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March 21, 1953

The Hockey News March 21, 1953

<div class="byline">By EDDIE COEN</div><p>CLEVELAND, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;The hockeyest hockeyplaying hockey player in the American League this winter.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s the title that is being bestowed upon Eddie Olson, the quiet left winger, right winger, center, defenseman, and for two minutes goaltender of the Cleveland Barons. And there is little doubt in the minds of the fans of Cleveland and the gentlemen of the press and radio upon whose shoulders the mantel of the &ldquo;most valuable player in the American Hockey League&rdquo; should fall sometime next month when the awards are announced.</p><p>For there can be little doubt that the one logical choice is the Eddie Olson who is the key man in the Cleveland Barons stretch drive to win the regular American Hockey League title. For here is the boy who has played every single position on the club, and at the writing is the leader of the entire loop in the matter of total points scored for the circuit.</p><p>Olson&rsquo;s the man from every point of view. Whatever player in the league has played all of the positions on the forward line, and then has dropped back on a defense spot whenever the occasion demands.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s a team player through and through&rdquo; is the way&rsquo; his coach Fred (Bun) Cook put it, And Bun should know since he has handled plenty of boys in his tenure in the American Hockey League. &ldquo;He never cares where lie plays but you can be sure that he&rsquo;ll turn in</p><p>a good game no matter&rsquo;what spot I ask him to take over. He is just as good defensively as offensively,&rdquo; says the Baron mentor, and Cleveland Newspapermen still remember the job that he did on Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Bobby Solinger two years ago in the playoffs and when he was a member of the &ldquo;blackjack&rdquo; line along with Red Doran and Harry Taylor that stopped Ab DeMarco and the Warwick brothers cold in the playoffs.</p><p>Olson, one of the few American-born hockey players in the circuit this year, could become the first native of the United States to win the AHL point-making title. He is a native of Hancock, Michigan, and now makes his home in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spends the summers serving up batting practice balls for Bill Veeck&rsquo;s St. Louis Browns.</p><p>Olson played with the United States Coast Guard Cutters club in the Eastern loop during; 1942-43 and 1943-44. He spent three years in the service and was overseas for 14 months during 1944-45 at which time he received three battle stars for duty in the South Pacific theatre.</p><p>After receiving his discharge, Eddie joined the Oakland, California team and then went to St. Louis in 1946. After four years with the Flyers he came to the Barons and has been a standout with the Hendy club since.</p><p>Whether Olson wins the AHL point making title or not, where else is there a player in the circuit who can turn in the top notch performances that this boy has this winter? Where else is the player who fits in anywhere that Coach Bun Cook asks him to? Where else is there a player with his defensive ability?</p><p>And where else is there a player in the American Hockey League that is more valuable to his team, and for that matter to the league than this same Eddie Olson Of the Cleveland Barons?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IN THIS ISSUE

Olson Top Candidate For AHL’s MVP Award

<div class="byline">By T. L FITZGERALD</div><p>CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I.&mdash;</p><p>Canada&rsquo;s smallest Province gave its greatest demonstration of appreciation to a native son, in the realm of athletics here on Monday night, March 9th, when the sporting public of Prince Edward Island gathered by the thousands at the Charlottetown Forum to pay tribute to Roy &ldquo;Buck&rdquo; Whitlock for his outstanding hockey prowess in the Maritime Provinces during the past seven years.</p><p>Brigadier W. W. Reid. D.S.O., E.D., Director of Physical Fitness Department for Prince Edward Island presided as Master of Ceremonies. Attended by Governor T. W. L. Prowse, Premier J. Walter Jones, Judge J. Elliott Oudson, President of the Maritime Major Hockey League, Walter Lawlor, President of the Maritime Amateur Hockey Association, and other prominent civic and hockey dignataries, the occasion was one on a par with Montreal&rsquo;s recent tributes to two of their National Hockey League greats, Maurice &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard and &ldquo;Butch&rdquo; Bouchard. Showered with gifts ranging from a 1953 Ford Tudor Mainliner car to small gifts for his son Bobby and 15 months-old daughter, Cathy, also appropriate gifts for a very charming wife, Kay, it was an outstanding event worthy of an outstanding athlete.</p><p>It is a noteworthy fact, that, during the demonstration Buck was presented with a mantel clock from the Halifax &ldquo;Atlantics&rdquo;, the Islanders&rsquo; most-feared competitor in the present schedule. This speaks volumes for the respect in which he is held by opposing teams for his integrity as a man and his fine sportsmanship in competition. It was also a gesture of good sportsmanship on the part of the Atlantics.</p><p>The citizens of Charlottetown, including many business houses. President Frank Maconaid and the Islanders Hockey Club, the MAHA, Dr. Duggan, past president of the club, his team-mates, Mr. F. E. Lane of Moncton (his employer) and business staff, and many others contributed gifts to Buck and his family which will make Monday night one long to be remembered.</p><h2>The Whitlock Story</h2><p>But for you who do not follow the Maritime circuit, and are no boubt wondering what this guy, Whitlock, has done to deserve all this, here is The Whitlock Story:</p><p>Born at Charlottetown, January 5th 1924, to a modest, sports loving family, Buck, like many athletes before him, developed his talents for sport on the open ponds and sand lots of his neighbourhood surroundings until he was old and skillful enough to enter organized team sports. Encouraged by a sports-minded father, Nelson Whitlock, and following in the footsteps of two older hockey-playing brothers, &ldquo;Pud&rdquo; and &ldquo;Tarky&rdquo;, Roy took to the icelanes in his early teens like a duck takes to water. In 1934, &ldquo;Pud&rdquo; was the star of the Whitlock family as a member of the Junior Abbies, Maritime-Quebec Junior Champions that year who lost out to Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s in the Canadian finals&mdash;while some five years later &ldquo;Tarky&rdquo; starred with the Charlottetown Royals as a Maritime Championship junior club and finalists against Perth Blue Wings. Little did they know then however, that the kid brother Buck was yet to outshine them all.</p><p>Buck first came to the fore in local hockey circles back in 1941, when at the age of 17, he demonstrated his ability as a sharp shooting youngster, that was later to elevate him to the highest scoring centreman ever to come out of these Maritime Provinces. On the night of March 14th in the final game of the Maritime Junior finals, between the Charlottetown Royals and the Truro Bearcats, Whitlock scored five and assisted on two of his team&rsquo;s nine goals to give them their third Maritime title in a now.</p><h2>Had His Night</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01297/2169422-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="573" height="1766"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BUCK WHITLOCK</b></figcaption></div><h2>Joined The Navy</h2><p>Putting aside his chances of a hockey career for more serious duties, however, Buck enlisted in the Canadian Navy in the Spring of 1941, and, but for his stamina and courage displayed during the war, might never have donned the blades again. Serving aboard the Frigate H.M.C.S. Valleyfield in 1944, he survived the ordeal of spending more than two hours in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic after his ship was torpedoed. Losing over 130 of his comrades in the disaster, he was one of only 35 of the good ship&rsquo;s survivors. His ordeal was not without its consequences. When rescued he was paralyzed from the hips down, but, through time, regained the use of his legs although he still experiences trouble with his feet as a result. It takes him about a week to break in a new pair of skates before the boots stop hurting him. Discharged from the Navy after the war, Buck once more took up his hockey playing in the Maritimes and it wasn&rsquo;t long before his feats, were being blazed across Maritime sports pages in bold type.</p><p>In less than seven seasons since his return, Roy has amassed a total of 645 scoring points in regular schedule play. He scored his 300th goal on February 13th of this year&mdash;the first Maritime hockeyist ever to attain that mark. He has won the Maritime Major Hockey League scoring championship three times in six years, and at time of writing, is headed for his fourth in seven years with a 10 point margin over his nearest rival, Billy Watson of Halifax Atlantics, with only three games left in the schedule.</p><p>Playing with Saint John Beavers in 1950-51, Whitlock set an all-time Maritime points record for a single season by combining 57 goals with 69 assists for a total of 12 6 points, and is within four points of breaking his own record this year with three games to go. His record so far this year is 53 goals and 70 assists.</p><h2>Comes Back Home</h2><p>His post war hockey activities saw him perform three years with Moncton Hawks in the Maritime Big Hockey League, and two seasons with Saint John Beavers, before he returned to his native town to play.</p><p>Out of senior hockey competition for nearly 15 years. Prince Elward Island re-entered Maritime senior play in 1950-51 with a team known as the Charlottetown Islanders, under the capable handling of coach Murph &ldquo;Hardrock&rdquo; Chamberlain. But Whitlock was contracted to the Beavers that season, and although that was his big 12 6 point year, the Islanders ran roughshod over the other three entries to win the schedule and league title in handy fashion. Last year, however, Whitlock saw his way clear to return to the fold and played outstanding hockey for the home club although finishing seventh in the scoring race with 32 goals and 59 assists for 91 points; under coach Leo &ldquo;The Lion&rdquo; Lamoureux. It was a six-team Major Hockey League circuit.</p><p>Tipping the scales at 165 pounds, Whitlock is all whipcord and muscle. Although not an overly fast skater, he is as shifty and crafty as they come, with a left shot that ean drive a puck through a knot hole in the boards. He has the uncanny knack of being able to fire a shot from almost any position of angle that can cause a goalie&rsquo;s hair to turn grey over night.</p><p>Montreal Canadiens offered Whitlock a three-game tryout during the 1917-4 8 season but Buck elected to string along with the Maritimes. What would have been the result if he had accepted the offer is anybody&rsquo;s guess, but it is the general opinion of many of his followers as well as many veterans of the game, that the local hockeyist would have definitely made and stayed with the NHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Roy “Buck” Whitlock Honored By Charlottetown Islander Fans

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02383/2167994-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p><b>Bom, Fort William, Ont., February 27, 1926. Defense. Shoots left. 5&rsquo;11&rdquo;, 200 lbs.</b></p><p><b>Last amateur club: Gait Red Wings (Junior).</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Fogolin, Lidio John (Lee)

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s the Edmonton Oil Kings vs the Lethbridge Native Sons for the championship of the Western Canada Junior Hockey league as the playoffs ran true to form.</p><p>Just as Edmonton coach Ken McAuley, the former New York Ranger netminder, predicted, his powerful Oil Kings eliminated the second-place Regina Pats in seven games. It was a marathon best-of-nine semi-final series (the longest series in the league&rsquo;s history) with Edmonton coming on to win three straight games after the series was tied at two games apiece at one stage.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t all smooth sailing for Edmonton, however, and coach McAuley was a mighty worried man on several occasions. Right in the middle of the series, two of his best forwards, 44-goal man Gerry Prinice and Gerry Melnyk, came down with pneumonia.</p><p>Here McAuley&rsquo;s strong bench came to his rescue. He had two defencemen&mdash;Bob Cowan and Dino Maniago&mdash;playing forward; a left winger&mdash;Gerry Karpinka&mdash;playing centre; and two right wingers&mdash;Billy McNeill and Babe McAvoy&mdash;patrolling the left boards.</p><p>The Bucyk brothers&mdash;Bill and Johnny&mdash;also came through with great performances to help the short-handed Kings. Blueliner Bill, who has seen action with the pro Edmonton Flyers this season, was bouncing the Pats high, wide and handsome while his kid brother, 18-year-old Johnny, took over Prince&rsquo;s spot on a line pivoted by Norm Ullman and contributed a couple important goals.</p><h2>Take Drubbing</h2><p>After suffering a humiliating 6-0 drubbing in the sixth game of the series, the defending champion Regina Pats went out in a blaze of glory, losing the finale 3-2. League champions for the past three seasons and Memorial cup finalists in two of them, the Pats have hung up their gear for the earliest time in the past four years. Last spring they were busy playing hockey until May 5.</p><p>&ldquo;I was just as proud of this Pat club in losing as any of the championship teams I&rsquo;ve coached&rdquo;, said Regina coach Murray Arm-strong.</p><p>&ldquo;We lost to a terrific hockey club in Edmonton. They were loaded with experience and we weren&rsquo;t. But they didn&rsquo;t out-fight 113 and the boys played their final 60 minutes gallently&rdquo;.</p><p>Meanwhile, the other playoffs ran true to form, Third-place Lethbridge took out fourth-place Calgary Buffaloes in three straight; coach Ken Doraty&rsquo;s Moose Jaw Canucks eliminated the Medicine Hat Tigers; and then Lethbridge downed Moose Jaw in the semifinal.</p><p>Doraty&rsquo;s Canucks were battlers to the bitter end, too. Down two games to none with one game tied, they fought for a 5-4 win; over Lethbridge ice. And the next game they lost by the slim 4-3 margin.</p><p>The playoff-jinxed club of recent seasons, Lethbrige seems to be coming into their own this spring under new coach Butch McDonald. With two successful series behind them, Lethbridge now plans to make it hot for Edmonton in the league final.</p><p>Another club that used to perform like stumble-bums when the playoffs were reached is rolling along smoothly in Manitoba. The St. Boniface Canadiens have chalked up six straight playoff victories. They ousted the Winnipeg Monarchs in four straight and then grabbed the first two games of the Manitoba junior foinal against the Brandon Wheat Kings.</p><p>In Manitoba, they are expecting big things from coach Bryan Hextali&rsquo;s junior Habs. If they can get past the Thunder Bay champion, it could be an Edmonton-St-Boniface western junior final.</p><p>Meanwhile, in the Northern Saskatchewan Junior wheel, it looks like Flin Flon Bombers under coach Alex Shibicky to meet the Humblodt Indians for the title. This would be a repeat of last sping&rsquo;s final when Flin Flon won out.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> the Regina Pats lose only three players via the age-limit&hellip;they are Tony Schneider, Gordie Cowan and goalie Bob Tyler&hellip;all three men haven&rsquo;t finished hockey for the year, however, as they moved up to help the Regina Cap seniors in their Allan cup playoffs&hellip;as for Edmonton, they lose seven players at the end of this campaign&mdash;goalie Bob Sangster, defencemen Dino Maniago, Ed Zeniuk and Bill Bucyk, and forwards George Townsend, Gerry Prince and Babe McAvoy&hellip;Tony Hemmerling, Cleveland Barons scout, watched some of the Regina-Edmonton series&hellip;he feels that &ldquo;a rough club who can carry the play to the Oil Kings might be able to overcome the Edmonton club. St. Boniface Canadiens may be just the team&rdquo;&hellip;there was bitter feeling in Reginaler of Lethbridge as referee for the Regina-Edmonton series&hellip;when an Edmonton writer criticized the appointment of Bill Chand-Chandler is an older brother of Pats&rsquo; Jack Chandler but there was no sign of favoritism&hellip;in fact, referee Chandler leaned over backwards to make sure player Chandler received just as many penalties. If not more, than the other players.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Oil Kings Dump Pats Now Face Native Sons

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01360/2169609-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUBLE MISS</b>&mdash;Johnny Peirson of the Boston Bruins, playing with a plaster cast around his head, couldn&rsquo;t come any closer to scoring in the above action shots. In the top photo he&rsquo;s foiled by Chicago&rsquo;s Al Rollins by inches while Jimmy McFadden comes in to help. In the lower shot, Harry Lumley of Toronto watches Peirson&rsquo;s shot angle off the goalpost. Jimmy Thomson stands at left with Gordie Hannigan checking the Boston sniper.</figcaption></div><h2><b>Mr. Plaster Cast Fails By Fraction</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Rangers Fume Over Attack On Eddie Kullman

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The Rangers have a bitter complaint. They find fault with the officiating in this waning season when they, for all intents and purposes, are simply running out an aimless course.</p><p>Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick, club president and NHL governor, has already filed a strong protest over one recent incident involving referee Bill Chadwick. And with the protest is documentary evidence&mdash;game movies&mdash;that the New York charges have substance.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m making this protest in the hope that a wrong will be righted,&rdquo; Kilpatrick. said. &ldquo;All of us who saw Richard hit Kullman over the head with his stick the other night were certain that the referee did not call the proper penalty. The movies prove we were right. Richard should have had a match penalty, for deliberately injuring an opponent, instead of the much less severe five-minute penalty.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02250/2169647-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="323" height="485"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gen. Kilpatrick</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been stepping on us,&rdquo; Bill Cook complained of the referees. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been going, out of their way not to penalize teams which are still playing for the playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;For some reason, they&rsquo;re afraid to call a penalty on the chance it might knock some club out of the running. As a result, we have to sit back and take it in the neck. We want to win, too, and, we also don&rsquo;t want to get any unnecessary injuries.</p><p>&ldquo;This past weekend was the payoff,&rdquo; the Ranger coach went on. &ldquo;Up in Boston (March 7), at least three times a Ranger went in with the puck for an open shot&mdash;only to be held, tripped,. hooked or otherwise interfered with. Never once was a penalty called, although each case deserved a penalty shot. (Frank Udvari was the referee in this instance).</p><p>&ldquo;You know what happened hers the next night against Montreal. I&rsquo;ve never seen sueh a wrong call as Chadwick made on Richard. He had to be put out of the game. The rule book says so, and there&rsquo;s no other interpretation.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not being a poor loserweither,&rdquo; Cook added. &ldquo;We won both games. That isn&rsquo;t the point. Even though we are now out of the playoffs, we shouldn&rsquo;t get the dirty end. We&rsquo;re out there to win. too, if we can.&rdquo;</p><p>Cook&rsquo;s beef and the General&rsquo;s official protest couldn&rsquo;t be better substantiated. Movies of the game proved beyond any doubt that Rocket Richard deliberately injured Eddie Kullman by cracking the Ranger&rsquo;s skull with his stick while Eddie was defenseless.</p><p>According to NHL Rule No. 49, Chadwick had no other recourse but to give Richard a match penalty and an automatic $100 fine&mdash;and allow no one to substitute for him for 10 minutes. How Chadwick arrived at the lesser penalty is anyone&rsquo;s guess. No other infraction but &ldquo;deliberately injuring an opponent&rsquo;&rsquo; was pertinent.</p><p>Having gained the evidence of what he and some 8,852 fans had seen at the Garden, Kilpatrick sent the official protest to refereein-chief Carl Voss. The hope is that Voss will overrule Chadwick, after looking at the films.</p><p>With the movies as testimony, the Richard-Kullman incident developed in this manner:</p><p>(1) Jack Stoddard of the Rangers, trying to reach Nick Mickoski&rsquo;s rebound just outside the crease early in the third period, was flagrantly held by two Canadiens. No penalty was called.</p><p>(2) In trying to break loose from his holding opponents, Stoddard became involved in a general pushing and shoving melee. Bert Olmstead of Montreal then reached between two players and speared Stoddard in the stomach. Still no penalty.</p><p>(3) As a result of this spearing, Stoddard charged Olmstead with raised stick and they both scuffled, harmlessly. Chadwick skated up to separate them, just before Richard followed him to the group of players. The Rocket shoved Kullman, who was just looking on from the rear row, and Eddie quickly turned toward Richard with raised stick.</p><p>(4) That precipitated a high-stick shoving match between Richard and Kullman, which moved about 40 feet away from the Stoddard-Olmstead duel. Linesman Dom Baolto rushed between Kullman and Richard, grabbing Eddie&rsquo;s stick and shoving him about 2 0 feet away from the Rocket.</p><p>(5) While Baolto was still holding tight to Kullman&rsquo;s stick and facing away from Richard, the Rocket skated up behind the linesman. He raised his stick, reached across the linesman and brought the weapon down hard with an overhead smash on Kull-man&rsquo;s skull. Richard started the swing with both hands and followed through with only the right one holding the stick.</p><p>(6) As the movies clearly show, neither Baolto nor Chadwick could have seen the blow struck. The linesman had his back to Richard; the referee had his back to all three, while still trying to restore order between Stoddard and Olmstead.</p><p>(7) Yet, as soon as Kullman was struck and fell to his knees, (the blow on skull could be heard by anyone on the ice), Chadwick hastened to the spot and motioned for the penalty. He didn&rsquo;t appear to even ask Baolto&rsquo;s opinion before assessing the five-minute major.</p><p>(8) Later, when Allan Stanley, as Ranger captain, asked Chadwick why he didn&rsquo;t give Richard the match penalty he deserved, this is what the referee told the defenseman. Boalto was holding Richard&rsquo;s stick and when the Rocket tried to get it away, he accidentally struck Kullman on the head and drew blood.</p><p>The movies clearly show that Richard had full possession of his stick, 20 feet away from Baolto and Kullman, when the attack was made.</p><p>Was Kullman injured? The blow by Richard was hard enough to knock a four-tooth, upper. plate cut of Eddie&rsquo;s mouth onto the ice. And when Richard skated back to score a goal, after serving only five minutes, Kullman was still lying in the dressing room while eight stitches were being sewed to close a two-inch gash in the scalp.</p><p>As uncomfortable as Kullman may have been at the time&mdash;he came back to play the next game with a helmet protecting his injury&mdash;he was mighty lucky. An inch or two to either side and his one great burst of temper could have caused Richard to be held for homicide.</p><p>One of the worst parts of the whole affair was that Kullman had no chance to defend himself. Not only was Baolto holding firmly to his stick, but Eddie&rsquo;s entire concentration was taken up with trying to get it away from the linesman. &ldquo;I never saw the. blow coming,&rdquo; Kullman verified later. &lsquo;&rdquo;The first thing I knew, I was on the ice.&rdquo;</p><p>This one instance of Richard being simply slapped on the wrist when he should have been kicked in the pants isn&rsquo;t unique. In New York, at least, there&rsquo;s been a bit of a halo surrounding the great Rocket. He can do no wrong..</p><h2><b>Enuffs Enuff</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01556/2169640-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="584" height="588"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Say Richard Attack Was Deliberately (Intent To Hurt)

<p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>ETROIT, Mich.&mdash;byall Smith, sports editor of the Detroit Free Press, believes that Jack Adams forgot to list all the factory&mdash;including the biggest factor of all&mdash;which brought Detroit five straight National Hockey beague titles. In His As Of Today column, Smith says:</p><p>&ldquo;There are many factors in the record-breaking Red Wing spree. But back of all is the omnipresent presence of Manager John James Adams.</p><p>&ldquo;It was Adams who concocted, and made, the many trades It was Adams who brought in Coach Tommy Ivan. It was Adams who constructed the Detroit minor-league farm system which has produced such a rich crop that all but five of the 16 players on the present team are home-grown and handpicked.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Biggest Factor of All—Adams!

<div class="byline">DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>After five straight titles, the Red Wings have learned to take championships calmly. There was little more than the usual uproar in the Detroit dressing room after the 1952-53 crown was clinched with a 3-1 victory against Toronto here on March 9 with seven games still to go.</p><p>Some of the comments:</p><p>Coach Tommy Ivan&mdash;&ldquo;We got off to a bad start and there were times I wondered. You remember, we were fifth once back in November. This one gave a bigger kick than the other titles because we did it after such a slow start.&rdquo;</p><p>Gordie Howe&mdash;&ldquo;One thing about it&mdash;someone will have to spend six years to do any better&rdquo;.</p><p>Marty Pavelich summed up the players&rsquo; feeling when he said, &ldquo;We were all excited the first year or two on the nights we clinched the championship. I guess we&rsquo;re keyed up now but there isn&rsquo;t any reason to show it.&rdquo;</p><p>Jack Adams like Ivan, talked to every player in the room and congratulated him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Gordie Howe Sums It Up, “Team That Beats Mark Will Need Six Years”

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;After 166-games Bob Goldham finally broke the longest scoring famine of any current player in the National Hockey League.</p><p>Goldham scored his goal here on March 11 and it was a big one for Detroit Red Wings. His was the first, and thus the winning goal in a 2-0 triumph over the New York Rangers.</p><p>The lanky defenseman last had scored on Feb. 7, 1951&mdash;more than two years before. Since then he played 19 games that season, all his 69 last season and the first 3 this season without hitting again. That made 151 regular-season games and 14 more in the playoffs made it 165 without a tally.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02460/2167870-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="297" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Goldham</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bob Goldham Ends Goal Famine

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Five National Hockey League titles in a row is a record. But is it the limit?</p><p>Jack Adams says no.</p><p>If he&rsquo;s right NHL rivals will face the same old grim task of trying to check Detroit next year. And the Red Wings future has a rosy tinge right when the current picture already is glowing at its healthiest.</p><p>Adams made his statement white reviewing the many factors which had gone into Detroit&rsquo;s drive for a fifth straight title. Asked what he considered the whys and hows of the record reign, he summed it up this way:</p><p>&ldquo;Luck&hellip;our super stars.&hellip;our coaching&hellip;our team spirit&hellip;our farm system&hellip;key trades&hellip;luck again.&rdquo;</p><p>The interview took place shortly after the Wings had clinched the 1952-53 crown with seven games still to play. You&rsquo;d expect to find him jubilant and gleeful with his ninth title in 2 6 years as a Detroit executive. Instead he was, coldly analytical.</p><p>He termed the review a &ldquo;luxury&rdquo;, explaining that &ldquo;you can&rsquo;t afford to look backward very many times in this game&mdash;you have to keep looking ahead to stay a winner.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say luck was the biggest single factor in winning the five in a row. buck, you&rsquo;d call it&mdash;I prefer Divine Providence,&rdquo; he declared.</p><p>&ldquo;We escaped all serious injuries over the entire stretch. We never lost a flock of key players at one time or any players for a long period. That&rsquo;s a break which means everything in hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;Next factor, I believe, was our team spirit. You have to have that to win regardless of everything else. Even the best players aren&rsquo;t going to become champions without the will to win.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s where you must give credit to Tommy Ivan&rsquo;s coaching. It takes smart handling of players to keep morale and spirit high. Tommy&rsquo;s record of finishing in second place his first year as a coach and then first five straight times is proof enough that he is a great coach.</p><h2><i>Must Be Lucky!</i></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01481/2167791-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="500" height="509"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>JACK ADAMS</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Maybe the key move of all at the management level goes back eight years or so. That was when we rebuilt our farm system after the war. This system provided us with most of our present-day players and, just as important, provided them at the right time.</p><p>&ldquo;It provided our &lsquo;super-stars&rsquo; as some people call Gordie Howe, Ted bindsay, Red Kelly and Terry Sawchuk. To have a winning team over a long stretch you must have young stars, and all of them came to us as youngsters and developed as we hoped for.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams was asked to name the one player who had meant the most in those five years. He hedged slightly in answering:</p><p>&ldquo;The first part of our streak it was Sid Abel, a great veteran whom we built our team around. But for the last two years Howe has been our driving force.</p><p>&ldquo;He is the greatest player of all time&mdash;something which the other players on the team realize just as well as I do. They call him &lsquo;Power&rsquo;, and that&rsquo;s exactly what he is to a team&mdash;power which no other man can match.</p><p>&ldquo;Then we were lucky in our trades. Each year we knew we had youngster coming up and we had to make room for those kids to get legs&mdash;the legs you have to have to win. We guessed right.</p><p>&ldquo;We made the needed room for youngsters like Marcel Pronovost, Glen Skov, Alex Delvecchio, Johnny Wilson and Marcel Bonin. Every time it turned out to our avantage.</p><p>&ldquo;The biggest trade of all, of course, was peddling Harry Burnley at a time to make room for Sawchuk. We believed Terry was ready, but some people called it a big gamble. I guess now you know we kept the right man.</p><p>&ldquo;That trade brought us Metro Prystai and Bob Goldham, two men who have meant much to our success. Again we made the right move when we got Tony Leswlck in another trade.&rdquo;</p><p>Adams then turned toward the future and made the outright statement that &ldquo;this team is good for two or three years more&mdash;I don&rsquo;t say we will win the title, but we can and we should if luck stays with us.</p><p>&ldquo;This still is a young club. And even more important the nucleus&mdash;those four to six players you build a club around&mdash;is composed of young players. They are Howe, Lindsay, Kelly and Marty Pavelich, the only players who were on all five championship teams.</p><p>&ldquo;Now Sawchuk and Prystai have become part of the nucleus for the future, and they too are youngsters.</p><p>&ldquo;Finally you take those who some day will become the nucleus players around whom you can built a club, and you find smart young players like Delvecchio, Wilson, Pronovost, Skov and Bonin who haven&rsquo;t reached their peak yet.&rdquo;</p><p>It was obvious that Adams found the backward glance pleasant only because the future looked the same way.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Adams Believes Wings Can Maintain Championship Form

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>One chilly night in January 21-year-old Warren Godfrey of the Boston Bruins scored what was probably the most distasteful goal of his short hockey career.</p><p>He fired a puck into his own net while trying to clear it and won a game for the New York Rangers. The score of the game was 2 to 1.</p><p>For the next few days the crestfallen youngster took a lot of kidding about his unwilling contribution to the New York cause. &ldquo;Wrong Way&rdquo; Godfrey, they called him.</p><p>Yet Bill Quackenbush, the crafty veteran with whom Godfrey was paired for most of his first season with the Bruins, is of the opinion that his wrong-way goal has done his young partner a lot of good.</p><p>Godfrey, in Quackenbush&rsquo;s book, has been a better defenseman since becoming the first Bruin to beat Sugar Jim Henry this season than he was before.</p><p>&ldquo;In the last two months he has improved tremendously,&rdquo; opined Boston&rsquo;s master of smart defense play, &ldquo;and I date his most rapid improvement from the night he put the puck into our net.</p><p>&ldquo;It seems to me that he has been much more relaxed since then, as if he figured that he couldn&rsquo;t do anything worse than that, no matter what he did.</p><p>&ldquo;Since then he has been doing things he never dared do before and doing them well. I&rsquo;d say he has improved 50 per cent since that one game with the Rangers.&rdquo;</p><h2>Bruin Rookie And Booster</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03413/2167908-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="572" height="814"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WARREN GODFREY</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04312/2167901-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="551" height="859"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL QUACKENBUSH</b></figcaption></div><p>Quackenbush has been a Godfrey booster since he first met him in training camp last fall. He has been impressed all along by his desire to learn and his enthusiasm for his work.</p><p>But with the end of the season only a deep breath away, blond Bill goes even farther in his rating of his tall protege.</p><p>&ldquo;I think he has made more progress in his first season than Red Kelly did when he broke in at Detroit,&rdquo; he declared. &ldquo;In another two years he can be not just a good defenseman but a great one.&rdquo;</p><p>The outstanding personnel development of the Bruins&rsquo; goal-less season has probably been the progress made by their three rookie defensemen, Bob Armstrong, Frank Martin and Godfrey.</p><p>Armstrong and Godfrey both proved themselves capable of holding regular jobs except when, sidelined by injuries, and Martin showed promise during his stretch as Armstrong&rsquo;s fill-in.</p><p>Armstrong is also only 21 years old, Martin two years younger. The latter lacked the professional background of the other two for his major league debut, but he acquired a coating of polish in his emergency role.</p><p>Meanwhile, the Bruins neared the end of their string still seeking the solution to their perennial problem, their lack of scoring punch. With only 12 days of the season left they had an extremely modest scoring average of 2.2 per game.</p><p>That figure bloomed as a tribute to their defense, as personified largely by Goalie Sugar Jim Henry, because of 23 games in which neither they nor the opposition scored mor ethan two goals, they lost only seven. Henry was there in the tight ones.</p><p>As a late-season pickup the Bruins regained the use of big Dave Creighton, out for more leg. Coach Lynn Patrick put than two months with a broken Creighton right to work, and when Capt. Milt Schmidt ran into a period of back trouble, he kept George &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Sullivan busy, also.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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“Wrong Way” Godfrey Beat Henry; Error Made Him Better Defenseman

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01480/2167939-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;Look at that husky No. 3 with the Black Hawks, he reminds me of a big truck with a badge,&rdquo; a visitor to the Chicago Stadium press box remarked the other night. &ldquo;When he starts up the ice he doesn&rsquo;t Seem to be going very fast, but once he shifts into high gear&hellip;. well, I&rsquo;d hate to have to try and Btop him.</p><p>&ldquo;And look, you can see that he&rsquo;s a real policeman out there Whenever any of his smaller teammates get more rough treatment than they can handle. You know, like Johnny Mariucci used to be when he tore into anyone that had gone after the Bentleys or Mosienko. Every team needs a guy like that!&rdquo;</p><p>The reference was to lumberin&rsquo; Lee Fogolin, as rugged a defenseman as has laced on skates in Chicago since the departure of the fabulous &ldquo;Maroosh&rdquo; five years ago. Now in his third season with the Hawks, he came to the club With Steve Black in a deal that Bent Bert Olmstead and Vic Stasiuk to Detroit late in 1950.</p><p>Just turned 27, Lee has been known as a bone-crushing checker ever since his junior hockey days at Gait, Ont., but it wasn&rsquo;t Until he had landed with the Red Wings that this reputation really gained in prominence. He was actually saved for just such chores and seldom made more than a couple of appearances in a game.</p><p>&ldquo;I used to sit down on the end of the bench for sometimes as long as two full periods,&rdquo; he recalls, &ldquo;and then, when he thought the time was right, Coach Tommy Ivan would slap me and yell, Okay Fogolin, get out there and hit &lsquo;em.&rsquo; I would jump out onto the ice feeling like a bull in a china shop and I guess I even overacted the part on occasion.&rdquo;</p><p>This somewhat damaging use Of Lee&rsquo;s penned up power, wasn&rsquo;t greeted with much approval by opponents. One of the critics was-Doug Bentley of the Hawks. &ldquo;That guy! They say he almost broke brother Maxie in half the other night at Toronto,&rdquo; he moaned just a short time before leaving the National League scene.</p><p>The trade to Chicago brought an end to this rather unfortunate setup and it was one of the main reasons that Fogolin greeted the change with a smile. He had Detroit to thank for his advancement in pro ranks, but he Valued the chance to again become a full-time rearguard more highly than his work as a berated Bpecialist.</p><p>His limited duty with the Wings presented Lee in poor condition for his debut with the Hawks, but he still managed to be a Btandout with his hard and deliberate play. &ldquo;We rated him as the key man in the swap and although he is out of shape, he sure didn&rsquo;t disappoint us,&rdquo; Coach Ebbie Goodfellow admitted happily afterward.</p><p>The Fogolin frame remained a formidable barrier in front of the Chicago cage despite the fact that the 1950-51 campaign was turneu into a nightmare by a record deluge of injuries. Even Lee was unable to escape the epidemic and had to miss 13 contests with a broaen thumb.</p><p>Proof that he had won back the right of be a regular NHL blue liner came the following fall when Joe Primeau picked him as a member of the first AllStar team. &ldquo;I chose Fogolin because he plays it rugged and likes to hit &lsquo;em,&rdquo; the Maple Leaf mentor explained.</p><p>Like many others, he was overjoyed last summer when he learned that&rsquo; former teammate Sid Abel had been signed to lead the Hawks this season. The two were great friends at Detroit and Lee was still working on a new home for Sid when Wing officials announced his shuttling to the Windy City. Fogolin, in case you did not know it, is an expert carpenter and sheet metal worker.</p><p>The reunion has undoubtedly had something to do with the fact that this has turned out to be the best year that Lee has ever had in the big time. A constant barker out on the ice, he has been driving and hitting harder than ever before and this recently prompted Abel to observe, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s one ot the most improved defensemen in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Fogie,&rsquo;&rsquo; as he has been tabbed by friends, has earned and received a good deal of applause for tossing himself into the line of enemy fire. A check covering a span of several games earlier in the current schedule showed that he had actually stopped as many shots as goaler Al Rollins during two periods of play.</p><p>We reminded him of the hazards of such a practice just last week. &ldquo;I guess you&rsquo;re right,&rdquo; he replied as he fingered a swollen bruise from a flying puck on the side of his neck, &ldquo;but I can&rsquo;t see giving it up since it&rsquo;s pretty darn effective, don&rsquo;t you think?&rdquo; We could not disagree.</p><p>Lee Fogolin was turned pro by Detroit at the start of the 194647 campaign and assigned to its Omaha farm club in the now defunct United States Hockey League. He moved up to Indianapolis in the AHL the following season and then advanced to the parent Red Wings for most of the 194849 schedule.</p><p>Lee and his cute wife, Janet, met through a mutual friend shortly after his arrival in Detroit. They were married in 1950. and now have an 18-month old daughter named Vicki. &ldquo;And the poor kid looks like me,&rdquo; he reports. They have spent past summers with Janet&rsquo;s folks in the Motor City, but now plan to settle down in a place built by Lee in Port Arthur, Ont.</p><h2>This Fogie Not Old<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Lee Fogolin “Big Truck With A Badge”

<div class="byline">Booth.</div><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO, Ill.&mdash;It was just about five weeks ago when the Chicago Black Hawks announced the &ldquo;suspension&rdquo; of Leo Fogolin, George Gee and Freddie Hucul. The shakeup came after the club&rsquo;s fifth straight defeat and fall into a tie for fourth place in the tight NHL race.</p><p>Once the Hawks had snapped out of the slump with consecutive 4 to 2 triumphs over Toronto, Coach Sid Abel revealed that the benching of the trio was actually a psychological move more than anything else. &ldquo;We could just as well have taken three other players,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>Fogolin, as it turned out, didn&rsquo;t miss a game when Sid Finney, flying in from Calgary, was grounded en route. After the initial period of the first Maple Leaf game, Carl Voss, referee-in chief of the National league, remarked, &ldquo;I thought Lee was just about the best man out there.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Grounded Plane Saved Fogolin From Benching

<p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>HICAGO&mdash;The famous &ldquo;Maroosh&rdquo;, Johnny Mariucci, ex-Black Hawk defenseman and one of the all-time favorites in the Windy City, is coaching this year at the University of Minnesota, succeeding&rsquo; another Hawk old-timer, Elwyn &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Romnes.</p><p>In likening Fogolin to &ldquo;Maroosh&rdquo; Chicago fans are taken with his ruggedness and a willingness to mix it at all times. Mariucci was known as one of the roughest, toughest rearguards in the history of the NHL.</p><p>Mariucci entered hockey in 1940 only a short time after his graduation from Minnesota, where he was also a star in football. He guarded the Chicago blue-line from 1940-41 to 1947-48 with four years taken out for a tour of duty with the US Coast Guard.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Johnny Mariucci Set Style For “Box-Car” Fogie

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2>Hockey Players&rsquo; Salaries</h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>ho is the highest paid player in hockey? The question keeps popping up from time to time and the latest locale where it has popped Is the city of Detroit, which is natural enough because of Gordie Howe&rsquo;s scoring feats this season.</p><p>&ldquo;Money?&rdquo; Howe said to the Inquiring reporter. &ldquo;I never object to talking about money.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>But what he meant Was that he didn&rsquo;t object to talking money with his bosses. As for the press, that&rsquo;s out, according to longstanding custom.</p><p>It seems this is a hangover from the late Frank Chlder&rsquo;s regime as president of the National League. The players&rsquo; contracts have to be filed with the league head office, and the league prexy knows what&rsquo;s in them. But the late Mr. Calder, a former newspaperman himself and, as such, a man to whom news was once the staff of life, took a different attitude toward dispensing it when he became president of the league.</p><p>That is hard to explain. It could be that he was only carrying out the instructions of the club-owners, or it could be a symptom of some deep frustration he felt when he was a newspaperman himself. In either event, he invariably answered the hockey writers&rsquo; question regarding players&rsquo; salaries the same way:</p><p>&ldquo;If your newspaper will publish a list of its reporters&rsquo; salaries, I&rsquo;ll give out every player&rsquo;s salary. Players are entitled to this privacy just as much as reporters.&rdquo;</p><p>For us it was only an evasion. Hockey players and all other professional athletes are public figures, and the public is interested in the money they make. We can see that the club-owners may consider it bad business policy to announce the figures, as it might cause dissatisfaction among the players. One player might think he is just as valuable to the club as another player, and resent the fact that his teammate draws a larger salary.</p><h2>Ruth&rsquo;s Salary Made News</h2><p>It didn&rsquo;t work that way with Babe Ruth in baseball. The Babe was a perennial holdout and any news about his salary squabbles with Col. Jake Ruppert, owner of the Yankees, was read avidly by the fans. His teammates and players on rival clubs followed the argument just as closely and cheered when he won his point. The figure he eventually signed for was always made public.</p><p>Other ball players felt that Ruth, more than any other Individual did most to raise their salaries and improve their working conditions.</p><p>Clarence Campbell, the present NHL prexy, has taken a slightly different attitude from that maintained by the late Frank Calder. Hexdoesn&rsquo;t, It&rsquo;s true, make any statements about players&rsquo; salaries; but it was he who persuaded the league to publicize the bonuses paid both by the clubs and the league itself to players making the All-Star teams and winning the individual trophies like the Hart, Vezina, etc.</p><p>We have heard, not directly from him but from sources close to him, that he believes it is one way to add to the stature of the game, especially in the United States. The American public is vitally interested In money and is inclined to rate the importance of a sport by the salaries paid the athletes.</p><p>We don&rsquo;t think he is mistaken there, either. If the subject of hockey comes up around a baseball club, the ball players inevitably inquire about hockey players&rsquo; salaries. They want to compare them with their own.</p><h2>It&rsquo;s a Guessing Contest</h2><p>How much the star hockey players make is strictly a guessing contest. Around Detroit they estimate Howe&rsquo;s salary as being anywhere from $18,000 to $25,000 this year.</p><p>They estimate that his basic pay is $12,000 and that he will pick up another $1,000 when he is named to the All-Star team. He receives another $1,000 if he repeats as Hart Trophy winner and still another $1,000 for winning the Art Ross Trophy, which is already as good as his. If the Red Wings win the Stanley Cup semifinal round, his share of the bonus will be approximately $1,000; and If they win the Stanley Cup final, his share will approximate another $1,000.</p><p>If the Detroit club were to pay him the same amount as he receives from the league for making the All-Star team and winning the Art Ross and Hart Trophies, that would be $6,000 right there in bonus money. If the Red Wings go all the way, it&rsquo;s $8,000 in bonus money. Added to his basic salary, it comes to $20,000. In addition, he has some income from advertising and making public appearances.</p><p>But we seem to recall that last season the Detroit club didn&rsquo;t match the $3,000 that Howe received from the league in bonus money. Jack Adams informed the press that the club&rsquo;s budget wouldn&rsquo;t stand the strain, but Howe ray have it right in his contract this season.</p><p>If he makes as much as $20,000, he will be the highest-paid player in the league this year. In the past Maurice (The Rocket) Richard, Eddie Shore and Dune Munro may have made that much in a single season. Dune Munro got into a bracket with those other fellows through a peculiar contract he had with the Old Maroons whereby he was given the program concession. It turned out to be a big winner for him.</p><p>The only other fellow who may make $20,000 or more this year is Jean Beliveau, of the Quebec Aces. No one seems to know what financial arrangement he has with the Aces, but Conn Smythe stated not long ago that Canadiens had offered him a contract which would bring him $53,000 in three years. He was to receive a $20,000 bonus for signing, $10,000 the first year, $11,000 the second and $12,000 the third. Any. other bonuses he picked up for being named to the All-Star team cr winning trophies would be strictly incidental. The money in Quebec must be good if he can afford to turn that offer down.</p><p>How come Conn Smythe is breaking with tradition and making public statements about players&rsquo; salaries? Because the Quebec Aces aren&rsquo;t in the National Hockey League. Remember?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL-SPORTS Etxrot</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01544/2168073-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><p>Toronto Star</p><h2><b>The Oldest Partnership in Hockey</b></h2><p>THE old-established firm of Dumart and Schmidt held a directors* meeting recently. Due to pressure of time, the meeting took place while the partners were packing their gear for a dash from the Gardens to the rattler for Chicago.</p><p>Director Dumart, addressed the meeting first Looking his partner in the eye, he yipped: &ldquo;Ya never scored a prettier goal in your life, Milt.&rdquo; And director Schmidt replied eloquently: &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the way to go, Pork, ole boy.&rdquo; The meeting adjourned, since there was no further business. The partners understood each other&mdash;as well they should. Boy and man, it undoubtedly is the oldest partnership in hockey. It started nearly 20 years ago, when they both were playing-junior hockey for Kitchener. Since then, they never have been apart in hockey, with the exception of the 1935-36 season, when Porky was a pro with the old Boston Cubs, and Schmidt still was a stripling with the Greenshirts. Dumart and little Bobby Bauer took care of that situation, however. During a con-ference with Art Ross, the Boston general manager, at Hamilton, they both urged him to put Schmidt on the Boston list. Bobby already had been drafted by the Bruins from the Leaf farm club at Syracuse. He had tried unsuccessfully to have Toronto tie up both Dumart and Schmidt. When Boston claimed Bauer, Bobby turned his persuasion on Ross.</p><p>The Boston boss did put Dumart&rsquo;s name on his list. Under renewed coaxing by Dumart and Bauer, he agreed he&rsquo;d take Schmidt to training camp the following season.</p><p>&ldquo;Im afraid he&rsquo;s too small,&rdquo; Ross warned, &ldquo;but it won&rsquo;t hurt to bring him along.&rdquo;</p><p>Mother Nature took a hand. The spindly Schmidt grew and broadened. By the time he was due for training camp, he had put on 20 pounds&mdash;none of it suet&mdash;and his old suits wouldn&rsquo;t fit him,</p><h2><b>Milt Didn&rsquo;t Rate a Railway Ticket</b></h2><p>A san amateur, Dumart had been a defenseman. When he joined the Boston Cubs in 1935, he became a left winger. That&rsquo;s where he remained when the line of Dumart, Schmidt and Bauer was formed the following season at Providence. The old-pro, Albert Leduc, who was coaching the club, named them his Sauerkraut Line, in recognition of a delicacy that casts its enticing aroma over Kitchener.</p><p>Even in his freshman year, Schmidt got several calls to aid the Bruins. One of these summonses caused him considerable embarrassment. He returned from one safari to Boston just as the Providence club was about to depart on a long road trip. The owner of the Reds at the time was a man who had a reputation, among the players of making the buffalo on a nickey stick out its tongue by squeezing the nickel. He was dismayed at seeing Schmidt back from the Bruins so soon, because he didn&rsquo;t relish the expense of taking him on the Providence road trip. Milt was ordered back to Boston. Since the Bruins were on the road, too, he was an orphan.</p><p>The Krauts were broken up when Bobby Bauer retired to a business career in Kitchener after the 19 46-4 7 season, during which he potted 30 goals in 58 games for the Bruins. Schmidt and Dumart have carried on. This season, Porky became the 17th man. Coach Lynn Patrick didn&rsquo;t intend to carry him on the road trips. But Bruin injuries forced him to change his mind. Both Patrick and Schmidt say they&rsquo;ve been lucky to have Porky for insurance. If you saw Milt stick-handling in for that tying goal recently you know Patrick and Dumart have been lucky to have Schmidt. &ldquo;Without him, there&rsquo;d he no hope of playoff pelf.</p><p>The firm of Dumart and Schmidt sort of counts on those spring shekels&mdash;maybe to plant a hedge around their homes in a suburb of Boston. Milt went out there first. Pork built, almost across the road from him. They thought it would be nice for the kids&hellip;Milt has a boy and a girl. Porky? A boy and a girl, naturally.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By BOB HESKETH</div><h2>Switched&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01501/2168111-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="582" height="587"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOBBY HASSARD</b></figcaption></div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Necessity, being the father of invention, might have a lot to do with the success of the Maple Leafs this season. If there is to be any succes for the Leafs this season, that is.</p><p>Coach Joe Primeau, though not exactly jubilant over the manner in which fortune has kept his charges warming hospital beds, can nevertheless find some consolation in the string of injuries.</p><p>If, for instance, Ted Kennedy and Max Bentley hadn&rsquo;t been laid up, Tod Sloan Bobby Hassard would not have developed so well at centre. So actually the Leafs are stronger at that position now, with both Kennedy and Bentley back in addition to Rudy Migay, than they would have been if their key men had a perfect attendance record.</p><p>Unfortunately such reasoning doesn&rsquo;t add up to points of which the Leafs, at this sitting, are desperately short-The necessity of winning six games in a row, the last six games of the schedule, seems to be the only way of ensuring any playoff payoff and even thert it might not be possible. That they are in better condition to argue than they have been since they left training camp last fall is at least encouraging. Some of them slightly crocked maybe, like Howie Meeker, but able to go at least.</p><p>It looked like a lodge meeting in fact, the other day when Conn Smythe, the high. potentate, gathered them in the dressing room for a firing up oration. Some of them hadn&rsquo;t seen others in so long that they had to be re-introduced. But the bossman, at his vitriolic best, piled fire upon brimstone criticizing here and complimenting there and when he was finished (newsmen were allowed to witness the affair) there was the impression left that were at least a team with a purpose.</p><p>They were informed, naturally, that he expected every ounce of effort and that they had to be mentally as well as physically fit to do the job. Max Bentley, he divulged, would play the point on the power play though for a while it was conjectured that Maxie might even find himself, at times, on left wing. Sid Smith has had trouble getting unwound of recent weeks. Smitty, though, has been reunited with Kennedy which is just about the same as giving him back his right arm and with Ron Stewart on right wing, could catch fire again The kid line of Bob Hassard, Eric Nesterenko and Gord Hannigan sticks together and Sloanie, who has been playing the best hockey of his career recently, will centre Harry Watson and George Armstrong, two of the biggest buckos in the league.</p><p>That combination, according to Primeau, could turn out to be the surprise of the season&mdash;if there&rsquo;s enough time left. Watson&rsquo;is freewheeling as only he can when he has a mind for it and Army, who was. too belligerent earlier, is back to minding his own business a bit more which leaves him more time for hockey.</p><p>Actually if the Leafs can make it. they will be making a bum prognosticator out of Smythe. He probably wouldn&rsquo;t mind though. Smythe played the whole season In one afternoon at a press conference last fall and whether or not he was just being pessimistic when he said that the Leafs hadn&rsquo;t much more than a hope of being in the playoffs, it still makes him look like a wizard. He placed the clubs at that time as Detroit, Montreal, Chicago and Boston which is just the way they stood with six games left to play. He said at that time that the Leafs could be anywhere from second to sixth depending on the rookies. If he got four good replacements for the men he had traded, they had a chance for the playoffs. If they got five, they&rsquo;d be in. He said that Harry Lumley might have leaped from the frying pan to the fire coming from Chicago to Toronto and Lum, a few weeks ago, might have broken his neck nodding agreement.</p><p>Smythe picked Detroit because he felt that though thye had lost Leo Reise to the Rangers, they hadn&rsquo;t Weakened enough to make any difference. Obviously they haven&rsquo;t. He liked Montreal for second because he knew that if the management-was content to go along without making any changes from the year-before, they must be sure of a first or second place club. Obviously they are. He liked Chicago because they were loaded with playoff talent, players who were accustomed to being in the post-schedule money-makers. Smythe sent some of them there himself. And he liked Boston because they had Lynn Patrick for a coach.</p><p>Halso said that it would take three years to mould a championship club in Toronto. It didn&rsquo;t once before. In 1946-&rsquo;47 they rebuilt and won the Cup. Doing it twice In six years, though, is stretching it a bit.</p><h2>&hellip;With Him To Centre Spots</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02464/2168104-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1190" height="1207"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOD SLOAN&hellip;Converts successfully</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Sloan and Hassard Bloom as Centres; Leafs Stronger but Still Desperate

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>When Fleming Mackell scored a goal at 6.04 of the third period last Saturday night in Toronto and set up another just nine seconds later, he unwittingly drove a very sturdy nail into the Toronto Maple Leafs coffin.</p><p>Shipped to Boston by Conn Smythe last year, Fleming has come up with his greatest season, and his quick thrusts erased a 1-0 Toronto lead anl enabled the Bruins to go on to a 3-1 victory.</p><p>The Leafs, in a desperate struggle fo; a playoff spot missed a great chance of keep ing abreast of the Black Hawks and missec picking up two valuable points at Boston&rsquo; expense.</p><p>Mackell scored the tying goal and set up the winner for Eddie Sandford nine second, later to down the Leafs. It was Mackell&rsquo;s 2 5th goal of the year, and furthered his claim to the all-star centre spot.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03373/2168142-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="295" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fleming Mackell</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Mackell Has Hand In Dimming Leafs Playoff Chances

<div class="byline">By FRED ROBERTS</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The remaining&rsquo; games of the National Hockey League schedule may alter the picture completely but right now the Montreal Canadiens are pulling for the Boston Bruins to finish in third place.</p><p>This sudden affection for Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s charges is obvious enough. In the 13 times they have met the Bruins this year, Canadiens have managed to win three games with Boston taking eight and two ending in a stalemate.</p><p>Since their record is much more impressive against the surprising Black Hawks they&rsquo;d rather leave Boston to the mercy of the Red Wings in the first Stanley Cup round and take their chances against Abel&rsquo;s hot shots.</p><p>Just what it is the Bruins have over Canadiens is something of a mystery. Boston, a notoriously low-scoring club this year (only Toronto has scored less goals) have outscored Canadiens 29-19 in their 13 engagements. In addition, Sugar Jim Henry has shut them out four times (including a scoreless draw).</p><p>In addition, Canadiens have never scored more than four goals against the stubborn Bostonians. Their biggest margin of victory were 3-1 and 2-0 games while in their other victory they outscored the Hub kingpins, 4-3. in retrospect, Boston has hung a 5-0 goose-egg on Dick Irvin&rsquo;s lads and walloped them 6-3 with the fabulous Jean Beliveau iu the Montreal lineup.</p><p>Most of the Canadiens secretly nurse a belief that it was the Bruins, not the Red Wings which prevented them from winning the Stanley Cup last year. The Bruins lost a rugged, seven game series, but those slambang, drag-em-out games also had a telling effect on Canadiens. Black and blue, they survived the semi-final round and were sitting ducks for the Wings who had breezed past Toronto in four straight.</p><p>Since speculation is idle talk, the Habs figure that if they can draw Chicago it will serve two purposes this year. Firstly, the Bruins, a stubborn playoff team, will give Detroit a time-of it while they&rsquo;ll be avoiding their No. 1 nemesis. At the same time, they figure to continue to hold an edge over the Black Hawks. Granted, the Hawks will be a fighting hockey club in the playoffs, as they&rsquo;ve been all season. Canadiens do have an edge over them and they believe they can maintain it.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04261/2168180-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="583" height="1384"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DICKIE MOORE</b></figcaption></div><p>This is being written on the assumption that the Leafs wont&rsquo; make the grade and at the time of writing, they&rsquo;re six points away from a playoff position with four games to go. Leafs have a game in hand over Chicago. Boston dealt them a death blow last Saturday when they came from behind for a 3-1 victory and the Torontos didn&rsquo;t help their own cause when, they could do no better than a 1-1 stalemate in New York the following night.</p><p>In an effort to discover a little more scoring punch, Coach Dick Irvin tried some fancy shuffling last week, using Dickie Moore on no less than five different forward line combinations. Dickie played left wing, right wing and centre and he showed equal versatility at all three spots.</p><p>There&rsquo;s an outside chance that he&rsquo;ll be used at centre on the Punch Line come playoff time, spelling Elmer Lach. Not that. Elmer is showing any signs of back-pedalling put the Coach feels that it might serve a sueful purpose to keep the line going at top speed at all times. Rocket Richard has already equalled his total goal output of last, year by bagging Ni. 27 against the Bruins on Sunday. That number, with the exception of one season (1948-49 when he scored only 20) is the lowest in his career, which isn&rsquo;t very low when you consider only a chosen few attain the magic 20-goal circle each year.</p><p>Since his first full year in the NHL Richard has tallied: 32, 50, (Record), 27, 45, 28, 20, 43, 42, 27 with 27 already registered this year with still three games to go.</p><p>Only Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Wally Hergesheimer have scored more goals this year. And still, some of the so-callpd experts are saying the Rocket is in a slump&mdash;some slump.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05169/2168173-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="574" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ELMER LACH</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Habs May Get Wish, If Bruins Grab 3rd In Torrid NHL Race

<p><b>Founded October 1. 1947</b></p><p><b>Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. Cote HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY</b></p><p><b>309 Empire Life Building, 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West. Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Average Weekly Circulation 35,000</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada&mdash;$4.00 in U.S.A.</b></p><p>Authorized as second cluse mail. Post Office Department. Ottawa. Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Oirdensbunr. N.Y.</p><p>Return ail U.S. undeliverable copies tinder Form 3S79 to the Hockey News Company 1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25. Que. Printed in Canada.</p><p><b>Vol. 6 MONTREAL, MARCH 21, 1953 No. 25</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01570/2168263-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="419" height="420"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02443/2168256-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="594" height="138"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>J</span>IM McFADDEN,</b> Chicago Black Hawks center, is shown in all record books as having been born on April 15, 1920. This would make him 32 years of age. He really is 3 4 years of age, though, and was born in Ireland on April 16, 1918, making him the fifth oldest player in the National Hockey League. Woody Dumart, Milt Schmidt, Elmer Lach and Sid Abel are ahead of him in the age de-partment&hellip;Fourteen more shutouts have been recorded in the NHL this season than for the same period a year ago. After 19 5 contests last year the NHL goalies had racked up 29 shutouts. This year after 194 games the loop&rsquo;s twine-tenders had chalked up 43 goose-eggs&hellip;Frank Udvari, NHL referee, has been offered the job of business manager of the Waterloo entry in the Ontario Intercounty Baseball League&hellip;NHL clubs show an Increase tn penalty minutes of 135 minutes over the same period a year ago. The six clubs incurred a total of 3718 minutes last year. On the same date this year they had racked up 3853 minutes&hellip;Toe Blake, who recently resigned as coach of the Valleyfield Braves, will likely pilot a club in the Qubec Junior League next season. Toe operates one of Montreal&rsquo;s busiest taverns and travelling back and forth to Valleyfield throughout the Winter cost him money&hellip;Cincinnati sports writers are claiming this year&rsquo;s Mohawks are the finest amateur team to play in the United States. Top players on the Mohawks are Don Marshall (agreed by almost everyone as a future National Leaguer), Del Topoll, Connie Broden, Russ KoWalchuk and Mickey Keating&hellip;Ron Murphy, N.Y. Rangers&rsquo; rookie forward, compiled the highest three-year scoring record in the history of the Ontario Hockey Association.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03328/2168249-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="294" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim McFadden</b></figcaption></div><p><b>NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE</b> referees and linesmen will wear bright orange sweaters trimmed with black from now on. The con-ventional white sweaters worn by hockey officials in the NHL for so long are now a thing of the past. The orange sweaters do not conflict with the white uniforms worn by the home teams, which is what happened occasionally when the refs were attired in the white sweaters. Orange and black are the official NHL colors&hellip;Clarence Campbell, NHL president, is back at his desk, but still has his broken leg in a cast and will be&rsquo; using crutches for another 10 weeks anyway&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks have only won two games from Detroit this season&hellip;Toronto Maple Leafs, all fired up for a last ditch playoff stand, have missed the Stanlef Cup playoffs once in the last 22 years. That was in 1946 When the Leafs were in the process of rebuilding, just as they are doing this season&hellip;Milt Schmidt and Woody Dumart, Boston&rsquo;s two veteran members, figure they&rsquo;ve travelled around 200,000 miles during their 13 seasons in the NHL. This season alone the Bruins will travel more than 22,000 miles by rail on more than 50 separate trips&hellip;Remeber Pete Horeck? The pesky little winger who played with Detroit, Boston and Chicago, is now selling jewellery in Chicago&hellip;Tommy Ivan, Detroit coach, believes his ace scorer, Gordie Howe, would be terrific in any sport. Ivan thinks he&rsquo;d make a great football end because he knows how to make head and shoulder fakes, and also how to change his pace. &ldquo;If he took golf seriously he could be tops in that sport, too,&rdquo; Tommy advised. &ldquo;In a round we played a couple of years ago he had a 40 on the outward nine, with five three-putt greens. He has wonderful rhythm and timing. No club waggling, he plays fast and simply. He could shoot in the low seventies every time out if he took the game seriously,&rdquo; Ivan related&hellip;,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04223/2168242-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="292" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Horeck</b></figcaption></div><p><b>HOW ABOUT A</b> cheer for Lloyd Percival and his Sports College? Back in 1950 when Percival said Howe had the greatest potential of any hockey player Sports College had the opportunely to study, everyone laughed at him, and said his tests didn&rsquo;t mean a thing. Howe was 14th in the NHL scoring lists at that time and the progress that big Gordon has made since then would seem to lend validity to the system of evaluting hockey players employed by Snorts College&hellip;Percival advises that Eric Nesterenko. Toronto rookie, did work with him and his tests revealed that he had a tremendous potential. He possessed many of the same physical, mental and emotional qualities that Howe did&hellip;Percival hasn&rsquo;t had the opportunity to study Jean Beliveau&hellip;Rookies Warren Godfrey and Jerry Tdppazzini of Boston recently bought a couple of ukeleles for $1.98 in Chicago&hellip;Quietest player on the Bruins is Frank Martin, rookie defenseman. He never says a word. Just nods his head in greeting&hellip;When a New York defenseman bodied Elmer Lach the other night, the veteran Montreal center wisecracked: &ldquo;Come on, leave the old guys aldne. Get after the kids for a change&rdquo;&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05182/2168235-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="301" height="468"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Eric Nesterenko</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-06139/2168294-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><h2>Gordie Tin God?</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been reading your papei&rsquo; for many years now and I think it&rsquo;s wonderful. Keep up the good work.</p><p>I am writing this letter to get some information and also to voice my opinion with the many others.</p><p>I would like to say that I&rsquo;ve been a Canadian fan for many many years and with me the&rsquo;re tops. I&rsquo;m still hoping they beat the Red Wings out of first place by the end of the season. I agree with Charles Wasterson about seeing a punch line again like Blake, Lach and the Rocket. For color and real hockey I&rsquo;ll take the Rocket anytime.</p><p>There&rsquo;s one thing I dislike very much and that&rsquo;s the way people are making a tin-god out of Gordie Howe of the Red Wings. 1 agree he&rsquo;s a very good hockey player, there&rsquo;s no doubt about that but I&rsquo;ll give a lot of the credit to Ted Lindsay.</p><p>I am very much interested in the minor hockey clubs and would like to know what other clubs besides the Montreal Royals belong to the Canadiens, in the QSHL. I would also like to know if they have any other young players in the QSHL besides Be-liveau and Burchell. I hope you can find time to give me this information&hellip;</p><p>Steve Simko, <br>Chicago, Ill.</p><p>(The Royals are the Canadiens only farm team in the QSHL. The Habs have several promising players in this league like Eddie Litzenberger, Gary Edmundson and a few others.)</p><h2>Not The Same</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Ever since the Buffalo Bisons picked up their new goaler, Jacques Plante, I have been bothered with a question concerning his past.</p><p>I keep a scrapbook of all hockey items from our local papers and I have in it some articles from THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>There is one picture showing Bob Hassard, now with Toronto, scoring a goal for the Hornets against Ciniinnatti&rsquo;s Emile Francis in the &lsquo;51-&rsquo;52 season. Also in the picture is another Cincy player whose name is Jack Plante.</p><p>Is this the same Jacques Plante now with Buffalo?</p><p>Len Kratz, <br>Pittsburgh, Pa.</p><p>(Jacques Plante, the present Bisons. cage cop, came up to the Montreal Senior Royals of the QSHL a few years back from the Quebec Citadel juniors. He never played for the Mohawks or in the AHL until tills year.)</p><h2>Bad Names For Rocket</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to THE HOCKEY NEWS. I buy your paper every week and I am convinced that it is the finest of all. However I feel that the most simple and sincere way to adjust the Howe and Richard case, is by using just and fair comparisons. For instance, Richard scored his fifty goals in fifty games where as Howe may make it with seventy games. He has at all times enjoyed playing on a line com posed of such wonderful players as Ted Lindsay and Sid Abel and now Prystai who is also very good.</p><p>Richard also being French Canadian is even being called bad names by opponent players on the ice, which names I have to mention since they are very low adjectives. If you analyze all this, I still maintain with, all due respect to our friend Howe that Richard has not yet been equalled in modern times, and if possible at all, could my letter be published in your paper.</p><p>Gerald Guindon, <br>Sturgeon Falls, Ont.</p><h2>Have Some Records</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>In the Feb. 21st issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, the fellow who signs his name to &ldquo;Passing the Puck&rdquo; made a statement which rang with doubtfulness. The statement said that &ldquo;Gordie Howe would hold every scoring record before he retires&rdquo;.</p><p>How silly can people get. Howe will never hold all the scoring records. Howe will never accomplish or beat Maurice Richard&rsquo;s feat of scoring 50 goals in 50 games, which is a record. Have another one. How about Richard&rsquo;s record of scoring 5 goals in one playoff game!!! How about 12 goals in 9 playoff games, which is a Rocket Richard record!!! How about 5 goals and 3 assits in one league game, which is another record established by Richard!!! And by the time Richard hangs up his skates, his all time total goals scored, will never be surpassed.</p><p>In the same issue some character from DETROIT wrote in the Fan Forum that &ldquo;Red Storey was at the bottom of the barrel as far as officiating was concerned&rdquo;.</p><p>There is always some joker taking a crack at Red Storey. A more honest and consciencious official has never lived. Red Storey calls them the way he sees them. What Red Storey lacks in skating ability, he more than makes up in honesty. The day has not arrived that Red Storey will call a play unjustly. Red Storey always calls them according to the book, and he never backs down in front of anybody. Proof of this, could certainly be told by the General Manager of the team, from the city where, this critical letter of Red Storey came from.</p><p>Albert Trottier, <br>Montreal, Que.</p><h2>Better Sticks?</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>After witnessing a recent hockey game at Perth, Ont. in which nine hockey sticks were broken, a lively discussion arose on the quality of the sticks manufactured today. Reeve T. V. Lally added fuel for the hot stove leaguers, when he produced a hockey stick he used in 1909 when he played for The Perth Courier team in a town league. The stick is still sound but has developed a few warps. The sticks in those days were made from hickory or elm which made them heavier than the ones used today.</p><p>There was a keen rivalry between the Courier and a printers team from the Wampole, a local firm. The winning team generally was treated to an oyster supper at the expense of the losing team. There are only six players from the two teams still living. Wm. Hamilton, Harold Hall, and Vincent Lally of Perth; Lome Young, Kitchener; James Lee, St. Catherines and Frank Hartney of Russell, Kansas, USA.</p><p>James J. Lally,<br>Perth, Ont.</p><h2>No Like Refs</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>It is well known that the National Hockey League is supposed to be a well organized association. Well they certainly are not showing it by employing men such, as, Bill Chadwick, Red Storey, and Frank Udvari, to referee professional hockey games. They are not even fit to referee a child&rsquo;s game of hockey. And if they are able to referee in the correct manner, they do not show it in Montreal. I have been atending hockey games for quite sometime. Up until now I have seen only one man who knew how to referee and that was George Gravel. Do the referees hate the Montreal Canadiens, so much that they go in for illegal refereeing?</p><p>I would like to point out to three instances, where I have seen very poor refereeing.</p><p>1&mdash;January 17th: Detroit scored a goal against Montreal, the puck did not even go over the goal crease. But still Chadwick allowed the goal.</p><p>2&mdash;February 2 6th: Toronto was the visiting team to Montreal. Paul Meger of Montreal scored on Toronto. The puck hit the net with such force that the puck bounced out again. The goal judge flashed the red light. Red Storey claimed that the puck did not go in the net.</p><p>3&mdash;February 28tb: Detroit&rsquo;s captain Ted Lindsay scored on Montreal, this goal should have been disallowed, because there was a Detroit player standing directly in the goal and pushing Gerry McNeil out of the way. of Glen Skov, was any kind of a sportsman. He would have said he was standing in the goal.)</p><p>Is this what you call proper refereeing and fair play? Well I certainly do not.</p><p>Eleanor Johnson, <br>Montreal, Que.</p><h2>Note From Blightly</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would very much like to write to pen pals in Canada, anyone who is interested in Ice Hockey. I am a regular reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS and I think it is a great paper.</p><p>I feel as if I know the players of the different teams just by reading about them. I would like to exchange photos of our players here in England and also send programmes if anyone is interested. My address is 73 Dowhills Park Rd., Tottenham, London, England.</p><p>We are looking forward to seeing the Montreal Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks when they visit England in April.</p><p>Mrs. Pat Hunter, <br>London, Eng.</p><h2>He&rsquo;s Boiling</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am just a little fed up with all the baloney pertaining to one Jean Beliveau.</p><p>Every paper you pick up asks the question (Like a soap opera) &ldquo;When &ldquo;will Beliveau sign with Canadiens?&rdquo;</p><p>Who cares? So the guy is a pretty fair hockey player? So he scored five goals while on a three game NHL trial? Tune in next Fall and see if the &lsquo;Great I Am&rsquo; finally succumbed to all the coaxing of Frank Selke and Dick Irvin.</p><p>Bah!</p><p>George Devine, <br>Toronto, Ont.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0773/2168325-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="579" height="271"></div><h2>March 20 to March 27</h2><p>28&mdash;TAYLOR, Harry, St. Louis, forward, 1926.</p><p>29&mdash;MATHERS, Frank, Pitts. burgh, defense, 19 24.</p><p>31&mdash;HOWE, Gordie, Detroit, forward, 1928; MacPHERSON, Bud, Montreal, defense, 1927.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ublished Weekly, except monthly May through September, HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY, 309 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine St. West. Montreal, Que., Canada. Entered as second class Matter December 6, 1951. at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, M.Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $3.00 in Ccnada. $4,CO in U.S.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>Whereas in former years the choice of the centre for the Fan&rsquo;s All-Star team has been more or less confined to veterans, this year youth has come to the fore and only one of last season&rsquo;s six HOCKEY NEWS choices is repeating this year. He is Elmer Lach, the centre ice smoothie of the Montreal Canadiens. All the other choices are relatively young.</p><p>This marks the fifth week of balloting, which means you still have a little over a week before finally making up your minds on your choices for the big team and the runner-up positions.</p><h2>One More To Go</h2><p>The final ballot&mdash;containing space for your name and address&mdash;will appear, in the March 28 issue. When you have them all, fill in the ballots with your nominitions and MAIL THEM IN ALL TOGETHER. You can take as long as you like to make up your minds, as long as your votes are MAILED AND POSTMARKED NOT LATER THAN MlDNJGHT, FRIDAY APRIL 3, when the voting contest closes.</p><p>And now, here&rsquo;s a brief rundown of the top center candidates in the League, including the players we consider outstanding at the time this was written.</p><p><b>FLEMING MACKELL</b>&mdash;As much as the Boston fans admire and respect veteran captain Milt Schmidt, they are forced to admit that a new figure has moved in as the top pivot for the Bruins He is Flaming Fleming Mackell, he of the slam-bang skating style. The native of Montreal, Que. is out in front as the scoringest centre in the loop. The 24-years old, 5&rsquo;9&rdquo;, 163-pounds Mackell was called by Lynn Patrick the best pivot on the Boston team. He has already racked up 39 points, considerably higher than his previous high for any year in the NHL.</p><p><b>PAUL RONTY</b>&mdash;In his second year in New York Ranger livery, Ronty has blossomed forth as a smooth playmakgr and is one of the reasons Wally Hergesheimer Is having such a productive year. Born in Toronto, Ont. on July 12, 19 28, the 6&rsquo;, 160-pounds centre played three seasons with the Boston Bruins before being traded to the Blueshirts last year. At the moment he ranks second only to Alex Delvecchio as the highest point producing pivot in the NHL. His present 51 points is only eight shy of his all-time high of 59, set with the Bruins during the 194950 campaign.</p><h2>Top Six</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01522/2168415-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="281" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim McFadden</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02482/2168408-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="296" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Metro Prystai</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03390/2168401-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="299" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Elmer Lach</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0894/2168394-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="282" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Paul Ronty</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0976/2168387-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="303" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alex Delvecchio</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04297/2168380-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="291" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fleming Mackell</b></figcaption></div><p><b>JIM McFADDEN</b>&mdash;Second in goal scoring honours among centres to Fleming Mackell, McFadden is enjoying one of his most productive years. Only in his&rsquo;rookie year, 1947-48, when he won the Calder Trophy with the Detroit Red Wings, did he score more goals than his present 22. That year he hit for 24 coun-ters, a mark he has a good chance of surpassing this year. He was traded to the Chi-Hawks last season from the Red Wings and chalked up 34 points with a team that was going exactly no-where. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, is 32 years old and 5&rsquo;7&rdquo;, 178 pounds.</p><p><b>ALEX DELVECCHIO</b>&mdash;Born in Fort William, Ont. on December 4, 1932, the 20-years old Delvecchio has blossomed into one of the top playmakers in the league. Used on a variety of lines this season, and with the Production Line on power plays, Alex has amassed enough points to rank him fifth in the entire league. In his sophomore year, Delvecchio has been burning up the league. Last year as a rookie he scored 15 goals and had 22 assists for 37 points, a mark he has more than surpassed this year. The 6&rsquo;, 173-pounds youngster is more than filling the shoes of Sid Abel and is one of the main cogs in future Detroit teams for some time to come.</p><p><b>ELMER LACH</b>&mdash;A veteran performer in the NHL, Elegant Elmer is in his 13th season as a Montreal Canadian regular, and still rates as the number one pivot on that club. Lach was 35 on January 22, and at that age can&rsquo;t be expected to have many more seasons ahead of him, but what he has left, he is certainly making the most of. He&rsquo;s missed a lot of time through injuries, including full half-seasons in 19464 7 and 1948-49, but he still bounces back and like OI&rsquo; Man River, he just keeps rolling along. He has a full bagload of records to his credit and will probably write a few more before he finally decides to hang up his skates.</p><p><b>METRO PRYSTAI</b>&mdash;&lsquo;Meatball&rsquo; Metro Prystai is in his third season with the Detroit Red Wings after coming form the Chicago Black Hawks at the end of the 1949-50 campaign. He had centred the Hawks&rsquo; &lsquo;Boilermaker Line&rsquo; with Bep Guidolin and Bert Olmstead. Enjoying one of his most productive seasons, Metro is only a few points back of teammate Alex Delvecchio in the Point Parade. He has been used at centre on Detroit&rsquo;s big line and has been toiling on almost every other line all season. Prytai was born in Yorkton, Sask, on November 7, 1927, and is 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; and 170 pounds.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Voting For Pivots Is Expected To Be Closest Of All-Star Poll

<p>1 Anyone is eligible to cast ballots for the National Hockey League All Star Team, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming first, second and third choices.</p><p>2&mdash;One ballot will appear each week in the following order: goaltender, defensemen, right wing, 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 bo 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 deface your copy. Space will be provided on the. sixth and final ballot for your own name and address.</p><p>4&mdash;Ballots must be held until all have appeared, and selections for all six positions, plus coach, must be submitted at the same time.</p><p>5&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to&mdash;All Star Editor. THE HOCKEY NEWS, 309 Empire Life Bldg., Montreal.</p><p>6 &mdash;All ballots must be mailed and postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT, FRIDAY, APRIL 3.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Voting Rules

<div class="byline">By JAMES C. HENDY (General Manager, Cleveland Barons)</div><p><i>(This is the second of a series of five articles which will name six All-Star teams, selected by decades. This article covers the period 1910 to 1920).</i></p><p>Frank Patrick, one of the truly great names in hockey history and the man who perhaps had more to do in improving the game in the early years of this century once told Baz O&rsquo;Meara, sports editor and columnist of the Montreal Star, that no one could pick an &ldquo;all-time all-star&rdquo; team because of the great differan &ldquo;all-time all-star&rdquo; team because of the great difference in rules, equipment, etc. He selected a series of teams by decades, and this writer, following through on Frank&rsquo;s idea polled a panel of players, officials and writers for the periods from 18 90 through 1930 for their selections by decades. The teams for the 1890 to 1900 and 1900 to 1910 decades appeared in the last issue of the HOCKEY NEWS. This article covers the 1910 to 1920 period, one of the greatest decades in the matter of talent in the entire history of the game. The teams for 1930 to 40 and 40 to &lsquo;50 will be the consensus of the NHL official teams.</p><p>It is doubtful whether any period in hockey produced greater stars than, from 1910 through 1920. Goaltenders of the calibre of the immortal Georges Vezina, &ldquo;Eagle Eye&rdquo; Hughle Lehman, &ldquo;Hap&rdquo; Holmes and others were. outstanding in that period. Sprague Cleghorn, Erne &ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Johnston, Eddie Gerard, Art Ross, &ldquo;Bad Joe&rdquo; Hall, Minnie McGiffen, the McNamara brothers,. Si Griffis, Barney Stanley, Bert Corbeau, Harry Mummery, Bobbie Rowe, Ed Carpenter, Harry Cameron and other great defensemen who could fit into any team today flourished in that decade.</p><h2>Two Of The Best</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05208/2168460-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="575" height="871"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NEWSY LALONDE</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06157/2168453-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="550" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>EDDIE GERARD</b></figcaption></div><p>It was in this golden period that the Patrick brothers, Frank and Lester, founded the Pacific Coast League, and started raiding the National Hockey Association for its star players. Many of the Eastern stars. answered the call and departed for the west coast, many of them to remain there for the balance of their careers.,</p><p>The first east-west series was played in Victoria in the spring of 1913 between the Quebec Bull Dogs and the Victoria Aristocrats, champions of the NHL and PCHL respectively. It was an informal series and the Stanley Cup was not at stake. Victoria won the series 2 games to 1 and the following season, and until the series in 1926,. the champions of the ast and west met annually for the Stanley Cup.</p><p>Competition was terrific between the two circuits and period when forwards like Fred &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor, Frank each league was loaded with top flight stars. This was the Nighbor, Alan &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Davidson, Dr. Gordie Roberts, &ldquo;Newsy&rdquo; Lalonde, Joe Malone, Didier Pitre, Frank Foyston, Jack &ldquo;Hookcheck&rdquo; Walker, Mickey McKay, Bernie Morris, Dick Irvin, Tommy Dunderdale, Eddie Oatman, Fred &ldquo;Smokey&rdquo; Harris, Cully Wilson, Jack Adams, Dubbie Kerr, Alf Skinner, Odie Cleghorn, Billy Gilmour, Jack Laviolette, Jack Darragh, Tommy Smith, &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Broadbent, Harry Hyland, &ldquo;Rusty&rdquo; Crawford, Reg Noble, Harry Meeking and many others were blazing across the hockey horizons.</p><p>It is almost impossible to select an all-star team from that decade without leaving off many who rate at the very top of the hockey heap, so imagine trying to pick an &ldquo;all-time&rdquo; team.</p><p>The panel of experts that named teams for us for this period came up with the following two teams:</p><h2>1910 to 1920 All-Stars</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-07116/2168446-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="1107" height="313"></div><p>&ldquo;Moose&rdquo; Johnston played for both the Wanderers and Portland Rosebuds, but perhaps reached his peak on the Coast. &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor performed for the Renfrew Millionaires before going west to join the Vancouver Millionaires and he scintillated at both rover and center, as did his long time teammate, Duncan &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; McKay, who wound up his career with the Boston Bruins after a couple of seasons with the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Frank Nighbor began his professional hockey career with Toronto, played for Vancouver the season they won the Stanley Cup (1914-15), and played his greatest hockey for the mighty Ottawa Senators? &ldquo;Scotty&rdquo; Davidson achieved his greatest fame on the Western Front where he was killed in action after leading Toronto to the Stanley Cup in 1913-14.</p><p>Dr. Gordie Roberts was one of the most graceful skaters ever to don a pair <i>of</i> blades, and a sniper who ranked with the best. He played for the Wanderers, Ottawa and finished his career with the Vancouver Millionaires, and was one of this writer&rsquo;s boyhood idols.</p><p>It seems incongruous to see players like Lehman, Gerard, Ross, McKay, Lalonde, Malone, Pitre and Foyston on the second team until we think of the stars who are not on either team.</p><p>Lehman wound up his career as one of the many managers of the Chicago Balck Hawks. For years he held sway on the coast as the league&rsquo;s No. 1 net guardian.</p><p>There isn&rsquo;t a club in hockey today who wouldn&rsquo;t pay $100,000 for a pair of defensemen of the calibre of Eddie Gerard and Art Ross. There have been few harder bodycheckers than Gerard and few tougher competitors than Ross.</p><p>Mickey McKay always lived in the shadow of the great &ldquo;Cyclone&rdquo; Taylor. He had everything a great rover or center ice man needed, and when he arrived at Chicago in 192 6 he showed he still had the speed and stick-handling ability that had made him the terror of the west.</p><p>&ldquo;Newsy&rdquo; Lalonde and Joe Malone were two of the most prolific scorers in the game. &ldquo;Newsy&rdquo; was equally famous on the lacrosse field and played on championship teams in both sports.</p><p>Didier Pitre was at one time as great an idol of the French-Canadien hockey fans as &ldquo;Rocket&rdquo; Richard is today. He dripped color, was very fast and a fine shot.</p><p>Few men played on&rsquo; as many different Stanley Cup teams as Frank Foyston. He was a member of the Toronto team in 1913-14; of the Seattle Metropolitans in 1916-17 and of the Victoria Cougers in 1924-25. Frank wound up his major league career with the Detroit Cougars and Falcons and later coached the Detroit Olympics in the International League and the Bronx Tigers in the Can-Am League.</p><p><b>(Next week the team for the period 1920 to 1930 will be named.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey’s Greatest Stars Of The Past Sixty Years

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02485/2168515-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>s Richard&rsquo;s guardian for the past two seasons, Kullman has been a great tormentor. That is conceded. He&rsquo;s done everything possible to keep the Rocket from scoring against New York, and has been very successful.</p><p>Until this last game, when Richard scored twice, he&rsquo;d been sut out on New York ice since November 25, 1951. As a means of retaliation, he&rsquo;d used butt ends, hooks, tripping and every foul tactic at his disposal to get back at Kullman. Seldom did the official see anything wrong.</p><p>A less volatile soul that Richard might also have boiled over and the close man-to-man heckling done by Kullman the past two seasons. But no one, even a Richard, should be allowed to deliberately injure an opponent as he did on March 8.</p><p>As Cook put it: &ldquo;If it had been Kullman who skulled Richard, instead of the other way around Eddie would have been given the match penalty quick enough. He&rsquo;d probably have gotten a suspension, too.&rdquo;</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> With three games left to play, Wally Hergesheimei was nearing two all-time Rangei scoring records. His 30 goals were only three short of the club mark held by Bill Cook and, with 58 points, Wally needed but five more to break Prank Boucher&rsquo;s record. Hergesheimer, incidentally, has really licked the sophomore jinx. Not since Richard&rsquo;s second season 1944-45, has an NHL soph made as many goals and points&hellip;The line that Lynn Patrick termed the &ldquo;Scavengers&rdquo; has all but murdered Boston this season. Seventeen of the 33 goals against the Bruins have been made by Hergesheimer, Paul Ron and and whoever played on their left wing. Hergy and Ronty have both contributed points in nine of 13 games. Each has two winning goals and one tying one.</p><p>Ron Murphy scored a goal in each of his first two games here, after recall from Guelph. He already looks like the greatest forward prospect the Rangers have had in 10 years&hellip;Balcony, fans are still after Stanley&rsquo;s scalps Latest banners decking the Garden include: &ldquo;Stiff of the Years Sonja Stanley. Bring Back the Rovers.&rdquo; &ldquo;We Need Defensemen, Mr. B. Not Ballerinas.&rdquo; &ldquo;Prices Are High! But 96G&rsquo;s for Lemons!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Kullman Konked

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03399/2168546-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie with Lumley at his mercy</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>There is no bonus clause in Gordie Howe&rsquo;s contract this season to reward him with extra pay for 50 goals&mdash;or even for 100.</p><p>That is unlike the. setup under which Rocket Richard fired goals for Montreal. The Rocket got a contract paying him $100 a goal for all he made over 3 5.</p><p>Two years ago it was worth an extra $700 for the dazzling Canadien star, for he clicked 4 2 times. But that contract clause has grown dusty. Injuries stopped Richard at 2 7 last season and in the current campaign he had 25 with six games left.</p><p>A similar clause would have been a bonanza for Howe the past three years&mdash;43 goals, then 47, and now 47 with five games to go.</p><p>Jack Adams reveals, however, that Howe has no such bonus clause, or for that mat-ter a bonus setup of any kind.</p><p>&ldquo;I imagine that Gordie will get a little bonuS anyway after this season is over&mdash;and not such a little one at that, &ldquo;Adams adds.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> There is nothing dull about the Red Wings while the loaf around waiting for the playoffs. In two straight home games they romped for 7-1 and 10-2 scores over New York and Boston, respectively.</p><p>In the meantime Howe knocked off one NHL record while chasing another. His own point record of 86 finally fell. In one game (the 10-2 affair with Boston) he scored twice and assisted on three others to jump from 85 to 90 points all at once.</p><p>Howe set original record on 43 goals and 43 assists, and tied it on 47 goals and 3 9 assists. A going concern, he had 47 goals and 46 assists for 93 points with three more games to play.</p><p>Probably the most exciting of all his points for local fans was his 4 5th goal. It came on a penalty shot, first at Olympia in four years, first by a Red Wing in five years and first successful try by a Detroiter in eight years.</p><p>Referee Red Storey called it against Hy Buller for hauling Howe down from behind on a breakaway. Howe made a slow, almost casual approach on Lorne Worsley before beating him with a 15-foot blast six inches off the ice into the left corner.</p><p>Marcel Bonin has become a quick favorite with Detroit crowds. The little muscle-man, who started the season with the Quebec Aces and progressed to Providence and St. Louis before reaching Detroit, has added immeasurable color to the club.</p><p>With each game his confidence is increasing and he has earned a full-time berth at left wing on the checking line with Glen Skov and Tony Leswick.</p><h2><b>Here&rsquo;s How--Howe Does It!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0008-03

Howe’s Contract Has No Bonus Clause; Adams Hints He’ll Get Just Reward

<p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>The following table shows the games played, points to date, and possible points obtainable by each club, and number of games each club has at home and away:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01541/2168692-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="606" height="254"></div><p>Gordie Howe of Detroit now has racked up 93 scoring points He has 4 7 goals and 4 6 assists. He leads in most goals, most assists and most total points. Twenty-three points behind Howe is his linemate Ted Lindsay, who has 32 goals and 38 assists for 7 0 points. Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard has taken over sole possession of third place with 27 goals and 33 assists for 60 points. New York&rsquo;s Wally Hergesheimer is next with 30 goals and 28 assists for 58 points. Hergesheimer was awarded an assist in a game in Detroit on January 2 2, but the scorer failed to list Hergesheinrer&rsquo;s name on the Official Score Sheet. This assist was announced over the PA system at the game and also appeared in all news service summaries. It was not credited officially to Hergesheimer&rsquo;s point total until the past week.</p><p>Terry Sawchuk, Detroit goalie who has played the most games for the team with the least number of goals scored against it, has allowed 127 goals-against in 67 games for a 1.89 average. Gerry McNeil of Canadiens is second with 141 goals-against in 67 tussles tor a 2.10 average. McNeil leads all netminders in shutouts with 10.</p><p>Toronto Maple Leafs are the most penalized team with a total 74 4 minutes. Ted Lindsay with 109 minutes is the most penalized player.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-01

Wings And Habs Set; Rest In Race To Wire

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>L</span>ast year the Boston Bruins acquired the services of one Fleming David (Mac) Mackell from the Toronto Maple Leafs. At the time the acquisition wasn&rsquo;t noted with any bell ringing in Beantown but today the deal looks like one of the best ever perpetrated by the Bruin management.</b></p><p><b>Flaming Fleming has been going great at late and now that it appears that the Bears are going to make the playoffs, he should stand up and take a bow. During the last week, one of the most important of the campaign for Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s crew, the Montreal-born Mackell received credit for three goals and an assist.</b></p><p><b>Signifigant is the fact that one of his goal and one of his assists, and he earned the assist, setting up the play all the way, came against the Toronto Maple Leafs on March 14. As it happen the Leafs are the team the Bruins had to bea out for the playoff spot, and as it also happens the Leafs are the team that traded Mackell oh the Bruins. It was sort of a double revenge for the ex-Leaf.</b></p><p><b>Mackell is a centre, was born April 30, 1924 in Montreal, Que., stands 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; and weighs 163 pounds. He first learned his hockey as a member of Catholic High School&rsquo;s team in Montreal. From there he went to the St. Mike&rsquo;s juniors in Toronto. After that he spent almost three years with the Pittsburgh Hornets, making brief appearances with the Leafs during all three campaigns.</b></p><p><b>In the 1949-50 season he became a Leaf regular and remained there until last season.</b></p><p><b>The Toronto team used the slam-bang skater mostly as a reserve forward, but once he hit Beantown he was pressed into action as a regular and it&rsquo;s a move Lynn Patrick hasn&rsquo;t regretted to this day.</b></p><p><b>Flaming Fleming is flying and the Bruins are flying with him. If he continues to fly during the Stanley Cup playoffs, as he did last season, all other teams beware!</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09224/2168723-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="300" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fleming Mackell</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-09

Player-Of-The-Week

<p><b>Habs Sets in Second</b></p><p>The Montreal Canadiens became the second team to sew up their position when they beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in Montreal March 14. The win assured them of second place.</p><p><b>Double-Goose-egg</b></p><p>Terry Sawchuk and Al Rollins, respective goalers for the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Black Hawks, each racked up a shutout as the teams battled to a scoreless tie March 15.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON WED. A.M. MARCH 18</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02514/2168661-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="591" height="181"></div><h2>RESULTS OF GAMES</h2><p>Mar. 11th&mdash;Detroit 2 te Rangers 0</p><p>Mar. 12th&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Chicago 2</p><p>Mar. 12th&mdash;Detroit 2 at Boston 2</p><p>Mar. 14th&mdash;Rangers 2 at Canadiens 3</p><p>Mar. 14th&mdash;Boston 3 at Toronto 1</p><p>Mar. 14th&mdash;Chicago 3 at Detroit 1</p><p>Mar. 15th&mdash;Canadiens 1 at Boston 2</p><p>Mar. 15th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Rangers 1</p><p>Mar. 15th&mdash;Detroit 0 at Chicago 0</p><h2>SCHEDULED GAMES</h2><p>Mar. 18th&mdash;Chicago at Toronto</p><p>Mar. 18th&mdash;Boston at Rangers</p><p>Mar. 19th&mdash;Toronto at Canadiens</p><p>Mar. 19th&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Mar. 21st&mdash;Boston at Canadiens</p><p>Mar. 21st&mdash;Rangers at Toronto</p><p>Mar. 21st&mdash;Detroit at Chicago</p><p>Mar. 22nd&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>Mar. 22nd&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Mar. 22nd&mdash;Chicago at Rangers</p><h2>WEDNESDAY MARCH 11 Detroit 2 at New York 0</h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Defenseman Bob Goldham scored his first goal in almost three seasons and it proved to be the winner as the Detroit Red Wings hung the collar, 2-0, on the New York Rangers.</p><p>Detroit&rsquo;s other goal was scored by Gordie Howe, his 47th of the year.</p><p>It was the eighth shutout of the season for Terry Sawchuk, putting him two behind Gerry McNeil of Montreal, the league leader in this department.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Wolt, Hay; forwards, Prystai, Howe, Lindsay, Leswick, Pavelich, Skov, Sinclair, Delvecclo, Wilson, Bonin.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Reise, Howell, Buller, Kraftcheck, Staaley; forwards, Mlckoski, Stoddard, Kullman, Raleigh, Ronty, Murphy, Guldolin, Babano, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Strain.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storey; linesmen, Doug Davies, Sammy Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08230/2168654-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="606" height="313"></div><h2><b>THURSDAY MARCH 13 Montreal 2 at Chicago 2</b></h2><p>CHICAGO&mdash;Tom Johnson scored his third goal of the season with 17 seconds remaining in the game to give the Montreal Canadiens a 2-2 tie with the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>The tying goal came with Gerry McNeil sitting on the Hab bench. Just a few seconds previous Jim MsFadden had zoomed in on the empty cage and hit the post.</p><p>Elmer Lach got the Habs&rsquo; other goal while Gerry Couture and Sid Finney scored for the Hawks.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, MacPherson, Johnson, St. Laurent; forwards, Richard, Lach, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Masnick, Moore, Reay, Mosdell, Meger.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Mortson, Dewbury, Fogolln, Gadsby, Raglan, Price; forwards, Peters, Gardner, McFadden, Moslenko, Lynn, Hucul, Bodnar, Finney, Couture, Gee.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Jack Mehlenbacher. LinesWen, Bill Morrison and Harold March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01555/2168647-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="601" height="602"></div><h2>Detroit 2 at Boston 3</h2><p>BOSTON&mdash;Flaming Flemings Mackell scored two goals less than a minute apart to give the Boston Bruins a 2-2 standoff with the league leading Detroit Red Wings. All the scoring in the confined to the first period.</p><p>Detroit goals went to Tony Lewsick and Johnny Wilson.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuck; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Wolt, Hay; forwards, Pavelich, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Sinclair, Wilson, Bonin, Leswick, Skov, Prystai.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Godfrey, Martin, Laycoe; forwards. Schmidt, Klukay, Chevreflls, Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Sullivan, Toppazzini, McIntyre, Creighton, Dumart, Lund.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick. Linesmen, Bam Babcock and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02482/2168640-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="600" height="523"></div><h2>SATURDAY MARCH 14 Chicago 3 at Detroit 1</h2><p>DETROIT&mdash;Fighting like the devil for a playoff spot, the Chicago Black, Hawks downed the Detroit Red Wings 3-1, and on Olympia ice at that.</p><p>Jim Peters, George Gee and Jim McFadden counted for the Abelmen while Alex Delvecchio scored for the Wings, which, incldenatly was the first goal of the game.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Gads by, Fogolln, Dewsbury, Raglan. Mortson, Prince; forwards, Finney, Couture, Lynn, Bodnar, Peters, Moslerko, Garddner, Gee, McFadden.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Bawchuck; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Wolt, Hay; forwards, Pavelich, Howe, Lindsay, Prystai, Skov, Wilson, Delvecchio, Leswlck, Bonin, Sinclair.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Red Storer. Linesmen, Jim Prlmeau and Doug Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03404/2168633-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="589" height="234"></div><h2>New York 2 at. Montreal 3</h2><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Montreal Canadlens scored twice in the second period to take the New York Rangers 3-2.</p><p>Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard sent the Habs off and running in the first period and Dick Gamble added another in the second.</p><p>Before that frame had ended, Don Raleihg finally put New York on the score sheet and Elmer The Elegant&rsquo; Lach sided to Monreal&rsquo;s count. Ron Murphy tallied for the Blues in the finale.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley; defence, Howell, Reise, Buller, Kraftcheck, Stanley; forwards, Mlchoski, Stoddard, Kullman, Raleigh, Ronty, Babando, Prentice, Hergeshelmer, Strain, Murphy.</p><p><b>Canadlens:</b> Goal, McNeil: defence, Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, Macpherson; forwards, Reay, Meger, Geoffrion, Lach Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, McCormack. Moore.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Frank Udvarl: linesmen, Sam Babcock, Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04310/2168626-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="594" height="578"></div><h2>Boston 3 at Toronto 1</h2><p>TORONTO&mdash;The Toronto Maple Leafs as their playoff chances delinquish to approxiametly nothing when they dropped a 3-1 decision to the Boston Bruins, the team they are fighting for a spot in the Stanley Cup semi-finals.</p><p>Fleming Mackell, Ed Sandford, and Woody&rsquo; Dumart scored for he Bruins, all In the third period, after Ron Stewant had sent the Leafs off to a 1-0 lead in the sandwich session.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry: defence, Laycoe. Quackenbush, Godfrey, Martin; forwards, Sandford, Mackell, Peirson, Schmidt, McIntyre, Toppazzinl, Klukay, Chevreflls, Dumont, Creighton, Sullivan.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Flaman, Horton, Thomson, Boivin, Bentley; forwards, Watson, Armstrong, Nesterenko, Hassard, Hannigan, Stewart, Smith, Kennedy, Sloan, Meeker.</p><p>Referee: Jack Mehlenbacher. Linesmen; Bill Morrison, Red Dunn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05231/2168619-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="592" height="494"></div><h2>SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1953 Chicago 0 at Detroit 0</h2><p>CHICAGO&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks and the Detroit Red Wings battled to a 0-0 draw in Chicago, the main feature of which was the steallar goaltending of Al Rollins and Terry Sawchuk.</p><p>Once again Gordie Howe failed to score and his chances of beating Maurice Richard&rsquo;s record of 5 goals for a season became slimmer.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuck; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards, Pavelich, Howe, Lindsay, Prystai, Skov. Willson, Delvecchio, Leswlck, Bonin, Sinclair.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins: defence, Gads by, Fogolln, Dewsbury, Raglan. Mortson. Prince; forwards, Finney, Couture, Lynn, Bodnar. Peters, Moslerko, Garddner. Gee, McFadden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06184/2168612-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="591" height="366"></div><h2>Montreal 1 at Boston 2</h2><p>BOSTON&mdash;The Montreal Canadlens continued in their &lsquo;cousin&rsquo; role, as the Boston Bruins came from behinb to take a 2-1 decision.</p><p>Johnny Peirson scored at the 10: 37 mark of the final frame to insure the win for playoff-seeking Bruins. The other Boston counter went to Gerry Toppazzinl while Maurice tallied his 27th goal of the season for the Habs.</p><p><b>Canadlens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Johnson, Harvey, Bouchard, St. Laurent, Macpherson: forwards, Lach. Richard, Olmstead, Mosdell, Curry, Gamble, McCormack, Moore, Meger, Masnick.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence. Quac-kenbush, Godfrey, Laycoe, Armstrong: forwards, Schmidt, Klukay, Chevreflls, Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Sullivan. Cdelghton, Toppazzinl, McIntyre, Lund, Dumart.</p><p>Referee: Frank Uudvarl. Linesmen Bill Morrison and Sam Babcock.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07142/2168605-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="592" height="441"></div><h2>Toronto 1 at New York 1</h2><p>NEW YORK&mdash;Harry Watson tallied at the 6: 42 mark of the second period to earn the Toronto Maple Leafs a 1-1 tie with the New York Rangers and a needed one point in the standings.</p><p>Wally Hergeshelmer had put the Rangers one up in the first period, while the third session was scoreless.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal, Lumley; defence, Flaman, Boivin. Thomson, Horton; forwards Kennedy, Etewart, Schmidt, Watson, Bentley. Mlgay, Sloan, Hassard, Nesternko, Hannigan, Meeker.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Worsley: defence, Relse, Howell, Buller, Kraftchcck, Stanley; forwards, Mickoskl, Stoddard, Kullman, Raleigh, Ronty, Murphy, Guldolin, Babando. Prentice, Hergeshelmer, Strain.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Bill Chadwick. Linesmen: Dom Boalto and Doug Davies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-08114/2168598-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="590" height="340"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>Including Games of Sunday March 15</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05313/2168591-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="645" height="3760"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS RECORD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06271/2168584-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="600" height="357"></div><h2>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07245/2168577-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="538" height="156"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>L</span>ast week Gordie Howe established a new record for points in a season. He ran his total to 93, seven better than the old record which he himself set in the 1950-51 season and tied last year. He also patted a goaly in the process putting him within distance of Rocket Richard&rsquo;s record 50 goals.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0990/2168761-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="792" height="398"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1073/2168754-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="292" height="447"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Shooting to a Record

<p>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;</p><p>Bob Attersley, the star forward of the Oshawa Generals who ended fourth in the league scoring, has been named winner of the Tilson Trophy, emblematic of the OHA Junior &lsquo;A&rsquo; series&rsquo; Most Valuable Player.</p><p>Attersley edged out Jim McBurney of the Galt Black Hawks for the honour by the slim margin of two votes. He copped 49 votes to 47 for McBurney. Nine of the ten Ontario scribes polled named Attersley as first, second, or third choice. Eight McBurney.</p><p>Eleven players were named by the scribes for the trophy, donated by the Toronto Globe and Mail in memory of &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Tilson, who starred in junior ranks with Regina and Oshawa before being, killed in combat while overseas with the Canadian Army during the Second World War.</p><p>Brian Cullen of St. Catharines Teepes placed third with 15 votes.</p><p>The 195-pound, five-foot-nine Attersley, who sparked the ene-rals through the final two months of the regular schedule from eighth place to the sixth and last playoff position, finished fourth in league scoring, counting 45 goals and 43 assists for 88 points.</p><p>The 19-year-old native of Oshawa has one more year of junior hockey left. However, he will try out with Boston Bruins, parent club of the Generals, next season in a bid for a place with the National Sockey League club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bob Attersley Named Ontario Junior MVP

<p><b>Win Again</b></p><p>Bun Cook&rsquo;s Cleveland Barons again won the American Hockey League pennant race. This prompts the question &ldquo;Will the Barons make another attempt to enter the NHL?&rdquo;</p><p><b>Moves Ahead</b></p><p>Ed Olson of the Cleveland Barons moved ahead of the St. Louis Flyers&rsquo; Gayle Fielder in the AHL scoring race. It is significant to note that both players are American-born.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TLES A.M. MARCH 17</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01552/2168886-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="594" height="286"></div><h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 10 Providence 5 at St. Louis 6</h3><p>ST. LOUIS&mdash;The St. Louis Flyers scored three goals in the third period to edge the Providence Reds 6-5.</p><p>The Reds also scored three in the fimale but the Flyers managed to hold them from scoring the equalizer in the pate stages of the game.</p><p><b>Providence</b>&mdash;Goal, Bennett; defense: Kryzanowski, Bloomer, Bourassa, Egan. Morris; forwards: Sullivan, Baccarl, Kapusta, Denis, Powell, Gladu, Smith, Scherza, Toppazzini.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defense: Brymnak, Lund, Forbes, Ehman; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Connacher, Hirschfeld, Hayden, Boone, Stankiewicz, Podolsky, Jankowski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02505/2168879-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="606" height="1180"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY MARCH 11 Pittsburgh 2 at Hershey 5</h3><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Amer; defense: Bolton, Sullivan, Mathers, Juzda, Lumsden: forwards: Marshall, Sabourln, Balfour, Bolinger, Ezinlcki, Blair, Timgren, Lewicki, Chorley.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry: defense: Gariepy, Henderson, Schertzl, Branigan; forwards: Kullman, O&rsquo;Brien, Corcoran, Brown, Lablne, Fisher, Ferguson, Bettlo, Poland, Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04356/2168872-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="602" height="726"></div><h3>FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Pittsburgh 0 at Syracuse 1</h3><p>SYRACUSE. N.Y.&mdash;Syracuse&rsquo;s playofr chances in the American Hockey League were given a boost tonight when Goalie Gordon Bell celebrated his 28th birthday by shutting out Pittsburgh Hornets, 1-0.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Henderson; defense: Bolton, Burnbacco, Lumsden, Sullivan, Juzda forwards: Lewicki, Bolinger, Blair. Marshall, Balfour, Sabourln, Barbe, Chorley, Ezinlcki.</p><p><b>Syracuse:</b> Goal, Bell: defense: Allen. Milligan, Tottle, Casanato, Ashley; forwards: Burnett, Pidhirny, Lemieux, Curick, Ashbee, Pogue, Gnidolin, Gooden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05302/2168865-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="598" height="570"></div><h3>SATURDAY MARCH 14 Cleveland 4 at St. Louis 2</h3><p>ST-LOUIS&mdash;Steve Wochy scored twice and assisted once to lead Cleveland Barons to 4-2 American Hockey League victory over St. Louis Flyers before 4,616 fans.</p><p>The victory maintained Cleveland&rsquo;s first-place margin of five points over Pittsburgh.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower: defense: Chrystal, Shore, Williams, Karrys; forwards: Gordon, Wochy, Olson, Bailey, Hildebrand, Glover, Sotimor, Ceresine, Ross, Stearns.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal Gatherum; defense: Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, Ehman; forwards: Fielder, McLean, Conacher, Hirschfield, Hayden, Boone, Ttanklewlcz, Podolsky, Jankowski.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06271/2168858-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="593" height="560"></div><h3>Providence 1 at Pittsburgh 3</h3><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Bob Sabourln scored twice to lead Pittsburgh Hornets to a 3-1 win over Providence Reds in an American Hockey League Game before 4,014 fans. Frank Sullivan scored Pittsburgh&rsquo;s other goal while Ray Powell scored for Providence.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Perreault; defense: Morris, Egan, Bloomer, Kryzanowski forwards: Laplante, Powell, Scherza, Baccari, Kapusta. Smith, Gladu, Toppazzin&rsquo;, Denis, B. Sullivan.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Chadwick; defense: Bolton, F. Sullivan, Juzda, Burnbacco, Lumsden; forwards; Marshall, Lewicki, McLellan, Sabourln, Balfour, Blair, Sollnger, Ezinlcki, Timgren.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07247/2168851-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="594" height="661"></div><h3>Buffalo 2 at Hershey 5</h3><p>HERSHEY&mdash;Ray Gariepy, Norm Corcoran and Leo LaBine scored goals in quick succession&mdash;three in two minutes and 24 seconds of the third period&mdash;to give Hershey Bears their victory margin as they defeated Buffalo Bisons 5-2.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defense: McLeod, Eddolls, Lavitt; forwards: Pennell, Davis, Mackay, Kaiser, Conacher, Davies, Pilote, Fryday, Achtymichuk, Kastelle.</p><p><b>Hershey:</b> Goal, Henry; defense: Gariepy. Henderson, Schertzl, Caron forwards: O&rsquo;Brien, Corcoran, Brown, La-Bine, Fisher, Ferguson, Bettlo, Poland.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08237/2168844-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="592" height="675"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 15 St. Louis 1 at Cleveland 6</h3><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Cleveland Barons won the regular season championship of the American Hockey League for the eighth time by defeating St. Louis Flyers 6-1 In the clinching game before 7.384 fans, this afternoon.</p><p>The Cleveland victory ended the challenge of the second-place Pittsburgh Hornets, last year&rsquo;s champions.</p><p><b>St. Louis:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defense: Hrymnak, Lund, Forbes, Ehman; forwards: Fielder, Hlrschferd, Boone, Conacher, Hayden, Podolsky, McLean, Jankowski, Stankiewicz.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defense: Williams, Chrystal, Shero, Karrys; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Ross, Stearns. Olson, Sonmor, Ceresino. Wochy, Hildebrand. Glover.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09227/2168837-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="600" height="737"></div><h3>Buffalo 2 at Providence 4</h3><p>PROVIDENCE, R.T.&mdash;Paul Larivee, rookie centre, was the big gun at the Providence Reds defeatd th Buffalo Bisons 4-2 in an American Hockey League session a; the Auditorium.</p><p>Larivee broke a 1-1 tie early in the second period and then set up an insuranc tally with a fine pass to Al Baccari two seconds before the end of the stanza.</p><p><b>Buffalo:</b> Goal, Plante; defense: Ed-dolls, Lavitt, Pilote, McLeod; forwards: Kaiser, Pennell, Davis, MacKay, Conacher, Davies, Fryday, Achtymichuk, Hass.</p><p><b>Providence:</b> Goal, Perreault; defense! Egan, Kryzanowski, Morris, Bourassa; forwards. Sullivan, Powell, Gladu, Scherzac Toppazzini, Denis Kapusta, Smitn, Baccari, Larivee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10206/2168830-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="598" height="722"></div><h2>Leads Barons To Crown</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03432/2168823-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="1092" height="1258"><figcaption class="caption-body">THE <b>CHAMP&mdash;</b> Bun Cook, coach of the American Hockey League champion Cleveland Barons is one who rates Johnny Bower, Cleveland&rsquo;s agile goalie as good as two or three twine-tenders in the National Hockey League and credits him with a big part of the success which brought the Barons the crown over the Pittsburgh Hornets this year.</figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sunday, March 15)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11181/2168816-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="580" height="514"></div><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Ike Hildebrand, Clev. (36)</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Guyle Fielder, St. Louis (57).</p><p><b>Most Penalties:</b> Bob Bailey, Clev. 116 minutes.</p><p><b>Beset Goalie:</b> Gil Mayer, Pitts. (59 games, 140 GA., 5 SO., 2.37 AVG)</p><p><b>Team Penalties:</b> Pittsburgh Hornets, (825 minutes)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>The Barons wrapped up their third American Hockey League title in four years during the past week, making sure that the Pittsburgh Hornets wouldn&rsquo;t catch them this year.</p><p>Last year, when they lost out to the Hornets in the stretch run, the Barons were 18 points out of first place on January 20th and wound up the season only two points behind Pittsburgh.</p><p>Jimmy Hendy, the genial General Manager of the Barons was quick to point out that there are four players on the Cleveland roster that would be NHL performers any day. He listed Johnny Bowers as better than two NHL goalies today and figures that defenseman Bob Chrystal can&rsquo;t miss as a big leaguer. Ike Hildebrand he call a combination between Wally Hergesheimer and Tony Leswick, meaning that he has Hergy&rsquo;s polish and Tony&rsquo;s durability. Bob Bailey, a big rangy centre, is leading the league in penalties and is a rugged centre with plenty of general know-how.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Barons Clinch AHL Crown

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Down but far from out, the road-weary Hershey Bears returned to the Sports Arena for four out of their final five American Hockey League games and a desperate home stretch drive to nail down a Calder Cup playoff berth.</p><p>Groggy after losing four out of seven tilts on foreign ice, the Bears limped home, clinging tenaciously to fourth place. Pressing Coach Murray Henderson&rsquo;s crew, just four points behind, were the St. Louis Flyers and Providence Reds.</p><p>And, with the final two tilts of the campaign scheduled with Jake Forbes&rsquo; Flyers, the closing days of the AHL promise to. provide a maximum of thrills right up until the final gong sounds at the Sports Arena on Saturday night, March 21.</p><p>In spite of the fact that the Bears dropped from first to fourth place in three months, during which time Hershey&rsquo;s point production slipped considerably, two of Henderson&rsquo;s athletes stand a good chance of topping their all-time individual point total.</p><p>With five games remaining, Sam Bettio, veteran Boston farmhand, needs only three points to beat his previous high of 61, set in 1950-51. Bettio has 20 goals and 39 assists to date, compared with 19 goals and 42 assists two seasons ago.</p><p>Arnie Kullman, who has paced Hershey individual scorers for the past two campaigns, needs eight points to surpass his 1950-51 mark of 32 goals and 33 assists. To date he has collected 23 goals and 35 assists. Kullman, incidentally, is in third place among Bear scorers, just two points off the paca being set by Lome Ferguson, who has 23 goals and 37 assists.</p><p>Bettio, Kullman and Obie O&rsquo;Brien, who is the third member of the Bears&rsquo; No. 1 triumverate, have already topped last year&rsquo;s point totals. O&rsquo;Brien, who bagged 13 goals and 28 assists a year ago, has 15 goals and 27 assists for a total of 4 2 points to date.</p><p>In an effort to check the Bears&rsquo; decline and insure Hershey a playoff berth, Lloyd S. Blinco, manager of the Bears, called up Donald McLeod, defenseman, and Gordon Wilson, center, from the Port Arthur Bruins, of the Junior OHA, for three-game tryouts.</p><h2><b>MARK MEN</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01531/2168972-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="276" height="381"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sam Bettio</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02444/2168965-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="265" height="385"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Arnie Kullman</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bettio, Kullman Nearing New Hershey Marks as Team Guns For Playoff Position

<p><b>Cage Cop Coach</b></p><p>When Victoria&rsquo;s goalkeeper Jerry Cotnoir was Injured recently in Tacoma Coach Eddie Dorohoy donned the pads and held the Rockets to one goal in the last 25 minutes.</p><p><b>Costly Injury</b></p><p>Vic. Stasiuk, Edmonton forward and league leading scoring dislocated his hip In a freak injury in Edmonton Friday night and will be out for the season. He was leading WHL scorer.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>STANDING ON TUES. A.M., MARCH 10</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01528/2169150-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="605" height="236"></div><h3>LAST WEEKS RESULTS</h3><p><b>Mon. March 2nd</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at Saskatoon 8</p><p><b>Tues., March 3rd</b></p><p>Tacoma 5 at Victoria 8</p><p>Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 2</p><p><b>Wed., March 4th</b></p><p>Tacoma 2 at New Westminster 4</p><p>Vancouver 1 at Calgary 7</p><p><b>Thur., March 5th</b></p><p>Edmonton 3 at Saskatoon 5</p><p><b>Fri, March 6th</b></p><p>Seattle 2 at Victoria 5</p><p>New West. 3 at Vancouver 2</p><p>Calgary 1 at Edmonton 6</p><p><b>Sat., March 7th</b></p><p>Victoria 2 at Tacoma 5</p><p>Vancouver 1 at New West 1</p><p>Edmonton 1 at Calgary 4</p><p><b>Sun., March 8th</b></p><p>Tacoma 1 at Seattle 5</p><h3>MONDAY MARCH 2 Vancouver 2 at Saskatoon 8</h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers opened the gap between themselves and second place Vancouver Canucks to six points by hopping them 8-2.</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>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, R. Bentley; defence, Ross, Milford, Helndl, Evans; forwards, Kaleta, Chad, Rouse, McCullough, McLeod, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02485/2169143-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="602" height="606"></div><h3>TUESDAY MARCH 3 Tacoma 5 at Victoria 8</h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;The Victoria Cougars came up with their eighth unbeaten game in a row when they dumped the Tacoma Rockets 8-5.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Web-Bter, Roche, Strongman, Irwin: forwards, Goegan, Hebenton, Abbot, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Jo-nes. 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/f0013-07282/2169136-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="597" height="787"></div><h3>Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 2</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; chances of ending up in first place became slimmer when they dropped a close 2-1 decision to Edmonton Flyers.</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>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Folk, Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forwards, Johnson, Uniac, Stasluk, Reibel, Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08266/2169129-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="594" height="321"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 Tacoma 2 at New Westminster 4</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Don Slater git for a hat trick as the New Westminster Royals downed the Tacoma Rockets 4-2.</p><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson: defence, Jones, Davidson, Tarala: forwards, John son, Keer, Adam. Mathews, Bradley, Wall, Brown, Marquess, Halderson.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Coburn, Bedard; forwards, McNab, Slater, Dorohoy, Ullyot, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Boyce, Rob ert, Cabana.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09256/2169122-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="607" height="425"></div><h3>Vancouver 1 at Calgary 7</h3><p>CALGARY&mdash;Once again Vancouver Canucks failed to win on the prairies as they were soundly thumped 7-1 by the Calgary Stampeders.</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>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes: defence, Kyle, Shvetz, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards, Kelly, Lundy, Witiuk, Barry, Agar, Scott, Ashworth, Sclisizzl, Black.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10245/2169115-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="599" height="533"></div><h3>THURSDAY MARCH 5 Edmonton 3 at Saskatoon 5</h3><p>SASKATOON&mdash;Saskatoon Quakers moved eight points out in front of Vancouver Canucks by downing the Edmon-ton Flyers 5-3.</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>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, R. Bentley; defence. Ross. Milford, Heindl, Evans; forwards. Kaleta. Chad, Rouse, McCullough. McLeod, Jeffrey, Kuzma, Kaiser, D. Bentley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11222/2169108-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="599" height="558"></div><h3>FRIDAY MARCH 6 Seattle 2 at Victoria 5</h3><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Ed Mazur scored two goals to spark the Victoria Cougars to a 5-2 win over the Seattle Bombers.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence, Conn, Sprout, Allsgy, Lafvendahl, Arnett; forwards, Foley, Fillion, Bell, Homenuke, Man.-on, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, Mac-Auley.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster. Roche. Strongman, Irwin; forwards, Goegan, Hebenton, Abbot, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12198/2169101-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="603" height="588"></div><h3>New Westminster 3 at Vancouver 3</h3><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;Lucien Dechene was a standout in the New Westminster Royals goals as that team edged the Vancouver Canucks 3-2.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Coburn, Bedard; forwards, McNab, Slater, Dorohoy, Ullyot, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Boyce, Robert, Cabana.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal. Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Lanclen, Fontinato; forwards, Hickey, Atanas, Smjth, Popein, Mackintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02424/2169094-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="593" height="528"></div><h3>Calgary 1 at Edmonton 6</h3><p>EDMONTON&mdash;Leading scorer Vic Stasiuk suffered a dislocated hip in the first period as the Edmonton Flyers thumped the Calgary Stampeders 6-1.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle, Shvetz, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards, Kelly, Lundy, Witiuk, Barry, Agar, Scott, Ashworth, Sclisizzi, Black.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal. Hall; defence, Folk, Bouchard, Zeibel, Poile; forwards, John son, 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/f0014-03315/2169087-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="600" height="604"></div><h3>SATURDAY MARCH 7 Victoria 2 at Tacoma 5</h3><p>TACOMA&mdash;Victoria Cougars&rsquo; unbeaten streak had to end somewhere and it was the Tacoma Rockets who turned the trick, winning 5-2.</p><p><b>Victoria:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Webster, Roche, Strongman, Irwin; forwards, Goegan, Hebcnton, Abbat, Mazur, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Anderson, Evans, Fairburn.</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/f0014-04237/2169080-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="596" height="590"></div><h3>Vancouver 1 at New Westminster 1</h3><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Cherry Cabana scored at the 6.52 mark of the second period to give the New Westminster Royals a 1-1 tie with the Vancouver Canucks.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis: defence, Dick, Currie, Lanclen, Fontinato; forwards. Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Mackintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Bergeron, Coburn, Bedard; forwards, McNab, Slater, Dorohoy, Ullyot, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Boyce, Robert, Cabana.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05181/2169073-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="597" height="458"></div><h3>Edmonton 1 at Calgary 4</h3><p>CALGARY&mdash;Calgary Stampedere scored four goals in the last four minutes of play to down the Edmonton Flyers 4-1.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Folk. Bouchard, Zeibel, Potle; forwards, Johnson, Unlac, Stasiuk, Reibel, Haley, Will son, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><p><b>Calgary:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Kyle. Shvetz, Michaluk, Levandoski; forwards. Kelly, Lundy, Witiuk. Barry, Agar. Scott, Ashworth, Sclisizzi, Black.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06151/2169066-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="597" height="387"></div><h3>SUNDAY MARCH 8 Tacoma 1 at Seattle 5</h3><p><b>Tacoma:</b> Goal, Stevenson; defence, Jones. Davidson, Tarala; forwards, Johnson, Kerr, Adam, Mathews, Bradley. Wall, Brown, Marquess, Halderson.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Goal, Brennan; defence. Conn Sprout, Ailsgy, Lafvendahl, Arnett; forwards, Foley, Fillion, Bell, Homenuke Manson, Nadeau, Pargeter, Stearns, Mao-Auley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07113/2169059-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="597" height="407"></div><h2>These Four Top Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03449/2169052-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="291" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Vic Stasiuk</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04410/2169045-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="272" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dutch Reibel</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05347/2169038-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="292" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alex Kaleta</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06298/2169031-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="298" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack McLeod</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(Including Games of Sunday March 8)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14138/2169024-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="602" height="1121"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-15112/2169017-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="603" height="309"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Vic Stasluk, Edm., C37); Gorden Fashaway, N.W., (33); Doug Adam, Tac., (33); Colin Kilburn, Vic., (32); Chuck McCoulIough, Sask., (31).</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Alex Kalata, Sask. (56)? Earl Reibel, Edm. (50); Eddie Dorohoy, Vic. (48); George Senick, Sask. (43); Vic Stasiuk, Edm. (43); Doug Anderson, Vic. (43); Jack McLeod, Sask. (43).</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Luc Dechene, N.W. (6).</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks, Against:</b> Doug Stevenson, Tac. (9).</p><p><b>Most Hat Tricks:</b> Vic Stasiuk, Edm. (2); Jack McLeod, Sask. (2); Andy Hebenton, Vic. (2); Doug Adam, Tac. (2); Fred Brown, Tac. (2).</p><p><b>Most Winnink Goals:</b> Doug Macaully, Sea. (9).</p><h3>MOST PENALTIES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1676/2169010-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="597" height="257"></div><h2><b>Sets SO Record</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13166/2169003-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="581" height="883"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LUCIEN DECHENE</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01523/2169181-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>George Senick&hellip;&hellip;Returned in Time</b></figcaption></div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>George Senick returned just in time from the parent New York Rangers to give the Saskatoon Quakers a big shot-in-the-arm in their drive to cinch first place in the Western Pro League.</p><p>Senick, known as &ldquo;The Tonic&rdquo; around Saskatoon, gave a good example of his value to the Quakers soon after his return from Manhattan. In an Important game at Edmonton, he figured in all six Sasjuitoon goals as they came from behind to tie the Flyers 6-6. Senick scored a pair and assited on four others.</p><p>With Senick&rsquo;s return, the addition of Ray Manson from the Vancouver Canucks and fine play of all hands, the Quakers seem assured of a first-place finish. Their convincing 8-2 triumph over the Canucks all but ruined Vancouver&rsquo;s chances of overtaking Saskatoon.</p><p>Saskatoon obtained Manson in a deal which sent Alex Kuzma and Carl Kaiser to the coast team. It didn&rsquo;t rake the smooth Manson, a native of Winnipeg, long to work in with linemates Alex Kaleta and Jackie McLeod and in a recent contest at Saskatoon he was named the No. 1 star.</p><p>Coach Dcug Bentley and his mates are keeping their fingers crossed in hopes that they don&rsquo;t have to meet Edmonton in the playoffs. The Flyers have held the Indian sign over the Quakers all season. In 20 meetings. Flyers won nine, Quakers won seven and lour games were tied.</p><h2>Bentley a Regular</h2><p>The veteran Bentley is now playing regularly with his club and if anything he is working even harder than when he was an NHL star with the Chicago Black Hawks. It isn&rsquo;t often that Doug gets mixed up in a fight but recently he dropped his gloves and tangled with Edmonton&rsquo;s fiery Earl Johnson in a lively bout. Bentley came out of it with a shiner, needing two stitches to close a cut below his right eye.</p><p><b>LOOSE PUCKS:</b> Senick is currently running eighth in the league scoring race despite the fact that he missed several games when he was up with the Rangers&hellip;Max Bentley&rsquo;s recent disappearance from Toronto seemed to point up the view that the little Maple Leaf centre would like to get his release from Conn Smythe and finish his playing days with brother Doug at Saskatoon&hellip;Betty is a common name among wives in the Bentley family&hellip;the wives of Doug, Max and nephew Bev are all named Betty&hellip;In Delisle, they attach an extra tag when they call them&hellip;they say Betty-Doug, or Betty-Max, or Betty-Bev&hellip;then Reg Bentley&rsquo;s wife Is named Beth.</p><h2>Back in Saskatoon Livery<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Quakers Practically Cinch First Position With Senick’s Return

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>There are long trips, and then again, there are short trips. And occasionnally, there are REAL trips, like these jaunts from Ottawa to Chicoutimi and back.</p><p>Anything can happen on one of these expeditions, and in this particular case, just about everything did.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01500/2169212-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="295" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>T. P. Gorman</b></figcaption></div><p>Roaring back to Quebec City to make train connections after the first game of their best-eleven (or is it thirteen) series with the Chics, the Senators found themselves stranded in Laurentide Park, miles from a house, when both tires on the left rear wheel blew simultaneously.</p><p>The Senator party, including the boss T. P. Gorman, spent three teeth-grinding hours on the road-side waiting for a repair truck to be sent out.</p><p>Needled as to the possibility of sabotage by the Chics, genial Rol-Jie Hebert denied the insinuation vehemently.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re the essence of hospitality in our country,&rdquo; quipped Rollle. &ldquo;Now, if we&rsquo;d lost that first game&hellip;&rdquo;</p><h2>May Go Distance</h2><p>Speaking of winning games, it is beginning to look like the series may go the dist-ance. Both teams seem to be able to win at home without too much difficulty. All of which leaves the Chics, who have the last game, with an edge in the betting.</p><p>The Barber Poles aren&rsquo;t giving up the ghost yet by any means and are confident they&rsquo;ll be able to win one on Chicoutimi ice before the series is over.</p><p>&ldquo;They beat us 6-0 in that third game,&rdquo; said Alex Smart, &ldquo;but with any luck at all we might have had three goals in the first period. They just wouldn&rsquo;t go in, though, which is hockey, I suppose.&rdquo;</p><p>This has been a strange series in one way, at least. Ordinarily, teams play it pretty close to the west during the playoffs, but in this one the Sags have been overdoing it a bit, to say the least.</p><p>Hebert doesn&rsquo;t let his forwards wander too deeply into the Ottawa zone, and the wings have been following their checks like shadows. On top of that, Hebert makes his centermen swing behind their defence and wait for loose pucks there or in the corners.</p><p>At times it has made for rather dull hockey, but fortunately once one of the teams scores, things open up and some very exciting hockey has resulted.</p><p><b>AROUND THE RINKS:</b> Butch Stahan, the Senators&rsquo; colorful defenceman, picked up a painful foot injury in the first game of the series and missed two contets&hellip;There was considerable surprise evinced by the players over the way the Aces ousted Toe Blake&rsquo;s Braves in four straight games. The Quebec team is hitting a fast pace now and may surprise everybody by successfully defending their championship honors&hellip;The Quebec League&rsquo;s status as far as the CAHA is concerned is still uncertain. The loop attempted to assume a neutral status by withdrawing from the QAHA, but the parent body said there was no such No-Man s-Land&hellip;Pistol Pete Morin appars to have his Royals back in mid-season form after a protracted slump-Morin should be able to get some pretty fair mileage out that team of his before the playoffs are over.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Tay Pay Co., Wait 3 Hours For Tow Truck

<div class="byline">By CLEON WALFOORT</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>Best hockey player in the International Hockey league this season, and tabbed as one of the brightest prospects to come out of the minor circuit in some seasons, is Don Marshall, 20-year-old center, captain and part-time coach of the champion Cincinnati Mohawks.</p><p>Marshall finished second to Milwaukee&rsquo;s Moe Irving in the race for individual scoring honors, 102-99 points, after leading from the first day unit the last game of the season. He was credited with 45 goals and 44 assists and it is typical of his play that his scoring fell off sharply, as that of his front line mates increased, after the Mohawks had clinched the championship with three weeks of regular season play left.</p><p>When Marshall says, &ldquo;My ambition is to be a regular in the National league,&rdquo; he means hockey, but up to a year ago he might as well have been talking about baseball. The youngster from verdun, Que., was one of more than a score of junior baseball prospects called from the schoolrooms by the Brooklyn Dodgers for an all star game at Ebbets Field in 1950. They offered the hard hitting outfielder a baseball contract, but he didn&rsquo;t hesitate long before deciding on hockey instead.</p><p>Marshall, 5-10 and 160 pounds, has exceptional speed and an uncanny ability to be at the right place at the right time. His physical assets include clever stick handling and a repertoire of shots that enable him to capitilize on his opportunities. Less tangible but no less important are such assets as a burning desire to win and unusual energy and physical stamina.</p><h2>Wins Trophy</h2><p>At the end of the season he was unanimously awarded the James Gatschene trophy as the player picked by coaches of the league as best combining the qualities of skill and sportmanship.</p><p>Marshall may be brought up by the Montreal Canadiens for a trial at the close of the International league season and coach Buddy O&rsquo;Connor of Cincinnati says he can&rsquo;t miss, although he may still be a year away, especially defensively. Ken Reardon, head of the Canadiens farm system, saw Marshall play this winter, and called him &ldquo;better than half the centers in the National league right now.&rdquo;</p><h2>Also Coached</h2><p>In mid-season, when O&rsquo;Connor missed three games because of virus infection, young Marshall took charge of the Mohawks and led them to two victories and a one-point defeat. A story with a Milwaukee setting illustrates his confidence and modesty. He received his only misconduct penalty of his career and explained after the game:</p><p>&ldquo;The referee gave me the misconduct because he said 1 shot the puck at him.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Well, did you?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;No, I didn&rsquo;t. I shot in his direction. If I had shot at him, I&rsquo;d probably have hit him.&rdquo;</p><h2>Great Prospect</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02442/2169243-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="577" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON MARSHALL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Reardon Rates Marshall Better Than Half of Big Time Centres

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Royals&rsquo; successfully overrode their No. 1 nemesis, the Sherbrooke Saints to enter the semi-final round of the Quebec Senior Hockey League playoffs against the Quebec Aces.</p><p>But before the Saints hollered Uncle, they gave the Royals the scare of their young lives by coming from behind 3-1 in the series 3-1 in the series to tie it up and force a seventh and deciding game on Montreal ice.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03371/2169274-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="297" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Toe Bloke</b></figcaption></div><p>The situation was almost identical to a year ago when the Saints, a great money, club watched the Royals rush away to a 3-1 lead and not only did they come from behind to tie it but they knocked the Royals out.</p><p>This year&rsquo;s victory marked the first time in four years that the Royals have survived the opening round. If a good rest is as good as a cure, then the dds will favor the Jean Beliveau-led Aces to knock off the Royals. The Aces have been standing by for a week since they polished off the Valleyfield Braves in four straight.</p><p>That defeat by Valleyfield must have ranckled Coach Toe Blake because the day after his club was ousted he announced his resignation. In leaving, Blake said that he would not be coaching the Braves next season and that he regretter very much parting company with the team he guided to the Canadian Major Series championship in 19 50-51.</p><p>Blake had completed four years as coach of the Cotton Town pucksters and he felt that a change in direction would be beneficial to the team.</p><p>Asked how come his Braves folded in such amazing fashion this year Blake answered: &ldquo;I would say we burnt ourselves out trying to capture third place in the final two weeks of the schedule. We were in a slump during the stretch run and it extended right through the playoffs. Both Kitoute (Veteran centre Kitoute Jeannette) and Andy (Andre Corriveau), the club&rsquo;s top scorer, were tired in the playoffs. Neither one collected a single point and consequently we couldn&rsquo;t match the Aces scoring power,&rdquo; he moaned.</p><p>About the only thing the Braves achieved in bowing out, was that they just about completely throttled the scoring power of Big Jean Beliveau. While they were busy watching him, his mates were scoring virtually at will.</p><p>Coach Pete Morin of Royals is faced with the same problem that confronted Blake prior to the Valleyfield-Quebec series-Either send two men out to check Beliveau and leave the flankers virtually unprotected, or, let the Big Guy go his own way and hope for the best. Unless Morin switches the strategy he has applied all year in harnessing Beliveau&rsquo;s power, little Skippy Burchell will be assigned the task of keeping the fabulous giant from becoming too conspicuous, especially around the goaj-mouth.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Royals Knock Off Brookes, Blake Quits

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>If nothing else, the past week has been an eventful one for teams of the Quebec Junior Hockey circuit. Things have happened at a fast and furious clip and its taking all the fans&rsquo; time trying to keep up with what&rsquo;s going on.</p><p>First of all it was the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; decision to bench Ronnie Attwell, the central figure in the dispute between the QAHA and the CAHA. Then the Habs eliminated Royals and Quebec put Three Rivers on the sidelines.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01364/2169305-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="302" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Byrne</b></figcaption></div><p>As if this wasn&rsquo;t enough, Frank Byrne, the genial owner of the Quebec Citadelles announced that his team was up for sale. Almost simultaneously Fraud Selke was announcing that the Royals would be &lsquo;reorganized&rsquo; for next year, and the favoured Habs were dropping the first game of the finals to Quebec.</p><p>It might be easier if we dealt with the events as they happened.</p><p>In the benching of Attwell, Montreal Canadien GM Frank Selke stated that he was doing it so that the 18-year-old Hab star wouldn&rsquo;t be made the &lsquo;goat&rsquo; of the CAHA-QAHA squabble. With Attwell benched the parent body said it would welcome the QAHA back into the fold if the officers of that body appologized for being bad boys. The local governing body in turn, stated they would appologize only if all the officials of that body were re-instated. The CAHA said no, the QAHA said no, so it now appears that there will be no Quebec representitive in tile hunt for the Memorial Cup, a sad state of affairs indeed.</p><p>Byrne dropped somewhat of a bombshell when he announced that the Citadelles were up for sale. The team has been a money maker right from the time it entered the loop. It was figured in some sources that the Quebec Aces of the QSHL might purchase the team, seeing as how they have always wanted to have a junior affiliate in the Ancient capital. Another source stated that the team might be bought by Charles Smith, the Aces&rsquo; treasurer.</p><p>At present the Aces have a farm-club agreement with the Three Rivers, a hook-up that also includes the Providence Reds of the American League.</p><p>General-Manager Frank Selke of the Montreal Forum announced that the Montreal Royals junior hockey club is being reorganized for next season.</p><p>The new executive of the junior club will be separate from that of the Senior Royals of the Quebec Senior Hockey League. Red Mackenzie and Ray Getliffe, both long indentified with hockey, will help Coach Jacques Belanger to dig up players.</p><p>Selke said the team will &ldquo;specialize&rsquo;&rsquo; in English-speaking players, although. Franch-speaking players will also get attention. The new Squad will be &ldquo;patterned along the lines of the old Montreal Maroons, a big rough team.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>In the first game of the finals between Quebec and Canadians, the Cits came from behind with four goals in the third period to nip the Habs 5-4 and take a one game lead in the best-ot&rsquo;-nine series.</p><p>Camille Henry hit for the hat trick while singles went to Moe Collins and Michel Labadie. Canadien goals went to Guy Rousseau, Denis Boucher and Henri Richard.</p><p>The win established the Cits as even money bets to cop the crown but Sam Pollock&rsquo;s will take a lot of beating.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-01

Canadiens Bench Attwell; Byrne Puts Citadels on Bloch

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors, supposedly weakened by a late-season outbreak of injuries, were responsible for the first successful coup in the OHA junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; playoffs.</p><p>Unimpressed by the fact that they were meeting a team labelled &ldquo;a sleeper&rdquo; the skate-crazy Irish mopped up St. Catharines Teepees in three straight games, in a best-of-five first playoff round.</p><p>The sudden demise of the Teepees sent a flock of puck experts scurrying for cover to ponder the vicissitudes of junior hockey. Many of them, impressed by the drive and determination of the St. Catharines team, picked it to advance at least as far as the OHA final.</p><p>That vague description, &ldquo;playoff hockey&rdquo; seemed to apply to the other playoff brackets. Barrie Flyers and Toronto Marlboros were all even after two games in their best-of-seven series. Both claimed 2-1 overtime victories on their home ice. Galt Black Hawks won a 5-4 overtime bout from Oshawa Generals in the first of their best-of-five series on Galt ice but the second game was a 4-4 tie.</p><p>Sunday blue laws prevented Oshawa and Gait from playing overtime in their second game on Oshawa ice. The Generals pulled their goalie to tie the score in the closing seconds but it was nearing the midnight hour and the referees refused to allow overtime for fear that the game might be carried over into Sunday morning.</p><p>So St. Mike&rsquo;s faced the prospect of a lengthy wait before they would meet the Galt-Oshawa survivor in the best-of-five semi-final. Since the Irish appear to thrive on a heavy schedule, it is doubtful if the lull will prove advantageous to them. And it won&rsquo;t make any difference, to their injured players. They are through for the season.</p><h2>Out For Remainder</h2><p>Jim Logan, scrappy rightwinger, fractured his leg in the second game of the series wth St. Cathernes and he won&rsquo;t see any more acton this season. He joined defenceman Ted Toppazzini on the sidelines. Topper, recognized as St. Mike&rsquo;s best defenceman, suffered a badly injured shoulder a few weeks back. It required surgery and he won&rsquo;t play any more hockey this year.</p><h2>Injured</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02298/2169336-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="527" height="570"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WALLY MAXWELL</b></figcaption></div><p>But St. Mike&rsquo;s found eager replacements on their junior &ldquo;B&rdquo; Buzzers. First to be promoted was Dick Duff, an-aggressive, hard-skating winger who was expected to replace Logan. Dick has a brother Les also with the Irish.</p><p>Despite their injuries St. Mike&rsquo;s climbed rapidly in the esteem of several veteran hockey observers after their surprising romp through the Teepees. The Irish looked more like the team they were earlier in the season, they checked closely and they skated wide open both ways. It they can keep up that pace they&rsquo;ll be rough because it is doubtful if any junior team in the country can out-skate the speedy Irish.</p><p>Marlboros emerged from their puzzling slump as soon as the playoffs started. They dropped a 2-1 overtime decision in Barrie but won an identical verdict on their home ice. That was a rather astonishing reversal of form from the team that dropped a 10-2 decision to Barrie a few weeks earlier in an exhibition game.</p><h2>Misfortune Sets In</h2><p>But the Dukes were still beset by misfortune. Wally Maxwell, their leading scorer and one of the best play-makers in the league, fractured his ankle in the first game of the playoffs and he is out for the season.</p><p>Leighton &ldquo;Happy&rdquo; Emms, volatile coach of the Barrie Flyers, threatened to protest Marlboros&rsquo; 2-1 victory in the second game of the playoffs. Emms was incensed because Stafford Smythe, Marlboros&rsquo; manager, wasn&rsquo;t banished from the rink as ordered by referee Hugh Barlow.</p><p>Barlow objected to remarks hurled at him by the younger Smythe and instructed policemen to escort Smythe from Maple Leaf Gardens. They refused to do so. Even Conn Smythe, a spectator at the game, became embroiled in the argument. Barlow al-lowed the game to continue because, as he said, &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t wish to spoil it for the fans.&rdquo; But he made a full report of the incident to the OHA.</p><p>Emms considered Smythe&rsquo;s action grounds for a protest. &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t that great,&rdquo; he steamed after the game. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s always like that here. They make their own rules here. If that had happened anywhere else he&rsquo;d have been thrown out.&rdquo;</p><p><b>BACK-CHECKING:</b> Jim Me-Burney, speedy, little left-winger of the Galt Black Hawks, won the individual scoring title with 96 points, 61 goals and 35 assists. Ory Tessier was next with 94 points, 54 goals and 40 assists. Kitchener&rsquo;s Greig Hicks and Oshawa&rsquo;s Bobby Attersley followed with 90 and 8 8 points respectively.</p><p>Although McBurney won the scoring title, he didn&rsquo;t collect as many points as his team-mates of tne season before, Pete Co-nacher and Ken Wharram, neither of whom qualified for the title. Conacher had 12 0 points in the 1951-52 season and Wharram 114. But the scoring crown was won by Guelph Biltmores&rsquo; Kenny Laufman with 139 points, a league record. With 96 pointsa year ago McBurney would have finished in sixth place in the individual scoring race.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0016-02

Logan Joins Topper on Sidelines; Lull Could Prove Bad for Irish

<div class="byline">By DOUG COSTELLO</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01290/2169391-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GOLD SKATE&mdash;Andre Corriveau (left) ace scorer of the Vaileyfield Braves, is shown above being congratulated by Jean Beliveau, the power of the Quebec Aces after the former had received a Gold Skate, presented by the fans as the player considered the most valuable to his club. Corriveau and Beliveau waged a torrid race for individual scoring honours in the Quebec Senior Hockey League this year with Gros Bill grabbing the laurels on the last day of the schedule.</b></figcaption></div><p>ST. JOHN, N.B.&mdash;</p><p>Peanuts hardly would believe his eyes&hellip;or his ears for that matter.</p><p>You see, when Johnny O&rsquo;Flaherty contracted in the summer of 1951 to bring a hockey team to Saint John he was told of wildly enthusiastic throngs which packed the Saint John Forum; of the best hockey town in the Maritimes.</p><p>But for some strange, and still unsolved reason, Johnny and his crew, undoubtedly the miahtiest hockev team ever assembled in New Brunswick, did not click. This time a year ago the O&rsquo;Flaherty team was on the final leg of a trail leading to the Alexander Cup finals, but as far as the Saint John Forum was concerned, the big crowds just weren&rsquo;t there.</p><p>Conspicuous by its absence was &ldquo;Beaver Fever,&rdquo; a malady regarded in other Maritime centres as hockey madness in its starkest form; a disease common to fol-lowers of the Saint John Beavers most any winter in January, February and March.</p><p>So, under the circumstances, had John Benedict O&rsquo;Flaherty happened on the Saint John scene during this year&rsquo;s New Brunswick Senior-Hockey League playoffs, his friends would have agreed he would have had cause to rub his eyes in misbelief and wonder if his ears were deceiving him.</p><p>For &ldquo;Beaver Fever&rdquo; again was rampant in Saint John.</p><p>The night Beavers won the final series from Moncton Hawks, people affected with &ldquo;Beaver Fever&rdquo; possibly making up the greatest crowd ever to witness a hockey game in Saint John; bearing sirens, horns, bells, whistles and all sorts of noise-making gadgets; a seething, screaming, roaring mob, jammed The Forum to its very roof top.</p><p>&ldquo;Beaver Fever&rdquo; strikes Saint John hockey fans almost every winter, but some of the sieges are particularly heavy; and these severe attacks seem to have mysterious parallels.</p><p>The &ldquo;plague&rdquo; was at its worst in 1946 when historical thousands massed in city streets to welcome Beavers home from Halifax with their second Maritime senior championship.</p><p>Just seven years before, 1939, the city really was rocked by the &ldquo;fever&rdquo; when the Maritime senior championship came to this city for the first time.</p><p>And now, after another seven-year separation period, a few Saint Johners are escaping the puck germ.</p><p>These seven-years spans may be the result of mere coincidence, but they cannot be ignored. Glances at the immediate pre-war, Immediate post-war and present Saint John teams do not suggest powerful clubs, but they do reflect fighting, and possibly desti-ny-guided contingents.</p><p>All three lineups are sprinkled with imports, but home town players are in the majority.</p><p>In the 1939 setup, Coach Dick Carroll has an imported forward line comprising &ldquo;Boots&rdquo; Baird, Matt Kelly and Jimmy Russell, and an imported rearguard. Charlie Phillips and Ham Riley. The rearminder of the team, Vince Livingston, Bill Dickie, Bill Gulliver, Eddie Price, Edde Burke and Gorde Marshall are New Brunswick-bred.</p><h2>Congrats From Gros Bill<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

f0017-01

“Beaver Fever” Hits St, John; Fans Flocking To See Playoffs

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01272/2169460-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Week)</b></p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Ex-defenseman with Detroit, Chicago, Boston.</p><p>6&mdash;This player won the Lady Byng Trophy in 1936-37.</p><p>7&mdash;Short for &ldquo;Pete&rdquo; Conacher&rsquo;s given name.</p><p>9&mdash;Played defense for Indianapolis last season.</p><p>10&mdash;Given name of Rouse of Saskatoon Quakers.</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of Wiseman, former Boston player.</p><p>14&mdash;Initials of MacNab of St. Louis.</p><p>15&mdash;Harry Watson&rsquo;s is 29.</p><p>16&mdash;Name given a St. Louis forward.</p><p>17&mdash;Affirmative answer.</p><p>18&mdash;&rdquo;Cooney&rdquo; Weiland&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Williams.</p><p>22&mdash;NHL team with whom Ab DeMarco first played (abbr).</p><p>S3&mdash;Short for given name of Pozzo, former AHL player.</p><p>24&mdash;Plays for Shawinlgan, called Bob.</p><p>27&mdash;Cecil Dillon&rsquo;s native State.</p><p>29&mdash;One of the Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>32&mdash;Pavelich&rsquo;s complete initials.</p><p>33&mdash;Once played for Rangers, called Lin.</p><p>34&mdash;Initials of a New Westminster defenseman.</p><p>35&mdash;Initials of Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>36&mdash;Former NHL referee.</p><p>37&mdash;Initials of Litzenberger of Montreal Royals.</p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Given name of Labadie who played for Rangers recently.</p><p>2&mdash;This member of the Canadiens once played for Omaha.</p><p>3&mdash;&ldquo;Ace&rdquo; Bailey&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>4&mdash;Leo Reise last played amateur hockey with Winnipeg.</p><p>5&mdash;Played for Quebec Aces last season, called Chuck.</p><p>8&mdash;This player had a trial with New York recently.</p><p>10&mdash;Initials of Maione of the Montreal Royals.</p><p>11-&mdash;Name given aBrry, last season with Hershey.</p><p>12&mdash;This member of the Red Wings once played for Saskatoon Quakers.</p><p>20&mdash;Sask, birthplace of Colin Kilburn.</p><p>21&mdash;Nickname of McPherson, St. Louis trainer.</p><p>22&mdash;One of the Smelle brothers.</p><p>25&mdash;Another name for &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Henry.</p><p>26&mdash;Initials of Harrison of the Aces.</p><p>2 8&mdash;Number of times Doug Bentley won NHL scoring championship.</p><p>30&mdash;To recede.</p><p>31&mdash;Terminate</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/f0019-02224/2169453-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="555" height="849"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0019-01

HOCKEY X-WORD

<h2><b>ENGLISH LEAGUE</b> (Final Standings)</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03176/2169533-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="598" height="183"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR</b></h2><p>Montreal Royals lead best-of-seven quarter-finals 3-1 over Sherbrooke.</p><p>Chicoutimi leads best-of-eleven semifinals 2-1 over Ottawa.</p><p>Quebec leads best-of-seven quarterfinals 2-1 over Valleyfield.</p><h2>FINAL SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04153/2169526-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="598" height="280"></div><h2><b>THUNDER BAY SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Fort Frances 2, Fort William 7</b></p><p>(Fort William wins best-of-seven final 4-2)</p><h2><b>EASTERN CANADA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Smiths Falls 5, Pembroke 4</b></p><p>(Smiths Falls leads best-of-nine final 4-2, one game tied)</p><h2><b>MARITIME SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Saint. John 11, Lunenburg 6</b></p><p>(Saint John wins best-of-seven final 4-0)</p><h2><b>QUE. PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>Ste. Therese. 4, St. Jerome 0</b></p><p>(Ste. Therese leads best-of-nine final 2-0)</p><h3>EASTERN LEAGUE</h3><p>(Standing March 9)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05131/2169519-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="597" height="155"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Regina 8, Moose Jaw 4</b></p><p>(Regina leads best-of-seven final 2-1)</p><h2><b>NOVA SCOTIA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Pictou 5, Lunenburg 4</b></p><p>(Best-of-five finals tied 2-2)</p><h2><b>NEW BRUNSWICK SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Moncton 0, Saint John</b></p><p>(Saint John wins best-of-seven finals 4-2)</p><h2><b>OKANAGAN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Kamloops 4, Vernon 4</b></p><p>(Kamloops leads best-of-five semifinal 2-1; one game tied)</p><p><b>Kelowna 1, Penticton 7</b></p><p>(Penticton wins best-of-five semi-final 3-1)</p><h2><b>NOHA</b></h2><p><b>Sudbury 5, North Bay 4</b></p><p>(Sudbury wins best-of-seven final 4-0)</p><h2><b>THUNDER BAY JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>Fort William Hurricanes 1</b></p><p>Port Arthur Flyers 4 (Port Arthur leads best-of-five final 2-0)</p><h2><b>WESTERN INTERNATIONAL</b></h2><p><b>Kimberley 2, Trail 6</b></p><p>(First game best-of-five semi-final)</p><h2><b>WESTERN JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>Lethbridge Native Sons 8,</b></p><p><b>Moose Jaw Canucks 5</b></p><p>(Lethbridge leads east-of-five semifinal 2-0, one game tied)</p><p><b>Edmonton Oil Kings C, Regina Pats 0</b></p><p>(Edmonton leads best-of-nine semifinal series 4-2)</p><h2><b>LAKE ST. JOHN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Jonqulere 3, Alma 1.</b></p><p>(Alma leads best-of-eleven finals 4-2)</p><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>Grand Rapids 6, Troy 1.</b></p><p>(Grand Rapids leads best-of-seven semi-final 2-1).</p><p><b>Cincinnati 7, Toledo 2.</b></p><p>(Cincinnati leads best-of-seven semifinal 2-1).</p><h2><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h2><p>Galt 4, Oshawa 2. (Galt wins best-of-five quarter-finals 3-2.)</p><p><b>Toronto Marlboros 6, Barrie 3.</b></p><p>(Best-of-seven semi-final series tied 2-2)</p><h2><b>NORTHERN ONT. INTERMEDIATE</b></h2><p><b>Sault Ste. Marie 4, Espanola 3.</b></p><p>(Sault Ste. Marie wins best-of-five semi-finals 3-0)</p><h2><b>THUNDER BAY INTERMEDIATE</b></h2><p><b>Kenora 6, Geraldton 5</b></p><p>(Kenora leads best-of-five quarter finals 2-0)</p><h2><b>MANITOBA-SASKATCHEWAN Allan Cup</b></h2><p>Winnipeg 6, Regina 1.</p><p>(Winnipeg leads best-of-seven series, 2-0.)</p><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><p>Canadiens 4, Royals 1</p><p>Canadiens 3, Royals 1</p><p>Canadiens 7, Royals 2</p><p>Canadiens 7, Royals 4</p><p>(Canadiens wins best-of-seven semifinals 4-0)</p><p>Quebec 4, Three Rivers 2</p><p>Quebec 3, Three Rivers 2</p><p>Quebec 4, Three Rivers 1</p><p>Quebec 1, Three Rivers 4</p><p>Quebec 6. Three Rivers 2</p><p>(Quebec leads best-of-nine semi-finals 4-1)</p><h2><b>MARITIME JUNIOR</b></h2><p>North Sydney 3, Halifax-Dartmouth 5 (Best-of-seven final tied 2-2)</p><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>St. Boniface 5, wing. Monarchs 2</b></p><p>(St. Boniface wins best-of-seven semifinal 4-0)</p><h2><b>EASTERN CANADA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>Eastview St. Charles 0, Porcupine 5</b></p><p>(Poriupine leads best-of-five quarterfinal series 1-0)</p><h2><b>NORTHERN QUEBEC SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>Rouyn 2, Abitibi 1</b></p><p>(Rouyn leads best-of-seven semi-finals 1-0, one game tied)</p><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>Saskatoon 2. Humboldt 4</b></p><p>(Humboldt leads best-of-seven semifinal 1-0)</p><p><b>Flin Flon 5, Prince Albert 4</b></p><p>(Flin Flon leads best-of-seven semifinal 1-0)</p><h2><b>O.H.A. SENIOR &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h2><p><b>FINAL STANDING</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06111/2169512-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="593" height="207"></div><h3>FINAL, SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-07101/2169505-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="593" height="282"></div><h2><b>CENTRAL LEAGUE</b></h2><h3><b>FINAL STANDING</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0893/2169498-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="594" height="156"></div><h3>FINAL SCORING LEADERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0983/2169491-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="591" height="335"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0019-03

Amateur Hockey Parade, At A Quick Glance

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0126/2169578-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="240" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0227/2169571-1-eng-US/c0004-022.jpg" title="C0004-02" width="251" height="298"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0320/2169564-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="2946" height="3539"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BERT BOUNCED&mdash;</b> Bert Olmstead of Canadiens has the unhappy feeling of flying through the air without any support in the top picture as he runs into a solid wall in the person ofChicago&rsquo;s Lee Fogolin (see story page 3). That&rsquo;s Al Rollins watching the acrobatical display. In the lower picture, Detroit&rsquo;s Ted Lindsay and Rangers&rsquo; Hy Buller mix it up behind New York Goalie Gump Worsley as Jack Stoddard comes to his rescue.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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