Hockey’s Most Unique League Flourishes in Flowery Florida

MIAMI, Fla.— In this territory more noted for its sun-tanned bathing beauties, citrus fruits, vacationing millionaires and baseball training camps there’s a hockey league unique in the universe. Known as the South Florida Hockey League, it’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. 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…

Hockey’s Outstanding Personalities

Player-Of-The-Week

There is nothing like clan, whether it be in a race horse, billiard player or, in this case, a hockey player. We are of course referring to Elegant Elmer Lach, the centre-ice smoothie of the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens. 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’ fortunes than have these two down through the past dozen years. Lach joined the Canadiens for the 1940-41 season, and although not too impressive, still showed enough to have the railbirds predicting a…

Happy Birthday To You

April 25 to May 2 25—EGAN, Pat, Providence defense, 1918. 26—ALMAS, Ralph, St. Louis goaler, 1924. 28—BLADE, Hank Calgary coach, 1921. 29—BACKOR. Pete, Pittsburgh defense, 1919. 30—McLEOD, Jackie, Saskatoon forward, 1930; MACKELL, Fleming, Boston forward, 1929. 1—BRENNAN, Bill, Tacoma goaler, 1925.…