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January 30, 1954

The Hockey News January 30, 1954

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01265/1594733-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>A Dutch Treat In Detroit</b></figcaption></div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Is there such a thing as hockey instinct &mdash; a quality some players are born with and others can&rsquo;t get no matter how hard their try to learn?</p><p>You can get arguments pro and con out of a lot of experts on that. And those who insist that there is such a thing as hockey Instinct can use Dutch Reibel as an example and Tommy Ivan for their reference.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve often said that Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay keep me guessing at times with things they do on the ice,&rdquo; Ivan commented as he watched his Detroit Red Wing whirl through a practice I session.</p><p>&ldquo;Then along comes this Reibel and right from the start he always seemed to know what, those two were up to. If that isn&rsquo;t instinct, then what can you call it?</p><p>&ldquo;Anyone who has seen Howe and Lindsay play knows the way they criss-cross all the time. A center playing on their line simply has to adapt himself to their style, take his cues from them and not try to set the pattern like most centers do.</p><p>&ldquo;Dutch does all that perfectly, and the amazing part is that he has been doing it from the first day we put him there.&rdquo;</p><p>That is Ivan&rsquo;s explanation of how Reibel is making his flashy debut into the National Hockey League. Other rookies were getting headlines until Oct. 8, the dey the campaign opened, but oince then it&rsquo;s the square-cut little Dutchman from Kitchener, Ont., who has been the top-ranking rookie.</p><p>Winner of three league scoring titles previously, Dutch paced the NHL for a while and never has been absent from the list of the 10 top scorers even though slowed down by injuries Right from opening night the 23-year-old center has been an outstanding candidate for the Calder Cup award as the &ldquo;Rookie of the Tear.&rdquo;</p><p>There are some, of course, who siaim that Reibel can&rsquo;t help but took good considering the company he&rsquo;s keeping. Anyone playing with Howe on one side and Linday on the other would appear to have the biggest plum in hockey and collect goals and assists automatical.</p><p>Which brings up an Interesting subject. That kind of talk was going around just a year ago when the Wings first tried to fill the position. Sid Abel was the original center on the Production Line and starred there for four years. When he retired to take on the coaching headaches at Chicago, Abel modestly tossed off compliments by saying he could have handled that position &ldquo;sitting in rocking chair for as long as Lindsay and Howe are around.&rdquo;</p><p>Thus it appeared that finding a replacement for Abel would be an easy matter of simply assigning some lucky man to the post. But it turned out different. There were plenty of eager candidates among the Wings, all high-class hockey forwards, but the right combination simply didn&rsquo;t appear. A check of the 19 52-53 records shows that Reg Sinclair, Metro Prystai, Glen Skov, Alex Delvecchio and Marty Pavellch all had a crack at it at one time or another.</p><p>All the fiddling around at center didn&rsquo;t cause Howe or Lindsay to suffer any. They placed 1-2 in NHL scoring, Howe with 49 goals and 95 points, Lindsay with 32 goals and 71 points. The 81 goals they notched just between themselves was more than any three-man line in the league could produce.</p><p>Convention dictates, however, that every line have a center so Manager Jack Adams still was searching when It came time to plan the current campaign. Back in July he made up his mind, telling newsmen that job was going to Reibel the day that training camp opened and that he&rsquo;d stay there &ldquo;until Christmas, at least.&rdquo;</p><p>Reason for the Christmas clause was that Reibel always had been a slow starter. The year before he had gone pointless the first eight games at Edmonton and the season before that goalless for the first 10 games at Indianapolis. Adams pointed out that Reibel was the kind of player who couldn&rsquo;t be rushed if he were to get a fair trial.</p><p>Considering the status of things, Christmas came and went without anyone asking Adams whether he intended to replace Reibel. Detroit had played 33 games by then and Reibel had 28 points&mdash;nine goals and 19 assists-</p><p>And this was after he had cooled off. too. The next NHL. record book will show that Dutch set a mark for a rookie by assisting on all four goals in his first game. At a later stage in the season he had taken a hand in 14 of Detroit&rsquo;s first 21 goals.</p><p>All of which has cheered Adams for several reasons. Like Red Wing fans who have been quick to make Reibel an Olympia favorite, Adams is happy to finally have the questions answered about the Production Line center.</p><p>It also stopped a lot of experimenting which in turn was keeping the other lines unsettled.</p><p>Adams gleefully points out another result, claiming, &ldquo;All the other clubs have found out now that they can&rsquo;t just concentrate on stopping Howe and Lindsay when their line is out. They can&rsquo;t ignore the third man on that line either.&rdquo;</p><p>But for an unfortunate accident, Reibel might have made the grade a full year ago and eliminated all the juggling that took place last season. An auto accident which sent him crashing through a windshield almost ended his hockey career without getting a chance to crash through the gate to the big leagues.</p><p>That was back In June of 1952 when he and some buddles were returning home to Kitchener from an afternoon of golfing. Their car skidded in loose gravel, bounced into a ditch and rolled over. Dutch escaped with a slight concussion and a few facial cuts but was literally knocked cross-eyed when thrown through the windshield. His vision wasn&rsquo;t affected but the muscle controlling the right eye was.</p><p>The program at training camp that September called for Reibel to get a chance as Abel&rsquo;s replacement, but Adams cancelled those plans as soon as took one look at Reibels eyes. A specialist, called in for an examination, said that time alone could straight everything back to normal. Th. promotion was shelved and Dutch was shipped to the minor league for another season.</p><p>Reibel didn&rsquo;t waste the season, though, since he picked up another scoring title. Playing for the Edmonton Flyers, he topped the Western Hockey League with 90 points on 34 goals and 5 6 assists in 70 games. Then he paced the fourth-place Flyers through a series of upsets to the playoff championship, scoring 12 points, half of them goals, enroute.</p><p>With the crossed eye gradually returning to normal and owning records to prove that he wasn&rsquo;t bothered by it anyway, Reibel had all the qualifications necessary this time to get his mid-summer nomination to the Production Line.</p><p>Considering the distinguished record he had been making since first breaking into organized hockey, it was no surprise that Reibel should eventually land in the Nai ional League. He learned to skate on the Kitchener school rink when he was six, was whacking a puck around when he was eight and made his playing debut with a bantam team.</p><p>First big move came when he was 15 and drafted by the Junior B Kitchener Greenshirts in the Ontario Hockey Association. In 1948-49 he sparked that outfit to the title and picked up his first league scoring title in the bargain.</p><p>Those deeds didn&rsquo;t go unnoticed by Steve Cara, the Detroit scout in the area, who relayed word back to the front office that a promising youngster had been spotted. Moves were taken to bring Reibel into the fold and the following year he was in Junior A OHA with the Windsor Spitfires, then a Wings&rsquo; farm. That same season he became the top hockey scorer in Canada by racking up 129 points on 52 goals and 77 assists.</p><p>That won him a pro contract with the Omaha Knights of the United States League, but his career was checked by a broken ankle which forced him out for 11 weeks. Still he managed to score 38 points in 32 games and earn a promotion to the American League at Indianapolis the following season.</p><p>Dutch picked up the same honor there in 1951-52 which he is seeking now in the NHL: The &ldquo;outstanding rookie&rdquo; award. With Indianapolis he made 67 points in 68 games and finished sixth in AHL scoring to clinch the Garrett Trophy as the best freshman.</p><p>For a man who scores so many points, Reibel has a deceptive Style. He isn&rsquo;t fast&mdash;no one has called him &lsquo;The Flying Dutchman&rsquo; which would seem a natural for anyone from Kitchener. Nor is he particularly elusive or impressive in skating, size possibly accounting for that. At 5-foot-8 and 175 pounds, he&rsquo;s more round than chunky and not exactly the most graceful thing on skates.</p><p>Discussing Reibels ability, Adams says &ldquo;he doesn&rsquo;t appear to be doing much when he&rsquo;s out there but look at what he achieves. I think he may be classed some day with the great playmaking centers.&rdquo;</p><p>Howe pegs Dutch&rsquo;s passing as the foremost asset, pointing out that &ldquo;he&rsquo;s mighty shifty when carrying the puck and his best trick is being able to flip a fast pass in any direction without seeming to set for it. Straight, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Lindsay adds a comment which comes close to being the ultimate in praise, saying that Reibel &ldquo;reminds me of Howe in a lot of way. He&rsquo;s got same the trick of being in the right place at the Tight time. The puck seems to follow him too, just like it does Gordie.&rdquo;</p><p>Which brings us right around to what Ivan said in the first place when he was talking about how Reibel excelled at &ldquo;adjusting and anticipating&mdash;something no player can be taught.&rdquo;.</p><p>In other words, a player blessed with hockey instinct.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Reibel’s Hockey Instinct Told Him Early How To Figure Lindsay-Howe Criss-Crosser

<div class="byline">Bay Omeara</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04170/1594833-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="536" height="941"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>AL ROLLINS</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03223/1594840-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="178" height="235"></div><h2><b>Rollins Leads Hart Race</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>A</span>L ROLLINS, riding on A sentimental vote led the Hart Trophy award, list for the first half of the NHL race. Behind him came Kelly and Howe, after them Richard and Lumley.</p><p>Rollins had a ten point spread on Kelly with Howe eighteen points behind the leader who rolled up sixty votes, a pretty fair showing for a goalie with a last place club. The award so far gives substance to the claim that Rollins is the best goalie on the circuit. He represents any value by a single player to the Hapless Hawks.</p><p>Red Kelly who is well ahead in the race for the Byng Trophy might come through with a mighty splurge to head off Rollins, but it is unlikely anybody else is going to overhaul the lanky guardian. Bones Raleigh an inoffensive checker but a highly effective mechanic comes behind Kelly for the Byng, but he is well behind at that with little chance of catching him in the run to the wire.</p><p>That Reibel should have such a commanding lead for the Calder Trophy is somewhat surprising but somewhere along the line he drew a solid phalanx of votes. Actually he had 61 votes and behind him is little Camille Henry the tack weight Ranger left wing. Henry who plays hockey in unobstrsive style but with deadly efficiency around the nets, must have attracted wide attention away from home, as he wound up with forty points. Dineen hit the show slot with 31 points. Beliveau had one point which indicates that while he might move alone he won&rsquo;t be in the first or second slot when the final vote ig taken.</p><h2><b>Junior Embroglio</b></h2><p>Somebody, and it probably was Andy O&rsquo;Brien, opined that when bigger rhubarbs come along, the Rocket will plant them. So his famous affair has hardly cooled out when along comes the embroglio featuring Hamilton players, coach, and referee Sibby Mundey.</p><p>From what can be gathered, it seems the whole affair started after the official gave a Hamilton player a misconduct, for swearing at him. The player contented the official had got in the way of a rush, stopped up a threatening attack.</p><p>This brought fiery Jim Skinner into action with derisive comment that ended in his ejection from the rink. Mundey ordered him out of action, with the police stepping in. Skinner claims Mundey hit him while he was being held after Inviting him to warfare in the officials room. Mundey admits letting a punch go, but claims it didn&rsquo;t land.</p><p>So the whole affair was between the visitors and the referee, with Canadien players spectating. This is another unfortunate episode, Which doesn&rsquo;t do junior hockey much good, in fact no good at all. This sort of thing gives the youngsters a black eye. It also gives some coaches a punch on the nose, or so they claim.</p><p>One of the things that junior hockey can do without is th. profane coach or player.</p><h2><b>Trifles</b></h2><p>RED KELLY is also leader for the Norris Trophy, to be awarded to the outstanding defenceman. Bill Gadsby and Doug Harvey follow him, with Horton in fourth place&hellip; Doug has a chance to move up to displace Gadsby whom he led in the All-Star balloting&hellip; Canadiens high command is collectively unhappy over the Habs&rsquo; poor road showing&hellip; There may be some switching of players with Buffalo if Irvin and Seike see anything there that might improve the team&hellip; Canadiens sizzle at home, but have a very different road record.&hellip; Irvin says this team has the worst road record of any club he ever coached, and he had some lulus around 1940, 1941 and 1942. Syd Howe, one-time Senator and Red Wing star, replaced his injured goalie in a game between his team, Hawkesbury Richports, and Lachute&hellip; He coaches Richports&hellip; Playing a full two periods after goalie Lariviere suffered a displaced shoulder, he allowed four goals out of twenty-two shots&hellip; Although he was tempted to make a couple of rushes, he stuck right to his webbing, making some sensational saves, but his team lost their first game of the season&hellip; by 7-1&hellip; Linton Crook, their business manager, writes about Jimmy Morrison on behalf of the Canadien Junior Hockey Club as follows&hellip; &ldquo;Morrison played for our Junior B team in 1948-49, and in the course of the training camp in 1949 asked Sam Pollock to allow him to play Junior A for Verdun Maple Leafs&hellip; In 1949-50 Canadiens won the Memorial Cup, agreed to allow Morrison join Verdun for two reasons, one to enable him to develop for possible future use, and to help the Verdun team, which at that time was backed by the Montreal Forum. While we were on a trip in Western Canada in 1949-50, Morrison was showing flashes of brilliance with Verdun and Red McKenzie put his name on Boston&rsquo;s negotiation list&hellip; Morrison was never at any time on Canadiens reserve list&rdquo;&hellip; He points out that Morrison signed a Form A with Boston, was farmed to Barrie and that this was his last year of junior eligibility.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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The Passing Sport Show

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02221/1594764-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg"></div><p>Born, Kitchener, Ont., July 21. 1930.</p><p>Center, Shoots right. 5&rsquo;8&rdquo;, 160 lbs.</p><p>Last amateur club: Windsor Spitfires (Juniors).<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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REIBEL, EARL (DUTCH)

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div><p>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;</p><p>Gordon Wilson, brilliant rookie center ice man, of the Hershey Bears, underwent a successful operation for the removal of a torn cartilage from his right knee at St. Joseph&rsquo;s Hospital, Toronto, Canada, on Thursday, January 14.</p><p>Dr. Robert Galloway, noted Canadian bone specialist, who. performed the operation, indicated young Wilson would be confined to the hospital for ten days. After that he&rsquo;ll return to Hershey &lsquo;to rejoin his family.</p><p>Doctor Galloway said It I would be six to eight weeks before Wilson could resume skating. Lloyd S. Blinco. manager of the Bears, said he I doubted if Wilson would be available any more this season.</p><h2><b>Insured in Training</b></h2><p>Wilson was injured in training drills at the Sports Arena last September. He appeared in four American Hockey League games&rsquo; before consulting Dr. Galloway, who advised an operation.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01340/1595521-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="594" height="614"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Spectator</b></p><p><b>GORDIE WILSON</b></p></figcaption></div><p>A chip off the old block, young Wilson is out to perpetuate the family name in the annals of the ice sport. His father, who was affectionately known as &ldquo;Phat&rdquo; Wilson, is widely remembered throughout Canada as a great Allan Cup star.</p><h2>Holds Awards</h2><p>Young Wilson is the holder of most of the awards available to amateur hockey players. These include: the T. J. McAuliffe trophy, awarded to the most valuable player in the Port Arthur Minor Hockey Association; the Tomlinson Trophy, presented to the most valuable juvenile; the Budd trophy, as the most gentlemanly player, and the J. T. Russel trophy, as the most valuable player in junior hockey.</p><p>Wilson joined the Bears for the closing games of the 1952-53 season, helping Hershey earn a Calder Cup berth. In the playoff series with Pittsburgh, which saw the Hornets triumph in three straight, Wilson paced Hershey scorers with three goals.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Cartilage Operation Sidelines Rookie Gordie Wilson For At Least Six Weeks

<h2><b>Unbelievable But True, Leafs Scoreless In Detroit In Over 300 Minutes (Five Games)</b></h2><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>What occult powers do the Detroit Red Wings hold over the Toronto Maple Leafs?</p><p>In five trips to the Detroit Olympia this year the Leafs have yet to score a single goal. Unbelievable but true and King Clancy the. Toronto coach, believes that there&rsquo;s more to the weird situation than meets the eye.</p><p>&ldquo;If you asked me for a single reason I couldn&rsquo;t give you one,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But there&rsquo;s something to it. I can&rsquo;t believe that a hockey team can freeze up five straight times,&rdquo; he added.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0258/1596631-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="274" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><p>The fact remains that they have and it all began the night of October 11 when the Wings skated away with a 4-0 shutout. Again on October 25 they came through with a 2-0 whitewashing and on November 26, they duplicated the feat. The Leafs gained some measure of retribution on January 3 when they held the Wings to a scoreless draw but on January 24, in their last meeting at the Olympia, the Wings did it again &mdash; and by their favorite score, 2-0.</p><p>If you add it up, you&rsquo;ll see that Toronto hasn&rsquo;t scored a goal in Detroit in close to a year, dating back to March 8, 1953 when Tod Sloan scored the lone Leaf tally as they were whipped 3-1 by the Wings.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0335/1596624-1-eng-US/f0001-032.jpg" title="f0001-03" width="280" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Terry Siwchuk</b></figcaption></div><p>But it&rsquo;s the last five games in Detroit that have unnerved the Leafs. Over 300 minutes of hockey without a single goal &mdash; unbelievable but true.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NY, Boston Attendance Up!

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0166/1596669-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>What Could Be Sweeter For Teeder Than Sugar</b></p><p><b>TEEDER KENNEDY,</b> the hard-digging captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs, may have a sweet-tooth for scoring goals but his formula for firing &rsquo;em in doesn&rsquo;t always meet with the approval of opposing goalies. In the above photo, Teader comes face to face with Boston&rsquo;s Sugar Jim Henry but Henry beats him to the draw and swallows up the puck before the Toronto sniper can unleash a shot at the gaping cage.</p> <span class="photo-credit">((Photo by Turofaky))</span></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Four of the six teams in the National Hockey League have shown increased attendance as a result of the tight race being waged this season.</p><p>Two of the increases, in Boston and New York, are quite substantial, with the Bruins playing to eight per cent more people and the Rangers to 6.5 per cent more customers.</p><p>These figures were revealed in a survey just completed by NHL President Clarence Campbell and they cover the first 120 games of the schedule.</p><p>Despite the increases in Boston, New York, Montreal and Toronto however, the league total is down over the 1952-53 figures for the same period.</p><p>This is accounted for in the fact that the lowly Chicago Black Hawks have played to 37-per-cent fewer customers. This possibly is explained in the fact that at this stage last season the Hawks were in contention for a playoff berth, whereas this year they are mired deep in the league cellar.</p><p>The Chi-Hawks show a total decrease of 50,594, and have only drawn 87,067 fans through the turnstiles as compared to the 137,661 who witnessed the Hawks at this point last season. The Hawaks however, have made several personell changes in the past two weeks and may get stronger near the close of the season, which should serve to draw the customers in.</p><p>The other team to show a decrease is the league-leading Detroit Red Wings. The Wings, with seven consecutive seasonal increases, show a loss at this point, 209,623 a year ago compared to 202,869 for this season. Campbell said this is more than offset finoncially due to the sale of a larger percentage of higher-priced seats. The sacrifice is only in the standing room tickets, Campbell stated, and is probably a resuet of television.</p><p>Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs both show increases, very small, but it is merely a matter of standees. NHL games in either city are always seatsellouts.</p><p>Montreal leads all the league cities in total attendance with 301,218 people having witnessed the Hab home games to date, an increase of 746 over last season. Second is Toronto, where 250,517 fans have watcher the Leafs this year, an increase of 186 over the 1952-53 figure at this date.</p><p>The league total for 120 games this season is 1,121,014, a loss of 37.309 as compared with 1,158,32 3 a year ago.</p><p>Since the 120-game survey was made, Campbell announced, New York has had a further net increase of more than 10,000 in a single game.</p><p>The increases in Boston and New York are expected to carry through to the end of the schedule, if not bettered by that time, due to the current battle between the two teams for the fourth and last NHL playoff berth.</p><p>There is also the tdded attraction that for the first time in years two brothers are opposing each other as National Hockey League coaches in Boston&rsquo;s Lynn Patrick and New York&rsquo;s Muzz Patrick.</p><p>The 120-game comparisons:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02262/1596662-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="589" height="211"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Bruins Gain 8% Rangers Up 6.5% Habs, Leafs Ahead

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON (The Toronto Telegram)</div><p>TORONTO. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Last year patients killed the Toronto Maple Leafs. This year patience could be their salvation.</p><p>It was at just this time in 1953 that the Maples were losing their grip on the fourth and final Stanley Cup playoff berth, unable to hang on because their centre ice strength had been crippled by an incredible series of injuries to Ted Kennedy, Rudy Migay and Max Bently. This year, already solidly entrenched in third place, Leafs are making indications of motion in the opposite direction, a turn which will succeed only if their patience has paid off.</p><p>It is the third Leaf line and the reserve centre ice strength which has been the severe test of Leaf patience and could be the key to their future fortunes. Only Rudy Migay, one of the hardest-working gentlemen in the Natioal Hockey League, has lived up to expectations on that third unit. His wingmates, Eric Nesterenko and Gord Hannigan, and centre ice alternate, Bob Bailey, have been disappointments of varying degrees who only in the last couple of weeks have begun to show redeeming features.</p><p>Whether these features are only the sparks of a dwindling fire or are the ignition to a new blaze will provide the answer to Leafs&rsquo; fate within the next few weeks.</p><p>Already the Leafs have shown the strongest defense since the Battle of Britain, and the league goalsagainst record proves it&rsquo;s the best. The SAW line of Tod Sloan, George Armstrong and Harry Watson has been a big league producer since the campaign opened. And the Ted KennedySid Smith-Ron Stewart combine has matched even the SAW set since early in December.</p><p>Yet the third combination has contributed only 12 goals as a unit, a figure which individuals Watson, Smith and Armstrong off the other lines have surpassed single-handedly.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll come,&rdquo; the irrepressible coach, King Clancy, predicts. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all a matter of confidence and they&rsquo;re gradually building that up. In the meantime, they give us a good checking outfit. They might not get many goals, but they don&rsquo;t give up many either. And as far as getting goals goes, they&rsquo;ve proved they can do it. There&rsquo;s lots of games left for them to do it in.&rdquo;</p><p>That&rsquo;s what hurts. Both Hopalong Hannigan and Nester were scoring goals last year. By Christmas, Hopalong had 15 goals last season. By Christmas this year he had picked up nothing but injuries, failed to score and played only 10 games. The injuries, which included broken ribs and a severely sprained ankle, set him far behind the pack in conditioning. Up until last week end he was still working himself into shape and still hunting his first goal while the Leafs were still exercising patience. He was beginning to reward them with the old Hoppy willingness to mix and check doggedly, which could be the overture to the Return of Hopalong.</p><p>As for Nester, he scored 10 goals in precisely half a season as a rookie last semester. This year he produced but seven goals, that&rsquo;s three fewer, in 42 games, that&rsquo;s seven more. As a checker he has improved considerably, using his long reach to make enemy attackers feel like they are taking a long hike when they go around him. Yet he&rsquo;s still inclined to wander from his wing and still inacurate with his shots, which leaves Leafs with a second test of patience.</p><p>Bailey is also showing signs of beginning to rate his advance notices. After a spell of demotion to Leafs&rsquo; Pittsburgh Hornet farm in the American Hockey League, Rookie Robert returned to admit he had been a slacker in his first crack at the big leagues. Since his return he has developed into one of Toronto&rsquo;s most rugged bodycheckers, willing to heave hips with the toughest terriers in the league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01266/1594623-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="524" height="545"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Disappointing So Far</b></p><p><b>GORDIE HANNIGAN</b></p></figcaption></div><p>He remains, and understandably so, a fledgling in the NHL, however, acclimatizing himself to the faster pace which is every rookie&rsquo;s first observation upon entering the major league. If he succeeds in rewarding his advance notices, which accompanied his purchase from Cleveland last summer, Leaf Managing Director Conn Smythe will be satisfied he has the club with which to make a serious challenge for the Stanley Cup.</p><p>&ldquo;As soon as we have someone to fill in at centre-ice, we&rsquo;ll have insurance for every position,&rdquo; Smythe opines. &ldquo;Then we can start thinking seriously about the Stanley Cup.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02250/1594616-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="529" height="549"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>ERIC NESTERENKO</b></figcaption></div><p>If patience pays high dividends, the Leafs should earn a healthy reward.</p><p>Incidentals&hellip; Tim Horton became the first Leaf defenseman to meet Clancy&rsquo;s five-goal-perdefenseman quota when he scored against New York Rangers at Maple Leaf Gardens Jan. 16.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Patience, Not Patients Paying Off For Toronto Leafs This Year

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Frisky Hec Lalonde recently changed Black Hawk uniforms for a couple of games. His brief discarding of Galt garb for considerably larger breeches with Sid Abel&rsquo;s Chicago crew could have meant quite a loose fit, but he donned the Windy City suit as if he had worn it for life and it clung to him the same way.</p><p>His debut in National Hockey League competition at Toronto was nothing short of spectacular as he completely dominated the show despite a 2-1 Maple Leaf victory. Even the usually over-biased Toronto hockey scribes were quick to admit that his sparkling, play lent much promise for a real future in the big time.</p><p>Hec, which is short for Hector, centered Doc Couture and Lou Jankowski as if they had been his linemates for months. He kept Harry Lumley on his toes all evening while playing a full 21 minutes. Although he failed to score, he came as close as any of the Chicago skaters and showed more spark and drive than most.</p><p>` The fact that he was dwarfed by most other men on the ice seemed to enhance and not hinder his effectiveness. A Galt standout to date with an average of about a point per game, he is slightly taller than &ldquo;Wee Willie&rdquo; Mosienko, but is definitely lighter at a mere 150 pounds.</p><p>Lalonde also refused to be hampered by headaches resulting from a recent brain concussion that necessitated his wearing a brief helmet until the late stages of his second game on the Chicago Stadium rink against New York. He proved quite a bother to Johnny Bower too.</p><p>The Ranger cage rookie got his first NHL shutout, 2-0, but Hec almost spoiled the effort in the third period when he scooped up a puck bobbled by Blueshirt defensemen and came very close to shoving it through a maze of skates at one side of the net.</p><p>Fans at Toronto accepted his possibilities as quickly as Black Hawk enthusiasts. When referee Red Storey banished him for tripping late in the contest at Maple Leaf Gardens more than a few boos rang out. In addition, an egg splattered to the playing surface at Storye&rsquo;s feet as the game was about to resume.</p><p>One of the staunchest cheerers for Lalonde&rsquo;s work at Toronto was his Galt coach, Bob Wilson, who also serves as chief Chicago scout for eastern Canada. Always rating Tod Sloan as his greatest discovery for the pro ranks, he may find Hec a serious threat for this spot In his heart In the near future.</p><p>Only 19, Lalonde may add considerable spice to next season&rsquo;s edition of the Chihawks and should give highly touted Chief Fred Sasakamoose quite a battle for fans&rsquo; favor. With four or five more like these two, the Hawks sun would undoubtedly shine for sometime to come.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Hec Lalonde Future Hawk, Impressive In 2-Game Trial

<p>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Although Sid Smith, the flashfire Toronto Maple Leaf left wing, has never aspired to be a chippy hardrock, he is building a Toronto record for invulnerability. Since becoming a permanent fixture here to start the 1948-49 season, Smitty has played 820 consecutive games without absenting himself through injury.</p><p>In that period, he has been Toronto&rsquo;s most consistent scorer, never failing to contribute 20 goals toward Toronto&rsquo;s total. And In his total of 320 he unquestionably has more of the so-called flukey variety than any other Leaf.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sid Smith Plays 320 Straight Games

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0002-03" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03229/1594702-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>The Comeback Kid</b></p><p><b>DAVE CREIGHTON&hellip; &hellip;A Big Bruin</b></p></figcaption></div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>This is comeback season for a number of major league hockey players, among whom is inconspicuous David Creighton of the Boston Bruins..</p><p>Two years ago Creighton was generally considered to be the best voung center prospect in the National League, a scorer of 20 goals in his first season at the position.</p><p>A year ago he was well on his way to fulfilling his promise, until a broken leg brought his career to a temporary halt.</p><p>Broken legs are virtually an occupational hazard in hockey many have suffered them without after-effects.</p><p>But Creighton belongs in the group which has had to start over again after the extended layoff for convalescing. A big fellow for a starter, he has never been a fast skater.</p><p>Thus it took the 23-year old husky nearly three months of the present season and a series of positional shifts to regain the status which he held a year ago w&rsquo;hen he was hurt in a collision with Toronto&rsquo;s Ferny Flaman.</p><p>The broken leg didn&rsquo;t keep Creighton out of the Bruins&rsquo; lineup for the rest of the season after he was hurt on New Year&rsquo;s night a year ago. He returned to play the last 10 regular-season games, and he took an important part in the Bruins&rsquo; playoff games with Detroit and Montreal.</p><p>But it was obyious last spring that he hadn&rsquo;t regained his stride, and it was obyious again this fall that he still hadn&rsquo;t recaptured his old form.</p><p>He started this season as a center, then was shifted to left wing, the position at which he first played with the Bruins. Eventually he became Coach Lynn Patrick&rsquo;s handyman, filling in at both left wing and center.</p><p>Finally early last month Patrick and Capt. Milt Schmidt decided upon a drastic move. Creighton was installed at Schmidt&rsquo;s center post, and the veteran Milt became a left wing.</p><p>After watching big Dave work as a center again for two weeks, Patrick observed, &ldquo;Now he&rsquo;s found himself. He has been playing better lately than at any time this year, and I&rsquo;ll predict right now that he finishes strongly.&rdquo;</p><p>In 45 games a year ago Creighton sandwiched eight goals around his injury, and he topped that output by one for this season early this month.</p><p>The 185-pound native of Port Arthur, Ontario, is one of those athletes who is seldom satisfied with his own performances, with the result that he practices constantly to improve himself.</p><p>Last summer he walked endless miles and exercised rigorously to prepare himself for his comeback.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Creighton Survives Break, Welcome Shift To Centre, “Finds Self” With Bruins

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL-SPORTS EDITOR (As Seen in the Toronto Star)</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01333/1594802-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Referee Won&rsquo;t Recognize This Convert</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>N</span>ELS STEWART took an apprehensive look at his old hockey buddy, Hap Emms, the firebrand boss of the Barrie junior Flyers. Nels, like everyone else in the game, knows Hap as a religious rider of the water wagon. So Hap couldn&rsquo;t have been a victim of the grape when he exploded: It&rsquo;s wrong; its a shame, tne way referees are belittled and ridiculed in hockey. And it&rsquo;s time everybody did something about it.&rdquo; Having satisfied himself that Emms wasn&rsquo;t suffering delirium from the flu, Stewart promptly decided Hap had gone stir-grazy from the Flyer&rsquo;s failure to fight they way out of the second division. But Emms persisted.</p><p>&ldquo;How&rsquo;d you feel if you were an official, and a club executive bawled you out in front of the fans, or told the reporters how incompetent you were?&rdquo; Emms demanded. Big Nels made it plain there was no danger of that hapening. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t, be a referee if I was starving to death,&rdquo; he assured Hap. &ldquo;But you&rsquo;re a great guy to be spouting for the referees. Haven&rsquo;t I read some place that you sometimes give them a bad time Or am I mistaken ?&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02298/1594795-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="472" height="829"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>HAP EMMS</b></figcaption></div><p>Emms conceded it could be true. He might even continue to yell at them. But when he became abusive toward an official, there always was a remedy. The referee should throw him out of the rink. And Hap insisted that&rsquo;s how he expected to be treated.</p><p>&ldquo;And there&rsquo;s one more thing,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Tn hockey today, we have a coach and a captain. But that isn&rsquo;t enough. We must have atlernate captains. That means more people who think they&rsquo;re privileged to yak at the referee. I&rsquo;d do away with the alternates. We don&rsquo;t need them. There are enough people who can talk to the referee. Alternate captains merely add to the confusion.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>A Buck Doesn&rsquo;t Have to Ruin an Athlete</b></h2><p>STEWART had a mild crusade of his own: &ldquo;It always amuses me to hear somebody say that a hockey player or a ball player is losing his edge because he&rsquo;s too prosperous,&rdquo; Ole Poison drawled. &ldquo;Sometimes I read that an athlete is more interested in reading the market quotations than he is in reading the scoring statistics or the batting averages. To me, that&rsquo;s a lot of bunk. What&rsquo;s the matter with an athlete making himself some money He has to do it in a short time, so he&rsquo;s looking for a chance to protect himself with sound investments.&rdquo;</p><p>Both Stewart and Emms were members of the old Montreal Maroons, one of the most money-minded group of athletes that ever bought a piece of moose-pasture. Fifteen minutes after a hockey practice ended, Nels recalled, there wouldn&rsquo;t be a Maroon in sight. They&rsquo;d all be in telephone booths, talking to their brokers. And of course they all got rich &mdash; on paper. Nels recalled one Maroon who had stacked up close to half a million. But he didn&rsquo;t get out in time. The market crash of &lsquo;29 broke him.</p><p>&ldquo;But even when those fellows figured they were getting rich, the Maroons always wound up in the playoffs,&rdquo; Nels contended. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think they ever missed while I was with them. Hap wasn&rsquo;t with the Maroons most of that time. We farmed him out to Windsor for experience.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You farmed me out to get rid of me,&rdquo; Hap retorted. &ldquo;What a bunch they were. They&rsquo;d just about kill you if you put the puck in the net, even in practice. Nobody was breaking into their little select circle.&rsquo;Then I went to the Americans and there was Nels. One day Red Dutton was bawling us out. Finally Nels got up out of his chair and said: &lsquo;Ah, Red, why dontcha pipe down?&rsquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I think you practically ran that club, Stewart&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01286/1594892-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"></div><p>NEW YORK. N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Since it is an accepted truism that you can&rsquo;t knock a guy for trying, Frank Boucher rates the kudos of one and all connected with the National Hockey League for so many unexpected quick-change acts which have kept the Rangers in the headlines.</p><p>Long ago, when Larry MacPhail came to Brooklyn, he kept the joint jumping with his regular &ldquo;deal of the week,&rdquo; which the baseball writers immortalized in their winter show with a parody called. &ldquo;I Got a Pocketful of Schemes.&rdquo;</p><p>Except that Boucher is a far more rational citizen than MacPhail, he isn&rsquo;t unlike the flamboyant redhead. Most of his moves have been greeted with raised eyebrows by &ldquo;experts who know better,&rdquo; but the fact is the Rangers are much 1mproved in every way over a year ago and, equally important, they are more interesting and better copy.</p><p>Consider the latest shocker: Doug Bentley comes to New York. When this Was rumored in the sports pages the initial reaction was: &ldquo;He&rsquo;ll never make it. He doesn&rsquo;t want to go to the big town.&rdquo; When it became a reality &mdash; this reunion of the Bentley brothers, Doug and Max, for the first time since Nov. 2, 1947 &mdash; the skeptical response was: &ldquo;He won&rsquo;t help the Rangers.&rdquo;</p><p>These expressions, we should say, don&rsquo;t emanate from New York, where the fans and press are very happy to be looking at famous people like the Bentleys. They&rsquo;re out-of-town views and they come from people who don&rsquo;t seem to appreciate Boucher&rsquo;s subtle powers of persuasion.</p><p>Maybe Doug Bentley won&rsquo;t help the Rangers. Maybe he won&rsquo;t stick around long enough for the proverbial cup of coffee. But Boucher went a &ldquo;fur piece&rdquo; to get this man, in true Mountie tradition, and if he has done nothing else he has at least tried to improve Muzz Patrick&rsquo;s lot as Ranger coach, as he vowed he would when Muzz came in from Seattle.</p><p>Boucher went all the way to Saskatoon to bring Doug back with him &mdash; not only Doug but his wife and the youngest of his three children. Ever since the Rangers called up Jack Evans from the Quakers, Saskatoon&rsquo;s fandom has been critical of the tie-up with the Rangers. As they put it, &ldquo;They take Evans and give us nobody in return.&rdquo;</p><p>Well, when Bentley came to New York, Hy Buller went to Saskatoon. Hy had been used almost exclusively on a point in power plays, with Max on the other point, for several weeks. Since that would be Doug&rsquo;s position, Hy&rsquo;s presence wasn&rsquo;t regarded as ne cessary, though there are few defensemen in hockey who can play tin point as well as Hy does.</p><p>As for Doug, Boucher re a soned : &ldquo;With him in New York, his brother Max should really show us something. As good as Max can skate and stickhandle on his own, he&rsquo;g twice as good with Doug on the ice with him.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02258/1594885-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="289" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>W. Hergeshesmer</b></figcaption></div><p>If you don&rsquo;t think this is so, look at the records. Max never scored as many goals in Toronto as he did in any one full season, in Chicago. But aside from the records, any spectator at Ranger training camp in Saskatoon last fall could hardly fail to be impressed by the two Bentleys when they started to move that puck.</p><p>In any event, Boucher was ready to take the gamble and he had a solid rooting section among the hockey cognoscenti of New York. Muzz Patrick himself was happy about the addition. He had seen Doung in the West and what he saw he liked.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03200/1594878-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="287" height="455"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Camille Henry</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;Doug started slow,&rdquo; Muzz said, &ldquo;as any veteran would. But in the last few weeks he showed me plenty. I think he&rsquo;ll help, as long as he stays.&rdquo;</p><p>In Boucher&rsquo;s favor was his batting average in earlier moves this season. There was some criticism when he got Johnny Bower, for example, from Cleveland along with Bob Chrystal.</p><p>&ldquo;Why Bower ?&rdquo; cried the critics. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got the Rookie of the Year in Worsley ?</p><p>So Bower proves to be an exceptionally fine goalie, which doesn&rsquo;t take anything away from Worsley either. In Detroit recently. Bower kicked out 41 shots, many of them wicked in a 3-2 Ranger victory, and it was viewed as one of the greatest goal-tending exhibitions in Olympia history.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04153/1594871-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="296" height="452"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Edgar Laprade</b></figcaption></div><p>In another off-season deal he acquired Ivan Irwin for two veteran forwards, Pete Babando, and Ed Slowinski. There was plenty of headshaking on this one too. Art Ross said Irwin couldn&rsquo;t skate. Boucher himself didn&rsquo;t know. But he was ready to gamble on Ivan and his roughness for two players who had outlived usefulness, and now Irwin is taking a regular turn on the backline and doing well.</p><p>On the eve of the campaign Boucher brought up Camille Henry, the 20-year-old will-o&rsquo;-the-wisp, and Ike Hildebrand, the latter from Cleveland. Ike showed <b>a</b> lack of coordination in his defensive moves and was sent to Vancouver. But Henry came through in a way that only Boucher predicted he would.</p><p>For the season wasn&rsquo;t a week old when Boucher said: &ldquo;In Henry, I&rsquo;ve got a boy who could be the Rookie of the Year.&rdquo;</p><p>More recently there was the promotion of Evans, and Jack has never looked better; also the purchase of Glen Sonmor from Cleveland. Boucher recognized Sonmor&rsquo;s deficiencies as a skater, but he appreciated the boy&rsquo;s determination and aggressiveness and was willing to go along with him when Ronty and Hergesheimer put in the good word.</p><p>And later Boucher stunned the hockey world by luring Edgar Laprade out of retirement. This one was greeted with mixed sentiments. Most of them were derogatory. Some wanted to know when Ching Johnson would get his number back. But that was before Laprade showed &lsquo;em he was still an old pro.</p><p>All In all, the Rangers have kept the wire services humming with deals, some not so good, others excellent. And now that Boucher can give all of his time to the front office, who can guess what will come next ?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Boucher’s Moves Proving Electrifying

<div class="byline">by Ken Mckenzie</div><p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1, 1947</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1, 1947 By Kenneth W. McKenxie and Will. V. Cote</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY 301 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West,</b></p><p><b>Montreal 25, Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: J3.00 In Canada and the British Empire; $4.00 In the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p>Enterid as second-class matter, October 3, 1UM at the Post Office</p><p>at Rouses Point, M.Y., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879.</p><p>Authorized as second-class mail. Poet Office Department, Ottawa.</p><p><b>Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations</b></p><p>Printed in Canada</p><p><b>VOL. 7 MONTREAL, JANUARY 30. 1954 No. 18</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01357/1594944-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="345" height="420"></div><p>&bull; <b>SID ABEL</b> was an interested spectator at the recent American Hockey League game at Buffalo between the Bisons and the Cleveland Barons. Sid is anxious to land Gordie Pennell and Eddie Slowinski for the Black Hawks &hellip; Jim Norris telephoned the Buffalo Hockey Club from Florida the other day in quest of players from the power-packed Bisons, according to Len Brunison, our Buffalo scout&hellip; Bill Tobin expressed a desire to buy Bob Hassard and Danny Lewicki from Toronto, but the Leafs lxnayed the deal. They figure these two chappies carry a playoff insurance tag&hellip; The 1932-33 NHL AllStar Team will sit at the head table at the Sports Celebrities Dinner of the Ontario Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association in Toronto on February 18&hellip; John Ross Roach, Eddie Shore, Ching Johnson, Frank Boucher, Bill Cook, Baldy Northcott and Lester Patrick comprised the 1932-33 All-Stars&hellip; Handsome Jimmy Thomson, Toronto&rsquo;s steady rearguard, is the only player in the NHL who reads the Financial Post regularly&hellip; Frank Boucher says there isn&rsquo;t a weak goalie in the National League. How right he is&hellip; Jack Evans is playing standout hockey on the New York defense&hellip; Calgary Stamperers&rsquo; forward line of Jim McFadden, Steve Black and Sid Finney is one of the most dangerous trios in the Western Hockey</p><p>League. All three are former NHL&rsquo;ers&hellip; Saskatoon Quakers have had three captains this season&hellip; Chuck McCullough, Jack Evans and now Alex Kaleta&hellip; Canadiens&rsquo; Johnny McCormack became a father for the second time last week. This time it was a boy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02244/1594937-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="257" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>John McCormack</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>ALLAN STANLEY</b> may end up with Chicago before the end of the season &hellip; What&rsquo;s happened to Tom Johnson? &hellip; He was a ball of fire during the early part of the schedule, but has cooled off perceptibly during the last six weeks &hellip; Two NHL coaches celebrate birthdays three days apart. Tommy Ivan, Detroit coach, will be 43 on January 31, while Boston&rsquo;s Lynn Patrick will be 42 on February 3&hellip; The four top goal scorers in the NHL are all right wingers&hellip; Maurice Richard, Boom Boom Geoffrion. Wallv Hergesheimer and Gordie Howe, the loop&rsquo;s leading goal-getters, snipe most of their tallies playing at home &hellip; Richard scored 19 of his 28 goals in Montreal, while Geoffrion notched all but four of his 24 counters at the Forum &hellip; Hergesheimer tallied 15 of his 21 goals in New York, while Howe scored 14 of his 21 markers at the Detroit Olympia&hellip; Cleveland Barons and Providence Reds of the AHL will play two exhibition games at Omaha, Nebraska, on January 27 and 28&hellip; An I oddity in the American Hockey League this season is the lack of player trading between clubs&hellip; The season is well past the half-way mark and not one trade has taken place&hellip; Ike Hildebrand, 26-year-old rookie forward, is having a most unusual first-year in the NHL&hellip; He started the season with New York Rangers, was later sent to Vancouver Canucks of the WHL, and now he has been sold to the Chicago Black Hawks. Ike is the only player in the NHL to perform for two different teams this season&hellip; Joe Klukay is playing great hockey for Boston Bruins this year. Joe, incidentally, is one of the best stickhandlers in the league.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03159/1594930-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="279" height="453"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Joe Klukay</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; &ldquo;<b>WHY DON&rsquo;T CANADIENS</b> bringup Gaye Stewart from Buffalo and put him at left wing alongside Jean Beliveau?&rdquo; is a question that has been asked about Montreal lately &hellip; Several people have called us to enquire about this. They figure that Stewart and Beliveau played so well together on a line for Quebec last season that they would be able to do the samething for Canadiens. These same fans would like to see Boom Boom Geoffrion round out the line on right wing. Stewart is currently playing great hockey for the Bisons and has the speed and experience to balance the line with Beliveau and Geoffrion &hellip; Well, what about it, Dick Irvin? &hellip; When New York Rangers use Doug and Max Bentley on the power play with Camille Henry, Paul Ronty and Wally Hergesheimer, they ice the lightest power play in the league. The combined weight of these five forwards is 755 pounds, and the average is 151 pounds. Paul Ronty weighs 165, Max Bentley Is next at 158, Wally Hergesheimer follows at 152. Newcomer Doug (to the Rangers that is) weighs 145, while Camille Henry, the sharp-shooting rookie, this the scales at 135 The heavyweight?</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04115/1594923-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="256" height="414"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gaye Stewart</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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PASSING THE PUCK

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0006-05" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05106/1594975-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>No Muzz Fan</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>As an avid Seattle hockey fan, I wish to voice my appreciation to the New York Rangers for taking Coach Muzz Patrick off our hands. The Rangers deserve him, bearing in mind the treatment Allan Stanley and Lome Worsley got at their hands this year.</p><p>As Patrick leaves Seattle we find that he has coached us to last place in a seven team league. This is a brilliant recommendation for a big league coaching berth, one which I suspect has the approval of the other coaches in the NHL.</p><p>Seattle&rsquo;s poor showing Is not due to poor players since oUr team goaf output is only five less than that of Vancouver in first place.</p><p>Our defense is something else again, despite having Marcel Pelletier, best goalie in the Quebec Hockey League last year. It&rsquo;s the Patrick style of play which is at fault; all offense and no defense. For years his Tacoma teams led the league in goals but never in standing. I suspect that in his first few weeks with New York he will inject new life into the Rangers, but once they solve his style of play it will be the same old story; New York will score four or five goals per game only to have the opposition score six or seven.</p><p>Quoting Jack Adams of Detroit &ldquo;A great team is a team that can play both ways; offense and defense&rdquo;. By that standard Muzz Patrick has never coached a great team nor will he unless he changes his tactics.</p><p>Eric Burton. Seattle, Wash.</p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><h2><b>Salary Stuff</b></h2><p>This is my second letter to The Fan Forum and I enjoy it very much.</p><p>My question is: What is the salary of most NHL stars such as Howe, Richard, etc. I think some of these players are underpaid.</p><p>Edgar Pears. Cochrane, Alta.</p><p><b>(NHL clubs, unlike teams In baseball, never release the amount of salaries paid their players.)</b></p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><h2><b>Problem Solved.</b></h2><p>I&rsquo;ve been reading the <b>HOCKEY NEWS</b> for two years. A few weeks ago, I saw a picture in your paper of two soldiers going overseas to Europe and that they were sorry they couldn&rsquo;t read THE HOCKEY NEWS anymore.</p><p>Here&rsquo;s how I solved that problem!</p><p>I have a subscription this year being sent to my home in Pittsburgh, Pa. My mother forwards it to me here in Japan and it arrives only 8 of 9 days late. I think that if there are two loyal hockey fans who really wanted, the <b>HOCKEY NEWS</b> they could do the same thing.</p><p>Enclosed Is a picture of two other soldiers: Ron Buckley of Montreal and (myself) Al Meisel of Pittsburgh. After all of us are finished reading the HOCKEY NEWS, we clip the standings and point parade out and forward them to one of my buddies in Frankfurt, Germany.</p><p>As far as we are concerned here, the HN is the best of any paper we&rsquo;ve ever read, keep up the good work and how about a story on the American League&rsquo;s BEST goalie&mdash;Gil Mayer?</p><p>Al Meisel. Ron Buckley.</p><p>APO 43 c/o PM San Francisco, Calif.</p><p><b>(Always glad to hear from men in the service, especially those overseas whose only contact with their favorite sport is through the medium of THE HOCKEY NEWS. We&rsquo;ll see what we can do on the Gil Mayer article you request.)</b></p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><h2><b>Ted&rsquo;s Tops</b></h2><p>Would you please give me the following information?</p><p>What was the highest number of goals Ted Kennedy of the Toronto Maple Leafs ever scored In one season?</p><p>Ron McKeracher. Toronto, Ont.</p><p><b>(Ted scored 29 goals in. 1944-45 and 28 in 1946-47.)</b></p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><h2><b>Hockey Crests</b></h2><p>Could you please tell me how I can get the hockey emblems of all the six National Hockey League teams?</p><p>Please answer and thank you. Carl Roszak. Chicago, Ill.</p><p><b>(If you will write to either Johnny Bennett or Ken Grant at McNlece&rsquo;s, 1254 McGill College Ave., Montreal, Que., they may be able to help you.)</b></p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><h2><b>Saskatoon Fan</b></h2><p>I am a Saskatoon Quaker fan and my favorites are Chuck Rayner, Lou Fontinato and Jack McLeod.</p><p>I live about 20 miles from Saskatoon and would like to have hockey fans for pen pals. My address is Box 38, Osler, Sask.</p><p>In closing I would like to ask fans what they think of the great Beliveau ?</p><p>Ernie Hildebrandt. Osler, Sask.</p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><h2><b>Fan Signs</b></h2><p>In New York they hang signs up for players, they even have one for Gladys Gooding, the organist. Do they have signs up in other rinks for players?</p><p>I think THE HOCKEY NEWS is terrific!</p><p>Sturdy Kelsey. Montclair, N.J.</p><p><b>(Not to the best of our knowledge. The hanging of banners seems to belong exclusively to New York&rsquo;s rabid hockey fans.)</b></p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><h2><b>Free Ride</b></h2><p>In what year was Kenny Mosdell born and who was the Chicago goaler who was taken for a ride by Chicago hoodlums a few years ago.</p><p>The best in 1954 to THE HOCKEY NEWS.</p><p>Ben Collins. St. John&rsquo;s Nfld.</p><p><b>(Mosdell was bora July 13, 1922 and the goaler to whom you refer was Mike Karakas.)</b></p><h2><b>Personal History</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>On a number of occasions I have been in receipt of certain inquiries in connection with the length of time I have been connected with organized hockey, and it has occured to me that perhaps some of your readers might be in a position to dig down into the &ldquo;past memories&rdquo; and supply an interesting thought in connection with the early dates that many of your readers should or might be able to supply.</p><p>My own history reaches back to the year 1888, at which time I had reached the robust age of eighteen. In that year there was a League formed in Kingston. It was composed of teams from Queens University, The Royal Military College, The Athletics, and The Kingstons, and it was with the latter team that I made my first entry into the game, as a defence player. And that brings me up to the fact that some 65 years have gone by. I am still &ldquo;in the game&rdquo;, as Life member of the OHA and Life member of the CAHA etc. and Past President of both bodies.</p><p>Regardless of the manner in which the game of hockey has cut in so strongly in the United States, the fact remains that hockey is considered to be Canada&rsquo;s National Winter Sport, and as such we Canadians have got to assert our leadership on all occasions.</p><p>I think Mr. Editor that we should all endeavor to stress the above on the minds of &ldquo;all and sundry, at all times.&rdquo;</p><p>Thanking you for your courtesy in accepting my letter at this time, and wishing you &ldquo;ALL SUCCESS&rdquo;.</p><p>Capt. Jas. T. Sutherland, Founder,</p><p>International Hockey Hail of Fame. Kingston, Ont.</p><p>Dear Sirs,</p><h2><b>Sale of Pix</b></h2><p>I have received the hockey news regularly from its beginning and have enjoyed the articles and coverage of the various leagues. Action shots and player pictures plus life size pictures have been excellent.</p><p>A few years ago THE HOCKEY NEWS had photos of National Hockey League players for sale at 25c each. Each week there was one or two different photos for fans to purchase. This is no longer done. There is a lot of fans in Canada and United States who would like to be able to get a shot of their favorite player. For example a National League fan may want to have a picture of Maurice Richard, An American. League fan may want one of Andy Branigan. A Quebec League fan a photo of Andre Corriveau and Western League fan one of Red Almas. I am not suggesting that The Hockey News have photos of all the players but if you are featuring a player like Tim Horton, Andy Branigan or even. Ken Schultz of International League or Paul Saindon of the Maritime League or Phil Hergesheimer of the Okanagan League for that matter any player of Professionel or Senior A league, I am sure fans of the leagues and others would be interested in. having a photo of the featured player.</p><p>If The Hockey News would offer these pictures at 25c each every week of featured players The Hockey News would benefit financially and there would be a lot of happy fans.</p><p>Charles Brecken. Moose Jaw, Sask.</p><p><b>(Unfortunately, Charles, It wasn&rsquo;t THE HOCKEY NEWS who sold the pix at the time you refer to, but rather private individuals, who have since seen fit to discontinue it. However, we will give your idea careful consideration.)</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0692/1595030-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="599" height="272"></div><h2><b>FEBRUARY 3 to FEBRUARY 9</b></h2><p>3&mdash;PATRICK, Lynn, Boston coach, 1912; KAPUSTA, Pete, Providence forward, 1924.</p><p>4&mdash;ABBOTT, Reg, Victoria forward, 1930; BROWN, Adam, Quebec forward, 1920; ROCHE, Ernie, Montreal Royals defense, 1930.</p><p>9&mdash;McMURDY, Doug, Springfield playing-coach, 1926; KUZMA, Alex, Vancouver forward, 1929.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to you

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>You have to score goals to win hockey games &mdash; or do you?</p><p>The Red Wings are in horrible shape, every forward in a scoring slump, if you study a certain set of figures.</p><p>Yet, just to prove how figures can lie, there is other evidence showing that the Wings are in excellent shape. They have won more games than at the same time a year ago and are in a general state of well-being since they hold down, as usual, first place in the National Hockey League.</p><p>in the first 43 games this season Detroit won 24, lost 11 and tied eight for 56 points. A year ago, in the first 43 games Detroit won 20, lost 11 and tied 12 for 52 points.</p><p>That makes four more victories and four additional points in the standings.</p><p>How did they do it?</p><p>Mirrors, maybe. Certainly not with more goals. Not a single player on the squad has a better goal record than a year ago. Only two of them have managed to hold their own. All the others have dropped in production.</p><p>Gordie Howe is a good example. His reputation was built on goal-getting ability and there are mighty few hockey fans who are not aware tha Howe isn&rsquo;t clicking at his usual rate.</p><p>Last year the Saskatoon star had 30 goals after 43 games. This year he has 20. Net loss: 33 percent.</p><p>Same with the other forwards in the 43-game totals.</p><p>Ted Lindsay had dropped from 19 goals to 15, Johnny Wilson from 14 to 11, Metro Prystai from 12 to eight, Marty Pavelich from 12 to six Alex Delvecchio from seven to five and Tony Leswick from eight to three.</p><p>Only other forward who was with the club last season is Glen Skov. He is the only man to hold his own, counting eight goals in each case.</p><p>The defensemen haven&rsquo;t been holding up the scoring. Red Kelly, a rearguard who makes like a forward much of the time, is having another big year with 12 goals so far, the same number he got in the first 43 games last season.</p><p>Two rookie forwards have contributed helpful goals in commendable quantities, Dutch Reibel and Bill Dineen each making 11.</p><p>But that wasn&rsquo;t enough to prevent the overall total falling 14 goals. The Wings had 119 in 43 games compared to 133 at the same time last season.</p><p>The point totals shriveled accordingly. Not a forward has as many points and only Kelly among the defensemen. He boosted his take from 27 to 34 points.</p><p>These are the scoring figures of Detroit&rsquo;s two-year regulars, showing goals and total points for the first 43 games of the two seasons.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03211/1595061-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="588" height="291"></div><p>All those figures Bay there&rsquo;s a slump going on. Still the team is perched in the NHL with four more victories than the 1952-53 season.</p><p>You figure it out.</p><p><b>ICE CHIPS:</b> For a club which couldn&rsquo;t win on the road in the first six tries this season, the Wings gained a respectable standing of seven victories, five ties and eight defeats in their first 20 away games. Last two triumphs came within a 24-hour spread, both times on third-period rallies.</p><p>Detroit tagged the Rangers, 3 to 1, in Madison Square Garden as Reibel and Howe clicked in the final period. Reibel got the winner at 9:49 and Howe added his second of the game into an empty net. The next night the Wings visited Boston Garden and escaped with a 2-1 verdict. This time it was Skov who delivered in the last period, scoring his winner at 13:07.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Wing Forwards In Scoring Slump Yet Team Doing Better Than 1953

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>While the Montreal Canadiens were still negotiating for his Services, Andre Corriveau, leading scorer in the Quebec Hockey League, played three games with the NHL team &mdash; one against Detroit and two against Chicago.</p><p>A slim, 136-pound elf with a good burst if speed and a tricky shift, Corriveau acquitted himself with distinction, playing two positions.</p><p>The Habs are expected to acquire Corriveau from the Valleyfield Braves, probably in exchange for another player and a bundle of cash. Toe Blake, left winger on Canadiens&rsquo;Punch Line when it was setting scoring records that are still in the book and now coach of the Braves, said, &ldquo;Corriveau won&rsquo;t be out of place in the National League. He&rsquo;s small but he&rsquo;s tricky. Big defenceing man intending upon battering him will find him hard to catch and harder to hit. He just seems to fade aways from oa check.&rdquo;</p><p>Corriveau played one game as the right winger on a line with Jean Beliveau and Dick Gamble and then shifted to left with Floyd Curry on the starboard side.</p><p>Normally a right winger with a left hand shot, Corriveau was leading the QHL scoring parade with 27 goals and 37 assists, a total of 64 points in 45 games, when he was hoisted up for his three-game trial.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01308/1595092-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="519" height="557"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Impressed</b></p><p><b>ANDRE CORRIVEAU</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Last season with the Braves he had 85 points in a 60-game schedule, the season before 63 points. Thus he has averaged beter than a point a game in his QHL career.</p><p>Star of the original junior &ldquo;Whizz Kid&rdquo; line with Montreal Nationales, Corriveau always has been a high point producer. A softball star of note, too, he wielded a potent bat In the Montreal East End League for several seasons.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Habs Negotiating With Braves For Corriveau’s Contract

<p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>After a hesitant beginning, little Wally Hergesheimer Is catching up to his 1952-53 scoring pace when he finished with 30 goals.&hellip; Last season he had 21 goals in 50 games. This year he had 18 in 44.&hellip; Rangers keep switching left winders on the Hergesheimer-Ronty line. When Glen Sonmor wrenched a hip muscle in Toronto to be sidelined for 10 days, Dean Prentice was restored to that spot and promptly helped his own standing with some excellent stickhandling&hellip; Who can think of five lighter men than the two Bentleys, Henry, Hergesheimer and Ronty for a power play? This Is really the Light Brigade.</p><h2>First In Year</h2><p>Rangers&rsquo; victory in Olympia Stadium on Jan. 17 was their first in Detroit in a year, less five days. &hellip; Maybe Muzz Patrick has the lads convinced they are a good road club! They won their first two of three away from home under his direction&hellip;</p><p>Muzz tells of two cracks by his brother Lynn after he took over as coach. First Lynn called Muzz to tell him he wished him a lot of luck-all bad&hellip; Then Lynn complained jocularly that Muzz had split his mother&rsquo;s loyalty right down the middle&hellip; Lots of reporters wanted to know if Muzz and Lynn ever opposed each other before now&hellip; &ldquo;As basketball players on different senior city teams in Victoria,&rdquo; Muzz answered.</p><p>Quite a broken-field after-dinner speaker, this Patrick&hellip; During his introductory press luncheon Muzz excused himself in the matter of discussing the Rangers &ldquo;because I haven&rsquo;t seen enough of them.&rdquo;.&hellip; Next week he said: &ldquo;Well, I saw the Rangers beat the Leafs in New York and then get walloped by the Leafs in Toronto. &hellip; And I saw the Rangers lose to the Red Wings in New York and then take the same Wings in Detroit&hellip; Now I know less than before!&rdquo;&hellip; Edgar Laprade got his first NHL goal since coming back in Detroit on a 20-footer. Never realized Edgar could shoot that hard&hellip; Muzz suspects Laprade is the main reason the Rangers were able to rack up six victories In eight starts. <b>MOZLEY</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02275/1595123-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="524" height="549"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Catching Up</b></p><p><b>WALLY HERGESHEIMER</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Hergy Nears ’52-53’ Pace

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH (Twelve of a series)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04162/1595161-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="263" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ken Reardon</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-05111/1595154-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="271" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Elmer Lach</b></figcaption></div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Let&rsquo;s again take time out from the latest news to look back at the hockey happenings that made head lines in the not too distant past.</p><p>Six years ago this week &mdash; General Manager Frank Selke wept on a talent hunt to find someone that might be able to help the sagging Montreal Canadiens. The lowest scoring NHL team at the time, the fifth place Habs had only two men with over 10 goals to their credit, Elmer Lach (17) and Rocket Richard (14).</p><p>Leading scorers in the three pro curcuits were Buddy O&rsquo;Connor of New York (NHL), Carl Liscombe of Providence (AHL) and George Agar of Houston (USHL) &hellip; Rated the best defensemen with Kitchener Waterloo in OHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; play was a present National League referee, Jerry Olinski.</p><p>Four years ago this week &mdash; Fred Thurier of Cleveland set a new American League scoring record of 580 points when he topped the old mark of one point less than had been estab. lished by Les Cunningham, another Baron star&hellip; Boston&rsquo;s I Jack Gelineau rated Gaye Stewart and Roy Conacher of Chicago his most feared foes.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s oabout time,&rdquo; said one Kenny Reardon, &ldquo;that defensenmen in this league (NHL) were given some trophy to win&rdquo; &hellip;</p><p>It was reported that the United States loop would again become a six-team league with the addition of an entry at Milwaukee to be sponsored by the Chicago Black Hawks.</p><p>I Two years ago this week &mdash; Thomas Grace, executive vice president of Cincinnati Gardens, said that hockey was in the Ohio city to stay, but AHL Prexy Maurice Podoloff opined that the Mohawks would give up their franchise at the end of I the year unless attendances got noticeably better.</p><p>Coach Ebbie Goodfellow said Jack Stewart was playing I his last season with the Chicago Hawks&hellip; A record Olympia turnout of 15,668 saw the Detroit Red Wings edge Toronto&rsquo;s I Leafs, 2-1&hellip; Promising Herb Dickenson was called up by the Rangers to replace a lagging Nick Mickoski.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Reardon Plumped For Cup

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>What do hockey coaches talk about when they get together? Before embarking on the subject and revealing some of their innermost thoughts, let&rsquo;s clarify the phraseology in that opening sentence. They don&rsquo;t talk, in the strict sense of the word. They moan.</p><p>On a recent overnight trip to Boston, Lynn Patrick of the Bruins and Dick Irvin chanced upon each other in a drawing room in the Hab&rsquo;s car.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01341/1595199-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="342" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lynn Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>How&rsquo;s things, Dick ?&rdquo; asked Patrick solicitiously.</p><p>&ldquo;Horrible,&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;Horrible. I&rsquo;ve got the worst Toad team I&rsquo;ve ever coached. Guess, I&rsquo;ll have to shake them up to try and improve our record away from home.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02280/1595192-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="359" height="576"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;You think things are bad,&rdquo; said Patrick. We&rsquo;ve tost five out of our last seven games, tied one and won one. Four of those losses were by a single goal, the other was by two goals, the last in an empty net. So, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned, we got beat, by the margin of one goal.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Tough,&rdquo; agreed Irvin, &ldquo;but you&rsquo;ll probably beat us in Boston.&rdquo; (What a prophet ! Habs lost 3-2.)</p><p>Patrick went on, &ldquo;I was talking about a goal being scored in an empty net. You know some thing; in the last three years not once has yanking a goaltender worked for me.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;It never works for me either,&rdquo; said Irvin. &ldquo;Yes it did once. I took Gerry McNeil out in a game in Chicago last season and Tom Johnson got us a goal with four seconds to play. Funny thing, we didn&rsquo;t need</p><p>that game. We couldn&rsquo;t catch the Wings for first place and we couldn&rsquo;t be pushed out of second. Those things always work when you don&rsquo;t need them.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;Say, what do you think of those Leafs?&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re going great,&rdquo; the Canadien coach said. &ldquo;I think they&rsquo;ll finish on top. The Detroit elub won&rsquo;t last. They haven&rsquo;t got the stamina.&rdquo;.</p><p>Patrick shook his head. &ldquo;No, I&rsquo;ll take Detroit. Toronto won&rsquo;t finish better than third.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Third,&rdquo; moaned Irvin. &ldquo;No, we&rsquo;ll finish there if we don&rsquo;t win some games on the road.</p><p>Look, Lynn. Look at the figures.&rdquo; From his pocket he extracted a clipping from The Herald, showing against what clubs and on what ice every one of the Canadien goals was scored this season.&ldquo;Only Floyd Curry has scored more goals away than at home. Only four of our players have scored in Detroit this season, only five have scored in Toronto. And you think things are tough !&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re making me weep,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;Maybe if we change the subject, I&rsquo;ll feel better. Let me tell you about Johnny Peirson. A great team man. A player who seems to be able to do anything right. He studies the other clubs, knows what to do in every situation. Might make a good coach some day.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;A coach 1&rdquo; Irvin arched his eyebrows. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t wish a fate like that on him. I was talking about our road record. Out of a possible 44 points we picked up only 12 so far &mdash; four wins and four ties in 22 games. The Red Wings have gained 19 on the road, seven more than us, and that&rsquo;s why they&rsquo;re in first place.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;With us it&rsquo;s different,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t had a big night yet. All close games and lose consistently by one goal. One goal. One goal. It&rsquo;s monotonous.&rdquo;</p><p>Irvin agreed. Patrick arose to go.</p><p>&ldquo;Any trades ?&rdquo; said Dick.</p><p>&ldquo;No trades,&rdquo; said Patrick. &ldquo;Good night.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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When Hockey Coaches Get Together They Don’t Talk, Instead They Moan

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich&mdash;</p><p>If you could predict correctly the results of just five future hockey games this season, chances are you could tag the 1953-54 champion of the National Hockey League.</p><p>Those five games, of course, would be the forthcoming clashes between the Defending Champion Detroit Red Wings acid the challenging Monteral Canadiens.</p><p>There is every reason to suspect that the winner after each of those games would be in first place. In which case the whole deal would go down to the final meeting March 20 in Montreal.</p><p>The two clubs have met nine times already, and first place was at stake six times. Thesg were the results:</p><p>Oct. 10&mdash;Canadiens won, 4 to 1, in Montreal to break a tie and take the lead alone.</p><p>Oct. 18&mdash;Wings won, 4 to 0, in Detroit to force a first-place deadlock.</p><p>Oct. 24&mdash;Canadiens again broke a tie for the lead with a 1-0 decision in Montreal.</p><p>Nov. 1&mdash;Detroit won at home, 5 to 1, but this time still trailed by two points.</p><p>Nov. 21&mdash;Wings missed a chance to get a tie for first when beaten in Montreal, 1 to 0.</p><p>Dec. 13&mdash;Detroit was a 4-3 victor on home ice, again cutting a Montreal lead from four to two points.</p><p>Dec. 31&mdash;A 2-2 tie in Detroit enabled Wings to keep a one-point hold on first place.</p><p>Jan. 10&mdash;Canadiens lost both first place and a 2-1 decision in Detroit as the Wings move ahead by one point.</p><p>Jan. 21&mdash;Detroit took a 1-0 decision to go five points in front.</p><p>The future Detroit vs Montreal games will be Feb. 18 and Feb. 20, all at the Forum; Feb. 22 and March 7, both at Olympia, and March 20 in Montreal.</p><p>Circle them on the schedule. Those are the BIG ones.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

First Place Almost Always At Stake When Wings And Habs Meet In Big Ones

<p><b>DETROIT, Mich. &mdash; &ldquo;Saves: Bower 16, Sawchuk 0.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>That was the announcement made in the press box after the second period of a Detroit-New York game. It marked the third time In recent seasons that a Red Wing goalie worked an entire 20-minute period without making a save.</b></p><p><b>Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s latest experience, however, was slightly different from the first time it happened to him. In this case the Rangers had one shot and it went in. Wally Hergesheimer&rsquo;s tally put New York ahead, 3 to 1, and proved to be winner of a 3-2 game.</b></p><p><b>Two years ago Sawchuk didn&rsquo;t have a single, shot to handle in one period against New York. In fact, he went 25 minutes in that stretch without any work. Detroit was the winner, 5 to 1.</b></p><p><b>A few years before that Harry Lumley had a similar session of idleness against the Montretl Canadiens, who mustered only eight shots in the entire game, two in the first period and six in the last.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Terry 0’s Rangers As Bower Stops 16

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;</p><p>The most articulate hecklers in the National league are probably those who occupy the second balcony at Boston Garden. By tradition they are known as Gallery Gods.</p><p>There have been few visiting players over the years who have escaped completely the verbal wrath of the Gallery Gods. And from Red Horner and Art Coulter to Ted Lindsay and Maurice Richard they&rsquo;ve always had favorite targets.</p><p>Even Bruins from time to time have been the subjects of their jibes, but that situation isn&rsquo;t likely to happen in the near-future to two Bruins, since they&rsquo;ve become honorary Gal: lery Gods.</p><p>During a recent game for which both were injured, Jerry Toppazzini and Bob Armstrong of the Bruins sat with the second balcony fans by invitation. They may have been the first players ever to have the experience.</p><p>The youngsters were watching the game from the comparative quiet of the Garden press box from above came an invitation to &ldquo;come on up&rdquo;. Toppazzini promptly accepted, for both.</p><p>Afterward the two sidelined Bruins reported the experience an Interesting one and the second balcony a fine observation post.</p><p>&ldquo;The view of the ice is wonderful,&rdquo; said Toppazzini. &ldquo;They can see the plays shaping up, and they&rsquo;re quick to spot them.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re certainly rabid fans,&rdquo; said Armstrong. &ldquo;Some of them haven&rsquo;t missed a game in years, and they have a good spot from which to watch them.&rdquo;</p><p>The Gallery Gods are not likely to be swayed in their continuous tirades against the Lindsays and Richards, but if any harassed opponent wishes to test the influence of Toppaz; zini and Armstrong in his behalf he is welcome to try. The I first step is to approach one of the two politely, with hat in hand.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Boston’s Gallery Gods Invite Topper, Army To Join ‘Em In Balcony

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03214/1595302-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="257" height="421"></div><p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>oronto&rsquo;s terrific playmaking centre, <b>Tod Sloan,</b> will be the subject of an interesting feature in next week&rsquo;s Hockey News by<b>Stan Houston.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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COMING Next Week

<p class="dropcap"><b><span>W</span>e trust you will bear with us tills week if we stray slightly from our usual format of picking one player-of-tlieweek. So successful was the result of Frank Boucher&rsquo;s reuniting of the famous Bentley brothers, Max and Dong, that we thought it only fitting and proper that we make both &lsquo;Players-of-the-Week.</b></p><p><b>When it was first announced that Boucher planned to bring in Doug from Saskatoon to team up with the dipsydoodling Max, there were various comments, some to the effect that the Ranger manager had lost his marbles and that maybe the Blues should acquire wheel-chairs fitted witli skates.</b></p><p><b>But Boucher persisted and the wisdom of ills decision came to the fore on January 20 when the Bentley boys led the Itangers to a 8-3 decision over the Boston Bruins in What had been turned a must&rsquo; game. Max and Doug were particularly effective in the Ranger power play and picked up eight points I between them. Max getting two goals and as many aslists and Doug a goal and three helpings.</b></p><p><b>Three nights later the Rangers again defeated the Bruins, this time 4-3, and again the Delisle Danilys had a hand in it. Max scored one of the New York goals on an assist from (Who else?) Doug Bentley.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-09121/1595490-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="261" height="417"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>DOUG</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-10107/1595483-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="275" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX</b></figcaption></div><p><b>So now the Broadway Blues are right back in contention for an NHL playoff berth, the first time they&rsquo;ve been in such a position in a few years, and Coach Muzz Patrick holds a 2-1 edge over brother Lynn in the current &lsquo;family feud.&rsquo; Much of the credit should go to Prank Boucher for his powers of persuasion in luring Doug Bentley off the prairies and into Madison Square-Garden.</b></p><p><b>And as Boucher himself put it, &ldquo;Max is good but he&rsquo;s just that much better with brother Dong out there on the ice with him.&rdquo;</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0009-09

Players of the Week

<h2><b>Fourth &lsquo;Hot&rsquo;</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>W</span>hen Bernie Geoffrion scored three goals against Chicago on January 23, It was Montreal&rsquo;s fourth &lsquo;Hat Trick&rsquo; of the season. Maurice Richard has two an &lsquo;Baldy&rsquo; MacKay one.</p><h2><b>All in Twos</b></h2><p>Jack McIntyre returned to the NHL, this time with Chicago Black Hawks, and in his second game scored two goals as Chicago dumped Montreal 8-3.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON WED. A.M. JAN. 27)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01326/1595452-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="586" height="182"></div><h3>RESULTS OF GAMES</h3><p>Wed. Jan. 20th&mdash;Boston 3 at Rangers 8</p><p>Thure Jan 21st&mdash;Detroit 1 at Cdns 0</p><p>Thurs Jan. 21st&mdash;Boston 3 at Chicago 2</p><p>Bat. Jan. 23rd&mdash;Chicago 1 at Canadiens 5</p><p>flat. Jan. 23rd&mdash;Detroit 1 at Toronto 4</p><p>Sat. Jan 23rd&mdash;Rangers 4 at Boston 3</p><p>Sun. Jan 24th&mdash;Canadiens 3 at Chicago 8</p><p>Sun. Jan 24th&mdash;Toronto 0 at Detroit 2</p><p>Sun. Jan 21th&mdash;Rangers 1 at Boston 2</p><h3>SCHEDULED GAMES</h3><p>Wed. Jan 27th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Thurs. Jan. 28th&mdash;Rangers at Detroit</p><p>Thurs, Jan. 28th&mdash;Chicago at Boston</p><p>Sat. Jan. 30th&mdash;Rangers at Canadiens</p><p>Sat. Jan. 30th&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Bat. Jan. 3th&mdash;Chicago at Detroit</p><p>Sun. Jan. 31st&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Suu. Jan. 31st&mdash;Detroit at Chicago</p><h3>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20</h3><p><b>Boston 3 at New York 8</b></p><p>NEW YORK &mdash; Paced by the Bentley brothers, who picked up eight points between them, the New York Rangers walloped Biston Bruins 8-3.</p><p>Max had two goals and as many assists while Doug picked up a goal and three assists.</p><p><b>Boston</b> &mdash; Goal: Henry: defense: Martin, L.aycoe, Godfrey, Quackenbush, Garlepy: forwards: Mackeil, Klukay, Schmidt. Sanford, Gardner, Dumart, Labine. ooCreighton, Mohns, Toppazzinl. Peirson.</p><p><b>New York</b> &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense: Reise. Irwin, Howell, Chrystal, Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Kullman, Mickoski, Ronty, Laprade. Guidolin, Prentice, Hergesheimer, Henry, M. Bentley, D. Bentley.</p><p>Referee &mdash; Frank Udvari; linesmen: Sam Babcock and Dom Baolto.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02304/1595445-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="601" height="849"></div><h3>THURSDAY JANUARY 21</h3><p><b>Detroit 1 at Montreal 0</b></p><p>MONTREAL &mdash; The Montreal Oanadlens suffered their second home ice lose of the season when they were shutout 1-0 by the league leading Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Metro Prystai counted the only goal of the game</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal, Sawchuk; defence, Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards, Skov, Les wick, Pavelich, Lindsay, Howe, Prystai, Reibel, Delvecchio, Wilson. Dineen, Stasiuk.</p><p><b>Montreal:</b> Goal, McNeil; defence, Harvey, St. Laurent, Bouchard, Johnson; forwards, Masnickr Geoffrion, Mazur, Mosdell, Richard, Olmstead, Beliveau, Curry, Gamble, McCormack, Corriveau, Lach.</p><p>Referee, Red Storey; linesmen, Doug Davies and Bill Morrison.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03257/1595438-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="595" height="343"></div><p><b>Boston 3 at Chicago 2</b></p><p>(Played at Indianapolis)</p><p>CHICAGO &mdash; Veteran Joe Klukay scored two goals and defenseman Ray Gariepy one as the Boston Bruins defeated the Chicago Black Hawks 3-2.</p><p><b>Boston:</b> Goal. Henry; defence. Godfrev&gt; Laycoe, Quakenbush, Martin, Gariepy; forwards, Sanford, Mackell, Gardner, Dumart. Labine, Creighton, Mohns, Toppazzini, Klukay, Pierson.</p><p><b>Chicago:</b> Goal, Rollins; defence, Morison, Fogolin, Gadsby, Dewsbury; forwards, Zeidel, Peters, Mollenko, Conacher, Jankowski, Hucul, Couture, Wilson, Gee. Price, Costello.</p><p>Referee. Bill Chadwick; linesmen, George Hayes and Mush March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04216/1595431-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="587" height="385"></div><h3>SATURDAY, JANUARY 23</h3><p><b>Chicago 1 at Canadien 5</b></p><p><b>Montreal</b> &mdash; Goal: McNeil; defense: Bouchard, Johnson. Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards:, Mazur, Masnick, Geoffrion, Beliveau, Curry, Richard, Olmstead, Lach, Mosdell, Gamble, Corriveau. MacCormack.</p><p><b>Chicago</b> &mdash; Goal: Rollins; defense: Mortson, Gadsby. Fogolin, Dewsbury, Zeidel, Price; forwards: McIntyre, Gee, Mosieako, Peters, Conacher, Jankowski, Bodnar, Wilson, Wharram, Hildebrand.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05167/1595424-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="585" height="339"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02281/1595417-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="586" height="185"></div><p><b>New York 1 at Boston 2</b></p><p>New York &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense: Reise, Irwin, Howell, Chrystal. Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Kultman, Mickoski, Ronty, Hergesheimer, Prentice, Laprade, Guldoln, D. Bentley, M. Bentley, C. Henry.</p><p><b>Boston</b> &mdash; Goal: J. Henry; defense: Quackenbush, La.ycoe, Armstrong, Godfrey. Martin; forwards: Creighton, Klukay. Schmidt. Mackell. Person. Sandford, Gardner, Labine, Mohns, Dumart, TonDazzini.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03238/1595410-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="593" height="654"></div><p><b>Toronto 0 at Detroit 2</b></p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Morrison, Thomson. Horton, Flaman, Boivin; forwards: Sloan, Armstrong, Watson, Migay, Kennedy, Smith, Stewart, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Bailey, Solinger.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham. Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Reibcl, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Dev-leechi Dineen, Leswick, Prystai, Pavelich. Wilson, Stasiuk.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04184/1595403-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="584" height="113"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05150/1595396-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="593" height="729"></div><h3>SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1954</h3><p><b>Montreal 3 at Chicago 8</b></p><p><b>Montreal</b> &mdash; Goal: McNeil; defense: Bouchard, Johnson Harvey, St. Laurent; forwards:, Mazur, Masnick, Geoffrion, Beliveau, Curry, Richard, Olmstead, Lach, Mosdell, Gamble, Corriveau MacCormack.</p><p><b>Chicago</b> &mdash; Goal: Rollins; defense: Mortson, Gadsby, Fogolin, Dewsbury, Zeidel, Price, forwards, McIntyre, Gee, Mosienko, Peters, Conadher, Jankowski, Bodnar, Wilson, Wharram, Hildebrand.</p><p>Referee: Frank Udvari; linesmen, Georges Hayes and Harold March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06128/1595389-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="593" height="719"></div><p><b>Toronto 4 Detroit 1</b></p><p><b>Toronto:</b> Goal: Lumley; defense: Morrison, Thomson, Horton, Flaman, Boivin; forwards: Sloan, Armstrong, Watson. Migay, Kennedy, Smith, Stewart, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Bailey, Solinger.</p><p><b>Detroit:</b> Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly. Pronovost, Woit, Hay: orwards: Reibel, Howe, Lindsay, Skov, Develcchio, Dineen, Leswick, Prystai, Pavelich, Wilson, Stasiuk</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0797/1595382-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="591" height="536"></div><p><b>New York 1 at Boston 2</b></p><p>New York &mdash; Goal: Bower; defense: Reise, Irwin, Howell, Chrystal, Evans; forwards: Raleigh, Kullman, Mickoski, Ronty, Hergesheimer, Prentice, Laprade, Guidolin, D. Bentley. M. Bentley, C. Henry.</p><p>Boston &mdash; Goal: J. Henry: defense: Quackenbush, Laycoe, Armstrong, Godfrey. Martin; forwards: Creighton, Klukay, Schmidt. Mackell. Peirson. Sandford, Gardner, Labine, Mohns, Dumart, Toppazzini</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0876/1595375-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="591" height="529"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PAR1DE</b></h2><p>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. JAN. 24)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06143/1595368-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="593" height="2286"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07133/1595361-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="571" height="620"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-08124/1595354-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="578" height="592"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04152/1595347-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="588" height="527"></div><h3>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-05113/1595340-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="594" height="365"></div><h3>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0692/1595333-1-eng-US/f0012-062.jpg" title="f0012-06" width="484" height="156"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

f0009-01

NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Defensemen, like the linemen in football, go unsung most of the time when awards and accolades are being handed out.</p><p>Basically, the peculiarities of their position &mdash; which stress stopping the opposition rather than scoring for their own clubs&mdash;keep defensemen and linesmen from grabbing the headlines.</p><p>Position not withstanding, if an award were given in the American Hockey League this season for the &ldquo;Most Improved Player,&rdquo; Buffalo&rsquo;s Pierre Polite would have to be honored.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0961/1595552-1-eng-US/f0010-092.jpg" title="f0010-09" width="289" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Eddolls</b></figcaption></div><p>Pilote, the closest the Bisons have ever come to a homegrown product since he hails from neighboring Fort Erie, Ontario, has been a bulwark on defense for Coach Frank Eddolls&rsquo; leagueleaders.</p><p>Only a second year man in the pro game, Pilote is actually getting his first full year back on defense. Because of almost continuous player I&rsquo;shrortages last season, the 22-year-old piolete I played a goodly portion of the AHL campaign up I on left wing&mdash;a position less suited to his battering style of play.</p><p>in training camp, 1 was frankely dissapointed in Pierre,&rdquo; Eddolls stated candidly in a discussion of the youngster. &ldquo;He was still making the same mistakes he made when he came out of junior a</p><p>year ago. I was afraid that he wasn&rsquo;t going to supply the strength we heeded back on defense.</p><p>&ldquo;But Pierre, who has worlds of heart, didn&rsquo;t give up on himself and just worked that much harder to prove he had the necessary ability.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Today he&rsquo;s undoubtedly the most improved player in the league.&rdquo;</p><p>Eddolls went on to explain that the improvement was evident in every phase of Pilote&rsquo;s play&mdash;with the exception of his bodychecking.</p><p>&ldquo;Pierre isn&rsquo;t too big for a defenseman&mdash;weighing only around 175 pounds&mdash;but he always could hit hard and catch his man in mid-ice and not depend upon nailing him along the boards,&rdquo; the Buffalo coach pointed out.</p><p>Pilote&rsquo;s ability to scrap was evident in a rough game in Pittsburgh last year when he smashed both Ray Timgren and Elliott Chorley to the ice with just two punches.</p><p>Ex-Bison Sammy Lavitt, who wag in Buffalo&rsquo;s lineup that night, shook his head when commenting on the two-punch victories.</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen a lot of fights, or so-called fights, in hockey but I never saw two settled so quickly and with as much authority aa Pierre settled those. That little guy sure put Timgren and Chorley, who are a lot bigger than he is, down in a hurry.&rdquo;</p><p>Pilote, himself, admits he&rsquo;s not adverse to making his weight felt but adds &ldquo;I only fight when the other fellow is out looking for trouble.&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-09

Pilote Most Improved Of Bison Blueliners

<h2><b>No Trades</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>O</span>ne of the remarkable things about the American Hockey fague this season, has been the lack of player trading between the league teams. Although well past the half way mark, this is the first season In many years that there have been no intra-league deals.</p><h2><b>New Record</b></h2><p>Gordie Henry of the Hershey Bears established a new all time American Hockey League record for games played for goaltenders on January 13, when he took part in his 465th American Hockey League contest.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS TUES A.M. JAN 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01339/1595653-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="584" height="182"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 20</b></h3><p><b>Pittsburgh 2 at Hershey 3</b></p><p><b>HERSHEY</b> &mdash; Hershey Bears defeated Pittsburgh Hornets 3-2 to take over third place in the American Hockey League.</p><p>Arnie Kliman scored twice in the opening period to give the Bears an oarly lead.</p><p>Danny Lewickl boosted the hopes of the Hornets when he scored early in the second period. The Bears moved ahead when George Sullivan soloed from centre ice an drifled a long shot into the net.</p><p>The Hornets made their last bid late In the period when Andy Barbe scored from scrimmage. The final period was scoreless. It was the fourth straight win on home for the Bears.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02298/1595646-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="603" height="443"></div><p><b>Providence 2 at Syracuse 0</b></p><p>SYRACUSE &mdash; Providence Goalie Harvey Bennett earned his second shutout of the season as the Reds downed Syracuse Warriors 2-0 to move into a fifthplace American Hockey League tie with the Syracuse club.</p><p>The defeat was the fourth straight setback for Syracuse, three of them on home Ice.</p><p>Zellio Toppazzini scored the first Providence goal in the opening period and Paul Gladu added the other In the third.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03237/1595639-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="601" height="309"></div><p><b>Cleveland 2 at Buffalo 4</b></p><p>BUFFALO &mdash; Playing before the record crowd of the season, the Buffalo Bisons defeated the Cleveland Barons 4-2, here to take sole possession of first place In the American Hockey League</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05156/1595632-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="597" height="413"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06142/1595625-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="597" height="143"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04189/1595618-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="1115" height="1319"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Bison Block Out</b></p><p><b>LOCK-UP</b> &mdash; The pose is the same but the purpose different as Rol!ie Rousseau of the Buffalo Bisons and Frank Mathers of The Pittsburgh Hornets get themselves all tangled up in an attempt to get at the puck which is right at their feet. That&rsquo;s the Bisons&rsquo; Steve Wochy moving up to aid Rgusseau in the background.</p> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Glunz)</span></figcaption></div><h3><b>SATURDAY JANUARY</b></h3><p>SYRACUSE &mdash; Steve Wochy and Ed Slowinski scored third period goals for Buffalo Bisons as they defeated Syracuse Warriors 3-1 in an American Hockey League game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-07126/1595611-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="599" height="625"></div><p><b>Cleveland 3 at Hershey 2</b></p><p><b>HERSHEY</b> &mdash; Jackie Gordon scored in the first and third periods to lead. Cleveland Barons to a 3-2 victory over Hershey Bears.</p><p>One O&rsquo;Brien got both the Heshey goals, one in the second period and another in the third. Fred Glover got the other Cleveland goal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-08121/1595604-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="587" height="663"></div><p><b>Providence 2 at Pittsburgh 5</b></p><p><b>PITTSBURGH</b> &mdash; Led by Willie Marshall, who scored two goals, Pittsburgh Hornets beat Providence Reds 5-2 In an American hockey League game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-09114/1595597-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="591" height="667"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, JANUARY 24</b></h3><p><b>Cleveland 1 at Providence 8</b></p><p>PROVIDENCE &mdash; Providence Reds knocked Cleveland Barons out of a tie for the AHL lead by gaining a 3-1 decision at the Auditorium.</p><p>The Reds completely dominated play with a 47-shot attack. A brilliant performance by Cleveland Goalie Emile (The Cat) Francis held down the score.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1097/1595590-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="587" height="497"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN JAN. 24)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1178/1595583-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="595" height="853"></div><h3><b>LEADERS</b></h3><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Henry Pidhirny, Syr. 29.</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Geo. Sullivan, Hershey, 46. Most Penalties by a Team: Cleveland 508 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalties by a Player:</b> Larry Cohan, Pittsburgh, 104 mts.</p><p><b>Best Goalie:</b> Jacques Plante, Buffalo 48. 131, 2, 2.73.</p><p><b>Most Shuouts:</b> Emile Francis, Clev., 4.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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AMERICAN LEAQUE

<div class="byline">By Emmett Watson</div><p><b>Bombers Play On Empty Stomachs</b></p><p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Something of a digestive upheaval is taking place on the Seattle hockey team this year, after Mr. Frank Dotten, the noted dietician and suffering stockholder, added twoplus-two. and discovered he was losing his shirt.</p><p><b>&ldquo;All steaks and no victories make Frank a sad boy,&rdquo; is what Mr. Dotten discovered, once he had checked his commissary bill against his win column.</b></p><p>To explain this, let us indulge in a flashback.</p><p>Last year the Bombers were celebrated far and wide as the best eaters and the worst road club this side of Toots Shor&rsquo;s. Mr. Dotten saw that his boys were well stoked with proteins.</p><p>He devised a generous road-trip plan, whereby the Bombers left early for Vancouver, arrived in mid-afternoon, and grazed happily the rest of the day in fields of Canadian sirloin, filets, T-bones and New York cuts. Mr. Dotten tested the reaction of his players by polling Mr. Frank Arnett, a voracious defenseman.</p><p><b>&ldquo;How do you feel?&rdquo; inquired Mr. Dotten.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Hungry,&rdquo; said Mr. Arnett. &ldquo;Please pass the steak.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Feel like a good game tonight?&rdquo; Mr. Dotten persisted.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Fschertainly,&rdquo; mumbled Mr. Arnett, chewing happily. &ldquo;Please pass the ketchup.&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Win tonight and we are on our way,&rdquo; said Mr. Dotten.</b></p><p><b>&ldquo;Please pass the gravy,&rdquo; said Mr. Arnett.</b></p><h2><b>Such Are The Perils of Proteins.</b></h2><p>There is no doubt that Mr. Dotten had a group of contented athletes on his hands. The plan had only one drawback &mdash; they stayed contented, throughout the evening, as Vancouver and New Westminster piled in on the Seattle goal, encountering only an occasional burp to disturb their concentration.</p><p>The results of Mr. Dotten&rsquo;s full-breadbasket policy were graphically portrayed in Seattle&rsquo;s won-loss record on the road, as follows: Won 7, tied 5, and (zoundsl) lost 23.</p><p><b>&ldquo;Please pass the aspirin,&rdquo; says Frank.</b></p><p>Mr. Dotten&rsquo;s problem is an old one, a problem that has plagued baseball managers since (and before) Fred Merkle forgot to touch second. The care and feeding of athletes gives pause to many a serious thinker.</p><p><b>&ldquo;I say give &rsquo;em the money and turn &rsquo;em loose,&rdquo; said Mr. Hollis Thurston, an old baseball philosopher. &ldquo;Ball players are too tight to spend much on food.&rdquo;</b></p><p>This plan, deceptively simple, was tried and found wanting. The players went on eating heavily, but they did so in cheap chop houses, where ptomaine poisoning was a normal risk of the patronage. However, Mr. Dotten&rsquo;s problem is one of timing, rather than quality of cuisine.</p><h2><b>Eat Early and Play Hard</b></h2><p><b>&ldquo;This year,&rdquo; said Mr. Dotten grimly, &ldquo;we eat early and arrive just in time for the game. So they&rsquo;re hungry? I would rather have empty stomachs and a full win column.&rdquo;</b></p><p>Naturally, it&rsquo;s much too soon to determine how Frank&rsquo;s anti-gluttony program is working out, although the early returns are encouraging. Observers report that the Bombers arrive in Canada just before game time, ready to gnaw on the fat of a goalie pad. Indeed, they go out on the ice, ravenous and peevish, geared to snap off the arm of a rival defenseman&mdash;except of course, on Fridays.</p><p><b>&ldquo;It looks hopeful,&rdquo; admitted Mr. Dotten; &ldquo;Hummun? If this works, I will have to figure me out a way to keep &rsquo;em hungry at home.&rdquo;</b></p><p>Frank may have something. Who knows what a hockey player can do on an empty stomach until you get it empty?<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Watson’s Needle:

<div class="byline">By NED POWERS</div><p>SASKATOON, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>Victoria Cougar coach Billy Reay may have a good reason why he considers Saskatoon Quakers a strong bet to finish first in the Western Pro jockey League. Reay&rsquo;s club has been unable to win once in four starts against Quakers, who are currently waging a duel with New Westminster Royals for third place.</p><p>Quakers have won a pair from the Cougars and the other two games ended in deadlocks. Saskatoon still has two home dates left against Cougars and they must appear In Victoria twice more.</p><p>On the Cougars&rsquo; last trip to Saskatoon, Reay contended that Quakers and Vancouver Canucks will be fighting it out for first place in the final table.</p><p>&ldquo;There is a lot of scoring punch on the Quaker lineup and It is well spread among the three lines. Anybody that Doug Bentley sends out on the forward line can hurt you. They have a little more balance on the attack than the others,&rdquo; said Reay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01335/1595715-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="285" height="462"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Reay</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Add Strength</b></h2><p>Vancouver has been adding more strength up front and Calgary Stampeders will always prove tough with their all-round club. New Westminster continues to surprise everyone by hanging in contention but Reay feels &ldquo;They fool you at first but there are a lot of smart heads on that hockey club.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03207/1595708-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="540" height="848"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Sidelined</b></p><p><b>HOWIE MILFORD</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Despite the fact that Quakers were riding on a 13-game home unbeaten streak at the time of Victoria&rsquo;s visit, there are two lines of thought that claim Quakers will never reach the top. Even with their hot streak at home, Quakers &ldquo;haven&rsquo;t gained too much ground on the leaders and. they&rsquo;ll have to improve their record on the road. Secondly, the lack of blueline help has Quakers in a tightspot right now. They&rsquo;re playing with three regulars &mdash;. Jim Ross, Murray Parker and Lou Fontinato &mdash; and are minus the services of Howie Milford, who has a bad leg However, the arrival of Hy Buller from the New York Rangers should help matters considerably.</p><p>The Victoria club has been a mild disappointment to fans in the prairie section of the seventeam loop. Cougars were called as a first place finisher by many experts before the season started but they&rsquo;ve never rated higher than fifth throughout the season.</p><h2><b>Will Make Playoffs</b></h2><p>Although they are currently running sixth, Cougars are expected to make the playoffs. They have good netminding from Ralph Almas, experienced blueliners like Ross Lowe and Sammy Lavitt and many good forwards. By playoff time, rookies like Wally Clune, Tony Schneider, Gene Achtymlchuk and Bill Sinnett will be much more experienced.</p><p>Lowe, a former National leaguer with Boston and Montreal, is having a terrific season with the Cougars. He has been very strong offensively. Before his appearance in Saskatoon, Lowe had scored seven goals in seven games from his defense post. He was whitewashed by Quakers but got back into his scoring habit during the next game against Vancouver Canucks.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Reay Considers Quakers Good Bet To Finish In First Place In WHL

<h2><b>Near Record</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>L</span>orne Nadeau of Vancouver scored one or more goals for seven straight games before being stopped in Saskatoon. He was within one of the league record of scoring in 8 consecutive games set by Ronnie Rowe of Tacoma and equalled by Ken Ullyot of New Westminster.</p><h2><b>Two Goals a Game</b></h2><p>In his last five games, goalie Glenn Hall of Edmonton has allowed 2 goals in each game. Alex Kuzma of Victoria scored the 1000th goal of the season this past week in Seattle. Victoria scored the first goal in ail four games they played the Past week</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON MON. A.M. JAN. 18)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01340/1595858-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="588" height="216"></div><p><b>RESULTS</b></p><p><b>Monday January 11th</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at Victoria 3</p><p><b>Tuesday January 12th</b></p><p>Saskatoon 2 at Calgary 4</p><p><b>Wednesday January 13th</b></p><p>Saskatoon 2 at Edmonton 3</p><p><b>Thursday January 14th</b></p><p>Vancouver 0 at Saskatoon 1</p><p><b>Friday January 15th</b></p><p>Vancouver 2 at Edmonton 0</p><p>Seattle 5 at Victoria 5</p><p><b>Saturday January 16 th</b></p><p>Vancouver 0 at Calgary 2</p><p>Victoria 7 at New West. 3</p><p>Edmonton 2 at Saskatoon 2</p><p><b>Sunday January 17th</b></p><p>Victoria 4 at Seattle 4</p><h2><b>MONDAY JANUARY 11</b></h2><p><b>Vancouver 2 at Victoria 3</b></p><p>VICTORIA&mdash;Playing their fifth game in seven nights, the Victoria Cougars defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 before 3,84 7 fans.</p><p>Eddie Dorohoy paced the Cougars with two goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02298/1595851-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="609" height="479"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY JANUARY 12</b></h3><p><b>Saskatoon 2 at Calgary 4</b></p><p>CALGARY &mdash; Calgary Stampeder. came through with their first victory in five outings when they downed Saskatoon Quakers 4-2 in a bruising WHL fixture before 4205 fans.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03268/1595844-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="601" height="397"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04240/1595837-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="594" height="165"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY JANUARY. 13</b></h3><p><b>Saskatoon 2 at Edmonton 3</b></p><p>EDMONTON &mdash; Jim Anderson scored with less than three minutes remaining to give the Edmonton Flyers a slose 3-2 win over the Saskatoon Quakers here before 3,800 fans.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05208/1595830-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="593" height="495"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, JANUARY 14</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 0 at Saskatoon 1</b></p><p>SASKATOON &mdash; Chuck Rayner hung up his fifth shutout of the Beason and rookie Dale Anderson scored the game&rsquo;s only goal as the Saskatoon Quakers dumped Vancouver Canucks 1-0.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06178/1595823-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="601" height="383"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY, JANUARY 15</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 2 at Edmonton 0</b></p><p>EDMONTON &mdash; Vancouver Canucks took a four point lead atop the WHL by blanking the Edmonton Flyers 2-0.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07166/1595816-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="589" height="332"></div><p><b>Seattle 5 at Victoria 5</b></p><p>VICTORIA &mdash; Seattle Bombers and Victoria Cougars, both battling for the last WHL play-off berth, played to a 5-5 draw. Alex Kuzma scored two for the Cougars and Wayne Brown a pair for the Bombers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09150/1595809-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="585" height="569"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08156/1595802-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="560" height="1334"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Top Pointmaker</b></p><p><b>ENIO SCLISIZZI &hellip; 51 points</b></p></figcaption></div><h3><b>SATURDAY JANUARY 16</b></h3><p><b>Vancouver 0 at Calgary 2</b></p><p>CALGARY &mdash; The Calgary Stampeders moved to within two points of the league lead when they blanked the leading Vancouver Canucks 2-0.</p><p>It was the second loss in three prairie games for the Canucks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10144/1595795-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="595" height="325"></div><p><b>Victoria 7 at New Westminster 3</b></p><p>NEW WESTMINSTER &mdash; Eddie Dorohoy scored a &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; to pace the Victoria oCougars to a 7-3 victory over the New Westminster Royals.</p><p>The win moved the Cougars six points ahead of the last place Seattle Bombers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-11127/1595788-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="581" height="177"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-12113/1595781-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="597" height="475"></div><p><b>Edmonton 2 nt Saskatoon 2</b></p><p>SASKATOON,&mdash; The Saskatoon Quakers twice came from behind one goal deficits to earn a 2-2 draw with the Edmonton Flyers</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1392/1595774-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="601" height="387"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY JANUARY 17</b></h3><p><b>Victoria 4 nt Seattle 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1483/1595767-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="595" height="589"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. JAN. 17)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1569/1595760-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="587" height="1392"></div><p><b>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORDS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1645/1595753-1-eng-US/f0013-162.jpg" title="f0013-16" width="592" height="236"></div><p><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES GV MIN</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1736/1595746-1-eng-US/f0013-172.jpg" title="f0013-17" width="540" height="238"></div><p><b>LEADERS</b></p><p><b>Most Goals:</b> Gordon Fashoway NW 30</p><p><b>Assists:</b> Eddie Dorbhoy, Vic 33</p><p><b>Most Game Winning Goals:</b> Mark Marquess, Sea.; Gordie Fashoway, NW 5.</p><p><b>Most First Goal of Game:</b> Bobby Love, NW. 6</p><p><b>Hat Tricks:</b> Gordon Fashoway NW; Colin Kilburn, Vic. 2</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Chuck Rayner, Sask.; Bill Brenian, Cal 5.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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WESTERN LEAQUE

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Soon a new Trophy, emblematic of the Minor Professional Championship of Canada, will be put into competition and will be competed for this spring by the Play-off Champions of the Quebec Hockey League and the Western Hockey League. The first series will be played in the West at the completion of the Quebec and Western Leagues playoffs this spring. The series will be played in the East in 195 5 and alternate there after between the West and the East.</p><p>The new trophy has been ordered and is in the process of manufacture now. It will be sponsored by an outstanding individual. An announcement will be forthcoming soon.</p><p>Altho play-offs between the East and the West for the professional hockey championship are not new, it has been 28 years since such a play-off championship took place. The old National Hockey Association and the Pacific Coast Hockey League inaugurated a play-off for the professional hockey championship of the World, in which the Stanley Cup was at stake, in 1915. The first series was held in the West and it alternated between the East and the West until the Pacific Coast League was disbanded in 1926. The Vancouver Millionaires won the first series defeating the Ottawa Senators in Vancouver. In 1916 the Portland Rosebuds traveled East and were beaten by the Montreal Canadiens. In 1917 the same Montreal Canadiens came West and were defeated by the Seattle Metropolitans, the first time the Stanley Cup was ever won by a team from the United States. In 1918 Vancouver went East and lost to Toronto. In 1919 the series was again played in Seattle between the Metropolitans and the Montreal Canadiens and after each team had won two games and one ended in a tie the series was cancelled due to the flu epedemic. The majority of the players on both clubs were stricken. Joe Hall, star defenceman of the Canadiens died in a Seattle hospitol. In 1920 Seattle went East and were defeated by the Ottawa Senators. In 1921 Ottawa came West and defeated Vancouver. It was the first time that a visiting team had been able to take the Cup home with them. In 1922 Vancouver went East and lost to Toronto. In 1923 Ottawa again came West and defeated both Vancouver and Edmonton. A major professional league was formed on the prairies that year and the winner was admitted to the playoff for the Stanley Cup. In 1924 both Calgary and Vancouver went East and were defeated by the Montreal Canadiens. In 1925 the Canadiens came West and lost to the Victoria Cougars. In 1926 the Victoria Cougars went East and were defeated by the Montreal Maroons in what turend out to be the final series between Eastern professional clubs.</p><p>Hockey was the first sport to adopt the play-off system and it was originated by Lester and Frank Patrick in the early years of the Pacific Coast Hockey League. These play-offs have been an important factor in keeping interest up to the final games of the league schedule. At the present writing, any of the seven clubs in both the Quebec and Western League have an opportunity to win their league play-offs and compete in the renewal of this East-West series. Oddly enough, each league has one American Club. Springfield, Mass, in the Quebec League and Seattle Wash, in the Western League. Other members of the Quebec League are: Montreal, Chicoutimi, Quebec City, Sherbooke and Valley field in the Province of Quebec and Ottawa, Ont. In addition to Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster in the province of British Columbia, Calgary and Edmonton in Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan comprise the Western League.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01339/1595889-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="268" height="416"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lester Patrick</b></figcaption></div><p>The playing schedule of both leagues ends March 21st after which the first six clubs in each league will engage in an elimination play-off to determine the representative for each league. While the club finishing the regular season in first place is favoured to win the league play-offs &mdash; it is not always the case. At the completion of the 1949, 1950 and 1951 season the team finishing in first place in the Western League went on to win the play-off championship. New Westminster in 49 and 50 and Victoria in 51. Second place Saskatoon won all the honors in 1952 and fourth place Edmonton went all the way last year.</p><p>The renewal of this East-West series and the trophy they will play for will be a big boost for hockey. Previously the Western League had nothing left to conquer after fin ishing their league play-off. This is the Quebec Leagues first year in professional hockey which opened the door for the resumption of this series.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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New Trophy Now On Order For QHL-WHL Pro Playoff

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>For three years Fred Andre Corriveau has been chasing Jean Beliveau, and finally caught up with him on the night of January 21. This was when Andre, from Valleyfield, joined &ldquo;Gros Bill&rdquo; the Victoriaville siege gun, via Quebec City, off the same line with Canadiens in the big game against Detroit Red Wings at the Montreal Forum.</p><p>Two years running Beliveau led the scorers in the Quebec Senior HockeyLeague with Corriveau hot on his tail, and what makes the tale more intriguing is that before Beliveau came along Corriveau was usually top-kick in the Slater circuit, so it was natural that Andre wasn&rsquo;t inclined to be too humble about this: &ldquo;after your my dear Gaston&rdquo; role.</p><p>When Beliveau won the QSHL scoring championship in the season 1952-53, he had 89 points made up of 50 goals and 39 assists. Corriveau ran second.with 40 tallies, 4 5 assists &mdash; 85 points. The year before (1951-52) with Beliveau in king row with 45-38 &mdash; 83 Corriveau was flirther back in the field in fifth place with 27-36 &mdash; 63.</p><h2><b>Champ Two Years</b></h2><p>Let&rsquo;s dig a little deeper. Before Beliveau came out of the Quebec Junior League to attack the senior portals with the same fanfare that was to herald his entry into major hockey two years later, Corriveau was the champ. In the season of 1950-51 Andre had to his credit 38 goals 51 assists for 89 points. And he was a repeater then. For in 1949-50 he carried the flag at the head of the parade with 3354 &mdash; 87.</p><p>And if you want us to toss away the history books and get up to date, let us hastily advise that when Arthur Vinet, Valleyfield club president, and Toe Blake, Braves&rsquo; coach, agreed last week to Frank Selke&rsquo;s terms, Corriveau was more than keeping up with the Jones&rsquo;.</p><p>He was the pace-maker in the Slater circuit. In 44 games he rammed in 27 tallies, helped in 3 6 more for 63 points. He held a 13-point edge on the second man, Fred &ldquo;Skippy&rdquo; Burchell of Montreal Royals, and only Leo Gravelle, the ex-major leaguer, now with Ottawa Senators, whohas hit the drapery 29 times, had scored more goals.</p><h2><b>All This, And Gamble</b></h2><p>It may have taken a long time to get around to it, in this epistle, but it&rsquo;s also most vital to relate that the leftwinger on the Habitant line in the NHL in which Corriveau, the right-winger played footsie with Beliveau the centre, was Dick Gamble, another ex-Quebee Leaguer, who three years ago came out of the Quebec City to join Dick Irvin&rsquo;s pot-hunters.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02262/1595941-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="524" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>QSHL Crads.&hellip;</b></p><p><b>DICK GAMBLE</b></p></figcaption></div><p>And peering into the mathematics of Ferdinand, The Filbert, more intently, it&rsquo;s discovered that the Moncton method-man. Gamble, ranked third in the QSHL scoring list when all reports were in for the 1949-50 season, behind Corriveau of course.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03196/1595934-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="584" height="585"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&hellip;Now Play&hellip;</b></p><p><b>JEAN BELIVEAU</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Gamble with 46 goals scored was the leading artisan at the natter of putting-the-puck-in-thenet, the big factor on pay day.</p><p>Take those 46 goals by Gamble, add Beliveau&rsquo;s 50 goal season son, pour in the 40-tally campaign of Corriveau and you have a potential of 13 6 that Irvin has In the shape-up of his new forward patrol.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04156/1595927-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="524" height="525"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&hellip;For Habs</b></p><p><b>ANDRE CORRIVEAU</b></p></figcaption></div><h2><b>Tougher In The NHL</b></h2><p>Carping critics may hastily toss a cross-check and tell us that the NHL isn&rsquo;t the QSHL, that the checking is much closer under the big top and that there are guys like Sawchuk, Lumley and Rollins in &ldquo;them thar goals&rdquo; but let it pass. It all adds zest to the animated discussion.</p><h2><b>No Extra Charge</b></h2><p>You should pay extra reading rates for this, and you would, too, if THE HOCKEY NEWS had a slot-meter attached like they are planning to do with the television sets, for this scrivener has never been exactly au Einstein with the statistics &mdash; but the editorurged, that a little more back-tracking on Corriveau be done.</p><p>Here are his figures through. 5&frac12; seasons with the Braves:</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05130/1595920-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="593" height="317"></div><p>So he scored close to 200 tallies in those five and a halt games, well above 200 if you want to take in the playoffs. H?&rsquo;. the Rocket Richard of the Quebec League when it comes to potting that black biscuit or helping at same.</p><h2><b>And An Iron Man Too</b></h2><p>Too frail, some of the hammering Herbies scream as they get ready for their knock-knock rebuttal. They think that this slim-waisted 135-pounder who was born in Grand&rsquo;Mere Que., 25 years ago can&rsquo;t take it. Well, pardner, those little exes up there mean that the guy played In all his team&rsquo;s game those seasons.</p><p>Why Corriveau&rsquo;s is practically a Lou Gehrig, even though he may be built on the lines of a greyhound, or he&rsquo;s a Murray Murdoch if you want to keep things strictly on a hockey plane.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Former Rivals Corriveau and Beliveau United on Same Line With Habitants

<h2><b>First Payment</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>ay Laplante of the Montreal Royals was loaned to the Valleyfield Braves and may become their property if Montreal Canadiens retain Andre Corriveau.</p><h2><b>Veteran Player</b></h2><p>Quebec Aces acquired the services of defenseman Fred Hucul from the Chicago Black Hawks of the National League.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON TUES. A.M. JAN. 26)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01312/1596084-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="600" height="217"></div><p><b>Springfield 0 at Montreal 4</b></p><p>MONTREAL &mdash; The Montreal Royals elimbed into first place in the QHL standings by whitewashing the lowly Springfield Indians 4-0.</p><p>It was the third successive game in which the Tribe had failed to score a oingle goal.</p><p><b>Springfield</b> &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: McNab, Nilligan. Tarala, Currie; forwards: Power, Schinkel, Hasting. Gagnon, McLeod, Bobenic, McMurdy, Leier, Powell.</p><p><b>Montreal</b> &mdash; Goal: Perreault; defense: Roche, Harmon, L.eger, Hollingworth; forwards: Burchell, Davis. Meger, Litsen berger, Desaulnlers, Tessier, Wray, Denis, Frampton, Lapiante.</p><p>Referee: Gordie Whitehead; linesmen: Eric Milford and Paul Moreau.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02275/1596077-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="606" height="391"></div><p><b>Valley field 3 at Chicoutimi 5</b></p><p>CHICOUTIMI &mdash; Pete Tkachuk hit for the &lsquo;hat trick&rsquo; as the Chicoutimi Sagueneens dumped the Valleyfield Braves 5-3.</p><p>The win moved the Chicks into a second-place tie with the Sherbrooke Saints.</p><p><b>Vallyfield</b> &mdash; Goal; Payette; defense: Ernst, Irvine, Deslauriers, Arnett; forwards, Joannette, Bisai lion, Corriveau, White, Thomson, Kwong, Kline, Haworth, R. Leclerc, P. Leclerc.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi</b> &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Roy, Taillefer, Lamirande; forwards: White, Buchanan. S. Smrke, Locas, Moore, Tkachuk, Dussault, Groleau, Perreault, Leger.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03251/1596070-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="602" height="463"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04203/1596063-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="605" height="123"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20</b></h3><p><b>Valley field 3 at Quebec 4</b></p><p>QUEBEC &mdash; Defenseman Jean Guy Talbot fired home a goal after two minutes and 25 seconds of overtime to give the Quebec Aces a 4-3 victory over the Valleyfield Braves.</p><p><b>Valleyfield</b> &mdash; Goal: Payette; defense: Arnett, Ernst, Deslauriers, Irvine; forwards: White, Joannette, bisaillon, Corriveau, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc.</p><p><b>Quebec</b> &mdash; Goal: Gelineau; defense: Raglan, Crozier, Houle, Talbot; forwards: Brown, Grosse, Powell. Regan, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Wharram, Boone, Caron.</p><p>Referee: Bill Roberts: linesmen; Rene Simard, Armand Leclerc.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05166/1596056-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="597" height="591"></div><p><b>Ottawa 3 at Springfield 4</b></p><p>SPRINGFIELD &mdash; The Springfield Indians broke out of a threelgame losing streak as they upset the Ottawa Senators 4-3.</p><p>When Ted Power scored in the first period, it was the first goal for the Tribe in 219 minutes of hockey.</p><p><b>Ottawa</b> &mdash; Goal; Frederick; defense: Hudson, Copp, Arundel, Stahan, Robertson; forwards: Gravelle, Blair, Rlopelle, Johnson, Giesebrecht, Foley, Poland, Guilolin.</p><p>Springfield &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Currie, McNabb, Telford, Tarala; forwards: Bobenic Leier, Gagnon, Powell, Schinkel. Hastings, Franche, Power. Hogg. Nilligan.</p><p>Referee: Eric Milford; linesmen, Ghedi, Cote.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06146/1596049-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="607" height="569"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07138/1596042-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="545" height="871"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>To Quebec</b></p><p><b>FRED HUCUL</b></p></figcaption></div><h3><b>THURSDAY JANUARY 21</b></h3><p><b>Sherbrooke 3 at Chicoutimi 4</b></p><p>CHICOUTIMI &mdash; The Chicoutimi Sagueneens moved into a tie for first place in the Quebec Hockey League when they edged the Sherbrooke Saints 4-3.</p><p><b>Sherbrooke:</b> Goal, Cotnoir; defence, Forbes, Arbour, Bownass, Palamer; Forwards, McLean, Dubs, Irwin, Stankiewicz, Ehman, Podolsky, Bruneteau, Johnson. Malo, Giesebrecht.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal, Hughes; defence, Glaude, Taillefer, Lamiranie, Roys forwards, White, Buchanan. Tkachuk, 8. Smerke, L. Smerke, Dussault, Perreault, Locas. Moore</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-08127/1596035-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="599" height="491"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, JANUARY 23</b></h3><p><b>Valleyfield 2 at Chicoutimi 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-09119/1596028-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="605" height="141"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-10105/1596021-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="589" height="321"></div><p><b>Quebec 1 at Springfield 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1187/1596014-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="595" height="419"></div><p><b>Montreal 2 at Ottawa 6</b></p><p>Montreal: Goal, Perreault; defense, Hollingworth, Harmon, Leger, Roche, forwards, Davis, Litzenherger, Blaine, Degaulniers, Tessier, Burchell, Wray, Meger, Denis, Frampton.</p><p>Ottawa: Goal, Frederick; defense, Robertson, Stahan, Copp, Hudson; forwards, Blair, Howard, Riopelle, Gravelie, Johnson. Giesebrecht, Robert, Poland. Guidolln, Hugh, Riopelle, Foley.</p><p>Referee: Erie Milford; linesmen, John McEvoy and Gordie Pranske.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1266/1596007-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="599" height="703"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, JANUARY 24</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi 3 at Sherbrooke 5</b></p><p>Chicoutimi: Goal, Hughes; defense, Glaude, Taillefer, Roy, Lamiranile; forwards: White. Perreault, Leger, I. Smrke, S. Smrke, Locas, Dussault, Groleau, Tkachuk, Moore.</p><p>Sherbrooke: Goal, Cotnoir; defense, Palamar, Armour, Forbes, Bownass; forwards, McLean, Irving, Dube, Stankiewicz, Ehman, Podolsky, Bruneteau, Giesebrecht, Johnson, Malo.</p><p>Referee: George Gravel; linesmen, Lalonde, Westgan</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1356/1596000-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="587" height="445"></div><p><b>Ottawa 2 at Quebec</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1447/1595993-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="595" height="265"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1537/1595986-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="605" height="445"></div><p><b>Valleyfield 5 at Montreal 3</b></p><p>Valleyfield; Goal, P. Leclerc; defense, Arnett, Ernst, Irvine, Deslauriers; forwards: R. Leclerc, White, Joannette, Biaallion, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Lapiante, Laliberte.</p><p>Montreal: Goal, Perreault; defense, Hollingworth, Harmon, Roche, Leger, forwards: Litzenberger, Tessier, Desauliers, Meger, Burchell, Davis, Frampton, Wray, Blaine, Denis.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1636/1595979-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="594" height="572"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. JAN. 24)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1734/1595972-1-eng-US/f0015-172.jpg" title="f0015-17" width="606" height="884"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAQUE

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>With a tightening all along the line in league standings has come an increase in rough play in the Maritime Major (Big Four) HockeyLeague.</p><p>Glace Bay&rsquo;s brilliant Tommy Fyles is out of action until at least the playoffs with a broken arm. Don (Peanuts) Mc</p><p>Laughlin needed 14 stiches to close a gaping wound in his scalp.</p><p>For Fyles It was another disheartening blow. After a spectacular start he was grounded with a wrist injury. Shortly after his return he was suspended for swinging his stick. Now he&rsquo;s out until late March at the earliest, and may not get back at all thisseason.</p><p>McLaughlin, Halifax native who played with Atlantics last season, went to Windsor, Ont. at the start of the 1953-54 season. He was traded to Charlottetown in the five-for-one deal which sent Lyal Wiseman to Murph Chamberlain&rsquo;s club in the Border City.</p><p>He has been a tower of strength on the Island defence and was going along nicely until he tangled with Halifax&rsquo;s Johnny Morrow along the boards. Morrow, by the way, leads the league in penalties while McLaughlin until his injury was a leading contender.</p><p>Fyles sustained a broken arm when he tried to crash the Sydney defence. Glace Bay coach Don Penniston acted quickly and brought in Jim Farelli and Gordon Myles from Seattle of the Western League just ahead of the player deadline.</p><p>Glace Bay thus gets two players for the injured Fyles. but Islanders lost out when Ottawa Senators recalled Claude Robert. The latter came east to play himself into condition and was a standout performer with the P.E.I. club.</p><p>Bucko Trainor, Charlottetown native who coaches Islanders after stints with St. Paul, New Haven and NewYork Rangers, angrily answered a blast at the Island club. He denied, with gestures, reports that the club was in financial straits. He was angered, he said, because such reports hurt the league in general and the club in particular.</p><p>Islanders currently are on a hot streak which has carried them past Glace Bay Miners into third place. Two of the recent victories were over the league leading Halifax Atlantics. Islanders have a far better record against the champion A&rsquo;s than any other club, actually hold a margin in games over the pace-setters.</p><p>Roy (Buck) Whitlock, greatest scorer in the Maritime hockey history, is pacing the Islanders in their latest surge. Now back on full time after part-time operation due to pressure of business. Whitlock has climbed into third place in the scoring derby and is shooting for a fourth Maritime title.</p><p>Whitlock&rsquo;s point per game average is 2.08. compared to 1.91 for league leader Billy Ford and 1.71 for runner-up Paul Saindon. While Whitlock is surging Saindon is slumping. Ford has picked up considerable after a two week letdown.</p><p>In games through January 13, Ford has 90 points and his 45 goals lead the league. Saindon has 82. Whitlock 6 5. Veteran Pete Whyrott is next with 79 and his 50 assists give him the lead in that department. Bobby Brown is Glace Bay&rsquo;s top producer with 71 points while Marshall and George Robinson lead Sydney Millionaires with 38.</p><p>Johnny Morrow is the most penalized player with 134 minutes. Behind Morrow are White of Glace Bay with 101 minutes end Gus Gustaveson of Islanders with 100.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01297/1596115-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="548" height="1019"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>In Slump</b></p><p><b>PAUL SAINDON</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Morrow has an assault case pendinga against him in Glace Bay. He is charged with striking an officer during trouble at the penalty box. The case will come up later this month.</p><p>On another front Morrow is again a figure. Last year he played with Sydney and. was told this year to make a deal for himself. He gained a berth in Halifax. Now Sydney claims him. It has been left to the Central Registry to decide to which club he belongs.</p><p>Two years ago Halifax bought Morrow from Charlottetown but lost him at the end of the season on a technicality.</p><p>Sydney fans have taken to Andy McCallum in a big way. The former Chicoutimi defenseman has been here a month on trial and now there is talk of forming a Booster Club, the first aim being to raise enough money to pay for McCallum&rsquo;s contract. The sturdy, hard hitting and hard shooting rearguard has been a big help to the Terry Reardon-coached Mills.</p><p>The exciting lifting of goalies late in the game has caught on in a big way around the circuit. In the last three tries the move worked twice, one for Halifax, once for Charlottetown against Halifax. On the other occasion it boomeranged when Charlottetown shot, a puck into an empty Atlantics net.</p><p>Vic Palladino, a recent addition to the Islanders roster, is coming up with some big goals. Most recent addtion to Sydney staff is Specs Chorley, who starred two years ago under Bud Poile at Glace Bay. Also going well for Terry Reardon Is Ted O&rsquo;Connor, late of the Coast League.</p><p>Halifax Atlantics, still understaffed, thought they had Stan Maxwell from Seattle, but he refused to report. He has been suspended by the Seattle club.</p><p>And Glace Bay Miners have spoiled the plan to extend the player deadline. Halifax Atlantics proposed the move when they lost Maxwell. Charlottetown and Sydney approved the change, but peace Pay nixed it.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Trainor Denies Islanders Are In Financial Straits

<div class="byline">By PETER TOMLIN</div><p>PENTICTON. B. C.</p><p>The powerful Penticton V&rsquo;s have hit their stride and are running wild in &lsquo;the Okanagan Senior Hockey League. Grant Warwick&rsquo;s men are showing signs of making a shambles of the league race. At this writing the defending Western Canada champs are fifteen points up on the second place Vernon Canadians. What makes the V&rsquo;s record so remarkable is that only the third place Kamloops Elks have scored fewer goals than the &ldquo;Peach City&rdquo; boys and up to and including games of Jan. 8th., they had amassed a total of 858 minutes in the sin bin. Compared to this, Vernon has 432 minutes, Kamloops 449 and the cellar-dwelling Kelowna Packers have 513.</p><p>The record shows that the V&rsquo;s have 29 wins and 2 ties in 43 games. Percentage-wise, this gives them a record of .698, a mark that would compare favorably with that of any team in the country. On the road, they have 10 victories and 2 ties in 21 contests for a mark of &hellip;524. At home they have become unbeatable. They have not lost a game in Penticton since the 27 th of November and since then, have piled up 16 straight wins. Their season&rsquo;s total at home shows 19 wins In 22 tries for a glittering .864 mark.</p><p>A 6-4 overtime victory over the touring Spokane Flyers of the Western International League recently gave the Pentiction team their 16th straight home win. It was not that they won the game, but the manner in which they won it that broke the Flyers&rsquo; hearts. Spokane took a 3-0 lead on goals by Red Tilson, Frank Carlson and Tilson again. Dick Warwick and newly acquired Bernie Bathgate cut the margin to one goal going into the third period. Dick Warwick then tied the game with his second goal of the game just before Bill Ramsden sent the Flyers Into a 4-3 lead. To all intents and purposes the game I was over. But, not so Bill Warwick. He flipped in a relay from Jack McIntyre and brother Grant with just two seconds remaining in regulation time. In the overtime session. Bill, who is the leading goal-scorer and point-getter in the league, fired two more goals, the second into an empty net, to complete a hat-trick. It was his fourth hat-trick of the season and certainly one of the most dramatic he has ever scored. It raised his season&rsquo;s total in goals to 36.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Penticton V’s Running Wild In Okanagan Senior League

<div class="byline">By CHUCK ROUNTREE</div><p>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;</p><p>In the sale of aspirin in and around the city of Kempville, Ontario has shown an increase in the last couple of years, the manufacturers owe their good fortune to one thing. Junior hockey!</p><p>Kempville is the home of W. A.(Baldy) George, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and if you think he hasn&rsquo;t had his share of headaches, just look at the record.</p><p>Last season there was the famous (or infamous) &lsquo;Atwell&rsquo; case and this season the rhubarb over the sale of the KitchenerWaterloo Greenshirts to the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Now George is faced with still another problem, as the result of a brawl involving Referee Sibbey Mundey, Hamilton Cub coach Jim Skinner and Cub leftwinger Joe Zorica at the Verdun Auditorium. The Cubs were playing a regularly-scheduled Interlocking fixture against the Montreal junior Canadiens, but the game was never finished, Mundey calling a halt at 5.44 of the second period.</p><p>The score was 2-1 in favor of the Habs and they were awarded the game but final decision on the disposition of the pair of points must be made by George.</p><p>When he called a halt to the proceedings, Mundey stated that he did so because &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want to see some kid killed.&rdquo; He claimed that Skinner had butted him and that Zorica had felled him with a blow of his fist.</p><p>Quebec Amateur Hockey Association President Martin Conway said that the entire matter has been turned over to President George for handling. Conway said that he received an official report from QJHL. President Frank Horan and from Referee Mundey.</p><p>&ldquo;1 have turned the entire matter over to Mr. George and I have recommended that Skinner be suspended indefinitely, pending a full investigation of the case,&rdquo; said Conway.</p><p>In Kempville, George declined comment until he had received all the reports of the incident and had given them careful consideration.</p><p>The schmozzle started when Skinner protested over offsides and a misconduct penalty handed Zorica in the second period.</p><p>Both Mundey and Skinner offered different versions of what ensued. Mundey said that Skinner had butted him with his head three times and that after the third time, he (Mundey) became a trifle annoyed and threw a punch in the general direction of Skinner.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02240/1596146-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="540" height="1021"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>In Middle</b></p><p><b>JOE ZORICA</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;I was really mad when he hit me on the nose,&rdquo; said Mundey. &ldquo;I threw a punch but I don&rsquo;t think I hit him.&rdquo; Mundey said that after he attempted to punch Skinner the Hamilton players pushed and shoved himself and the linesmen all over the rink. Zorica, who was given a misconduct for swearing at Mundey, joined in the rhubarb and eventually flattened Mundey with a punch to the jaw.</p><p>Both linesmen Don Bussiers and Willis Mosdell and Mundey were given a good jostling by the Hamilton players who sided with their coach and appeared completely out of control. It was after several attempts to get the game rolling and continued shoving and pushing of the officials by the Hamilton players that Mundey called the game.</p><p>Zorica was handed a match misconduct in addition to his other misconduct and Coach Skinner who was tossed out of the game was also tagged with a gross misconduct penalty.</p><p>Mundey said that Skinner continually berated him and the two linesmen throughout the first period and up to the time in the second period when the game was called. He said the game was in complete control up to that time despite the heckling and swearing by the Hamilton coach.</p><p>In his own version of what transpired, Skinner vehemently denied having butted the official. He stated that he had several witnesses to prove that the only punch thrown in the fracas was by Mundey and that he had a mark on his nose to prove that it landed. He said that he was held, at the time by two Verdun constables.</p><p>The Hamilton coach also announced his intention of lodging a protest of the game with the OHA, QAHA and CAHA.</p><p>He made it plain that his beef was not against the hosting Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>&ldquo;I have nothing against Canadiens. They were playing a good clean hockey game and did not interfere in the fracas. It was strictly a matter between the referee and myself&rdquo;, he said.</p><p>After the fight police escorted Skinner and Mundey from the rink and there was no further flare up. In his hotel room Skinner said that he was making a full report to his boss Jack Adams, GM of Detroit Red Wings.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hamilton Coach Says Hef Slugged Him Has Punctured Proboscis To Prove It

<div class="byline">By HARVEY DRYDEN</div><p>REGINA, Sask.&mdash;</p><p>With league playoffs just around the corner, three teams covering three different provinces stand out in this Central Canada area as outstanding contenders for Allan Cup honors. In fact, it will be a big surprise indeed if the three clubs do not win their own league titles and clash in the Inter-provincial senior playdowns.</p><p>In Saskatchewan the team to beat is the Moose Jaw Millers, runaway leaders of the Saskatchewan Senior League and oddson favorites to take the title. In Manitoba, the power-packed Winnipeg Marjns are not having any trouble with their opposition in the Manitoba senior wheel. And at the Lakehead, it&rsquo;s the Fort William Beavers again ruling the roost.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01263/1596201-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="549" height="567"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Standout</b></p><p><b>PETE LANGELLE</b></p></figcaption></div><p>In a recent test of strength, the Winnipeg Maroons and the Beavers played a two-game exhibition series in the Manitoba capital. The clubs broke even, with the Maroons looking very impressive in winning the opener 8-4 and the visitors turning the tables to take the concluding contest 3-1.</p><h2><b>Cup Preview</b></h2><p>This series may well be a preview of the coming Allan Cup playdowns. At the semiannual CAHA meeting recently in Winnipeg, the Manitoba and Lakehead winners were drawn against each other in the first round of the senior playoffs. The winner of this series will then proceed against the Saskatchewan champion. Last year the Beavers moved into the western senior final by defeating the Regina Caps. Fort Williams, however, then bowed to the Penticton club.</p><p>Further exhibition games between Moose Jaw, Winnipeg and Fort William may be coming up as negotiations are presently underway for George Nellis to take his Millers to Winnipeg for a weekend series with the Maroons.</p><p>The Fort William club is pretty well intact from last year. As for the Maroons, coached this year by youthful forward Odie Lowe, they have added such outstanding stars as Pete Langelle, the old dipsydoodling centre of the Toronto Maple Leafs; Bill Robinson, formerly of the Ottawa Senators; Bill Kurceba and others. They still have the incomparable Don Collins in goal, along with Gordie Simpson on defence, Jim Young, speedy Kenny Little, Gordie Watters and former A.H.L. star Dougie Lewis on the forward line.</p><p>In Saskatchewan, Moose Jaw swept to 19 victories in their first 25 league games to take a healthy lead atop the circuit. Recently they hit their peak form as they skated to three victories on successive nights&mdash;all on the road.</p><p>They opened the streak by flashing in four goals in little more than three minutes of overtime to swamp the Regina Caps 9-5. The next night they moved over to Yorkton and after trailing the Terriers 5-3 at the end of the second period, they bouneed back for a thrilling 7-6 victory.</p><h2><b>Eight in Third</b></h2><p>The following night they were back in Regina where they walked all over the injury-riddled Caps for an 11-1 victory, knocking home eight unanswered goals in the third period.</p><p>Key figures in Moose Jaw&rsquo;s recent sweep was the recentlyformed line of George HunchukBruce Lea-Mike Zwyer. Working at centre on the line is a comparatively onew role fpr Hunchuk, for years a fast-moving rushing defenceman. This is Zwyer&rsquo;s first year in senior ranks after graduating from the Moose Jaw Canuck juniors.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Too Good</b></h2><p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s that No. 10 (Lea) doing in this league?&rdquo; Regina coach Garth Boesch wanted to know after the thumping his charges received. &ldquo;That kid could play in the AHL right now. He&rsquo;s big and fast. Keeps to his own wing, minds his own business and if anybody gets in his way he dumps him on the seat of his pants. He&rsquo;s a Harry Watson type of player if I ever saw one.&rdquo;</p><p>With Moose Jaw having cinched first place, the interest in the concluding weeks of the schedule will be in the battle for the second and third playoff spots. At present, the Melville Millionnaires and Regina Caps have the inside track. Yorkton stands in last place but are threatening to close the gap. Recently they blanked the Millionnaires 3-0 in Melville and then followed up with an 8-1 truncing over the Caps in Yorkton.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Western Senior Clubs Plan To Stage Exhibition Series

<div class="byline">By ROLLIE ETHIER</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0017-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02225/1596232-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>North Bay Nugget</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Mulcahy.)</span></figcaption></div><p>NORTH BAY, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll never forget this night as long as I live,&rdquo; said Ab DeMarco in a voiee choked with emotion here recently during a centre-ice ceremony between periods of the NOHA senior contest between the Trappers and Sudbury Wolves.</p><p>DeMarco, the former pro flash who is currently the NOHA southern group&rsquo;s top scorer, was showered with gifts, congratulatory wires and high tribute in a heartwarming demonstration.</p><p>The grand climax came when Ab&rsquo;s two Trapper linemates Don Hogan and George Gosselin slid a television set out on the ice.</p><p>The presentation was made by genial sports booster Lionel (Scoop) Lalande. The TV set was purchased through a big stag for DeMarco which was co-sponsored by the Elks Club, the Davedi Club and the Sportsmen&rsquo;s Club.</p><p>There were many glowing words of tribute for the former NHL and AHL standout, who finished up his pro career as the highest point-getter of all time.</p><p><b>&ldquo;Congratulations to one of the truly great stickhandlers of our time,&rdquo; said a telegram from Jim Hendy, general manager of the Cleveland Barons. Other messages came from secretary-treasurer Lome Miller of the NOHA, general manager Lou Pieri of Providence Reds, Pembroke Lumber Kings and Soo (Ont.) Greyhounds.</b></p><p>The Trapper opposition in the game also came through with a gift. On behalf of the Sudbury Wolves, Nick Tomiuk presented DeMarco with a smart piece of luggage. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re giving you this bag Ab in the hopes you pack up and leave the league,&rdquo; said Tomiuk jokingly.</p><p>Mrs. Ab DeMarco was also present for the ceremony and was presented with a lovely bouquet of flowers by Mrs. Marian Hollows, ardent Trapper supporter.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0017-02

Fans Honor Veteran Puck Star

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Ab DeMarco Night in North Bay was a howling success &hellip; the colorful veteran of many professional and amateur campaigns was The King For A Night&hellip; he received a beautiful television set, travelling bags from the Sudbury Wolves Hockey Club, a neat cash gift from the Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) Greyhounds as well as gifts from many other teams&hellip; the merchants in North Bay really rallied with donations of all sorts of valuable gifts, and you could hardly blame popular Ab if a tear or two trickled down his cheek&hellip; and we can&rsquo;t think of any hockey player in Canada today more worthy of a special night in his honor&hellip; Ab DeMarco is the true mark of a sportsman who puts the game itself above victory&hellip; and he&rsquo;s had something of a fabulous career&hellip; starting in his home-town of North Bay, he learned the game on open-air rinks&hellip; became a junior star in North Bay and Barrie, played outstanding senior hockey in the North and later pro hockey at Baltimore, Providence, New York (NHL), Cleveland and Buffalo&hellip; he won the triple crown at Buffalo &mdash; scoring title, All-Star centre and most valuable player&hellip; he amassed a total of 807 points on 301 goals and 506 assists as a pro&hellip; The Hockey News salutes Ab DeMarco!&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01271/1596263-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="284" height="463"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Ab DeMarco</b></figcaption></div><p>With the two-thirds mark of the 60-game schedule in the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Southern Division reached, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds lead Sudburv Wolves by three points in a torrid scrap for the championship won last year by Sudbury after the &lsquo;Hounds captured the crown three years straight under Coach Don Grosso&hellip; the &lsquo;Hounds have a fine record under Coach Johnny &ldquo;Peanuts&rdquo; O&rsquo;Flaherty with 27 wins and only 12 defeats, while Sudbury is close behind on 25 wins 14 losses and one tie&hellip; Ab DeMarco still leads in The Big Ten Scoring Parade with 71 points at the latest tabulation made at this writing&hellip; Ab cracked the record for total assists on 49, beating Gordie Heale&rsquo;s old mark of 46 made throughout the entire season last year&hellip; what makes DeMarco&rsquo;s record all the more remarkable is that he smashed the record after playing only 39 games giving him a big edge on Heale &hellip; so everytime DeMarco gets an assist he will establish a brand-new record &hellip; before he&rsquo;s through he could set up a standard that will stand for a mighty long time&hellip;</p><p>Rugged Durno Rondina has been declared a free agent following a long, drawn-out (seven hour) meeting of the NOHA&hellip; Rondina had been suspended by Manager-Coach of Sudbury Wolves following a financial disagreement&hellip; with his unconditional release approved by the NOHA, Rondina is shopping around for a &ldquo;hockey home&rdquo;&hellip; understand North Bay Trappers are interested&hellip;</p><p>It&rsquo;s hard for a good man to stay out of hockey once the &ldquo;bug&rdquo; gets him&hellip; Sully Porter announced his retirement early this season, but finally gave in to the urge to lineup with Abitibi Eskimos of the Porcupine Mines Senior Hockey League&hellip; in his second game he was the big hero with a brilliant netminding job to lead Abitibi to a 6-2 triumph over the tough South Porcupine Porkies&hellip; fiery Red Gravelli who starred with Ottawa RCAF Flyers a few years ago has joined Pembroke Lumber Kings of the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; circuit&hellip; Red is doing an outstanding job along with Maurice Benoit, newest acquisition to the team&hellip; under Coach Hal Dewey, the Kings have crept within one point of third-place North Bay Trappers, fighting all the way up from the cellar&hellip;</p><p>Morris Kinkley, referee-in-chief of the NOHA, is doing a great job with his referees&rsquo; schools throughout the North&hellip; main idea: interpretation of the rules&hellip; even coaches attend the meetings to get a better grasp of the referees&rsquo; problems&hellip;and talking about referees, George Nuinella, well-known hotel proprietor at Callander, Ontario who operates in the NOHA, was offered a job in the NHL&hellip; he declined for business reasons&hellip; when George handles any game it &ldquo;stays handled&rdquo;&hellip; a great official&hellip;</p><p>Watch out for Gordie Ouimet of Rouyn Flashes&hellip; he scored three goals to spearhead Flashes to a 5-3 win over the strong Val d&rsquo;Or Red Wings in a Northwestern Intermediate &ldquo;A&rdquo; Hockey League contest! &hellip; a capacity house watched the dashing Gordie score his first in the opening period and two more in the final stanza to fracture a 3-3 deadlock&hellip; one of the best individual jobs of the season&hellip;</p><p>Hockey leaders in the Timmins-Kirkland Lake area tell me that competition this season is the best for some time&hellip; a typical hard-fought game was that exciting 3-2 win by South Porcupine over Kirkland Lake Tecks that enabled them to consolidate their grip on second place in the senior loop&hellip; some outstanding figures are operating in the circuit&mdash;Kenny Trevenna, Eldon Kavanagh, Denny Morello, Ray Marshall, Don McKnight to name only a few&hellip;</p><p>Welcome back to Syl Ethier of Abitibi Eskimos&hellip; Syl suffered a foot injury and was forced out of action for two months but he showed little signs of any injury in his first comeback game&hellip; all he did was fire three goals and one assist to pace his league-leading Eskies to a 7-4 triumph over Kirkland Lake&hellip; Eskies had lost two games previously and the victory helped them cement their grip on the leadership&hellip;</p><p>Young Mickey Costello, a member of a famous hockey family, is quite a junior star with Kirkland Lake Blue Devils &hellip; he scored two goals the other night to help his team defeat Porcupine Combines, 5-2 and take over sole possession of third place in the Gold Belt Junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League&hellip;</p><p>And, fans, please remember address all communications to the NOHA Puck Parade to Box 175, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario&hellip; thanks again for your many wonderful letters which are certainly appreciated &hellip; glad you like the column!<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-01

NONA puck Parade

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio&mdash;</p><p>Threatened withdrawal of Louisville&rsquo;s Stars from the International Hockey League shared the recent spotlight with a surge of the Cincinnati Mohawks and a severe eye injury suffered by Troy&rsquo;s George Burke.</p><p>The Louisville club had every intention of folding, but the International League decided, at a meeting on January 19, to shoulder the cost of allowing the club to finish out the season. However, the remaining 20 games the Stars are booked for will all be played on the road.</p><p>In seventh place in the nineteam circuit, they have a chance of making the post-season playoffs, which will embrace six clubs.</p><p>Lack of sufficient funds was cited as the reason for the troubles of the southermost International League entry, which reportedly had been backed by a group of Ft. Wayne, Ind., businessmen who formed the Kentukiana Hockey Club.</p><p>Louisville was the scene of stormy events earlier this campaign, when Alex Wood was succeeded as coach by Ray Marshall, who subsequently was attacked by one of his players, Joe Palmer, later banished from the IHL.</p><p>Cincinnati, out to capture its second successive league championship, went on a four game winning spree to solify its firstplace position, 10 points in front of runner-up Toledo.</p><p>In the stretch, the Mohawks outscored their opponents, 31 goals to six, as they blanked Johnstown, 5-0; trounced Ft. Wayne, 11-2; conquered Toledo, 4-2, and then overpowered Grand Rapids, again by 11-2,</p><p>Although they are not heavily represented among the top IHL scorers, the Hawks have a remarkable balance of scoring power, with five players, Reg Grigg (22), Eddie Kachur (22), Willie Pawchuk (21), Connie Broden (20) and Art Rose (20) already in the 20-goal circle.</p><p>Add to that the fact that in 20-year-old Charlie Hodge they have the No. 1 goal-tender in the loop. Hodge, who is waging a close battle with Toledo&rsquo;s Bill Tibbs for top honors, has registered five shutouts in compiling an average of 2.50 per game. Tibbs, just behind him, also has five whitewash jobs but a slightly higher average of 2.58.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02191/1596294-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="580" height="617"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Contender</b></p><p><b>GEORGE EDWARDS</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Burke, a veteran IHL performer, was hit in the eye accidentally with a stick, and it was at first feared that he would lose the sight in his right eye. Specialists were summoned to Troy, and it was determined that he had been fortunate enough to escape serious injury.</p><p>The 26-year-old Burke, who had just joined Troy, was struck in the eye early in the second period by the stick of Ted Lebioda. former Troy player who now is with Marion, Rod McElroy then spearheaded a Troy drive which brought the Bruins a 10-6 triumph by becoming the first player in the history of that team to tally four goals in one game.</p><p>There&rsquo;s still another chapter to the Burke story at Troy. A five-year IHL veteran at Toledo. Burke later said he had intended to quit hockey shortly afterwards to go into business in Toledo. So that game with Marion probablyheralded the end of his puckchasing career.</p><p>Besides McElroy&rsquo;s four-goal splurge, hat tricks were recorded by three others, Ken Schultz of Marion and Art Rose and Billy, Goold of Cincinnati.</p><p>Hodge and Tibbs each wielded the shutout brush once, the former against Johnstown, 5-0, and the latter against Louisville, 8-0.</p><p>Toledo&rsquo;s Dick Pontarollo strengthened his individual scoring lead and now has 70 points on 34 goals and 36 assists to outstrip Don Hall of Johnstown, with. 26 goals and 36 assists for 62 points. Other contenders are RoyHammond and John Kovich, Pontarollo&rsquo;s linemates at Toledo, in addition to George Hayes of Grand Rapids, George Edwards of Troy, Marion&rsquo;s Schultz and Gordon Vejprava, Arnie Schmautz of Johnstown and Cincinnati&rsquo;s Goold.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0018-02

NHL Shoulders Financial Burden Of Letting Stars Finish Season

<div class="byline">By &#x2018;CHICK&#x2019; APPEL</div><p>STRATFORD. Ont.&mdash;</p><p>As the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA race heads into the second half of the schedule it finds Owen Sound Mercurys and Kitchener Dutchmen battling for first place, Hamilton Tigers and Windsor Bulldogs locked in a tight fight for third place, and Stratford Indians and Chatham Maroons running neck-and-neck for fifth spot. The luckless Niagara Falls Cataracts are mired deep in the cellar, 12 points behind Chatham and Stratford, according to the latest revised standing issued from O.H.A. headquarters.</p><p>Disbanding of the Sarnia Sailors resulted in most of their players being allocated to the other clubs, four of them benefitting by one or more players, with Kitchener, Hamilton and Stratford standing pat with their rosters.</p><p>The December 15th deadline prohibits the clubs signing any reinforcements, other than professionals who may secure reinstatement to amateur hockey, and in this connection, Niagara Falls is dickering for an addition to their defence.</p><p>In the point-scoring racce the veteran Tommy Burlington, oneeyed centre wizzard of the Owen Sound Mercurys, heads the parade, followed closely by Jack Taylor of Hamilton Tigers. It. is significant that none of the Stratford Indian front line, composed of Mickey Roth, Billy Flick and Dinny Flanagan, who flew over to Europe to bolster the Lethbridge Maple Leafs in the world hockey championships four years ago, and who dominated the scoring race during the 1951-52 and the 1952-53 seasons, do not appear among the first ten.</p><p>Of recent weeks this trio has demonstrated indications of returning to their high-scoring reputation, and it is noteworthy that the Indians won three of their last four games, mainly because this threesome nicked ten goals in those four games and had tallied but eight in the previous dozen fixtures.</p><p>To date Owen Sound, Windsor, Kitchener and Hamilton players occupy the top ten places in point scoring.</p><p>Opinion differs around the circuit over the merits of the current icing rule and the one in operation in senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey previously, and it is interesting to note that a poll conducted by the writer of Stratford and district fans only one out of 293 who marked ballots favored the new rule. It was somewhat different when 25 clubs circularized throughout Canada stated their preference. This poll showed five of the OHA clubs favoring the old rule, one the new, one with no choice and the other abstaining. However, of the other 17 clubs, 13 of which returned marked ballots, 12 of them favored the new Icing rule, Penticton, B.C.V&rsquo;s., Allan Cup finalists against Kitchener last season, being the only club which likes the old rule better.</p><p>Reasons for their preference varied, but the bulk of them favoring the new rule believe that the new rule removes much of the stoppages in play for offsides, while those preferring the old rule claim It tends to provide cleaner hockey, with much of the corner scrambling being removed.</p><p>There is this to observe however, in the main the coaches, and they were the chief ones to mark ballots, who favor the new icing rules, as used in pro hockey, are former pro players and have not played under the new rule for years.</p><p>Another interesting point is that such OHA teams as Owen Sound, Kitchener, Hamilton, Windsor and Stratford continue to play the game much like the old rule, by carrying the puck over their opponents&rsquo; blue line, and the present standing of the clubs would suggest that they are having better success by this method.</p><p>Add to this attendance at games in Kitchener, Windsor, Owen Sound and Stratford, where these four clubs are playing to packed arenas, with the exception of the 8,000-capacity new Memorial Auditorium in Kitchener, and it would appear that the proof is in the eating, in that the fans prefer stickhandling and keen passing plays to what they term as helter-skelter hockey under the current icing rule, which permits an attacking team to fire the puck into their opponents&rsquo; end zone once they have crossed the centre red line.</p><p>Incidentally, conditions at Niagara Falls are not too healthy, due solely to the lowly standing of the Cataracts, who are playing to empty pews, and not averaging 1,000 per game. Bolstered by three former Sarnia players, Cataracts are expected to make a better showing in the future, and as the old saying goes &mdash; There&rsquo;s nothing much wrong with the Cataracts that a few victories won&rsquo;t cure. If they come up with a winning spurt Niagara Falls, which was formerly one of the bulwarks of senior hockey in Ontario, should see their Cataracts playing before bumper crowds. That is the natural trend, because fans will flock out to support their, home team if it is a contender.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Mercs, Dutch ies Battling For Lead In OHA Sr. Loop

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01249/1596349-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Ranger player.</p><p>6&mdash;Any member of Canadiens is often referred to as one.</p><p>7&mdash;This Providence player is called Morley.</p><p>8&mdash;Otherwise.</p><p>10&mdash;A Hawk rearguard answers to this.</p><p>11&mdash;Ron Stewart&rsquo;s native province (abbr).</p><p>12&mdash;Initials of Davis of Buffalo.</p><p>13&mdash;Initials of Wares, former Chicago forward.</p><p>15&mdash;Affirmative answer.</p><p>17&mdash;Initials of a New York defenseman.</p><p>19&mdash;Name given 5 down.</p><p>20&mdash;Henry Backor&rsquo;s nickname.</p><p>22&mdash;&ldquo;Sonny&rdquo; Agar&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>24&mdash;Name given an N.H.L.. captain.</p><p>25&mdash;Short for given name of a Montreal defenseman.</p><p>27&mdash;Initials of &ldquo;Snuffy&rdquo; Smith, ex N.Y. player.</p><p>29&mdash;This member of the Black Hawks is a native of Kincarline, Ont.</p><p>30&mdash;Players who receive a misconduct penalty are always&mdash;</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;First name of Bedard of Providence Reds.</p><p>2&mdash;Hogg of Syracuse answers to this.</p><p>8&mdash;Name given Mayer, former Maple Leaf player.</p><p>4&mdash;Metro Prystal has never played In this league (abbr).</p><p>5&mdash;Played for Chicago against Toronto on Jan. 13th.</p><p>9&mdash;Bernie Geoffrion shoots this way (abbr).</p><p>11&mdash;Murray Henderson was once a member of Boston&mdash;.</p><p>14&mdash;Glen Sonmor&rsquo;s last amateur club was Brandon&mdash;Kings.</p><p>16&mdash;Ray Timgren was born in this month (abbr).</p><p>18&mdash;Initials of Boston&rsquo;s chief scout.</p><p>19&mdash;Initials of Goldup, former Leaf player.</p><p>21&mdash;This Cleveland player Is a native of Hancock, Mich.</p><p>23&mdash;In 1950-51 Boston traded this player to Canadiens for Hal Laycoe.</p><p>26&mdash;Name given an N.H.L.. coach.</p><p>28&mdash;Bill Folk&rsquo;s initials.</p><h2><b>SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK&rsquo;S PUZZLE</b></h2><p><b>Across. Down.</b></p><p>1. Quilty. 1. Quacken-</p><p>6. O.R. bush</p><p>7. Verdun 2. IV.</p><p>8. A.G. 3. Le</p><p>10. T.W. 4. Trip</p><p>12. Clapper 5. Yd.</p><p>15. Ken 6. Ont.</p><p>16. Chi. 9. Glen</p><p>17. En 11. Whitney</p><p>19. Can. 13. An</p><p>20. Bob 14. R.C.</p><p>21. May 18. Abel</p><p>22. Selke 19. Camille</p><p>26. H.D. 23. Eddy</p><p>27. Idols 24. King</p><p>30. Don 25. E.D.</p><p>32. Clem 28. Oct.</p><p>34. Byng 29. Sea</p><p>85. Teal 31. On</p><p>33. M.L..<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-01

Hockey Crossword Puzzle

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LAGUE</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 18)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02202/1596534-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="600" height="266"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03159/1596527-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="594" height="295"></div><h2>OKANAGAN SENIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 16)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04138/1596520-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="595" height="132"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-05120/1596513-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="600" height="339"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS AVERAGES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-06102/1596506-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="593" height="139"></div><h2>MANITOBA SENIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 10)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0796/1596499-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="600" height="145"></div><h2>APC SENIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JON. 3)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0890/1596492-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="591" height="162"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0980/1596485-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="594" height="284"></div><h2>NOVA SENIOR</h2><p><b>(STANDING ON l7)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1070/1596478-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="597" height="162"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1163/1596471-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="592" height="316"></div><h2>GOALTENDERS&rsquo; RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1258/1596464-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="603" height="285"></div><p>&bull;&mdash;Haven&rsquo;t played one-third of team&rsquo;s games</p><h2>SASKATCHEWAN SENIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1350/1596457-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="595" height="128"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1450/1596450-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="597" height="291"></div><h2>NEW BRUNSWICK SENIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 17)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1546/1596443-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="598" height="132"></div><h2>MANITOBA JUNIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 10)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1644/1596436-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="595" height="133"></div><h2>WESTERN CANADA JUNIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 16)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1740/1596429-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="593" height="185"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1836/1596422-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="599" height="315"></div><h2>QUEBEC JUNIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 9)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1932/1596415-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="592" height="159"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2027/1596408-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg" title="f0019-20" width="588" height="549"></div><h2>ONTARIO JUNIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 21)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2118/1596401-1-eng-US/f0019-212.jpg" title="f0019-21" width="597" height="238"></div><h2>QUE. PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2215/1596394-1-eng-US/f0019-222.jpg" title="f0019-22" width="589" height="130"></div><h2>NEW YORK-ONT. SENIOR</h2><p>(STANDINGS ON JAN. 16)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2311/1596387-1-eng-US/f0019-232.jpg" title="f0019-23" width="587" height="160"></div><h2>SCORING LEADERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-249/1596380-1-eng-US/f0019-242.jpg" title="f0019-24" width="594" height="387"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Puck Parade… …At A Glance

<p><b>VOLUME 7 MONTREAL, JANUARY 30, 1954 NUMBER 18</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01160/1596593-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="240" height="287"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02100/1596586-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="254" height="295"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0383/1596579-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="2876" height="1247"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Angular Al Could Use A Pal On Nights Like This!</b></p><p><b>AL ROLLINS, Chicago&rsquo;s overworked goalfender can readily attest fo the hazardous life of goal-keeping in the National Hockey League Rare in deed, are the evenings when Rollins can catch up on his reading as his defense repels the opponents&rsquo; rushes.</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0469/1596572-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="2876" height="1109"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>This sequence of three picturs shows where Rollins spends most of his time &mdash; on his back. In the top photo he sprawls to the ice in an effort to thwart Toronto&rsquo;s Ronnie Stewart and Sid Smith while his defense, Al Dewsbury and Bill Gadsby stand in the background. In the middle shot, Rollins, still flat on the ice, gets some help from Jimmy Peters who wards off Gordie Hannigan&rsquo;s effort to pump the puck home.</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0529/1596565-1-eng-US/f0020-052.jpg" title="f0020-05" width="2867" height="1106"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>However, in the lower picture, Tim Horton breaks through the Chicago combine of Lee Fogolin (No. 4) and Jack Price. Maybe the ice-cleaners union should get together and make Al an honorary member, after all, he makes their chores much easier.</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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