Delvecchio over all others.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-05

Irvin Boils As Coaches Omit Gerry

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>In the weeks ahead, when the Rangers hope to multiply every last mathematical chance to sneak into the playoffs, they must get more mileage out of their best line than they have recently. Paul Ronty, Wally Hergesheimer and Neil Strain had been completely shut out in the last eight games, through Feb. 10th.</p><p>Whether this streak was simply a normal slump or whether the opposition&rsquo;s concentration of this line was the cause is anyone&rsquo;s guess. Possibly it was a little of both.</p><p>This concentration of physical checking could be expected against one of the highest scoring lines in the league. But Frank Boucher, for one, blamed Illegal charging and boarding tor the line&rsquo;s recent Ineffectiveness.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re little guys and can take only so much punishment,&rdquo; the Ranger manager said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re alert and quick enough to keep from getting hurt when the check is applied legally. But they&rsquo;re being charged all over the ice, and the referees are ignoring it. I don&rsquo;t like it.&rdquo;</p><p>Unless they regain form, all three members of the line are threatened with the loss of possible league honors? Strain is a strong candidate for the Calder Trophy. Ronty almost had the All-Star center berth locked up only two weeks ago and Hergesheimer was a likely choice for the Lady Byng.</p><p>Since then, Hergy has dropped from second to fourth place in the scoring race. And Ronty now find that Detroit&rsquo;s Alex Delvecchio has caught Up With him and that Metro Prystai, another center contender, is right behind.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Dean Prentice, who suffered a chest injury in Chicago, Jan. 18, worked out with the team in Guelph during the recent trip. He was due for a re-exam here on Feb. 6 and, if he passed, would return to action against Montreal, two nights later&hellip;Strain missed the last period in Chicago, Feb. 6, after badly bruising a knee&hellip;Ed Slowinski, due for three more weeks of convalescence because of his bro ken foot, has become a father for the second time. His second daugther, Robin Joan, was born here on Feb. 2.</p><p>After the Canadiens had edged the Rangers, 2-1, here on Jan. 28, Dick Irvin had this to say: &ldquo;New York is now but one steady scorer away from being a real good hockey club. They give us more trouble now than Detroit does. Do they play this hard against everybody?&rdquo;</p><p>After completing his three-game pro trial, in which he showed considerable promise, forward Michel Labadie was sent hack to the Quebec Citadels&hellip;Gump Worsley had 44 saves in his 1-0 shutout of the Hawks in Chicago, Feb. 1&hellip;If nothing else, the Rangers have showed improvement since Christmas. Prior to the holiday, they had only 18 points in 31 games. After it, they picked up 16 points in 17 games. Only Montreal (22), Detroit (20) and Toronto (17) had a better record&hellip;In order to compete with national television of welterweight championship bout between Kid Gavilan and Chuck Davey on Feb. 11, Rangers used the gimmick of &ldquo;Father-Son Night&rdquo; for the first time this Win ter. Any boy (or girl) under 16 years, accompanied by an adult, is to be admitted for half-price for that game against Detroit. As of now, Rangers&rsquo; atendance is barely below last year&rsquo;s.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Boucher Blames Illegal Tactics For Big Line’s ‘Shutout Streak’

<div class="byline">BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>All-Star Defenseman Doug Harvey was in and out of the dog-house last week but he still seems like a lead-pipe cinch to be voted on the 1952-53 All-Glitter squad.</p><p>Harvey, who always gets the blame when the Habs lose, was benched by Coach Dick Irvin after he perfomed in a rather semi-pro fashion in a game in Boston. The Habs, with a 3-0 lead in the game blew it and finally ended up on the short side of a 4-3 count.</p><p>When asked what happened, Dick commented, &ldquo;ask Harvey, he was there.&rdquo;</p><p>It was two days later that Dick announced he was benching Doug for a game against the Leafs. In fact, he announced it so loud that he couldn&rsquo;t back down when the time came to do it. So Doug sat out his club&rsquo;s 2-0 win over the Leafs and made Mons. Irvin look like a Prophet.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0910/948995-1-eng-US/f0008-092.jpg" title="f0008-09" width="298" height="464"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Kervey</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d benched every other defenseman but we were still having goals scored against us. So I figured it must have been Harvey&rsquo;s fault.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;I don&rsquo;t know what everybody&rsquo;s yeling about. Harvey&rsquo;s not the first player who was ever benched. It&rsquo;s not permanent.&rdquo;</p><p>Doug was back two nights later and started the play that led to the Hab&rsquo;s only goal. In New York the following night he did the same thing.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-09

Harvey Benched But Still Cinch For All-Stars

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0009-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0720/949134-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg"></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Boston&rsquo;s battling Bruins triumphed three times in as many starts during the week to move up from fifth place a week ago to third place today. The Bruins passed both Toronto and Chicago on the way up. Detroit holds down the top spot with 67 points, four more than the second-place Montreal Canadiens. Boston is third with 54 points; Toronto is fourth with 53; Chicago comes next with 52; and New York is last with 37.</p><p>Gordie Howe became the youngest player in National Hockey League history to score 200 goals. The 24-years-old Detroit right winger scored his 200th and 201st N.H.L. tallies on February 15. It brought his goal output for the season to 41. This alongside his 33 assists makes his point-total read 74. He is walking away with the National Hockey League scoring crown for the third straight year. Nineteen points back of Howe, in second place among the League&rsquo;s leading point collectors, is Detroit&rsquo;s Ted Lindsay, who has 22 goals and 33 assists for 55 points. Third place goes to Maurice Richard of Montreal. The Rocket has 22 goals and 28 assists for 50 points.</p><p>Wally Hergesheimer of New York is fourth with 48 points, and is followed by Alex Delvecchio, Detroit, 46 point; Paul Ronty, New York, 42; and Metro Prystai, Detroit 40. Red Kelly places eight among all the scores in the loop. The Detroit rearguard has 16 goals and 21 assists for 37 points. Five of the first eight notches of the scoring ladder are occupied by members of the Detroit Red Wings. Howe leads in goals with 41, and Delvecchio leads in assists with 36.</p><p>Gerry McNeil, Canadiens, is the shutout leader among the goalies with nine goose-eggs to his credit. Terry Sawchuk of Detroit has the best goals-against average. Terry has allowed 97 goals to be scored against him in 47 games for a 2.66 average.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-07

Bruins Win Pair; Vault Over Leafs Into Third

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0438/949165-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="282" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Henry</b></figcaption></div><p><b>The Boston Bruins this week capped an uphill climb by taking aver sale possession of third place in the Nationay Hockey League.</b></p><p><b>We say that it has been an uphill climb because the Bruins have suffered injury after injury and have had to dip down their reserve, the Hershey Bears, for players on more than one occasion this year.</b></p><p><b>Despite all this, one man continues to shine. That man is Jim Henry, a few years ago a cast-off and now the toast of Beantown.</b></p><p><b>Sugar Jim has yet to miss a game for the Bruins and through all the ups and downs, he&rsquo;s played steady hockey, and has been called upon to pull rabbits out of a hat. His worth is even more emphasised when one considers that very seldom has he had a sound defense in front of him. Veterans Hal Laycoe and Bill Quackenbush have been stricken with injuries, at times out of uniform and at other times playing despite injuries. Then there are the rookies. Although they are playing good hockey, Warren Godfrey, Gerry Toppazzini and Bob Armstrong are still first year men and bound to make a few mistakes here and there.</b></p><p><b>Samuel James (Sugar Jim) Henry is in his seventh season in the NHL, is 32 years old and is currently playing for his third big league club, so he is no youngster at the game. He&rsquo;s performed for Chicago, Boston and New York, a job he was beaten out of by his pal and business partner, Chuck Rayner.</b></p><p><b>Last week the Bruins won three games and Henry was one of the shining lights in each one. On February 12 the Bears turned back Detroit 3-1, on the 14th they edged New York 5-4 and on the 15th they blanked Montreal 1-0, Henry&rsquo;s seventh shutout of the campaign. Five goals against in three games. That meant that Henry had seen 129 goals go by him in 53 games, an average of 2.43, enough to ran third in the goaltending averages. Only Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk and Montreal&rsquo;s Gerry McNeil were ahead of him, and it shouldn&rsquo;t be forgotten that both these goalers are playing for teams that run one-two in the standings.</b></p><p><b>Three years ago he was &ldquo;washed up&rdquo; and in the minors, now he is the backbone of a hustling Boston team.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-04

Player-Of-The-Week

<h2><b>Goalers&rsquo; Glory</b></h2><p>Montreal goalers have won the Vezina Trophy in nine of the seasons it has been up for competition. Boston goalers are next with six times.</p><h2><b>Clean Team</b></h2><p>New York Rangers are the all-time Byng Trophy winners, Broadway Blues&rsquo; players having captured the mug on ten occasions. Frank Boucher won it seven times himself.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING ON MON. A.M. FEB. 16</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0198/949103-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="588" height="190"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p>Feb. 11th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Rangers 2</p><p>Feb. 12th&mdash;Canadiens 3 at Chicago 2</p><p>Feb. 12th&mdash;Detroit 1 at Boston 3</p><p>Feb. 14th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at ToTronto 2</p><p>Feb., 14th&mdash;Rangers 4 at Boston 5</p><p>Feb. 15th&mdash;Canadiens 0 at Boston 1</p><p>Feb. 15th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Rangers 1</p><p>Feb. 15th&mdash;Detroit 4 at Chicago 1</p><h3><b>NEXT WEEK&rsquo;S GAMES</b></h3><p>Feb. 16th&mdash;Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Feb. 18th&mdash;Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Feb. 18th&mdash;Boston at Rangers</p><p>Feb. 19th&mdash;Detroit at Canadiens</p><p>Feb. 19th&mdash;Rangers at Chicago</p><p>Feb. 21st&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Feb&ecirc; 21st&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Feb. 22nd&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Feb. 22nd&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><p>* * *</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11 Detroit 2 at New York 2</b></h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Johnny Wilson&rsquo;s goal at the 6: 25 mark of the third period gave the Detroit Red Wings a 2-2 draw with the New York Rangers. The tie game moved the Wings five points ahead of the idle Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Outplayed throughout most of the first two periods, the Detroiters finally launched a sutained attack just prior to Wilson&rsquo;s 25-foot screened shot&rsquo;s getting past Lome Worsley.</p><p>Ted Lindsay got the other Red Wings goal and Nick Mickoski and Wally Hergesheimer were the New York snipers.</p><p><b>Detroit</b>: Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, pronovost, Kelly. Woit, Hay; forwards, Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Skov, Sinclair, Delvecchio, Wilson, Bonin.</p><p><b>New York</b>: Goal, Worsley; defence, Reise, Buller, Kraftcheck, Stanley, Howell; forwards, Mickoski, Stoddard, Kullman, Raleigh, Ronty, Gufdolin, Babando, Senick, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Strain.</p><p><b>Referee</b>: Red Storey; linesmen, Doug Davies and Sammy Babcoeck.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0279/949096-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="604" height="328"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 12 Montreal 3 at Chicago 2</b></h3><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Two Dicks, Gamble and Moore supplied all the Montreal scoring as the Habitants eked out a close 3-2 win over the Chicago Black Hawks. The win moved the Montrealers within three points of the league leading Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Dick Gamble scored the Habs&rsquo; first two goals while Moore added what proved to be the winner. Sid Finney and Jim Peters scored for the ChiHawks.</p><p>Each team scored once in the opening period, the Hawks getting the first. Montreal outscored the Chicagoans 2-1 in the second session and the third was scoreless.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Johnson, Bouchard, Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson; forwards, Curry, Masnick, Gamble, Richard, Lach, Moore, Olmstead McCormack, Mosdell, Meger.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Mortson, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Raglan, Hucul; forwards, Mosienko, Finney, Lynn, Peters. Couture, Gardner, Gee, McFadden, Abel.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen Bill Morrison and Harold March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01113/949089-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="596" height="554"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Detroit 1 at Boston 3</b></h3><p>BOSTON&mdash;Fleming Mackell scored two goals to pace the Boston Bruins to a 3-1 win over the league leading Detroit Red Wings. Joe Klukay scored the third Bruin marker and the lone Detroit goal went to Reggie Sinclair.</p><p>Once again Gordon Howe was foiled in his attempt to crash the 2^0 Goa! Club.</p><p>Mackell scored the winner at the 1.54 mark of the second period after Sinclair had tied it up for the Wings in the first period. Klukay added the insurance marker late in the same, period and the final frame was scoreless.</p><p>The Bruins had one goal called back when Johnny Peirson was stationed inside Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s crease. Warren Godfrey had fired from six feet out.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Pronovost, Kelly, Woit, Hay, forwards, Payelich, Howe, Lindsay, Sinclair, Prytai, Leswick, Skov, Delvecchio. Wilson, Bonin.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry: defence, Quack enbush, Godfrey, Martin, Laycoe; forwards, Sullivan, Toppazzini, McIntyre, Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Chevrefils, Labine, Lund, Klukay, Dumart.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen, Sam Babcock and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0280/949082-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="605" height="455"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 New York 4 nt Boston 5</b></h3><p>BOSTON&mdash;The Boston Bruins started scoring after only nine seconds of play and kent on going until they&rsquo;d chalked up a 5-4 victory over the New York Rangers.</p><p>Fleming Mackell&rsquo;s goal after only nine seconds was one second off the record of eight seconds held by Ron Martin of the New York Americans, scored in 1931 against the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Other Boston scorers were Gerry Top pazzini, Ed Sandford, Hal Laycoe, and Jack McIntyre.</p><p>Ed Kullman scored twice for the Rangers while singletons went to Leo Reise and Wally Hergesheimer.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal. Worsley: defence. Reise, Buller. Howell, Kraftcheck. Stanley: forwards: Mickoski, Stoddard, Prentice. Raleigh, Rontv, Guldolin, Senick, Hergesheimer, Kullman, Strain.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry, defense: Quackenbush, Godfrey, Tonnazzini, Martin. Laycoe; forwards: Mackell, Peirson, Sandford Sullivan. Schmidt, MsIntyre, Lund, Klukay, Cheyrefils, Dumart.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick. Linesmen: Sam Babcock and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0363/949075-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="602" height="538"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>SATURDAY 1EBRUARY 14</b></h3><p>Montreal 2 at Toronto 2</p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs battled to a 2-2 draw in a game marred by numerous penalties. A record 66 minutes were handed out by referee Jack Mehlen-backer, 39 minutes of which went to the Leafs.</p><p>There was no scoring in the first period but Bob Hassard picked up a loose puck early in the second, sidestepped Doug Harvey and skated in unmolested on Gerry McNeil and fired a knee-high shot into the cage.</p><p>Less than three minutes later, Big Butch Bouchard tied it up for Montreal, scoring from a long shot fired from the boards, Dick Gamble shot the Montrealers ahead at the 3:04 mark of the third period but Sid Smith tallied the last goal of the game just after the halfway mamrk to tie it up.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil defense: Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards: Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Lach, Moore, Gamble, Masnick, Geoffrion, Meger, Curry, McCormack.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley: defense: Boivin, Flaman, Thomson, Morrison, Horton; forwards: Sloan, Stewart, Smith, Bentley, Armstrong, Watson, Hassard, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Migay, Maloney.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacked; linesmen: Jim Primeau, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0441/949068-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="602" height="572"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15</b> Detroit 4 at Chicago 1.</h3><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Gordie Howe scored two goals, his 200th and 201st, to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-1 win over the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>With his two goals, Howe needs but nine more to break the record 50 goals for a season now held by Maurice Richard.</p><p>The other two Detroit goals went to Tony Leswick, while the lone Chicago Black Hawk marker was scored by veteran Bill Mosienko.</p><p>It was a cleanly played game all the way and only a total of six penalties were called, four of them to the Hawks.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk: defense, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Howe. Pavelich, Lindsay, Leswick, Prystal, Skov, Sinclair, Delvecchio, Wilson, Bonin.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense: Mortson, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Raglan Gardner, Mosienko, Lynn, Finney, Cou-Hucul, forwards: Peters, McFadden, ture, Gee, Abel.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey linesmen: Harold March, George Hayes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0531/949061-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="605" height="454"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15 Montreal 0 at Boston 1</b></h3><p>BOSTON&mdash;The Boston Bruins climbed into third place in the National Hockey League by blanking the Montreal Canadiens 1-0. The loss left the Habs four points back of the league leading Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Veteran Bruin captain Milt Schmidt scored the only goal of the game at the 14: 57 mark of the second period.</p><p>It was Boston goaler Sugar Jim Henry&rsquo;s seventh shutout of the season, two behind Gerry McNeil, leader in this department.</p><p>The Canadiens outshot the Bruins 3124 but Henry was Invincible and was full measure for the goose-egg.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPherson, Bouchard, Johnson; forwards, Lach, Geoffrion, Moore, Richard, Olmstead, Masnick, Gamble, Curry, Mosdell. Reay.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defense: Godfrey, Quackenbush, Toppazzini, Laycoe, forwards: Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Sullivan, McIntyre, Lund Klukay, Schmidt, Chevrefils. Dumart.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick: Linesmen: Herb Gallagher and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0719/949054-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="602" height="348"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15 Toronto 2 at New York 1</b></h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Rookie Eric Nesterenk scored both goals as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the New York Rangers 2-1.</p><p>Nesty scored once in the first period and once in the second while Leo Reise scored the Jone Ranger marker in the middle frame.</p><p>At the 9: 53 mark of the first, Nesterenko took a double relay from Gordie Hannigan and Bob Hassard and blasted a 15-footer past Lome Worsley. In the middle session Jim Thomson and Hassard set him up an again he made no mistake to give the Leafs a 2-0 lead.</p><p>Late in the same period, Leo Reise blasted one past Harry Lumley with assist going to George Senick and Don &lsquo;Bones&rsquo; Raleigh.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley defense: Flaman, Boivin, Thomson, Horton Morrison; forwards: Hassard, Hannigan, Nesterenko, Watson, Bentley, Smith, Sloan, Armstrong, Stewart, Migay.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley defensed Reise, Howell, Buller, Kraftcheck, Stanley: forwards: Ronty, Hergesheimer, Kullman, Raleigh, Mickoski, Guidolin, Stoddard, Babando, Senick Prentice Strain.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jac! Mehienbacher; linesmen&mdash;Sammy Babcock, Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0817/949047-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="607" height="447"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(Including Games of Sunday Feb. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0349/949040-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="590" height="3167"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0531/949033-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="606" height="396"></div><h3><b>PENATLIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0624/949026-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="568" height="156"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

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“Bring on the BRADING”

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ASK the FIGURE SKATERS

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0629/949258-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>his past week Gordie Howe added two more goals to his already impressive record. They where the 200th and 201st of his NHL career, but more important they brought him within ten goals of breaking Maurice Richard&rsquo;s record of 50 for a season. He now has 16 games left to play.</b></p><h2>IN A CAPSULE<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Shooting To A Record

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-11" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1113/949289-1-eng-US/f0010-112.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>I</span>t is very seldom that a line completely composed of rookies, and one of them a rookie of only a few weeks, grabs the spotlight, but such is the case in the line of Eric Nesterenko, Bob Hassard and Gordie Hannigan. Last week Nesty had two goals, both in one game, Hassard had a goal and two assists and Hannigan an assist. The Perfect Combination.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Perfect Combination…Nesterenko, Hassard Hannigan

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Tho Canadian FOOTBAlL NEWS

<p>A jteaming cup of rich, creamy Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate is the ideal finish for any game!</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0918/949459-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="581" height="622"></div><p><b><i>Ash for Stafford&rsquo;s Hot Chocolate at your favorite fountain</i></b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Win or Lose

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Seagram’s King’s Plate

<h2><b>Durable Players</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>ight Cleveland Baron players had seen action in every game their team had played. This was high for the loop while Pittsburgh Hornets were low with only two.</p><h2><b>Rapid Turnover</b></h2><p>The AHL had seen 146 different players used to February 1st. Buffalo led by having used 24 different players while St. Louis with 18 was the lowest.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3><b>STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M. FEB. 17</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01112/949397-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="612" height="229"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11 Syracuse 2. at Pittsburgh 6</b></h3><p><b>Syracuse</b>: Goal, Bell; defence, Allen, Casanato, Milligan, Tottle; forwards, Curik, Pogue, Ashbe, Gooden, Burnett, Pidoirny, Lemieux, Horvath, Guidolin, Ford.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Bolton, Mathers, Lumsden, Juzda, Backor; forwards, Lewicki, Barbe, Solinger, Marshall, Sabourin, Balfour, McLellan, Shorley, Timgren.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey. Linesmen&mdash;Clyde Adams and Regis Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0279/949390-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="618" height="771"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Buffalo 1 at St. Louis 2</b></h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The St. Louis Flyers scored twice in the third period to dump the Buffalo Bisons 2-1.</p><p>Guyle Fielder and Buddy Boone were the Flyer marksmen while Hartley McLeod connected for the Bisons.</p><p><b>Buffalo</b>: Goal, Plante; defence, MacBeil, Lavitt, Pilote; forwards, Pennell, Davis, Mackay, Conacher, Fryday, Dayies, Achtymichuk, McLeod, Kaiser.</p><p><b>St. Louis</b>: Goal: Almas: defence, Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, Macnab; forwards, Fielder, Jankowski, Boone, Podolaky, Conacher, Hayden, Hirschfeld, Mclean, Ehman, Stankiewicz.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0360/949383-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="608" height="478"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 12 Syracuse 5 at Hershey 3</b></h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Though dropped back from his usual wing position to the defense San Casanta proved a great rusher here last night as lie scored three goals for Warriors of Syracuse as they defeated Hershey 5-3.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Alien, Casanato, Milligan, Tottle; forwards, Curik, Pogue, Ashbe, Gooden, Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Horvath, Guidolin, Ford.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Gariepey, Henderson, Schertzl, Branigan; forwards, Kullman, O&rsquo;Brien, MacDonald, Brown, Fisher, Corcoran, Ferguson, Bettio, Caron Poland.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> George Hayes; linesmen, Art Fausnacht and Bill Stover.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0439/949376-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="590" height="663"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 St. Louis 1 at Cleveland 6</b></h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Steve Wochy scored two goals to lead the Barons to a 6-1 win over the Flyers before 8,177 fans in an American Hockey League game played here.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defense: Williams, Reigue, Shero, Karrys; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Stearns, Rose, Olson, Sonmor, Ceresino, Wochy, Hildebrand, Glover.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defense Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, MacNab; forwards: Fielder, Jankowski, Boone, Podolsky, Conacher, Hayden, Hirschfeld, McLean, Ehman, Stankiewicz.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari linesmen: Patsy Gallighen and Bobby Carse.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0719/949369-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="604" height="629"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Buffalo 2 at Pittsburgh 3</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;The Hornets edged out the Bisons, 3-2 in a bruising American Hockey League game to remain in a tie with Cleveland for the league leadership.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plants; defense: MacNeil, Lavitt, Pilote, forwards: Pennell, Davie, Mackay, Conacher, Fryday, Davies, Achtymichuk, McLeod, Kaiser.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense: Bolton, Mathers, Lumsden, Juzda, Backor; forwards: Lewicki, Barbe, Solinger, Marshall, Sabourin, Balfour, McLellan, Ghorley, Timgren.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey: linesmen: Clyde Adams and Regie Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01125/949362-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="600" height="685"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Hershey 2 at Syracuse 5</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;The Warriors vaulted into a third-place tie with the Hershey Bears by thumping them 5-2 in an American League Hockey game. The game was highlighted by a fist fight between Syracuse&rsquo;s Leo Curick and Lome Ferguson and a match misconduct penalty levied against Hershey&rsquo;s Norm Corcoran.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defense: Gariepy, Brannigan, Henderson, Car&oacute;n; forwards: Kullman, Bettio, O&rsquo;Brien, Poland, Brown, LaBine, Fisher, Corcoran, Feguson, McDonald.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defense: Allen, Milligan, Tottle, Casanato; forwards: Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Horvath, Gooden, Pogue, Curick, Guidolin, Ashbee, Ford,</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Olinski. Linesmen: Earl McDonald, Mike McMahon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0282/949355-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="602" height="800"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15</b> Cleveland 7 at Buffalo 4</h3><p>BUFFALO&mdash;Bobby Chrystal scored a 60-foot goal to pace the Barons to a one-sided, 7-4 victory over the hapless Buffalo Bisons in an American Hockey League game.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defense: Williams, Karrys, Chrystal, Shero; forwards: Gordon, Wochy, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Sonmor, Stearns, Ceresino, Glover, Ross.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defense: MacNeil, Lavitt, Pilote, Eddolls; forwards: Pennell, Davis, MacKay, Achtymlchuk, McLeod, Kaiser, Conacher, Fryday, Davies.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Morrison; linesmen: Bernie Lemaitre and Mike McMahon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0365/949348-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="599" height="811"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Providence 5, at Syracuse 3</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE&mdash;The Providence Reds turned on the Warriors for three goals in the first period and went on to win an American Hockey League game, 5-3.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defense: Allen, Tottle, Milligan, Casanato; forwards: Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Horvath, Gooden, Curick, Guidolln&ccedil; Ford.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defense: Egan. Morris, Bourassa, Bloomer, Kryzanowski: forwards: Sullivan, Laplante, Gladu, Echerza, Denis, Baccari, Toppaz zini, Powell, Kapusta.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Olinski; linesmen: Ted Dooley. George Deslauniers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0448/949341-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="598" height="707"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Pittsburgh 4, at St. Louis 2</b></h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The Pittsburgh Hornets kept abreast of the flying Cleveland Barons by pounding oiut a 4-2 decision over the St. Louis Flyers in an American Hockey League game.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer: Defense; Juzda, Lumsden, Bolton, Mathers, Backor; forwards: Lewicki, Barba, Solinger, McLellan, Balfour, Sabourin, Timgren, Chorley, Marshall.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Almas; defense: Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, McNab; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Conacher, Hirschfeld, Ehman, Hayden, Boone, Stankiewicz, Podolsky, Jankowski.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari; linesmen: Ernie Trigg, Cliff Barton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0725/949334-1-eng-US/f0012-072.jpg" title="f0012-07" width="600" height="595"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun. Feb. 15)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0627/949327-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="597" height="477"></div><p><b>Most Goals</b>: Ike Hildebrand, Clev, (30)</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>: Guyle Fielder, St. Louis (41).</p><p><b>Most Penalties</b>: Bob Bailey, Clev. 105</p><p><b>Best Goaler</b>: Gil Mayer, Pitts. (49 games, 114 GA., 5 SO., 2.33 AVG.)</p><p><b>Shutouts</b>: J. Bowers, Clev., Gord Bell, Syr., Gil Mayer, Pitts. (5).</p><p><b>Team Penalties</b>: Pittsburgh Hornets, (685 minutes)</p><h2>The Back O&rsquo; The Net To Ya!</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0529/949320-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="1806" height="1542"></div><p><b>GAGED.&mdash;</b>Motto McLean, rookie winger with the St. Louis Flyers, is shoved so violently into the back of the Hershey cage by Joe Schertzl, that the black ribbing at the top of the net bends out of shape. Interested onlookers are Referee Bill Morrison, Hershey&rsquo;s Frank Martin, Goaler Gordie Henry and the Flyers&rsquo; Brent MacNab and Fred Glover (18) The Flyers won the game 4-3.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Chances are that Duncan Robert Fisher won&rsquo;t equal or surpass his all-time record total of 59 points, set in 1947-48, but he has already set a new personal mark for goals scored in one season&mdash;26 to date&mdash;for Murray Henderson&rsquo;s Hershey Bears.</p><p>The five foot, eight inch Fisher previously fired 25 goals into opposition nets for New Haven in 1947-48, when Nate Podoloff operated a club in the American Hockey League. He also collected 34 assists that season.</p><p>The Hershey winger has set his sights on a 30-goal high and, with 19 games remaining on the Bear schedule, he seems virtually assured of achieving that mark. In fact, if he hadn&rsquo;t missed nine games with the Bears while he was spelling injured Bruins in Boston, he might well be on his way toward a 35, or possibly a 40-goal campaign.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0623/949535-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="301" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murray Henderson</b></figcaption></div><p>Veteran of five National League campaigns, Fisher came to the Bruins during the 1950-51 season in a deal which sent Zellio Toppazzini and Ed Harrison, then members of the Bears, to the New York Rangers.</p><p>Coach Lynn Patrick, of Boston, had long been a booster for Fisher. He first saw Dune in the Rangers&rsquo; try out camp and later coached him at New Haven and in New York. Along about the middle of the 1950-51 season, when the Rangers elected to send Fisher to St. Paul in the now defunct U.S. League, Patrick engineered the transaction which brought him to Boston.</p><p>He finished out the season with Boston in 1950-51 and last year appeared in 65 games, collecting 15 goals and 12 assists. This past Fall, with Patrick putting greater emphasis on youth, he decided to leave the 26-year-old Fisher with Hershey when the Bruins broke camp and headed for the National Hockey League wars.</p><p>Placed at right wing alongside George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, top AHL play-maker, Dune blossomed forth into a sharp-shooting forward. A stocky little fellow with the physique of a weight lifter, he is hard to knock down and, as many NHL and AHL players alike have discovered, he is a tough man to outwit in the corners. He usually comes away with at least a draw.</p><p>In spite of his aggressiveness, Fisher is rarely banished to the penalty box. Last season, in 65 games with the Bruins, he spent but two minutes in the cooler. So far this season, in 36 Amerrican loop tilts, he has received but one two-minute penalty.</p><p>Although he comes from Regina, Saskatchewan, an inland city, Fisher is an enthusiastic swimmer. A former instructor at a Regina pool, he credits swimming with developing his muscular physique.</p><p>Dune spends his off-season swimming to keep in condition for the next hockey campaign. And. in between dips, he indulges in another hobby&mdash;playing bagpipes in the home-town band.</p><p>Lorne Ferguson, left wing on the Fisher-Sullivan line, continues to set the individual scoring pace for both the Bears and his rival AHL forwards though closely pressed by Sul1ivan. Fergie has picked up 18 goals and 34 assists for a total of 52 points in 45 games, compared with Sullivan&rsquo;s 10 goals and 40 assists.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0919/949528-1-eng-US/f0012-092.jpg" title="f0012-09" width="302" height="461"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lorne Ferguson</b></figcaption></div><p>Sam Bettio, another Bruin farmhand currently wearing Hershey livery, is in third place for individual honors, having poked home 19 goals and assisted in the scoring of 28 others for a grand total of 47 counters.</p><h2>Aiming High</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0822/949521-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg" title="f0012-08" width="554" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DUNC FISHER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Fisher Gunning For Thirty Goals, Already Past Own Previous High

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Celebrate with ’58 RYE WHISKY

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WHITE OWL

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Whatever the Weather

<h2><b>Record Tied</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>V</span>ancouver Canucks were shutoni recently for the sixth time this sea son. This ties the record for being shutout, set by the Seattle team in the 1950-51 season</p><h2><b>Streak Stopped</b></h2><p>When the Edmonton Flyers downed the Seattle Bombers on Sunday February 8, it put an end to an eight gaine winning streak at home for Lloyd Ailsby&rsquo;s team.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>STANDING ON TUES. A.M. FEB. 10</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01132/949743-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="596" height="236"></div><h3><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Feb 3rd</b></p><p>Edmonton 11 at Victoria 2</p><p>Saskatoon 3 at Calgary 3</p><p><b>Wed., Feb. 4th</b></p><p>Edmonton 1 at New&ecirc; West. 3</p><p><b>Thurs., Feb. 5th</b></p><p>Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 6</p><p><b>Fri., Feb. 6th</b></p><p>New West. 2 at Victoria 6</p><p>Edmonton 3 at Vancouver 0</p><p><b>Sat. Feb 7th</b></p><p>Edmonton 5 at Tacoma 2</p><p>Victoria 4 at New West. 6</p><p>Calgarfy 1 at Saskatoon 3</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 8th</b></p><p>Edmonton 9 at Seattle 1</p><p>* * *</p><h3><b>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 3 Edmonton 11 at Victoria 2</b></h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;The Edmonton Flyers opened their tour of the Coast by thumping the tail end Victoria Cougars 11-2.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence. Folk, Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forward, Johnson, Uniac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards, Goegan, Hebenton, Abbot, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Andrson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0299/949736-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="615" height="764"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Saskatoon 3 at Calgary 3</b></h3><p>CALGARY&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers climbed back into a first place tie with the Vancouver Canucks by tying the Calgary Stampeders 3-3.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, R. Bentley; defence, Ross, Milford, Heindl, Evans; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Rouse, Me Cullough, McLeod, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards, Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Wittiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Barry, Scott, Finney.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0378/949729-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="610" height="470"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4 Edmonton 1 at New Westminster 3</b></h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Max McNab&rsquo;s debut as coach of the New Westminster Royals was a good one as his team beat Edmonton Flyers 3-1.</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><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/f0013-0462/949722-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="594" height="366"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>TURSDAY FEBRUARY 5 Calgary 3 at Saskatoon 6</b></h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers took over sole possesion of first place in the tight WHL race by downing Calgary Stampeders 6-3.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Quackenbush, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards, Shvetz, Kelly, Lundy, Black, Wittiuk, Agar, Ashworth, Barry, Scott, Finney.</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/f0013-0638/949715-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="606" height="604"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>FRIDAY&rsquo; FEBRUARY 6 New Westminster 2 at Victoria 6</b></h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;The Victoria Cougars kept their fading play-off hopes alive as they dumped the New Westminster Royals 6-2.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Irwin, Roche, Goegan, Webster; forwards, Auderson, Killburn, Dorohoy, Hebenton, Abbot, Maxwell, Evans, Strongman.</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/f0013-0732/949708-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="596" height="706"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Edmonton 3 at Vancouver 0</b></h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;The Vancouver Canucks blew a chance to regain a tie for first place when the dropped a 8-0 decision to the Edmonton Flyers.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Folk, Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forwards, Johnson, Unlac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><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>Referee:</b> Bill Knott; linesmen, Morrick Cranstoun.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0828/949701-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="596" height="354"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7 Edmonton 5 at Tacoma 2</b></h3><p>TACOMA&mdash;Continuing their tour of the Coast cities, the Edmonton Flyers downed the Tacoma Rockets 5-2.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defense, Zeldel, Coburn, Coflin, Hay; forwards, Johnson, Poile, Uniac, J. Anderson, MacDonald, Edman, Haley, Stasiuk, Reibel, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Jones, Davidson, Caren, 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/f0013-0928/949694-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="592" height="426"></div><p>* * *</p><h3><b>Victoria 4 at New Westminster 6</b></h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Gordie Fashoway scored two goals to lead the New Westminster Royals to a 6-4 win over Victoria Cougars.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Gotnoir; defense: Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards, Goegan, Hebenton, Abbot, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, defence; defence, Bergeron, Bedard, Durham, Coburn; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy, Boyce, Slater, Ullyot, Love Hamilton, Fashoway, Bailey, Cabana.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1027/949687-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="604" height="662"></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/f0013-1125/949680-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="588" height="1004"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1224/949673-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="600" height="316"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Vie Stasiuk, Edm. 33; Gordon Fashoway, N.W. 29; Roy Kelly, Cal., 28; Earl Reibel. Edm., 27; Colin Kilburn, Vic., 25; Doug Adam, Tac. 25; Sid Finney, Cal, 25.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Alex Kaleta, Sask, 45.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> 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. 2.</p><p><b>Most Winning Goals:</b> Doug Macaully, Sea. 9.</p><h3><b>MOST PENALTIES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1317/949666-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="578" height="346"></div><h2>Cat Beaten By A Whisker</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0547/949659-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="1792" height="1076"></div><p><b>FLYING GOAL.</b>&mdash;Jackie Hamilton of the New Westminster Royals is seen sprawling to the ice after having scored on Emile (The Cat) Francis of the Vancouver Canucks. Canuck defenseman Harry Dick, left, hit Hamilton a body check on the way in, and although off balance, he still managed to control the puck and put it past the Cat.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1419/949774-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="492" height="816"></div><p><b>WHEN WINDOW SHOPPING FOR INSURANCE. SEE US.</b></p><p><b>INSURANCE BROKERS</b></p><p><b>215 St. James St. W.</b></p><p><b>PL. 5258 MONTREAL</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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McRAE & COMPANY

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>There was only one thing wrong with &ldquo;Kenny MacKenzie Night&rdquo; at New Westminster&rsquo;s Queens Park Arena, Saturday, January 31. People from all walks of life came from near and far to pay homage to this great hockey personality, wonderful sportsman and gentleman, and a man loved and respected by everybody who knows him. However, the visiting Vancouver Canucks wouldn&rsquo;t cooperate, defeating Kenny&rsquo;s Royals, 10-2.</p><p>A capacity standing room only crowd of over 5,200 jam-packed Queens Park Arena to see New Westminster&rsquo;s Kenny MacKenzie honored by THE HOCKEY NEWS. &ldquo;The Squire of Columbia Street&rdquo; was named by this publication as the OUTSTAN-DING EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR in all hockey for the 1951-52 season. Elmer Lach of the Montreal Canadiens was named player of the year, &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach of the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Senior League as coach of the year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01138/949850-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="303" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken MacKenzie</b></figcaption></div><p>MacKenzie received his award&mdash;a beautiful scroll&mdash;prior to the start of the third period with Mayor F. H. (Toby) Jackson of New Westminster making the presentation for <b>THE HOCKEY NEWS</b>. His Worship deemed it a privilege and an honor that the Royal City of New Westminster was the first city in all of Western Canada to have one of its most cherished citizens&mdash;Kenneth Colin MacKenzie&mdash;receive this award and to be chosen as the man who accomplished so much in the hockey world in the 1951-52 campaign. Kenny is the only member of the Western Hockey League to be so honored.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Wire From Lester</b></h2><p>Mayor Jackson thanked Kenny MacKenzie for the honor he had brought to New Westminster and His Worship told the crowd and the radio listening audience. &ldquo;We can be proud of what this means to all of us and to New Westminster.&rdquo; The Mayor concluded his presentation speech by reading a congratulatory telegram received by him from Lester Patrick, owner of the Victoria Cougars, former coach and manager of the New York Rangers and truly one of hockey&rsquo;s all-time greats.</p><p>&ldquo;The Canny Scot&rdquo;, as we like to call Kenny out here, thanked <b>THE HOCKEY NEWS</b> for the honor it had given him and the genial, easy-going, likeable Scotsman added a little humor to the proceedings when he said, &ldquo;In this business you get lots of criticism, complaints and boos, but when I&rsquo;m an old, old man and I think back to my hockey career it will be good to know that one year <b>THE HOCKEY NEWS</b> honored me and gave me honorable mention.&rdquo;</p><p>Kenny handed the scroll to his charming wife, Mrs. E. K. MacKenzie, who was sitting in the first row box seats behind the Royals&rsquo; bench alongside Mayor Fred Hume of the City of Vancouver, Mrs. Hume and Mrs. Jackson, and Doug Grimston, Past President of the CAHA.</p><p>Bill Good of the C.B.C. interviewed MacKenzie, Mayor Jackson, Al Leader, President of the Western Hockey League and your reporter, who represented co-publisher Ken McKenzie and <b>THE HOCKEY NEWS</b>, for Dave Price&rsquo;s national network &ldquo;Canadian Sports Roundup&rdquo; show.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Why He Won It</b></h2><p>Why did MacKenzie get the award? His Royals finished in first place in the WHL last season by seven points. An independent operator with no NHL or AHL affiliations. &ldquo;The Canny Scot&rdquo;, who is co-owner, general manager and now coach of the Royals since &ldquo;Babe&rdquo; Pratt, who was a press box onlooker, resigned, came up with a winner against terrific odds.</p><p>He made several very outstanding deals, purchasing Gordon Fashoway and Guyle Fielder from Chicago, Jerry Cabana from the Quebec League and &ldquo;Blinky&rdquo; Boyce from the disbanded Portland team. Fashoway led the league and all pro hockey in goals scored with 51 last season. Fielder, bought by Detroit at the end of the season and now playing for St. Louis of the American Loop, was the WHL&rsquo;s outstanding rookie. Cabana, still with Kenny, is among the circuit&rsquo;s leading point collectors and Boyce has been a good workman.</p><p>Another MacKenzie prize, goalie Lucien Dechene, was the WHL&rsquo;s leading netminder last season for the second consecutive season and third time in four seasons and &ldquo;Big Luke&rdquo; was also named the league&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player for the 1951-52 season.</p><p>In our talks with coaches and managers in the WHL all agreed MacKenzie deserved the accolade, and as &ldquo;Hank&rdquo; Blade, coach of the Calgary Stampeders and Eddie Dorohoy, playing coach of the Victoria Cougars, told us, &ldquo;MacKenzie has done a wonderful job as an independent operator. He is not afraid to make deals, to spend money and to do everything he can to give New Westminster the best team possible. That he has been able to do what he did against the toughest odds only reflects his amazing ability to produce winners and good hockey clubs. He deserves the award.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0543/949843-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="588" height="754"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0633/949836-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="1194" height="1072"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Fans Jam Arena Paying Honour To Royals’ GM

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0288/949895-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg"></div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.</p><p>A players&rsquo; pool of $35,000 has been established to be divided among the players of the competing clubs in the WHL as outlined below. The top six teams will compete in the playoffs. Team finishing first will meet sixth place club in Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; in a four-out-of-seven series. Team finishing second will meet the fifth place club in Series &ldquo;B&rdquo;, the third and fourth spot teams will meet in Series &ldquo;C&rdquo;, and winner of Series &ldquo;B&rdquo; will meet winner of Series &ldquo;C&rdquo;, all three-out-of-five series. Winner of Series &ldquo;A&rdquo; will meet winner of Series &ldquo;D&rdquo; in a four-our-of-seven Series for the playoff championship.</p><p>The above amount equals 60% of the total play-off pool</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0362/949888-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="1125" height="133"></div><p>Here&rsquo;s an example of what each team could earn by winning the playoffs:</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0449/949881-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="1118" height="232"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Western Hockey Loop Sets Up $35,000 Pool

<p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON, Mass&mdash;The Boston Bruins call Warren Godfrey &ldquo;Rocky&rdquo; not because of any resemblance to Rocky Marciano, the heavyweight boxing champion, but because of his reluctance to remove his gloves while fighting.</p><p>They tagged him with the nickname in training camp last tall, when he remained fully equipped during a fight with Hershey&rsquo;s Ellard O&rsquo;Brien.</p><p>Godfrey affected a compromise during the New Year&rsquo;s Eve free-for-all with the Toronto Maple Leafs, which he featured with the outstanding punch, on the chin of Toronto&rsquo;s Ronald Stewart. He removed one of his gloves.</p><p>The nickname, however, is one which he seems to have acquired on a permanent basis.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

‘Rocky’ Doesn’t Shed Gloves

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Canada’s fastest growing beer!

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Coach Bill Kyle&rsquo;s Regina Caps last week repelled a strong threat to their lead from the Moose Jaw Millers and now seem destined to wind up in first place in the final Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League standings.</p><p>The onrushing Millers pulled to within one point of the leading Reginans, but then dropped a crucial 4-3 decision on their home ice to the Caps which gave the Regina club a commanding three-point margin on the top rung. With each club having only four games left to play in the regular schedule, Regina seems to hold their lead to the finish. Three of the Caps&rsquo; four ganes are with the lowly York on Legionnaires and the other with the third-place Melville Millionaires.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0447/950019-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="294" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ab McDougall</b></figcaption></div><p>Coach Kyle&rsquo;s decision to move versatile Norm Blackett up to the forward line from his regular defence spot played a big part in the Caps&rsquo; success last week. Blackie, the former Spokane Flyer puckchaser who is equally at home on the soccer field, took over for the injured Ab McDoug all on a line with coach Kyle and Ted Yarnton. He whipped in two goals as Regina blanked Melville 5-0 and turned in another out-standing game in their crucial win over Moose Jaw.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Three Defensemen</b></h2><p>With Blackett up on the forward line, it left only three men&mdash;Huddy Bell, Bill Giokas and Jack Wilkie&mdash;to share the Regina defence duties. During the summer months Blackett is captain and centre-half for the Regina Nationals, the perennial Saskatchewan soccer champions.</p><p>Meanwhile, Melville clinched third place and the last playoff berth by snapping out of their scoring slump with a thumping 11-3 victory over the Yorkton Legionaires. Prior to this scoring outburst, the Millionaires had registered only one goal in three games. Included in that interval was a string of 130 scoreless minutes.</p><p>During their scoreless famine, their coach&mdash;Dick Milford&mdash;was so hard up for goals that he yanked his goalie Mouse Bowler in the last minute of play when his club was trailing 4-0. The strategy failed to click, however, and resulted in another goal for the Regina Caps to make the final count 5-0.</p><p>Yorkton&rsquo;s fate was doomed almost from the start of the season. They dropped their opening game by a score of 13-0 to the Regina Caps and never improved enough to become a contender. They won only four games all season.</p><p>They were league champions two years ago and first-place finishers last season. It&rsquo;s hardly likely that they will be found in the league basement next winter as their executives plan to go all-out to gather players for a strong club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Regina Caps Set For SHL Senior Crown

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>There&rsquo;s nothing like a good protest to keep the hockey pot boiling, and that&rsquo;s exactly what the Eastern Canada Senior League has on its hands now.</p><p>The crux of the matter lies in the signing by Smiths Falls of Johnny (Moose) Sheddon as a replacement for either Bobby Copp or Kenny Watson (nobody knows which) after the deadline of December 15.</p><p>Briefly, the Rideaus lost Copp to Ottawa Senators and Watson to Glace Bay, leaving them short of the full complement of players. When they suddenly came lp with Sheddon, a pretty fair defence man from Owen Sound, all hades broke loose.</p><p>To give them credit, though, Smiths Falls played it in pretty cagey fashion. They put forward their request at the last ECHL meeting and had it turned down cold by the other three clubs. All the time, however, they never mentioned that they had ALREADY received permission for a replacement from the CAHA, through the ODHA&rsquo;s Cecil Duncan.</p><p>Cornwall protested the two games which they lost to the Rideaus while Sheddon was in the line-up, and Pembroke, who are running neck-and-neck with Smiths Falls, also said they would protest their next game with them.</p><p>As it turned out, they didn&rsquo;t need it, because they handed the Hal Dewey gang an 8-1 lacing right in their own back yard. But Pembroke&rsquo;s Art Bogart is still yelling for justice and refuses to go along with the CAHA ruling which over-ruled President Scott MacPherson.</p><p>McPherson, upon receipt of a formal protest from Cornwall, said he would have to act in accordance with the league constitution, which did not have any loop hole for a replacement after Dec. 15, and hand the two games to the Colts.</p><h2><b>It&rsquo;s The McCoy</b></h2><p>Before he could do that, however, Cecil Duncan issued a statement that the replacement was the McCoy and if Pembroke and the others didn&rsquo;t like if they could play their hockey somewhere else.</p><p>The big rumpus started because Pembroke thought Sheddon was a replacement for Copp, when actually he was a fill-in for Watson whom the CAHA gave back to Glace Bay.</p><p>Smiths Falls signed Watson in good faith, not knowing he had already committed himself to Glace Bay via a wire, causing no end of confusion and embarrassment.</p><p>Macpherson insisted all along that the matter was out of his hands now that the CAHA had over-ruled him, but Pembroke and Cornwall insisted it was strictly an intra-league matter and the ODHA had no jurisdiction until after their playoffs.</p><p>As it turned out, they were wrong. Whether they will contest Duncan&rsquo;s ruling is another matter, but inside sources say if they do, Smiths Falls could be ruled the winner of the league and that will be that.</p><h2>Departed</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0536/950050-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="540" height="784"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY COPP</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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CAHA Reverses Verdict Of Loop Prexy; Player Remains With Rideaus

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0365/950081-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><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.</b></p><p><b>Put me down right now for a year&rsquo;s subscription.</b></p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues. Canadian Remittance $3.00 Fayable 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!

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“Captain /Horgan’sin town!”

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jean Beliveau still reigns supreme as the seize-gun of the Quebec Senior Hockey League. In the last official audit by Doug Harney, league statistician, Beliveau was credited with 37 pucks fired into opponents&rsquo; nets. More than likely he will have added one or two more by the time this screed meets the eyes of HOCKEY NEWS readers.</p><p>But for combined effort, for piling up the goals and assists at a rapid rate that has been uninterrupted all the way through the campaign, you have to hand the kudos to that veteran threesome Rollie Hebert has had carrying the mail down in the northeastern corner of the loop, Stan Smrke, Sherman White and Bucky Buchanan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01106/949988-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="321" height="465"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stan Smrke</b></figcaption></div><p>When at the start of the season Hebert, the smiling; effervescent coach of the Sagueneens, man-of-all-work, too, as manager of the Chicoutimi Coliseum and director of external affairs concerning hockey and other attractions, got Buchanan from Shawinigan Falls there was hardly an uplifted eyebrow anywhere around the circuit.</p><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;So what?&rdquo; appeared to be the general attitude. &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t Bucky an old warhorse, maybe a bit frayed by this time? If they are dealing him off up at Shawinigan Falls, maybe they must know something? The guy has been around too long. Guess they are ready to post his name in that book&mdash;&lsquo;&lsquo;Who&rsquo;s Through.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Sure! Hebert Knew</b></h2><p>The events of the season which is now running out its string, clearing the way for the playoffs, have shown that the guy who really knew something, was Rollie Hebert.</p><p>By acquiring Buchanan, an old smoothie of the right alleys he made a line and really &ldquo;made&rdquo; his team as Buchanan, drew upon that extensive know-how which had been stored up by this expert craftsman over many campaigns, and at the same time seemed to find new spring and drive in his graceful limbs.</p><p>The season hadn&rsquo;t heated up very much when it became apparent that this SWB line&mdash;Smrke-White-Buchanan&mdash;was ready to deliver the merchandise.</p><p>Beliveau, of course, was a great power with the Quebec Aces, and Andre Corriveau was still a star marksman still with Valleyfield Braves. These two had to be reckoned upon, their names were up in the top-brackets in every scoring release, but for concentrated effort as a unit the Chicoutimi Trio is a mighty force.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Beautiful Patterns</b></h2><p>Game after game, win or lose&mdash;and the Chicks soon began to win with a regularity encouraging to their supporters&mdash;you would see the names in the summaries. Usually it was all three working their brilliant pattern plays, for they began to be recognized as a smoothly working combine. A few hockey fans of longer memory spoke of the days of the Bill and Bun Cook brother-act of the old New York Rangers, with Frank Boucher in between, and this was no extravagant comparison.</p><p>More modern observers spoke of the intricate pattern plays which were the forte of Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay when they had Sid Abel as their pivot man making the plays, or of the Canadiens&rsquo; old Punch Line when Toe Blake roared along left wing with Elmer Lach in centre and Rocket Richard compiling his great achievements as the right-railer.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0279/949981-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="324" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bucky Buchanan</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Showed Real Artistry</b></h2><p>In any case this was a forward-line partnership that was reaching high flights of scoring perfection in major senior hockey, and it would do for just now. Certainly it was doing a great job for Rollie Hebert and the Chicoutimi Sagueneens.</p><p>When the Sags had 54 games played they had scored 190 goals and the SWB boys had collected 81 of these. Sherman Beverly White, of the Cape Tormentine, N.B. Whites, was the big playmaker. He had fashioned assists on 48 of these tallies, or at least helped out an occasional sniper of another line when the shifts were being made.</p><p>Though White showed the highly respectable total of the 24 goals it was as the set-up man that he glittered. The high producer in actual hitting targets was Stan Smrke who was credited with 30 tallies, though he just shaded Ralph &ldquo;Bucky&rdquo; Buchanan, who was supposedly the creaking veteran from Shawinigan Falls, who had been still so gifted that he had produced 27 goals in helping to maintain the supremacy of the boys from the Saguenay at the pinacle of the standing of clubs. And the points aggregate for the high pressure threesome was 206.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Hebert&rsquo;s Wisdom</b></h2><p>It will be readily recognized without embarrassing these blokes by digging up their ages, that none are blushing graduates of the junior hockey leagues, yet their genuine performance both individually and as a unit this banner season in Chicoutimi only goes to point up the wisdom of Rollie Hebert, and his sagacity in obtaining Buchanan to complete the veteran trio, for he already had Sherm White and Stan Smrke as holdovers from the 1951-52 campaign.</p><p>The deal with the Cataracts was shrewdly softened by a sort of delayed action. The Chicks handed the Cataracts a bundle of booty and promised a good forward after the season was a month underway. This player transpired to be Dick Wray, who had been a fairly able producer the season before with 26 goals, but by this time the new deal and the newly formulated patrol had really began to function.</p><p>At the same time the rumble of discontent over the return of popular Jimmy Moore to Montreal Royals was also quietening.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>More Good Scorers</b></h2><p>Of course it would be hardly fair, while pointing up the great production of the Smrke-White-Buchanan partnership, to infer that these three players had done it all on their own. For the Chicks have a few other good scorers in their party.</p><p>For Pete Tkachuck, at the time of the audit, upon which this screed is based, had scored 23 goals and Norm Dussault had hit the target 20 times, and Marius Groleau has scored 17.</p><p>It must be mentioned, too, that the Chicoutimi forces have presented a fairly sound defence with such artisans as Jean Paul Lamirande, Georges Roy. Gerry Claude, Pete Taillefer and Jack Bownass putting up a stout barricale in front of goaler Marcel Pelletier.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Due For Vezina</b></h2><p>The latter seems destined to win the Vezina Trophy. In fact barring a total collapse or an eclipse the rest of the run for the roses he&rsquo;ll be the first Chicoutimi net-keeper to annex this fine prize which was first put up three years ago by Dr. Gustave Gautheir, of Chicoutimi to commemorate the exploits of its most famous native son in hockey&mdash;the late Georges Vezina, Hall of Fame, whose name is always spoken reverently when the triumphs of the old time NHL Canadiens are discussed.</p><p>The QSHL Vezina Trophy was won in 1950-51 by Paul Leclerc of Valleyfield Braves and last season by Jean Marois of Quebec Aces.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Buchanan – Smrke – White Top Q.S.H.L. Triumvirate, Producing For Sagueneens

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Biggest surprise of the Ontario Hockey Association&rsquo;s Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League as the teams settled down for the final lap was the sudden deterioration of Toronto Marlboros, a team that was almost invincible for the first two-thirds of the schedule.</p><p>Marlboros&rsquo; seemingly-safe lead of a few weeks back was chopped to bits by losses to Galt, St. Mike&rsquo;s, St. Catharines and Windsor. As a result they were leading Barrie Flyers by one point with seven games left to play. With eight games left on their slate the Flyers were considered an even bet to finish on top whereas a few weeks back even Hap Emms didn&rsquo;t think they had a chance.</p><p>Marlboros&rsquo; tailspin started a few tongues wagging around the circuit. It was whispered that the Dukes were jockeying for position, that they hoped to drop to third in order to avoid meeting Barrie in the first round of the playoffs.</p><p>There was a chorus of &ldquo;I told you sos&rdquo; after Marlboros met Windsor in a recent home-and-home series and emerged from it with one point out of a possible four, a 2-2 tie at home in Toronto. One of the Windsor goals was a shot from centre ice which eluded goalie Johnny Henderson. A great many fans jeered that this was outright charity and ignored the fact that Henderson made many other fine saves.</p><p>Manager Stafford Smythe and coach Reg Hamilton scoff at the rumors that Marlboros are jockeying for position and attribute it to a natural slump. Also they point out that the Dukes are starting to miss Eric Nesterenko. He used to break up a great many games for them and he was one of those players who seldom had an off game.</p><p>Bill McCreary, the replacement Marlboros procured from Guelph Biltmores for Nesterenko, had difficulty adjusting himself to Toronto&rsquo;s style in the first few games although his defensive game was still tops. Meanwhile close observers cautioned the crepehangers not to feel too sorry for Mariooros. They&rsquo;ll do all right in the playoffs, they promised.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Habs Stop St. Mike&rsquo;s</b></h2><p>St. Mike&rsquo;s launched a determined bid to close in on the leaders but Montreal Canadiens temporarily stalled them with a 5-4 win in Maple Leaf Gardens. That was the first game of Canadiens&rsquo; second Ontario tour. It was also their fifth straight win in Ontario.</p><p>St. Mikes have a reasonably solid hold on third place with the schedule drawing short, six points ahead of the fourth-place St. Catharines Teepees but the latter team is still determined to finish third. With a couple of games in hand over the Irish and most of the other teams they could do just that.</p><p>Rudy Pilous, Teepees&rsquo; wisecracking coach, said recently that third place was his objective. &lsquo;&lsquo;I think we&rsquo;ll make it too with a few breaks,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But how about that Marlboro team? Are they wanting it too?&rdquo;</p><p>Regardless of where they finish Teepees are going to be tough opposition in the playoffs. They&rsquo;re big and rough and there isn&rsquo;t a harder working team in the league. Give them a one goal lead and they run the opposition ragged to make it stand up.</p><p>Teepees indicated that they would be rough with a recent three-game winning streak in which they knocked off Marlboros, Guelph and Barrie. Their win over Barrie was a 3-0 shutout, the first time Flyers have been blanked this season.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Writes It Off</b></h2><p>At least one team in the Quebec League would probably be happy to see St. Catharines win the OHA title. That would be Quebec Citadelles, a team which treated the TP&rsquo;s like refugees from some rural loop. In two meetings the Cits downed St. Catharines 8-2 and 14-2. Pilous still has nightmares about that latter game although he has written it off as one of the paradoxical qualities of junior hockey.</p><h2>He Says &hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01116/950150-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="516" height="778"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>REG HAMILTON</b></figcaption></div><h2>He&rsquo;s Missed&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0271/950143-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="558" height="744"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ERIC NESTERENKO</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Coach Scoffs At Idea Dukes Are Jockeying; They Miss Nesterenko

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>EGINA, Sask.&mdash;After the recent triumphant invasion of the Edmonton Oil Kings, the folks of Regina are pretty well resigned to seeing the powerful Albertans knock off their Regina Pats in the marathon best-of-nine semi-final playoff between the two clubs.</p><p>The classy Western Canada Junior league-leaders overpowered the defending western champions 7-0 right in their own den, to hand the Pats their worst licking on home ice in the four seasons Captain Gordie Cowan and goalie Bob Tyler have been members of the club.</p><p>The Oil Kings followed up this triumph with a 6-4 win the next night in Moose Jaw, for their third victory in four nights. The trio of successes clinched first place in the final standing for coach Ken McAuley&rsquo;s Edmonton club. They have dropped only six games all season, including only one loss in 16 starts on home ice.</p><p>Such praise as &ldquo;the west&rsquo;s best bet to win the Memorial Cup since the Port Arthur Bruins of 1948&rdquo; and &ldquo;western Canada&rsquo;s greatest junior hockey club in many a moon&rdquo; were sung in honor of the Oil Kings after their terrific showing in Regina. They skated hard both ways, passed smartly, their defence hit hard and in general outclassed the Reginans a s they gradually wore them down. In all they allowed only 13 shots to be fired at goalie Bob Sangster while they blasted 36 at Tyler at the opposite end.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0352/950181-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="291" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Pickard</b></figcaption></div><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Finals in West</b></h2><p>Many observers can&rsquo;t see anyone in western Canada stopping the Oil Kings. And with the Memorial Cup being played in the west this spring, they rate Edmonton an excellent chance of bringing the Canadian crown west for the first time since 1948. In the past three Memorial Cup finals (in two of which the Pats represented the west) the western contender has scored only one victory while losing 12 games. The east has now run their string to eight straight, with both the Barrie Flyers of &rsquo;51 and the Guelph Biltmores of 52 sweeping their finals in four straight.</p><p>In the Oil Kings, the west at long last has a club that can play the rugged, slam-bang style of the eastern juniors. After watching Edmonton drub the Pats, veteran hockey and football observer Al Ritchie said the Kings wouldn&rsquo;t take a back seat to any of the Ontario junior clubs.</p><p>&ldquo;I saw the Toronto Marlboros. St. Mike&rsquo;s, Barrie, Guelph and all the others in action when I was down east,&rdquo; said Ritchie. &ldquo;And those Oil Kings can play it just as rough as they do. They say the Marlboros will win it all down there. If they do, I think Edmonton stands a good chance of taking them. Especially since the Marlboros have lost Eric Nesterenko to the Toronto Maple Leafs.&rdquo;</p><p>Al Pickard, the CAHA official and governor of the Western Canada Junior League, points out that eastern junior players, copying the pros, use their bodies more effectively than the westerners. He thought this was one reason for their superiority in Memorial Cup play.</p><p>&ldquo;Eastern referees call high-sticking penalties Just as closely, if not more so, than we do out here,&rdquo; said Pickard. &ldquo;But they take a more lenient view of body checking in the corners and along the boards.&rdquo;</p><div class="sidebar"><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs use BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Observers Pick Edmonton Kings As West’s Best

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Just after the Toronto Marlboros had beaten the Montreal junior Canadiens in Montreal last December, Coach Sad Sam Pollock of the Habs stated that the next time the two teams met, his club would take the Marlies in stride.</p><p>Sam was right but what he didn&rsquo;t figure on was his Habs&rsquo; dropping decisions to two other OHA teams on their second tour of the Ontario circuit.</p><p>After beating both St. Mike&rsquo;s Majors and the St. Catherines Teepees, the junior Canucks were caught off stride by the lowly Oshawa Generals and suffered a 5-2 pasting at the hands of the Motormen. Then to add salt to their wounds the Barrie Flyers turned around two nights later and dumped the Habs 3-2.</p><p>The Montrealers had beaten both these teams previously, and looked impressive in both wins. Since their meeting with the Flyers, it is reported that the Barrie club has improved immensley and that could be the reason for the win over the Canucks.</p><p>But on Sunday afternoon in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Gardens, Sad Sam received some consolation when his team gained a well earned 4-2 win over the Toronto Marlboros, the only OHA team to beat the Habs before the recent tour.</p><p>The Quebec Citadels too, had a sad sortie into Ontario, they dropping their first three contests on the tour to Kitchener, Guelph and Windsor. As a result, the Cits found themselves eight points back of the Canucks in the QJA-HA race. The Habs also hold two games in hand over Phil Watson&rsquo;s charges.</p><p>No one can quite figure out the reason for the Citadels&rsquo; sudden slump, especially since the Quebecers were expected to &lsquo;come-on&rsquo; in the stretch drive and possibly overtake the Canadiens.</p><h2><b>Habs End First</b></h2><p>The way things stand now, it is certain that the loop will close out the schedule with the teams in the exact positions they are in now, that is, the Canadiens first, Quebec second, Three Rivers third and the Montreal Royals last.</p><p>Citadels hold a 29 point bulge over the Three Rivers Reds who in turn are 13 points ahead of the Royals, although the Regals hold three games in hand.</p><p>With the Canadiens ending up atop the heap, it is the third time they&rsquo;ve done so in Sam Pollock&rsquo;s six year tenure as their coach, during which time he led them to a Memorial Cup in 1950.</p><p>The play-offs get underway next week and the junior Habs are now favoured to take it all in the Quebec circuit, although they could have considerable trouble with Quebec if the Citadels manage to regain their winning form.</p><p>It has been three full seasons since the Memorial Cup graced the Montreal Forum lobby and. Pollock is full of optimism that this will be the year of its return. Last season the Habs bowed out in the Eastern Canada final against the Guelph Biltmores but this year it will be different, or at least Sad Sam figures so.</p><p>Blade Bits&mdash;Ed Swartzack Glace Bay&rsquo;s contribution to the Canadiens, is still out of the Hab line-up and no definite date has been set for his return&hellip; Coach. Phil Watson&rsquo;s three game suspension is up and he accompanied his team on the Ontario swing &hellip; Scotty Bowman of Royals turned coach this year and his Verdun Canadien juveniles took the championship in their district&hellip; Les Lilley, the big Kimberley, B.C. product, is starting to pot goals consistently for the Habs and could be a big factor in the play-offs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Junior Habs Drop Two But Sad Sam Is Happy Over Downing Marlies

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0191/950260-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL MILLAR&hellip; &hellip; Peck&rsquo;s Bed Boy</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Centre of Controversy

<p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;Halifax fans took up a collection for right winger Hugh Campbell to pay for a fine recently levied by the league. The purse amounted to $53 and Campbell made a big hit with the fans when he promptly turned it over to the March of Dimes.</p><p>After winning 11 straight games the Charlottetown Islanders were finally jolted by the Glace Bay Miners. The Miners, now running a strong third after spending four months in the cellar, outskated and outplayed Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s team, 6-2.</p><p>The following night the Islanders were stopped 5-4 in Halifax, the second straight loss. In the Glace Bay the Islanders were help up on the road overnight by the heaviest snowfall of the winter and the game was played the following night, normally an open date.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

March of Dimes Benefits

<p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Although he&rsquo;s no Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio, Al Millar, goaler for the Charlottetown Islanders of the Maritime Hockey League, certainly qualifies as one of the better &lsquo;switch hitters&rsquo; around today.</p><p>Millar was freed from an assault charge because testimony showed that he swung his stick from the right shoulder when striking a woman spectator during a recent game.</p><p>Magistrate R. E. Inglis, in reviewing the case, said prosecution witnesses testified that Millar swung his stick from the right shoulder and hit Mrs. Lola Hanna, sitting with her husband in a rink-side seat.</p><p>The judge stated that Millar&rsquo;s natural swing is from the left side, being left handed, and that the natural swing was what had to be considered.</p><p>Millar was under suspension by the MMHL, although he did play in a game while suspended. He pleaded innocent to the charges.</p><p>The plaintiff&rsquo;s husband stated that he had attempted to grab the goaltender&rsquo;s stick when it was swung. It had, be said, glanced off his arm, and struck his wife on the face.</p><p>The magistrate ruled that the stick would have passed over the heads of spectators, &ldquo;if another party had not interfered.&rdquo;</p><p>The 23-year-old goaltender said someone spit on him. &ldquo;I turned to the crowd and gestured with my stick in an upward motion &hellip; I just wanted to show the people it just wasn&rsquo;t right to spit like that.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Plaintiff Strikes Out As Judge Awards Lefty Goaler Right Decision

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0263/950339-1-eng-US/f0017-022.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. Remember this is the Hockey Fan&rsquo;s paper and we are determined to make it the best possible paper.</p><p>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.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WE’D LIKE TO KNOW YOU!!

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Jack Price, a 20-year-old rearguard with an unspectacular, but effective and work-manlike manner, may well have turned pro with the Chicago Black Hawks by the time this reaches print. He drew enthusiastic praise from Hawk officials following a two-game trial against Toronto February 7 and 8.</p><p>&ldquo;I like him &hellip; he played very well,&rdquo; Coach Sid Abel commented in appraisal after the second Leaf game. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not the sensational type; however, he is a good, steady performer and came to us highly recommended by Jack Stewart.&rdquo; Abel then indicated that Price would probably sign a professional contract within a couple of weeks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01101/950377-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="303" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fogolin</b></figcaption></div><p>Built along the lines of the Hawks&rsquo; rugged Lee Fogolin, Jack has been playing with the Stewart-coached Chatham Wolves in the OHA senior circuit this season. He got a one-game tryout with Chicago during the 1951-52 campaign, which he spent as a star with Red Hamill&rsquo;s Galt (OHA) juniors.</p><p>At Chatham, Prince has done a lot his defending with the colorful &ldquo;Black Jack&rdquo; by his side and the Hawk captain of last year is, of course, acknowledged to be one of the best blue line teachers in hockey. He has been credited with the development of such stars as Bill Quackenbush, Leo Reise and Red Kelly.</p><p>Abel a1so took a look at pint-size winger Mc Burney in the game at Toronto February 7. The 19-year-old Galt stalwart, who is pacing the OHA junior scoring parade, played on a line with the Hawk coach and Gerry Couture and earned an assist on Sid&rsquo;s tying goal in the second period.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0245/950370-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="294" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Stewart</b></figcaption></div><p>McBurney&rsquo;s slightness of stature (he is smaller than any NHL campaigner) didn&rsquo;t show up as a hindrance against the Leafs and Abel hastened to point out that &ldquo;He&rsquo;s just as fast Billy Mosienko.&rdquo; One Toronto spokesman classified Jim as a &ldquo;fast and tricky&rdquo; skater. Hawk fans may see some more of this lad before the present schedule ends.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Jackie Price Impresses “Boot-Nose”

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0177/950415-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;One of the Rangers answers to this.</p><p>3&mdash;This member of Saskatoon Quakers was born in Provost, Alta.</p><p>6&mdash;Lithium (Sym).</p><p>7&mdash;Alta. birthplace of Garry Edmundson.</p><p>11&mdash;Initials of Leafs&rsquo; trainer.</p><p>12&mdash;Indefinite article.</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of Hebenton of Victoria.</p><p>14&mdash;Gerry Brown&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>16&mdash;A grain.</p><p>17&mdash;&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Hunter&rsquo;s Initials.</p><p>20&mdash;Ted Kennedy has one in a sling.</p><p>22&mdash;Short for &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Davies given name.</p><p>24&mdash;One of the Bruins is called this.</p><p>25&mdash;This member of the Cleveland Barons was born in Hancock, Mich.</p><p>28&mdash;&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly can do this.</p><p>30&mdash;Initials of linesman Le-Maitre.</p><p>31&mdash;First name of pictured player.</p><p>33&mdash;Played briefly for the Leafs this season.</p><p>34<b>&mdash;</b>George Senick shoots this way (abbr).</p><p>35<b>&mdash;</b>Number of games Max Bentley missed last season.</p><p>36&mdash;Doug Harvey&rsquo;s brother played this position for Toronto Marlboros.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Leaf player.</p><p>2&mdash;Played for Edmonton last season, called Howie.</p><p>3&mdash;Given name of Albright, former Ranger player.</p><p>4&mdash;Fleming Mackell is one with Boston fans.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of 33 across.</p><h2><b>LAST WEEK&rsquo;S ANSWER</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0251/950408-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="576" height="889"></div><p>8&mdash;Name given Joss, last season with Edmonton.</p><p>9&mdash;Native province of 15 down.</p><p>10&mdash;Another name for &ldquo;Pop&rdquo; Backor.</p><p>15&mdash;This player scored 11 goals for Victoria in 1951-52, called Joe.</p><p>18&mdash;Glenn Hall&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>19&mdash;Hockey players use these frequently.</p><p>21&mdash;Artlfical language.</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of one of the Canadiens.</p><p>26&mdash;Number of times &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper coached a Stanley Cup winner.</p><p>27&mdash;Nickel (Sym.).</p><p>29&mdash;Barry, Lewis & Aurie formed a formidable &hellip;</p><p>30&mdash;One of the Pittsburgh Hornets answers to this.</p><p>32&mdash;Short for Bill Durban&rsquo;s second name.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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HOCKEY X-WORD

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE (STANDING FEBRUARY 9)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0332/950635-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="602" height="184"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0425/950628-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="599" height="283"></div><h2><b>ONTARIO SENIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 10)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0521/950621-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="598" height="205"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR LEAGUE (STANDING FEBRUARY 10)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0611/950614-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="604" height="208"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0710/950607-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="600" height="490"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC PROVINCIAL LEAGUE (STANDING FEBRUARY 10)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-089/950600-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="599" height="128"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-099/950593-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="600" height="638"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 9)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-105/950586-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="597" height="133"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-115/950579-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="602" height="606"></div><h2><b>NOHA SENIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 8)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-125/950572-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="598" height="126"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-135/950565-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="605" height="255"></div><h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE (STANDING FEBRUARY 10)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-145/950558-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="602" height="160"></div><h2><b>MARITIME MAJOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 10)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-154/950551-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="601" height="109"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-163/950544-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="602" height="288"></div><h2><b>LAKE ST. JOHN SENIOR (FINAL STANDING)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-173/950537-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="601" height="132"></div><h2><b>INTERCOLLEGIATE (STANDING FEBRUARY 11)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-183/950530-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="600" height="133"></div><h2><b>CENTRAL ALBERTA LEAGUE (STANDING FEBRUARY 5)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-193/950523-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="598" height="229"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-202/950516-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg" title="f0019-20" width="600" height="330"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 10)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-212/950509-1-eng-US/f0019-212.jpg" title="f0019-21" width="604" height="130"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-222/950502-1-eng-US/f0019-222.jpg" title="f0019-22" width="602" height="538"></div><h2><b>OHA JUNIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo; (STANDING FEBRUARY 8)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-232/950495-1-eng-US/f0019-232.jpg" title="f0019-23" width="601" height="255"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-242/950488-1-eng-US/f0019-242.jpg" title="f0019-24" width="596" height="585"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 7)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-252/950481-1-eng-US/f0019-252.jpg" title="f0019-25" width="593" height="133"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-262/950474-1-eng-US/f0019-262.jpg" title="f0019-26" width="600" height="235"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 10)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-27/950467-1-eng-US/f0019-272.jpg" title="f0019-27" width="603" height="136"></div><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR (STANDING FEBRUARY 6)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-28/950460-1-eng-US/f0019-282.jpg" title="f0019-28" width="601" height="206"></div><h3><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-29/950453-1-eng-US/f0019-292.jpg" title="f0019-29" width="602" height="283"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC CITY JUNIOR &ldquo;B&rdquo; (STANDING FEBRUARY 10)</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-30/950446-1-eng-US/f0019-302.jpg" title="f0019-30" width="603" height="137"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0019-03

Amateur Hockey Parade At A Quick Glance

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-31/950673-1-eng-US/f0019-312.jpg" title="f0019-31" width="596" height="1065"></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 those in the know). Hearty, zestful and satisfying, I.P (A. is a real <i>man&rsquo;s</i> drink&mdash;full bodied and fully flavoured. Ask for: &ldquo;Labatt&rsquo;s I.P.A. <i>again,</i> please!&rdquo; John Labatt Limited.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-32/950666-1-eng-US/f0019-322.jpg" title="f0019-32" width="580" height="788"></div><p>*The swing is <u>definitely</u> to <b>LABATT&rsquo;S</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-31

It’s a MAN’S work…

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0210/950718-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="248" height="270"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0110/950725-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="237" height="279"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-039/950711-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="2962" height="1880"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-047/950704-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="2967" height="1796"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>K</span>EPT &rsquo;EM OUT.</b>&mdash;Gump Worsley is shown in the top photo repulsing an attack by the Toronto Maple Leafs with Eric Nesterenko of Toronto sprawling across his goal-mouth. Steve Kraftcheck looks on (6) while the players in front of the cage are left to right, Allan Stanley, Tod Sloan and Nick Mickoski. In the lower picture Canadiens&rsquo; Gerry McNeil is given an anxious moments by the Leafs with Ronnie Stewart attempting to bang the puck past him from close range with Bud MacPherson putting the clamp on him from behind. To the left (No. 3) is Fern Flaman while Canadiens&rsquo; in the photo are Paul Meger (20) and Tommy Johnson (10).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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February 21, 1953

JOHNNIE WALKER

playing the field

PASSING THE PUCK

Millar Out On $300. Bail on Common Assault Charge