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November 28, 1953

The Hockey News November 28, 1953

<div class="byline">Dy DANA MOZLEY</div><h2>Says Rookie Bob Chrystal Only One Pulling Weight</h2>NEW YORK, NY.&mdash;In the sad case of the Rangers, at least, a strong offense is not the best defense. Their noteworthy lack of success can be traced to the failings of such defensemen as Leo Reise, Hy Buller, Harry Howell and Ivan (The Terrible) Irwin.One back-liner&rsquo;s name is purposely left off the list of failures. Bob Chrystal, the rookies up from Cleveland, has done all that could be asked of him. In spite of his lack of experience, he has been the most solid performer in front of goalkeeper Johnny Bower, game after game.Since Bower can in no way be blamed &mdash; most observers agree with manager-coach Frank Boucher that&rsquo;s he&rsquo;s played remarkable hockey under the circumstances &mdash; the team&rsquo;s goals-for and goals-against statistics tell a complete story.At the 16-game mark, the Broadway Babies were well out of the &ldquo;playoff division&rdquo;. Yet their goal-scoring record wasn&rsquo;t bad. They&rsquo;ve made 33, within a six-goal spread of the five teams behind Montreal.Except for Chicago, however, the Rangers had had many more goals scored against them. Fifty shots had gotten past Bower. The Hawks&rsquo; Al Rolilns had been beaten 51 times &mdash; but in 19 games. And Montreal, third on the list, had allowed 40 goals &mdash; but also In 19 games.Boucher acknowledged the problem, and promised to do something about it.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt our defense has been a big disappointment,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;At the start, I thought that would be the least of our worries. It had a good blend of experience and youth, where many of our forwards and Bower were breaking into the league.&ldquo;Yet Bower has been wonderful and I can find little fault with the lines. They&rsquo;ve scored enough goals to be winning and they&rsquo;re doing their part in checking.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01307/1646852-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="603" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; Where They&rsquo;reHY BULLER</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02278/1646845-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="606" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body">IVAN IRWIN</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-05111/1646838-1-eng-US/f0005-052.jpg" title="f0005-05" width="570" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body">He&rsquo;s A Success&hellip;BOB CHRYSTAL</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Except for Chrystal, our defensemen have been standing around Tike cigar store Indians. It&rsquo;s a shame the way they&rsquo;ve been letting forwards roam around the goalmouth and tick in those goals. Interference? I&rsquo;d rather have my defensemen take 10 penalties knocking those forwards out of there than have one goal made while they&rsquo;re not doing their Jobs at all.&rdquo;Even Irwin, who was brought in for the purpose of enlivening the defense, has been a disappointment. Not only has he missed a number of simple checks at other points on the ice but he, too, has been lax in tying up the opposition in front of the goal.&ldquo;It seems that several goals were scored by the other team when Irwin was on the ice,&rdquo; Boucher pointed out.&rdquo; That got Ivan to thinking, and hesitating. He looks as if he&rsquo;s lost all his confidence. And he&rsquo;d be the last player you&rsquo;d think that would happen to.&rdquo;The Ranger defense is big enough, but only Irwin has done much effective cracking. Chrystal, a fine rusher and ever-alert, won&rsquo;t back off from an argument but is more able to check when using his stick.Although he has been digging, (190) hasn&rsquo;t been hitting effectively and his overall is cinsiderably poorer than it was a year ago as a very promising rookie. As for Reise (210) and Buller (185), they&rsquo;ve just slumped badly.<h2>Stanley Or Evans Might Be Recalled Very Soon</h2>More life is needed, and Boucher hopes to foment it. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m warning the defensemen that they aren&rsquo;t to take anything, from anyone, from now on. If need be, they are to hit first. I want to see that goalmouth kept clear. They&rsquo;ll get tough, if I have to feed them raw meat.&rdquo;Boucher, of course, always had one strong threat to hold over the heads of Buller, Reise and associates. He could replace them with a couple fire-eating defensemen in the farm system.One was Allan Stanley, who was sent down to Vancouver at the request of the gallery fans. If inclined, Stanley can throw his weight around with the best of them. And scout reports from the Coast had him doing just that. No one would be surprised to see him back in New York within a week or two.The other was Jack Evans. A roughhouse customer on the ice, he spent two seasons ago with the Rangers. Too many foolish penalties caused his demotion to Saskatoon, where he is now supposed to be partially reformed. He still hits and fights, without getting foolish penalties.ICE CHIPS: Having all the hockey equipment but experience, 20-year-old Billy Dea has been shipped down to Vancouver and Andy Bathgate recalled to take his place. Andy has one year ol pro behind him, including part of last season with the Rangers, and had been a shot scorer in the WHL, He has been reunited with an old Guelph linemate, Ron Murphy, and Max Bentley is centering them.One of Chrystal&rsquo;s best rushes ended with a thud in the game with Detroit, Nov. 14. While concentrating on finishing his shot, he was hit hard, with head down, by Benny Woit. Bob wound up in the hospital for four days of observation for a kidney contusion &hellip; Although Wally Hergesheimer leads the Rangers with six goals in the first 16 games, he got only half the start he did a year ago. Camille Henry, used sparingly, was tied with Bentley and Ike Hildebrand with four scores &hellip; Rangers&rsquo; home attendance in first six games was running about 5,000 ahead of last season. That included an awful schedule, which seemed to bring in Chicago every Wednesday.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0672/1646831-1-eng-US/f0005-062.jpg" title="f0005-06" width="574" height="583"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; Falling DownHARRY HOWELL</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0742/1646824-1-eng-US/f0005-072.jpg" title="f0005-07" width="616" height="611"><figcaption class="caption-body">LEO REISE</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Boucher Laments Showing Off Rangers’ Rearguard

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div>Don &ldquo;The Count&rdquo; Grosso may have said his last farewell to hockey before realizing a long-time ambition of coaching a team to an Allan Cup. The former NHL star Detroit resigned as coach of Soo Michigan Indians, an entry in the Northern Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit. He led his home-town Soo Ontario Greyhounds to three straight NOHA crowns, had differences with the board of directors and was fired last season.He moved over to the Indians to finish out the 1952-53 season. Grosso left senior hockey after one month was completed this Beason. A combination of heartbreaking things led to the whole business. Northern Ontario hockey will miss &ldquo;The Count&rdquo;.It&rsquo;s not often a player gets reams of copy In the papers and hundreds of words about himself on the air by NOT playing hockey; hut Marcel Clements of Sudbury did.It all started in late summer when Clements signed a contract with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. He had a change of heart and signed a playing certificate with Sudbury Wolves. A controversy boiled and the NOHA ruled he was Greyhound property. But the Greyhounds already had four branch-to-branch transfers (the legallimit) and Clements couldn&rsquo;t play unless one of the four was released. Sudbury put up quite a holler as Clements remained on the sidelines. The NOHA issued an ultimatum to the Greyhounds: &ldquo;Qualify Clements by a certain hour or he will become a free agent.&rdquo; The Greyhounds failed. Clements high-tailed it back to Sudbury to talk turkey with Maxie Silverman of the Wolves. Maxie apparently was a little peeved about a few aspects of the case and no turkey was carved. Clements then high-tailed it back to the Soo &mdash; only this time in Soo, Michigan, where he finally signed a contract with the Indians &hellip; Sault Ontario continues to be the greatest senior hockey city in Canada for cities of comparable size. In five senior home games the Soo Greyhounds have attracted an average of 4,788, the largest crowd being 5,003.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01258/1648237-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="616" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body">MAX SILVERMAN</figcaption></div>Sudbury will get the biggest crowds since their beautiful Civic Arena has a greater seating capacity. Top crowd there in league play is 5,750 and this promises to go over the 6,000 mark as the senior race gets &ldquo;hotter&rdquo; &hellip; Pete Palangio, owner of North Bay Trappers in the NOHA senior league, continues to draw rave notices for his stellar work in keeping North Bay in the senior hockey picture despite big salaries being paid by other clubs. Pete has a small city to work with, an old arena, but still our Paisan friend continues to roll along. A great sportsman that guyWhile we interviewed Maxie Silverman on the air the other night, he said North Bay could afford a new rink. Said Maxie: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a lot of tight birds in North Bay.&rdquo;The entrance of Pembroke Lumber Kings into the NOHA senior loop has increased interest considerably this season &hellip; One of the most active senior hockey leaders in the north today Is Whiz McNaughton, President and &lsquo;Manager of the Soo Michigan Indians. They don&rsquo;t call this boy &ldquo;Whiz&rdquo; for nothing. He&rsquo;s knocking himself out trying to keep senior hockey alive in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.A brand-new scoring record was established in the NOHA by Laurie Peterson of the Soo Indians. He scored two goals in seven seconds against Pembroke cracking the old mark of nine seconds Bet by Jimmy Johnston of the Soo Greyhounds &hellip; Five three-goal performances have been recorded so far this season in senior hockey. The players include Laurie Peterson of the Indians, Hub Beaudry, Nick Tomiuk and Mauno Kauppi of Sudbury and Lionel Barber of Pembroke.One of the strange things so far in the senior race is the fact that thhe forward line of Bruce. Giesebrecht, Lionel Barber and Jimmy Maxwell has accounted for a sizzling total of 51 points to overshadow all other lines, yet Pembroke at this writing is tied with the Indians for fourth spot&hellip; The Soo-Algoma Hockey League Is off to a flying start including Blind River Athletics, Thessalon Eagles, Albomac Contractors of Sault, Ontario, Soo Ontario Canucks and Soo Michigan Mohawks&hellip; Espanola Kayvees have come up with another power house this season. &#9632;

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NOHA Puck Parade

VOLUME 7 MONTREAL, NOVEMBER 28, 1953 NUMBER 9<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01168/1648376-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="412" height="337"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02108/1648369-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="416" height="337"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0389/1648362-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="2932" height="1841"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bruins Balk Bert --- Habs Hold HawkWOODY DUMART of the Boston Bruins checks Canadien&rsquo;s Bert Olmstead at the Boston goal-mouth as Sugar Jim Henry attempts to bat the puck into a corner.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0475/1648355-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="2920" height="1729"><figcaption class="caption-body">the lower picture Jimmy Peters of the Chicago Black, Hawks finds the going rugged at centre ice as Canadien&rsquo;s rookie, Eddie Litzenberger checks him closely. That&rsquo;s Dollard St. Laurent, wheeling into the play on the left.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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The Hockey News

EDMONTON. Alta.&mdash;Fame is fleeting. Ask Ray Hannigan, Edmonton Flyer wingman whose clutch goals eliminated Calgary Stampeders from the Western league playoff chase last spring.A goal from Ray&rsquo;s stick, with but eight seconds remaining, knotted the score at 5-5 in the fifth, and deciding contest. (A second goal by Hannigan wrapped it up for the Flyers in overtime.) This was in the opening round. Just eight seconds from elimination, the Flyers then proceeded to knock off Vancouver and Saskatoon in turn, to win the<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02232/1648065-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="412" height="393"><figcaption class="caption-body">RAY HANNIGAN</figcaption></div>Ah, but that was back in May, six long months ago.Recently the Flyer management, desperately anxious to strengthen a team that has plummeted from the championship to the depths of the basement, tried to make a trade with Saskatoon Quakers for &lsquo;Chuck&rsquo; McCullough.The bait Ray Hannigan.Quakers, reports have it, were Interested. Then the Flyers reconsidered and hero Hannigan was granted a reprieve.His goal total to date is three.Stan Moher. &#9632;

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What Price Fame? Ask Hannigan

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0168/1648414-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Down! But Definitely Not OutSUGAR JIM HENRY, the great goal janitor of the Boston Bruins angles a drive off the stick of Toronto&rsquo;s Bobby Solinger away from his nets as he comes up with a sensational save. The action wasn&rsquo;t all at the Boston end as Harry Lumley of the Leafs is forced to the ice to make a stop off the stick of Boston&rsquo;s Leo LaBine, hidden from view by giant Toronto defenseman, Leo Boivin (No. 2).</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0259/1648407-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="2340" height="1466"></div> &#9632;

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Toronto Tactics Infuriate Patrick

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Lynn Patrick, who has charged before that the Toronto Maple Leafs hold, hook and interfere by design and not by accident, has reiterated his charges.This time the coach of the Boston Bruins has statements by two former Toronto players for support.Patrick has long maintained that the Maple Leafs operate under orders in their employment of the tactics at Which other National league coaches have also fumed. Last weekend, in a verbal exchange with Frank &ldquo;Ki..g&rdquo; Clancy, his charges acquired added substance.En route from Toronto for a game here, Patrick and Clancy met in the dining car on the train, and the Toronto coach asked Patrick when the Bruins were going to stop holding and hooking.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a fine thing to ask me, King,&rdquo; retorted Patrick. &ldquo;Your players have been doing it for years. They are told to do it.&rdquo;&ldquo;That isn&rsquo;t so,&rdquo; replied Clancy. &ldquo;You have three former Toronto players on your team. Ask a&rdquo;ny of them if they&rsquo;ve ever been told to hold, hook or interfere.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0336/1648445-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="274" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fleming Mackell</figcaption></div>Across the aisle was Fleming Mackell, the Bruins&rsquo; all-star center who played parts of five seasons for Toronto.&ldquo;Flem&rdquo;, asked Patrick, &ldquo;were you ever told when you were with the Maple Leafs?&rdquo;&ldquo;Yes I was,&rdquo; answered Mackell succinctly.&ldquo;We were told to stop the man, no matter how we did it,&rdquo; confirmed Cal Gardner, another Bruins&rsquo; center who is also an exMaple Leaf. &ldquo;That included holding, hooking, tripping, anything. Hap Day (Toronto co-coach) used to take the defensemen aside in pairs and tutor them privately.&rdquo;After the 1-1 tie t.o which the Bruins and Toronto played here, Clancy delivered a ringing blast at the Bruins&rsquo; defensive methods in the game.<h2>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll Boat Them&rdquo;</h2>&ldquo;They talk about our holding and hooking,&rdquo; roared Clancy. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s all they did. Anytime they want to play us a wide-open game, we&rsquo;ll beat them.&rdquo;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a good, 3afe thing for him to say,&rdquo; shorted Patrick in rebuttal, &ldquo;because that team will never play wide open. Those players are taught to hold and hook. Why, there was one play in this game on which Jimmy Thomson (Toronto defenseman) held Joe Klukay all the way from the blue line to the net.&ldquo;Unfortunately, the public has come to associate such tactics with Toronto,&rdquo; continued Patrick, &ldquo;and that&rsquo;s why the Maple Leafs don&rsquo;t draw the people on the road they used to. Once they were the big drawing card; now it&rsquo;s Montreal, because the Canadiens play open hockey.&ldquo;That team puts on a terrible exhibition on the road.. It holds, hooks and interferes all the way, and once it gets a lead the defensemen do nothing but dump the puck out of their zone and over the blue line.&ldquo;Fouryears ago I once rigged a defense for a game in Toronto which had Milt Schmidt my center, playing behind the defenseman. We were terribly shorthanded, and I had to do it. Connie Smythe charged that I was trying to ruin hockey. Well,. I say that his Toronto team is trying to ruin it.&rdquo;At no time has Patrick ever blamed National league referees for laxity in forcing Toronto to desist from using the methods he decries, and he was careful this week to exampt them from his current blast.&ldquo;The refereeing in this league is excellent,&rdquo; he pointed out. The referees call all the penalties they see, but no one man, and probably not two man, can follow the Maple Leafs in their breaking of the rules &ldquo; &#9632;

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Bruin Mentor Claims Leafs Told To Hold

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Boston Bruins seem to have less difficulty combatting National league hot key opposition than they do combatting injuries.In the last few seasons the Bruins have had more major injuries than any other team in the league, and this year they still hold that unenviable distinction.They played the first eight games this fall without Hal Laycoe, the veteran defenseman who was hurt In a pre-season practice at Hershey, Pa. Then two games after Laycoe return, they lost Capt. Milt Schmidt for an indefinite period.But the injuries to Laycoe and Schmidt were only build-ups to the misfortune which hit the Bruins in a game in Toronto last week.In that game Bill Quackenbush, the blond defenseman, received a broken ankle and Real Chevrefils, sturdy little left wing, received a broken leg. Both Quackenbush and Chevrefils will be out of action until February.The 31-year old Quackenbush, three times an All-Star and twice a runner-up for the team, was hurt on a crash into the boards. A preliminary examination was overly optimistic &mdash; It indicated a severe sprain. X-rays proved otherwise.The 21-year old Chevrefils, winning himself back into favor this fall with a strong start, was hurt in a tangle with Ferny Flaman, the 190-pound Toronto defenseman who lives in nparby Westwood Mass.<h2>Five Defencemen</h2>Quackenbush&rsquo;s loss came only a week after Coach Lynn Patrick announced his intention of using six defensemen during Schmidt&rsquo;s absence. Now that he has only five, Patrick will continue to use Warren Godfrey and Bob Armstrong as a team and mix up Frank Martin, Ray Gariepy and Laycoe.Chevrefils was helping make the line on which he played with Cal Gardner and Leo LaBine an outstanding one at the time of his injury. The husky youngster scored 19 goals a year ago, making most of them during the first part of the season, but he was well on his way to a comeback this fall.Chevrefils&rsquo; injury was somewhat similar to that received by Dave Creighton last New Year&rsquo;s Nigth, when Creighton and Flaman slid into the boards and the big center&rsquo;s leg was broken. Like Creighton&rsquo;s, Chevrefils&rsquo; injury was also an accident.<h2>Topper Returns</h2>With Quackenbush and Chevrefils joining Schmidt on the major casualty list, the Bruins looked to their Hershey farm club for a forwad, with Jerry Toppazzini as the logical choice.Toppazzini was the Bruins&rsquo; handyman a year ago, but he was a holdout this fall and the team was lined up before he started his own training. The 22-year old Toppazzini plays all positions.Creighton&rsquo;s broken leg was the big Bruins&rsquo; hurt of last season, but others were Bob Armstrong&rsquo;s shoulder separation, Johnny Peirson&rsquo;s broken jaw and leg injuries to Ed Sandford, Godfrey and Laycoe which kept them out of the lineup for extended periods.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03245/1646641-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="554" height="579"><figcaption class="caption-body">Breaks LegREAL CHEVREFILS</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Bruins Hold Unenviable Record of Being Most Injured NHL Team

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01287/1646610-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Quackenbush A Stretcher CaseBill Quackenbush Is Carried From The Ice</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Even if their chocolate malteds were spiked and their pre-game steaks blanketed with sleeping powder, it is unlikely any member of the Toronto Maple Leaf blue line bunch could be caught napping.In four separate incidents last week, each member of the Leaf rearguard encountered a test of his readiness and each responded with the type of &ldquo;be prepared&rdquo; reply that no Boy Scout could better.Jim Morrison did it when he was summoned from out of the crowd to play; Tim Horton when he answered coach King Clancy&rsquo;s plea for goals from the rearguard, and Jim Thomson and Fern Flaman in the two-instalment Battle of Boston in which two Bruins were seriously injured and the old Boston-Toronto feudin and fussin&rsquo; renewed.It was only because Flaman was being prepared that the ancient feud was renewed. When Real Chevrefils charged Fern in Toronto, the Bruin foreward was so impolite as to point with his raised knee. Flaman spotted this faux-pas and immediately turned his shoulder on such crudeness, forcing Chevvie to complete his charge on one leg. That one limb wasn&rsquo;t oak and Chevvie was immediately incapacitated for three months with a fractured shin-bone, tibia to the educated.There was no question of Flaman&rsquo;s innocence because he was only playing the part of a prepared puck carrier at the moment. But because there was no question of it, Jim Thomson skated onto the scene to snarl at Chevvie: &ldquo;You got what you asked for.&rdquo;Later Thomson admitted he thought Chevvie was only winded and allowed he would not have been so callous had he realized the young sophomore had suffered a fracture. &ldquo;But I said it and I&rsquo;ll stick by it,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;He charged Fern and got what he deserved.&rdquo;These same sentiments were directed by Leaf Managing Director Conn Smythe toward Bruin coach Lynn Patrcik after Smythe had put Patrick off guard by first, enquiring after the health of Chevvie and Bill Quackenbush, who suffered a fractured ankle in the same game. &ldquo;You wanted to play rough and got what you asked for&rdquo; were the words with which Canny Conn nonplussed the Bruin coach.When he later recovered his equilibrium, Patrick&rsquo;s answer to Smythe was: &ldquo;If he were 10 years younger, I&rsquo;d show him how that kind of callousness is appreciated. And next time I&rsquo;ll forget he isn&rsquo;t 10 years younger.&rdquo;<h2>&ldquo;Get Thomson&rdquo;</h2>The Bruins&rsquo; answer to Thomson was simply &ldquo;Get Thomson,&rdquo; when the clubs engaged again the following night in Beanburg.Told of this before the game, Thomson cooly replied: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been gunned for before this,&rdquo; and then went out to show his preparedness by immediately taking the initiative away from the Bruins. In fast he was banished for roughing Joe Klukay when the game was only 14 seconds old and from there held the upper hand on both Kluke and Eddie Sandford, who seemed to have the assigment of squaring the Thomson score.It was in the contest immediately proceeding this twin torment that Morrison had his test. Through the first month of the schedule he had not even been dressed, being left to sit in the crowd as a stand by defenseman.His turn came finally and he was prepared. In fact he was the most outstanding Leaf in a game in which every Maple played brilliantly. Four times he flattened Maurice Richard after first relieving him of the puck. Another Wings, but as far as is known, Brown Is the first executive not connected directly with Detroit to honor them with all-time rating as the best at their positions.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02271/1646603-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="604" height="601"><figcaption class="caption-body">Turns ShouldeFERN FLAMAN</figcaption></div>The Bruins&rsquo; boss has expressed admiration frequently for Lindsay ever since the little rowdy first appeared here with the team of which he is now captain, and he has directed the Howe bandwagon for some seasons.But never, until this fall, has he expressed his admiration with such emphasis as he did by bracketing them with four former super-stars on his all-time all-star team.Barry &#9632;

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Leaf Rearguards Not Boy Scouts But Employ Motto ‘Be Prepared’

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;Two members of the Detroit Red Wings have been paid a high compliment by Walter Brown, president of the Boston Bruins.Boston&rsquo;s busiest sports executive, a close follower of the National League since the organization of the Bruins in 1924, lists both Ted Lindsay and Gordon Howe on his all-time All-Star team.Brown added the two Detroit forwards in conjunction with the Red Wings&rsquo; last visit here, as replacements for a pair of wings now retired.&ldquo;I used to think that Aurel Joliat was the greatest left wing I had ever seen and Bill Cook the best right wing,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; president, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ve changed my mind.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t go along with those who think that the old-timers were better than our present crop of players. I wouldn&rsquo;t mind having a few of the old-timers around right now, but Lindsay and Howe have pushed two of them, Joliat and Cook, off my all-time team.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll take Lindsay as the best left wing I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;and Howe as the best right wing.&rdquo;Asked what players occupied the remaining positions on his allstar team, Brown replied:&ldquo;There have been a lot of great centers, including Milt Schmidt, but I&rsquo;ll have to take Bill Cowley (ex-Bruin) for my team.&ldquo;My goal-tender is Bill Durnan of Montreal, and to me the greatest defensemen were Babe Siebert and Eddie Shore, when they played together with the Bruins. I&rsquo;m passing over a number of wonderful goalies and defensemen, but my choices are Durnan, Siebert and Shore.&rdquo;Howe and Lindsay have become perennial all-star choices for the annual National league team since reaching maturity with the Red half a dozen times he made the Canadiens furious as he played ring-around-the-maypole with the puck at the Montreal blueline while waiting for his playmates to get onside. And regularly he rushed from his own goal to Gerry McNeil&rsquo;s den like a rapid transit express, setting up one of the winnig Leafs&rsquo; goals with his tactics.&ldquo;I just wasn&rsquo;t going to get caught napping again,&rdquo; Jim confessed afterward. &ldquo;Last year I wasn&rsquo;t used much at first so I let myself get out of condition. When my chance came I &ldquo;was sloppy and terrible. I just figured if I was lucky enough to get another chance, I&rsquo;d be ready.&rdquo;He was, dsepite the fact he had every reason for being discouraged, especially after his firse appearance this year. It was his only appearance during the first month of the schedule, and it amounted to 30 seconds. He had entered a game in Detroit just in time to see the Wings score. The goal was no fault of his, but he was benched right afterward.Horton, the standout Learf rearguard, all season, has been prepared more than once this year, but he became the only member of his fraternity to score when he deposited the winning goal in Chicago. And two games later he indicated he is prepared to do more of the same when he fired his second goal against Boston&rsquo;s Sugar Jim Henry, &#9632;

Brown Picks His All-Stars

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01286/1646717-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">At Home: An Affectionate Father&ldquo;BIG MO&rdquo; is shown above with the &ldquo;big moments&rdquo; at home. Little Bonnie Joy, left, shows pop her latest ballet pose while on the right, Kenny talks hockey with his son Wayne while Pal listen in. Wayne, like his dad, plays center and hopes to carry on the family tradition some day. As for Pal, welt he&rsquo;s going to continue leading a dog&rsquo;s life.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;All through the ages the learned sages have said that hard work is the secret of success. Kenny Mosdell, one Of Canadiens&rsquo; veteran centre inen, agress with that gem of Wisdom.Currently enjoying one of his best seasons, Big Moe already has topped his goal production of the past two years and, if he maintains his early season pace, Will surpass even his best year In the National Hockey League, That was in 1948-49 when he scored 17 goals.Generally Mosdell, whose bones are as brittle as peppermint sticks, has been hampered by crippling injuries. Only once has be played a full season since turning pro with the old New York Americans 12 years ago.Next to Elmer Lach, the lithe 31-year-old centre probably is the most injured man in hockey. He has survived a broken leg, cracked ankle, broken wrist and a shattered arm.Three screws hold the bone of his left arm in place and doctors have warned him that a severe blow will loosen the screws. His nose is as crooked as a dog&rsquo;s hind leg, the result of several breaks, and there&rsquo;s adeep gash in his left leg, a souvenir of a nasty skate Wound, plus a varied assortment Of facial scars.Although held together with Bcrews and stitches, Mosdell is a fierce competitor, full of that intangible asset called desire. He never yields to adversity and he plays his best when the going in most rugged.Hampered by a trick knee, Big Moe scored only five goals last Beason but three of them were Winning goals and one was a tying Counter, which is ample indication Of his fighting spirit. For further evidence consider that this year, out of Mosdell&rsquo;s first six goals, two decided games in Canadiens&rsquo; favor and two produced ties.&ldquo;Moe is the most consistent forward on the team,&rdquo; said Coach Dick Irvin the other day. &ldquo;I can always depend on him never to play a bad game.&rdquo;As a result of his efforts, his Willingness and his rediscovered Bcoring punch, Mosdell was promoted to Habs&rsquo; big line with Maurice Richard and Bert Olmstead, in one of Irvin&rsquo;s many shuffles Of personnel.How is it that Mosdell is enjoying such a terrific season, skatink with reckless abandon, checking like a fiend and scoring goals when they count most? The answer is simple. Hard work.Mosdell reported to training feamp in tip-top physical condition. His body was as hard as rock and his weight was 172 pounds, just right for his slim, six-foot-one frame.For the first time in his career, Mosdell didn&rsquo;t have to spend most his of summer relaxing while his bones knit. So he toughened himself up by building box cars in the Canadian Car plant.Every morning, Moe would ferise at 5:30 a.m. in his summer cottage at Missisquoi Bay and, after tamping down a hearty breakfast, would be on the road to Montreal by six o&rsquo;clock. He&rsquo;d get home around 7:30, enjoy a feucculent steak and plenty of fresh vegetables, and retire early for a rendez-vous with Morphus, a good friend of all athletes.In the beginning Mosdell&rsquo;s muscles ached like a twist of red-hot steel, his hands were like raw beef and he knew the real meaning of fatigue. But he stuck to the job with typical tenacity and today he is reaping the fruits of his labors.Along with Harry Watson, who is enjoying a tremendous season with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Mosdell is one of two survivors of the Americans who are still active in the NHL.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s nice to say Harry potting goals.&rdquo; said Mosdell the other day. &ldquo;I played on a line.with him and Buzz Boll with the Amerks. Boll was a lot older that Harry and I &mdash; we were just kids then &mdash; and he took almost a parental interest in us. Harry and I became good friends and he was the best man at my wedding.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02237/1646710-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="1212" height="1679"></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03158/1646703-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="678" height="1712"><figcaption class="caption-body">A Talented Family CroupBONNIE JOY, in addition to her ballet aspirations, fingers a small piano for her dad. The beautiful Mrs. Mosdell, is equally talented. She&rsquo;s showing her proud husband her latest interior decorating gimmick.</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-0497/1646696-1-eng-US/f0003-042.jpg" title="f0003-04" width="1656" height="1652"></div>Kenny&rsquo;s wife, Lorraine, is a stunning blonde. They have two charming children, Wayne and Bonnie. A little brown spaniel, called Pal, is the other member of the family.&ldquo;Hockey has been good to me,&rdquo; i said Kenny, &ldquo;I can truthfully say that I have enjoyed every minute in the National Hockey League and I&rsquo;d do it all over again, if I had ths opportunity to relive the last 12 years.&rdquo;&ldquo;Even with the injuries?&rdquo; Ire was asked.Mosdell grinned. &ldquo;They were all accidents,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;All of them. I really can&rsquo;t believe that any player deliberately injures another.&rdquo;Shortly after joining the Americans, Mosdell suffered his first injury. He was playing In Montreal against the Canadiens and was chasing Ken Reardon, who always lifted his feet high, almost galloped on his skates. Reardon stumbled along the boards and one of his skates caught Mosdell on the calf. The razor-shape edge ripped it like a cleaver going through meat.In 1945 he broke his wrist just before the playoffs and in the 1947-48 season he broke an arm. He was scuffling with Milt Schmidt of the Boston Bruins, seeking control of a loose puck near the Canadien net. Bill Durnan, then Hab&rsquo;s goaltender, skated out to retrieve the elusive disc. He crashed into Mosdell and Schmidt. The Boston played skidded harmlessly by the net but Mosdell banged into the post. He threw up his left arm to protect his face and it snapped like a dried hickory stick under the impact.Two years ago in the playoffs against Boston, Mosdell was emerging as one of the stars. In the third game of the series, just after scoring an important goal, he collided with Eddie Sandford near the boards.&ldquo;I knew I was going to hit the boards, so I threw my legs up to brace myself,&rdquo; Mosdell recalled. &ldquo;But Sandford fell on top of me. I could feel the pressure on one leg so I yelled to Sandford, &lsquo;get off, get off&rsquo;. He wasn&rsquo;t quick enough and I felt the sickening crack. My leg was broken and the ankle, too.&rdquo;Last year a wrenched knee kept him out Of Canadiens&rsquo; first five playoffs game but he got back in time to help the Haba win the Stanley Cup with three goals in seven games.What manner of man is Mosdell? Well, he&rsquo;s a modest fellow, with a quiet mien. seldom riled, he plays the game cleanly and rarely becomes embroiled in a fight. He has never been known to hurl a word of dubious propriety into the sensitive ear of a referee.At home he&rsquo;s a typical family man who does his share of the chores. He is handy with tools and likes to tinker around motors.A versatile athlete, he once played hard ball for Lachine, where he enjoyed a healthy slugging average, and he has played softball for Snowdon in Montreal&rsquo;s top league. Mosdell likes golf, too, but last summer because of his hard work, he didn&rsquo;t play a single hole and he appeared in a softball line-up only once. That was for a charity game. Characteristically, Mosdell never refuses an appeal for a chartiable cause.Although he&rsquo;s only 31, Mosdell already is making plans for retirement. He hopes to put his interest in motors and gadgets to practical use by opening a service station in western Notre Dame de Grace where he resides in a cozy home on St. Ignatius avenue.&ldquo;A gas station means a lot of work and long hours,&rdquo; Mosdell was reminded.&ldquo;Sure, I know that,&rdquo; he replied in a matter of fact tone. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;m not afraid of work.&rdquo;With that attitude he can&rsquo;t miss. &#9632;

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‘Ole Man Moe’ Keeps Rolling Along

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;With injuries to key men putting crimps in their ranks, Canadiens have used a lot of hockey players so far this season. Some of them wore out their welcomes before they had a chance to soil their uniforms.Currently the news on Jean Beliveau, who sailed into the league on surging tons of printers&rsquo; ink and then faded from the headlines when he cracked an ankle bone, is good.Le Gros Bill, as lie is known to fans everywhere, is expected to rejoin the Habs in about ten days.Beliveau already has been on skates aud, although he complains of pain in the ankle when he makes a sharp turn, Dr. Gordon Young, the club physician, reports that the bone is healing well.Meanwhile Dickie Moore, who seems dogged by ill luck, is nursing a badly bruised shin bone in addition to his fractured collarbone. He&rsquo;ll won&rsquo;t be back in the line-up for at least a month.Moore has been skating regularly. Last week he went onto the Forum freeze without shin pads. He took a tumble, crashed into the boards and was rushed to hospital. First reports were that he had broken his leg and the gloom In the Canadien camp as deep as a London smog.But fears that he had suffered another severe injury were dispelled by the penetrating eyes of the X-ray machine. His shin was badly bruised but undoubtedly it will be fully healed even before his shoulder is back in perfect condition.With Beliveau and Moore on the sidelines, the Habs have been shuffling players like a jack pot dealer handles cards but few of the personnel switches have produced any aces.Habs&rsquo; brought Goose McCormack, probably hockey&rsquo;s most effective defensive forward, up from Buffalo and he has helped considerably to reduce the heavy goals against total which had been hampering the high-scoring Canadiens.A useful utility man, the Goose will be retained at least until Beliveau comes back, probably until Moore proves himself again after his long layoff.Of the trio promoted from Royals at the time McCormack came from Buffalo, only Dick Gamble has been retained. Eddie Litzenberger and Skippy Burchell have gone back to the Quebec Hockey League farm club.Last Saturday Habs brought up Gerry Desaulniers, a slightly-built bust smooth centre from the Royals, but he didn&rsquo;t even see action.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01354/1646755-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="582" height="608"><figcaption class="caption-body">Still On The ShelfDICKIE MOORE</figcaption></div>Actually Canadiens&rsquo; trouble has been the failure of their stars to produce on the road. But always when there is a shake-up its the lesser players who get bounced. In the latest Canadien shuffle Paul Masnick and Lome Davis went to the Royals.And the fans always boo lesser players, too. In a recent Canadien Chicago game the Montreal fanatics tossed verbal abuse at Eddie Mazur after he had gummed up three passing plays with Maurice Richard and has been offside once on a rush with Doug Harvey.One of the bad passes might have been Mazur&rsquo;s fault. The other two were definitely bad plays by the Rocket who gave passes that only a Houdini could have snared. And on the offside play, Mazur was in a better position than Harvey and he should have received the puck from the rushing defenceman longe before he had a chance to go offside in his eagerness.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02319/1646748-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="609" height="620"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN BELIVEAU</figcaption></div>Anyway, we were talking about the stars not. producing on foreign ice. At this writing Richard and Boom Boom Geoffrion have scored nine goals apiece, tops in the National Hockey League. But both the Rocket and the Boomer have scored only a single tally each on the road, ail the others coming on home ice.Incidentally the Boomer, a whiz in the Forum, set a season&rsquo;s record when he scored the lone goal in two consecutive games, giving Canadians 1-0 shutouts over Toronto and Detroit, their closest rivals in the 1953-54 race.The two shutouts were very welcome to Gerry McNeil who up to that point wasn&rsquo;t playing quite as well as last year. They helped to restore his confidence and he might yet become a candidate for the Vezina Trophy. &#9632;

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Irvin’s Latest Juggling Act Keeps Hab Gaps Well Stocked

<div class="byline">Elmer Ferguson (As Seen in the Montreal Herald)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03243/1646793-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="292" height="343"></div>&bull;THERE WAS A TIME in professional hockey&rsquo;s earlier days that a scout was a guy who wore a fur cap, carried a rifle, and tramped the forest trails; and a farm was something where they raised pigs, cows and fresh vegetables. A sirigle addition to a major league team was an event that didn&rsquo;t happen too often, probably once a season, perhaps twice.Now every team has a band of paid scouts, some travelling all the time, from point to point, armed with a bank-roll and a fountainpen instead of the equipment carried by the late Daniel Boone. And practically every team has a range of farm clubs, dotting the continent, in some cases from coast to coast. And of these, Canadiens have by far the most extensive, doubtless the most expensive. And also, we would say, having run through the list, the most successful in its athletic efforts.Of 11 Canadien &ldquo;farm&rdquo; clubs, sponsored by or affiliated with the Habs, a tremendous undertaking that was develop by Frank Selke to meet the growing competition, five are leading their leagues. This doesn&rsquo;t include the Canadiens of the National League, who at this moment are leading, with the powerful Red Wings breathing hotly on the nape of their necks, and looking to tie for first place.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04190/1646786-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="546" height="554"><figcaption class="caption-body">Farm BossFRANK SELKE</figcaption></div>Buffalo, a team that is a direct affiliate of Habs, for, player purposes, is leading the American League. The Cincy Mahowks, of which Kenny Rearden is general manager, is topping the International, and has doubled its attendance to date over last season. The Junior Canadiens, polited by Sad Sam Pollock, who twice this week has been caught smiling, tops the Quebec Juniors. The Fort William Canadiens lead the Thunder Bay Junior League, and are unbeaten in seven starts. The St. Boniface Canadiens top the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, and have lost only one game.Canadiens have players farmed out to booth Halifax and Sydney in the Maritime Province League down by the Atlantic, and these two clubs, when these lines were penned, were tied for first place. Out on the west voast, where the Pacific Ocean washes the shores, and rich gentlemen retire to a balmy year-round climate and peoce-fulsurroundings, the Victoria team, which works directly with Habs, is in fourth place in the Pacific Coast League. In this province, the Royal Juniors are fourth in the Quebec League, and the senior Royals, in the new-professional Senior Group, are second. The recently-former Kitchener team is the only dark spot. It is seventh place in the OHA.That is quite a record, and indicates how the farm system has spread. Also, the fame of Canadiens lias spread along with this wide acquisition of clubs. &ldquo;Time was&rdquo; so &ldquo;Sjiud&rdquo; Russell, the Winnipeg Canadien scout, was saying, &ldquo;folks out west though there was only one real team in the National Hockey League, the Toronto Leafs. But now, with Thursday night broadcasts of Canadien games going right through to the Pacific Coast, and the Canadien name carried by many teams, and the Canadien affiliation with others public property, it&rsquo;s different. Canadiens are now as popular through the west as any club.&rdquo;For correction of this situation, you can credit Frank Selke. When Canadiens took a western trip a few years ago, he was astounded at the reception, in some cases amounting to histility, the club received. A pretty poor picture of the team had apparently been painted, and this Selke determined to rectify. And he has, as usual, done a very superior job. And, in addition, has laid the foundations for Canadien playing talent for a dozen years to come.&bull; AROUND AND ABOUT &hellip; It may be a few more weeks before big Jean Beliveau is seen in action with the Habs &hellip; he tried skating Tuesdaf, but found his damaged ankle pained so much that be laid off&hellip; neither the club, nor Beliveau himself, wishes to do a hurry up, which might have serious results &hellip; it&rsquo;s a split bone, Nature will be the healer, but Nature doesn&rsquo;t always work rapidly &hellip; Ed. Songin, the Hamilton Ticat quarter-back, is a hockey player as well as a footballer&hellip;he played defense for Boston College and was offered a pro contract by Boston Bruins in 1948 &hellip; Since graduation, he has been coaching a private school team and playing for a team known as Feloney&rsquo;s (not felonies), which will soon leave on a European tour &hellip; he won&rsquo;t accompany them due to pressure of business in Boston. &#9632;

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THE GIST AND JEST OF IT

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03215/1646904-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="549" height="848"><figcaption class="caption-body">Figured&hellip;BILL EZINICKI</figcaption></div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;Lets&rsquo; take a few moments again to look back at happenings that made headlines in the world of hockey in the not too distant past.Six years ago this week&mdash;Six forwards, all from Winnipeg, were battling for regular jobs with the New York Rangers. In on this unusual situation were Cal Gardner, Don Raleigh, Ed Slowinski, Church Russell, Ed Kullman and Rene Trudell. Of this group, only Raleigh and Kullman are still Biueshirts today with Gardner, now at Boston, the only other still In the NHL.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04163/1646897-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="299" height="454"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ted Lindsay</figcaption></div>King Clancy, then referee-in-chief of the National league, was celebrating his second anniversary as a retired player. He skated in the big time for 16 years &hellip; Bob Solinger, 21-year old right winger with Cleveland, was an early candidate for American loop top rookie honors.Four years ago this week &mdash; An organization of section captains to patrol their areas in the top balcony was proving succesful in the combatance against missile throwers at the Chicago Stadium&hellip; Cal Gardner was eating everything with a straw after suffering a broken jaw in a collision with Montreal&rsquo;s mauling Kenny Reardon on home ice at Toronto.General Manager Art Chapman of the AHL&rsquo;s Buffalo Bisons denied that the club would sign an agreement with Toronto or any other National league crew. The Bisons had ended a pact with the Canadiens the season before but today, of course, are once again a farm club of the Frenchmen.Two years ago this weeks &mdash; Tommy Ivan blasted Boston&rsquo;s &ldquo;Wild Bill&rdquo; Ezlnicki as &ldquo;a detriment to the club&rdquo; and vowed that he would not risk a $75,000 player (Ted Lindsay) on the ice at the same time with the Beantown battler. Bruin prexy Walter Brown then made a counterblast at Detroit, tabbing the Wings as &ldquo;strictly second division at the box office&rdquo; while on the road.Chicago&rsquo;s Roy Conacher retired saying, &ldquo;Twelve years at this game is enough for any. one.&rdquo; His decision came after some 450 games withBoston, Detroit and finally the Hawks&hellip; Woody Dumart, dating back to 1936 with Boston, announced he was going into semiretirement.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0826/1646890-1-eng-US/f0005-082.jpg" title="f0005-08" width="312" height="491"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ken Reardon</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-0916/1646883-1-eng-US/f0005-092.jpg" title="f0005-09" width="525" height="851"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip;In FightsCAL GARDNER</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Remember Gardner-Reardon Incident and How Ivan Blasted Ezzie as Detriment to Club

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04122/1646987-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg"></div><h2>And So To Bed</h2>Dear Sir:For some time now I have been thinking of writing to THE HOCKEY NEWS about the seemingly anti-Howe articles, and after reading Nicholas Mutoglis&rsquo; letter I decided to do so.As he says, statistics can be used to advantage when only certain ones are quoted; in fact, I would wager Bob Swiridak never played hockey. How could he, and forget there were certain very important things such as assists? If he wishes to refer to baseball, would he consider a ball player who hit 40 homers and fielded .450 over the player why had a batting average of .400 and fielded .875 ? Hardly.Let us remember that the game of hockey is won on goals; but the man who assists quite often deserves the most credit for the goal scored. Hence this makes Howe a double threat, and if Broda ever played against Howe, he was probably fooled into thinking that Howe was going to try for a goal when he was only setting up the scorer. While he earned only an assist on this, it was an important assist.I have seen Howe do exactly this in two games I witnessed in the east last year. I have also watched Richard and, as Beliveau says, &ldquo;Richard is a hard man to find to pass a puck to.&rdquo; No wonder; Richard floats around looking for scoring chances, not for chances to assist on them.Having played hockey on the prairies, and knowing a little about it, I know that rival players are usually the best judges of another player&rsquo;s importance. As Mutoglis says. Hap Day and four of the six NHL coaches voted Howe the best player, and if I recall correctly, so did Conn Smythe. And a truly great hockey player whom I knew in Winnipeg when he was sixteen, Kenny Reardon, made the same choice over our local radio station CKNW, adding Lindsay&rsquo;s name, also.Having read THE HOCKEY NEWS since it was first published, I must say that I enjoy it very much. But any reader knows that although you may not take sides, you can cause bias by the articles you print, and one such as Swiridak wrote, plus publication&rsquo;s of Broda&rsquo;s remarks, can do a lot of harm, especially when it appears they know what they are talking about, although they apparently forget one of the essential points in hockey: the ability to be a playmaker.Assists can lead to greatness. Let&rsquo;s not have the idea of &ldquo;homers&rdquo; only ruin Canadian hockey.Bob Norris.New Westminster, B.C.(This, by the way, is the last letter to be printed this year in these columns concerning the Howe-Richard mania, for it can go under no other name. We say the last letter, not because we wish to dictate to our readers the subjects on which they may write, but simply because it is a subject that could go on, conceivably, forever. The Fan Forum was set up originally to give many readers the opportunity of voicing many opinions; further haggling on this subject could only reduce the Forum to a pitched battleground on which two sides of a question fought it out without ever reaching a conclusion satisfactory to them both. This, in our opinion, is not fair to other readers, who have just as much right to send us letters, and just as much right to have them printed. For that reason, and for no other, the Howe-Richard affair is temporarily out of order on this page. Both, as we have stressed before, are great hockey players in their own individual right; and they will be remembered as such long after their followers have turned to some other player.The last part of Mr. Norris&rsquo; letter disturbs us because of the insinuation that we print articles which &ldquo;could do a lot of harm.&rdquo; It strikes us that this a one-sided view; Richard followers could claim that we were doing a lot of harm by NOT printing such articles; and we could accuse ourselves of suppressing the opinions of men who are accredited by many as being particularly adept at their jobs. This we have no intention of doing. If Turk Broda wishes to voice an opinion which we consider newsworthy, we print that opinion.We do not ask the reader to agree with that opinion; we merely record it, as we would record a newsworthy quote by Dick Irvin, Conn Smythe or any other expert in the field. And there the matter rests.)<h2>&ldquo;Airing&rdquo; His Views</h2>Dear Sir:I have been reading your paper for quite a while and think your writers do a very good job of covering hockey all over Canada and the US.But there are a lot of fans down in this part of the country who are wondering why it is that year after year the CBC have been broadcasting all Toronto games on Saturday nights and not Montreal games too, since they are sponsored by the same company.I am sure there are as many Montreal fans as there are Toronto fans, if not even more, and I&rsquo;d bet if you made a coast-to-coast survey you would find that most people would rather listen to Montreal games.In Vancouver it is impossible to get the Montreal local station and al they have heard for years are the Toronto games. I am sure a change would be very much appreciated by these western fans.Why should they not broadcast Canadiens games this year, particularly as the Habs are the Stanley Cup holders? It certainly doesn&rsquo;t make sense broadcasting the Leafs&rsquo; games when Toronto didn&rsquo;t even make the playoffs last year.John Allain.Moncton, N.B.<h2>He&rsquo;s in Favor</h2>Dear Sir:I&rsquo;ve been wondering where the crossword puzzles went to.Please put me down as very much in favor of them. This is my third year as a subscriber and it&rsquo;s better than ever&hellip; or will be when the crossword puzzle is in again.M. McAvity.Saint John, N.B.<h2>Shocked</h2>Dear Sir:I have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS since the first issue, and I think it is a great paper. This is also my third letter to the Fan Forum.Recently I read where Allan Stanley was forced to leave the New York Rangers because of the unfavorable attitude from the fans there. Now I think this was one of the most shocking, disgraceful and ignorant acts the New York fans have ever shown, especially to one of their own players.I may have been that Stanley was in a slump, but why didn&rsquo;t the fans leave this to the coach, instead of mercilessly hounding the poor man out of his skates?Now they have Max Bentley&rsquo;s banner hanging in Madison Square Garden. I wonder if he will be next on the hate list, should he go into a slump? If the New Yorkers can&rsquo;t bear watching a player let down, then they should stay home and do their knitting.After all, Stanley was only human.Joe Kazmar.Hamilton, Ont.<h2>Overseas Reader</h2>Dear Sir:As a first-year subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS I would like to congratulate you on your truly great paper, and to comment on a letter recently published in the Fan Forum.In the article in question a fellow-countryman deplores the state of hockey as played here in Britain, and can see little for the sport on this side of the Atlantic.Far from this being the true state of affairs, I would like point out that at this very moment hockey is enjoying a boom season here in England, with competition between the five National League clubs extremely keen. Further, plans are already afoot for the introduction of an additional two teams for the 1954-55 season, namely the Southampton Vikings and the London Maple Leafs, (formerly the Earls Court Rangers), to bolster the league.With the wealth of experience gained yearly by the 20-odd intermediate clubs engaged in various minor league competitions, all of whom are composed almost entirely of British stock, the time is not so far away when an all British hockey team can stand on its own feet and challenge the world.Through the medium of your paper I would like to be put in touch with any hockey followers in Canada or the United States who are interested in pen pals. I would also enjoy trading programs, especially for the NHL clubs. The address: 2563952 Berry D., Reviews Section, P.S.C.O., M.P. 3, 16 M.U., RAF. Stafford, Staffs, Eng.In closing, best wishes to all hockey followers and especially to THE HOCKEY NEWS.Donald Berry.<h2>More on Puzzles</h2>Dear Sir:I have been looking forward to findig the crossword puzzle in THE HOCKEY NEWS, but to date my hopes have been in vain.I hope this is not a permanent move.John Kenelly.Indianapolis, Ind. &#9632;

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05110/1647018-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="622" height="299"></div><h2>NOVEMBER 29 to DECEMBER 6</h2>30&mdash;GOLDHAM, Bob, 1922, defense, Detroit.SLOAN, Tod, 1927, centre, Toronto.1&mdash;ANDERSON, James, 1930, left wing, Edmonton.BAILEY, John, 1929, left wing, New Westminster.MARSHALL, Willie, 1931, forward, Pittsburgh.ROUSSEAU, Roly, 1929, defense, Buffalo.STANKIEWIECZ, Ed., 1929, right wing, Sherbrooke.3&mdash;MANSON, Roy, 1926, left wing, Calgary.4&mdash;DELVECCHIO, Alex, 1932, centre, Detroit.HUCUL, Fred, 1931, defense, Chicago.LAVELL, Orval, 192 7, defense, Charlottetown.6&mdash;PEPIN, Rene, 1931, right wing, Sherbrooke.PELLETIER, Marcel, 1927, goalie, Seattle. &#9632;

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">BY Ken McKenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01377/1646956-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="378" height="419"></div>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLYFounded October 1, 1947By Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. CotePublished Weekly except monthly May through September by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY301 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25, Que.Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire: $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.Entered ns second-class matter, October 3, 1953 at the Post Office at Rouses Point, under the Act of March 3rd, 1879.Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa.Member of the Audit Bureau of CirculationsPrinted in CanadaVOL. 7 MONTREAL. NOVEMBER 28. 1953 No. 9&bull; JUST RETURNED from a presentation-making jaunt to Detroit and Chicago where we presented Gordie Howe of the Red Wings with THE. HOCKEY NEWS award as the &ldquo;Outstanding Player of 1952-53&rdquo;&hellip; and the &ldquo;Coach of the Year&rdquo; award to Chicago&rsquo;s Sid Abel&hellip; Howe made the night a real success in Detroit by scoring the winning goal against Boston &hellip; We saw Boston play on two successive nights and the Bruins are improving all the time. Lynn Patrick has one of the best young club&rsquo;s in the circuit and a team that will win the Stanley Cup within three years &hellip; Fred Sasakamoose, better known among his intimates as Chief Running Deer, made his debut as a member of the Black Hawks on our visit to the Windy City. The 19-year-old forward who came to the Hawks direct from Moose Jaw, Sask. Juniors is the first full-blooded Indian to play in the National Hockey League&hellip; Tiny Thompson, Western scout for Chicago, accompanied the Chief to the Big City &hellip; Sasakamoose gave a good account of himself in his NHL inauguaral and was far from the worst Chicago player on hand &hellip; Jim Conacher, Ralph Nattrass and Pete Horeck, ex-Chicago players who still live in that city, attend most of the Black Hawk games&hellip; Jim Henry&rsquo;s mother was paying a visit to Chicago and saw her son play his first game in the National Hockey League. She hadn&rsquo;t seen him play since his junior days with Brandon. Jim showed off to her by posting a shutout&hellip; Al Rollins, Chicago&rsquo;s great goaltender is a guy that possesses plenty of what it takes &hellip; Two-and-one-half hours before the Boston-Chicago game Mrs. Rollins called up Sid Abel and said Al had a fever and was breaking out in red spots. She said she thought it was chicken pox but wasn&rsquo;t sure. The Hawks had no replacement and Abel was almost frantic. It looked like &ldquo;Gunzo&rdquo; Humeniuk, asst. Chicago trainer, would be pressed into service. Rollins, however, got out of a sick bed and insisted on taking his regular place in the nets. He played a whale of a game, too and was the outstanding player for the losing Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02261/1646949-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="277" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Rollins</figcaption></div>&bull; CHICAGO FANS have been yelling for weeks that they wanted Fred Hucul back. The only banner that hung in the huge Stadium read; &ldquo;We Want Hucul&rdquo;&hellip; so finally the Hawks brought Hucul back from Calgary. The biggest banner hanging the night he played his first game in the Stadium read: &ldquo;Go Home Hucul&rdquo; &hellip; How about that? &hellip; &ldquo;We&rsquo;re With You Dewsbury&rdquo; and &ldquo;We Want Finney&rdquo; were the only other banners hanging in Chicago the night of our visit&hellip; Much March, a Black Hawk star for years, acts as linesman for all Chicago home games&hellip; Bill Gadsby and Gus Mortson start every game on the Chicago defense. A minute or two after the game commences one or the other skates off for a replacement. Usually Mortson Is replaced by Larry Zeidel &hellip; Zeidel is called &ldquo;The Rock&rdquo; by his teammates &hellip; Organist Al Melgard was playing all kinds of Indian compositions during Sasakamoose&rsquo;s debut &hellip; Once when Mortson and Peirson were fighting he played &lsquo;This Can&rsquo;t Be Love&rdquo; &hellip; He also gave out with the &ldquo;Dragnet&rdquo; theme a few times&hellip; Both the Chicago Stadium and Detroit Olympia have had new paint jobs recently &hellip; The Detroit Olympia ushers are also garbed in smart new outfits &hellip; Large, colorful banners fly in front of the Olympia this season. One banner always reads &ldquo;Detroit Red Wings&rdquo; while a banner with the name of the visiting club playing that night flutters beside it. The visiting team banner is made up in the club&rsquo;s colors &hellip; Miss Marguerite Norris, president of the Red Wings, designed the banners along with Lew Cromwell, box office manager at Olympia&hellip; We were Fred Huber&rsquo;s guest at the Detroit Sports Broadcasters luncheon while in the Motor City&hellip; Budd Lynch, who televises all Jiome games of the Red Wings, is president of this organization. Budd also dues the play-by-play of the University of Michigan football games and we were his guest in the broadcasting booth at Ann Arbor on Saturday when Michigan downed Ohio State, 20-0, before 90,126 spectators.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03173/1646942-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="293" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">Budd Lynch</figcaption></div>&bull; A PICTURE of the late James Norris is now included in the Detroit Hall of Fame display in the Olympia&hellip; We arrived a day too late to attend the excellent luncheon tendered the Red Wings by the Stroh Brewery who sponsor the broadcast and telecast of all Wings home games as well as recapping the road contests &hellip; The hardest working trainer in the National Hockey League must be Nick Gurenovich of the Black Hawks. Nick, who is finishing a course at the National College of Chiro practic, topped his class last year. He has studdied more than any other NHL trainer and also has more degrees &hellip; &ldquo;And I bet I&rsquo;m the only trainer in the NHL who doesn&rsquo;t own a car&rdquo;, Nick jokingly remarked after reading where Boston&rsquo;s Hammy Moore drove a Cadillac &hellip; Abel used Jimmy Peters at defence for a period against Boston&hellip; &ldquo;I liked it back there fine and would like to play defense&rdquo;, Peters told us after the game &hellip; Trainer Gurenovich has installed an excellent medical room alongside the Hawk dressing room. He stitches players and administers to their hurts like a professional doctor&hellip; A handy man is Nick &hellip; A new broadcasting booth alongside the press box has been installed at Detroit&hellip; The old one is used for visiting broadcasting &hellip; Abel has been using four forward line combinations lately in an attempt to improve the Hawks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07102/1646935-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="276" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jim Peters</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;The Red Wings, who always seem to be setting records of one sort or another, finally halted their bid for a rather inglorious type of record.It dealt with the business of NOT winning road games.Just two years ago the Detroiters hit the books with their habit for not losing on enemy ice. They became the most successful road agents in National Hockey League history by going through 15 straight games &mdash; 10 victories and five ties &mdash; without bowing.This season they were headed for a record in reverse &mdash; 12 straight away games without a victory.The string dated back into last season. Detroit finished the 1952-53 campaign with two ties and a defeat on the road, lost three straight playoff games in Boston, then opened this season with four ties and two defeats.That was as god a reason as any for their third-place status at the time. Certainly nothing was wrong with the home record of 6-1-1.Finally the Wings were booked into Madison Square Garden for the first time, and they won there, 3 to 2. That was the same spot where they&rsquo;d last won a road game &mdash; on March 11.ICE CHIPS: Detroit swept a week-end series from New York, 3 to 2 and 4 to 1, but the Rangers still came up a winnner in one department: Attendance.There were 13,872 witnesses for the game in New York, and only 10,687 for the rematch at Olympia. Home attendance here is down an average of 500 a game compared to last season.Jack Adams wonders if the poor ice surface in Toronto&rsquo;s Maple Leaf Garden had anything to do with Bill Quackenbush and Real Chevrefils both breaking legs there.&ldquo;Toronto calls its building the show-place of hockey but it still has the worst ice in the league,&rdquo; Adams commented. He recalled that Marcel Pronovost suffered a severe ankle sprain there on the last visit and was forced to miss four games.Rookie Al Arbour took over during Pronovost&rsquo;s absence and performed with distinction. He has been with the club all season but had been used sparingly before.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01329/1647056-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="544" height="653"><figcaption class="caption-body">Shone as Sub for PronovostAL ARBOUR</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02296/1647049-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="576" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARCEL PRONOVOST</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Red Wings Setting Mark in Reverse Haven’t Won Road Game in 12 Tries

DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Fans around the National Hockey League have been wondering why Earl (Dutch) Reibel has cooled off lately from the terrific scoring pace he set earlier in the year.The answer is simple enough. Dutch has been trying to keep in action despite a painful leg injury which has hampered his skating. Reibel began the current season as the hottest rookies in the league, overshadowing Montreal&rsquo;s Jean Beliveau in the early going. He kept abreast of his illustrious linemates, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, then suddently went into a nose-dive, forcing Tommy Ivan to keep him on the bench a little more often and inserting Vic Stasiuk on the big line.Reibel picked Armistice Day, November 11, against the Boston Bruins to score his last goal and pick up his last point in the NHL. Since then he hasn&rsquo;t worked his name onto the scoresheet. In that last game against the Bruins, he scored a goal and picked up an &ldquo;assist.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03227/1647087-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="580" height="589"><figcaption class="caption-body">DUTCH REIBEL</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Injury Has Cooled Reibel Off, Got Last Point on November 11

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><h2>&lsquo;Torp&rsquo; Played Big Part In 1953 Playoff Drive</h2>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks lost their second veteran forward through retirement within two weeks last month when 34-year old Jim McFadden decided to pack up his skates for good after 14 years in professional hockey. His move followed that of Vic Lynn, who quit without notice November 3.McFadden, quiet and hard working, was in his seventh season in the National league, spending the first four with Detroit and the rest as a Hawk. His excellent record in the 1952-53 campaign had much to do with Chicago&rsquo;s surge into the playoffs, but when it became apparent that he was slowing down this year, he chose to retire rather than make the downward trek into the finors.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04173/1647149-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="568" height="745"><figcaption class="caption-body">Back To &hellip;JIM MCFADDEN</figcaption></div>He announced his intentions to Sid Abel as the Hawk coach handed him his monthly paycheck following a 2-2 deadlock with Montreal at the Chicago Stadium. He later had a few quiet words with General Manager. Bill Tobin before packing his grip and heading home to the 100-acre McFadden farm at Darlingford, Manitoba.<h2>Chose To Retire Rather Than Be Sent To Minors</h2>&ldquo;Torp&rdquo;, as he was known to mates, became the oldest man to ever win the prized Calder trophy as the NHL&rsquo;s top rookie when he broke in with the Red Wings in 1947-48 at 29 years. Had World War II not curtailed his career considerably, he would undoubtedly have made the jump into the big time much sooner.It was somewhat ironic that he chose to end his playing days just one score short of the century mark in goal production. A constant hustler and one of the few men to ever give Bill Mosienko a real battle in the speed department, he closed out his major league record with 99 goals and 128 assists.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05120/1647142-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="580" height="801"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; The FarmVIC LYNN</figcaption></div>Lynn&rsquo;s departure from the Chicago puck scene, unlike that of McFadden, came without the approval of the team&rsquo;s front officeand he was both suspended and fined as a direct result. He reportedly walked out when he learned he was to be traded to a minor league club.<h2>Was Calder Cup Winner For &lsquo;47-48 With Wings</h2>His attitude seemed rather inconsiderate since it was the Hawks that brought him back to the NHL less than a year ago after he had spent two seasons in the American loop with Cleveland. Vic played strongly as a defensive winger last year, but looked unimpressive this fall.Once back in his home at Saskatoon, Sask., he blandly decreed that hockey, which had given him quite a financial boost the past decade, was now the farthest thing from his mind. He then went to work for a sign company without commenting on rumours that he hoped to play with the hometown Quakers in the Western league. &#9632;

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Hawks’ McFadden Follows Lynn Into Retirement

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The Detroit Red Wings may enjoy considerable prestige in the National league standing at the present time, but their rating with the Boston Police Department is considerably less lofty.The Red Wings received a vigorous warning on their choice of language in public from a police executive during their last visit here, with an emphatic suggestion that they mend their ways on future appearances, or else.The warning, issued by Lieut. Fred Mullowney who heads the Boston Garden police detail, came as the result of allegedly vulgar remarks directed at police officers by two members of the Detroit team.According to newspaper accounts of the incidents, the first remark was made by Gordon Howe to an officer stationed at tile Detroit bench, when the officer suggested that Howe&rsquo;s vocabulary was unsuited for public consumption.The second remark was allegedly made to Lieut. Muilowney himself by Ted Lindsay, captain of the Red Wings, as the Detroit team filed into its dressing room after the game.Accounts of that incident were that Lindsay gave the officer an unprintable answer in reply to a request that he and two other Red Wings increase their pace toward the locker room.Lieut. Mullowney reported incidents to Tommy Ivan, the Detroit coach, with a warning that if they were repeated or any more complaints about the Red Wings&rsquo; bench conversations received, the offenders would be taken to jail, uniforms and all.Ivan blamed the trouble on what he termed &ldquo;the abuse the players have to take from the fans on their long walk back to the dressing room from the ice.&ldquo;After all, these players are heated up when they come off the ice,&rdquo; declared the Red Wings&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s bad enough to get banged around on the ice, but they don&rsquo;t have to take it on the way back to the room besides. They&rsquo;re so keyed up that the least little thing can lead to an incident. It&rsquo;s tough on the players and tough on the police, too.&rdquo;As a result of the affair in which Lindsay was reportedly a participant, it is probable that Detroit will occupy a new dressing room the next time here. Ivan has never liked the location of the present room, reached from the ice only by crossing the Garden&rsquo;s East lobby. He favors the use of another room in the West lobby, to which a shorter walk is necessary.The episode of the other evening is not the first in which the Red Wings have been embroiled here. Last winter Tony Leswick&rsquo; had a dispute with a fan which resulted in police intervention.The Detroit team received considerably more vocal attention from the cash customers than any other team coming here, due partially to the fact that the Detroit bench is by far the noisiest.The latest outburst climaxed a hectic day for the Garden police detail hich that afternoon had to break up the wildest free-for-all in Garden history between members of the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia Warriors basketball teams. &#9632;

Boston Cops Warn Wings About Talk

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;The Chicago Black Hawks, admittedly seeking player aid from the amply stocked Canadiens, committed an unfortunate and unintended strategic error recently when they battled the Stanley Cup holders to a standstill in an unprecedented series of three straight games. Each club wound up with a win, tie and loss.And this wasn&rsquo;t the first time that Sid Abel&rsquo;s Injuns had gotten into the hair of the Frenchmen for they had, in fact, grabbed five of their first nine league points at the expense of the Montrealers. Earlier, goalie Al Rollins had blocked his cage completely to give Chicago a 1-0 decision.This fine effort came in the midst of a four-game string that saw angular Al block and stop his way to 160 minutes and 20 seconds of shutout hockey. He was in top form in the trio of tests with the Habs too, robbing such notables as Rocket Richard and Boom Boom Geoffrion a score of times.The Hawks were said to have been close to a deal when Canadien winger Paul Meger had to be helped from Forum ice following a collision with Gus Bodnar in the first of the three games. Habitant officials quickly declared that they would do no more considering until his return. Meger was not seriously hurt.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01362/1647194-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="596" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body">Sought&hellip;PAUL MEGER</figcaption></div>The statement was not construed as necessarily placing such a high value on Meger&rsquo;s availability. Rather, his loss coupled with the absence of such key personnel as Jean Marc Beliveau and Dickie Moore was said to be placing too much of a drain on Montreal reserves.Meger, as a matter of fact, was believed to be one of Coach Dick Irvin&rsquo;s border line players that might conceivably be dealt to the Black Hawks. Others reportedly in the expendable category were Dick Gamble, Paul Masnick, Lome Davis, John McCormack, Calurn MacKay and several others.<h2>Interested In Skaters</h2>General Manager Bill Tobin of Chicago had indicated that he was basically interested in skaters with two main qualifications &mdash; youth and the ability to score. The team, unlike many of its predecessors, has displayed a rather limited goal-getting attack so far this season.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02299/1647187-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="1218" height="1370"><figcaption class="caption-body">&lsquo;Running Deer&rsquo; Joins HawksFRED SASKAMOOSE &hellip; &hellip; Newest Hawk</figcaption></div>For the record, the heretofore mentioned possible Canuck transfers line up in the age bracket as follows: Meger, 24; Gamble, 25; Masnick, 22; Davis, 23; McCormack, 28, and MacKay, 26. All have been in on the scoring during a varied number of games with the Canadiens to date.The play of veterans highlighted the Hawks&rsquo; bright efforts in the Montreal series with George Gee and Gus Bodnar each collecting a goal and two assists. Gee, who had been extremely disappointing in previous games, was tabbed as &ldquo;one of our best on the ice&rdquo; by Abel.Jimmy Peters, Doc Couture and Jim McFadden, three other experienced performers, wefe credited with setting up spores. Also improving was the work of young Lou Jankowski, who garnered his first goal of the season in the third game and came close on at least one other occasion.<h2>Hawk Talk</h2>Showing that he wasn&rsquo;t going to count on help from Montreal, Tobin announced at the close of the set with the Canadiens that popular Fred Hucul was being called up immediately from Calgary of the Western league. Returning to the Stampeders at the same time was Sid Finney.Somewhat unusual was the announcement to this effect directly over the public address system at the Chicago Stadium. It came, perhaps, in response to a &ldquo;Win with Hucul&rdquo; hammer that hung from the top balcony. He has always had a strong following in the Windy City.Tobin followed the news on Hucul with the disclosure that highly publicized Fred Sasakamoose, a full-blooded Cree Indian, would be up with Chicago November 20. Named &ldquo;Chief Running Deer&rdquo; by fellow tribesemen in northern Saskatchewan, he&rsquo;s a 19-year old center that has been with the Moose Jaw juniors the past three years.<h2>Terrific Skater</h2>&ldquo;He is a terrific skater and we&rsquo;ll use up at least two of his three games as an amateur tryout this time,&rdquo; commented Abel. Sasakamoose was voted the most promising young skater at Hawk training camp in Pembroke, Ont., in September. He is the discovery of George Vogan, Chicago&rsquo;s Moose Jaw scout.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03231/1647180-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="600" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; by HawksPAUL MASNICK</figcaption></div>The Black Hawks used three new forward combinations in the Montreal games with each figuring prominently in scoring plays. Gus Bodnar centered Billy Mosienko and George Gee, Larry Wilson filled in between Doc Couture and Jim McFadden and Jim Peters was the middle man for Lou Jankowski and Pete Conacher. &#9632;

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Hawks Pull Error In Strategy Beat Team They Seek Help From

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;An adjective once synonymous with pre-war hockey teams here has been taken out of mothballs, dusted off, and put back to work.The word is &ldquo;bruising&rdquo;, as applied to Boston&rsquo;s Bruins. Bruins&rsquo; teams of the pre-war era were bruising ones, featuring contact-lovers like Eddie Shore, John Crawford, Desmond Smith, Milt Schmidt, Red Hamill and Dit Clapper.Now the punch is being restored, by newer players like Ray Garlepy, Bob Armstrong, Frank Martin, Leo LaBine, Doug Mohns and Ed Sandford.Once again the Bruins are throwing their weight around aud they have more of it to throw than any other team in the National league.&ldquo;This looks more like a football team,&rdquo; observed President Walter Brown as he glanced around the locker room the other day.&ldquo;I took a good look at Armstrong the other day and then looked again. All of a sudden he has grown into a giant. He looks more like a football tackle than a hockey player.<h2>They&rsquo;ve Grown Up</h2>&ldquo;Then I looked at some of our other young fellows and I said to myself, they&rsquo;ve grown up. They&rsquo;re the biggest group of hockey players I&rsquo;ve ever seen.&rdquo;At the rate the Bruins have been handing out punishment this season, some of them must look even more formidable to opponents at this point than they did to the president of their team.The physical development of their younger players has been largely responsible for that situation, for some of them have sprouted inches and gained many pounds since their first appearances here.Of the six defensemen being used regularly by Coach Lynn Patrick, the midget is the veteran Bill Quackenbush at 180 pounds. In ascending order the others are Hal Laycoe (185) and Ray Gariepy (185), Armstrong (190), Warren Godfrey (195) and Martin (198).The midget of the entire squad is LaBine, a muscular 168-pounder who may be the best bodychecking forward in the entire league.<h2>Acquire Souvenirs</h2>Not a team has engaged the Bruins this season, without acquiring souvenirs of the engagement. The two teams to receive especially warm receptions in games here been the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers.In a Detroit game the huge Martin crunched the Red Wings&rsquo; Metro Prystai with what may have been the hardest check delivered by a Bruin this season, and in the same game LaBine unloaded a comparable check on Marty Pavelich. Even the great Gordon Howe has been knocked on the seat of his rompers with unusual frequency.New York ran into heavy weather the first time in, with defenseman Leo Reise the victim of the hardest hit, by the powerful Gariepy. In a subsequent game in New York 180-pound Real Chevrefils nearly dismembered the Rangers&rsquo; Aldo Guidolin.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04173/1647232-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="549" height="782"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bashing&hellip;WARREN GODFREY</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05123/1647225-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="609" height="602"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip; BruinsHAL LAYCOE</figcaption></div>Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins has always maintained that liking for contact, not to mention the ability to engage in. it, is dictated by individuals, not coaches. He cites young Mohns as his latest example to prove his point.&ldquo;Mohns (180 pounds, 19 years old) just naturally likes to play a hard game,&rdquo; contended Patrick. &ldquo;He is willing to take as well as give. I could never influence him to be aggressive if he weren&rsquo;t naturally. If he weren&rsquo;t playing the way he does for me, he&rsquo;d be doing it for someone else, because that is his way of playing.&rdquo;<h2>Patrick Approves</h2>At any rate, the Bruins have become bumptious again after a famine of more than a decade. Of the change Patrick approves, because he has always approved aggressiveness.That the cash customers also approve is indicated by. the attendance at games here this season, up in general over that of a year ago when it, in turn, was better than it was two years ago.Hockey, the fastest of team sports, is also a contact sport, and it is becoming obvious that the Bruins of the present vintage do not need any convincing along that line. &#9632;

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Bruins Punch Restored By Strong Rearguards

Gerry McNeil, Canadiens&rsquo; diminutive goal-keeper is THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; ployer-of-the-week on the strength of his sensational shutout sequence recorded during the past week.From the time that the Chicago Black Hawks slammed a goal past him in Chicago Sunday, November 1 5 until a full week later, Sunday November 22, when Boston Fleming Mackell notched a goal ot 11.04 of the first period, little Gerry went 155 minutes and 36 seconds without allowing a single goal to get past him.Last Thursday night in Montreal, he handed the Toronto Maple Leafs a 1-0 shutout, their first loss in nine games as Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion notched the only goal of the game.Then in Montreal again on Saturday night, the pony-sized, Quebec-born twine-tender blanked the high-scoring Detroit Red Wings, 1-0 with Geoffrion again notching Montreal&rsquo;s only goal.The longetst shutout sequence for a goal-keeper is held by McNeil&rsquo;s predecessor Bill Durnan who racked up the almost unbelievable total of 309 minutes and 21 seconds of scoreless hockey. That happened back in the 1948-49 season when Big Bill started his streak against the Chicago Black Hawks on February 24 and ended it at Chicago, March 9, recording four straight shutouts in between.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1193/1647392-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="270" height="398"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gerry McNeil</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Player - of - the - Week

<h2>From Net to Nets</h2>Johnny Marois, the boy who stepped into the Chicago Black Hawks&rsquo; nets on Sunday night, November 22, filling in for the ailing Al Rollins, is one of the top ranking tennis players in the Province of Quebec.<h2>Sweet Talk Did It</h2>Conn Smythe, one of the smoothest and most forceful talkers in the AHL finally persuaded Howie Meeker to rejoin the Toronto Maple Leafs after the budding politician had decided to give professional hockey the goby for a career on Parliament hill.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01347/1647361-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="618" height="193"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3>Wed. Nov. 18th&mdash;Chicago 1 at Rangers 3Thurs. Nov. 19&mdash;Toronto 0 at Cndns 1Thurs, Nov. 19&mdash;Boston 2 at Detroit 3Fri. Nov. 20th&mdash;Boston 2 at Chicago 0Sat. Nov. 31st&mdash;Detroit 0 at Canadiens 1Sat. Nov. 21st&mdash;Rangers 0 at Toronto 1Sun. Nov. 22nd&mdash;Canadiens 2 at Boston 2Sun. Nov. 22nd&mdash;Toronto 5 at Chicago 1Sun. Nov. 22nd&mdash;Detroit 3 at Rangers 2<h3>SCHEDULED GAMES</h3>Wed. Nov. 25th&mdash;Boston at RangersThurs. Nov. 26th&mdash;Canadiens at ChicagoThurs. Nov&rsquo;. 26&mdash;Toronto at DetroitThurs. Nov. 26th&mdash;Rangers at BostonSat. Nov. 28th&mdash;Canadiens at TorontoSat. Nov. 28th&mdash;Chicago at DetroitSun. Nov, 29th&mdash;Canadiens at RangersSun. Nov, 29th&mdash;Toronto at BostonSun. Nov. 29th&mdash;Detroit at Chicago<h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18</h3>Chicago 1 at New York 3NEW YORK &mdash; The New York Rangers luing a 3-1 defeat on the lase place Chicago Black Hawks with Andy Bathgate, Harry Howell and Paul Ronty ocoring a goal in each period for the Winners.Murray Costello scored the only goal for the Black Hawks.Chicago &mdash; Goal, Rollins; defence, Morrtson, Gadsby. Hucul, FogoJin, Dewsbury, Zeidel; forwards, Wilson; Mosienko; Gee; Peters; Conacher; Bodnar; Couture; Jankowski; Costello.New York &mdash; Goal, Bower; defence. Irwin; Howell; Buller; Reise; forwards, Ronty; Hergesheimer; &lsquo;Prentice, Raleigh; Bentley; Miskoski; Guldolin; Hildebrand; Bathgate; Kullman; Henry; Murphy.Referee, Udvarl; linesmen, Babcock and Baolto.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02325/1647354-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="636" height="455"></div><h3>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19</h3>Toronto 0 at Montreal 1MONTREAL &mdash; A goal by Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrlon early in the second period gave the Canadiens a 1-0 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs and helped them maintain their two point bulge over the Detroit Red Wings. The shutout was the third of the year for Montreal&rsquo;s Gerry McNeil.Toronto &mdash; Goal, Lumley; defence, Thomson, Morton, Flaman, Boivin, Morrison; forwards, Kennedy, Stewart,, Smith, Sloan, Watson, Nesterenko, Migay, Sollnger, Bailey, Hassard.Canadiens &mdash; Goal, McNeill; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St.Laurent, Macpherson; forwards, McCormack, Currav Mtckay, Lach, Richard Mazur, Mosdell, Geoffrlon, Litzenberger, Olmstead;Referee:Frank Udcarl; linesmen, Sam Babcock and Doug Davies.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03278/1647347-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="622" height="313"></div>Boston 2 nt Detroit 8DETROIT &mdash; The Detroit Red Wings spotted the luckless Boston Bruins a two-goal lead then came back strong in the final period with a brace of goals to beat them, 3-2.Gordie Howe&rsquo;s marker with less than five minutes to play was the big winning goal for Tommy Ivan&rsquo;s charges.Boston &mdash; Goal, Henry; defense, Laycoe, Gariepy, Armstrong, Godfrey, Martin; forwards, Mackell, Pelrson, Gardner, Dumart, Labine, Creighton, Mohns, Toppazzini, Klukay, Sandford.Detroit &mdash; Goal, Samohuk; defense, Kelly, Goldham, Pronovost, Wolt, Arbour jforwards, Skov, Stasiuk, Pavelich, Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Delvecchio, Wilson, Prystal, Dineen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04237/1647340-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="620" height="433"></div><h3>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20</h3>Boston 2 at Chicago 0CHICAGO &mdash; A pair of goals 42 seconds apart in the second period gave the Boston Bruins a 2-0 victory over the hapless Chicago Black Hawks with Sugar Jim Henry getting his third shutout of the season.Mrs. Essie Henry, mother of Sugar Jim, saw her son in his first professional hockey game.BOSTON &mdash; Goal, Henry; defense, Laycoe, Gariepy, Armstrong, Godfrey, Martin; forwards, Sandford, Mackell, Pelrson, Gardner, Dumart, Labine, Creighton, Mohns, Klukay, Toppazzini.CHICAGO &mdash; Goal, Robins; defense, Mortson, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Zeidel; forwards, Gee, Bodnar, Couture, Pteers, Moslenko, Conacher, Jankowski, Hucul, Wilson, Costello, Sasakamoose.Referee.: Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen, Harold March and George Hayes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05182/1647333-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="610" height="343"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21</h3>New York 0 at Toronto 1TORONTO &mdash; The first of two weekend shutouts by identical scores was racked up here as Toronto Maple Leafs blanked the visiting New York Rangers 1-0.Jim Morrison beat Ranger goalie Johnny Bower at the 15 minutes mark of the final frame to shut out the New Yorkers.New York: Goal: Bower; defense: Buller, Horwell, Irwin, Reise; forwards: Ronty, Hergeshelmer, Prentice, Mickoski, Guidolin, Hildebrand, Murphy, Bathgate, Ki^llman, Chalmers, McCreary.Toronto; Goal: Lumley; defense:Thomson, Horton, Flaman, Morrison, Boivin; forwards: Kennedy, Stewart, Smith, Sloan, Meeker, Watson, Hassard, Nesterenko, Solinger, Migay, Balfour.Referee: Red Storey. Linesmen; Jim Primeau and Red Dunn.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01361/1647326-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="626" height="311"></div>Detroit 0 at Canadiens 1MONTREAL &mdash; Gerry McNeil racked up his fourth shutout of the season as the Montreal Canadiens took the Detroit Red Wings to the cleaners, 1-0.Boom Boom Geoffrion snapped the puck past Terry Sawchuk in the middle canto.Detroit: Goal: Sawchuk; defense: GoldKelly, Wolt, Pronovost, Arbour; forwards: Howe, Reibel, Lindsay, Pavelich, Leswick, Skov, Delvecchio, Wilson, Dineen, Stasiuk.Canadiens: Goal: McNeil; defense: Bouchard, Johnson, St. Laurent, Harvey, Macpherson; forwards, Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Lach, Geoffrion, Gamble, McCormack, Curry, Mazur, MacKay, Desaulniers.Referee:Bill Chadwick: linesmen, Sam Babcock,, Doug Davies.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02300/1647319-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="626" height="399"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22</h3>Canadiens 2 at Boston 2BOSTON &mdash; Montreal Canadiens are gradually beating the jinx that has hounded them on the road all season. They managed to eke out a 2-2 tie with Boston Bruins.Calcum MacKay saved the Habs their usual fate at the halfway mark of the last period after Fleming Mackell and E.idie Sandford had tallied for the Lruins. Kenny Mosdell got the other Canadien goal.(an aniens &mdash; Goal: McNeil; defense: Johnson, Bouchard, StLaurent, Harvey, MacPherson; forwards: Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Geoffrion, McCormack, Lach, Curry, MacKay, Mazur, Desaulniers. Gamble.Boston &mdash; Goal: Henry; defense: Gariepy, Laycoe, Godfrey, Armstrong, Martin; forward: Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Gardner, Labine, Toppazzinl, Creighton, Klukay, Mohns, Dumart, Schmidt.Referee: Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Herb Gallagher and Sam Babcock.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03254/1647312-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="620" height="341"></div>Detroit 3 at New York 2NEW YORK &mdash; The hapless New York Rangers saw their weekend hopes go down the drain as the Detroit Red Wings roared in to score three goals and beat them, 3-1.The Detroiters came from behind a two goal lead piled up by Rangers In the first period to effect the victory.Detroit &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Gold ham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Arbour; forwards: Lindsay, Leswick, Howe, Prystai, Pavelich, Skov, Reibel, Delvecchio, Wilson, D&rsquo;neen, Stasiuk.New York &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense: Irwin, Howell, Bullep, Reise; forwards: Raleigh, Ronty, Bentley, Mickoski, Guidolin, Hildebrand, Murphy, Bathgate, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Kullman, Henry.Referee: Red Storey: linesman: Dom Baolto and Bili Morrison.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04198/1647305-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="629" height="470"></div>Toronto 5 at Chicago 1CHICAGO &mdash; Toronto Maple Leafs gave the Chicago Black Hawks a 5-1 hosing on their own ice, pouring in a steady stream of rubber that had Al Rollins and the Hawks defense baffled.Toronto &mdash; Goal. Lumley; defense: Horton. Thomson, laman, JBolvln, Morrison; forwards, Migay, Nesterenko, Solinger, Kennedy, Stewart, Smith, Sloan, Armstrong, Watson, Hassard, Bailey.Chicago &mdash; Goal, Marois; defense: Morrison. Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Zeidel; forwards; Jankowski, Conacher, Peters. Mosienko, Bodnar, Finney, Couture, Wilson, Gee, McFadden, Costello.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05157/1647298-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="612" height="514"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>Including games Sunday, Nov. 22<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06155/1647291-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="618" height="2281"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07144/1647284-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="621" height="1259"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08133/1647277-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="614" height="597"></div><h2>GOALKEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09128/1647270-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="616" height="363"></div><h2>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10115/1647263-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="556" height="167"></div> &#9632;

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CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Johnny Marois, one of the goalers with the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Hockey League, stepped into the goals for the Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL when regular netminder Al Rollins came down with the chicken pox.That made the third pro league that Marois has played in in the space of a few weeks.Besides the Aces and the Hawks, he also filled in for the Providence Reds of the AHL when their goaler, Harvey Bennet, was injured. He has been on loan all this time from the Quebec team.His game with the Hawks was the second time he&rsquo;s appeared in the big time. With Toronto Maple Leafs a few years back, he stepped in and defeated the same Hawks. And the punchline? It was the Leafs who best the Hawks in his second appearance, only this time he was at the other end of the ice.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06133/1647423-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="550" height="871"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHNNY MAROIS</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Aces’ Johnny Marois Fills In For Ailing Al

The Penticton Vees of the Okanagans Senior Hockey League have added another western Hockey League Player to their roster.He is Jack MacDonald, who played with the Edmonton Flyers last Season. A centerman, MacDonald scored 12 goals and 13 assists with the Flyers last year.He got off to a flying start with the Vees scoring both Penticton&rsquo;s goals in his first game with Vees, downing Kelowna Packers 2-1. &#9632;

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<h2>Finally</h2>The Pittsburgh Hornets finally defeated the Cleveland Barons on November 18, winning 3-2. The Barons had won the three other games played this season.<h2>First Goose-egg</h2>Gordon (Red) Henry of the Hershey Bears racked np his first shutout of the season when he blanked the Providence Reds 2-0 on Thursday, November 19.<h2>HOW THE RACE GOES</h2>STANDING, MONDAY A.M. NOV. 23<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01360/1647555-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="619" height="189"></div><h3>SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15</h3>Calgary 5 at Seattle 7SEATTLE &mdash; Barton Bradley saved 2,276 fans from heartbreak and despair by scoring two goals to pace the Bombers to a 7-5 victory over Calgary Stampeders.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02319/1647548-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="628" height="717"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18</h3>Hershey 2 at Syracuse 3SYRACUSE &mdash; Mike Narduzzi scored two goals as Syracuse Warriors defeated Hershey Bears 3-2.The Bears took a 1-0 lead in the first period on a goal by George Sullivan but Narduzzi tied it up with his first tally at 3:17 of the second. Bronco Horvath put the Warriors in front but Dune Fisher squared matters before the period ended.Narduzzi netted his second goal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03257/1647541-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="636" height="489"></div>Cleveland 2 at Pittsburgh 3PITTSBURGH &mdash; Earl Balfour netted the winning goal late in the third period to give Pittsburgh Hornets their first victory of the season over Cleveland Barons, 3-2. The win moved the Hornets into second place.The Barons, who had beaten Pittsburgh three times previously, came from behind twice to deadlock the score on goals by Ray Ceresino, in the second period, knd Jack Stoddard in the finale before Balfour got the winning marker at 17:55.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04206/1647534-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1786" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bert Balked and BaffledTHWARTtKG Bert Hirschfeld of the Providence Reds (No. 10) is Pittsburgh goalie Gil Mayer, who makes the save in highly professional fashion. Other Pittsburgh players in the action above are Pele Backor (No. 5) and Larry Cahan (No. 2).</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05172/1647527-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="622" height="477"></div><h3>THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19</h3>Hershey 2 at Providence 0PROVIDENCE &mdash; Dune Fisher and Lome Ferguson scored during he first and third periods to provide Hershey Bears with a 2-0 victory over Providence Reds.Goalie Gordon (Red) Henry Kicked out 46 stops while turning in his first shutout of the season. The Vlvtory moved the Bears into a sedond-place tie with Pittsburgh Hornets.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06154/1647520-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="620" height="341"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOV. 21</h3>Cleveland 5 at Hershey 2HERSHEY &mdash; Hershey Bears scored four goals in the las$ 10 minutes to defeat Cleveland Barons 5-2.Jack (Moose) McIntyre fired the first two Hershey goals, Arnie Kullman. Obie O&rsquo;Brien and Dune Fisher getting the others. The Cleveland marksmen were Chuck Flair and Cal Stearns.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07136/1647513-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="628" height="549"></div>Buffalo 5 at Plttsgurgh 5PITTSBURGH &mdash; Pittsburgh Hornets came from behind twice in the last period to tie Buffalo Bisons 5-5.Buffalo&rsquo;s Gays Stewart and the Hornets&rsquo; Ray Timgren matched two-goal performances, Timgren&rsquo;s two markers helping the Hornets knot the count at 3-3 at the end of Xhe second period.Stewart&rsquo;s second goal gave the Bisons the lead again in the third period but Bob Sabourln tied the score again. After Ken Hayden put the visitors one up, Wil&rsquo;le Marshall shot Pittsburgh&rsquo;s final goal.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08131/1647506-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="622" height="707"></div>providence 1 at Syracuse 9SYRACUSE&mdash;Harry PIdhirny tied an American Hockey League record got in 1946 as he scored six goals to lead Syracuse Warriors to a 9-1 victory over Providence Reds.Victims of Pidfilrny&rsquo;s scoring. burst was playing-manager Pat Egan of the Reds, normally a defenceman, who was substituting for regular goalie Jean. Marois, grounded at Montreal in an attempt to fly here.PIdhirny scored three times in the second period after Pete Kapusta had fired the losers&rsquo; lone tally in the opening frame. He rapped home three more goals in the third period, matching the record set by Jerry Couture of Indianpolls Capitals seven years ago.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09123/1647499-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="630" height="751"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22</h3>Hershey 3 at Buffalo 4Buffalo &mdash; Gordie Pennell&rsquo;s breakaway goal with barely three minutes left to play gave Buffalo Bisons a 4-3 victory over Hershey Bears. Extending the victor&rsquo;s AHL lead to six points.Joe Lund&rsquo;s goal 48 seconds after the opening face-off put the Bisons in front, but Hershey&rsquo;s Arnie Kullman and Skip Teal tallied within a minute of second-period play to give HerBhey the lead. Don Marshall tied it up before the period ended aand Buffalo&rsquo;s Keil H^&rsquo;den and Hershey&rsquo;s Red Sullivan matched third-pgriod counters before Pennell&rsquo;s deciding marker.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1185/1647492-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="624" height="559"></div>Pittsburgh 2 nt Providence 4Providence: &mdash; Paul Larivee&rsquo;s goal late in the second period and an insurance tally by Chuck Scherza gave the Providence Reds a 4-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Hornets.Al Baccarl sent Providence into a 1-0 lead in the first period, but Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Jackie Leclair Deadlocked the count two minutes later.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1275/1647485-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="632" height="517"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>INCLUDING GAMES OU SUN. NOV 22<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10105/1647478-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="620" height="665"></div><h2>LEADERS</h2>Goal &mdash; Pidherny 16.Assists &mdash; Geo. Sullivan 16Penalty: Larry Cahan, 50 mln.Goalie &mdash; Plante, 19-48-2:53.Shutout &mdash; Plante, Henry, Mayer, Bennett, Lach.Team pen. Hershey, 191 min. &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DAVE FAUNCE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01356/1647586-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Knocked From Came&hellip;HARVEY BENNETT</figcaption></div>PITTSBURGH. Pa.&mdash;Coach Aldege (Baz) Bastien, erstwhile top net-minder of the American Hockey League and now coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets, is quite confident he&rsquo;ll emulate Francis Michael Aloysius (King) Clancy in his first year at the helm of the local entry.And he&rsquo;s certain he has the ace in the hole who will help him do it.Clancy, in his first season with the Hornets &mdash;1951-52&mdash; won both the AHL title and the Calder Cup.Bastien is banking on a 20-year-old rookie to help pull the Wasps through this season. He&rsquo;s Parker McDonald, a native of Sydney, NS, who came to the Hornets from the Toronto Marlboro Juniors after after seasons with that club.At last look, Bastien&rsquo;s Hornets were in second place in the AHL behind the Buffalo Bisons. But Bax who won the Holmes Trophy, representative of the top goalie in the league his first three seasons here, doesn&rsquo;t expect them to stay there long.<h2>He Can&rsquo;t Miss</h2>&ldquo;Parker has a good shot,&rdquo; Bastien says, &ldquo;and he&rsquo;s going to give us a big lift the rest of the way. He can&rsquo;t miss.&rdquo;And he has good grounds for that statement. Young McDonald has scored two &ldquo;hat tricks&rdquo; already this season, and. at this writing, had scored one or more goals in his last five games.That should be enough to prove the youth has found himself in professionnal hockey.The Hornets had him in their camp at Niagara Falls, Ont., before the 1952-53 season, but sent him back to the Marlboros for further seasoning. This year, there was little doubt of his potentialities when he reported for training. He made&rsquo; the squad after the first couple of drills.McDonald is playing on a line centered by Danny Lewicki, who has had some experience with the parent Toronto Maple Leafs, with Ray Timgren, who also has been up with the Leafs, on left wing.McDonald, a handsome youth who can play both ways, picked up his first hockey stick when he was five years old. That&rsquo;s probably nothing unusual for a boy from the cold country of Eastern Canada, but it paid off in the long run as he developed into one of the smoothest, and at the same time most deceptive players, who has come into professional hockey in some time.McDonald takes it all in stride.&ldquo;I just want to stay here, or move on up to the Maple Leafs,&rdquo; the quiet youngster says.He doesn&rsquo;t look like anybody&rsquo;s terror on the ice, and he seldom gets into trouble with rival players, but he&rsquo;s earned the respect of such seasoned net-minders as Gordie Henry at Herishey, Gordie Bell at Syracuse, Cat Francis at Cleveland, Harvey Bennett at Providence and any of the rest of them that have had to cope wfth his short, lightning-like thrusts on goal. &#9632;

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McDonald May Justify Bastien’s Great Hopes

<div class="byline">By GEORGE DUFFY</div>PROVIDENCE, Ri.&mdash;Armistice Day, 1953 will long remain vivid in the memory of Rhode Island Red hockey fans.On this date, a 17-year old goaltender, Norman &ldquo;The Clutch&rdquo; Desaulniers, came out of the stands at Rhode Island Auditorium and beat the Cleveland Barons, 4-2.It makes for one of the most heart-throbbing stories in the annals of sports certainly one of the highlights at the Auditorium since the doors swung open in &ldquo;26&rdquo;.Desaulniers&rsquo; entry into a pro game in the American Hockey League was born of emergency. A gashed right eyelid suffered in a joust with the puck, knocked regular twine-minder Harvey Bennett out of action after eight minutes and six seconds of play.The kid, who won&rsquo;t be 18 until next September, was sitting underneath the press box when a Glen Sonmor shot deflected off defenseman Ed Kryzanowski&rsquo;s stick and struck Bennett&rsquo;s eye. The gangling goalie fell to the ice, blood rushing from the wound. He was treated on the ice and rushed to the dressing room. Dazed, Harvey was counted out of action although there was some hope he might come back.Lou Pieri and Pat Egan went into a conference. Chuck Scherza was considered. Egan thought about himself. Desaulniers was told to be ready for any emergency. This was it.Desaulniers&rsquo; face will never again be any whiter. He was nervous as he dressed. His hands shook as he laced on a borrowed pair of skates. Norm wore a patch over his left eye which was blackened from a collision he had been involved in during a scrub hockey game a few nights before.After a 15-minute delay, Desaulniers was ready to fill the Gap. He slid along the ice towards the goal, seemingly unsure. On practice shots, the lad moved slowly.<h2>Relaxes in Action</h2>But once the firing started as the first period continued, the 17-year-old began to loosen up. The opening period came to a close with the teams still scoreless. Desaulniers was called upon to make nine stops.In the 12 minutes that Desaulniers played In the opening period, he could see the Reds were working for him. They skated hard and checked all over the ice. Cleveland was being played off the ice.A holiday crowd of 3,002, sitting in on this historic event, was hushed when Cal Stearns pumped a long shot past Desaulniers early in the second period. But pubilation reigned when Pete Kapusta tied it up and then JeanPaul Denis and Bert Hirschfeld put the Reds out front, 3-1. Desaulniers had nine saves again.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02281/1647617-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="570" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body">&hellip;By His ShotGLEN SONMOR</figcaption></div>Cleveland began to get more slots in the final 20 minutes. The Reds had burned out most of their energy in a tremendous display. But it was Zellio &ldquo;The Topper&rdquo; Toppazzini who flashed the light at 8:24 for a 4-1. Chuck Blair&rsquo;s goal from close range at 13:29 ended the scoring. Desaulniers had turned back 10 more shots.When the buzzer ended the action, the Reds rushed Desaulniers. He was a happy kid, and who could blame him? Thrust into the spotlight, he talked to news-men and one could see he was only a kid as he told the scribes &ldquo;I could hardly breathe. I really couldn&rsquo;t swallow. My legs felt like lead. My stomach was all in knots.&rdquo;The kid sat in the Red&rsquo;s room and explained how all these things bothered him before play actually started. Then he admitted he felt better as play progressed and he began turning shots away. And although a kid, he was quick to admit that &ldquo;the Reds played a whale of a game.&rdquo;With that, game came the end of an exciting story about a young American lad who loves the game of hockey. A young fellow who is continually hanging around the Auditorium, looking for a chance to play when free from his job as a bank clerk.On November 12 th, Norman Desaulniers went back to the bank. He was surrounded by greenbacks by the thousands. It&rsquo;s safe to say lie wouldn&rsquo;t trade his 4-2 win over Cleveland for all the cash in his bank; or in the United States mint, for that matter. &#9632;

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Deflected Puck Supplied Thrill of A Lifetime

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Hershey&rsquo;s rush to overtake the high flying Buffalo Bisons came to an abrupt end on Saturday, November 14 when the Providence Reda edged the Bears, 2-1, at the Sports Arena, breaking the club&rsquo;s run of seven games without a defeat on home ice.The Bears had pulled within five percentage points of Frankie Eddolls&rsquo; crew when Pat Egan and company, fortified by the acquisition of rookie goalie Jean Paul Marois, put a stop to their skein. Marois turned in a sensational performance all the way, even down to halting the rampaging Bears in the final minute of play in spite of his club being a man short and the presence of six Hershey forwards in the Providence zone.Coach Murray Henderson&rsquo;s skaters passed the 16-game mark of their AHL schedule with a point total equaling their 1952-53 standing for the same number of games. The Bears had a mark of 7-7-2, which was good for 16 points. A year ago they had an 8-8 figure, also good for 16 points.Before losing to the Reds the Bears had rolled to five wins and a pair of ties on home ice, giving them a 5-3-2 record. Their road mark, however, was just the opposite, the Bears having dropped four out of six contests.With their first long road jaunt coming up during the engagement of Ice Follies, December 1 through 12, coach Henderson has warned his ice men that they must come home with better than en even break in their six battles on foreign ice.Meanwhile, the Bears loom as giant killers as far as the Bisons are concerned. In three games played to date Hershey has trounced Buffalo twice.The Hershey record against AHL opposition follows:<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03217/1647648-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="617" height="429"></div> &#9632;

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Reds Hinder Hershey Drive; Marois Tops

<h2>Top Cage Cop</h2>Lome Worsley of Vancouver Canucks continues to keep his goal average below the two goals a game mark. He has allowed 31 goals in 17 games for the low average of 1.82 per game. He turned in his second shutout of the season Friday, November 13 when the Canucks shut out Calgary 4-0.<h2>Bathgate&rsquo;s Gone</h2>Andy Bathgate of Vancouver quit the WHL on a high note. Now with New York Bangers of the NHL, Andy left the league leading with 12 goals, tops in that department. Frank Ashworth of Calgary continues to lead the over-all scoring with eight goals and 15 assists for 23 points. &hellip; &hellip;<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2>STANDING MONDAY A.M., NOV. 16<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01361/1647791-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="616" height="233"></div><h3>RESULTS</h3>Tuesday Nov. 10Victoria 3 at Vancouver 4Seattle 0 at Calgary 5Edmonton 2 at Saskatoon 3Wednesday Nov. 11Seattle 2 at Edmonton 2Thursday Nov. 12Seattle 1 at Saskatoon 3Friday Nov. 13New West. 3 at Victoria 5Calgary 0 at Vancouver 4Saturday Nov. 14Victoria 6 at Seattle 3Calgary 1 at New West. 3Edmonton 3 at Saskatoon 4Sunday Nov. 15Calgary 5 at Seattle 7<h3>TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10</h3>Victoria 3 at Vancouver 4VANCOUVER &mdash; A last period barrage that caught Victoria goalie Ralph Almas flat-footed was all that saved Vancouver Canucks as they defeated the Cougars, 4-3.Victoria&mdash;Goal: Almas; defense: Lavitt, Conn, Clune, Lowe; forwards: Anderson, Hebenton, Sinnett, Abbott, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Reay, Bettio, Maxwell, Manion.Vancouver&mdash;Goal: Worsley; defense: Stanley, Houghton, Lancien, Kaiser; forwards, Popein, A. Bathgate, Brown, Wylie, Smith, Hickey, Stone, Rouse, Sweaney, Kerr.Referee: Lou Farelll; linesman, Merrick Cranstoun.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02319/1647784-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="636" height="541"></div>Seattle 0 at Calgajry 5CALGARY &mdash; Calgary Stampeders lived up to their name, pulling off a wild and steady rush that flattened Seattle Bombers, 5-0Seattle&mdash;Goal, Pelletier; defense: Davidson, Fielder, Adam, Wall, Jones; forwards: Nadeau, Ailsby, Lofvendahl, Bell, Oliver, Macauley, Brown, Bradley, Maiquess.Calgary: Goal, Brennan; defense: Kyle, Quackenbush, Shvetz, A. Michaluk; forwards, Pargeter, Trentini, Lundy, Witiuk, Barry, Hucul, Ashworth, Scott, Finney, J. Michaluk.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03288/1647777-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="636" height="487"></div>Edmonton 2 at Saskatoon 3SASKATOON &mdash; Saskatoon Quakers showed their first signs of developing into a fighting team as they rocketed to a 3-2 victory over Edmonton Flyers.Edmonton &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Hrymnak, Folk, Coflin, Zeniuk, Thibeault; forwards, T.&rsquo;niac, D. Poile, Sclislzzi, Johnson, Boone, Haley, Anderson, Hannigan, B. Poile, O&rsquo;Grady.Saskatoon: Goal, Rayner; defense: Evans, Ross, Fontlnato, Milford, Parker; forwards: Kukulowicz, Kobussen, Manson, Howe. McLeod. Senick, McCullough, Ka leta, Bailey, Bentley. &lsquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04259/1647770-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="632" height="455"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05223/1647763-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="576" height="947"><figcaption class="caption-body">Stopum and PotumGUMP WORSLEY</figcaption></div><h3>WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11</h3>Seattle 2 at Edmonton 2EDMONTON &mdash; Seattle Bombers and Edmonton Flyers battled to the first sawoff of the week, 2-2.The scoring was evenly divided, both teams notching goals in the last two periods to reach the deadlock.Seattle: Goal, Pelletier; defence, Ailsby, Jones, Davidson, Lofvendahl, Goegan; forwards, Nadeau, Bell, Fielder, Macauley, Marquess, Adam, Brown, Bradley, Wall.Edmonton: Goal, Hall; defence. Hrymnak, Folk, Coflin, Zeniuk, Bucyk, Thibeault; forwards, Bud Poile, Don Poile, Uniac, Scllsizzi, Johnson, Boone, Haley, Andeison, O&rsquo;Grady.Referee, Scotty Morrison; linesman, Hank Wilson.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06189/1647756-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="618" height="429"></div><h3>THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12</h3>Seattle 1 at Saskatoon 3SASKATOON &mdash; Primed by their victory earlier this week, Saskatoon Quakers showed high promise of putting the WHL cellar well behind them as they eased out Seattle Bombers, 3-1 for their second straight win. &lsquo;Seattle: Pelletier, Goegan, Davfcdson, Fielder, Adam, Wall, Jones, Nadeau. Ailsby, Lofvendahl, Bell, Oliver, Macauley, Brown, Bradley, Marquess.Saskatoon: GoaL Raynor; defence, Heindl, Milford, Parker, Evans; forwards, Kukulowicz, Kobussen, Manson, Howe, Senick, McLeod, McCullough, Kaleta, Holdaway, Bailey, Bentley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07176/1647749-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="622" height="313"></div><h3>FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13</h3>Calgary 0 at Vancouver 4VANCOUVER &mdash; Vancouver Canucks took ample advantage of home ice to teach the Calgary Stampeders a hockey lesson, whitewashing the visitors, 4-0, to rack up the second shutout of the week. Previously the Stamps had been on the winning end of a similar blanking.Calgary: Goal, Brennan; defence, Quackenbush, Kyle, Schvetz, A. Michaluk; forwards, Pargeter, Trentini, Lundy, Witiuk, Barry, Hucul, Ashworth, Scott, Finney, J. Michaluk.Referee, Ross Morrow; linesman, Eddie Wares.Vancouver: Goal, Worsley; defence, Irwin, Houghton, Fontinato, Lancien, Kaiser; forwards. Popein, A. Rathgate, Brown, Wylie. Smith, Hickey, Stone, Rouse, Kerr, Sweaney.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08165/1647742-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="616" height="273"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09159/1647735-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="628" height="213"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10153/1647728-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="594" height="897"><figcaption class="caption-body">ANDY BATHGATE</figcaption></div>Edmonton 3 at Saskatoon 4SASKATOON &mdash; Once more the Saskatoon Quakers, now well on their way, succeeded in easing past an opponent, this time taking out their spleen on Edmonton Flyers, 4-3. The game had originally been scheduled for play Saturday, November 14.Edmonton: Goal, Hall; defence, Hrymnak, Folk, Coflin, Zeniuk, Buqyk, Thibeault; forwards. B. Poile, D. Poile, Uniac, Scllsizzi, Johnson, Boone, Haley, Anderson, O&rsquo;Grady.Referee, Ross Morrow; linesman. Hank Wilson.Saskatoon: Goal, Raynor; defence, Heindl, Milford, Parker, Evans; forwards, Kukulowicz, Kobussen, Manson, Howe, Senick, McLeod, McCullough, Kaleta, Holdaway, Bailey, Bentley.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11135/1647721-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="614" height="683"></div>New Westminster 3 at Victoria 5VICTORIA &mdash; Victoria Cougars pulled a couple of vital goals out of the hat to discourage the New Westminster Royals in their first contest of the week, 5-3.New Westminster: Dechene, Bergeron, Durham, McNab, Fashoway, Brilliant. O. Dorohoy. Love. Matthews, Boyce, Kasslon, Thomson, Denny.Victoria: Almas, Clune, Lavitt, E. Dorohoy, Bettio, B. Manson, Schneider, Lowe, D. Anderson, Hebenton, Abbott, Kuzma, Kilburn, Reay, Maxwell.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12120/1647714-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="616" height="750"></div><h3>SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14</h3>Victoria 6 at Seattle 3SEATTLE &mdash; Victoria Cougars came in like lambs and went out like lions, having successfuly vanquished their dismayed hosts, 6-3.Seattle: Pelletier, Goegan, Davidson, Fielder, Adam, Wall, Jones, Nadeau, Ailsby, Lofvendalhl, Bell, Oliver, Macauley, Brown, Bradley, Marquess.Victoria: Alma, Clune, Lavitt, Archtymichuk, Maxwell, Sinnett, Lowe. Conn, Anderson, zkbbott, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Manson, Bettio, Reay.Referee, Lou Farelll; linesman, Ross Valliere.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1399/1647707-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="620" height="726"></div>Calgary 1 at New Westminster 3NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; New Westminster Royals, staunchly defending their home citadel, piled up a 3-1 victory over Calgary Stampeders.Calgary: Goal, Brennan; defence, Quackenbush, Kyle, Schvetz, A. Michaluk: forwards, Pargeter, Trentini, Lundy, Witiuk, Barry, Hucul, Ashworth, Scott, Finney, J. Michaluk.New Westminster: Goal, Dechene; defence, Durham, Bergeron, Matthews, Bedard; forwards, JVIcNab, Dorohoy, Brilliant, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Boyce, Kasslan, Paul, Thornton, Denny.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1490/1647700-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="615" height="460"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. NOV 15)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1574/1647693-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="603" height="1095"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1650/1647686-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="622" height="245"></div><h3>LEADERS</h3>Most Goals: Andy Bathgate, Van 12 Most Assists: Frank Ashworth, Cal. If Most Winning Goals: Andy Bathgate, Vancouver 3; Fred Brown, Vancouver, 3; Mark Marquess Seattle 3.Most First Goal of Game: Bobby Love, New West. 4Most Hat Tricks:&mdash;4. Steve Black, Cal; George Senick, Saskatoon; Pat Lundy, Cal.; Andy Bathgate, Van.; Dale Sweaney, Van.; Larry Popein, Van.; Colin. Kilburn. Victoria.Most Shutouts: Bill Brennan, Cal 4.<h3>MOST PENALTIES</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1741/1647679-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="596" height="213"></div> &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01357/1647829-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kiss of Death ?ALLAN STANLEY</figcaption></div>VANCOUVER, BC&mdash;Several days ago the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League recalled defenseman Ivan Irwin from their farm affiliate at Vancouver and shipped Coley Hall a first class replacement in Allan Stanley, once the darling of the big town followers of the Rangers, but now in those same fans &ldquo;hate&rdquo; category. Stanley, who was the captain of the New Yorkers, was given a royal razzing at Madison Square Garden, home of the Rangers.Irwin, who scored his first goal of the season Nov. 1 against Saskatoon in his farewell Vancouver appearance before heading east, is getting another chance to catch a regular position in the big time. He didn&rsquo;t make it with Montreal last year.Vancouver and W.H.L. fans, critics, etc., are all hepped up about the Irwin-Stanley switch. They want to know&mdash;and they&rsquo;ll be watching with keen appetites&mdash;what effect, if any, this switch will have on the winning ways of the front-running Canucks.We don&rsquo;t mean nor intend to take anything away from Stanley, because he is considered to be a very capable rearguard, and we doubt if there is a professional club which would turn its back if given an opportunity to obtain the 27-year-old puckster. However, sometimes all that is needed to upset a winning club is to change the lineup. Something happens. What that something is nobody seems to know.<h2>Kiss of Death</h2>The question being asked is, &ldquo;Will Stanley be Vancouver&rsquo;s Kiss Of Death?&rdquo;Irwin&rsquo;s recall by a big league club is a repeat of what transpired most of last season. There was upwards of a dozen pucksters who jumped from the Western League to the National League during the season. And in practically every instance where this happened the team which lost the star player didn&rsquo;t fare too well.Calgary lost its championship hopes when Finney was recalled by the parent Chicago Black Hawks, weakening the sextet&rsquo;s potential scoring offensive considerably.Saskatoon&rsquo;s power machine of last season had a few slow-ups when first Neil Strain, and then George Senick paraded before the Madison Square Garden clientele. Few clubs can ill afford to spare players of Senick&rsquo;s and Strain&rsquo;s class for very many games before the pinch is felt.Edmonton, Detroit&rsquo;s No. 1 farm organization, is vulnerable, and so are Vancouver (New York) and Victoria (Montreal), because it the Wings, Rangers or Canadiens find themselves looking around for a replacement and they can&rsquo;t find the player they need, one or all three organizations won&rsquo;t hesitate to reach way out here and pluck a potential N.H.Ler.The big league teams, which once thought they were wasting their time evaluating the clubs out here, have had a change of heart and all of them are vitally concerned about the calibre of play In the Western Loop.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02275/1647822-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="1734" height="1544"><figcaption class="caption-body">Farewell To A Good ThingTHESE THREE SOLDIERS are bidding farewell to THE HOCKEY NEWS for some time. They&rsquo;re bound for Germany with the 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade as replacements for the 27 Brigade stationed in Germany for the past two years, and may not have much chance to catch up on their hockey reading. From left to right are CpI. George Pretten, Pte. Alex Wood and Pte. Arnold McCormick, all from Montreal.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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WHL Fans Keyed Up Over Stanley Trade

<h2>Shutout King</h2>Ray Frederick, Ottawa netminder. Leads the cage rops in the QHL this week, having racked up two no-score games, both by identical scores of 5-0<h2>Up and Down</h2>Skippy Burchell is having a little difficulty finding out which sweater to wear these days, he was brought up to Canadiens from the QHL Royals then shipped back again. When Canadiens went to Boston a few days later, Burchell was back in their line-up.<h2>HOW THE RAGE GOES</h2>STANDING TUESDAY A.M. NOV Cl<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01333/1647958-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="631" height="216"></div><h3>TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17</h3>Quebec 4 at Montreal 1QUEBEC &mdash; Montreal Royals put up a futile defense, consisting of one goal by Vern Kaiser in the second period, as the Quebec Aces rattled to a 4-1 victory.The Aces proved their intent as Guy Talbot scored in the first period, and after Kaiser&rsquo;s token defence in the Second period, went ahead unhindered, ocoring three times in the middle frame.Quebec: Goal, Gelineau; defence, Raglan, Houle, Crozier, Talbot, Labadie; forwards, Powell, Regan, Brown, Cabana, Grosse, Harrison, Tremblay, Caron, Nixon.Montreal: Goal, Perreault; defence, Hodgson, Harmon, Roche, Hollingworth; forwards, Masnlck, Davis, Kaiser, Blaine, Desaulniers, Wray, Malone, Denis, Frampton, Laplante.Referee, Doug Davies; linesmen, Eric Milford Jim Slater.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02294/1647951-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="616" height="363"></div>Springfield 4 at Sherbrooke 1SHERBROOKE &mdash; Springfield Indians Inaved Sherbrooke ice and taught their hostB a few things about scoring goals, racking up a 4-1 victory over the Saints in the process.Springfield: Goal, O&rsquo;Hearn; defence, Bloomer, McNabb, Telford, Perry; forwards, Schinkel, Gagnon, Hasting, McLeod, Power, Locas, Tarala, Pogue, Mell urdy.Sherbrooke: Goal, Gatherum; defence, Roberge, Buck, Bownass, Hay; forwarat, McLean, Dube, Irving, Stankiewicz, Ehnan, Podolsky, Bruneteau, Giesebrecht, Bonin, Malo.Referee. Roberts; linesmen. Westgate and Morehouse.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03268/1647944-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="619" height="372"></div><h3>WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18</h3>Montreal 2 at Quebec 3QUEBEC &mdash; Montreal Royals just are not lucky where Quebec are concerned. After taking a whipping from the Acemen earlier in the week, they visited the Ancient Citadel and were roughly treated again, losing this time by the scant margin of 3-2.Montreal: Goal. Perreault; defence, Hollingworth, Hodgson, Harmon, Leger, Roche, forwards, Kaiser, Desaulniers, Tessier, Malone, Denis, Masnlck, Davis, Frampton, Wray.Quebec: Goal, Gelineau; defence, Raglan. Nixon, Caron, Houle; forwards. Brown, Cabana, Grosse, Powell, Regan, Harrison, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay.Referee, Ken Mullins; linesmen, Armand Leclerc, Florent Roy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04219/1647937-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="610" height="351"></div>Springfield 4 at Ottawa 5OTTAWA &mdash; Ottawa Senators had just that extra amount of push that wins hockey games, Danny Poland knocking in the winning marker that gave the Senators a 5-4 triumph over the Indians.Springfield: Goal, O&rsquo;Hearn; defence, Bloomer, McNabb, Telford, Perry; forwards, Schinkel, Gagnon. Hasting, McLeod. Power, Locas, Tarala, Pogue, McMurdy, Leier.Ottawa:Goal, Frederick; defence, Copp, Hudson, Arundel, Bolton, Burega; forwards, Gravelie, Riopelle, Blair, Johnson, Giesebrecht, Kuntz, Guidolin, Sabourin, Poland.Referee, George Gravelie, Montreal; linesmen, John McEvoyand, Gordie Pranske, both of Ottawa.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05178/1647930-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="613" height="660"></div><h3>THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19</h3>Quebec 1 at Sherbrooke 1SHERBROOKE &mdash; Quebec Aces, riding a victory streak this weekly could do no better than a 1-1 saw-off against Sherbrooke Saints.Marcel Bonin beat goalie Jack Gelineau after a scoreless first period to put the Aces ahead, but Ray Powell countered with a goal early in the third to tie it up. The &lsquo;overtime period produced no scoring.Quebec: Goal, Gelineau; defence, Raglan, Houle, Crozier, Talbot, Nixon; forwards, Grosse, Kelly, Cabana, A. Brown, Powell, Regan. Harrison, Labadie, Tremblay.Sherbrooke: Goal, Gatherum; defence, Roberge, Palamar, Hay, Bownass, Forbes: forwards, Bruneteau, Dube. Stankiewicz, Bonin, Irving, Giesebrecht, Malo, Podolsky. Bruneteau.Referee. Bennett; linesmen, Morehouse and Therriault.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06155/1647923-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="607" height="411"></div>Springfield 3 at Chicoutimi 6CHICOUTIMI &mdash; Chicoutimi Saguenays defeat Springfield Indians, 6-3. taking an early lead and piling up the victory margin in a high-scoring third frame.springfield: Goal, O&rsquo;Hearn; defence, Bloomer, McNab, Telford, Perry; forwards, Tarala, Powell. Schinkel, Hastings, McLeod, McMurdy, Power, Locas, Pogue, Gagnon, Lier.Chicoutimi: Goal, Brodeau: defence, Glaude, Roy, Lamirande, McCallum; forwards. Buchanan, Pedreault, S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Groleau, Franche, Tkachuk, Leger, Moore.Referee, Corriveau; linesmen, L. Scullion, E. Scullion.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07146/1647916-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="604" height="624"></div>Ottawa 5 at Valley field 0VALLEYTTELD &mdash; Ottawa Senators really pulled out all the stops as they swarmed over the Valleyfield Braves, trounckig them to a 5-0 tune.Danny Poland opened the scoring in the first period, followed by Bob Sabourin, Dusty Blair and Rip Riopelle. Sabourin countered again to end the scoring and earn scoring honors for the night.Ottawa: Goal, Frederick; defence, Price, Bolton; forwards, Arundel, Robertson, Gravelie; subs., Johnson, Blair, Riopelle, Giesebrecht, Kuntz, Guidolin, Poland, Sabourin, Hodgson.Valleyfield: Goal, Evans; defence, Ernst, Deslauriers; forwards, Arnett, Needham, Irvine; subs., White, Joanette, Corriveau, Bisaillon, Bougie, Thomson, Haworth, Kline, Leclerc.Referee. Mundey; linesmen, Mildred, Whitehead.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08135/1647909-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="607" height="486"></div><h3>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21</h3>Sherbrooke 7 at Springfield 4SPRINGFIELD &mdash; Springfield Indians found their home arena little support as the rampaging Sherbrooke Saints roared in to plaster them, 7-4.Springfield &mdash; Goal, O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Bloomer, McNab, Telford, Perry; forwards: Locas, Leier, Hastings, Tarala, Schinkel, Gagnon, McLeod, Power, Pogue, McMurdy.Sherbrooke &mdash; Goat: Gatherum; defense; Roberge, Bucyk, Hay, Bownass; McLean, Irving, Ehnan, Podolsky, Bruneteau, Giesebrecht, Malo.Referee: Mullins; linesmen: Moorehouse, Therriault.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09127/1647902-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="607" height="846"></div>Quebec 0 at Ottawa 5OTTAWA &mdash; Ottawa Senators goalie Ray Frederick scored his second shutout of the week as the Ottawa Senators exploded for a 5-0 victory over Quebec Aces.Quebec: Goal, Gelineau; defense: Raglan, Houle, Talbot, Crozier; forwards: Brown, Cabana, Grosse, Powell, Rogan, Harrison, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Wharram.Ottawa &mdash; Goal, Frederick; defense, Price, Bolton, Hudson, Price, Arundel; forwards, Gravelie, Howard, Riopelle, Blair, Johnson, Kuntz, Giesebrecht, Guidolin, Robert, Poland, Hugh Riopelle.Referee: Pean Bennett of Montreal; linesmen, Yvor, Renaud and Gordie Pranske, both of Ottawa.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10113/1647895-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="610" height="207"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1194/1647888-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="616" height="264"></div><h3>SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22</h3>Springfield 4 at Sherbrooke 5SHERBROOKE &mdash; Sherbrooke Saints made it a clean sweep in weekend games by nidging the Springfield Indians, 5-4.Springfield &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Bloomer, McNab, Telford, Perry; forwards: Locas, Leier, Hastings, Tarala, Schinkel, Gagnon, MsLeod, Power, Pogue. McMurdy.Sherbrooke&mdash;Goal, Gatherum; defense: Roberge, Bucyk, Hay Bownass; forwards: Dube, Stankiewicz, Bonin, McLean, Irving, Ehnan, Podolsky, Bruneteau, Giesebrecht, Malo.Referee: Mullins: linesmen: Moorehouse, Therriault.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1272/1647881-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="619" height="330"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03189/1647874-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="616" height="405"></div>Chicoutimi 4 at Quebec 1QUEBEC &mdash; Chicoutimi Saguenays polished off the Quebec Aces to make it a perfectly profitless weekend for the Quebecers, walloping them 4-1.The previous night the Aces, currently leading the league, had bowed to Ottawa Senators, 5-0.Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Roy, Lamirande, McCallum; forwards: Buchanan, Perxeault, Leger, L. Smrke, S. Smrke, Tranche, Dussault, Groleau, Tkachuk, Moore.Quebec &mdash; Goal, Gelineau; defense: Raglan, Crozier, Talbot, Houle; forwards; Nixon, Brown, Cabana, Grosse. Powell, Regan, Harrison, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay.Referee: Sibby Mundey; linesmen: F. Roy, R. Langevin.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04158/1647867-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="608" height="505"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2>INCLUDING GAMES OF SUN. NOV 22<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1362/1647860-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="604" height="861"></div> &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0016-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01307/1647996-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Worry Doesn&rsquo;t Worry HimPUNCH IMLACH</figcaption></div><h2>Quebecers Dislike Wrangling In Hockey</h2>QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;There is little alarm felt here in a visible shrinkage of receipts at the box office for Quebec Aces games in the Quebec Hockey League, and they don&rsquo;t blame it all on Beliveau.George &ldquo;Punch&rdquo; Imlach was quizzed about business in general in his well-fitted offices on the mezzanine floor of the beautiful Coliseum the other day.He admitted that after the first eight home games receipts were off a total of 10,000&mdash;fans, that is, not dollars&mdash;and he blamed it on three factors in this order:1&mdash;The unseasonal weather the public has been enjoying this late autumn; enjoying it so much they stay away from indoor entertainment generally.2&mdash;The wrangle in junior hockey, as the Citadelles and the Frontenacs are at loggerheads over the rights to goaler Jacques Marcotte, a dispute that has reached the law courts. This has a general adverse effect on hockey in Quebec City.3&mdash;The departure of Jean Beliveau to the NHL Canadiens.Imlach briefly dismissed the weather angle, because as he says &ldquo;everyone knows all about it.&rdquo;<h3>No Comment on Marcotte</h3>Diplomatically he refused to comment on the Marcotte case, beyond stating that such a rhubarb destroys public confidence in the game.About Beliveau: &ldquo;Sure we miss the big guy. He&rsquo;s a great hockey player, and there were some who came to see him, and him alone, but we&rsquo;ve got a pretty fair team here, we&rsquo;re In first place and we haven&rsquo;t been beaten on home ice.&rdquo; (Aces won eight, tied one in their first nine games).&ldquo;I feel pretty sure that once the weather cools out the fans will be back, and so long as we keep on winning we&rsquo;ll have such a flock of steady customers, that we&rsquo;ll pick up that slack in attendance.&rdquo;It was significant for the game with Royals, the night of November 18, there was a turnout of 7,821 at the Coliseum. And that same day the Provincial Parliament opened its Fall session, and besides the city was agog with the most spirited mayoralty election in years.Hon. Maurice Duplessis, and the Union Nationale Party, held a big reception and cocktail party at the Chateau Frontenac, and other citizens who were politically minded were either working for their favorite candidate, among four running for mayor, or watching the election returns.The Provincial parliamentarians were also scattered in groups at private shindigs apart from the big clambake held by the Premier and his henchmen.<h3>Detracted From Gate</h3>So all these things detracted from the hockey gate &mdash; still there were close to eight thousand in the rink. It&rsquo;s little wonder that Imlach is optimistic.On the hockey front Gerry Brown has three good lines: Roy Kelly, Ludger Tremblay and Michel Labadfe; Adam Brown, Ray Powell and Larry Regan; Ed Harrison, Irwin Grosse and Gerry Cabanna.<h2>Improvement&rsquo; Seen When Winter Comes</h2>Kenny Wharram, who has shuttled back and forth to Chicago is temporarily hors de combat with bad shoulder and so Danny Nixon who also plays defense has been doing swing duty on the forward line.The Aces have five other defensemen; Rags Raglan, Joe Crozier, Jean Guy Talbot, Butch Houle and Leo Caron. Jack Gelineau has been doing most of the goal-keeping while Jean Marois has made two trips to Providence to fill in for injured Harvey Bennett.After reviewing his team in the above capsule form, Imlach suddenly broke in: &ldquo;Hey !But did you hear about our farm system? You bet, we&rsquo;re in this business, and we have to battle against a club like the Royals who are backed by the great resources Frank Selke has established over the years in Montreal. So now we&rsquo;re in the farm business. And we&rsquo;re branching out.&rdquo;<h2>Mont Joli Hookup</h2>The Mont Joli team of the Lower St. Lawrence Hockey League has been taken under Aces&rsquo; wing with a working agreement. Imlach has fixed things up tightly with the Three Rivers Reds. Junior A, and the Reds have lines out through the entire St. Maurice Valley.Then in Quebec City the Aces have backed a Junior B team and it has its tributaries down through the age brackets &mdash; Juvenile, and Bantam.Punch has appointed scouts in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, has another man working the Lower St. Lawrence Territory, and has bird-dogs in the OHA and in Northern Ontario. He even has a man in Montreal, who must be a highly secret operative.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just starting, and it&rsquo;s going to get a lot bigger,&rdquo; said Imlach. &ldquo;By next year we&rsquo;ll really have something.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02247/1647989-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="640" height="621"><figcaption class="caption-body">He Was MagnetJEAN BEUVEAB</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Aces Aren’t Losing Any Sleep Over Shrinking Gate Receipts

<div class="byline">REX MacLEOD</div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;When the OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs agreed a few weeks back to permit Frank Byrne&rsquo;s Quebec Citadels four branch-to-branch imports instead of the customary two Byrne thought he was making great progress.But before he prostrated himself on his knees in gratitude for this handout he was informed that this meant two imports from the OHA and two from any other branch.Since the Citadels are competing in the OHA (for the first time this year) their import quota is therefore the same as the other clubs. So Byrne is wondering just what benefits, if any, he received.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01273/1648034-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="532" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">Needs HelpPHIL WATSON</figcaption></div>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t understand it that way,&rdquo; he said after a recent game in Toronto. &ldquo;First they told us we could have four branch-to-branch imports. Then they later changed it to include two from Ontario.&rdquo;<h2>No Favors Granted</h2>The Ontario clubs rarely approve legislation that will strengthen one particular team and they aren&rsquo;t hesitant in admitting that they have absolutely no desire to bestow any special dispensation on Citadels.&ldquo;Byrne was told when he came into this league what to expect,&rdquo; one spokesman said. &ldquo;He was told that he would be treated on the same basis as the other clubs. We outlined our proposition and he accepted it. He can&rsquo;t expect any favors now.&rdquo;Byrne hasn&rsquo;t done any complaining so far but that &ldquo;same basis as the other clubs&rdquo; might bring a derisive response from him.Citadels, unlike the other OHA clubs, are paying dearly through both nostrils for the privilege (?) of playing in the Ontario league. They pay each Ontario club $1,000 a trip to Quebec City and also $1,000 per game played. That hardly sounds like reciprocity.<h2>No Pangs of Conscience</h2>But the Ontario clubs suffer no pangs of conscience when confronted with this oblique situation. &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t ask him into our league,&rdquo; they chorus. &ldquo;He needs us more than we need him.&rdquo;Actually the principal opponents of extra help to Citadels are Toronto Marlboros, St. Catharines Teepees and Barrie Flyers. The other clubs have been on the fence most of the time. Kitchener Greenshirts couldn&rsquo;t care less although they usually refrain from voting on issues because they are sponsored by Montreal Canadiens, an organization that doesn&rsquo;t regard Byrne as a benefactor of hockey.Ontario clubs have been allowed four branch-to-branch imports before. When Kitchener came into the league a few years ago they were granted four imports for their freshman year.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03175/1648027-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="544" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body">Plenty of CoKEN McAULEY</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Cits A Little Baffled By OH A ‘Privilege’

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;The $64 question in the Western Canada Junior Hockey League is: Who is going to stop the rampaging Edmonton Oil Kings?At the time of writing, the Oil Kings own a shiny record of 28 straight victories in league play. That includes the nine straight wins with which they began the current season, to add to the 19 straight compiled at the tail-end of last campaign.Coach Ken McAuley, the former New York Ranger netminder who masterminds the Oil Kings, has got his club off to a very fast start this season. They have beaten every club in the circuit at least once in their current streak, and have made mincemeat of the last-place Calgary Buffaloes on three occasions.<h2>Ullman Big Gun</h2>The big gun in the Edmonton attack is centreman Norm Ullman. Last year&rsquo;s scoring champion came up with a tremendous 14-point show in two successive games, made up of seven goals and seven assists. Ullman still has two more years in junior company and is regarded as an excellent pro prospect.Ullman is helped by such other high-flying forwards as Ray Kinasewich, a fourth-year junior; and other holdovers Johnny Bucyk, Jerry Melnyk, Chuck Holmes and Billy McNeil. Bucyk is back on the front line now after subbing in goal for three games while regular backstop Al Jacobson was on the injured list.A good indication of a coming champion is a team&rsquo;s ability to win the close games. McAuley&rsquo;s kids have shown that this year, with an overtime triumph over the Regina Pats and one-goal victories over Medicine Hat Tigers and Lethbridge Native Sons. &#9632;

$64 Query: Who’ll Stop Oil Kings?

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;It may be a different story in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA race this season, when the Moose Ecclestone Trophy is awarded to the player compiling the greatest number of scoring points.For the last three seasons the Stratford Indian front-line of &ldquo;Mickey&rdquo; Roth, Billy Flick and &ldquo;Dinny&rdquo; Flanagan pretty much dominated the picture, with Flick winning the trophy in 1950-51 and Roth taking over possession for the 1951-52 and 1952-53 seasons. Flanagan placed second and third in the three seasons.Results of league fixtures to date indicate that the high scoring Wndsor Bulldogs and Owen Sound Mercurys may have in Fred Hildebrand and Tommy Burlington respectively, two veterans of the ice lanes, the chief contenders for scoring honors.<h2>Potent Puckster</h2>Fred Hildebrand, older brother of Ike Hildebrand of the New York Rangers, who joined Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s Windsor club this season, teams up with Alec Birukow and Gord Haidy to form one of the most potent forward trios in senior hockey.Records up to Nov 12 show that Fred Hildebrand scored ten goals and nine assists in nine games, while Tommy Burlington boosted his record with four goals and two assists in his last game against Hamilton Tigers, to give him a total to 21 scoring points to go two up on Hildebrand.To date Owen Sound and Windsor dominate the scoring, with Hildebrand, Lyle Wiseman and Gord Haidy of the Bulldogs and Burlington and Buck Forslund of the Mercurys among the top ten.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04126/1648120-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="552" height="709"><figcaption class="caption-body">Has ScorersMURPH CHAMBERLAIN</figcaption></div>Only four points separate the first six clubs, with Sarnia Sailors and Niagara Falls Cataracts trailing in seventh and eighth places. So far Sarnia has won but two games while deadlocking a pair, and Niagara Falls has only two points on an early-season victory over Windsor.Hamilton Tigers forged to the top of the heap during the first three weeks of the campaign by chalking up five straight wins, all on home ice, but since taking to the road they have fallen on evils ways, dropping their sixth straight game.<h2>And That&rsquo;s Trouble</h2>Niagara Falls&rsquo; trouble, according to a club official, is that &ldquo;they can&rsquo;t score goals,&rdquo; which seems to be borne out by the fact that in losing their seventh straight to Stratford Indians they had scored but three goals In ten periods of Play.At time of writing Owen Sound leads the pack with 14 points; Stratford is second with 13, Windsor third with 12, Chatham fourth with 11 and Kitchener Dutchmen and Hamilton sharing fifth with ten each.Right now the race for the six playoff berths seems to rest between these clubs, although Stratford and Chatham have played 12 games apiece, while Owen Sound and Windsor have played but nine and Kitchener six.Whether Owen Sound will continue to set the pace may depend largely on what can aptly be termed a &ldquo;suicide schedule&rdquo; for the Mercurys, as they have elected to play home games for Chatham, Sarnia and Windsor on successive days, four times during the season.Unlike the other seven clubs in the group, Owen Sound Mercurys operate on a share-the-wealth plan, as they have done for the past three seasons. The players receive but a nominal fee per game, just barely sufficient to cover travelling expenses, but at the termination of the season they split the accumulated fund from their share of the home gate receipts. Last season each player received approximately $1,500, and since there are more home games this season it is only logical to assume that the split will be greater, since sellout crowds attend all games in Owen Sound.Playing in Chatham, Friday night; Sarnia, Saturday night, and Windsor, Sunday afternoon, four times during the season could mean much to Owen Sound, especially for the veteran players on the roster. The human body can stand just so much, and since the bulk of the players in the league also work regularly at their daytime jobs it may simmer down to the younger players with the better legs as to which team will eventually carry off the OHA marbles.<h2>Plenty of Reserve</h2>Most teams are well fortified with reserve, especially Kitchener and Owen Sound, and the consensus of fan opinion is that the Dutchmen may repeat as OHA and Allan Cup champions. They have bolstered their squad, dropping but one game in six starts, and still have three or four players from last season&rsquo;s team still living in Kitchener who have not donned uniforms as yet.Owen Sound has lost but two decisions, and they were earlier in the season to Stratford Indians and Hamilton Tigers, while Windsor Bulldogs have lost three, and enjoy a perfect record on home ice, where they are almost unbeatable.By the time Christmas rolls around fans should have a clearer picture, because player changes and additions may be made up Dec. 15. Certainly, Niagara Falls, Sarnia and Stratford are on the prowl for reinforcements, and hope to land them before the regulation deadline. &#9632;

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Trophy Race Warms Up; Hildebrand Sets Pace

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;For the third time within the past three weeks, a new leader took over in the jumbled International Hockey League race, as Cincinnati, unbeaten in its last seven games, moved into undisputed possession of first place.Two weeks ago, it was Troy that headed the pack and only last week Toledo was in the driver&rsquo;s seat.As matters now stand, Troy is third and Toledo is tied with Ft. Wayne for fourth, with a surprising Johnstown team holding down second place.The IHL race, instead of becoming more clearly defined, is developing into even more of a dogfight, with only nine points separating the front-running Mohawks from cellar-dwelling Louisville and Milwaukee. Grand Rapids is sixth and Marion seventh.Marion and Cincinnati both were undefeated during the week, as the nine-team conference played a 14-game slate. The Barons triumphed in their only two starts, while the Hawks won two and tied one game.Grand Rapids, challenging for a berth among the top four, captured three out of four while Johnstown took two out of three. The other clubs were less fortunate, as Ft. Wayne registered a victory, a loss and a tie; Milwaukee and Louisville both dropped two out of three. Troy won but one out of four tilts and Toledo, in a complete reversal of form, sustained three successive setbacks.By virtue of its recent streak, Cincinnati took over IHL team leadership both on offense and defense. The fast-moving Mohawks pace the league with 77 goals, seven more than Johnstown has registered.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01281/1648151-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="583" height="1257"><figcaption class="caption-body">Back in FormCHARLIE HODGE</figcaption></div><h2>No Ill Effects,</h2>Goalie Charlie Hodge, showing no ill-effects of a facial injury sustained Oct. 31, when he was cut about the mouth by a skate, has sparked Cincinnati&rsquo;s drive. Hodge has permitted only 10 pucks to get past him during a seven-game stretch that has seen his team win six games and tie one since Oct. 27,The little Hawk net-minder, a two-time all-star in the Quebec Junior League before joining his present team, has supplanted Bill Tibbs of Toledo as the IHL&rsquo;s No 1 goal-tender. He has given up but 28 goals in 13 games for a fine 2.15 average, as compared to a 2.71 mark for Tibbs.Johnstown&rsquo;s Don Hall remained in front of the field in the individual scoring race, with 26 points to his credit on 11 goals and 15 assists. Two other Jet players, Fraser Kilpatrick and Arnie Schmautz, also are up in the running.Three of the top four clubs in the loop went down to defeat in the same day, as Marion upset Johnstown, 4-3; Grand Rapids bounced Troy, 3-1, and Toledo fell before Louisville, 5-3. Troy and Toledo had rough week-ends, as both outfits were beaten twice within a 2 4-hour period. &#9632;

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Mohawks Hit Stride; Hodge Fully Recovered

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;Sydney Millionaires, currently sharing first place with&rsquo; Halifax Atlantics in the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League standings, have shown consistently good form.While Atlantics, and even the slow-starting Glace Bay Miners, go off on streaks, the Mills plug along steadily. Both, Miners and Atlantics won five in a row at one time. In between have been periods when they failed to click.Worst record the Mills have shown is a two-game setback, which could hardly be called a losing streak. Those two losses on successive nights were to Halifax Atlantics, and both by one-goal margins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02200/1648182-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="529" height="1272"><figcaption class="caption-body">MarksmanPAUL SAINDON</figcaption></div>Don Penniston&rsquo;s Miners, after a woeful start, put together five wins in a row to catch and then pass Charlottetown Islanders in the race for third place While Sydney and Halifax were battling tooth and nail for the top spot, the Miners and Islanders were fighting for third.A quirk in the schedule sent Halifax and Sydney, and Charlottetown and Glace Bay off on four-night sessions. Halifax and Sydney split even, the former winning the third and fourth and Sydney the first&rsquo;two. On the other hand Miners won three of their four with Islanders.Glace Bay executives were quick to deny stories that Don Penniston&rsquo;s position in the big town was rocky. Even when the team couldn&rsquo;t win for losing Penniston had the full support of the club. Now the Bayers are riding high and Penniston, who has been around hockey a long time and knows the ups and downs better than most, is satisfied the players he personally selected early will stand up well over the long grind.The way Penniston has the Miners going now it could he a three instead of a two-way race for league honors. And if Islanders continue to bring in players it could be a tight race all the way.Gone are the free-spending days in Charlottetown; the days when Murph Chamberlain and Leo Lamoureux spent money like water to get the players they needed. Nowadays native coach Bucko Trainor works on a budget, but the word is out it won&rsquo;t be as rigid from now on.The Islanders have the nucleus of a good team. Players like perennial scoring champion Buck Whitlock, Paul Saindon, Bob Gray, Bucko Trainor himself, Gus Gustaveson and Peanuts McLaughlin could catch a regular berth on any league team.The Islanders have been weak in reserve strength, however, and the exacting schedule which sends each team to the post four times every week makes strength in depth a grave necessity.Halifax Atlantics, who lost busting Bingo Ernst to Valleyfield. Braves, are awaiting a centre and. a winger. The Atlantics, giving away player personnel but nothing in speed and spirit, have been, doing very well Indeed while under-manned. &#9632;

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Mills Just Plug Along ButSteadiness Pays Off

MILWAUKEE, Wis.&mdash;The fighter and the speedster, Nick Hill and Dave Whalen, are two of the mainstays of a Milwaukee Chief hockey club that Coach Lou Trudell hopes soon will vacate the lower reaches of the International Hockey League.Hill, a stocky five foot, nine inch roughneck who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, has seen only limited action in the first few Milwaukee games after suffering three injuries early in the season.He first sustained a broken cheek bone, and then followed that up by having his nose broken and forehead gashed for six stiches.The 178 - pound Hill finally got into action against Louisville in early November and promptly picked up no fewer than six penalties good for 28 minutes, in the contest, besides finding time to score one goal and assist on another.By making six trips to the penalty box, with two 10-minute misconducts and four minors, Hill equalled the IHL and national record for most penalties in a single tilt.Trudell looks for him to be a key man as Milwaukee seeks to move up in the IHL standings. The much-penalized Hill serves as recreation director in his home town during the summer. &#9632;

Two Extremes Going Strong

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(as of Monday A.M., Nov. 16)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02211/1648324-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="613" height="300"></div><h2>WEEK&rsquo;S RESULTS</h2><h3>Tuesday Nov. 10</h3>Cincinnati 2, Ft. Wayne 2 (overtime) Grand Rapids 13, Milwaukee 2<h3>Wednesday, Nov. 11</h3>Johnstown 3, Louisville 1 (overtime)Cincinnati 5. Toledo 3Milwaukee 3. Troy 2<h3>Thursday Nov. 12</h3>Troy 5, Ft. Wayne 4 (overtime)Johnstown 8, Grand Rapids 3<h3>Saturday Nov. 14</h3>Grand Rapids 6, Toledo 3Ft. Wayne 4, Louisville 3Cincinnati 5. Troy 1Marlon 6. Milwaukee 3<h3>Sunday Nov. 15</h3>Grand Rapids 3. Troy 1Louisville 5. Toledo 3Marion 4, Johnston 3<h2>OKANAGAN SENIOR</h2>Standins as of Saturday A.M. Nov. 14<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03166/1648317-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="607" height="180"></div><h3>TOP SCORERS</h3>Includes November 6th<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04144/1648310-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="610" height="330"></div><h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR</h2>Standing as of Saturday Nov. 14<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05124/1648303-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="610" height="150"></div><h2>INDIVIDUAL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06105/1648296-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="614" height="303"></div><h2>GOALTENDERS</h2>Dawson, St. Boniface, 40 goals in 10 games. Michaluk, Borons and Adams, Brandon. 46 in 10. Smith. Monarchs, 52 in 8%. Hskins, Monarchs, 9 in 1&frac12;<h2>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</h2>Schaeffer. Barons. 49. x (xx). McCarthy, Brandon 49. Jason, St. Bon., 41. x (xx). Boivin, Barons, 36. x (xx). Garry Starr 33 Monarchs, x (xx). Murray, Monarchs, 33. Art Stratton, Barons. 28. x (xx). Hubchick, Brandon. 28. x. Farghey, Barons. 27 x.X Misconduct.XX Match misconduct.<h2>NOHA</h2>Standing as of Monday A.M. Nov. 16<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0799/1648289-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="614" height="175"></div><h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0892/1648282-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="616" height="351"></div><h2>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0982/1648275-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="624" height="235"></div><h2>PENALTY LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1072/1648268-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="614" height="139"></div> &#9632;

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