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June 1, 1953

The Hockey News June 1, 1953

<p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>Clarence Campbell, President of the National Hockey League, has gone on record as saying that notice of termination of the argreement between the professional leagues and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association was done for the purpose of obtaining &ldquo;suitable renegotiation of the contract, not its elimination.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Where changes in a deal are wanted, the normal procedure would be to ask for the changes and negotiate towards that end&rdquo; said Campbell. &ldquo;But because of the shortage of time between now and June 30, this was the only way in which a one-year period could be saved.&rdquo;</p><p>When he was queried about the statements attributed to Baldy George, CAHA Prexy, Campbell stated that, &ldquo;I do not wish to debate publicly, the merits of the decision which the owners have made.&rdquo;</p><h2>Life Ban On Pros</h2><p>Just what changes will be sought in the contract by the professional leagues were not made public but it is known that some owners, are in favor of doing away with the stipend the pro clubs must hand over to the amateur body when they sign a player to a professional contract.</p><p>George stated that the CAHA may make a move to bar all players for life from amateur hockey once they sign a pro contract. Actually this won&rsquo;t have too much effect on players now playing pro for most of them, when their days in the NHL are over, round out their hockey playing days in either the American or the Western Leagues. Now that the QSHL is also an out and out pro league, a lot more will probably finish their hockey there.</p><p>Then when they actually do dedide to call it a day, they can collect from the NHL pension plan provided they have played long enough in that league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0579/1276677-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="296" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Clar. Campbell</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Campbell Says Pact Revision Aim of Owners

<p>CALGARY, Alta.&mdash;</p><p>The rumor-mongers were working overtime in Calgary for the past few weeks trying to figure out who the next coach of the Stampeders of the Western Hockey League would be.</p><p>All the wagging tongues were set at rest with the naming of affable Frank Currie to the post.</p><p>Currie succeeds Hank Blade at the helm of the second place finishing Stamps, and inked a one-year dual pact that will also see him succeed Lloyd Turner as manager.</p><p>The announcement of the signing was made by Maurice Hartnett, general manager of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Company Ltd., sponsors of the hockey club.</p><p>It should be interesting to see how the new mentor fares, for it is a well known fact that he has yearned for another chance in the Western Hockey League after being released by the Edmonton Flyers during the 1951-52 season.</p><p>Bitter controversy arose at the time when it became known the coaching change didn&rsquo;t meet with the full approval of the Detroit Red Wings, parent club of the Edmonton team. Doug McCaig, the captain of the Flyers finished out the season at the helm of the Edmonton team but last season Bud Poile, veteran NHL star was named to handle the squad and led them to the WHL playoff title.</p><p>Hank Blade who had handled the Stamps for the past two seasons stepped out of the picture a few weeks back and it was stated at the time that he resigned by mutual consent.</p><h2>Resigned</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01211/1277246-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="582" height="1186"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HANK BLADE</b></figcaption></div><p>Lloyd Turner on the other hand relinquished his post as manager of the club due to the pressure of other business, namely managing the Calgary Corral.</p><p>Currie was one of those whose name was mentioned regularly when everyone, was speculating as to who wold take over in the prairie city.. Others mentioned from time were Muzz Patrick and Max Bentley, who would have carried on a rivalry with his brother Doug, who is at the helm of the Saskatoon Quakers of the same loop.</p><p>The 41&ndash;year old Currie has been active in hockey circles for 23 years, having played for the Camp Orelda and the Montreal Royal juniors, Charlottetown Abbies of the Maritime Senior loop, Richmond Hawks, Harringay Greyhounds and Earl&rsquo;s Court Rangers of the English National League.</p><p>In 1940-41 he toiled for the Quebec Royal Rifles and until 1944 was on the defense of the Montreal Senior Royals of the QSHL.</p><p>He then took over as manager and coach of the Verdun Maple Leafs of the QJAHA and the next season had the same dual role with the Montreal junior Canadiens.</p><p>On the recommendation of the Montreal Canadians&rsquo; front office he was hired by the Edmonton team in 1947 and took that team from the cellar the previous season to the Allan Cup. The next three seasons saw him get his club into the league finals.</p><p>After being released in his first season as a pro coach, he acted as a scout and representative for the Montreal Canadiens and also opened stock brokerage business with offices in Calgary and Edmonton.</p><div class="sidebar"><p><b>BIKE Supports and BIKE Trainers Tape are used and endorsed by the University of Toronto Football&rsquo;Club,</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p></div>

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Currie Seeks Revenge On Flyers In New Role As Stampeder Coach

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YOU’LL BE SORRY!

<div class="byline">By ROLLY ETHIER</div><p>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>For one brother it was the turning point of his young career but for the other it was one of those years when &ldquo;Kid Injury&rdquo; just wouldn&rsquo;t give him a break.</p><p><b>That&rsquo;s the story of the Horton brothers&mdash;Tim and Jerry&mdash;in the 1952-53 hockey campaign. The North Bay brother combo are home again to spend the summer season before the hockey wars break out anew again next fail.</b></p><p>The soft-spoken, 23-year-old Tim, who made such an out-standing showing on the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; defence corps during the second half of the season, returns home better established in the Leaf plans than ever before.</p><p>After he was given a regular spot on the Toronto rearguard, paired with veteran Jimmy Thomson, Tim drew lavish praise from NHL observers with his solid defensive work and sparkling rushes. It was enough to convince everyone that he has a wonderful future ahead of him and should be a permanent fixture on the Toronto blueline for many years to come.</p><p><b>While the past season was a good one for Tim in that he proved he belonged in NHL company, younger brother Jerry admits that he was mighty glad when the year was all over.</b></p><p>Jerry divided his time this season between Oshawa Generals and Windsor Spitfires in the OHA junior "A&rdquo; circuit but only managed to play about 20 games because of two serious injuries.</p><p>Twice he suffered a broken shoulder which forced him to spend most of time sitting uncomfortably on the sidelines. After an excellent season the year before young Horton had hoped to make good but the injury jinx stepped in to cheat him.</p><p>This was Jerry&rsquo;s final junior season. He is not quite sure of his hockey plans for next term as yet.</p><h2>Established</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01194/1277108-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="593" height="1197"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TIM HORTON</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Husky Tim was happy to hear that the Leafs had appointed Frank (King) Clancy as their new pilot to succeed Joe Primeau, who decided to give up the reins be-cause of business pressure.</b></p><p>Horton played some great hockey under Clancy&rsquo;s coaching in 1951-52 with the Pittsburgh Hornets, who roared through to capture the American Hockey League&rsquo;s Calder Cup. So impressive was Tim that year he was named to the first all-star squad.</p><p>&ldquo;He should be a big hit in Toronto and will lead us back into the playoffs next year,&rdquo; Horton observed about the colorful, popular Clancy.</p><p>Tim reiterated the opinion of many others who figure that injuries to star performers like Bentley, Kennedy, Migay and Armstrong brought about the Leafs&rsquo; failure to make the playoff grade.</p><p><b>&ldquo;We were really starting to roll near the end of the season. Next year with a few additions we should be right up there again,&rdquo; Horton opined.</b></p><p>Jerry has found himself a summer job as a service station attendent while Tim is back flexing his muscles again at the Brewer&rsquo;s Retail Store where he&rsquo;ll keep in shape by tossing around cases of beer until fall training camp opens again.</p><p>Married to a Pittsburgh girl last year, Tim has since become a proud papa. As a result he&rsquo;s got an extra reason for making good with Toronto Maple Leafs now.</p><p><b>Now that he makes his summer home here, all North Bay hockey fans are following young Horton's pro career with quite a bit of interest. Tim was actually born in Cochrane and lived in Sudbury for quite a few years before his family moved to North Bay.</b></p><p>He was a standout in junior company with Copper Cliff Red-men and Toronto St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors before turning pro in the Maple Leaf chain with their Pitts-"burgh AHL farm club.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Tim Horton a Contented Leaf, Figures Team Should Improve

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover1" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover110/1277533-1-eng-US/cover12.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GET-TOGETHER&mdash;</b>The hockey meetings in Montreal brought hockey men from all over together to discuss their mutual problems. Shown above from left to right are: Lester Patrick, Victoria; Art Chapman, assistant General Manager of Vancouver Canucks; Lynn Patrick, coach of the BostonBruins; Sid Abel, coach of the Black Hawks; Dick Irvin, maestro of the Montreal Canadiens; Eddie Shore, General Manager of the AHL Syracuse Warriors and Muzz Patrick, former General Manager of Tacoma Rockets and newly appointed coach of Seattle Bombers.</figcaption></div><h2>Seven Skate Sages From Scattered Spots</h2><h2>Shore 'Nuff</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover28/1277526-1-eng-US/cover22.jpg" title="Cover2" width="1204" height="1611"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>WHATEVER</b> it is Eddie Shore is saying he's absorbed the interest of Emory Jones (left) president of the AHL and Clarence Campbell, (centre) NHL president.</figcaption></div><h2>Tommy Talking</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover35/1277519-1-eng-US/cover32.jpg" title="Cover3" width="1187" height="1548"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY GORMAN</b>(left) major domo of the Ottawa Senators has an amusing tale for Dink Carroll (centre) Sports Editor of the Montreal Gazette and Jim Hendy, General manager of the Cleveland Barons.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Sugar Jim Thinking Of Calling It Quits

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A year ago at this time General Manager Art Ross and Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins had Milt Schmidt, their veteran center, on their minds.</p><p>They didn&rsquo;t know whether or not Schmidt would play another season, and neither did Schimdt himself.</p><p>Finally the Bruins&rsquo; captain made up his mind, decided to play for another year, and led the Bruins into the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>At the present time the Bruins&rsquo; brain trust has no concern about the future of Schmidt, already atop the list of availables for the coming season, but the frame of mind of another key Bruin has them a bit uneasy.</p><p>He is Sugar Jim Henry, whose inspirationa1 goaltending has been a highlight here for the last two winters.</p><p>Henry finished the playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens on one leg and departed for his summer home in Kenora, Ontario, leaving some doubt that he would play another year on either one leg or two.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover43/1277564-1-eng-US/cover42.jpg" title="Cover4" width="282" height="451"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim Henry</b></figcaption></div><p>In short, during the latter part of the past season he talked several times in his customary quiet manner about the possibility that he might retire.</p><p>Now 32 years old, Sugar Jim has been a professional goaltender for 13 years, and some of them have been wearying years.</p><p>His promising career with the New York Rangers was interrupted by, a war, and when he returned to New York afterward he found himself playing for a team of a different calibre.</p><h2>Has Had Trying Years</h2><p>He took his share of lumps with the Rangers, then afterward with the Chicago Black Hawks. His two years with the Bruins after Ross plucked him from Detroit&rsquo;s excess baggage department were trying ones.</p><p>As a Bruin he played despite injuries and illness, holding the fort for teams which were seldom able to supply him with comfortable working margins through their scoring power.</p><p>Despite his frequently-expressed pleasure at playing here and the high regard in which Greater Bostonians hold him as an athlete and competitor, Henry hasn't been oblivious to the passing of time.</p><p>After one strenuous playoff game, the one in which the Bruins eliminated the Detroit Red Wings, he took a peek at his individual situation and observed:</p><p>&ldquo;It has been a long season, too long. Last fall seems too far back almost to remember.</p><p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how much longer I can keep going. I don&rsquo;t know about another' season. I&rsquo;m not getting any younger, and I&rsquo;m starting to feel that way.&rdquo;</p><p>After that he received the ankle injury in the second game of of the Montreal series which may have changed the course of the series, and ultimately he departed for his summer camp in Kenora still limping.</p><p>Just how the black-haired gamester&rsquo;s sentiments have been affected by a two months&rsquo; rest is something the Bruins don&rsquo;t know, but they are hopeful that he&rsquo;ll react as Schmidt did a year ago.</p><p>Capt. Milt spent several months thinking things over, then announced his decision to play by saying:</p><p>"I&rsquo;d like to play on one more Stanley Cup winner before I quit, and I think we can win this year.&rdquo;</p><p>Schmidt&rsquo;s thinking wasn&rsquo;t too far wrong, and it is possible that Sugar Jim may think along the same lines.</p><p>It is logical to expect' the Bruins to be better balanced and stronger this year than they were last winter, particularly in the scoring department. They may shape up as a team which can make life more pleasant for their goalie than they have in the last two seasons.</p><p>Knowing that Henry is a clear-thinking individual fully aware of his own importance to their plans, the Bruins have made no attempts to pressure him into making known his willingness&mdash;or reluctance&mdash;to play. In fact, they have made no attempt publicity-wise to capitalize on it.</p><p>But Ross and Patrick would both be more relaxed if they knew that the unassuming man who found that his National League life began at the age of 30 was willing to extend it a few more years.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boston Goalie Played As Pro For 13 Years

<p>MONTREAL, Que,</p><p>The National Hockey League has, in effect, told the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association that from now on it will have to paddle its own canoe and has terminated the agreement between the two bodies.</p><p>The notice of termination, which is a far reaching move which affects all professional leagues and the governing amateur body, will be presented to the CAHA before June 30. Under the present agreement two years must elapse before the termination is effective unless both sides agree to terminate the agreement immediately.</p><p>There is a possibility of some new agreement being reached between the two but whether or not this will materialize isn&rsquo;t known at present.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01150/1276584-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="300" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption></div><p>The decision was reached at the annual meeting of the National Hockey League at which owners and governors met seperately.</p><p>Prime standard bearer in the move to split with the CAHA was Toronto Maple Leaf GM Conn Smythe, long an exponent of breaking away from the amateur body. He was joined by Frank Selke, Montreal Canadien GM, who had ample reason to want to be rid of the CAHA.</p><p>St. Boniface, a Canadian-sponsored club, took in $133, 000 in 17 Memorial Cup playoff games last season and the CAHA stepped in and took 50 per cent off the top. After the Arenas had taken their share, the Canadien organization had to kick in with $11, 000 just for the privilege of having a club that made good.</p><p>A committee composed of NHL prexy Clarence Campbell, Smythe, Selke and Detroit GM Jack Adams will study the situation with the aim being to cut down on some of the CAHA expenses.</p><p>Smythe was vehement in his contention that the agreement be abolished.</p><p>Said fiery Conn, &ldquo;Hockey needs money and the gate receipts for playoffs should go to the junior teams involved. There are too many CAHA executives travelling all over the country on expense accounts. I&rsquo;m against this Pilgrims to Paris stuff.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It costs money to develop a hockey player and NHL clubs must develop their own. That&rsquo;s why they sponsor junior clubs. But if those junior clubs run into deficits every year they can drain off all the sponsoring club&rsquo;s profits. It&rsquo;s getting so you have to be a millionaire before you can afford to dabble in hockey&rdquo;.</p><p>Apparently the other club owners concurred with Conn for the agreement was terminated and the next move now lies in the hands of the CAHA.</p><p>All in all its been a hectic year for the parent body of amateur hockey in the Dominion what all the squabbles last year and the loss of the QSHL, biggest money-maker for the CAHA.</p><p>The NHL did some housecleaning of its own though the eventual result is two years off. The reserve list of protected players was shortened from 40 players and four goalies to 30 and three, in the NHL and from 40 and four in the AHL to 2 5 and three.</p><p>This will not mean that the Leafs, for instance, will be casting loose 10 players. The housecleaning will be more confined to minor league clubs. The result will be that the Leafs will send their 10 players, who aren&rsquo;t quite good enough to stay but too good to lose, to Pittsburgh, their American League farm. Pittsburgh, in turn, will then have to cast off 25 players from its list, the ten the parent club sends and 15 of its own.</p><p>The palsywa1sy approach by all pro leagues (the NHL, AHL, Western and Quebec leagues) was further emphasized in the amicable manner in which the contentious recall issue between the NHL and AHL was ironed but. It took weeks last season but minutes this year to decide that any four players could be called up from the farm club up to Jan. 1 and after that any two.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04102/1276577-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="298" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL Decides To Terminate Pact With Amateur Body

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Frank Selke, General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens, pulled no punches when he fired a rebuttal at Baldy George, CAHA president, who earlier had stated that the NHL would not survive three years after the termination of the agreement between the two bodies.</p><p>Said Selke. &ldquo;This is in keeping with all the ridiculous statements that Mr. George and his pals have been making all winter.&rdquo;</p><p>"We had hoped that we could get together with the within the next two years and draw up an agreement which would be satisfactory to all. But I am afraid that if the CAHA is starting off right away making asinine statements like that, then the chances of us getting together are very remote.&rdquo;</p><p>George&rsquo;s blast at the professional body came on the heels of the NHL owners decision to terminate the agreement under which on signing an amateur player they pay a sum to the CAHA to be used for the promotion of amateur hockey.</p><p>George had gone on to say that &ldquo;it (the termination) would end the present system of a three-game tryout of amateur players with professional clubs.&rdquo;</p><h2>We Own Them</h2><p>&ldquo;How ridiculous can one get,&rdquo; said Selke. &ldquo;If we want a player from the junior Canadiens or Royals or any other club we own we will take them when we want them.&rdquo;</p><p>There was reason to believe that any negotiations would be contingent at least upon a new financial deal for the professional operators. Other factors are reported also to have counted with the pros. But from a financial standpoint it is known they feel their sponsored clubs are getting no worthwhile financial return from playoffs in the national competitions, which the CAHA operates.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02136/1276622-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="285" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Selke</b></figcaption></div><h2>Sophomore Mentors</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03126/1276615-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="1775" height="1562"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Edaons and Sid Abel&hellip;Study Reserve List</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chances Slim On Agreement States Selke

<p>KEMPTVILLE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>W. B. George, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association has warned the National Hockey League that it will find its supply of young players reduced and will have consequent difficulty in operating once that league terminates its agreement with the CAHA.</p><p>George then proceeded to refute charges made at the annual NHL meeting to the effect that the parent amateur body was taking too large a share of playoff gate receipts with the result that the sponsoring pro clubs were losing money on amateur teams despite good gates.</p><h2>CAHA Takes 12-18%</h2><p>&ldquo;Our percentage averages 12 to 18 per cent, of the net receipts. The rinks in large centres where playoffs are held receive 50 per cent, of gross receipts. Then the CAHA pays all expenses of participating team and bonuses of $500 to the teams. This comes out of receipts before the CAHA-share is deducted,&rdquo; said George.</p><p>&ldquo;Last year each junior team received guaranteed shares of $325 and each Allan Cup team $425 for each game in addition to all expenses.</p><p>&ldquo;Then, if there is any money left after rental, expenses, team shares and CAHA share, the money is returned to the participating teams for division.</p><h2>High Salaries</h2><p>&lsquo;&lsquo;If the Montreal Canadiens want to pay their junior hockey players high salaries, that is their business but they shouldn&rsquo;t then blame the CAHA for financial difficulties.&rdquo;</p><p>This was reference to Frank Selke&rsquo;s claim the St. Boniface juniors, a Canadien farm team, had made $133, 000 in 17 playoffs last year, yet Montreal had to pay out $11, 000 to meet the team&rsquo;s bills. Selke charged the large CAHA share of playoff money was responsible.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

CAHA Prexy Refutes NHL Charges

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01149/1276708-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b> is shown chatting with Frank Selke, general manager and managing Director of the Montreal Canadiens while lan Johnston listens in. Johnston is a director of the Toronto Maple Leafs.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Selke Outnumbered 2-1

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02124/1276739-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PRO HOCKEY LEADERS CONFER&mdash;</b>Hockey's four professionnal fop brass got together recentley at the Windsor Hotel for an inter-league meeting. Left to right, the presidents are: George Slater, Quebec Hockey League; Emory Jones, American Hockey League; Clarence Campbell, National Hockey League, and Al Leader, Western Hockey League.</figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>For the first time in hockey history, there is a possibility that the Stanley Cup champions will play an exhibition contest against the Calder Cup champions.</p><p>The Cleveland Barons, kingpins of the American Hockey League, have announced that this year they will hold their training camp in the vicinity of Montreal, possibly at Verdun, Que., and there is a definite possibility that the Hendy-men will take on the NHL kingpins, the Montreal Canadiens in a game a the Montreal Forum in the fall.</p><p>Aside from the other aspects of interest in the impending contest, there will be the fact that Cleveland is the team that was denied entry to the National Hockey League a year ago. Cleveland General Manager Jim Hendy stated at that time that he thought his Barons were quite capable of holding their own with the best in the big league. This game will give fans an opportunity to see whether Hendy was really serious or merely building a castle in the air.</p><p>The closest thing to a Calder Cup Champion-Stanley Cup Champion game staged previous to this, was held in 1947 when the NHL titlists, the Toronto Maple Leafs, locked horns with the Allan Cup Champion Montreal Royals at Kingston, Ontario, with proceeds going to the Hockey Hall of Fame. At, that time the Royals pulled a stunning upset by beating the Leafs.</p><p>Maybe the Barons will pull another such upset.</p><p>If the Barons should make arrangements to train at Verdun, Que., they will be able to play exhibition games with a good number of teams, for all Canadiens&rsquo; main farm teams train in Montreal, which borders Verdun. In the Verdun Auditorium, the Barons would have one of the best ice surfaces in the Province, if not anywhere. It is regulation size, but is one foot longer in length than the Montreal Forum.</p><h2>Four Hockey Presidents<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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Stanley And Calder Cup Champs May Meet In Exhibition Contest

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>Now that the Quebec Hockey League is able to sport the dollar sign with no sort of reticence, president George M. Slater, who was unanimously given the mandate for a 17th term at the annual meeting which preceeded the June pro sessions, late in May, is busy putting house in order for the new operation.</p><p>There was little doubt that the powerful Quebec circuit which for the past two seasons had drawn more than a million fans to its scheduled games and playoffs, would be given the green light by other professional hockey groups. Still there were certain formalities to be passed.</p><p>Such amenities were clearer when the Governors of the American Hockey League and the Western Hockey League accepted the QHL into the fold when the Quebec story was told by Slater and his committee members Tommy Gorman, of Ottawa, and Jack Latter of Quebec. Then the National Hockey League magnates gave Quebea the final official seal of approval.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0385/1276777-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="292" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jim McCaffrey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0451/1276770-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="297" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Toe Blake</b></figcaption></div><h2>Hit By Draft</h2><p>As a last flicker of &ldquo;shamateurism&rdquo; the Quebecers had to submit to a wholesale raid on their forces when 15 players were drafted from their ranks by the other professional organizations, but this was not unexpected.</p><p>As of now the Quebec Hockey League is without officers other than a president. James P. McCaffrey, long an athletic leader in Ottawa, resigned as first vice-president at the annual meeting. Reasons given by McCaffery were that he is vice-president of the Ottawa District of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and it would not be compatible for him to be also an office holder in a professional group. His post was left unfilled, and there is still a second vicepresidency open. This office has been vacant since the retirement of Marc Drouin, of Quebec City, two years ago.</p><p>And the resignation of Roy E. Mackenzie, secretary-treasurer was also accepted. After eight years in office Mackenzie quits his post because of his migration to California this summer. He has also resigned from his business job with the Canadian Stock Exchange in Montreal, an association which, for Mackenzie, covers 2 6 years. Slater may appoint his own secretary, and take over direction of the league as a full time occupation under a new executive alignment with the league opening a permanent office in Montreal. The two vice-presidencies will likely be filled by an Ottawa and Quebec men who will be selected with considerable care sometime this summer.</p><h2>Situation Cloudy</h2><p>Briefly there was a cloud over the embarkation of the Quebec circuit into the professional zone. A grenade was thrown at the annual meeting when Forrest Keene, business-manager asked for a one year suspension of operations in league activity by the St. Francis Club. This was granted when Keene declared that the corporation in control of the Sherbrooke Arena was demanding at share of gate receipts in addition to the rental collected in the past. It would be Impossible, economically, Keene said, to go on under these circumstances, though a new arrangement might be made.</p><p>Whether Keen was pulling a tall bluff, or not, is a matter that only can be clarified by the parties concerned. Suffice is to say that he got his affairs straightened out.</p><p>Not so alarming but still embarrassing to the strong clubs in the group was a certain reluctance shown by the Valleyfield and Shawinigan Falls Clubs. But in the end it was as a compact seven club group ready to accept the full responsibilities that professional operation demands, the Quebec Hockey League made its important decision, and received the blessing of the other monied organizations with which it now becomes affiliated.</p><p>The Braves made the important announcement that Hector &ldquo;Toe&rdquo; Blake had consented to return as coach. This followed lengthy discussions between The Old Lamplighter and his bosses, Arthur Vinet, president of the Valleyfield Club, his associate Romuald Theoret, and Albert &lsquo;&lsquo;Battleship&rdquo; Leduc, one of the principal stockholders.</p><h2>Fiercely Proud</h2><p>Like all hockey pilots Blake is very sincere about his job, and when the Braves were ousted in four straight games from the QSHL playoffs last spring, Blake immediately announced his retirement. The club executive figured that Toe was in no way responsible for this humiliation of their forces, that he was not to be made the goat. For the past two months they have insisted that he take up the chores again, even though Blake attempted to plead that his Montreal business enterprises would not permit his regular trips to Valleyfield for practise sessions, and more than that, frequent absences from Montreal when the Braves played on the road.</p><p>Toe decided to return only after constant pressure and persuasion<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-03

QHL Gets Green Light To Become Hockey’s Fourth Pro League

<div class="byline">DINK CARROLL</div><p><b>(Sports Editor Montreal Gazette)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01220/1276815-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="257" height="391"></div><h2>Signs Along the Highway</h2><p>If the signs along the hockey highway mean anything, then it won&rsquo;t be long before the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association is a moribund body and well on the way to oblivion.</p><p>The Quebec Senior Hockey League recently broke away from it and became an out-and-out professional organization under the name of the Quebec Hockey League. Then two days later, the new QHL made a tieup with the National Hockey League and arranged to have playoffs with the Western Hockey League. Now it looks as though the CAHA is going to lose control of the juniors.</p><p>That much we learned recently at luncheon while listening to various delegates here for the NHL meeting. It seems that the NHL clubs are determined to organize their sponsored junior clubs&rsquo; playoffs and assume full control of them. If they do that, what&rsquo;s left for the CAHA? The answer is. &ldquo;Virtually nothing.&rdquo;</p><p>You don&rsquo;t have to look far for the reason behind the move, though Conn Smythe, the boss man of the Toronto Maple Leafs, elaborated on it.</p><p>&ldquo;Suppose you sponsor a junior team in Winnipeg,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You spend $18, 000 on it during the season, say, but the team gets into the playoffs. Instead of you getting some of your money back, the rink steps in and takes 50 per cent of the playoff receipts and the CAHA grabs the other 50 per cent.</p><p>"Hockey needs money and the playoff receipts should go to the junior teams. There are too many CAHA executives travelling all over the country on expense accounts. I&rsquo;m against this pilgrims to Paris stuff.</p><p>&ldquo;It costs money to develop a hockey player and NHL clubs must develop their own. That&rsquo;s why they sponsor junior clubs. But if those junior clubs run into deficits year after year they can drain off all the sponsoring club&rsquo;s profits. It&rsquo;s getting so you have to be a millionaire before you can afford to dabble in hockey.&rdquo;</p><h2>Hazards of the Business</h2><p>According to Conn, the average career of a player in the NHL lasts only four and one-half years, and an owner has to rebuild his team every four years. But there are other hazards which tend to shorten the careers of star players, which became apparent when he was asked if Teeder Kennedy was in good shape.</p><p>&ldquo;Too good,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s making too much money in private business. But that&rsquo;s what always seems to happen with good players. When they&rsquo;re playing they take the game seriously, don&rsquo;t carouse around and save their money. They work in the off-season. The time comes when they see a good business opportunity and they take it because they&rsquo;ve got the money to Invest in it. They&rsquo;ve also got the qualities to make a success of it.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s when you may lose a good hockey player, though he may still have a few good years left. He knows he&rsquo;s going to have to retire some time, and he tells himself that now is as good a time as any.&rdquo;</p><p>Conn could have been thinking of any number of players in the past, but he may also have been thinking of Max Bentley, who appears to have gone into retirement. Max made good money as a hockey player and invested it in a firm in Western Canada, but Conn thinks he could still help the Leafs next season.</p><p>Or take the case of Sid Abel, coach of the Chicago Black Hawks. It was understood when he took charge of the Hawks that he would also play in spots, but the spots turned out to be almost negligible. Jim Norris said only a few days ago that he was sorry Sid didn&rsquo;t play more, though he was happy he had panned out so well as a coach. Sid already had a tavern going for him in Detroit when he took the Chicago job, a sideline he mentioned yesterday.</p><p>"I&rsquo;m going to have to give it up,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m so busy with the hockey club I can't pay enough attention to it.&rdquo;</p><h2>The Trade Situation</h2><p>There was considerable talk of possible trades, and one rumor had Ted Lindsay going to the Black Hawks. Concensus was that there was nothing to it, especially since the Red Wings didn't win the Stanley Cup. Frank Boucher, general manager of the New York Rangers, took a realistic view of the trade situation.</p><p>&ldquo;If there are any they won&rsquo;t Involve any top-ranking players,&rdquo; he said. "No club is going to let a player go if he&rsquo;s any good. The good players are too scarce.&rdquo;</p><p>"Detroit had the youngest club in the league,&rdquo; Conn Smythe remarked. "I&rsquo;d like to see them let somebody go.&rdquo;</p><p>There was a report that the Rangers would like to purchase Johnny Bower, the Cleveland Barons&rsquo; good netminder. Frank Boucher was asked if there was any truth in it.</p><p>"We&rsquo;d like to have him,&rdquo; he admitted. "We&rsquo;re not going to go with Charlie Rayner and we need protection. We're satisfied with Gump Worsley, but we need another goaler. Rayner&rsquo;s injuries these last three seasons put us behind the eight-ball because we didn&rsquo;t have an immediate and adequate replacement. We don&rsquo;t want to be caught again.&rdquo;</p><p>There was another report that Tommy Gorman was trying to get Billy Reay to coach the Ottawa Senators, a report that Tommy corroborated readily enough. Billy was in the offing, wearing a cord suit and a bowtie.</p><p>&ldquo;Billy looks like an executive already,&rdquo; someone said. "He&rsquo;s almost ready to sit down at the head table.&rdquo;</p><p>"Sure,&rdquo; said the irresponsible T.P. &ldquo;Let him sit down and have his pockets picked.&rdquo;</p><h2>"The Name Is Hannigan"</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02198/1276808-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="1750" height="1307"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>FUTURE LEAF?&hellip;&hellip;Hopalong and Brother Fat</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Playing the Field

<div class="byline">By DOUG McLELLAN</div><p>TIMMINS, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The loyal patrons of Maple Leaf Gardens, who have followed the Leafs through many glory-filled years since Toronto&rsquo;s hockey moved to Carlton and Church, didn&rsquo;t have too much to cheer about this past winter, as their beloved Torontonians finished out of the play-offs for the first season in many years. But there were a few bright spots in their weekly Saturday night visits to the Gardens, and one of the brightest was youthful Gordie Hannigan, who patrolled a left-wing beat for the fifth place Leafs. It was Hapalong Hannigan&rsquo;s first season in the National League, but he soon became the darling of the Leaf fans for his determined doggeduess, and for the manner in which he took on everyone in the league, regardless of their size.</p><p>One of the most crowd-pleasing scraps that took place, in Toronto this year was between Hannigan and Tony Leswick, the little pepperpot of the Detroit Red Wings</p><p>The pair tangled jus, inside the Detroit blueline in the second period, and for no apparent reason. Fists were flying in a 11 directions, and those in the Hannigan corner were confident that their boy had administered real punishment to Leswick. As the pair were heading to the penalty box, Tony turned in amazement and remarked, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s your name, rookie?&rdquo; If Leswick was serious in his question, he sooned learned, as did all the players, and fans around the circuit, that the brash young rookie was Gordie Hannigan. That fight, his first real battle in the NHL, became a source of kidding for Hopalong from his Leaf mates. By coincidence, the battle took place shortly after the TV cameras were turned on a hockey game for the first time in the history of the Toronto club. The television viewers were treated to a ring-side seat, and Hannigan got himself a new handle, TV Hannigan.</p><p>While Hannigan seems like a real toughie on the ice, he is nevertheless a perfect gentleman once he sheds, his skates. Gordie is one of nine Hannigan children, 7 boys and 2 girls. They are a real hockey family all the way down the line, as Bob, the eldest, was first to make a name for himself on the ice lanes. He played a couple of years in Scotland, and now performs in a mercantile league around Toronto. Ray, a couple of years older than Gordie, was one of the Leaf players traded to the Chicago Black Hawks last fall in exchange for Harry Lumley. Younger than Gordie, are Pat, a kid who ended up second in the scoring in the Porcupine Juvenile League this past winter, and who is ticketed for St. Mikes this fall; Bill and Bud, twins, performing with the Woodstock Juniors, and Greg, a youngster playing midget hockey at home. The two girls, Babe, 25 years old, and Colleen, the yougest in the family are very ardent hockey fans, and when Johnny Mitchell, chief scout for the Detroit Red Wings, saw Baba yelling and hooting at a hockey game in which young Pat was playing, he remarked with surprise, &ldquo;that if Babe were a man, I am sure she would be in the NHL too, with all that fire.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03132/1276846-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="275" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Hannigan</b></figcaption></div><h2>Gordie To Wed</h2><p>On the 8th of August, Gordie is going to be taking the long walk down the aisle of a Pittsburgh Church, as he is to be married to Anne Conboy of the Steel City. Hopalong laughs when he mentions last season when he played in Pittsburgh, and says, "I sure had a good year in Pittsburgh last year. I went well with the team, and got myself a wife.&rdquo; Anne is a very keen hockey fan, but skating is nothing new to her. She was a member of the Ice Capades, another venture of John Harris, also the owner of the Hornets.</p><p>Gordie Hannigan started his illustrious career back in 1944-45 with the Schumacher Lions, a juvenile club that won the All-On-tario crown that season. "But&rdquo;, Injects the fiery Hannigan, &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t playing on the club when they won the title.&rdquo; He has had the unfortunate situation crop up twice during his career when he was with a club that won a cup, but he was on the bench for the</p><p>finals. Besides the first episode at Schumacher, the same thing occured with the Toronto Marlles, when they won the Allan Cup in 1949-50. He made the trip West with Joe Primeau and his Mar-lies, but didn&rsquo;t see any action. He now has the laugh on most of that club though, as only a couple are in the NHL today.</p><p>After three years of puck-chasing in his native Schumacher, Gordie went to St. Mikes where he was one of the standouts for two rather dull seasons with the Irish. The Toronto Marlies were his next club, and they went to the Allan Cup, but without Hanny. He wasn&rsquo;t perturbed though, and became one of the stars of the Major Series the next season with the St. Mikes Monarchs, who lost out in the finals for the Alexander Cup.</p><p>Pittsburgh was the next calling point for the little pepper-pot, and here he set the American League on its ear, picking up 50 points, on 24 goals and 26 assists, and was named, along with line-mate Bobby Hassard, second in the Rookie Award voting.</p><p>King Clancy and his Hornets brought the first Calder Cup to the Dusquene Gardens, and Gordie Hannigan was one of the chief reasons for the Clancymen winning the laurels. While Gordie is sorry to see Joe Primeau step out of the coaching spotlight with the Leafs this year, he is nevertheless happy to see Clancy back, as he says, "I had a very good year under Clancy at Pittsburgh&rdquo;.</p><p>Hannigan, during the past year, was on a number of lines, and was with Max Bentley for a long spell, but will remark, without hesitation, that he would rather play with Bobby Hassard and George Armstrong more than any other players he has ever teamed with. "They are tops in my books&rdquo;, admitted Hopalong. It was Clancy who first teamed Hoppy with Hassard, and Army, in Pittsburgh, and Gordie is hoping that he will re-form the line with the Leafs.</p><p>In his first season in the National Hockey League, Hannigan burned the league up during the first half, but then ran into a couple of injuries, that might have very well cost him the Rookie Award. He was plagued by a sore knee for many weeks, and was in the Toronto line-up because of sheer doggedness, and he ended up the schedule with 17 Coals and 18 assists, enough to gain him second spot in the rookie voting. Many thought that Gordie was a shoe-in for the Calder Trophy, but when it was awarded to Gump Worsley of the New York Rangers, Gordie wasn&rsquo;t at all surprised that he hadn&rsquo;t won the award, but merely remarked that, &ldquo;I thought that Boivin should have won it.&rdquo;</p><p>With the Hockey season over this spring, Gordie lost little time in heading for Edmonton where he lined up with brother Ray in an ice-cream drive-in that is flourishing in the Oil Capital of Canada. The place is the favourite rendezvous for Edmontonians as they flock to see the swank establishment, as well as get a look at the hockey playing brothers, Ray and Gordie Hannigan.</p><p>As to the 1953-54 edition of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Hannigan isn&rsquo;t making any predictions, but one thing can be certain, and that is, that Gordie Hannigan will once again be one of the stars of the club, and the darling of Saturday night fleckers to the Gardens.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-03

Hannigan Hoping Clancy Will Re-Unite Him On Old Line With Hassard and Army

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>The Seattle Bombers of the eight team western Hockey League have a new deal. It has been announced (May 3. 1953) that a seven man board of directors, with E. V. (Gene) Walby, prominent Seattle sportman and businessman, taking over as president, will guide the destinies of this city&rsquo;s W.H.L club next season.</p><p>Frank Dotten, former owner-manager of the Bombers and who has run the club during its five year professional history, dating back to the 1948-49 campaign, and from 19 44-4 5 to 1948 when the club and league was amateur, still retains a sizeable interest in the organization. Dotten is the team&rsquo;s general manager and one of the directors.</p><p>Charles R. (Chuck) Durgan, active in Little and Little Bigger League Sports here, Vice President of the Amateur Athletic Union and a sports organizer of long standing in Seattle and district, is First Vice-President.</p><p>Dr, E. M. Burgess, who has been the team&rsquo;s physician for the last five seasons and who is considered to be one of the outstanding bone specialists on the West Coast, is Second Vice-President. William H.Short, manager of Seattle and Dry Cleaning Laundry Association and a labor relations man, and who graduated from the University of Washington. Class of &lsquo;38, is secretary-treasurer. Walby, who is 50, and Short, who is 37, are natives of Seattle and have lived in the Sound City all their lives.</p><p>M. K. (Karl) Burgess, brother of the Doctor and the team&rsquo;s lawyer, is on the board of directors. Another director is former Seattle defence star, James Alton (Al) McFadden, now in business for himself in Seattle.</p><p>Leo Ornest, who has been Promotions Director of the Victoria Cougars, member team in the W.H.L., for the last four seasons, is the Bombers&rsquo; new Promotions Director. He will be in charge of publicity, ticket sales, program and promotions. Ornest is a graduate of the University of Southern California and THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; West Coast correspondent and representative since 1947.</p><p>While the news may come as a surprise to Bomber fans here and elsewhere in the W.H.L., this was not an overnight or spur-of the moment deal.</p><p>Negotiations began way back last September when Gene Walby and several of the new (Seattle) directors showed an interest in wanting to be part of the Bombers and hockey. It was felt that the added capital&mdash;a sizeable sum&mdash;the group could put up along with their active interest and enthusiasm would make for a bigger and better operation. And within a reasonable period of time re-establish Seattle, the league&rsquo;s biggest city and poorest draw this season, (57;4 26), as the top hockey city in the loop and on the Coast as it was in 1947-48, when 161,460 saw the Bombers play at home.</p><p>The Seattle Civic Ice Arena, home of the Bombers, is considered to be one of the better hockey rinks in the country and the best to watch a game from on the West Coast.</p><p>The new board of directors are confident that Seattle belongs on top of the hockey world out here and given little help and encouragement and with the money which has already been earmarked for players and operations, that dream and realization may not be too long in coming.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01170/1276884-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="299" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lloyd Ailsby</b></figcaption></div><p>Walby, who has been an avid hockey and sports supporter since 1916-17, when Seattle Metropolitans won the World's hockey championship and became the first American city to do so, will accompany Dotten East later this month. They will stop in Cleveland to talk business and players with James Hendy, General Manager of the Barons, A.H.L. League and Calder Cup Champs, and who Seattle has had a working agreement with for the last three seasons.</p><p>From Cleveland Walby and Dotten will go to Montreal to attend hockey&rsquo;s annual king-size meeting, when every professional and top amateur clubs will be well represented. Walby and Dotten intend to return from the East with several new players, but it&rsquo;s too early to name names or even hazard a guess as to who they might be at this early date.</p><p>In a statement to Seattle newspaper and radio men Walby said, &ldquo;The first thing we are going to do is buy as many top-notch players as we can. Ultimately, we will own every player on our roster. We don&rsquo;t want to depend on any other club to supply vs with players. Dotten and I are going East to attend the meetings in Montreal and we hope to do a lot of business there."</p><p>Walby also made it clear that it will take time&mdash;two, three or four year&mdash;before the Bombers will own their entire roster. Wal by and Dotten attended the W.H.L&rsquo;s annual meeting, May 12 and 13 at the Mayflower Hotel in Seattle. This was the new Bombers' prexy&rsquo;s first introduction to the circuit. By the time this reaches your favorite newsstand the meeting has been held and in the next issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS we&rsquo;ll give you a complete run-down on what transpired.</p><p>It is not known at this time which of the last season&rsquo;s Seattle players will be back. And no mention has been made about a coach. Lloyd Ailsby was playing coach last campaign. However, the new directors, who are willing to spend money, can not make it too clear that there will be several new faces in the Seattle lineup next October and together with the better holdovers they hope to mold a winning combination.</p><p>One resolution the new group has passed is there will be no stan-patism. If a player hasn&rsquo;t got it or doesn&rsquo;t measure up he&rsquo;ll be on his way. Every position on the club is open at this time. No player who wore a Seattle uniform the past season can feel safe in assuming he&rsquo;ll be back and has his regular spot waiting for him&mdash;he&rsquo;ll have to earn his position.</p><p>While the new directors expressed their delight at being in the hockey business, Dotten appeared relieved that the burden of operating the Bombers almost single-handedly was finally over.</p><p>&ldquo;It's been tough,&rdquo; Dotten said, &ldquo;and was getting tougher each year as the league improved. I&rsquo;m really looking forward to sharing some of the responsibilities.&rdquo; The task of signing players will still be on Dotten&rsquo;s shoulders, but he will be able to devote most of his time to that one job. Others will now be on hand to help with the business end of the club, tickets, promotions and the 1,000 and one other items he and his wife Margaret had to handle before.</p><p>This is the first in several seasons there has been a change or partial change in ownership of a W.H.L. franchise. A few years ago, Bill Gregg, wealthy Fresno fruit man, had a reported $30,000 interest in the New Westminster Royals with Kenny MacKenzie. Gregg sold his half interest in the Royals to Fred Hume, now Vancouver&rsquo;s mayor.</p><p>The front-office reorganization of the Bombers has been given a hearty approval by G. A. (Al) Leader, president of the W.H.L.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m confident this new group will greatly aid in reviving hockey interest in Seattle,&rdquo; said Leader. "I'm also sure they will see to it that this city (Seattle) gets, and soon, a team everyone will be proud of.&rdquo;</p><p>In Seattle hockey people are congratulating Dotten for making a wise choice, bringing in new capital and &ldquo;new blood.&rdquo; They also agree that running a team in the tough WHL., hockey&rsquo;s second best league, is too big a job for one man and that expanding the front office staff was a move in the right direction toward building a winning team.</p><p>In the past Seattle was noted for its outstanding teams, which seldom failed to please. They were colorful, crowd-pleasing and free-wheeling aggregations and every effort will be made to instill these ingredients into the Seattle team of 1953-54.</p><p>No date or place has been set for the training camp. From last year&rsquo;s club Rudy Filion, Joe Bell and Captain Danny Sprout still are in town, they make their home here the year round.</p><p>As the new directors only took office a short time ago they actually haven&rsquo;t had sufficient time to really get their teeth into the many plans earmarked for next season. However, once these plans get past the blueprint stage and are ready to be put into operation you can be assured you'll hear all about them.</p><p>This may be the month of June, summer is here and hardly the time to talk extensively about hockey, but the Seattle Bombers are going right to it in an all-out effort to give Seattle a good team. The club finished a strong fifth, winning its last three league games, two on the road, and on three successive nights. The results of the playoffs were encouraging and enough of an incentive to conservatively predict next season will be Seattle&rsquo;s best in several years.</p><h2>The Bombers' Ground Crew</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02149/1276877-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="2199" height="1246"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>BOMBER BRASS</b>&mdash;The seven smiling gentlemen shown here are members of the new board of directors of the Seat tie Bombers of the Western Hockey League. President E.V. (Gene) Walby is seen on the right while the other board members are left to right, Leo Ornest, Promotions Director and HOCKEY NEWS correspondent; Wm. H. Short, Secretary-Treasurer; James (Al) McFadden, Director; Charles R. Durgan, First Vice-President; M. K. (Karl) Burgess, Director; Frank A. Dotten, General Manager and Director; and Prexy Walby. Missing from the picture is Dr. E. M. Burgess, second Vice-President.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Seattle’s New Executive Planning Vast Improvements

<p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>ational Hockey League fans may obtain copies of the N.H.L. Final Statistics free of charge. These handysized records cards contain the final standing of the Clubs, the Individual Scoring Records for every player during the regular schedule and the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as well as the Goalkeepers Averages and the Penalty Records of each club.</p><p><b>Requests should be mailed to: N.H.L. Information Bureau, 603 Sun Life Bld., Montreal, Que.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

N.H.L. STATISTICS AVAILABLE FOR FANS

<p>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</p><p><b>Founded October 1, 1947</b></p><p><b>Published by Kenneth W. McKenzie ond 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>Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Price $3.00 in Canada&mdash;$4.00 In U.S.A.</b></p><p><b>Authorised ns second clues mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. Entered as second class mail at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y, Return all U.S. undeliverable copies under Form 3579 to the Hockey News Company 1434 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que. Printed in Canada.</b></p><p><b>VOL. 6 MONTREAL. JUNE 1953 No. 32</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">By Ken McKenzie</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01242/1276991-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ON&rsquo;T BE SURPRISED</b> if you read of a big player trade between Detroit and Chicago before the summer ends. A deal involving several star players on both teams is currently brewing&hellip;. Muzz Patrick will coach Seattle Bombers of the Western Hockey League next season. Patrick will live in Tacoma and commute to Seattle. While in Tacoma, Muzz will attempt to sell the Tacoma Arena. There is a possibility that the building will be converted into a super market&hellip; Goalkeeper Johnny Bower and Defenseman Bob Chrystal, mainstays of the Calder Cup champion Cleveland Barons, will do their toiling for the New York Rangers next season&hellip;Cleveland will move their training camp this fall from Stratford, Ont. to a town in Quebec not too far from Montreal. The Barons will play several pre-season exhibition games in the Province of Quebec. One of these games will be against the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens. This should really be something&hellip;the Stanley Cup winner against the Calder Cup champion&hellip;Chicago Black Hawks will move their training site from Pembroke, Ont. to either Belleville or Brockville, two thriving Ontario cities&hellip;The Hawks have moved their training camp location several times these past few years&hellip;Scotty Morrison, outstanding referee in the Western League last season, will do his whistle-tooting in the American League next term. He will work some games as a linesman in the National League&hellip;If Doug Bentley accepts the assistant coaching job with the New York Rangers it is expected that Max will join him&hellip;Before this happens, however, the Toronto Maple Leafs will want something in return&hellip;The Leafs would undoubtedly be interested in Harry Howell, New York&rsquo;s outstanding young defenseman&hellip;If Doug joins the Rangers as assistant coach he will also play for the Broadway Blues.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02134/1276984-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="264" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0377/1276977-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="267" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Sawchuk</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0455/1276970-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="277" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Reay</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0550/1276963-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="273" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Mosienko</b></figcaption></div><p><b>NEIL COLVILLE</b> is building an ice cream parlor in Vancouver and plans to become a fulltime resident of the Coast city&hellip;It will also reunite Colville with his old pal Alex Shibicky, who will be coaching the New Westminster Royals next season&hellip;Chuck Millman won the hockey players&rsquo; golf tournament in Vancouver the other day&hellip;Billy Reay, Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; smooth-as-silk centerman, will start next hockey season as coach of either Victoria Cougars or Ottawa Senators&hellip;Both of these teams are anxious to land the clever Reay as coach&hellip;Muzz Patrick is reported to have been offered a job with the New York Rangers on a long range proposition&hellip;He&rsquo;s interested in it too and would like to get back in the National Hockey League again&hellip;Boston Bruins interested in landing Paul Meger from Canadiens but little chance that the Canucks will part with him&hellip;Meger became a father for the second time a couple of weeks ago&hellip;Sammy Pollock, mentor of the junior Montreal Canadiens and one of hockey&rsquo;s hardest working young executives, is slated to take over the coaching reins of the Cincinnati Mohawks of the International League this fall&hellip;Cleveland plans to put in a team at Merion, Ohio next season&hellip;The International League is expanding all the time as the calibre of hockey improves&hellip;Frankie Eddolls, coach of the Buffalo Bisons, is working for Jacobs Bros, concessionaries during the summer&hellip;Bill Quackenbush is the latest NHL bridegroom. The Bruins defenseman married a Boston newspaper reporter&hellip;It appears right now as if George Gravel, veteran NHL referee who was sidelined most of last season with a kidney ailment, will be referee-in-chief of the Quebec Hockey League. Besides serving as No. 1 official he will also referee himself&hellip;Maurice Richard is working as a wrestling referee in the Maritime Provinces this summer. He did the same thing a year ago&hellip;Gordie Howe is busy these days showing his bride, Colleen, the golden west. The newlyweds are spending the summer at Gordie&rsquo;s home in Saskatoon.</p><p><b>BILL MOSIENKO</b> is the new goal scoring champ of the Chicago Black Hawks. He has tallied 231 goals to better the former record of 217 held by Doug Bentley&hellip;Bill Dolan of Chicago also advises that Mosienko holds the NHL record for the three fastest goals. Mosie notched three counters in 21 seconds against New York on March 23, 1952&hellip;Punch Imlach, coach of the Quebec Aces, works for a paper company in the Ancient Capital during the offseason&hellip;Bud Poile, coach of the Western Hockey League champion Edmonton Flyers in his first year at the post, recently signed<b>a</b>new two-year contract as coach of the Flyers&hellip;Al Dewsbury, Chicago&rsquo;s most improved defenseman, is one of the top hitters in the Beaches Major Fastball League of Toronto&hellip;Pete Horeck, ex-NHL player, opened his own jewellery store in Chicago&hellip;Harry Lumley became the father of a baby girl recently&hellip;Humboldt Indians of the Saskatchewan Junior League, will be one of the teams to watch, next season. The team has 14 holdovers. Humboldt finished first in the Saskatchewan League last season but were downed in the playoffs by Flin Flon&hellip;Humboldt is the smallest town in Canada sponsoring a Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; team. Population is around 2, 000&hellip;Bernie Strongman, veteran member of the Victoria Cougars, has retired from the ice lanes. Strongman was the first player Lester Patrick signed when he was given the Victoria franchise in the Pacific Coast Hockey League in 1949&hellip;Frank Boucher is high on Larry Popein and Andy Bathgate of Vancouver Canucks and expects both will be with the Rangers next season&hellip;Cal Gardner of Chicago bought a home last month at Leaside, Ont&hellip;Gus Bodnar, Clare Raglan and Dewsbury are other members of the Hawks living in and around Toronto during the off-season&hellip;Frank Selke Is spending a month&rsquo;s vacation In Florida&hellip;One of the first things he will do upon his return, will be to try and sign Jean Beliveau to a Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; contract.</p><p><b>WONDER WHAT SOME</b> of the NHL champion Detroit Red Wings are doing this summer?&hellip;Terry Sawchuk has spent most of the time since the hockey season ended in and out of hospitals. He&rsquo;s been in hospitals in both Detroit and his native Winnipeg and was Just released from the hospital in Winnipeg the other day. He is hopeful that the doctors will find out why he is losing weight&hellip;Dependable Bob Goldham is working as a salesman for a tractor company in Toronto&hellip;Red Kelly, now Detroit&rsquo;s most eligible bachelor, is working on his father&rsquo;s tobacco farm near Simcoe, Ont., and doing quite a bit of dancing. Also plays a little baseball when time permits&hellip;Benny Woit is finishing construction on his new home in Detroit&hellip;Marcel Pronovost, the colorful rearguard, has an equally exciting summertime job. He works as a fishing guide in Northern Quebec&hellip;Metro Prystai is living in Yorkton, Sask., and has his old job back as greens-keeper at the local golf course&hellip;Johnny Wilson is employed as a construction worker in Windsor, Ont&hellip;Glen Skov is also working on construction in Windsor. Glen also plays baseball around the Border City&hellip;Ted Lindsay is selling Ford cars in Detroit and making personal appearances for the team and the Stroh Brewing Company&hellip;Alex Delvecchio is waiting for the arrival of his first born child in Fort William&hellip;Marty Pavelich is managing a softball team at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont&hellip;. Reg Sinclair is working as a sales representaive for a soft drink company in Montreal&hellip;Tony &ldquo;Mighty Mouse&rdquo; Leswick is Testing in Vancouver&hellip;Marcel &ldquo;I wrestle de bear&rdquo; Bonin is employed by a paper mill in Quebec.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-01

PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0646/1277022-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg"></div><h2>Bumps Gump</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I don&rsquo;t; think Worsley was such an outstanding rookie as to receive the Calder Trophy. He was good, and didn&rsquo;t deserve all the blame, which was placed on his shoulders at the beginning of the season, but he wasn&rsquo;t THAT good!</p><p>My personal choice was Hannigan. If the selectors didn&rsquo;t want to award the Trophy to a Leaf, and Toronto was studded with more deserving rookies, then there were three rookies in Boston who deserved more than Honorable Mention. Namely Armstrong, Godfrey and Toppazzini. They took over the blue line when Laycoe and Quackenbush were out with injuries at the same time and played alongside Schmidt who never played defense before. They played better for those few games (not to mention the entire season) than Worsley did all season! And don&rsquo;t forget that Top-pazzini played every position but goal! If Worsley was such an out standing rookie why don&rsquo;t the Rangers keep him for next season?</p><p>Penny Sacco</p><p>Chicago, Illinois</p><p>(Who says they won't?)</p><h2>Can Be Done</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I wish to have you settle an arguement between my brother my friend and myself.</p><p>My brother says it is impossible to put yourself oft side and my friend and I insist that one could put himself offside. Can it be done?</p><p>John Micallif</p><p>Toronto, Ont.</p><p><b>(It is possible for a person to put himself off-side by dragging the puck over the line after him)</b></p><h2>Blasting Garneau</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>After reading a HOCKEY NEWS in April I got so burned up on the letter sent in by Laurent Garneau published in the Fan Forum that I had to write you and put him straight.</p><p>The big question in everyone&rsquo;s mind of course is, &ldquo;Who is the greatest today, Howe or Richard. Well Mr. Garneau you would have gone home red faced if you saw the way your idol Howe played in the Boston-Detroit series. For a man who scored 49 goals during the season-you&rsquo;d never know it in this surprising series. Howe was watched by the old veteran Dumart and couldn&rsquo;t even get a shot off. Your boy Howe who was counted on to guide Detroit to an easy win certainly must have disappointed his Detroit followers as well as you.</p><p>Maurice Richard, the great money player is my idol, and year in year out during Stanley Cup time Richard scores when it really counts. He certainly doesn&rsquo;t choke up like I saw Howe do recently and when the pressure is on he comes through like a champio.</p><p>Mr. Garneau, when you have two guys like Lindsay and Kelly feeding you constantly you should score 4 9 goals. Who&rsquo;s sending in Richard, nobody. He has to bull his way through five players to score. Elmer Lach isn&rsquo;t the center he was a few years back.</p><p>Mr. Garneau closes out by saying, &ldquo;If Richard is the only idol we must worship, I consider it a disgrace to be a French Canadian. The hockey followers around Boston and myself would adopt Richard gladly and you can have your &ldquo;choked up&rsquo;&rsquo; Howe. This is the first time I&rsquo;ve sent a letter to THE HOCKEY NEWS and 1 would appreciate it if it were published.</p><p>Jim Russell</p><p>Boston, Mass.</p><h2>Belated Congratulations</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been a faithful subscriber of THE HOCKEY NEWS for several years and certainly think it is great. However I am quite disappointed in your last issue. The champions of several leagues got very nice writeups but not one little line about the Cincinnati Mohawks. This team deserved some attention as they were International Hockey League champs of both the regular season and the playoffs. They then went on to win the U.S. Senior Open Championship. Their regular season record was 4 3 wins, 4 ties and 13 losses followed by 15 victories in 17 playoff games which included a winning streak of 10 straight.</p><p>Practically any IHL scoring record you could name was broken or tied by the Cincinnati team. According to final official IHL scoring records eight players had 28 or more goals during the regular season, five of whom had over 30 goals and Don Marshall, (the leagues MVP and All-Star center) had 4 6 goals. Goalie Claude Evans had a 2.52 goals against average which led the league and had five shutouts, a new league high. In addition he had 19 games in which the opposition only scored one goal.</p><p>In view of this record, don&rsquo;t you think you are overlooking a good story? We Cincinnati fans are proud of our team and would welcome a little Coverage in The HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>William Weisel</p><p>Norwood, Ohio.</p><p><b>(We are sorry we overlooked the Cincy team who deserve all the credit they can get but we did not have any pictures or a story on the team so therefore were forced to leave them out in the cold.)</b></p><h2>You're So Right</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>To settle an arguement and a small wager, would you confirm the fact that George Senick, now with the Saskatoon Quakers, previously played with another team in the Pacific Coast Hockey League. I believe it was Seattle.</p><p>I am sure of the fact but I have no proof to convince the other party.</p><p>Could you also give his exact age?</p><p>V. E. Roberte</p><p>Edmonton, Alta.</p><p><b>(George Senick played with Beat the from the 1948-49 season through the 1950-51 and he 23 years old, having been born September 16, 1929.)</b></p><h2>Write The Clubs</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Will you kindly send me a photograph of the following American League Players?</p><p>(1) Bert Hirschfield, St. Louis Flyers, 19 53 and (2) Jack Gordon, Cleveland Barons, 1952-53.</p><p>If you let me know what the cost is, I will gladly forward a Money Order to cover the cost of these pictures.</p><p>Mary L. Mahoney</p><p>Providence, R.I.</p><p><b>(We do not sell pictures, Mary, but if you were to Write to the respective clubs of the two players mentioned, they may be able to take care of your requests.)</b></p><h2>Sizzling Summary</h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is the first time that I am writing to THE HOCKEY NEWS which I consider a very fine newspaper. I hope this letter will be printed.</p><p>So Mr. Garneau wants to put an end to the present discussion Howe, Richard. The way, dear Mr. Garneau, that your are trying to make comparison between these two hockey stars definitely proves one thing; You don't know anything about hockey.</p><p>If you still live in this world, Mr. Garneau, do you happen to know that even after the war Rocket Richard has proven many times that he was not a wartime flash and for more information concerning this wonderful player, you may look in the NHL Record Book.</p><p>I do not want to waste my time, trying to convince a small minded, poor observer like you. that Maurice Richard deserves the publicity he gets as an outstanding figure in to-days hockey, and this by sportwriters, former players, and hockey experts, etc.</p><p>I certainly wouldn&rsquo;t be proud to be a French Canadian if they were all as small minded as you are, but thank God, that is out of the question.</p><p>Again, Howe and Richard are two top stars, and as a French Canadian, I am proud of our Rocket,</p><p>Jacques Galinas</p><p>Shawinigan Falls, Que.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-06

THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0720/1277053-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="589" height="273"></div><h2>JUNE 15 to JULY 14</h2><h3>June</h3><p>15&mdash;PROSlOVOST, Marcel, Detroit, defense, 1930.</p><p>16&mdash;BURNETT, Kelly, Syracuse, forward, 1926; FASHOWAY, Gordie, New Westminster, forward, 1926.</p><p>19&mdash;REIGLE, Ed, Cleveland, defense, 1924.</p><p>20&mdash;GLADU, Paul, Providence, forward, 1922.</p><p>21&mdash;O&rsquo;CONNOR, Buddy, Cincinnati, coach, 1916; McNAB, Max, New Westminster, forward, 1924.</p><p>23&mdash;LAYCOE, Hal, Boston, defense, 19 22.</p><p>24&mdash;CREIGHTON, Dave, Boston, forward, 1930,</p><p>25&mdash;DICKENS, Ernie, Calgary, defense, 1921.</p><p>27&mdash;RALEIGH, Don, New York, forward, 1926.</p><p>28&mdash;GEE, George, Chicago, forward 1.922</p><p>29&mdash;ULLYOT, Ken, New Westminster, forward, 1922.</p><h3>July</h3><p>5&mdash;EDDOLLS, Frank, Buffalo, coach, 1921.</p><p>6&mdash;ARMSTRONG, George, Toronto, forward, 19 30,</p><p>7&mdash;BROWN, Gerry Hershey, forward, 1917; LEMIEUX, Armand, Syracuse, forward, 1926.</p><p>9&mdash;KELLY, Red, Detroit, defense, 1927.</p><p>11&mdash;FOLK, Bill, Edmonton, defense, 1927; SMITH, Sid, Toronto, for</p><p>13&mdash;MOSDELL, Ken, Montreal, forward, 1928.</p><p>14&mdash;HANNIGAN, Ray, Edmonton, forward, 1927.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-07

Happy Birthday To You

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>P</span>ublished Weekly, except monthly May through September. HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY. 309 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine St. West. Montreal, Que., Canada. Entered as second class Matter December 4, 1951, at the Post Office in Ogdensburg, N.Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price $3.00 in Conode. $4.00 in U.$.A.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hockey News

<p>BUFFALO, N.Y.-&mdash;</p><p>Plans for the 1953-54 edition of the Buffalo Bisons&rsquo; hockey club are being laid at this moment and if they become an actuality then the grim memories of last season&rsquo;s club, although they will never be completely forgotten, will at least be dimmed a great deal.</p><p>There is one consolation for the brass of a last place team; their club can go only one way the following season. Here in Buffalo the fans seem to feel the same way, although there were a few who wondered if perhaps the team couldn&rsquo;t go little farther into the cellar and end up shovelling coal.</p><p>It&rsquo;s more than fact that 1952-53 was a bad year for the Buffalo Hockey Club, both at the gate and on the ice. Bad year? That&rsquo;s an understatement. It was the worst year in the history of the club both at the turnstiles and in the points column of the American Hockey League standing.</p><h2>Figure In Buffalo Plans</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01227/1277184-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="570" height="877"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LORNE DAVIS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02173/1277177-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="571" height="1341"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ED LIZENBERGER</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03131/1277170-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="570" height="906"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DON MARSHALL</b></figcaption></div><p>The management of the club is convinced that a winning, colorful club will gain back the thousands of fans that three years ago crammed every nook and corner of the city's Memorial Auditorium. Statistics taken at the end of the 1948-4 9 season showed that the Bisons, led by such performers as Paul Meger, Ab DeMarco and Knobby Warwick drew close to a quarter million customers. Now Freddie Hunt and Frankie Eddolls are in the midst of plans to rebuild their team from top to bottom, loading it with color and talent.</p><p>That a house cleaning is needed goes without saying. That it is coming is just a matter of time.</p><p>The Bisons will once again work in close agreement with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League and the front office brass freely admit that they will have to get more help from that source if they intend to carry out their present plans.</p><p>There have been indications that General Manager Frank Sel-ke of Montreal will do his utmost to send the Bisons the nucleus of a championship club.</p><p>Names that mean little to Buffalo fans at the moment may be household words to them comes next hockey season.</p><h2>Plante To Return</h2><p>Jacques Plante, the colorful French-Canadian kid from Montreal Royals will almost certainly be back in the nets.</p><p>From there comes the housecleaning. Frankie Eddolls will be back as coach and will also take up his spot on defense. But who will line up alongside him is not known. General Manager Freddie Hunt has admitted that he&rsquo;s interested in colorful Pete Wright who performed with the Sherbrooke Saints of the Quebec Senior League last season. Wright, a six foot 180 pound rearguard was a standout in the league. He patterns himself after Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly only he can throw a body-check with the force of a ten ton truck.</p><p>Although the New York Rangers have announced that they will grab Wright from the Saints for the NHL, Selke has told newsmen that he has the first option to buy the burly blonde and has indicated that he will.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been after Mr. Selke to buy that guy all year,&rdquo; said Dick Irvin, coach of the Canadiens after being asked what he thought of the player. Irvin regards him as a sure fire National Leaguer within two years.</p><p>The Bisons have also indicated that they would like to latch onto tough Ivan Irwin who once performed in the AHL with the Cincinnati Mohawks. As defensemen go this Chicago-born player isn&rsquo;t the best in the business but he must certainly be one of the toughest. Irwin, who played with the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League in 1952-53 once had a run in with Wild Bill&rsquo; Ezinicki of the Pittsburgh Hornets when Bill first got the bounce from the Majors. King Clancy, who then coached the Mohawks, said at the time, that he&rsquo;d never seen a neater job done on a playert Another rearguard who may play for the Bisons is Wally Clune, a tough customer presently campaigning with the Montreal Royals. Clune admits that he&rsquo;d like to take a shot at the American League and there is a good chance he will.</p><p>The Bisons will likely have their top line of Gordie Pennell at center and Lome Davis on right with Cal MacKay on left, back for 1953-54. That is if neither Davis or Mackay make the Canadiens. Pennell belongs to the Bisons.</p><p>After that who knows? All Freddie Hunt will tell you is that there is going to be some changes made, and he tells you that with grim expression on his face.</p><h2>Litz Would Help</h2><p>The best amateur hockey player in the world today is Quebec&rsquo;s Jean Beliveau. The second best in the universe is a six foot two lad namer Eddie Litzenberger. Litz, as his Montreal Royals&rsquo; teammates call him, may end up in Buffalo next season. He will be given a thorough tryout by the NHL Habs but most qxperts believe that he is still one season away from the big league. Next to Beliveau, Litz also has the best shot in amateur hockey too. The big right-winger was named to the second all-star team last season and was also named the &ldquo;Rookie of the Year&rsquo;. He scored 2 8 goals and was high man on the club in that department. This is the boy who could make Buffalo fans forget all about Meger, Warwick and DeMarco. He&rsquo;s colorful, loves to play hockey and can make the fans sit on the edge of their seats just as Meger did here a few years back.</p><p>Other names who have been listed as possible members of the next Buffalo club are Colin Kilburn and Doug Anderson from Victoria, Skippy Burchell who tied Jean Beliveau for junior scoring honors in their last season. Don Marshall from Cincinnati, one of the best young centermen to come up the pike in years. Jimmy Moore from the Royals, the most improved player of the year is also among the candidates. From the parent Canadiens will come one or two players who are presently listed and playing with the Habs.</p><p>At any rate the fans who turn out to see their next edition of the Bisons will almost certainly need a program to find out who is in the lineup.</p><p>There is every reason to believe, too that after they get a first look they will come back for more.</p><p>Freddie Hunt and aren&rsquo;t promising a championship club nor are they promising anything more than a, fighting, colorful crew but we&rsquo;ll bet they&rsquo;ll come up with a bunch that will have fans lining up at the gates of the Memorial Auditorium once again.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

Bisons Plan Rebuilding Program In Effort To Vacate AHL Cellar

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.</p><p>The Eastern Canada Senior Hockey League will probably be back in operation next season, it was learned here recently.</p><p>The announcement was made at a banquet held in the Little Hall of Fame at the Ottawa Auditorium recently at which officials of the league, representatives of the teams, and leading figures in the world of hockey were present.</p><p>Smiths Falls, whose Rideaus came within an ace of going all the way to the Allan Cup this year, will be a definite starter, while others from last year&rsquo;s loop who will be back again are Pembroke Lumber Kings and Cornwall.</p><p>Thurso, the fourth team in the loop, is a question mark at the moment and nothing definite will be known until the Fall.</p><p>The league, however, hopes to strengthen the circuit by giving Brockville a franchise next season. The Brockville team played last year in the Ontario-New York League and the venture apparently was not too successful.</p><p>It was hoped that both Brockville and a team from Kingston would be available for next season, but according to officials of the league, the OHA will not allow Kingston to compete in the Ottawa District, even though geographically it would seem to be the better plan.</p><p>A five-team circuit including Pembroke, Smiths Falls, Cornwall, Brockville and Kingston would be a terrific boon to senior hockey in the Ottawa Valley and would be just the thing to give the ECHL a badly needed shot in the arm,</p><h2>Would Like Entry</h2><p>Kingston now competes in a senior &ldquo;B&rdquo; league comprised of teams in southern Ontario but would like to move into the Ottawa Valley circuit if possible. It doesn&rsquo;t look too promising.</p><p>It was thought that Hull Volants would be ready to assume their franchise next season, but the word from the Transpontine City is that their will not be ready for next winter and hence they will have to forego entering for another year.</p><p>The possibility, too, of a return to the league by an Ottawa team was also dispelled. Instead it is planned to reorganize the old Senior City League here and have about six teams in the city. The champions would move into Allan Cup playdowns, likely against the winners of the ECHL.</p><p>Following the banquet, an election of officers was held for the coming season, with last year&rsquo;s slate returned to office unanimously.</p><p>Scott Macpherson was renamed president, with J. P McCaffrey and Art Bogart first and second vice-presidents. Stan Bowman was again returned as secretary-treasurer.</p><h2>Gormans Present</h2><p>Present at the banquet, in addition to league officials, were T. P. Gorman, Frank Gorman, Joe Gorman, Bill Garbut, Smiths Falls, King Clancy, new Toronto coach, Bob Davidson, chief Leaf scout, Ray Miron, Cornwall, Gaston Clermont, Thurso, and Marcel Bellefeuille, Thurso, as well as several others.</p><h2>Sat In</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0497/1277215-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="587" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>TOMMY GORMAN</b></figcaption></div><p>Despite their lenghty season, the champion Smiths Falls Rideaus just about broke even on the year&rsquo;s operations. They went into the Allan Cup playdowns about $8, 000 in the red. but managed to pick up enough to come up for air.</p><p>Pembroke did very well financially and finished the season in the black. The Lumber Kings drew good crowds during the year in their new rink, and especially during the playoffs.</p><p>There will probably be quite a few new faces on the Rideau team next season if several of the veterans keep their promise of retiring.</p><p>For one, Hal Dewey, coach of the team, says he has called it a day after a long career as a player and coach. Alf. Webster, veteran winger is another, as are forward Conny Tudin and defenceman Ray Trainor.</p><p>Politics appear to be the big factor in the holding up of the Hull rink. That and the difficulty boosters of the rink are having in raising the extra money through a referendum.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-04

Brookville May Join Eastern Canada Loop

<p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>Nobody can say that Diggin Dickie Moore of the Montreal Canadiens isn&rsquo;t versatile.</p><p>A few weeks ago Dickie, playing baseball during the off season, hit two towering home runs accounting for all six runs as his team, Mayports, of the Montreal Atwater Baseball League, defeated YMHA 6-3.</p><p>He is an outfielder in bese-ball.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mighty Moore

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.</p><p>Look for the Maritimes to be back bigger and better than ever next winter. Even if they have the only major hockey league in the country, the MMHL is about as sure a starter as anything you can think of in these confused times.</p><p>Not only will all four of last year&rsquo;s teams be ready, willing and able come early next October, but you may also see an additional starter. If present plans materialize the Moncton Hawks will return to the ranks of the majors after one season in the senior ranks.</p><p>The addition of the Hawks would give the league added balance. It would also serve as an ideal stopoff in the breathless schedule.</p><p>Moncton is beautifully situated, plumb in the middle of the Maritimes, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.</p><p>The Hawks, one of the greatest names in Maritime history, dropped out after several good years and a few depressing ones. Last winter they operated in the New Brunswick circuit with Saint John Beavers, long-time major entry, and the Fredericton Capitals.</p><p>But Moncton longs to be back with the topnotchers in Maritime hockey, and the clubs would love to have them back. Once one of the strongholds of hockey in this area, Moncton could easily stage a comeback with a contending team. With Saint John out Moncton would have the New Brunswick area all to itself.</p><p>One executive who looks forward to the 1953-54 season with considerable enthusiasm is Harry Butler, major domo of Halifax Atlantics. The enthusiasm generated by a winning coup last April is still felt in this seaport city.</p><p>The fans still greet young Dugger McNeil with cheery words as the successful coach makes his way about town. A winner in his first year as ice leader has made McNeil a prominent figure here.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02191/1277308-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="272" height="470"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Murph Chamberlain</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03159/1277301-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="294" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dugger McNeil</b></figcaption></div><h2>McNeil Already Signed</h2><p>McNeil, who got his start with Halifax St. Mary&rsquo;s juniors a few years ago and then served three full seasons at defence for Montreal Royals, has already been engaged as coach for 1953-54. Many of last year&rsquo;s players will be back with him. Halifax has no plans for wrecking a championship team but hopes to bolster a few weak spots in the lineup.</p><p>While nothing definite has been heard from Charlottetown, Glace Bay. and Sydney, you may count all three in. The addition of Moncton could help these centres considerably, especially if the Hawks came up with one of the better teams.</p><p>The league will meet shortly to plan for the new season. Definite and long-range plans will be made then. The Moncton plan will be outlined.</p><p>Butler, for one, thinks there is a distinct probability of Moncton returning to the major scene. Back in the early 30's the Hawks won the Allan Cup two years in a row, became one of the best known clubs in amateur hockey ranks.</p><p>Immediately following 'World War Two the Hawks were back in flower again. Then they fell off as players failed to live up to expectations. They stumbled through the 1951-52 season, finally succumbed with less than two weeks to go.</p><p>Last year they played senior hockey. Now they&rsquo;re likely to return to the major scene and add a fifth team to give added interest and help break up the long schedule because of the ideal location.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Maritime Major Loop Woos Moncton Hawks

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Last season&rsquo;s controversial All-Star game at least provided one consolation.</p><p>This season the game, to be played in Montreal on October 3, will revert back to the old system of matching the Stanley Cup champions against the All-Stars.</p><p>Last season and the campaign before, it will be remembered, the first All-Star squad locked horns with the second, the former being bolstered with players from the teams representing American cities and the latter drawing reinforcements from the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>The new move, voted on at the NHL's annual meeting, means that the Montreal Canadiens, present Stanley Cup champions, will take on Howe, Lindsay and Company with the proceeds being turned over to the Player's Pension Fund.</p><p>The first and second All-Stars will be reinforced with players from the five teams in the league aside from the Canadiens and the selection of these players will be up to All-Star coach Sid Abel.</p><p>Last season the game was staged in Detroit&rsquo;s Olympia and the result was that the fans sat through 60 minutes of boring, listless hockey that saw both teams only able to score once and the game ended in a 1-1 tie.</p><h2>Favored Switch</h2><p>There were many opinions expressed after the game and the majority seemed to favor a return to the old system of matching the Stars against the Stanley Cup champs, which probably prompted the NHL owners to make the move this season.</p><h2>Will Play&hellip;</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01226/1277367-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="283" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gerry McNeil</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02182/1277360-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="296" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption></div><h2>&hellip;For Habs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03160/1277353-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="283" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04122/1277346-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="289" height="456"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bert Olmstead</b></figcaption></div><p>A better site for the game would be hard to find, financially at least, for Montreal is one of the best hockey cities in the loop. During the season it is a virtual impossibility by a pair of ducats and with the added lure of seeing all the top NHL Stars under one roof, it will be hard to even get close to the Forum let alone get inside. This should mean a healthy monetary addition to the player&rsquo;s pension fund, one of NHL Prexy Clarence Campbell&rsquo;s pet projects.</p><p>The First All-Star team has Terry Sawchuk of Detroit in the goals fronted by the defense pair of Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly and Montreal&rsquo;s Doug Harvey, who will play for the Canadiens. The forward line has Boston&rsquo;s Fleming Mackell centering Detroit&rsquo;s Gold Dust twins, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay.</p><p>Montreal&rsquo;s Gerry McNeil was chosen second All-Star goaler but like all the other Habs on the Dream Team he will play for the Canadiens. The Second Team defense pair teams Boston&rsquo;s Bill Quackenbush with Toronto&rsquo;s Jim Thomson. Alex Delvecchio, Detroit&rsquo;s sophomore sensation will be at centre but the two wings, Bert Olmstead and Maurice Richard, will have to be replaced as they will be wearing the bleublanc-rouge.</p><h2>Recalling Great Days</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01225/1277339-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="1754" height="1358"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>REMINISCIN'&mdash;</b>Nels Stewart, right, the oid Montreal Maroon dandy who's record of 324 goals in his care-er stood the test of years until it was finally shattered last season by Montreal Canadiens' Maurice (Rocket) Richard, is shown reminiscing with sports writer Roily Ethier. Undoubtedly 01' Poison supplied Ethier with reams of copy, for there were few more colorful than he in the National Hockey League.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NHL Votes Return To Previous System For All-Star Contests

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02187/1277398-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>A</span>s THE HOCKEY NEWS was going to pretss efforts were made to get a first hand story from Sugar Jim Henry but he couldn't be reached at Kenora, Ont., where he operates a summer camp call'd Hockey Haven with Chalie Rayner, N.Y. Ranger' ca-goalie, who is also re-ported going to retire.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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DRURY’S

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0247/1277457-1-eng-US/c4-022.jpg" title="C4-02" width="248" height="299"></div><h2>Hi-There!</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0148/1277464-1-eng-US/c4-012.jpg" title="C4-01" width="238" height="293"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0345/1277450-1-eng-US/c4-032.jpg" title="C4-03" width="1220" height="977"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>LEX COOK</b> Chief scout of the Cleveland Barons and Rudy Pilous, coach of the St. Catharines Teepees, are all smiles as they pose for THE HOCKEY NEWS photographer at the annual hockey meetings in Montreal.</figcaption></div><h2>&ldquo;AHLers Solid Fellas&rdquo;</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-0434/1277443-1-eng-US/c4-042.jpg" title="C4-04" width="1151" height="1209"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MUZZ PATRECK,</b> new coach of the Seattle Bombers chats with Frank Dotton General Manager of the Seattle Bombers and Al Leader, president of the Western Hockey League during the annual hockey meeting in Montreal.</figcaption></div><h2>Western Get-Together</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-057/1277436-1-eng-US/c4-052.jpg" title="C4-05" width="1751" height="1550"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>When the hockey bigwigs</b> got together in Montreal recently the American Hockey League came up with a solid delegation as witnessed above. From left to right: Lou Pieri, president of the Providence Reds; Freddy Hunt, General Manager of the Buffalo Bisons; Emory Jones, president of the AHL and president of the St. Louis Flyers; Eddie Shore, president of the Syracuse Warriors; Frankie Eddolls, youthful coach of the Buffalo Bisons, and Jim Hendy, General Manager of the Cleveland Barons.</figcaption></div><h2>NHL's Newest Governors</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/c4-066/1277429-1-eng-US/c4-062.jpg" title="C4-06" width="1752" height="1290"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams,</b> left and Walter Brown, right congratulate Frank Selke centre on two counts. Selke succeeded Senator Donat Raymond as an NHL governor and is bossman of the world champion Montreal Canadiens. Adams and Brown also became governors. Adams replaced the late James Norris while Brown took over from Arthur H. Ross.</figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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The Hockey News VOLUME 6 MONTREAL, JUNE, 1953 NUMBER 32

<p class="dropcap"><span>H</span>ershey, Pa.&mdash;Doctors have assured Murray Henderson, coach of the Hershey Bears, that he'll be ready to take his regular turn on the Hershey blue line next season following a hernia operation at the Toronto Clinic.</p><p>The popular Bear mentor developed the hernia as the result of a groin injury which he sustained 1? in the American Hockey League campaign. The injury kept Henderson on the sidelines for nearly three weeks.</p><p>The former Boston Bruin back liner will begin the second year of his two-year contract when training drills open at the Sports Arena in September. Last season, his freshman campaign, he earned a bonus by piloting Hershey to a Calder Cup playoff berth. It marked the fourteenth time in fifteen years of AHL campaigning that the Bears made the playoffs.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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