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February 13, 1954

The Hockey News February 13, 1954

<div class="byline">By ACE FOLEY</div><p>HALIFAX, N.S.&mdash;</p><p>Club relations are a bit strained following a series of incidents around the Maritime Major (Big Four) Hockey League.</p><p>Charlottetown Islanders were grounded in the early evening and failed to keep a league engagement with Glace Bay Miners. The Miners had one of the largest ticket sales in weeks and third place was at stake in the game.</p><p>MMHL president C. Roy MacDonald promptly plastered the Islanders with a $l,000 fine and gave them four&rsquo; days to pay it, or they would be ousted from the league.</p><p>The Islanders didn&rsquo;t have that king of money, they said. If they were unable to reach an agreement with the Miners they&rsquo;d have to fold. In the midst of their negotiatinns they sent a cheque of $500 as evidence of good faith and promised to play the game later, at a time and place suitable to the Miners. It looks as if the matter will be settled to the satisfaction of all. But air travel is out from now on. The teams will have to take the slower but safer way to and from games.</p><p>Johnny Morrow, native of Montreal and a turbulent figure in Maritime hockey for the last four years is very much in the limelight again. He was arrested for assaulting a police officer near the Glace Bay bench one fiery night. Haled into court a week or so later he was fined $40. He says he will appeal.</p><p>Then he injured his leg and was sidelined. Just as he was thinking his leg was mending and that maybe his luck would change, Morrow was claimed by the Sydney Millin.ires</p><p>Here are some of the facts on Morrow. He&rsquo;s no Fancy Dan but one of the more rugged players In the league. Currently he is leading the entire league in penalties, a position usually held by some belligerent defenceman.</p><p>He came to the Maritimes originally with Moncton Hawks, played half a season and was then shunted to Charlottetown. He finished out the season with the Islanders.</p><p>Next year he parted company with Islanders and, under the impression he was a free agent, signed with Halifax. Charlottetown officials went into action and Halifax bought his contract.</p><p>The following season someone discovered a technical flaw in the arrangements and Morrow wound up with Sydney Millionaires. His heart was in Halifax, where he had played his best hockey, but the body was in Sydney.</p><p>When the Mills ended a dismal 1952-53 schedule they gave Morrow to understand he had their blessing to make a deal for himself. Johnny promptly got in touch with Halifax and became a regular.</p><p>He was a very useful member of the league leaders and Alexander Cup holders and was bashing players right and left for good old Atlantics when came the injury and the Sydney claim. The National League Registry Office opines Morrow belongs to Sydney. Mills have no plans for Morrow as a player but they&rsquo;d like to sell his contract.</p><p>Halifax officials broke out in a rash. They wouldn&rsquo;t purchase Morrow&rsquo;s contract. They had done so once from Islanders, wouldn&rsquo;t do it again. Furthermore, they had believed Morrow to be a free agent when they signed him.</p><p>Along with his court case, Morrow plans to appeal. Meanwhile Halifax will play him it and when his ankle injury heals.</p><p>There were further rumbling along the Martitime major hockey front. Atlantics, shorthanded all season and dismayed when Stan Maxwell said he wouldn&rsquo;t jump from the Western League to Halifax, were further blocked when their request for an extension in the player deadline by the Glace Bay Miners. Don Penniston had filled his ranks nicely on the eve of the deadline with wingers Fareli and Myles, wasn&rsquo;t prepared to move so that others could strengthen.</p><p>Jim Fareli and Gordon Myles promptly set the Miners afire with rugged twoway displays that sent the Glace Bay team off on a winning streak. After a second straight win on Halifax Ice, something they hadn&rsquo;t even managed once In the play before Christmas, the Miners were breathing down the necks of Terry Reardon&rsquo;s Sydney Millionaires, who had come to a near standstill after a great early surge.</p><p>Miners were joined by Charlottetown Islanders in a twoway assault on the league leaders. Halifax had lost six of seven games but had retained a sizeable lead over Sydney because the Mills couldn&rsquo;t win either.</p><p>But while As and Mills were floundering, the Miners and Islanders were making giant strides up the league ladder. The race was tighter now than at any time since opening week away back in early October.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01220/1429314-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="556" height="848"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Fought Over</b></p><p><b>JOHNNY MORROW</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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IN THIS ISSUE

Colorful Johnny Morrow Back In MMHL Limelight

<h2><b>Coming Back</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ickie Moore and Calum McKay, injured members of the Montreal Canadiens are expected back in the lineup before the end of the month. McKay hopes to make in time for the big series with Detroit beginning February 18.</b></p><h2><b>Hopelong Stayed</b></h2><p><b>When the Toronto Maple Leafs finally decided to ship Bob Solinger to Pittsburgh, the decision was reached after much deliberation. Originally Gordie Hannegan was slated for demotion. He clicked for four goals in the next two games.</b></p><h2><b>HOW THE HACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS WED. A.M. FEB. 10)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01267/1428540-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="593" height="186"></div><h3><b>RESULTS OF GAMES</b></h3><p>Thurs Feb 4th&mdash;Toronto 4 at Canadiens 2</p><p>Thurs Feb 4th&mdash;Rangers 3 at Chicago 2</p><p>Thurs Feb 4th&mdash;Boston 0 at Detroit 5</p><p>Sat. Feb. 6th&mdash;Rangers 3 at Canadiens 4</p><p>Sat. Feb. 6th&mdash;Chicago 0 at Toronto 6</p><p>Sat. Feb. 6th&mdash;Detroit 4 at Boston 2</p><p>Sun. Feb. 7th&mdash;Canadiens 4 at Rangers 1</p><p>Sun. Feb. 7th&mdash;Toronto 1 at Chicago 2</p><p>Sun. Feb 7th&mdash;Detroit 1 at Boston 1</p><h3><b>SCHEDULED GAMES</b></h3><p>Wed. Feb. 10th&mdash;Boston at Toronto</p><p>Wed. Feb. 10th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 11th&mdash;Canadiens at Chicago</p><p>Thurs. Feb. 11th&mdash;Toronto at Boston</p><p>Sat. Feb. 13th&mdash;Canadiens at Toronto</p><p>Sat. Feb. 13th&mdash;Rangers at Boston</p><p>Sun. Feb. 14th&mdash;Canadiens at Boston</p><p>Sun. Feb. 11th&mdash;Detroit at Rangers</p><p>Sun. Feb. 14th&mdash;Detroit at Chicago</p><h3><b>THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4</b></h3><p><b>Toronto 4 at Montreal 2</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02247/1428533-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="605" height="543"></div><p><b>New York . 3 at Chicago 2</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03203/1428526-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="607" height="467"></div><p><b>Boston 0 nt Detroit 5</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04169/1428519-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="597" height="343"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05129/1428512-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="593" height="115"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6</b></h3><p><b>New York 2 at Canadiens 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-06111/1428505-1-eng-US/f0009-062.jpg" title="f0009-06" width="593" height="619"></div><p><b>Chicago 0 at Toronto 6</b></p><p><b>Chicago</b> &mdash; Goal: Rollins; defense: Fogolin, Gadsby, Mortson, Dewsbury, Price, Zeidel; forwards: Mosienko, Wilson, Mcintyre, Jankowski, Wharram, Conacher, Bodnahr, Hildebrand, Gee.</p><p><b>Toronto</b> &mdash; Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Horton, Boivin, Morrison; forwards: Watson, Smith, Kennedy, G. Armstrong, Stewart, Migay, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Bailey, Solinger.</p><p>Referee: Red Storey; linesmen: George Haves and Harold March.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-07101/1428498-1-eng-US/f0009-072.jpg" title="f0009-07" width="593" height="457"></div><p><b>Detroit 4 at Boston 2</b></p><p><b>Detroit</b> &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk: defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Woit, Hay; forwards: Leswick, Skov. Pavelich, Lindsay, Howe, Prystai, Wilson, Peters, Dineen, Delvecchio, Reibel.</p><p><b>Boston</b> &mdash; Goal: Henry; defense: R. Armstrong. Godfrey, Laycoe, Quackenbush, Martin; forwards: Sandford, Mackell. Gardner. Dumart, Schmidt, Labine, Creighton, Mohns, Toppazzini, Klukay, Peirson.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0892/1428491-1-eng-US/f0009-082.jpg" title="f0009-08" width="585" height="487"></div><h2><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7</b></h2><p><b>Toronto 1 at Chicago 2</b></p><p>Toronto &mdash; Goal: Lumley; defense: Thomson, Horton, Boivin, Morrison; forwards: Watson, Smith, Kennedy, G. Armstrong, Stewart, Migay, Nesterenko, Hannigan, Bailey, Sollinger.</p><p>Chicago &mdash; Goal: Rollins; defense: Fogolin, Gadsby, Mortson, Dewsbury, Price Zeidel; forwards: Mosienko, Wilson, McIntyre, Jankowski, Wharran, Conacher, Bodnar, Hildebrand, Gee.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02218/1428484-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="581" height="361"></div><p><b>Detroit 1 at Boston 1</b></p><p>Detroit &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense: Goldham, Kelly, Pronovost, Hay; forwards: Leswick, Skov. Pavelich, Lindsay, Howe, Prystai, Wilson, Peters, Dineen, Delvecchio, Relbel.</p><p>Boston &mdash; Goal: Henry; defense: R. Armstrong. Godfrey, Laycoe, Quackenbush, Martin; forwards: Sandford, Mackell, Gardner, Dumart, Schmidt, Labine, Creighton, Mohns, Toppazzini, Klukay, Peirson</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03160/1428477-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="588" height="393"></div><p><b>Canadiens 4 at Rangers 1</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04134/1428470-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="585" height="531"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. FEB. 7)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-0991/1428463-1-eng-US/f0009-092.jpg" title="f0009-09" width="589" height="2273"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1080/1428456-1-eng-US/f0009-102.jpg" title="f0009-10" width="587" height="987"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1163/1428449-1-eng-US/f0009-112.jpg" title="f0009-11" width="581" height="267"></div><h3><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1236/1428442-1-eng-US/f0009-122.jpg" title="f0009-12" width="585" height="371"></div><h3><b>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</b></h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1327/1428435-1-eng-US/f0009-132.jpg" title="f0009-13" width="541" height="157"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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NATINOAL LEAGUE

<p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES OF SUNDAY, JAN. 31. 1954)</b></p><h2><b>BUFFALO</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01280/1428644-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="587" height="518"></div><h2><b>CLEVELAND</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02224/1428637-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="586" height="621"></div><h2><b>HERSIIEY&rsquo;</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03192/1428630-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="580" height="591"></div><h2><b>PITTSBURGH</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04149/1428623-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="580" height="567"></div><h2><b>PROVIDENCE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05120/1428616-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="577" height="185"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06108/1428609-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="582" height="443"></div><h2><b>SYRACUSE</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0785/1428602-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="577" height="692"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Complete American League Scoring Records

<p>SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;</p><p>Enio Sclisizzi if Edmonton and Eddie Dorohoy of Victoria remain tied for the individual scoring lead with 55 points each. Wayne Brown of Seattle took over the goal scoring honors and now has 35 to his credit. Team and linemate Guyle Fielder leads in assists with 38. The Browns (no relation), Wayne of Seattle and Freddy of Vancouver shared &ldquo;Player ot the Week&rdquo; honors each scored five goals and picked up one assist for a total of six points. Each scored a &ldquo;hat trick&rdquo; and both at the expense of New Westminster&rsquo;s goalie Lucien Dechene. Two of Freddies five goals were &ldquo;game winners&rdquo; to put him in the lead in this department with six to his credit. Lou Fontinato, of Saskatoon continues to lead the &ldquo;bad men&rdquo; with 116 minutes in the cooler but is being pressed by New Westminster&rsquo;s Lloyd Durham who has collected 110 minutes. Lorne Worsley, Vancouver goalie, continues to set the pace for goalkeepers with a goals against average of 2.25 per game. Bill Brennan of Calgary leads in shutouts with seven.</p><h2><b>FINES</b></h2><p>Stu Hendry. Calgary trainer was the first trainer to ever be fined in the Western Hockey League. He was removed from the bench by Referee Scotty Morrison in Victoria. January 25 and received an automatic $50. fine. He had previously paid a $10. fine for throwing a towel at an official earlier in the season.</p><h2><b>SHUTOUTS</b></h2><p>Bill Brennan. Calgary goalkeeper shut out the Saskatoon Quakers in Calgary Saturday night for his seventh whitewash job of the season. This is a new league record. Six shutouts were the most any goalkeeper had registered in any previous season. This record belonged to Lucien Dechene of New Westminster and was set last season. Brennan has 19 games left to play in which he can increase his record. Brennan&rsquo;s first shutout, of the season came on October 6th in Edmonton, turning back the flyers 9-0. Three of his shutouts were against Saskatoon. Oct 20 in Saskatoon 2-0, Nov. 5th 3-0 in Calgary and Jan. 30th 2-0 also in Calgary. He has shut out Seattle twice by 5-0 scopes. Nov. 10th in Calgary and January 24th in Seattle. His other shutout was against Vancouver 2-0 in Calgary January 16th.</p><p>Edmonton were shutout in Vancouver. January 26 by Vancouver&rsquo;s Gump Worsley 2-0 it marked the second successive game that Worsley has blanked the Flyers, turning them back 2-0 in Edmonton on January 15th.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Western League Notes

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0001-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0149/1429750-1-eng-US/f0001-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>RUDY MIG AY of the Toronto Maple Leafs (No. 14) attempts to crash Canadiens&rsquo; defensive berries as set up by Doug Harvey and Dollard St. Laurent but &ldquo;Dollie&rdquo; brushes him aside as Gerry McNeil (behind Harvey) grabs the puck. Incidentally Migay didn&rsquo;t score on the play.</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photo by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Dollie And Doug Repel Rudy

<p><b>NEW YORK, N.Y. &mdash;</b></p><p><b>They love to hate the Canadiens in New York !</b></p><p><b>This statement was confirmed when the biggest crowd of the season in New York, and also the biggest hockey crowd in Gotham in five seasons, turned out to see the Habitants defeat the Rangers 4-1 on February 7.</b></p><p><b>A total of 15,925 persons crammed themselves into Madison Square Garden to see the colorful Canadiens play the resurgent Rangers. This is all the more remarkable when it is considered that capacity for the Garden is 15,925. In other words, the Garden was jam-packed, the limit allowed according to the fire laws of New York City.</b></p><p><b>Signifigant too, is that the previous high for the season in Manhattan was also registered with the Habs as participants. Over 13,000 fans crowded in to watch the game, the first one the Montrealers played in New York after the well-publicized Geoffrion-Murphy incident.</b></p><p><b>Although they drew over 15,000 fans, the Blues didn&rsquo;t come close the equaling either their own home record or that of the league. On December 26, 1929, the Rangers had 18,120 people looking on as they dropped a 4-2 decision to the Boston Bruins. At that time, great interest had been created in the rivalry between the Blues and Bruins. Today that rivalry has been resumed, with both clubs fighting It out for the fourth and last playoff berth.</b></p><p><b>Highest attendance mark in the NHL for a single game was registered in Chicago when 20,004 people jammed the Chicago Stadium to see the Boston Bruins (That team does gat around) dump the Chi-Hawks 9-4 on February 23, 1947.</b></p><p><b>The overall attendance in New York Is up this season and most of the credit can be laid right at the feet of Frank Boucher, the Ranger GM, who has gone all out way to see to it that Manhattan&rsquo;s hectic hockey fans have had something to turn out for, a fast skating, colorful, and most of all, contending team.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

New York fans love To Hate Habs (15,925 of ‘em)

<div class="byline">By FRED ROBERTS</div><p>MONTREAL, Qud.&mdash;</p><p>Maurice (Rocket) Richard, the most electrifying figure to short circuit the National Hockey League since Benjamin Franklin got his first shock from a lightning-struck kite, passed another milestone last week.</p><p>And passing milestones has become practically commonplace for the beetle-browed, fiery French-Canadian, who earns his keep by propelling pucks past bewildered netminders.</p><p>The Rocket, whose turbulent tirades are only exceeded by his sensational scoring splurges, is singularly the greatest drawing card in the game today. If there were any doubts about his magnetic personality, they were quickly dispelled In New York, February 7th, when 15,925 wide-eyed New Yorkers turned out to welcome home &ldquo;Muzz&rsquo;s Mighty Midgets&rdquo; from a triumphant road trip. If they were expecting a dazzling display by their devoted darlings, their expectations were soon dashed by the Rocket who blasted his 31st and 32nd goals of the season to give Canadiens a clean sweep of the weekend &ldquo;series.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0001-0242/1429805-1-eng-US/f0001-022.jpg" title="f0001-02" width="508" height="363"></div><p>As far as Canadiens&rsquo; fanatic supporters were concerned that feat alone was an occasion for celebration since, the Rocket, who is 32, matched his age in goals at a time in his career when most hockey players are talking in terms of pensions and little farms in the country.</p><p>But those two goals &mdash; the 378th and 379th of his Illustrious 12-year career, boosted his record all-time high to 55 more than the original record of 324 set by ole poison, Nels Stewart. In addition, it marked the 11th straight season in which the famed Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; right winger has scored 20 or more goals.</p><p>Apart from his first season (1942-43) when he was hobbled with injuries and scored only five goals in the 16 games he played, the Rocket has never dipped below the 20-goals mark. Indeed. he suffered his greatest &ldquo;slump&rdquo; during the 1948-49 season when he managed to score only 20 goals. Otherwise, he has never dropped below 27. If further proof was needed of his greatness, consider that he has an average of 31.5 goals a year since he first broke into the National Hockey League as a shy, unspectacular youngster.</p><p>And more amazing is the fact that at 32, the Rocket hasn &lsquo;t shown any signs of slowing down. He has already doubled the output of 98 per cent of the players In the NHL today, the exceptions being Gordie Howe (21) Ted Lindsay (18) Bernie Geoffrion (25) Wally Hergesheimer (24) Ken Mosdell (19) Harry Watson (19) Camille Henry (17) Johnny Peirson (18).</p><p>It wasn&rsquo;t so long ago &mdash; two years to be exact, that stories were rampant in National Hockey League circles that the Rocket, who had suddently developed a mysterious groin ailment, was over the hill. It was speculated at that time that his panther-like reflexes had been dulled and that he might never again attain his magic scoring touch.</p><p>His present performance has been his greatest piece of selfdenial. And too, Canadiens&rsquo; fans still recall, with searing cynisism those now &ldquo;famous&rdquo; columns which emanated at the end of the war that the Rocket was strictly a war-time hockey player. The war has been over eight years but the Rocket is still carrying on his own private feud with opposing netminders.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Richard Maintains Phenomenal Record After 12 Seasons

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div><p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>One of these seasons the strange hockey calendar which February always brings is going to prove fatal to Detroit Red Wing title chances. The Wings just hope that 1954 isn&rsquo;t the year.</p><p>February may be the shortest month of the year, but It also can be the most dangerous to Detroit. Every winter at this time the Motor City outfit packs up its equipment and hikes off on a prolonged tour.</p><p>An ice show (it&rsquo;s the Barbara Ann Scott production this time) always takes over the Olympic ice and the Wings get the crumbs which are left. In this case it means one Monday stand at home in a period of four weeks. Nine out of 10 games are on the road.</p><p>Manager Jack Adams, as expected, takes a dim view of this. Not only because his boys become homeless at such a crucial stage of the National Hockey League campaign but also because it means deserting home fans at the very time when hockey has the sports scene to itself.</p><p>Throughout October, November and&mdash;this season&mdash;December the Wings got second billing locally behind football. The grid season went extra longe since the professional Detroit Lions and nearby Michigan State College both had championship teams which were busy with title games. And, starting in March, the Detroit Tigers lead baseball&rsquo;s Invasion of the sports pages.</p><p>Knowledge of what happened the last three years during the prolonged February home stands eases Adams&rsquo; fears a little. Each time the Wings proved themselves champions the hard way with fancy winning records on the road In passing the February test.</p><p>Last year Detroit left on it&rsquo;s travels with a one-point hold on first place and came home a leader by six points. That after playing nine of 10 games away and taking 13 of the 18 points.</p><p>The season before the Wings owned a fat 10-point cushion to start the ride, and boosted it to 15 with a 7-1-1 record. In 1951 the same road stand resulted in five victories, two ties and a defeat.</p><p>Going into February this season the Wings owned their biggest lead to date, eight points. Facing them were 13 games in the month, 10 away from home. But for what happened in the previouns campaigns, there would be deep concern even with an eight-point edge.</p><p>ICE CHIPS : The lower the team in the standings the more trouble it appears to give Terry Sawchult. After the Wings had played 49 games, here was the number of goals against Detroit by each rival: Montreal 13, Toronto 14, Boston 19, New York 20, Chicago 21.</p><p>Detroit lost three of its first 26 home games. One defeat came from each of the clubs in the lower half of the standings, Boston, New York and Chicago. Best that Montreal or Toronto had done here was to gain a single tie apiece.</p><p>Jimmy Peters got more work than expected after being dealt back to Detorit by Chicago. The veteran winger spelled off Tony Leswick on one line, also got some chances as Gordie Howe&rsquo;s relief when Howe dropped back to point on power plays. In addition he was used as a penalty killer as Coach Tommy Ivan hurried to determine just how much use he might make of Peters in the stretch drive.</p><p>Howe and Dutch Reibel paced Detroit marksmen in January. Each made five goals while Howe, as usual, topped the club in total points with 12. Reibel made nine. A quartet of other forwards tallied three goals each in the 13 January games, Ted Lindsay, Glen Skov, Marty Pavelich and Metro Prystal.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01206/1427686-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="256" height="412"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&ldquo;Homeless&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>Jack Adams</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02190/1427679-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="289" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tommy Ivan</b></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Wings Enter February Facing Tough Schedule With 10 of 13 on Road

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>Is Johnny Peirson of the Boston Bruins doomed to skate through an illustrious career in the shadow of higher right wings?</p><p>Not necessarily, but that has been the Peirson story to date.</p><p>No right wing in hockey history has ever faced the competition for recognition as a master at his position that Peirson faces today.</p><p>Maurice Richard &hellip; Wally Hergesheimer &hellip; Gordon Howe.&hellip; Bill Mosienko &hellip; Boom Boom Geoffrion &hellip; all right wings, all high scorers.</p><p>This is Peirson&rsquo;s sixth season as a Bruins&rsquo; regular, and for the preceding five the black-haired veteran owns a stunning per-season scoring average of 20.4 goals.</p><p>Even a below-average output of 14 goals a year ago, when he missed 21 consecutive games with a broken jaw, failed to disloge him from the exclusive five-year club of which Montreal&rsquo;s Richard, Detroit&rsquo;s Ted Lindsay and Howe, Toronto&rsquo;s Harry Watson and Chicago&rsquo;s Mosienko are the only other members.</p><p>Yet Peirson has never been accorded the recognition extended some of his high scoring contemporaries, and to Coach Lynn Patrick of the Bruins that is an injustice.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03175/1427776-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="328" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Will He&hellip;</b></p><p><b>Johnny Peirson</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;He is one of the most underrated players in hockey,&rdquo; averred the Bruins&rsquo; coach. &ldquo;He seems to be one of those players who receives credit only from the scoring records.</p><p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the type on whom a coach can build an offense, because of his consistency. My attitude toward John is, he&rsquo;s good for at least 20 goals a season so I&rsquo;ll start worrying about the rest of my forwards.</p><p>&ldquo;There are players who are effectively only against certain teams&rdquo; continued Patrick, &ldquo;but he scores on all of&rsquo;em. There are others who are effective only at home, but he scores both at home and on the road.</p><p>&ldquo;Perhaps John is paying the penalty for not having any eccentricities,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;But in my opinion he is outstanding at his position.&rdquo;</p><p>Unlike some of the National league&rsquo;s better marksmen, Peirson has never placed as much stress on his own statistics as in his team&rsquo;s won and lost records.</p><p>He closed out the month of January by scoring his 18 th goal and pulling to within sight of his personal high of 27 goals, but his prospective threat to his own record didn t interest him.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04144/1427769-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="290" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&hellip;Remain In The Shadows Of Greatness?</b></p><p><b>Maurice Richard</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05112/1427762-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="276" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Wally Hergesheimer</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0677/1427755-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="285" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Gordie Howe</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0742/1427748-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="284" height="435"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Mosienko</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0827/1427741-1-eng-US/f0002-082.jpg" title="f0002-08" width="265" height="437"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bernie Geoffrion</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;The goals I want are the ones which win games for us,&rdquo; he protested. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather be a 15-goal man scoring winners than a 25-goal man getting them when they don&rsquo;t count.</p><p>&ldquo;The year (1949-50) I scored 27 goals I finished with 52 points, but the Bruins didn&rsquo;t make the playoffs. Our attendance fell off, there was no playoff money, so where was the profit for any of us?</p><p>&ldquo;My idea of a fellow having a good year is Geoffrion (Boom Boom). He Isn&rsquo;t leading the league, but look at all the winning goals he has scored. They&rsquo;re the ones which count.</p><p>&ldquo;Nope, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned I&rsquo;m not interested in any records but our won and lost records. I want to get into the playoffs, and my records can take care of themselves.&rdquo;</p><p>Interested or not, Peirson has made a remar kable comeback this season after his ill-fated campaign of a year ago. He spaced his first 18 goals over 17 different games, and a goodly percentage were key plays in Bruins&rsquo; victories.</p><p>Despite his fatalistic attitude towards scoring, he is capable at the present time of topping his best previous total, and a player able to score at that rate should draw a certain amount of attention in any league.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-03

Is Peirson’s Illustrious Hockey Career Doomed Because He Happens To Be Cast In Shadows Of Some Of Greatest Right Wingers Of All Time?

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>There&rsquo;s a three-game series coming up next week that might go a long, long way toward settling the National Hockey League championship.</p><p>Detroit Red Wings, front runners since the first of January, are slated to play the Canadiens three times within five days, the second such uninterrupted series ever contested during regular scheduled play.</p><p>Earlier this month the Red Wings and the Boston Bruins met three times in four days with the opener in Detroit and a pair of week-end games in Boston.</p><p>Making a strong bid for their sixth straight league title, the Red Wings play the Canadiens in Montreal on Thursday, Feb. 18, and Saturday, Feb. 20. Then, it&rsquo;s off to Detroit for the third game on Monday, Feb. 22.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0918/1427814-1-eng-US/f0002-092.jpg" title="f0002-09" width="268" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Big Series</b></p><p><b>Doug Harvey</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-1011/1427807-1-eng-US/f0002-102.jpg" title="f0002-10" width="286" height="458"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Dick Irvin</b></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s going to be a big series,&rdquo; said Coach Dick Irvin of the Habs.&ldquo;Just as big as a playoff and I plan to treat it as such. Canadiens should be at full strength then and in the peak of condition. I&rsquo;m seriously thinking of taking the team to Detroit right after the Saturday game in Montreal so they can get a good night&rsquo;s sleep on Sunday and be fresh for the game on Monday in the Olympia.&rdquo;</p><p>The Canadiens and the Wings waged a neck-and-neck battle during the first half of the season, with one club and then the other clinging precariously to first place. But, since the turn of the year, the Wings have pulled ahead.</p><p>During January the Red Wings and the surprising New York Rangers played the best hockey in the league, each with nine victories, two losses and a tie. The Toronto Maple Leafs were hot and cold, pulling some startling upsets and then being blanked in three out of four games as the month ended.</p><p>Their record of 7-5-1 was just a bit better than Canadiens&rsquo; mark of 6-5-1.</p><p>A Red Wing sweep in those forthcoming games with the Habs would virtually clinche the championship for Tommy Ivan&rsquo;s men who, like the New York Yankees, are used to feasting on the prime ribs of victory.</p><p>A sweep for the Habs would radically alter the picture and enhance the hopes they entertained so fondly at the beginning of the campaign of upsetting the Detroit monopoly.</p><p>So far this season the clubs have clashed nine times, Detroit winning five, losing three and tying one. But home ice has been a big factor just as it has been for all clubs this season. Canadiens&rsquo; three victories all were achieved in the familiar confines of the Forum while the tie, a 2-2 affair, occured in Detroit.</p><p>Regardless of the outcome of the three-game series&mdash;it would take a pretty competent seer to make predictions either way &mdash; it should be one of the highlights of the season.</p><p>For besides the traditional rivalry of the two teams, there is the battle for scoring leadership being waged by two of the greatest right wingers in the history of hockey, the irrepressible Rocket Richard and the quietly effective Gordie Howe.</p><p>Opinion is sharply divided on the relative merits of the two. Only last week Coach King Clancy of the Leafs told Red Burnett of the Toronto Star,&ldquo;I know one thing. I&rsquo;ll never make that Rocket mad. Get him angry and he&rsquo;ll kill you. I think he&rsquo;s the greatest, the best right winger in the business.&rdquo;</p><p>Then along came Howie Meeker with a different pronouncement.&rdquo;Checking Howe is like taking on a whole hockey team,&rdquo; he exclaimed.&rdquo;They should have two pucks, one for Howe and one for the other team. You never get the thing away from him unless he scores or gets tired of ragging it.&rdquo;</p><p>Howe has won the National Hockey League scoring title for three straight years; Richard has never won it in his long career and there is nothing he&rsquo;d like better than to snatch it from under Howe&rsquo;s nose this March.</p><p>There&rsquo;s rivalry too, on a friendler basis, beteween Canadiens&rsquo; Doug Harvey and Detroit&rsquo;s Red Kelly, the All-Star defence combination. These two players seldom clash &mdash; both go about their business with a modicum of ill-tempered outbursts &mdash; yet they respect each other&rsquo;s ability.</p><p>&ldquo;A great player that Harvey,&rdquo; said Red Kelly once after a tight game against the Habs. &ldquo;And isn&rsquo;t he terrific at carrying the puck out of his own end? &rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I think Kelly is one of the finest players in the league,&rdquo; said Harvey. &ldquo;A real team player and a terrific all-round guy.&rdquo;</p><p>Despite such compliments from two of the game&rsquo;s cleanest players, there have been feuds between the Wings and the Canadiens, too. Fiery, hard-skating, hard-jawing Ted Lindsay and the Rocket have exchanged blows rather than compliments on more than one occasion and each can point to a few scars to prove their sincerity.</p><p>Tony Leswick has been involved in several brawls with the Habs.</p><p>One of the scrappiest little men in hockey, Leswick recently summed up his attitude this way, &ldquo;the action is fast on the ice. You get worked up quickly and you swing before you think. If you backed away from a scrap, the other players would never let you forget it. They&rsquo;d hound you out of hockey.&rdquo;</p><p>It&rsquo;s apparent that Leswick isn&rsquo;t going to back away from anybody in a crucial three-game series and neither are any of the Canadiens. Regardless of other games that are scheduled, It looks as through Detroit and Montreal will provide most of the hockey excitement next week.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0002-09

Irvin Eyes Wing Series As Habs’ Last Chance To Make First Place

<p class="dropcap"><span>T</span>ORONTO &mdash; Despite the oftimes exercised theory that Toronto Maple Leafs are a great clutch club, they have six times this season failed to respond when the marbles were within their grasp.</p><p>Cruising in third place since the beginning of the campaign, the Torontos might have advanced their station had they not muffed the key games on each occasion, failing to score in four of the six.</p><p>In their final contest in 1953, Leafs were panting at the neck of Montreal, but were forced to the 2-2 tie in Toronto which, temporarily frustrated their efforts. They might have come within a point of second place, and with three games in hand, on Jan. 3, but could produce only a 0-0 tie again. Four days later Canadiens had to defend their position right in Montreal and to do it they handed Leafs their most humiliating beating of the season, 7-3.</p><p>Almost three weeks passed before another opportunity arose. That was Jan. 24,and with Canadiens only one point ahead, Deafs were humbled 2-0 in Detroit. Three days later the teams were still separated by only one point, but Canadiens promptly ended Leaf&rsquo;s 18-game unbeaten home streak with the 2-0 win that kept them in second.</p><p>On Jan. 31, that singlepoint span was again all that separated the teams and Leafs had a chance to pick up one of their games in hand while Habs remained idle. But they blew it, 2-0 again, in Boston.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Leaf’s Reputation As “Clutch” Club Fails Six Times

<div class="byline">By VINCE LUNNY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0003-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01205/1427845-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>The Gangling Goose</b></figcaption></div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Up went Referee Bill Chadwick&rsquo;s thumb and off went Canadiens&rsquo; Doug Harvey in a tight game against the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Behind the Habs&rsquo; bench at the Forum in Montreal, Coach Dick Irvin tapped John Roland McCormack on the shoulder.</p><p>&ldquo;Okay, Goose, out you go,&rdquo; he said.</p><p>McCormack, a lanky lad stands six feet tall and carries 185 pounds on his loose-jointed frame, leaped over the boards with Floyd Curry and, exercising his potent sweep check, held the Red Wings at bay.</p><p>Back came Harvey after serving his two minutes and the gangiing Goose was relieved. Seconds later Chadwick ruled off Maurice Richard. Again Irvin tapped McCormack and again he posed a problem for the Wings.</p><p>A little later another Canadian player drew a minor and the Goose was on the Ice for the third time In less than ten minutes.</p><p>He skated up to Chadwick in the face-off circle.&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re calling all those penalties to give me a chance to play, Bill, you can stop right now. I&rsquo;m all in.&rdquo;</p><p>The greatest defensive forward in the game, McCormack is endowed with a rare sense of humor. The night after Richard&rsquo;s much-publicized article appeared in Samedi-Dimanche, in which he threatened to quit hockey if the league took punitive action against him for injudicious remarks, there was an air of uneasiness in the Canadiens dressing room among the early arrivals. No one knew exactly what to say to the Rocket. McCormack entered.</p><p>&ldquo;Hey, Rocket,&rdquo; he shouted as he doffed his hat.&ldquo;When do we go on strike?&rdquo;</p><p>There was a gale of laughter, the uneasiness was aispenea ana me team trouped out amid friendly banter to win another home game.</p><p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s much to him until you start stepping into him,&rdquo; Flash Hollet said once. &ldquo;Then you think you&rsquo;ve run into a brick wail. And check! Gosh, you figure you&rsquo;ve slipped past him and the next thing you know he has the puck. He must use extension ladders for arms.&rdquo;</p><p>McCormack doesn&rsquo;t know exactly how he developed his check.&ldquo;It just came naturally when I was a kid in Edmonton,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;playing juvenile on the outdoor rinks.&rdquo;</p><p>But that check is Canadians&rsquo; best defensive weapon when the Montreal team is short-handed. Almost every time a club mate is in the penalty box, you&rsquo;ll see McCormack out on the ice, swiping pucks off the sticks of the opposition with long, smooth movements and breaking up potential scoring plays with the nagging persistence ef a toothache.</p><p>&ldquo;A lot depends upon our defence,&rdquo; he explained.&ldquo;If Doug Harvey and Butch Bouchard are on, Floyd Curry and I try to set up a box pattern and pass the puck within its framework. Harvey is particularly good at fitting in and he seems to know just where to be to take a pass without letting any ef our rivals get between him and the passer for a possible interception.</p><p>&ldquo;If Dollard St. Laurent is on the ice, it&rsquo;s different. Dolly likes me to come back with the winger on his side of the ice. Tom Johnoon fits into either style.&rdquo;</p><p>McCormack finds the Rangers power play the hardest to contend With. &ldquo;They pass you crazy,&rdquo; he stid,&ldquo;particularly In New York where the end zones are shollow. And they try to advance the puck toward the net all the time.&rdquo;</p><p>At centre ice, when McCormack does his most effective work, his most respected foes are Rangers&rsquo; Paul Ronty and Wally Her gesheimer.</p><p>&ldquo;I find it hard to get the puck off either of them,&rdquo; he admitted. &ldquo;They must glue it to their sticks.&rdquo;</p><p>McCormack started the current season in Buffalo and probably toe demotion didn&rsquo;t surprise him.</p><p>Late last year he was talking to a newspaperman about his tack of goals. He scored only one In 59 games.</p><p>&ldquo;Gosh, I can&rsquo;t get the puck In the net,&rdquo; he complained.</p><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t worry, Johnny,&rdquo; the reporter said.&ldquo;The goals will come.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Yeah,&rdquo; he replied, grinning despite himself.&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll come all right, in Buffalo.&rdquo;</p><p>But Johnny, a determined young man, did well with the Bisons at the start of the current season and earned his reinstatement with the Habs. Originally the Goose was a Leaf chattel.</p><p>He was picked as a major league prospect by a Toronto scout While playing in Edmonton and was sent to St. Michael&rsquo;s College In Toronto where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree, studied prelaw and earned $10 a week as a junior on the Leaf-sponsored St. Mike&rsquo;s team in the Ontario Hockey Association.</p><p>Johnny played three games with the Leafs in the 1947-48 season and failed to impress even though he got an assist the first time he stepped onto the ice In a Toronto uniform. The next season he played only one game in the NHL and in 1949-50 he became a regular.</p><p>He scored a goal in his first game that season and remarked wryly,&ldquo;it&rsquo;s been a long time between points. Two years as a matter of fact.&rdquo;</p><p>On his first trip to New York with the Leafs, Johnny walked around Manhattan all day, staring at the skyscrapers and other interesting sights.</p><p>Hours later, on the train going home, Happy Day announced,&ldquo;you have a new teamate fellows &mdash; Johnny McCormack. He&rsquo;s going to stay with us.&rdquo;</p><p>Vic Lynn said,&ldquo;you did all that walking for nothing, Johnny. See you had nothing to worry about.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t walking because of butterflies in my stomach,&rdquo; said Johnny. &ldquo;I wanted to see all I could. This might have been my first and last trip.&rdquo;</p><p>McCormack might have been with the Leafs yet but three seasons ago, after playing 46 games, he purchased a diamond ring with the capable assistance of Gus Mortson and presented it to a young lady named Margaret Gordon, a nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children In Toronto.</p><p>The day after they got married, Connie Smythe who takes a dim view of his athletes joining the ranks of the Benedicts in midseason shipped him to Pittsburgh.</p><p>When Smythe visited his Hornets shortly afterwards the Goose told his boss in no uncertain terms what he thought of men who tried to Interfere with the course of true love.</p><p>In the off-season Smythe sold him to Montreal where he has been a popular fixture ever since, except for two sojourns in Buffalo.</p><p>McCormack doesn&rsquo;t like the minors.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the same playing down there,&rdquo; he said.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s different hockey. Not as tough, not as much heavy bodily contact, A fellow with major league experience thinks lie&rsquo;s in a practice, not a game. Maybe that&rsquo;s because the checking isn&rsquo;t as hard and the goalies are easier to beat.&rdquo;</p><p>The McCormacks, Johnny and Margaret, have two boys &mdash; Peter, a stocky little two-year-old, and Daniel, just a month old.</p><p>They live in a comfortable apartment in Montreal&rsquo;s west end, just a few doors from Gerry McNeil. Both versatile athletes, McCormack and McNeil play a lot of tennis in summer on the neighborhood court.</p><p>&ldquo;We fint it keeps us in shape,&rdquo; said McCormack.&ldquo;Good for the legs. And the wind, too.&rdquo;</p><p>Actually the Goose doesn&rsquo;t have to worry too much about condition. He has no tendency toward overweight and eats as much as he likes of the tempting dlshea prepared by Margaret.</p><p>Johnny also plays golf &ldquo;but my trouble is I stand too close to the ball after I hit it,&rdquo; he says with typical modesty.</p><p>Actually he shoots a good game. He&rsquo;s also adept at softball and baseball, having been a member of Turk Broda&rsquo;s touring team when he lived in Toronto.</p><p>A fellow of the Appsiam mould, gentlemanly, exceptionally modeBt and polite beyond comprehension, even on the ice, Johnny has no retirement plans.</p><p>He has been offered several jobs and he shouldn&rsquo;t have any trouble getting a permanent postsion when he hangs up his stick. After all he has that B.A. degree tucked away and he has a sense of humor, an asset in any business.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0003-01

McCormack Sweep Checks His Way To Fame

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNEL-Sports Editor (As been tn the Toronto Star)</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0004-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-01276/1427890-1-eng-US/f0004-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>Quotina The Classics To The Referee</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><b><span>D</span>ALE CARNEGIE</b> has no disciples among the Detroit Red Wings. Maybe the Detroits might want to influence people, but it&rsquo;s obvious they have no interest in making friends &mdash; not in Maple Leaf Gardens, at least. There were sounds of voices by night from the Detroit bench while the redbirds were getting their come-uppance from Leafs. The boys in red were diviner the boys in white and blue the hockey variation of well played, sir.&rdquo; John J. Adams &mdash; the one they call Jolly Jawn &mdash; had his hands cupped like a megaphone calling salutations to the referee. He made some reference to&ldquo;Homer&rdquo; &mdash; undoubtedly quoting from the works of the immortal poet of ancient Greece. There could be no possible parallel between a poet and a referee. No-where in the classics is there any evidence that Homer wore skates. In fact, many scholars insist he was blind.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-02248/1427883-1-eng-US/f0004-022.jpg" title="f0004-02" width="285" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Tony Leswick</b></figcaption></div><p>Mr. Lefty Wilson, the wise-cracking assistant coach of the Wings, was engaged in animated conversation with box seat sitters back of the Detroit bench. It was sort of get-acquainted chatter. And very timely, too, because the fans didn&rsquo;t seem to know Mr. Wilson. They kept referring to him as&rdquo;water-boy.&rdquo; Mr. Wilson was doing his best to get the talks on a higher plane. He kept suggesting maybe some person had given these folks their tickets, because he couldn&rsquo;t recall having had the pleasure before. As various Leafs drifted past the Detroit bench, they were greeted enthusiastically and affectionately as&ldquo;Meathead&rdquo;,&ldquo;Beans-focr-Brains&rdquo; and &ldquo;Snow-Thrower.&rdquo; A snow thrower is one who applies the brakes suddenly and sprays ice chips from his skates &mdash; usually for the purpose of avoiding a stiff check. When Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay&rsquo;s elbow accidentally (innocent until proved guilty) bumped young Eric Nesterenko in the kisser, removing the caps from two rehabilitated teeth, there were cries of protest from the Detroit bench:&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be so easy, Ted, ram it down his throat.&rdquo; But Robert Blake Theodore was in mellow mood. He has a son himself &mdash; born a few hours before the team skated out for the game.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-03175/1427876-1-eng-US/f0004-032.jpg" title="f0004-03" width="274" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Fern Flaman</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>Psychological Warfare Sometimes Backfires</b></h2><p><b>ONE</b> of the most eloquent operators in these good neighbor projects is Tony Leswick, who towers five feet, six and one-half inches above the ice. Tony is a crouch skater. Which makes him look as if he were scooting along a ditch. Leswick kept calling signals to Leafs&rsquo; Fern Flaman:&rdquo;Thirteen out of fourteen, thirteen out of fourteen.&rdquo; Mr. Leswick revealed later that he had uncovered statistics somewhere to show that Flaman had been on the ice for 13 out of 14 goals that were scored in some playoff series. He kept repeating the numbers, in the hope Flaman could be goaded into taking a swing with his stick and chased to the penalty plank. But Mr. Flaman saw the booby trap and kept clear. In Montreal, the other night, Leswick concentrated on Rocket Richard. The Rocket finally whacked him with the stick &mdash; while Leswick was sitting on his own bench. Arid the shame of it was that the referee apparently wasn&rsquo;t looking. Leswick got a welt on his ribs. The Rocket zoomed away.</p><p>When Leswick is asked who has taken a shot at him during his career as a needier in the NHL, he answers the question with a question:&rdquo;Who hasn&rsquo;t?&rdquo; Richard and Flaman have been two of his more frequent aggressors, but Tony insists he never has lost a fight.</p><p>&ldquo;There are no winners in fights on the ice,&rdquo; he maintains.&rdquo;Somebody always breaks them up.&rdquo;</p><p>For Tony&rsquo;s sake, we hope it stays that way. He gets himself badly overmatched.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0004-01

Speaking on Sport

<div class="byline">Elmer Ferguson (As Seen in the Montreal Herald)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-04129/1427935-1-eng-US/f0004-042.jpg" title="f0004-04" width="282" height="321"></div><p>&bull;CONNY SMYTHE, the master-mind of Toronto Leafs, is a very deceitful person. Of late he has been fathering, with strange pride, a story that his Leafs have become a completely defensive team, whose main object in life is to protect the Vezina trophy hopes of goaler Harry Lumley, with little or no thought of offensive hockey. Just a goal or so, perhaps. But, unlike all former teams, with no emphasis on attack. That&rsquo;s what the man. said. That&rsquo;s not what Leafs did.</p><p>Perhaps this unusual pronouncement lulled Canadiens into a sense of false security. Certainly, something lulled them. For they were a pretty sleepy-looking group, particularly in the defensive sector, in the first period, as Leafs ran in three goals and virtually clinched a 4-point game right there. Perhaps this type of play could be construed as protecting Harry Lumley&rsquo;s slowly-shrinking Vezina Trophy margin. For the Leafs hustling and bustling attack kept play so far away from Lumley that he had only a few desultory shots to handle, whereas Gerry McNeill, behind a crumbling defense was incessantly plastered with pucks.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-05114/1427928-1-eng-US/f0004-052.jpg" title="f0004-05" width="261" height="397"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Conn Smythe</b></figcaption></div><p><b>&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t as if they needed rest&rdquo; said coach Dick Irvin, after the Leafs won 4-2. &ldquo;They were well rested, had beaten Leafs in Toronto, and bad a good chance to pull away into second place. But the team just didn&rsquo;t have it.&rdquo; Having given this brief analysis, which revealed nothing we didn&rsquo;t know, Irvin buried his head in his hands, and relapsed into silent, inconsolable grief. To be beaten with Irvin is bad. To be beaten at home rankles. To be beaten at home by his pet hate, the Leafs, was gall and wormwood and a few other bitter qualities. To have Leafs pass Habs in the race was, to Irvin, sheer horrible tragedy.</b></p><p>It was a pretty sad dressing-room, in fact. For the team had slid to the lowest spot occupied the race started, third to Detroit Red wings ana Leafs, the wings sloughed Boston. Bruins, drew off into a 9-point lead over Toronto, and a 10-point lead over the Canadiens. With the race better than two-thirds over, Red Wings now loom as the winners, and Canadiens, after losing that 4-pointer, have a tough task on their hands to finish better than third.</p><p>It should have been sad. For the Habs produced a mighty sad first period, in which Leafs scored three goals, the greatest number dumped into the Canadiens nets in one period on local ice this season. And there were no flukes to the Leafs&rsquo; scoring. If it hadn&rsquo;t been for some very nimble work by Gerry McNeill, the score would have been higher. For the Hab defense just fell apart, and Leafs controlled the play completely in the first period, with a lot of drive, some nifty shooting.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-0697/1427921-1-eng-US/f0004-062.jpg" title="f0004-06" width="269" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Harry Lumley</b></figcaption></div><p>The Honest Guy,&rdquo;Busher&rdquo; Curry, was the only forward to show any sort of stuff in the first canto, and in fact, he was about the best in the entire game, for our side. He got a goal, was Value for at least one more, but Harry Lumley fighting desperately now to win the Vezina trophy, made a remarkable save off Curry, another off Lach. The veteran Elmer was in there, doing a smoothie right through the Leaf defense, but Lumley took the shot on his toe. Beliveau deked between the Leaf out-posts at the end of the first period, but he held his fire too late. The expert finding is that the best place from which to let your shot fly is the 10-foot range. Big Jean held his until he was too close to get a shot.</p><p>Rocket Richard gave the team a lift starting the second period, when he raced right into the goal-mouth, where Lumley foiled him, but that effort seemed to rouse the club, and two goals followed. For the rest of the route, it was one effort after another to tie the score, and there were times when it looked as if this might happen.</p><p><b>But the Leaf defense was tough. Teeder Kennedy led a grim defensive battle. When Canadiens were driving at the end he threw a series of monkey-wrenches into the Hab machinery by delaying the game so flagrantly that referee&ldquo;Red&rdquo; Storey was consulting his watch. These tactics not only delayed the game, considerably, but probably interferred with ttie smooth operation of Canadien offensive plans.</b></p><p>Which is still another type of defensive play, and possibly the one to which Conn Smythe had referred when he said Leafs were using every strategy to protect Lumley&rsquo;s Vezina Trophy hopes.</p><p>&bull; THESE LATTER HOPES are waning through by no means extinct. Terry Sawchuk turned in a shut-out the same night and the Lumley lead was down to. five, and he has two more games to play than his rival. It will be about the closest individual race of the season. For Gordie Howe picked up three points to increase his lead in the points race. Richard, however, remains supreme in the matter of scoring goals, which is important, too, and also allows of no doubts being cast upon its authentic nature.</p><p><b>In fact, the one bright feature, from a Canadiens&rsquo; viewpoint, of the Toronto game, was that Richard scored goal No. 30, which marks the sixth time in his meteoric career that he has hit this coveted mark, or gone well beyond it. This goal brought his League total to an almost unbelievable 377, but more impressive perhaps than the total is the consistency involved in producing it. Richard has never gone below 20 goals in any of his complete, or near-complete seasons. He has had totals of 50, 45, 43, 42, and 32. There has been nothing like this in modern hockey.</b></p><p>Goals are irrefutable in the record books. Assists are frequently questioned, often they&rsquo;re tarnished in the public mind. But you can&rsquo;t argue about goals, and that&rsquo;s where Richard tops the heap.</p><p>But, getting back to the gloomier side of things, Canadiens seem to be reaching what Branch Rickey termed the&rdquo;imponderables,&rdquo; and what less learned folk who haven&rsquo;t command of such long and intricate words would merely describe as unpredictable or inconsistent. When a team gets that way, there&rsquo;s always the possibility that it is starting to stumble, and when a team stumbles the trend is down, not up.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE CIST AND JEST OF IT

<div class="byline">By DANA MOZLEY</div><p>NEW YORK, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>Professor Murray Patrick, head of the psychology department in the School of Hard Knocks on New York&rsquo;s West side, has lectured successfully. By convincing the Rangers that mind is over matter, he has suddenly made them a winning club&mdash;on the road.</p><p>In this new year, the Broadway Blues have gone from rags to riches. Saddled with a heavy road schedule white the Ice Show took over their home base, they immediately began to win in Boston and Detroit and even Montreal. By the end of January, they had a terrific away-from-home record in 54 of five victories and a tie in eight games. Terrific for them, at least.</p><p>It&rsquo;s got to, the point now where the Rangers even look good by comparison with the rest of the league. They&rsquo;d won seven games on the road this season and only Detroit had done as well or better. The Wings had eight wins away? Toronto and Boston had six, Montreal five and Chicago four.</p><p>Psychology did the trick. Patrick, who never lacked for confidence himself, either as a major league defenseman or later as coach, quickly instilled the same confidence in his players.</p><p>&ldquo;When I came in to coach the Rangers,&rdquo; Muzz remarked,&rdquo;I took a look at the schedule and knew something had to be done. We were to play nine of 10 games on the road.</p><p>&ldquo;I reminded the players that New York, because of extenuating circumstances, has to be a good road club to be up in the standings. I told them they had to begin thinking they were a good road club, and they believed it. They began to play in the other cities the way they had been playing in New York.&rdquo;</p><p>The fifth of the new year road triumphs was the best of all. It broke a long standing hex in Montreal. The Rangers won there. 2-1, on January 30 for the first time in four years.</p><p>&ldquo;That took my grade-A lecture,&rdquo; Muzz admits now.&rdquo;Even though the players had proved to themselves they could win away from home, the long list of losses In Montreal lurked in the back of their minds.</p><p>&ldquo;I simply told them that, from now on, the Forum was to be our home ice&hellip; that we were taking over tonight. We got some breaks, played pretty well, and won. I think that jinx is over.&rdquo;</p><p>Patrick thinks the Rangers have to be from seven to 10 per cent better than the other clubs to gain a comparable place in the standings. For one thing, no other team has such schedule headaches as opening the season with five games on the road or twice later running into extra-long stretches on the road.</p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got to be a good road club because of this schedule and because we actually play our home games on neutral ice, &ldquo;Muzz pointed out. &ldquo;We never get the Garden for practice. Other teams get to know their own ice well. We don&rsquo;t. Why, if we played our home games at Iceland (where the Rangers do practice), I doubt if we&rsquo;d ever lose there.&rdquo;</p><p>Of course, the Rangers&rsquo; sudden rebirth away from home as come about through more than psychology. They now have the type of players who, without a losing complex, can play as well on the road as they do at home.</p><p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t single out any one player as cause for our recent success, &ldquo;Patrick said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a lot&mdash;like Irwin. Evans, Howell, Henry, Bower and others&mdash;who don&rsquo;t know if they&rsquo;re playing at the Garden or at the Forum or the Olympia. They&rsquo;re not playing for the crowd. &ldquo;</p><p>Bones Raleigh, the Ranger captain, points to one player as deserving more credit than any other. After remarking that the whole team had become drugged with confidence, the thin center declared:</p><p>&ldquo;Johnny Bower has been the difference in many of the games. He&rsquo;s been great in the nets. Mach greater than he was early In the season. Not that he wasn&rsquo;t good then, but he&rsquo;s much tougher to score on now.&rdquo;</p><p>Muzz, too, had some kind words for Bower. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s not a fancy or smooth-looking goaltender, the coach admitted. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a fighting goaltender. If two bad ones beat him, then he won&rsquo;t relax or quit. He&rsquo;ll fight the third one out there. He&rsquo;d rather eat the rubber than sag the red light behind his back. &ldquo;</p><p>ICE CHIPS: With Max and Doug Bentley both absent, young Billy McCreary was called up from Guelph to play in Detroit, Jan. 28. Juhior forward, who&rsquo;d had one previous pro game trial in Toronto, impressed Patrick considerably. &ldquo;The kid&rsquo;s got a lot of know-how, &ldquo;Muzz said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s definitely destined to be a major leaguer, if not next year then the year after that.&rdquo;&hellip;Doug Bentley, who rushed back to Saskatoon to wind up some business affairs and pick up his family, was due to rejoin the Rangers in Montreal, Feb. 6.</p><p>Manager Frank voucher is not yet completely satisfied with makeup of Rangers&rsquo; personnel. Thinks they have too many specialists and not enough regularline forwards. As a result, he is travelling through the West on a scouting mission&hellip;Most improved Ranger is Jack Evans. Except for his jut jaw and lack of talk, the defenseman in no way resembles the crude product who was shipped out to Vancouver two years ago.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Rangers’ Rags To Riches Story Simple, Muzz Has Knack For Psychological Twist

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON (The Toronto Telegram)</div><p>TORONTO, Ont. &mdash;</p><p>Rudy Migay, the plasticine player, is still being remoulded and remodelled faster than a tobacco auctioneer could keep pace in description.</p><p>The most serious wave of injuries Toronto Maple Leafs have suffered all season prompted the most recent conversion of the Toy Terrier. Both Fern Flaman, the bop cop of the defense, and Tod Sloan, the peerless playmaker of the attack and the team&rsquo;s leading pointsman, leu wounaea auring a body-bruising six-game series Leafs waged against their first division colleagues through the end of January and beginning of February.</p><p>Naturally, the puncture in the front wall was a job for the allpurpose patch, Migay. But Leafs postponed summoning their ace trouble-shooter until they had tried plugging the leak with rookie Bob Bailey.</p><p>The youngster gave it a solid shot, worked hard and hit harder. But he lacked the playmaking experience necessary to best utilize the shooting weapons of Toronto&rsquo;s leading snipers, Harry Watson and George Armstrong, both of whom played excellenf games for nought as Leafs suffered their first home beating in 19 starts when Canadiens visited Toronto.</p><p>The loss of the game cost Leafs a chance to move into second place and kept them scoreless through their second consecutive contest. It was ho time to tinker further. Migay had to be transferred from his post between Eric Nesterenko and Gord Hannigan to replace Sloan on the club&rsquo;s only producing line.</p><p>Sixty minutes after the Toy Terrier was transplanted, he had contributed a goal and an assist as the losing streak was curbed before it could become dangerous.</p><p>Sloan returned to work the next week, relieving Migay of his special assignment, but by this time, coach King Clancy had uncovered another serious weakness.&rdquo;Outside of Watson, those left wings just aren&rsquo;t producing,&rdquo; he scolded, referring to the facts Hannigan was still hunting his first goal arid Sid Smith is suffering from a mouth-long drought. There&rsquo;s gotta be some changes made.&rdquo;</p><p>So who&rsquo;s changed? You guessed it, Migay, the plasticine player. The scrappy little centreman was promptly assigned to left wing, alongside captain Ted Kennedy and Ron Stewart. Although, he had never served as more than emergency replacement at that position before, Rudolph was&rsquo;ready. Behind the new station Leafs had two purposes in mind. In addition to testing a new left wing, they hoped to relieve Kennedy of some of the checking responsibilities which had harnessed him for so long.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01226/1427990-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="521" height="1141"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>The Toy Terrier</b></p><p><b>RUDY MIGAY</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Sid Smith, who normally plays on Teeder&rsquo;s port elbow, was moved into Hannigan&rsquo;s position and Hopalong himself was shifted from wing to centre, a position he played throughout his junior career, or until ex-Leaf coach Joe Primeau converted him when both were with St. Michael&rsquo;s College seniors three years ago.</p><p>&rdquo;I don&rsquo;t know how long this arrangement will last, or even if it will play much this way,&rdquo; The Clance says.&rdquo;But I&rsquo;m giving it a good tryout. We gotta do something.&rdquo;</p><p>Meanwhile, the man who makes all these moves, Rudy Migay, is taking it all in his short, choppy stride. Whereas most players state a preference for remaining with one forward combination so that they can anticipate their wingmate&rsquo;s moves, Rudy reasons:</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s really no different playing with everybody. You just get so&rsquo;s you can anticipate everybody&rsquo;s moves instead of any particular two. Besides, I ll play anywhere on the team, just so&rsquo;s I play. I&rsquo;m lucky to be in the big leagues, I figure.&rdquo;</p><p>The Toy Terrier honestly believes he is only lucky. But it isn&rsquo;t luck that made him, in Clancy&rsquo;s opinion, one of the game&rsquo;s most valuable players. It is his hard work and earnestness.</p><p>His small stature, his lengthy minor league career and his mediocre skating were all against the Toy Terrier&rsquo;s ever arriving in the big league. But by checking like a chesspiece and working every.minute he&rsquo;s on the ice&rdquo;because I have to if I&rsquo;m gonna be any good at all,&rdquo; Migay has earned a unique distinction among Leafs.</p><p>&ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t played a bad game all year,&rdquo; is the way Clancy words it.</p><p>Incidentals&hellip; Even when Montreal Canadiens ended Leaf&rsquo;s unbeaten home streak at 18 games, Toronto was left with an enviable record of 18 wins, four ties and two losses in engagements at Maple Leaf Gardens&hellip; Three Leafs emerged from the hard checking home-and-home series against Boston last week looking like refugees from a scartace comic book&hellip; Leo Boivin wore a nine-stitch gash across his forehead, Harry Watson a six-stitch wound over his left eyebrow, and Gordie Hannigan five stitches in a two-part job above and below his right eye&hellip; Left wing Bob Solinger was returned to Toronto Pittsburgh Hornett farm as Leafs spared their roster to three complete forward units.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Leafs’ Toy Terrier An All-purpose Patch Produces 60 minutes after Making Switch

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>There are undoubtedly ways of beating the Boston Bruins, but one of them is not by belittling their goaltender.</p><p>The Detroit Red Wings learned that fact last spring when Sugar Jim Henry held them off to provide the biggest Stanley Cup upset of modern times.</p><p>The Toronto Maple Leafs became acquainted with it recently when Sugar Jim shut them out in a game here.</p><p>Both times the veteran Bruins&rsquo; goal-tender was stung by unfavorable comments about his ability.</p><p>Detroit won the first playoff game last spring by a land slide, and the Detroit papers made Henry the&rdquo;goat&rdquo; of the game. The Bruins&rsquo; goal-tender, they inferred in various ways, was a soft touch for the mighty Red Wings.</p><p>Henry, who hides his actual feelings behind an habitual smile, absorbed the ridicule &mdash; and sizzled inwardly. For the remainder of the historic series he was wonderful.</p><p>The lesson taught the Red Wings last spring failed to rub off on at, least one National league associate, however, because on his annual trip up here from Florida, Conn Smythe made some cutting remarks about Sugar Jim.</p><p>The gist of the Toronto president&rsquo;s comments was that Henry had lost his touch, that he wasn&rsquo;t the goalie he was a year ago. Sugar Jim&rsquo;s answer po the talkative man from Toronto was a shutout of his team.</p><p>&ldquo;Smythe is supposed to be a keen hockey man,&rdquo; said the great goaltender.&rdquo;Well, he must be slipping.</p><p>&ldquo;He said I wasn&rsquo;t using my hands any more, that I was blocking shots with my body. It surprises me to hear that from such an authority, since I never have used my hands much in all the years I&rsquo;ve been playing goal.</p><p>&ldquo;What any goal-tender knows,&rdquo; he added,&rdquo;is that some nights we seem to miss everything and other nights we just can&rsquo;t miss. Every shot, no matter how good, seems to come right to us.&rdquo;</p><p>Henry&rsquo;s suggestion that Smythe&rsquo;s knowledge of goaltending might be limited gained considerable support from the veteran&rsquo;s record through the month of January. At that point Sugar Jim had yielded two goals or less in 29 of the Bruins&rsquo; 49 games, a commendable record, considering the fact that he seldom had. the same defense combinations in front of him for any two consecutive games.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Sugar Sizzles At Smythe’s Statement That Jim Henry Has lost Coaling Touch

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>It now appears, and very logically, that other clubs in the National Hockey League have finally agreed to help the faltering Black Hawks. The project was apparently born out of a secret meeting of top brass in the Windy City December 18 when reports that Chicago was ready to quit were numerous.</p><p>In the conference called by NHL President Clarence Campbell, league owners and governors were no doubt reminded of the great popularity the Hawks have always enjoyed until recent seasons with teams that were usually not even good enough to get into the Stanley Cup playoffs.</p><p>Attendance records point up the power Chicago has held at the box office. A total of 521.831 spectators piled Into the Stadium for 30 home games in 1946-47 with a peak of 20,004 turning out for a single game. Both these marks still stand and were established with the Hawks in last place.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02202/1428059-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="249" height="389"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Clarence Campbell</b></figcaption></div><p>After the December confab, Arthur Wirtz, the club&rsquo;s president, admitted that &ldquo;nothing concrete&rdquo; was decided, but that he was more hopeful for the future than he had been before. H e opined that Chicago ftight to b&rdquo; able to purchase minor league stars of NHL caliber and hinted that some deals might be in the offing.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03159/1428052-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="264" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Frank Seiko</b></figcaption></div><p>Last month. Jack McIntyre and Ike Hildebrand, who had shown promise during earlier stints in the big time, were secured from minor league affiliates of the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers respectively.</p><p>Hawk General Manager Bill Tobin announced this to be only the beginning of a thorough shakeup.</p><p>To prove it, lie also summoned young Kenny Wharram from Quebec and farmed out Fred Hucul and Murray Costello. A few days later, the veteran Jimmy Peters was sent to Detroit in exchange for an unnamed rookie to be delivered next fall and then. Doc Couture was suspended for failing to report to Quebec.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-04126/1428045-1-eng-US/f0005-042.jpg" title="f0005-04" width="249" height="402"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Bill Tobin</b></figcaption></div><p>With these changes invoked, the Bruins, Rangers and Red Wings appeared to have supplied their transfusions for the ailing Chicago forces. Still unheard from, however, were the Canadiens and Toronto. Tobin indicated, though, that more was still to come to liypo the Hawks into the respectable class.</p><p>He and General Manager Frank Selke of Montreal were said to have been close to a deal late last month, but Tqbin later stated that it fell through when Couture failed to cooperate. He revealed that Doc, one of last season&rsquo;s surprise performers, had expressed a desire to play with Calgary of the Western League, a Hawk farm club.</p><p>Tobin had journeyed to Montreal In attempt to affect a deal and Selke even came to Chicago. Unfortunately, it was the night his Habs were drubbed, 8-3. The Black Hawks have been rumored to be desirous of acquiring either Paul Meger, Dick Gamble or Paul Masnlck from the Canadiens.</p><p>Any talks w&rsquo;ith Toronto have either not taken place or been thoroughly hidden. After the meeting on the 18th, Maple Leaf boss Conn Smythe was quoted as saying,&rdquo;It&rsquo;s a kind of two-way bargain. If they&rsquo;ll do something, we&rsquo;ll probably do something.&rdquo; Hawk fans hqpe that&rsquo;something&rsquo; happens soon.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Hawks SOS Hits Home As Clubs Help Them Out

<div class="byline">BY Ken Mckenzie</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01298/1428111-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="365" height="414"></div><p><b>THE INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY WEEKLY</b></p><p><b>Founded October 1, 1947</b></p><p><b>By Kenneth W. McKenzie and Will. V. Coto</b></p><p><b>Published Weekly, except monthly May through September by HOCKEY NEWS COMPANY</b></p><p><b>301 Empire Life Building 1434 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal 25. Que.</b></p><p><b>Yearly Subscription Rates: $3.00 in Canada and the British Empire: $4.00 in the U.S.A, and Foreign Countries.</b></p><p><b>Entered as second-class matter October 3, 1953 at the Post Office at Rouses Point, M.Y.. under the Act of March 3rd, 1879.</b></p><p><b>Authorised as second-class mail. Post Office Department. Ottawa.</b></p><p><b>Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations</b></p><p><b>Printed in Canada</b></p><p><b>VOL. 7 MONTREAL. FEBRUARY 13. 1954 No. 20</b></p><p>&bull; <b>EVERY YEAR</b> around Valentine&rsquo;s Day we check into the number of players in the NHL who have eluded Kid Cupid. This year our findings reveal that there are 36 single gents in hockey&rsquo;s major loop. As is the case most years, Detroit Red Wings have more bachelors on their team than any other squad. They are Red Kelly, possibly the league&rsquo;s most eligible bachelor right now, Metro Prystai, Glen Skov, Marty Pavelich, Jim (Red Eye) Hay, Earl (Dutch) Reibel, Johnny Wilson and Bill Dineen &hellip; New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks have seven unmarried players on their respective teams. The seven bachelors on Rangers are Don (Bones) Raleigh, who Insists it isn&rsquo;t his fault, Harry Howell, Nick Mickoski, Aldo Guidolin, Camille Henry, Wally Hergesheimer and Dean Prentice &hellip; Al Dewsbury, Larry Zeidel, Jackie Price, Pete Conadher, Lou Jankowski, Ken Wharram and Larry Wilson are the Chicago eligibles &hellip; The rebuilding Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs have six and five bachelors respectively on their clubs. The six Bruins are Warren Godfrey, Bob Armstrong, Jerry Toppazzini, Ed Sandford, Leo LaBine and Doug Mohne, while Jim Morrison, George Armstrong, Ron Stewart, Eric Nesterenko and Bob Bailey comprise the Toronto quintet of unwedded males&hellip; Montreal Canadiens have the least number of bachelors on their roster. Only three to be exact, and they are Tom Johnson, Eddie Mazur and Paul Masnick &hellip; O.K. girls, the line forms to the right! &hellip; Lynn Patrick says Dick Irvin must be the best coach in the NHL &hellip; &ldquo;After all, look where bis team is and he&rsquo;s got three or four players that couldn&rsquo;t make our team&rdquo;, the Boston coach informs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02188/1428104-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="245" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Don Raleigh</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>DOUG BENTLEY</b> believes the younger hockey players are being over-coached these days &hellip; &ldquo;They take a kid when he&rsquo;s a Pee Wee and they tell him, &lsquo;Skate your wing.&rsquo;&rdquo; If he skates his wing, he may get the puck five or six times a game. They should be allowed to play all over the ice until they&rsquo;re 15. Let &rsquo;em play shinny like we did when we were kids in Delisle. We&rsquo;d skate on the road chasing a tennis ball. And when our cousins would quit after an hour because their hands were cold, we&rsquo;s stay out there and play. We&rsquo;d play all day without coaching and learned to do a little of everything that we had to do,&rdquo; stated the elder half of the Delisle Dandies &hellip; The following from the column of Max Kase in the NY Journal American &hellip; Jim Norris, a zillionaire, no less, tried to sign the tab at one of the town&rsquo;s glamor spots only to be rebuffed. &ldquo;So sorry,&rdquo; chilled the head waiter, &ldquo;we cannot accept this. You have no account here.&rdquo;&hellip; Jim will probably buy the place for a trinket&hellip; Harry Watson of the Leafs needs three more goals to join the National Hockey League&rsquo;s exclusive 200-goal club &hellip; Woody Dumart incurred his first penalty of the season the other night. It was a first-period offense for hooking &hellip; Wally Hergesheimer&rsquo;s comment after his tussle with Warren Godfrey of the Bruins: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a good thing he didn&rsquo;t hit me or else I would have bled all over him.&rdquo;&hellip; Hergy is one of the many wits on the Rangers this year&hellip; Camille (The Eel) Henry is the current rage among the Madison Square Garden bobby-soxers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03112/1428097-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="253" height="401"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Doug Bentley</b></figcaption></div><p>&bull; <b>JACK EVANS</b> of the New York Rangers is the most improved defenseman in the NHL this year. You wouldn&rsquo;t know he was the same player that toiled for Rangers in 1950-51 and 1951-52. He is six pounds lighter, has sharpened up his skating, and doesn&rsquo;t get the foolish penalties he once did. Jack is one player who profited as a result of a trip to the minors&hellip; &ldquo;Saskatoon is the place where I finally developed confidence in myself,&rdquo; Evans told us after he starred in Rangers 2-1 win over Canadiens &hellip; Capt. James T. Sutherland, founder of the International Hockey Hall of Fame, and Mrs. Sutherland celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary the other day &hellip; Baz Bastien, coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets, became the father of twins recently &hellip; Maurice Richard and Fleming Mackell are both expectant daddys &hellip; It will be the fourth time around for both &hellip; Dollard St. Laurent became a poppa for the second time last week&hellip; Frank Selke says &ldquo;Pocket Rocket&rdquo; Richard is the greatest coach&rsquo;s player since Charlie Conacher &hellip; &ldquo;He carries out instructions, in as far as the opposition will let him, perfectly,&rdquo; Selke related &hellip; Don Raleigh has developed into quite a gourmet. He makes frequent visits to a Japanese restaurant in New York where he handles chop sticks like a veteran &hellip; Hockey lost a wonderful friend when Dr. Horace Macintyre passed away suddenly in Toronto. The kindly Doctor had been the Toronto team doctor and an ardent Leaf supporter for years.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0478/1428090-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="277" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Henri Richard</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/f0006-0572/1428142-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg"></div><h2><b>Banners Again</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>We have been reading THE HOCKEY NEWS for some time now, and enjoy it tremendously. We would like to make a correction of a statement by your editor in last January 28 edition of THE HOCKEY NEWS. It is in regard to the statement that New York is the only city that hangs out banners for their players. This is not so. BOSTON also hangs out banners, not only for the players, but also for the trainer HAMMIE MOORE. Just thought you would like this information.</p><p>Ed Hickey. Leo Shea.</p><p>Cambridge, Mass.</p><p><b>(Thanx fellas!)</b></p><h2><b>Haves Vs. Have Nots</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have enjoyed reading THE HOCKEY NEWS for many years now, but its value to me is no more apparent then at the present time. I am going to school at the University of Missouri and I&rsquo;m out of touch with hockey that I ordinarily would hear about back in my home state of New Jersey. While the St. Louis papers are fine representatives of the press they are sorely lacking as to hockey coverage. Consequently THE HOCKEY NEWS is my sole source of hockey news.</p><p>I am wholeheartedly in favor of the proposed player draft that Chicago, New York, and Boston are allegedly supporting, and that Montreal, Toronto, and Detroit are said to be against. This may be a question of the&ldquo;haves&rdquo; versus the&ldquo;have nots,&rdquo; but the last named clubs must realize that they are not the only members of the NHL. I realize that the primary consideration of any hockey club is to show a profit, but is it necessary to obtain these profits at the expense of the first three named clubs and especially the fan? To keep the NHL intact, players must be more equitably distributed. Having six good clubs instead of three makes for a tighter, more exciting race that would help all six clubs at the box-office. When the Selkes, Adams&rsquo;, and Symthes become pensive let them also become generous.</p><p>Being a Bruin fan, I am sorry to hear that they&rsquo;ve lost one of the best minor league coaches to the Rangers. Already he has done wonders as attests the Rangers recent upsurge.</p><p>The Black Hawks could certainly use a lot of new faces. Some suggestions: Harry Pidhirny, Syracuse; Stankiewicz, Sherbrooke; Gordie Pennell, Buffalo; and Lloyd Durham, New Westminister.</p><p>Do the Bruins have any entry in Ontario Junior and MMHL? Enjoyed Roger Barry&rsquo;s Doug Mohns profile, how about one on Joe Klukay?</p><p>Who is coaching the Seattle Club now?</p><p>Bill Roth.</p><p>Columbia, Missouri.</p><p><b>(The Bruins did have tha Oshawa Generals in the OHA junior but they were forced to withdraw this season when their arena burned to the ground. They have no team in the MMHL. GM Frank Dotten is handling the Bombers at preseht.</b></p><h2><b>Summaries</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I wish you would include the line-ups of the clubs in the AHL, WHL, and QHL in your summaries. Usually you only have one or two.</p><p>It helps in doing the crosswords to have them.</p><p>Larry Macready.</p><p>Winnipeg, Man.</p><p><b>(We do include them if and when we receive them, Larry, but as often as not, the summaries come in to us without the line-up attached.)</b></p><h2><b>Place Of Birth</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Is the national origin of every professional player in the National Hockey League included in the NHL Press and Radio Guide. If not, inform me please, where this information may be found.</p><p>L. Roman.</p><p>Detroit, Mich.</p><p><b>(The place of birth of all NHL players is included in the Press and Radio Guide but no actual record is kept as to their ancestral background.)</b></p><h2><b>Addresses</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to get a couple of the addresses of players who play for the Montreal Canadiens.</p><p>Lawrence Dyer</p><p>Sutton, Que.</p><p><b>(You can write to any of the Canadiens care of the Montreal Forum, Montreal, Que.)</b></p><h2><b>Litz Blitz</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to see Eddie Litz-enberger of the Montreal Royals of the QHL given a chance with the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL.</p><p>I think that Eddie is tops and also that he is going to be a great. I also think that he has one of the best shots, especially his slapshot.</p><p>Mel Morelli.</p><p>Winnipeg, Man.</p><h2><b>Not For Tots</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I have read your paper for the past six years and enjoy it very much. I would like to know who the player on page 5 of the January 16th paper is. Is it Gordie Pennell or Joe Lund?</p><p>How about getting a different picture of Gordie Howe in your paper, must it always be that side view with a grin. That picture has been in nearly every weekly and local paper, nearly every week in your paper and probably a dozen or more papers and books.</p><p>I do not agree with anyone who wants to take up space in THE HOCKEY NEWS for Trading Posts etc. Isn&rsquo;t the Fan Forum big enough for them. There is a large number of fans writing to the Fan Forum in search of penpals or picture traders.</p><p>I do not agree with the idea Red Headlines, this paper is not for Tiny-tots.</p><p>I would like to find fans interested in trading Hockey pictures as I have 8&rdquo;xl0&rdquo;, down to 5&rdquo;x 3&rdquo; photos to trade.</p><p>My address is simply Gralea, Alberta.</p><p>Norman Carlson.</p><p>Granlea, Alta.</p><p><b>(The pic was Joe Lund. Our error.)</b></p><h2><b>Pix</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>I would like to find out where I could get some pictures of NHL players and also find myself a pen pal who is interested in sports, and would be Interested in trading programs and pictures.</p><p>I can be reached at 9841-150 Street, Edmonton, Alta.</p><p>Ron Ungarian.</p><p>Edmonton, Alta.</p><h2><b>Note To Tommy</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Note To Tommy Ivan. I would like to tell you what I think of the current campaign.</p><p>Your great team Is rated by true fans to be the best in the league, without a doubt. Your team had been leading the rest of the league in almost every department and I figure it&rsquo;s about time you made the move that will endorse my choice of the Red Wings as the number one team.</p><p>You&rsquo;ve been in front since the early part of the season, winning the big ones at all times and losing the ones that would have permitted the team to pull away. This business of winning at home and losing on foreign ice looks very bad and I do not think that the particular shape of a rink has anything to do with it.</p><p>In respect to individual stars, it&rsquo;s been the same. The GREAT Gordie Howe was rolling along with about a ten point lead for a long while, and than, he decides that it&rsquo;s too early to clinch the scoring championship for a fourth consecutive season and waits for the boys, to give them a fighting chance.</p><p>Now, Mister Howe must have been laughing inside to find that one them had him tied for one night. You saw what happened the next night. He picked up one assist. That left him in front all by himself with two games in hand besides. I know he&rsquo;ll tease them to death, but it gets on my back, so tell Mr. Production to get on back to his ten point margin so that people who had the nerve to pick him on the second All-Star team will eat their selections.</p><p>Let his scoring feats do all his talking so that he will never have to write articles to ballyhoo his hockey performances.</p><p>Now, about Terry Sawchuk, same story here. Mr. Goaler won&rsquo;t let his predecessor take the Vezina trophy away from him just for the matter of letting Lumley take a look at it. His great class will tell at the end without the help of a Leafian grabbing his defensive style. As for the rest of the players, I know they&rsquo;ll be tops in their own respective roles comparing their records with the others as such. Now Tommy, if I may call you so, get this team rolling full speed and prove me right. With the Big Tteam you have, plus your coaching ability, I suggest that the right moment to get going would be right here in Montreal on Feb. 18 against the next best team in the League.</p><p>Guy Gagnd,</p><p>Montreal, Que.</p><h2><b>Development</b></h2><p>Dear Sirs,</p><p>Just a note in regard to the article concerning the fan who would have Detroit, Montreal and Toronto hand over players, mostly to Chicago, just because the three other teams happen to be lower in the standings.</p><p>Does this fan happen to realize that the teams mentioned, the Red Wings, Canadiens and Maple Leafs, spend thousands of dollars in the development of players? By the time a kid has reached 21, he has usually cost the club that developed him four to five thousand dollars at least. It hardly seems to me to be fair to ask that team to turn around and hand him to a club, like the Black Hawks, that spends hardly anything on player development.</p><p>Jim Black,</p><p>Toronto, Ont.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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THE FAN FORUM

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0664/1428173-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="579" height="271"></div><h2>February 17 to February 23</h2><p>17&mdash;MEGER, Paul, Montreal forward, 1929.</p><p>18&mdash;JOHNSON, Tom, Montreal defense, 1928.</p><p>21&mdash;FORBES, Jake, Sherbrooke, playing-coach, 1925.</p><p>22&mdash;ABEL, Sid, Chicago coach, 1918.</p><p>23&mdash;THOMSON, Jim, Toronto defense, 1927.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Happy Birthday to You

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>Battling spirit of a type not seen since the memorable days of Johnny Mariucci returned to the Chicago Stadium the last night of January within the rugged confines of Larry Zeidel, Black Hawk rookie rearguard. The visiting Detroiters won the game, 5-1, but departing spectators had no thought of the score.</p><p>&ldquo;Boy! This was better than a dozen Moore-Maxim whltzes, he was just like old&lsquo;maroosh&rsquo;,gasped one. Going even further, another fan exclaimed,&ldquo;Good for Zeidel, he showed us what we have wanted to see all along. If Chicago&rsquo;s going to be last, it should go down fighting!&rdquo;</p><p>The surge of action that had everyone talking came in the last four minutes of the game when Zeidel suddenly tore into&lsquo;Tough Tony&rsquo; Leswick of the Red Wings like a wild man. The battle erupted in a scuffle around the Hawk cage and within seconds fists were flying in every direction.</p><p>Other players that attempted to step between the two had to retreat for fear of their own safety. Referee Red Storey motioned Linesmen Mush March and George Hayes to do their duty. They succeeded in quieting Leswick, but could do no more than cover up when subjected to the brunt of Zeidel&rsquo;s flailing attack.</p><p>Showing dozens of reasons why he is called,&ldquo;The Rock&rdquo; he broke away to floor Tony momentarily with a looping right hand. It finally remained for Detroit&rsquo;s Glen Skov, a former Zeidel teammate, to successfully skate him away from the scene. Both players were banished from the ice with major penalties.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01249/1428204-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg" title="f0007-01" width="524" height="1679"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&ldquo;The Rock&rdquo;</b></p><p><b>LARRY ZEIDEL</b></p></figcaption></div><p>The reason for Larry&rsquo;s outburst became known after the game when Dr. Myron Tremaine, Hawk physician, had to take four stitches around the inner side of his right eye.&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t a very bad gash, but it was dangerously close to the eye,&rdquo; Tremaine disclosed.</p><p>Leswick apparently caught Zeidel in the spot with his stick.&ldquo;I was going to hit him back with my wood, but I guess I didn&rsquo;t have the nerve,&rdquo; the spirited defender said.&ldquo;One thing for sure, it&rsquo;s going to take more than a few fists to get even for this and I won&rsquo;t forget!&rdquo;<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Aggressive Player Larry Zeidel Reminds Chicago Enthusiasts Of Days Of Johnny Mariucci

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY&#x2019;</div><p>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;</p><p>When the Boston Bruins stormed into the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs last springs, they acquired much of their momentum from a stocky center.</p><p>Fleming Mackell, best in the National league at his position, provided the perk-up which they needed.</p><p>Now, with the Bruins needing a late-season pickup to make this year&rsquo;s playoffs, Mackell has been designated for the role again.</p><p>&ldquo;If he can finish the season playing the way he did a year ago,&rdquo; maintained Lynn Patrick, the Bruins&rsquo; coach,&rdquo;we&rsquo;ll breeze into the playoffs.</p><p>&ldquo;A year ago he was the best center in the league, and our best scorer with 27 goals. This year he still has more ability than any other center in the league.</p><p>&ldquo;If he can make connections the way he did a year ago, he&rsquo;ll give us the pickup we need. Not only can he do it, he&rsquo;s the only player on Our team who can do it.&rdquo;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02218/1428235-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="872" height="901"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Wanted: A Strong Finish</b></p><p><b>FLEMING MACKELL</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Mackell didn&rsquo;t make the flaming scoring start this season that he made a year ago, but he has been effective nevertheless. Some of the fine scoring lieing done by John Peirson and Ed Sandford, his capable wings, has been traceable to his alertness and playmaking skill.</p><p>The 24-year-old husky gave promise of breaking out in a rash of goals in late November, but in early December he went into an extended slump.</p><p>Then, with Patrick despairing of his scoring help, he popped up with a pair of goals in a game with the Chicago Black Hawks. At that point Patrick put himself ouc on a limb and labeled him the Bruins&rsquo;&rdquo;pickup&rdquo; man for the remainder of the year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Lynn Looks To Flame To Explode To Lift Bruins’ Into Playoff Picture

<p class="dropcap"><span>I</span>n next week&rsquo;s Hockey News you will be able to read, the inside story of what makes Chicago&rsquo;s brilliant so-phomore <b>PETE CONACHER</b> tick. Be sure to read <b>Bud Booth&rsquo;s</b> interesting profile.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03166/1428266-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="271" height="444"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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COMING next week

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div><p>CHICAGO, Ill.&mdash;</p><p>The Chicago Black Hawks were disgusted beyond words January 31 when, after their defeat by Detroit, Referee Red Storey assessed misconduct penalties against goalie Al Rollins and defensemen Lee Fogolin as they went downstairs to the dressing room. Storey claimed the pair acted ungentlemanly at the time.</p><p>Feelings were running so high among the players that, as a protective measure, the door to the officials&rsquo; room was locked. Rollins and Fogolin were unable to cite any reasons why they might draw such sentences after the game. Both had been among those in disagreements with Storey during the game, but he did not act then.</p><p>Fogolin was banished for cross-checking Gordie Howe in the second period and argued the point for several moments. In the final stanza, Rollins and Capt. Bill Gadsby complained at length when a goal by Earl Reibel was allowed. Both maintained the Red Wing center had kicked the puck into the net.</p><p>&ldquo;He told Storey it hit him in the chest, but I was right beside him and he was dead wrong,&rdquo; exclaimed Gadsby after the game.&rdquo;I saw the puck hit his leg and bounce into the cage and the rule book says a goal made that way cannot be counted.&rdquo; Rollins was in wholehearted agreement.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-0592/1428304-1-eng-US/f0007-052.jpg" title="f0007-05" width="258" height="406"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Al Rollins</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-04133/1428297-1-eng-US/f0007-042.jpg" title="f0007-04" width="248" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Lee Fogolin</b></figcaption></div><p>Hawk Coach Sid Abel found Storey&rsquo;s action after the play hard to conceive.&rdquo;He can&rsquo;t call a penalty then,&rdquo; he fumed,&rdquo;the game is over and he has no jurisdiction. Remember the time Rocket Richard punched an official in a hotel lobby? That was certainly a strong offense, but he was not penalized!&rdquo;</p><p>National Hockey League rules do not, so far as we have been able to discover, definitely describe the length of time In which penalties can be called. It would appear, though, that the Hawks have a good point and future revisions of game regulations should clarify the point.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Misconducts To Fogie, Al Infuriate Chi-Hawks

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>The high school coach, or the Junior B mentor, who sees the first glimmer of future greatness in an athlete seldom gets a mention in the agate type, when the glowing feature stories about the stars when they arrive reach the public prints. And this goes for hockey as well as any other game which offers rich rewards for the pros.</p><p>What brought this up was a chance encounter with George P. Smith, at a QHL game at the Montreal Forum.</p><p>&ldquo;Hey! George, didn&rsquo;t you have Muzz Patrick at Westmount High?&rdquo; quizzed the scribe.</p><p>&ldquo;Yes, I did, and I can tell you some interesting things about him. Do you know when Muzz came to Westmount, he hadn&rsquo;t been on skates for four years. He was 17 then, enrolled for his fourth year of a high school course. The Patricks had come east from Victoria, B.C. The rink out there had burned down, and it was the only rink they had. There&rsquo;s no natural ice of course in Victoria.&rdquo;</p><h2><b>The G.P. System</b></h2><p>So&rdquo;G.P.&rdquo; as he&rsquo;s known to a couple of thousand athletes who came under his tutoring in 32 years as athletic director at Westmount High in one of Montreal&rsquo;s residential suburbs, put the big youngster through his hockey coaching system.</p><p>During his long career as a shepherd of schoolboy athletes Mr. Smith inists it has always been his conviction to allow a youngster to develop naturally. And he firmly believes that hereditary strains are noticeable.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01282/1428335-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="583" height="603"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>A Graduate</b></p><p><b>MUZZ PATRICK</b></p></figcaption></div><p>&ldquo;This was particularly true in the case of Muzz Patrick&rdquo; says Smith.&rdquo;In so many ways he was replica of Lester, his dad, who I had followed closely from the time he started playing right on through his terrific career.&rdquo;</p><p>It was obvious at the first practice early that; November of 1933 that Muzz was practically a beginner at skating. So the G.P. Smith, System, Reg&rsquo;d. system was put to work.</p><h2><b>Correcting The Faults</b></h2><p>Mt. Smith, bearing in mind his issistence of allowing natural development, attacks the problem of teaching hockey and other games from the opposite tangent. A special card, the veteran coach has devised, is made out, and going down the line each fault is indicated. Then coach and pupil go to work on a program calculated to eliminate those mistakes.</p><p>&ldquo;I never insist on an absolute standard way of doing things, the mistake I believe many coaches make.&rdquo; They fall to realize that a standard is a composite of many hundreds of players&rsquo; execution of a certain movement in playing skill. To me the reason so many good hockey players fail to make good coaches is their inisistence on the player doing certain things the same identical way they did themselves while reaching fame.</p><p>&ldquo;Could Gordie Howe play the same style as Maurice Richard, or Doug Harvey copy Red Kelly, or Elmer Lach follow Milt Schmidt&rsquo;s technique?&rdquo;</p><h2><b>Hard Work Pays Off</b></h2><p>For hours Smith and Muzz Patrick worked. Correction of the more glaring faults was stressed. The chart which is printed in an adjacent column explains this In detail, though naturally Patrick&rsquo;s long forgotten faults are not listed.</p><p>First he had to learn to skate. Sure he has skated, but he had to reach that natural ease which is the proficiency of a hockey player who expects to reach fast company.</p><p>Powerfully built, a&rdquo;natural&rsquo;&rsquo; In almost any type of athletics, Muss had all the other attributes. Thus skating was now of paramount importance.</p><p>Muzz skated, and skated. But he skated always with an eye to the faults shown on the card. He worked on his turning left, his turning right. He studied balance, easy rhythm in striding, backward skating&mdash;hours and hours were spent in stress and strain, and sweat at times with the coach looking on, but considerably more time by Muzz Patrick on his own, on any rink, anywhere he could get out on the tubed runners.</p><p>This was the making of a National Hockey League player.</p><h2><b>Jack Adams Interested</b></h2><p>The G. P. Smith hockey cards are now well known in the game. Jack Adams heard of them, ordered a supply and they have been used extensively in Detroit Red Wings farm chain, and by coaches, scouts in the Detroit hockey domain.</p><p>The system is not foolproof, it just helps. It exploits the natural gifts of a budding puck and stick artist, by first of all attacking the things he does wrong.</p><p>G.P. sent Johnny Peirson, now with the Boston Bruins, to college hockey stardom at McGill and on to the big wheel, via the same system, and the progress of Muzz was meteoric.</p><p>Graduating from Westmount High, the younger of the Patrick brothers of the second generation of hockey fame, moved on to New York; the Rovers of the United States amateur whirl, the Philadelphia Ramblers for a couple of years and he was ready for big time with the Rangers. And he made it, including the year at Westmount High, owhere his training was almost rudimentary, all in the space of five seasons&mdash;trully a remarkably rapid climb.</p><h2><b>Easy To Handle</b></h2><p>Reminiscing Mr. Smith says Murray, or Muzz, was-one of the easiest athletes he ever handled &mdash; &ldquo;agreeable, willing and showing the old Patrick trait, a terrific competitor, and despite his great size he was always a clean player, who fitted in well with the rest of the team.&rdquo;</p><p>In the Greater Montreal school hockey leagues, because of the fact that the bigger schools operated senior, intermediate and junior teams, there was a rule that six senior players must be so designated before the first game. In other words these players were&rdquo;frozen as seniors&rdquo; could not henceforth compete in the lower classifications.</p><p>Smith picked Muzz on his Big Six.</p><h2><b>Critic Gets Answer</b></h2><p>&ldquo;This was the only time I can ever remember that I was criticized in my thirty-two years of coaching, by the powers&rdquo; says G. P.&rdquo;A teacher at Westmount High said:&rdquo;You must know that big boy&rsquo;s father&rdquo;I replied&rsquo;I knew his father as one of Canada&rsquo;s outstanding hockey players, and I expect his son to be a great one, too.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p><p>By the middle of the season he was a star.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Muzz Patrick Glittering Product Of Smith’s Unique Coaching System

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH (14th of a Series)</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02223/1428373-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="280" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Billy Taylor</b></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03167/1428366-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="253" height="423"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Grant Warwick</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 headlines in the not too distant past.</p><p>Six years ago this week &mdash; An underrated Canada squad skated off with the world amateur hockey title in the Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland, with nine countries taking part in the competition. The team, the Royal Canadian Air Force Flyers, emerged with a record of seven wins, no losses and one tie.</p><p>Boston&rsquo;s Bruins traded Billy&rdquo;The Kid&rdquo; Taylor to the Rangers for fiery Grant Warwick&hellip; With 80 points racked up in his first 50 games, the veteran Carl Liscombe of Providence seemed set to break the season&rsquo;s high in scoring in the American League. The previous high of 99 points was made by Wally Kilrea.</p><p>Four years ago this week &mdash; With only one to go, Doug Bentley of the Chicago Black Hawks, was on the verge of becoming the second player in the club&rsquo;s history to become a 200-goal getter. The first was Babe Dye, but he had scored many of his markers with other NHL clubs with whom he had played first.</p><p>Goaler Lome Worsley was among several members of the amateur New York Rovers expected to advance into pro ranks in the near future&hellip; Four Cleveland stars, Les Douglas, Pete Leswick, Fred Thurier and Bob Carse, were lined up in that order at the front of the AHL scoring race.</p><p>Two years ago this week &mdash; Named to an unofficial midseason all-star squad in the NHL by league coaches were the following: goal&mdash;Terry Sawchuk, Detroit; defense&mdash;Red Kelly, Detroit, and Doug Harvey, Canadiens; left wing&mdash;Sid Smith, Toronto; center&mdash;Ted Kennedy, Toronto, and right wing &mdash; Gordie Howe, Detroit.</p><p>Conn Smythe, the man who does the hiring, announced that Frank&rdquo;King&rdquo; Clancy would be the next coach of his Toronto Maple Leafs&hellip; There were no less than 23 rookie candidates for the National League&rsquo;s Calder Trophy that was eventuallv to be won by Boom Boom Geoffrion of the Canadiens.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0008-02

Taylor Traded to Rangers

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0008-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04125/1428404-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg"></div><h2><b>Forwards</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></h2>

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George Smith’s… … Coaching System

<p><b>For the sixth time in his fabulous career. Maurice (Rocket) Richard of the Montreal Canadiens has scored more than 30 goals in a season.</b></p><p><b>During the past week the riflin&rsquo; right winger picked up three goals to boost his total for the season thus far to 32, tops In the National Hockey League by a considerable margin.</b></p><p><b>In his eleventh full season with the Habs, he played only 16 games in his rookie campaign, Rocket Richard has never scored fewer than 20 goals for a whole campaign. His lowest figure for a full season was the 20 goals he racked up for the 1948-49 season.</b></p><p><b>Then there is the matter of the all-time scoring mark which is held by the 32-year old veteran. Last season, the Habitant meal-ticket eclipsed the previous mark of 324 goals previously held by Nels (Old Poison) Stewart. Since that historic moment Richard has plunked home 55 more and the record now stands at 379 goals and gets bigger every time the Rocket scores.</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-1418/1428571-1-eng-US/f0009-142.jpg" title="f0009-14" width="293" height="477"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Maurice Richard</b></figcaption></div><p><b>The once unheard of mark of 400 goals is within grasping distance of the colorful French-Canadien. With 18 games left this season, and who knows how many more seasons left to play, the all-time scoring record should be set at over 400 mark by the time the tempestuous Richard decides to call it a career.</b></p><p><b>Rocket was picked to the first team by the selectors of the halfway All-Stars, displacing his perennial rival, the great Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings. At the moment, Richard has scored almost 50-per-cent more goals than Howe and it will be pretty hard for the Red Wings star to displace him as All-Star right winger come time to fill in the final ballots.</b><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Player - of - the - Week

<div class="byline">By JACK HORRIGAN</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-08" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0867/1428675-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>PETE BABANDO</b></p><p><b>GORDIE PENNELL</b></p><p><b>STEVE WOCHT</b></p></figcaption></div><p>BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;</p><p>At the start of the current American H ockey League season Pete Bebando was sidelined with a fractured ankle; Gordie Pennell was undergoing health checkups, and Steve Wochy was slowly rounding into shape after reporting late to the Buffalo training camp.</p><p>There was, at the time, little likelyhood that the three would Become, as they are today, one of the AHL&rsquo;s most effective forward lines.</p><p>Since Coach Frank Eddolls of4 the Bisons placed the three on the ice together for the first time in Buffalo&rsquo;s 13th game of the season on Nov. 4, they&rsquo;ve specialized in scoring Important goals and have become known as the&rdquo;Clutch Line.&rdquo;</p><p>In 35 games since, the line has scored 11 game winning goals and the tying marker in nine additional encounters.</p><p>Both Pennell, who Is enjoying his finest year as a pro, and Wochy, the accurating shooting right winger Cleveland kissed off as washed up, already have scored their 20th goals for the campaign.</p><p>Babando, who leads the trio in setting up scores, has registered 11 scores to date.</p><h2><b>Most Outstanding</b></h2><p>&ldquo;When it comes to scoring at opportune times, Pennell&rsquo;s line has been the most outstanding in the league this season,&rdquo; Eddolls praised recently.&rdquo;During December when the club slumped a bit, Gordie, Steve, and Pete kept popping them in until the rest of the club got going again.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Our statistics show that the line has scored 46 goals in 35 games (Wochy had four goals and Babando one when the line was formed) and that&rsquo;s mighty comforting to a coach.&rdquo;</p><p>Babando and Pennell additionally form one of Eddolls&rsquo; penalty killing duos and it&rsquo;s seldom that the Bisons are scored upon when they are trying to break up enemy power plays.</p><p>Pennell, now In his fifth season as a Bison although only 24 years old, is particularly elated with the turn of events which placed him in the same unit with Wochy and Babando.</p><p>&ldquo;One year with Buffalo I had thirty-three different wingmen, playing with, me. It seemed that everytime I looked up before A faceoff, I had two new fellows on either side of me.</p><p>&ldquo;Believe me, it means a lot tor a center to have the confidence I have in Steve and Pete. Both of them know what to&rsquo; do with that puck once you give it to them, and it certainly makes a center look good when they pop&rsquo;em past a goaltender.&rdquo;</p><p>Wochy recently was asked by a Cleveland writer if his present line was the best he&rsquo;d ever played on. Wily Steve, who cut his pro eyeteeth with the Detroit Red Wings ten years ago, didn&rsquo;t hesitate.</p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s certainly one of the best, and when we leave the ice there isn&rsquo;t any arguments going on about whether one of the fellows got gyped out of an assist as there have been on some lines I played on in the past,&rdquo; he asserted.</p><p>Babando, who isn&rsquo;t much forwords, praised not only his line-mates but the Buffalo team in general.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0010-08

Bisons’ Clutch Line Scores The Winners

<h2><b>Big Lead</b></h2><p>The Buffalo Bisons have now opened up a commanding ten point lead over the second-place Cleveland Baron.</p><h2><b>Big Line</b></h2><p>Buffalo Bisons big line of Don Marshall, Gaye Stewart and Ed Slowinski have accounted for 85 goals between them.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS TUES. A.M. JAN. 9)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01280/1428804-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="593" height="189"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 2</b></h3><p><b>Pittsburgh ft at cleveland 4</b></p><p>CLEVELAND &mdash; Earl Balfour scored at the 19:04 mark of the third period to give the Pittsburgh Hornets a 5-4 decision over the Ceveland Barons.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02239/1428797-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="597" height="545"></div><p><b>5Syracuse ft at Hershey 6</b></p><p>HERSHEY &mdash; Dune Fisher scored after lightly more than a minute of over-time play as the Hershey Bears edged the yracuse Warriors 6-5.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03188/1428790-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="591" height="741"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 3</b></h3><p><b>Buffalo 2 at Providence 1</b></p><p>PROVIDENCE &mdash; Veteran Eddie Slowinski and rookie Don Marshall scored second period goals as the Buffalo Bisons edged the Providence Reds 2-1, to increase their league lead to ten points.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04146/1428783-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="591" height="130"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05120/1428776-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="591" height="303"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-06109/1428769-1-eng-US/f0011-062.jpg" title="f0011-06" width="1688" height="885"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>The Cat Misses By A Whisker</b></p><p><b>ONE FOR GORDIE</b> &mdash; Gordie Pennell of the Buffalo Bisons is shown rounding the nets after having put the puck behind Cleveland&rsquo;s Emile (The Cat) Francis. The disc is shown bulging the cords as the back of the net. That&rsquo;s the Barons&rsquo; Eddie Olson moving in too late to stop the Bison centre.</p> <span class="photo-credit">(Bud ciunz Photo)</span></figcaption></div><p><b>Syracuse 1 at Pittsburgh 6</b></p><p>PITTSBURGH &mdash; Danny Lewicki scored two goals and was help-mate on two others as the Pittsburgh Hornets defeated the Syracuse Warriors 6-1.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0796/1428762-1-eng-US/f0011-072.jpg" title="f0011-07" width="587" height="596"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6</b></h3><p><b>Buffalo 3 at Syracuse 4</b></p><p>SYRACUSE &mdash; Syracuse Warriors, with nine new players In the lineup, made coach Eddie Shore&rsquo;s experiment pay off as they came from behind to defeat Buffalo Blsons 4-3 in overtime.</p><p>Shore brought up seven players from the Syracuse Springfield farm club of the Quebec League and got two from Johnstown of the International League. The took the action after sending three players to Springfield and suspending seven others because they refused to make similar moves.</p><p>Holdover Eric Pogue scored two goals for the Warriors, his second the winner after 44 seconds of sudden-death over-time. Other Syracuse scorers were Ken Shinkei, a regular, and Ted Powers, one of the newcomers. Pete Babando, Ed Elowinskl and Gordon Pennel got the Buffalo goals.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0891/1428755-1-eng-US/f0011-082.jpg" title="f0011-08" width="583" height="647"></div><p><b>Cleveland 3 at Hershey 4</b></p><p>HERSHEY &mdash; George (Red) Sullivan scored In the first 32 seconds of an overtime &ldquo;sudden death&rdquo; period to give Hershey Bears a 4-3 victory over Cleveland Barons.</p><p>It was the third consecutive over-time victory for the Bears.</p><p>With the game deadlocked 2-2 in the third period Capt. Andy Branigan of the Bears accidentally batted the puck into his own het, giving Cleveland the lead. Slightly more than a minute later, Hershey&rsquo; coach Murray Henderson sank a 50-foot drive from centre ice, his second goal of the game, to send the game into overtime.</p><p>Lorne Ferguson scored the other goal for the Winners. Fred Glover, Andy Bathgate and Jackie Gordon scored for Cleveland.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-0985/1428748-1-eng-US/f0011-092.jpg" title="f0011-09" width="589" height="537"></div><p><b>Providence 2 at Pittsburgh 5</b></p><p><b>PITTSBURGH</b> &mdash; Danny Lewicki, Andy Barbe, Frank Mathers and Bob Hassard each got one goal and one assist in Pittsburgh Hornets&rsquo; 5-2 victory over Providence Reds.</p><p>The other Pittsburgh goalgetter was Bob Sabourin while Chuck Scherza and Doc Couture, the latter newly acquired by Providence, scored for the losers.</p><p>Goalie Gil Mayer of Pittsburgh suffered a slight concussion when shoved into his own goal in the third period. He struck his head on a post and had to be led from the ice. He returned within 15 minutes to keep the Reds scoreless the rest of the way.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1075/1428741-1-eng-US/f0011-102.jpg" title="f0011-10" width="591" height="631"></div><h3>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7</h3><p><b>Syracuse 3 at Cleveland 4</b></p><p>CLEVELAND &mdash; Andy Blair&rsquo;s goal with only 28 seconds left in the game capped a Cleveland comeback and gave the Barons a 4-3 victory over Eddie Shore&rsquo;s reconstructed Syracuse Warriors.</p><p>The Warriors now have one win and one loss in games since Shore brought up nine players from Springfield of the Quebec League and Johnston of the League.</p><p>Eric Pogue, one of the holdovers, gate Syracuse&rsquo;a 2-0 lead with two goals with in 18 seconds early In the first period. Fred Shero scored Cleveland&rsquo;s first goal in the second period.</p><p>Mike Narduzzi made it 3-1 for the Warriors in the third frame and then the Barons came back with three in a row lor the victory. Cal Stearns got one and Eddie Olson got credit for an other when Ron Telford, Syracuse defenseman. accidentally knocked the puck Into his own net.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01280/1428734-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="587" height="489"></div><p><b>Pittsburgh 0 at Buffalo 2</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02216/1428727-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="585" height="153"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03175/1428720-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="593" height="239"></div><p><b>Hershey 2 at Providence 4</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04131/1428713-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="589" height="507"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(INCLUDING GAMES OF SUN., FEB. 7)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-1158/1428706-1-eng-US/f0011-112.jpg" title="f0011-11" width="589" height="615"></div><p><b>LEADERS</b></p><p><b>Most Goids:</b> Harry Pidhirny, Syr. 31.</p><p><b>oMst Assists:</b> Geo. Sollivan, Her. 54.</p><p><b>Most Penalties by a Player:</b> Larry Cahan, Pittsburgh, 129 mts.</p><p><b>Most Penalties by a Club:</b> Cleveland, 572 mts.</p><p><b>Best Goalie:</b> Jacques Plante, Buffalo, 54, 147, 3. 2.72.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts:</b> Emile Francis, Clev, 4.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0011-01

AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By LEO ORNEST</div><p>NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>Fashoway, Love, Durham, Dechene, Shibicky, MacKenzie and Dorohoy. What&rsquo;s in a name? Plenty. Ask the Cougars, Canucks or any of the teams in the WHL and all of them will tell you the heart and backbone of the NW Royals revolves around the individuals listed above.</p><p>Fashoway is the club&rsquo;s big gun, the guy who scores the goals, the winger who is as good a scorer as there is outside the NHL. Gord was leading the league in scoring with 33 goals when we went to press. This made him the top marksman in all the play-for-pay leagues.</p><p>NW&rsquo;s prolific marksman had 16 assists for 49 points in 49 games for a good one-point-per-game-average. He was tied with Mark Marquess of Seattle for most game winning goals; each has five. Gord, Colin Kilburn, Victoria: and Steve Black, Calgary, each had scored two Hat Tricks.</p><p>The ironman of the league, the surprise package of the Royals this season and possibly the most improved player in the loop is Bobby Love. The veteran NW pivotman has really been flying. At last count pudgy Bob was third in scoring with 17 goals and 34 assists for 51 points. Bob has spruced up NW&rsquo;s attack considerably and he deserves a terrific boost for the way he&rsquo;s been digging all season. A tribute to a fine competitor.</p><p>Unless Lloyd (Pete) Durham breaks a leg or goes very poorly from now to the end of the season he&rsquo;s going to receive many All-Star votes. Bad boy of the loop last season Durham hasn&rsquo;t forgotten what a penalty box looks like. Nevertheless, he&rsquo;s been a tower of strength defensively, and offensively he&rsquo;s as good a rearguard as there is in the circuit.</p><p>Lucien Dechene. Here&rsquo;s a guy they&rsquo;ll be talking about as long as there&rsquo;s hockey in the B.C. city of New Westminster. The fabulous fat boy of the Royals has been and still is one of the premier goalies in the WHL. Big Luke has written several records in the WHL record book since he started kicking pucks out for NW in October of 1948. With Dechene in goal the Royals have few, if any, netminding worries.</p><h2><b>Brought Club Along</b></h2><p>Alex Shibicky, the coach of the Royals, won&rsquo;t score any goals for his own team. However, it has been simple amazing the way the former NY Rangers star has brought his club along; how he has managed to keep them among the leaders and how he has completely buffaloed the experts. The latter predicted a sixth or seventh place finish for NW. Coley Hall, Vancouver owner, said Mr. MacKenzie has the worst club in the circuit.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-0596/1428859-1-eng-US/f0012-052.jpg" title="f0012-05" width="589" height="1362"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>GORDIE FASHOWAY</b></figcaption></div><p>MacKenzie returned Hall&rsquo;s compliment. &ldquo;The Canny Scot&rdquo; is never asleep at the switch. He is always on the watch for another good player to sign to a NW contract. Kenny has consistently come up with topnotch, entertaining and colorful sextets.</p><p>In recent games NW has relied very heavily on the scoring habits of Ollie Dorohoy, a veteran of the league since 1945 and one of its and NW&rsquo;s top scorers. Ollie has a knack of coming up with that big goal. He&rsquo;s always a threat and Ollie is considered to be a great opportunist. The little guy is nlenty effective around the opposition&rsquo;s goal.</p><h2><b>Mcbab Captain</b></h2><p>McNab is the Royal&rsquo;s captain, one of the smoothest centers in the league and he is the most sought after player every time NW is involved in trade conversation. MacKenzie Says Max is not for sale.</p><p>Besides the players mentioned NW has Bob Bergeron, rookie Ron Matthews. Bob Paul and Jim Bedard to round out the defense corps. Up front there are: Jackie Hamilton, freshman Pierre Brilliant. rookies Len Thornson, Ed Kassian and Ken Booth, and last, but definitely not least, ever popular Blinky Boyce, Mr. Five by Five of the WHL.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0012-05

Gordie Fashoway Is Big Gun For Unpredictable NW Royals

<h2><b>Player Changes</b></h2><p class="dropcap"><span>C</span>hange Vic Stasiuk of Edmonton number to 19. Remove Frank Kubasek. Remove Doug. Bentley from Saskatoon. Add Ron Murphy, fwd 18. Remove James Bedard from New Westminster.</p><h2><b>Penalties</b></h2><p>George Pargeter of Calgary received his first penalty of the season in Saskatoon on January 28. Parreter had gone 47 games this season and 32 last year for a total of 79 aines without being penalized.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS ON MON A.M. FEB. 1)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01288/1429023-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="587" height="217"></div><h3><b>RESULTS</b></h3><p><b>Monday January 25th</b></p><p>Calgary 0 at Victoria 2</p><p><b>Tuesday January 26th</b></p><p>Edmonton 0 at Vancouver 2</p><p><b>Wednesday iJanuary 27th</b></p><p>Edmonton 3 at New West. 2</p><p><b>Thursday January 28th</b></p><p>Calgary 4 at Saskatoon 5</p><p><b>Friday January 29th</b></p><p>Edmonton 4 at Victoria 2</p><p>New West. 1 at Vancouver 6</p><p><b>Saturday January 30th</b></p><p>Edmonton 1 at Seattle 5</p><p>Vancouver 6 at New West. 3</p><p>Saskatoon 0 at Calgary 2</p><p><b>Sunday January 31st</b></p><p>New Westminster 1 at Seattle 3</p><h3><b>MONDAY JANUARY 25</b></h3><p><b>Calgary 0 at Victoria 2</b></p><p>VICTORIA &mdash; Victoria Cougars blanked the league-leading Calgary Stampebers 2-0 with Eddie Dorohoy and Alex Kuzma doing the scoring.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02249/1429016-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="581" height="333"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY JANUARY 26</b></h3><p><b>Edmonton 0 at Vancouver 2</b></p><p>VANCOUVER &mdash; Goalie Lorne Worsley earned himself a $50 bonus as he and his Vancouver Canuck mates shutout the Edmonton Flyers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03223/1429009-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="605" height="317"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27</b></h3><p><b>Edmonton 3 at New Westminster 2</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04197/1429002-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg" title="f0013-04" width="599" height="341"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05169/1428995-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="585" height="119"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-06141/1428988-1-eng-US/f0013-062.jpg" title="f0013-06" width="1545" height="1245"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Follow The Leader!</b></p><p><b>MARKED MAN</b> &mdash; Mark Marquess of the Seattle Bombers skates hotly in pursuit of the puck while Hugh Coflin of the Edmonton Flyers skates hotly in pursuit of Marquess. Mark wasn&rsquo;t to be headed in this game however, for he picked up two goals.</p> <span class="photo-credit">(seattle Times Photo)</span></figcaption></div><h3><b>THURSDAY JANUARY 28</b></h3><p><b>Calgary 4 at Saskatoon 5</b></p><p>SASKATOON &mdash; Doug Adam scored at 12:51 of the third period to give the Saskatoon Quakers a 5-4 decision over the Calgary Stampeders.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-07131/1428981-1-eng-US/f0013-072.jpg" title="f0013-07" width="593" height="439"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-08123/1428974-1-eng-US/f0013-082.jpg" title="f0013-08" width="595" height="177"></div><h3><b>FRIDAY JANUARY 29</b></h3><p><b>EEdmonton 4 at Victoria 2</b></p><p><b>Edmonton</b>&mdash;Goal: Hall; defense, Hrymnak, Folk, Coflin, Bucyk, Thibeault; forwards: Uniac, D. Poile, Sclisizzi, Stasiuk, Haley, J. Anderson, Bonin, O&rsquo;Grady, Hannigan.</p><p><b>Victoria</b>&mdash;Goal: Almas; defense: Lavitt, Schneider, Lowe, Clune; forwards: Macauley, D. Anderson. Hebenton. Kuzma, Kilburn, Reay, Rorohoy, Bettio, Abbott, Sinnett, Achtymichuk.</p><p>Refere, Lou Farelli; linesman RossVaillere.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-09117/1428967-1-eng-US/f0013-092.jpg" title="f0013-09" width="591" height="553"></div><p><b>New Westminster 1 at Vancouver 6</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-10112/1428960-1-eng-US/f0013-102.jpg" title="f0013-10" width="587" height="369"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1197/1428953-1-eng-US/f0013-112.jpg" title="f0013-11" width="599" height="205"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY JANUARY 30</b></h3><p><b>Edmonton 1 at Seattle 5</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1284/1428946-1-eng-US/f0013-122.jpg" title="f0013-12" width="593" height="257"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0694/1428939-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="585" height="257"></div><p><b>Vancouver 6 at New Westminster 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0774/1428932-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="583" height="695"></div><p><b>Saskatoon 0 at Calgary 3</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0862/1428925-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="591" height="151"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-0956/1428918-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="601" height="229"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, JANUARY 31</b></h3><p><b>New Westminster 1 at Seattle 8</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1050/1428911-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="591" height="417"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p><b>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN. JAN. 31)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1365/1428904-1-eng-US/f0013-132.jpg" title="f0013-13" width="575" height="1279"></div><p><b>GOALKEEPERS RECORDS</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1459/1428897-1-eng-US/f0013-142.jpg" title="f0013-14" width="587" height="206"></div><p><b>LEADERS</b></p><p><b>Most goals:</b> Wayne Brown, Sea. 35</p><p><b>Most Assists:</b> Guyle Fielder, Sea. 38 Most Game Minning Goals. Freddy Browi, Vancouver, 6.</p><p><b>Most First Goals of Game:</b> Bobby Love, N.W.; Wayne Brown, Sea. 6.</p><p><b>Hat Tricks:</b> Gordon Fashoway, N.W. 2; Colin Kilburn, Vic. 2; Steve Black, Cal.</p><p><b>Most Shutouts.</b> Bill Brennan, Cal. 7</p><p>PENALTIES. IN. MINUTES</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-1549/1428890-1-eng-US/f0013-152.jpg" title="f0013-15" width="545" height="231"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01288/1429061-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="499" height="578"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Could Pair Up&hellip;</b></p><p><b>PETE MORIN</b></p></figcaption></div><p class="dropcap"><span>R</span>ollie Hebert, effervescent coach of the Sagueneens and Pete Morin, dapper and articulate mentor of Montreal&rsquo;s Royals, could pair up in a Swami Act. They would make good in night club circuits or on vaudeville&rsquo;s big time if they could make their guesses and forecasts on mundane affairs of the same stripe as their hockey predictions.</p><p>When this season&rsquo;s Quebec Hockey League struggle was in its infant stages Morin said he figured the Chicoutimi Sags would be the team to beat for this 1953-54 gonfalon.</p><p>The opinion of Morin drew particular notice, because they were startling for their daring at the time. For last season&rsquo;s league champions were floundering in sixth place.</p><h2><b>NO SHORT SALE</b></h2><p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t sell Hebert&rsquo;s team short,&rdquo; said Morin. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got a good club. You forget, like many others, that Sherman White, who was injured in an automobile accident during the training camp period isn&rsquo;t playing and that big Gerry Glaude, of the defense is overweight.</p><p>&ldquo;When White gets back into action and Glaude strips off fifteen or twenty pounds that team will start to click. And Hebert is smart enough, he&rsquo;ll make a deal or two fast, if he finds any weaknesses that need repairing.&rdquo;</p><p>White and Glaude came back sure enough. Hebert made a deal with Springfield Indians, obtained Jacques Locas, who the Chicoutimi coach knew would be much happier playing for a team in the Province of Quebec and the Chicks began to chirp. Royals were not scorching any trails about this time either and Hebert when interviewed in his own bailiwick was asked his size-up of the league race.</p><h2><b>LISTEN TO HEBERT</b></h2><p>&ldquo;I think Royals will be the team to beat when we get into the hot part of the race,&rdquo; said Rollie.</p><p>&ldquo;They have the best resources of any club in the league. Sure the Canadiens may take one or two players from them when they have injuries. Dick Irvin may take a couple for keeps, but Frank Seike will come up with replacements good enough to keep Royals winning in our league.</p><p>&ldquo;I look for it to be a race between my club and the Royals in tfie last month or two.&rdquo;</p><p>And that&rsquo;s how it is, as these labored lines are typed. It&rsquo;s Chicoutimi and the Royals in a neck-and-neck race as the teams are rounding the bend of the back stretch.</p><p>They thundered into February in a dead-heat and it was so typical that when they played to a 2-2 draw at the Montreal Forum that they became all even &mdash; tied for first place with the same number of games played, equal in wins, losses and ties &mdash; even all the way.</p><h2><b>SQUARE ALL THE WAY</b></h2><p>That 2-2 draw appeared to take a lot out of the Chicoutimi larrigans. For the next night they went to Ottawa and were shellacked 5-0 as Ray Frederick hung up his eighth shutout. But next night the Sagueneens rebounded gayly, trounced Valleyfield Braves at Chicoutimi 4-1 and took possession of a solo lead.</p><p>The lead was judged to be a temporary holding, especially in Montreal. For Royals meantime were idle, held two games in hand and should close up fast.</p><p>The Chicoutimi and Montreal clubs had opened up a good lead on the remainder. of the pack and it&rsquo;ll be a race between these club the remainders of the route.</p><p>pair of swamis &mdash; Hebert and Morin appear so right.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05112/1429054-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="535" height="548"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>&hellip;In Swami Act</b></p><p><b>ROLLIE HEBER</b></p></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Morin (Alphonse) Calls Sags, Hebert (Caston) Picks Royals

<h2><b>Big Switch</b></h2><p>Eddie Shore, owner of the Springfield club, pulled a wholesale swap last week, sending seven Indians the Syracuse Warriors.</p><h2><b>Deadlock</b></h2><p>Montreal Royals and Chicoutimi Sagueneens remain deadlocked in first place in the QHL. The Royals have two game in hand however.</p><h2><b>HOW THE RACE GOES</b></h2><p><b>(STANDINGS TUES. A.M. FEB. 6)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01259/1429197-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg" title="f0015-01" width="581" height="209"></div><h3><b>TUESDAY FEBRUARY 3</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi 2 at Montreal 2</b></p><p>Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defenses: Lamirande, S. Smrke, Taillefer, Roy; forwards: White, Buchanan, Locas, F. Perreault, G. Leger, L. Smrke, Dussault, Groleau, Tkachuk, Moore.</p><p><b>Montreal</b> &mdash; Goal: R. Perreault; defense: MacPherson, R. Leger, Harmon, Roche; forwards: Burchell, Litzenberger, Davis, Desaulniers, Tessier, Wray, Denis, Frampton, Laplante, Blaine.</p><p>Referee: Sibby Mundey; linesmen: Jimmy Haggerty, Gordie Whitehead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-02224/1429190-1-eng-US/f0015-022.jpg" title="f0015-02" width="595" height="465"></div><h3><b>WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 3</b></h3><p><b>Chicoutimi 0 at Ottawa 5</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-03203/1429183-1-eng-US/f0015-032.jpg" title="f0015-03" width="597" height="461"></div><p><b>sherbrooke 2 at Springfield 2</b></p><p>SPRINGFIELD &mdash; Gilles Dube scored In the third period to give the Sherbrooke Saints a 2-2 overtime tie with the lowly Springfield Indians.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-04160/1429176-1-eng-US/f0015-042.jpg" title="f0015-04" width="588" height="560"></div><p><b>Valleyfield 2 at Qnebec 1</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-05128/1429169-1-eng-US/f0015-052.jpg" title="f0015-05" width="592" height="405"></div><h3><b>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4</b></h3><p><b>Valleyfleld 1 at Chicontlml 4</b></p><p><b>Valleyfleld:</b> Goal: Payette; defense: Ernst, Irvine, Arnett, Deslauriers; forwards: White, Joanette, Bisalllon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth, Cline, Leclerc.</p><p><b>Chicoutimi:</b> Goal: Hughes; defense: Taillefer, Roy, Lamfrande; forwards: White, Buchanan, S. Smrke, L. Smrke, Perreault, Groleau. Tkachuk, Leger, Locas, Dussault.</p><p><b>Referee:</b> Len Corriveau; linesmen: Boileau, Tremblay.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-06111/1429162-1-eng-US/f0015-062.jpg" title="f0015-06" width="583" height="439"></div><p><b>Qnebec 3 at Sherbrooke 0</b></p><p><b>Quebec:</b> Goal: Gelineau; defense: Crosier, Burega. Houle, Talbot; forwards: Brown, Cabana, Powell, Kelly, Tremblay, Caron. Regan, Grosse, Boone.</p><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-07102/1429155-1-eng-US/f0015-072.jpg" title="f0015-07" width="1675" height="957"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>NEAR MISS &mdash; Dick Wray of the Montreal Royals has his bid for a goal repulsed by Ray Frederick of the Ottawa Senators. The puck may be seen (arrow) bouncing off Frederick pads</b></figcaption></div><p><b>Sherbrooke:</b> Goal: Cotnoir; defense: Arbour, Palamar, Bownass, Forbes; forwards: Dube, Stankiewicz, Johnson, McLean, Irving. Ehnan, Podolsky, Bruneteau, Glesebrecht, Malo.</p><p>Referee: Charlie Dezlel; linesmen: Therriault, Westgate.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0892/1429148-1-eng-US/f0015-082.jpg" title="f0015-08" width="587" height="405"></div><h3><b>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6</b></h3><p><b>Valleyfield 2 nt Ottawa 3</b></p><p>Valleyfield &mdash; Goal: Payette; defense: Arnett, Ernat, Deslauriers, Irvine; forwards: White, Joannette, Bisai lion, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth. Cline, Leclerc.</p><p>Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp, Stahan, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelle, Johnson, Blair, Howard Riopelle, Hugh Riopelle, Giesebrecht, Kuntz, Maloney, Foley.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-0986/1429141-1-eng-US/f0015-092.jpg" title="f0015-09" width="593" height="509"></div><p><b>Quebec 4 nt Springfield 4</b></p><p>Quebec &mdash; Gelineau; defense: Burega, Raglan, Crozier, Talbot, Hoyle; forwards: Brown, Grosse, R. Powell, Regan, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Hucul, Boone.</p><p>Springfield &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Currie, McNab. Summers; forwards: Leier, Hogg, Hastings, Bobenlc, Kaiser, Horvath, Atnas, D. Powell, McMurdy.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1073/1429134-1-eng-US/f0015-102.jpg" title="f0015-10" width="589" height="589"></div><h3><b>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7</b></h3><p><b>Ottawa 3 nt Valley field 2</b></p><p>Ottawa &mdash; Goal: Frederick; defense: Copp, Stahan, Arundel, Robertson, Hudson; forwards: Gravelle, Johnson, Blair, Howard Riopelle, Hugh Riopelle, Gksebrecht, Kuntz, Maloney, Foley.</p><p>Valleyfield &mdash; Goal: Payette; defense: Arnett, Ernst, Deslauriers, Irvine; forwards: White, Joannette, Bisalllon, Corriveau, Bougie, Thomson, Kwong, Haworth. Cline, Leclerc.</p><p>Referee: Sibby Mundey: linesmen: Percy Reynolds and Gordie Whitehead.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1160/1429127-1-eng-US/f0015-112.jpg" title="f0015-11" width="583" height="232"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1244/1429120-1-eng-US/f0015-122.jpg" title="f0015-12" width="587" height="293"></div><p><b>Springfield 2 at Quebec 7</b></p><p>Springfield &mdash; Goal: O&rsquo;Hearn; defense: Currie, McNab, Summers; forwards: Leier, Hogg, Hastings, Bobenlc, Kaiser, Horvath, Atnas, D. Powell, McMurdy.</p><p>Quebec &mdash; Gelineau; defense: Burega, Raglan, Crozier, Talbot, Houle; forwards: Brown, Grosse, R. Powell, Regan, Labadie, Kelly, Tremblay, Hucul, Boone.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1338/1429113-1-eng-US/f0015-132.jpg" title="f0015-13" width="583" height="595"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1432/1429106-1-eng-US/f0015-142.jpg" title="f0015-14" width="591" height="87"></div><p>Montreal &mdash; Goal: R. Perreault; defense: Hollingworth, MacPherson, Roche, Harmon, R. Leger; forwards: Blaine, Litzenberger, Desaulniers, Tessier, Burchell, Wray, Denis, Ftampton, Laplante, Atwell.</p><p>Chicoutimi &mdash; Goal: Hughes; defense: Glaude, Roy, Lamirand, Taillefer; forwards: White, Buchanan, Locas, S. Smrke, Dussault, Groleau, F. Perreault, Moore, G. Leger.</p><p>Referre: Gravel; linesmen: Levesque, Boivin.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1527/1429099-1-eng-US/f0015-152.jpg" title="f0015-15" width="595" height="583"></div><h2><b>THE POINT PARADE</b></h2><p>(INCLUDING GAMES SUN., FEB. 7)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-1627/1429092-1-eng-US/f0015-162.jpg" title="f0015-16" width="582" height="852"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By JACK PINER</div><p>SAULT ST. MARIE, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>One of the most dramatic angles to the Northen Ontario senior hockey picture right now is the desperate last-ditch fight between Maxie Silverman, Boss of Sudbury Wolves, and the hard-working management of the Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) Greyhounds for added strength &hellip; it&rsquo;s a high-pressure move for the championship fight ahead &hellip; the Hounds, at this writing, enjoy a ten-point spread in first place ahead of Sudbury. so Silverman, &ldquo;The Silver Fox of Northern Ontario hockey, &ldquo;is doing everything humanly possible to strengthen before the playoffs &hellip; Silverman acquired the services of Eddie Harrison, former NHLC star, the other day and now is trying to get Pete Horeck, former NHLC star with Detroit Red W i n g s, BostonBruins and Chicago Black Hawks, into tow &hellip; with Bobby Dawesalready safely nestled in a Sud I bury uniform, Maxie envisions a power-packed forward line of Dawes-Harrison-Horeck &hellip; meanwhile the Greyhounds announced the acquisition and clearing of Pentti Lund just before we got down to the business of getting this column ready&hellip;</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01254/1429228-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="584" height="605"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>MAX SILVERMAN</b></figcaption></div><p>Lund plaved witn Boston.</p><p>Bruins and New York Rangers&hellip; he is 28, weighs 190 and stands six feet&hellip; he was voted The Rookie Of The Year in 1948-49 while a Ranger. . while plaving for Boston the season before last he received an eve injury (left eye) leaving him with only partial vision in that eye &hellip; he played the entire season with Boston last year and although used only sparingly he still scored eight goals and nine assists &hellip; at the start of this year he was sold to Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League for a figure reportedly set at 10 G&rsquo;s &hellip; but Lund decided against going West &hellip; he is now all set to play for the Grevhounds, having been re-instated as an amateur through the Central Registry of the CAHA and resistered with NOHA</p><p>The acquisition of Harrison and possibly Horeck was all the more important to Sudbury, because this column was informed that Gordie Heale, leading sniper on the team, may be out for the balance of the season&hellip; Reason: shoulder separation, heart trouble&hellip; Gordie is one of the finest athletes in the business and all Northern Ontario hockey fans will miss him &hellip;</p><p>We received another very nice letter from Dolores C. &ldquo;Miff&rsquo;&rsquo;) Mifsud, 47 Archibald St., Brampton, Ontario&hellip; &ldquo;Miff&rdquo; asks: &ldquo;Is hockey any dirtier or rougher in Northern Ontario than Southern Ontario? &rdquo;&rsquo;.. Answer: No! &hellip; the tendency, I believe, all through Northern Ontario is to play cleaner hockey, &ldquo;Miff,&rdquo; &hellip; you Will occasionally read about a dirty, wild game, but on the whole things are much better&hellip; &ldquo;Miff&rdquo; also mentions Yacker Flynn and Mauno Kauppi whom she met in 1952 when they played for Atlantic Sea Gulls &hellip; she asks about Tatter McLellan thusly: &ldquo;Is he playing for Washington?&rdquo;&hellip; no, pal, he&rsquo;s right back alongside Flynn and Kauppi on the Sudbury Wolve this season &hellip; and going great! &hellip; mother letter from Miss Norma Robertson of the Nurses Residence in The Civic Hospital, Ottawa, writes for an NOHA schedule &hellip; this is still another indication how many people right across Canada want to know and read about Northern Ontario hockey &hellip; makes me feel good to realize the tremendous amount of interest there is concerning NOHA happenings &hellip;</p><p>And it was certainly a real treat to hear from our good friend, Jean De Villiers, now sportscaster, at CFCL, Timmins, Ontario. Jean handles the senior games in the Percupine Senior League and does an excellent job on his play-by-play accounts &hellip; Jean had a few interesting things to write: &ldquo;Hockey in the Porcupine District is enjoying its best season &hellip; competition is keener, crowds are better than last year and the teams are playing a good brand of hockey &hellip; Jerry Labelle of Abitibi Eskimos is on his way again and don&rsquo;t be surprised to see his name on top of the scoring parade at the end of the season &hellip; he a terrific record &mdash; 214 points in 107 games with 83 goals and 131 assists.&rdquo; &hellip;well, Jean, we certainly agree &hellip; Jerry&rsquo;s mark is certainly remarkable &hellip; good luck to you Jean and your fine hockey teams up there in the Porcupine camp &hellip; see you around playoff time! &hellip;</p><p>Seems many hockey fans all through the country want rosters of NOHA senior teams &hellip; letters came in from two very finehockey fans. Bill McCauley of Van Wagners Beach, Hamiltone Ontario, and Eugene Brown, Connaught Ave., Windsor, Nova Scotia, for the rosters which we sent out today &hellip; Our vote for the most unpredictable team in Northern Ontario hockey: Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) Indians of the NOHA Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Southern Division &hellip; just the night before writing this column the Sault Greyhounds beat them 9-3 &hellip; the next afternoon the Indians walloped the leagufe-leaders, 8-2 in one of the most dramatic reversals of form ever seen &hellip;</p><p>South Porcupine Gold Diggers are digging big holes into the Big Ten Scoring Parade in the Gold Belt Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; Hockey League &hellip;Graham Savord has 24 goals and 26 assists for 50 points, an 11-point bulge over teammate, Maurice Chevrefils and a 15-point margin over his other teammate, Pete Gazzola &hellip; the trio has now accounted for a total of 124 points on 58 goals and 66 assists.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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NONA Puck Parade

<p><b>By &ldquo;CHICK&rdquo; APPEL</b></p><p>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;</p><p>Heavy schedules for players in the senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; OHA group, the majority of whom are regularly employed five and six days a week, is commencing to take its toll.</p><p>Right now the ruling Allan Cup champion Kitchener Dutchmen lead the parade by four points over the Owen Sound Mercurys, but with these two clubs see-sawing for the top it might change before the end of the week.</p><p>The Dutchmen fared well during the past week, although playing five games in six days, because they won four of them, but what of the Hamilton Tigers, entrenched in fourth position, who are scheduled to play six games this week?</p><p>It would appear that Kitchener and Owen Sound are the most serious contenders for group laurels this season, and one of the reasons could be their good fortune in escaping nothing more than a few injuries to date. In this respect, Windsor Bulldogs have been hit harder than any other club, and this factor could create a few upsets before the schedule concludes Feb. 24.</p><p>Perched in fifth place, two points up on Chatham Maroons, the Stratford Indians have been lucky so far via injuries, and might be higher up the ladder if their former ace front line of Mickey Roth, Billy Flick and Dinny Flanagan was functioning as in former seasons.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02201/1429259-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="532" height="897"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Troubled</b></p><p><b>JACK STEWART</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Jack Stewart, boss of the Chatham Maroons, is encountering his troubles too, because he himself can only play spasmodically, due a back injury, which terminated his pro career, while some of his veteran players like Joe Carvethand Ernie Dick are not delivering as well as expected</p><h2><b>Mired In Cellar</b></h2><p>Niagara Falls Cataracts are mired hopelessly in the cellar, six games behind Chatham, and dropped their last three games. If the Fallsers are to grab a playoff spot they&rsquo;ll have to be up and doing, because they have but 12 games left to go. The veteran Tommy Burlington, ace centreman of Owen Sound Mercurys, continues to set the scoring pace, and bids fair to break the 1951-52 record of 110 points set by Mickey Roth of Stratford Indians. The league has a new trophy to be awarded for the first time this season to the player who combines good sportsmanship, clean playing and value to his team, and Burlington is a heavy favorite to win it this year.</p><p>Another player who stands a chance to win the honor is Clare Martin, Kitchener defenceman, who just returned to action this week, after being shelved with a wrist injury for the last seven weeks.</p><p>With the return of Martin, plus Don Bauer and Charlie Brooker, the Dutchmen appear to be wellfortified for the run to the wire. In winning their last four games they proved that they have two good goalies on whom to call in Bill Harrington, the regular custodian, and Keith Woodall, who guarded their nets when they went all the way to the Allan Cup last season, and replaced Harrington for their last two games.</p><h2><b>Wilson To IHL</b></h2><p>The OHA group lost a well-known and respected figure this week, when Pat Wilson, playing-coach of the Stratford Indians for two seasons and who assumed a similar job with the new Niagara Falls entry this season, only to be hospitalized through injuries suffered in a traffic accident, signed to coach the Fort Wayne, Indiana Komets, of the International League. Wilson, who makes his home in Stratford with his wiwfe and daughter, Bunny, signed a two-year contract at a figure, which he &rdquo;couldn&rsquo;t afford to turn down,&ldquo; as he put it, was recommended for the job by Jim Hendy, Cleveland Barons general manager and Johnny Mitchell, chief scout for the Detroit Red Wings.</p><p>Incidentally, Owen Sound Mercurys&rsquo; stock rose considerably when Ralph Hosking and John Sheddon secured interim injunctions against their suspensions for not abiding by the terms of their pro contracts. Rather than have the action proceed, Eddie Shors relented and agreed to allow the two players to finish out the season with Owen Sound, which enhances the Mercurys&rsquo; championship hopes plenty<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Kitchener And Owen Sound Waging See-Saw Battle For Lead In OH A

<p>STOCKHOLM, Sweden &mdash;</p><p>Nine nations will take part in the world hockey championships.</p><p>The nine, Canada, Russia, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Yugoslavia and Sweden, all announced their intention to compete before February 2, closing date for entries.</p><p>Italy and Austria had stated that they would compete but withdrew&rsquo; at the last moment.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Nine Nations Enter Tourney

<div class="byline">By JOE MINSTER</div><p>CINCINNATI, Ohio.&mdash;</p><p>Don&rsquo;t count Ft. Wayne and Louisville out of the International Hockey League&rsquo;s playoff picture yet. Not by a long shot.</p><p>It&rsquo;ll be a tougher haul for the homeless Kentucky Stars, who are making their headquarters in Troy, O., but they&rsquo;re still in there trying. As for the Komets, best drawingcard in the IHL, they, too have shown signs of life recently and may move upward under direction of a new coach.</p><p>Second coaching change during the current IHL campaign found Pat Wilson taking over from Jack Timmins at Ft. Wayne, with Timmins staying on as a centre. Wilson will hold down a defense post for the Hoosiers.</p><p>Wilson, former coach of the Stratford Indians of the Ontario Hockey Association who served four years as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was one of the outstanding service hockey players during World War II, reportedly signed a two year contract. A one&mdash;time member of the St. Louis Flyers in the American League, he led the Komets to a 4-3 triumph at Grand Rapids in his first game at the helm of the team.</p><p>An oddity occurred at Troy recently, when Louisville, much to the embarrassment of the Bruins, upset Troy, 4-2, in a battle of that city&rsquo;s two &ldquo;home&rdquo; cubs. To make matters still more complicated, Louisville had been smothered, 91. by lowly Milwaukee, the night before.</p><h2><b>Turn Tables</b></h2><p>Milwaukee, which had gone down to defeat six straight times at the hands of Louisville, turned the tables convincingly for the second Chief win in a row and ninth of a disastrous campaign which has been the Wisconsinites lose 37 times in 47 outings. Norm Kirk had the hat trick and Roland Spong two goals and two assists for the Chiefs.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-02186/1429345-1-eng-US/f0017-022.jpg" title="f0017-02" width="574" height="612"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>New Mentor</b></p><p><b>PAT WILSON</b></p></figcaption></div><p>Cincinnati&rsquo;s Mohawks continued the widen their commanding first &mdash; place lead by winning three games and tying one during the week. In polishing off Louisville, Marion and Milwaukee and deadlocking Johnstown, the Hawks moved 13 points in front of runner &mdash; up Toledo as they continued their bid for a second IHL title in a row.</p><p>Ken Schultz, veteran Marion star, &ldquo;continued to shine in the goal-scoring department. After getting the hat trick in three straight games, Schultz hit for two in the next two and then was held to one as his club bowed to Cincinnati, 4-3. That gave Schultz 14 goals in a six-game stretch and 39 for the campaign, tops for the IHL and two more than his teammate, Gordon Vejprava, who suffered a twisted knee against Cincinnati. Earlier in the week, Vejprava had notched his fifth hat trick in a 10-5 conquest of Grand Rapids.</p><p>In losing, Marion saw a six-ame winning streak go by the boards, while Johnstown, although held to that standoff by Cincinnati, now is unbeaten in six successive starts.</p><p>Two Mohawk players. 19-year-old Eddie Kachur and Art Rose, also came through with hat tricks, the third for each player. Seven Cincinnati skaters now have 20 or more goals to their credit. They are Rose, Kachur, Willie Pawchuk, Connie Broden, John (Bun) Smith, Billy Goold and Reg Grigg.</p><p>Toledo&rsquo;s Dick Pontarollo continues to pace the individual scoring parade with 84 points on 38 goals and 4 6 assists. Trailing him are Don Hall and Arnie Schmautz of Johnstown, Roy Hammond and John Kovich of Toledo, Schultz and Vejprava of Marion, Goold of Cincinnati, George Hayes of Grand Rapids and Troy&rsquo;s George Edwards. Bill Tibbs, all-star goalie from Toledo, has the best average, 2.47, and most shutouts, six, one more than Charlie Hodge of Cincinnati.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Mohawks Seeking Second Title, Lead IHL Race By Wide Margin

<div class="byline">By P. S. TOMLIN</div><p>VERNON, B.C.&mdash;</p><p>At the outset of the current campaign, the Vernon Canadians, talenders in the Okanagan Senior circuit last season, were generally conceded to be the class of the league. This concession was based on the fact that the Canucks had gone all out in an attempt to build a contender. They were a veritable powerhouse on paper. They had added Dick Butler, Jack Miller, George Agar, Johnny Sofiak and others to the pick of last season&rsquo;s performers. They proceeded to live up to advance notices in the early part of the season and on the fourth of December they were tied for first place with the Penticton Vees with 32 points. Since the they have gartered a measly 15 points in 24 games. The Vees, defending Western Canada Champs and Allan Cup Finalists have accumulated 34 points in 21 games. As a result, Vernon now trails Grant War-wick&rsquo;s charges by something like 19 points. In fact, Vernon is not even safe in second place. They are just one point ahea of the resurgent Kamloops Elks and three ahead of the last place Kelowna Packers. The Canucks have won just three of their last 11 games and they give indications that the tail-spin will not stop until they hit the league basement.</p><p>One of the Canadians biggest dissappointmets has been in Johnny Sofiak who was brought in from last year&rsquo;s version of the Trail Smoke-Eaters of the Western International League. Johnny, who was to have given Vernon more protection in goal, has been having a miserable time of it. While his team was one of the first in hockey to score 200 goals this it was also one of the first to have 200 goals scored against it. To date, Vernon has scored 228 goals and lad 219 scored against. This compares with a for and against record of 189-154 for the league leaders. A lot of the blame that seems to be Sofiak&rsquo;s could, however, be laid at the Vernon defense. At times, the Canuck rearguard has been woefully weak. Newcomer Don McLeod has done much to remedy the situation but he just doesn&rsquo;t have enough help. Negotiations have been re-opened with Bill Geary and the husky young negro defense star seems destined to return to the Vernon fold.</p><p>In games this week, the Warwickmn led by ex-Elk Bernie Bathgate, continued an almost uncanny mastery over the the Kamloops team by beating them 6-2 in Kamloops. Bathgate figured in all but ne goal by scoring two and assisting on three others at the expense of his former mates, proving once again that &ldquo;they will come back to haunt you.&ldquo; The Elks then beat Kelowna 3-2 in overtime and the Vees (how that name keeps coming up) dumped Vernon 5-2 for their 18 straight home win. It seems to be Penticton&rsquo;s year.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Vees Hold Commanding Lead In OSHL

<p>MONTREAL, Que.</p><p>In answer to the numerous requests we have received, here is a complete list of radio broadcasts of NHL games in the various league cities.</p><h2><b>All times listed are Eastern Standard Time.</b></h2><h3><b>CHICAGO&mdash;WCFL (1000)</b></h3><p>HOME GAMES&mdash;10:45 P.M.</p><p>AWAY GAMES&mdash;9:45 P.M.</p><p>BOB ELSON &mdash; JOHN GOTT-SELIG.</p><h3><b>BOSTON&mdash;WHDH (850)</b></h3><p>FRED CUSICK&mdash;JACK CRAWFORD&mdash;8:30 P.M.</p><h3><b>DETROIT&mdash;WJBK (1490)</b></h3><p>AL NAGLER&mdash;BUD LYNCH 9:30 P.M.</p><h3><b>MONTREAL&mdash;CBM (940)</b></h3><p>DANNY GALLIVAN 9:05 P.M.</p><h3><b>MONTREAL&mdash;CBF (690) French</b></h3><p>RENE LeCAVALIER</p><p>9:05 P.M.</p><h3><b>NEW YORK&mdash;WMGM (1050)</b></h3><p>BERT LEE&mdash;WARD WILSON 9:00 P.M.</p><h3><b>TORONTO&mdash;CBL (740)</b></h3><p>FOSTER HEWITT&mdash;9:05 P.M.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

NHL Hockey On The Air

<p><b>By CHUCK ROUNTREE</b></p><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>To a coach of a junior hockey team in Canada, winning the Memorial Cup has the same effect as riding on a roller coaster for the first time. After the experience, it seems to get in the blood and prompts a burning desire to have more of same.</p><p>Sam Pollock, coach of the Montreal Canadiens, is no exception. Sam had his first taste of how it feels to be the coach of the ton iunior club in all the Dominion in 1949 and since that time has had one thought uppermost in his mind. To bring the Memorial Cup back to Montreal.</p><p>This season, barring unforeseen occurrences, he may see his dream come true.</p><p>Sam has assembled a powerful club and, except for brief lapses, they&rsquo;ve swept aside all opposition. The accent is on speed and shiftiness with the current edition of the Baby Habs. The average size of Canadiens is usually much smaller than that of their opponents but what they lack in stature, they more than make up for in razzle-dazzle.</p><p>The latest test of their ability same last week when the Habs played host to the Toronto Marlboros in what had been billed as a preview to the Eastern Canada Memorial Cup final. The Dukes were reported to have a big, rugged, powerful club, reortedly the best in the OHA.</p><p>The Marlies turned out to be everything they had been said to be. They were big, they were fast, they were rugged, and they were disappointed, as the Baby Habs skated off with a 3-2 decision.</p><p>Despite the fact that they won however, the Habs looked sluggish after their three-game road trip Into Ontario.</p><p>After the game Sad Sam remarked:</p><p>&ldquo;If the Marlboros didn&rsquo;t beat us out there tonight, they &lsquo;ll never beat us. Our boys were tired and it showed in tleir playing. Our skating looked so bad that It made the Marlboros look good.&rdquo;</p><p>The game was a thriller throughout and wasn&rsquo;t decided until 19 seconds remained in regulation time, when Andre Pronovost fired home the winner.</p><p>Dukes outshot the Canadiens 28 to 22 but didn&rsquo;t seem to have the ability to put the puck in the net.</p><p>&ldquo;They &lsquo;re a good hockey team, &ldquo;said Pollock,&rdquo; but they won &lsquo;t score too many goals against you. That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;d rather play them than St. Mike&rsquo;s.&rdquo;</p><p>Yet the Habs have knocked off St. Mike&rsquo;s twice this season, once at home and once in Maple Leaf Gardens, and both times looked pretty convincing doing it.</p><p>As mentioned earlier however, the Habitants do have their little lapses. Earlier this season they lost a game to the lowly Montreal Royals and on their recent safari into Ontario they dropped two of three games, to the Kitchener-Waterloo Greenshirts and the Guelph Bilt-mores. Ironically enough, the stumbling block they ran up against in Kitchener was Claude Pronovost, brother of Detroit&rsquo;s Marcel and former goaler for the Royals of the Quebec loop. Before he departed the local circuit the Canucks made a habit of plunking pucks behind Pronovost with apparent ease but either a change of surroundings or a desire for revenge made the acrobatic little cage custodian almost unbeatable the night the Habs ran Into him.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

Pollock Eyes Memorial Cup After Baby Hubs Bop Dukes

<p>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;</p><p>Two additional IHL schedule changes have been announced. A last minute shift moved the game scheduled between Milwaukee and Johnstown from Thursday, January 28 to February 23. This was tha game originally booked to have been played in Milwaukee on December 23. It will be played in Johnstown.</p><p>The second change will bring Louisville to Fort Wayne on Monday, February 22. This was the game which was originally booked to have been played in Louisville on March 14, and is another of the games which required rescheduling following the move which made Louisville a road team for the remainder of the year.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02152/1429448-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="273" height="421"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>Claude Evans</b></figcaption></div><h2><b>MOVING ST. JOHN</b></h2><p><b>Forward Del St. John has set a league record for playing with different teams in one season. When the diminutive wingman joined the Johnstown Jets last week it marked the fifth club he has played with this season. He started the year with Marion, moved to Louisville, Toledo, and Milwaukee, in that order, before joining the Jets.</b></p><h2><b>NEW RECORD</b></h2><p>Bill Tibbs, veteran Toledo goalkeeper, has already set a new league mark for shutouts, having registered six whitewash efforts prior to the present week&rsquo;s play. He is being closely pressed by Charlie Hodge of Cincinnati, who has already recorded five. The old league mark of five was established last season, Jointly, by Claude Evans of Cincinnati and Guy LeClerc of Troy.</p><h2><b>BURKE RETIRES</b></h2><p><b>Colorful forward George (Red) Burke retired from active play last week to enter the insurance business in Findlay, Ohio. The stocky, hard-going center had seen little service this year, filling in Toledo and Troy. Most of Burke&rsquo;s career was spent in Toledo although he first came into the league as a member of the old Louisville Blades.</b></p><p>In his final game he suffered a severe eye Injury and at first the sight of the eye was believed to be impaired. However, fortunately he has regained his sight. The case might have been tragi for Burke had announced his retirement plans prior to the game.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Two IHL Gaines Re-Scheduled; Burke Retires

<div class="byline">By REX MacLEOD</div><p>MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;</p><p>Standings in the Ontario and Quebec junior leagues would lead to believe that Toronto Marlboros, Toronto St. Michael &lsquo;s, St. Catharines Teepees and Montreal Canadiens are the four top junior teams in the country. But there is still an outside chance that some of the other teams might pull an upset.</p><p>Interprovincial observers watched with unusual interest for the inter-locking meetings between Canadiens and St. Mike &lsquo;s and Canadiens and Marlboros. On the basis of what happened you might have to give Canadiens a prior rating for the Memorial Cup.</p><p>Canadiens clipped St. Mike &lsquo;s 7-1 In Montreal and followed up with a 2 win over the Irish in Toronto. Then they downed Marlboros 3-2 in Montreal. But Sam Pollock, the lachrymose coach of the Canadiens, accepted those victories with some misgivings.</p><p>&ldquo;I &lsquo;m more scared of St. Mike &lsquo;s than Marlboros, &ldquo;he said recently.&rdquo; One thing I know for sure is that we &lsquo;re not 7-1 or 5-2 better than them. I don &lsquo;t even know if we &lsquo;re any better. St. Mike &lsquo;s have some of the greatest juniors in the country. I sure wish I had some of them. &ldquo;</p><p>Pollock said that St. Mike &lsquo;s had the best defense in junior hockey and he cited Ted Toppazzini and Marc Reaume for special praise. Toppazzini, incidentally, plays both defense and on a forward line.</p><p>Singling out the Irish defense many surprise some junior hockey followers because St. Mike &lsquo;s haven &lsquo;t been exactly noted for their defensive excellence this season. Their style is more wide open. In contrast Marlboros favor a defensive system.</p><p>&ldquo;Toppazzini and Reaume can carry that puck out of their own end. &ldquo;Pollock persisted.&rdquo; I still think they &lsquo;re a better team than Marlboros. &ldquo;</p><p>Marlboros, after a 16-game unbeaten streak, succumbed to the wiles of Quebec hospitality and lost to Quebec Frontenacs and Canadiens. They were also held to a tie in Three Rivers.</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01227/1429479-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="509" height="841"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Last Word?</b></p><p><b>PHIL WATSON</b></p></figcaption></div><p>That temporary slump (?) enabled St. Catharines Teepees to regain that lead In the OHA, junior &ldquo;A&rdquo; loop. Since Teepees have been playing with monotonous consistency, apart from in Maple Leaf Gardens, there seems little doubt that they will duel with Marlies (and maybe St. Mike &lsquo;s) for the league title until the schedule windup.</p><p>Opposing coaches are still crowing that Teepees are a one-line team but they have been singularly unsuccessful in stopping that big line. Brian and Barry Cullen and Hugh Barlow could be one of the highest-scoring trios In junior hockey history.</p><p>Although they are shadowed In every game the Cullen brothers and Barlow seldom fail to score their quota. Brian Is so far ahead in the individual scoring race that he seems assured of that title even if he doesn&rsquo;t play any more games. Right now he&rsquo;s shooting for a new scoring record, in goals and total points.</p><p>Kitchener-Waterloo Greenshirts, under coach Stan Long, are considered by some to have a reasonable chance to win the OHA title. But the scrambly style favored by the Shirts has caused many critics to overlook them and that might be a point in the Shirts favor. They might unload their Sunday punch while nobody Is expecting It.</p><p>The Greenshirts are faithful adherents of a checking game and they chase the puck in packs, the strategy apparently being that If they keep pursuing it the opposition will eventually relax. That system has paid dividends for the Greenshirts and kept them In contention for one of the top positions.</p><p>Kitchener fans deny religiously that their Shirts play any differently than any other team. So Sammy Pollock (that guy again) was asked what he thought of the Greenshirts.</p><p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re a funny team,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re hard to play against. Their system is hard to figure out but they might cause some trouble in the playoffs.&ldquo;</p><p>Phil Watson, the gregarious coach of Quebec Frontenacs, deserves honorable mention for the famous-last-word department. Before he took his team to St. Catharines for a recent encounter with Teepees he prophecied:</p><p>&ldquo;This Is one game we&rsquo;re going to win. We&rsquo;re going to check that big line of theirs into the ice. Wait and see. &ldquo;</p><p>Phil should have cautioned his listeners not to wait too long. St. Catharines won that particular game 10-4.<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

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Cullen-Barlow-Cullen Line Pacing Teepees In Quest For Title In Tight OHA Jr. Race

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0019-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01206/1429510-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg"></div><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Pictured Canadien player.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of Toppazzini of Boston.</p><p>6&mdash;Initials of O &lsquo;Connor of Hershey.</p><p>7&mdash;N.H.L. club with whom Dave Kerr played.</p><p>11&mdash;Number of shut-outs Sawchuck had in 1952-53 playoffs.</p><p>12&mdash;Short for given name of Mohns of Boston.</p><p>14&mdash;Name given 6 across.</p><p>16&mdash;Marty Pavelich was born In Sault-Marie, Ont.</p><p>18&mdash;One of the Kilrea&rsquo;s.</p><p>19&mdash;Pronoun.</p><p>20&mdash;-Ted Lindsay has one.</p><p>21&mdash;Don Morrison&rsquo;s brother.</p><p>23&mdash;Mepham&rsquo;s Initials.</p><p>24&mdash;Paul Masnick was born in this month (abbr).</p><p>6&mdash;Canadiens usually&mdash;in Montreal.</p><p>28&mdash;Played for Rangers last season.</p><p>80&mdash;Initials of O&rsquo;Grady of Edmonton Flyers.</p><p>81&mdash;&ldquo;Whitey&rdquo; Propkop&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>82&mdash;One of the Vancouver Canucks.</p><p>83&mdash;Name given Franche who played with Syracuse this season.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1&mdash;Player who substituted for Rollins on Nov. 22nd.</p><p>2&mdash;Leo Boivin wears this number.</p><p>8&mdash;A face-off is called when the puck is&mdash;.</p><p>4&mdash;Initials of a Toronto defenseman.</p><p>5&mdash;Dune Fisher broke one in 1951-52 play-offs.</p><p>8&mdash;Indefinite article.</p><p>9&mdash;Artificial language.</p><p>10&mdash;Sask, birthplace of Hal Laycoe.</p><p>13&mdash;Plays for Chicago.</p><p>15&mdash;Initials of one of the Bruins.</p><p>17&mdash;Once coached Chicago.</p><p>20&mdash;Pete Horeck once played with Atlantic City&mdash;Gulls.</p><p>22&mdash;Former coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs.</p><p>25&mdash;&ldquo;Spex&rdquo; Telford&rsquo;s initials.</p><p>26&mdash;This can be found on sticks.</p><p>27&mdash;Pat Egan plays home games in this State (abbr).</p><p>29&mdash;Color of Tom Williams&rsquo; hair.</p><h2><b>Solution to Last Week&rsquo;s Puzzle</b></h2><h2><b>ACROSS</b></h2><p>1. Gagnon</p><p>5. D.F.</p><p>7. Ail</p><p>8. Geo.</p><p>9. Durnan</p><p>11. F.W.</p><p>12. De.</p><p>13. Abel</p><p>15. Ron</p><p>16. One</p><p>17. Sr.</p><p>18. W. E.</p><p>21. Hal</p><p>23. Red</p><p>25. Once</p><p>27. Draw</p><p>28. G.D.</p><p>31. Bodnar</p><p>34. Hayes.</p><p>35. N.D.</p><h2><b>DOWN</b></h2><p>1. Godfrey</p><p>2. Gardner</p><p>3. Nine</p><p>4. O.L.A.</p><p>5. Defense</p><p>6. Fowler</p><p>10. Na</p><p>14. B.O.</p><p>18. Warren</p><p>19. Band</p><p>20. Edward</p><p>21. Hogg</p><p>22. L.C.</p><p>24. Ea.</p><p>26. Ebby</p><p>30. Joe</p><p>32. D.S.</p><p>33. An<span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span></p>

f0019-01

Hockey Crossword Puzzle

<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><p>(Standinn On February 1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-02165/1429667-1-eng-US/f0019-022.jpg" title="f0019-02" width="583" height="262"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-03125/1429660-1-eng-US/f0019-032.jpg" title="f0019-03" width="589" height="267"></div><h2><b>NOHA SENIOR</b></h2><p>Standings On February 1</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-04106/1429653-1-eng-US/f0019-042.jpg" title="f0019-04" width="587" height="161"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0589/1429646-1-eng-US/f0019-052.jpg" title="f0019-05" width="581" height="293"></div><h2><b>OKANAGAN SENIOR</b></h2><p>(Standings On January 30)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0674/1429639-1-eng-US/f0019-062.jpg" title="f0019-06" width="585" height="137"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0771/1429632-1-eng-US/f0019-072.jpg" title="f0019-07" width="583" height="368"></div><h2><b>SASKATCHEWANS SENIOR</b></h2><p>(Standings On February 1)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0867/1429625-1-eng-US/f0019-082.jpg" title="f0019-08" width="583" height="134"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-0958/1429618-1-eng-US/f0019-092.jpg" title="f0019-09" width="592" height="503"></div><h2><b>NEW YORK-ONTARIO SENIOR</b></h2><p>(Standing, On January 30)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1049/1429611-1-eng-US/f0019-102.jpg" title="f0019-10" width="587" height="161"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1142/1429604-1-eng-US/f0019-112.jpg" title="f0019-11" width="589" height="421"></div><h2><b>MANITOBA JUNIOR</b></h2><p>(Standing On January .31)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1238/1429597-1-eng-US/f0019-122.jpg" title="f0019-12" width="591" height="131"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1332/1429590-1-eng-US/f0019-132.jpg" title="f0019-13" width="589" height="290"></div><h2><b>ONTARIO SENIOR</b></h2><p><b>(Standing On February 5)</b></p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1432/1429583-1-eng-US/f0019-142.jpg" title="f0019-14" width="589" height="211"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC JUNIOR</b></h2><p>(Standings On February 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1529/1429576-1-eng-US/f0019-152.jpg" title="f0019-15" width="583" height="159"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1626/1429569-1-eng-US/f0019-162.jpg" title="f0019-16" width="593" height="553"></div><h2><b>ONTARIO JUNIOR</b></h2><p>(Standings On February 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1725/1429562-1-eng-US/f0019-172.jpg" title="f0019-17" width="589" height="239"></div><h2><b>SCORING LEADERS</b></h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1824/1429555-1-eng-US/f0019-182.jpg" title="f0019-18" width="583" height="293"></div><h2><b>QUEBEC PROVINCIAL LEAGUE</b></h2><p>(Standings On February 5)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-1922/1429548-1-eng-US/f0019-192.jpg" title="f0019-19" width="579" height="135"></div><h2><b>MOUNT ROYAL JUNIOR B</b></h2><p>(Standings On February)</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-2019/1429541-1-eng-US/f0019-202.jpg" title="f0019-20" width="584" height="160"></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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Amateur Puck Parade… …At A Glance

<p>VOLUME 7 MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 13, 1954 NUMBER 20</p><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01139/1429719-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="249" height="292"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0279/1429712-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="258" height="307"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0364/1429705-1-eng-US/f0020-032.jpg" title="f0020-03" width="2843" height="1761"><figcaption class="caption-body"><p><b>Leo And Tim Dangerous Close In</b></p><p><b>LEO LABINE of the Boston Bruins (No. 16) has just fired the puck past the bewildered Harry Lumley of the Toronto Maple Leafs in the top photo as Jim Thomson loo&rsquo;cs on as the Boston youngster whoops it up In the lower photo, Tim Horton of the Leafs watches the puck glance off his stick as Bob Armstrong (No. 4) of the Bruins checks him and Sugar Jim Henry is caught doing the splits after deflecting the shot.</b></p></figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-0450/1429698-1-eng-US/f0020-042.jpg" title="f0020-04" width="2791" height="1753"><figcaption class="caption-body"><b>image caption</b> <span class="photo-credit">(Photos by Turofsky)</span></figcaption></div><span class="end-marker"> &#9632;</span>

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February 13, 1954

Colorful Johnny Morrow Back In MMHL Limelight

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