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March 7, 1953

The Hockey News March 7, 1953

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><h2>HopeTo&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0288/1006997-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="594" height="598"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(LYNN PATRICK)</span></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;Make Playoffs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0441/1006990-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="558" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(MILT SCHMIDT)</span></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The Boston Bruins are now embarked on their longest road trip of the season, one which will cover some 4000 miles and seven games.</p><p>When they finally return home this month, they&rsquo;ll have a Stanley Cup playoff position all wrapped up.</p><p>That&rsquo;s the conviction of Coach Lynn Patrick, who shed an unaccustomed cloak of cautiousness to give his athletes an optimistic sendoff.</p><p>For the last two weeks the Bruins&rsquo; month-long home stand, which ran from mid-January to mid-February, Patrick became reticent about discussing the team&rsquo;s future.</p><p>At one point he stepped entirely out of character to say, &ldquo;From now on I&rsquo;m not saying anything. I&rsquo;m letting the team make all the conversation.&rdquo;</p><p>But after the Bruin&rsquo;s closed up the Garden for nearly three weeks by shutting out the Montreal Canadiens, Patrick loosened up.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll clinch a playoff position before we get home,&rdquo; he predicted. &ldquo;I feel that we&rsquo;ll win at least three games on the trip.</p><p>&ldquo;The reason why I feel the way I do,&rdquo; he explained, &ldquo;is the improvement in our physical condition. Early in the season, when the team was intact, we played well on the road. Then we ran into that injury epidemic and it nearly ruined us.</p><p>&ldquo;Now we&rsquo;re starting out with everyone in good shape, and I expect that we&rsquo;ll maintain the pace which we were setting for the last part of our home stand. I have contended all season that this team intact is as good as any in the league, and I still feel that way.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins were not entirely intact when they left because they left two erstwhile regulars, Center Dave Creighton and Defenseman Bob Armstrong, at home with injuries. The brawny youngsters sported leg and shoulder injuries respectively, but both are expected to be ready shortly after the Bruins return, Creighton perhaps earlier.</p><h3>Replaces Army</h3><p>In Armstrong&rsquo;s place went Frank Martin, two years younger at 19 and four pounds heavier at 190. Martin played one game with no ill-effects after being summoned hastily from Hershey to replace Armstrong, and then he acquired a severe charley-horse. It kept him out of one game.</p><p>The sturdy major league pitching prospect (Brooklyn owns him) startled observers with his polish and fast reflexes in his Bruins&rsquo; debut, and he made Patrick feel pretty good in a game with the New York Rangers by upending a couple of heavyweight forwards.</p><p>As far as his lines were concerned, Patrick was using Capt. Milt Schmidt, Real Chevrefils and Joe Klukay as one permanent unit and Fleming Mackell, Ed Sandford and Johnny Peirson as another.</p><p>His third line&mdash;and it will probably stay that way&mdash;has been the group which witty Leo LaBine dubbed the Fortunate Five before he went to Hershey. The five&mdash;Jack McIntyre, Pentti Lund, George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, Jerry Toppazzini and Woody Dumart&mdash;have been alternating, with the level-headed Sullivan as the center.</p><p>The Bruins closed up shop for February with some pretty good attendance figures for the latter part of their stand. Three of their last six crowds were in double figures, with the colorful Canadiens carrying the drawing load, as usual.</p><p>In conjunction with one of the games they inaugurated a Young Bruins&rsquo; night, which will be an annual affair. Before the game they honored the five outstanding high school players in Greater Boston, the schoolboys being presented gifts by Bruins&rsquo; players.</p><p>One of the five was Ralph DeLeo, a stocky center who set a New England schoolboy record earlier in the winter by scoring 11 goals in a single game. DeLeo, a senior at Boston Technical High School, will attend the Bruins&rsquo; amateur training camp next fall.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Will Clinch Playoff Berth On Road

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask&mdash;</p><p>Two players &mdash; goalie Cliff Dobson of the Regina Caps and centre Tommy Fowler of the Moose Jaw Millers &mdash; were unanimous choices for the 1952-53 all-star team of the Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League.</p><p>The selections were made by sports writers and broadcasters in the four league centres. They are the official league all-star team.</p><p>Dobson, the league&rsquo;s shutout king with four to his credit, and Fowler, the runaway scoring champion with 83 points, were named to the first team on every ballot, received total of 14 votes.</p><p>One defence berth went to Harry (Huddy) Bell, the high-scoring Regina defenceman who topped the poll with 11 votes. Norm Blackett, the versatile Cap performer, and hard-hitting Ken Barlow of the Melville Millionaires tied for the other defence spot with nine votes apiece.</p><p>Flanking Fowler on the all-star forward line are teammate Al (Red) Staley of Moose Jaw at right wing and Norman (Nipper) Knippleberg of Melville at left wing. Knippleberg is the lone repeater from last year&rsquo;s team when he was selected at centre.</p><h2><b>Myles Named Coach</b></h2><p>The coaching honors went to Moose Jaw&rsquo;s Vic Myles, who brought the Millers into a contending position after taking over the club last December. He received nine votes.</p><p>There were also two ties for positions on the second all-star team. Red McPhedran of the Yorkton Legion-aires got the nod in goal. Jack Wilkie of Regina took one defence berth with five votes, but Shiner Chernoff of Yorkton and Amos Wilson of Moose Jaw tied for the other spot with two votes apiece. Other defencemen obtaining votes in the balloting were Don Clarke and Don Fletcher of Moose Jaw.</p><p>The centre spot on the second team went to Bill Kyle, Regina&rsquo;s starry pivot and playing coach who was practically a unanimous choice behind Fowler. Hap Edwards of Melville and Jackie Shave of Yorkton tied for the right-wing berth on the second team. The left-wing spot went to Johnny Oak, Moose Jaw&rsquo;s 37-goal man.</p><h2><b>First Team</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0273/1008018-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="606" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(KEN BARLOW)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Dobson, Fowler Unanimous Choices for SSHL All-Stars

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>A quartet of 1951-52&rsquo;s more stellar rookies are violating a rather notorious &lsquo;constitution&rsquo; which has been in vogue in the National Hockey League for more years than you&rsquo;d care to count. But in doing so, Boom Boom Geoffrion, hockey&rsquo;s top rookie last season and star right winger of the Canadiens, Wally Hergesheimer of the Rangers. Alex Delvecchio of Detroit and Real Chevrefils of the Boston Bruins will join a very select circle of past greats who also managed to manhandle that code.</p><p>We are speaking, of course, of the sophomore jinx a disease in hockey as consistent as the seven year itch. It is a well known fact in sport, that the second year of an athlete&rsquo;s active career seldom puts him in the top money bracket. There have been exceptions to the rule but not so many that you could just pass over the list without a glance.</p><p>Still these four are passing over the &lsquo;jinx&rsquo; year without so much as a look back. And, in doing so, they will become the tail end of a very colorful list of players who also slipped over the rough year. Names such as Apps, Conacher, Boucher, Weiland, Clapper and Cook to name a few actually performed more capably in their second season than in their rookie year. But the list of those who failed is just as long and almost as colorful.</p><h2><b>Missed Jinx</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-058/1006490-1-eng-US/f0003-052.jpg" title="f0003-05" width="606" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(COONEY WEILAND)</span></figcaption></div><p>Geoffrion whose shot has been clocked the fastest and hardest in hockey today, isn&rsquo;t likely to top his scoring feats of 1951-52. Last season he scored 30 goals, just four short of the rookie record set by Nels Stewart in 19 25-26 when &lsquo;OI Poison was a member of the Montreal Maroons.</p><p>Still unlike teammates Dick Gamble and Paul Meger who ara feeling the pinch, he is showing complete disregard for the &lsquo;sopohomore jinx.&rsquo; Last week he became the sixth player to hit the 20 goal circle, a rating which equals baseball&rsquo;s 300 batting fraternity. After 59 games the &lsquo;Boomer&rsquo; had notched 20 goals and 14 assists for 3 4 points. With eleven games left he was 10 goals and 20 points. behind his first complete year in the majors.</p><p>Although it&rsquo;s doubtful that Geoff can improve upon his opening year points total, this season however, must be considerated a successful one for the colorful young French lad.</p><p>Over in New York there is a pint-sized little guy named Wally Hergesheimer who is showing about as much respect for the jinx as Maurice Richard does for records. With two fingers missing from one hand. Walt is showing consistency far beyond the fond hopes of the Rangers&rsquo; front office brass when they first acquired him from Cleveland along with Hy Buller.</p><p>Regardless of how he scores goals the 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; 155 pounds right-winger is showing the world that there&rsquo;s no room in his career for such nutty superstition as the jinx. If anything the &lsquo;little fella&rsquo; is showing even more ability this season than last when he scored 26 goals and added 12 assists for 38 points, finishing 27th in the points race. After 58 games in 195 2-53 Wally had already passed his points total of a year ago. He had scored 25 goals and 2 7 assists and was fourth in major league scoring honors.</p><p>Playing absolutely no attention whatever to Frank Boucher&rsquo;s alltime New York Ranger club record of 6 2 points set in 19 2 9-30 in 4 2 games of a 44 game schedule.</p><p>&ldquo;To those who know Wally&rsquo;s determined nature, his ability to overcome sophomoritis comes as no surprise,&rdquo; wrote Leonard Cohen of the New York Post recently.</p><p>&ldquo;Playing with Paul Ronty has been the big factor in my improvement,&rdquo; Walt told Cohen. &ldquo;That plus the fact that I have more confidence this season. As a rookie you know you have a lot to learn. I&rsquo;m still learning, but I feel I can play major league hockey. I&rsquo;ve learned how to pass better so I&rsquo;ve more assists this season.&rdquo;</p><p>When Lynn Patrick, coach of the Boston Bruins called Hergy &ldquo;just a scorer who is nothing defensively&rdquo; Wally replied, &ldquo;Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. I&rsquo;m trying to improve defensively. But when you hang around the net as often as I do, a forward is bound to be trapped every so often. As I only have average speed my wing can get away from me when I&rsquo;m trapped.&rdquo;</p><p>The most surprising jump in the scoring record made by a 5152 rookie this season is that of Detroit&rsquo;s Alex Delvecchio. In 19 5152 he had a 15 and 22 record for 37 points. This season he&rsquo;s likely to top not only his goal scoring but also all other centres in the league in points. After 58 games he was tied with Howe for most assists with 37 and had scored 11 goals for 4 8 points. His 37 assists equals his complete points output of last year. He is also gaining prominence in the race for All-Star centre honors.</p><p>Actually Dervecchio didn&rsquo;t impress the experts who did the rookie choosing last seaon. He was inconsistent and lacked polish. But Coach Dick Irvin of the Canadiens tagged him as a potential All-Star, despite his comparitively few votes in the rookie race.</p><p>Ending the quartet of youngsters who disregarded the jinx this season is youthful Real Chevrefils of the Boston Bruins. It was apparent, last season that &lsquo;Chevvy&rsquo; would, in future years become a truly great player. Coach Lynn Partick predicted that in not more than three seasons he would be the All-Star left winger in the NHL. His 25 points in 33 games (8 goals 17 assists) prompted Lynn to make that statement. He also spotted a great stickhandling ability in the lad but lost of all great coolness and a wonderful ability to put the puck in the net.</p><p>This season Real has boosted his scoring to 19 goals and 13 assists for 32 points in 56 games and was Bruins&rsquo; second high scorer.</p><p>There is of course a disappointing department&rsquo; in the league. The jinx did infect Meger and Gamble of the Canadiens and others.</p><p>It&rsquo;s interesting to note the players. who over the past years have managed to escape the grip of the second year downfall.</p><p>The player who undoubtedly gave it it&rsquo;s widest berth in modern days was Boston&rsquo;s Cooney Weiland. Cooney joined the Bruins in 1928-29 scoring 11 goals and seven assists for 13 points. The next season, his sophomore one he jumped his output to a fantastic 43 goals and 30 assists for 73 points.</p><h2>He Did It Too!</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0825/1006483-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="578" height="1334"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(DIT CLAPPER)</span></figcaption></div><p>There were others, too. Dit Clapper also a former Bruins, scored nine goals in his. first season and boosted it to 41 in his second.</p><p>During the war years the famous &lsquo;Razzle-Dazzle&rsquo; line playing amateur with the Montreal Royals turned pro. The least known of the trio, however, made the biggest dent in the majors in his second season. Comprised of Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Pete Morin and Gerry Heffernan, it was Heffernan who showed utter disregard for the famous jinx. His first season, 1941-42 saw him net only five goals and 15 assists for 20 points.</p><p>But the following year he boosted it to 28 goals and 20 assists for 48 points.</p><p>Of present day players, Maurice Richard is one of the few who didn&rsquo;t suffer the second year blowup. In 1942-43 he had a five and five record for ten points. The following season he blasted 32 past rival goalers and added 23 assists for 5 4 points.</p><p>You couldn&rsquo;t leave out Terry Sawchuk when listing players who missed the jinx.</p><p>As rookie of the year in 1950-51 Terry had the amazing goals against record of 139 in 70 games for a 1.98 record. Last season, his second in the National League he did even better. He allowed 133 goals in 70 games for a 1.94 average, four points better than the year before.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Geoffrion, Delvecchio, Hergy and Chewy Improve Records Weiland Most Successful In Dodging 2nd Year Downfall

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0725/1006928-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg"></div><h2>National League All Star Team I</h2><p><b>My selection for the NHL All Star defensemen (names in order of. preference) is as follows:</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Hockey News 1952-53

<div class="image-hero"><img title="cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0138/1008337-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOWN BOYS&mdash;Fern Flciman appears to be looking for something in Harry Lumley&rsquo;s cage in the top photo as he crashed headlong into the nets in an attempt to foil Warren Godfrey of the Boston Bruins who is trying to poke the puck past the Toronto goalie. That&rsquo;s Johnny Peirson (with head-gear) and Leo Boivin in background. In the lower photo, Georges Armstrong of the Leafs bypasses the puck in his hurry to whack it past Sugar Jim Henry who slides out to save. Bill Quackenbush of the Bruins trails the play and clears the puck to safety.</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Net Profit: Two Foiled Forwards</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Dipsy-Doodler Ducks Day On Drive To Delisle

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH (Toronto Telegram)</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Max Bentley has quit the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>He is at his home in Delisle, Sask.</p><p>Bentley dropped from sight when he checked out of the Grovenor Hotel here Thursday. Club officials were baffled when he didn&rsquo;t turn up for practise. They worried and they hunted. Acting on the theory (shared by most Interested parties) that he had headed for home, The Toronto Telegram checked border points. The answer from a customs officer at the Bluewater Bridge in Port Huron, Mich., was:</p><p>&ldquo;A new black Buick convertible registered in Bentley&rsquo;s name passed through here a little after 4 o&rsquo;clock on Feb. 26. Destination was Delisle Sask., point of re-entering Canada, Portal, North Dakota.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Where&rsquo;d He Co?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0347/1008382-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="492" height="498"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(HAP DAY)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Misses Max</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0435/1008375-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="436" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(JOE PRIMEAU)</span></figcaption></div><h3><b>Max Abandons Hockey</b></h3><p>Maxie&rsquo;s wife, Betty, and his father-in-law had been scheduled to leave Toronto for Delisle last Thursday. How many were in the car? Three, That was it. Bentleyhad finally thrown in the sponge, had carried out an intention he has voiced over the past few weeks&mdash;to go home.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0228/1008368-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="cover-02" width="313" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Max Bentley)</span></figcaption></div><p>The move failed to sur prise Maxie&rsquo;s father, William who was con tacted in De lisle. The father confirmed that Bentley was on his way home, and said he had told him to return by letter.</p><p>Bentley suffered a back Injury in early December, after starting the season in stirring style. He was given leave to go home for Christmas to rest the back but re-injured it on his return.</p><p>He was in and out of hospital frequently, went in for the last time last week with a virus infection and a recurrence of the back injury. He came out last Sunday and turned up at the Leafs practise on Monday afternoon.</p><p>&ldquo;I received a letter from his wife,&rdquo; said his father, &ldquo;She told me that they (the Leaf management) had him out skating on Monday when he could hardly stand up, let alone skate. I think that he just took it to heart.</p><p>There an incongruity arises. Hap Day, Leaf assistant managing director, insisted that whether Bentley skated or played was left entirely to his own discretion.</p><p>Day said Bentley&rsquo;s decision to play against Canadiens Wednesday night was his own. Day said he told Bentley he was not forced to play and that he shouldn&rsquo;t if he didn&rsquo;t feel well enough. This followed a telephone call to Mrs. Bentley in which Maxie&rsquo;s wif&middot;told Day her husband intended to make the trip the following night to Montreal.</p><p>Commenting, Day said there was a vague possibility Max had gone just as far as Chicago to help out with the driving but that he felt sure, himself, that Max was &ldquo;going all the way.&rdquo;</p><p>Bentley made five appearances against Canadiens here Wednesday, being used only on the point in the power play. He was kept in the dressing room until called for his first apperance and when not on the ice, sat wrapped in a blanket on the end of the bench.</p><p>After the game, he had practically nothing to say to newspapermen nor Primeau, who was trying to determine whether or not he was going to catch the train to Montreal.</p><h3><b>Hinted At Leaving</b></h3><p>He is reported to have told Primeau:</p><p>&ldquo;If I&rsquo;m not around tomorrow, you will know that I have gone home.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Bentley,&rdquo; said Day, &ldquo;was not on any orders to play or skate till he himself, felt he was ready. He has mentioned that he was going home but I told him that he should talk to Mr. Smythe first.&rdquo;</p><p>Day recounted that after Bentley skated on Monday, he Was again out Tueday skating for an hour. Day reports that Bentley seemed to be enjoying himself. He was ill again Tuesday afternoon but Wednesday relayed the message that he wanted to play that night&mdash;&ldquo;that if he could help out on the gainging attack he would be pleased to go out and help.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I called him Thursday morning,&rdquo; said Day, &ldquo;and was told he was in bed. I left a message for him to call me back, then telephoned again myself a little later. I was told that Max had been given the message but I haven&rsquo;t heard from him since.&rdquo;</p><h3><b>Max Depressed</b></h3><p>Primeau said he had been told Bentley was going to Montreal with the club and after the game Wednesday approached the locker where Maxie was sitting with his head in his hands. Primeau asked him if he was coming and Max told him that he was not feeling well enough.</p><p>Primeau felt that Bentley &ldquo;who is proud and hates to lose,&rdquo; turned down the Montreal trip in a fit of depression at the Leafs&rsquo; 2-1 loss to Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t like to say much,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;How do I know how sick he really was? I know that he was getting awfully depressed. I don&rsquo;t know what the club will do. As far as I know this has never happened before in the history of the Leafs.</p><p>Bentley, who was 33 Sunday, was introduced to hockey by his elder brother Doug who was then playing for Chicago Black Hawks. Maxie started with the Hawks in the 1940-41 season and Chicago manager Bill Tobin is still recounting the story of when he first appeared in the Hawk office.</p><p>&ldquo;He looked to me as though a good wind would blow him away,&rdquo; he says.</p><p>But Maxie has lasted for 11 years in a league which wasn&rsquo;t built for him. His lightness (always in the 150-160 pound bracket) has made him the special object of hooks, trips and holding. When he had the speed, it didn&rsquo;t bother him too much, but age and ailments have slowed him slightly and the rest of the league has been catching up to him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Max Bentley Quits As Aches and Pains Too Much for Him

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0428/1006362-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>M</span>ONTREAL&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks had a justifiable reason for postponing their scheduled February 26 game with the Detroit Red Wings, in the opinion of Clarence S. Campbell.</p><p>The National League president, bedded in a hospital here with a broken leg, expressed that view in a statement to Boston writers when Informed of the Bruin&rsquo;s dissatisfaction with the postponement.</p><p>&ldquo;The Chicago organization said it wasn&rsquo;t possible to play games there on succeeding nights, namely Thursday and Friday,&rdquo; said Campbell. &ldquo;They said Chicago wasn&rsquo;t a good enough weekday town for games on successive night&rsquo;s.</p><p>&ldquo;The Bruins were originally offered a choice of two dates (Thursday or Friday), and they insisted upon playing on Friday,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;The postponement required only the agreement of the two teams involved (Chicago and Detroit), and it was approved.&rdquo;</p><p>Campbell rejected suggestions that the Red Wings might have less than their customary zip in their late-season schedule with Chicago, which now consists of three games in nine days, as a result of the postponements.</p><p>&ldquo;Detroit can stand on its record,&rdquo; he maintained. &ldquo;Detroit has knocked Chicago out of the playoffs more often than any other team.&rdquo;</p><p>The ailing National League boss was unable to state positively whether or not the Bruins bad been informed of the change in the Chicago schedule before it was disclosed to Bostonians six days before the original Chicago-Detroit date, saying, &ldquo;I assume that they knew about it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-04

Prexy Says Postponement Justified

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>For keeping a stiff upper lip this season in the. face of a disaster that would have crushed a lesser man, Frank Boucher must deserve something. This is it&mdash;a free advertisement. The Ranger manager wishes it to be known that he sponsors three of his own for $1,000 NHL awards.</p><p>Boucher is stumping for Paul Ronty as All-Star center; Wally Hergesheimer for the Lady Byng and Gump Worsley for the Calder Trophy. And he seems to have quite a case.</p><p>&ldquo;I think all three will get their awards,&rdquo; he said, hopefully. &ldquo;They justify them. Because we have been down in the ruck all year is no reason for their chances to be hurt. The records show they are deserving and, in the final analysis, records usually decide these issues.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m annoyed to hear rumors that Milt Schmidt is being pumped for All-Star center. Prystai or Delvecchio, okay, but not Schmidt. He shouldn&rsquo;t even be considered. You can&rsquo;t pick a player on sentiment, alone.</p><h2>Best Rookie?</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0246/1006331-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="574" height="940"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Gump WORSLEY)</span></figcaption></div><h3><b>Annoyed at Claim For Milt</b></h3><p>&ldquo;I admire the Boston star as much as anyone does, but I can&rsquo;t overlook the fact that he has had a bad season. A forward is supposed to score goals and make assists. He hasn&rsquo;t. Sure, he&rsquo;s a great a great defensive player. But so is the Ranger&rsquo;s Eddie Kullman, for instance. Just ask Howe and Richard. You&rsquo;d never consider Eddie for All-Star, although he&rsquo;s very valuable to us.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0155/1006324-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="303" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Paul Ronty)</span></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll give Schmidt his due,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s still the Bruins most valuable player. But that doesn&rsquo;t necessarily make him an All-Star. Why, I can remember when Chuck Rayner was the most valuable player in the league three years ago. But Bill Durnan was the All-Star goalkeeper, because he had the better record.</p><p>&ldquo;If All-Stars were chosen on their abilities through the years, Schmidt would be the All-Star center. For that matter your All-Star lineup wouldn&rsquo;t change for 10 years, probably. But All-Stars are chosen only on their play in any given season. And Schmidt certainly doesn&rsquo;t deserve it this time.&rdquo;</p><p>The records would show that Schmidt is well down on the list. Seven centers are ahead of him in the scoring&mdash;Ronty, Delvecchio. Prystai, Nick Mickoski, Jimmy McFadden, Teeder Kennedy and Fleming Mackell.</p><p>At this writing, Ronty has 16 goals and 2 9 assists for 4 5 points. Schmidt has but 7-23&mdash;30. And, playing against each other most of the season, the Ranger star produced five goals against the Bruins&mdash;three of them winning games and another tying one. Schmidt has scored but once against the Rangers, the fifth goal in a 9-0 rout.</p><p>Only Delvecchio of the league&rsquo;s centers is above Ronty in scoring. He has 11-37&mdash;48. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s simple to figure out, too, isn&rsquo;a it?&rdquo; Boucher asked. &ldquo;Delvecchio&rsquo;s points are all assists on Howe and Lindsay goals. Prystai gets between those two All-Stars, also. Put them on any other line, and see how they&rsquo;d score. If Ronty were between them, he&rsquo;d have 70 points by now.&rdquo;</p><p>Hergesheimer&rsquo;s credentials for the Lady Byng award are in good order. He has been constantly among the league&rsquo;s four top scorers all year and, as of the moment, has but 10 minutes in penalties. His 25 goals are topped only by Howe&rsquo;s 42.</p><p>&ldquo;Because of Geoffrion&rdquo; Boucher pointed out, &ldquo;Wally was pretty much overlooked for rookie-of-the-year last year. He should not have been, not with 26 goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0341/1006317-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="300" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(W. Hergesheimer)</span></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;If I don&rsquo;t want to see him overlooked again for the Lady Byng. Why, look at the penalty in minutes of the three players ahead of him now. Howe has 4 9, Lindsay 100 and Richard 9 2.</p><h3><b>Hergy Top Candidate For Byng</b></h3><p>&ldquo;Wally has reason to make penalties He takes more abuse on the ice than I&rsquo;d ever take. It would be natural to retaliate. Sure, he&rsquo;s small, but he has a big stick, hasn&rsquo;t he? Most other players would use it, in Hergesheimer&rsquo;s situation.</p><p>&ldquo;One other thing about both Hergesheimer and Ronty. They&rsquo;ve been our big production line all year, and as a result, have had to play against checking lines. The opposition concentrates on stopping Hergesheimer and Ronty&mdash;and they haven&rsquo;t had much success.&rdquo;</p><p>Terry Sawchuk, who should know, says Worsley is quite a goalie. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s definitely the best rookie this year, to my mind, the Detroit star said recently. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s always given us a battle. Beaten us three times.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I agree,&rdquo; Boucher said. &ldquo;All you have to do is look at the record. Discount the early part of the season when we had no team at all. Worsley couldn&rsquo;t be ex-pected to have a good record, then.</p><p>&ldquo;But what has he done since we got a team? In the last 20 games, only Sawchuk and McNeil have a better record.&rdquo; Gump has allowed but 51 goals in those 20 games, and this includes a 9-0 rout in Boston when the entire team fell apart. In his last eight games on Madison Square Garden ice, Worsley has allowed but 13 goals. At no time has the opposition scored more than twice.</p><p>&ldquo;There is no Geoffrion nor Hergesheimer nor Dickie Moore in the rookie race this year,&rdquo; Boucher pointed out. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why I consider Worsley must be the leading contender.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Hannigan must be the best forward, but he isn&rsquo;t that good,&rdquo; Sawchuk added. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why Worsley should get it.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I rest my case,&rdquo; Boucher concluded.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Kullman has made a fine record in his personals assignments against Howe and Richard. He has shut out the Rocket and held Gordie to a single score on their home ice&hellip;With Shawinigan Falls out of the Quebec Senior League playoffs, center ice man Frank Bathgate reported to the Rangers for an inspection. Limited to only three turns in his debut against the Wings, Feb. 22, he looked pretty good between Aldo Guidolin and Dean Prentice&hellip;That game on Feb. 22, Incidentally, proved that hockey&mdash;despite the Rangers&mdash;will exist in New York. The season&rsquo;s largest crowd of 15,071 came out to cheer for a team that has been hopelessly out of it all season long.</p><p>Rangers are happy about results of two junior league All-Star polls. In Quebec, their Michel Labadie (rw) and Camil Henry (c) of the Citadels were first All-Star and Roland LeClerc (lw) second All-Star. Ray Cyr, another Citadel, was the rookie-of-the-year and Phil Watson was both the All-Star coach and coach-of-the-year. Out in the Western league, the Rangers placed three men in the first All-Star lineup. They are Mid Houghton of Calgary Id), and Billy Dea (lw) and Steve Arisnran (rw) of Lethbridge. Houghton and Dea are repeaters.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-02

Boucher Sponsors 3 Rangers For $1000 Awards

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;</p><p>In Jack Adams&rsquo; hockey code there is one stern clause: Champions win on the road.</p><p>For years he&rsquo;s been preaching it and for years his Red Wings have been doing it.</p><p>So it was with familiar, yet distinct pride that the Detroit general manager welcomed his club back home from their most extensive travels of the current campaign.</p><p>Evicted from the Olympia home by the Barbara Ann Scott Ice Revue, Detroit drew the assignment of playing eight road games within 16 days. One lone game at home was sandwiched into that period.</p><p>On that prolonged journey the Wings may have passed the turning point of the season. At least it will seem so should they go on to claim their fifth straight National Hockey League title without being seriously pressed again.</p><p>They were carrying a slender one-point lead over challenging Montreal when they departed. By the time they returned the lead had been upholstered to eight points. That was the result of winning five of the games while tying one and losing two.</p><p>Later in the week the Canadiens pared the edge to four points again while Detroit was idle, but the Wings had a couple of games in hand for comfort.</p><p>On the grand tour they met and conquered the Montreal riv. als twice in the key games, 3 to 1 and 4 to 1. A split was gained in Boston, 5 to 3 and 1 to 3. New York bowed, 2 to 1, and tied another at 2-all. Chicago was beaten, 4 to 1, and Toronto escaped a 2-0 triumph.</p><p>This record was particularly cheering since the Wings owned only a. 500 average for the 21 previous road games. When it came to this crucial point, however, they came up with some of their finest hockey of the entire year.</p><p>Just for the record, ever since Tommy Ivan became coach six years ago Detroit has won 97 road games, lost 59 and tied 38. It&rsquo;s a distinctive showing in a sport where a team rarely manages to split even on the road.</p><p>Adams&rsquo; pride over the accomplishment was mingled with relief for he long has eyed the regular February travel dose with distaste.</p><p>&ldquo;Some year a long February stand might prove fatal. Just suppose we were fighting to get into the playoffs with a club less powerful than this one, and had to go on the road for 10 straight games late in the season,&rdquo; he pointed out.</p><p>&ldquo;A bad run could bounce us out of the playoffs and cost us $100,000.</p><p>&ldquo;Also leaving home in February we&rsquo;re deserting our fans just when hockey interest is at a peak. Our biggest crowds would be com ing in February.&rdquo;</p><p>With those two arguments Adams is out to convince the Olympia policy-making level that it would be wiser to bring the Ice Revue in here earlier&mdash;say November or early December when the Wings have to buck college and pro football for headlines and money&mdash;and let the hockey team have the ice to themselves in February.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> The Wings seem to have a &ldquo;win &lsquo;em big&rdquo; habit. The 2-1 victory in New York was the first time this season that they won a game by a one-goal margin. Of the 2 8 previous triumphs, 10 came by a two-goal margin, nine more by a three-goal edge and the other nine by four goals or more.</p><p>Tony Leswick was a happy hero of that victory. In the two seasons since he&rsquo;d been traded to Detroit he hadn&rsquo;t managed to score a goal on New York Ice against his former teammates. This time he tallied to break a 1-1 tie and the goal stood up to win.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk is finding that three is the magic number when it comes to winning or losing games. Only once this season have the Wings scored more than three goals and still lost the game. And only twice have they scored less than three goals and still won it.</p><p>Tommy Ivan has a new angle to filling the spot between Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay which was vacated by Sid Abel&rsquo;s departure. Now he&rsquo;s using two centers on the Production Line. Metro Prystai and Marty Pavelich.</p><p>They&rsquo;re alternating&mdash;on the same shift. Prystai works the first minute and a half or so, and then Pavelich takes over for the rest of the shift. Ivan adopted this plan when he decided that Prystai tired faster than the two high-scoring wingers.</p><p>Actually there are three centers who get assigned to that line. Alex Delvecchio is the third, and he takes over whenever the line is working on the power play. In such case Red Kelly and Jim Hay are the preferred men on the points.</p><p>Marcel Bonin, the extra forward who got a full-time job when Pavelich was injured, apparently will keep his left wing spot on a line with Glen Skov and Tony Leswick for the rest of the season.</p><h2>Something to Enthuse Over</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0523/1006400-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="594" height="902"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(TOMMY IVAN)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0615/1006393-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="598" height="898"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(JACK ADAMS)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0002-05

Wings’ Away Mark Pleases Adams, Ivan’s Road Record Impressive

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0155/1006452-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Waily Hergesheimer&hellip;&hellip;Terry Stops Him</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Hergy On The Prowl</b></h2><h2><b>Delvecchio On Doorstep</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0327/1006445-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="1164" height="1155"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alex Delvecchio&hellip;&hellip;Lumley Says No</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Chewy Drives In</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0244/1006438-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1161" height="1174"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>hear Chevrefils&hellip;&hellip;Foiled by Jim</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>The Boomer Blasting</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0414/1006431-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1743" height="1095"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Boom Boom Geoffrion&hellip;&hellip;Gump Stumps Him</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0003-01

Four ‘51-52 Rooks in Select Circle, Missing Jinx

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL &#x2013; SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01125/1006521-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Dudley Will Recruit Quebec Loyalists</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>AST week, George Dudley, the mild-mannered Midland lawyer and strong man of the Canadian Amateur (because it says so on their letterhead) Hockey Association, announced the suspension of the Quebec branch. Last week, George polled all the CAHA officers and various provincial presidents by air mail. Their votes came back by wire. Dudley knew the result in advance. The electors said the Quebec Hockey Association, one of the strongest in the nation, was to be given the bum&rsquo;s rush until it remembers who&rsquo;s boss. Then what?</p><p>One of the first moves will be for Dudley and other CAHA brass to move Into Montreal and pitch camp. They&rsquo;ll issue a call for all loyalists&mdash;meaning all teams that don&rsquo;t want to be blackballed from the Canadian playoffs&mdash;to march in and give the oath of allegiance to the CAHA. They&rsquo;ll get a fair response, like as not&mdash;probably enough to crush the Quebec rebellion&mdash;from clubs that don&rsquo;t want to miss a shot at a national title. If history is any guide to the present, you can recall what happened in 1937. That&rsquo;s when the CAHA and the Quebec branch had its last big showdown. The Quebec boys waved the CAHA a soldier&rsquo;s farewell. But the wealthy Quebec Senior League announced it would string along with the CAHA, regardless of what its own branch did. The revolution ended, right there.</p><p>Cause of the current commotion is an 18-year-old left winger or defence player named Ron Atwell. Without taking anything away from Ron, you wouldn&rsquo;t suspect from his record that he&rsquo;d be the stake in a squabble that threatens to split the world&rsquo;s biggest amateur (there&rsquo;s that word again) hockey setup. When he was 14, Ron worked out with Staff Smythe&rsquo;s Marlboro junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; club. Because Smythe had a better boy for the job, named Billy Harris, he let Atwell go to the Nobleton squad, up Brampton way. At the time, he made a mental note that Ron probably wouldn&rsquo;t get much attention in a little spot like Nobleton. Smythe would keep an eye on him, with a view to getting him back if he Showed promise at a later date. There must have been a few scouts who noticed Atwell. When the Ontario junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs submitted their draft selections two years ago, Ron was claimed by six teams&mdash;Including Marlboros, of course. Waterloo Hurricanes, which no longer are in existence, won him, because they were the bottom club.</p><h2><b>The Pros Are Busy in Background</b></h2><p>ACCORDING to CAHA records, Ron signed a card with Waterloo. That put him on a club sponsored by the Boston Bruins, since Waterloo was a Boston farm unit at the time. But, instead of playing for the Hurricanes, Ron developed an interest in Montreal. He moved there, and was denied a transfer because he was under 18 years of age. The CAHA does not sanction shifts from one branch to another by juveniles. Four different applications for permission to play in Montreal were turned down. To emphasize how they felt about it, the CAHA placed Ron under suspension. So he was out of hockey completely last season. This season, the CAHA still refused to clear him, although he turned 18 years of age on Feb. 9. Montreal Canadiens juniors have used him, despite the CAHA ban. Canadiens have the backing of their own Quebec branch. Since the Quebec branch has thumbed its nose at the parent body, Dudley is ready to lead the trouble-makers out to the woodshed.</p><p>Canadiens happen to have one of the best junior clubs in the country. Unless the Quebec branch surrenders, Canadiens will be counted out of Memorial Cup play. That will cost the CAHA some money, because Canadiens are a powerful draw at the gate. Dudley says the CAHA is ready to take its loss in money, for the sake of proving the tail isn&rsquo;t wagging the dog.</p><p>One of the Interesting sidelights will be the decision of Frank Byrne, who operates Quebec Citadels. If the Quebec branch is suspended, Frank will get a chance to desert the rebels and swear allegiance to the CAHA. With Canadiens out of the way, he&rsquo;d be a cinch to represent Quebec in the Memorial Cup showdown. Since Byrne is no great lover of Montreal, he might sign up with the Dudley Dragoons.</p><p>Behind the amateur smokescreen, the intelligence forces of big league hockey are watching all the moves. If Ron was cleared by the CAHA to play for Canadiens&rsquo; juniors, he&rsquo;d be a chattel of the big league Canadiens. Boston already has him on Bruins&rsquo; list because of his Waterloo connection. When he became 18, Leafs filed a claim.</p><p>Of course, Ron may not turn out to be a big leaguer. He may decide to be a barber or an engineer. Why, the young upstart! What right has he got to begin popping off about what he wants to be?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-01

Speaking on Sport

<p>MONTREAL, Que&mdash;</p><p>The next move in the controversy that has rocked hockey circles from coast to coast is now squarely up to the QAHA. Last week that body found itself suspended from the CAHA, as the latter organization carried out its threat to cust the Quebec group for defying an order that would have barred 18-year-old Ron Attwell from playing for the Montreal juniors Canadiens.</p><p>The governing body of the game in Canada took the action last week after a telegraph vote of member branches throughout the Dominion voted for the expulsion of the Quebec branch.</p><p>The dispute came to a head in Montreal when four top executives of the CAHA met privately and then reported to the QAHA executive, meeting at the same time, that the telegraph vote of the branch members upheld the officers&rsquo; recomendation of suspension.</p><p>At least one branch declined to vote, being of the opinion that the matter was of sufficient stature to be dealt with by the whole executive of the CAHA at a meeting.</p><p>In this way the parent body tossed the hot potato right back at the Quebec body and now it is up to the local body to make the next move.</p><p>Apparently they have decided to stand pat on their demand that Attwell should be permitted to play for the Habs, for the night after the meeting he was in the line-up of the Canadiens. and Sam Pollock, coach of the team, had stated that the youngster would play only so long as he had the QAHA&rsquo;s blessing.</p><p>The Immediate effect of the ousting was the elimination of Quebec teams from participating in the Alexander Trophy, Allan Cup and Memorial Cup playdowns. The general opinion is that there are at least three weeks for the two groups to kiss and make up, that being the time left before the Quebec branch would have to declare winners for the various trophy hunts.</p><p>It is thought that some kind of amicable agreement will be reached before that time&mdash;although this agreement would have to be of a nature that would allow both sides to &lsquo;save face&rsquo;&mdash;and that Quebec teams will go in search of Dominion championships as in other years.</p><p>It has also been stated that the CAHA may grant a few concessions to get its errant child back in the fold, for the Quebec body is the biggest financial contributor to the parent body. This remains to be seen.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

QAHA’s Move Now As CAHA Carries Out Suspension

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2>Reactions to Injuries</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>F</span>rank Boucher made an arresting statement here the other day when he said that no two hockey players reacted in quite the same way to injuries.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen fellows get cut on the head with a strick and jump up and continue to play,&rdquo; he elaborated. &ldquo;You&rsquo;d have to chase them to the clinic because you didn&rsquo;t like to see them out there with the blood running. I&rsquo;ve seen other fellows get the same kind of injury, put their hands up to the cut, see the blood and almost faint.&rdquo;</p><p>We went around to the Forum clinic to discuss the matter with Bill Head, who knows all about such things. Bill is the man who treats the players&rsquo; injuries, working in conjunction with Dr. Gordon Young, the club physician.</p><p>&ldquo;Boucher is right, of course,&rdquo; said Bill. &ldquo;Some players are hypersensitive to pain and others are almost impervious to it. The reason for that is the nervous system itself. But a man can be extremely sensitive to pain and yet be just as good a competitor as the player who isn&rsquo;t.</p><p>Would he think back and give us an example of the type that seemed able to dismiss an injury with the minimum amount of pain and worry.</p><p>&ldquo;Kenny Reardon,&rdquo; he said Instantly. &ldquo;I have seen him play with Injuries to his shoulder, knee and wrist, all at the same time. Any one of the Injuries would have been enough to put some other players out of action. Murphy Chamberlain and Toe Blake were the same type, but Reardon was in a class by himself. He had to be restrained.</p><p>&ldquo;The hyper-sensitive type suffers a slight injury and immediately decides that it will keep him out for a couple of games. It isn&rsquo;t that he lacks courage; it&rsquo;s jut his nervous system reacting.&rdquo;</p><h2>Phlegmatic or Volatile</h2><p>Could it be that imagination has something to do with it? It has been repeated over and over again that the English Tommy was a fine soldier because he lacked imagination while the Italian trooper, say, wasn&rsquo;t as good a soldier because his imagination worked overtime.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re talking about temperament,&rdquo; Bill corrected, &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s true that the Anglo-Saxon is somewhat phlegmatic while the Latin is volatile. The player with the phlegmatic temperament may be more consistent but he won&rsquo;t be able to rise to such heights as his volatile teammate.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;How would you class The Rocket?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a volatile type,&rdquo; was the answer, &ldquo;extremely emotional. But that&rsquo;s where his drive comes from and why he is able to rise to the big moments. His reactions are lightning fast.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What was he like when he had that injury last season?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;A bit difficult,&rdquo; said Bill. &ldquo;But that&rsquo;s understandable. The injury never was correctly diagnosed and that would worry anybody. I know it would worry me.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Did they ever find out exactly what was wrong with him?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;No, they didn&rsquo;t&rdquo; said Bill. &ldquo;It might have been any one of a number of things. But whatever it was it seems that rest was the remedy. He hasn&rsquo;t complained about it at all this season.&rdquo;</p><p>Dick Irvin said once last season that when Boom Boom Geoffrion was cut the sight of his own blood stimulated him and he played like a wild man.</p><p>&ldquo;Boom Boom is just a kid and that&rsquo;s a youthful reaction,&rdquo; said Bill. &ldquo;I can remember that he came into the clinic during a game last year to have some stitches taken in a cut and he was singing to himself. That was to keep his spirits up.&rdquo;</p><h2>Goalies a Race Apart</h2><p>As Bill sees them, goalkeepers are a race apart and their behavior is different from that of the other players.</p><p>&ldquo;They are under a continuous nervous strain,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;There is no release for them in activity. That&rsquo;s why they can stand still and yet perspire.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;s the 60 pounds of equipment that makes them sweat,&rdquo; it was suggested.</p><p>&ldquo;The equipment means nothing&mdash;it&rsquo;s the tension,&rdquo; said Bill.</p><p>&ldquo;How do they react to injuries?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;They become philosophical. But they can only stand that nervous strain a certain length of time. Then they buckle all at once. They wouldn&rsquo;t be human if they didn&rsquo;t. It happens to them all if they stay at it long enough.&rdquo;</p><p>The Toronto Leafs once had a forward named Pep Kelly who spent most of the playing season in the hospital. Every type of malady that was going around the league, whether ft was an epidemic of pink-eye or shoulder separations, he was sure to get it. What about a fellow like that?</p><p>&ldquo;Sounds suspiciously like a hypochondriac,&rdquo; said Bill.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s&middot; what Tim Daly, the Leafs&rsquo; trainer, said,&rdquo; Bill was told. &ldquo;But Tim had other theories, too. He claims that the development of the X-ray photo put hockey back 50 years. A fellow would fracture a finger and not know it was fractured. He&rsquo;d put some black electric tape on it and wouldn&rsquo;t miss a game.</p><p>&ldquo;Nowadays, the moment he learns from the X-rays that there&rsquo;s a fracture, he lays off until further X-rays assure him the finger is healed. It&rsquo;s making prima donnas of them. They were better off, in Tim&rsquo;s opinion, when they played their injuries out. Would you agree with that?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You know better, don&rsquo;t you?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m on the side of intelligence. Time marches on and so does science.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

f0004-02

Buckingham

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0176/1006631-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>IT LOOKS GOOD&mdash;Doug Bentley (left) who plays for the Saskatoon Quakers in the Western Hockey League approves of Max&rsquo;s new uniform after the latter went to the Leafs in that famous five-for-two deal a few years ago. Mas has finally hung up his skates.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-01

They’re Both Out Now

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Conn Smythe, vacationing managing director of the Toronto Maple Leafs stopped over here on his way homo from Florida and lost little time commenting on the now famous Max Bentley story.</p><p>Said Smythe: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no use Max playing hockey until he&rsquo;s 100 per cent right. He&rsquo;s feeling low in spirits. I&rsquo;m not going to talk to him but I&rsquo;ll wait until he&rsquo;s ready to talk to me.&rdquo;</p><p>Bentley has been played with injuries and illness during the current campaign and he was reported despondent when he decided to do his disappearing act. Smythe said he gave Bentley permission to take treatments on his own and get back into shape.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0262/1006662-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="414" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(CONN SMYTHE)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-02

Conn Smythe Says He’ll Wait For Max To Speak To Him

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Good deal, now we&rsquo;ll have empty seats for our coats and things,&rdquo; one balcony loyalist remarked some weeks ago when he learned that the Black Hawks were planning a return to television. It was such comments that caused no small amount of concern in the club&rsquo;s front office as the date for the video comeback neared.</p><p>Chicago&rsquo;s pucksters were in the midst of their best season in a number of years and box office receipts were going right along with the upsurge. Bringing telecasts back into the picture at this points loomed as a crucial gamble, but one that could apparently not be avoided.</p><p>TV enthusiasts had to be satisfied and they had been clamoring for Lockay&rsquo;s restoration to the see anr hear medium in Chicago ever since its departure four years ago. They wrote and they phoned&hellip;some merely inquired while others demanded and sometimes with rather lusty language.</p><p>Last fall, Hawk officials announced that they were going all out to bring about a reconcilia tion between the ice sport and television as soon as possible. Securement of a sponsor came quite easily, but the acquisition of air time proved to be somewhat of a problem. It was finally learned that third periods could be presented on Sunday nights after the first of the year.</p><p>January 18, the day of the video revival, arrived with the Hawks battling Toronto for third place in the very close NHL race. Sid Abel&rsquo;s skaters were slated to play hosts to New York and extensive promotional activity heralded the first of the eight scheduled telecasts for a week in advance.</p><p>The Chicagoans didn&rsquo;t miss putting on a good show for their largest home audience in history as they blanked the Rangers by a 2 to 0 count and took over sole possession of third place. As had been feared, however, the number of paying guests at the Stadium was low. As a matter of fact, the 10,814 patrons on hand represented the smallest weekend game crowd of the season.</p><p>&ldquo;I knew it,&rdquo; grumbled publicitor Joe Farrell the next day, &ldquo;now they&rsquo;ll all be staying home in their cosy living rooms to watch us. First thing you know, the only guys that will show up will be the vendors and they&rsquo;ll have to peddle their peanuts and popcorn to each other!&rdquo;</p><p>Fortunately for everyone concerned, the situation was not as Bad as Joe had first observed, it. An impressive throng of 16,104 spectators, the second largest turnout in the Windy City in three years, was in evidence the following week and, as things developed, this was only the beginning.</p><p>A total of 16,228 fans filled through the turnstiles at the Stadium on February 8 and they were the largest number to attend a National league game this season. This mark didn&rsquo;t stand long for it was boosted to 166,6518 just seven days later and by the time this reaches you, it may well have been bettered again.</p><p>Over 8 7,300 hockey followers showed up at the scene for the first six videoed ice battles. These turnouts averaged in excess of 14,500 persons per night and if the Hawks could have attracted similar crowds throughout their current home schedule, they would have come very close to the all-time record of 521-831 that they set back in 1946-47 during 30 games.</p><p>While all this was going on, the arm chair, stay at home watchers were well satisfied with the treatment of the third period action beamed into their homes and hangouts. Most didn&rsquo;t hesitate to admit the presentations were a 100 percent improvement over the original efforts in 1949 when television was still hobbling around in rompers.</p><p>Sidney J. Page Productions have been handling the programs over station WBBM-TV (former ly WBKB) on. channel 4 with Jack Page directing. Harry Birch, a veteran networker, has been the guiding hand behind the cameras while popular Joe Wilson has done the play-by-play commentary and Ed Pazdur, the sidelights between face-offs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Chicago Black Hawks Attendances Zoom Despite TV Return

<p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>When the Detroit Red Wings successfully repelled Montreal&rsquo;s desperate bid to forestall the clinching of their fifth staright NHL&middot; crown by edging Canadiens 4-3; recently, they unwittingly contributed to one of the stormiest aftermaths to take place at the Montreal Forum this year.</p><p>And while the Wings may not be aware of it, they also took part in one of the longest periods in the annals of the NHL. Before the opening chukkler was over the clocked had ticked oft close to 55 minutes.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0522/1006717-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="296" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Butch Bouchard)</span></figcaption></div><p>An audience of 14,751 had turned out to make &ldquo;Butch Bouchard Night&rdquo; a success and their lively spirits quickly turned to scorn when Referee Frank Udvari chased Dickie Moore and Tom Johnson, leaving the Montrealers two men short. Ted Lindsay pumped home a double relay from Gordie Howe and Reggie Sinclair to put the Wings ahead, 1-0. That stirred the crowd. Then when Lindsay blinked the light less than a minute later, the, storm broke.</p><p>The contention of almost everybody in the rink was that Glen Skov was standing in the crease. Gerry McNeil, who is usually a mild-mannered individual had to be restrained by his team-mates as he lunged at Udvari. Said Gerry in the dressing room afterwards: &ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t standing in the crease. He was in behind me in the nets.&rdquo;</p><p>Dick Irvin, never one not to make the most of such a situation, was livid. He berated the official and called the game one of the worst handled hockey games he&rsquo;d ever seen.</p><p>Udvari, for his part, calmly skated over to the bench and told the PA announcer, that unless the fans refrained from tossing things on the ice that he&rsquo;d call it then and there and award the game to Detroit.</p><p>When the barrage finally subsided, the game resumed and it was left to Marcel Bonin to score his first NHL goal and give the Wings the victory after Canadiens had come from behind to tie it up.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0005-05

Habs Infuriated Over Officiating As Wings Triumph

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01149/1006769-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="426" height="422"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>LTHOUGH SID ABEL</b> is playing coach of the Chicago Black Hawks, he is unable to argue an official&rsquo;s decision while he is on the ice. Only the captains and alternate captains are allowed to talk the officials. Therefore if Abel wishes to complain about something while he is playing he must make the beef through one of his captains or else go back to the players bench and yell from there. When he is on the bench his rights as a coach prevail&hellip;Boston Bruins&rsquo; Woody Dumart, oldest player in the NHL, has hinted recently that he would like to be a referee when his playing days are over&hellip;His pal Milt Schmidt wants to coach when he hangs up the blades for good, and Uncle Miltie is expected to be the next coach of the Bruins&hellip;There is a good chance that Ted Kennedy may be back with the Toronto Leafs in a week&rsquo;s time&hellip;Ed Slowinski started skating last week. The Ranger winger who broke his leg at the turn of the year is badly out of condition and will see little action this season&hellip;Dave Creighton, Boston&rsquo;s outstanding young center who broke his leg on New Year&rsquo;s Night, is also skating again. Creighton will line up with the Bruins in the near future&hellip;Lynn Patrick called New York&rsquo;s top forward unit of Paul Ronty, Wally Hergesheimer and Neil Strain, the Scavenger Line&hellip;&ldquo;He called them the Scavenger Line and they&rsquo;re been chocking him with garbage ever since,&rdquo; quipped Red Burnett of the Toronto Star&hellip;This line has been particularly effective against the Bruins since Patrick made that statement&hellip;Remember the famous &ldquo;S&rdquo; Line of the Montreal Maroons?&hellip;That trio was composed of Nels Stewart, Hooley Smith and Babe Siebert&hellip;Well, Toronto Maple Leafs have an &ldquo;S&rdquo; Line this year. It&rsquo;s made up Sid Smith, Ron Stewart and Tod Sloan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0253/1006762-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="316" height="459"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Woody Dumart)</span></figcaption></div><p><b>BOSTON BRUINS</b> recent road trip was a dismal flop. The Bruins want nine straight without a win playing away from Boston Garden&hellip;Three poorest crowds to watch the Rangers at Madison Square Garden this season were against Boston Bruins&hellip;All three games drew less than 5,000&hellip;Bob Goldham, Detroit Red Wings defenseman, has played 142 cansecutive NHL games without scouring a goal. Last time Goldham scored was against Chicago on February 7, 1951&hellip;Toronto&rsquo;s Jimmy Thomson has played 136 consecutive NHL games without notching a goal. Thomson scored his last goal on March 4, 1951 against New York&hellip;Goldham is rated by many as the most underrated player in the National Hockey League. No defenseman in the league stops more shots than Bob, and his steadying influence on the team is worth plenty&hellip;Goldham is real AllStar material&hellip;Removing a goalkeeper in the final stages of a game has worked out successfully only once this season in the National Hockey League. It has backfired eight times against the team removing the goalie&hellip;Toronto made the strategy pay off on November 27 against Chicago&hellip;Montreal Canadiens have incurred more major penalties than any other NHL team&hellip;The top ten scorers in the NHL are a durable lot. Only one of the ten has failed to play the full complement of games scheduled by his team. The exception is Canadiens&rsquo; Bert Olmstead, and he has missed only one game this season&hellip;Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay, Wally Hergesheimer, Maurice Richard, Alex Delvecchio, Paul Ronty, Metro Prystai, Red Kelly and Jim McFadden, the loop&rsquo;s top scorers, have not missed a single game played by their recpective teams this season&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0326/1006755-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="296" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Butch Bouchard)</span></figcaption></div><p><b>LORNE WORSLEY</b> is one New York Ranger certain to be back next season. His sensational play in the past three weeks has clinched the New York goaltending job for him for next year&hellip;Bob Goodaere, popular and capable forward with the Calgary Stampeders, is laid up with a serious kidney ailment in the Keith Sanitarium in Calgary. He would welcome hearing from hockey tans&hellip;If Guyle Fielder, rookie center star of the St. Louis Flyers, wins the American Hockey League scoring championship, he will create three new league marks. Never before has a member of the St. Louis team led the AHL in scoring. It will also be the first time a player born in the United States topped the point-getters. In addition it will be the only time a first-year rookie player has annexed the honors&hellip;Jack Mehlenbacher, NHL referee, has been drawing some fine comments for his work lately&hellip;If Bob Bailey ends the AHL season as the loop&rsquo;s Bad Man, he will be the first member of the Cleveland Barons to win this doubtful title&hellip;Herb Ralby upset more than one National Hockey League club by his recent story that four of the clubs would make coaching changes next season. There was no truth to the story and two of the coaches are still sizzling over Ralby&rsquo;s story&hellip;Chicago and Montreal players touring Europe this Spring will be asked to post a bond of $1,000 each in evidence of good faith in going through with the trip.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0413/1006748-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="293" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Guyle Fielder)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0006-01

PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-059/1006800-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2>Screen Shot</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I wish to have you settle an argument between a friend of mine and myself.</p><p>He says that a &lsquo;screen shot&rsquo; is when the goaler steps out of the net when he sees an opposing player has complete control of the puck and has a chance to really blast one.</p><p>I say that a &lsquo;screen shot&rsquo; is when the goaler cannot see where the puck is as there is a player or players in front of him blocking his view.</p><p>Garry Toppay, Copper Mt., B.C.</p><p>(You are right. A &lsquo;screen shot&rsquo; is when a goaler&rsquo;s view of the puck is &lsquo;screened&rsquo; by players in front of his net. Incidentally, NHL fans would get quite a kick out of, say, Gerry McNeil, stepping out of his net and saying to Gordie Howe. &ldquo;After you Gordie.&rdquo;)</p><h2>From Up North</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Is is possible to tell me who won the Stanley Cup in 1948-49 50-51-52?</p><p>My friend and I have been having an argument. I say that Detroit won the cup two years in a row. I hope to see the answer in THE HOCKEY NEWS Fan Forum. We have a good bet on the matter.</p><p>Louis Lelievre, Keno-City P.O., Yukon.</p><p>(The Stanley Cup winners for those years were as fellows: Toronto (&lsquo;48); Toronto (&lsquo;49); Detroit (&lsquo;50) Toronto (&lsquo;51); and Detroit (&lsquo;52). You lose.)</p><h2>T&rsquo;Ain&rsquo;t So!</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I enjoy reading your paper very much but I have one complaint to register&mdash;Why don&rsquo;t you have a story on &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly, the best deefnceman in the league (I can&rsquo;t see how Harvey of Canadians even rates with him). Also I would like to see a story on Ted Lindsay, great left winger, and enough cannot be said about the one and only-Gordie Howe (It&rsquo;s incredible that people have the nerve to compare Richard to him in any way).</p><p>I said that I enjoy your paper but I would enjoy it even more if you would stick more to the NHL and leave out the smaller leagues because I am quite sure that there are a lot of people who follow NHL hockey but who have never even heard of the other leagues (AHL, PCL, etc).</p><p>Jack Flood. Kilmar, Quebec.</p><p>(Come now, Jack. Not only have people heard of these leagues, but they follow them as avidly as you follow the NHL; As the International Hockey Weekly it is our duty to carry these leagues so that our readers in those districts, and others too, may read and enjoy the news about them.)</p><h2>Not Published Now</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>As owner of your &lsquo;Official NHL Record Book, through the 19 5051 season, I am interested in learning if you published an issue through the 1951-52 season.</p><p>Has the volume been discontinued and incorporated into the &lsquo;NHL Press and Radio Guide&rsquo; in eluding Jim Hendy&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;s Who in Hotkey?</p><p>The 1950-51 volume has Terry Sawchuk on the cover. If additional copies were published for 1951-52 will you please notify moof the cost?</p><p>John C. Bloomqusit, West Hartford, Conn.</p><p>(You have the last volume published of the Official NHL Record Book. It is no longer published.)</p><h2><b>Happy For Paul</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>We fans who seldom have the opportuity of seeing NHL hockey certainly appreciate your excellent coverage of it, and especially your very interesting weekly feature articles about NHL stars. We enjoy reading about their private lives and the amusing and sometimes amazing facts about their careers.</p><p>When I recently saw my very first NHL game in Toronto, I was able to pick out practically every player on both teams without a program, from having seen their pictures and reading about them in THE HOCKEY NEWS. Naturally, the Canadiens are my favorite team because so many of them formerly played in Buffalo.</p><p>Buffalo fans are very proud of Paul Meger, and I hope the Montreal fans appreciate him. No player before or since has captured our hearts as hard-working Paulie did, and our sorrow in losing him was more than compensated by the fact that he got his break when the Canadiens called him up.</p><p>Now for a favor&mdash;couldn&rsquo;t we have at least the statistics, such as you print on the Western League, for the Quebec Senior League? It is virtually impossible for us here in the states to get any information on this league and we certainly are Interested in it.</p><p>Thanks again for your excellent NHL coverage I&rsquo;ll be different by not asking for more coverage on my beloved AHL. I&rsquo;m satisfied.</p><p>June L. Arnold, Buffalo, N.Y.</p><h2><b>No Give Aways</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to the Fan Forum and I want you to know that I have always enjoyed reading your paper&mdash;that is, until today when I got my February 12th issue! In it is an article by Rex McLeod about the &ldquo;deteriorating&rdquo; Toronto Marlboros. I was absolutely livid when I read of the criticism given Johnny Henderson, their magnificent goalie. I saw that game that Mr. McLeod speaks of in his article and I know for a fact that Henderson&rsquo;s goaltending was above reproach! Especially in the second period of that game with Windsor, John made several truly exceptional saves. If some hockey fans are so ignorant as to think that he would ever &ldquo;give away&rdquo; any goals they need their heads examined!!!</p><p>I&rsquo;m sure it&rsquo;s true that the Marlies miss Eric Nesterenko but I feel sure that Bill McCreary will fill the spot very nicely in a very short time. As for the goalie spot, it&rsquo;s a shame that John Henderson is in his final year as a Junior player cause I think they&rsquo;ll have a hard time finding anyone as good. As one of his number one fans, I wish tim the very best&mdash;I think that&rsquo;s what he is!!!</p><p>Micheal Sullivan, Royal Oak, Mich.</p><h2>No Scoring Crown</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Everyone thinks that Gordie Howe is going to break the record set by the greatest player in the history of hockey Maurice Rocket Richard, that is, getting fifty goals in seventy games, but everyone must know that The Rocket set the record in fifty games, therefore he is not as good as the rocket on that point.</p><p>Did Richard ever win the scoring crown?</p><p>B. Broderick, Fogo, Nfld.</p><p>(Richard never won the scoring crown but led in goals in 1944-45, 1946-47 and 1949-50,&rsquo;</p><h2>Gee, Denks!</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Dropping you a line to let you know that I like your issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS very much and would like to start getting the paper.</p><p>A rabid hockey fan, I see most of my games at Pittsburgh, however I follow the National league too, but sometimes cannot get the information your paper always has about the other leagues. In my opinion hockey needs more publicity in Ohio and West Virginia.</p><p>Of the several papers I obtained in Pittburgh the past few weeks, I have enjoyed your feature stories very much. Looking forward of getting the paper and will try and get others interested, who go to these games with me.</p><p>Johnny N. Antonelly, Steubenville, Ohio.</p><h2>Took Howe Longer</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been an ardent reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS for many years and an interested in reading all the various letters from the sport fans throughout Canada.</p><p>I wonder if you could answer this question for me. How many games it took Maurice Richard to score his 200th goals and how many games it took Gordie Hewe to score his 200th goals.</p><p>Rene Simon, Shediac, N.B.</p><p>(Richard scored his 200th goal in his 807th game while Howe&rsquo;s came in his 422nd contest.)</p><h2>Likes Gelineau</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have just started reading THE HOCKEY NEWS and think its great.</p><p>How about some stories on the Quebec Senior Hockey League and Jack Gelineau in particular? I would also like all the information you have on Jack Gelineau.</p><p>Gordon Smith, Wesmount, Que.</p><p>(Jack Gelineau was born in Toronto, Ont., on Nov. 11, 1924. He last played amateur with the McGill University Redmen and got into four games with the Boston Bruins in the 1948-49 season. He became the regular Bruin netminder in the 1949-50 season and won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year. The next season he was also the regular Boston goaler but was replaced last season by Sugar Jim Henry. The past two seasons he&rsquo;s split the goaltendingjob for the Quebec Aces with Jean Marois.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-05

THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-068/1006831-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="590" height="272"></div><h2><b>MARCH 13 TO MARCH 19</b></h2><p>13&mdash;DOROHOY, Eddie, Victoria playing coach, 1929; IRWIN, Ivan, Victoria defense, 1927; BELL, Gordie, Syracuse goa ler 1925.</p><p>15&mdash;STRONGMAN, Bernie, Victoria defense, 1919; BULLER. Hy, New York defense, 1926.</p><p>17&mdash;LESWICK, Tony, Detroit forward, 1931.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-06

Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01100/1006897-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="288" height="502"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Maurice Richard)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0278/1006890-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="300" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Gordie Howe)</span></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Who are the two right wingers in the National Hockey League most deserving oi AllStar positions on their play this season?</p><p>That is the question now facing you, the fans, as we ask you to make your selection for right wing in this, the Sixth Annual HOCKEY NEWS Fans&rsquo; All-Star Poll.</p><p>This year more than any recently, the selection will be tough, for at least six men have shown by their play thus far. that they are All-Star candidates. Right at the moment, the odds seem to favour Gordie Howe, the prolific scoring ace of the Detroit Red Wings. Undoubtedly, he will receive one of the posts, but what of the other?</p><p>Several starboard wingers are bunched together right at the moment in the scoring column and for this reason it is especially important that you keep an open mind on the right wing nominee until very close to the end of the ballotting, in case of the aspirants come roaring down the stretch with some kind of a sustained drive that might earn him the position.</p><p>Rules of the All-Star voting have been especially drafted so that no ballot can be cast until the season is virtually over, thus allowing you to judge the players on a full season&rsquo;s play, rather than a segment thereof.</p><p>Ballots for your choice of the top men at each position and in the coaching job appear once each week in THE HOCKEY NEWS. The final one, in the March 28 issue, provides space for you to write your name and address&mdash;and ALL SIX BALLOT FORMS MUST BE RETURNED AT THE SAME TIME, PROPERLY FILLED IN, TO BE ELIGIBLE.</p><p>After you receive the issue with the final ballot, you will have until MIDNIGHT TUESDAY, MARCH 31, to make your final deciBions and get your votes in&mdash;so please don&rsquo;t send in any individual ballots now, because they will not be counted.</p><p>Following the usual procedure, the outstanding right wing candidates have been selected for brief &ldquo;thumb nail&rdquo; sketching. At the moment, these are the best players at the position, but please remember that you are free to vote for other candidates who may appear superior performers as the season winds to its close.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0353/1006883-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="302" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Gerry Couture)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0449/1006876-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="294" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(W. Hergesheimer)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0537/1006869-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="288" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Joe Klukay)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0628/1006862-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="302" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Bill Mosienko)</span></figcaption></div><p>GORDIE HOWE&mdash;The tall, husky pride of the Detroit Red Wings has been around potting goals with such regularity over the last seven seasons, that everyone is inclined to figure him as an &lsquo;oldtimer.&rsquo; Actually the native of Floral, Sask., is only 24, and won&rsquo;t be 25 until the last day of this month. Howe turned pro with Omaha of the USHL in 1945-4 6 and has been a Red Wing fixture ever since. Top point gatherer and goal scorer for the last two seasons, Howe seems destined to cop both honours again this season and may even break Maurice Richard&rsquo;s record of 50 goals in one season. If he does take the point crown, he will be the first NHL player ever to win it three times in a row.</p><p>MAURICE RICHARD&mdash;This was probably the most memorable season in the star studded career of the colourful Richard, due to the fact that early in the campaign he shattered Nels Stewart&rsquo;s all time goal scoring mark of 324. Now every time he scores he sets a new record. Ever since he broke in with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1942-43 season, the Montreal-born &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; has been setting records. The deceptive, hot tempered, swing-and-sway skater will be 33 next August 4. At his present clip, Richard could possibly hit 30 goals this season, which, although most players would consider it exceptional, is nothing out of the ordinary for The Rocket.</p><p>BILL MOSIENKO&mdash;Last member of the fabulous &lsquo;Pony Line&rsquo; still with the Chicago Black Hawks, Mosienko is still the class of his club. The 31-year-old &lsquo;Mosie&rsquo; is in his twelfth season in Hawk livery and must be considered one of the all-time Chicago greats. Born in Winnipeg, Man. on November 2, 1921, the 5&rsquo; 8&rdquo;, 160-pound winger is a member of the famous 200-goal club. He never racked up his goals in large bunches&mdash;his best effort was the 30 goals he potted during the 1943-44 campaign&mdash;but was always a consistent performer, the kind you want on your club when the going is toughest.</p><p>WALLY HERGESHEIMER&mdash;A close runner-up to Bernie Geoftrion last year for rookie-of-the-year honours, the diminutive Hergy really came into his own this season, and is the leading sniper on the New York Ranger team. Born January 8, 1927 in Winnipeg, Man., the 5&rsquo; 8&rdquo;, 155-pouud Hergesheimer came to the Rangers last season with Hy Buller from the Cleveland Barons of the AHL where he had won the rookie award the year before. Originally on the New York list, Hergy was released, but then grabbed back when he became the sensation of the American loop. He is the living denial of Leo Durocher&rsquo;s statement that &lsquo;Nice guys don&rsquo;t win&rsquo; for although one of the loop&rsquo;s top scolers, he has a minimum of penalty time to his credit.</p><p>JOE KLUKAY&mdash;The Boston Bruins this year acquired Klukay from the Toronto Maple Leafs and it proved to be one of the better moves the Bears have made. Supposedly of no more use to the Leafs, Klukay fitted into Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s scheme of things in great fashion and is enjoying one of the best years of his NHL career. The 31-year-old veteran of seven campaigns in the big league was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and is 6&rsquo; and 170 pounds. His best season was in 1949-50 when he scored 15 goals and had 16 assists for 31 points, a mark he is almost certain to pass this year.</p><p>GERRY COUTURE&mdash;When the Montreal Canadiens let &lsquo;Doc&rsquo; go last season to the Cleveland Barons of the AHL, it seemed like the end of the NHL trail for the native of Saskatoon, Sask. But then Sid Abel was appointed coach of the Cihcago Black Hawks and he, having played with Couture at Detroit, had great faith in the 28-year-old winger and asked the Hawk management to purchase him from the Barons. Couture didn&rsquo;t let Abel down. His comeback this year has been just short of sensational and to date he&rsquo;s scored 16 goals and been helpmate on 17 others, to surpass his highest previous NHL mark. If the Chi-Hawks make the playoffs, a lot of the credit can go to the 6&rsquo; 2&rdquo;, 185-pound &lsquo;Doctor.&rsquo;</p><h2><b>Voting Rules</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Anyone is eligible to east 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, dedefensemen, right wing, left wing, center 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 in 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 tieface your eppy. 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, 309 Empire Life Bldg., 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>

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Poll Moves Up To Forward Line; Right Wingers Up For Selection Led By Howe, Richard and Hergy

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Starting in the March 14 Issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS and for five weeks after that. Jim Hendy, General Manager of the Cleveland Barons of the AHL, will write a series of articles picking six AllStar teams, selected by decades.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0365/1007028-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="294" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Jim Hendy)</span></figcaption></div><p>The first article will cover the teams of the first two decades, 1800 to 1900 and 1900 to 1910.</p><p>Mr. Hendy was the author of the &lsquo;Who&rsquo;s Who in Hockey&rsquo;, before that publication became part of the NHL Press and Radio Guide.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Articles By Hendy To Begin March 14

<p>OSHAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Jerry Toppazzini rounded out his tour of playing positions ipan exhibition game which the Boston Bruins played with the Oshawa Generals here last week.</p><p>Toppazzini tended goal for the Bruins for the last three and one &ndash; half minutes of the game, after young Mike Cirka of Oshawa, playing for the Bruins, was struck in the face by a Bill Quackenbush shot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0524/1007059-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="304" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Gerry Toppazzini)</span></figcaption></div><p>The colorful Toppazzini, working without pads, made three fine saves and convulsed the crowd of more than 3000 by following up one of his stops with a rink-length rush.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Versatile Topper Takes Up Goaling

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>If the NHL awarded a trophy to its most underrated player, left winger Marty Pavelich of Detroit&rsquo;s Red Wings would be a top candidate. Though his diligent work is frequently overshadowed by his All-Star teammates, as a checker he has few peers and has been a great factor in the Wings success story.</p><p>Now in his sixth season, Pavelich is a product of the Detroit farm system. He learned his hockey in Sault Ste Marie, Ont., and was guided to a pro career by Fred Cox of the Soo and Carson Cooper, ex-Detroit scout. When he graduated to junior ranks he was sent to the Galt Red Wings of the OHA. At the start of the 1947-48 season the 19-year-old Pavelich joined the Indianapolis Capitals of the AHL, and after playing 26 games was promoted to the Wings to play 41 games.</p><p>The following year he played the full 60 game schedule with Detroit and except for a brief, six game session with Indianapolis early in the 1949-50 campaign, has been a permanent member of the Wings. While he has not&rdquo; been overburdened with publicity, Pavelich has no complaints about the situation. His main ambition was to play in the NHL, and now that he has attained that goal, his main desire is to remain. &ldquo;I love hockey,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;A hockey player&rsquo;s life is great. He can travel, meet nice, interesting people and receives a good salary. If I had to start all over again, I&rsquo;d choose the same career.&rdquo;</p><p>Pavelich is an adept penalty killer and does this in addition to playing on a regular line. Since joining the Wings he has had a number of linemates, but for the past two years has played fairly regularly with, Tony Leswick and Glen Skov. His line, noted for its checking ability, is generally pitted against the opposition&rsquo;s top scorers and the Pavelich check is usually a very frustrated man before the game is over.</p><p>Though he is valuable at all times, Pavelich has given some terrific playoff performances. In the spring of 1950, Detroit lost the services of Gordie Howe as they bowed 5-0 to Toronto in the first game of the semi-finals. The Wings, assuming the role of underdog, had to juggle their lineup in an effort to make the uphill battle, but it was the fierce-checking Pavelich line which helped lay the groundwork for subsequent Detroit victory.</p><p>In the fourth game of the series, Max Bentley scored at 3: 34 of the first period to give Toronto a 1-0 lead, but the puck possessive Pavelich nulified that seven minutes later to keep Detroit in the battle. After a nerve wracking overtime session, Leo Reise banged in the winning counter.</p><p>Another important Pavelich goal was scored in the sixth game with the Wings facing elimination. Toronto had a decided edge in the early moments of the opening period until Pavelich came to the rescue scoring the goal which changed the complexion of the game. Detroit handed the Leafs a 4-0 defeat and eliminated them in the Seventh game. After another gruelling seven game series they disposed of the Rangers to win the Stanley Cup.</p><p>Martin Nicholas Pavelich was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Nov. 6th, 1927, and is one of six children. He has two older sisters and three young brothers. One brother is already launched on a hockey career, playing for a school team, and hopes to follow in Marty&rsquo;s footsteps. His family, all rabid Detroit supporters, travel to the Olympic to see their favorite player in action. Justly proud of their son, his parents work as hard as Marty during a game and can hardly talk when It&rsquo;s over.</p><p>Pavelich, who was nicknamed Sabu by Jimmy Peters, has raven hair, dark eyes and a ready smile. He will look quite serious when answering a question, but his eyes have a definite twinkle. To quote Miss Marguerite Norris, &ldquo;He has eyes that talk.&rdquo; The good humoured winger is an ardent dancer&mdash;once he starts he hates to stop. He likes all kinds of dancing and music and at the moment is trying to master the Charleston. Pavelich and roommate Red Kelly are the Wings best dancers, though each claims the other is the better dancer.</p><p>On road trips, Pavelich and his teammates while away the hours seeing shows and movies. He finds time passes quickly in New York. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s because we see all the shows,&rdquo; he laughs. &ldquo;Annie Get Your Gun&rdquo; heads his list of favorites. He has no favorite wearing apparel. He likes ail clothes and is fond of bow ties.</p><p>Asked to name his toughest opponents, he smiled wryly and said &ldquo;They&rsquo;re all good.&rdquo; He finds Leafs&rsquo; Jimmy Thomson a difficult defenseman to elude and Maurice Richard a hard man to check. Oddly enough, he is at his tenacious best when checking the Rocket. When Detroit prepared to meet Canadiens in the Cup finals last year, Pavelich was assigned to shadow Richard, who had enjoyed great success against Boston in the semi-finals. He did such a masterful job, that the Rocket appeared to be handcuffed and was held pointless during the four game series, while Pavelich took time out from his checking chores to score a well executed goal and assist on two others.</p><p>To date, his greatest thrills in hockey have been winning the Stanley Cup and scoring his first NHL goal. He remembers all the details of his first big league counter. It was scored in the Olympia on December 13th, 1947, against Emile Francis of Chicago. He scored at 4: 16 of the first period on a Howe rebound.</p><p>A typical hockey player, steak is his basic food during the rigorous seventy game schedule, though he is obviously not a fussy eater when he says &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll eat anything except warm beets.&rdquo; His favorite food is spaghetti&mdash;especially if it is prepared by his Mother, who has gained fame with that dish. Mrs. Pavelieh&rsquo;s culinary efforts make a hit with her son&rsquo;s teammates, too. The Wings train at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and each fall the entire team visits the Pavelich home for a spaghetti dinner.</p><p>In the off-season, the 5&rsquo; 11&rdquo;, 170-pound Pavelich lives with his parents in Sault Ste. Marie. He works in the advertising dept of the Lock City Beverages and is manager and coach of a baseball team sponsored by the Coca Cola Co. Golf is one of his summer pastimes and he shoots in the low eighties. With the help of his family he is building a cabin near Lake Superior. It has three bedrooms, a large living room and a nifty kitchen. The colour scheme will probably be red and white&mdash;the Detroit colours and it may be called &ldquo;Sabu Inn.&rdquo;</p><p>Being on the checking line does not give Pavelich too much opportunity to show his prowess as a scorer, but while teammates Howe and Lindsay blink the red lights, the backchecking specialist has the equally important task of keeping enemy snipers scoreless.</p><p>If Detroit can win their fifth consecutive NHL championship and renew their lease on the Stanley Cup. they will not only create a record, but will make Marty Pavelich the happiest player in the league. And if they accomplish this feat a good deal of credit should go to the underrated Mr. Pavelich.</p><h2>Nicknamed Sabu</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01133/1006959-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="684" height="934"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(MARTY PAVELICH)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Marty Pavelich One Of NHL’s Most Underrated Stars

<h2><b>Lum Ties Gerry</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>arry Lumley of the Toronto Maple Leafs has managed to tie Gerry McNeil of the Montreal Canadiens for shutout leadership. Each has scored nine goose eggs to date.</p><h2><b>Long Period</b></h2><p>Although it Isn&rsquo;t known whether or not it is a record, the first period of the Detroit-Montreal game on Feb. 28 must have been one of longest ever. It took 54 minutes to play.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p><b>Douglas Norman Harvey is the name, but in the opinion of many of hockey&rsquo;s more astute experts, the title is &lsquo;All-Star&rsquo;.</b></p><p><b>The burly Montreal Canadien defenseman was voted to the first All-Star team last Spring and if he misses the honor again this year, there are going to be a lot of confused people around the NHL circuit, for the current campaign; Harvey is enjoying one of the best seasons he&rsquo;s ever had.</b></p><p><b>In his fifth full season as a Canadian regular the 28-year-old native Montrealer has 31 points to his credit at the latest reckoning and has been a tower of strength all season defensively. Although he is one of the best rushers in the game, big Doug always manages to get back in time to thwart enemy snipers at the doorstep.</b></p><p><b>This past week Doug added two goals to his collection and now boasts an even four which along with his 27 assists gives him 31 points, impressive indeed for a rearguard.</b></p><p><b>Harvey was for his first three seasons, a problem. He was good, there was no getting around that, and he had all the natural ability any player could want, but there still seemed to be something lacking and as often as not, the fans would &lsquo;get on&rsquo; him. Now he&rsquo;s not booed, to the contrary, he&rsquo;s given rousing cheers whenever he pulls off one of his spectacular rink length rushes or steps bodily into some onrushing enemy forward.</b></p><p><b>He came up to the Habs from the Allan Cup winning Royals of 1946-47, where he played with his present teammates, Floyd Curry and Gerry McNeil. After a brief spell with the Buffalo Bisons of the AHL, he became a Montreal regular, a job he seems destined to hold for some time to come.</b></p><p><b>They can talk about their Kellys, Pronovosts, Reises and Thomsons but ask any Montreal fan their favourite defenseman. Loud and clear will come the answer, &lsquo;Doug Harvey.&rsquo;</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0638/1007222-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="298" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Doug Harvey)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Player—Of—The—Week

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The battle for the last two playoff positions in the National Hockey League is as close as the pages in a book. Three clubs, Toronto, Chicago and Boston, are fighting for the coveted third and fourth places in the standings. Right now Toronto stands third with 58 points, Chicago is fourth with 57 and Boston is fifth with 56. New York Rangers are sixth and last with 45 points. Detroit and Canadiens are one-two in the standings with 75 and 69 points respectively.</p><p>Gordie Howe leads the National Hockey League goal scorers and point-collectors by the biggest margins of any player in the history of the League. Howe has scored 42 goals and 3 9 assists for 81 points. Twenty-one points behind him is Ted Lindsay with 25 goals and 3 5 assists for 60 points. The Detroit twosome are pulling further ahead of the other N.H.L. marksmen all the time. Maurice Richard of Canadiens is third with 23 goals. 31 assists. 54 pts. Wally Hergesheimer of Rangers follows with 26 goals. 2 7 assists, 53 points. Fifth place among the circuit&rsquo;s premier point-collectors goes to Detroit&rsquo;s Alex Delvecchio with 11 goals and 37 assists for 4 points. Delvecchio&rsquo;s 3 7 assists is high for the League just as Howe&rsquo;s 42 goals is tops among the goal-scoring fraternity.</p><p>Harry Lumley, Toronto&rsquo;s outstanding twine-tender, chalked up his ninth shutout during the week. He and Gerry McNeil of Canadiens are the League&rsquo;s shutout champs. Each has blenked the opposition on nine occasions this season. Detroit&rsquo;s Terry Sawchuk leads in the Vezina Trophy competition. Detroit Red Wings have had 118 goals scored against them in 59 contests for an even two goals-against average.</p><p>Most penalized team is Toronto with 755 minutes, while most penalized players are Fern Flaman of Toronto and Ted Lindsay of Detroit with 102 minutes each.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDINGS ON MON. A.M., MARCH 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01117/1007191-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="586" height="185"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p>Feb. 25th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Toronto 1</p><p>Feb. 25th&mdash;Boston 1 at Rangers 2</p><p>Feb. 26th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Canadiens 4</p><p>Feb. 27th&mdash;Boston 0 at Chicago 3</p><p>Feb. 28th&mdash;Detroit 4 at Canadiens 1</p><p>Feb. 28th&mdash;Rangers 0 at Toronto 3</p><p>Mar. 1st&mdash;Toronto 2 at Rangers 4</p><p>Mar. 1st&mdash;Boston 2 at Chicago 2</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES</b></h3><p>Mar. 2nd&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Mar. 4th&mdash;Chicago at Rangers</p><p>Mar. 5th&mdash;Canadiens at Boston</p><p>Mar. 5th&mdash;-Toronto at Chicago</p><p>Mar. 5th&mdash;Rangers at Detroit</p><p>Mar. 7th&mdash;Chicago at Canadiens</p><p>Mar. 7th&mdash;Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Mar. 7th&mdash;Rangers at Boston</p><p>Mar. 8th&mdash;Canadiens at Ranger</p><p>Mar. 8th&mdash;Toronto at Detroit</p><p>Mar. 8th&mdash;Chicago at Boston</p><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>(Including Game Sunday March 1st)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0366/1007184-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="601" height="3361"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25 Montreal 2 at Toronto 1</b></h3><p>TORONTO&mdash;Doug Harvey and Elmer Lack each scored a goal in the first period and the Montreal Canadiens held on the rest of the way to gain a 2-1 decision over the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>George Armstrong scored the lone Toronto goal in the second period.</p><p>Gerry McNeil was called upon to make a 27 saves to 15 for Harry Lumley.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil: defence, Harvey. St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson; forwards, Moore. Gamble, Curry, Lach. Richard, Olmstead, Reay, Geoffrion, Meger. Mosdell. McCormack.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson, Morrison, Flaman, Horton, Boivin; forwards, Migay, Watson, Armstrong, Hassard, Hannigan, Nesterenko, Sloan, Smith. Stewart. Maloney.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick: linesmen, Doug Davies and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0297/1007177-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="603" height="377"></div><h3><b>Boston 1 at New York 1</b></h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;The cellar dwelling New York Rangers played the role of &lsquo;spoilers&rsquo; as they kept the Boston Bruins from taking over third place in the NHL&middot; by. dumping them 2-1.</p><p>Pete Babando and Allan Stanley were the Ranger riflers while Ed Sandford tallied the lone Boston counter.</p><p>The Bruins threw everything but the penalty bench at Lorne Worsley in the final stages of the third period but the crew cut kid was invincible and turned aside a total of 30 shots to Sugar Jim Henry&rsquo;s 31.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry: defence, Quackenbush, Godfrey, Martin, Laycoe, Toppazzini; forwards, Mackell, Peirson, Sanford, Schmidt, Klukay, Chevrefils, Sullivan. Dumart, McIntyre, Lund.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Stanley, Kraftcheck, Howell, Buller, Reise, Raleigh, Mickoski, Guidolin, Stoddard, Babando, Prentice, Kullman, Bathgate.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey: linesmen, Sammy Babcock, Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01132/1007170-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="612" height="334"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26</b></h3><p>Toronto 1 at Montreal 4</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;For the second time in as many nights the Montreal Canadiens turned back the Toronto Maple Leafs, this time at home and by a 4-1 score.</p><p>Ken Mosdell scored what proved to be the winner in the second period. Other Montreal marksmen were Floyd Curry, Bert Olmstead and Bernie Geoffrion while Tod Sloan accounted for the lone Toronto marker.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Flaman, Boivin, Thomson, Morrison, Horton; forwards: Sloan, Stewart, Smith, Hassard, Nesterenko, Watson. Migay, Maloney, Armstrong, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson; forwards: Reay, Geoffrion, Meger, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Moore, Gamble, Curry, McCormack, Mosdell.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0299/1007163-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="612" height="604"></div><h3>FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27, 1953</h3><p><b>Toronto 1 at Canadiens 4</b></p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal. Lumley,; defence, Flaman, Boivin, Thomson, Morrison, Horton; forwards, Sloan, Stewart, Smith, Hassard, Nesterenko, Watson, Migray, Maloney, Armstrong, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, St-Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson; forwards, Reay, Geoffrion, Meger, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Moore, Gamble, Curry, McCormack, Mosdell.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey, Linesmen; Doug Davies and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0382/1007156-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="614" height="536"></div><h3>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28</h3><p><b>Rangers 0, Toronto 3</b></p><p>TORONTO&mdash;Goaler Harry Lumlet climbed into a tie with Montreal&rsquo;s Gerry McNeil for league shutout honours as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the New York Rangers 3-0. Each goaler now has nine goose eggs.</p><p>Eric Nesterenko, Tim Horton and Tod Sloan scored for the Leafs.</p><p>The first period was scoreless but the Leafs potted a pair in the second and added another in the final frame.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Reise, Buller, Howell, Kraftcheck, Stanley; forwards, Mickoski, Stoddard. Kullman, Raleigh, Ronty, Guidolin, Babando, Senick, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Strain.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson, Morrison, Flaman, Boivin, Horton; forwards, Sloan, Stewart, Smith, Hassard Nesterenko, Hannigan, Migay, Armstrong, Watson, Maloney,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0457/1007149-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="608" height="338"></div><h3>Detroit 4 at Canadiens 3</h3><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Rookie Marcel Bonin scored near the half way mark to give the Detroit Red Wings a 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens. The loss was the only mar on an otherwise successful &lsquo;Butch Bouchard Night&rsquo; at the Montreal Forum.</p><p>The crowd of 14, 751 fought almost as hard as the Habs and showered the ice with debris on numerous occasions to protest decisions by referee Frank Udvari, The first period alone took 54 minutes to play.</p><p>Other Detroit marksmen were Ted Lindsay with a pair and Johnny Wilson, while Bert Olmstead, Dickie Moore and Dog Harvey scored for Montreal.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuck; defense, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards, Prytai, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Delvecchio, Sinclair, Wilson, Bonin.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson,, Harvey, St. Laurent, Macpherson; forwards, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Reay, Geoffrion, Meger, Mosdell, Gamble, Curry, Moore, McCormack.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari. Linesmen; Bill Morrison and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0831/1007142-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="600" height="654"></div><h3>SUNDAY MARCH 1, 1953</h3><p><b>Chicago 2 at Boston 2</b></p><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Veteran Boston Captain Milt Schmidt scored both of his team&rsquo;s goals as the Bruins and the Chicago Black Hawks battled to a 2-2 tie at Chicago.</p><p>The tie left the Chi-Hawks one point ahead of the Beantowners in fourth place.</p><p>Chicago&rsquo;s two goals were scored by Jimmy Peters and Jimmy McFadden.</p><p>Schmidt&rsquo;s second goal came at the 14: 42 mark of the third period and was the equalizer.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defense, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Toppazzini, Martin, Laycoe,; forwards, Peirson, Mac kell, Sandford, Dumart, Schmidt, McIntyre, Chevrefils, Klukay, Sullivan, Lund.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defense, Fogoin, Gadsby, Mortson, Dewsbury, Price; forwards, Mosienko, Bodnar, Gee, McFadden, Lynn, Couture, Peters, Abel, Gardner, Finney, Hucul.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0546/1007135-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="604" height="398"></div><h3>Toronto 2 at New York 4</h3><p>NEW YORK&mdash;The lowly New York Rangers didn&rsquo;t have too many scoring opportunities but those that they did have they made the most of as they downed tehe Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2.</p><p>It was only New York&rsquo;s second win of the season over the third place Leafs.</p><p>Wally Hergesheimer, Eddi Kullman with a pair and Hy Buller were the New Ford markmen while Sid Smith and Ron Stewart potted singals or the Torontonians.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Flaman, Boivin, Thomson, Morrison, Horton, Hassard; forwards, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Watson, Schmidt, Sloan, Armstrong, Stewart, Maloney, Marshall.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Reise, Buller, Howell, Kraftcheck, Stanley, Mickoski; forwards, Stoddard, Kullman, Ronty, Murphy, Guldolin, Babando, Prentice, Hergecheimer, Strain.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen, Dom Baolto, Sammy Badcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0643/1007128-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="602" height="544"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS, RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0455/1007121-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="608" height="381"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0545/1007114-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="551" height="172"></div><h3>ROSTER CHANGES</h3><p><b>Toronto:</b> Add: Marshall, Willmott (Recalled from loan to Pittsburgh under emergency conditions).</p><p><b>Rangers:</b> Add: Murphy, Ron (Signed contract with Rangers).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hawks, Bruins Leafs Locked In Bitter Battle For Third

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A yearning which Lynn Patrick developed more than two years ago was fulfilled unexpectedly last week, when Frank Martin became a member of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>Martin is a 19-year-old defenseman, and the Bruins brought him up from Hershey of the American League as an emergency replacement for Bob Armstrong.</p><p>Patrick promptly put the six-foot one-inch 190-pound youngster to work as Hal Layeoe&rsquo;s partner, the role which the 21-year-old Armstrong filled until he received a dislocated shoulder in a game with the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Martin and Patrick are old acquaintances, and the Bruins&rsquo; coach revealed at the time of the big fellow&rsquo;s promotion that their first meeting was, for him, a memorable one.</p><p>&ldquo;When I came to Boston in 1950, my first official act was to attend the amateur tryouts which we conducted in Barrie, Ontario, that fall&rdquo;, related Lynn.</p><p>&ldquo;I was immediately impressed by the potential ability of some of the youngsters whom Harold Cotton (Bruin&rsquo;s scout) had rounded up, but the one who impressed me the most at first look was Martin.</p><p>&ldquo;To me he was the greatest looking young defenseman I&rsquo;d ever seen, and I was sure then and there that he&rsquo;d be playing for the Bruins some day.</p><p>&ldquo;He could have played professional hockey a year ago, except that we thought he was a little young, but I was sure that all he needed was professional experience.</p><p>&ldquo;Now he has had the benefit of most of a season at Hershey&rdquo;, added Patrick, &ldquo;and I feel that he&rsquo;ll be ready shortly to hold his own with any young defenseman in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>The injury to Armstrong, the sixth of major proportions suffered by a Bruin&rsquo;s regular this season, came at a most unfortunate time. It disrupted the stout defense which perked up the team after Layco&rsquo;es return from a six-week layoff.</p><p>The blond collegian suffered the injury when he and Ben Woit, Detroit defenseman, jammed into the boards during a game here. Armstrong was ruled out for a period of three weeks by Dr. Thomas A. Kelly, the Bruins&rsquo; physician.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll miss his steadiness,&rdquo; lamented Patrick. &ldquo;He was having in fine rookie season. There were times when Bill Quackenbush was ailing and Laycoe was out that he kept our defense together.&rdquo;</p><p>Martin, who supercedes Real Chevrefils (20) as the youngest Bruin, played for St. Catharine&rsquo;s TeePees of the Ontario Junior Hockey Association a year ago, operating mainly as a forward and making 25 goals and 30 assists.</p><p>Two years ago he was named an all-star defenseman as a TeePee, and most of his work at Hershey this year was at that position, although Coach Murray Henderson of the Bears also employed him as an emergency forward.</p><p>Married and the father of a daughter, Martin is a pitcher under contract to the Brooklyn baseball Dodgers. A native of Cayuga, Ontario, he now makes his home in St. Catharine&rsquo;s.</p><p>Martin followed another Hershey player to Boston by four days, because George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, the effervescent center, was also brought back to the varsity on an emergency basis as the Bruins neared the close of a month-long home stand.</p><p>Sullivan replaced Capt. Milt Schmidt when the Bruins&rsquo; medical staff put its foot down and refused to let the veteran warhorse play a couple of games with a paltry&mdash;for him&mdash;cracked rib.</p><p>Schmidt sustained his hurt in a game with Montreal when he slid into the butt-end of his own stick, but he played the following game. Then he acceded to orders to have x-rays and the crack turned up. He refused to rest for more than the two games he missed.</p><p>Patrick put Sullivan back between Jack McIntyre and Jerry Toppazzini, his wingmates during his 11-game stay here last month, and the trio gave Boston fans atleast one game by which to remember them.</p><p>In the same Detroit game in which Armstrong was lost, the Bruins were being snowed under so Patrick threw Sullivan&rsquo;s lin&middot; against the Detroit line which includes Ted Lindsay and Gordon Howe.</p><p>With the 188-pound McIintyr&middot; and the 182-pound Toppazzini throwing the checks, the line had Detroit players dropping the puck left and right to avoid being pulverized.</p><p>For the second consecutive Sunday night&mdash;the first was against Montreal&mdash;the Bruins overcame a three-goal deficit, and if they couln&rsquo;t leave the customers happy, at least they left them cheering.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lynn Had Eyes On Frank Martin From Very Start

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-07" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0732/1007277-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>G</span>ordie Howe&rsquo;s chances of breaking Maurice Richard&rsquo;s record of 50 goals in a season grew slimmer as he was held scoreless during the past week. He now has only 11 games in which to score the nine goals needed to eclipse the mark.</b></p><h2><b>IN A CAPSULE</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Shooting to a Record

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Coronation CANADIAN WHISKY

<h2><b>Rookie Hotshot</b></h2><p>Guyle Fielder of the St. Fouls Flyers seems a certainty to take the rookie of the year award. At present he leads all AHL players in points.</p><h2><b>League Badmen</b></h2><p>The Pittsburgh Hornets continue to lead the American League&rsquo;s badmen. To date the steel city sextet has managed to spend a total of 758 minutes in the sin bin.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.&Mu;. MARCH 3</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01131/1007392-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="618" height="223"></div><h3>THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26</h3><p>Buffalo 1 at Providence 6</p><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;The Providence Reds, held scoreless in the first period clicked for six goals to the Buffalo Bisons 1 to trim them, 6-1 in an American Hockey League game.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defence, Ed-dolls, Lavitt, MacNeil, Pilote; forwards: Kaiser, Davis, MacKay, Conacher, Davies, Fryday, Achtymichuk, Pennell.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defence, Egan, Bourassa, Morris, Kryzanowski, Bloomer forwards: Sullivan, Gladu, Laplante, Kapusta, Baccari, Scherza, Toppazzini, Denis, Smith.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0297/1007385-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="607" height="744"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25</h3><p>Syracuse 1 at Pittsburgh 8</p><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; Bob Sabourln scored four goals as the Hornets walloped the Warriors, 6-1 in a wide-open* American Hockey League game.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell; defence, Casanato, Allen, Milligan, Tottle; forwards: Burnett, Lemieux, Pidhirny, Curick, Ashbee, Pogue, McNabney, Gooden, Guidolin, Ford.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence, Mathers, Sullivan, Juzda, Lumsden, Backor; forwards: Lewicki, Solinger, Barbe, McLellan, Timgren, Ezinicki, Marshall, Balfour, Sabourln.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0377/1007378-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="615" height="697"></div><h3>Cleveland 6 at Buffalo 8</h3><p>BUFFALO &mdash; The Buffalo Bisons broke out in a rash of goals to set back the first place Cleveland Barons, 8-6.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal. Bower; defence, Relgle, Williams, Chrystal, Ashero; forwards: Gordon, Wochy, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Sonmor, Ross, Ceresino, Glover, Stearns.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defence, MacNeil, Eddolls, Pilote, Lavltt; forwards: Pennell, Davis, Mackay, Achtymichuk, McLeod, Kaiser, Conacher, Fryday, Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0455/1007371-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="601" height="1076"></div><h3>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27</h3><p>Buffalo 4 at Syracuse 9</p><p>SYRACUSE, N.Y. &mdash; Billy Gooden scored three goals as Syracuse Warriors routed Buffalo Bisons, 9-4, in an American Hockey League game.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal Plante: Defense: Eddolls, Lavltt, Pilote; forwards: Kaiser, Conacher, Davis. Mackay, Pennell, McLeod, Davies, Fryday, Achtymichuk.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell: defense: Allen, Milligan, Tottle, Casanato; forwards: Gooden, Pogue, Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Curick, McNabney, Horwath, Gui-dolin, Ashbee.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Olinsky; linesmen: Bernie Lemaitre, Earl MacDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0545/1007364-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="614" height="914"></div><h3>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28</h3><p>Providence 1 at Syracuse 3</p><p>SYRACUSE &mdash; Kelly Burnett, Armand Lemieux and Billy Gooden scored a goal apiece as Syracuse Warriors defeated Providence Reds, 3-1 in an American Hockey League Game before a crowd of 2,956.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett: defense: Egan, Kryzanowski, Bloomer. Morris; forwards: Powell, Gladu, Sullivan, Scherza, Toppazzini, Kapusta, Laplante, Denis, Smith, Buccari.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell: defense: Allen. Milligan, Casanato, Tottle; forwards: Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Curick. Pogue, Ashbee, MacNabney, Guidolin, Ford, Gooden.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jerry Olinsky; linesmen: Bernie Lemaitre, EEarl McDonald.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0641/1007357-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="608" height="522"></div><h3>St. Louis 4 at Cleveland 2</h3><p><b>CLEVELAND:</b> Third-period goals by Steve Hrymnak and Ken Hayden provided St. Louis Flyers with their victory margin ss they defeated Cleveland Barons 4-2 before 9,147 fans.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defense: Williams, Chrystal, Reigle, Shero; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Stearns, Ross, Rolson, Sonmor, Ceresino, Wochy, Hildebrand, Glover.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defense: Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, MacNab; forwards: Fielders, Hirschfeld, Boone, Kh&middot; man, Conacher, Hayden, Podolsky, McLean, Jankowski, Stankiewicz.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Hugh McLean: linesmen: Patsy Callighen and Bobby Carse.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0833/1007350-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="628" height="674"></div><h3>Hershey 3 at Pittsburgh 5</h3><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; Danny Lewicki had a hand in every one of his team&rsquo;s goals, scoring three and assisting on two others, as Pittsburgh Hornets defeated Hershey Bears 5-3 in an American Hockey League game before 5,225 fans.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defense: Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzl, Branigan, Caron; forwards: Kullman, LaBine, Poland, O&rsquo;Brien, Bettio, Fisher, Ferguson Corcoran. Brown.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense: Lumsden, Juzda, Sullivan Mathers, Back-or; forwards: McLellan, Liwicki, Ghorley, Ezinicki, Timgren, Solinger, Barbe, Sab-ourin, Balfour.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Melhenbacher; linesmen: Clyde Adams and Regis Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0932/1007343-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="614" height="754"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 1</h3><p>Pittsburgh 1 at Providence 5</p><p>PROVIDENCE &mdash; Al Baccarl, little right winger, worked the three goal &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; as Providence Reda defeated Pittsburgh Hornets, 5-1, in an American Hockey League clash.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense: Lumsden, F. Sullivan, Backor, Juzda; forwards. Solinger, Ezinicki, McLellan, Balfour, Sabourin, Timgren, Lewicki, Chorley, Mathers.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Bennett; defense: Egan Kryzanowski, Morris, Bourassa, Bloomer; forwards: Powell, B. Sullivan, Gladu, Scherza, Toppazzini, Smith LaPlante, Kapusta, Baccarl.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvari. Linesmen: Art Lesieur, George Desaulniers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0382/1007336-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="598" height="734"></div><h3>Hershey 4 at St. Louis 3</h3><p>ST. LOUIS &mdash; The Hershey Bears scored a goal in the final period to break up a 3-3 deadlock and go on to defeat the St. Louis Flyers, 4-3.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defense: Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzl, Branigan; forwards: Kullman, O&rsquo;Brien, Bettio, Brown, LaBine, Fisher, Corcoran, Ferguson, Caron, Poland.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defense: Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, MacNab, Ehman; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Conacher, Hirschfeld, Hayden. Boone, Stankiewicz, Podolsky, Jankowski.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bil Chadwick; linesmen: Binnie Trigg. Cliff Barton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0462/1007329-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="612" height="728"></div><h3>Syracuse 4 at Buffalo 2</h3><p>BUFFALO &mdash; Breaking a tie in the third period, Syracuse Warriors defeated the Buffalo Bisons, 4-2, in an American Hockey League game in Memorial Auditorium.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell defense: Allen, Casanato, Tottle, Milligan; forwards Curick, Pogue, Ashbee, MacNabney, Gutdolin, Gooden, Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Ford.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defense, Lavitt, Eddolls, Pilote; forwards: Achtymichuk; McLeod, Kaiser, Pennell, Davis, Mackay, Conacher, Fryday, Davies.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Hugh McLean; linesmen: Bernie Lemaitre, Mike McMahon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0547/1007322-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="604" height="598"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sun. March 1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0734/1007315-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="610" height="592"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Ike Hildebrand, Clev. (33)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Guyle Fielder, St. Louis (49),</p><p><b>Most Penalties:</b> Bob Bailey, Clev. (109 minutes)</p><p><b>Best Goalie:</b> Gil Mayer, Pitts. (55 games, 128 GA., 5 SO., 2.33 AVG.)</p><p><b>Team Penalties:</b> Pittsburgh Hornets, (758 minutes)</p><h2><b>Barons Sign Defenseman</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1029/1007308-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="1810" height="1296"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GUS KARRYS SIGNS &mdash; Gus Karrys, young defenseman who played with the New Haven Nutmegs of the Eastern Hockey League is shown inking a contract with the Cleveland Barons as G. M. Jim Hendy looks on. Karrys was with the Toronto Marloboro Junior A team for several seasons. He joined the Barons at their Stratford training camp last fall and was assigned to the Nutmegs where his play was outstanding. His brother, Steve, is one of Canada&rsquo;s greatest football stars, performing with the Toronto Argonauts.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Having tumbled from first place to a tie with Syracuse for third spot in the American Hockey League since Christmas, Murray Henderson&rsquo;s Hershey Bears face the prospect of a knock down battle with the Warriors and the St. Louis Flyers if they are to earn a Calder Cup playoff berth.</p><p>It&rsquo;s difficult to analyze what happened to the Bears in the short space of two months. Figures don&rsquo;t lie. However, The Bears fell apart at the seams, dropping 17 out of 21. contests played since the 2 5th of December.</p><p>Injuries at home and in Boston played their part of course, but that isn&rsquo;t the whole story. Loss of George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, their star play-maker on two different occasions when the Boston Bruins needed forward line replacements hurt, but here again this is only part of the picture.</p><p>Henderson has had to juggle his lineup from one game to another, using defensemen as forwards and vice versa as the occasion demanded, but even these hardships might have been successfully overcome if the Hershey defense had stuck to its knitting. Bear blue liners were caught up ice too many times, leaving Gordie Henry, their goalie, at the mercy of two and three-man breakaways. Henry has done a yeoman task in kicking out many of the shots poured at him in these situations, but the law of averages caught up with him quite frequently with disastrous results.</p><p>With 15 games remaining on the Hershey schedule, nine of them away from home, Henderson&rsquo;s men have their work cut out for them. Henderson figures he&rsquo;ll need ten victories to make the playoffs. And, with an eight-game road trip coming up during the engagement of Ice Capades at the Sports Arena, the Bear mentor is faced with a herculean task.</p><p>Even without &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan, who has since been replaced by the fiery Leo LaBine, Henderson believes the Bears will shake their slump in time to earn a playoff spot. In addition to Sullivan, the Bears lost Frank Martin. 19-year-old defenseman, who was summoned to Boston to spell the injured Bob Armstrong.</p><p>&ldquo;I realize we can&rsquo;t back into the playoffs,&rdquo; Henderson said, &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t expect the other clubs to insure a berth for us by beating our nearest competitors. I think the boys can do it, but they must play 100 per cent better hockey than they have been playing for the past two months.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>The Juggler</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01144/1007454-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="566" height="864"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(MURRAY HENDERSON)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Henderson’s Bears Must Beat Out St. Loo And Syracuse In Tight Race

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Undoubtedly the most bizarre occurrence in the American Hockey League this season was the sudden retirement of Big Ross Lowe, captain and defenseman of the Buffalo Bisons.</p><p>Lowe, at the prime age of 24, decided to toss aside one of the best contracts in the AHL in favor of an uncertain future outside the sport of hockey.</p><p>When questioned by General Manager Fred Hunt as to why he decided to foresake the game which still offered him a chance at National League stardom, Lowe offered no reply.</p><p>He said that he was not unhappy either with the Buffalo or Montreal organizations but &ldquo;just decided to quit.&rdquo;</p><p>Hunt pointed out to the rawboned rearguard that if such was true a deal could probably be made to send him somewhere where he&rsquo;d be more content. Lowe, however, insisted that the environment had nothing to do with his decision and subsequently packed his bags and returned to his Whitby, Ont. home.</p><p>Lowe has had a checkered career since be turned pro with Hershey of the AHL in 1948.</p><p>A terrific skater with the size and endurance to be a really fine hockey player, Lowe has always remained in the &ldquo;possible star&rdquo; class due largely to frequent periods of indifferent play.</p><p>After dividing three seasons between Hershey and the parent Boston Bruins, Lowe was traded to Montreal for Hal Laycoe in February 1951 and immediately shuffled off to Buffalo along with Left Winger Vern Kaiser as Paul Meger was promoted from the Bisons to the Canadiens.</p><p>Ross made an immediate hit with Buffalo fans and appeared headed for several years in the NHL. Last year, however, he was hobbled somewhat by bad knees and missed a good portion of the National League race.</p><h2><b>Why Did He Quit?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02100/1007485-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="588" height="596"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(ROSS LOWE)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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GM Freddie Hunt Claims Ross Lowe Made Mistake

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0832/1007516-1-eng-US/f0012-082.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Perfect Combination&hellip;Richard, Lach, Olmstead A trio of veterans supplied the scoring punch for the Montreal Canadiens during the past week, namely the Punch Line of. Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach and Bert Olmstead. Richard had two assists, Olmstead two goals and an assist and Lach chipped in with two goals and three assists.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Perfect Combination-Quality! Freshness! Price!

<h2><b>Hat Trick Duo</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>askatoon&rsquo;s Jackie McLeod and Vic Stasiuk of Edmonton are the only players to get more than one hat trick this season. Both have two to their credit.</p><h2><b>Penalized</b></h2><p>Bev. Bentley of Vancouver received his first penalty of the season when he was selected to serve the penalty when Saskatoon was caught with too many men on the ice.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON MON. A.&Mu;. FEB. 23</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01151/1007652-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="608" height="236"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Tues. Feb. 17th</b></p><p>New Wset. 3 at Tacoma 3</p><p>Saskatoon 7 at Victoria 2</p><p><b>Wed. Feb. 18th</b></p><p>Saskatoon 0 at New West. 7</p><p><b>Fri. Feb. 20th</b></p><p>Seattle 0 at Victoria 1</p><p>Saskatoon 1 at Vancouver 2</p><p>Edmonton 0 at Calgary 3</p><p><b>Sat. Feb. 21st</b></p><p>Saskatoon 5 at Tacoma 2</p><p>Vancouver. 2 at Victoria 6</p><p>Seattle 3 at New West. 4</p><p>Calgary 6 at Edmonton 4</p><p><b>Sun. Feb. 22nd</b></p><p>Saskatoon 4 at Seattle 5</p><h3>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17</h3><p>New Westminster 3 at Tacoma 3</p><p>TACOMA &mdash; Max McNab scored at the half way mark of the third period to give the New Westminster Royals a 3-3 draw with the Tacoma Rockets.</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><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal. Stevenson: defence, Jones, Davidson, Tarala; forwards: Johnson, Keer, Adam, Mathews, Bradley Wall, Brown, Marquess. Halderson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02118/1007645-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="604" height="408"></div><h3>Saskatoon 7 at Victoria 2</h3><p>VICTORIA &mdash; Saskatoon Quakers moved further out in front of the WHL race by thumping the lustreless Victoria Cougars 7-2.</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><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards: Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairbum.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0396/1007638-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="606" height="678"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18</h3><p>Saskatoon 0 at New Westminster 7</p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; New Westminster Royals climbed into a sixth place tie by thmping the Saskatoon Quakers 7-0.</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><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/f0013-0480/1007631-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="608" height="509"></div><h3>FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20</h3><p>Seattle 0 at victoria 1</p><p>VICTORIA &mdash; Captain Ernie Roche scored late in the third period to give the Victoria Cougars a 1-0 win over the Seattle Bombers.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennant; defence. Sprout, Conn, Ailsby, Lofvendahl, Arnett; forwards: Foley, Fillion, Bell, Homenuke, Manson, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, MacAuley.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal. Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman. Irwin; forwards: Goegan. Hebenton. Abbott, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairbum.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0654/1007624-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="602" height="276"></div><h3>Saskatoon 1 at Vancouver 2</h3><p>VANCOUVER &mdash; The Saskatoon Quakers dropped their second game in a row this a 2-1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks. ,</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Coal, R. Bentley: defence, Ross, Milford, Heindl, Evans: forwards: Kaleta. Chad, Rouse, McCullough, McLeod, Jeffrey Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal. Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Lancien, Fontinato; forwards. Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Mackintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate. Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0746/1007617-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="594" height="452"></div><h3>Edmonton 0 at Calgary 3</h3><p>CALGARY &mdash; The Calgary Stampeders scored three goals in the second period and hung on to blank the Edmonton Flyers 3-0.</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>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/f0014-01157/1007610-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="604" height="442"></div><h3>SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21</h3><p>Saskatoon 5 at Tacoma 2</p><p>TACOMA &mdash; Jackie McLeod scored a hat-trick to Lead the Saskatoon Quakers to a 5-2 win over the Tacoma Rockets.</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><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal. Stevenson; defence, Jones, Davidson, Tarala; forwards: Johnson, Keer, Adam, Mathews. Bradley Wall, Brown, Marquess, Halderson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02105/1007603-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="610" height="528"></div><h3>Vancouver 2 nt Victoria 6</h3><p>VICTORIA &mdash; Eddie Mazur scored a pair of goals as the last place Victoria Cougars beat the Vancouver Canucks 6-2.</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>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche. Strongman, Irwin: forwards: Goegan, Hebenton, Abbott, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0376/1007596-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="604" height="470"></div><h3>Calgary 6 at Edmonton 4</h3><p>EDMONTON &mdash; Enio Sclisizzi scored three goals to help the Calgary Stampeders down the Edmonton Flyers 6-4.</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>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence. Folk, Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forwards; Johnson, Uniac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0462/1007589-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="600" height="992"></div><h3>Seattle 3 at New Westminster 4</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; Claude Robert scored the winning goal as the New Westminster Royals downed the Seattle Bombers 4-3.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennant; defence, Sprout, Conn, Ailsby, Lofvendahl, Arnett; forwards: Foley, Fillion, Bell, Homenuke, Manson, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, MacAuley.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence. Durham, Bedard. Bergeron, Coburn; forwards: McNab, Dorohoy, Slater. Ullyott, Love. Hamilton, Fashoway, Cabana, Boyce. Robert.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0554/1007582-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="598" height="610"></div><h3>SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21</h3><p>Saskatoon 4 at Seattle 5</p><p>SEATTLE&mdash;Bob Manson scored the winning goal late in the third period as the Seattle Bombers edged the Saskatoon Quakers 5-4.</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><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Sprout, Conn, Ailsby, Lofvendahl, Arnett; forwards: Foley, Fillion, Bell, Homenuke, Manson, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, MacAuley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0644/1007575-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="602" height="640"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Gaines of Sunday Feb. 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0841/1007568-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="588" height="924"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0940/1007561-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="601" height="312"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1040/1007554-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="602" height="888"></div><h2><b>Leads Last Placers</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-0565/1007547-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="1114" height="1786"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By STAN MOHER</div><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>It was Hannigan vs Kelly at the local Gardens the night of Feb. 21, and St. Patrick&rsquo;s Day almost a month away.</p><p>Flyers&rsquo; Ray Hannigan and Roy Kelly, Calgary Stampeder sniper, took to using their sticks like shillelaghs in a twentieth century revival of the Battle of the Boyne. Kelly, who must have neglected to keep his head down, or something, failed to make contact with the Hannigan carcass. Hannigan&rsquo;s aim was more true. Kelly subsequently had 14 stitches taken in a couple of head-face cuts.</p><p>The Hannigan-Kelly brannigan headlined a bruising Western Hockey League offering, won by the Stampeders, 6-4. A total of 23 penalties were handed out.</p><p>It was the 12 th time, in 16 starts, that the Stampeders have manhandled &lsquo;Bud&rsquo; Poile&rsquo;s otherwise normally successful puckchasers. This particular setback was the second in as many nights at the hands of the Cowboys, who had kalsomined their &lsquo;cousins&rsquo; in Calgary on the Friday, 3-0.</p><p>The Flyers came out of the affray deadlocked with New Westminster Royals for the sixth, and last, playoff position. It appeared the Poilemen were in for a rugged time of it through the final weeks of the campaign.</p><p>Loss of rookie Jack MacDonald for the balance of the season is a distinct possibility. The hardchecking forward suffered a fractured jaw in the aforementioned 3-0 loss to Calgary. Steve Witiuk, Cowboy winger, received a two-minute elbowing penalty for his part in the mishap.</p><p>Understandably the Flyer bosses were a trifle distraught at Witiuk getting off almost scott free. As coach Poile suggested: &ldquo;That was elbowing like I&rsquo;ve never seen before.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>In any event there was bad blood between the clubs when they went at it again in Edmonton, 24 hours later, with the Hannigan-Kelly, Bill Folk-Witiuk, and Vic Stasiuk-Witiuk clashes giving the affair a Saturday-night-in-the-barroom touch.</p><p>Quote from &lsquo;Hank&rsquo; Blade, the Calgary coach: &ldquo;Poile ordered his men to play it rough. He&rsquo;s trying to ruin hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Quote from Poile: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s Blade crying about? He got the two points didn&rsquo;t he? Just because he&rsquo;s with a contender for once he&rsquo;s gone off his rocker. The altitude up there around second and third place has got him.&rdquo;</p><p>Quote from Hannigan: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got my own beauty parlor I go to. If I want my face lifted I don&rsquo;t need help from Kelly.&rdquo;</p><p>Quote from Blade: &ldquo;The way Hannigan hit Kelly with his stick when Roy was down on the ice was one of the dirtiest things I&rsquo;ve seen in hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>Quote from Poile: &ldquo;If Kelly had connected when he swung. Hannigan would have been eating out of the side of his head for weeks.&rdquo;</p><p>Quote from league president Al Leader (to Flyer rearguard Larry Zeidel): &ldquo;I fine you fifty bucks.&rdquo; Zeidel had questioned referee Bill Knott&rsquo;s ancestry, as well as otherwise making the Knott chores more difficult of execution.</p><p>Elsewhere on the Western League front the Saskatoon and Vancouver clubs continued at the head of the pack, with much switching of places from game to game on the part of the next five teams.</p><p>In fact so keen was the struggle for playoff positions people were saying: &ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t like the standing today wait until tomorrow. Can&rsquo;t tell what they&rsquo;ll look like by then.&rdquo;</p><p>Only the Victoria Cougars seemed out of ft. And even the Cougars, who waited until the final game of the 1951-52 season to gain a playoff berth (and then came mighty close to capturing the championship), proved they still had some life by edging Calgary 5-4, in Cowtown, to Inaugurate a three game swing of the prairies.</p><p>Redline Ramblings: Stasiuk topped the point derby, according to statistics released for games including Feb. 22. The Flyer powerhouse, who appears to be earning another chance with the parent Detroit Red Wings, had 73 points, including 33 goals, in 43 games.</p><p>Stasiuk&rsquo;s teammate, centre Earl (Dutch) Reibel, and Alex Kaleta, veteran Saskatoon forward, were just a whisper away, each with 12 points.</p><h2><b>Hammerin&rsquo; Hannigan</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0738/1007690-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="556" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(RAY HANNIGAN)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Kid Kelly</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0833/1007683-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="606" height="986"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(ROY KELLY)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Kelly-Hannigan Socking Spree Battle of Swinging Shillelaghs

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0295/1007728-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg"></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jean B&eacute;liveau, Quebec Aces&rsquo; glittering star, hit the headlines and the jackpot once again in a weekend chockfull of incident and dramatic highlights as the Quebec Senior Hockey League&rsquo;s schedule of 60 games ground to a stop, and the solons cleared the decks for the most elaborate system of playoffs in the annals of the loop.</p><p>Beliveau made the half-century mark in goals, had 39 assists to place beside them for 8 9 points. Thus he is the winner of the scoring title and the President&rsquo;s Cup which goes with it for the second straight season. He enlarged on his 1951-52 totals of 45-38-83.</p><p>At the same time Marcel Pelletier, goaler for the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, cleaned up his assignments in a 3-3 draw with Montreal Royals and modestly bowed in as the winner of the Goerges Vezina Memorial Trophy. It was a foregone conclusion that Pelletier would annex this handsome bit of brie a brae in its third year in circulation, since put up by Dr. Gustave Gauthier, of Chicontimi, but the fact that Pelletier was the first Sagueneen to win it added a strong sentimental appeal. The youthful looking Sorel custodian of the cordage wound up with 149 goals charged against him compared to 162 against a variety of Royal&rsquo;s incumbents.</p><h2><b>Ludger&rsquo;s Hard Luck</b></h2><p>The hardluck guy on windup day was Ludger Tremblay veteran winger for Quebec Aces and one of the league&rsquo;s most taciturn stars, who suffered a fractured leg in the second minute of play at Valleyfield. Naturally Tremblay is through for the balance of the season.</p><p>Punch Imlach Quebec coach pointed out that Tremblay suffered broken nose in the first 15 seconds of the game on Opening Day and at 1:15 on the last day of the schedule broke his leg.</p><h2><b>The Triple Crown</b></h2><p>Pelletier is the first player in modem league history to be a Triple Crown winner. He was chosen All-Star goaler in a pool of coaches conducted by Charlie Halpin of The Montreal Gazette, he was named the league&rsquo;s Most Valuable Player in the same ballting, and won the Vezina.</p><p>His dazzling gained still more recognition. For on the Closing Day of the league calendar at the Montreal Forum, a group of Sorel citizens, 1,000 strong headed by the mayor, several alderman, and leading sportsmen and business tycoons of the St. Lawrence southshore municipality made it a &ldquo;Pelletier Party&rdquo;. They gave him a Teevee Set and Radio, Record Player combination cabinet, a movie cemera and projector, a liquor cabinet, and sundry other gifts including suits of clothes, shoes and many more items of wearing apparel.</p><h2><b>Beliveau&rsquo;s Great Drive</b></h2><p>Beliveau&rsquo;s drive to become a repeater for the scoring honors was supercharged with drama. A week ago he had a slight lead, was nudged out of first place by Andre Corriveau, of Valleyfield Braves, only previous winner two years in a row. By midweek they were tied again, and then Corriveau took a slim one point lead.</p><p>When it came to the last weekend as they were thundering down the home-stretch to the wire both were straining for their last great effort. It was here that Beliveau showed that he has a right to he listed among the superstars. While Beliveau scored two goals and had one assist on Saturday night as the Aces trounced the Sherbrooke Saints 3-1, Corriveau was held to one assist at Ottawa as Senators scalped the Braves 3-1.</p><h2><b>A Hat-Trick Too</b></h2><p>So it was now up to the final game, the chips were down at Valleyfield with the Aces squaring off with the Braves. Though the Blake Marauders won 7-4 Corriveau had a famine in points, Beliveau came roaring through for a hat-trick. What a finish! What a way to wind up his campaign in a blaze of glory!</p><p>Beliveau and Corriveau weren&rsquo;t the only ducks in the pond on the big day. For Chicoutimi&rsquo;s great trio &mdash; Sheman White, Stan Smrke and Bucky Buchanan were all in there punching. Here&rsquo;s how the Big 7 finished:</p><p>Once they were sure of the order of finish the club representatives gathered at the Queen&rsquo;s Hotel in Montreal to line up their playoffs. First they sat down to a good dinner, featuring king size filet mignons. Frank Selke picked up the tab and this put the delegates in a good mood for the weighty discussions which followed.</p><h2>Back QAHA All The Way</h2><p>First they went on record as supporting the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association fully in its quarrel with the CAHA. Then George M. Slater, leche league president, was instructed to communicate with Al Leader, president of the Western League and Emory D. Jones, cheif executive of the American Hockey League and if possible to open negotiations for a playoff set-up with the champions of one of these circuits.</p><p>The unspoken notion seemed to be that the QSHL moguls are looking into the future books towards the passing of the Alexander Trophy series. They are on slippery footing, in one way, since they have a $3,500 bond on deposit with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association guaranteeing participation in the Alexander Trophy playdowns.</p><h2><b>Nosed Out</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01125/1007721-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="564" height="564"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(ANDRE CORRIVEAU)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Gros Bill Wins Second Straight Scoring Crown

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0545/1007821-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="624" height="1079"></div><p><b>for a man&rsquo;s beer!</b></p><p>What you like in an ale and what a woman likes are not necessarily the same&hellip; so if you are looking for a man&rsquo;s drink with plenty of old-time flavour&mdash;hearty, zestful and satisfying&mdash;switch now to Labatt&rsquo;s India Pale Ale&hellip; I.P.A. is a real man&rsquo;s drink. John Labatt Limited.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0636/1007814-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="585" height="784"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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It’s a MAN’S work…

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, OOnt.&mdash;</p><p>Rollie Hebert, the popular major-domo of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, says he has preference for trips to Ottawa.</p><p>&ldquo;They always treat us well up here,&rdquo; quips the dapper Rollie, &ldquo;and the only kick we have is that they never let us win a game.&rdquo;</p><p>It might have been earlier in the season, but in view of recent happenings, the tide appears to be turning for Hebert and his front-running Chics.</p><p>The Sagueneens made it two in a row over Alex Smart&rsquo;s Senators here recently, mostly on the basis of a five-goal opening period splurge. The Barber Poles came back with three later but it wasn&rsquo;t enough.</p><p>Hebert says he just can&rsquo;t understand it. &ldquo;All season we&rsquo;ve had more trouble with Ottawa than any other club. I hope we don&rsquo;t catch them in the playoffs.&rdquo;</p><p>It has been a quirk this season that while Ottawa has kept an edge on the league-leaders, they have always been sitting ducks for the lowly Shawinigan Falls Cataracts. They just can&rsquo;t beat the Cats to save their lives, although to tell * the truth, some of the other clubs have been having trouble with them, too.</p><p>The boss of the Chicoutimi dugout feels his club has a good chance to annex its first Quebec League title this season. And as tar as Rollie is concerned, it&rsquo;s about time.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been building towards this end ever since we entered the league,&rdquo; said Hebert, &ldquo;The accent has always been on youth in our club and it has paid off after three years. It would be a great thing for hockey in the St. John district if we can click for the championship.&rdquo;</p><p>Hebert went on to reveal that the club owns practically every player on the roster and has always tried to operate on this principle.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t get anywhere these days,&rdquo; says Rollie, &ldquo;if you have a player on loan for one year and then have him called just when he is starting to fit in.&rdquo;</p><p>The Chics came close to it all last season, going as far as the Quebec League finals before bowing out to the powerful Aces. This season, they hope to go all the way.</p><p>&ldquo;By the way,&rdquo; joked Hebert, &ldquo;last time you wrote about our team in the HOCKEY NEWS you said we operated on a bonus system for the players. How can I convince the people I&rsquo;m a good hockey coach if you tell them I have to pay bonuses for wins?&rdquo;</p><p>The diminutive Chicoutimi pilot can joke about it, too, because he has done a terrific job with the Chics up in that country, one that has pleasantly surprised everyone in the Slater circuit.</p><p>This could be Rollie&rsquo;s year.</p><p>Meanwhile, around the Capital City, things don&rsquo;t look too bright for the Senators. Trying desperately to hang onto third place in the standing (and also that best-of-nine series for finishing fourth) the Barber Poles have been hard-hit by Injuries and are having a grim time of it.</p><p>First they lost Bobby Copp with a badly bruised bone in his foot. Then Billy Robinson picked up a knee injury. Alan Kuntz and Jackie Giesebrecht have both been in and out of action ith leg injuries, too. And a couple of the players, like Bobby Robertson and and Vic Grigg, have been playing despite minor hurts.</p><p>It all adds up to a desperate situation and the Barber Poles realize they will be lucky if they can finish third. If they don&rsquo;t they&rsquo;d be better off to catch fifth or sixth place, anything to avoid that arduous best-of-nine series with Chicoutimi that will fall to the lot of which ever team comes home fourth.</p><h2><b>Popular Guy</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0380/1007759-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="558" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(ROLLIE HEBERT)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Rollie Hebert Claims Chicks Have A Tougher Time Against Ottawa Than Any Other Team

<p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Freddie Murphy, goalie with the Pembroke Lumber Kings of the Eastern Canada League, suffered a severe eye injury in practice recently and may be through with the game for good.</p><p>The popular Murphy, who captured the ECHL netminding honors this season, was hit by a flying puck below the eye on the eve of Pembroke&rsquo;s semi-final series with Cornwall.</p><p>At first, the injury was not thought to be serious, but when Murphy began noticing an impairment in his vision, he was taken to an. eye specialist in Ottawa for further examination.</p><p>Examination revealed that Murphy had a hemorrhage behind the eye and that several blind spots existed. On medical advice. Murphy has quit hockey for the balance of the season and it is unlikely that he will ever play again.</p><h2><b>Staged Rally</b></h2><p>Murphy, who once played with the Ottawa Senators in the QSHL, has been with Pembroke for three seasons and was one of their most valuable performers. This season he staged a great rally in the final weeks of the schedule to nose out Johnny Craig, of Smiths Falls, for the netminding honors.</p><p>The injury to Murphy threw Pembroke officials into a dither, and forced postponement of the first playoff game with Cornwall. The Kings picked up a replacement in. Bill Parrington from Almonte, an Intermediate club, for the first two games of the best-of-seven series.</p><p>With so much at stake, however. the Kings went on the hunt for a senior goalie and succeeded in securing Jim Donnelly who played with Noranda this season.</p><p>The winner of the Pembroke-Cornwall series will tackle the winner of the Smiths Falls-Thurso best-of-seven affair for the league title.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Severe Eye Injury To Freddie Murphy Is Blow To Kings

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Every year about this time, usually just after the official QJAHA All-Star teams have been announced, some rabid fan will come up with the comment:</p><p>&ldquo;The team is good alright, probably the best players in the league, but how would they stack up against some of the former QJAHA glitter squads?&rdquo;</p><p>The answer to that one would take reams of copy and call for comparing player against player, but using just the forward lines as an example, it would be pretty hard for this year&rsquo;s team, or even a few before it, to match the 1950-51 All-Stars.</p><p>The forward line of that mythical team had a fellow by the name of Jean Beliveau playing between a certain Bernie Geoffrion and one Dickie Moore.</p><p>Beliveau was the big siege gun of the Quebec Citadelles that season and later turned senior with the Quebec Aces of the QSHL, declining all pro offers from the NHL Montreal Canadiens. To say he did well in the higher company would be putting it mildly. He won the scoring crown last year and repeated again this season. In all probability he will be with the Habs next season.</p><p>Geoffrion didn&rsquo;t do badly either. Last season, his first full campaign as a Montreal Canadien regular, he scored 30 goals and had 24 assists for 54 points, enough to sway the voting for the Calder Trophy, emblematic of the loop&rsquo;s top rookie.</p><p>Moore too, lost no time showing why he was an All-Star junior. Brought up from the Montreal Royals around Christmas last season, he accounted for 33 points in as many games in the NHL, and created quite a stir. Of his 33 points, 18 were goals. Moore has just lately returned to action, after sitting out most of this season with an injured knee.</p><h2><b>They&rsquo;re Rated&hellip;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01131/1007887-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="294" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Bernie Geoffrion)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0285/1007880-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="305" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Jean Beliveau)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0364/1007873-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="296" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Dickie Moore)</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Last Year&rsquo;s Stars</b></h2><p>A fairer comparison might be to match this year&rsquo;s forward line against last year&rsquo;s. Last season the Canadiens&rsquo; Don Marshall centered Three Rivers&rsquo; Pierre Brillant and Dave McCready, also of the Habs. Compare this with this season&rsquo;s glitter guys, Camille Henri of Quebec at centre, Michel Labadie, also of the Citadelles, at right wing and Guy Rousseau of Canadiens at left.</p><p>Marshall this season was sent to the Cincinnati Mohawks of the International League by the parent Montreal Canadiens. To say that he made the grade would be the understatement of the year. At the latest reckoning, after 53 games, he&rsquo;d scored 39 goals and assisted on 48 more for a total of 87 points, seven more than his nearest rival. He also leads the league in hat tricks with three.</p><p>Brillant was picked up this season by the Quebec Aces of the QSHL. After a slow start, he was sent to Matane of the Lower St. Lawrence League, but was soon recalled by the Aces. It could be that he is finding it a little tougher to get used to the higher bracket, for he&rsquo;s been no ball of fire so far this season.</p><p>McCready had another season of junior eligibility left but in a pre-season ex-sibition game, ae fractured his wrist so badly that he xras ordered not to play through the current campaign. Undoubtedly this would have been his best season to date, and he might even have given teammate Guy Rousseau a run to the wire for the All-Star left wing post.</p><p>Of this year&rsquo;s line, both Henry and Labadie are property of the New York Rangers, the latter having seen service with the pros on a trial basis earlier this season, and will probably end up with them.</p><p>Rousseau is Montreal Canadien property and one of the better prospects coming up. He is only 17 years old, and should he be able to add a little more avoirdupois, is a sure bet to make the NHL. His only fault at present, as far as being NHL bound, is this lack of stature.</p><p>But even should all of this year&rsquo;s forward line make the NHL grade, they would still have to go a long way to beat the Moore-Beliveau-Geoffrion combo of 1950-51.</p><h2><b>&hellip;Over Them</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0452/1007866-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="272" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Don Marshall)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0528/1007859-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="290" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Pierre Brillant)</span></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0617/1007852-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="323" height="469"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(Dave McCready)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Jean Beliveau, Geoffrion, Moore Line Rated Top QJAHA All-Star Combo

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Already teams are beginning to fall to the sidelines in the long playoff chase that leads to the Memorial Cup.</p><p>The first teams to be eliminated in Western Canada were the Crows Nest Bass Coalers and the Winnipeg Barons, who finished at the bottom of their respective leagues. They have since been joined by the Calgary Buffaloes, who dropped three straight games to the Lethbridge Native Sons in their best-of-five semifinal playoff.</p><p>The scores were 1-0, 7-6 and 3-1. That 7-6 Lethbridge victory was the only one they scored in Calgary all season, with four-year junior veteran Billy Dea potting the winning goal in the last minute of play.</p><p>In recent years the Lethbridge club, then under coach Pete Slo-bodian, folded badly in the playoffs. Twice they finished on top of the regular schedule but lost to the Regina Pats in the league final. They may be turning over a new leaf this spring under coach Butch McDonald&rsquo;s handling. McDonald brought his charges along so that they would hit peak form in the playoffs. Right now the Sons are hot favorites to engage either Edmonton Oil Kings or the Regina Pats in the league final.</p><p>Edmonton grabbed the first two games of their marathon best-of-nine playoff with the Pats on home ice by scores of 3-0 and 4-2. The teams then moved to Regina for the next three games where the Pats entertained hopes of getting back, into the picture.</p><p>Meanwhile Lethbridge was awaiting the winner of the Moose Jaw-Medecine Hat quarter-final playoff.</p><p>In the Manitoba Junior Hockey league, the first-place Brandon Wheat Kings are sitting by a waiting the winner of the semi-final playoff between the Winnipeg Monarchs and St. Boniface Canadians. The Canadians won the first game from the defending league champions by an 8-4 count.</p><h2><b>Bad Playoff Record</b></h2><p>Like Lethbridge in the Western Canada loop, the Canadians own a bad playoff record. They have been famous down through the years for blowing the duke in the postschedule chase. Manager Larry Desjardins, the St. Boniface aiderman and mortician, called his club together for a meeting prior to the playoffs and pointed out the urgency of every player giving his all in the playoffs. Brian Hextall, the former National leaguer, is coaching the Habs this season.</p><p>Alf Francis, the Brandon coach, is scouting the current series between Monarchs and Canadiens. The Brandon youth replaced Bill (Legs) Fraser as coach in midseason. the colorful Fraser moving over the Prince Albert Mintos where he quickly established himself as a prime favorite with the rabid hockey fans of the nothern Saskatchewan town.</p><p>Coach Alex Shibicky&rsquo;s Flin Flon Bombers captured first place in the final standing of the Northern Saskatchewan Junior league. They had a 10-point edge over the Humboldt Indians, with Saskatoon Wesleys third and Prince Albert fourth. All four teams will complete in the playoffs.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Edmonton Oil King coach Ken McAuley calls his team to beat the Pats in seven games&hellip; McAuley had planned to play Al</p><p>Jacobson in goal for the series opener but the former Moose Jaw Canuck came down with a recurrence of a knee injury&hellip; so he used Bob Sangster instead and the chunky netminder rewarded his coach with a shutout&hellip; Edmonton captain and defenceman Ed Zeniuk missed the first two games of the playoffs as a result of a five-game suspension which was carried over from the tailend of the regular schedule&hellip; the Oil Kings have an outstanding rearguard in tall Bill Buyck&hellip; he played a couple games with the pro Edmonton Flyers and wasn&rsquo;t a bit out of his class.</p><h2><b>MINTO MENTOR</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0714/1007918-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="558" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(LEGS FRASER)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Calgary Ousted From Playoffs By Lethbridge

<div class="byline">By REX McLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Junior hockey isn&rsquo;t renowned for its consistency but if somebody had hinted last December, or even January, that Toronto Marlboros would have difficulty winning a game in the latter part of the season his closest associates would have questioned his sanity.</p><p>The hand-picked Dukes, No. 1 farm team of Toronto Maple Leafs (amateur brand), were loaded with talent from goal out. And if a weak spot should reveal itself there were plenty of adequate replacements with Weston Dukes, their junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; supply depot.</p><p>Marlboros led the OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop most of the season. Back in November they were virtually invincible, compiling a 16-game winning streak which moved them far in front of the other teams in their league. They once boasted an 11-point lead over second place Barrie Flyers. Things looked rosy for the Marlies early in the season.</p><p>Hockey fans have a habit of abandoning their heroes rather abruptly and many puck pundits up this away are wondering if the early-season success of the Marlboros was a mirage or accomplished with mirrors. Because in the last few weeks of the schedule the most abject team in the league was none other than the once-proud Dukes. Their collapse was so complete that caustic observers hinted that Mother Marmaduke&rsquo;s co-ed cuties could have spotted them three goals and still won.</p><p>Marlboros tumbled out of first place with only one week left in schedule play. After running through a dismal 11-game stretch, winning only two games, they were knocked into second spot by Barrie Flyers, who survived a brief slump of their own, to step on the gas.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Flyers Will Stay</b></h2><p>It was the first time Barrie was on top since early in the schedule and unless the Flyers become afflicted with the same creeping paralysis that seized Marlboros they (Flyers) can&rsquo;t help tinishing in first place.</p><p>Barrie enjoyed a three-point lead on Marlboros going into the last week of the schedule and both teams had two games left to play. It seemed most unlikely that Hap Emms&rsquo; team would blow that three-point lead especially when first place would guarante&middot; the Flyers the odd game of each series at home. And any team in the OHA knows that Barrie is almost unbeatable at home.</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors, despite a siege of injuries, swaggered up to the playoff door with an impressive record in the closing weeks of the schedule. They were one point behind Marlboros as the last week of play started and most observers were picking the Irish to finish in the runner-up spot and battle it out with Barria in the first round. Some even hinted that Marlboros wanted to that way although St. Mike&rsquo;s coach, Charley Cerre, had an answer for that.</p><p>Cerre doesn&rsquo;t think there is any particular advantage in finishing third if it is possible to climb to second. The third-place team will likely be pitted against St. Catharines Teepees in its first playoff round and Cerre believes they can be just as tough as Barrie. A few other coaches agre&middot; with him.</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>Picks Teepees</b></h2><p>Alfie Pike, whose Biltmores may be on the side-lines for the playoffs, picks the Teepees as a strong contender for OHA honors. &ldquo;I think you&rsquo;ll see Barrie and St. Catharines in the OHA final,&rdquo; he said, Pike wouldn&rsquo;t make any prediction beyond that but it is interesting to note that Teepees downed Barrie in their last two scheduled meetings and one of those games was in Barrie.</p><p>Galt Black Hawks were wobbling down to the wire in fifth place although experiencing as much difficulty as Marlboros in winning games. The Hawks&rsquo; February record was so spotty that coach Red Hamill wasn&rsquo;t too optimistic about their playoff chances.</p><p>Oshawa Generals carried a five-point lead over the seventh place Guelph Biltmores into the last week of the schedule and it looked like the Generals would capture the last playoff spot. Bilt-mores, with a collection of scrappy rookies, would have to win their three remaining games and Oshawa lose their two before the Guelph team could move into sixth place.</p><p>Windsor Spitfires and Kitchener Greenshirts dropped out of the playoff race early and they weren&rsquo;t too greatly concerned with other developments in the league.</p><p>But the Shirts improved considerably late in the season and even compiled a four-game winning streak in one stretch. The Kitchener management was so impressed that it signed Curly Davis to another term as coach for next season.</p><h2><b>Led Leaders</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0813/1007956-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="498" height="842"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(HAP EMMS)</span></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-0911/1007949-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="1692" height="1214"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Alf Pike Picks Teeps Over Toronto Marlies For OHA Junior Final

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Trouble has broken out again on the Maritime hockey front. This time it is between Halifax and Sydney. As a result of a stick-swinging incident Sydney Goalie Nick Pidsodny and Halifax forward Frank King were waved out of action with match penalties.</p><p>For King it was the second match of the season, a record for these parts. Three months ago he was Involved in a stick swinging duel with Charlottetown&rsquo;s Lou Kiley. Out of this came a stiff fine and a six-game suspension.</p><p>The fiery Pidsodny. with a sizeable amount of penalties &mdash; actually a large amount for a goalie &mdash; was working on a shutout when, midway through the third period, he collided with King. Forward Ronnie Rowe, who had scored two goals and assisted on another, donned the big pads and preserved the goose-egg, a Merriwell-like performance that drew hearty applause from the Sydney fans.</p><p>The match penalties sent the season&rsquo;s total to six, something unheard-of in these parts where hockey gets rough but never that dangerous. King picked up the first, and was followed by Glace Bay&rsquo;s Bill Burega and Charlottetown&rsquo;s Gus Gustavensan. Later came the celebrated Al Millar ease, with the Island goalie clashing with spectators only to be cleared or common assault charges in city police court a few days later.</p><p>The match sentences came as &raquo; result of the tightening In the refereeing all over the circuit. Blamed for the rough play because of their leniency, the referees began to crack down. Of late the penalties have come in large doses.</p><p>In the Sydney-Halifax game along there were four majors, three misconducts and 10 minors.</p><h2><b>Glace Bay Spurts</b></h2><p>This game chased to the sidelines, but not altogether out of sight, the great spurt being made by Hub Macey&rsquo;s Glace Bay Miners.</p><p>A month or so ago the Miners were languishing in the cellar. Now they&rsquo;re not only strongly entrenched in third place but challenging Charlottetown Islanders for the runner-up position.</p><p>The Miners ran through an unusual batch of Injuries in the first three months of the campaign. It wasn&rsquo;t until after Christmas that the patient began to sit up and take notice.</p><p>Since then the Glace Bay surge has been steady. Of late it has reached the spectacular stage. The Miners go charging along, making their biggest gains against the front-running Halifax Atlanties and the second place Islanders.</p><p>A couple of weeks ago they stopped a Charlottetown streak that had reached 10 games. In the next two weeks they won four out of five from the Atlanties.</p><p>Not only are they winning games but the Miners are also socking in the goals. One night in Halifax they ran in five goals in the first eight minutes, of play. Four nights later they skated rough-shod through the Atlanties to the tune of 8 to 2.</p><p>The surge started when Kenny Watson reluctantly decided to leave Smith&rsquo;s Falls and return to the Maritimes. He played with Saint John Beavers last year. He was assigned to Glace Bay in December but preferred Smith&rsquo;s Falls. It took considerable persuation on the part of the Miners and a stern warning from the CAHA before Watson made the jump.</p><h2><b>Now Well Balanced</b></h2><p>He hasn&rsquo;t been outstanding personally but he has given the Miners the balance they so badly needed. He&rsquo;s a smart cookie on the attack and his playmaking has turned previously fast skating but inept scoring wingers into marksmen to be reckoned with.</p><p>Then there is goalie Don Lockhart, who has been a tower of strength all season and whose shutout record is now seven, two more than Charlottetown&rsquo;s Al Millar. Lockhart was the league&rsquo;s strandout goalie with Moncton Hawks last winter.</p><p>And then there is coach Hub Macey, a real old timer who has spent a lot of time in top minor leagues and has had a shot at the National too.</p><p>There were rumors a couple of months ago that Macey was out as coach. In fact at one time club officials had to Issue a strong denial to these rumors. Since then, or since Macey got all his regulars back off the injured lists, he has been the fair-haired boy in Canada&rsquo;s biggest town.</p><p>The long, rugged league schedule closes March 14. All four teams will get into the playoffs, with the leader playing the tailenders and the second and third place clubs meeting. Both semifinals are expected to be decided on best in nine series.</p><p>Unless there is a disastrous slump the rest of the way, Halifax should finish first. Charlottetown should finish second, although the Miners are really on the rampage now and might edge the Islanders out. Sydney&rsquo;s chances of getting out of the cellar are remote. But in the playoffs the Millionaires, for many years the biggest name in Maritime hockey, might spring an upset or two. They&rsquo;re not geared for the long run but in a short money series their experience could pay off.</p><h2><b>In Hot Water</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01102/1007987-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="576" height="883"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">(FRANK KING)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Badboy King’s “Matchs” Burn Way To Maritime Major League Record

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0255/1008049-1-eng-US/f0018-022.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 Payable by Postal, Bank or Telegraphic Money Order.</p><p>U.S.A&rsquo; Remittances 54.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or Personal cheque<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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YES, I WANT THE HOCKEY NEWS!

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Sport Trophies

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0188/1008111-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Chicago player shown in centre.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Heindl of Saskatoon Quakers.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of a Bruin forward.</p><p>7&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>8&mdash;Plays defense for St. Louis.</p><p>10&mdash;Short for first name of Rangers&rsquo; publicist.</p><p>11&mdash;Initials of a Boston rearguard.</p><p>12&mdash;North Dakota (abbr.).</p><p>14&mdash;An NHL linesman answers to this.</p><p>16&mdash;Initials of a New York centre.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Andy&rdquo; Anderson of Victoria.</p><p>18&mdash;NHL club with whom Adam Brown first played (abbr.).</p><p>19&mdash;Name given a Cleveland forward.</p><p>20&mdash;As a player, this didn&rsquo;t hamper &ldquo;Dit&rdquo; Clapper.</p><p>21&mdash;This is Dean Prentice&rsquo; birthstone.</p><p>24&mdash;Plays for Seattle.</p><p>26&mdash;Nickname of 6 across.</p><p>28&mdash;Initials of NHL coach who hails from Melville, Sask.</p><p>29&mdash;Initials of Jenkins, former NHL player.</p><p>31&mdash;Initials of a member of the Canadiens.</p><p>33&mdash;Played defense for Rangers in 1949-50.</p><p>36&mdash;&rdquo;Bep&rdquo; Guidolin turned pro with this NHL club (abbr.).</p><p>37&mdash;Name given Stewart of Quebec Aces.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;This NHL goaltender has never been on an All-Star team.</p><p>2&mdash;Short for given name of &ldquo;Blinky&rdquo; Boyce.</p><p>3&mdash;Jim Fairburn&rsquo;s second name.</p><p>4&mdash;Danny Summers was born here.</p><p>5&mdash;Pictured players&rsquo; &mdash; is 5&rsquo;9&frac14;&rdquo; (abbr.).</p><p>6&mdash;This surrounds the ends of the rink at the Olympia.</p><p>9&mdash;That is.</p><p>13&mdash;Played goal for Calgary last season.</p><p>15&mdash;Ron Stewart&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of a Tacoma forward.</p><p>18&mdash;Played for Canadiens in 1950-51, called Bob.</p><p>19&mdash;Rangers&rsquo; chief scout.</p><p>22&mdash;Post Office (abbr.)</p><p>23&mdash;Initials of one of the Red Wings.</p><p>25&mdash;Name given Reardon, last season with Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>27&mdash;Affirmative answer.</p><p>30&mdash;Short for first name of Fisher, member of the Red Wings in 1942-43..</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of a member of the Leafs.</p><p>34&mdash;&rdquo;Bert&rdquo; Giesebrecht&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>35&mdash;Each (abbr.).</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/f0019-0261/1008104-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="560" height="880"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOCKEY X-WORD

<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>(STANDING FEBRUARY 25)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0342/1008261-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="606" height="178"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0434/1008254-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="592" height="411"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0527/1008247-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="591" height="306"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR</b></h2><p>(STANDING FEBRUARY 24)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0616/1008240-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="605" height="203"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0715/1008233-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="603" height="761"></div><h2><b>EASTERN CANADA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></p><p>Pembrooke 3 Cornwall 1</p><p>Cornwall 5 Pembroke 2</p><p><b>(Beet of 7 series tied 1-1)</b></p><p><b>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</b></p><p>Smiths Falls 7 Thurso 4</p><p>Smiths Falls 1 Thurso 1</p><p>Smiths Falls 4 Thurso 3 (overtime)</p><p>(Smiths Falls leads best of 7 series 2-0 1 game tied)</p><h2><b>NORTHERN ONTARIO SENIOR</b></h2><p>North Bay 4, Soo, Ont. 3.</p><p>North Bay leads best-of-seven semi-finols 1-0.</p><p>Soo, Mich. 4, Sudbury 7.</p><p>Sudbury leads best-of-seven semi-finals 1-0.</p><h2><b>MARITIME MAJOR</b></h2><p>(STANDING FEBRUARY 22)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0813/1008226-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="605" height="129"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0911/1008219-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="604" height="839"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-107/1008212-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="597" height="181"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR</b></h2><p>(FINAL STANDING)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-117/1008205-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="604" height="204"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-127/1008198-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="595" height="279"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-137/1008191-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="607" height="406"></div><h2><b>THUNDER BAY SENIOR</b></h2><p>Fort William 7. Fort Frances 2</p><p>(Fort William leads best-of-seven series 1-0.)</p><h2><b>MANITOBA SENIOR</b></h2><p>Letellier 3 Winnipeg 5. (First game of best-of-seven semi-final).</p><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR</b></h2><p>Lethbridge 7, Calgary 6</p><p>(Lethbridge leads best-of-five semifinal 2-0).</p><p>Moose Jaw 5, Medicine Hat 6</p><p>(Best-of-five semi-final tied 1-1.)</p><h2><b>NORTHERN SASK. INTERMEDIATE</b></h2><p>Lloydminster 0. Prince Albert 3. (Lloydminster. leads best-of-five series 2-1).</p><p>* * *</p><h2><b>NOVA SCOTIA A.P.C. SENIOR</b></h2><p>Pictou 5, Truro 3. (Best-of-seven finals tied 2-2).</p><h2><b>CENTRAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>(STANDI NG FEBRUARY 23)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-147/1008184-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="605" height="156"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-156/1008177-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="597" height="407"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</b></h2><p>(FINAL STANDINGS)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-165/1008170-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="599" height="132"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-175/1008163-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="599" height="457"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-185/1008156-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="595" height="157"></div><h2><b>CAPE BRETON JUNIOR</b></h2><p>(Semi-finals)</p><p><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-195/1008149-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="598" height="179"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><p>(STANDING FEBRUARY 27)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-204/1008142-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg" title="f0019-20" width="600" height="125"></div><h2><b>WESTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE</b></h2><p>Alberta 0, British Columbia 3 (Alberta wins Hamber Trophy.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Amateur Hockey Parade At A Quick Glance

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0119/1008306-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00c4-01" width="249" height="291"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0218/1008299-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00c4-02" width="270" height="315"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0318/1008292-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00c4-03" width="2984" height="3731"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GOAL AND A MISS &mdash; Gump Worsley, (top photo) has just been beaten by Detroit&rsquo;s Johnny Wilson (No. 16) as Dean Prentice comes to his rescue seconds too late. In the lower picture. Vic Lynn of Chicago moves in quicky to check Jerry Toppazzini of Boston as Chicago&rsquo;s Al Roilins goes down to make a save off Woody Dumart. The player on the ice is Chicago team captain, Bill Gadsby.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Hockey News 1952-53