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April 25, 1953

The Hockey News April 25, 1953

<div class="byline">BARRY</div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON&mdash;Gordon &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Henry, the Bruins&rsquo; emergency goal-tender in their second piayoff game with the Montreal Canadiens, made his major league debut against the same team under somewhat similar conditions.</p><p>In January of 1949 Henry was summoned from Hershey to fill in for Frank Brimsek, called home by the fatal illness of one of his youngsters.</p><p>Henry shut out the Canadiens in a game at Boston Garden, 3 to 0, then returned to Hershey.</p><p>A year later he played two games for the Bruins during the regular season when Jack Gelineau was injured, and in the playoffs with Toronto that spring he replacel Gelineau for the last two games.</p><p>A strapping redhead, Henry has been a familiar Boston hockey figure since shortly after World War II, when he played for the now-defunct Boston Olympics.</p><p>He became a Hershey regular in the spring of 1947 with a blazing playoff display for the Bears as the fill-in for Harvey Bennett, Henry&rsquo;s five playoff shutouts eventually resulted in the sale of Bennett to Providence.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04318/2251762-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="295" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harvey Bennett</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05224/2251755-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="298" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Brimsek</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Red Once Replaced Mr. Zero

<p><b>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>It was at the conclusion of the 1949-50 season that THE HOCKEY NEWS made its first presentation of awards to the Top Performers in Hockey. Winners that first year were Jim Hendy, general manager of the Cleveland Barons, Outstanding Executives; Mud Bruneteau, coach of the Omaha Knights, Outstanding Coach; and Chuck Rayner, goalkeeper of the New York Rangers. Outstanding Executives for 1950-51 and 1951-52 were Jack Adams, general manager of the Red Wings, and Ken MacKenzie, co-owner and G.M. of New Westminster Royals, respectively. The Top Coach was Bun Cook of Cleveland Barons in 1950-51, while George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach, mentor of the Quebec Aces, won the award a year ago.</b></p><p><b>The Outstanding Player award of 19 50-51 was shared by two of the greatest players in the sport&mdash;Gordie Howe of Detroit and Maurice Richard of Canadiens. The Outstanding Player last year was Evergreen Elmer Lach of Montreal Canadiens.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hendy, Bruneteau and Rayner First Winners Of Our Awards

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0781/2251613-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="585" height="268"></div><h2>April 25 to May 2</h2><p>25&mdash;EGAN, Pat, Providence defense, 1918.</p><p>26&mdash;ALMAS, Ralph, St. Louis goaler, 1924.</p><p>28&mdash;BLADE, Hank Calgary coach, 1921.</p><p>29&mdash;BACKOR. Pete, Pittsburgh defense, 1919.</p><p>30&mdash;McLEOD, Jackie, Saskatoon forward, 1930; MACKELL, Fleming, Boston forward, 1929.</p><p>1&mdash;BRENNAN, Bill, Tacoma goaler, 1925.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><span>P</span>ITTSBURGH&mdash;When the Cleveland Barons and the Pittsburgh Hornets battled through almost four overtime periods of hockey in the sixth game of the Calder Cup finals, they came within an ace of tying or breaking an AHL record of the longest game.</p><p>The game ended just before 2 a.m. EST when the winning goal, scored by Danny Lewicki, came at 11: 46 of the final period, the teams had less than a minute to go before setting a record for the longest game ever played in the league.</p><p>The record is 122 minutes and 42 seconds in a game which Syracuse won from Cleveland 3-2 in the spring of 1938. Pittsburgh won the game, 3-2.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hornets, Barons Miss Record by Seconds

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01389/2252908-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><span class="photo-credit">((Photo by Roger St. Jean))</span></figcaption></div><h2><b>Goalies Great At Close Range</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02276/2252901-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1765" height="1019"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-03110/2252894-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="1103" height="1052"><figcaption class="caption-body">VICTORY DANCE&mdash;<b>Maurice (Rocket) Richard leaps with joy and clutches line-mate Elmer Lach after the latter had pumped home the winning goal past Boston&rsquo;s Sugar Jim Henry in the sixth game of the Stanley Cup Final. The gent sitting upright on the left is Boston captain Milt Schmidt with Woody Dumart in the background. In the picture on the left, Lach fires from close range at Henry while Hal Laycoe waits for the rebound. In the shot on the right Gerry McNeil clears a loose puck with the aid of Baldy Mackay.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Jubilant Jitterbugs Jump With Joy

<div class="byline">By FRED ROBERTS</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01514/2251061-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILLY REAY</b> (right) and Elmer Lach, fondly caress their skates and they might be contemplating whether or not they played their last NHL game. Elmer, who scored the biggest goal of the year to knock off the Bruins, indicated that he&rsquo;d be back next year but Billy is still uncertain. He&rsquo;s eyeing a coaching career.</figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Elegant Elmer Lach, the highest point-producer in the annals of hockey scored a solitary goal in the 1952-53 playoffs and it brought the Montreal Canadiens their first Stanley Cup since the 1945-46 season.</p><p>But that&rsquo;s only half the story. For years the Evergreen veteran from Nokomis, Sask., has filled the less glorified role as play-maker for the fabulous Rocket. Year after year the headlines invariably screamed &ldquo;ROCKET FIRES HAT-TRICK AS CANADIENS WIN,&rdquo; Somewhere on the same page in smaller type was the sub-heading, &ldquo;Lach Sets &lsquo;em Up.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Elmer Got One At Last, The Big One</b></h2><p>As probably the greatest play-maker in hockey history Elmer never really achieved the fame he should have. It was his lot to be cast with the greatest performer of the past 20 years. Since hockey is principally a team sport, it was Elmer&rsquo;s good fortune to he paired with the great Richard, because as a team, they functioned as no two other players have ever performed.</p><p>Yet scoring the goals has always been the thrill producer. The guy that puts the puck in the nets gets the hozannas, the guy that makes it possible for him to do so gets what&rsquo;s left.</p><h2><b>Overjoyed Rocket Embraces Buddy</b></h2><p>So after all these years it was only fitting that the situation should be reversed at such a crucial moment. Elmer got the goal and the Rocket the assist. A split second after Lach speared the puck end propelled it past the bewildered form of Sugar Jim Henry, Richard broke into a fan dance, throwing his arms around Elmer in an uncontrolled joyful outburst. It was indeed a rare sight. The Forum rafters rang with tumultuous acclaim for what seemed like hours. Fans tumbled over the boards to get at their heroes. The Bruins, some of them visibly dejected, others appearing as if they were glad it was finally over, mingled with Canadiens, congratulating them and paying special attention to Little Gerry McNeil, the game little warrior, who played under harrowing circumstances.</p><p>It was a victory that must have brought a special satisfaction to Frank Selke, the quiet, litttle man who directs the destinies of the Canadian Arena Company. The most prized of all hockey baubles has eluded him since he took over in 1946. It must have particularly pleased him that Elmer scored the Big Goal. He is one of Lach&rsquo;s greatest admirers and staunchest supporters.</p><h2><b>Irvin&rsquo;s Juggling Turned the Trick</b></h2><p>Canadiens&rsquo; ultimate success centred around several strokes of genius executed by Dick Irvin during the series. When the Chicago Black Hawks bounced back to win three straight after Canadiens had taken the first two games of their semi-final series, Irvin was aware that some strategic move was imperative.</p><p>To do something was easy enough; to do the right thing kept him awake nights. Gerry McNeil solved the problem in part by asking to be excused from further duty for the good of the team. That brought youthful Jacques Plante on the scene. He served the Habs in good stead, holding the opposition to a pair of goals in three games that enabled Montreal to eliminate Chicago and take the opening game from the Bruins.</p><p>The fact that Canadiens have been &ldquo;weak&rdquo; down the centre since last October was becoming increasingly obvious. Irvin need some young blood on the team if nothing else, to skate the pants off the Hawks&hellip; That brought in Eddie (Spider) Mazur, Lome Davis and Baldy MacKay. They hit the NHL in stride and kept striding right along until the Stanley Cup was won. It gave Irvin a chance to juggle his lines; to spell his vets more frequently and most important, send his Youth Squad into action as a Tie-Up unit.</p><p>When Roeket Richard crashed through with a superb display of Showmanship and hockey daring to register a hat-trick in the game that broke the Bruins back, it was a fresh Richard skating with all the fury that sky-rocketed him to hockey fame. When Elegant Elmer pumped home the only goal in overtime as Montreal clinched the Cup, it was a comparatively fresh player reaching down and finding some stamina left for the biggest effort of all. In was a club with more depth, a commodity which plays such a vital role in football that served Canadiens in their neediest moments.</p><h2><b>Patrick Stood Firm on his Theory</b></h2><p>And while the rail-seats experts are still playing the game, it&rsquo;s still unanimously agreed upon that Irvin&rsquo;s decision to derrick Plante after Boston whacked four goals past him in the second game did the trick.</p><p>Many might argue today that Patrick blew the series when he refused to allow Suger Jim Henry&rsquo;s ankle to be frozen. That&rsquo;s a matter of opinion and Patrick&rsquo;s theory that Henry might be risking permanent injury is a sound one. He&rsquo;s to be complimented for placing the welfare of a great guy ahead of sentiment of winning the, cup. That Irvin ordered McNeil to go for the needle is not entirely correct. McNeil has had it before when a damaged member became unbearable. His gameness can never be questioned. It was simply a matter of him being able to play better with his ankle frozen. He wanted it that way and all the arguing in the world on Irvin&rsquo;s part wouldn&rsquo;t have changed McNeil&rsquo;s mind.</p><p>Floyd Curry once played through a whole Allan Cup series with a broken thumb frozen and never suffered any permanent damage. Football players very often play through a whole game with an ankle, wrist or knee frozen and few complain of after-effects. It simply a matter of opinion.</p><p>In an event, it was obvious in the last two games of the series that McNeil was performing up to par while Sugar Jim was below form. The Boston netminder made a valiant stand in the last game, holding Canadiens&rsquo; scoreless for three periods before Elmer Lach finally found seepage in his cordage. Still he favored his injured ankle and many stops he made were made under duress.</p><h2><b>Hanging &lsquo;Em Up?</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Elegant Elmer, Hockey’s Top Producer Scores Biggest Goal Of His Career

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02493/2251144-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="594" height="2635"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>a</span>. Final series between Montreal Canadiens of the N.H.L. and Seattle of the Pacific Coast Hockey League halted by epidemic of influenza, which resulted in death of Joe Hall, Canadien star.</p><p>xMontreal Wanderers won the Cup In March.</p><p>xxThistles won the Cup in January.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Stanley Cup Winners

<div class="byline">By &#x201C;JOCK&#x201D; HUNTER</div><p>Queen Mary Veteran&rsquo;s Hospital Ward 1C, Bed 43</p><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p><i>What did you think of the series</i></p><p><i>For the Stanley Cup this year?</i></p><p><i>I think it came as a great surprise</i></p><p><i>For most of the people here.</i></p><p><i>But it only goes to show you</i></p><p><i>An old horse is best on a hill.</i></p><p><i>The oldest man won the Stanley Cup.</i></p><p><i>He had guts, the power and the will.</i></p><p><i>So the honour must go to Elmer,</i></p><p><i>For bringing the Stanle.y Cup back.</i></p><p><i>With the Series all done the Habitants won</i></p><p><i>On the overtime goal scored by Lach.</i><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

AN ODE TO ELMER

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Too late to bail out the Bruins but in time to add another chapter to hockey&rsquo;s saga of determination, Sugar Jim Henry made the end of this year&rsquo;s Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>Just as he did a year ago, the black-haired Bruins&rsquo; goal-tender acquired an injury in the series with the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Last spring he was hit in the face with a sixth-game shot, his nose cracked, his eyes closed. He played the seventh game under those handicaps, and It took a super-performance by Maurice Richard to beat him.</p><p>This time Henry hurt his ankle, in the second game, and he couldn&rsquo;t play the next two. Without him the Bruins faltered, failed to rally around Gordon &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Henry, his replacement.</p><p>Then with the. Bruins backed against the wall in the fifth game, Sugar Jim put himself back in action. He still had a puffed, painful ankle, he limped when he walked, but he battled the Canadiens in overtime on their own ice before being beaten by a screened shot.</p><p>That the 32-year-old competitor was able to pull his team together with his presence, then keep it together with his determination was a tribute which even a different outcome could hardly have enhanced.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03439/2251113-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="276" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Henry</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04323/2251106-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="275" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05225/2251099-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="292" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry McNeil</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06141/2251092-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="275" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>Although Gerry McNeil, his Montreal goal-tending contemporary, also played with a sore ankle, McNeil enjoyed one luxury which Henry didn&rsquo;t have. That was the pain-killing effects of a, local arestesthesia on the sore member.</p><p>Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins drew the line on any application to Henry&rsquo;s ankle, even after McNeil had set a precedent.</p><p>As a result, the only help which Henry had for his gallant stand was provided by a taped bandage.</p><p>&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t have approved a drug,&rdquo; explained Patrick, &lsquo;&lsquo;because it wouldn&rsquo;t have been fair to Sugar. I know he was willing to have one, but I just couldn&rsquo;t take the chance.</p><p>&ldquo;All the other players felt the same way I did, that they would rather have lost the Stanley Cup than taken a chance of serious injury to Sugar. I&rsquo;m not criticizing the actions of anyone else, but I just couldn&rsquo;t bring myself to do such a thing</p><p>The Bruins were most proud of their quiet goalie after he stood of the Canadiens for more than an hour. Patrick thought his feat incredible.</p><p>&ldquo;It was one of the most amazing things I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; he exclaimed. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t have believed that he could survive the pre-game practice, yet he stood out there and kept them from scoring on shot after shot.&rdquo;</p><p>It was the consensus here that the turning point of the Bruins-Canadiens series oecured with the third game, the first in Boston. It was that night that the Canadiens regained the use of McNeil and the Bruins didn&rsquo;t have Sugar Jim. Without him the Bruins tried, but they didn&rsquo;t have the confidence which they had acquired over a two-year period.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Patrick Nixed Freezing Of Sugar Jim’s Ankle

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Hockey’s Outstanding Personalities

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Hockey&rsquo;s Outstanding Executive, Coach and Player for 1952-53, as selected by the editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS, are as follows: Outstanding Executive&mdash;Frank Selke. managing director of the Montreal Forum and the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens; Outstanding Coach&mdash;Sid Abel, freshman mentor of the surprising Chicago Black Hawks; and Outstanding Player&mdash;Detroit&rsquo;s Cordie Howe, the Mechanical Man of Hockey and only player to win the NHL scoring championship three years in succession.</p><p>The 1952-53 season marks the fourth time that the editors of THE HOCKEY NEWS have singled out the &ldquo;Men of the Year&rsquo;&rsquo; and honored them publicly. Last year&rsquo;s Top Performers were Outstanding Executive, Kenny MacKenzie, co-owner-manager of New Westminster Royals of the Western Hockey League: Top Coach, George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach of Quebec Aces; and Top Player was Elmer Lach of Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>This is the first time that all three awards went to members of teams in the National Hockey League but it was impossible to do anything else this season as the three men cited by the editors of The International Hockey Weekly stand out in a class by themselves. Their achlvements and accomplishments during the past season are tremendous in every sense and your favorite aports paper would be remiss if it failed to select the Big Three of Hockey in 1952-53 other than Selke, Abel and Howe.</p><p>This is the second time that the 25-year-old Howe, a newlywed of less than two weeks, was picked as Hockey&rsquo;s Outstanding Player. He shared top honors in 1950-51 with Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard. This was the only time that an award was shared.</p><p>The Top Executive for 1952-53 Is a modest, self-effacing little gent who works quietly behind the scenes. He is a master planner and extremely thorough in all his dealings. Selke came to the Montreal Forum during the summer of 194 6 after spending many years at Maple Leaf Gardens as publicity director and right-hand man to Conn Smythe. He had been associated with all branches of hockey, minor, junior, senior and professional, and brought a vast fund of hockey knowledge to his new post.</p><p>It took Selke seven years to bring a Stanley Cup to Montreal and he was beginning to think he was jinxed. Canadiens were Stanley Cup finalists three of those years and only failed to make the playoffs once during his seven-year tenure with hockey&rsquo;s most colorful club. Besides building up the Canadiens to where they are always knocking at the door, and this year someone opened the door and let them in as World&rsquo;s champions. Selke has built up the Canadiens&rsquo; farm system until today it is one of the most productive and prosperous of any National Hockey League organization. When Selke took over the general manager&rsquo;s job of the Canadiens, there was absolutely no farm system and the team was in poor straits for future players. There wasn&rsquo;t any potential NHL&rsquo;ers in the offing.</p><p>The going wasn&rsquo;t easy at the beginning and it&rsquo;s taken him several years to get the machinery running smoothly but right now the Canadiens have as successful a farm system as it&rsquo;s possible to accumulate. St. Boniface Canadiens are one game away from winning the Western Junior championship, while Fort William Canadiens, another link in the Montreal organization, were the Thunder Bay Junior champs. Regina Pats reached the Western Canada Junior quarter-finals and for the past few years this team has been one of the foremost junior clubs in Canada.</p><p>Montreal Canadiens Juniors were looked upon as a cinch Memorial Cup winner this year but due to the QAHA breaking away from the CAHA the team&rsquo;s Memorial Cup ambitions had to be supressed. Selke himself felt that this year&rsquo;s edition of the junior Canadiens was the best junior team in Canada and would have gone all the way. Another team, the Timmins Porcupine Combines won the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey crown. Cincinnati Mohawks, coached first by Buddy O&rsquo;Connor and later by Kenny Reardon, captured the United States Senior open Championship. This team was staffed by Montreal Canadiens hopefuls of tomorrow. Several of the juvenile clubs associated with Canadiens enjoyed successful seasons. Regina Pats won the Saskatchewan Juvenile title.</p><p>Besides his outstanding work with the player end of the business, the crew cut, bespectacled Canadiens&rsquo; managing director, has performed miracles on the improvement of the old Montreal Forum. Oldest arena in the NHL, The Montreal Forum was first opened for hockey on November 29, 1924. Prior to Selke&rsquo;s arrival at the big St. Catherine&rsquo;s St. sports palace, people witnessed the games sitting on hard wooden benches and the building was painted a drab color. In fact the building had a dreary, dowdy look to it and was anything but snappy. Through several paint jobs and new seats (every seat in the Forum is of the individual theatre-type style) the Forum has now added considerable sparkle to its time-honored interior.</p><p>Attendance has been tops among National Hockey League clubs and more people watch Ca-nadiens play each season than any other team. This applies for the last three seasons, or since the extra 3,000 seats were added to the expanding Forum. Not only has Selke improved the building, built up the farm system, brought Montreal a Stanley Cup, which with five exceptions was an entirely new team than that which brought Montreal its last Cup in 1946, but he has played a prominent role in the revival of junior hockey interest in Quebec. As a matter of fact junior hockey interest has never reached the heights it has of late, and besides developing Canadien players of the future, junior hockey fills up the Forum on off nights and is a revenue producer for the Forum directors. Montreal teams have won the Memorial Cup twice in the last four years.</p><p>Sidney Gerald Abel&rsquo;s selection as the Top. Coach of 195 2-53 is one that will be popularly accepted everywhere. The Chicago coach rahks as Hockey&rsquo;s Miracle Man for 1952-5 3, and he can be compared in the same breath with the late George Stallings Of the Boston Braves. Taking over the coaching reins of a team that had finished in last place in the NHL for five of the last six years and been out of the playoffs in all six years, Abel inherited a non-descript collection of veterans, most of them castoffs from Detroit and Toronto. However, that didn&rsquo;t bother the ener-getic Abel, youngest coach in the circuit by a big margin, and he quickly proceeded to mold to-gether a team that broke from the starting gate faster than any other team in the league, and he kept the Hawks up among the top three teams in the loop until the end of January. For the first few weeks of the schedule the Hawks held down first place in the standings.</p><p>After a mid-season slump that saw the team drop down into fifth place, Abel rallied his charges for a last ditch onslaught on a playoff berth and after one of the most courageous finishes in the history of the National Hockey League, the Chicago Black Hawks landed in fourth place and the Stanley Cup playoffs. His players cottoned to his inspired leadership and played their hearts out in the stretch run. They entered the playoffs against Montreal Canadiens and almost everyone figured this gang of veterans were all tired out after making the playoffs and would be easy bait for the hungry Canadiens.</p><p>Once again Abel threw convention to the winds, and by clever handling of his players and as-tute observational powers he piloted the Hawks to the seventh and final game of the series before bowing to Montreal. His team came back after losing two straight games to win three in a row to take a lead in the series and the hockey dished up by his aggressive crew was a treat to watch and the Chicago people went for the team so much that all three playoff games in the Windy City were played to capacity crowds.</p><p>Sid Abel entered NHL coaching ranks after an outstanding and successful career as a player. As captain and sparkplug of the Detroit Red Wings, Abel led the Motor City six to two Stanley Cups. He also was a member of another Detroit Stanley Cup winner in 1948. He was the brains behind the Production Line and the guy that made it tick. After leading the Wings to the Stanley Cup a year ago he was thinking seriously of retiring from the game. After all he was 34 years bld wasn&rsquo;t he? He couldn&rsquo;t play forever and he&rsquo;d had a wonderful career as a player. Besides he was opening his own cocktail bar In Detroit and wanted to keep a close eye on it.</p><p>When Jim Norris and Arthur Wirtz took over the Chicago Black Hawks last summer they wanted one man for coach&mdash;and that man was Sid Abel. They wasted little time contacting him and the offer was so attractive that Sid, who still can&rsquo;t refuse a challenge, accepted. He was more or less given a free hand in player deals and It was &ldquo;Old Bootnose&rdquo; who recommended the Hawks purchase Gerry Couture from Cleveland. He persuaded Jimmy Peters not to retire. He revived Bill Mosienko&rsquo;s confidence in himself. He said the right things to build up confidence in his old teammates Jim McFadden and George Gee. As a result of all this the players mentioned were standouts all year and enjoyed their finest seasons in the NHL.</p><p>Not content with just coaching the club, Abel also wanted to play on occasions. He was a playing coach throughout the season and managed to get into 39 games as a player. He was dressed but didn&rsquo;t play In many more.</p><p>A perfect gentleman In every sense of the word, Sid Abel is one of the smartest and most competent hockey coaches to arrive on the National Hockey League scene for many years. Popular with the press and radio, always ready with a kindly answer; well-liked by his players; and respected and admired by his bosses; Sid Abel is indeed a credit to hockey and THE HOCKEY NEWS is proud to name him the Outstanding Coach of 1952-53.</p><p>So much has been written this season on the feats of the Outstanding Player of 1952-53 that there Is very little left to say. Gordon Howe was In a class by himself this year and there was no question as to who should be picked as the foremost player for 1952-53. The Saskatoon, Sask, native won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL scoring champion for the third season in succession, something that no one else has ever been able to come close to doing. In winning his third straight scoring crown he set a new National League record for most points by a player in one season. He ended the regular 70-game schedule with 4 9 goals and 46 assists for 95 points, bettering by nine his previous record of 86 points.</p><p>No player In history has ever walked away with a scoring championship the way Howe did this year. He finished ahead of Ted Lindsay, his closest rival, by 24 points. Howe is a unanimous choice for All-Star right wing honors each year. He has been called the perfect hockey player by some of the best Informed hockey writers and executives. There isn&rsquo;t a thing he can&rsquo;t do and do it better than any other player. While his two previous season have been great ones, the 1952-53 season was his greatest. He scored his 200th NHL goal this past season and by doing so became the youngest player in history to score 200 goals in the NHL.</p><p>Gordie Howe, the Mechanical Man of Hockey, called the Perfect Player, has had a starry career in the sport and he has only turned 25. Barring injuries or some unforseen obstacle, Howe may very well go down in hockey annals as the greatest player the game has ever known. Onlytime will answer this. In the meantime he is the Outstanding Player of 1952-53 and a very worthy wearer of the crown &ldquo;Top Player In Hockey.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sid Abel, Frank Selke And Gordie Howe Win Hockey News’ Outstanding Awards

<div class="byline">Elmer Fergusen</div><p><b>(Ag Seen In The Montreal Herald)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01576/2251278-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="290" height="342"></div><p>&bull; BLOOD WAS DRIPPING slowly down Elmer Lach&rsquo;s nose as the players hoisted him shoulder high out on the Forum freeze, after he had fired the Golden Goal that brought Ganadiens their seventh Stanley Cup since the oldest and most colorful team in professional hockey was organized in late 1909. That made things natural. Any time Lach the Unlucky isn&rsquo;t bleeding, the thing looks phoney.</p><p>If you look at the picture elsewhere on these sports pages of Elmer and Rocket Richard holding the Cup, you&rsquo;ll see the cut on Elmer&rsquo;s nose. Who gave it to him? The Rocket. Nobody else. &ldquo;But that&rsquo;s one injury for which I don&rsquo;t expect to give a receipt,&rsquo;&rsquo; grinned Elmer afterwards. &ldquo;After I scored the goal, Rocket came charging at me, and when he whirled in, his elbow hit me on the nose and we went down in a heap. But, to win the Cup, the price is cheap,&rdquo; said Elmer, as he dressed slowly in the room, shaking hands with scores of well-wishers, and signing autographs.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know exactly how I got the puck for that goal,&rdquo; said Elmer. &ldquo;Rocket fired it in somewhere, then it went behind the net and Quackenbush had it, and it seemed to bounce out and caught it on my back-hand. I wheeled around, but I don&rsquo;t think I was faking a pass, though I saw Richard in front of the net. I just let it go, and caught the far side. I didn&rsquo;t know I had scored until Rocket let out a yell, and came charging over.&rdquo;</p><p>From where we sat, It looked as though Lach had definitely faked a pass to Richard to throw Sugar Jim Henry off-guard. He got the puck, wheeled, stopped, then wheeled a little farther and let fly a waist-hight shot that bit deep into the twine on the far side of the cage.</p><p>Jim Henry didn&rsquo;t see it. At least, we don&rsquo;t think he did, for as the sudden roar of the crowd broke out he turned slowly, looked down at the rubber, and stood there like a man stunned. And it was a stunning blow for a stout-hearted craftsman who, plainly suffering pain from an injured ankle, scrambled back and forth across his nets to make some brilliant saves, as Bruing made their last stand to avoid relegation from the series. And Henry&rsquo;s stand was typical of Bruins&rsquo; final game, a stubborn and courageous battle that could have gone either way.</p><p>At least, you figured until the last five minutes of regular time that it could have gone either way. Up to then, there was nothing to choose in a game that started cautiously and remained that way, though, the tension made it a gripping spectacle. But in the last five minutes, the four lines which coach Dick Irvin conjured up with the skill of a magician drawing rabbits from a hat, began to tell Its tale. Canadiens were slowly over-powering the Bruing in that last five minutes of regular time. Sugar Jim made the stop of the game then, when Lome Davis blasted a sizzling shot from 10 feet out. Henry wheeled, took it on his paids, and it bounced away. But man-power was telling, Bruins were tiring. It was going just about the way Irvin planned from the outset when he brought in big, hard-skating rookies to replace lighter men, and pared his defense in order to formulate more forward lines.</p><p>&bull; DICK IRVIN&rsquo;S tongue-in-cheek prediction that Canadiens wouldn&rsquo;t win a game from Boston turned out to be a misjudged prophecy, as Irvin himself really expected, but Frank Selke, general manager won honors as a long-range prophet of major proportions. On the Toronto Imperial Oil Hot Stove League last autumn, Selke was questioned about Canadiens&rsquo; chances, and said: &ldquo;If we get Dickie Moore back, and sign Beliveau, we&rsquo;ll probably win the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;</p><p>Moore was out then with knee injuries, and it was thought he might not play again. But he finally did come back, played well, and so without Beliveau, Canadiens won, made Selke a high-class prophet.</p><p>The boys dragged Irvin off the bench and hoisted him high, with gray locks gleaming under the lights when the game was over. Irvin is the Master Juggler who gambled on a rookie goaler, on three other rookies drawn from lowly minor league teams, and on &ldquo;unwanted players&rdquo; as he termed them, down the dual Cup series stretch. His no-win prediction.? &ldquo;Psychology,&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;Bruins thought pretty well of themselves after they knocked off the Red Wings, so I figured I could inflate their ego still more by buttering them up a bit more. 1 think it succeeded, too. And our own players set out to show me how wrong I could be, so it worked both ways.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t overlook Butch Bouchard&rsquo;s play,&rdquo; said Frank Selke. &ldquo;He became the take-charge guy from the time Plante went into the nets at Chicago. The four lines that Dick evolved went a long way towards weakening the Bruins, but Bouchard&rsquo;s body-checking and driving play helped.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;So did Harvey&rsquo;s fine blocking and rushing,&rdquo; added Irvin. &ldquo;We had a good team out there. Gerry did a grand come-back, after his ankle injury and nervous spell. We hit into the finals in our peak shape, I believe. A good, solid, all-round team. And the breaks went our way too,&rdquo; Irvin conceded.</p><p>&bull; A GROUP of hockey writers were dissecting the rookie crop of the year, the other night, and it was admitted several might be destined for stardom. As their meritg were being appraised, one writer enquired. &ldquo;When will the rookie crop produce another Elmer Lach?&rdquo;</p><p>There was no answer to that. Because no one knows when there&rsquo;ll be another Elmer Lach, if ever, with the competitive spirit., the stamina, the courage, the durability and the class of the Nokomis aee. That combination come up only so often.</p><p>The greatest of modern lines, Lach, Richard and Toe Blake, was briefly re-united last night, for Blake, wearing a cowboy hat, earns into the room after the game and fanned around with his former ice-mates. &ldquo;You did it again&rdquo; said Blake, clapping Dick Irvin on the shoulder. For it was the fourth time Irvin has had a winner&mdash;three times with Canadiens and once, in 1932, with Toronto Mople Leafs.</p><p>Lach&rsquo;s goal, in the brief overtime, gave Habs their seventh Stanley Cup. The first they won in 1916, defeating Portland Rosebuds, champions of the Pacific Coast League in a series played in the Westmount Arena. Their last previous victory, in 194 6, was also against the Bruins, and in exactly the same number of games, the aeries ending 4-1. Before that Canadiens were winners in 1944, 1931, 1930, 1924, beating Pacific Coast League and Western League champions in the latter series, which saw the debut in Stanley Cup play of Howie Morenz. The 1916 series was in the days of Lalonde, Mac-Namara, Vezina, Pitre, Laviolette, when the late George Kennedy owned the team.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE CIST AND JEST OF IT

<div class="byline">BY MILT DUNNELL-SPORTS EDITOR</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02540/2251309-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>B</span>OSTON&mdash;The brotherhood of journeymen goalminder would do well to prepare graphs of the rise and fall of playoff stock in this year&rsquo;s scramble for the Stanley Cup. They&rsquo;d have powerful arguments to back their salary demands in next season&rsquo;s contracts. The Detroits blew the duke when Terry Sawchuk, the Horatio of playoff hockey, suddenly became porous as a butterfly net. Then, little Gerry McNeil got the jitters and implored hard-bitten James Dickinson Irvin to give him the derrick &lsquo;ere he fanned on a shot that would deliver the shekels to the Black Hawks. At a psychological moment, Irvin dropped Jacques Plante, the bilinguol toque knitter, between the pipes. Plante&rsquo;s performance was held responsible, in large part, for knocking the Chihawks into the ashcan.</p><p>Sugar Jim Henry, better known to Detroit as sugar-coated strychnine, got his skate caught in a crevice at Montreal Saturday night. He poped an oselet, or whatever it is that pops when a goaltender goes in the opposite direction from his skates. That brought in another Henry, Gordon the Red. He held off the desperate Habitants while the Bruins went on to square their Stanley Cup set.</p><p>Then, Irvin counted by bringing back Gerry McNeil on one good foot and one that was frozen by the needle to kill the pain&mdash;something they won&rsquo;t let you do to a horse. McNeil was the man of the moment. All he did was shut out the Bruins in front of the home mob, where Canadiens hadn&rsquo;t won since Dec. 21. Jacques Plante, who was poison to the Hawks, watched the game from the press box. If you wanted to be brutally frank, you&rsquo;d say that&rsquo;s where he should have been in the third game.</p><p>From the standpoint of the brotherhood of goalies, the significant thing is the part their brethern play in whether a game is lost or won.</p><p>Detroit is out because Sawchuk turned cold. Chicago is out because Plante was hot when McNeil had the shakes. Boston got back in the ball game because Red Henry was able to pick up the hod when his namesake was stricken. Canadiens were out in front again because McNeil did a comeback on one pin.</p><p>Those should be the salient points put forth by the brotherhood when they come to ask for more pay, with shorter working hours the claims of the union, they might argue it&rsquo;s difficult to determine the percentage of psychology and the percentage of skill when a stand-in takes his place in the net. No person thinks, for instance, that Plante is as good a goalie as McNeil. Yet, without Plante, Canadiens might have been packed for summer storage by this time. One of the answers may be that a team is fired to greater effort when it suspects the man in the net may require a little extra help.</p><p>Twenty-five years ago, if one may be excused for mentioning it, Lester Patrick got up off the bench and donned the pads, along with borrowed skates, when his goalie was hurt. His Rangers gave &raquo;him such airtight protection that Lester was able to get away with it&mdash;in a Stanley Cup game, too.</p><p>History almost repeated in the third game. After Sugar Jim was hurt, Red Henry, who took his place, got a skate puncture in his arm. One of his own mates nicked him&mdash;either Johnny Peirson or Fleming Mackell. While Red was being cased for stitching, Lester&rsquo;s son, Lynn, paced the dressing-room floor.</p><p>&ldquo;I may have to emulate my old man yet,&rdquo; Lynn cracked.</p><p>&ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you give it a try,&rdquo; a reporter&rsquo; urged, showing he puts greater value on a story than on the Stanley Cup.</p><p>&ldquo;Are you kidding?&rdquo; Lynn demanded. &ldquo;I only played goal for one period of hockey in my life, and I missed 25 shots.&rdquo;</p><p>You have to conclude the earlier generation of Patricks was made of more venturesome stuff.</p><p>But getting back to the psychology of a switch in the cage you should have seen how Canadiens booby-trapped the lane ways leading to their goal. If they&rsquo;d been doing that all winter, there never would have been any reason why McNeil&rsquo;s nerves should get frayed.</p><p>Thumbnail Tales: If Alfie Pike takes the job as coach of the New York Rangers, his successor as coach of the Guelph junior Biltmores likely will be Chuck Rayner, the gimpy-legged goalie. Rayner probably would like to make a try at regaining his job, but the club brass isn&rsquo;t anxious for a repeat of last season&rsquo;s uncertainty&hellip; Six fans in St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld., must have ordered an extra round of suds when Leo Labine scored Bruins&rsquo; first goal in the third game. Before the game they sent a cable saying Leo is their boy&hellip; Ed Sandford, who gave Montreal&rsquo;s Dickie Moore a lesson in fisticuffs during the last minute of the Montreal game, has threatened similar treatment on the guy who started the story of Sandford&rsquo;s impending marriage. The announcement, it seems, was premature&hellip; Des Smith, who used to team with Johnny Crawford on the Boston defence, was giving Johnny a hand with the aircasting of the 1953 series.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Talk regarding the disposition of the Norris interests in Detroit hockey has been prevalent for several weeks now. Of equal prominence and perhaps even more interest have been the rumors regarding the futures of the stars that have paced the Red Wings to five straight National league titles and two Stan-Cup championships.</p><p>Jim Norris, who sold his Detroit stock last fall to assume the role of life-&bull;aver for Chicago puch fortunes, has already said that he&rsquo;ll go all out to land such Wing greats as Ted Lindsay, or Gordie Howe for the Black Hawks. This, of course. is providing that the Norris estate&rsquo;s holdings in the Motor City team are dissolved.</p><p>Most of the reports concerning the trade or sale of any of the Detroit mainstays have been branded as absurd and greeted with wisecracks. They&rsquo;ve been the same sort of remarks, we real-ized the other day, that preceded the &ldquo;impossible&rdquo; swaps of other Red Wing top drawer competitors.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01534/2251375-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="304" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Stewart</b></figcaption></div><p>The first of these surprising deals sent AllStar rearguard Bill Quackenbush to Boston in September. 1949. Ho and Pets Horeck were shuttled to Beantown in exchange for Jim Peters, Pete Babando Clare Martin and a minor leaguer named Lloyd Durham. Fans and writers in Detroit immediately bemoaned the loss of such and outstanding stalwart as Quackenbush.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02495/2251368-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="291" height="395"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>Less than a year later Wing officials completed an even bigger exchange that found Harry Lumley, Jack Stewart, Babando, Al Dewsbury and Don Morrison moving to Chicago. Detroit got Metro Prystai, Bob Goldhanm, Jim Henry and Gaye Stewart in return and there were many that again biterly criticized such a wholesale shakeup of a winning team. had benn rec</p><h2><b>A Hawk?</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04278/2251361-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="551" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></figcaption></div><p>Jack Stewart had been recognized as one of the top defensemen in hockey history. He was named to three All-Star squads in the NHL and placed on the second squad twice. Although he was admittedly past his prime, the majority of the Wing followers had assumed that Jack would remain with the Detroit organization in one capacity or another.</p><p>Lumley was also a foremost member of the club and, while only 23, he had been the regular in the nets for six campaigns. His goaltending had shown continuous improvment during this pe-riod. Harry&rsquo;s first season goals against average of 3.2 2 had been cut down to only 2.35 and it was generally felt that his play was still on the upgrade when the trade was announced.</p><p>No less than seven Wing regulars were dealt away before the start of the 1951-52 schedule with five, George Gee, Jim McFadden, Clare Raglan, Peters and Martin, joining the Hawks for $75,000 in cash. In addition, Gerry Couture was dispatched to the Canadiens and Gaye Stewart to New Rork for Bert Hirschfield and Tony Leswick respectively.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05178/2251354-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="284" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><p>None in this group had proved to be the top strength on the Detroit squad, but the seven combined had racked up 78 points. Stewart, with 18 markers, ranked fifth on the team behind Howe, Lindsay, Sid Abel and Prystai. Peters and Gee followed close behind with 17 goals each and McFadden accounted for 14.</p><p>Abel and Leo Reise, two more leading attractions, departed from the Motor City hockey scene just last summer. Sid. of course, moved on after 13 years as the Wings&rsquo; top center and turned in a remark able job as Black Hawk coach. Reise, a blue liner of All-Star mentlon, was invol ved in a deal with the Rangers for Reg Sinclair.</p><p>With all this evidence before us, it&rsquo;s not hard to realize than virtually no player has been or is really secure at Detroit. The top form system developed by the club has enabled its front office leaders to continually deal and swap in order to make room for rookies of promise.</p><p>Then too, the disbursement of the big name, high salaried team members on an almost regular basis has made for sound economy of operation. At least a portion of the money saved through this conservation of wages has undoubtedly been used for the deve1opment of young talent in the Ded Wing chain.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-06107/2251347-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="298" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Quackenbush</b></figcaption></div><p>And who&rsquo;s to be the next victim of this procedure? Kelly, Lindsay and Howe, as we mentioned, have been touted as possible additions to Chicago while Terry Sawchuk, who&rsquo;s been having some physical troubles, may be tending the twine with New York next fall, it has been said.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0762/2251340-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="294" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo Reise</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-01

Detroit Trade Denials Similar To Those Preceding Other Swaps

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The fact that they made the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 1946 hasn&rsquo;t left the Boston Bruins with a mass feeling of security for next season.</p><p>Their showing during the season just past was the Bruins&rsquo; best in a long time, but the club&rsquo;s management Is thinking in terms of improvement.</p><p>The Bruins finished third during the regular season, that wasn&rsquo;t high enough. They beat the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs, but that wasn&rsquo;t enough.</p><p>Consequently, there will probably be some changes in their roster by next fall.</p><p>It isn&rsquo;t difficult to put a finger on the Bruins who will comprise the nucleus of next year&rsquo;s team. The group will include Defensemen Bill Quackenbush, Hal Laycoe. Bob Armstrong and Warren Godfrey. Forwards, Milt Schmidt, Dave Creighton, Fleming Mackell, Ed Sandford, John Peirson, Joe Klukay and Leo LaBine, and Goalie Sugar Jim Henry.</p><p>Going by precedence. General Manager Art Ross and Coach Lynn Patrick have refused to en-ter into public discussion of the Bruins&rsquo; plans, but Patrick verified the likelihood of changes.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not likely to stand pat, he said. After all. we have higher ambitions than third place.</p><p>&ldquo;I feel that we&rsquo;re in pretty good shape as far as our defense is concerned. Quackenbush and Laycoe are fine players, and Godfrey and Armstrong will be a year older and bigger. Young Frank Martin may fit in, and he&rsquo;ll be better with the experience he gained this year.</p><p>&ldquo;Our main problem seems to be improving our scoring punch, and that Involves our forwards. We averaged only 2.4 goals per game during the regular season, and that&rsquo;s not enough.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know just how we&rsquo;ll work on that problem, but we have youngsters coming up who may help. We have the all-star center (Mackell) for a starter, and we&rsquo;ll probably build around him.&rdquo; Some of Patrick&rsquo;s forwards entrenched themselves more firmly with their playoff performances, and conspicuous among that delegation were Sandford, Creighton and LaBine.</p><p>Sandford, the bruising left wing, led all playoff scorers with his eight goals, and big Creighton, despite a limited condtiioning period, made nine points, four of them on goals;</p><p>LaBine, who was at Hershey when the Bruins started their Stanley Cup bld, gave a demonstration of hustle and aggressiveness which pleased Patrick greatly.</p><p>With a goodly supply of manpower, the Bruins are in a comfortable position to talk trading with other national League teams.</p><p>They can assume reasonably that they might finish &lsquo;higher next year with the same team by allowing for improvement by their many youngsters, so they won&rsquo;t have to make any desperation deals.</p><p>In that respect alone they&rsquo;re better off than they have been since Ross and&rsquo;Patrick first joined forces to improve their state three years ago.</p><h2><b>Returning</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0842/2251406-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="547" height="558"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MILT SCHMIDT</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-08

Bruin Brass Planning Changes Next Season

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>The Boston Bruins&rsquo; most strenuous bid for the Stanley Cup in seven years fell short of accomplishing its purpose, but it did serve others.</p><p>Perhaps the most important on a long range basis was that it brought this area back to the fore as a hockey hotbed.</p><p>A year ago, when the Bruins played a seven-game semi-final series with the Montreal Canadiens, they put an end to a period of retrogression which had extended over several seasons.</p><p>From the start of this season the Bruins tide turned, and they brought in fresh customers with an improved team.</p><p>Then during the playoffs they whipped Boston hockey enthusiasm to a lather unequalled here since the pre-war days, when the Bruins ruled the hockey world.</p><p>They brought back capacity crowds, monopolized space on the sports pages, made hockey the dominating topic of conversation and, at the same time, set themselves up for a prosperous future.</p><p>Including the crowds for their five playoff games with the Detroit Rod Wings and Canadiens, the Bruins drew an over-all attendance of approximately 365,000 people.</p><p>&ldquo;We finished approximately 20 per cent ahead of last year in attendance,&rdquo; reevaled President Walter Brown.</p><p>&ldquo;A year ago the team lost about $100,000,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;and while we tailed to break even this season, we weren&rsquo;t too far from it. we couldn&rsquo;t have broken even if we had had another playoff game because of our heavy expenses.&rdquo;</p><p>The Bruins&rsquo; president also revealed that the Bruins did 25 per cent of their over-all business in their five playoff contests, all of which were sellouts in advance.</p><p>&ldquo;Hockey has come back a long way here,&rdquo; he observed, &ldquo;and we&rsquo;ll always be grateful to the youngsters and veterans who brought it back.</p><p>&ldquo;When we (the Garden-Arena Corporation) took over the team a year ago last fall it was disintergrating. Now I&rsquo;m confident that we&rsquo;re on the way back.&rdquo;</p><p>Unlike last season, when their finishing team was drastically different from that which opened the year, they wound up this time with essentially the same group which started.</p><p>The only addition during the season was Frank Martin, the 19-year-old defenseman, whose youth produced an average team age of 25 years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03397/2251437-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="291" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Walter Brown</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-03

Boston Attendance Shows Increase

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Lynn Patrick, coach of the Boston Bruins for the last three years, will coach them for the next three years.</p><p>The 41-year-old Patrick will sign a new contract shortly covering his services for that length of time.</p><p>Patrick, who came here from New York and a two-year coaching hitch with the Rangers, turned in one of the outstanding coaching jobs of the year with the Bruins.</p><p>Despite a succession of serious injuries to key players, he guided them into the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>In revealing that the one-time National league all-star forward would stay here on a three-year basis, President Walter Brown of the Bruins termed him &ldquo;the best coach in hockey&rdquo;.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0927/2251468-1-eng-US/f0005-092.jpg" title="f0005-09" width="301" height="486"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Lynn Patrick</b></p><p><b>Good Jab</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-09

Patrick To Get New Contract

<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><b>Authorised RS second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y.</b></p><p><b>Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company 1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Printed in Canada.</b></p><p><b>Vol. 6 MONTREAL, APRIL 25. 1953 No. 30</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/f0006-01603/2251551-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="419" height="420"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02475/2251544-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="594" height="138"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>E</span>LMER LACH</b> had to score the goal that won the Stanley Cup for Montreal Canadiens to get himself out of the doghouse. Lach arrived home from Boston at 7 a.m. on the morning of the game and had to rouse the Mrs. out of a sound sleep. He forgot his house key when the Habs left for Boston. it was so chilly at home that Elmer was at the Forum by nine o&rsquo;clock that morning, looking for sympathy&hellip;Shortly after 11 p.m. he was once again &ldquo;Elegant Elmer&rdquo; and the toast of the town, for he had just scored the only goal of the fifth game of the 1953 Stanley Cup since 1946&hellip;Mrs. Lach had to get in line to congratulate her hubby now as he was mobbed by teammates and well wishers&hellip;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve waited 13 years to score the winning goal in a Stanley Cup final. It tops every thrill I&rsquo;ve had and this game&rsquo;s been good to me,&rdquo; chuckled and exhausted but happy Lach&hellip;Rocket Richard, who passed to Lach for the goal was never so tired In his life as he was after the game. He just sat exhausted in the dressing room unable to do anything but lust sit there&hellip;Toe Blake, who teamed with Richard and Lach on Canadiens&rsquo; famed Punch Line which led Canadiens to their last two Stanley Cups in 1944 and 1946, was in the Montreal dressing room congratulating his former mates&hellip;Swarms of tans jumped over the boards and tame out on the ice during the Stanley Cup presentation. There were more fans on the ice than players as they formed a huge ring around the presentation ceremonies&hellip;NHL President Clarence Campbell and Cooper Smeaton, Stanley Cup trustee, presented the splendid old mug to Butch Bouchard, Montreal captain&hellip;The popular Bouchard replied In both French and English&hellip;It was the first Stanley Cup to come to Canadiens since Frank Selke joined the club at the start of the 1946-47 season&hellip;. It was the fourth time Dick Irvin had coached a winner. He piloted Toronto to the Cup in 1932 and Canadiens in 194 4 and 1946.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03354/2251537-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="269" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Elmer Lack</b></figcaption></div><p><b>CANADIENS</b> share of the Stanley Cup playoffs from the NHL amounts to $45,000. The Bruins will draw $31,500&hellip;Ken Mosdell, who played a peach of a series for Canadiens, lost eight pounds in eight playoff games. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I could have came out for a sixth game,&rdquo; he advised&hellip;Mosdell skated around the ice carrying his four-year-old daughter Bonny, during the Cup presentation. &ldquo;Tomorrow is her birthday and that&rsquo;s why I brought her tonight,&rdquo; he said in the dressing room later&hellip;Lynn Patrick, fine sportman that he is, took the defeat hard but was in no way bitter. He congratulated Irvin and members of the Canadiens after It was all over. &ldquo;Tonight&rsquo;s game was perfectly played,&rdquo; Patrick said. &ldquo;There was nothing wrong with the Bruins. If we had played like that earlier it would have been a much longer series.&rdquo;&hellip;&ldquo;I never saw it at all,&rdquo; said Sugar Jim Henry. &ldquo;Lach&rdquo; sure wound up on that one. It was a hard shot.&rdquo;&hellip;Both teams were completely tired out at the finish.,. Fleming Mackell of the Bruins claimed he was never so bushed in his life&hellip;Most of the Montreal followers were pleased to see a grand old campaigner like Lach score the winner&hellip;The wise-cracking Leo Labine played well for the Bruins in the last four games of the finals. He was one of the better Boston players. After Eddie Sandford cut up Dickie Moore in three places in their brief but hectic fight in the second game, LaBine skated up to Moore and asked: &ldquo;Say Moore, did you get the number of that train that hit you?&rdquo;&hellip;Joe Klukay showed lots of fight.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04239/2251530-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="292" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Mosdell</b></figcaption></div><p><b>BOSTON WAS</b> badly outshot by Canadiens in the finals. The Bruins were also outshot by a goodly margin by Detroit in the semi-finals&hellip;The Boston players were unable to get into their rooms at the Mount Royal Hotel when they arrived for the fifth game. They had to snooze in the lobby for several hours before their rooms were ready&hellip;Jim Henry wanted his ankle doped like McNeil, but Lynn Patrick and Manager Art Ross refused. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m running a hockey team, not a racing stable,&rdquo; cracked Ross&hellip;. Emile Couture, personal adviser to Jean Beliveau, was Canadiens&rsquo; guest in Boston for the playoffs. So judge your own conclusions, but things continue to point to Beliveau playing with the Habs next season&hellip;Well known hockey players seen around the Boston Garden on game nights were Pat Egan, Ferny Flaman, Paul Ronty and Ray Powell&hellip;Ray Get-liffe, ex-member of both Boston and Canadiens, also around, as was Doggie Kuhn, former Providence player&hellip;Lynn Patrick was-lauding Dick Irvin as a coach&hellip;&ldquo;He outlasted my dad, Lester, and from the way he&rsquo;s going he may outlast me,&rdquo; laughed Lynn&hellip;Bill Quackenbush played sound hockey for the Bruins and was by far their best defenseman. He is a terrific stick checker and always seems to be in possession of the puck&hellip;BoomBoom Geoffrion was as good as any Montreal player in the playoffs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05192/2251523-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="291" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Quackenbush</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0006-01

PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-06148/2251582-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><h2>Liked Fogolin Bit</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Just wanted to write a few lines to thank you for that fine article about Lee Fogolin of the Hawks. It&rsquo;s time that he received some recognition for his fine play, and you were right about the number of saves Lee makes. He has even been stopping them with his head.</p><p>I also am hoping that Al Rollins receives the Hart Trophy he so richly deserves. What would the Hawks have done without him? Quite and Improvement over Lumley&rsquo;s play.</p><p>Rosemary Wollsten, <br>Chicago, Ill.</p><h2>Three Men On Him</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to say that Gordie Howe and Red Kelly are the two best two-way players in the NHL today. If Montreal had not kept three men on Howe through the whole game of Sunday March 22 he would have set a new goal scoring mark. I think too much credit is given to that phoney old Maurice Richard.</p><p>Osborne Thomas, <br>Windsor, Ont.</p><p>(Richard holds the record!)</p><h2>Still More Programs</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I haye a number of New York Ranger hockey programs which I&rsquo;d like to trade for pro, Senior and Junior programs. Every letter will be given careful attention. My address is: 35-07 32nd Street, Astoria 6 N.Y.C., USA.</p><p>Jerry Weiss, <br>Astoria. N.Y.</p><h2>No Bias</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I must also go along with those who have complained in the past, through the medium of your Fan Forum column, of your biased coverage of the NHL &ldquo;Canadiens&rdquo;. Perhaps those leanings are not intentional but are a result of the fact that the paper is printed here in Montreal and most of your conscientious contributors are from this district. This is actually a minor point but one that is quite noticeable when reading The Hockey News.</p><p>Being a &ldquo;Gopher&rdquo; and a westerner through and through, I believe that more coverage should be given to all the various Western Leagues and hope that in the coming year I will not have to search In vain for such news.</p><p>F/Sgt. Kenneth Pitts, <br>Ville LaSalle, Que.</p><p><b>(We have &lsquo;conscientious contributors in almost every leading hockey city in the United States and Canada and fail to agree that we are biased. Space limitations sometimes prevent us from a complete coverage of some of the minor leagues but we always try to atone for that in subsequent issues.)</b></p><h2>Same Vic Lynn</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been a subscriber to The Hockey News since it was first published and I think it&rsquo;s the best newspaper that covers a single field of a sport. I believe there is no comparison in other sport papers to the HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>Your coverage of the leagues is excellent but I&rsquo;d like more action pictures. Also was the VIC LYNN, now of Chicago, formerly with the TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS?</p><p>M. A. Yorema, <br>Lamming Mills, B.C.</p><p><b>(Lynn was with Toronto from 1946-47 to 1949-50.)</b></p><h2>Played Them Both</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been a reader of THE HOCKEY NEWS for the past two years, buying my copies at Bob Burns and Son Tobacconists, Leland Hotel, this city.</p><p>This is a red hot hockey town, in the OSAHL and of course we, like all hockey fans, would like to see the league standings printed more often, You get this from everyone, no doubt.</p><p>I purchased a NHL record book the past two years and find it very interesting and instructive. On page 61 of this years&rsquo; issue (1951-52) for the year 1924, showing the Stanley Cup playoff, your account seems to be a bit mixed up and it is hard to figure out what is meant. The Canadiens apparently played with both Vancouver and Calgary that year; I would be much obliged if you would clarify this for me.</p><p>J. R. Wanless, <br>Kamloops, B.C.</p><p><b>(In the 1924 seasons, the Stanley Cup series was a challenge affair and both Vancouver and Calgary challenged Canadiens with The Habs defeating Vancouver 93 in a total goals round and Calgary 9-1 in a similar series.)</b></p><h2>Not That Good</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a regular reader of your paper but I find one fault. There are more than two hockey play-ers in the league so lets forget Richard and Howe and give some of the other great players in the league a chance for a little bit of free publicity. How about a story on Harry Lumley, the Leafs goaltender?</p><p>Could you tell me who Ross Lowe is now playing for. I haven&rsquo;t seen his name on any of Montreal&rsquo;s farm clubs.</p><p>I was reading in a Montreal paper a list of the all-stars in the National Hockey League. This must of been picked by the Montreal club themselves. They picked Lach as centre over such players as Delvecchio, Ronty and Prystai. They also had three out of four of the defenceman members of the Canadian&rsquo;s club. They&rsquo;re good but not that good. If there that good whoy didn&rsquo;t they finish in first place? Good luck on the success of your great newspaper.</p><p>George Lowe, <br>Moncton, N.B.</p><p><b>(Lowe was with the Buffalo Bisons of the AHL but he retired from hockey.)</b></p><h2>Empty Net Goals</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am an avid reader of THE HOCKEY&rsquo; NEWS and can look at nothing else for some time after It arrives. I have a few things oh my mind to write to you about, so here goes.</p><p>Referring to your Goalkeepers&rsquo; Record on page 9, March 2 8th issue, I note that the numbers of goals each is charged with equals the total number scored against his team, whereas each team probaly had at least one &ldquo;empty net&rdquo; goal scored against it during the season, and in most cases more. (It would be Interesting if you would print statistics on this). To me it is beyond comprehensibn why a goalkeeper should be charged with goals scored while he is sitting on the bench, any more than he should be charged with goals scored against his substitutes, when he is injured. Let&rsquo;s get this rule changed before a Vezina Trophy is Involved, which it well could be. The &ldquo;empty net&rdquo; goals should be charged against the team, of course, but not against any goalkeeper.</p><p>Blackwell Williams, <br>New York, N.Y.</p><p><b>(Empty net goals, are not charged against the goaler in the American League.)</b></p><h2>Rocket&rsquo;s Record</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a constant reader of the HOCKEY NEWS and am of the opinion that it is one of the best publications of its kind to be found anywhere.</p><p>Now comes my reason for writing you this letter. I wish you would settle an arguement that has been going on all through the hockey season.</p><p>It is this. My friend contends that Montreal&rsquo;s Maurice Richard played for the Montreal Canadiens as a junior and the Montreal Royals as a senior before joining the NHL team. I say that he did not play his junior hockey for the Canadiens. Could you please straighten us out on this?</p><p>Keep up the good work, we really appreciate those feature articles, especially the one on Fle-ming Mackell.</p><p>George Deletrio.<br>Boston, Mass.</p><p><b>(Richard played his junior hockey for the Verdun Maple Leafs, a team sponsored by the NHL Canadiens. His senior hockey he played with the Montreal Canadiens seniors a team that has since disbanded in favor of having only the one senior club in Montreal.)</b></p><h2>More Technical Articles</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I agree with Bill Harmon of Brooklyn, N.Y. as to the subject of technical articles. Any person, who is interested at all in the inside viewpoint of hockey and will enjoy these, and they would likely help some minor league players to improve their skill.</p><p>May I offer con<br>Bridgewater, N.S.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-06

THE FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>How&rsquo;s prospects? Deciding to see for himself, New York Rangel-boss Frank Boucher took off on a transcontinental visit to the West Coast where he scouted two pro farms, Saskatoon and Vancouver, as well as the Lethbridge Native Sons. Ranger-sponsored outfit which was involved in the Western junior hockey final.</p><p>Certainly there was some encouragement in the large number of Ranger farm clubs embroiled in climactic postseason playoffs. Saskatoon had reached the finals of the Western League and Vancouver was battling to get there, too.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01555/2251651-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="288" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Boucher</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02513/2251644-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="296" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Charlie Rayner</b></figcaption></div><p>And not only was Lethbridge hoping to represent the West for the Memorial Cup but Phil Watson&rsquo;s Quebec Citadels, also Ranger-sponsored, were mixing it with the Barrie, Ont., Ontario Hockey Association champs for the Eastern title. Boucher, on leaving the West, joined the Citadels for whatever extra incentive his presence would inspire in Watson&rsquo;s hopefuls.</p><p>Out West, the two professional solid citizens in Boucher&rsquo;s book were Jack Evans, defenseman not unfamiliar with Ranger fans, Andy Bathgate, center who joined the Rangers last fall direct from Guelph. Ont., and after a brief whirl was loaned to Vancouver.</p><p>&ldquo;Evans is much improved,&rdquo; Boucher reported. &ldquo;What he needed most, and never succeeded in getting with us, was a full, uninterrupted season of play. In Saskatoon, he got that work and wound up making the all-star team.</p><p>&ldquo;As for Bathgate, you&rsquo;d never recognize him. Maybe it took him some time to get over that operation on his knee of last spring. Anyway, he was really dangling for Vancouver. I saw him score three goals in one playoff game and he was cheated out of a fourth the same night.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher was less enthusiastic about Lou (The Leaper) Fontinato, a roughhouse defenseman who went directly to Vancouver from Guelph. It had been the general feeling, backed up by periodic reports from the Coast, that with one year of Western League experience Lou would gain the necessary polish to make the NHL garde.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not too sure Lou is ready,&rdquo; said Boucher. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a real colorful guy, and aggressive, and there&rsquo;s no question but that we could use somebody like that. Maybe he&rsquo;ll make it next year, at that. But he still looked a little too crude to me.&rdquo;</p><p>Of the Ranger juniors in the West, Boucher named Bill (Hard Rock) Dea as the most likely to succeed. Dea is a left winger with Lethbridge who had an impressive three-game pro tryout with Saskatoon.</p><p>&ldquo;He looks like a big leaguer right now,&rdquo; Boucher said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not much bigger than Eddie Kullman, but he can shoot and skate and he&rsquo;s a strong kid.&rdquo;</p><p>Boucher also allowed that Millard (Mid) Houghton, described as the best junior rearguard in the West, was a &ldquo;possibility&rdquo; as a Ranger next season. Houghton, an all-star two year running with the Calgary Buffaloes, was in the middle of a cause celebre recently when the CAHA reversed itself and refused to allow Lethbridge to use him in the Western junior hockey finals after injuries had stripped the Native Sons of three of their own backliners. own backliners.</p><p>The general manager said he was also impressed by three other junior forwards&mdash;Steve Arisman, Lethbridge right winger who, like Dea and Houghton, was named to the Western Junior Hockey League all-star team; and Dale Sweany and Ed, Kassian, who on winding up their season with the Ranger-sponosred Prince Albert Mintos, were moved up to Saskatoon Quakers for the playoffs. Chances are, these three will be assigned to Saskatoon for the 1953-54 campaign.</p><p>As for the Citadels, several have been touted by Coach Watson as big league material. The Rangers gave brief trials in mid-season to Aggie Kukulowick, stringbean center, and Michel Labadie, husky right winger. Neither seemed out of place, either. Then there&rsquo;s Camille Henry, the watch-charm center who for two years has been a prolific scorer; Roland Leclerc and Ray Cyr, other highly regarded forwards.</p><p>The general picture, in any event, conforms to a pattern of flexed muscles and growing strength. It&rsquo;s hard to see in the background of disappointments, yet Boucher himself is sure the Ranger farm system has been getting stronger year by year and that it will pay off in the near future.</p><p>Naturally, Boucher is always willing to lend an ear to any overtures for the big league talent. In the last two seasons he was able to wangle Paul Ronty from Boston and Leo Reise from Detroit without giving up any talent in exchange worth mentioning. But in the long run, the only sure way of building a winner is through one&rsquo;s own organization.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not expecting Santa Claus to show up,&rdquo; Boucher said realistically. &ldquo;Only way to get help is to help ourselves.&rdquo;</p><p>Chuck Rayner stopped in en route from a Florida vacation in time to take in the Yankee opener&hellip;Eddie Slowinski has taken a construction job on Long Island and looks to be in better shape than he was in October&hellip;From the Ranger Review, fan club publication: &ldquo;They say Alfie Pike, a great, junior coach, may have a chance to try his spurs in the NHL before long&hellip;Vancouver boss Coley Hall is still trying to buy Emile Francis&rsquo; contract&hellip;The tale persists that Glen Hall won&rsquo;t be allowed to waste away in the Red Wing farm system&hellip;Will Frankie Eddolls be coaching in the Quebec Senior League next year?&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-01

NY Ranger Farm Hands Impress Frank Boucher On Cross-Country Tour

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03419/2251724-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RED HENRY&hellip;&hellip; Big Boots To Fill</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The name&rsquo;s the name, as far as Boston&rsquo;s Stanley Cup goaltenders are concerned, and apparently there&rsquo;s a lot in a name&mdash;if it happens to be Henry.</p><p>Sugar Jim Henry did the goaling for the Bruins when they beat the Detroit Red Wings to qualify for the final series for the Stanley Cup. He also worked the nets in the championship set against the Montreal Canadiens until late in the first period of the second game at the Forum.</p><p>Then the 32-year-old veteran received an ankle injury which forced him from the lineup and into his place stepped another Henry, 26-year-old Gordon, called &ldquo;Red&rdquo;,</p><p>The younger Henry picked up where the senior member of the clan left off and backboned the Bruins to their first win of the series.</p><p>The big redhead from Owen Sound, Ontario, replaced Harvey Bennett of Providence as the Bruins&rsquo; spare goal-tender after the fourth game of the Detroit series, presumably for a paid va-cation.</p><p>In two years with the Bruins Sugar Jim hadn&rsquo;t missed a game, and he had missed only four in his lengthy career.</p><p>Gordon Red hadn&rsquo;t played since his Hershey team was eliminated from the American league playoffs by Pittsburgh on March 30, 12 days earlier, and his only exercise had been a lone practice.</p><p>But after making a little speech in the Bruins&rsquo; locker room when lie finished dressing, he balked the flying Canadiens while the Bruins evened the series.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll do the best I can,&rdquo; he promised, &ldquo;so help me.&rdquo;</p><p>In his audience was a scattering of players who had been in the two playoff games with To-ronto two years ago in which Gordon Red had replaced Jack Gelineau, and been beaten.</p><p>&ldquo;We won&rsquo;t let you down,&rdquo; they replied. &ldquo;We did the last time, but we won&rsquo;t tonight.&rdquo;</p><p>Then they checked the Canadiens all over the ice and the cool fill-in took care of the stray business which seeped through, only one unimportant goal penetrating his guard.</p><h2><b>Stand-In For Namesake</b></h2><p>There was a moment shortly after Henry replaced Henry when it seemed that the Bruins might need still another goalie. Gordon Red came cut of a pileup in front of the net with a flowing cut on his upper left arm, the product of a skate.</p><p>As he entered the first aid room for repairs, memories of the 1928 night at the Forum when Lester Patrick played goal for his New York Rangers against the old Maroons swept through the gathering.</p><p>Lester, coach of the&rsquo; Rangers, had never played goal at the age of 44, but when Lome Chabot was hurt, he stepped in and held off the Maroons. Some wondered if Lynn Patrick, coach of the Bruins and Lester&rsquo;s son, would have to emulate his father&rsquo;s feat.</p><p>&ldquo;I never gave it a thought,&rdquo; scoffed Lynn. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never played goal, either, but I wasn&rsquo;t thinking about starting then. I didn&rsquo;t know what the ruling would be if Red couldn&rsquo;t play, but I thought of Jerry Toppazzlni immediately.&rdquo;</p><p>Toppazzini, versatile Bruins&rsquo; rookie, played five positions during the regular season and goal for three minutes in an exhibition game at Oshawa.</p><p>Actually there was another goalie available, young Charley Hodge, standing by for the Cana-diens, and Hodge would have been a Bruin if the second Henry&rsquo;s injury had been more serious than it was. But Red came back after receiving two stitches to stop 21 of 22 Montreal shots.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01589/2251717-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="1743" height="1706"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02517/2251710-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1673" height="1352"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03431/2251703-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="1098" height="1138"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04339/2251696-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="1038" height="1144"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05270/2251689-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="1041" height="1104"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STANLEY CUP CUT-UPS&mdash;The two smiling gentlemen embracing the Stanley Cup in the photo top left, are Mau-rice Richard and Elmer Lach of the Montreal Canadiens, who engineered the play that derailed the Boston Bruins. In the picture middle, left, Cooper Smeaton, one of the trustees of the coveted mug, presents the Stanley Cup to the Habs&rsquo; captain, Butch Boucnard, as NHL President Clarence Campbell looks on approvingly. Gerry McNeil tucks the puck away into his pads as he makes a save off Joe Klukay of the Bruins in the photo lower left. The two pictures above show action at both ends of the rink. In the top photo, Sugar Jim Henry is down on the ice after making a save while directly above McNeil reaches to grab a hot one off the stick of Milt Schmidt, background. Below are three very happy gents, Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach and Coach Dick Irvin, all of whom played a big part in the winning of the Stanley Cup.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06221/2251682-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="1638" height="1413"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0007-03

Same Name Seeking Fame, Habs Foil Him Once Again

<p><b>There is nothing like clan, whether it be in a race horse, billiard player or, in this case, a hockey player.</b></p><p><b>We are of course referring to Elegant Elmer Lach, the centre-ice smoothie of the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens.</b></p><p><b>It was fitting that this old warhorse, veteran of thirteen seasons as a Hab regular, should score the goal that brought the Stanley Cup to Montreal for the first time since 1946. And still more fitting was the fact that the assist on the play went to Maurice Richard, for no two players have meant so much to the Canadiens&rsquo; fortunes than have these two down through the past dozen years.</b></p><p><b>Lach joined the Canadiens for the 1940-41 season, and although not too impressive, still showed enough to have the railbirds predicting a rosy future for him.</b></p><p><b>Rosy future he has had. but it hasn&rsquo;t been without its trying moments. Elmer Lach is what might be called a walking hospital case, for there are very few bones in his body that at one time or another haven&rsquo;t been broken through his playing hockey. Broken legs, jaws, arms, a couple of fractured skulls, all enough to make some men call it quits, have just spurred the centre-ice smoothie on to bigger and better seasons.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-13138/2251971-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="271" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Elmer Lach</b></figcaption></div><p><b>If Lach never scores another goal, and perish the thought, he will be remembered for the goal that gave the Canadiens a 1-0 win, eliminated the Boston Bruins and made the Montreal team World&rsquo;s Champs for the 1952-53 season.</b></p><p><b>Elegant Elmer has had his big moments, many of them coming as a member of one of the greatest lines in hockey history, the Punch Lines, with Toe Blake and Maurice Richard, but it is doubtful that any goal ever gave him such pleasure as the one that sunk the Bruins What of the future. Well, year after year Lach has threatened retirement. but one thing is for sure. If and when he decides to skate out on the ice with the Canadiens next season, there will be a thundering ovation waiting for him from fans who will remember that one big goal, and the man who scored it.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-13

Player-Of-The-Week

<p><b>Fourth For Irvin</b></p><p>When the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup this season it was the fourth time that a Dick Irvin coached team has done so. He won once with Toronto and three times with Montreal.</p><p><b>Same Results</b></p><p>Last time the Montreal Cauadiens and the Boston Bruins met in the Stanley Cup finals was in 1946 and is It happens the results of that series were exactly the same as this one, 4-1 for Montreal.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE WENT</b></h2><h3><b>FINAL PLAYOFF RESULTS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01574/2251940-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="600" height="141"></div><p>April 9&mdash;Canadians 4, Boston 2.</p><p>April 11&mdash;Boston 4, Canadians 1.</p><p>April 12&mdash;Canadians 3. Boston 0.</p><p>April 14&mdash;Canadians 7, Boston 3.</p><p>April 16&mdash;Canadians 1, Boston 0.</p><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;A&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02546/2251933-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="597" height="139"></div><p>March 24&mdash;Detroit 7, Boston 0.</p><p>March 25&mdash;Boston 5. Detroit 3.</p><p>March 29&mdash;Boston 2, Detroit 1.</p><p>March 31&mdash;Boston 6, Detroit 2.</p><p>April 2&mdash;Detroit 6, Boston 4.</p><p>April 5&mdash;Boston 4, Detroit 2.</p><h3><b>SERIES &ldquo;B&rdquo;</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03489/2251926-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="598" height="148"></div><p>March 24&mdash;Canadians 3, Chicago 1.</p><p>Marcha 26&mdash;Canadians 4. Chicago 3.</p><p>March 29&mdash;Chicago 2, Canadians 1.</p><p>March 31&mdash;Chicago 2. Canadiens 1.</p><p>April 2&mdash;Chicago 4, Canadiens 2.</p><p>April 4&mdash;Canadiens 3, Chicago 0.</p><p>April 7&mdash;Canadiens 4, Chicago 1.</p><h3><b>TUESDAY. MARCH 31 Montreal 1 at Chicago 3</b></h3><p><b>(Fourth game best-of-seven semi-finals)</b></p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence. Bouchard. Johnson, Harvey, SL Laurent, MacPhesson; forwards. Meger, Reay, Geoffriou, Olmstead, Lach, Richard, Curry. Gamble, Moore, McCormack, Masnick.&rsquo;</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Gohl. Rollins; defence, Fogolin, Gadsby, Dewsbury. Raglan, Price, Mortson: forwards, Geen, Bodnar, Molenko, Lynn, Finney, Couture, Peters, Hucul, Gardner, McFadden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04418/2251919-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="602" height="335"></div><h3>Detroit 2 at Boston 6</h3><p><b>(Fourth game best-of-seven semi-finals)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05338/2251912-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="605" height="613"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, APRIL 2</b></h3><p><b>Chicago 4 at Montreal 2(Fifth game best-of-seven semi-finals)</b></p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Fogolin, Gadsby. Mortson, Dewsbury, Raglan; forwards, Gardner, McFadden, Peters, Moslenko, Couture, Lynn, Bodnar, Gee, Hucul, Finney, Price.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard. Johnson. Harvey, St. Laurent, MacPhersou; forwards. MacCormack, Curry, Gamble, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Reay, Geoffrion. Meger, Moore, Masnick.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06289/2251905-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="603" height="556"></div><h3><b>Boston 4 at Detroit 8</b></h3><p><b>(Fifth game best-of-seven semi-finals)</b></p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Godfrey, Armstrong, Laycoe, Martin; forwards. Schmidt, Klukay, Dumart, Sandford, Mackell, Creighton, McIntire, Toppazzlnl, Peirson, Chevrefils, La Bine.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk: defence. Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Wolt, Hay; forwards, Pavelich, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Bonin, Lesrwick, Delvecchio, Wilson, Prystal, Sinclair, Fielder.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07258/2251898-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="602" height="687"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, APRIL 4</b> Montreal 3 at Chicago 0</h3><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Plante; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards, Geoffrion, Reay, Moore, Olmstead, McCormack. Mosdell, Mackay, Davis, Curry, Lach, Richard, Mazur.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Fogolin, Gadsby, Mortson, Dewbury, Price; forwards, Gee, Bodnar, Moslenko, Peters, Lynn, Hucul, Finney, Couture, Gardner, McFadden, Conacher.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08240/2251891-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="598" height="292"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY. APRIL 5 Detroit 2 at Boston 4</b></h3><p><b>(Sixth game best-of-seven semi-finals)</b></p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards, Prystai, Howe. Lindsay, Leswick, Pavelich, Skov, Sinclair, Delvecchio, Wilson, Bonin, Jankowski</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Godfrey, Laycoe, Armstrong. Martin; forwards, Schmidt, Klukay, Dumart, Sandford, MacKell. McIntyre, Creighton, LaBine, Pelrsqn, Toppazzlni,</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09233/2251884-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="596" height="450"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY MARCH 24</b> Chicago 1 at Montreal 8</h3><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Fogolin. Gadsby, Mortson, Dewsbury, Raglan; forwards. Abel, Couture, Lynn Peters, Moslenko, Hucul, Bodnar, Finney, Gardner, Gee, McFadden.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent. MacPheraon; forwards, Reay, Geoffrion. Merger, Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Mc-Cormack, Curry, Gamble, Masnick and Moors.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10216/2251877-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="595" height="404"></div><h3><b>Boston 0 at Detroit 7</b></h3><p><b>(First game best-of-seven semt-finals</b></p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Godfrey, Armstrong, Laycoel forwards, Schmidt, Klukay, Dumurt, Sandford, Mackell, Sullivan, Creighton, Lund, Toppazzlni, Peirson.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence. Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards, Pavelich, Howe, Lindsay, Leawick, Prystat. Skov, Delvecchio, Sinclair, Wilson, Bonin, Fielder.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11189/2251870-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="606" height="636"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY MARCH 26 Chicago 3 at Montreal 4</b></h3><p><b>(Second game best-of-seven semi-finals)</b></p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson; forwards, Reay, Geoffrion, Meger. Lach, Richard, Olmstead, Mc-Cormack, Curry, Gamble, Moore, Anderson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01588/2251863-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="605" height="837"></div><h3>Boston B at Detroit 3</h3><p><b>(Second game best-of-seven semi-finals)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02514/2251856-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="601" height="582"></div><h3>SUNDAY, MARCH 29 Canadiens 1 at Chicago 2</h3><p><b>(Third game best-of-seven semi-finals)</b></p><p>(Canadiens lead best-of-seven semi-final-2-it</p><p>(Third game brat-of-seven semi-finals)</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent. MacPherson; forwards, Olmstead, Lach, Richard, Geoffrion, Curry, Gamble, Moore, Reay, McCormack, MacKay.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Fogllin, Gadsby, Dewsbury, Raglan, Price, Mortson forwards, Lynn, Finney, Conture, Peters, Moslenko, Hucul, Bodnar, Gardner, Gee, McFadden.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03434/2251849-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="598" height="605"></div><h3>Detroit 1 at Boston 2</h3><p>(Third game best-of-seven semi-finals)</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk,; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Wolt, Hay. Hrymnak; forwards, Pavelich, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Wilson, Prystai, Leswich, Skov, Bonin, Fielder.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Quackenbush, Godfrey. Laycoe, Armstrong; forwards, Schmidt, Klukay, Dumart, Mackell. Peirson, Sandford, Creighton, Toppazzinl, Lund, McIntyre, Chevrefils, Sullivan.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04332/2251842-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="600" height="597"></div><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 7 Chicago 1, at Montreal 4</h3><p>(Seventh game best-of-seven semifinals)</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens earned the right to meet the Bos-Jon Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals by downing the Chicago Black Hawks 4-1 in the deciding game of their best-of-seven semi-finals. Ed &lsquo;Spider, Mazur was the hero for the Habs, scoring two goals, including the winner in the second period. The rookie, brought in from the Victoria Cougars of the WHL as playoff insurance, was the best player on the ice.</p><p>Bernie Geoffrion and Maurice Richard were the other Hab marksmen while Bill Mosienko tallied the lone Chicago goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05246/2251835-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="600" height="519"></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 9 Boston 2 at Montreal 4</h3><p>(First game best-of-seven finals)</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Montreal Canadiens jumped off to a one game lead in their best-of-seven Stanley Cup final series with the Boston Bruins by dumping the Beantowners 4-2 in Montreal.</p><p>Boston got the first goal of the game In the first period, a. rifle shot by Bob Armstrong but before the period Dickie Moore had tied it up for the Habs. They added two more in the second session, Kenny Mosdell and Floyd Curry counting.</p><p>Each team scored once in the final frame, Johnny Peirson for the Bruins and Maurice Richard for the Canadiens.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06193/2251828-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="594" height="641"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 11 Boston 4, Canadiens 1.</h3><p>(Second game best-of-seven finals)</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;The Boston Bruins tied their series with the Montreal Canadiens at one game apiece by downing th Habs 4-1.</p><p>Ed Sandford continued his outstanding goal production for the Bruins, scoring twice with singles going to Leo LaBine and veteran Milt Schmidt. Can adiens lone counter was scored by Bert Olmstead.</p><p>Hershey&rsquo;s Red Henry replaced Jim Henry in the Boston cage after Sugar Jim was hurt in the scuffle.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Jim Henry and Red Henry; defense, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Armstrong, Laycoe, Martin; forwards: Schmidt, Klukay, Chevrefils, Sandford, Mackell, Dumart, Labine, Creighton, McIntyre, Toppazzinl, Peirson.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, Plante; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent, Harvey: forwards: Moore, Olmstead, Geoffrion, Lach, Mazur, Richard, Mosdell, Curry, Meger, McCormack. Davis, Mackay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07149/2251821-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="606" height="539"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 12 Canadiens 3, Boston 0</h3><p>(Third game best-of-seven finals) (Canadiens lead best-of-seven final 2-1)</p><p>BOSTON&mdash;With Gerry McNeil back In the Montreal Canadiens goals replacing Jacques Plante, the Habs blanked the Boston Bruins 3-0 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup finals.</p><p>Canadiens scored a goal in every period while playing such sound defensive hockey that the Bruins had only 19 shots on goal in the whole game.</p><p>Montreal marksmen were Tom Johnson, Paul Masnick and Ken Mosdell.</p><p>McNeil was airtight but it was really a collective effort that won it for the Habitants. The defense played a terrific game, but the forwards gave them plenty of help with some fierce backchecking.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defense, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent: forwards: Lach, Richard, Mazur, Mackay, Geoffrion, Curry, Moore, Olmstead, Mosdell, Davis, Masnick.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, G. Henry; defense: Quackenbush, Godfrey, Laycoe, Armstrong, Martin; forwards: Schmidt, Chevrefils, Klukay, LaBine, Sandford, Peirson, Mackell, Dumart, Creighton, McIntyre, Toppazzini.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-08120/2251814-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="596" height="310"></div><h3>TUESDAY APRIL 14 Montreal 7 at Boston 3</h3><p>(Fourth game best-of-seven final series)</p><p>BOSTON&mdash;Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard broke loose for three goals and the result was that the Montreal Canadiens thumped the Boston Bruins 7-3 and took a stranglehold on the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>Besides Richard&rsquo;s hat trick, other Canadlen scovers were Lome Davis, Dickie Moore, Bernie Geoffrion and Callum Mackay.</p><p>Boston goals were scored by Dave Creighton, Milt Schmidt and Jack McIntyre.</p><p>The Habs ran the count to 3-0 in the first period before the first response from the Bruins, added a single in the second and three more in the final frame.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Johnson, Bouchard, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards, Lach, Richard, Mazur* Masnick, Geoffrion, Curry, Reay, Moor Olmstead, Mosdell, Davis, MacKay.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, G. Henry; defence^ Quackenbush, Armstrong, Godfrey, Laycoe, Martin; forwards, Schmidt, Chevrefils, Labine, Sandford. Peirson, Maskell, Toppazzinl, Klukay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0996/2251807-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="607" height="638"></div><h3>THURSDAY APRIL 16 Boston 0 at Montreal 1</h3><p>(Fifth game best-of-seven final series)</p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;A dramatic goal by Elmer Lach at the 1: 22 mark of the first sudden death overtime gave the Montreal Canadiens a 1-0 victory over the Boston Bruins and the Stanley Cup. The Habs won the best-of-seven seriee four games to one.</p><p>The teams battled through 0 minuter of regulations time without a score and the sudden ending to the game brought about by Lach&rsquo;s goal completely stunned the capacity throng at the Montreal Forum for just a second Then pandemonium reigned and teammate Maurice Richard, who drew the assists on the winning play, waltzed, around the ice with Lach.</p><p>Canadien captain Butch Bouchard was presented with the Stanley Cup by Cooper Smeaton one of the trustees of the hallo-wed mug.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, J. Henry; defence, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Armstrong, Laycoe, Martin; forwards, Schmidt, Dumart, Klukay, Creighton, McIntyre, Labine, Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Toppazzinl, Chevrefils.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goa], McNeil; defencer Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Lau-rent; forwards, Lach, Richard, Mazur, Rcay, Geoffrion, Moore, Mosdell, Davis, MacKay, Masnick, Curry, Olmstead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-1079/2251800-1-eng-US/f0010-102.jpg" title="f0010-10" width="599" height="391"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>Final Playoff Scoring</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-12154/2251793-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="608" height="1694"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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<p><b>He Blocks Too</b></p><p>Bob Chrystal of the Cleveland Barons, a husky defenseman, scored all three of his team&rsquo;s goals in the last two games against the Pittsburgh Hornets in the Calder Cup finals.</p><p><b>Dangerous Dan Clicks</b></p><p>Danny Lewicki pointing for another chance with the parent Toronto Maple Leafs, was tied for high man in points In the Playoffs with Cleveland&rsquo;s Jackie Gordon&hellip;</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE WENT</b></h2><h3><b>PLAYOFF STANDING</b></h3><p><b>Cleveland wins best-of-seven Calder Cup finals four games to three.</b></p><p><b>Results</b></p><p>Tuesday April 7, Cleveland 2 Pittsburgh 0.</p><p>Thursday April 9, Pittsburgh 5 Cleveland 2.</p><p>Saturday April 11, Pittsburgh 4 Clieveland 1.</p><p>Sunday April 12, Cleveland 2 Pittsburgh 1.</p><p>Wednesday April 15, Pittsburgh 3, Cleveland 2.</p><p>&lsquo;Thursday April 16, Cleveland 1 Pittsburgh 0.</p><h3>TUESDAY, APRIL 7 (Pittsburgh 0 at Cleveland 2)</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01585/2252051-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="613" height="795"></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 9 Cleveland 2 at Pittsburgh 5</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02538/2252044-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="608" height="633"></div><h3>SATURDAY, APRIL 11 Cleveland 1 at Pittsburgh 4</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03463/2252037-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="611" height="859"></div><h3>SUNDAY, APRIL 12 Pittsburgh 1 at Cleveland 2</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04382/2252030-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="600" height="605"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, APRil 15 Cleveland 2 at Pittsburgh 3.</h3><p>(Best-of-seven Series tied, 3-3)</p><p>PITTSBURGH&mdash;A goal by Dangerous Danny Lewlcki at 11: 46 of the fourth overtime period kept the Pittsburgh Hornets in the running for the Calder Cup and enabled them to tie their best-of-seven series against the Cleveland Barons at 3-3-. The teams move over to Cleveland for the seventh and deciding fame of the playoff tomorrow night.</p><p>Big Bob Chrystal put the Barrons ahead 2-0 in the opening period on a pair of goals, the first and unassisted effort at 5: 03. He combined at 14: 39 with Steve Wochy and Jackie Gordon to run the count to 2-0.</p><p>Lewlcki got Pittsburgh&rsquo;s first goal on passes from Pete Backor and Bobby SolInger at 15: 17 of the second and Andy Barbe made it 22 on a play with Bolinger and Lewlcki at 1: 48 of the third.</p><p>The teams then settled down to an overtime siege going through three complete periods with effecting a score. Finally Lewlcki pulled the trick in the fourth to force the series to the limit.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defence: Chrystal. Williams. Karrys, Heller; forwards: Gordon, Olson, Wochy, Bailey, Sonmor, Hildebrand, Glover, Cereslno, Ross, Stearns.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defence: Mathers, Backor, Juzda, Sullivan; forwards: Lewlcki, Solinger, Barbe, Marshall, Balfour, Sabourin, McLellan, Timgren, Blair, Ezinicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05317/2252023-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="604" height="1058"></div><h3>THURSDAY, APRIL 16 Pittsburgh 0 at Cleveland 1</h3><p>(Cleveland wins best-of-seven series, 4-3)</p><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;The Pittsburgh Hornets and the Cleveland Barons battled through 66 minutes and 23 seconds of hockey before Bob Chrystal scored the only goal of the game that gave the Barons the Calder Cup in a series that went the limit of seven games.</p><p>The goal was Chrystal&rsquo;s third in the last two games and represented all Cleveland&rsquo;s tallies over that stretch. His winning effort was on a long shot that was screened and eluded Pittsburgh goalie Gil Mayer completely.</p><p><b>Pittsburgh:</b> Goal, Mayer; defense: Mathers. Backor, Sullivan, Juzda; forwards: Lewickl, Marshall, McLellan, Solinger, Balfour, Timgren, Barbe, Sab ourin, Blair, Ezinicki.</p><p><b>Cleveland:</b> Goal, Bower; defense: Williams, Chrystal. Heller, Shero; forwards: Gordon, Bailey, Stearns, Ross, Olson, Sonmor, Ceresino, Wochy, Hildebrand, Glover.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06283/2252016-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="603" height="500"></div><h2><b>Mr. Payoff of The Playoffs</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07258/2252009-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="846" height="933"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB CHRYSTAL</b> Cleveland&rsquo;s high scoring defense-man, proved that he&rsquo;s equally at home when it comes* to putting the puck in the net as he is in keeping it out. He scored all Cleveland&rsquo;s goals in the last two games of the playoff against the Pittsburgh Hornets. His last goal being the only counter of the game as the Barons won the Calder Cup.</figcaption></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>PLAYOFF SCORING</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08247/2252002-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="600" height="1638"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>A dramatic goal by defensemen Bob Chrystal at the 6.23 mark of the first overtime period gave the Clevelanr Barons the seventh and deciding game of their best-of-seven series with the Pittsburgh Hornets and established them as 1953 Calder Cup champions.</p><p>It was the second time in the last three years that the Barons and Hornets had met in the Cup finals and in both cases the series went the limit with Cleveland finally winning out.</p><p>The Cleveland team went into the series as definite favorites, having ended up atop the heap over the regular schedule, but the Hornets came mighty close to upsetting the applecart. Despite the Barons&rsquo; victory, it is signifigant to note that of all the games played this season, including playoffs, the two clubs came out exactly even, showing how well matched the finalists were.</p><p>The Barons grabbed off the all important first game of the series as goaler Johnny Bower racked up his third playoff shutout, blanking the Hornets 2-0.</p><p>In the second contest the Barons increased their series lead by again turning back the Hornets, this time 3-2 on a goal by Ike Hildebrand at the, 40 mark of the first overtime period.</p><p>Pittsburgh finally won a game as they bounced back with a 5-2 win in the third meeting of the two clubs. Ray Sabourin was the scoring hero in this one as he connected for a pair of goals.</p><p>The Hornets evened the series at two games apiece by taking the fourth game 4-1 on their home ice. Once again it was Sabourin who proved to be the thorn in the side of Cleveland&rsquo;s short series&rsquo; hopes. Bangin Bobby connected for another pair and it was a new series.</p><p>Back on their own ice the Barons bounced back into the lead with Eager Eddie Olson taking the hero&rsquo;s role. It was his goal at the 13.52 mark of the final frame that gave the Clevelanders a close 2-1 win. Cal Stearns had tied it up, also in last period, after Bob Solinger had given the Hornets a first period 1-0 lead.</p><p>Then came the game that came very close to tying an American League record for lenght of time played. The Hornets finally won it but it wasn&rsquo;t until the two teams had battled through 131 minutes and 46 seconds of hockey. Dangerous Danny Lewicki was the one to break up the prolonged contest, his goal at 11.46 of the fourth overtime period giving the Pittsburghers a 3-2 win and a 3-3 tie in the series. Defensemen Bob Chrystal scored both goals for the Barons.</p><p>The seventh and deciding game also went into an extra session and again It was Chrystal who did the scoring for Cleveland. He fired a long screened shot that Pittsburgh goaler Gil Mayer seemed ready to stop but at the last minute the disc took a crazy hop and that was the game, the series and he Calder Cup for the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>The Barons&rsquo; Jackie Gordon and Danny Lewicki of the Hornets were the scoring leaders throughout the playoffs. each connecting for ten, the former on four goals and six assists and the latter on six goals and four assists.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02472/2252089-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="536" height="546"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOB CHRYSTAL</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Dangerous Danny</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01561/2252082-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="1192" height="1830"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HORNET HOT-SHOT</b>&mdash;Danny Lewicki, Pittsburgh Hornets&rsquo; top point-producer in the series against Cleveland and Hershey, kept the Stingers hopes alive in the sixth game when he came through with his second goal of the game in the fourth overtime period to bring the Hornets a 3-2 victory, forcing a seventh and deciding game in Cleveland. On his fine showing this year, Danny appears to have earned another crack with the parent Toronto Maple Leafs.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Cleveland Captures AHL Championship

<p><b>Were Near Mark</b></p><p>Had not Vancouver been eliminated either or both Andy Bathgate or Larry Popein would have set a new scoring record for the play-offs. Both had 15 points in the 9 games they played.</p><p><b>Three Short</b></p><p>Andy Bathgate&rsquo;s 11 playoff goals equalled the mark set by George Senick last season but is 3 short of the record set by Larry Kennedy of Los Angeles in 17 games in 1950,</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><h3>SERIES A</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01557/2252242-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="600" height="173"></div><h3>SERIES D</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02514/2252235-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="599" height="167"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3><p><b>Series A</b></p><p>Mar. 26&mdash;New West. 2 at Saskatoon 4</p><p>Mar. 28&mdash;New West. 4 at Saskatoon 11</p><p>Mar. 30&mdash;New West. 3 at Saskatoon 1</p><p>April 2&mdash;Saskatoon 1 at New West. 3</p><p>April 4&mdash;Saskatoon 2 at New West. 4</p><p>April 6&mdash;Saskatoon 2 at New West. 1</p><p>April 9&mdash;New West. 0 at Saskatoon 7</p><p><b>Series D</b></p><p>April 4th&mdash;Edmonton 3 at Vancouver 2</p><p>April 7th&mdash;Edmonton 2 at Vancouver 5</p><p>April 11th&mdash;Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 5</p><p>April 13th&mdash;Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 3</p><h3>THURSDAY APRIL 2 SASKATOON 1 at N. WESTMINSTER 3</h3><p>(Fourth game best-of-seven semi-finals)</p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;The New Westminster Royals downed the Saskatoon Quakers 3-1 to even their best-of &bull;even semi-final series a two games apiece.</p><p>Gordie Fashoway was the scoring hero for the Royals, scoring two goals.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, B. Bentley; defence, Ivan, Ross, Parker, D. Bentley; forward, Kaleta, Manson, McLeod, McCullough, Senlck, Jeffrey, Chad.</p><p><b>New Westminsteer:</b> Goal, Dechene, Cotnoir; defense, Coburn, Durham, Bergeron; forwards, MsNab, Boyce, Canada, Love, Ullvott, Dorohoy, Fashoway, Slater. Robert, Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05363/2252228-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="607" height="551"></div><h3>SATURADY, APRIL 4 Saskatoon 2 at New Westminster 4</h3><p>(Fifth game best-of-seven semi-finals)</p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;The New Westminster Royals went ahead in their &ldquo;best-of-seven semi-final series with the Saskatoon Quakers by downing the league champs 4-2.</p><p>It was the Royals&rsquo; third win in a row in the series.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, B. Bentley; defence, Evan, Ross, Parker, D. Bentley; forwards, Katela, Manson, McLeod, McCullough, fienlck, Jeffrey, Chad.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene, Cotnior; defence, Coburn, Durham, Bergeron; forwards, McNab, Boyce, Cabana, Love, Ullyott, Dorohoy, Fashoway, Slater, Robert, Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06313/2252221-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="604" height="809"></div><h3>Edmonton 8 at Vancouver 2</h3><p>(First game best-of-five semi-finals)</p><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;Edmonton / Flyers took a one game lead in their best of five semi-finals series by edging by the second place finishers 8-2.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence. Folk, Bouchard, Zeidel, Arbour; forwards, Polle, Johnson, Uniac, Relbel, Anderson, Haley, Wilson, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Lancien, Fontlnato; forward, Hickey, Atanas, Smith, Popein, Mackintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Brown.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07294/2252214-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="603" height="716"></div><h3>SUNDAY APRIL 6 Saskatoon 2 at New Westminster 1</h3><p>(Sixth game best-of-seven semi-finals)</p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER&mdash;Saskatoon Quakers bounced back to down New Westminster Royals 2-1, leaving their best-of-seven Western Hockey League semi-final tied at three gams apiece.</p><p>Quakers&rsquo; goalie Bev Bentley turned in a sparkling game, as Royals held an edge in the play for most of the route. Bentley missed getting the first shutout of the series when Blinky Boyce scored Royals&rsquo; only goal at 19: 40 of the third period.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal B. Bentley; defence, Parker, Ross, Milford, Evans; forwards, Manson, Senlck, McLeod, McCullough, Kaltea, D. Bentley, Jeffrey, Chad, Sweany.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Coburn, Bergeron, Durham; forwards, McNab, Dorohoy Slater, Ullyot, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Boyce, Robert, Cabana.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08278/2252207-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="599" height="719"></div><h3>MONDAY APRIL 7 Edmonton 2 at Vancouver 5</h3><p>(Second game best-of-five semi-finals)</p><p>VANCOUVER&mdash;Edmonton Flyers, now know what it is to be on the other side of the fence.</p><p>The Edmontonians had the Vancouver Canucks in the palms of their hands for more than 50 minutes, but when the tumult of a Vancouver surge died down, the Canucks, once down 2-0, were out on top 5-2.</p><p>The win, before another capacity house of 5,300 evened this best-of-five Western League semi-final playoff at a game apiece.</p><p><b>Edmonton</b>&mdash;Goal, Hall; defence. Folk, Bouchard, B. Polls, Arbour; forwards, Zeidel, Johnson, Uniac, Haley, Wilson, MacDonald, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady, D. Polle, Anderson.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Lancien, Fontlnato; forwards, Hickey, Smith, Leier, Atanas, Mackintosh, Popein, Unger, Kuzma, Kaiser, Bathgate.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09267/2252200-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="600" height="928"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 New Westminster 0 at Saskatoon 7</h3><p>(Seventh game best-of-seven semifinals)</p><p><b>SASKATOON</b>&mdash;The Saskatoon Quakers are in the WHL final. They made</p><p>the grade in the most convincing fashion when they smothered New Westminster Royals, 7-0, to take the best-of-seven semi-finals, 4-3.</p><p>Quakers, who will meet either Edmonton or Vancouver in the final series, were masters of all they surveyed before a jampacked house of 5200.</p><p><b>Saskatoon:</b> Goal, B. Bentley; defence, Evan, Ross, Parker, D. Bentley; forwards, Kaleta, Manson, McLeod, McCullough, Senlck, Jeffrey, Chad.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence, Coburn, Durham, Bergeron; forwards, McNab, Boyce, Cabana, Love, Ullyott, Dorohoy, Fashoway, Slater, Robert, Hamilton.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10252/2252193-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="594" height="601"></div><h3>FRIDAY APRIL 11 Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 5</h3><p>(Third game best-of-five semi-finals)</p><p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;The Edmonton Flyers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 here tonight to take a 2-1 lead in their best of 5 games series.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Zeidel. Folk, Polle and Arbour; forwards, Reibel, Wilson, Hannigan, Bouchard. Anderson, O&rsquo;Grady, Haley, Johnson, Uniac.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Currie, Dick, Fontlnato, Lancien; forwards, Popein, Bathgate, Hickey, Leier, Smith. Kaiser, Unger, Kuzma, Mackintosh, Atanas.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11229/2252186-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="603" height="684"></div><h3>SUNDAY APRIL 13 Vancouver 1 at Edmonton 3</h3><p>(Fourth game bestof-flve semi-finals)</p><p>EDMONTON Alta.&mdash;The Edmontor Flyers defeated Vancouver 3-1 in a hard fought, cleanly played game here to win the semi-final series 3 games to 1. Edmonton now play Saskatoon for the Presidents Cup and the play-off Championship. Harry Dick, burly Vancouver defenceman scored the first goal of the game at 5: 37 of the second period. Ray Hannigan of Edmontor tied it up less than four minutes later, Jim Anderson notched the winner at 11.40 of the second period. Play was fast and furious with no futher scoring until the dying seconds of the gams when Jim Wilson of Edmonton cinched victory with a goal in the Empty net.</p><p><b>Vancouver:</b> Goal, Francis; defence, Dick, Currie, Lancien, Fontlnato; forward, Hickey, Atanas. Smith, Popein, Mackintosh, Leier, Wylie, Manson, Bathgate, Brown.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Folk, Bouchard, Zeidel. Arbour; forwards, Polle, Johnson. Uniac. Reibel. Anderson, Haley, Wilson, Hannigan, O&rsquo;Grady.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12202/2252179-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="591" height="443"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><h3>VANCOUVER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13170/2252172-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="594" height="624"></div><h3>EDMONTON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14142/2252165-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="595" height="668"></div><h3>SASKATOON</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-15116/2252158-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="597" height="691"></div><h3>NEW WESTMINSTER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1679/2252151-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="594" height="455"></div><h3>GOALTENDERS RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1761/2252144-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="592" height="194"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN HOCKYE LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HUGH WATSON</div><p>TACOMA, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Muzz Patrick, whose interest in the Boston Bruins is more than just a tie-up now that Warren Godfrey, an exTacoma Rocket, has made good in a big way, has another budding star for the parent club.</p><p>Muzz, who doesn&rsquo;t go too far wrong when analyzing a young hockey player&rsquo;s chances of making the big leagues, says Barton Bradley, 23-year-old centre, is almost ready to move up.</p><p>&ldquo;I say &lsquo;almost&rsquo; because I think he needs another year, here in Tacoma,&rsquo;&rsquo; says Muzz. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got everything he needs right now except strength. If he could put on a little weight he&rsquo;d be a cinch for the NHL.&rdquo;</p><p>Bradley had a brief trial with the Bruins at the tailend of the 1949-50 season. After playing 61 games with Hershey of the American League, Bradley was called up by Boston for a one-game stint.</p><p>The next season he was with Tulsa in the now-defunct United States league. Last year, his first at Tacoma, he earned Patrick&rsquo;s praise for a steady job at centre.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01552/2252287-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="292" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Barton Bradley</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02452/2252280-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="286" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Warren Godfrey</b></figcaption></div><p>He scored 26 goals and added 47 assists this year for 73 points on a seventh place Tacoma club. Actually, the Rockets wound up in a tie with New Westminster Royals for sixth but lost their bid for a playoff berth because they had two less wins than the Royals.</p><h2>Despatcher</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03336/2252273-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="552" height="931"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MUZZ PATRICK</b></figcaption></div><p>Born in Fort William, Ont., Bradley is a good skater and a fine stick-handler. &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t remind me of anyone but himself,&rdquo; says Patrick. &ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t got a distinctive style, yet he doesn&rsquo;t resemble any established player.&rdquo;</p><p>Bradley is one of the mainstays around which Patrick will rebuild his club for the 1953-54 season.</p><p>&ldquo;I could lose him,&rdquo; admits Muzz. &ldquo;However, I still think he needs another year in the minors. Then he&rsquo;ll be ready for the Stanley Cup champions.&rdquo;</p><p>That last bit wasn&rsquo;t said with tongue in cheek. Muzz said all along that brother Lynn and the Bruins would beat Detroit then win the Stanley Cup.</p><p>&ldquo;The Wings were tougher for Lynn than I expected, though,&rdquo; says Muzz. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;d go six games.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Patrick Says Bradley Year Away From NHL

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VICTORIA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>What does a professional hockey player do in the summer&mdash;In the off season? With this ques-tion uppermost in our mind we Interviewed each member of the Victoria Cougars, March 22, last night of WHL League play and ask him what he planned to do when the season ended.</p><p>Starting from goal out here are the answers.</p><p><b>Jerry Cotnoir</b>&mdash;Return to Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, with wife and daughter and play semipro or pro baseball.</p><p><b>Don Webster</b>&mdash;Visit father and mother in Toronto. Will be first visit and return to Toronto in five years for Don, wife and daughter. Plans to stay in Toronto but may return to Los Angeles, where he worked for KTLA, Paramount TV station, prior to joining the Cats.</p><p><b>Stan Long</b>&mdash;Will remain in town with wife for a week or so then fly home to Barrie, Ont. to recuperate from serious reg injury.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04253/2252332-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="294" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ernie Roche</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Ernie Roche</b>&mdash;Return home to Montreal. No plans for summer as yet, but in all likelihood will go to work for a construction company.</p><p><b>Fiori Goegan</b>&mdash;Plans to stay in Victoria. Wife&rsquo;s home is here. Will go to work and play some softball.</p><p><b>Bernie Strongman</b>&mdash;Has made Victoria his home for the last several years. Bernie &ldquo;hung up the blades&rsquo;&rsquo; after the last game at Seattle. The veteran of the Cats is calling it quits. He will go to work here.</p><p><b>Andy Hebenton</b>&mdash;A native of Winnipeg, Andy, his wife, a Victoria girl, and new son will make their home here. Hopes to work at Shipyards again.</p><p><b>Beg Abbott</b>&mdash;Plans to return home to Winnipeg and get a job, but Reg may decide to return to Victoria within a month or so and spend the summer here.</p><p><b>Stan Maxwell</b>&mdash;Will return to his home at North, Bay, Ontario, but on way Stan, wife and child will stop over at his wife&rsquo;s home at Lethbridge, Alta. Stan will be a salesman and play softball this summer.</p><p><b>Eddie Mazur</b>&mdash;Return home to Winnipeg. Go to work for a construction company and play some baseball.</p><p><b>Colin Kilburn</b>&mdash;Return home to Edmonton. Has billiard parlor in Edmonton in partnership with teammate Doug Anderson, but may go to work for former coach Frank Currie, who has offered him a job selling bonds and stocks in Edmonton.</p><p><b>Eddie Dorohoy</b>&mdash;Has no plans except he will stay In Victoria, where he has made his home the last two summers.</p><p><b>Doug Anderson</b>&mdash;Will return home to Edmonton and from there to Jasper National Park and a pleasant summer&rsquo;s job at that famous resort.</p><p><b>Ivan Irwin</b>&mdash;Return home to Toronto and after a short holiday go to work for a construction, company to toughten him up for next season.</p><p><b>Jim Fairburn</b>&mdash;Return home to Regina with wife and son and a job as a plasterer.</p><p><b>George Wilkinson</b> (trainer)&mdash;Home is in Victoria but George will take over as head Physiotherapist at famous Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., in a fews weeks time.</p><p>Most of the boys play some sport as a hobby during the summer.</p><p>P.S.: Irwin, Kilburn, Anderson and Mazur joined Montreal for the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><h2>Shipyards</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05192/2252325-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="571" height="883"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ANDY HEBENTON</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06157/2252318-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="280" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Colin Kilburn</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0014-04

How Do Players Spend Summer? Scribe Asks Victoria Cougars

<p>EDMONTON, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>The playing coach of the Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; number one farm club at Edmonton is one of the most travelled pucksters in the game today. He is &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; Poile. This was Poile&rsquo;s third coaching job&mdash;second of a pro team and first in the Western League&mdash;in as many seasons. Last year the former NHL sharpshooter coached the Glace Bay Miners of the Maritime Major League. His cluL finished fourth in the playoffs. He finished fifth in scoring with 93 points, consisting of 33 goals and 6 0 assists. His first coaching job was at Tulsa the season of 1950-51 in the now in-active United States League. &ldquo;Bud&rdquo; scored 53 points that season and was especially dangerous in the playoffs, garnering 5 goals and 11 points in nine games. Prior to coaching Tulsa Poile was a seven year veteran of the NHL during which time he. played for every big league team except Montreal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07116/2252363-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="294" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bud Poile</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0014-07

Much Travelled Poile Seems Set

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>It&rsquo;s the Penticton V&rsquo;s versus the Fort William Beavers in the western senior hockey final and the right to travel east to meet either Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen or Smith&rsquo;s Falls for the Allan Cup.</p><p>The British Columbia club will play the whole series 2,000 miles from home in Fort William but they showed that foreign ice presents no problem to them by winning the opening game of the best-of-seven final, 5-2.</p><p>Both finalists came through terrific series to earn their spots In the final round. Penticton was forced to rally from behind a two-game deficit to beat the Spokane Flyers, one of the first Amer-ican clubs ever to compete for a Canadian hockey title. The best-of-seven series went the limit&mdash;and then some, with Penticton finally winning out in the eighth game.</p><p>Fort William, on the other hand, waged a gallant comeback to trip the Regina Caps, four games to two. The Beavers lost the first two games of the series on Regina ice. But when the series was switched to Fort William, they took command and won four straight.</p><p>Penticton is made up of a veteran crop of players who have travelled much around the hockey trail. Playing coach of the club is Bill Carse, an ex-NHL star with Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>A trio of brothers&mdash;Billy, Grant and Dick Warwick&mdash;form one starry forward unit for the team. All are former pros, with Grant seeing action with New York Rangers, Boston and Canadiens in the big time. They hail from Regina.</p><p>Edmonton sent Penticton such starry talent as Don Culley, Jim Kilburn and Jim Fleming. Willie (Scrap-iron) Schmidt spent five years with Vancouver and New Westminster of the coast league before lining up with Penticton. Another former coast league star on their roster Is forward Jack McIntyre, who left Victoria in midseason to come to Penticton.</p><p>To oppose Penticton, coach Joe (Baldy) McArthur of the Fort William Beavers has a fairly young club whose strong forte Is passing and skating. Their ice general is Larry Dunville, the balding defenceman who has seen minor league action. Harold Brayshaw is another stalwart on defence. Up front they have the Kirk brothers, Jerry and Art. Jerry performed with the New York Rovers last Beason.</p><p>Prior to eliminating Regina, the Forts took out the Fort Frances Canadians, last year&rsquo;s Allan Cup winners. They&rsquo;re out to keep the historic Cup in the Lakehead area.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01529/2252401-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="297" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Warwick</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02471/2252394-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="303" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Grant Warwick</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Penticton V’s Vets Spark Entry To Final

<div class="byline">By LEN TAYLOR</div><p>KITCHENER, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Canny Max Silverman, the old Silver Fox of Sudbury, is back beating the drum for his dream scheme of a North-South interlocking senior series in Ontario.</p><p>Maxie, whose current edition of the Wolves bowed out to Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen in a thrilling all-Ontario final, thinks it is the only plan to solidify growing senior support in both sections of the province.</p><p>He advocated the interlocking games three years ago, before the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs of Ontario and Quebec instituted a similar scheme with considerable success, but the seniors weren&rsquo;t ready for it then.</p><p>What he would like to see is a single home-and-home round between the four NOHA clubs and the seven OHA teams. After the showing of the Wolves in the allOntario final with K-W Dutchmen a lot of southern opinion, not favorably disposed on the grounds of lack of competition from the north, has been changed.</p><p>With two of the NOHA teams close together, in the Canadian and Michigan Soos, it should be possible for clubs from the South to dispose of two games on one weekend by playing on the Canadian side of the border on Saturday and the U.S. side on Sunday.</p><p>This would leave single trips to Sudbury and North Bay, for other weekends and avoid time off work for southern players, most of whom have full-time employment in addition to their hockey interests.</p><h2><b>Would Share Gate</b></h2><p>One other concession, a gate-sharing plan, might also be worked out by mutual consent. This would give several of the smaller-rink entries in the OHA a chance to cut into the large attendances in the north and pay for travelling.</p><p>It&rsquo;s a proposition that will get considerable thought before next season rolls around.</p><p>As a result of their triumph over the classy Sudbury club the K-W Dutchmen enhanced their Allan Cup challenge. They are currently engaged with Smiths Falls in the eastern final and while it is unlikely that they will shatter attendance records as the Sudbury series did a great deal of fan interest is evident.</p><p>In the seven-game set between the Wolves and Dutchmen paid admissions numbered 47,493, an all-time record for North-South play by a wide margin.</p><p>Dutchmen had their difficulties in winning after the Wolves took on Owen Sound goalie Bob Gillson to replace Lome Anderson who suffered a 40-cut stitch in the second game at Kitchener.</p><p>The series was played against a background of beefs about the officiating. For the first six ga-mes two referees, one from each competing association, were in charge. In the windup struggle the CAHA sent in Hap Shouldice and Stan. Pratt from Ottawa and they drew praise from all sides for the way they took command.</p><p>Feautre of the series, too, was the fact that second-string forward lines dominated play for both clubs.</p><p>For Sudbury the aggressive, smooth-working line centered by Yacker Flynn, with Maunni Kauppi on left and Tatter McClellan on right, stole the show. These Sudbury homebrews, who once performed in Atlantic City, gave the strong Dutchmen rearguards constant trouble.</p><p>For the Twin City winners Bobby Schnurr, a centre who once played good hockey with Hershey and Tulsa; left-winger Maurice Leveque from the Lakehead; and right-winger Doug Verity, a 33-year-old veteran, were top line going both ways.</p><h2><b>Planner</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03394/2252432-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="590" height="600"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX SILVERMAN</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Silverman Proposes Interlocking Series Between NOHA And OH A Teams

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>If Leighton &ldquo;Happy&rdquo; Emms decides to retire from hockey, as threatened, at the end of this season his pipe-and-slippers existence will probably be cheered by memories of one of the most successful coaching records in the history of the Ontario Hockey Association.</p><p>Emms&rsquo; Barrie Flyers gave him another OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; championship&rsquo; recently by eliminating Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s in the eighth game of a best-of-nine series. That was Emms&rsquo; fourth OHA title in six seasons. It might also be his last because he said a few weeks ago that he planned to retire.</p><p>Doubtless Emms is nursing ambitions to carry off the Memorial Gup before he writes 30 to his stormy hockey career. And although this year&rsquo;s edition of the Flyers isn&rsquo;t as strong in all de-partments as some of his past teams it has the desire and fighting spirit to go all the way. They proved that in the series with St. Mike&rsquo;s.</p><p>At one time in the bitterly-fought final there were signs that the Flyers might be starting to crack. St. Mike&rsquo;s won the fifth game of the series on Barrie ice to lead the series 3-2 and the Flyers faced a difficult comeback fight. But they ignored the odds and swept the next three games despite injuries to two of their best players. Nobody doubted their claims to the championship after that recovery.</p><h2><b>Goaler Injured</b></h2><p>Goal-keeper Bill Harrington suffered torn leg muscles in the fifth game of the series which forced his removal from the lineup. Emms has to appeal to the OHA for a replacement and he procured Merv Edwards, who played for St. Catharines Teepees earlier in the season.</p><p>Edwards looked rusty in his first two starts but the Flyers played inspired hockey, gave him plenty of protection and, as a result, he won his first three starts. The injury was a bitter blow to Harrington. When Edwards played his first game it meant that Harrington, even if he recovers from his injury, may not rejoin the team this season.</p><p>High-scoring Orv Tessier, Harrington&rsquo;s team-mate with Kitchener Greenshirts earlier in the season before Emms bought them last December, also finished out the series with St. Mike&rsquo;s on the limp. He saw only limited action in the last two games after running full tilt into a goal post in the sixth game.</p><p>But Tessier and the rest of the Barrie team expected to be in first-class shape for the opening of the eastern Canada final with Phil Watson&rsquo;s Quebec Citadelles. Watson, who did everything but hurl chairs at Emms earlier in the season, tried to bury the hatchet on the eve of the series by declaring, tongue in cheek: &lsquo;&lsquo;that Hap Emms is the greatest coach junior hockey ever produced.&rdquo;</p><p>Emms, not caught off guard by this glowing tribute, growled back: &lsquo;&lsquo;They (Citadelles) have won nothing. We shouldn&rsquo;t even be playing them.&rdquo; (Eds. Note: Barrie won the opener 9-2) The betting was that Watson would be back in character too before the series progressed too far.</p><p>&ldquo;One of the outstanding players for the Barrie team through the playoffs was tumbling Tony Poeta, the little speed-ball who formerly played for Galt Black Hawks. Emms procured him earlier in the season for Hilary Menard. Later he described the transaction as, &ldquo;the best deal I ever made.&rdquo;</p><p>It looked it too during the playoffs as the indestructible Tony played with remarkable consistency, seldom experienced a night off and possessed an admirable habit of scoring important goals. Barrie fans, realizing his value to the team, voted him the most valuable player of the Flyers and made him a presentation. Tony admitted blushingly that he almost refused to report to Barrie when he was traded.</p><h2><b>Injured</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01376/2252463-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="589" height="1069"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BILL HARRINGTON</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Shouldn’t Even Be Playing Them” Says Happy Emms of Citadelles

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA. Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Indicating that Frank Boucher should mind his own business, Al Pickard, the veteran official of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, has struck back at the New York Rangers manager for his recent blast at the CAHA.</p><p>Boucher erupted last week In Lethbridge when the CAHA reversed its decision and decided not to allow the Lethbridge Native Sons to use defenceman Mid Houghton as a medical replace-ment.</p><p>Boucher charged that the &ldquo;CAHA has long proved that it is Incompetent, diss-organized and irresponsible. it is ruining hockey in Canada&hellip; It has bungled dealings with the Quebec and maritime branches and it has made an utter ass of itself in the West&hellip; It is about time the public tossed them out.&rdquo;</p><p>The New York manager was hot under the collar because the CAHA refused to grant Lethbridge, a Ranger farm club, a medical replacement for one of their injured defencemen.</p><p>In this rebuttal, Pickard began, &ldquo;I should like to ask Mr. Boucher about the organization he heads. It appears to me that the New York Rangers could very well stand some close supervision. Every year when the NHL playoffs come around, we find that his Rangers are not in there.</p><p>&ldquo;He should look after his own affairs, spend his time strengthening the Rangers instead of but-ting into other people&rsquo;s business&rdquo;, added Pickard, the Regina school principal and a former president of the CAHA.</p><h2><b>Not Infallible</b></h2><p>&ldquo;The CAHA is not an infallible body&rdquo;, continued Pickard. &ldquo;Like everybody else they make mistakes. In this instance a replacement should never have been granted Lethbridge in the first place because CAHA regulations specifically forbid it. According to the rules, the only type of replacement allowed in the playoffs is for a goalkeeper who has been Injured and can no longer play.</p><p>&ldquo;There used to be a provisions for replacements for Injured players during the playoffs&rdquo;, Pickard said, &ldquo;but we found the regulation was so badly abused that we wiped it off the rule-book. Teams were found to be faking injuries in order to obtain better players&rdquo;.,</p><p>Tom Melville, the secretary-treasurer of the Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association added his voice to that of Pickard&rsquo;s.</p><p>He accused Boucher of hitting the CAHA &ldquo;below the belt&rdquo;, and asked, &ldquo;Are things so good with the New-York Rangers that he can afford to take time to tell other people how to run their own affairs?&rdquo;</p><p>He saw Boucher&rsquo;s statement as part of a plot to discredit the CAHA so that NHL moguls could move in with their new brainchild of super junior leagues.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03231/2252501-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="274" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Pickard</b></figcaption></div><h2>Slapped</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04187/2252494-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="542" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FRANK BOUCHER</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pickard Blasts Back At Boucher

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;</p><p>A sensational last-ditch scoring spree which saw them score four goals in the last two minutes of play, kept intact St. Boniface Canadiens&rsquo; amazing winning streak in the western junior playoffs.</p><p>The Saints roared from behind to turn what looked like an apparent 6-4 loss to the Lethbridge Native Sons into a glorious 8-6 victory for themselves. It was their second win in as many starts over Lethbridge in the Western Memorial Cup final and was also their 14th win in 15 games since they embarked on the playoff trail six weeks ago.</p><p>The Saints&rsquo; record is one of the greatest in the modern history of amateur hockey playoffs in the west. It has made them overwhelming favorites to polish off Lethbridge in the remaining games of the western final and advance against either the Barrie Flyers or the Quebec Citadelles in the Memorial Cup final.</p><p>St. Boniface&rsquo;s latest success was easily the most thrilling of their 14 playoff victories.</p><p>Playing on their home ice before a sellout crowd of 3.30Q, Lethbridge led all the way. Early in the final period they lifted the count to 5-3. St. Boniface replied to make it 5-4 but when Dave Magee scored again for Lethbridge at 17: 10 of the period, it appeared to be all over but the shouting.</p><p>But that&rsquo;s when St. Boniface pulled themselves together for their great last-ditch stand. Before they were finished they had fired home four goals in the brief interval of one minute and 12 seconds.</p><p>Their rally began with Lethbridge&rsquo;s Sinclair was penalized for holding. With the Lethbridge player looking on from the penalty box, 190-pound winger Gary Blaine blasted his way through to score at 18: 10. Before Lethbridge could regain their bearings, Abbie McDonald converted Leo Konyk&rsquo;s pass exactly 32 seconds later to put the Saints on even terms.</p><h2><b>Rookie Takes Charge</b></h2><p>Konyk, an 18-year-old youth playing his first year of junior hockey, took charge from there. At 19: 05 he scored unassisted to put the Saints in front 7-6 and 17 seconds later wound up the sensational four-goal spree by scoring again with the help of McDonald.</p><p>That was it and the fading Lethbridge crew didn&rsquo;t know what had hit them.</p><p>Since entering the playoffs St. Boniface polished off two rivals in four straight games and mayrepeat the act in the western final with Lethbridge as their victims. Their only defeat came at the hands of the Fort William. Canadiens in the first game of their series. The score was a lop-sided 7-0 but the Saints bounced back to hand the Forts four straight lacings.</p><p>During their playoff march they have compiled an eight-games winning streak, and now their latest streak has gone to six games.</p><p>Playing a great part in the St. Boniface success story is the coaching of former New York Ranger great, Bryan Hextall. Thia Is Hextali&rsquo;s first year at the helm of a junior club and it&rsquo;s likely; that he&rsquo;ll have the honor of landing in the Memorial Cup final in his first campaign of junior coaching.</p><p>His Saints finished In second, place in the final standing of the Manitoba junior circuit. But they took out the Winnipeg Monarchs, the defending champions, in four straight and did the same with first-place Brandon in the Manitoba final.</p><h2>Success Story</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02308/2252532-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="594" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BRYAN HEXTALL</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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St. Boniface Extends Streak To Lead Series

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>GUELPH, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Alfie Pike, coach of Guelph Biltmores, has accused St. Michael&rsquo;s College, of Toronto, of tampering with a player on the sponsored list of New York Rangers. The player in question is Ted Maki, 16-year-old defenceman with South Porcupine Gold Kings, a team sponsored by Rangers.</p><p>&ldquo;Apparently St. Mike&rsquo;s don&rsquo;t care how they get their hockey players,&rdquo; sizzled Pike. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re using their school and its advantages to build up a hockey team. Even sponsored players aren&rsquo;t safe anymore.&rdquo;</p><p>Pike became aroused when he learned that Maki had attended St. Mike&rsquo;s hockey school in Toronto during the Easter holidays &ldquo;by special invitation.&rdquo;</p><p>Maki, regarded as one of the better defence prospects in northern Ontario, attended Biltmores training camp here last fall. Rangers also sponsor Biltmores and it was understood that Maki would report to Guelph next fall. St. Mike&rsquo;s may have other ideas.</p><p>Pike charges that Maki was Induced to attend St. Mike&rsquo;s hockey school through&rsquo; Murray Costello, another South Porcupiner who has been a member of St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors for tha past three seasons.</p><p>&ldquo;They had Costello write him a letter inviting Maki to the school,&rdquo; exploded Pike. &ldquo;It didn&rsquo;t make any difference to them that Maki was on some other team&rsquo;s sponsored list. It&rsquo;s not the first time either.&rdquo;</p><p>Pike hinted that some form of ensure might be forthcoming from NHL headquarters. &ldquo;Frank Boucher has lodged a complaint with president Clarence Campbell,&rdquo; Pike declared. &ldquo;Since St. Mike&rsquo;s are sponsored by Toronto Maple Leafs I imagine Leafs will have to take the blame for tampering. They&rsquo;re responsible for their sponsored clubs or at least they should be.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05129/2252563-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="288" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Alf Pike</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pike Hurls Tampering Charge At St. Michael’s Junior Team

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01297/2252594-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Millar&hellip; &hellip; Moved Nets</b></figcaption></div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Charlottetown and Halifax hockey teams have been at each other&rsquo;s throats for three years now and when they emerged as Big Four playoff finalists their wrath at each other threatened to boil over.</p><p>In the first two games Ontario referees Jim Kelly and Georga O&rsquo;Donaghue handed out 35 penalties. They included majors, misconducts, match misconducts and one match.</p><p>Then, in the third game, they simmered down a bit, with only nine penalties and only two of them majors. But it won&rsquo;t last. The record between the clubs is replete with uprisings.</p><p>Match penalty went to Islanders&rsquo; Steve Brklacich in the second game of the series. Coming after several minors, a misconduct and a match misconduct, Steve was lucky to get by with a two-game suspension and a $60 fine.</p><p>Things were reasonably quiet until Brklacich blew his top. The match penalty came after he had wrestled referee Kelly over the ice and refused to leave the game. After that goalie Al Millar picked up a misconduct for pulling his cage out of alignment and and then refusing to permit a rink attendant to fix it. And defenceman Gus Gustavenson had words with referee Kelly, used his stick as a rifle in making gestures and picking up a misconduct.</p><p>While this was going on and rink attendants were cleaning the ice of debris thrown from all directions, Halifax goalie Roy McMeekin snatched a white hat from a rinkside fan and drew laughs for a change.</p><p>Halifax won the first game 5-0. There were 2 8 penalties, evenly divided. The Atlantics outplayed the Islanders by a healthy margin but McMeekin had to work hard for the shutout, his fourth of the season and second in playoff competition.</p><h2>Atlantics Win Second</h2><p>Halifax won the second game 5-3 with a three-goal blast in the third period. Islanders clung tightly to a 3-2 margin until Frank King, with Quebec Aces last season, blasted in two quick ones and Bob Bowness who started the 1951-52 season with Victoria Cougars and finished out at Halifax, came up with a spectacular tally.</p><p>In the midst of the penalty parade came stories that referees Kelly and O&rsquo;Donaghue had had enough and were returning home. The stories. persisted but the Irishmen, whose first brush with major hockey must be an eyeopener, are still with us.</p><p>The flu bug also figured in the series. Islanders had a few ailing men in uniform for the first game and played without scoring champion Buck Whitlock in the second. Buck was back for the third game but Halifax had to play without Billy Ford, their biggest goal producer over the regular season.</p><p>This series is a best-of-five affair and most people expect it to go right down to the wire. Last season Halifax ousted Charlottetown in four straight games. Halifax won the first two this season, but when Islanders came up with a 3-1 win in the comparatively tame contest it marked the end of a long playoff slump between the clubs.</p><p>Maritime League officials still have hopes of a Maritime-Quebec series, with or without the Alexander Cup at stake. They would welcome especially a series between Halifax and Quebec Aces. There the rinks are large and it could be a moneymakers.</p><h2>In Thick Of It<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Misconducts Galore In MMHL Final Series

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSEL&#x2019;LA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The City of Hull is having a bit of trouble&mdash;just a bit&mdash;trying to get their long-sought arena started.</p><p>Trouble is, that &ldquo;bit&rdquo; mentioned above is so important the whole program is being stymied, and there is a serious doubt now whether the Transpontine City will have a rink before next sea-son rolls around.</p><p>The joker in the deck is that Hull has everything it needs except, perhaps, the most Important thing&mdash;land.</p><p>At the moment all they have to go on is a promise that the land will be theirs, but how soon, or with how much certainty, no one can say.</p><p>The site for the projected $600,000 arena is directly behind the Hull Armories, and the catch is that the sector is owned by National Defence. They have given the city a verbal promise.</p><p>According to informed sources, the money for the project is practically assured, the steel or-dered, and plans finalized. All they need is the land and the signal to go ahead.</p><p>The Quebec Government has already promised $100,000, with another $300,000 assured from the several large industries in the Hull environs.</p><p>Remainder of the sum is to be raised from the people of Hull in a special referendum at the elections on April 15. This is regarded as a formality.</p><p>Headed by Aiderman Bob Guertin, well known Hull sportsman, officials of the new arena have hopes of seeing the rink ready for Christmas of this year.</p><p>Hull plans to enter a team in the Quebec Junior Amateur League, and a senior club in the Eastern Canada League. Hull Volants did not operate in the circuit last season but still hold a franchise.</p><p>Besides these two teams, it is expected the rink will fulfill a need for the many thousands of youngsters who find natural ice becoming scarcer with every passing season.</p><p>There was some concern among the taxpayers at first over the proposed arena. Most feared it would levy too great a burden on the city which is now concerned with a vast expansion program.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Lack Of Land Delays Arena Construction

<div class="byline">By PETER TOMLIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02252/2252656-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>THREE WARWICKS&hellip;&hellip; Grant, Billy Disk</b></figcaption></div><p>PENTICTON, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>This hockey-mad town of 11,000 has gone completely berserk. Their team, the V&rsquo;s, have not won the Allan Cup as yet, but as far as the fans are concerned, if they never win another game, they are still the best team this side of anywhere. The fans, whose support of their team has been fanatical, have rallied behind &lsquo;Their Boys&rsquo; and are boosting them to the limit.</p><p>In order to have broadcasts of the games in the Allan Cup semi-finals brought in from Fort William, it was necessary for the fans to donate about $400 per game to pay for wire charges. In two days the fans subscribed $3063, more than enough to take care of seven games, if the series should go the limits.</p><p>When the team boarded the train for the East, 2500 screaming happy people were on hand to wish them good luck. Commenting on the display by the fans, veteran &lsquo;Knobby&rsquo; Warwick said, &ldquo;This is terrific, just terrific. We&rsquo;ve got to win now.&rdquo;</p><p>In the first game, the V&rsquo;s proceeded to justify the fans&rsquo; faith in them. They surprised a highlytouted and heavily favored bunch Fort William Beavers and 5,500 Fort fans.</p><h2>Berry Scores</h2><p>The V&rsquo;s jumped into a 1-0 first period lead on Don Berry&rsquo;s goal at 17.10 and stretched it to 4-0 before Red Mackenzie ruined Ivan McLelland&rsquo;s shutout bid at 5.31 of the final frame. The Westerners hung on to win 5-2. Johnny Irving scored the second Fort William goal while McAvoy, Fleming and Jack McIntyre counted for the V&rsquo;s.</p><p>All B.C. is pulling for the Carsemen to keep up the good work and the players have given their assurance that they will be fighting all the way. Meanwhile, Pandemonium reigns in Penticton.</p><h2>Vs For Victory</h2><h2>Hold Precious Mug</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03194/2252649-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="1167" height="1197"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>CUP WINNERS</b>&mdash;Captain Clare Martin of the K-W Dutchmen (left) and coach Bob Rafferty are shown holding the John Ross Robertson Trophy, elblematic of the OHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; crown, won by the Dutchies.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Pandemonium Reigns In Penticton After V’s Defeat Beavers

<p>KITCHENER, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Smiths Falls Rideaus advanced closer to the Allan Cup finals when they took a 3-1 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Canada final against Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen by defeating them 7-4.</p><p>Goaler Johnny Craig was outstanding in the Rideau cage and was one reason the Dutchmen did not tie or win the game despite a terrific third period rally.</p><p>The Rideaus were paced by Connie Tudin and Archie Richardson, both of whom contributed a pair of goals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rideaus Near Cup Final

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MIAMI, Fla.&mdash;</p><p>In this territory more noted for its sun-tanned bathing beauties, citrus fruits, vacationing millionaires and baseball training camps there&rsquo;s a hockey league unique in the universe.</p><p>Known as the South Florida Hockey League, it&rsquo;s made up of four teams, University of Miami, Miami Independents, Miami Rangers and Miami Beach Eagles. Because fog trouble was encountered last year, the schedule for 1953 was moved from the late winter months, as we rate seasons in Canada and the northern States, to the late Spring. It begins in the last week of March, runs through to June 2, playing 20 games.</p><p>Because the Coral Gables Coliseum, where the games are played at Miami Beach is much smaller than the Montreal Forum or Maple Leaf Gardens, with an ice-surface about standard width, but only 164 feet long, teams are made up five men instead of six. This eliminates conges-tion and enlivens the action in rapid exchanges of rushes.</p><p>The players, some students, some expatriate New Englanders and Canadians are not likely named on any of the National Hockey League negotiation lists, but they have a spirited if select band of followers and the games are getting plenty of &ldquo;Ink&rdquo; in both The Miami Herald and Miami News. Indeed, Stanley Woodward, formerly of The New York Herald Tribune, who a year ago took over this sports editor&rsquo;s chair of &ldquo;The Miami News&rdquo;, the other day wrote a by-lined feature on one of the games.</p><p>His lead said: &ldquo;In addition to having the world&rsquo;s most copious supply of sun. air, water, and lightning-flash architecture, Miami Beach&mdash;whether it knows it or not&mdash;currently has the top ice hockey in all Dixie&rdquo;.</p><p>The Beach Eagles are led by Jerry Farnsworth, Yale alumnus and Bob Lunny, a vacationer who spent the winter playing in the New-York-Ontario Hockey League. Jack Shapiro is an acro-batic goal-tender from Minnesota. Farnsworth and Lunny each copped a hat-trick in a recent game as the Eagles beat the Collegians 9-1.</p><p>Bill Botterman is the net-minder for the Rangers, and this team also includes Ted Nawrocki, formerly at Brown University. Other placers who get frequent mention in the reports are Hank</p><p>Chounard, Warren Paradise, Norm Levy, Bob Hutchinson. Maybe some of these are renagades, from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, an organization which appears to be having its troubles up north!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hockey’s Most Unique League Flourishes in Flowery Florida

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01279/2252742-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><p><b>(Solution Next Month)</b></p><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Detroit player.</p><p>3&mdash;Hart Trophy winner of 194849.</p><p>9&mdash;Short for given name of a Cleveland rearguard.</p><p>12&mdash;Stanley Cup winners of 193940.</p><p>13&mdash;One of the Bruins is called this.</p><p>14&mdash;&ldquo;Pit&rdquo; Lepine gained fame with this NHL team (abbr).</p><p>16&mdash;Initials of a Montreal veteran.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of Curick of Syracuse.</p><p>19&mdash;Comparative ending.</p><p>2I&mdash;Max Bentley celebrates his birthday in this month (abbr).</p><p>22&mdash;Initials of Caron, Hershey forward.</p><p>23&mdash;Denotes number worn by pictured player.</p><p>24&mdash;&rdquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly sustained a&mdash;injury in the playoffs last spring.</p><p>28&mdash;Bert Olmstead&rsquo;s birthplace.</p><p>29&mdash;Conn Smythe acquired one in Florida.</p><p>30&mdash;First name of Tunney, former boxer.</p><p>32&mdash;Hal Cotton is this in relation to Murray Henderson.</p><p>35&mdash;-Initials of a Boston forward.</p><p>36&mdash;Former Chicago defense star.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Given name of Lundy, former Red Wing.</p><p>2&mdash;Initials of a Hawk centre.</p><p>3&mdash;Given name of a Buffalo forward.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Laprade, ex-Ranger star.</p><p>5&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>6&mdash;Former Leaf player, called Lex.</p><p>7-&mdash;&rdquo;Buddy&rdquo; O&rsquo;Connor&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>10&mdash;Elmer Lach has had this fractured.</p><p>11&mdash;Number of assists Reg Sinclair collected last season.</p><p>15&mdash;NHL club with whom Charlie Rayner first played.</p><p>18&mdash;Nickname of AHL team with whom pictured player once played.</p><p>20&mdash;Johnny Peirson studied this at McGill University.</p><p>24&mdash;Initials of Thoms, former NHL player. &lsquo;</p><p>25&mdash;Short for first name of Hamilton, ex-Toronto rearguard.</p><p>26&mdash;Anger.</p><p>27&mdash;NHL referees wear these.</p><p>28&mdash;Name given Smith., who once played for Canadiens.</p><p>31&mdash;Tennis term.</p><p>33&mdash;Lithium (Sym.).</p><p>34&mdash;Initials of Busch, last season with Cleveland.</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/f0019-02231/2252735-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="535" height="844"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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HOCKEY X-WORD

<h2><b>EASTERN LEAGUE Final Series</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03183/2252780-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="593" height="173"></div><h2><b>PLAYOFF SCORING</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04159/2252773-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="589" height="1108"></div><h2><b>MEMORIAL CUP PLAYOFFS</b></h2><h3><b>Quarter-Finals</b></h3><p>Timmins 6, North Sydney 2. Timmins wins best-of-seven Eastern quarter-final 4-1, one game tied. &lsquo;</p><p>Timmins 2, Quebec 6. Quebec leads best-of-five Eastern semifinal 1-0.</p><p>Timmins 1, Quebec 8. Quebec leads best-of-five Eastern semifinal 2-0.</p><p>Timmins-Porcupine 1, Quebec 11. Quebec wins best-of-five semifinal 3-0.</p><p>St. Michael&rsquo;s 6, Barrie 4, St. Michael&rsquo;s leads best-of-nine Eastern semi-final 3-2.</p><p>Barrie 5, St. Michael&rsquo;s 4, Best-of-nine Eastern semi-final tied 3-3.</p><p>Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s 4, Barrie 6. (Barrie leads begt-of-nine semifinal 4-3.) &bull;</p><p>Barrie 4, Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s 2. Barrie wins best-of-nine semifinal 5-3.</p><h3><b>Semi-Finals</b></h3><p>Quebec 2, Barrie 9. (Barrie leads best-of-seven Eastern Canada final, 1-0.)</p><p>Quebec 3, Barrie 8. (Barrie leads best-of-seven Eastern Canada final, 2-0.)</p><p>St. Boniface 8, Lethbridge 6. St. Boniface leads best-of-seven final 2-0.</p><p>Lethbridge 3, St. Boniface 2. (St. Boniface leads best-of-seven Western Canada final, 2-1.)</p><h3><b>Teams Left</b></h3><p>Barrie Flyers; Quebec Citadelles; St. Boniface Canadiens; Lethbridge Native Sons.</p><h3><b>ALLAN CUP Quarter-Finals</b></h3><p>Regina 2, Fort William 7. Fort William leads best-of-seven Western semi-final 3-2.</p><p>Regina 0, Fort William 5. Fort William wins best-of-seven Western semi-final 4-2.</p><p>Sudbury 4, Kitchener 6. Kitchener wins best-of-seven Eastern semi-final 4-2, one tie.</p><h3><b>Semi-Finals</b></h3><p>Kitchener 2, Smiths Fails 6. Smiths Falls leads best-of-seven Eastern final 1-0.</p><p>Kitchener 0, Smiths-Falls 2.</p><p>(Smiths Falls leads best-of-seven final 2-0.)</p><p>Smiths &lsquo;Falls 7, Kitchener 4.</p><p>(Smiths Falls leads best-at-seven series 3-1.)</p><p>Penticton 5, Fort William 2.</p><p>Penticton leads best-of-seven final 1-0.</p><p>Penticton 4, Fort William 3. Penticton leads best-of-seven Western final 2-0.)</p><h3>Teams Left</h3><p>Smiths Falls Rideaus; Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen; Penticton V&rsquo;s; Fort William Beavers.</p><h2><b>QUEBEC SENIOR</b></h2><h3>Finals</h3><p>Quebec 6, Chicoutimi 2.</p><p>Quebec leads best-of-nine final 2-1.</p><p>Chicoutimi 5, Quebec 2. (Best-of-nine final tied 2-2.)</p><h2><b>MARITIME MAJOR</b></h2><p>Halifax 6, Glace Bay 1. Halifax leads best-of-nine final 1-0.</p><p>Charlottetown 3, Halifax 5. Hafifax leads best-of-nine final 2-0.</p><p>Halifax 4. Charlottetown 3. Halifax leads best-of-nine final 2-1.</p><p>Halifax 0, Charlottetown 4. Best-of-nine final tied 2-2.</p><p>Charlottetown 2, Halifax 6. Halifax leads best-of-nine final 3-2.</p><h2><b>MARITIME INTERMEDIATE</b></h2><p>Halifax 7, Campbellton 3.</p><p>(Halifax wins best-of-seven finals 4-2.)</p><h2><b>WESTERN INTERMEIDIATE</b></h2><p>Ponoka 4, Kenora 7. Kenora leads best-of-five final 1-0.</p><p>Ponoka 8, Kenora 1. Best-of-seven. final tied 1-1.</p><p>Kenora 5, Ponoka 3. Kenora leads best-of-seven final 2-1.</p><p>Kenora 6, Ponoka 4. Kenora leads best-of-seven final 3-1.</p><h2><b>U.S. AMATEUR</b></h2><p>Cincinnati 5, Johnstown 3.</p><p>(Cincinnati wins best-of-five series 3-0.)<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Amateur Playoff Picture At A Quick Glance

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05137/2252811-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg"></div><p><i>That&rsquo;s Right-You&rsquo;ll Be Sorry, if You don&rsquo;t subscribe to THE HOCKEY NEWS Today.</i></p><p>You know right well that you&rsquo;ll want to know what your favorite hockey stai is doing during the summer months; what players are being traded; what players are being given their unconditional release. You&rsquo;ll also be eager to find out what plans your team is making for the coming season and what players they plan to bring up next season.</p><p>The Only Way To Know All This is by becoming a Year-Round Subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS. You see. THE HOCKEY NEWS is not sold at arenas during the summer months or on the newsstands and the only possible way you can get a copy is by becoming a regular subscriber. This way you will be sure of receiving the five snappy monthly summer issues just as soon as they&rsquo;re off the press.</p><p>THE HOCKEY NEWS features plenty of lengthy profiles on players in the summer issues and oodles of candid pictures showing that favorite puck star of yours in such poses as playing baseball, on the golf links, milking cows, pitching hay, running the store, and countless Others. We at THE HOCKEY NEWS do our utmost to see that you don&rsquo;t lose track of your favorite players during those five months that THE HOCKEY NEWS suspends weekly publication I May to September).</p><p>A year&rsquo;s subscription is for 35 consecutive issues.</p><p>Canadian Remittances&mdash;$3.00 Payable by Postal Bank or Telegraph Money Order.</p><p>U. S. A. Remittances&mdash;$4.00 Payable by Postal Note, Bank or Express Money Order or personal cheque in U.S. funds. Postal Money Orders must be drown on the Postmaster at New York in U.S. funds.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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YOU’LL BE SORRY!

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0129/2252863-1-eng-US/c0004-012.jpg" title="C0004-01" width="240" height="288"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0231/2252856-1-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/c0004-0324/2252849-1-eng-US/c0004-032.jpg" title="C0004-03" width="2812" height="1489"></div><h2><b>Big Moe Foiled At Doorstep</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c0004-0414/2252842-1-eng-US/c0004-042.jpg" title="C0004-04" width="2938" height="1548"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HAPPY HABITANTS&mdash;</b>Members of the Montreal Canadiens, 1953 Stanley Cup champions whoop it up in the top photo following their dramatic overtime win against the Boston Bruins in the fifth game of the final series. Even GM Frank Selke, extreme right, let his hair down and exulted with the players. In the lower photo the camera catches some of the hectic action around the Boston cage, as Kenny Mosdell of the Habs eludes Eddie Sandford&rsquo;s check and attemps to get a shot away at Sugar Jim Henry. That&rsquo;s Bill Quackenbush peering over Henry at the play.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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