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August 1, 1953
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Indianapolis Pro Team Bid Unacceptable
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.— For the second straight season this Indiana capital will be without a professional hockey team. Dick Miller, president of the Indianapolis Coliseum Corp., said he tried to reach a working agreement with a National Hockey League club but failed because he could not give assurance that any arrangement would last more than a year. Indianapolis had an American Hockey League team before last season, operating as a Detroit Red Wings farm club. Miller said he had understood that St. Louis of the American League is going to ask that its franchise be suspended for a year because of travel problems resulting from Indianapolis not being in the league.…
Former Saskatoon Hockey Star Awarded ‘Night’ By Ball Fans
SASKATOON, Sask.— It is seldom indeed that a hockey player is honored after he has more or less ‘retired’ from the sport but it is still rarer that said hockey player is honored for proficiency in another entirely different field of athletic endeavor. But, rare as it may be, that is exactly what happened to Cliff (Porky) Hulme when the softball fans of Saskatoon held a night for him. The event was in honor of Porky’s 20 years of service in the Saskatoon Senior Men’s Softball League. Hulme saw service as a hockey player with the Saskatoon Standards and Quakers, Prince Albert Mintos, Regina Vics and HMCS Esquimault in Victoria, all in senior company and later acted as playing-coach for the Swift Current Indians, a post he held for two seasons. Hulme received many…
Jones Resigns AHL Presidency Following Flyers’ Withdrawal
Sr. Louis Second Entry To Fold in Two Seasons ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.— Further evidence that hockey is slowly but surely losing its grip in the United States was uncovered with the announcement that this season the American Hockey League will operate as a six team league. Latest entry to roll over and play dead was the St. Louis Flyers, who join the Indianapolis Caps as ‘Suspended Members.’ The decision of St. Louis to suspend its team came as somewhat of a surprise. The Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League had a working agreement with the Flyers last season following the withdrawal of the Indianapolis entry, and it had been thought that the Wings would continue the agreement, at least through the 1953-54 season. St. Louis officials stated that although the Wings did…
Four Flyers Obtained By Rebuilding Bisons
BUFFALO, N.Y.— Continuing a rebuilding program that may see an almos’ completely new team take the ice come opening day, the Buffalo Bisons have purchased four players from the now defunct St. Louis Flyers. For the Bisons, American Hockey League cellar-dwellers last season, it was only the latest of a series of purchases and trades that are hoped will make the Buffalo team a contender. Latest acquisitions are Goaler Ralph Almas and Forwards Bert Hirschfeld, Harry Taylor and Ken Hayden, Almas will have the toughest fight on his hands as he will have to displace Jacques Plante as the Bison goal janitor. Plante who joined the Buffalo team part way through last season, is a crowd pleaser and caught the fancy of Bison fans with his acrobatic stops. There is the possibility that…