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April 18, 1953
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No Squawks About WHL Officiating
SEATTLE, Wash.— One sure way to test the pulse of the sports-minded public is check the letters on a sports editor’s desk. And in questioning Royal Brougham, the nationally famous sports editor of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, with regards to hockey refereeing, we received this interesting comment:— “You know, in years past I used to receive a good many cards and letters berating this referee and that one for making a bad call or allegedly favoring one club over another. 1 still get letters about hockey in general, but none have squawked about the officiating this year.”…
“Outfought Us” Says Kitchener Coach Of Loss To Smiths Falls
OTTAWA, Ont.— There were a few red faces among the experts after the first game of the Smiths Falls-Kitchener Eastern Canada Allan Cup final here. The “underdog’’ Rideaus stopped the highly rated Dutchmen, but good, romping to a 6-2 victory before 6,000 pleasantly surprised fans. For several days, the fans had been told that Kitchener-Waterloo was just about the last word in senior hockey, and the old Allan Cup could ge expressed down thataway any time in the next few days. Don’t get us wrong. Bobby Bauer’s hounds are a good club They were beaten badly in that opener, but the series is far from over yet and Smiths Falls still has to prove they can win in the Dutchmen’s back yard. In that first one, the Dutchmen kept pace for about 30 minutes, then…
Sons Denied Use of Calgary Star
REGINA, Sask.— Millard (Mid) Houghton, an unassuming young defenceman, was the centre of western Canada’s biggest hockey rhubarb of the season. It all started when the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association gave the Lethbridge Native Sons permission to use Houghton as a medical replacement during the Memorial cup playoffs. This brought heated protests from the Flin Flon Bombers, Lethbridge’s rival in the western semi-finals; and from the St. Boniface Canadians and Fort William Canadiens, the remaining clubs then in the hunt for western honors. They complained so loudly that the C.A.H.A. was forced to take a second vote on Lethbridge’s use of Houghton. And in the second vote, the regional branches did an unusual about-face and Changed their decision, ruling that Houghton was ineligible to play for Lethbridge. This reversal came after Houghton had already…
Red Wings Dominate 6th Annual Fans All-Star Team
MONTREAL, Que.— As was more or less to be expected, the league champion Detroit Red Wings dominated THE HOCKEY NEWS Fans’ All-Star team selections for the second straight year. In this, the sixth annual poll, the Wings placed no fewer than four men on the first team. There were only two changes over last year’s dream team on the first squad and at least one of these comes as a bit of a surprise. Sid Abel was named to the first All-Star coaching sport, something seldom done by a first year mentor, and Flaming Fleming Mackell of the Boston Bruins grabbed off the centre position, although not touted as a leading candidate until near the close of the regular schedule. All other stars were repeaters. Red Kelly of Detroit and Doug Harvey of Montreal…
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