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December 26, 1953

The Hockey News December 26, 1953

<div class="byline">Elmer Fergruson (As Seen in the Montreal Herald)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01421/1841473-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg" title="f0004-01" width="285" height="337"></div><p>&bull; IT WAS THE ESTEEMED and truculent Leo Durocher, of baseball fame, who once cynically remarked: &ldquo;Nice guys, don&rsquo;t win.&rdquo; And big Jean Beliveau, the most expensive rookie ever to be lured into the National League, is beginning to agree with the fundamentals of the hard-boiled Durocher theory. Probably Le Gros Bill has revised It to read: &ldquo;Nice guys get slugged,&rdquo; which would just about summarize his brief and painful experience in the National Hockey League this season to date.</p><p>Beliveau made a fine start, with three goals to his credit, but on October 22, before the League had scarcely got rolling, he was smashed across the ankle in a game at Chicago, a small bone was split by the blow, and he was out of action for seven weeks. He had just returned to play when, he suffered a broken cheek-bone through what was generally analyzed as a fall Into the iron uprights of the Ranger nets, In a scramble around that cage.</p><p><b>Beliveau is a quiet big fellow, a pleasant sort of personality but lie doesn&rsquo;t agree with the theory that he fell into the iron upright, and so broke his cheek-bone. Neither do officials of Canadiens. The club doesn&rsquo;t intend to make an issue out of it, the event being over and done with, officially. But not a dead issue with Beliveau, who. in effect, feels that he is getting pushed around, and intends to do something about it once he gets back. And Big Bill, a stalwart figure, over six feet in height, weighing just beyond 200 pounds, is quite capable, physically, of doing something about it.</b></p><p>&ldquo;What really happened in the latest Beliveau incident&rdquo; said s club official recently, &ldquo;is this: Beliveau was standing in front of the Rangers nets, waiting for a possible rebound off a shot by MacKay, who had the puck. Evans, a rugged Rangers defense player, charged over, crashed Beliveau from behind, and knocked hint towards the Ranger net-minded, Johnny Bower. Whether instinctively, or by Intention to do some bodily harm to Beliveau, Bower threw up the butt-end of his stick, gripped In both hands, crashed it right into Beliveau&rsquo;s face, and broke his cheek-bone. Beliveau didn&rsquo;t averred this speaker, &ldquo;touch the goal-post at all. And there was no penalty for the charge that crashed him towards the goaler.&rdquo;.</p><p>This is a version of the accident, or Injury, with which Beliveau agrees. What irks the big fellow is that he was heavily charged front behind by Evans and knocked sprawling right into the cross-check by Bower, Beliveau isn&rsquo;t ready to accuse the goaler of deliberately cross-checking him. That, he admits, could have been instinctive. But he is irked at being charged from behind, the attack which led to the Injury.</p><p><b>If Beliveau turns on his attackers, it will be a new departure for this big, clean-playing centre, whose aspiration to be the Rookie of the Season have been badly blighted by his two mishaps. He is far removed from the stigma of &ldquo;bad man&rdquo;, has never made unfair use of his weight and strength. In the QSHL last season, he had 59 minutes in penalties, only one major, which indicates he engaged in only oue brawl. He had no misconduct penalties.</b></p><p>But even In the Senior Group, he did not go. entirely unscathed. Early last season, the big guy was cross-checked in the mouth. A partial upper plate was broken, the fragments driven into the roof of his mouth. He had to undergo stitches, in the upper lip and inside the mouth. Result was he couldn&rsquo;t get new store teeth until his mouth healed. So he had to subsist on soup and mush, hardly sustenance for a 200-pound hockey player, In a game in which substantial steaks are a principal article of diet. It wasn&rsquo;t until December last season that he was sinking the fangs into meat, at which time he began to crank up, and from the poor start, wound up with 50 goals and 39 assists, leading the league on actual goals.</p><p>He&rsquo;s neither a Byng trophy candidate, nor a Peck&rsquo;s Bad Boy, just a business-like hockey player who doesn&rsquo;t intend to be pushed around any longer. Because that&rsquo;s what happens to nice guys.</p><p>&bull; DEPENDING ON the way you look at these things, you could say that Old Man Retribution, a guy who is noted for paying off, overtook Frank Byrne, the stormy petrel of Quebec hockey, whose Citadelles were forced to quit junior hockey because the club was faced with a huge monetary loss, due to over-confidence in the club&rsquo;s drawing-power, and a split In the affiliations ot Quebec city hockey fandom, between Citadelles and Fronteuacs of the Quebec Junior League.</p><p><b>Last spring, when the Ronnie Attwell case threw the Quebec Junior Hockey League into confusion, and both OHA and CAHA ruled that the Quebec provincial governing body was wrong in allowing Attwell to play for Junior Canadiens, the Quebec League, suspended by the governing body and faced with prospect of being ostracized, and barred from Memorial Cup play, decided to stick together, come what may. Byrne&rsquo;s team, the Citadelles, was among those which agreed to this course. But one minute before midnight of the date set for accepting or refusing the CAHA offer to join up witli that body or be side-lined. Byrne bolted. He jumped the Quebec Association, joined up with the CAHA, his team was allowed to play for the Memorial Cup and was eliminated.</b></p><p>So come this autumn, Byrne on the outs with the QAHA, which barred him for breaking the pact, had no place to go with his club. The QAHA didn&rsquo;t want him. So the CAHA kindly paved the way for his entry to the Ontario Association. But the latter body, long in the game, wise to its fluctuations, and taking no chances, insisted on a heavy guarantee that Byrnes&rsquo; team would finish the season. Also, he contracted for a heavy guarantee to the visiting clubs from Ontario, based on the receipts of the previous season.</p><p>These calculating proved faulty. The crowds fell off. The Citadelles had no Beliveau, no Camille Henry. The Frontenacs had taken a share of the trade. Heavy losses faced Citadelles, so the team made a deal with Frontenacs, who now replace them, with Byrne on the outside.</p><p>The gentleman of the CAHA doubtless breathed a sigh of relief that the Quebee war is ended, because the passing ot Citadelles ends the possibilities ot a law-suit contemplated to question the authority of that body to order a young athlete named Jacques Marcotte, to play with a club he didn&rsquo;t want to join, namely Citadelles, and barred him from joining the club he wished to play for, Frontenacs.</p><p><b>Unless the courts of law were willing to agree with a scandalous decision striking at the very fundamentals of amateurism the CAHA was going to lose this case. Now they can continue their despotic ways unless some other down-trodden youngster seeks redress at law.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

THE CIST AND JEST OF IT

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03262/1842401-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="431" height="585"></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>T</span>IM HORTON,</b> the Leafs&rsquo; crew cut sophomore sensation, will come under the scrutiny of Hockey News readers next week in an article by Stan Houston.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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COMING Next Week

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>Watch those Johnstown Jets!</p><p>That&rsquo;s the latest cry in the International Hockey League, where the Pennsylvanians have moved, into first place in a closely-fought race that finds only seven points separating the pacesetters from the eighth-place Louisville Stars.</p><p>A year ago, as a member of the now-defunct Eastern Amateur Hockey League, the Jets captured the playoffs but were beaten by Cincinnati&rsquo;s Mohawks of the IHL in their bid for their second straight United States senior title.</p><p>When the EAHL went out of business this campaign, Johnstown applied for admission and was voted a member of the International loop, of which It now is the easternmost city.</p><p>During the week, Johnstown won two games and tied one to move in front of Cincinnati by a single point. In turn, the Mohawks, who lost their only start to Marion, are just one point ahead of Marion. Grand Rapids is fourth, Toledo, Troy and Ft. Wayne share fifth, Louisville is eighth and Milwaukee a distant ninth.</p><p>Ft. Wayne swept to three successive triumphs during the week, while Marion took three out of four and Toledo two out of three. Milwaukee and Troy reversed that procedure, as both lost three in a row.</p><p>Johnstown moved into the leadership in team scoring, with 121 goals to its credit. Four other clubs also have cracked the magic century figure, Cincinnati (116), Marion (108), Troy (104) and Grand Rapids (101). Four outfits have yielded 100 or more tallies to date, Milwaukee (123), Louisville (119), Grand Rapids (114) and Troy (113).</p><p>The high-powered Jets also topped the individual scoring list once more, as big Center Don Hall held sway with 18 goals and 25 assists for 43 points.</p><p>Dick Pontarollo of Toledo was right behind him, while George Edwards and Coach Norm McAtee of Troy, Ken Biggs of Cincinnati, Roy Hammond and John Kovich of Toledo and John Horvath, Fraser Kilpatrick and Arnie Schmautz, all of Johnstown, were threatening Hall&rsquo;s position of supremacy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02349/1842678-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="601" height="607"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Passes Mark</b></p><p><b>DICK PONTAROLLO</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Pontarollo and Gordon Vejprava of Marion moved past the 2 flgoal mark at this early stage of the season, as Vejprava notched his third hat trick and raised his total to 22, while Pontarollo also fired the hat trick to give him 21.</p><p>Other three-goal efforts were turned in by Wimpy Jones and Ken Schultz of Marion as their club overpowered Grand Rapids, 9-2. Jones had a particularly big week, as he knocked in two of the goals in his team&rsquo;s 4-2 victory over Cincinnati on Hawk ice. It was only the second home setback of the year in 11 outings for the Mohawks on their own rink.</p><p>One of the week&rsquo;s most exciting battles took place at Troy, where Toledo squeezed out a 5-3 overtime verdict on the strength of Pontarollo&rsquo;s third tally of the game in the extra period and an insurance marker by Johnny Kovich. George Edwards had tied it up for the Bruins with two third period goals, the second coming with only 32 seconds to go in the contest.</p><p>Charlie Hodge of the Mohawks continued to rate as the No. 1 goal-tender In the IHL with a 2.35 mark, against a 2.88 average for Bill Tibbs of Toledo, All-Star net-minder in the loop for the past two years.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Johnstown Jets Zoom Into IHL Leadership

<h2><b>Worthy Investment</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>hen the Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey league decided to hate defenseman Fred Shero fitted for contact lenses, it proved to be a well invested $150. Micro already han scored more goals in 23 Kames this season, than he did last year in 64 games, since he has discarded his regular glasses while playing for the new type aids.</b></p><h2><b>Ex-Players</b></h2><p><b>Four members of the American Hockey League staff of linesmen were former star players in the circuit before turning to officiating. Mike McMahon works in Buffalo and Syracuse. Bobby Carse and Fred Thnrier in Cleveland and Art Lesleur calls the offsides in Providence.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON TUES A.M. DEC 22)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01417/1842062-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="589" height="185"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15</b></h3><p><b>Pittsburgh 2 at Cleveland 7</b></p><p><b>CLEVELAND</b>&mdash;A pair of Jacks, Stoddard and Gordon paced the Cleveland Barons to an impressive 7-2 win over, the Pittsburgh Hornets</p><p>It was the Barons&rsquo; eighth victory in their last nine games and moved them to within two points of the league lead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02395/1842055-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="610" height="706"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16</b></h3><p><b>Pittsburgh 4 at Hershey 1</b></p><p><b>HERSHEY</b> &mdash; Pittsburgh Hornets bounced Hershey Bears, 4-1 to move in a two-way tie with the Bears for third place in the American Hockey League.</p><p>The Hornets took the lead in the first period when Bob Bailey scored on a blueline drive. Bailey and Danny Lewicki ecored in the second period with Lome Ferguson counting for Hershey. Then Phil Maloney closed out the scoring in the final frame.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03343/1842048-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="606" height="506"></div><p><b>Providence 2 at Buffalo 2</b></p><p>BUFFALO &mdash; A third period goal by Pete Kapusta, just 16 seconds after the frame got underway, enabled the Providence Reds to gain a 2-2 tie with the front-running Buffalo Bisons, No scoring was produced in the overtime session.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04293/1842041-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="604" height="270"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05230/1842034-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="594" height="260"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06194/1842027-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="1726" height="989"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Cleveland&rsquo;s Cat Stops Providence Paul</b></p><p><b>ACTION AROUND BARON CAGE &mdash;</b> Paul Larivee, R.l. Red center, is back of Emile &ldquo;The Cat&rdquo; Francis and Coach Pat Egan is close as Reds close in on Cleveland goal. Baron in front of goal is Defenseman Eddy Reigle. Reds won game, 5-2.</p></figcaption></div><p><b>Cleveland 3 at Syracuse 5</b></p><p>SYRACUSE &mdash; A pair of goals late In the final period by Bob Allen and Harry Pldhirny produced the margin of difference as the Syracuse Warriors nudged the Cleveland Barons, 5-3.</p><p>Pldhlrny&rsquo;s goal and Allen&rsquo;s were their second of the night.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07182/1842020-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="592" height="926"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19</b></h3><p><b>Syracuse 2 at Cleveland 3</b></p><p>CLEVELAND &mdash; A goal by Ray Ross with less than four minutes to play in the final period was all the Cleveland Barons needed to whip the Syracuse Warriors, 8-2.</p><p>Eddie Olson and Gus Karrys scored Cleveland first two goals while the Warrior snipers were Harry Pldhirny and Rill Jones. Chuck Blair of the Barons suffered a leg injury when he crashed into the boards in the last period. He was taken to hospital.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08169/1842013-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="597" height="492"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09165/1842006-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="599" height="195"></div><p><b>Providence 3 at Pittsburgh 1</b></p><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; First period&rsquo; goals by Toppy Toppazzini and Al Baccari and a second period goal by Chuck Seherza were enough to allow the Providence Reds to coast to a 3-1 win over the Pittsburgh Hornets. A crowd of 2,866 watched the game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10151/1841999-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="595" height="552"></div><p><b>Buffalo 3 at Hershey 5</b></p><p>HERSHEY &mdash; Centre George (Red) Sullivan, assisted on all five Hershey markers as the Bears came from behind to defeat Buffalo Bisons, 5-3.</p><p>It was the third straight home-ice win for Hershey over the Bisons.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-11128/1841992-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="602" height="855"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20</b></h3><p><b>Syracuse 3 at Buffalo 4</b></p><p>BUFFALO &mdash; Pete Babando, the ex-National Leaguer, scored a pair of goals, the secsond the winner, as the Buffalo Bisons nipped the Syracuse Warriors, 4-3.</p><p>Harry Pidhirny scored a pair for the Warriors but to no avail as the Bisons were ahead all the way, leading 1-0, 2-0, 3-2 and finally, 4-3.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1296/1841985-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="599" height="784"></div><p><b>Hershey 3 at Providence 5</b></p><p><b>PROVIDENCE</b> &mdash; A pair of goals by</p><p>Bert Hirsehfeld was the margin for victory as the Providence Reds turned back the Hershey Bears, 5-3.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1467/1841978-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="614" height="833"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN., DEC. 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1383/1841971-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="608" height="722"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goal1</b>&mdash;Harry Pidhirmy, Syr. 23</p><p><b>Most Assists</b>&mdash;Geo. Sullivan, Hers. 31</p><p><b>Most Penalties</b>&mdash;Larry Cahan, Fitts. 74 minutes.</p><p><b>Best Goalie</b>&mdash; Jacques Plante, Buff. 32, 84, 2.63.</p><p><b>Most Shu touta</b>&mdash;Plante and Gil Mayer, Pitts. 2 each.</p><p><b>Most Tram Penalties</b>&mdash;Hershey, 315 min. o<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0178/1843155-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Compliments Of The Season</b></p><p><b>LITTLE MISTER 1954 &mdash;</b> The smiling young man shown here as the symbol of the coming New Year is John Dwight McKenzie, son of HOCKEY NEWS co-publisher Ken McKenzie. John D. is just twelve months old and he joins all of us in wishing all of you a very happy time in the coming twelve months, and in expressing the hope that you will continue to find The Hockey News as interesting and full of information as you apparently have for the past six years.</p></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;My personal belief is that the Norris family will be in Detroit hockey for many more years.&rdquo; So said Margp Norris, taking a quick peek Into the future upon completing her first year on the job as president of the Red Wings.</p><p>Dec. 13 started her second year as the only woman executive in hockey. The 26-year-old miss was a virtual stranger to Detroit but not to the sport when she took over her late father&rsquo;s place as head of the Wings and Olympia Stadium.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve heard those same rumors that we might be selling the Wings but I can tell you honestly that not one bid ever has come to our attention,&rdquo; Miss Norris said.</p><p>She was named by the other heirs to run the Detroit setup at the time of her father&rsquo;s death. The Norris&rsquo; estate won&rsquo;t be cleared up legally until next summer and there have been reports that the hockey holdings here might be sold at that time.</p><p><b>&ldquo;IN MT</b> year here I&rsquo;ve come to like this business and I want to stay in it&mdash;either with the rest of the family or by myself,&rdquo; she explained.</p><p>&ldquo;And if I didn&rsquo;t, mother might. You know, the Wings always were more a hobby than a business with dad so the rest of the family has come to feel the same way about it.&rdquo;</p><p><b>That Miss Norris might take over sole ownership eventually isn&rsquo;t too unlikely. Her share of the estate will run into many millions.</b></p><p>What does she believe has been accomplished in her year?</p><p>&ldquo;First, ft should be understood that I&rsquo;m still adapting myself to the business end,&rdquo; she replied. &ldquo;I never would attempt to run the hockey team in the sense that Jack Adams does if I were here for 50 years.</p><p><b>&ldquo;I&rsquo;VE CONCENTRATED</b> on coordinating the various departments and to improve on the appearance of the Olympia. I also have studied bringing in more attractions like a rodeo or a circus,&rdquo;</p><p><b>Those are all projects which needed attention or still do.</b></p><p>Under a woman&rsquo;s touch the Olympia has smartened up, and no longer do various department heads have to telephone to Chicago for final decisions. But the big plant still is empty too many nights to be as profitable as it might be.</p><p><b>Happy New Year To Everybody!</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Marge Norris Says Family Won’t Sell Detroit Red Wings

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>This was at one of the Rangers&rsquo; weekly luncheons in Leone&rsquo;s. Frank Boucher got up to address the newspaper men on the state of the club, and he said he was encouraged by Jack Evans&rsquo; showing, aftpr a cross-country flight from the Western League, and also by Max Bentley&rsquo;s aroused performances of late, and then he sat down and the distinguished chairman, Joe Nichols, said: &ldquo;Any questions of Frank?&rdquo;</p><p>Leo Petersen, sports editor of the United Press, said yes he had one and would Boucher care to comment on a report that he planned soon to unburden himself of the coaching role and concentrate strictly on the front office end of his job.</p><p>So Boucher stood up again and he said: &ldquo;Most of you have know a since the start of the season that I had no intention of doubling up forever, that it is more than any man can handle indefinitely. I found that out the first time I doubled up, or shortly before I called in Lynn Patrick to coach the club.</p><p>&ldquo;Now the situation is much the same except that our farm system is in much better shape than it was in those early years. Then all we had was the Rovers. Now we&rsquo;ve got some fine clubs and some excellent prospects. But it still goes that I want a coach and that I&rsquo;ll get one before long. How soon it will be, I don&rsquo;t know. But I&rsquo;m sure Mr. Irish will back me up on that.&rdquo;</p><p>Ned Irish, executive vice-president of Madison Square Garden, was seated at Boucher&rsquo;s right, and he modded in assent, and then Frank went on:</p><p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say much more than that. You&rsquo;ll have to draw your own conclusions.&rdquo;</p><p>Later it was established that Boucher did have a man in mind for the job, but that he was not now available. The assumption exists that the man in line is an ex-Ranger, which is fair enough, since every coach to come along has been brought up with a Ranger tradition behind him.</p><p>As if to underline the tremendous burden under which Boucher is operating, a double week-end loss to Montreal and back home to the Maple Leafs got Frank on his flying horse. He announced he was taking off for Cleveland to watch the Barons against the Pittsburgh Hornets on a quick trip.</p><p>So the workouts were left in the hands of Capt. Don (Bones) Raleigh while Boucher sought first aid for the ailing Rangers&mdash; a situation brought on not only by the setbacks but by physical impairments to Paul Ronty, Camille Henry, Nick Mickoski. Jack Evans and Ivan Irwin, none too serious but enough to take all the steam out of the Rangers.</p><p>Boucher did not disclose the player he had in mind. However, he had found Ranger wingers in a slump. They were not scoring and, worse, they were weak defensively.</p><p>Since Boucher already had obtained five players in a space of three years from Cleveland, the speculation centered around a Baron forward, perhaps Eddie 01-son or Glen Sonmor. It was known that the Ranger boss and Cleveland&rsquo;s Jim Hendy had been in constant communication for some time.</p><p>Nor was Hendy the only oasis in the desert. Boucher had discussed player proposals with Jack Adams of Detroit, Lynn Patrick of Boston and Connie Smythe of Toronto. Several names were bandied about, but nothing seemed likely to come from these discussions.</p><p>As for his own network of farms there were a few well recommended players, including Larry Popein of Vancouver and young Billy McCreary of Guelph. The latter had a one-game tryout when the Rangers were in Toronto and impressed Boucher as a strong prospect for future consideration. But he wasn&rsquo;t going to rush him up before he was ready.</p><p>Meanwhile, if the Rangers were not winning, they were at least providing local fans with some of the most exciting hockey in the league. At this writing, not more than one goal separated winning and losing teams in 11 of the 14 Garden games, and in one of the latter three, a Ranger goal into an empty net eased the pressure of this contest.</p><p>Johnny Bower had yet to achieve his first shutout in the NHL, but rival goalies were finding it equally difficult to hold the Rangers to a blank on the email Garden ice surface. Indeed, while Bower&rsquo;s goal yield wasn&rsquo;t too flattering, it was apparent that he stood up as well as his vis a vis in the opposing nets, and generally had much more work in the bargain.</p><p>As for the identity of the next Ranger coach, numerous names suggested themselves, including Art Chapman of Vancouver, Muzz Patrick of Seattle, Alex Shibicky of New Westminster, Alf Pike of Gueph, Phil Watson of Quebec, Frankie Eddolls of Buffalo, Ott Heller of Marion, Ohio, and Murray Murdoch of Yale.</p><p>Who ever the coach would be, this much New York&rsquo;s hockey experts felt: That he would have much more promising future than past coaches such as Neil Colville and Bill Cook. For the talent was beginning to show, even if victories came hard and a little too infrequently for the fans.</p><p>ICE CHIPS: Rangers ran up five-game unbeaten streak on home ice&mdash;longest in two years &mdash; before succumbing 2-1 to Toronto&rsquo;s close-checking crew on Dec. 13&hellip; Yogi Berra of the Yankees watched this loss and after it was over Max Bentley, a dyed-in-the-wool Yankee fan, shook his head and said he was sorry he couldn&rsquo;t score one for the Yogi&hellip; Some scenario writer would have a lot of fun with a story based on the false starts of Jean Beliveau&mdash; retarded, of course, by injuries, and the phenomenal scoring touch of an overlooked little Quebec citizen named Camille Henry. Camille was tendered a testimonial dinner by friends in Quebec recently&hellip; No Ranger puts more effort into his work than the hustling Paul Ronty who scored his sixth goal on a night when he should have been bedded with flu and dysentary.</p><p>In a recent column by Bob Cooke in the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Ivan Irwin was lauded by Toronto&rsquo;s King Clancy as a &ldquo;guy who hits harder than Ching Johnson when he hits &lsquo;em.&rdquo;&hellip; Except for a bad Charley horse, Allan Stanley might have already been recalled by the Rangers&hellip; Harry Howell spent five days in St. Clare&rsquo;s Hospital to guard against infection of a skate wound in his left foot before being released&hellip; Boucher planned on deploying six defensemen in two-man teams&hellip; Jack Evans seemed much more polished from the days before he went to Saskatoon.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Man N.Y. Wants Not Available Yet But May Be Soon

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks have not been treated with too much kindness so far this season by either the press or fans. Their rather miserable showing after a surprisingly fine 1952-53 campaign has prompted observers to shower Bill Tobin, Sil Abel and Co. with every cenceivable brand of criticism.</p><p>Berations have ranged from minor yelps over game miscues on up to talk that the Hawks might be yanked right out of hockey by Mssrs. Wirtz and Norris. A couple of players have quit and the front office has not tried to hide its disgust over attitudes elsewhere when much-needed help has been sought.</p><p>Amid all this and more, the task of finding something creditable to say about the Chicago situation has become more difficult by the week. Imagine our surprise recently when we came across a very good Black Hawk accomplishment that had apparently been laying dormant and unapplauded for some time.</p><p>Despite the numerous misgivings, the club&rsquo;s contingent of defensemen &mdash; as of mid-December &mdash; was by far the best scoring such unit in evidence in the NHL. Capt. Bill Gadsby, Gus Mortson, Al Dewsbury, Jack Price and Larry Zeidel had rung up 18 goals and 26 assists for 44 points in 32 games.</p><p>Even with the trusty Red Kelly a consistent threat, the Detroit blue line group ranked a rather distant second with 13 markers on record. The 10 goals potted by Canadien rearguards were followed by the Rangers&rsquo; nine and then Toronto and Boston with six and four respectively.</p><p>Gadsby, it&rsquo;s thus obvious, personally had outscored the entire Maple Leaf and Bruin defending forces and equalled the work of all the Ranger rearguards. The Chicagoans on the whole emerged better than combinations of almost any two of the other clubs higher up in the league race.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01357/1841225-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="269" height="408"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Gadsby</b></figcaption></div><p>If you want the facts, here are by teams and players:</p><h2><b>BLACK HAWKS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02340/1841218-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="596" height="275"></div><h2><b>DETROIT</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03309/1841211-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="605" height="248"></div><h2><b>CANADIENS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04237/1841204-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="607" height="244"></div><h2><b>RANGERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05178/1841197-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="606" height="244"></div><h2><b>TORONTO</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06119/1841190-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="596" height="241"></div><h2><b>BOSTON</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0762/1841183-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="602" height="277"></div><p>The scoring display by the Hawk defensemen is truly all the more impressive when it is realized that they undoubtedly the most penalized back line batch to date. Gadsby has been able to keep right with Kelly while being chased more than anyone else in the league most of the time.</p><p>Also high up on the list in penalties in minutes are Mortson, Zeidel and Lee Fogolin, the only Chicago rearguard that had yet to connect with a scoring point when this was written. His abundance of heft around the goal, however, was generally conceded to make up for his scoring laxity.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-01

Hawk Rearguards Tops In Defensive Scoring

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Rookie Bill Dineen of the Detroit Red Wings was $520 poorer for a while following a train trip to Boston for a game with the Bruins.</p><p>Dineen told reporters that he discovered his wallet missing shortly after he was jostled on the train by a young woman outside the dining car.</p><p>He didn&rsquo;t want for short change for long however, for his mates on the Red Wings passed the hat among themselves and came up with enough to make it a brighter Christmas for the young star.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Bill Dineen Loses Wallet On Train Trip

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Jean Beliveau, hockey&rsquo;s most fabulous rookie, surged into the National Hockey League on tons of printer&rsquo;s ink and it is beginning to look that he might be carried out on a stretcher.</p><p>Out of action again &mdash; this time with a fractured cheek bone &mdash; Beliveau has played only nine games for the Canadiens and some fans are saying that his bone are as brittle as peppermint sticks.</p><p>Such is not the case. In his spectacular career as a junior and senior amateur (the word is used advisedly) Beliveau never suffered an injury. Once he had a Charley horse, the knotting of whipcord muscles in a leg, which robbed him of effectiveness in a playoff series between the Quebec Citadelles and Barrie Flyers. That is all. He never broke a bone, never sustained anything but a superficial cut.</p><p>Early this season Le Gros Bill suffered his first major injury, cracking an ankle bone in a game against the Hawks in Chicago. He Was out of action exactly seven weeks, returning to the Hab line-up against the Hawks in Montreal.</p><p>Beliveau&rsquo;s latest injury occured in a game against the Rangers in Montreal. The rookie centre and Jack Evans, a New York defenceman, were strugging for the puck in the Rangers&rsquo; crease. Goalie Johnny Bower pushed both men away and they toppled to the ice, Beliveau bashing his face against the goal post on his way down.</p><h2><b>In His Steps</b></h2><p>By having such ill luck in his first big-league campaign, Beliveau is following in the footsteps of two Canadien veterans, Rocket Richard and Elmer Lach, both of whom were chased by a persistent injury jinx in the early days of their illustrious careers.</p><p>Rocket practically came into the league on crutches. In his first game as a senior with a farm club in the old Quebec Senior Hockey League he broke his left ankle and was out for the season. Shortly after he returned to action in 1941, he tumbled against the boards in the Forum and smashed his left wrist. He got back into uniform in time to play the last game of the season.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0839/1841287-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="601" height="607"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Their Cases Similar</b></p><p><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0927/1841280-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="598" height="590"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAURICE RICHARD</b></figcaption></div><p>Short of capable right wingers, the NHL Canadiens took him to their fall training camp in 1942. He played sensationally, showed all the hallmarks of future greatness and was rewarded with a big league contract. Then fate intervened just as it is doing 11 years later with Beliveau.</p><p>In a game against the Boston Bruins, Rocket was checked by Johnny Crawford, Knocked off balance he fell hard and his skate tip caught in a flaw in the ice.</p><p>They carried him from the rink with a broken right ankle. Some people said he&rsquo;d never get over that accident. But he recovered and later became the game&rsquo;s highest scorer, attaining his greatest rave notices as the right wing on the famed Punch Line with Toe Blake and Elmer Lach.</p><p>Lach got through his first season without too much trouble but the jinx smacked him early in his second campaign.</p><p>He looked like a sensation as the Habs pried the lid of the 1941-42 schedule with the Detroit Red Wings providing the opposition. His bustling style was productive as he provided the pass for Canadiens&rsquo; first goal, scored by Blake. Then, on an exciting dash, he was upset by Alex Motter at the Detroit defense. As he skidded toward the boards at the end of the rink, he threw out his left arm to break the impact. His wrist snapped, his elbow shattered and his shoulder slipped from Its socket.</p><p>The season was over for him. Doctors removed fragments of the radius bone and with characteristic tenacity, Elmer came back the next year to overcome the disability of a stiff left arm.</p><p>To take a cheerful view of things, if indeed injuries can be viewed with optimist, maybe Beliveau&rsquo;s breaks are a good omen. Maybe like Richard and Lach he will return to the league to carve another niche in hockey&rsquo;s hall of fame.</p><p>Endowed with an even disposition and an unruffled temperament, Beliveau is taking an almost philosophical view of his injuries. He bears no rancour although one version of his latest injury is that Bower cross-checked him in the crease.</p><p>An official of the Canadien Club said, &ldquo;Bower threw up the butt end of his stick, gripped In both hands, and crashed it into Beliveau&rsquo;s face.&rdquo;</p><p>Beliveau, however, isn&rsquo;t ready to accuse the Ranger goalie of deliberately cross-checking him. He is more irked at having been charged by Evans from behind as he waited for a pass at the goalmouth.</p><p>The big guy feels that he is being pushed around, probably because ot his reputation, and he intends to be a little more belligerent himself when he returns to action.</p><p>During his enforced absences, Beliveau has been taking good care of himself. When he was out for seven weeks he shed nearly 20 pounds by subsisting on a meagre diet. His current injury won&rsquo;t prevent him from skating and likely he&rsquo;ll be in top physical condition when he dons his No, 4 sweater with the Habs again and makes a new bid to wrest possible rookie honors from Detroit&rsquo;e Earl Reibel and Bill Dineen, the top candidates at the moment.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-08

Beliveau Apes Rocket as Rookie, Starts Career On Casualty List

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>They can&rsquo;t call Gordie Howe a one-line hockey player &mdash; not after the way he has been spreading the benefits of hig playmaking among his Red Wings teammates this season.</p><p>At the 29-game mark Howe had taken a hand in 45 percent of Detroit&rsquo;s goals.</p><p>The husky giant from Saskatoon, considered the greatest player of his time, had made 14 himself and assisted on 24 others &mdash; 38 of the team total of 86 goals.</p><p>It was to be expected that Howe would draw assists when Ted Lindsay and Dutch Reibel, his regular linemates, were scoring. But their goals didn&rsquo;t even count for one-half his assists.</p><p>Lindsay had scored 10 times, Howe assisting on six of them. Reibel had clicked eight times, Howe getting four assists there.</p><p>The others who have been helped toward goals by Howe&rsquo;s relays or setups were Red Kelly, Bill Dineen, Johnny Wilson and Marcel Pronovost. Most of those came while Howe was working the point during Detroit power plays.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s a breakdown of his part in their scoring:</p><p>Six assists out of Kelly&rsquo;s 10 goals; four out of Dineen&rsquo;s 11; three out of Wilson&rsquo;s 10 and one out of Pronovost&rsquo;s two.</p><p>This spread of assists should be no surprise since Howe has ranked as just a great a playmaker as a goal-scorer since hitting the top four seasons ago.</p><p>In those following figures, the asterik (*) indicates that he led the NHL in that department. In addition, his 86-point. total and then the 95 points also became all-time league records.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-1016/1841325-1-eng-US/f0002-102.jpg" title="f0002-10" width="306" height="460"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption></div><p>His scoring record through the past three full seasons has been, as follows:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-1111/1841318-1-eng-US/f0002-112.jpg" title="f0002-11" width="601" height="114"></div><p>There are some more figures which show just how important Howe has been to the Wings. He scored, either a goal or an assist, in 23 of the 29 games. Of the six in which he failed to get into the scoring, Detroit lost five &mdash; four of those were shutouts.</p><p>In scoring his own 14 goals he had the help of 10 of his teammates. Lindsay assisted in six of them. So did Reibel. Kelly drew assists on three, Dineen and Alex Delvecchio two, and Wilson, Bob Goldham, Metro Prystai, Al Arbour and Marty Pavelich one each.</p><p>In the Olympia, Detroit&rsquo;s home rink, Howe scored in 15 of the 16 games, getting a total of 10 goals and 17 assists. In 13 road games he figured in the scoring in eight games for four goals and seven assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-10

Six Wings Benefiting from Howe Playmaking

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The seventh goal in a 7-1 victory can&rsquo;t be called the most important, but such a goal here drew one of the biggest rounds of applause of the night.</p><p>The scorer was Bob Goldham, and it was a sight which Red Wing fans have been waiting for Goldham also.</p><p>It was four seasons ago when Bob got his last home-ice goal in the regular season. He did manage to break a scoreless streak which had gone about 125 games last season, but that was in New York and the fans wanted one here.</p><p>He did offer some helpful consolation in the playoffs last spring with a goal against the Boston Bruins.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Goldham Finally Scores At Home

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03187/1841418-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg"></div><p><b>Chrystal, Robert</b></p><p><b>Bom: Winnipeg, Man. April 3, 1930</b></p><p><b>Defense, shoots left, 6&rsquo;, 180-lbs</b></p><p><b>Last Amateur club : Brandon Wheat Kings (junior)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-03

Record of a Rookie

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLET</div><p>NEW YORK.N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>The only coaches Bob Chrystal has played for in professional hockey have been, in chronological order, Bill Cook, Bun Cook and Frank Boucher.</p><p>Which, if nothing else, explains why Chrystal felt he was destined to play for the Rangers. The Cooks and Boucher formed the greatest line in New York hockey history.</p><p>&ldquo;Bill Cook was my coach in Denver, then I was with Bun for two years in Cleveland. And now I&rsquo;m here.&rdquo;</p><p>Chrystal uses words sparingly. Whene tile Rangers acquired his contract last June for Steve Kraftcheck and a bundle of cash, Cleveland publicity director Eddie Coen wrote to New York: &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll have to draw him out. He leaves all his talking to his play&rdquo; on the ice. And that is plenty good.&rdquo;</p><p>So it&rsquo;s been. Of all the Ranger defenseman, rookie Chrystal has come in for the least criticism. He Is a fine skater and a firey competitor, and the records kept in the Ranger front office show him to be more effective than any other backliner on the team. These statistics are based on goals 6cored for and against the team, depending on who is on the ice.</p><p>Chrystal&rsquo;s mobility on a six-foot 180-pound frame has given Boucher the notion that this good-looking lad could be a handy guy on a forward line, too.</p><p>In successive games last month, Chrystal was placed at center ice between Eddie Kullman and Aldo Guldolin as a checking line against Montreal&rsquo;s Elmer Lach and then against Toronto&rsquo;s Ted Kennedy. Bob was ordered to shadow these forwards and he did an excellent job of it. However, the opposition would beat the strategy by calling on a defenseman to lug the puck down ice.</p><p>More recently Boucher placed Chrystal on a left wing of the Paul Ronty-Wally Hergesheimer line. Reason for this was that Konty had been weakened by flu and the Rangers felt the need for a stabilizing defensive force to Offset Ron.ty&rsquo;s lack of stamina.</p><h2><b>Makes No Difference</b></h2><p>How did Chrystal feel about these shifts?</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s all right with me,&rdquo; Bob says. &ldquo;The way the game is played today, it hardly makes any difference where you&rsquo;re placed. You&rsquo;ve got to be able to skate and stickhandle and shoot that puck or you won&rsquo;t get very far.&rdquo;</p><p>This was a long speech for the on of Scottish-born Alex Chrystal, but on reflection it illustrated the kind of a defenseman he is. Watching him game after game, he seems to exhibit all the hustle and dash of a Wally Stanowski, and Indeed he bears more than a slight resemblance to the one-time flash of the Maple Leafs and Rangers.</p><p>So on a hunch we asked: &ldquo;Ever have a hockey hero?&rdquo;</p><p>And Chrystal said: &ldquo;Yes, one. Wally-Stanowskl.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Did you ever try to pattern your, style after Stanowski?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;No, I don&rsquo;t think so,&rdquo; Chrystal said. &ldquo;No conscious effort on my part. But I used to root for him when he was with the Leafs and I listened to the Saturday night broadcasts from Toronto. Wally is from Winnipeg too. Later I met him briefly and played for part of one year against him&mdash;when he was in Cincinnati and I was in Cleveland. He broke his leg and that ended his career. I don&rsquo;t, really know him and I&rsquo;ve never told him what a hero he was to me.&rdquo;</p><p>Stanowski, like Chrystal, was a six-foot 180-pounder, a brilliant and colorful skater, one who could start and finish a play. Chrystal recalls that he saw Stanowski play while in the armed forces in Winnipeg.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01356/1841387-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="527" height="533"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>His Idol</b></p><p><b>WALLY STANOWSKI</b></p></figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02286/1841380-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="2366" height="2929"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Rangers&rsquo; Rookie Rearguard</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;He had a very graceful skating style,&rdquo; Chrystal said.</p><p>Chrystal has yet to start and finish a scoring play as a Ranger, but he almost succeeded on a tremendous rush in New York against the Red Wings. The Rangers had a one goal lead when he carried in swiftly and let go a hard shot that Terry Sawchuk barely deflected, On his follow through he was checked by Benny</p><p>Woit, Chrystal&rsquo;s own elbow dug into his side, and he suffered a kidney bruise which sidelined him for seven games, five of which were lost by the Rangers.</p><p>Bob, now 23 years old, came to New York with a reputation for clutch scoring. In eleven playoff games with Cleveland the previous spring, he had scored four times; and his last goal, in sudden death of the seventh and final contest with Pittsburgh, had given Cleveland the playoff title.</p><h2><b>Fluke Goal</b></h2><p>&ldquo;It was a dream of a lifetime,&rdquo; Chrystal said. &ldquo;And yet it was a fluke goal. I simply flipped it into&rsquo; the end zone and it took crazy hops and went in.&rdquo;</p><p>As this is written he has scored two goals for the Rangers, both on New York ice. The first came with less than four minutes yet to go against Chicago as he broke away cleanly with Nick Mickoski, and it not only gave the Rangers a 3-2 victory but ended a jinx wherein the Black Hawks had won six straight on the Madison Square Garden ice.</p><p>The second goal, not as climactic, was still important. It came on a long dribbler against Toronto in the third period, put the Rangers back in the game at 3-2 and helped to push the Rangers into a 3-3 tie achieved by a last minute Hergesheimer marker.</p><p>Chrystal&rsquo;s first goal established his place in the sun in the eyes of the fans. The next night soma of them draped a huge &ldquo;Bob Chrystal&rdquo; banner over tha balcony. Bob had arrived.</p><p>Bob, the only son of a Canadian Pacific Pullman conductor, has always been encouraged by papa Alex to try his luck at professional hockey. So did mama.</p><p>&ldquo;My mother taught me to skate,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And when pop watched me play for the West End Orioles In Winnipeg when I was only 8 or 9, he would say: &lsquo;Son, you keep at this. You might be a good one. But If you&rsquo;re not going anywhere, then drop It and try something else.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Pop and I are more like a couple of brothers. I remember when I was playing midget hockey at 14 and one night he came home and he said he&rsquo;d been talking to Sutphin, the owner of the Clevaland Barons, and how Mr. Sutphin&rsquo; told him that it the boy was good enough, to send him around.</p><p>&ldquo;Maybe it was only a coincidence, but when I started out in junior hockey, it was for a Cleveland sponsored club. Cy Orchard was their Cleveland scout and he signed me to the Brandon, Man., juniors. My coaches there were Bill McKenzie and Leg Cunnigham. McKenzie played a wjiile with the Rangers. He taught me more than anybody I know how to play defense.&rdquo;</p><p>In Brandon, also, Chrystal was to fneet the girl he married three years later, the former Emily Rose &ldquo;Mimi&rdquo; Olson, pretty and petite. They have a nine-month-old daughter, Linda Lou, and live in a Sunnyside, Long Island, apartment just 20 minutes by subway from Madison Square Garden.</p><p>&ldquo;We use Check Rayner&rsquo;s former baby-sitter,&rdquo; Chrystal said. &ldquo;Mimi comes to all the games.&rdquo;</p><p>On the ice, Chrystal chews gum incessantly, uses anywhere from three to five sticks. Reason for this Is a doctor&rsquo;s advice. When he was in Denver, he lost two teeth and had another broken in a scramble. His tongue was badly cut, requiring six stitches, and he almost swallowed the teeth.</p><p>Said the doctor: &ldquo;If you chew, you&rsquo;re less likely to cut your tongue on your teeth.&rdquo;</p><p>So Chrystal chews away on Ice, but abhors the stuff out of uniform.</p><p>He says he plays at golf, once was an avid lacrosse player. But he broke an arm at 16 in a lacrosse game. When he came home his father took him aside and said:</p><p>&ldquo;If you want to play hockey, you&rsquo;d better forget about lacrosse. There&rsquo;s no money In lacrosse.&rdquo;</p><p>Bob is looking forward to buying his own home in Winnipeg.</p><p>&ldquo;It would be nice if the Rangers could get in the playoffs,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to use that kind of money as a down payment.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-01

Boucher Can Use Bobby Up Front Or On Defense

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div><h2><b>World&rsquo;s Best Patients</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>e used to think that a dental plate Identified a hockey player like a &ldquo;dog tag&rdquo; Identifies a fellow In the services, hut it seems wt were mistaken. Dr. Charles Crowley, who has been the Boston Bruins&rsquo; dental surgeon for 18 years, gave an Interesting Interview to Tommy Fitzgerald, Boston hockey writer, on the subject not long ago.</p><p>&ldquo;Over the year I&rsquo;ve noticed one thing,&rdquo; Dr. Crolew said. &ldquo;Some of the better, and probably tougher, players don&rsquo;t lose their teeth. Dit Clapper still has a beautiful set of teeth and they&rsquo;re all Intact. Other players I can remember who never lost a tooth are Bill Cowley, Bobby Bauer and Woody Dumart. Milt Schmidt has only had two knocked out. I guess the only way to explain it is that they havebone protuding into learned how to duck by the time they reach the National League.&rdquo;</p><p>Dr. Crowley then talked about jaw fractures, recollecting that the worst he&rsquo;d Been were suffered by Bill Cowley and by Johnny Crawford.</p><p>&ldquo;Cowley&rsquo;s injury happened about 13 years ago when Sid Howe got an elbow In his face,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;it looked as if he&rsquo;d been hit by a crowbar. He had a compound, comminuted fracture, with a bone protudlng into the mouth. Crawford was hit by Red Hamill of Chicago back In 1946. He had a bone cracked across the front of his mouth, with six upper teeth hanging on it. We wired the jaw and Johnny lost only one tooth.&rdquo;</p><p>Cowley and Crawford both were playing within two months. Johnny Peirson suffered a compound fracture of the jaw last year, but he was back on the ice in no time with a specially designed mask to protect his face.</p><p>Dr. Thomas Kelley, the Bruins&rsquo; physician, told Fitzgerald that porfessional hockey players would be any doctor&rsquo;s idea of the world&rsquo;s best patients.</p><p>&ldquo;They are really remarkable men,&rdquo; he saixd. &ldquo;Their resistance to pain and their ability to ignore injuries never falls to impress me. Their only drawback as patients is a tendency to conceal injuries, and their insistent pleading to get back in the lineup before they really should.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Shore, Clapper and Schmidt</b></h2><p>Dr. Kelley has been around the Bruins since 1929 and the most durable and rugged members of the club in all the intervening years were Eddie Shore, Dit Clapper and Milt Schmidt.</p><p>&ldquo;Shore once estimated he had 700 stitches on various parts of bls body,&rdquo; said the doctor. &ldquo;I suppose I sewed a good percentage of them myself. Clapper suffered a severed Achilles tendon, a separated shoulder and more fractured bonds than you could count. I&rsquo;ve known him to play with a broken toe. Once he had a broken rib and was back playing within a week. An injury like that would keep an average person laid up Alate as last for about three weeks and he couldn&rsquo;t take violent exercise for about six weeks.</p><p>&ldquo;Of the present Bruins, Milt Schmidt has the most Impressive clinical history. He has suffered two jaw fractures, a broken shoulder and numerous knee injuries. His knees will require surgical attention when he decides to retire.&rdquo;</p><p>The most frightening Incident In Boston hockey history was in 1933 when Ace Bailey, of the Toronto Leafs, was charged to the Ice by Eddie Shore and suffered a fractured skull. A delicate brain operation saved his life. Other Bearish situations were the severed tendon Eddie Sandford suffered In 1949. Penttl Lund&rsquo;s bad eye Injury three years ago, and the night only a year ago when Fleming Mackell&rsquo;s external jugular vein was accidentally severed by an opposing player&rsquo;s skate.</p><h2><b>Cowboys and Alouettes</b></h2><p>As Dr. Kelley has been attending physician at all Boston Garden events for many years, Tom Fitzgerald asked him If any other group could compare with the hockey players.</p><p>&ldquo;The cowboys In the rodeo may be as tough, or perhaps a little tougher,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But for man-to-man sports, hockey players top them all.&rdquo;</p><p>As late as last August we would have agreed with the good doctor, but since then we haae seen the Alouettes. On Oct. 25 Tex Coulter suffered a fractured ankle, but he jwas back playing football on Nov. 22, which was less than a month later. Ray Poole suffered two fractured ribs and didn&rsquo;t miss a game. Tom Hugo broke a thumb and didn&rsquo;t miss a game. Tommy Manastersky, Ray Clcia, Jim Miller, Doug McNichol, Herb Trawick, Phil Adrian, Alex Webster, Chuck Hunsinger suffered a variety of injuries and kept right on playing.</p><p>So the hockey players will have to move over and make room for some football players.</p><p>The most injured player we have watched consistently, year in and year out. is Canadiens&rsquo; Elmer Lach. He has suffered as many injuries as Milt Schmidt or any other player of his time. If there is any way you can get hurt in hockey, Elmer must know about it.</p><p>Dr. Kelly is sure that none of the many hockey Injuries he has treated was the result of a deliberately vicious act.</p><p>&ldquo;There Is nothing premeditated about the violence you are apt to see In a hockey game,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a spontaneous act in a heated moment and It&rsquo;s forgotten after the game.&rdquo;</p><p>By way of illustration he tells of a night a few years ago when inflammable Bill Ezlnlcki, then playing for the Bruins, had engaged in a running feud with the Rangers&rsquo; Eddie Kullman. Fists and sticks were swung freely.</p><p>After the game, the doctor was stitching a cut over Kullman&rsquo;s oye when Ezinickl came in for some attention. Ezlnlcki looked at his erstwhile adversary in genuine surprise.</p><p>&ldquo;Hi, Eddie,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;What happened to you?&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

playing the field

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Johnny Gottselig, with over 25 years behind him in professional hockey with the Chicago Black Hawk organization, certainly ranks today as the ice sport&rsquo;s Mr. Versatility. His lengthy career, still far from over, has included 15 years as a National League star, four years as a coach and six as a recognized executive.</p><p>His history in the Chicago picture dates back to 1928 when the Hawks picked him up from Winnipeg of the old American Hockey Association. A center with a knack for slick stick handling and puck ragging, he had earlier gained experience as a junior amateur with the Regina Pats.</p><p>John&rsquo;s first 13 years as a Hawk were probably among the best the team has ever experienced. He was a solid member of the 1933-34 and 1937-38 squads that gave Chicago its only two Stanley Cup winners. Tommy Gorman and Bill Stewart coached these world Championship outfits.</p><p>Teammates of Gottselig in these title campaigns included Taffy Abel, Lolo Couture, Art Wiebe, Carl Voss, Louie Trudel, Paul Thompson, Mush March, Chuck Gardiner, Mike Karakas, Leroy Goldsworthy, Earl Siebert, Cully Dahlstrom, Art Coulter, Roger Jenkins, Don McFadyen, Doc Romnes, Alex Levinsky and numerous others.</p><p>Johnny was named playercoach of the Kansas City PlaMors, then Chicago&rsquo;s top affiliate, at the start of the 1940-41 schedule. In his two successful years with that entry in the United States circuit, he tutored such later day stars as Billy Mosienko, George Gee, Bob Carse, Wingy Johnston and Fido Purpur.</p><p>With the arrival of World War II, many younger skaters were called into the services from the National League. As a result, the Hawks didn&rsquo;t hesitate in bringing Gottselig back for another fling as a player. Although now 36, he still exhibited much of the suave ability that had made him famous.</p><p>He started accustoming himself to the Black Hawk coaching duties in 1944 and his proven success in working with men led to his appointment to the post of manager-coach in March, 1945. He succeeded an old teammate, Paul Thompson, who had handled the club for the seven seasons previous.</p><p>With Doug and Max Bentley, Clint Smith aird Mosienko all in their prime, John&rsquo;s freshman year as coach was a top one with Max winning the scoring title and the team finishing third behind the Canadiens and Boston. Smith was fourth in scoring ajnd &ldquo;Mosle&rdquo;wbegan liis own insuranceound up in sixth spot.</p><p>The youthful line of the Bentleys and Mosienko was a solid choice for the NHL All-Star squad with Red Hamill, acquired spvetal years before from Boston, earning a third-string berth. Gep, who&rsquo; had just made the jump into the big time, tied with Edgar LaPrade of the Rangers as outstanding rookie.</p><p>When the colorful Charlie Conacher took over as the Chicago coach December 15, 1947, Johnny moved up to the responsible job of assistant to President and General Manager Bill Tobin. It&rsquo;s a position he still holds today. In addition, he is also now public relations boss.</p><p>The latter work takes him everywhere as a popular speaker nowadays. He has also, in the past half dozen years, become a much better than average radio announcer. Currently broadcasting all Black Hawk games with the veteran Bob Elson, John can do both play-by-play and general color description surprisingly well.</p><p>&ldquo;And what&rsquo;s next for Johnny Gottselig?&rdquo; is a question that might well be asked. There doesn&rsquo;t seem to be much left in the world of hockey. Perhaps that&rsquo;s why he this summer began his own insurance business. A very busy and ambitious man this Mr. Versatility.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01377/1841504-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="524" height="518"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>His Pupil</b></p><p><b>DOUG BENTLEY</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-01

Gottseling Puck’s Mr. ‘V’ Played, Coached, Directed

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON (The Toronto Telegram)</div><p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Little Pistol took only enough time to reload before firing back at two of his colleagues in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s latest War of Words.</p><p>For ammunition, the Little Pistol, alias Leaf Managing Director Conn Smythe, used statistics which he concludes proves both New York Ranger General Manager Frank Boucher and Chicago Black Hawk GM Bill Tobin were stuttering through their stetsons when they last sought sympathy for their second division plights. In fact. Canny Conn virtually called them liars, Boacher for saying visitors get the dirty end of the refereeing stick in Toronto, as well as Montreal and Detroit, and Tobin for intimating the other NHL clubs are trying to squeeze him out by refusing player help.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re being outpropogandad,&rdquo; said Smythe. &ldquo;Boucher claims the visiting clubs always get the first and second penalties in Toronto. I&rsquo;ve got the figures that show they get three cracks at us for every time they have a penalty called on them. And as far as first penalties go, last year, visiting teams got the first penalty only 12 times to our 23 times. We both got the first and second in a row four times.</p><p>&ldquo;He should get the facts straight before he pops off like a dart-gun. It&rsquo;s in New York where the visitors get stuck. In our games in New York last year, we took the first penalty five times, they got it twice. I&rsquo;m getting a little sick of all this propoganda which is their way of making the referees more conscious of us.</p><p>&ldquo;Patrick (Lynn, the Boston Bruin coach) is the same way with his screams about clutching and grabbing. All he does is crybaby.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02345/1841535-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="550" height="856"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&ldquo;Little Pistol&rsquo;</b></p><p><b>CONN SMYTHE</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;They can save their breath. Already the referees spend all their time watching the old Mapleo. Watching It! They never, notice the other guys they&rsquo;re so busy staring at it!</p><p>&ldquo;Even the referees tell Carl Voss (referee-in-chief) that we have the most gentlemanly team in hockey. But Boucher and Patrick keep their germ warfare going anyway.&rdquo;</p><p>In his counter-attack on Tobin, Smythe referred to the restricted player rule which permits a club to file 18 names on its protected list Sept. 18, leaving all others free for draft at $15,000 per copy.</p><p>&ldquo;Tobin cries nobody will help him,&rdquo; Smythe says in disgust. &ldquo;Yet he could have claimed four NHL-calibre players from us alone. There was Hugh Bolton ! and Jim Morrison, who kept Chicago helpless when they were last here Saturday. There&rsquo;s Rudy Migay and Earl Balfour. Canadiens didn&rsquo;t protect Goose McCormack and Rangers didn&rsquo;t protect Aldo Guidolin. And there&rsquo;s a whole raft of others who were available. You can&rsquo;t make it any easier than that for any guy who works only half the time.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s always longing here and longing there for someone. He should try putting out a little of the longing green stuff instead of looking for sympathy. We are not in favor of a cooperative. We like to run our own business.&rdquo;</p><p>Incidentals&hellip; When Fern Flaman was sidelined with infection in the three-stitch gash he suffered planting his fist in Floyd Curry&rsquo;s teeth during the War of 1812 at Maple Leaf Gardens, Hugh Bolton was recalled from Ottawa and played three excellent games. Harry Lumley surrendered only one goal in those games and Bolton&rsquo;s personal record of goals for and against, while he was on i the ice, was a perfect 4-0&hellip; Leo Boivin came out of the crowd to replace Jim Thomson, sidelined two weeks when he suffered torn knee ligaments in New York Dec. 6, and in his third start scored one goal and set up the othef in Leafs&rsquo; 2-1 win from New York Rangers&hellip; Defenseman Tim Horton&rsquo;s for-and-against service record of 43-22 will be a strong arguing point when All-Star candidates are considered&hellip; Harry Lumley stretched his shutout record to a conservative 207 minutes and 22 seconds on Maple Leaf Gardens ice by blanking Detroit, Montreal and Chicago in succession&hellip; He has surrendered only one goal in his last six home starts.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Conn Uses Figures To Disprove Charges By Boucher And Tobin

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>As a one-time forward for the Chicago Black Hawks, Johnny Gottselig had a long-time bumping acquaintance with a famed Bruins&rsquo; defense team of Eddie Shore and Lionel Hitchman.</p><p>Today Gottselig sees another Shore-Hitchman combination in the making for the Bruins in Bob Armstrong and Warren Godfrey, two youngsters not born when Shore and, Hitchman were in their heyday.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re going to compare very favorably with&rsquo; Shore and Hitchman,&rdquo; declared the former Chicago coach of the big 22-year olds.</p><p>&ldquo;I like the way they&rsquo;ve gone out on their own as a team this season. They&rsquo;re husky, strong and smart, and they work extremely well together.&rdquo;</p><p>Shore, now the operator of the Syracuse American League and SpringfieldQuebec League teams and Hitchman, now in the lumber business in New Hampshire, teamed on defense for the Bruins from the middle &rsquo;20s to the early &rsquo;30s.</p><p><b>BARRY</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

High Praise To Bear Pair

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&#8213;</p><p>After only 29 games, little Wally Hergesheimer already had been assessed 17 minutes in penalties by NHL referees, or more than his entire time in the hoosegow in the previous two seasons of big league play.</p><p>The answer seemed obvious to all except the referees, whe were letting other clubs jostle and rough up the Ranger right winger, a 30-goal scorer last season.</p><p>It seems like sound strategy for a rival coach to tell one of his players:</p><p>&ldquo;Go after the little guy. Make him fight you. He isn&rsquo;t going to hurt you if he swings, and the worst that can happen is that you&rsquo;ll take him off with you.&rdquo;</p><p>Which is the way it has worked. Hergy isn&rsquo;t taking a going-over without retaliating in kind, because he is a spirited and determined little guy, but is hardly makes sense for the officials to penalize him as heavily as the man who starts the trouble.</p><p>In successive Sunday games on home ice with Toronto, Hergesheimer twice got into scraps with Tod Sloan, who must have a 15-pound edge in the weights. The last time, they both were waved off by Jerry Olinski for seven minutes apiece.</p><p>Hergesheimer isn&rsquo;t going to win a Lady Byng trophy this year, or even receive any consideration for it, but that doesn&rsquo;t make him a less clean player than he always has been.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03276/1841590-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="548" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Retaliating</b></p><p><b>WALLY HERGESHEIMER</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0005-03

Hergy’s PIM Much Higher This Year Than Last Two

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Warmer New England winters may be posing problems for meterologists, who forsee a semi-tropical future for the six-state area, but hockey has not waited for the further advance of the Gulf Stream.</p><p>At the present time there are more and better facilities for hockey in this part of the country than there have been, and the present facilities are only the begining.</p><p>Once, and not long ago, the hockey rinks with artificial ice in New England were easily counted. There were the Boston Garden, Skating Club and Arena, the Rhode Island Auditorium in. Providence and the arenas in Springfield and New Haven.</p><p>That half-dozen has been supplemented by several times that number, and the total is being increased annually.</p><p>The lead in the construction of new rinks is being taken by colleges and prep schools, but municipalities and private interests d&rsquo;re contributing to the over-all program, too.</p><p>In the immediate past fine arenas have been built in Lynn and Worcester in this state and Lewiston, Maine, all housing extensive hockey programs.</p><p>Colleges like Dartmouth and Harvard have constructed their own rinks with ice-making plants, and others like Colby of Waterville, Maine, have plans for construction all drawn up.</p><p>Prep schools like Milton Academy and Andover Academy In this state, Exeter (N.H.) Academy, St. George&rsquo;s School of Newport, Rhode Island, Hill School and Choate School of Wallingford, Conn., have followed suit In the building of their own facilities.</p><p>This season the multitude of schoolboy leagues in Greater Boston is being housed in the Arena, now operated under state supervision by the Metropolitan District Commission.</p><p>The coefficient of the entire development program is a share-the-ice attitude, qualified in various ways, which augers well for the future of a venerable game here.</p><p>In view of the potential extent of the building program, hockey men here are able to see the time when hockey will offer a serious challenge to basketball as a participant winter sport.</p><p>New England in earlier years was this country&rsquo;s hockey hotbed. Here the first prominent amateur teams were organized and here, over the first 20 years of this century, appeared many of Canada&rsquo;s outstanding players as members of visiting teams.</p><p>Boston, Providence, Springfield and New Haven have long been strongholds of professional hockey, which eventually pushed the amateur brand into the background, as it has everywhere.</p><p>The present development of the game cannot be termed a revival, since it has long since surpassed any precedent; it is definitely an expansion.</p><p>The future of the game hereabouts lies in artificial ice, in covered rinks, and presently the future is in good hands, those engaged in multiple construction projects under public and private supervision.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hockey On Rise In New England

<div class="byline">By MARGARET SCOTT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01447/1841645-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="283" height="450"></div><p><b>MOST ENJOYABLE MOVIE:</b></p><p>&ldquo;The Greatest Show On Earth&rdquo;.</p><p><b>TWO BEST ACTORS:</b></p><p>John Wayne and Glenn Ford.</p><p><b>TWQ BEST ACTRESSES:</b></p><p>Betty Grable and Ava Gardner.</p><p><b>PREFERS TO WEAR:</b></p><p>Semi-loud clothes and bow ties.</p><p><b>BEST GIRL VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Kav Starr.</p><p><b>BEST MALE VOCALIST:</b></p><p>Bing Crosby.</p><p><b>FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC:</b></p><p>Popular and Semi-classical.</p><p><b>BEST CLASSICAL COMPOSITION:</b></p><p>Has no favorite.</p><p><b>BEST POPULAR COMPOSITION:</b></p><p>Anything by Ray Anthony.</p><p><b>FAVORITE ORCHESTRA:</b></p><p>Ray Anthony.</p><p><b>BEST COMPOSER:</b></p><p>Ray Anthonv.</p><p><b>LIKES TO BEAD:</b></p><p>Sports stories and mysteries by Mickey Spillane.</p><p><b>TWO BEST RADIO AND TV PROGRAMS:</b></p><p>Milton Berle and Jack Benny.</p><p><b>WHEN RETIRED FROM PLAYING WOULD LIKE TO:</b></p><p>Retain a connection with hockey.</p><p><b>FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT:</b></p><p>California.</p><p><b>SHOOTS GOLF:</b></p><p>In the high 80&rsquo;s.</p><p><b>IN THE SUMMER:</b></p><p>Works as a salesman in Winnipeg, Man.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-01

Inside Stuff About…Tom Johnson

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Newsy Lalonde and Dickie Boon have been named cocoaches of the Quebec Old-timers who will play an exhibition game against the Ontario Oldtimers at the Montreal Forum Wednesday January 6.</p><p>Proceeds of the game will go to charity and the local player committee of Archie Wilcox, Ken Reardon and George Mantlia are doing their utmost to secure a strong a team as they can to oppose the invaders from Ontario, who are entering their third year of playing exhibitions for charity.</p><p>Among the recruits and candidates &mdash; and they&rsquo;re just that &mdash; since it will be necessary to restrict the playing strength for the big test &mdash; are Bill Durnan, Claude Bourque, Jimmy Orlando, Red Goupille, Dess Smith, Syd Howe, Billy Cowley, Leo Bourgeault, Sylvio Mantha, Buddy O&rsquo;Connor, Gerry Heffernan, Pete Morin, Paul Haynes, Russ Blinco, Paul Raymond, Ray Getliffe, Bob Filion, Ken Reardon and Murph Chamberlain.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02328/1841683-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="295" height="472"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Reardon</b></figcaption></div><p>President Lorne Duguid of the Ontario Association wanted to bring his entire squad, 35 players. He also offered to loan former Maroon players to the Quebec brotherhood but coaches Lalonde and Boon refused to accept unsolicited help.</p><h2><b>Remember These Fellows ?</b></h2><p>The Ontario team, which has already accepted six of 30 exhibition bids for games in Ontario cities and towns during the New Year, will include: Roy Worters, Jakie Forbes, Harvey Jackson, Joe Primeau, Charley Conacher, Dit Clapper, Lionel Conacher, Cy Wentworth, Jim Fowler, Black Jack Stewart, Billy Taylor, Butch Keeling, Hank Goldup, Earl Robinson, Syl Apps, Nels Stewart. Bill Thomas, Bobby Bauer and Duguid. Ontario will dress 18 players.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03234/1841676-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="552" height="705"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Old Hard Rock</b></p><p><b>MURPH CHAMBERLAIN</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Meanwhile messieurs Lalonde and Boon are ready to launch the most unusual hockey training program in history.</p><p>Okay, boys, lay on the whip I<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-02

Oldsters Start Workouts For Charity Exhibition

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>For one solid week Jack Adams was hanging onto a big balloon, just waiting for it to collapse with a big whoosh.</p><p>And when it finally did collapse, what a spectacle!</p><p>For the start of that story you have to go back to those twin 9-0 and 9-4 romps the Detroit Red Wings had at Chicago&rsquo;s expense.</p><p>&ldquo;Every time a team gets a flock of goals like that you have to pay for it,&rdquo; Adams claimed warily.</p><p>He and Coach Tommy Ivan felt some relief when the Wings didn&rsquo;t do their paying right after the 9-0 game, although they did get sloppy at the end of the 9-4 affair the next night in Chicago.</p><p>Both Adams and Ivan spent four uneasy days waiting to see what would happen next. New York came to town and after a scoreless first period, Detroit exploded for four goals in the middle period for a 4-0 triumph.</p><p>Still no sign of the balloon collapsing. Maybe this was going to be one of those rare escapes from the unwritten hockey law. Few teams have ever managed such escapes in the past. Recent history la full of what can nappen after those big nights.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04162/1841714-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="276" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Jack Adams</b></figcaption></div><p>Take last year, for instance. The Wings trounced Chicago, 101. one night and was promptly shut out, 3-0, the next. Another time they staged a 10-1 spree in Boston, came home and failed to win any of the next three games. Then there was the 7-0 start against the Bruins in the playoff opener, only to be followed by three straight defeats which cost Detroit its chance to repeat as Stanley Cup champs.</p><p>Other clubs had the same thing happen to them. Montreal pasted a 9-0 trimming on the Wings and paid for it with a sloppy 7-5 defeat from Toronto in the-next game. New York blanked Montreal, 7-0, and was shut out in its next two starts. Boston blasted New York, 9-0, but could do no better than tie the next two games.</p><p>So Adams knew what he was talking about when he spoke of having &ldquo;to pay for&rdquo; such big games.</p><p>The final price, however, really was a shock when time came for the Wings to pay their bill. All of Adams fears came true in Toronto as Detroit played what some observers called their worst game in many seasons and suffered a 3-0 defeat while being out-shot, 40-15.</p><p>But that was just the begining. The next night the Wings.,took such a pounding in front of their home fans that even Fred. Huber, the walking-talking record book of the Olympia press box, couldn&rsquo;t immediately recall anything to compare with a 5-0 blanking on local ice.</p><p>And to make it all the worse, it came from those same Hawks who had been so badly mauled and mangled on the last trip here. Some of the balcony dwellers, who don&rsquo;t get a close-up view from their perch, swore that the players must have switched uniforms. Others just swore.</p><p>Strangest feature of all was tha way Goalie Terry Sawchuk saw some fine marks take a beatjng. Sawchuk was working on a strihg of some 211 minutes of shutout hockey at home when the game started. That streak included successive shutouts over Toronto, Chicago and New York plus the extra time from the Boston game preceeding.</p><p>Furthermore, opposing teame had scored a total of only 11 goals in the previous 13 home games this season. Detroit had won 11, tied one and lost only one of those.</p><p>Afterwards Adams had accepted it all with strange quiet. If anyone expected him to take out his long black snake whip, it waa a bad guess. He didn&rsquo;t ship a single player to the minors, he didn&rsquo;t make any heated threata and he never even turned the dressing room blue with his unsurpassed vocabulary.</p><p>&ldquo;Well, that&rsquo;s that,&rdquo; Jack philosophized. &ldquo;It was coming&mdash;we just couldn&rsquo;t duck it.&rdquo;</p><p>But ever practical, he assumed the position that the penalty had been paid in full and took stepa to keep it off the Installment plan. Adams and Ivan called for a two-hour practice the next day, and again the next. Which waa unusual since the Wings rerely practice at all, and hadn&rsquo;t worked that long, since training camp.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0006-04

Unwritten Law Wings’ Jinx In Double Shutout Losses

<p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>There are still a few oldtimers around the National Hockey League who are confirming the old adage about there being no substitute for experience. And when you get around to the real old salts of the NHL you can spend some time discussing the grand old veterans of the Boston Bruins, namely Milt (The Marvellous) Schmidt and Woody (The Wonderful) Dumart.</p><p>Both are up in years to a point that they defy the laws of the speed game. According to the present standards, they should have quit years ago but they have a ready answer for that one. &ldquo;Why quit when you&rsquo;re ahead.&rdquo;</p><p>Take Milt Schmidt In particular. This week THE HOCKEY NEWS named him the Player of the Week and the choice wasn&rsquo;t merely a sentimental one either. During the past week, the former pivot of hockey&rsquo;s famed Kraut Line, boomed home seven points to jump from 15th place in the individual standings to eighth. He started his big move against Rangers December 16, scoring a goal and getting an assist. The following night against the Leafs he picked up a pair of assists. Two nights later in Montreal he scored a pair of goals and on December 20 he rounded a week&rsquo;s work with an assist against Detroit for a seven point week.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1415/1841902-1-eng-US/f0007-142.jpg" title="f0007-14" width="266" height="426"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Milt Schmidt</b></figcaption></div><p>For an oldtimer Miltie isn&rsquo;t doing too badly. He has nine goals and six assists and the season&rsquo;s only half over.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0007-14

Player - of - the - Week

<h2><b>Tenth Straight</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>hen Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard plunked his 20th goal of the season against the New York Rangers December 20, it marked the 10th straight year that the Rocket has scored 20 or more goals in a season. His 20th this year came after Canail iens had played 34 games.</b></p><h2><b>New Rookie ?</b></h2><p><b>While everyone has been touting either Detroit&rsquo;s Earl (Dutch) Reibel or Bill Dineen or Canadiens&rsquo; Jean Beliveau as the logical winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy this year. Rangers&rsquo; Camille Henry has been coming along at a rapid pace where he may well win the award.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON WED. A.M.. DEC. 23)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01398/1841871-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="601" height="204"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p>Wew Dec 16th&mdash;Boston 3 at Rangers 4</p><p>Thurs Dec 17th&mdash;Toronto 2 at Boston 3</p><p>Thurs. Dec 17th&mdash;Chicago 1 at Detroit 5</p><p>Fri. Dec. 18th&mdash;Detroit 3 at Chicago 1</p><p>Sat. Dec. 19th&mdash;Boston 3 at Canadiens 7</p><p>Sat. Dec. 19th&mdash;Rangers 2 at Toronto 3</p><p>Sun. Dec. 20th&mdash;Cnds 1 at Rangers 3</p><p>Sun. Dec. 20th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Chicago 4</p><p>Sun Dec. 20th&mdash;Detroit 4 at Boston 2</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES</b></h3><p>Wed. Dec. 23rd &mdash; Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Fri. Dec. 25th &mdash; Chicago at Boston</p><p>Bat. Dec. 26th &mdash; Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Dec. 26th &mdash; Detroit at Toronto</p><p>Sun. Dec. 27th &mdash; Chicago at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Dec. 27th &mdash; Boston at Detroit.</p><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 16</b></h3><p><b>Boston 3 at New York 4</b></p><p>NEW YORK &mdash; Ron Murphy scored his first goal of the current NHL season and an important one it was too, for it gave the New York Rangers a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal, Henry; defence, Armstrong, Godfrey, Laycoe, Martin; forwards, Mackell, Sandford. Peirson, Gardner, Dumart, Schmidt, Labine, Creighton Mohns, Toppazzini, Klukay.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal, Bower; defence, Irwin, Reise, Howell, Buller, Chrystal, Evans; forwards, Raleigh, Mickoski, Kullman, Ronty, Bentley, Guidolln, Murphy, Bathgate, Hergesheimer, Henry.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02364/1841864-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="605" height="559"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 17</b></h3><p><b>Toronto 2 at Boston 3</b></p><p>BOSTON &mdash; Fleming Mackell scored what proved to be the winning goal early in the third period as the Boston Bruins defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 before a crowd of 6,722, smallest of Boston&rsquo;s current season.</p><p>The Bruins were playing five against four when Mackell popped home the winner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03285/1841857-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="596" height="108"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04218/1841850-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="602" height="365"></div><p><b>Chicago 1 at Detroit 5</b></p><p>DETROIT &mdash; Glen Skov, used mostly as a defensive forward this season, whipped in two goals to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-1 shellacking of the lowly Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>The win moved the Wings into a first place tie with the idle Montreal Canadiens.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05146/1841843-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="599" height="434"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY DECEMBER 18</b></h3><p><b>Detroit 3 nt Chicago 1</b></p><p>Indianapolis &mdash; Tony Les wick, Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay fired goals as the Detroit Wings defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 3-1 n an NHL game played in the Indianapolis Coliseum.</p><p>Detroit &mdash; Goal. Sawchuk; defense: Goldham. Pronovost, Kelly, Woit; forwards: Lindsay. Leswick, Howe, Prystai, Pavelich, Skov, Reibel, Delvecchio, J. Wilson, Dineen. Arbour, Stasiuk.</p><p>Chicago &mdash; Goal, Rollins; defense, Mprtson, Fogolin, Gadsby, Dewsbury, Zeidel; forwards: Peters, Mosienko, Conacher, Jankowski, Bodnar, Hucul, Couture. L. Wilson. Gee, Price, Costello.</p><p>Referee &mdash; Bill Chadwick; Linesmen: George Hayes, Mush Marsh.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-06102/1841836-1-eng-US/f0007-062.jpg" title="f0007-06" width="599" height="401"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DEC. 19, 1953</b></h3><p><b>Boston 3 at Canadiens 7</b></p><p>Boston &mdash; Goal, Henry; defense, Laycoe, Martin, Armstrong, Godfrey; forwards, Peirson. Klukay, Schmidt, Gardner. Dumart. Labine, Creighton, Mohns, Toppazzini. Sandford, Mackell.</p><p>Canadiens &mdash; Goal, McNeil; defense: Boucnard, Johnson, Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards, Masnick Geoffrion, Mazur. Mosdell. Richard. Olmstead, McCormack, Curry, MacKay. Gamble.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; linesmen, Doug Davies, Jim Primeau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0772/1841829-1-eng-US/f0007-072.jpg" title="f0007-07" width="595" height="121"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01432/1841822-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="589" height="595"></div><p>New York 2 at Toronto 2</p><p>New York &mdash; Goal. Bower; defense: Reise. Chrystal, Buller, Evans; forwards: Bentley Raleigh, Hildebrand, Mickoski, Guidolin, Murphy, Bathgate, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Kullman, Henry. Ronty.</p><p>Toronto &mdash; Goal, Lumley; defense: Horton, Bolton, Boivin, Morrison; forwards, Sloan, Armstrong. Watson, Kennedy. Smith, Stewart Migay, Nesterenko, Solinger. Lewicki.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02365/1841815-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="597" height="538"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20</b></h3><p><b>Detroit 4 nt Boston 6</b></p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Arbour, Pronovost, Woit; forwards: Skov, Leswick, Pavelich, Rejbei, Lindsay, Wilson, Delvecchio, Dineen, Stasluk, Howe, Prystaf.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal: Henry; defense: Godfrey, Garjepv, Armstrong, Laycoe, Martin; forwards: Gardner. Labine, Mohns, Schmidt, Creighton. Klukay, Mackell, Sanford, Peirson. Topazzini, Dumart.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03290/1841808-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="602" height="473"></div><p><b>Toronto 1 at Chicago 4</b></p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Gaol: Rollins; defense: Mortoon, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Zeidel, Price; forwards: Gee, Bodnar, Couture, Peters, Moslenko, Conacher, Jankowski, Hucul, Wilson, Costello,</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal: Rollins; defense: Gadsby, Dewsbury, Mortson, Fogolin, Zeidel: forwards: Wilson, Conacher, Costello, Peters, Mosienko, Jankowski, Bodnar, Hucul, Couture, Gee, Price.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04226/1841801-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="601" height="294"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05171/1841794-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="597" height="144"></div><p><b>Canadiens 1 at New York 3</b></p><p><b>Canadiens:</b> Goal, McNeil; defense, Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson, MacPherson; forwards, Mazur. Masnlck, Goeffrion, Curry, Richard, MacKay, Olmstead, McCormack, Mosdell.</p><p><b>New York:</b> Goal: Bower; defense; Trvln, Heise, Howell, Buller, Evans, Chrystal; forwards, Ronty, Bathgate, Hergeshelmer, Raleigh, Bentley, Guidolin, Mickoski, Murphy, Kullman, Henry.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; linesmen: Doug Davies, Dom Balto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06137/1841787-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="608" height="561"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES. SUN.. DEC. 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0861/1841780-1-eng-US/f0007-082.jpg" title="f0007-08" width="596" height="2312"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0951/1841773-1-eng-US/f0007-092.jpg" title="f0007-09" width="590" height="1091"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1038/1841766-1-eng-US/f0007-102.jpg" title="f0007-10" width="590" height="369"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1134/1841759-1-eng-US/f0007-112.jpg" title="f0007-11" width="596" height="130"></div><p>&bull; 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/f0007-1228/1841752-1-eng-US/f0007-122.jpg" title="f0007-12" width="591" height="182"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-1324/1841745-1-eng-US/f0007-132.jpg" title="f0007-13" width="541" height="154"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH (Eighth Of A Series)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-07111/1841940-1-eng-US/f0008-072.jpg" title="f0008-07" width="270" height="431"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Harvey</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-0894/1841933-1-eng-US/f0008-082.jpg" title="f0008-08" width="293" height="391"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Hal Laycoe</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Let&rsquo;s again take a few moments to look back at events that made headlines in the world of hockey in the not too distant past.</p><p>Six years ago this week &mdash; The fabulous Charlie Conacher succeeded Johnny Gottselig as coach of the cellar-dwelling Chicago Black Hawks. Gottselig moved up to post assistant to General Manager Bill Tobin. Among Conacher&rsquo;s acquired charges was his younger brother. Roy.</p><p>The Montreal Canadiens traded Jimmy Peters and Johnny Quilty to Boston in exchange for Joe Carveth and a bundle of cash. At the same time, the Habitants sent Murdo McKay, Bobby Carse and Doug Harvey back to the minors in exchange for Floyd Curry, Bobby Fillion and Hal Laycoe.</p><p>Four years ago this week &mdash; Eddie Shore, after losing an estimated $40,000, yanked his Oakland Oaks from the southern division of the Pacific Coast League &hellip; The Black Hawks had the most youthful defensive duo in the NHL in Bill Gadsby, 2 2 and Ralph Nattrass, 24.</p><p>The New York Rangers announced plans to save 150,000 gallons of the city&rsquo;s water supply. This was to be accomplished, club spokesmen said, by thawing the rink after every game and pumping the water into a special reservoir in the basement of Madison Square Garden for future re-use.</p><p>Two years ago this week &mdash; Writer Marshall Dann yelled, &ldquo;Misquote&rdquo;, when a press service tabbed him as saying ice fights &ldquo;are phony, staged for the edification of the hockey fans.&rdquo; In a contrary vein, he listed Rocket Richard, Fern Flaman, Gordie Howe, Harry Watson, Red Kelly, Bill Ezinicki, Lee Fogolin, Ted Lindsay, Tom Johnson, Vic Stasiuk and Bernie Geoffrion as genuine tough guys.</p><p>Arriving in New York to coach the Rangers, Bill Cook was quick to observe that times had changed &mdash; that there was too much talent power in Montreal, Detroit and Toronto. He immediately advocated a draft similar to that used by baseball.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-07

Harvey Returned To Minors ?

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Bernie (Boom-Boom) Geoffrion, Canadiens&rsquo; high-priced star, is discovering that playing in the National Hockey League can be an expensive business, especially if you have a trigger temper.</p><p>The Boomer, the loop&rsquo;s second highest scorer, had already been nicked for $250.00 in fines so far this year and the latest incident involving him, will probably up the ante by another $200.00.</p><p>Ronnie Murphy, 21-year-old left winger of the Rangers, was in St. Claire&rsquo;s Hospital with a damaged cheek bone and a possible concussion, the result of a stickswinging brawl with Geoffrion which took place at Madison Square Garden December 20.</p><p>Geoffrion, who claimed he was attacked first, suffered a four-inch gash on the right side of his head. Both players were given match penalties by Referee Red Storey &ldquo;for deliberate attempts to injure an opponent,&rdquo; an infraction that calls for an automatic $100 fine.</p><p>Rangers won the rough game 3-1 with little Wally Hergesheimer notching a pair of goals. Defenceman Harry Howell registered New York&rsquo;s other marker while Maurice Richard scored for Montreal. It was the Rocket&rsquo;s first goal in Madison Square Garden this season and it boosted his season&rsquo;s output to 20, tops in the league.</p><p>The brawl started serenely enough in the 16th minute of the second period. Paul Masnick of the Canadiens and Bob Chrystal of the Rangers were scuffling as they sought control of a loose puck near the right boards. Geoffrion, 22-year-old right winger, went to Masnick&rsquo;s aid and Leo Reise, New York defenceman, butted in too.</p><p>&ldquo;I dropped my stick,&rdquo; said Geoffrion in the dressing room after the game, &ldquo;and Murphy speared me. I went after him and said, &lsquo;if you want to fight, drop your stick.&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Instead he whacked me on the head and I could feel the blood running down my face. I picked up my stick, fenced for a minute and then socked him.&rdquo;</p><p>Murphy, prostrate on the ice, was given first aid by Trainer Frank Paice and then was administered to by Dr. Vincent Nardiello, house physician. Later he was taken to hospital.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01431/1842100-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="559" height="568"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>What&rsquo;s Money?</b></p><p><b>BERNIE GEOFFRION</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02365/1842093-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="587" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Not Funny!</b></p><p><b>RONNIE MURPHY</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Storey imposed the match penalties and as Geoffrion moved toward the Canadien dressing room, a fan hurled a bottle at him. Another irate spectator jostled him and a crowd converged on the Montrealers&rsquo; bench.</p><p>Canadien players held them at bay with their sticks. The melee finally was broken up after a 15minute delay while the public address system announcer kept blaring that Murphy was in critical condition.</p><p>Storey had his hands full all evening, meeting out 15 penalties in all, including 10-minute misconducts to Doug Harvey of Canadiens and Leo Reise of Rangers for disputing third period decisions.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-01

Boom-Boom Blows Top, Wallet Hit, Murphy Too!

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p class="dropcap"><span>D</span>uncan Robert Fisher failed to achieve his goal of firing 30 or more goals into opposition cages last season but this year, barring injuries and possible recall by the Boston Bruins, Dune is confident he will reach that figure.</p><p>A year ago, Dune lit the red lamp on 29 occasions and would have, had he not missed nine American Hockey League games while helping out in Boston, easily reached and passed the 3 flgoal figure.</p><p>This season Fisher is running slightly behind his 1952-53 production, but figures he&rsquo;ll catch up shortly. In 27 games last year, Fisher had 20 goals, compared to 17 in the same number of contests this year. However, with his play-making center, George &lsquo;Red&rsquo; Sullivan going like a house-a-fire, Fisher is hoping to capitalize on Red&rsquo;s uncanny ability to set &rsquo;em up and go ahead of his 1952-52 mark.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03305/1842131-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="557" height="561"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Confident</b></p><p><b>DUNC FISHER</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Fisher also pointed out that his goal production fell off last season when Sullivan was called up by Boston at mid-season. This year, with the Bruins blessed with an abundance of center ice men, it is felt here that Sully will likely stick out the full season in Bear regalia.</p><h2><b>NHL Veteran</b></h2><p>Veteran of five National League campaigns, Fisher joined the Bruins during the 1950-51 season in a deal which sent Zellio Toppazzini and Ed Harrison, then members of the Bears, to the New York Rangers.</p><p>Coach Lynn Patrick, of the Bruins, has long been a booster for Fisher. He first saw Dune in the Rangers&rsquo; try out camp and later coached him at New Haven and in New York. Along about the middle of the 1950-51 season when the Rangers elected to send Fisher to St. Paul in the now defunct U.S. League, Patrick engineered the transaction which brought him to Boston.</p><p>He finished out the season with Boston in 1950-51. The following campaign, Fisher spent 65 games in Bruin livery, gathering 15 goals and 12 assists. Two years ago, with Patrick putting greater emphasis on youth, he decided to leave the 27-year-old Fisher with the Bears.</p><p>Last season, in 55 games, he collected 29 goals and 24 assists for a total of 53 points. In seven games with Boston he garnered one assists.</p><h2><b>Hard To Knock Down</b></h2><p>A stocky little guy with the physique of a weightlifter, Dune is hard to knock down and, as many NHL and AHL players have discovered, he is tough man to outwit in the corners. He usually comes away with least a draw.</p><p>In spite of his aggressiveness, Fisher is rarely banished to the penalty box. Last year he spent but two minutes in the cooler. This year, in 27 games, he has served but four minutes.</p><p>Although he comes from Regina, Saskatchewan, an inland city, Fisher is an enthusiastic swimmer. A former instructor at a Regina pool,-he credits swimming with developing his muscular physique.</p><p>Dune spends the off-season swimming to keep in condition for the next hockey campaign. And, in between dips, he indulges in another hobby &mdash; playing the bagpipes in the home-town band.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-03

Bears’ Fisher Aiming High Figures On 30 Goal Season

<p><b>CLEVELAND, Ohio.&mdash;</b></p><p><b>Every night at 11 p.m., EST Radio Station WTAM in Cleveland, 1100 on your dial, offers the dean of sports announcers Tom &ldquo;Red&rdquo; Manning in a sports roundup.</b></p><p><b>Tom is followed whenever the Barons play at home, with Hockey Hilites from the Barons dressing room with Jim Hendy at the microphone. Jim gives resumes of all American Leagues games, scores of NHL games played that night and other Hockey Hilites.</b></p><p><b>Reason we bring this to your attention is that whether you are in Sydney, Australia or Sydney, N.S., you should be able to pick up WTAM as it is a 50,000 watt clear channel station.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

WTAM Features Hockey Roundup

<h2><b>No Ties</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>he past week marked the second week in succession that no tie games were played. Three of the nine games played were won by a one goal margin. Calgary over Vancouver 3-2 Victoria over Seattle, 3-2 and Seattle over New Westminster 4-3.</p><h2><b>Empty Net Goals</b></h2><p>Fourteen goals have been scored to date when the goalkeeper has been removed. Seattle has been the victim four times, New Westminster and Calgary 3, Vancouver 2, Saskatoon and Edmonton once each. Victoria have scored the most goals into the unguarded goal, 4.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS TUES A.M. DEC. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01429/1842284-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="606" height="212"></div><p><b>RESULTS</b></p><p><b>Monday December 7th</b></p><p>Vancouver 1 at Victoria 3</p><p><b>Tuesday December 8th</b></p><p>Saskatoon 6 at Vancouver 4</p><p><b>Thursday December 10th</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at Calgary 3</p><p><b>Friday December 11th</b></p><p>Vancouver 4 at Edmonton 6</p><p>seatlle 2 at Victoria 3</p><p><b>Saturday December 12th</b></p><p>Vancouver 1 at Saskatoon 4</p><p>Victoria 3 at New West. 7</p><p>Edmonton 7 at Calgary 3</p><p><b>Sunday December 13th</b></p><p>New West. 3 at Seattle 4</p><h3><b>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 2 at Calgary 3</b></p><p><b>CALGARY</b>&mdash;Calgary Stampeders took over first place in the Western Hockey League when they defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-2.</p><p>The Stamps&rsquo; goals were scored by Sid Finney, who had a pair and Pat Lundy.</p><p>Vancouver &mdash; Goal: Worsley; defense: Houghton, Lancien, Dick Kaiser; forwards: Popein, Brown, Wylie, McCullough, Sweaney, Dea, Hickey, Rouse.</p><p>Calgary &mdash; Goal: Brennan; defense; Kyle Quackenbush, Shvetz, A. Michaluk, Coburn; forwards: Pargeter, Trentini, Lundy, Barry, Witiuk, Ashworth, Scott, Finney, J. Michaluk.</p><p>Referee: Moss Morrow; linesman: Joe Shannon.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02385/1842277-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="598" height="359"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 4 at Edmonton 6</b></p><p><b>EDMONTON</b> &mdash; Vancouver Canucks lost their second game of their current prairie road trip when they dropped a 7-4 decision to the Edmonton Flyers. Playing-coach Bud Poile scored one goal and set vp two others for the Flyers. Playing-coach Bud Poile scored one goal and set up two others for the Flyers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03318/1842270-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="602" height="638"></div><p><b>Seattle 2 at Victoria 3</b></p><p><b>VICTORIA</b>&mdash;Victoria Cougars moved to within two points of third place in the Western Hockey League when they edged the Seattle Bombers 3-2.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04260/1842263-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="606" height="343"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY DECEMBER 12</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 1 at Saskatoon 4</b></p><p>SASKATOON &mdash; Continuing a road trip that has been anything but successful, the Vancouver Canucks lost a 4-1 decision to the Saskatoon Quakers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08173/1842256-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="600" height="496"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05221/1842249-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="545" height="828"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Three Reasons For Stamp Surge</b></p><p><b>FRANK ASHWORTH</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06198/1842242-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="545" height="827"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>STEVE WITIUK</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07178/1842235-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="532" height="820"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>PAT LUNDY</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Victoria 3 at New Westminster 7</b></p><p><b>NEW WESTMINSTER</b> &mdash; Fred Denny tied the score at 3-3 in the second period and from there the New Westminster Royals went on to gain a 7-3 verdict over the Victoria Cougars.</p><p>Victoria &mdash; Goal: Almas; defense: Lavitt, Schneider, Clune: forwards: Anderson, Hebenton, Achtymichuk, Sinnett, Kilburn, E. Dorohoy, Reay, Bettlo, Maxwell, Abbott, Manson, Kuzma.</p><p>New Westminster &mdash; Goal: Dechene; defense: Matthews, Durham, Bergeron, Bedard; forwards&rsquo; Fashoway, McNab, Brilliant, O. Dorohoy, Love, Hamilton, Denny, Boyce, Thornsen, Kassian.</p><p>Referee: Scotty Morrison; linesman; Merrick Cranstoun.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09164/1842228-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="595" height="309"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-10144/1842221-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="589" height="538"></div><p><b>Edmonton 7 Calgary 3</b></p><p><b>CALGARY</b> &mdash; Tho Calgary Stampeders lost a chance to gain some ground on the second place Vancouver Canucks when they dropped a 7-3 game to the last place Edmonton Flyers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-11123/1842214-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="592" height="707"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13</b></h3><p><b>New Westminster 3 at Seattle 4</b></p><p><b>SEATTLE</b>&mdash;Guyle Fielder picked up assists on three of the Seattle Bombers&rsquo; goals as that team defeated the New Westminster Royals 4-3. Marcel Pelletier, the Bombers&rsquo; colorful goaler, was sensational in stopping the Royals.</p><p>Seattle &mdash; Goal Pelletier; defense: Davidson, Lofvendahl; forwards: Fillon, Bell, Wall Jones, Nadeau, Ailsby, Jeffrey, Fielder, Macauley, Brown, Marquess;</p><p>New Westminster &mdash; Goal: Dechene; defense: Bedard, Bergeron; forwards: McNab, Fashoway, Brilliant, Durham, Dorohoy. Love, Hamilton, Matthews, Boyce, Kassian, Thomson, Denny.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-12112/1842207-1-eng-US/f0011-122.jpg" title="f0011-12" width="597" height="686"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. DEC. 13)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1390/1842200-1-eng-US/f0011-132.jpg" title="f0011-13" width="590" height="1364"></div><p><b>GOALKEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1466/1842193-1-eng-US/f0011-142.jpg" title="f0011-14" width="591" height="229"></div><p><b>LEADERS</b></p><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Wayne Brown, Sea. 21</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Bud Poile, Edm. 28</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals:</b> Mark Marquess, Sea 5</p><p><b>Most First Goals of Game:</b> Bobby Love N.W. 5</p><p><b>Hat Tricks:</b> Eleven players tied at one each.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Bill Brennan, Cal. 4</p><p><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1547/1842186-1-eng-US/f0011-152.jpg" title="f0011-15" width="599" height="183"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAQUE

<p>TORONTO, Ont&mdash;</p><p>Distribution of players from the Sarnia Sailors who dropped from the Ontario Hockey Association, have been announced by that body.</p><p>Niagara Falls and Chatham each received three players, Owen Sound and Windsor one apiece. Others have been dedared free agents.</p><p>Following is the distribution settled at a meeting of OHA president Tory Gregg and a committee:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01420/1842315-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="530" height="1280"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Moves Again</b></p><p><b>LES DOUGLAS</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Niagara Falls &mdash; Coach Les Douglas, Don Savage and Tommy Jamieson.</p><p>Chatham &mdash; Don Castellene, Joe Zorica and Harry O&rsquo;Connor.</p><p>Owen Sound &mdash; Jerry Horton and Vern Gardiner.</p><p>Windsor &mdash; Clarence Jaster.</p><p>Free Agents, subject to Niagara Falls ontion &mdash; Dave Broadbelt, Rollie Beauchamp, John McKennell, Charlie Glabb, Clark Horner, Ollie Hadden, Art White and Leek.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Sarnia Stars Distributed

<div class="byline">By EMMETT WATSON</div><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>As neat a job as I&rsquo;ve seen in the redecorating racket was performed on the Seattle Bombers recently, with everything but a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker represented in the new hockey household.</p><p>&ldquo;Our decor is impeccable,&rdquo; said Fearless Frank Dotten, the long-suffering puck tycoon. &ldquo;I take off my hat to no firm&rsquo;s board of directors. What has General Motors got that we haven&rsquo;t got? With the exception of a five-star general, not even Remington Rand can match our board of directors.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got lawyers, doctors, sporting goods men, restaurant owners, laundry experts, shrewd public relations counsel, plus a vigilant, sleepless, incorruptible guardian of the spirit of amateurism and fair play. I do not mean to boast,&rdquo; concluded Frank, lowering his eyes bashfully, &ldquo;but in addition to all this, there is me. Why, we&rsquo;ve got&mdash;&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Have you got hockey players?&rdquo; Inquired your correspondent.</p><p>&ldquo;I detect a churlish tone in your question,&rdquo; he replied, with dignity, &ldquo;therefore I will not even bother to ignore it.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Strong Lineup</b></h2><p>In a way, it&rsquo;s gratifying to see such a group of fine, Well-heeled citizens ready to walk hand-in-hand down life&rsquo;s pathway with Mr. Dotten. Up to now, Frank has nobody to lean on in time of financial crisis except your correspondent, which it like leaning on a plate glass window.</p><p>Just in case you missed meeting the Bombers&rsquo; board of directors, here is the starting lineup:</p><p>Mr. E. V. (Gene) Walby &mdash; president, in charge of equipment and uniforms; a retired baseball player and yacht broker.</p><p>Charles (Church) Durgan &mdash; vice president, in charge of the amateur spirit, which is just what the fans have shown at the ticket window.</p><p>Dr. E M. Burgess &mdash; vice president in charge of pulled muscles and multiple contusions.</p><p>M. K. Burgess &mdash; director and field commander in charge of lawsuits, if and when.</p><p>Al McFadzen &mdash; director and restaurant owner, In charge of vitaminizing players.</p><p>William II. Short &mdash; secretary-treasurer, in private life the head of Seattle&rsquo;3 laundry and dry cleaners union, and a firm believer in local patronage. In past years, the job of taking the Bombers to the cleaners has been performed by out-of-town concerns, notably Edmonton and Calgary.</p><h2><b>Sigh of Relief</b></h2><p>It would appear, in counting the above list, that everybody in town made this board of directors except your correspondent. I do not mean to sound peevish &mdash; well, let&rsquo;s face it &mdash; I am peevish. Why wasn&rsquo;t I included in the reorganization?</p><p>Many a time Mr. Dotten and I formed a heart-rending picture, on the city&rsquo;s finest curbstones, mulling over his problems. I gave this man the best tears of my life.</p><p>When his club was losing heavily, who put a hand on Frank&rsquo;s shoulder and said, &ldquo;Tough luck&rdquo;? When his team was in the cellar and he had no Ice Arena to play in, who loaned him a copy of Kipling&rsquo;s &ldquo;If&rdquo;? When his ulcers were in open rebellion, who stepped forward with a Tum?</p><p>Am I to be cast aside, like an old crying towel, now that he is wallowing in well-heeled stockholders?</p><p>&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; said Mr. Dotten, with a sigh of relief.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Watson’s Needle:

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>VICTORIA, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>The playing coach of the Victoria Cougahs has a big job ahead of him, but one he has all the qualifications for&mdash;to lift the Cats out of the cellar and make the Cougars a threat in the WHL. In the pre-season poll Victoria was picked to finish one-two. The Cats started slow, but they are moving now.</p><p>A veteran of eight full seasons in the Big Time with the famed Montreal Canadiens, Reay brought to Victoria a brilliant record and considerable coaching experience. He was player-coach of the Quebec Aces during the war and also served as co-coach of the Junior Canadiens, Memorial Cup champions in 1948. This his first professional coaching position.</p><p>Only five feet seven Inches tall and weighing only 155, Reay, who shoots left and plays center, is an agressive and scrappy puckster. He&rsquo;s been in the moneyed ranks since 1939 when he played his first pro hockey for Omaha of the United States League. He has at Omaha for two seasons, then a short stop with Detroit before moving on to Montreal.</p><h2><b>Born In Winnipeg</b></h2><p>Reay is one of three coaches in the Western League who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which has been one of the most fertile hockey fields in the world. The Cougars&rsquo; pilot was born August 21,1918. He is 35 years old.</p><p>There&rsquo;s an old saying that &lsquo;lightning doesn&rsquo;t strike twice in the same place,&rdquo; but Montreal, which has a working agreement with the Cougars, don&rsquo;t subcribe to that theory. Why? Because the Canadiens are confident Reay can duplicate the teat the last coach they sent to Victoria accomplished.</p><h2><b>Leger Did It</b></h2><p>Three seasons ago &mdash; 1950-51 &mdash; Montreal shipped Roger Leger to Victoria. The big, rugged defenseman piloted the Cats to their first league and Playoff championship in hie first season as a pro mentor. Montreal looks for the same from Reay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02340/1842370-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="521" height="805"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Good Record</b></p><p><b>BILLY REAY</b></p></figcaption></div><p>If Billy can catch the brasring on the WHL, merry-go-round in his first season in top minor league company he will have done a wonderful job. Word from the east is, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t sell Reay short.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Billy Reay Faces Challenge In First Pro Coaching Job

<h2><b>Hat Trick</b></h2><p>Bucky Buchanan of the Chicoutimi Chicks scored three-goal &ldquo;Hat Trick&rdquo; as the Chicks defeated Valleyfield Braves 4-1 on Dec. 17.</p><h2><b>Braves Move</b></h2><p>Valleyfield Braves went on the war path last weekend and took both games from the Ottawa Sentors, 3-0 and 6-2.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RAGE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON TUES A.M. DEC 22)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01420/1842523-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="611" height="211"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 16</b></h3><p><b>Montreal 3 at Ottawa 3</b></p><p>OTTAWA &mdash; Two quick goals In the third period by Leo Gravelle and Bep Guidolin gave the Ottawa Senators a 3-3 draw with the Montreal Royals before 3,000 capital fans.</p><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal, Evans; defence, Hollingworth, Hodgson, Roche, Leger; forwards, Blaine, Wray, Litzenberger, Desaulnlers, Tessier, Burchell, Meger, Kaiser, Laplante. Davis.</p><p><b>Ottawa:</b> Goal, Frederick; defence, Robertson, Arundel, Burega, Hudson, Bolton; forwards, Blair, Gravelie, Riopelle, Johnson, Kuntz, Giesebrecht, Poland, Guidolin, Foley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02378/1842516-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="599" height="559"></div><p><b>Valley field 5 at Quebec 4</b></p><p>QUEBEC &mdash; Rookie Roland Leclerc scored at the 6.41 mark of the overtime period to give the Valleyfield Braves a 5-4 decision over the Quebec Aces after they came from behind a 4-1 deficit.</p><p><b>Valleyfield:</b> Goal, Payette; defence, Ernst, Deslauriers, Irvine; forwards, Joannette, Bisalllon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc, Farelll, Myles.</p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal, Marois; defence, Raglan, Crozier, Caron. Talbot, Houle; forwards, Brown, Grosse, Powell, Regan, Harrison, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Wharram.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03346/1842509-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="604" height="694"></div><p><b>Sherbrooke 3 at Springfield 1</b></p><p>SPRINGFIELD &mdash; Sherbrooke Saints tallied three goals in the third period to defeat the Springfield Indians 3-1.</p><p><b>Sherbrooke:</b> Goal, Gatherum; defence, Roberge, Bownass, Palamar, Forbes, Hay; forwards, DubA Stankiewicz, Johnson, McLean, Irving. Ehnan, Bruneteau, Malo. Giesebrecht.</p><p><b>Springfield:</b> Goal, Herderson; defence, Bloomer, McNab, Telford, Tarala; forwards, Leler, Bodenic, Gagnon, Schlnkel, McLeod, McMurdv, Pogue, Power.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04314/1842502-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="591" height="239"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05268/1842495-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="591" height="237"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY DECEMBER 17</b></h3><p><b>Quebec 2 at Montreal 5</b></p><p>MONTREAL &mdash; The Montreal Royals defeated the Quebec Aces 5-2 in a game that was slgnifigant only for the fine goaltending of the Aces&rsquo; Jean Marois.</p><p>Montreal snipers were Dick Wray, with a pair, Lome Davis, Ray Laplante and Bob Frampton.</p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal, Marois; defence, Crozier, Talbot, Ragland, Houle; forwards, Tremblay, Regan Grosse, Brown, Cabana, Powell, Harrison, Labadie, Wharram, Kelly.</p><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal, Evans; defence, Hodgson, Roche, Hollingworth, Leger; forwards, Burchell, Davis, Meger, Blaine, Tessier, Litzenberger, Wray, Denis, Frampton, Laplante.</p><p>Referee, Sibby Mundey; linesmen, Paul Moreau. Bob Sleeth.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06229/1842488-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="589" height="437"></div><p><b>Valleyfield 1 at Chicoutimi 4</b></p><p>CHICOUTIMI &mdash; Bucky Buchanan racked up three goals as Chicoutimi Sagueneens outscored Valleyfield Braves 4-1 in a Quebec Hockey League game.</p><p>Buchanan hit for a goal each period as Chicoutimi moved up to third-place in the league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07216/1842481-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="591" height="480"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19</b></h3><p><b>Valleyfield 8 at Ottawa 0</b></p><p>OTTAWA &mdash; The Valleyfield Braves shut out the league-leading Ottawa Senators 8-0 on goals by Andre Corriveau, Bruce Cline and Rollie Leclerc.</p><p>It was goaler Andy Payette&rsquo;s first zero in three games with the Valleyfield club.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08204/1842474-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="593" height="422"></div><p><b>Montreal flat Springfield 6</b></p><p>SPRINGFIELD &mdash; The Springfield Indians scored two goals with less than three minutes to go in regulation time and then held on in overtime to gain a 6-6 tie with the Montreal Royals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09197/1842467-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="596" height="1044"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY. DECEMBER 20</b></h3><p><b>Springfield 2 at Montreal 8</b></p><p>MONTREAL &mdash; Bobby Frampton and Dick Wray scored two goals apiece to lead the Montreal Royals to an 8-2 decision over the Springfield Indians.</p><p>Other Royal scorers were Lome Davis, Skippy Burchell, Lulu Denis and Paul Meger.</p><p><b>Springfield:</b> Goal: Henderson; defense: Bloomer, Tottle, Tarala; forwards: McNab, Schlnkel, Gagnon, Hastings, McLeod, Bobenic, McMurdy, Power, Pogue, Leler.</p><p><b>Royals:</b> Goal: Evans; defense, Hollingworth, Harmon, Roche, Leger; forwards: Davis, Litzenberger, Burchell, Meger, Tessier, Wray, Denis, Frampton, Laplante, Desaulnierg.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10190/1842460-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="587" height="811"></div><p><b>Ottawa 2 at Valleyfield 6</b></p><p>VALLEYFIELD &mdash; The Valleyfield Braves won a 6-2 decision from the Ottawa Senators to take both games of the weekend double-heaxler against the league-leaders, and climb into third place In the QHL steandings.</p><p><b>Ottawa:</b> Goal: Frederick; defense: Arundel, Robertson, Burega, Hudson; forwards: Poland, Gravelie, Johnson, Blair, Riopelle, Giesebrecht, Kuntz, Railey, Foley, Guidolin.</p><p><b>Valley field:</b> Goal: Payette; defense: Ernst, Irvine, Deslauriers; forwards: Bisalllon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Harworth, Cline, Leclerc, Movies, Farelli, White.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11169/1842453-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="596" height="743"></div><p><b>Quebec 4 at Sherbrooke 5</b></p><p>SHERBROOKE &mdash; Sherbrooke Saints connected for four goals in the second period as they defeated the Quebec Aces 5-4.</p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Marois; defense: Raglan, Crozier, Talbot, Houle; forwards: Denis, Brown, Cabana, Powell, Regan, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Wharram.</p><p><b>Sherbrooke:</b> Goal: Gatherum; defense: Roberge, Palamar, Hay, Bownass, Forbts: forwards; McLean, Dube, Irving, Giesebrecht, Johnson, Malo.</p><p>Referee: &lsquo;Norm Westgate; linesmen: Lalonde, Therriault.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12152/1842446-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="596" height="416"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-13123/1842439-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="600" height="350"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES. SUN. DEC. 20)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-14106/1842432-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="602" height="1307"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAQUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>You have to back-track a bit, back two years for the preface to the present story about the resurgence of the Montreal Royals in the Quebec Hockey League.</p><p>Royals had gone unbeaten In four straight games as these lines were typed. Two road games were tied and two home games were won, with a 20-year old Frenchspeaking goaler with an English monnicker in their net. His name is Claude Evans, he hails from the St. Lawrence southshore town of Longueuil.</p><p>You see two years ago Pete Morin was coaching the Nationales, now defunct, in the old Junior Amateur Hockey Association. He had promoted Evans from the Nats&rsquo; Junior B team, and the youngster then under 18, had returned in a wholly satisfactory performance.</p><p>Last season the Nationales disbanded, and Pete was promoted to the senior Royals, while Evans found a berth playing goals for coach Buddy O&rsquo;Connor&rsquo;s Cincinatti Mohawks of the IHL.</p><h2><b>Belanger&rsquo;s Reports</b></h2><p>Of course Pete had an ace goal-guardian with the Montreal QSHL unit in Jacques Plante who went to Buffalo Bisons January 1, 1953. But Pete still kept tabs on his former protoge, Evans. After each game the Mohawks played Pete would contact O&rsquo;Connor and his first question was: &ldquo;How did Evans look ?</p><p>There were three goalers at Fall training camp when Royals got in their early licks at the Forum. The top man was Bob Perreault, who had pro experience with Providence Reds part of last season, Jean Paul Renaud, a talented senior grade net-minder and Evans.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01415/1842561-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="541" height="569"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>He Had Him!</b></p><p><b>BUDDY O&rsquo;CONNOR</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Perreault had been purchased by Frank Selke during the summer. and because he had a two-year pull in age, and the minor pro experience Perreault was, of course, the No. 1 choice. He became Royals&rsquo; regular. Renaud was chosen as second string, because he was also stand in for Gerry McNeil at Canadiens&rsquo; home games, and Royals&rsquo; statistician in the bargain.</p><h2><b>Loaned To Braves</b></h2><p>When Valleyfield Braves had a goal-keeper trouble, the veteran Paul Leclerc slightly below par, Evans was shipped on loan to the cotton town. In a short time Leclerc recovered from his miseries, so the Braves sent Evans back to Montreal.</p><p>Anyway, Toe Blake had another rookie net-minder handy since Andy Payette was footloose upon the fold-up of Lachine Rapides of the Provincial Hockey League.</p><p>A couple of spotty games by Perreault became the predominating factor in causing Morin to make a move he had been pondering for some time. He benched Perreault and brought in young Evans. It was a daring switch, but oddly, Royals began to click in other departments overnight.</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t that Evans turned In such a glittering chore that Gerry McNeil, Harry Lumley, or Terry Sawchuck would become anxious; the young goaler&rsquo;s work seemed to give the forwards and defensemen new life.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02329/1842554-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="557" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>He&rsquo;s Cot Him!</b></p><p><b>PETE MORIN</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>Start To Roll</b></h2><p>Royals began to roll. They tied Senators in Ottawa, and then they dumped the lordly Quebec Aces who have been on top or close to the summit for nearly a month. In the Quebec game Evans would have had a shutout only his mates knocked the puck into his cage twice.</p><p>Then Royals went along to tie the Indians in Springfield and hand the Tribe and 8-2 shellacking in Montreal.</p><p>In the four games, with the net in Evans&rsquo; stewardship, Royals scored 22 tallies and had 13 scored against them. And Morin has given no sign that Perreault is going to get his old job back.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Evans Takes Over In Regals’ Goals

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>The National Hockey League appears to be on a yo-yo for the Detroit Red Wings this season. Bidding for a sixth straight championship, Detroit has held first place three times. And lost it three times.</p><p>Strangest part of all this bouncing in and out of the lead is that the Wings never have won a game while holding the top rung.</p><p>This is the record so far:</p><p>Detroit claimed a share of first place upon winning its opener from New York on Oct. 8, then dropped to second when beaten in Montreal on Oct. 10.</p><p>The Wings went in front again on Oct. 18 by beating Montreal. The next&rsquo;game was a 1-1 tie with Toronto and on Oct. 24, back they fell a notch with another defeat in Montreal.</p><p>Once more Detroit moved into the lead on Dec. 3 by blanking New York only to tumble back to second place on Dec. 5 when shut out in Toronto.</p><p>Now the Wings have the lead again and this time they hope its for good.</p><p><b>Dann</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Wings Up And Down Like Yo-Yo In NHL

<div class="byline">By JACK KINSELLA</div><p>OTTAWA, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Quebec Hockey League may not be packing them in like it did in halcyon, i.e. Beliveau days, but there&rsquo;s certainly nothing wrong with the brand of hockey the boys are producing all around the circuit.</p><p>Almost from the start of the season, it has been dog-eat-dog with the seven teams, and seldom has a week passed but that someone hasn&rsquo;t climbed three notches, or perhaps, dropped four. First place has never been too far from last place, in the way of points, at least.</p><p>With more than two months of the schedule in the records, you&rsquo;d have to say there Isn&rsquo;t a powerhouse in the Slater circuit this season. Every team is in the running and it should be a hot right for those playoff berths.</p><p>In other years, Quebec, with Gros Bill, or Royals, with an assorted group of high class talent, stood out, but this year not one of the teams resembles the powerhouses of old. The accent seems to be on balance more than anything.</p><p>And when you speak of balance, the team which comes first to mind could only be Turk Broda&rsquo;s Ottawa Senators. The 1953-54 edition of the Barber Poles appears to have as well balanced a team as there is in the QHL and it makes them a better than even money choice to win the marbles.</p><h2><b>Ups and Downs</b></h2><p>Senators, of course, have had their ups and downs this season, the ups coming against just about every team except Royals who have been providing the downs with monotonous regularity. Save for their opening win at the Forum, Ottawa can&rsquo;t seem to beat the Morin men to save their souls.</p><p>&ldquo;One of those things, I guess,&rdquo; says Broda, &ldquo;we always seem to be falling over our own feet when we play Royals. They have beaten us more times by one-goal margins than I care to remember.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03245/1842616-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="585" height="892"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Steady</b></p><p><b>BOBBY ROBERTSON</b></p></figcaption></div><p>The fabulous Fat Man has his Barber Poles up on top of the heap by a slim margin at this writing and it looks as if he may be able to keep them there. The team appears to be &ldquo;set&rdquo; now more than at any time this season, with balance the big factor.</p><p>From the nets right out to center ice, Broda has good talent. Especially on the blue line, where Ottawa teams were weak in recent years, is there a great improvement and it has been evident in many games.</p><p>Broda has five good rearguards in Bill Burega, Hugh Bolton, Gordie Hudson, Johnny Arundel and Bobby Robertson. Add to these a couple of rejuvenated artists like Leo Gravelle and Howard (Rip) Riopelle, and you have the answer.</p><p>Crowds, however, have not been good around the Ottawa Auditorium this season despite the fact that the Senators are front runners. TV has hurt, no doubt about it, but whether that is the entire reason is a matter or conjecture. The teams are playing good hockey but the fans are staying away.</p><p>It&rsquo;s possible they&rsquo;re staying away because there isn&rsquo;t a color guy in the Slater circuit this season. There are some pretty good performers in follows like Quebec&rsquo;s Adam Brown, Chicoutimi&rsquo;s Bucky Buchanan and the Smrke brothers, Valleyfield&rsquo;s Larry Kwong and Jake Irvine, Royals&rsquo; Orval Tessier, and Ottawa&rsquo;s Gravelle and Riopelle, but alas and alack, there is no Beliveau.</p><h2><b>Packed &lsquo;Em In</b></h2><p>The big guy used to pack &lsquo;em in wherever he played. You never had to worry about selling a ticket when the Aces were coming to town and while the Quebec team la still a pretty good drawing card they&rsquo;re not the same without big Jean, and a glance at the standings shows this.</p><p>Another reason for a lack of fan interest could be the fact there hasn&rsquo;t been a single good feud going in the loop this year. The National Hockey League has its perennial Toronto-Montreal embroglios, with Boston and Detroit other clubs always good for a rough, tough battle that could and in a donnybrook anytime.</p><p>There hasn&rsquo;t been anything rougher in the Quebec League this year than shoving and pushing affairs, and while these excite the fans, they are nothing compared to the type of arguments followers of the NHL are getting these days.</p><p>You can&rsquo;t win games in the penalty box, of course, but then who wants to win if you&rsquo;re packing the joint?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Every Team A Contender In QHL, Feature Tightest Race In Years

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Energetic Terry Reardon has led the Millionaires to a strong comeback in Sydney but nothirig that had happened earlier in the season gave him as much pleasure as the 6-0 shutout his Moneymen fashioned over Halifax Atlantices in a recent game at the Steel City.</p><p>Halifax and Sydney have been running one-two in the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League. After see-sawing for some weeks the teams settled down to a steady diet&mdash;each won its home games, lost In the other team&rsquo;s rink.</p><p>The Mills have consistently outskated the Als but the league leaders had a big bulge in the scoring zone. So Reardon beamed all over his pleasant Irish face When his marksmen held the Atlantics off the scoresheet and bagged six goals themselves.</p><p>Glace Bay Miners have been having goaltending troubles this year but the weakness may be solved. Eddie Daoust lasted only a month. Dick Dion had some good games but he was so short the high shots were clearing his head and hitting under the bar.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01392/1842647-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="265" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Penniston</b></figcaption></div><p>So they brought In Cliff Hicks, a much-travelled young man who served in Glace Bay and Sydney two years ago. Hicks reached the Halifax airport a couple of hours before game time, complained of air-sickness but was sent into the nets anyway. After &lsquo;blowing&rsquo; on two soft shots and not looking too good on another, he retired at the end of one period and Dick Dion came on the play good hockey, although the Miners never recovered from their oarly deficit.</p><p>Next night, however, Hicks was back in the nets at Charlottetown and played so well the Glace Bay boys beat their rivals for third place. Silent Don Penniston might have in Hicks the man he needs to get his &lsquo;slumbering giants&rsquo; on the move.</p><p>The Miners have been hard hit by injuries and suspensions. Centre Kenny Watson played only one game and has been on the sidelines ever since. Tommy Fyles was out for several weeks with a hand injury, made, a comeback and was promptly tagged with a match penalty, a fine of 150 and a three-game suspension.</p><p>Glace Bay officials reacted angrily to this edict, asking why the Bydney man involved with their star wasn&rsquo;t penalized in similar fashion.</p><p>Then the fans of Canada&rsquo;s biggest town got together in their own peculiar and big-hearted way. Between periods of a game the younger fry passed among the spectators, hats in hand. Before the third period started Fyles was called to centre ice and presented with a paper bag, filled with dollars, dimes, nickles and even some pennies, totalling fifty bucks.</p><p>A year ago Halifax fans reacted in the same way, presenting Hugh Campebll with $.50 in assorted coins to pay a fine. Campbell promptly turned the money over to the March of Dimes. Incidents, Big Hugh is now with Glace Bay.</p><p>The mystery in many quarters is why the Minors are battling stubbornly for third place instead of being up with the leaders. They have speed, weight and experience, and some excellent marksmen. But weak goaltending, Injuries aand suspensions have down their effectiveness.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Halifax Leads Maritime Loop But Mills Hot

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>It was a great night for North Bay! Ratepayers went to the polls in droves to authorize borrowing $400,000 for construction of a badly-needed modern arena and recreation building. Final vote: For, 1,866; Against, 1,242. A clear-cut majority of 624. And just in a way of celebrating that long 2 awaited victory, North Bay Trappers went to the goal-polls with an vengeance to topple the league-leading Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, 7-4 to close-in on the second-place Sudbury Wolves.</p><p>But the Arena victory was not merely a local issue &mdash; not by any means. It affects all northern hockey since the new rink simply means hockey leaders can now plan for the future with the accent on building a contender for the Allan Cup, and later developing junior hockey once again.</p><p>Breaking the victory into simple terms, here&rsquo;s what it means: the present outdated, ramshackle rink, built in 1936 at a cost of $30,000 and seating only 1,900 will be replaced by a modern, comfortable edifice capable of seating 4,000 with room for 1,000 standing-room patrons. Besides a hockey and skating arena, the new building will have a small gymnasium for physical training and rooms for clubs and hobby groups to use the year round. The present arena operates only six months a year for solely hockey and skating.</p><h2><b>Great Campaign Did It!</b></h2><p>The net result of the new arena is that many more people will start taking an interest in hockey when they can go to hockey games in comfort, amid pleasant surroundings. This, naturally, will swell the gate and enable hockey leaders like Pete Palangio, owner of North Bay Trappers, to go out with confidence and build an Allan Cup team. Hampered by limited capacity and entirely outdated facilities, Palangio has consistently kept fighting to keep hockey alive in North Bay.</p><p>Since Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury have beautiful new rinks, as well as Pembroke, Port Arthur, the Porcupine District, the Gold Belt District and Espanola, North Bay developed as the weak link in the northern chain. This is past now with that &ldquo;victory for ths arena.</p><p>The Hockey News would like to salute men like Britt Jessup, sports editor and news editor of the The North Bay Daily Nuggett, and his capable aide. Roily Ethier and of course, managing editor Mort Fellman, for their truly magnificent and vigorous campaign for the arena. They started out in a sane, logical manner to explain, the reasons why it was so important for North Bay to get that new rink. They did not go and lambast the opposition, preferring to respect all opinions. They simply carried out a sound, aggressive campaign so typical of the fine citizens of North Bay.</p><p>Pete Palangio, long regarded as one of the best-liked personalities in Northern Ontario hockey, previously told The Hockey News he had to have a new rink if North Bay ever hoped to become a power in hockey, whether it be senior or junior. However, the authorization of borrowing $400,000 goes deeper than just senior hockey. After all, it means other hockey leaders can go out and promote and develop hockey from the grass-roots&mdash;bantams, midget, juvenile, junior and intermediate, eventually leading up to the senior division.</p><p>After the balloting was tabulated for the final returns, North Bay was a city of victory. For many hockey fans sensed this was the start of a new era in hockey for this great sports city&mdash;one of the finest in the North. Even the players showed their great joy and enthusiasm, indicating that North Bay is entering the dawn of a great new hockey world. The citizens of North Bay deserve a tremendous amount of credit for the way this entire campaign was conducted. True, there was definite opposition, but that&rsquo;s the way of a free, democratic vote. And we bet those who did oppose the by-law will now join hands with the victors for the general good of North Bay.</p><p>The Hockey News congratulates the fine city of North Bay. Best of luck on that new arena! A job well done!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

North Bay Ratepayers Authorize New Arena

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT ST. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>An icy highway and driving snowstorm near Pembroke almost proved fatal to six Sault St. Marie (Michigan) Indians on their way to Pembroke for a Northern Ontario senior game &hellip; their car went out of control, smashed into another and careened into a steep ditch &hellip; Jimmy Shirley suffered a broken bone near his spine and will be out of action for several weeks &hellip; Henry Backor, Laurie Peterson, Jackie Heon, Gordie Kerr and Laurie May escaped with a bad shaking up &hellip; the Indians had to start the game with only nine players and a borrowed netminder and yet lost 1-0 &hellip; diminutive Walter Maich, spare netminder for Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario) Greyhounds was used the next time the Indians played&hellip; at the moment the matter of who will replace Shirley is uncertain &hellip;</p><p>After a stormy battle with Maxie Silverman over his release, and&rsquo;a long trip to British Columbia which proved fruitless, Marty Burton of Sudbury finally signed with Pembroke Lumber Kings who are making a valiant bid to get somewhere in senior hockey&hellip; you have to give those fine hockey fans and leaders in Pembroke credit because MAN THEY&rsquo;RE REALLY TRYING HARD! &hellip; Watch out for those Algoma Contractors of Sault Ste. Marie! &hellip; from where we sit the Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; team sponsored by Algoma Contractors Limited appears consiuerabiy strengthened over last season when they captured the northern title &hellip; Husky Hodgson, former Greyhound senior star, is at the helm &hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01315/1842733-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="545" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HANK BACKOR</b></figcaption></div><p>Don&rsquo;t ever let anyone tell you they haven&rsquo;t got some dandy hockey players in the Gold Belt&hellip; several juniors look like surefire big-time prospects &hellip; Bobby Lamarche put on a sizzling spurt this month, racing all the way from fifth place to the leadership in the Gold Belt Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League &hellip; Bobby had only nine points going into December but at this writing the hard-driving, likeable &ldquo;kid&rdquo; has 19 to upset Lornie &ldquo;Porkie&rdquo; Watters who led most of the way &hellip; Bobby performs for the second-place South Porcupine Gold Diggers&hellip; by the way, Watters has 18 for New Liskeard Cubs, the current &lsquo;leaders who have no less than seven players in The Big Ten &mdash; Ronnie Stenlund with 17, Ronnie Blais with 15, L. Dodds with 13 tied with his teammate Grignon, Hillman with 12 and Phyllis with 1 &hellip; Moe Chevrefils, young brother of Boston&rsquo;s Real, starred with two goals in that 4-2 victory for South Porcupine Gold Diggers over Porcupine Combines &hellip; Moe shows promise of following in his famous brother&rsquo;s footsteps &hellip; a swell youngster that Moe Chevrefils.</p><p>We received a letter from New York the other day&hellip; it contained a request we sincerely hope all teams in Northern Ontario will fulfill&hellip; Jerome M. Ahrens of 51 West 86th Street, New York 24, N.Y. is quite a hockey fan&hellip; he has a fine hobby of collecting hockey programs and record books&hellip; to date he has 800 from all over the U.S.A., Canada, England and Scotland &hellip; but he says he has had the most trouble getting programs from the NOHA and Thunder Bay Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Leagues&hellip; he appealed to me to help him &hellip; I sent him what I had on hand, but how about all you good hockey fans all through Northern Ontario helping out this fine hockey fan &hellip; let&rsquo;s flood him with programs of all descriptions from all over the North &hellip; I intend to get in touch with Jerome later to find out just how well you have all co-operated &hellip; let&rsquo;s show Jerome in New York we can swell his splendid collection &hellip; how about it friends?&hellip;</p><p>Another letter came in from J.Bodell of 133 Maple Street in Timmins &hellip; he read our item about Laurie Peterson scoring two goals in seven seconds for a new record in the southern division of the NOHA senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; race &hellip; he recalls some other very fine records &hellip; Ron Wallace fired two goals in five seconds in a game between Schumacher Lions and South Porcupine in juvenile in 1947 &hellip; then E. Didone of the Porcupine Combines Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; club, playing in a senior circuit, exploded two goals in five seconds against Iroquois Falls in 1948 &hellip; thanks very much J. Bodell for these interesting items&hellip; I invite anyone in the North to write me at anytime letting me know of anything unusual or off the beaten path relative to hockey&hellip; it&rsquo;s always a real pleasure to hear from you &hellip;</p><p>In the NOHA senior, &ldquo;A&rdquo; race, Soo Greyhounds finally took over sole possession of first place by whipping Sudbury Wolves, 6-3, then tripping Pembroke Lumber Kings, 5-4 for a slim one point lead over the defending northern champions&hellip; Pembroke is showing rejuvenated form these past two weeks and could still be a threat.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NOHA Puck Parade

<p>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>The Beavers, Fort William&rsquo;s entry in the four-team Thunder Bay senior hockey league, are still going strong and today must be the only hockey team in the country with an unbeaten record.</p><p>Rapidly becoming noted for their strong finishes, the Beavers have won their first eight starts, but this week-end are due to face what many observers believe is their strongest competition, in the form of the Fort Frances Canadians.</p><p>The Canadiens, fresh from a pair of victories over the Port Arthur Bearcats which moved them to within a few points of the pace-setting Beavers, are due to appear here Sunday and a rousing, exhibition Is expected.</p><p>Bolstered by the addition of Morris Hamilton, leading scorer in the Maritimes league last season; Bob Fero and Goaltender Paul Morin, the Beavers picked up strength they lacked last season, but was good enough to carry them into Canada&rsquo;s western final.</p><p><b>Stan Malinoski.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Fort Team Boasts Unbeaten Record

<div class="byline">By STAN MALINOSKI</div><p>FORT WILLIAM, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Fort William&rsquo;s two junior teams received a couple of pre-Christmas surprises last week. One saw the highly touted Canadiens&rsquo; win streak snapped in its 13th game, and the other was the resignation of Paul Becotte as coach of the Hurricanes.</p><p>The Canadiens, who have run things pretty much their own way since the season opened, were all packed for a trip to Minneapolis for a pair of exhibition games against the University of Minnesota, and as a going away present recieved a 5-3 setback from the Port Arthur Bruins.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t win them all,&rdquo; was Coach Mickey Hennessey&rsquo;s comment following the game. &ldquo;Our big guns failed to click and we were outhusled most of the way. In a way I&rsquo;m glad it happened because maybe now the boys will get down to buisness instead of acting like a bunch of supermen.&rdquo;</p><p>In Minneapolis last week-end, the Candiens were greeted with a couple of reverses. 5-0 and 5-3, and returned home wondering if they may have hit their top stride too early in the season and are now suffering from staleness brought on by a dose of over confidence.</p><p>The Canadiens with 12 wins and one loss are sill far in front of Murdo McKay&rsquo;s Bruins who have a record of 8 wins and 6 defeats. Battling to stay out of the cellar spot are the Hurricanes and North Stars, each with four wins.</p><p>The Hurricanes, with Joe MacArthur, pilot of the Senior Beavers, pinch-hitting as coach until someone else is appointed, dropped a pair of games over the week-end, both by one goal. MacArthur was filling in for Becotte who resigned rather than wait for the executive to &ldquo;fire&rdquo; him, which they planned to do before the. week was out.</p><p>Becotte, at 23 probably the youngest coach in Canadian Junior A hockey, was immensely popular with his players and fans, and his dismissal was met with a storm of protest from Irate fans who felt that he should have been given more time to prove himself, especially after giving six years to coaching and managing the Hurricanes outdoor minor league system.</p><p>Becotte, who maintained at the beginning ot the season that too much should not bo expected from his rookie-studded squad before Christmas, said: &ldquo;There always must be a fall guy when things are not going right, and I guess I&rsquo;m it.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hab Skein Ends With Bruin Win

<div class="byline">By FRED ROBERTS</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Sammy Pollock, coach of Junior Canadiens, got his letter to Santa Claus away and the kindly old gent with the flowing white beard may show some compassion for him.</p><p>Pollock, a keen-witted, nervous type, who makes brevity his byword, asked the yuletide philanthropist to stoD off in Quebec City on his gift-bearing journey to Montreal and try to pry Guy Rousseau loose from the nouveau riche Quebec Frontenacs.</p><p>If Sammy is turning his coat collar up against the wintry blast, there&rsquo;s a good reason for it. When the wholesale transfer of players from the defunct Quebec Citadelles took place after they were purchased by the Frontenacs, all clubs in the Quebec Junior Leagfue and a few in the Ontario section got something out of it. Sammy was left out in the cold.</p><p>Whether or not his junior Canadiens will get Rousseau from Quebec is something that may be decided within the next few days. He belonged to Canadiens originally and went to Quebec in a bolstering move. Now that the Fronts have been &ldquo;loaded&rdquo; chances are Rousseau will return, to &ldquo;balance&rdquo; Canadiens.</p><p>Pollock wasn&rsquo;t around to hasten negotiations. He was in Toronto helping straighten out the hurried details of the new inter-locking schedule which is reported ready to start.</p><p>Heres where the various players went:</p><p>TO FRONTENACS: Moe Mantha, Leo Amadio, At Langlois, Bob Chevalier, Mike Ratchford, Gilles Thibeault, Pat Presley, Clermont Doyon, Ray Cyr, Richard Bouchard, Stan Parker, George Faulkner, Charlie Denomme and Gaston Pelletier (all former Citadelles).</p><p>TO ROYALS: Stan Maxwell, Carl Wandowich, Gilles Laperriere (all former Citadelles).</p><p>TO JONQUIERE: Mike Desilets, Roger Landry, Claude St. Jean, Claude Chabot (all former Frontenacs).</p><p>TO GUELPH: Armand Del Bosco (former Frontenac).</p><p>TO KITCHENER: Del Topoll (former Frontenac).</p><p>TO THREE RIVERS: Gilles Matteau (former Frontenac).</p><p>TO CANADIENS: Merry Christmas!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rebuilt Frontenacs May Return Rousseau

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01276/1842843-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK&rsquo;S PUZZLE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02235/1842836-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="617" height="943"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Detroit player.</p><p>5&mdash;Initials of Stanley of Vancouver.</p><p>7&mdash;Billy Reay is one.</p><p>9&mdash;An N.H.L. goalie.</p><p>12&mdash;Played for Rangers recently.</p><p>13&mdash;First name of a Leaf forward.</p><p>14&mdash;Al Rollins&rsquo; native province (abbr).</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of Providence Reds coach in 1952-53.</p><p>17&mdash;&ldquo;Bep&rdquo; Guidolln&rsquo;s Initials.</p><p>20&mdash;Number of games Leo Boivin participated in last season.</p><p>21&mdash;&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Kelly Injured one in 1951-52 play-offs.</p><p>22&mdash;One of the Bruins answers to this.</p><p>23&mdash;&ldquo;Buddy&rdquo; O&rsquo;Connors initials.</p><p>24&mdash;Number of goals Sid Abel scored last season.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of Creighton of Boston.</p><p>29&mdash;Played goal for Chicago recently.</p><p>31&mdash;Initials of Riopelle of Ottawa.</p><p>33&mdash;Seattle&rsquo;s goalie is called this.</p><p>36&mdash;Boston bought this player from Chicago last summer.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Given name of Hassard of Pittsburgh.</p><p>2&mdash;Rangers obtained this player from Canadiens in exchange for Babando & Slowinski.</p><p>3&mdash;Complete Initials of Ernie Roche.</p><p>4&mdash;Behold!</p><p>5&mdash;Nickname of club with whom Beliveau last played.</p><p>6&mdash;Jim Peters&rsquo; nickname.</p><p>8&mdash;An N.H.L. manager.</p><p>10&mdash;Otherwise.</p><p>11&mdash;&ldquo;Murph&rdquo; Chamberlain&rsquo;s Initials.</p><p>16&mdash;N.Y. Rangers&rsquo; captain.</p><p>18&mdash;Played for Detroit in 1951-52, called Fred.</p><p>19&mdash;Coach of Ottawa Senators.</p><p>20&mdash;Name given Baccari of Providence.</p><p>21&mdash;Exclamation!</p><p>25&mdash;Initials of one of the Canadiens.</p><p>26&mdash;Upon.</p><p>28&mdash;Short for given name of Dahlstrom, ex N.H.L. player.</p><p>30&mdash;Coached 1951-52 All-S tar team.</p><p>32&mdash;Initials of Gordon of Cleveland.</p><p>33&mdash;All clubs have one (abbr).</p><p>34&mdash;Musical note.</p><p>35&mdash;Initials of Rangers goalie in 1952-53.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hockey Crossword Puzzle

<p>CHICOUTIMI, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Defenseman Andy McCallum has been dispatched to the Sydney Millionaires of the Maritime Major League by the Chicoutimi Sagueneens of the Quebec Hockey</p><p>McCallum was the second player to be sent to the Maritime loop from the QHL. The other was goaler Cliff Hicks.</p><p>McCallum came to the Chicks last season from the Syracuse Warriors of the American Hockey League for an undisclosed amount of cash and is on 24-hour recall, as is Hicks.</p><p>An overabundance of defensive strength was reported to be the reason for sending the players to the MMHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

McCallum to MMHL

<p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The Quebec Hockey League abandoned a new rule governing icing the puck in a move to eliminate stoppages of play.</p><p>The new ruling, adopted this year, stated that play shall be stopped and the puck returned to the end zone of the offending team even if a defending player was in position to intercept a puck shot from one end of the ice to the other.</p><p>The old rule, which the QHL readopted, states that play will continue on an iced puck If a defending player, other than the goalie, is able to play the puck before it crosses the end line.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Quebec Loop Drops Icing the Puck Rule

<h2><b>OKANAGAN SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC. 11)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-03178/1843041-1-eng-US/f0017-032.jpg" title="f0017-03" width="596" height="132"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-04127/1843034-1-eng-US/f0017-042.jpg" title="f0017-04" width="592" height="288"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; AVERAGES</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0592/1843027-1-eng-US/f0017-052.jpg" title="f0017-05" width="604" height="163"></div><h2><b>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC. 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0670/1843020-1-eng-US/f0017-062.jpg" title="f0017-06" width="590" height="269"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0765/1843013-1-eng-US/f0017-072.jpg" title="f0017-07" width="600" height="416"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC. 15)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0841/1843006-1-eng-US/f0017-082.jpg" title="f0017-08" width="602" height="139"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-0931/1842999-1-eng-US/f0017-092.jpg" title="f0017-09" width="602" height="349"></div><h2><b>OHA SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC. 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1025/1842992-1-eng-US/f0017-102.jpg" title="f0017-10" width="600" height="343"></div><h2><b>NOHA. SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC. 14)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1120/1842985-1-eng-US/f0017-112.jpg" title="f0017-11" width="598" height="203"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1214/1842978-1-eng-US/f0017-122.jpg" title="f0017-12" width="602" height="288"></div><h2><b>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-1311/1842971-1-eng-US/f0017-132.jpg" title="f0017-13" width="596" height="291"></div><h2><b>INTERCOLLEGIATE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC. 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-149/1842964-1-eng-US/f0017-142.jpg" title="f0017-14" width="607" height="133"></div><h2><b>QUE. PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-157/1842957-1-eng-US/f0017-152.jpg" title="f0017-15" width="597" height="134"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-166/1842950-1-eng-US/f0017-162.jpg" title="f0017-16" width="596" height="134"></div><h2><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-174/1842943-1-eng-US/f0017-172.jpg" title="f0017-17" width="592" height="213"></div><h2><b>N.Y. ONTARIO LEAGUE</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON DEC. 12)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-184/1842936-1-eng-US/f0017-182.jpg" title="f0017-18" width="588" height="158"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-193/1842929-1-eng-US/f0017-192.jpg" title="f0017-19" width="584" height="464"></div><h2><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-202/1842922-1-eng-US/f0017-202.jpg" title="f0017-20" width="539" height="135"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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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/f0018-02202/1843079-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="254" height="296"></div><p>VOLUME 7 MONTREAL, DECEMBER 26, 1953 NUMBER 13</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01283/1843086-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="239" height="288"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03121/1843072-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="2312" height="1277"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Leafs and Habs in Epic Brawl in Toronto

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0018-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0486/1843124-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Battle Royal in Full Swing</b></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>HEN THE MONTREAL CANADIENS</b> invaded Torontq for an NHL game on December 9, Referee Frank Udvari and linesmen George Hayes and Jim Primeau worked overtime to separate the embattled players in a third period brawl that has been the most talked-about affair this year. Shown above are some photos taken by the alert Nat Turofsky of the incident. In the top photo, Bobby Solinger of the Leafs tangles with Canadiens&rsquo; Bert Olmstead while Canadiens&rsquo; Maurice Richard restrains a Leaf player on the left.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-0567/1843117-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="1109" height="2057"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Nesterenko Subdued</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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