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December 12, 1953

The Hockey News December 12, 1953

<h2><b>Versatile</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>J</span>oe Levandski the quiet and very efficient defense Mar of the Providence Reds in the American Hockey League does not confine hie professional oports activities to hockey alone. Joe played the outfield for Ottawa In the Border League hist seaeon.</p><h2><b>Not Many Left</b></h2><p>The Buffalo Bisonse which have risen to the top of the American Hockey League this season, from their cellar position of last year, have only four players remaining from the tailender. Two of these are Jacques Plante and Gordie Pennell who only played half a season last year.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M. DEC. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01336/1587163-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="611" height="193"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1</b></h3><p><b>Providence 2 at Cleveland 3</b></p><p>CDEVELAND &mdash; A goal by Jack Stoddard after seven minutes and 50 seconds of overtime play, broke up a 2-2 stalemate in favor of the Cleveland Barons as they defeated the Providence Reds 3-2.</p><p>The following day the AHL received a formal request from &lsquo;Providence protesting the game. No reason was given why they were protesting.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02295/1587156-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="610" height="524"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2</b></h3><p><b>Pittsburgh 2 at Hershey 4</b></p><p>HERSHEY &mdash; The Hershey Bears ocored a pair of goals in the second period and added another in the third after both clubs had scored singles in the first to defeat the Pittsburgh Hornets. 4-2.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03234/1587149-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="610" height="542"></div><p><b>Buffalo 2 at Providence 2</b></p><p>PROVIDENCE &mdash; The Providence Reds and the Buffalo Bisons played to a 2-2 overtime tie with Eddie Slowinski and Ed Pennell scoring for the Bisons and Pete Kapusta and Pat Eagan tallying for the Reds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04186/1587142-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="607" height="488"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5</b></h3><p><b>Buffalo 6 at Providence 2</b></p><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Buffalo&rsquo;s Starting line of Steve Wochy, Gordon Pennell and Pete Babando was highly effective as the Bisons defeated Providence Reds 6-2.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05153/1587135-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="536" height="875"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Tied For&hellip;</b></p><p><b>RED HENRY</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Wochy scored twice, Pennell once and Babando collected three assists. The other Buffalo goals were Provided by Ed Slowinaki, Pete Wright and Joe Lund. Zeilio Toppazzini and Pete Kapusta scored for the Reds.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06139/1587128-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="615" height="779"></div><p><b>Hershey 2 at Cleveland 5</b></p><p>CLEVELAND&mdash;Cleveland Barons continued their Mastery over Hershey Bears, defeating them 5-2 for their fourth victory in five American Hockey League clashes this season. The winners moved within two points of the second place bears</p><p>Two goals apiece by Glen Sonmor and Fred Glover paced the winners. Jack Stoddard got the fifth Cleveland tally while Lome Ferguson and Obie O&rsquo;Brien were the Hershey Marksmen.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07123/1587121-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="608" height="392"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08118/1587114-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="610" height="308"></div><h3><b>Syracuse 2 at Pittsburgh 5</b></h3><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; Pittsburgh Hornets hammered honce four third-period goals, two of them by Jackie Leclalr, to defeat Syracuse Warriors 5-2.</p><p>Syracuse goalie Gordie Bell suffered a severe cut over the right eye in the first period as Pittsburgh&rsquo;s Bob Bailey crashed into him while trying to score. After six stitches were taken, bell returned to action.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09111/1587107-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="605" height="737"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6</b></h3><p><b>Syracuse 5 at Providence 6</b></p><p>PROVIDENCE&mdash;Pete Kapusta&rsquo;s goal 63 seconds before the finish gave Providence Reds a 6-5 victory over Syracuse Warriors.</p><p>Trailing 5-3 after two periods, the Reds struck for three goals in the finale with Kapusta and his linemates, Chuck Seherza and Al Baccari, collaborating for all three tallies.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1095/1587100-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="609" height="1055"></div><p><b>Buffalo 5 at Hershey 4</b></p><p>HERSHEY&mdash;A pair of goals by centre sensation Donnie Marshall la the final period the Buffalo Bisons a 5 to 4 wins our the Hershey Bears.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1176/1587093-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="534" height="845"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&hellip;Most Zeros</b></p><p><b>GIL MAYER</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1267/1587086-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="606" height="967"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. DEC. 6)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1347/1587079-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="604" height="641"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals</b> &mdash;Harry Pldhirny, Syr. 18</p><p><b>Most Assists</b> &mdash;Geo. Sullivan, Hers. 29</p><p><b>Most Penalties</b> &mdash;Larry Cahan, Pitts. 66 minutes</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b> &mdash;Jacques Plante, Buff. 25-67-1-2.68.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts</b> &mdash;Plante, Henry, Mayer, Bennett &mdash;1 each.</p><p><b>Most Team Pen.</b> &mdash;Hershey 255 mins<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT ST. MARIE. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The controversial Marcel Clements case took another turn with the ruling by the OHA they would not interfere with the NOHA edict declaring him the property of Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario) Greyhounds. Maxie Silverman, colorful Boss-man of Sudbury Wolves, had appealed to the OHA. In effect, the OHA told the NOHA; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s your Baby!&rdquo; &hellip; Since the Greyhounds could not qualify Clements because they already had four branch-to-branch transfers (the limit) the Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan) Indians nabbed him &hellip; You better not tell Miller Murdoch, Sudbury&rsquo;s most ardent Wolves&rsquo; fan, that hockey is a sissy sport. He ended up in hospital &lsquo;n Pembroke with a fractured hand trying to ward off blows from an irate fan. To this day, no one appears to know why the fan picked on poor Miller; he&rsquo;s severely crippled by arthritis but has never missed any home or road games of his beloved Sudbury Wolves &hellip; Who has the best vocal chords in Northern Ontario hockey? That&rsquo;s easy &mdash; diminutive Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty, colorful coach of the rampaging Soo Greyhounds. When Johnny goes to town, he can be heard all through the Northern circuit so the rest of the teams know exactly what&rsquo;s going on without having to telephone long distance or use the telegraph office. &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo;, I think, suffers more during a game than any coach we&rsquo;ve ever seen in action. He certainly is out for the NOHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; crown this season &hellip; Is Ronnie Rowe, former New York Ranger, turning into a ghost who will haunt the devil out of the Soo Indians ? Released by the Tribe, Rowe wae snubbed by the Soo Greyhounds. Ronnie caught on with North Bay Trappers and promptly hit the headlines. All he did was explode two hat-tricks in a row and in three games piled tip a total of seven goals and two assists. Coach Leo Lamoureux is now counting heavily on Ronnie to help the Gateway City come through to end the North Bay &ldquo;title-Famine.&rdquo; &hellip; Hold on there Ab DeMarco! What&rsquo;s the rush? If our Ole friend, Ab DeMarco, doesn&rsquo;t stop he will crack that record of Sudbury&rsquo;s Gordie Heale of 48 assists in one season in NOHA senior hockey. As we write this NOHA Puck Parade, Ab has the grand total of 43 points composed of 31 assists and 12 goals in only 19 games. Nothing short of a couple of broken legs will prevent Ab from establishing a brand-new scoring record as far as assists go. And he sits on top of the Big Ten throne with a comfortable margin of 23 points. And take that top line of DeMarco, Don Hogan and George Gosselin: in 19 games the unit has accounted for no less than 93 points &hellip; This could be the North&rsquo;s &ldquo;Big Year&rdquo;. The calibre of senior hockey being displayed has the rabid fans taking the attitude that the NOHA champion will race on to Allan Cup glory. Kirkland Lake Blue Devils were the last NOHA team to grab national honors back In 1940. Port Arthur Bearcats won it in 1939 &hellip; Bobby Mitchell one of the smartest netminders ever seen in the North, is expected back in action as a North Bay Trapper. He received his release from Soo Indians. He will alternate with the Soo&rsquo;s Boofy Casola, who has been doing some stellar work for the Trappers &hellip; Some mighty fine hockey is being played in the Gold Belt Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League. New Liskeard Cubs are away to a flying start by winning their first four games and scoring no less than 36 goals for a tremendous nine-goal average. Young Pork Watters, rated one of the finest prospects to develop in the North for some time, established himself as the scoring leader in the first four games on five goals and eight assists, but his linemate, Ronnie Blais is right behind on ten points with six goals and four assists. Bobby Lamarche of South Porcupine Gold Diggers is also showing considerable style with three goals and six assists in only two games. Kirkland Lake and Porcupine round out the four-team junior circuit. Dick White and Abbie Naccaratto have assembled a powerful juvenile &ldquo;A&rdquo; team in Soo, Ontario. Called Soo Falls Dorans, the Soo team apparently is making a determined bid to regain the NOHA crown the city lost last season to the fast-moving Timmins team.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03171/1586795-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="271" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Leo jamoreux</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Chicago General Manager Bill Tobin, disgusted with the results of numerous efforts to get reinforcements for the sagging Black Hawks, has blasted the tactics of other pro clubs as unfair. &ldquo;I have traveled thousands of miles and spent hundreds of dollars in phone calls without being able to make a single deal,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve gone to them all. Jimmy Norris told me, &ldquo;You know what my bankroll is&mdash;go get a hockey team and that&rsquo;s exactly what I have tried to do, but no one seems interested in what we have to offer. I hate to cry, however I feel that if a guy&rsquo;s good enough to play in the National League he should.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-046/1587650-1-eng-US/f0001-042.jpg" title="f0001-04" width="262" height="399"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Tobin</b></figcaption></div><p>Without revealing names he commented, &ldquo;I know of at least four players in the minors that could help us quite a bit even if they just got a goal or two per game combined. They all belong to other NHL squads and two of them, I&rsquo;m pretty sure, will never be called up.&rdquo;</p><p>In regard to a player he&rsquo;d expected to secure a month ago Tobin disclosed, &ldquo;It was all set, we shook hands on it and I was assured we would have him within three days. Later, I was notified that the president of the club had nixed the deal. Personally, I think it was the coach.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;And how do the other major league teams feel about the Chicago situation ?&rdquo; he was asked. He said he thought they were naturally concerned, but not too greatly. He likened their feelings to those expressed in baseball over the failings of the late St. Louis Browns in the American League.</p><p>The foreman of the Black Hawk front office announced that it&rsquo;s definitely hoped that next season a farm club will be activated at Indianapolis, which previously had an entry sponsored by the Detroit Red Wings. &ldquo;When you own and operate such an affiliate you can do what you want with it,&rdquo; Tobin pointed out.</p><p>&ldquo;Then, we could send players down there and bring them back whenever the need arose,&rdquo; he added. The Hoosier capital is only a few hours driving time front Chicago. The Hawks have already moved two of this year&rsquo;s regular home games down there in an effort to revive interest in the ice sport.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Chicago GM Says Other NHL Clubs Shun Trade Talk

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0689/1586145-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="598" height="269"></div><p><b>DECEMBER 16 to DECEMB. 22</b></p><p>17&mdash;TKACHUK, Pete, Chicoutimi forward, 1928.</p><p>19&mdash;HARVEY, Doug, Montreal defense, 1924; PODOLSKY, Nels, Sherbrooke forward, 1925.</p><p>22&mdash;ATANAS, Walter, Syracuse forward, 1922; MILLIGAN, George, Syracuse defense, 1925.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to YOU

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0163/1587619-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Arbour Picks Wrong Harbour</b></p><p><b>Sometimes a camera</b> can play deceiving tricks as the one pictured above. At a quick glance it would appear as if Al Arbour (left) a Detroit rookie, was suffering a mental lapse and shooting at his own goalie, Terry Sawchuk. Actually, the Detroit defenseman is going all out to stop Boston&rsquo;s Cal Gardner from getting a shot away. Proof that Arbour is giving it the old college try is attested to by the pressure he is applying to his stick. (Note the curved weapon reaching out for Gardner.)</p></figcaption></div><h2><b><i>Boom Boom Bags Five &ldquo;Winners&rdquo;</i></b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0255/1587612-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="538" height="549"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>They&rsquo;re Potting&hellip;</b></p><p><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></p></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL. Oue.&mdash;</p><p>A combination of a spinach diet and a fierce desire to score goals, is paying off for Canadiens.</p><p>And the man who is accomplishing both is Bernard (Boom Boom) Geoffrion, currently the top scorer in the National Hockey League.</p><p>The Boomer, as he&rsquo;s better known in Quebec is not only the league&rsquo;s top scorer, but he has scored, more winning goals than any other player in the league.</p><p>To date, the square-jawed young French-Canadian has clicked for five winners for the Habs, personally accounting tor 10 points of the 36 point with which they lead the NHL.</p><p>Gordie Howe, Detroit&rsquo;s big point producer and great all-around player has clicked for four winners to rank second to Geoffrion. Rocket Richard, Calum MacKay and Rudy Mlgay are next in line with three winners.</p><p>Wally Hergesheimer, the Rangers&rsquo; slightly-built winger has the distinction of producing more tying goals than any other player in the league. Wally The Wisp has notched a pair of tying markers as well as a pair of winners for the Rangers.</p><p>Canadiens&rsquo; Tom Johnson and Toronto&rsquo;s Tim Horton are the best game-busting defensemen in the league. They have each scored two winning goals so far this year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0333/1587605-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="538" height="543"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b><i>&hellip; the Winners</i></b></p><p><b>GORDIE HOWE</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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“Nobody Wants Our Money” -- Tobin

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Here show Wings Fattened Up

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-06" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0693/1585677-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?</b></p><p><b>Jack Gelineau &hellip; &hellip; Center of Windy City Tempest</b></p></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>When Detroit trampled Chicago, 9-0 and 9-4, in a recent pair of weekend games, officials credited Red Wing skaters with 44 scoring points. No less than 14 members of the Motor City crew figured in plays that beat hapless Jack Gelineau who was filling in for chickenpoxed Hawk netminder Al Rollins.</p><p>Pacing the Detroit spree was - offensive minded rearguard Red Kelly. He collected the amazing total of eight points off three goals and five assists. Johnny Wilson followed Red with five points and then came Gordie Howe, Dutch Reibel and Alex Delvecchio, each with four points.</p><p>Several other Wings at least doubled their previous scoring efforts in 20 games. Metro Prystai added two goals and an assist to his previous record of just two goals and Glen Skov&rsquo;s trio of assists came after he had previously counted just a single goal. <b>BOOTH</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Red Kelly Did The Most Damage

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN </div><div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>A lopsided schedule kept the Red Wings an unreasonable distance away from the finest source of &ldquo;revenue&rdquo; in the National League for six full weeks: The Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>Four other teams were getting fat at Chicago&rsquo;s expense before the wings got their chance to dip into the gravy.</p><p>But a double helping was served up over one week-end and how those Detroiters did feast. In those two games they made 18 goals and a total of 44 points.</p><p>True, this was a Chicago club which was weaker even than usual. Al Rollins had been benched with the chicken pox and Jean Marois, the first sub tried, had been discarded after allowing 11 goals in two games. In came Jack Gelineau, the one-time Boston Bruin toiling this season for the Quebec Aces, and as he stood in front of the Chicago goal he must have been mighty unhappy about ever returning to the National Hockey League again.</p><p>The Wings riddled him, 9 to 0, on the local rink, then gave him another nine-goal treatment the next night in Chicago just to show it was no fluke. That game ended 9 to 4.</p><p>The two victories carried a bonus, for the Wings used them to ride back into first place. They closed a three-point gap and took a one-point lead since Montreal was losing a pair the same nights. It marked the third time this season Detroit&rsquo;s five time NHL champs have been in front.</p><p>But the psychological benefits reaped may even have been more profitable. All 11 forwards got into the scoring the first night and 10 of them shared in the second spree. For several of them it ended strings of games without goals or assists.</p><p>Throughout it was a defenseman, however, who set the pace. Red Kelly had a hand in eight of the 18 goals, scoring three and assisting on five others. Red could use the points, too, for those were his first in five games.</p><p>Marty Pavelich notched a couple of goals, his first in 15 games. Metro Prystai and Vic Statiuk also scored in each game, their first goals in six games.</p><p>Tony Leswick and Al Arbour picked up an assist apiece in the first rout, making the initial point for both of them all season. Glen Skov&rsquo;s assists were his first points in six games.</p><p>Dutch Reibel had been limping in and out of the lineup for a couple of weeks after being the NHL scoring leader earlier in the season. His leg infection still wasn&rsquo;t completely healed, but he showed signs of his old flash by making two goals and two assists, his first points in seven games.</p><p>Other goal-getters, however, kept recent surges moving along. Gordie Howe tallied his eighth, ninth and 10 goals of the season at Gelineau&rsquo;s expense and a lone assist built his point total to 29, keeping&rsquo;him No. 1 in league scoring.</p><p>Johnny Wilson cashed his sixth goal in six games, and Bill Dineen got his fourth in five games.</p><p>Not a player came back from Chicago with a &ldquo;I-wonder-what&rsquo;s wrong-with-me&rdquo; attitude about his scoring, and Coach Tommy Ivan figured it was just about the healthiest mental attitude he&rsquo;d seen in his boys all season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01263/1585615-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="304" height="403"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02247/1585608-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="257" height="411"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Johnny Wilson</b></figcaption></div><p>ICE CHIPS: Howe&rsquo;s spree boosted him into second place among Detroit&rsquo;s all-time scorers. He now has 467 points and trails only linemate Ted Lindsay, who has 490. In first place with 463 points when this season started was Sid Abel. Kelly also pulled into 10th place, joining Lindsay and&rsquo; Howe as the only active players among the top 10. Kelly has 242 points.</p><p>Barring injuries, Lindsay will play his 577 th game in a Detroit uniform on Dec. 17 and that will give him top seniority in the club records. Abel played in 576 Detroit games, one more than Ebbie Goodfellow.</p><p>The Chicago game here saw a humerous note when a fan tossed an extra puck into the ice in the midst of a Detroit power play. It broke up a potential goal, could have been costly under other circumstances.</p><p>Howe, as expected, got the extra puck but stopped before shooting. It did bring up the old claim again, however, that they should use two pucks in some of the Detroit games&mdash;one for Howe and one for the rest of the boys.</p><p>Overshadowed by the twin routs of the Hawks in the week&rsquo;s activities saw Toronto&rsquo;s third straight&rsquo; shutout on local ice. The Leafs have bowed by 4-0, 2-0 and 2-0 scores on their worked the first and third shutout, with Davey Gatherum handling the middle one.</p><p>Sawchuk went on to blank Chicago in his next game and had a string of 190:59 of shutout play&mdash;more than nine, full periods&mdash;before he finally was nicked by George Gee in Chicago.</p><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>A banner hanging from the gallery of the Chicago Stadium recently described the only hope for any success by the current edition of the Black Hawks in just three words. Swaying dejectedly through a span of four games that saw substitute goalies riddled with 29 pucks, it read, &ldquo;Hurry back Rollins.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04174/1585601-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="287" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Rollins</b></figcaption></div><p>It was during this disasterous quartet of contests that the true value of Al Rollins and his net-minding ability was brought bluntly to the forefront. His work was as steadfast as perfection when compared to the ineffective efforts of John Marois and Jack Gelineau, his temporary replacements.</p><p>Confined to his apartment on the north side of the Windy City with chickenpox spots from head to toe, Al could do nothing except endure the news of the routs against his mates. His work had often drawn considerable applause, but it was evident that he&rsquo;d deserved even greater praise.</p><p>Marois and Gelineau were secured through a working pact with the Quebec Aces of the Quebec league, who this season have the use of Chicago rearguard Rags Raglan. The former, heir to a shoe-making fortune, did what appeared to be his best while allowing 11 goals in games against Toronto and the Canadiens.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05134/1585594-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="289" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Sid Abel</b></figcaption></div><p>Gelineau, however, appeared, nothing like the creditable gent with the same name who patrolled the cage with Boston for two years, winning the Calder trophy as the National League&rsquo;s best newcomer in 1949-50. He did little more than watch as Detroit scored 18 times in a two-games weekend series.</p><p>&ldquo; We figured that his big league experience would help, but he was very disappointing,&rdquo; admitted Bill Tobin, Hawk general manager. &ldquo;He acted like he just didn&rsquo;t give a darn.&rdquo; And this display came with reports that Gelineau was eager to show that he rated another chance in the NHL.</p><p>Actually, tall Jack may have been thinking more of how to get even with his teamates for two games than anything else. Records show that Chicago snipers were his greatest tormentors while he guarded the twine for the Bruins. They seemed to forget they were cellar dwellers when Gelineau poped up in their sights.</p><p>In his 141 games as a Bruin, he allowed 429 goals for an average of just over three per test, but his showing against the Hawks was somewhat less admirable. They beat him 112 times, more than any other club, in 28 games and his average in this phase was a rather unimpressive four goals a game.</p><p>While Sid Abel&rsquo;s lads had to endure the laxities in goal, they didn&rsquo;t forget to take their turns at scoring attempts. Half the time their work turned out pretfy well &mdash; better, in fact, than at many times previously this season and veterans emerged as the rather surprising sparkplugs.</p><p>A unit with Billy Mosienko and George Gee flanking Gus Bodnar accounted for 13 scoring pointe and figured in six of the eight Chicago scoring plays in the four Rollin-less games. Gee, slow to get started this fall, hit for three goals while Bodnar got one and four assists and Mosienko five aiding efforts.</p><p>&ldquo; We played together at camp and did okay, but we then had to be split up when I was out those couple of times with injuries,&rdquo; Bodnar disclosed. &ldquo;Now, that we are going well again, I sure hope Sid lets us stick on the same line and that injuries don&rsquo;t foul things up again.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wings Got Most From Chicago Roast When Rollins Floored by Chickenpox

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>QUEBEC, Que.&mdash;</p><p>They&rsquo;d rather write off I&rsquo;affaire Gelineau and his unpleasant experience with the Chicago Black Hawks last weekend as unfortunate business, or something of the kind down here.</p><p>Jack Gelineau, former goaler for McGill University and Boston Bruins of the NHL, took the cage for the lowly Black Hawks in two games for two nightmares against Detroit Red Wings. The Wings sharpshooters waxed fat with 18 goals, nine in each of two games.</p><p>Furthermore, the Chicago club&rsquo;s hospitality to Gelineau was very haphazard, and Gelineau told Chicago writers so. In fact was quoted widely by the press services to this effect.</p><p>General manager Punch Imlach of the Aces, said it was quite true that Howks hadn&rsquo;t rolled out a red carpet when Gelineau arrived in Detroit last Saturday after his long trip from Quebec. That wasn&rsquo;t taken as a snub, but what did I rankle Gelineau was that upon his arrival in Chicago the next night, following a nine-goal battering by the Detroit canoneers, he was told to go to the Hotel LaSalle. No room reservation had been made for him and he was forced to cool his heels in the lobby for more than a hour before he was billeted.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to be the one to say that the entire Chicago team was standing around while nine goals were scored on Gelineau,&rdquo; said Imlach. &ldquo;But I&rsquo;ll still say that he&rsquo;s by far the best goaler in the Quebec Hockey League when he&rsquo;s right. And he wasn&rsquo;t right when we sent him to Chicago. I told Bill Tobin that on the phone.&rdquo;</p><p>Gelineau had played the last two games for Aces before going to join the Hawks, because Jean Marois, the other Quebec goaler, was in Providence subbing for Harvey Bennett of the Reds. And Gelineau had the tendons above his right hip bruised in such fashion that he lacked spring in his legs to respond to all the emergencies of his trade. Thus he was not at his physical best for his major league assignments.&rdquo;</p><p>What was regrettable about the interview by Gelineau to a Chicago scribe was in Imlach&rsquo;s own words &ldquo;the implication that there was any threat held over our heads that Kenny Wharram and Rags Raglan, two Black Hawk-owned players assigned to Aces, might be recalled if the Quebec club didn&rsquo;t oblige with the loan of a goaler when Al Rolling was in sick bay.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I think I may have mentioned to Gelineau that we were anxious to maintain cordial relations owith Bill Tobin, which is natural enough,&rdquo; said Imlach. &ldquo;After all, Raglan is a fine defense player in our league and Wharram is one of the most promising young forwards.&rdquo;</p><p>Gelineau returned to Quebeo and was ordered by the club&rsquo;s physician to rest and take treatment for his ailing hip and side for a few days. Very likely he&rsquo;ll require a little nerve tonic too to recover from, the two shellackings in Detroit and Chicago.</p><p>But Gelineau, a forthright person, doesn&rsquo;t retract anything he may have said to the Chicago writer. He is not trying to hide behind the old cliche that he was misquoted. Even though Imlach, his boss, thinks it&rsquo;s better to forget the whole thing.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Imlach Says He Told Tobin Gelineau Was Hurt

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>A sizeable number of hockey players carry souvenirs of collilons with Rockabye Ray Gariepy, rookie defenseman of the Boston Bruins.</p><p>One of the first to acquire more than a memory was a candidate (name unknown) for the St. Louis Flyers, who emerged from an exhibition game of the late &lsquo;40s with a fractured cheekbone.</p><p>Larry Wilson of the Chicago Black Hawks sustained a fractured collarbone as an Indianapolis Cap In a crash with Gariepy three years ago, and in the same game he outfitted Bill Folk, Indianapolis defenseman, with a dislocated shoulder.</p><p>A year later Rockabye Ray scored a direct hit on Jack McIntyre of the Bruins in an exhibition game at Hershey and broke McIntyre&rsquo;s collarbone.</p><p>Long-time followers of the Bruins go back to the days of the late Babe Seibert and Fred Hitchman to find a body-checking Boston precedent for the present occupant of a Bruins&rsquo; defense position.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

He Rocks ‘Em

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02219/1585787-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p><b>GARIEPY. RAYMOND</b></p><p>Born, Toronto, Ont., September 4, 1928. Defense. Shoots left. 5&rsquo;8&frac12;&rdquo;, 180 lbs. Last amateur club : Barrie Flyers (Jr.).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Ray’s Record

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>National Leaguers were given a good Idea of what to expect from Ray Gariepy before the stocky defenseman played his first game for the Boston Bruins this season.</p><p>The Informant was King Clancy, coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs and former coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American league.</p><p>&ldquo;Gariepy is one of the hardest body checkers I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; declared Clancy when told of Rockabye Ray&rsquo;s promotion from the Hershey Bears in early October. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen a harder one in all my years of hockey.</p><p>&ldquo;I rated him the best defensive defenseman on the Hershey team a year ago,&rdquo; added Clancy, &ldquo;and he certainly deserves the chance he&rsquo;s getting with the Bruins.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

King’s Praise

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01262/1585732-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Human Stone-Crusher</b></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>One morning in the fall of 1950 John Crawford, coach of the Hershey Bears, arrived at he Hershey rink well in advance of the starting time for the clay&rsquo;s practice.</p><p>As Crawford walked through the runway which leads to the Hershey dressing room, he heard a thumping sound coming from the direction of the nearby rink.</p><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s funny,&rdquo; he muttered to himself. &ldquo;That sounds like someone shooting a puck, but it Couldn&rsquo;t be. We don&rsquo;t start practice for more than half an hour.&rdquo;</p><p>Curious, Crawford changed his course for the rink, and there he Baw an unusual sight.</p><p>At the far end was a stocky player in Hershey attire, a halfdozen pucks scattered around him. As the Hershey coach watched, the player fired a puck a few feet toward the end boards, then went through the routine of clearing it out of the zone. One after another he shot the pucks, then skated out to retrieve them.</p><p>At that point Crawford moved to the edge of the ice and asked, &ldquo;What the heck-are you doing out there. Ray?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Just working on clearing the puck front my own end, John,&rdquo; replied a startled Ray Gariepy. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not very good at it, you know.&rdquo;</p><p>Gariepy&rsquo;s private practice made a lasting impression on Crawford, since he saw it repeated frequently in the months which followed. Today Crawford, a Boston hockey commentator, still retains the impression.</p><p>&ldquo;Most players practice the things they can do well,&rdquo; observed the one-time All-Star defenseman of the Boston Bruins, &ldquo;but Ray used to practice the things he didn&rsquo;t do well. That&rsquo;s why he has Improved greatly since I first saw him.&rdquo;</p><p>It took three years for the determination of this 25-year old defenseman from Barrie, Ontario, to payoff in an opportunity to play in the National league. The payoff came this fall, when the Bruins brought him up as the replacement for an injured Hal Laycoe.</p><p>As a Bruin, Gariepy is a fine example of a self-made player, for by his own ready admission the game has propounded one projlern after another.</p><h2><b>Likes Practice</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I never realized how much <b>I</b> had to learn until I started trying to learn,&rdquo; confessed the well-spoken Gariepy. &ldquo;Actually I like practice, whether it&rsquo;s by myself or with the team. I always like to try to get on the ice early, because I&rsquo;m still trying to learn things.</p><p>&ldquo;Now that I&rsquo;m getting a chance in the National league it&rsquo;s the same story. Oh, I know some of the players on the other teams from my American league days, but take a fellow like Ted Kennedy (Toronto) for example. I never met anything like him in the American league. Players like Kennedy are a lot smarter. If you make a slip, you&rsquo;re in trouble.&rdquo;</p><p>It was a well-placed body check which first made him a notable in Montreal, and more than five years later that check is still recalled by those who saw it.</p><p>&ldquo;The Barrie Flyers were playing the Montreal Nationales in the Eastern Memorial Cup final,&rdquo; related Mark Tibeault, the Montreal hockey writer. &ldquo;Gariepy was playing for Barrie, Boom Boom Geoffrion for Montreal. Gariepy caught Boom Boom just right, and that was just about all for Boom Boom for that game.&rdquo;</p><p>Making the big hit on an opponent something which has always been a Gariepy characteristic, even in his juvenile days. As a little fellow he used to risk penalties to make them, for body checking was an offense at that level.</p><p>His checking ability more than anything else was what lended him with Barrie, the first big step up the ladder. Leighton &ldquo;Happy&rdquo; Emms brought him to Barrie as a 16-year old, and from Barrie he jumped to Buffalo of the American league.</p><p>For the season after his memorable stiffening of Geoffrion, he alternated between Buffalo and Houston of the old United States league, and a year later he shuttled between Buffalo and Louisville of the same league.</p><h2><b>Habs Had Him</b></h2><p>Among those not impressed by the youngster&rsquo;s earnestness, apparently, was Art Chapman, the one-time Bruin who was Buffalo&rsquo;s general manager. In the fall of 1950 Chapman talked contract so testily to the little fellow that Ray countered with a suggestion of his own.</p><p>&ldquo;Trade me,&rdquo; he urged. &ldquo;Trade me someplace else where I&rsquo;ll get a chance to play.&rdquo; Then off he went to his home In Barrie.</p><p>Soon a telegram arrived, informing him that he had been sold to the Canadiens. An hour later another arrived, telling him that he had been traded to Hershey for Rollie McLenahan, an All-Star with the Bears the year before.</p><p>After one hour as a member of the Montreal organization, Gariepy came under the Crawford influence at Hershey, and under the coaching of Crawford and Murray Henderson, John&rsquo;s capable successor, he showed steady Improvement.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve both helped me a great deal,&rdquo; declared Ray. &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t have played for two more encouraging. fellows.&rdquo;</p><p>Gariepy has made his home In Barrie his playing days there, and his off-season activity emphasizes the same determination which has prompted his rise in hockey. He and another Barrie resident named Floyd Burger own and operate a contracting business, and their specialty Is brick construction.</p><p>Most of the husky young man&rsquo;s summertime exercise is derived from brick-laying, and he has carried tons of them. And come to think of it, that&rsquo;s how it must feel to stop one of his checks, like being hit by a ton of bricks.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Rockabye Ray Gariepy - More Bounce To The Ounce

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01331/1585842-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>You Name It&hellip; He&rsquo;ll Play It</b></p><p><b>Gerry Toppazzini &hellip; &hellip; Realiy Hustiing</b></p></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When the Boston Bruins lost young Real Chevrefils for the season with a broken leg several weeks ago, Lynn Patrick turned to the Hershey Bears for a left wing replacement.</p><p>Patrick checked over the list of forwards with the Bears, but his check was a brief one. There was never much doubt about the identity of Chevrefils&rsquo; replacement.</p><p>His choice was Jerry Toppazzini, on the strength of his ability as a two-way player.</p><p>The fact that Toppazzini&rsquo;s experience at left wing was limited, that he had been playing almost exclusively on defense at Hershey, didn&rsquo;t delay Patrick&rsquo;s selection.</p><p>&rsquo;He hadn&rsquo;t had much experience at any position a year ago,&rdquo; said the Bruins&rsquo; coach, &ldquo;but in the course of the season he played all of them and did a good job.</p><p>&ldquo;I picked him because he never stops hustling when he&rsquo;s on the ice. He isn&rsquo;t the most graceful player in the world, but when he gets the puck around the net he can put it in for a goal.</p><p>&ldquo;And when the other team has the puck he doesn&rsquo;t do any loafing. He picks up his man and stays with him.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been hurt by the loss of Chevrefils, who was playing well,&rdquo; added Patrick, &ldquo;but Toppazzini&rsquo;s hustle makes the loss less painful than It might have been if we hadn&rsquo;t had him available for a replacement.&rdquo;</p><p>Jerry, the youngest of three hockey &mdash; playing brothers &mdash; Ted plays forSt. Michael&rsquo;s School in Toronto, Zellio for the Providence Reds&mdash;fitted into his latest slot with little noticeable difficulty.</p><p>He stepped in on the line with crafty Cal Gardner and Leo LaBine, his old sidekick of his Barrie junior days, and was adequate if undistinguished for his first four games.</p><p>Then in his fifth game, against the New York Rangers, he went on a scoring rampage, coming up with the first three-goal &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; of the National league season.</p><h2><b>He Played There</b></h2><p>Toppazzini played so many, positions so often as a Bruins&rsquo; rookies a year ago that no one, &ldquo;including himself, could recall how much he had played left wing.</p><p>&ldquo;Oh, I played there, all right,&rdquo; he maintained, then added with a grin, &ldquo;I mean, I must have. I just can&rsquo;t remember when or how often.&rdquo;</p><p>Topper, a loquacious youngster, has long since lost his identity as a one-position player. Until a year ago. when he joined the Bruins, tie was a right wing by trade, but since then he has been everything.</p><p>He started out last season as a defenseman, but soon he was playing three forward positions, even goal (in an exhibition game), and generally recognized as the league&rsquo;s MVP&mdash;most versatile player.</p><p>Jerry didn&rsquo;t see eye to eye with the Bruins on his contract this past fall, holding out through their training period. When the dispute was settled, he was with Hershey again, but Chevrefils&rsquo; accident and his own two-way talent have combined to bring him back to what he terms &ldquo;the roast pork circuit,&rdquo; the National league.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Toppazzini Taking Up Slack Left By Loss Of Chevrefils

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Young Jerry Toppazzini and his personal effects arrived here over a period of several weeks, following his recall from the Hershey Bears by the Boston Bruins.</p><p>First came Toppazzini himself, post-haste as the replacement for injured Real Chevrefils, and carrying only a suitcase.</p><p>A week later his trunk arrived, shipped from Hershey, enabling him to break out his extensive wardrobe.</p><p>Finally, 10 days later, his car arrived, chauffered from Hershey through an arrangement with Pat Egan, the exBruin who coaches Providence. Egan took a friend to Hershey with him when Providence went there for a game, and the friend drove Toppazzini&rsquo;s car to Boston.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Installments

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Real Chevrefils, one of the most promising young members of the Boston Bruins, may miss the remainder of the season because of a broken leg.</p><p>The 21-year old Chevrefils, injured in Toronto earlier this month, is still confined to a hosnital there. Doctors have expressed the opinion that he won&rsquo; be walking until mid-February and describe his chances of playing again this season as highly unlikely.</p><p>Bill Quackenbush, the 31-year old defenseman who received a broken ankle in the same game, is expected to be able to play again by the first of February. A secondary examination of Quackenbush&rsquo;s ankle revealed a bone to be out of place, in addition to the break.</p><p>Quackenbush is convalescing at his home in suburban Wellesley, while Chevrefils will return to his home in Timmins, Ontario, after his discharge from the hospital.</p><p><b>BARRY.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02296/1585897-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="280" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Real Chevrefils</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Chewy Out for Season

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2><b>Black Hawks to Quit ?</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>t doesn&rsquo;t seem possible that an NHL club would stop operating in the middle of the hockey season, but Arthur M. Wirtz insists that it&rsquo;s not only possible &mdash; it&rsquo;s probable.</p><p>Mr. Wirtz is a real estate man who somehow got in with the late James S. Norris and became his partner in the acquisition of arenas in a number of cities in the United States. They owned buildings in Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis and Omaha, as well as owning a big chunk in Madison Square Garden Corporation. Mr. Norris was the hockey man and Wirtz was the ice show man.</p><p>Mr. Wirtz was never very sympathetic to hockey, but as long as James S. Norris was alive it didn&rsquo;t matter how he felt about the game. Mr. Norris was the senior partner and hockey was his hobby.</p><p>They owned the Chicago Stadium, home ice of the Chicago Black Hawks. They also owned the Detroit Olympia and the Detroit Red Wings, but Mr. Norris always identified himself with the Red Wings. Two years ago &mdash; the 1951-52 season &mdash; the Black Hawks lost considerable&rsquo; money, and before the 1952-53 season started there were some changes made.</p><p>James D. (Young Jim) Norris, son of James S., divorced himself completely from the Detroit Red Wings and went over to the Black Hawks. He signed Sid Abel as his coach and made a couple of deals in the off-season which brought some veteran players to the Black Hawks. The team made the playoffs, carried Canadians to seven games in the Stanley Cup semi-final series and did well at the gate.</p><p>In their most profitable season, which was about six years ago, the Black Hawks grossed $900,000 from their home games. They didn&rsquo;t do anything like that last season, though they did set one new mark. In their last playoff game against Canadiens in Chicago Stadium, they took in more money than for any other single game in their history.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t a record attendance, but the difference in the price scale for the&rsquo; playoffs made the difference.</p><h2><b>$300,000 in the Red</b></h2><p>Unfortunately for hockey, James S. Norris died about this time a year ago. His daughter, Margie, became president of the Detroit Red Wings, and Young Jim became Arthur Wirtz&rsquo; partner in the operation of the arenas. But Young Jim has been kept busy with the International Boxing Club, of which he is president, and latterly be hasn&rsquo;t been a well man.</p><p>The Black Hawks were a veteran team last year and they didn&rsquo;t do anything to add youth to the squad in the off-season. A year ago fellows like Jim McFadden, Bill Mosienko, Jimmy Peters, George Gee, Gus Bodnar and Doc Couture all had a good year together. This season they have all been having a poor year together and haven&rsquo;t been able to win.</p><p>Two players, Al Rollins and Bill Gadsby, did their best to hold the team together, but when Rollins, their good netminder, contracted chicken-pox it fell apart. It was obvious then that the Hawks didn&rsquo;t belong in the league. It was then that Mr. Wirtz made his announcement.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to pull the Black Hawks out of Chicago,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The team has lost $300,000 already.&rdquo;</p><p>He points out that hockey, unlike baseball and professional football, is without a draft rule and adds that it&rsquo;s virtually Impossible to get young players. Because of these factors, the Black Hawks and the New York Rangers are unable to rebuild. He suggests that the NHL may become a four-team league unless the draft Is instituted to assure an equitable division of the younger players deemed ready for major league hockey.</p><h2><b>Good Farm System Lacking</b></h2><p>It has been pointed out before now that the Black Hawks haven&rsquo;t done much to build up a farm system where they eould develop their own players. All the successful clubs do it. Why don&rsquo;t they?</p><p>Over the years they have had some good players, but they dealt them off to other teams. They had Leo Reise, Metro Prystai and Bob Goldham before they went to Detroit. Canadiens got Bert Olmstead from them. They had Al Rollins at Kansas City years ago, sold him to the Cleveland Barons, who relayed him to the Toronto Leafs. Then the Hawks got him back in a trade with the Leafs.</p><p>They asked waivers on Cal Gardner, who was claimed by the Boston Bruins for the waiver price of $7,500. Lynn Patrick says Gardner is a real addition to the club.</p><p>A couple of weeks ago they were reported to be trying to buy Don Marshall, Gaye Stewart and Ed Slowinski from Canadiens. They are on option to the Buffalo Blsons and make-up a high-scoring line. But the Hawks could have had both Stewart and Slowinski for $7,500 apiece when they were waived out of the National League. The Rangers were willing to trade them Leo Reise and an unnamed amateur for one of their defensemen, not Gadsby, but they wouldn&rsquo;t go for It.</p><p>Last season the presidential election forced the Black Hawks to postpone one of their home games and it was later played in Indianapolis. The game in Indianapolis drew 10,500 paying customers, which may have given the management an idea. Games scheduled for Dec. 18 and Jan. 21 for Chicago Stadium hare been switched to Indianapolis.</p><p>At a recent game in the Stadium attendance was announced as 5,200, but the actual attendance was 2,400. With crowds like that It&rsquo;s easy to believe the Black Hawks are already $300,000 in the bucket.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, NY.&mdash;</p><p>In hockey, when the Rangers play it, as in crap shooting, when played by the poorly-heeled but adventurous members of the newspaper profession, seven still seems to come up natural. It wasn&rsquo;t until the Broadway Babies made their seventh experiment at the first line&rsquo;s left flank that they got a perfect fit.</p><p>Andy Bathgate, the 21-year-old rookie recalled recently from Vancouver, appears to be a natural complement to Paul Ronty and Wally Hergesheimer. Not since Herb Diskenson nearly lost an eye in a practice accident on Nov. 5, 1952 and was forced to quit the game has another fit so well.</p><p>The six who have been tried on that left wing and found wanting are Eddie Kullman, Jimmy Conacher, Neil Strain, Ron Murphy, Dean Prentice and Camille Henry. Henry, actually, hasn&rsquo;t been found wanting except for muscular beef. He still plays on Ronty&rsquo;s left in power attack, and very nicely, too. But he just isn&rsquo;t big enough to remain there in a regular assigment.</p><p>Its&rsquo; important to the Rangers that they have a strong policeman with their two top scoring forwards &mdash; one that will work with them as a three-unit line. For, even without much help from the left wing last year, Hergesheimer wound up as the fourth best scorer in the league with 30 goals and 29 assists. Ronty was only two places back with a 16-38 record. With more help, they could be more productive.</p><p>Although he failed to score in his graduation game as Ronty&rsquo;s left wing, Bathgate definitely strengthened the line.. Forechecking and backchecking well, he was a noticeable part of the team&rsquo;s 2-1 victory over the Canadiens at the Garden, Nov. 29. That, incidentally, marked the first time this season the Rangers had been able to beat anyone besides Chicago and Boston.</p><p>Bathgate is a righthand shot, but the left wing fits him well. While he has played all forward positions, first at Guelph and then Vancouver, some of his best scoring has come from the left. He was a left wing with Larry Popein this year on the Coast and left for New York leading the Western loop with 12 goals and 10 assists.</p><p>Ronty&rsquo;s new partner is smart, and he has good size. There are about 180 pounds distributed over Andy&rsquo;s six-foot frame, which, by Ranger standards, make him one of their few large forwards. He has shown he is willing to use his body when necessary, too.</p><p>His job is a tough one, for two reasons. For one, since Ronty is a lefthand shot, it is his tendency to throw all plays to his right. That has been particularly true since only Hergesheimer of his wings has been a proficient scorer. However, It was noticed that Bathgate participated as much in the Ronty-engineered offense as little Hergy did in that first get-together. Ronty had faith in Andy, right from the start.</p><p>Bathgate&rsquo;s other problem stems from the style of Ronty&rsquo;s and Hergesheimer&rsquo;s play. Beth are forecheckers. That is their game &mdash; to rush to the backboards and corners and come out with the puck.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01283/1585952-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="862" height="1161"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>He&rsquo;s Arrived!</b></p><p><b>ANDY BATHGATE</b></p></figcaption></div><p>As a result, the left wing must always try to be in a position for a passout. Also, In case Ronty and Hergesheimer failed to check the puck, Bathgate must be ready to protect them in backchecking when they&rsquo;re caught down ice.</p><p>Bathgate, it is expected, will score at his new position. He always has. He&rsquo;s a very deceptive stickhandler and has excellent snap shot. There&rsquo;s no harder shooter on the team.</p><p>Andy&rsquo;s emergence as a full-fledged first liner was only half of the interesting developments in the rare triumph over Les Canadiens. The other was Bob Chrystal&rsquo;s return to action, after he&rsquo;d missed six games with a bruised kidney.</p><p>The rookie defenseman showed no after-effect of his layoff, including any lack of stamina. In fact, he might have been a little better than ever. And that &ldquo;better than ever&rdquo; may make him a leading candidate for the Calder Trophy.</p><p>&ldquo;He sure helped us tonight,&rdquo; manager-coach Frank Boucher pointed out after the Montreal game. &ldquo;You&rsquo;d expect a young defenseman to make a lot of mistakes. Chrystal makes very few, and they never seem to hurtue.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s like Red Kelly,&rdquo; Boucher added. &ldquo;Very alert, and a fast, fine skater. Rushes like Red. Can be rough enough&rsquo; when he has to take a man out, too. He&rsquo;s no Kelly yet, but Chrystal may be one someday.&rdquo;</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> Goaltender Johnny Bower suffered on odd accident in last minute of Bruins game here, Nov. 25. With Boston cage empty. New York defenseman Harry Howell cleared puck against board at center ice. When it caromed length of ice into cage. Bower threw his stick into the air. But while waiting for belated red light to flash on, Johnny forgot the stick and it came down and cut his forehead.</p><p>One strip of Rangers&rsquo; &ldquo;non-breakable&rdquo; herculito glass enclosing Garden playing surface turned out to bo breakable. When Ivan Irwin upended Montreal&rsquo;s Paul Meger behind net on Nov. 29, one of Meger&rsquo;s skates exploded glass panel over first row of customers. A few cuts and several scares, but no serious injury resulted &hellip; Leo Reise, who seems to have gotten second wind, is now playing the best defense he has ever played as a Ranger. He has been particularly effective when the team is shorthanded.</p><p>Two Ranger rookies have now moved up behind Hergesheimer in team&rsquo;s goal scoring. Ike Hildebrand aud Henry have each scored six times; Hergy seven &hellip; Nov. 29 victory over Montreal finally shoved Blues&rsquo; homo record over .500. They won five and tied one of first 10 games.</p><p>When Andy Bathgate was recalled from the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League, it brought together again the original quartet that was brought right up from junior ranks. Harry Howell, Dean Prentice and Ron Murphy were the others who jumped from the Guelph Biltmores to the big time. Murphy was returned to the Bilts but was again recalled near the close of the season and has been a regular this season, as has Howell although Prentice has been bothered with pesky injuries.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Andy Bathgate Is Answer To Blues’ Big Problem

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02256/1585983-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Reasons For The Smile</b></p><p><b>GROWING FAMILY &mdash;</b> Lester Patrick, often referred to as the &lsquo;Grand Old Man of Hockey&rsquo;, poses here with a few of hit grandchildren, the offspring of sons Lynn and Muzz, both successful hockey men in their own right. Lynn&rsquo;s children are Craig (extreme left), Glenn (third from left) and Karen (extreme right). Muzz&rsquo;t youngsters are Lynda and Paul (back row) and Dick.</p></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Not since the tail end of the&rdquo; 1949-50 season had the Detroit Red Wings been shutout in two successive games until the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Chicago Black Hawks turned the trick on December 5th and 6th.</p><p>The Leafs defeated the then first placers 3-0 in Toronto and the next night the lowly Black Hawks thumped the Wings 5-0, and right on Detroit ice too.</p><p>The last time they suffered successive whitewashings was on February 12th and 15th of 1950. On the 12th, they were blanked 4-0 by the New York Rangers and three nights later it was the same Hawks who dumped them 3-0.</p><p>Previous to that, the double blanking occured way back around 193940 as far as the Wings are concerned.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Successive Zeros First Since 1950 For Detroit Team

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>For the second time in the Montreal Forum this season, a penalty was called on a player sitting on his bench.</p><p>The latest one was called by referee Frank Udvari on Boston&rsquo;s Gerry Toppazzini in the game between the Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal, Saturday December 5.</p><p>Apparently Topper threw some uncomplimentary remark at the passing official and he was promptly hit with a ten minute misconduct penalty.</p><p>Referee Jack Mehlenbacher called the other one against Detroit&rsquo;s &lsquo;Tough Tony&rsquo; Leswick earlier this season.</p><p>The players will have to watch themselves from here on in for apparently the arbiters have developed extra sensitive hearing.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Toppazzini Draws ‘Talking’ Penalty From Bruin Bench

<div class="byline">By Ken Mckenzie</div><p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1. 1947 by Kenneth W. McKenzie ond Will. V. Cote</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly Moy through September by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY 301 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25. Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 in the U.S.A. ond Foreign Countries.</b></p><p><b>Entered as second-class matter. October 3, 1953 at the Post Office at Rouses Point, N.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Authorized as second-class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations Printed in Canada</b></p><p><b>VOL 7 MONTREAL. DECEMBER 12. 1953 No. 11</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01354/1586059-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="370" height="421"></div><p>&bull; ED (BUTCH) SONGIN, who quarterbacked Hamilton Tiger Cats to the Canadian professional football championship in the final against Winnipeg, almost became a member of the Boston Bruins. Songin, who hails from the Boston area, was an All American defenseman at Boston College. He was on the Bruins&rsquo; list and was invited to their training camp However, in his final football game during his senior year In the North-South game he injured his knee. That ended his hockey career. He still makes his home in Boston and is a neighbor and old pal of Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s &hellip; Ivan Irwin, New York Rangers&rsquo; colorful defenseman, cuts the palms out of his hockey gloves. When asked why he did this, he said it was an old lacrosse practice and that he was an old lacrosse player &hellip; &ldquo;What that does, says Ivan about the cut gloves, &ldquo;is to give you a better feel on the stick.&rdquo; It also makes it easier for him to slip off the gloves, and this is a bareknuckle guy who doesn&rsquo;t mind protecting the little fellow on the club when tne occasion arises &hellip; Joe Levandoski, defenseman with the Providence Reds, played the outfield for Ottawa in the Border League last season &hellip; The Syracuse Warriors gave the scorekeepers and penalty timers an easy time in a recent game against Buffalo. The up state New Yorkers had no goals, no assists and no penalties &hellip; Boston&rsquo;s Fleming Mackell is now wearing tortoise shell glasses off the ice His teammates say he resembles Tojo, the former Japanese prime minister &hellip; Tony Leswick of Detroit is the shortest player in the NHL. Tough Tony stands five feet, six inches.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02241/1586052-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="279" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tony Leswick</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; BIGGEST TURNOVER in personnel on any pro team took place on Buffalo Bisons this season &hellip; Only four players from last year&rsquo;s tail-enders are back with the team again, and two of the four only played the last half of the season Playing Coach Frank Eddolls, Pierre Pilote, Jacques Plante and Gordie Pennell are the four holdovers &hellip; Cleveland Barons&rsquo; Eddie Olson, first United State-born puck ster to lead the American Hockey League in scoring, received the Carl Liscombe Trophy as the loop&rsquo;s top point-getter the other night in a pre-game ceremony, and what did he do during the game but score two goals &hellip; He is after his second scoring title &hellip; Four of the six NHL captains this year are forwards. They are Milt Schmidt, Boston; Ted Kennedy, Toronto; Ted Lindsay, Detroit; and Don Raleigh, New York &hellip; Butch Bouchard of Canadiens and Bill Gadsby of Chicago are the two defensemen who serve as NHL team eaptains &hellip; Doug Mohns, 19-year-old rookie winger with Boston, has one of the hardest shots in the National League &hellip; Butch Bouchard has professed a desire to be a sports writer when his playing days are over. He might wind up on one of the French dailies &hellip; Every time Cleveland and Buffalo tangle in the AHL, there are nine former members of the New York Rangers on the ice &hellip; Frank Eddolls, Gaye Stewart, Pete Babando and Eddie Slowinski are the ex-Rangers on Buffalo &hellip; Emile Francis, Steve Kraftcheck, Jackie Gordon, Jack Stoddard and Fred Shero are the former Rangers on Cleveland.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03156/1586045-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="259" height="405"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jackie Gordon</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; SCORING IS ON the increase in the American HockeyLeague this season. Average goals scored per game this year is 6.53 &hellip; and for the same time a year ago it was 6.05 &hellip; Frank Selke Jr. gave Boom Boom Georffrion quite a calling down in a recent article in the Montreal Forum program &hellip; Chick Appel, sports editor of the Stratford Beacon Herald, was feted recently on the occasion of his 25th year as a sports writer &hellip; Bob Reynolds has done another excellent job with the Crown Life hockey schedules &hellip; Camille Henry seldom get on the ice for Rangers for more than seven or eight minutes in a game, yet he has scored six goals already &hellip; Doug Mohns has three older brothers playing hockey. One is with Sudbury Wolves seniors &hellip; Bob Chrystal of Rangers has a peculiar injury &hellip; A troublesome nerve in his foot blocks off circulation and cause3 him considerable pain. Once he unlaces his boot and massages the circulation back into the foot he&rsquo;s ready to resume play &hellip; Terry Sawchuk is starting this season in the finest form he has ever displayed before &hellip; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be darned if I know why. Maybe it&rsquo;s my weight. I weigh 177 now. Last year I was 165 and I couldn&rsquo;t even work up a sweat,&rdquo; the 23-year-old netminder remarked.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04112/1586038-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="268" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bob Chrystal</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05103/1586090-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>IHL Info</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am interested in obtaining complete rosters of the teams in tile International Hockey League. Could you furnish such information? If not, would you be able to tell where to write to obtain this information?</p><p>I am enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope in hopes that you will be able to assist me.</p><p>Needless to say, I enjoy your paper very much.</p><p>Miss Marjorie A. Nodine. Yonkers, N.Y.</p><p><b>(You could write to Frank Gallagher, president of the IHL, c/o the Olympia in Detroit.)</b></p><h2><b>No Record</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been reading the HOCKEY NEWS now for two years and I would like you to know that I think your paper is tops.</p><p>I have a few questions I&rsquo;d like to have answered. First of all, could you please tell me if Oshawa Generals of the OHA ever had a player by the name of Jimmie Garrow. Also could you tell me if Connie, Broden is still playing hockey. He used to play for Montreal Junior Canadiens and I would like to know where he is playing now. Thanking you in advance.</p><p>Jean Pronold. Montreal, Que.</p><p><b>(Sorry, but we have no way of checking on your first question but the answer to the second is yes. Broden is with Cincinatti Mohawks of the International League.)</b></p><h2><b>Pics and Stax</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have been a subscriber to your wonderful paper for 3 years, I enjoy every issue more and more.</p><p>It is fairly early in the season, but could you answer me where I could obtain pictures of the following minor and professional teams: Pittsburgh Hornets, Toronto Marlboroughs, St. Mikes, Ottawa Senators and Saskatoon Wesleys.</p><p>I am a statistics collector and keep records of players where they are playing, their records, position, height, weight, and where they were born and other miscellaneous items. I have one complaint, I would like to see a column similar to that of the one in the &ldquo;Sporting News&rdquo; in baseball giving data on trades and options; which players take part, money involved if and, and players received in return. This column could cover teams from the Professional Leagues to the Junior A all across Canada and the U.S.</p><p>Rudolph Jalbert. Nanaimo, B.C.</p><p><b>(Your best bet would be to write to the clubs concerned.)</b></p><h2><b>Info On Buzz</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my second letter to the Fan Forum.</p><p>I would like to know with what team did &lsquo;Buzz&rsquo; Boll, the ex-Toronto Maple Leaf turn pro? Also how many years he played in the NHL and what year he turned pro. How many goals did he score in the NHL?</p><p>Thanks for the space in your paper. Hope you can answer these questions as soon as possible.</p><p>Gordon Dunn. Sudbury, Ont.</p><p><b>(Boll came into the NHL in the 1933-34 season with the Leafs and stayed five seasons with them before going to the New York Americans. He was three seasons with the Amerks and when they folded he shuffled off to the Boston Bruins for two campaigns, ending up his NHL career in Beantown in 1943-44. He scored 188 goals in that time, his best season being his second to last when he accounted for 25 goals.)</b></p><h2><b>Beefs and Querries</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>After reading your fine paper for four years, I am surprised and disappointed at your omission of the rovers of the American League teams in the weekly summary of hockey&rsquo;s highest minor league. Can you tell me the reason for this omission?</p><p>Also I would like to air my pet peeve which is the so-called &lsquo;constant&rsquo; reader who still does not know where to send for Montreal and Toronto calendars after it has been printed at least a hundred times.</p><p>Could you tell me the reason for Shawinigan Falls dropping out of the Quebec League and also what has happened to Gordie Hannigan of Toronto.</p><p>Is Al Arbour of Detroit the same Arbour who played defence for the Washington Lions in the Eastern League near the end of the season last year.</p><p>Charles Goodison Wallingford, Conn.</p><p><b>(We have been unable to lay our hands on the AHL lineups but will try to get them soon. Shawinigan Falls dropped out because they were unable to obtain QHL caliber players. Hannigan is sidelined with injuries at the moment. It is the some Arbour who showed briefly with the Lions.)</b></p><h2><b>More On Minors</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I enjoy reading your paper but how about more pictures and articles on the WHL and the AHL? I am an Edmonton Flyers fan. Could you give me any information on Glen Hall, goalie of the Edmonton Flyers? Where could I write him?</p><p>Carol Van Velzer. Saskatoon, Sask.</p><p><b>(Glenn Hall is 22 years old, 6&rsquo; and 160 pounds. He hails from Humboldt, Sask, and last played as an amateur for the Windsor Spitfire juniors. From there he went to Indianapolis of the AHL and from there to the Flyers. He played six games for the Detroit Red Wings last season and racked up a 1.67 average and one shutout. You can write him care of the Edmonton Flyers, Edmonton, Alta.)</b></p><h2><b>Sports Collection</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>My first issue I have of THE HOCKEY NEWS is Volume 7, Number 1. How about the rest of the issues previous to volume 7 No 1? Are they available? How much?</p><p>I have an all-sports library and would like to augment it with a complete collection of &ldquo;Hockey News.&rdquo; Please advise.</p><p>If any of you are Rotarians you will find in the Sept. 1953 issue on pages 62-63 an account of my library and you can then readily see why I want to get a complete line of the &ldquo;Hockey News.&rdquo;</p><p>Fred J. Imhof. San Jose, Calif.</p><p><b>(We do not have back issues for sale but maybe some of our readers do. Mr. Imhof can be reached at 1150 Malone Rd., San Jose 25, California.)</b></p><h2><b>Radio Stations</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>How about a list of all the radio stations carrying the NHL games?</p><p>Wm. H. Smith. Detroit, Mich.</p><p><b>(In our 1953 All-Star edition (October 3, 1953) carried the pictures of the men who do the broadcasting for the various NHL teams with the call letters of their respective stations underneath their pictures.)</b></p><h2><b>Number Stuff</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>This is my first letter to THE HOCKEY NEWS. I enjoy reading your paper very much.</p><p>Could you tell me what number Jean Beliveau wears and also who wears number eight on the Canadiens?</p><p>Larry Profit. Alberton, P.E.I.</p><p><b>(Le Gros Bill wears number four while the player who sports number eight Is Dick Gamble.)</b></p><h2><b>Late Paper</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to congratulate you on your fine paper. I am a new subscriber to THE HOCKEY NEWS but find it wonderful.</p><p>My only cause to complain a little is that friends living around me get their paper on a Thursday or Friday and I sometimes receive mine on Saturday and maybe not till the next week. I would like to receive my paper at the same time if it is at all possible.</p><p>Murray Pye. Gaspe, Que.</p><p><b>(It&rsquo;s a little hard to understand why your paper should get there any later than any of the others Murray, because they all leave Montreal at the same time.)</b></p><h2><b>Wahoo!</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I am a Toronto fan and read THE HOCKEY NEWS regularly. Congratulations on your fine work.</p><p>I would like to settle an arguement between some girls about Max Bentley. Is there any Indian blood in him?</p><p>How about some more of those crossword puzzles about hockey?</p><p>M. Jones. Toronto, Ont.</p><p><b>(If there is any Indian blood in Maxie then it is a secret shared only by the Bentleys themselves, which would make it a pretty widely shared secret. The crossword are back!)</b></p><h2><b>Correction</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>In the October 31 edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS you stated that Vic Lynn of Chicago played for every NHL team. However, the NY Rangers&rsquo; Blue Book disproves this by showing that although Lynn was once with the Rangers he never did get in a Ranger game.</p><p>Richie Hofmann. Flushing, N.Y.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>O</span>kay, Okay, so we give in. Ever since we ran that box on do you do or do you do not want the crosswords, we&rsquo;ve been flooded with mail from fans all over the country who are simply bellowing for Margaret Scott&rsquo;s crossword puzzles.</b></p><p><b>The ratio of yes to no was astronomical, so in this week&rsquo;s issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS, the crossword returns.</b></p><p><b>And many thanks for the enthusiastic response.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IT’S BACK!

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Coaches have concocted some unique alibies for the loss of games but it remained for Dick Irvin, the shrewd strategist of the Montreal Canadiens, to produce one without parallel in the annals of hockey.</p><p>A rugged individualist, Irvin blamed the Grey Cup game for a 3-1 beating given his beloved Habs by the Leafs in Toronto.</p><p>What&rsquo;s a football championship got to do with hockey? Plenty, according to Irvin, when both games are played in carnival at-mosphere within a few hours in Toronto.</p><p>Generally it has been traditional with the schedule makers to have the Canadiens meet the Leafs on Grey Cup day but next season the Montreal team likely will demand a switch in dates so that some other club can face the Leafs on that night.</p><p>&ldquo;However if an adjustment in the schedule is not feasible and we have to play Leafs again on the last Saturday of November, I won&rsquo;t allow my players into Toronto until game time,&rdquo; Irvin said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll hole up for the day in Hamiltou or some other nearby place.&rdquo;</p><p>This year the Habs played in Chicago on the Thursday prior to Grey Cup day and arrived in Toronto on Friday to find bedlam reigning in the ltoyal York Hotel. Friends of the players from East and West started calling them on the house phones, seeking tickets for both games. Some enterprising fans even offered to trade Grey Cup ducats for seats at the hockey game.</p><p>Floyd Curry, for example, got so many calls that he had to ask the switchboard to stop ringing the phone in the room he shared with Gerry McNeil. As a consequence a call from Montreal, informing him that he was the father of a ney baby girl, was delayed until the next morning.</p><p>Normally hockey players spend a good deal of time in hotel lobbies, chatting and relaxing.</p><p>&ldquo;But that Royal York lobby was a madhouse,&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;Heck, the players didn&rsquo;t even have a place to sit down. The hotel took every piece of furniture out so it wouldn&rsquo;t be broken in the melees caused by football fans.</p><p>&ldquo;And how could the players keep their minds on hockey when everyone else was talking Grey Cup? Football, bah! It ruined us.&rdquo;</p><p>Most of the Canadines saw the game on television and, naturally, it was a topic of conversation long after Hamilton had clinched the championship on a formidable pass defence.</p><p>Even for professional athletes, it is pretty hard to be enguilfed. perhaps unwillingly, in a football atmosphere for more than 24 hours and then be expected to reach the right mental condition for a hockey game.</p><p>The Leafs didn&rsquo;t face quite the same problem inasmuch as they weren&rsquo;t in a body, susceptible to mob psychology with eastern and western prejudices rampant. Members of the Toronto club spent the day in their homes, far from the mental pressure of the maddening mob. The Grey Cup atmosphere was remote.</p><p>So Leafs stepped into the game in the right frame of mind and before the Habs got untracked they had acquired a two-goal lead which eventually proved the margin of victory.</p><p>When Elmer Lach had to retire from the Toronto game with a badly bruised ankle, Dick Gamble went to centre, becoming the tenth man to play a pivot position with the Habs this season.</p><p>Lach was the third regular centre to be knocked out of action, the others being Jean Beliveau who played only seven games before sustaining a cracked ankle bone and Dickie Moore who got into three games before suffering a broken collarbone.</p><p>Ken Mosdell, Habs&rsquo; most consistent forward and an eager workman who plays as well on the road as he does at home &mdash; something that can&rsquo;t be said for some of the supposed stars &mdash; is the only Montreal centre to have appeared in every game this season.</p><p>Gamble acquitted himself well at centre, making some sparkling plays with the finesse of a skilled craftsman and checking his opposing pivotmen like a fiend.</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve been doing well at centre,&rdquo; Coach Irvin told the youthful Maritlmer. &ldquo;Who knows, maybe you&rsquo;ve been playing out of position as a wingman all these years.&rdquo;</p><p>In addition to Gamble, Mosdell, Lach, Beliveau and Moore, Habs have used five other centres for varying periods. Tom Johnson, a regular defenceman, was shifted to centre in one emergency and he responded with two goals in one game against the Leafs.</p><p>Johnny McCormack was promoted from the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League, largely for his defensive ability and likely he will be retained as a permanent fixture. Paul Masnick, Skippy Burchell and Gerry Desaulniers, all from the Montreal Royals of the Quebec Hockey League, also saw service.</p><p>Despite those constant shuffles of personnel &mdash; most wingmen had to be introduced to their centres before every game &mdash;: Habs have been clinging to first or second place in the league. When Lach, Beliveau and Moore get back into the lineup their prospects will be bright to say the least.</p><p>Lach and Beliveau should both be back by the end of the week while Moore will be out for a while yet.</p><p>Beliveau worked out with the Habs on December 1 for the first time since his injury on October 22 and celebrated by scoring three goals In a brisk practice. He reported at 209 pounds, seven less than when he was forced to the sidelines.</p><p>Irvin had hinted that Le Gros Bill might be sent to a farm club to play himself into shape for the gruelling NHL games but with Beliveau at playing weight despite his enforced idleness, that&rsquo;s a remote possibility now.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Irvin Blames Football Tilt For Habs Loss in Leafville

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02272/1586231-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="293" height="443"></div><p>Detroit Red Wings&rsquo; hed hot hookie, <b>BILL DINEEN,</b> is the subject of an interesting article in next week&rsquo;s Hockey News by <b>Marshall Dann.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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COMING next week

<p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>If the Chicago hockey fans have any say in the matter, and you can be sure their sustained vocal outbursts are going to have some influence on the subject, Bill Gadsby, their rough-and-ready captain is going to get a lot of All-Star votes this year.</p><p>While there hasn&rsquo;t been too much to get excited about this year, except for the sensational, game-in-game-out performances of Al Rollins, the Black Hawks followers are already pointing with pride to Gadsby and proclaiming that if he was good enough to make the second official NHL All-Star team last year with a mediocre scoring performance,&rsquo; then he can&rsquo;t miss the first team this year if he keeps up the blistering pace he has been setting in the early part of the schedule.</p><h2><b>Norris Trophy Candidates</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03208/1586283-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="253" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tim Horton</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04160/1586276-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="272" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05110/1586269-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="260" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Red Kelly</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0678/1586262-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="258" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Gadsby</b></figcaption></div><p>Captain William has scored eight goals and picked up 12 assists for 20 points in the Hawks first 29 games, which put him ahead of Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly, the perennial, high-scoring defenseman of the NHL. True, Kelly had four games in hand over Gadsby, but as the fans point out, he could easily &ldquo;go for the collar&rdquo; in those games.</p><p>And while they don&rsquo;t necessarily agree that it should be that way, the fans point out that invariably the top scoring defenseman gets an &ldquo;automatic&rdquo; All-Star berth. They&rsquo;re hoping that Big Bill can keep ahead of the rushing red-head from Detroit.</p><p>With the additional incentive of $1,000.00 and the Norris Memorial Trophy, to the top defenseman this year the race is threatening to develop into one of the most-fiercely contested in years. Toronto&rsquo;s Tim Horton, with a rash of points during the past week, moved up into third place, three points behind Kelly. Canadiens&rsquo; Doug Harvey is next in line with 15.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-03

Gadsby Setting Furious Pace; Tops Kelly By Single Point

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Boston hockey fans have hardly time to become accustomed to the presence of Leo LaBine, ferocious gentleman, before being forced to recognize still another LaBine.</p><p>So much to-do has been made about the Haileybury Hurricane&rsquo;s good conduct with the Bruins this season that one pertinent fact has been overlooked.</p><p>That is, that LaBine has suddenly developed into one of the most promising scorers in the National league.</p><p>LaBine may have quieted his urge to make clay pigeons out of opposing skaters, but he has also acquired quite an eye for opposing nets.</p><p>After his first 21 games this season he had seven goals, or only one less than he scored a year ago in 51 games. At his present rate he can rank well up on the list of 20-goal scorers at season&rsquo;s end.</p><p>Credit for the aggressive right wing&rsquo;s improved punch has been spread in several directions, to his improved conduct and to Cal Gardner, the clever center with whom he plays regularly.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01305/1586200-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="528" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Tames Temper</b></p><p><b>LEO LABINE</b></p></figcaption></div><p>But Gardner is authority for the statement that LaBine&rsquo;s good start is due largely to his muscular playmate himself.</p><p>&ldquo;He has settled down a lot,&rdquo; opined crafty Cal. &ldquo;He has had two years of experience now, and he is showing the benefits of it. I try to help him all I can, but he&rsquo;s the one who&rsquo;s putting the pucks in the net, not I.&rdquo;</p><p>LaBine&rsquo;s seventh goal was one of the most memorable ones of his brief major league career, for it was made against the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team he enjoys beating. It brought to an end a scoring drought created by Toronto goalie which had extended into three seasons; it was his first against the Maple Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;It came just in time for my morale,&rdquo; quipped the Bruins&rsquo; leading quipster. &ldquo;I was beginning to think I&rsquo;d never get a decent shot against that team, let alone a goal.</p><p>&ldquo;But not that The Kid has broken the ice, may be he&rsquo;ll ccome up with a few more against them before the year is over.&rdquo;</p><p>The Hurricane has been carrying on an exchance of wisecracks with King Clancy, the Toronto coach, for several years, and in the game in which LaBine scored they had another brief passage of words.</p><p>Late in the game, with the Bruins leading, LaBirle took station directly in front of Clancy for a faceoff. Leaning over the board, Clancy demanded, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the matter with you, Leo ? Why don&rsquo;t you go into the corners after the puck ?&rdquo;</p><p>Half turning, LaBine gestured with his stick toward the scoreboard and cracked, &ldquo;Take a look at the score, King. I don&rsquo;t have to go into the corners now.&rdquo;</p><p>LaBine&rsquo;e improvement as a scorer has been no surprise to Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; coach, who has always felt that all the brash youngster aeeded was steadiness.</p><p>&ldquo;He has everything else,&rdquo; observed Patrick. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of the fastest skater in the league, as reckless as they come, and he&rsquo;s a smart little fellow. He&rsquo;ll score goals as long as he tends to business, and he&rsquo;s been doing that pretty well so far.&rdquo;</p><p>LaBine&rsquo;s goal against Toronto was also another &ldquo;first&rdquo; for him. It gave him the distinction of being the first Bruin to sebre against every team in the league this season.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-01

LaBine Shakes Chip Off Shoulder, Blossoms As Good Goal Producer

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON (The Toronto Telegram)</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Just like an experimental car, the Toronto Maple Leaf power play, sometimes known as the Clancy Six, has developed its kinks. Damage to one of the spark plugs, George Armstrong, and a job on one of the points, where Tim Horton has developed into an increasingly more adequate replacement for Max Bentley, have made the Clancy Six a little slow in hitting the road.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01338/1586328-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="257" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>King Clancy</b></figcaption></div><p>Because of this, Leafs had to offset their early inadequacies with a man advantage by surrendering little with a man disadvantage. And, greatly through the efforts of Ron Stewart, they succeeded.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02277/1586321-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="280" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hap Day</b></figcaption></div><p>Stew has developed into a nightmare for opposition gang attacks. A swirling dirvish as a skater, a rocket as a racer and a snake&rsquo;s tongue as a poke-checker, the 21-year-old sophomore has been invaluable as a penalty killer.</p><p>And what could Leafs need more with the second most penalized record in the NHL?</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s an outstanding defensive hockey player,&rdquo; is the conservative estimate of the always conservative Leaf Assistant General Manager Hap Day.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the doggondest penalty killer you ever saw, is the more eneffervescent appraisal of coach King Clancy. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got everything he needs to do the job. He never gets tired, he&rsquo;ll turn around on a dime, skffte like blazes&mdash;he&rsquo;s a helluva fine skater&mdash;and really takes care of those other guys coming in.&rdquo;</p><p>Outside of the 17 minutes he has served in penance himself, Stew has operated as a penaltykiller through almost all of the 118 minor penalties and two majors Leafs have served this season. In that time he has watched only six goals scored against the Leafs five of which he has personally had a hand in offsetting and two more as a member of the often-shuffled ganging attack.</p><p>Yet it was Stew&rsquo;s very elegance as a defensive player which most hampered his work as an attacker through the Inaugural phases of the season. His own passion for checking caused his attacking work to deteriorate and his constant employment as a penaltykiller kept him from serving his regular shift.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03211/1586314-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="545" height="571"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Leafs&rsquo; Puck Thief</b></p><p><b>RON STEWART</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Soon after he was inserted at right wing on captain Ted Kennedy&rsquo;s line, all this changed, however, and his forechecking savy became instrumental in increasing the efficiency of the line. Incredibly weak in goal production for a month, it suddenly blossomed after Stewart was added, to quadruple its output in the next three weeks.</p><p>&ldquo;Stew gave Kennedy a lift,&rdquo; The Ring explains. &ldquo;By that I mean Kennedy was relieved of a lot of responsibility when he realized he had a real good checker on his wing.&rdquo;</p><p>Kennedy will buy that too.</p><p>Fortunately Stewart arrived just in time to leave the Leafs with one regular right-winger when their other two suffered eight-stitch skate gashes, George Armstrong on the ankle and Eric Nesterenko on the shin.</p><p>Army&rsquo;s loss was particularly painful because the Big Chief had suddenly shaken early-season lethargy to become a key man in the attack, with the SAW line of Tod Sloan and Harry Watson, which was until then matching Detroit&rsquo;s production line in scoring goals. It also hurt*the gang attack, because Clancy felt he had finally solved the situation by employing the Sloan line when Leafs had an advantage.</p><p>In his five-game stay with Leafs as replacement for Army, Howie Meeker, recalled from coaching at Stratford, fought as doggedly and pestiferously as ever he did, but he admitted it was painful. He was out of condition because he hadn&rsquo;t been on skates for two weeks, because of a groin injury, prior to his call. And he suffered an attack of stomach flu even while he played with the Leafs.</p><p>Nesterenko, on the other hand was slipping, after a sensational sta t, but Clancy figured he had diagnosed that trouble, too, just before a Canadian skate cut through&rdquo;the youngster&rsquo;s shin pads in Toronto last week.</p><p>&ldquo;It was maybe my own fault,&rdquo; said The King. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a natural free-wheeling type of player and in trying to groove him to stick on his own wing, I might have crr.mped his style.&rdquo;</p><p>If The King&rsquo;s analysis is right again, Leafs could wind up with three of the hottest youngsters in hockey patrolling their starboard wings.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-01

Clancy Heaps Praise on Stew As “Doggondest Penalty Killer”

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH (Sixth Of A Series)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04158/1586366-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="282" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Broda</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05112/1586359-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="258" height="419"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Let&rsquo;s take a few moments again to look back at happenings that made headlines in the world of hockey in the not too distant past.</p><p>Six years ago this week &mdash; The Chicago Black Hawks changed goalies again as Doug &ldquo;Stonewall&rdquo; Jackson was returned to Kansas City of the US League in favor of Emile Francis. Jackson had been brought up after the Hawks made an unsuccessful bid for Jim Henry, then with New York.</p><p>Don Raleigh decided to foresake a college education for hockey and returned to the Rangers after a four-year absence. He had been attending Brandon college&hellip; John McCormack and Ike Hildebrand were the men potting the goals in the Marlboro surge to the top in OHA Senior league play.</p><p>Four years ago this week &mdash; Conn Smythe leveled &ldquo;get rid of that excess poundage or else&rdquo; edicts at five Toronto Maple Leaf fat men. They were Turk Broda, Garth Boesch, Vic Lynn, Harry Watson, and Sid Smith, Broda, at 35, was directed to take off seven of his 197 pounds pronto.</p><p>Going great guns with Cleveland in the American league was the line of Harry Taylor, Tod Sloan and Ray Ceresino. Thess three had been secured in a trade that sent promising rookie Bob Solinger to Toronto&hellip; Ted Lindsay, Sid Abel and Doug Bentley were the leading NHL scorers in that order.</p><p>Two years ago this week &mdash; Hugh McLean quit his post as referee-in-chief of the Maritime Major circuit and listed the 90-game schedule as just too much to put up with at a rate of Six contests per week&hellip; Jim Morrison earned a regular spot on the Boston Bruin blue line.</p><p>Elmer Lach was closing in on the all-time point record of the Bruins&rsquo; Bill Cowley&hellip; A collision between Gus Mortson and Fred Glover brought on a battle royal at Detroit with Referee George Gravel eventually sending Mortson, Howie Meeker and Fleming Mackell of Toronto and Glover and Tony Leswick of the Wings to the cooler.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-04

Remember Broda’s Fast ?

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, NY&mdash;</p><p>Since it is taken for granted that the Rangers are all sober young gentlemen off the ice, no detective is ever assigned to delve into their private lives. But their time spent on the ice is another matter. Their every move is recorded under the microscopic eye of a frontoffice &ldquo;dick&rdquo;.</p><p>Although every NHL club keeps a set of statistics, of varying size and scope, it is doubtful whether any other can match those now being kept by Carl Grothmann. The New York figure filbert has already filled up two loose leaf books this season. He just refuses to keep a secret, jotting down everything he sees.</p><p>These elaborate statistics, which now eat up most of Grothmann&rsquo;s working hours, are a never-ending source of valuable information for manager-coach Frank Boucher. Through them, he sees things &mdash; and evaluates them &mdash; that he doesn&rsquo;t notice&rsquo; during the course of a game.</p><p>The book of records was Boucher&rsquo;s own idea. He started to keep statistics himself, when serving as Lester Patrick&rsquo;s assistant coach 15 years ago. Gradually these statistics have been enlarged to encompass all possible information at home and on the road.</p><p>A record of each player at home, for instance, would quickly reveal (1) how many games he played; (2) the goals for and against the Rangers while the player was on the ice; (3) the goals for and against the Rangers, while shorthanded or with an advantage, while the player was on the ice; (4) the player&rsquo;s own goals for and against; (5) the total shots for and against while the player was on the ice: (6) the total time played by the player and many, many more items.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0687/1586397-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="602" height="599"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Top Performer</b></p><p><b>NICK MICKOSKI</b></p></figcaption></div><p>One of Boucher&rsquo;s and Grothmann&rsquo;s pet projects is the compilation of the individual player&rsquo;s own game score. No matter how the Rangers may do, each player is weighed according to his own win, tie or loss.</p><p>For instance, should the Rangers be beaten by Detroit, 5-3,.as sometimes happens, Bones Raleigh might himself have a better score in Grothmann&rsquo;s book. Bones could have been on the ice when all three of the New York goals were scored, and on only when one of the Wings were made. Therefore, Bones would have a 3-1 victory for that game, and two points would be added to his account.</p><p>Should only one of`the New York goals have been scored when Raleigh was on the ice, he&rsquo;d have wound up with a 1-1 tie and only one personal point for the game. Had no goals been scored with the thin man working, he&rsquo;s have lost, 1-0, and therefore wouldn&rsquo;t have been given any credit.</p><p>By such figuring, Nick Mickoski, Raleigh&rsquo;s left wing, stands as the top Ranger performer after the team&rsquo;s first 22 games. Nick only played in 21 of them, compiling a total of 30 points on 11 wins, two losses and eight ties.</p><p>Raleigh was second with 27 points. Little Camille Henry, the power play specialist, was next with 25 points in 19 games and, after him, came Paul Ronty (24), Ike Hildebrand (23) and Wally Hergesheimer (21).</p><p>The statistics show that the Raleigh line has been by far the strongest. In the team&rsquo;s last 14 games, for instance, BonesNick-Ike had made 12 goals while only four were scored against them.</p><p>On the home ice, where a record of all shots is kept, it was noted that Henry had a good. 200 shooting average. He&rsquo;d taken 15 shots and made three goals, in a total of 1:19 hours of play. Hergesheimer, the team&rsquo;s leading scorer, made five goals in a total of 36 shots. He&rsquo;s played 3:25.</p><p>Any questions. Prof. Einstein?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-06

Front-Office Private Eye Keeps Close Tab on Doings Of Rangers During Action

<h2><b>Large Turnover</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>S</span>ince joining the NHL in 1926, the Chicago Black Hawks have employed no fewer than eighteen different coache, starting with Fete Muldoon and working right through to Sid Abel, the present mentor.</p><h2><b>Travelling Blues</b></h2><p>Last season the New York Rangers has quite a turnover in playing personnel. The Broadway Blues used at various times throughout the season a total of 33 different hockey players, many just on a trial basis.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON WED. A.M. DEC. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01323/1586540-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="608" height="185"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p>Wed. Dec. 2nd&mdash;Chicago 3 at Rangers 3</p><p>Thurs Dec 3rd&mdash;Toronto 1 at Cdns. 5</p><p>Thurs Dec 3rd&mdash;Rangers 0 at Detroit 4</p><p>Thurs Dec 3rd&mdash;Chicago 1 at Boston 3</p><p>Sat. Dec. 5th&mdash;Boston 2 at Canadiens 4</p><p>Sat. Dec. 5th&mdash;Detroit 0 at Toronto 3</p><p>Sat. Dec. 5th&mdash;Rangers 1 at Chicago 2</p><p>Sun. Dec. 6th&mdash;Canadiens 7 at Boston 2</p><p>Sun. Dec. 6th&mdash;Toronto 3 at Rangers 3</p><p>Sun. Dec. 6th&mdash;Chicago 5 at Detroit 0</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES</b></h3><p>Wed. Dec. Sth&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Wed. Dec. 9th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 10th&mdash;Chicago at Canadiens</p><p>Thurs. Dec. 10th&mdash;Detroit at Boston</p><p>Sat. Dec. 12th&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Dec. 12th&mdash;Chicago at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Dec. 12th&mdash;Boston at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Dec. 13th&mdash;Canadiens at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Dec. 13th&mdash;Toronto at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Dec. 13th&mdash;Boston at Chicago</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2</b></h3><p><b>Chicago 3 at New York 3</b></p><p><b>NEW YORK</b> &mdash; Diminutive Wally Hergesheimer, who is short on stature but long on ability, scored just past the half way madk of the third period to give the New York Rangers a 3-3 tie with the Chicago Black Hawks. The tie extended the Hawk&rsquo;s winless streak to eight games.</p><p>Chicago &mdash; Goal: Rollins; defense: Gadsby, Dewsbury, Mortson, Fogolin, Price: forwards: Gee, Mosienko, Peters, Wilson, Costello, Conacher, Bollar, Jankowski, Hueul, Couture, Abel.</p><p>New York &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense: Buller, Chrystal, Irwi, Howell, Relse; forwards: Raleigh, Mickoskl, Hildebrand, Ronty, Hergesheimer, Prentice, Bentley, Murphy, Bathgate, Guidolin, Kulman. Henry.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey, Linesmen: Sammy Babcock, Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02301/1586533-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="607" height="527"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 3</b></h3><p><b>Toronto 1 at Montreal 5</b></p><p><b>MONTREAL</b> &mdash; Paced by Maurice (Rocket) Richard, the Montreal Canadiens stayed one point back of the first place Detroit Red Wings by downing the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1. The Rocket Befored two goals.</p><p>Toronto &mdash; Goal: Luhiey; defense: Thomson, Horton, Flaman, Boivin, Morrison; forwards: Kennedy, Stewart, Smith, Watson, Migay, Sloan, Hassard, Solinger, Balfour.</p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Bouchard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent, Macpherson; forwards, McCormack, Curry, MacKay, Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Masnick, Geoffrion, Meger, Gamble, Mazur.</p><p>Referee, Red Storey; linesmen, Doug Davies and Jim Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03254/1586526-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="606" height="610"></div><p><b>New York 0 at Detroit 4</b></p><p>DETROIT &mdash; With goaler Terry Sawchuk turning in his finest game of the season to date, the league leading Detroit Red Wings blanked the New York Rangers 4-0.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Relse, Irwin, Buller, Howell, Chrystal; forwards, Raleigh. Mickoskl, Hildebrand, Ronty, Guidolin, Murphy. Bathgate, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Kuliman, Henry.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal. Sawchuk; defence, Kelly, Goldham, Pronovost, Woit, Arbour; forwards, Relbel, Howe, Lindsay, Leswlck, Prytai, Pavelich, Skov, Delvecchio, Wilson, Dineen, Stasiuk.</p><p>Referee, Jack Mehlenbacher; linesmen, George Hayes, Doug Young.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04213/1586519-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="601" height="409"></div><p><b>Chicago 1 at Boston3</b></p><p>BOSTON &mdash; The Boston Bruins came; from behind a 1-0 second period deficit to down the lowly Chicago Black Hawks 3-1 with a two goal splurge in the final frame.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05164/1586512-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="599" height="413"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5</b></h3><p><b>Boston 2 at Canadiens 4</b></p><p>Canadlens: Goal: McNeil; defense: Johnson, Bouchard, Harvey, MacPherson; forwards. Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Masn.ck, Geoffrlon, Meger, McCormack, Curry, Mackay, Mazur, Gamble.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henry; defense: Martin, Godfrey, Gariepy. Armstrong; forwards: Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Schmidt, Klukay, Creighion, Gardner, Dumart, Labine, Mohns, Toppazzini.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; linesmen: Sam Babcock end Herb Gallagher.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01337/1586505-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="608" height="651"></div><p><b>Detroit 0 at Toronto 3</b></p><p>Detroit: Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Wolt, Pronovost, Arbour; forwards: Reibel, Howe. Lindsay, Bkov, Pavelich, Stasiuk, Delvecchio, Wlloon, Prystai, Dineen, Leswick.</p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Morton, Flaman, Morrison, Boivin; forwards: Kennedy, Stewart, Bmith. Sloan, Armstrong, Watson, Migay. Nesterenko, Solinger, Balfour, Haserard.</p><p>Referee: Bill Chadwick; linesmen: Jim Pilmeau and Red Dunn.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02278/1586498-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="604" height="439"></div><p><b>Chicago 2 at New York 1</b></p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goals: Rollins; defense: Gadsby, Dewsbury; center: Bodnar; forwards: Mosienko, Gee. Mortson, Fogolin, Peters, Conaeher, Jankowski, Hucul, Couture, Wilson, Costello, Abel, Price</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goals: Bower; dpfense: Buller, Chrytal; center: Ronty; forwards: Bathgate, Hergesheimer, Irwin, Howell, Reise, Raleigh, Mickoski, Guidolin, Hildebrand, Murphy, Prentice, Kulman, Henry.</p><p>Referee: Jack Mehlenbacher: &lsquo;linesmen: George Hayes, &ldquo;Mush&rdquo; Marsh.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03235/1586491-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="613" height="398"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY DECEMBER 6</b></h3><p><b>Canadiens 7 at Boston 2</b></p><p>Canadiens &mdash; Goal: McNeil; defense: Johnson, Bouchard, Harvey, MacPherson; forwards: Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Masnick, Geoffrion, Meger, McCormack, Curry, MacKay, Mazur, Gamble.</p><p>Boston &mdash; Goal: Henry; defense: Martin, Godfrey, Gariepy, Armstrong, forwards, Mackell, Peirson, Sandford, Schmidt, Klukay, Crelghton, Gardner, Dumart, Labine, Mohns, Toppazzini.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; linesmen: Sam Babcock and Herb Gallagher.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04181/1586484-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="601" height="669"></div><p><b>Toronto 3 at New York 3</b></p><p>Toronto &mdash; Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson. Horton. Flaman, Boivin, Morrison; forwards;-Kennedy, Smith, Stewart, Watson, Armstrong, Migay, Sloan Nesterenko, Hassard. Bolinger.</p><p>New York &mdash; Goal, Bower; defenses Reise, Chrystal Buller, Howell; forwards: Raleigh. Mickoski, Hildebrand, Bentley, Guidolln, Murphy, Bathgate Prentice, Hergesheimer, Kullman, Henry,. Ronty.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvar!; linesmen: Bill Morrison and Dom Baolto</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05147/1586477-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="611" height="537"></div><p><b>Chicago 5 at Detroit 0</b></p><p>Chicago &mdash; Goal. Rollins; defense: Gadsby. Dewsbury: centre: Bodnar: forwards. Mosienko, Gee, Mortson, Fogolin, Peters, Conaeher, Jankowski, Hucul, Couture, Wilson, Costello. Abel, Price.</p><p>Detroit &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Woit, Pronovost. Arbour; forwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Pavelich, Stasiuk, Delvecchio, Wilson, Prystai, Dineen, Leswick.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06125/1586470-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="604" height="392"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES OF SUN. DEC. 6)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06140/1586463-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="592" height="2277"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07130/1586456-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="584" height="955"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08121/1586449-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="586" height="182"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORD</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09118/1586442-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="598" height="106"></div><p>* Wilson replaced Sawchuk in 3rd period on October 10</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10104/1586435-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="597" height="209"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTE BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1184/1586428-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="538" height="157"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>he Montreal Canadiens regained first place in the National Hockey League last week on the strength of three straight victories, one over the Toronto Maple Leafs and a pair over the Boston Bruins.</b></p><p><b>The third of these wins was by far the most signifigant for the Habs hadn&rsquo;t won a league game played in Beantown for almost a year. They won this one 7-2 and were paced in a scoring way by Bernie &lsquo;Boom Boom&rsquo; Geoffrion their young right wing star, who potted two goals. The night before in Montreal the youngster with the booming shot also tallied a pair of goals to bring his season&rsquo;s total to 14, one more than his illustrious teammate Maurice &lsquo;Rocket&rsquo; Richard and the highest number in the league.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1255/1586571-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="268" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bernie Geoffrion</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Of course scoring goals is nothing new to the Boomer. In his first whirl in the big time, the tail end of the 4950-51 season, he tallied eight times in the 18 games he got into. The next season, his first full campaign in the NHL, he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league&rsquo;s best rookie and accounted for 30 goals, highest on the Canadien team that season.</b></p><p><b>Last season he tapered off slightly but still managed to account for 22 goals, second only to the great Rocket on the Habitant team.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Now, with 14 goals already to his credit, he stands a good chance of even surpassing his great rookie season and could pass the 30 goals mark easily if he keeps up the torrid pace he&rsquo;s set so far.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-12

Player - of - the - Week

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01332/1587201-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Big Cog In Bear Surge</b></p><p><b>RED HENRY&hellip; &hellip; Red Kot</b></p></figcaption></div><p>HERSHEY. Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Although hockey players, like athletes in all other lines of sports, shun the number 13, coach Murray Henderson, of the Hershey bears, believes it is a good omen for his Chocolatetown skaters.</p><p>And he has good reason to feel that way, for the Bears&rsquo; thirteenth victory in 24 starts, pulled them within two points of the pace-setting Buffalo Bisons. That&rsquo;s the way things stood in the nip and tuck American Hockey League race when the Bears embarked on a six-game road jaunt during the engagement of Ice Follies of 1954 at the Sports Arena.</p><p>The Bears have been well nigh unbeatable on the friendly confines of the local rink. Henderson&rsquo;s skaters came up with nine victories against three losses and a pair of ties on home ice, compared to four wins and six losses away from home.</p><p>The over-all combination of 13 wins, nine losses and two ties, gave Hershey a total of 28 points, just two behind Frankie Eddolls&rsquo; Buffalo crew as the league closed out the November section of its schedule.</p><p>Two factors stand out in Hershey&rsquo;s upward surge, first, the terrific play of Red Henry in the nets, and, second, the potency of the Bears&rsquo; first line of Red Sullivan, Dune Fisher and Jack McIntyre.</p><p>Sullivan continues to set the individual scoring pace for the entire league, posting ten goals and 28 assists for a total of 38 points. Right behind is Dune Fisher, Sully&rsquo;s right wing, who is the club&rsquo;s top goal-getter, with 16. Fisher has also garnered 15 assists, giving him a total of 31 points.</p><h2><b>Mac Caught Fire</b></h2><p>McIntyre, incidentally, caught fire in the past three weeks. The big left winger, who spent last season with the Boston Bruins, started slowly, collecting but three goals and seven assists in the first 14 games. The next ten games found him finding himself and flashing the kind of form which made him the scourge of the AHL three seasons ago when he broke in as a pro. He garnered seven goals and six assists in the ten games.</p><p>Meanwhile, coach Henderson is looking forward to the expected return of action within the next ten days of young Gordon Wilson. Wilson, who was sidelined during training camp with a knee injury, is skating himself into condition and may be ready for service near the end of the current road tour.</p><p>Great things are expected of Wilson, largely on the basis of his fine showing during the closing days of the 1952-53 campaign. The former Port Arthur star, collected three goals and a pair of assists in the last seven games of the season and went on to pace the Bears in their Calder Cup series with the Pittsburgh Hornets, scoring a trio of goals in the four games played.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02259/1587194-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="1138" height="1467"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Baron Star Honored</b></p><p><b>RED HENRY&hellip; &hellip; Red Kot</b></p><p><b>RICHARD L. (Dick) KROESEN,</b> president of the Cleveland Arena, congratulates the Cleveland Baron&rsquo;s Eddie Olson for winning the Carl Liscombe trophy emblematic of scoring leadership in the American Hockey for the 1952-53 season. Olson, who led the league with a total of 86 last year, was the first native American to ever win the title and the trophy which is named after the former Providence Red star who still holds the league record for points in a single season with 118 set in 1947-48. This season Eager Eddie is taking up right where he left off, although he&rsquo;s finding the competition just that much tougher. He is currently in eighth place in the AHL scoring column, with a total of 28 points, based on 11 goals and 17 assists.</p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0012-01

Hershey Chalks Up Nine Wins In First Thirteen Home Games

<h2><b>Goal Drop</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he goals per game average continues to drop, In 88 games played to date 542 goals have been scored for an average of 6.16 per game. The same time last season the average was 6.60 per game.</p><h2><b>Winning Goals</b></h2><p>Waiter Clune, Victoria defenseman, has scored two goals to date this season and both were game winning goals. The first against Calgary Oct. 26th and the second against Seattle on Nov. 27.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS MON. A.M., NOV. 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01337/1587372-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="605" height="210"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Tuesday Nov. 24th</b></p><p>Victoria 2 at Vancouver 2</p><p>New West. 2 at Saskatoon 4</p><p><b>Wednesday Nov. 25th</b></p><p>New West. 2 at Edmonton 7</p><p><b>Thursday Nov. 26th</b></p><p>New West. 2 at Calgary 5</p><p><b>Friday Nov. 27th</b></p><p>Seattle 1 at Victoria 7</p><p>Edmonton 2 at Vancouver 3</p><p><b>Saturday Nov. 28th</b></p><p>Vancouver 3 at Seattle 1</p><p>Edmonton 1 at New West. 4</p><p>Saskatoon 1 at Calgary 3</p><p><b>Sunday Nov. 29th</b></p><p>Edmonton 1 at Seattle 4</p><h3><b>TUESDAY&rsquo;, NOVEMBER 24</b></h3><p><b>Victoria 2 at Vancouver 2</b></p><p><b>VANCOUVER</b> &mdash; The Vancouver Canucks came from behind with a goal late in the third period to earn a 3-2 tie with the Victoria Cougars and strengthen their hold on first place in the Western Hockey League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02295/1587365-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="608" height="412"></div><p><b>New Westminster 2 at Saskatoon 4</b></p><p><b>SASKATOON</b> &mdash; Saskatoon Quakers ocored a pair of goals in both the second and third periods and stayed off the best the New Westminster Royals had to offer to gain a 4-2 decision over the third placers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03265/1587358-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="609" height="471"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 25</b></h3><p><b>New Westminster 2 at Edmonton 7</b></p><p>EDMONTON &mdash; The New Westminster Royals dropped their second game In os many days when they fell before the recently strengthened Edmonton Flyers by a 7-2 count.</p><p><b>New Westminster:</b> Goal, Dechene; defence. Durham, Bergeron, Matthews; forwards. McNab. Dorohoy, Brilliant, Love, Hamilton, Fashoway, Boyce, Kasoian. Thomson, Denny.</p><p><b>Edmonton:</b> Goal, Hall; defence, Hyrmnak, Coflin. Zenjuk, Thibeault; forwards. B. Poile D. Poile. Uniac, Scoizzl. Strain. Anderson, Boone, &lsquo;Haley, Bonin. NHannlgan. O&rsquo;Grady.</p><p>Referee Lou Farelli; linesman, Hank Wilson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04237/1587351-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="606" height="584"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 26</b></h3><p><b>New Westminster 2 at Calgarv 5</b></p><p>CALGARY &mdash; The New Westminster Royals made it three straight losses on the road in succession when they lost a 5-2 decision to the second place Calgary Stampeders.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05205/1587344-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="607" height="257"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06175/1587337-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="603" height="233"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07163/1587330-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="1570" height="1587"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Darting Denny Stopped by Stevie</b></p><p><b>STOPPED &mdash;</b> Doug Stevenson, in the nets for the Seattle Bombers, gets lots of help from defenseman Vic Lovendahl as he repulses a bid for a goal by New Westminster Royals Fred Denny (18). At left ready to lend a hand is the Bombers&rsquo; Fiori Goegan.</p></figcaption></div><h3><b>FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27</b></h3><p><b>Seattle 1 at Victoria 7</b></p><p>VICTORIA &mdash; The line of Eddie Dorohoy, Alex Kuzma and Sam Bettio paced the V&rsquo;ictorla Cougars to a one-sided 7-1 win over the Seattle Bombers. Between them the trio picked up a total of 12 scoring points.</p><p><b>Seattle:</b> Pelletier, Lofvendahl, W.</p><p>Brown, Fielder, Bradley, Marquess, Jones, Nadeau, Ailsby, Davidson, Bell, Macauley, Adam, Wall, Fillon.</p><p>Victoria: Almas, Clune, Lavitt, Achtymlchuk. Maxwell. Sinnett, Schneider, Lowe, Anderson, Hebenton, Abbott. Kuzma, Kilburn, Dorohoy, Reay, Bettio.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08153/1587323-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="603" height="691"></div><p><b>Edmonton 2 at Vancouver 3</b></p><p>VANCOUVER &mdash; Diminutive Lome Worsley was sensational in the Vancouver Canucks&rsquo; nets as the first placers edged the resurgent Edmonton Flyerg 3-2 to strengthen their hold on first place in the league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09147/1587316-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="601" height="258"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10141/1587309-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="605" height="289"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 3 at Seattle 1</b></p><p>SEATTLE &mdash; In a penalty-filled game, the first place Vancouver Canucks dumped the Seattle Bombers 3-1. Twenty misdemeanors in all were called by referee Ross Morrow.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11124/1587302-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="603" height="60"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12110/1587295-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="604" height="536"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1389/1587288-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="499" height="802"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Stopped</b></p><p><b>BUD POILE,</b> Edmonton Coach, scored one or more points In 12 consecutive games before being stopped in Seattle Nov. 29. The league record is 19 games set by Fern Perreault of Tacoma during the 1948-49 season.</p></figcaption></div><p><b>Edmonton 1 at New Westminster 4</b></p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; Back at home after a lengthy road trip, the New Westminster Royals downed the Edmonton Flyers 4-1, dropping last year&rsquo;s playoff champs further into the loop cellar.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1480/1587281-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="601" height="581"></div><p><b>Saskatoon 1 at Calgary 3</b></p><p>CALGARY &mdash; Johnny Michaluk scored two goal as the Calgary Stampeders downed the Saskatoon Quakers 3-1.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1568/1587274-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="599" height="358"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1644/1587267-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="598" height="157"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29</b></h3><p><b>Edmonton 1 at Seattle 4</b></p><p>SEATTLE &mdash; The Seattle Bombers defeated the Edmonton Flyers 4-1 but lost the services one their ace player. Barton Bradley who steped on the puck and crashed into the end fence and broke his kneecap.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-219/1587260-1-eng-US/f0013-212.jpg" title="f0013-21" width="600" height="413"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. NOV. 29)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1735/1587253-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="601" height="1319"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1831/1587246-1-eng-US/f0013-182.jpg" title="f0013-18" width="603" height="239"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1927/1587239-1-eng-US/f0013-192.jpg" title="f0013-19" width="610" height="413"></div><h3><b>Most Penalties</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-2015/1587232-1-eng-US/f0013-202.jpg" title="f0013-20" width="600" height="185"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0013-01

WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By EMMETT WATSON</div><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Any outfit bent on servicing the public with athletic events had better have at least one colorful and capable figure on its payroll, the type to tickle the wallets of potential ticket buyers. Such a man may be Marcel Pelletier, of the Seattle Bombers. Very few people in the hockey dodge doubt that Marcel is colorful and capable, including M. Pelletier himself.</p><p>&ldquo;I pack this place,&rdquo; said M. Pelletier, taking his first look at the Ice Arena.</p><p>&ldquo;Say which?&rdquo; said Mr. Leo Ornest, the Bombers&rsquo; publicity agent.</p><p>&ldquo;To the rafters,&rdquo; affirmed M. Pelletier. &ldquo;Dust off the cheap seats.&rdquo;</p><p>If true, this will be welcome news to Mr. Frank Dotten, the Bomber general manager, who lost more money last year and to Gene Walby, the club president, who gave the Bombers a strong transfusion of green plasma, direct from the US Treasury blood bank.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a colorful guy,&rdquo; said M. Pelletier, who is 25 years old. stands 5-11, weighs 180 pounds and is said to have reflexes 3.2 degrees faster than a cat&rsquo;s. &ldquo;They will come out to see Marcel tend the goal. Marcel is the best.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Low Index</b></h2><p>Among others who agree is Mr. Dotten. He drafted Marcel from Chicoutimi of the Quebec League, where they take the job of being a goalie quite seriously. M. Pelletier was the toast of Chicoutimi, whose fans showed their adoration in many tangible ways. Marcel got his hotel room free, a car was placed at his disposal, he ate on the house&mdash;in short, Chicoutimi was his oyster.</p><p>It goes without saying that M. Pelletier was reluctant to leave such a climate.</p><p>&ldquo;Take the matter of salary,&rdquo; said Mr. Dotten. &ldquo;We can pay you&mdash;&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;In Chicoutimi, I&rsquo;m the big hero,&rdquo; Marcel reminded Mr. Dotten. &ldquo;They give me everything &mdash; free.&rdquo; -</p><p>&ldquo;They do?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Free car, free hotel, free &mdash;&rdquo;</p><p>In all his experience, Mr. Dotten had never bargained against a no-cost-of-living index, but Frank was equal to the challenge.</p><h2><b>Free Town</b></h2><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the same in Seattle,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Very generous people.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Yes?&rdquo; M. Pelletier showed interest.</p><p>&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; replied Mr. Dotten. &ldquo;Take the matter of a car. Drive it into any of Seattle&rsquo;s big-hearted service stations and what do you find? Free air for your tires. The finest air in the state of Washington &mdash; all free!&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Indeed?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Why, that&rsquo;s nothing,&rdquo; said Fearless Frank. &ldquo;Our hotels provide free towels and stationnery. What more can a man ask?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;What about rent?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Then there&rsquo;s the restaurants,&rdquo; continued Mr. Dotten, ignoring the question. &ldquo;Aside from a small service charge, everything is free &mdash; water, napkins, toothpicks, knives, forks, salt, pepper, menus&hellip;&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Even Olives</b></h2><p>Mr. Dotten outlined more of Seattle&rsquo;s blessings, like free advice, street signs, road maps, scenery, escalators, olives in the martinis&hellip; everything free.</p><p>&ldquo;About the car &mdash;&rdquo; said M. Pelletier.</p><p>&ldquo;What I said about free air for the tires still goes,&rdquo; said Mr. Dotten, taking out his pen. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll tell them you&rsquo;re coming. Sign here.&rdquo;</p><p>Mr. Pelletier signed. The ink was free.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01336/1586609-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="522" height="1007"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Moving Up</b></p><p><b>GUYLE FIELDER.</b> Rookie-of-the-Year in the American League last season, is currently running sixth in the WHL statistics.</p></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02259/1586602-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="1132" height="1085"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Finally Inks Pact</b></p><p><b>RUDY FILION,</b> left, signs his 1953-54 contract for Seattle Bombers as President of the WHL, Al Leader, right, and Bomber publicity director and HOCKEY NEWS correspondent Leo Ornest look on.</p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0014-01

Watson’s Needle

<div class="byline">By HY ZIMMERMAN</div><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Rudy Filion, high-scoring Seattle center, recently ended the longest holdout in Western Hockey League history. He signed a Bomber contract in the office of Al Leader, league president.</p><p>Filion came to terms with Frank Dotten, Bomber general &hellip; manager, but his contract needed approval from Leader. Under Western Hockey League rules, the league president&rsquo;s approval is necessary in the case of all suspended players. Leader approved the settlement.</p><p>Filion was suspended by the Bombers October 10 and fined $50 for each game missed. Leader, in previous negotiations with Filion, promised to rescind the fines.</p><p>Filion had insisted on pay retroactive to the start of the season, October 10. According to the contract, his pay started when he signed. No other terms were divulged.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03193/1586640-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="278" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Leader</b></figcaption></div><p>Rudy expressed himself as happy with the contract. Leo Ornest, Bomber publicity director, echoed the sentiment on behalf of the club. Leader said that &ldquo;give and take&rdquo; on both sides had brought Rudy into the fold.</p><p>Filion. in his sixth season with Seattle, is the oldest Bomber in point of service. The 26-year-old pivotman last year led the club with 74 points.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0014-03

Filion Holdout Longest In Western Loop History

<h2><b>Junior Janitor</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen regular goaler Bob Perreault was injured, Montreal Royals called on junior janitor Claude Pronovost to fill in for the third period on December 3&hellip;</p><h2><b>Hat Trick</b></h2><p>Blonde speedster Leo Gravelie added three more goals to his already impressive list on Dec. 7 as he helped Ottawa down Quebec 6-3 for the league lead.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M. DEC. 8)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01309/1587522-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="598" height="188"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi 5 at Royals 6</b></p><p><b>MONTREAL</b> &mdash; The Montreal Royals came from behind to down the Chicoutimi Chics 6-5 with junior goaler Claude Pronovost in the nets for the third period, replacing Bob Perreault, who was injured.</p><p>Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal: Hicks; defense: Lamirande. McCallum, Glaude, Roy; forwards; Moore, Leger, Dussault, White, Buchanan, Pereault, L, Smrke, S. smrke, Franche, Groleau.</p><p>Royals &mdash; Goal, Perreault; defense: Leger, Harmon, Hodgson, Roche; forwards: Masnlck, Davis, Tesler, Blaine, Kaiser, Litzenberger, Desaulniers, Burchell, Wray, Denis, Pronovost.</p><p>Referee: Slbby Mundey; linesmen: Jim Haggerty and Jim Slater.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02272/1587515-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="611" height="699"></div><p><b>Valleyfield 1 at Sherbrooke 2</b></p><p><b>SHERBROOKE</b> &mdash; A goal by Earl Johnson with less than a minute of regulation time left, gave the Sherbrooke Saints a 2-1 win over the Valleyfield Braves.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03248/1587508-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="608" height="344"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2</b></h3><p><b>Royals 4 at Quebec 5</b></p><p><b>QUEBEC</b> &mdash; Veteran Ludger Tremblay wasted no time, tallying after just nine seconds of sudden-death overtime to give the Quebec Aces a 6-4 win over the Montreal Royals and sole possession of first place in the loop.</p><p>Royals &mdash; Goal, Perreault; defense: Hollingworth, Hodgson, Harmon, Leger, Roche; forwards, Kaiser, Litzenberger, Desaulniers, Tessier, Burchell, Blaine, Denis, Masnick, Davis.</p><p>Quebec &mdash; Goal, Marois; defense, Raglan, Crozier, Talbot, Cabana, Houle; forwards, Nixon, Brown, Cabana, Grosse, Powell, Regan, Labadle, Kelly, Tremblay, Wnarram.</p><p>Referee, Eric Milford; linesmen, Armand Leclerc, Rene Langevin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04200/1587501-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="609" height="587"></div><p><b>Chicoutimi 1 at Springfield 5</b></p><p><b>SPRINGFIELD</b> &mdash; Johnny Bobenic ocored two goals to pace the Springfield Indians to a convincing 6-1 win over the Chicoutimi Chicks before 2,100 Springfield fans. It was the eecond loss in as many nights for the Chicks.</p><p>Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal, Hughes; defense: Roy, McCallum, Glaude, Lamirande; forwards, White, Buchanan, Groleau, Perreault, Leger, Franche, Dussault, Tkaechuk, Moore.</p><p>Springfield &mdash; Goal, Henderson; defense: Telford, Tarala, Bloomer, McNab; forwards. Power, Schlnkel, McLeod, Gagnon, Jones, Bobenic, Logan, Pogue, Leie, McMurdy.</p><p>Referee. Bill Roberts; linesmen: Charlie Ghedi, Bil Cote.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05163/1587494-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="608" height="488"></div><p><b>Sherbrooke 1 at Ottawa 3</b></p><p><b>OTTAWA</b> &mdash; The Ottawa Senators snapped a three game losing streak as they downed the Sherbrooke Saints by a 3-1 count. Senators snipers were Bep Guidolin, Bill Johnson and Jackie Giese-brecht while Sherbrooke&rsquo;s lone goal came from the stick of Nels Podolsky.</p><p>Sherbrooke &mdash; Goal, Gatherum; defense, Roberge. Palamar, Hay, Bownass: forwards, Dube, Stankiewicz, C. Johnson, Podolsky, B. Giesebrecht, Ehnan, Malo, Irving, Bruneteau, McLean.</p><p>Ottawa &mdash; Goal Frederick; defense: Arundel, Hudson, Bolton, Robertson; forwards: Blair, Howard Rlopelle, Gravelie, B. Johnson, Kuntz, J. Giesebrecht, Guidolin, Poland, oley, Hugh Riopelle.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen: John McEvoy and Gordie Pranske.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06143/1587487-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="607" height="428"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3</b></h3><p><b>Montreal 1 at Chicoutimi 4</b></p><p><b>CHICOUTIMI</b> &mdash; Stan Smrke scored two goals to pace the Chicoutimi Sagueneens to a 4-1 win over the second place Montreal Royals. Other Chicoutimi markers were racked up by Perreaut and Tkachuk while Skippy Burchell had the lone Royal goal.</p><p>Royals &mdash; Goal: Perreault; defense: Hcllingworth, Hodgson, Roche, Harmon, Leger; forwards: Davis. Kaiser, Litzenberger, Desaulniers. Tessier, Burchell, Denis, Wray.</p><p>Chicoutimi &mdash;Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Roy, McCallum, Lamirande; forwards: Buchanan, White, S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Franche, Groleau, Perreault, Dussault, Moore, Tkachuk.</p><p>Referee: Milford; linesmen: Tailleur, Levesque.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07135/1587480-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="607" height="461"></div><p><b>Ottawa 3 at Sherbrooke 1</b></p><p><b>SHERBROOKE</b> &mdash; The Ottawa Senators climbed into a second place tie with the Montreal Royals when they downed the Sherbrooke Saints 3-10</p><p>Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Bolton, Hodgson, Arundel, Robertson; forwards, Poland, Guidolin, oley Gravelle, Blair, Riopelle, J. Giesebrecht. Kuntz, Burega, B. Johnson.</p><p>Sherbrooke: Goal, Gatherum; defense: Roberge, Palamar, Hay, Bownass; forwards Dube, Stankiewicz. C. Johnson, McLean, Irving, Ehnan. Podolsky, Bruneteau, B. Giesebrecht, Malo.</p><p>Referee. Roberts: Linesmen, Lalonde, Westgate.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08124/1587473-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="604" height="407"></div><p><b>Quebec 4 at Valleyfield 5</b></p><p><b>VALLEYFIELD</b> &mdash; Jean-Paul Bisaillon scored a goal early in the second period to give the Valleyfield Braves a 5-4 decision over the first place Quebec Aces.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09116/1587466-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="604" height="462"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10102/1587459-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="609" height="205"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1184/1587452-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="542" height="538"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>League Leader</b></p><p><b>LEO GRAVELLE</b></p></figcaption></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5</b></h3><p><b>Valleyfield 5 at Springfield 1</b></p><p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.&mdash; Andre Corriveau turned in a hattrick as VaHeyfleld Braves downed Springfield Indians 5-1 in a Quebec Hockey League game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1263/1587445-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="608" height="542"></div><p><b>Quebec 0 at Ottawa 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1353/1587438-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="605" height="335"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY DECEMBER 6</b></h3><p><b>Springfield 3 at Montreal 2</b></p><p>MONTREAL&mdash;Coach Doug McMurdy turned out to be the hero as the Springfield Indians downed the Montreal 3-2 after 2:12 of sudden-death overtime.</p><p><b>Springfield:</b> Goals: Hendesron; defense: Bloomer, McNab, Telford, Tarala; forwards: Leler, Gagnon, Bobenic, Schinkel, Hastings. McLeod, McMurdy, Power, Locas. Pogue.</p><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal: Perreault; defense: Hodgson. Harmon, Leger, Hollingworth; forwards, Blaine, Wray, Davis, Burchell, Litzenberger, McCready, Desaulniers, Tessier, Frampton, Kaiser, Repaud.</p><p>Referee: Bill Roberts; linesmen: Bob Sleeth, Jim Slater.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1445/1587431-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="608" height="596"></div><p><b>Ottawa 6 at Quebec 8</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1536/1587424-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="605" height="695"></div><p><b>Sherbrooke 6 Chicoutimi 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1635/1587417-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="603" height="675"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. DEC 6)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1733/1587410-1-eng-US/f0015-172.jpg" title="f0015-17" width="603" height="1262"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPER&rsquo;S RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1825/1587403-1-eng-US/f0015-182.jpg" title="f0015-18" width="607" height="672"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LAEGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>CHICOUTIMI, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Counting upon the return of his great playmaker and a stalwart young defenseman as the prime factors, Rollie Hebert looks for a real drive from his Chicoutimi Sagueneens from here on. The coach of the team which won the championship last year in the old QSHL doesn&rsquo;t figure there&rsquo;s that much difference in the loop that has gone whole hog for professional hockey standards.</p><p>So the come-back of Sherman White and Pete Taillefer is counted upon as a signal for the reclamation of sovereign rights by the Chicks. Not that they are trailing so much in the closely bunched Slater circuit at that. Recent results have seen a team running fifth rocket to second place, or even to a tie for first almost overnight. And the Sagueneens haven&rsquo;t been doing badly though minus their talented stars.</p><h2><b>Won Byng Trophy</b></h2><p>White was voted the Byng of Vimy Trophy by the league&rsquo;s referees last year. This award, in the QHL is slightly at variance with the Lady Byng of the NHL, goes to the athlete who combines effective play with value to his team. Naturally an ability to get along with people holds some influence with the arbiters.</p><p>White w&rsquo;ith 83 points &mdash; 57 of which were assists &mdash; was established as the loop&rsquo;s best playmaker and ranked third in the final scoring table.</p><p>Taillefer, one of the younger set among reaguards, was highly rated as the circuit&rsquo;s best young defense player.</p><p>Both players were sidelined since the early days of fall training White by broken cheekbone suffered in an automible accident and Taillefer with a broken wrist, suffered on the opening game this season.</p><p>White got into action in the game at Montreal, December 1, when Royals shaded the Sagueneens 6-5 in a free-scoring joust and Sherman got away for a goal late in the game to put the first item on new start on the scoring sheet.</p><p>When things shake down properly, White, at first being employed in utility forward line roles, will be put back at the centre of a line with Stan Smrke on the left flank and Bucky Buchanan on the right. This was the Chicks&rsquo; best production unit last season and Hebert calculates that It will return to its high scoring forays by the turn of the year.</p><h2><b>Refused To Tinker</b></h2><p>While dissenters in the league were openly deprecating the Sagueneens as non-repeaters Hebert does not agree. It is pointed out that there has been no attempt at transfusion of new blood into the corpuscles of the champions, but globetrotters Rollie&mdash;he has been reluctant to tinker with a winning machine.</p><p>Cautious that he have no weak links, Hebert sought reserve strength in all departments. Thus a few weeks ago he made a deal with Turk Broda at Ottawa and obtained Cliff Hicks, who played for Washington in the Eastern US Amateur League last season as goaling understudy to tall Phil Hughes. Hicks will be employed enough to keep him from getting rusty, though Hughes remains the first stringer. Hicks is on New York Rangers list. Even with Taillefer sidelined the Chicks were strong on the back division with two huskies, Georges Roy and Gerry Claude working as one pair, alternating with Andy McCallum, and the ex-New York Ranger Jean Paul Lamirande.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01294/1586678-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="568" height="1359"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Will Supply &hellip;</b></p><p><b>SHERMAN WHITE</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02237/1586671-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="535" height="771"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&hellip; Big Spark</b></p><p><b>SUCKY BUCHANAN</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Pending the re-shuffle Incidental to White&rsquo;s return to full time duty, Jimmy Moore has been pivoting the first line with Normie Dussault and Germain Leger on the rails. The second formation sends Fernand Perreault over the dasher to be flanked by the Smrke brothers, Lou and Stan,. While Marius Groleau has been the middle-man with Buchanan and Delphis Tranche.</p><p>ICE CUBES &mdash; When Paul Masnick was recalled the camp of NHL Canadiens, Pete Morin put Gerry Desaulniers at centre between Orval Tessier and Lome Davis&hellip; Davis received what Frank Carlin described as &ldquo;one of the worst head cuts I&rsquo;ve ever seen&rdquo; when he crashed into the glass at the end of the Quebec Coliseum. His forehead struck one of the thin steel upright strips framing the glass, making a deep gash above the left eye requiring six big stitches &hellip;</p><p>When Royals play Aces and Sagueneens on successive nights they stay overnight at Chateau Frontenac in Quebec and next day take a bus to Chicoutimi &hellip; on last week&rsquo;s trip Pete Morin had his boys seated at dinner at the &ldquo;Half Way House&rdquo; in Laurentide Park, when in trouped Rollie Hebert with his Sagueneens &hellip; quite a few old touches were cut up by the rival players who were to clash a few hours later at the Chicoutimi Colisee&hellip; would this sort of fraternizing by frowned upon by the high brass in the Quebec League? &hellip;</p><p>When Bob Perreault, goaler for the Royals, had trouble with a gimpy knee which detracted from his agility in the game against Chicoutimi in Montreal, December 1, Morin called upon Royals&rsquo; junior Claude Pronovost to take the net for the third period &hellip; this 18-year-old youngster from Shawinigan Falls, Que is a brother of Marcel Pronovost of Detroit Red Wings &hellip; he held the Chicks to one tally in a winning game for Royals&hellip; Jacques Belanger, pilot of the Junior Royals represented Frank Selke at Kitchener, Ont., in the recent split-up of those Green Shirt players, which caused all the hob in the OHA&hellip; Orval Tessier, the Cornwall, Ont. boy, who played junior for Kitchener and Barrie last season, has been climbing in the QHL scoring list&hellip; in a game at Ottawa he collected four point and in one against Chicoutimi he grabbed five &hellip;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hebert Expects Chicks To Surge With Return Of Sidelined Stars

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA. Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, coach Vic Myles of the Moose Jaw Millers has so many hockey players he doesn&rsquo;t know what to do with them.</p><p>To cut down to the game limit of 14 men in uniform, the Mose Jaw mentor has been forced to leave some starry talent on the sidelines. But still the Millers pile up victory after victory in the young Saskatchewan Senior Hockey League race.</p><p>Moose Jaw swept their first games, including three with last year&rsquo;s defending champion Regina Caps. Such players as forwards Harvey Stein and Baldy Smith and veteran rearguard Bill Heindi didn&rsquo;t see action in some of those games. Coach Myles simply had no room for them.</p><p>Speaking of defensemen, Myles is just loaded with them. In their last win over Yorkton Terriers, Myles dressed six rearguards, namely Heindi, Bill Clarke, Amos Wilson, Cy Whiteside, Dale Anderson and Don Fletcher. Another outstanding defenceman, George Hunchuk, was used up on the forward line. If and when injuries hit the Mill City crew, their reserve strength on defence will stand them in good stead.</p><p>Coach Myles is expecting the veteran Heindl to prove a bulwark on defence. He is a much travelled hockey player and for the past two seasons was a key man in the Saskatoon blueline brigade. This year, however, coach Doug Bentley decided to let him go to the Millers. Heindl is getting on in years but the rugged operator still has plenty of good hockey left In him.</p><p>The Millers received another valuable addition from the Quakers in goalie Bob Lalonde. Net minder last year for the Flin Flon junior Bombers, young Lalonde was earmarked to understudy Charlie Rayner at Saskatoon. However, rather than keep him idle, the Quakers permitted him to go to Moose Jaw. If anything happens to Prince Charlie, he will receive a quick call to rejoin Saskatoon.</p><p>Another former Quaker, Red Staley, still hasn&rsquo;t made an appearance yet with the Millers, There are reports that Staley will remain out of hockey this year.</p><p>The Saskatchewan Senior League (Allan Cup variety) is definitely on the way up again. At Melville, they are installing artificial ice which will leave Yorkton as the only league entry relying on natural ice. One. of the league&rsquo;s dangers is that the two larger cities of Regina and Moose Jaw will become too strong for the smaller centres of Melville and Yorkton. So far in league play, the two bigger cities have dominated the exchanges but that is partly the result of their edge in conditioning. The teams at Melville and Yorkton were away to a slow start.</p><p>Vic Kreklewetz and Stan Obodiac, two boys who played overseas last winter, have stayed home this year to perform with the Terriers. Yorkton has also added Jack Shupe of Weyburn and Tom Hanneson of Winnipeg on defence. Gill Maslanko and Dave Rusnell, ex Moose Jaw junior, have been signed for forward duties.</p><p>After winding up the grid season with the football Roughriders. husky Doug Killoh made a starry debut with the Regina Caps. He fired some five goals to Lead Regina to an easy 14-2 trouncing over Melville.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Moose Jaw Millers Lead Saskatchewan Sr. Loop

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey to many people means first-class hockey entertainment, surpassing even the NHL in unexpected thrills. But lately there has been a decline in its popularity &mdash; in come centres at least.</p><p>Kitchener-Waterloo Greenshirts, in third place in the</p><p>OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop at the time, found the financial burden a little oppressive and late in November turned the operation of the club, over to their sponsors, Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Little could be learned about this transaction at first. Neither Greenshirts nor Canadiens were willing to comment.</p><p>One spokesman for Greenshirts admitted the club was in &ldquo;bad shape financially.&rdquo; He said Canadiens would operate the team for the remainder of the season but the Kitchener Sports Club would hold the franchise. You figure it out.</p><p>It didn&rsquo;t sound too complexing to a member of the OHA executive. They checked on the sale post haste. They were informed that Canadiens would pay Greenshirts&rsquo; hills for the rest of the season and also be responsible for any deficit already Incurred. It sounded like a nifty arrangement.</p><p>Some of the OHA clubs didn&rsquo;t like the sale and planned an official protest but there didn&rsquo;t seem to be much they could do. OHA regulations permit the sale or transfer of any franchise provided that the new holders operate it In the same municipality.</p><p>No sooner had word of this unexpected transaction seeped out than it was rumored in Kitchener that the Greenshirts would drop out of the league.</p><p>At the time of writing the OHA had not been informed of this drastic step and one Kitchener official said such a move was not contemplated at the time.</p><p>The Greenshirts came into the league in the 1951-52 season and finished in fifth place by a decimal points. Last year, convinced that all was lost, they sold their best players to Barrie Flyers. Barrie won the Memorial Cup and the Shirts finished in the cellar.</p><h2><b>Opposed To Move</b></h2><p>Some junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; operators are vehemently opposed to Frank Selke&rsquo;s Canadiens moving into the OHA but it remains to be seen if they can counteract it.</p><p>&ldquo;Selke has ruined the Quebec junior league,&rdquo; one OHA manager oaid. &ldquo;He had to have a winner every year so he packed one team. What team does he intend to pack in this league, Kitchener or St. Catharines Teepees?&rdquo;</p><p>Teepees are sponsored by Buffalo Bisons, an affiliate of Montreal. The Teepees have been leading the league since the season started.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01260/1586733-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="529" height="888"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Purchaser</b></p><p><b>FRANK SELKE</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Elsewhere on the junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; front Leighton &ldquo;Happy&rdquo; Emms, Barrie Flyers&rsquo; coach, was ruled innocent by the OHA executive after a protest by Stafford Smythe, manager of Toronto Marlboros.</p><p>Smythe thought Emms should be held responsible because Bob Duncan, a Marlboro player acting as goal judge, was hancuffed and taken to the Barrie lockup a few weeks ago when he became imbroiled in an argument with nearby fans.</p><p>Duncan was released shortly afterwards. No charges were laid but Smythe was furious at the treatment his player received.</p><p>The OHA ruled that Emms had nothing to do with this particular case. If Marlboros thought an injustice was done, the OHA said, they should go after the management of the Barrie rink, not Emms.</p><p>Apart from the committee room fussing the teams were finding time to play a little hockey. As December moved in St. Catharines was still in front with the surging St. Michael&rsquo;s Majors right behind them in second. The Irish, after a slow start, were the hottest team in the league in November.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sale Of Shirts To Habs Irks Some OHA Officials

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>After 11 straight victories, the Edmonton Oil Kings were riding for a fall. The big wheels from the Oil Capital got it, too, on their last invasion of Saskatchewan.</p><p>On successive nights, the Regina Pats coached again by Murray Armstrong and Ab McDougall&rsquo;s Moose Jaw Canucks knocked over the Western Canada Junior Hockey League leaders. Regina turned the tables by a 3-1 verdict and Moose Jaw, with their big chief Freddie Sasakamoose back in the lineup, overpowered Edmonton 7-4.</p><p>When Pats clipped them, it actually snapped a 30-game Edmonton winning streak built up over two years of league play. The Kings wound up their schedule last spring with 19 straight wins. And they swept their first 11 games this season to run their skein to 30.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02222/1586764-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="279" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Pete Conacher</b></figcaption></div><p>Back from a two-game tryout with the parent Chicago Black Hawks. Sasakamoose, a full - blooded treaty Indian, was the big show in Moose Jaw&rsquo;s upset win over Edmonton. He figured in four straight goals at the start of the second period to lift Moose Jaw Into a 5-1 lead. A great passer like his fellow Indian athlete Jack Jacobs of Winnipeg football fame, Freddie laid down smooth passes for linemate Wilf Perrault to score three goals and then registered another one himself</p><p>Prior to that, Sasakamoose engaged in a bout of fisticuffs with Ray Kinasewich and they were both waved off with majors.</p><p>In his brief sojourn in the big time, Sasakamoose found the N.H.L. odefencemen ere pretty rough. &ldquo;They really play it rugged up there, especially those big defencemen. They make it tough getting in front of the net&rdquo;, he said. &ldquo;And those goalies really play the angles. They don&rsquo;t leave much space for the puck to get through&rdquo;.</p><p>Sasakamoose was very impressed by Ted Kennedy, the Toronto captain. He called him one of the best players he faced in the N.H.L. and said he was a tough man to beat on a faceoff. He added that he thought the two Bills, Mosienko and Gadsby, were the pick of the Chicago Hawks.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Kings’ Streak Finally Broken

<div class="byline">By P. S. TOMLIN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01268/1586826-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Spark Vees&rsquo; Drive</b></p><p><b>The Warwick Line &hellip; &hellip; Grant, Bill, Dick</b></p></figcaption></div><p>PENTICTON, BC&mdash;</p><p>The hot-and-cold defending Western Canada Senior Hockey champs, the Penticton Vees have suddently blown very hot. Only a week ago, people were wondering what was wrong with the Vees after they had scored the modest total of three goals in four games. Then they suddently broke out in a rach of goals. They avenged a 3-0 shut-out at the hands of the Kelowna Packers by thumping Phil Hergesheimer&rsquo;s crew 9-2 and embarrassed the Nelson Maple Leafs Leafs of the Western International League 8-2. Spearhead of the Vees sudden out-burst was the Warwick line. Brothers Bill, Dick and Grant were flying in both encounters. Grant, Penticton playing coach notched a hat trick against the Packers and brother Bill duplicated the feat against the Maple Leafs by scoring the three first goals of the game.</p><p>The touring Maple Leafs managed an even split on their tour of the Okanagan. Willie Schmidt&rsquo;s charges dumped the leagueleading Vernon Canadians 4-1 and nudged Kelowna 7-6. Beside the loss to the Vees, they were beaten 6-4 by the Kamloops Elks. Schmidt, Captain of the Penticton team which went down to Allan Cup finals last season, received a great ovation from the Penticton fans.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Penticton Vees Red Hot

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI. Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>There&rsquo;s no question about it. Any team could take it all in the International Hockey League scramble, as wide open a race as could be found anywhere.</p><p>Just look at it. Only five points separating the top seven clubs, and only a 10-point gap between first place and the cellar in the nine-team conference.</p><p>I.H.L. President Frank Gallagher, in Troy recently to watch a game, was all smiles. &ldquo;This is a lot different from last year,&rdquo; he affirmed. &ldquo;It certainly can&rsquo;t help stimulating our attendance, with almost every one of our teams right up in the running.&rdquo;</p><p>Gallagher&rsquo;s optimism appears justified, with a sharp up-swing in crowds at recent contests in Grand Rapids, Marion, Johnstown and Troy.</p><p>Louisville and Marion made the biggest advances in the standings, along with Johnstown, which deadlocked Cincinnati&rsquo;s Mohawks for the top spot.</p><p>The Kentucky Stars and Barons, both of them newcomers to the league, both went on rampages to move to within three points of first place. Louisville raced to six straight victories before Grand Rapids interrupted the string, while&rsquo; Marion, reinforced by three players from the parent Cleveland Baron outfit, took six out of eight.</p><p>This is the way matters stand right now: Cincinnati and Johnstown tied for first with 23 points: Grand Rapids third with 21 points: Marion, Troy, Louisville and Ft. Wayne deadlocked for fourth with 20 points; Toledo eighth with 18 points and Milwaukee a not-too-distant last with 13 points. How much closer could it be?</p><p>There were some interesting developments during the past week, when a 12-game card was played.</p><p>Johnstown moved up by winning its only two starts, from Cincinnati, and Toledo by identical 3-1 scores. The Mohawks were stopped twice, by Johnstown and Troy, 8-1, as their losing streak reached three in a row, their longest in two seasons of IHL competition.</p><p>Louisville, last beaten back on Nov. 14, added Milwaukee and Ft. Wayne to its string to make it six in a row before going down to defeat at the hands of Grand Rapids in a 3-2 thriller that was decided by Gordon Warner&rsquo;s goal early in the third period. The night before Louisville had prevailed over Grand Rapids, also by 3-2.</p><p>Marlon took Grand Rapids and Troy into camp to make it six out of seven at that point before being surprised by Ft. Wayne in another 3-2 dogfight.</p><p>Troy, which had not had too much to cheer about, had a big time in smothering Cincinnati with its worst IHL loss of the past two years, 8-1. Gordon Buttrey paced Hie Bruin attack with the three-goal &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; and chipped in with two assists for a five-point game, while George Edwards came through with two goals and a pair of assists. Goalie Julian Klymkiw, a classy rookie, played spectacularly.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

IHL Features Tight Race

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>A deadly combination of defensive know-how and keen marksmanship has propelled Halifax Atlantics into a commanding lead in the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League.</p><p>For several weeks Atlantics, still understaffed but strong on morale, had been battling tooth and nail with Terry Reardon&rsquo;s furious young skaters from Sydney Millionaires.</p><p>Then Atlantics started to soar. They won six games in a row, lost one to Charlottetown Islanders and promptly started a new streak. In eight games this season they&rsquo;ve won seven and tied one with Glace Bay. They have gone two games up on Sydney in their personal series but have had their most trouble with the tail-end Islanders, especially on PEI ice.</p><p>The current Halifax surge into a commanding position atop the league table coincided with a Sydney slump. Halifax started the Mills on the way down with victories on Sydney and Halifax ice. Then the Islanders took two more from the Mills. A third Halifax win and Terry Reardon&rsquo;s early pace-setters were floundering.</p><p>Atlantics, getting great mileage from 11 and 12 players while the others play 14, have been consistently outshot while winning. But their defensive displays have been as outstanding as have been their goal-scoring sorties.</p><h2><b>EXPERTS</b></h2><p>In goal-getting Dugger McNeil&rsquo;s charges are experts to most of the others. Paced by leading scorer Billy&rsquo; Ford and leading playmaker Pete Wywrot, the Atlantics have been taking advantage of their scoring opportunities in amazing fashion. And the goal-tending of Roy McMeekin has been the highlight in the winning surge.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02188/1586881-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="601" height="594"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Sniper</b></p><p><b>BUCK WHITLOCK</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Islanders&rdquo;, off to a slow start but starting to find their way back, have been given body blows by Glace Bay. The Minehs can&rsquo;t beat Halifax and seldom finish, ahead of Sydney but they have the Indian sign on the Islanders.</p><p>While Halifax and Sydney were in and out of first oplace, Islanders were battling with Miners for the third slot. Sydney has fallen off the championship pace but the Charlottetown-Glace Bay battle for third continues.</p><p>Islanders figured in the news on a different angle during the week. Winger Gerry Lachance and defenceman Bill LeBlanc, recently acquired from Mont Joli when that club folded, suddenly bolted, the Maritime team when they learned that their old club was going to continue to operate.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Atlantics Hold Lead In Maritime Big Four

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01246/1586912-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured N.H.L. coach.</p><p>6&mdash;Month in which Nick Mickoski celebrates his birthday.</p><p>7&mdash;Initials of one of the Colville brothers.</p><p>9&mdash;Metro Prys tai&rsquo;s native province (abbr).</p><p>11&mdash;W.H.L. referee.</p><p>13&mdash;Half an em.</p><p>14&mdash;Former Boston player known as Herbie.</p><p>15&mdash;A requisite for boxing.</p><p>17&mdash;Mrs. Bert Olmstead is one (abbr).</p><p>18&mdash;N.H.L. club for whom Bill Cowley played (abbr).</p><p>19&mdash;&ldquo;Flash&rdquo; Hollett was born in North Sydney, Cape.</p><p>21&mdash;Initials of a Montreal centre.</p><p>22&mdash;Railway (abbr).</p><p>23&mdash;Nickname of a Chicago defenseman.</p><p>24&mdash;Given name of Asmundson, ex Ranger player.</p><p>27&mdash;Given name of a Maple Leaf player.</p><p>29&mdash;Nattrium (Sym.).</p><p>21&mdash;Northern Ireland (abbr).</p><p>83&mdash;A Ranger rookie.</p><p>37&mdash;Given name of 3 down.</p><p>38&mdash;Dave Creighton plays thie wing (abbr).</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;First name of Rangers&rsquo; chief scout.</p><p>2&mdash;Initials of Peiri, A.H.L. governor.</p><p>3&mdash;This Leaf player is a native of Skead, Ont.</p><p>4&mdash;Don Metz&rsquo; brother.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Lumsden, Pittsburgh rookie.</p><p>8&mdash;Joe Schertzl was born in this country.</p><p>10&mdash;&ldquo;Fred&rdquo; Thurier&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>11&mdash;One of the Cleveland Barons.</p><p>12&mdash;Number of goals Paul Meger scored in 1952-53 season.</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of Nicholson, ex Indianapolis player.</p><p>16&mdash;Exists.</p><p>18&mdash;Players are penalized for doing this.</p><p>19&mdash;Boston Bruins&rsquo; president.</p><p>20&mdash;Frank Paice is one for the Rangers.</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of Sands, former N.H.L. player.</p><p>26&mdash;Nickname given Dennenay, ex Ottawa Senators star.</p><p>28&mdash;Another name for Yale.</p><p>30&mdash;Mimic.</p><p>32&mdash;In 1944-45 Billy Reay played two games for this N.H.L. club (abbr).</p><p>34&mdash;Artifical language.</p><p>35&mdash;Tellurium (Sym.).</p><p>36&mdash;Initials of Roberts, ex Canadian player.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

<h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Dec. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02199/1587048-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="602" height="160"></div><h2><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Dec. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03156/1587041-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="599" height="239"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Nov. 29)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04135/1587034-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="605" height="132"></div><h2><b>Scoring Leaders</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05117/1587027-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="597" height="283"></div><h2><b>Goalkeepers</b></h2><p>Dawson, St. Boniface, 51 goals in 14 games; Adams, Brandon, 60 in 14; Mikalan, Barons, 72 in 15; Smith, Monarchs, 60 in 11&#8532; Moskins, 9 in 1&#8531;.</p><h2><b>OKANAGAN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standins Nov. 21)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06100/1587020-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="600" height="134"></div><h2><b>Scoring Leaders</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0794/1587013-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="602" height="338"></div><h2><b>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Averages</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0888/1587006-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="602" height="134"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings on Dec. 4)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0978/1586999-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="602" height="162"></div><h2><b>NOHA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Nov. 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1068/1586992-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="594" height="155"></div><p>(Note: These records do not include game between Pembroke and Sudbury on Nov. 21)</p><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1161/1586985-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="602" height="311"></div><h2><b>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1256/1586978-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="599" height="236"></div><h2><b>PENALTY LEADERS</b></h2><p>Individual &mdash; Meyer, Kings, 37 mlns. Bumbacco, Hounds, 32 minutes.</p><p>Team &mdash; Greyhounds, 220 minutes; Trappers, 214 minutes.</p><h2><b>WESTERN CANADA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Dec. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1348/1586971-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="594" height="188"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Deo 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1448/1586964-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="594" height="133"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Dec 3)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1544/1586957-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="595" height="234"></div><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(Standings On Nov. 30)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1642/1586950-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="596" height="261"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1738/1586943-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="597" height="336"></div><h2><b>THE LEADERS</b></h2><p><b>Points</b> &mdash; Don Hall, Johnstown 41.</p><p><b>Goals</b> &mdash; Don Hall, Johnstown; Dick Pontarollo, Toledo 8.</p><p><b>Assists</b> &mdash; Don Hall Johnstown &mdash;23,</p><p><b>Hat Tricks</b> &mdash; Gordon Vejprava, Marion; Bill Pawchuk, Cincinnati; Roy Marshall, Louisville &mdash;2.</p><p><b>Penalty Minutes</b> &mdash; Ed Montigny, Fort Wayne &mdash;95.</p><p><b>Goalkeepers&rsquo; Average</b> &mdash; Charlie Hodge, Cincinnati &mdash;2.61.</p><p><b>Shutouts</b> &mdash; Bill Tibbs, Toledo &mdash;3.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Amateur Puck Parade … … At A Glance

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01157/1587574-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="258" height="297"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0297/1587567-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="260" height="303"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0380/1587560-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="2903" height="1729"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Chi-Hawk Netminding Duo Stop Prentice</b></p><p><b>FOILED &mdash;</b> Dean Prentice of the New York Rangers tries desperately to belt the loose puck into the Chicago Black Hawk cage but the combined efforts of Larry Zeidel and Al Rollins manage to foil him. That&rsquo;s Jimmy Peters waiting on the left in case he&rsquo;s needed, and Bones Raleigh of the Blues back of the cage.</p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0466/1587553-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="2928" height="1273"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Classy Cage Cops Stop Sure Shots</b></p><p><b>GOALMOUTH JAMS &mdash;</b> Wee Gerry McNeil of the Montreal Canadiens goes down to the ice to make a save off Johnny Wilson of the Detroit Red Wings in the photo on the left as Doug Harvey attempts to give the Red Wing forward the old heave-ho. In the photo at right. Tod Sloan seems headed into the rigging as he skates past the Rangers&rsquo; Johnny Bower who has moved out of the net to stop Sloan&rsquo;s sizzler.</p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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